Dead in Trespasses and Sins

Verse 1

How helpless guilty nature lies, Unconscious of its load! The heart unchanged can never rise To happiness and God.

Verse 2

The will perverse, the passions blind, In paths of ruin stray: Reason debased can never find The safe, the narrow way.

Verse 3

Can aught beneath a power divine The stubborn will subdue? ’Tis thine, Eternal Spirit, thine To form the heart anew.

Verse 4

’Tis thine the passions to recall, And upward bid them rise, And make the scales of error fall From reason’s darkened eyes.

Verse 5

To chase the shades of death away, And bid the sinner live! A beam of heaven, a vital ray ’Tis thine alone to give.

Verse 6

O change these wretched hearts of ours, And give them life divine! Then shall our passions and our powers, Almighty Lord, be thine.