"Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted"

Although I'm not a shut-in, I regularly watch Worship for Shut-Ins.  In the program for Palm Sunday, one of the hymns was "Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted" (sung to the tune "O mein Jesu, ich muss sterben").  Hearing it, I noticed something that I'd missed when I transcribed the text (which, coincidentally, I'd done the same day I watched the program).

In the third verse, there's the line "See who bears the awful load."  The musical phrase to which this line is sung descends, so - like my post last week with a similar feature in "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded" - there's a musical representation of the weight of "the awful load."  It's as if the melody can't sustain itself under that weight and must descend: