Still, O my soul, prolong

Verse 1
Still, O my soul, prolong
The never-ceasing song! (Ps. 34:1, Ps. 104:33, Heb. 13:15)
Christ my theme, my hope, my joy; (Col. 1:27, I Tim. 1:1)
His be all my happy days,
Praise my ev’ry hour employ, (Ps. 71:8, Ps. 145:2, Heb. 13:15)
Ev’ry breath be spent in praise. (Ps. 150:6)

Verse 2
His would I wholly be (I Cor. 6:19-20)
Who liv’d and died for me: (Rom. 14:8-9, II Cor. 5:14-15, Gal. 2:20)
Grief was all his life below, (Isa. 53:3)
Pain and poverty and loss: (II Cor. 8:9)
Mine the sins that bruis’d him so, (Isa. 53:5)
Scourg’d and nail’d him to the cross. (Col. 2:14)

Verse 3
He bore the curse of all, (Deut. 21:23, Gal. 3:13)
A spotless criminal: (I Pet. 1:18-19, Isa. 53:12, Mark 15:28, Luke 22:37)
Burden’d with a world of guilt,
Blacken’d with imputed sin, (Isa. 53:6, II Cor. 5:21)
Man to save his blood he spilt,
Died, to make the sinner clean. (Matt. 26:28, Eph. 1:7, Heb. 9:14, Heb. 9:22, I John 1:7, Rev. 1:5)

Verse 4
Join earth and heav’n to bless (Rev. 5:13)
The LORD our righteousness! (Jer. 23:6, Jer. 33:16, I Cor. 1:30)
Myst’ry of redemption this,
This the Saviour’s strange design, (Eph. 1:7-9)
Man’s offence was counted his, (Isa. 53:6)
Ours is righteousness divine. (Rom. 3:22, Rom. 4:24-25, Rom. 5:18-19, II Cor. 5:21, Phil. 3:9)

Verse 5
Far as our parent’s fall (Gen. 3:6)
The gift is come to all: (Rom. 5:15-18)
Sinn’d we all, and died in one? (Rom. 5:12, Rom. 5:17-19, I Cor. 15:21-22)
Just in one we all are made,
Christ the law fulfill’d alone, (Matt. 5:17, Rom. 8:3-4)
Dy’d for all, for all obey’d. (Rom. 5:19, II Cor. 5:14-15, I Tim. 2:6, Heb. 2:9)

Verse 6
In him compleat we shine, (Col. 2:10)
His death, his life is mine.
Fully am I justify’d, (Acts 13:39)
Free from sin, and more than free; (Rom. 6:18)
Guiltless, since for me he dy’d, (Rom. 8:33-34)
Righteous, since he liv’d for me! (II Cor. 5:21)

Verse 7
Jesu! To thee I bow,
Sav’d to the utmost now. (Heb. 7:25)
O the depth of love divine! (Eph. 3:18-19)
Who thy wisdom’s stores can tell? (Col. 2:3)
Knowledge infinite is thine,
All thy ways unsearchable! (Ps. 147:5, Rom. 11:33)