Mark 15:5: While for us He undertakes

While for us He undertakes,
Blacken'd with our sinful load
No defence our Proxy makes,
Speechless at the bar of God,
Dumb before the Judge supreme.
All our crimes He owns to Him.

Man will speak accused by man.
Fearful of disgrace and loss,
Long his innocence m.aintain.
Eagerly defend his cause:
God-with-us accepts the shame.
Yields to death, a silent Lamb.

Seal'd His lips with wisdom's seal,
Seal'd by meek humility.
Reverence for His Father's will.
Love for all mankind and me:
Nothing need the Lamb reply
All his business is — to die.

But His silence intercedes.
If their guilt the guilty own,
For the self-condemn'd it pleads,
Powerful at the gracious throne;
But His blood a voice hath found,
Life and heaven is in the sound I