Verse 1
Who has believ’d thy word,
Or thy salvation known?
Reveal thine arm, almighty Lord,
And glorify thy Son.
Verse 2
The Jews esteem’d him here
Too mean for their belief:
Sorrows his chief acquaintance were,
And his companion, grief.
Verse 3
They turn’d their eyes away,
And treated him with scorn;
But ’twas their grief upon him lay,
Their sorrows he has borne.
Verse 4
’Twas for the stubborn Jews,
And Gentiles then unknown,
The God of justice pleas’d to bruise
His best beloved Son.
Verse 5
“But I’ll prolong his days,
“And make his kingdom stand,
“My pleasure, (saith the God of grace)
“Shall prosper in his hand.
Verse 6
“His joyful soul shall see
”The purchase of his pain,
“And by his knowledge justify
”The guilty sons of men.
Verse 7
“Ten thousand captive slaves,
“Releas’d from death and sin,
“Shall quit their prisons and their graves;
“And own his power divine.
Verse 8
“Heaven shall advance my Son
”To joys that earth deny’d;
“Who saw the follies men had done,
“And bore their sins, and dy’d.”
Isaac Watts, “Who Has Believ'd Thy Word”