How strange and marvellous was this correction!
Falls the good Shepherd in His sheep’s protection;
The servants’ debt behold the Master paying,
For them obeying.
The Righteous dies, Who walked with God true-hearted,
The sinner lives, who has from God departed;
By man came death, yet man its setters breaketh,
God it o’ertaketh.
The guilt and shame of sin had whelmed me over,
From head to foot no good couldst Thou discover;