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{ "title": "Who is this so weak and helpless", "author": "", "tune": "Eifionydd", "number": "169", "lyrics": "Who is this so weak and helpless,\nChild of lowly Hebrew maid,\nRudely in a stable sheltered,\nColdly in a manger laid?\n'Tis the Lord of all creation,\nWho this wondrous path hath trod;\nHe is God from everlasting,\nAnd to everlasting God.\n\nWho is this, a Man of Sorrows,\nWalking sadly life's hard way,\nHomeless, weary, sighing, weeping\nOver sin and Satan's sway?\n'Tis our God, our glorious Saviour,\nWho above the starry sky\nNow for us a place prepareth,\nWhere no tear can dim the eye.\n\nWho is this? behold him shedding\nDrops of blood upon the ground!\nWho is this, despised, rejected,\nMocked, insulted, beaten, bound?\n'Tis our God, who gifts and graces\nOn his church now poureth down;\nWho shall smite in holy vengeance\nAll his foes beneath his throne.\n\nWho is this that hangeth dying\nWhile the rude world scoffs and scorns,\nNumbered with the malefactors,\nTorn with nails, and crowned with thorns?\n'Tis the God who ever liveth\n'Mid the shining ones on high,\nIn the glorious golden city,\nReigning everlastingly.", "first_line": "Who is this so weak and helpless," }