The phrase "Sentence" resonates through 6 hymns, touching hearts across generations.
Sentence
...Bound in iron and despair,
Sentenced to a heavier doom
Than the pangs they suffer there—...
Bound in iron and despair,
Sentenced to a heavier doom
Than the pangs they suffer there—
...Now that my Lord His blood has shed,
You cannot sentence Him again,
Nor ask me further recompense,...
Now that my Lord His blood has shed,
You cannot sentence Him again,
Nor ask me further recompense,
...O dearest Lord, what law hast Thou e’er broken
That such sharp sentence should on Thee be spoken?
Of what misdeed hast Thou to make confession—...
O dearest Lord, what law hast Thou e’er broken
That such sharp sentence should on Thee be spoken?
Of what misdeed hast Thou to make confession—
...But the measure of my own;
He who lay beneath my sentence,
Seated high upon the Throne....
But the measure of my own;
He who lay beneath my sentence,
Seated high upon the Throne.
...When I am in Adam, though I may not sin,
Unto death, a sinner, sentenced I have been;
When in Christ I need not righteously to act,...
When I am in Adam, though I may not sin,
Unto death, a sinner, sentenced I have been;
When in Christ I need not righteously to act,
...My just eternal
Sentence, and declare
Those awful truths...
My just eternal
Sentence, and declare
Those awful truths
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