The brazen serpent; or, Looking to Jesus. <br /> <br />John 3:14-16. <br /> <br />So did the Hebrew prophet raise <br />The brazen serpent high, <br />The wounded felt immediate ease, <br />The camp forbore to die. <br /> <br />"Look upward in the dying hour, <br />And live," the prophet cries; <br />But Christ performs a nobler cure, <br />When Faith lifts up her eyes. <br /> <br />High on the cross the Savior hung, <br />High in the heav'ns he reigns: <br />Here sinners by th' old serpent stung <br />Look, and forget their pains. <br /> <br />When God's own Son is lifted up, <br />A dying world revives; <br />The Jew beholds the glorious hope, <br />Th' expiring Gentile lives.<br /><br />Isaac Watts<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hymn-112/
