Was ever grief like thine,
Jesus, thou Man of Woe!
The visage and the form divine,
Why was it mangled so?
That man thro’ thee restor’d,
God’s image might regain,
And by the sorrows of his Lord
In joy eternal reign.
Was ever grief like Thine
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “His visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men.”—[Isa.] lii. 14. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 438.
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