With broken heart and contrite sigh
The same words as 2 hymnals printed them. Pick two versions to see every change between them: words added, dropped or altered, and verses left out.
6 words changed · 3 stanzas only in Hymns and Tunes 1876 #112
Verse 1
With broken heart and contrite sigh, A trembling sinner, Lord, I cry;;
Thy pardoning grace is rich and free: ;
O God, be merciful to me! !
Verse 1
With broken heart and contrite sigh, A trembling sinner, Lord, I cry;
Thy pardoning grace is rich and free:
O God, be merciful to me!
Verse 2
I smite upon my troubled breast With deep and conscious guilt oppressed;;
Christ and his cross my only plea: ;
O God, be merciful to me! !
Verse 2
I smite upon my troubled breast With deep and conscious guilt oppressed;
Christ and his cross my only plea:
O God, be merciful to me!
Verse 3
Far off I stand with tearful eyes,
Nor dare uplift them to the skies ;
But thou dost all my anguish see ;
O God, be merciful to me !
Not in this version
Verse 4
Nor alms, nor deeds that I have done,
Can for a single sin atone ;
To Calvary alone I flee ;
O God, be merciful to me !
Not in this version
Verse 5
And when, redeemed from sin and hell,
With all the ransomed throng I dwell,
My raptured song shall ever be,
God has been merciful to me !
Not in this version