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Hymn: Behold what pity touched the heart (FL)

Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns

Date: 1839

Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard

Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden

First Line: Behold what pity touched the heart

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Hymn Number: 261

Page Number: 130, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

BEHOLD, what pity touched the heart

Of God's beloved Son;

Descending from the heavenly court,

He leaves his Father's throne.



His living power and dying love

Redeemed unhappy man,

And raised the ruins of our race,

To life and God again.