Jesus, I Will Ponder Now

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Jesus, I will ponder now / On thy holy passion / with thy Spirit me endow / for such meditation. / Grant that I in love and faith / may thy image cherish / of thy suffering, pain, and death / that I may not perish.

Make me see thy great distress / anguish, and affliction / bonds and stripes and wretchedness / and thy crucifixion / Make me see how scourge and rod / spear and nails did wound thee / How for man thou diedst, O god / who with thorns had crowned thee.

Yet, O Lord, not thus alone / Make me see thy passion / but its cause to me make known / and its termination. / Ah! I also and my sin / wrought thy deep affliction / This indeed the cause hath been / of thy crucifixion.

Grant that I thy passion view / with repentent grieving / nor thee crucify anew / by unholy living. / How could I refuse to shun / every sinful pleasure / since for me God's only Son / suffered without measure.

If my sins give me alarm / and my conscience grieve me / let thy cross my fear disarm / peace of conscience give me. / Grant that I may trust in thee / and thy holy Passion; / If his son so loveth me / God must have compassion.

Grant that I may willingly / bear with thee my crosses / learning humbleness from thee / peace mid pain and losses. / May I give thee love for love! / Hear me, O my Savior / That I may in heaven above / sing thy praise forever.

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