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Come to Calvary's Holy Mountain

James Montgomery (1819) • English

Primary Scripture: Isaiah 12:3

Verse 1

Come to Calv'ry's holy mountain, sinners, ruined by the fall; here a pure and healing fountain flows for you, for me, for all, in a full, perpetual tide, opened when our Savior died.

Verse 2

Come in poverty and meanness, come defiled, without, within; from infection and uncleanness, from the leprosy of sin, wash your robes and make them white; you shall walk with God in light.

Verse 3

Come in sorrow and contrition, wounded, paralyzed, and blind; here the guilty, free remission, here the troubled, peace may find. Health this fountain will restore; they that drink shall thirst no more.

Verse 4

They that drink shall live forever; 'tis a soul-renewing flood. God is faithful; God will never break his covenant of blood, signed when our Redeemer died, sealed when he was glorified.

Scripture References

Reference 1

  • isaiah 12:3

Reference 2

  • isaiah 25:6-8

Reference 3

  • isaiah 55:1

Reference 4

  • joel 3:18

Reference 5

  • zechariah 13:1

Reference 6

  • matthew 27:33-35

Reference 7

  • mark 11:28

Reference 8

  • john 4:13-14

Reference 9

  • john 6:37

Reference 10

  • john 6:48-58