Verse 1
Friend of all the sinful race,
Jesus, full of truth and grace,
Sent the wand’ring sheep to find,
Save these outcasts of mankind:

Verse 2
Earnestly remember them,
That they may themselves condemn;
Them for whom we life request,
On the brink of hell arrest.

Verse 3
O reverse their sorest doom,
Snatch them from the wrath to come,
Touching whom we now agree,
Mercy to implore from thee.

Verse 4
Mercy they can ne’er receive,
Till thou dost repentance give:
Giver of the grief unknown,
Look—and break their hearts of stone.

Verse 5
Let them hear thy dying cries,
Then the dead in sin arise;
Stubborn guilt doth then relent,
Rocks are by thy passion rent;

Verse 6
With severest anguish torn,
Felons look on thee, and mourn,
Poor repenting thieves confess
Christ their Lord—and die in peace!