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Annie Oakley
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Annie Oakley
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“THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS” (The watchword of the Reformers.)
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 sooth or engage, Isaiah’s wild measure and John’s simple page; But e’en when they pictured the blood-sprinkled tree Jehovah Tsidkenu seem’d nothing to me.
Like tears from the daughters of Zion that roll, I wept when the waters went over His soul; Yet thought not that my sins had nail’d to the tree Jehovah Tsidkenu – ’twas nothing to me.
When free grace awoke me, by light from on high, Then legal fears shook me, I trembled to die; No refuge, no safety in self could I see, – Jehovah Tsidkenu my Saviour must be.
My terrors all vanished before the sweet name; My guilty fears banished, with boldness I came To drink at the fountain, life-giving and free, – Jehovah Tsidkenu is all things to me.
Jehovah Tsidkenu! my treasure and boast, Jehovah Tsidkenu! I ne’er can be lost; In thee I shall conquer by flood and by field, My cable, my anchor, my breast-plate and shield!
Even treading the valley, the shadow of death, This “watchword” shall rally my faltering breath; For while from life’s fever my God sets me free, Jehovah Tsidkenu, my death song shall be.
~ Robert Murray McCheyne
The phrase “Jehovah Tsidkenu” is taken from the Anglicised Hebrew of the following two verses in the prophet Jeremiah. “Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.” (Jer. 23:5-6) KJV
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