Christ My Song - 2092
Thy rebuke my heart hath broken! - The Broken Heart
(John S. B. Monsell/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)
The Broken Heart.
"Thy rebuke hath broken my heart." (Psalm 69,21)
1. "Thy rebuke my heart hath broken!"
O my Saviour! can it be
these prophetic words were spoken
of thy dying agony,
that so true and tender token
of thy living love to me,
that so true and tender token
of thy living love to me. PDF - Midi
2. O my soul! what dull affection
for thy Saviour thine must be,
if thou share not the dejection
of his dying agony,
who vouchsafes the great protection
of his living love to thee,
who vouchsafes the great protection
of his living love to thee.
3. O thou greatly broken-hearted!
stoop from Heaven, and hear my plea,
by those tears of blood that started
from thy brow of agony,
let me never more be parted
from thy living love to me,
let me never more be parted
from thy living love to me.
4. By thine agony of crying
when God had forsaken thee,
by the wounds, and thirst, and dying
on that cruel, cursèd tree,
hear me when my soul is sighing
for thy living love to me,
hear me when my soul is sighing
for thy living love to me.
5. Hear me, and vouchsafe the token
which I long for most from thee,
that the words thyself hast spoken
may my own heart's utterance be,
"Thy rebuke my heart hath broken,"
heal! O heal it, Christ! for me,
"Thy rebuke my heart hath broken,"
heal! O heal it, Christ! for me.
John S. B. Monsell, Hymns of Love and Praise, 1877, 50-51.
Repetitions added. Hymn title from the index, page 173.