The Celebration Hymnal

306

Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed?

1 Alas! and did my Savior bleed,  
And did my Sov'reign die?  
Would He devote that sacred head  
For sinners such as I?  

2 Was it for sins that I have done  
He suffered on the tree?  
Amazing pity! grace unknown!  
And love beyond degree!  

3 Well might the sun in darkness hide  
And shut His glories in  
When Christ, the great Redeemer, died  
For man the creature's sin.  

4 But drops of grief can ne'er repay  
The debt of love I owe;  
Here, Lord, I give myself away -  
'Tis all that I can do.

WORDS: Isaac Watts
MUSIC: Hugh Wilson
Theme: Christ: Atonement, Crucifixion, Suffering and Death