GOD OF MERCY AND COMPASSION

[1]
God of mercy and compassion,
look with pity upon me;
Father, let me call thee Father,
'tis thy child returns to thee.

[Refrain]
Jesus, Lord, I ask for mercy;
let me not implore in vain:
all my sins I now detest them,
never will I sin again.

[2]
By my sins I have deserved
death and endless misery,
hell with all its pains and torments,
and for all eternity.

[3]
By my sins I have abandoned
right and claim to heaven above,
where the saints rejoice for ever
in a boundless sea of love.

[4]
See our Saviour, bleeding, dying
on the cross of Calvary;
to that cross my sins have nailed him,
yet he bleeds and dies for me.