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Hymnal Number
120Resource Type:
Keys included:
F
About this Hymn
In Matthew 7 Jesus offered a memorable simile, admonishing his listeners not to be like a foolish man who built his house on sand, which was then destroyed by floods. The lesson here is a spiritual one, and the Bible tells us, "No one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ" (1 Cor. 3:11). We can withstand "every high and stormy gale" if we are anchored properly to the Rock.
Lyrics
Verse 1
My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness; I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus' name.
Chorus
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand; all other ground is sinking sand; all other ground is sinking sand.
Verse 2
When darkness veils his lovely face, I rest on his unchanging grace; in ev'ry high and stormy gale, my anchor holds within the vale.
Verse 3
His oath, his covenant, his blood support me in the whelming flood; when all around my soul gives way, he then is all my hope and stay.
Verse 4
When he shall come with trumpet sound, oh, may I then in him be found, dressed in his righteousness alone, faultless to stand before the throne.
My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness; I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus' name.
Chorus
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand; all other ground is sinking sand; all other ground is sinking sand.
Verse 2
When darkness veils his lovely face, I rest on his unchanging grace; in ev'ry high and stormy gale, my anchor holds within the vale.
Verse 3
His oath, his covenant, his blood support me in the whelming flood; when all around my soul gives way, he then is all my hope and stay.
Verse 4
When he shall come with trumpet sound, oh, may I then in him be found, dressed in his righteousness alone, faultless to stand before the throne.
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Attribution & Copyright
Words: Edward Mote, 1824; rev. John Rees, 1826, alt.
Music: William Bradbury, 1864
Music: William Bradbury, 1864