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Hymnal Number
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Keys included:
Gm
About this Hymn
Georg Neumark wrote this hymn of trust in the midst of the Thirty Years' War, after being robbed of all his possessions and unable to find employment for two years. He later recalled after being offered a job, "Which good fortune coming suddenly, and as if fallen from heaven, greatly rejoiced me, . . . and had cause enough to thank the Divine compassion for such unlooked-for grace shown to me." Even if you choose not to sing this song in your church, the lyric itself is a healthy meditation for us all.
Lyrics
Verse 1
If thou but suffer God to guide thee, and hope in him through all thy ways, he'll give thee strength, whate'er betide thee, and bear thee through the evil days; who trusts in God's unchanging love builds on the Rock that naught can move.
Verse 2
Only be still, and wait his leisure in cheerful hope, with heart content to take whate'er thy Father's pleasure and all-discerning love have sent; nor doubt our inmost wants are known to him who chose us for his own.
Verse 3
All are alike before the Highest; 'tis easy to our God, we know, to raise thee up, though low thou liest, to make the rich man poor and low; true wonders still by him are wrought who setteth up and brings to naught.
Verse 4
Sing, pray, and keep his ways unswerving; in all thy labor faithful be, and trust his word; though undeserving, thou yet shalt find it true for thee: God never will forsake in need the soul that trusts in him indeed.
If thou but suffer God to guide thee, and hope in him through all thy ways, he'll give thee strength, whate'er betide thee, and bear thee through the evil days; who trusts in God's unchanging love builds on the Rock that naught can move.
Verse 2
Only be still, and wait his leisure in cheerful hope, with heart content to take whate'er thy Father's pleasure and all-discerning love have sent; nor doubt our inmost wants are known to him who chose us for his own.
Verse 3
All are alike before the Highest; 'tis easy to our God, we know, to raise thee up, though low thou liest, to make the rich man poor and low; true wonders still by him are wrought who setteth up and brings to naught.
Verse 4
Sing, pray, and keep his ways unswerving; in all thy labor faithful be, and trust his word; though undeserving, thou yet shalt find it true for thee: God never will forsake in need the soul that trusts in him indeed.
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Attribution & Copyright
Words: Georg Neumark, ca. 1641; tr. Catherine Winkworth, 1855, rev. 1863
Music: Georg Neumark, ca. 1641; harm. Friedrich Layriz, 1849
Music: Georg Neumark, ca. 1641; harm. Friedrich Layriz, 1849