“Jehovah Tsidkenu”
( Jeremiah 33:16 )
which means
“The Lord Our
Righteousness”
by
Robert Murray McCheyne
I once was a stranger to grace and
to God,
I knew not my danger; and felt not
my load;
Though friends spoke in rapture of
Christ on the tree,
Jehovah Tsidkenu was nothing to me.
I oft read with pleasure, to soothe
or engage,
Isaiah’s wild measure and John’s
simple page;
But even when they pictured the
blood-sprinkled tree,
Jehovah Tsidkenu seemed nothing to me.
Like tears from the daughters of
Zion that roll,
I wept when the waters went over His
soul,
Yet thought not that my sins had
nailed to the tree
Jehovah Tsidkenu — ’twas nothing to me.
When free grace awoke me by light
from on high,
Then legal fears shook me, I
trembled to die;
No refuge, no safety in self could I
see —
Jehovah Tsidkenu my Saviour must be.
My terrors all vanished before the
sweet name;
My guilty fear banished, with
boldness I came
To drink at the fountain,
life-giving and free—
Jehovah Tsidkenu is all things to me.
Jehovah Tsidkenu! My treasure and boast,
Jehovah Tsidkenu! I ne’er can be lost;
In Thee shall I conquer by flood and
by field—
My cable, my anchor, my breastplate
and shield!
Even treading the valley; the shadow
of death,
This “watchword” shall rally my
faltering breath;
For while from life’s fever my God
sets me free,
Jehovah Tsidkenu my death-song shall be.
Robert Murray McCheyne
Robert Murray McCheyne died in 1843 at the age of thirty, he left
God’s people a great treasure is his memoirs and other writings. "The
Memoirs and Remains of Robert Murray McCheyne" by Andrew Bonar.
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