Text: | I was a wand'ring sheep |
Author: | Horatius Bonar |
Tune: | LEBANON |
Composer: | John Zundel |
1 I was a wand'ring sheep,
I did not love the fold;
I did not love my Shepherd's voice,
I would not be controlled.
I was a wayward child,
I did not love my home;
I did not love my Father's voice,
I loved afar to roam.
2 The Shepherd sought his sheep,
The Father sought his child;
They followed me o'er vale and hill,
O'er deserts waste and wild:
They found me nigh to death,
Famished and faint and lone;
They bound me with the bands of love,
They saved the wand'ring one.
3 Jesus my Shepherd is;
'Twas he that loved my soul,
'Twas he that washed me in his blood,
'Twas he that made me whole;
'Twas he that sought the lost,
That found the wand'ring sheep,
'Twas he that brought me to the fold,
'Tis he that still doth keep.
4 I was a wand'ring sheep,
I would not be controlled;
But now I love my Shepherd's voice,
I love, I love the fold.
I was a wayward child,
I once preferred to roam;
But now I love my Father's voice,
I love, I love his home.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | I was a wand'ring sheep |
Author: | Horatius Bonar (1843) |
Meter: | S. M. D. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1961 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Backsliding; Christ: Shepherd; Christian Life: Salvation by Grace(4 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | LEBANON |
Composer: | John Zundel (1855) |
Meter: | S. M. D. |
Key: | F Major |