Stricken, smitten and afflicted

This hymn from 1850 is theologically rich and emotionally evocative without being manipulative.

Pastors, please add good old worshipful hymns like these to our Sunday worship services. Let’s make the focus less on the music, less on what we’ve done and how we feel about it, and more and more on Him.

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   Stricken, smitten, and afflicted,
   See him dying on the tree!
   This is Christ, by man rejected;
   Here, my soul, your Savior see.
   He's the long expected prophet,
   David's son, yet David's Lord.
   Proofs I see sufficient of it:
   He's the true and faithful Word.
   
   Tell me, all who hear him groaning,
   Was there ever grief like this?
   Friends through fear his cause disowning,
   Foes insulting his distress;
   Many hands were raised to wound him,
   None would intervene to save;
   But the deepest stroke that pierced him
   Was the stroke that justice gave.
   
   You who think of sin but lightly
   Nor suppose the evil great
   Here may view its nature rightly,
   Here its guilt may estimate.
   Mark the sacrifice appointed;
   See who bears the awful load;
   It's the Word, the Lord's Anointed,
   Son of Man and son of God.
   
   Here we have a firm foundation;
   Here the refuge of the lost;
   Christ, the rock of our salvation,
   His the name of which we boast.
   Lamb of God, for sinners wounded,
   Sacrifice to cancel guilt!
   None shall ever be confounded
   Who on him their hope have built.
   
   Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted
   By: Thomas Kelly
   Hymn # 116 from Lutheran Worship
   Author: Geistliche Volkslieder
   Tune: O Mein Jesu, Ich Muss Sterben