Verse 1
Full of trembling expectation,
Feeling much, and fearing more,
Author, God of my salvation,
I thy timely aid implore:
Suffering Son of man, be near me,
All my sufferings to sustain,
By thy sorer griefs to chear me,
By thy more than mortal pain.

Verse 2
Call to mind that unknown anguish
In thy days of flesh below,
When thy troubled soul did languish
Under a whole world of woe,
When thou didst our curse inherit,
Groan beneath our guilty load,
Burthen’d with a wounded spirit,
Bruis’d by all the wrath of God.

Verse 3
By thy most severe temptation
In that dark satanic hour,
By thy last mysterious passion
Screen me from the adverse power:
By thy fainting in the garden,
By thy bloody sweat I pray,
Write upon my heart the pardon,
Take my sins and fears away.

Verse 4
By the travail of thy Spirit,
By thine outcry on the tree,
By thine agonizing merit
In my pangs remember me!
By thy death I thee conjure,
A weak, dying soul befriend,
Make me patient to endure,
Make me faithful to the end.