GOD OF MERCY AND COMPASSION

God of mercy and compassion,
Look with pity upon me;
Father, let me call thee Father,
‘Tis thy child returns to thee.
Jesus, Lord, I ask for mercy;
Let me not implore in vain;
All my sins I now detest them,
Never will I sin again.

2. By my sins I have deservèd
Death and endless misery,
Hell with all its pains and torments,
And for all eternity. Jesus, Lord, etc.

3. By my sins I have abandon’d
Right and claim to heaven above,
Where the saints rejoice for ever
In a boundless sea of love. Jesus, Lord, etc.

4. See our Saviour, bleeding, dying,
On the cross of Calvary;
To that cross my sins have nail’d him,
Yet he bleeds and dies for me. Jesus, Lord, etc.