With Broken Heart and Contrite Sigh Lyrics Cornelius Elven, 1852
5 verses, meter L. M., public domain, free to print and project.
The words
Verse 1. With broken heart and contrite sigh,
A trembling sinner, Lord, I cry;
Thy pardoning grace is rich and free;
O God, be merciful to me!
Verse 2. I smite upon my troubled breast,
With deep and conscious guilt opprest;
Christ and His Cross my only plea;
O God, be merciful to me!
Verse 3. Far off I stand with tearful eyes
Nor dare uplift them to the skies;
But Thou dost all my anguish see;
O God, be merciful to me!
Verse 4. Nor alms nor deeds that I have done
Can for a single sin atone;
To Calvary alone I flee;
O God, be merciful to me!
Verse 5. And when, redeemed from sin and hell,
With all the ransomed throng I dwell,
My raptured song shall ever be,
God has been merciful to me!
Words copied from Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-Book (Abridged Edition) (1927). They were published in 1852, so they are in the public domain in the United States, and your church may print them, show them and sing them without a license.
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