Jesus, I Will Ponder Now Lyrics

Jesus, I will ponder now

On your holy passion

Let your Spirit now endow

Me for meditation

Grant that I in love and faith

May the image cherish

Of your suff'ring, pain, and death

That I may not perish

Make me see your great distress

Anguish, and affliction

Bonds and blows and wretchedness

And your crucifixion

Make me see how scourge and rod

Spear and nails, did wound you

How you died for those, O God

Who with thorns had crowned you

Yet, O Lord, not thus alone

Make me see your passion

But its cause to me make known

And its termination

For I also and my sin

Wrought your deep affliction

This the shameful cause has been

Of your crucifixion

Let me view your pain and loss

With repentant grieving

Nor prepare again your cross

By unholy living

May I give you love for love

Hear me, O my Savior

That I may in heav'n above

Sing your praise forever