Mac Powell - By His Wounds Lyrics

"By His Wounds" sets a specific prophetic passage directly to music, repeating its description of a suffering figure pierced for others' wrongdoing and crushed for their sin. Its opening lines make no claim of personal righteousness, attributing healing entirely to punishment borne by someone else rather than any effort of the singer's own.

The chorus draws the passage's conclusion explicitly, stating that wounds inflicted on another result in healing for those the song addresses. A middle section shifts from quotation to direct response, naming sacrifice, given life, and paid price as the specific means of both healing and salvation, crediting grace alone for that outcome.

The song closes with a rhetorical question about the only remedy capable of removing sin, answering plainly that nothing accomplishes this except Christ's blood. Rooted in a direct musical setting of Isaiah's suffering servant prophecy, the song functions as theological declaration rather than personal testimony, repeating its central quotation to anchor healing and salvation in a specific, foretold act of substitution.