Before Your Altar, Lord, I Bow

 

CM

Tune: Nun danket all

 

1 Before Your altar, Lord, I bow

To taste Your pledge of grace;

As angels join my worship now,

I see by faith Your face. 

 

2 The image of the eternal Lord

Is hidden here in food;

Here is bestowed by Jesus’ Word

His body and his blood.

 

3 Here brings the sinner his regret

And leaves with hope in Him,

Who shed his blood to pay our debt

And died for all our sin. 

 

4 How often have I longed for this,

To see amid my guilt

How righteousness and peace will kiss

In blood that You once spilt. 

 

5 I see death’s angel pass me by

While on the Lamb I feast,

Whose blood still speaks for me on high

Where pleads my great High Priest. 

 

6 Here is the manna which I eat,

And never shall I die;

This is the bread of heav’n so sweet

It shall new life supply. 

 

7 Once more we here proclaim his death

Until He comes again;

He kindles once again our faith

By covering all our sin. 

 

8 Here all the saints are gathered round

To feast in unity,

And join their voices in the sound

To praise the Trinity. 

            1/20/15