Lund's entire hymn in English

The last four verses of Lund's hymn contain references to the drama that takes place in Gethsemane, where Christ's sufferings are for each and every believing soul. The 'blood sweat and tears' of this hymn are completely absent from Grundtvig's version. To see the entire hymn in a parallel text transation, go to here.

Oh Jesu mine, may my heart learn

for you to hunger so

that night and day my soul will yearn

you never to forgo!

Then mercy’s time and hour shall be

Most sweet and pleasant too,

Until one day your kiss takes me

From this life home to you.

Upon that place my heart you laid

In white-red garden blessed,

With you its final beat shall fade

And at your bosom rest.

And as a sinner I draw nigh,

To righteousness I’m led,

To your Jerusalem on high,

Saved by your bloody sweat.