Rev. Don Campbell
Isaiah 1:18
A SONG A DAY, January 11, 2020
“Though Your Sins Be as Scarlet”
The hymn by Fanny J. Cosby is a quotation and exposition of God’s call through Isaiah: “Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.”
There are 30 hymns by Crosby in the hymnal we use at 90 West Chestnut. In all Crosby wrote between 5,000 and 9,000 hymns, the exact count obscured by the numerous pseudonyms (as many as 200, according to some sources) she employed to preserve her modesty.
“Tho’ your sins be as scarlet,
They shall be as white as snow;
“Tho’ your sins be as scarlet,
They shall be as white as snow;
Tho’ they be red like crimson,
They shall be as wool!”
“Tho’ your sins be as scarlet,
Tho’ your sins be as scarlet,
They shall be as white as snow,
They shall be as white as snow!”
Nothing but the blood of Jesus can wash away our sins, and there is no sin confessed and repented of which the “divine detergent” cannot make white.
“Link to YouTube Video – Though Your Sins Be as Scarlet”
