Lamb of God, Pure and Holy

"Lamb of God, Pure and Holy"

by Nikolaus Decius, 1490?-1541

Text From:

THE HANDBOOK TO THE LUTHERAN HYMNAL

(St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1942), pp. 115

1. Lamb of God, pure and holy,

Who on the cross didst suffer,

Ever patient and lowly,

Thyself to scorn didst offer.

All sins Thou borest for us,

Else had despair reigned o'er us:

Have mercy on us, O Jesus!

2. Lamb of God, pure and holy,

Who on the cross didst suffer,

Ever patient and lowly,

Thyself to scorn didst offer.

All sins Thou borest for us,

Else had despair reigned o'er us:

Have mercy on us, O Jesus!

3. Lamb of God, pure and holy,

Who on the cross didst suffer,

Ever patient and lowly,

Thyself to scorn didst offer.

All sins Thou borest for us,

Else had despair reigned o'er us:

Have mercy on us, O Jesus!

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Notes:

TLH #146

Text: John 1: 29

Author: Nikolaus Decius, 1531

Translated by: composite

Tune: O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig

Erfurt, 1542

1st Published in: "Christl. Kirchenordnung"