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<h2>FORGIVE THEM, O MY FATHER</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.” Luke 23:34</h3></p>
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<center><b>Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity<br>of the </b><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/" target = "_blank"><b>Cyber Hymnal Website</b></a><br><br><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/cyberhymnal_info.html" target = "_blank">Information about Cyber Hymnal Website</a></center>
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<p><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_a_l_alexander_cf.jpg" alt="Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander (1818-1895)" align="right" hspace="15" vspace="5" width="107.333333333333" height="132.666666666667"><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_a_l_alexander_cfh.html" target="_blank">Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander</a>, in <em>Hymns Ancient and Modern</em>, 1875, alt.</p>
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Valet Will Ich Dir Geben,” <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_t_e_teschner_m.html" target="_blank">Melchior Teschner</a>, 1613 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_v_a_valetwil.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<li>“Llangloffan,” Welsh melody from <em>Hymnau a Thonau</em>, by D. Evans, 1865 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_l_llanglof.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>“Forgive them, O my Father,<br>
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They know not what they do.”<br>
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The Savior spoke in anguish,<br>
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As sharp iron nails went through.<br>
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No word of anger spoke He<br>
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To them that shed His blood,<br>
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But prayer and tenderest pity<br>
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Large as the love of God.</p>
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<p>For me was that compassion,<br>
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For me that tender care;<br>
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I need His wide forgiveness<br>
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As much as any there.<br>
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It was my pride and hardness<br>
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That hung Him on the tree;<br>
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Those cruel nails, O Savior,<br>
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Were driven in by me.</p>
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<p>And often I have slighted<br>
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Thy gentle voice that said:<br>
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Forgive me too, Lord Jesus,<br>
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I knew not what I did.<br>
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O depth of sweet compassion!<br>
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O love divine and true!<br>
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Save thou the souls that slight Thee,<br>
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And know not what they do.</p>
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