God's mercy is for ever sure;

God's mercy is for ever sure;
Eternal is his name;
As long as life and speech endure,
My tongue this truth proclaim.

I basely sinned against his love,
And yet my God was good;
His favour nothing could remove,
For I was bought with blood.

That precious blood atones all sin,
And fully clears from guilt;
It makes the foulest sinner clean,
For 'twas for sinners spilt.

He raised me from the lowest state,
When hell was my desert;
I broke his law, and, worse than that,
Alas! I broke his heart!

My soul, thou hast, let what will ail,
A never-changing Friend;
When brethren, friends, and helpers fail,
On him alone depend.