Palm Sunday hymn: “Ah, holy Jesu, how hast thou offended”
“He was wounded for our transgressions.” — Isaiah 53:5
This morning’s recessional hymn on Palm Sunday at Christ Church, Windsor. Hymn #108 in The Book of Common Praise (1938), official hymn book for the whole of The Church of England in Canada (later Anglican Church of Canada).
Ah, holy Jesu, how hast thou offended,
That man to judge thee hath in hate pretended?
By foes derided, by thine own rejected,
O most afflicted.Who was the guilty? Who brought this upon thee?
Alas, my treason, Jesu, hath undone thee.
‘Twas I, Lord Jesu, I it was denied thee:
I crucified thee.Lo, the Good Shepherd for the sheep is offered;
The slave hath sinned, and the Son hath suffered;
For man’s atonement, while he nothing heedeth,
God intercedeth.For me, kind Jesu, was thy incarnation,
Thy mortal sorrow, and thy life’s oblation;
Thy death of anguish and thy bitter passion,
For my salvation.Therefore, kind Jesu, since I cannot pay thee,
I do adore thee, and will ever pray thee,
Think on thy pity and thy love unswerving,
Not my deserving.
Words: From the German of Johann Heermann (1630). Translated (1899) by Robert Bridges in The Yattendon Hymnal.
Music: Herzliebster Jesu (Johann Crüger, arranged by Johann Sebastian Bach)
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