267: O Love, How Deep


1. O love, how deep, how broad, how high,
it fills the heart with ecstasy,
that God, the Son of God, should take
our mortal form for mortals' sake!

2. For us baptized, for us he bore
his holy fast and hungered sore,
for us temptation sharp he knew;
for us the tempter overthrew.

3. For us he prayed; for us he taught;
for us his daily works he wrought;
by words and signs and actions thus
still seeking not himself, but us.

4. For us to evil power betrayed,
scourged, mocked, in purple robe arrayed,
he bore the shameful cross and death,
for us gave up his dying breath.

5. For us he rose from death again;
for us he went on high to reign;
for us he sent his Spirit here,
to guide, to strengthen, and to cheer.

6. All glory to our Lord and God
for love so deep, so high, so broad:
the Trinity whom we adore,
forever and forevermore.

Text information
First Line:O love, how deep, how broad, how high
Title:O Love, How Deep
Translator:Benjamin Webb (1854, alt.)
Meter:LM
Topic:Trinity; Love; Jesus Christ; Christ's Gracious Life | Life and Teaching; Adoration and Praise; Christian Year | Lent; Christian Year | Trinity Sunday; Jesus Christ | Love of; Service Music | Doxology
Source:15th cent. Latin
Language:English
Tune information
Tune name:DEO GRACIAS
Meter:LM
Key:g minor
Source:English melody; harm. from Hymns Ancient and Modern, Revised, 1950

Media
MIDI file: UMH267.MID