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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Behold the blind their sight receive (FL)

Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book

Date: 1882

Compiler: Fillmore Brothers

Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers

First Line: Behold the blind their sight receive

Topic: Christ/Sufferings and Death

Writer: Isaac Watts

Composer: Lowell Mason

Meter: LM

Tune: Ward

Hymn Number: 179

Page Number: 061, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

BEHOLD, the blind their sight receive!

Behold, the dead awake and live!

The dumb speak wonders, and the lame

Leap like the hart, and bless his name!



Thus doth the Holy Spirit own

And seal the mission of the Son;

The Father vindicates his cause

While he hangs bleeding on the cross.



He dies-the heavens in morning stood;

He rises by the power of God!

Behold, the Lord ascending high,

No more to bleed, no more to die.



Hence and forever from my heart

I bid my doubts and fears depart;

And to those hands my soul resign,

Which bear credentials so divine.