Say! wherefore thus by woes wast Thou surrounded?
Ah! Lord, for my transgressions Thou wast wounded:
God took the guilt from me, who should have paid it,
On Thee He laid it.
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;