Cleansing Wave

lyricist: Phoebe Palmer, ca. 1872
Composer: Phoebe Knapp (1839–1908)

Oh

now I see the cleans­ing wave!

The fount­ain deep and wide;

Jesus

my Lord

migh­ty to save

Points to His wound­ed side.

The cleans­ing stream I see! I see!

I plunge

and oh

it cleans­eth me!

Oh

praise the Lord! It cleans­eth me!

It cleans­eth me—yes

cleans­eth me.

I rise to walk in Heav’n’s own light

Above the world and sin

With heart made pure and gar­ments white

And Christ en­throned with­in.

I see the new cre­ation rise;

I hear the speak­ing blood.

It speaks! Pol­lut­ed na­ture dies!

Sinks ’neath the cleans­ing flood.

Amazing grace! ’tis Heav’n be­low

To feel the blood ap­plied

And Je­sus

on­ly Je­sus know

My Je­sus cru­ci­fied.

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