"Jehovah Tsidkenu" 
                   (Jeremiah 33:16)

                    which means

            "The Lord Our Righteousness"
                         by
               Robert Murray McCheyne 



         I once was a stranger to grace and to God,

        I knew not my danger; and felt not my load;

    Though friends spoke in rapture of Christ on the tree,

          Jehovah Tsidkenu was nothing to me.

                           

        I oft read with pleasure, to soothe or engage,

       Isaiah's wild measure and John's simple page;

    But even when they pictured the blood-sprinkled tree,

        Jehovah Tsidkenu seemed nothing to me.

                           

       Like tears from the daughters of Zion that roll,

        I wept when the waters went over His soul,

     Yet thought not that my sins had nailed to the tree

        Jehovah Tsidkenu - 'twas nothing to me.

                           

      When free grace awoke me by light from on high,

        Then legal fears shook me, I trembled to die;

          No refuge, no safety in self could I see -

         Jehovah Tsidkenu my Saviour must be.

                           

       My terrors all vanished before the sweet name;

       My guilty fear banished, with boldness I came

       To drink at the fountain, life-giving and free-

          Jehovah Tsidkenu is all things to me.

                           

        Jehovah Tsidkenu! My treasure and boast,

          Jehovah Tsidkenu! I ne'er can be lost;

       In Thee shall I conquer by flood and by field-

      My cable, my anchor, my breastplate and shield!

                           

       Even treading the valley; the shadow of death,

      This "watchword" shall rally my faltering breath;

      For while from life's fever my God sets me free,

        Jehovah Tsidkenu my death-song shall be.

                                                        Robert Murray McCheyne 


Robert Murray McCheyne died in 1843 at the age of thirty, he left God's 
people a great treasure is his memoirs and other
writings. "The Memoirs and Remains of Robert Murray McCheyne" by Andrew 
Bonar. Published by "The Banner of Truth"
(http://www.btinternet.com/~gracegospel/jehovah.htm)

Jehovah is the God of Bible. Jesus Christ of New Testament is the Jehovah
God of Old Testament.