307 Jesus, name all names above,
1 Jesus, name all names above,
Jesus, best and dearest,
Jesus, fount of perfect love,
Holiest, tenderest, nearest;
Jesus, source of grace completest,
Jesus, purest, Jesus sweetest,
Jesus, well of power divine,
Make me, keep me, seal me Thine!
2 Jesus, open me the gate,
That the robber entered,
Who in that most lost estate
Wholly on Thee ventured.
Thou whose wounds are ever pleading;
And Thy passion interceding,
From my misery let me rise
To a home in Paradise!
3 Jesus, crowned with thorns for me,
Scourged for my transgression!
Witnessing, through agony,
That Thy good confession;
Jesus, clad in purple raiment,
For my evil making payment:
Let not all Thy woe and pain,
Let not Calvary, be in vain!
4 When I cross death's bitter sea,
And its waves roll higher,
Help the more forsaking me,
As the storm draws nigher:
Jesus, leave me not to languish,
Helpless, hopeless, full of anguish.
Tell me, "Verily, I say,
Thou shalt be with Me today."
Text Information
- Author
- Theoctistus of the Studium, ca. 890
- Translator
- J. M. Neale, 1862
Tune Information
- Name
- Theoctistus
- Meter
- 7, 6, 7, 6, 8, 8, 7, 7.
- Source
- J. B. Calkin, 1872