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All we like sheep have gone astray.
Isaiah. 53:6.
Like sheep we went astray,
And broke the fold of God;
Each wandering in a different way,
But all the downward road.
2 How dreadful was the hour
When God our wanderings laid,
And did at once his vengeance pour
Upon the Shepherd’s head.
3 How glorious was the grace
When Christ sustained the stroke!
His life and blood the Shepherd pays,
A ransom for the flock.
4 But God hath raised his head
O’er all the sons of men,
And made him see a numerous seed
To recompense his pain.
Watts.