Healing History of Hyssop

"Take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood… and strike the lintel and the two side posts" (Exodus 12:22).  "Take for him that is to be cleansed… hyssop" (Leviticus 14:4).  "Take… hyssop… for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin" (Numbers 19:6,9).  "Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow" (Psalm 51:7).  "They filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to His mouth… He [Jesus] said, It is finished " (John 19:29,30). 

Behold the humble hyssop plant,

A root that sprang from desert ground

Which grew where other foliage can't,

Was used where cleansing blood was found. 

Instructions from the great I AM

Regarding hyssop specified

That blood from every Paschal lamb

Upon each door must be applied. 

The leper's cleansing ritual

And waters that would purify 

With hyssop's purifying role

Foreshadowed Christ who came to die.

The history of the hyssop, Lord,

To David's heart had been revealed,

As he cried out to be restored

And by Your cleansing blood was healed.