Description
Listen to the beginner piano arrangement of O The Deep, Deep, Love of Jesus.
O the Deep, Deep, Love of Jesus was written by the London merchant Samuel Francis. As a teenager, he had contemplated suicide one night on a bridge over the River Thames. The Lord converted him and he went on to author many poems and hymns. Besides his merchant career, he also was a preacher.
The song compares Jesus’ love to the ocean in scope, emphasizing the limitless, unchanging, and sacrificial nature of God’s affections for the singer and all of humanity. It consists of three stanzas each utilizing an A, A, B, B rhyming structure. Various melodic and harmonic arrangements of the song have been published, the most common being a minor melody in 3/4 time.
