Hymn
Repentance
Oh, if my soul were formed for woe,
How would I vent my sighs!
Repentance should like rivers flow
From both my streaming eyes.
'Twas for my sins my dearest Lord
Hung on the cursed tree,
And groaned away a dying life
For thee, my soul! for thee.
Oh, how I hate these lusts of mine
That crucified my Lord;
Those sins that pierced and nailed his flesh
Fast to the fatal wood!
Yes, my Redeemer they shall die;
My heart has so decreed;
Nor will I spare the guilty things
That made my Saviour bleed.
While with a melting, broken heart,
My murdered Lord I view,
I'll raise revenge against my sins,
And slay the murderers too.
Repentance — Text from Laudes Domini, 1890. Public domain. https://yeshuanow.com/hymns/repentance
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Questions about this hymn
Who wrote Repentance?
The words of Repentance were written by Isaac Watts; the version here was published in 1890. The library holds 248 more hymns by Isaac Watts, including Parting With Carnal Joys and A Song of Deliverance from Great Distress.
Is Repentance public domain?
Yes. The words here are taken from Laudes Domini, published in 1890. Works published before 1931 are out of copyright in the United States, so you can print, project, perform and record this hymn freely. How we source and check every hymn.
What is the metre of Repentance?
Repentance is in Common Metre (8.6.8.6). Hymns in the same metre can usually be sung to the same tunes — for example, Winter, Happy is He, whose early years and Relieving Christ in His Members.