Misc Praise Songs – I Once Was A Stranger Jehovah Tsidkenu (Ukulele)

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I once was a stranger to grace and to God,

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I knew not my danger, and felt not my load;

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Though friends spoke in rapture of Christ on the tree,

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Jehovah Tsidkenu was nothing to me.

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I oft read with pleasure, to sooth or engage,

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Isaiah's wild measure and John's simple page;

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But 'en when they pictured the blood sprinkled tree

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Jehovah Tsidkenu seemed nothing to me.

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Like tears from the daughters of Zion that roll,

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I wept when the waters went over His soul;

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Yet thought not that my sins had nailed to the tree

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Jehovah Tsidkenu—'twas nothing to me.

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When free grace awoke me, by light from on high,

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Then legal fears shook me, I trembled to die;

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No refuge, no safety in self could I see—

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Jehovah Tsidkenu my Saviour must be.

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My terrors all vanished before the sweet name;

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My guilty fears banished, with boldness I came

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To drink at the fountain, life giving and free

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Jehovah Tsidkenu is all things to me.

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Jehovah Tsidkenu! My treasure and boast,

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Jehovah Tsidkenu! I ne'er can be lost;

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In thee I shall conquer by flood and by field,

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My cable, my anchor, my breast—plate and shield!

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Even treading the valley, the shadow of death,

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This watchword shall rally my faltering breath;

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For while from life's fever my God sets me free,

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Jehovah Tsidkenu, my death song shall be.