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I once was a stranger
to grace and to God,
I knew not my danger,
and felt not my load;
Though friends spoke
in rapture of Christ on the tree,
Jehovah Tsidkenu
was nothing to me.
I oft read with pleasure,
to sooth or engage,
Isaiah’s wild measure
and John’s simple page;
But e’en when they pictured
the blood sprinkled tree
Jehovah Tsidkenu
seemed nothing to me.
Like tears from the daughters
of Zion that roll,
I wept when the waters
went over His soul;
Yet thought not that my sins
had nailed to the tree
Jehovah Tsidkenu—
’twas nothing to me.
When free grace awoke me,
by light from on high,
Then legal fears shook me,
I trembled to die;
No refuge, no safety in self could I see—
Jehovah Tsidkenu
my Saviour must be.
My terrors all vanished
before the sweet name;
My guilty fears banished,
with boldness I came
To drink at the fountain,
life giving and free—
Jehovah Tsidkenu
is all things to me.
Jehovah Tsidkenu!
my treasure and boast,
Jehovah Tsidkenu!
I ne’er can be lost;
In thee I shall conquer by flood and by field,
My cable, my anchor,
my breast-plate and shield!
Even treading the valley,
the shadow of death,
This “watchword” shall rally
my faltering breath;
For while from life’s fever
my God sets me free,
Jehovah Tsidkenu,
my death song shall be.
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LYRICS
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Meter:
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11 11 11 11
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Writer(s):
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Dates:
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1837
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Bible Refs:
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Jer 23:5-6;
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LIST OF LYRIC SOURCES
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Hymn/Song Book
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Year
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Song #
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| 1981 | # 96 | | | # 897 |
MUSIC
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Name:
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CLARENDON STREET (GORDON)
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Meter:
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11 11 11 11
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Writer(s):
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Dates:
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1876
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LIST OF MUSIC SOURCES
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Hymn/Song Book
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Song #
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Key
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| # 134 | Ab | | # 99 | F | | # 289 | F | | # 364 | F | | # 659 | F | | # 96 | F | | # 182 | F | | # 53 | F |
ALTERNATIVE TUNES
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Name
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meter
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| 6 5 6 5 D | | 11 11 11 11 | | 11 11 11 11 |
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