"Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence your hands in the earth" (Psalm 58:1,2). "But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you and killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.... Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out" (Acts 3:14,15,19).
Have you spoken what is good
In your pride, O congregation?
Are you judging as you should,
In this wicked generation?
God has seen the wickedness
Of your hearts and of your hands;
He will judge with righteousness
As His holiness demands.
For you denied the Holy One
And killed the Prince of Life.
God gave His own beloved Son,
And you gave Him your strife.
The murderer that you desired
Was granted you instead
Of Christ whose death you had required,
Whom God raised from the dead.
But what you did in ignorance,
Deserving condemnation,
God ordained to thus advance
And grant you His salvation.
Repent, therefore, and turn to Christ
From all your sin and doubt,
For He was therefore sacrificed,
To blot your sins all out!
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