Good Friday
Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted
- Words:
- Thomas Kelly, 1804.
- Music:
- 'O Mein Jesu, Ich Muss Sterben' or 'Wo Ist Jesus, Mein Verlangen' from Geistliches Volkslied, 1850.
- Setting:
- "Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-Book", 1931.
- Metre:
- 8 7 8 7 8 7 8 7
- 1Stricken, smitten, and afflicted,See Him dying on the tree!'Tis the Christ by man rejected;Yes, my soul, 'tis He, 'tis He!'Tis the long expected prophet,David's Son, yet David's Lord;Proofs I see sufficient of it:'Tis a true and faithful Word.
- 2Tell me, ye who hear Him groaning,Was there ever grief like His?Friends through fear His cause disowning,Foes insulting his distress:Many hands were raised to wound Him,None would interpose to save;But the deepest stroke that pierced HimWas the stroke that Justice gave.
- 3Ye 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!'Tis the Word, the Lord's Anointed,Son of Man, and Son of God.
- 4Here we have a firm foundation,Here the refuge of the lost.Christ the Rock of our salvation,Christ the Name of which we boast.Lamb of God for sinners wounded!Sacrifice to cancel guilt!None shall ever be confoundedWho on Him their hope have built.
More sheet music
Scripture
Topics
In the hymnals
- Written in 1804, the words are in 97 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, O Mein Jesu, Ich Muss Sterben, is in 49 hymnals. The tune →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. Further sheet music is from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.