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Jehovah-Rophi. I Am The Lord That Healeth Thee. - Exodus xv.26.

By William Cowper

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Heal us, Emmanuel, here we are,     Waiting to feel thy touch:     Deep-wounded souls to thee repair,     And, Saviour, we are such.     Our faith is feeble, we confess,     We faintly trust thy word;     But wilt thou pity us the less?     Be that far from thee, Lord!     Remember him who once applied,     With trembling, for relief;     Lord, I believe, with tears he cried,[1]     Oh, help my unbelief!     She too, who touchd thee in the press,     And healing virtue stole,     Was answerd, Daughter, go in peace,[2]     Thy faith hath made thee whole.     Conceald amid the gathering throng,     She would have shunnd thy view;     And if her faith was firm and strong,     Had strong misgivings too.     Like her, with hopes and fears we come,     To touch thee, if we may;     Oh! send us not despairing home,     Send none unheald away.

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William Cowper

About William Cowper

William Cowper (1731–1800) was an English poet and hymnodist whose work bridges the gap between the Augustan age and Romanticism. His poems "The Task" and "John Gilpin" were enormously popular, and his hymn "God Moves in a Mysterious Way" remains widely sung.

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