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Did Christ o'er sinners weep?

He beheld the City and wept over it, John xix. 41.

Poet: Benjamin Beddome, 1787
Meter: Short Meter (6,6,8,6)
Location in The Sacred Harp
Stanza Denson Cooper
1
Did Christ o'er sinners weep?
And shall our cheeks be dry?
Let floos of penitential grief
Burst forth from every eye.
Weeping Savior 33t, Stanza 1
Weeping Saviour 32b, Stanza 1
2
The Son of God in tears,
Angels with wonder see!
Be thou astonish'd, O my soul,
He shed those tears for thee.
Weeping Savior 33t, Stanza 1
Weeping Saviour 32b, Stanza 2
3
He wept, that we might weep,
Each sin demands a tear;
In heaven alone no sin is found,
And there's no weeping there.
Weeping Savior 33t, Stanza 1
Weeping Saviour 32b, Stanza 3
Rippon, John. A Selection Hymns, From the Best Authors, Intended to Be an Appendix to Dr. Watts' Psalms and Hymns. 14th Edition. London: Printed and published by S.C. Ustick, 1807.