La música cristiana es de origen judío: la liturgia musical de la sinagoga, en particular el canto psalmódico de los judíos como unidad poética musical, fue un legado preciado transmitido del Israel antiguo al cristianismo primitivo, como forma de manifestar tanto a nivel personal como comunitario las creencias religiosas y la fe en Dios.
Alas and did my savior bleed
Did my sovereign die?
Would he devote that sacred head
For such a fool as I?
The strangeness of love,
My life in your death
In your brokenness
My wholeness revealed
Your bonds are my freedom,
Your sorrow my song
And by your wounds I am healed
Was it for crimes that I have done
He groaned upon the tree?
Amazing pity! Grace unknown!
And love beyond degree!
But drops of grief can ne'er repay
The debt of love I owe:
Here, lord, I give my self away
'Tis all that I can do.
And by your wounds I am healed.