Hymnal Number
264Resource Type:
Keys included:
C
About this Hymn
Graham Kendrick wrote the tune for this song before he had any words to go with it. "There was an obvious kind of pathos in the tune and the melody. It was around the time that I was writing Make Way for the Cross, so it seemed appropriate that this song should be a meditation around the cross." It pictures Christ in his humility, and we in turn worship in adoration at his feet, pleading, "Help me take it in."
Lyrics
Verse 1
Come and see, come and see, come and see the King of love; see the purple robe and crown of thorns he wears. Soldiers mock, rulers sneer as he lifts the cruel cross; lone and friendless now, he climbs toward the hill.
Chorus
We worship at your feet, where wrath and mercy meet, and a guilty world is washed by love's pure stream. For us he was made sin— oh, help me take it in. Deep wounds of love cry out, "Father, forgive." I worship, I worship the Lamb who was slain.
Verse 2
Come and weep, come and mourn for your sin that pierced him there, so much deeper than the wounds of thorn and nail; all our pride, all our greed, all our fallenness and shame; and the Lord has laid the punishment on him.
Verse 3
Man of heav'n, born to earth, to restore us to your heav'n, here we bow in awe beneath your searching eyes; from your tears comes our joy, from your death our life shall spring, by your resurrection power we shall rise.
Come and see, come and see, come and see the King of love; see the purple robe and crown of thorns he wears. Soldiers mock, rulers sneer as he lifts the cruel cross; lone and friendless now, he climbs toward the hill.
Chorus
We worship at your feet, where wrath and mercy meet, and a guilty world is washed by love's pure stream. For us he was made sin— oh, help me take it in. Deep wounds of love cry out, "Father, forgive." I worship, I worship the Lamb who was slain.
Verse 2
Come and weep, come and mourn for your sin that pierced him there, so much deeper than the wounds of thorn and nail; all our pride, all our greed, all our fallenness and shame; and the Lord has laid the punishment on him.
Verse 3
Man of heav'n, born to earth, to restore us to your heav'n, here we bow in awe beneath your searching eyes; from your tears comes our joy, from your death our life shall spring, by your resurrection power we shall rise.
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Attribution & Copyright
Words & Music: Graham Kendrick © 1989 Make Way Music (Music Services / www.musicservices.com)