Hymns

Go to Dark Gethsemane

Words: James Montgomery · Music: Richard Redhead · 1820

Verse 1
Go to dark Gethsemane,
you who feel the tempter's pow'r;
your Redeemer's conflict see;
watch with him one bitter hour;
turn not from his griefs away;
learn of Jesus Christ to pray.

Verse 2
Follow to the judgment hall;
view the Lord of life arraigned;
see the wormwood and the gall!
See the pangs his soul sustained!
Shun not suff'ring, shame, or loss;
learn of him to bear the cross.

Verse 3
Calv'ry's mournful mountain climb;
there, adoring at his feet,
mark that miracle of time,
God's own sacrifice complete.
"It is finished!" hear the cry;
learn of Jesus Christ to die.

Verse 4
Early hasten to the tomb
where they laid his breathless clay;
all is solitude and gloom;
who has taken him away?
Christ is ris'n! He meets our eyes:
Savior, teach us so to rise.

Words: James Montgomery, 1820, rev. 1825 | Music: Richard Redhead, 1853

Isaiah 53; Daniel 12; Matthew 23; Matthew 26; Mark 15; Mark 16; Luke 22; Luke 23; John 19; John 20; Philippians 3; Hebrews 10; Hebrews 12

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