“Jehovah Tsidkenu”*

"The Lord Our Righteousness" I once was a stranger to grace and to God, I knew not my danger, and felt not my load; Though friends spoke in rapture of Christ on the tree, "Jehovah Tsidkenu" was nothing to me. I oft read with pleasure, to soothe or engage, But e'en when they pictured the blood-sprinkled tree. Isaiah's wild measure and John's simple page, "Jehovah Tsidkenu" seemed nothing to me. Like tears from the daughters of Zion that roll, I wept when the waters went over His soul;...