poured for me

poured for me

This is an 18th Century Italian Hymn.

I came across it in an old sermon on Leviticus I was reading.

I cannot get through it without tearing up…

Glory be to Jesus,

Who, in bitter pains,

Poured for me the lifeblood

From His sacred veins!

Grace and life eternal

In that blood I find;

Blest be His compassion,

Infinitely kind.

Blest through endless ages

Be the precious stream

Which from endless torments

Doth the world redeem.

Abel’s blood for vengeance

Pleaded to the skies;

But the blood of Jesus

For our pardon cries.

Oft as it is sprinkled

On our guilty hearts,

Satan in confusion

Terror struck departs.