The heart
The heart of the song is gratitude, reverence and assurance. It gives that posture a simple musical home so the listener can enter the theme without needing a long explanation.
Gathered Praise Worship song
Wounded for Us
Wounded for Us sits within the At the Cross EP as a opening worship song. It carries the cross through gratitude, reverence and assurance, giving listeners a focused way to pray, reflect and respond in worship.
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Purpose
Why this song exists.
Wounded for Us exists to give listeners and gathered worshippers a clear way into the cross. A scene-setting opener that begins the EP in reverent gratitude for the suffering and love of Christ.
The song does not try to explain every part of the EP at once. It holds one worship task with care, giving the listener language that can be sung honestly in a service, during prayer, or in the quiet of ordinary life.
Meaning
What the song carries.
At its heart, the song treats the cross as something to be received before it is performed. The focus is not on musical display, but on helping attention turn towards Jesus with language that feels plain, prayerful and singable.
The title gives the song its centre of gravity. Around that centre, the words and movement of the song hold gratitude, reverence and assurance, making room for personal devotion and shared congregational response.
The heart behind it
A focused worship response within a wider EP journey.
A scene-setting opener that begins the EP in reverent gratitude for the suffering and love of Christ.
The reason
The song is placed where it is because the EP needs this particular voice in the journey. As a opening worship song, it helps shape how the wider release is heard and received.
The purpose
The purpose is worship: words and melody that can carry prayer, reflection and response towards Jesus in a way that remains clear and congregational.
In the EP arc
Where the song sits.
Wounded for Us opens the EP by giving the listener a first doorway into the cross. It sets the emotional and spiritual ground for everything that follows, so the release begins with a clear worship posture rather than a rushed conclusion.
Within At the Cross, the song belongs to a wider five-song journey. It stands on its own, but it also helps the EP move with purpose from the opening posture to the final response.
For listening and worship
How the song serves.
For everyday listening, the song offers worship language for moments when the cross needs to be remembered and sung, not merely understood.
For churches and worship leaders, it is shaped as a opening worship song: clear in focus, connected to the wider EP, and intended to serve gathered voices as well as personal prayer.
Lyrics
Wounded for Us lyrics.
Read and reflect on the full lyric in its sung shape, following the repeated choruses, bridges and final response as the song unfolds.
Verse 1
On the hill of our redemption Jesus, You were lifted high Bearing all the weight of sorrow Love was poured out for our lives You were silent in the suffering Yet Your mercy filled that place And the hands that shaped creation Opened wide to give us grace
Chorus
Wounded for us Wounded for us Jesus, Lamb of God Wounded for us Given for love Given for love There we found our peace and pardon Wounded for us
Verse 2
Every sin was laid upon You Every debt was fully known And the wrath that stood against us You endured for us alone By Your stripes the lost are welcomed By Your cross the weak draw near Now the broken find their healing Now the bound are freed from fear
Chorus
Wounded for us Wounded for us Jesus, Lamb of God Wounded for us Given for love Given for love There we found our peace and pardon Wounded for us
Bridge
Thank You, Jesus Thank You, Jesus For the mercy of the cross Thank You, Jesus Thank You, Jesus Every hope is in Your love
Bridge
Thank You, Jesus Thank You, Jesus For the mercy of the cross Thank You, Jesus Thank You, Jesus Every hope is in Your love
Final Chorus
Wounded for us Wounded for us Jesus, Lamb of God Wounded for us Given for love Given for love There we found our peace and pardon Wounded for us
Outro
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More from At the Cross
Hear the song within the full EP.
The song belongs to a five-song worship journey. These companion songs carry the same release theme from different angles.
At the Cross
Awe, humility and grateful response
The main theme statement, giving the release its clearest declaration of mercy, forgiveness and redemption at the cross.
Paid in Full
Confidence, relief and worship
A settled redemption declaration, moving the EP from the event of the cross into the assurance of what Jesus has done.
Mercy Flowing
Tenderness, forgiveness and nearness
A quieter track that brings the cross theme inward, allowing mercy and forgiveness to be sung gently.
Love Poured Out
Awe, gratitude and lifted praise
The closer expands the release into its broadest expression of Christ's love poured out and the church's grateful response.
Worship for the gathered church
Explore the full At the Cross EP.
Wounded for Us is one part of a wider worship journey shaped for everyday listeners, local churches and worship leaders.