God of Mercy and Compassion

God of mercy and compassion

Look with pity upon me

Father, let me call thee Father

Tis thy child returns to thee.

Jesus Lord, I ask for mercy

Let me not implore in vain

All my sins I now detest them

Never will I sin again.

By my sins I have deserved

Death and endless misery

Hell with all its pains and torments

And for all eternity.

By my sins I have abandoned

Right and claim to heaven above

Where the saints rejoice forever

In a boundless sea of love.

See our Saviour, bleeding, dying

On the cross of Calvary

To that cross my sins have nail'd him

Yet he bleeds and dies for me.