Tune: Breslau
(\'Take up thy cross, the Saviour said\')
2 Chronicles 24 v.20-22
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The Spirit of God came upon
Zechariah, he was the son
Of Jehoiada the priest he
Had words unto the people, see
He said to them, Why you the word
Of the LORD, his commands you heard
You disobeyed, cannot prosper
The LORD has forsaken you sure
Because you have Him forsaken
He has turned, has not you taken
Into his favour, so relent
And from your sins now true repent
But they against him did conspire
And did stone him with stones, it dire
At command of King Joash they
Did him kill, from good turned away
So King Joash remembered not
The kindness done, his pleasant lot
From Jehoiada, the father
of Zechariah, his son sure
But he slew his son, who did say
As he was dying, he did pray
Said, The LORD look on this, repay
The wrong here done to me this day