GHS 74 : The Heart That Was Broken For Me Lyrics
GHS 74, “The Heart That Was Broken For Me,” is a meditation on the suffering of Christ that goes beyond the physical to the deeper wound. The thorns, the stripes, the nails, the cross are all named in the refrain, but the hymn’s central observation is that “the pain in His heart was the hardest to bear.” This was not merely physical suffering but the anguish of rejection: He came to His own and they received Him not; He loved, and was hated; He had no place to lay His head. The hymn ends not in grief but in personal response, with the singer resolving to go to His feet, repent, take up the cross, and abide in the very heart that was broken.
This hymn appears as number 74 in the Gospel Hymns and Songs (GHS) collection, used in Deeper Life Bible Church and related assemblies across West Africa.
Hymn Lyrics – GHS 74: The Heart That Was Broken For Me
- There came from the skies in the days long ago The Lord with a message of love; The world knew Him not; He was treated with scorn — This wonderful gift from above.
They crowned Him with thorns, He was beaten with stripes; He was smitten and nailed to the tree, But the pain in His heart was the hardest to bear, The heart that was broken for me.
- He came to His own — to the ones that He loved; The sheep that had wandered astray; They heard not His voice, but the Friend of mankind Was hated and driven away.
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The birds have their nests, and the foxes have holes, But He had no place for His head; A pallet of stone on the cold mountain side Was all that He had for His bed.
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I cannot reject such a Saviour as He; Dishonour and wound Him again; I’ll go to His feet and repent of my sin, Be willing to suffer the pain.
I’ll take up my cross, I will walk by His side, For the pathway of duty I see, I will follow my Lord and abide in His heart, The heart that was broken for me.
