How sweet the assurance to hearts that are weary!
What hope it awakens, what strength doth convey!
Sunshine shall follow the days that are dreary,
Sorrow and sighing shall vanish away.
Symbol and type and the Gospel’s glad story
Say to the fainting one—"Lift up your head.
Soon shall this sad earth be filled with God’s glory;
He for the curse will give blessing instead."

Behold on the altar a victim is lying,
Upraised is the knife in the patriarch’s hand
The child of the covenant promise is dying,
An offering made at Jehovah’s command.
When lo! At the word of the angel from heaven,
The son is restored, as alive from the dead.
The Lord Himself hath a sacrifice given—
A ram in the thicket is offered instead.

Alone in the garden, while others are sleeping,
Our sinless Redeemer, a suppliant, kneels;
His earnest entreaty, his blood drops, his weeping,
To the heart of the Father his anguish reveals.
Though bitter the cup that surety has taken,
Though heavy the stroke that must fall on his head,
He goes to the cross to be cursed and forsaken;
To give us the cup of salvation instead.

Now saved on the ground of his infinite merit,
His people rejoice in the soul-cleansing blood.
Transformed by the might of his indwelling spirit,
They bear, day by day, precious fruit unto God.
All glory and honor and majesty giving
To him who redeemed them, their glorious head,
They count it their joy evermore to be living
No longer to self, but to Jesus instead.

Believer rejoice, for the glad day is nearing
For which all creation still travails in pain;
When Christ, our Redeemer, in glory appearing,
Shall take to himself his great power and reign.
When Satan, the evil usurper, expelling,
To earth’s farthest limits Christ’s kingdom shall spread,
And peace and prosperity sweetly be telling
That Jesus, Immanuel, ruleth instead.

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