Verse 1
Eternal power of Jesu’s name,
For thee with broken heart I cry,
Saviour from sin, from fear, from shame,
Come down, or I for ever die!

Verse 2
Thy only name can be my balm,
My spirit’s desp’rate sickness heal,
Thy only voice the storm can calm,
And bid my troubled heart be still.

Verse 3
If yet thou canst compassion have,
If grace doth more than sin abound,
Exert thine utmost power to save,
And let me in thy rest be found.

Verse 4
Th’ irreparable loss repair,
Bind up the wound incurable,
Snatch from the jaws of deep despair,
And pluck the firebrand out of hell.

Verse 5
Lay to thy hand, almighty love,
The work, O God, is worthy thee,
Such huge destruction to remove,
And save a soul so lost as me!

Verse 6
Th’ intolerable load sustain,
Th’ inextricable knot untie,
Loose the indissoluble chain,
And shew thyself the Lord most high.

Verse 7
No opening door, no way to shun
Th’ inevitable death I see,
Out of the deep I cry—Undone!
Undone to all eternity!

Verse 8
No possibility of hope
Angels or saints can ever shew,
Unless th’ Almighty lift me up,
I sink into infernal woe.

Verse 9
Nor can my desp’rate heart conceive
How God himself should save so far:
But humbly all to him I leave,
If yet he will his power declare.

Verse 10
Dying in sin, condemn’d, and lost,
I cast me on a God unknown,
And cry, while rend’ring up the ghost,
Thy will, thy only will be done!