Aspice, infami Deus ipse ligno

This Latin Passiontide hymn was included in the Appendix to the Roman Breviary published at Bologna in 1827. It was designated as the Matins hymn for the Feast of the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, assigned to the Tuesday following Sexagesima Sunday. In local English usage, the feast and its accompanying hymn were assigned to the Friday after Sexagesima Sunday, while the Benedictine Order appointed its observance for Tuesday.

The text was rendered into English by Edward Caswall under the title "See, where in shame the God of glory hangs." First published in his Lyra Catholica (1849) in five stanzas of four lines, Caswall later included it in his Hymns and Poems (1873). This translation was adopted with alterations in The Hymnary (1872) and The Catholic Hymnal. A second English translation was prepared by William John Blew as "Lo! on the inglorious tree." Blew originally printed his six-stanza translation for use in his own church before publishing it in his Church Hymn and Tune Book (1852), from which an altered text was adopted into the New Congregational Hymn Book (1859) and Howard Rice's Selection (1870).