’Tis not for sin which thou hast done,
Thine angry Father hides his face,
But on thine innocence is shewn
The vengence due to Adam’s race:
Thou all our sin and curse hast took,
That we may blest and holy be,
Thou by thy Father art forsook,
That God may ne’er abandon me.
Tis not for sin which Thou hast done
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!”—Matt. xxvii. 46. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 430.
Publishing: Public Domain