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352 | Glory to God#353 | 354 |
Text: | My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less |
Author: | Edward Mote |
Tune: | SOLID ROCK |
Composer: | William Batchelder Bradbury |
Media: | Audio recording |
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.
Refrain:
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
all other ground is sinking sand;
all other ground is sinking sand.
2 When darkness seems to hide his face,
I rest on his unchanging grace;
in every high and stormy gale,
my anchor holds within the veil. [Refrain]
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. [Refrain]
4 When he shall come with trumpet sound,
O may I then in him be found,
dressed in his righteousness alone,
faultless to stand before the throne. [Refrain]
Text Information | |
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First Line: | My hope is built on nothing less |
Title: | My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less |
Author: | Edward Mote (1834 c., alt.) |
Refrain First Line: | On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand |
Meter: | LM with refrain |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2013 |
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Topic: | Atonement; Christ's Return and Judgment; Grace(3 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | SOLID ROCK |
Composer: | William Batchelder Bradbury (1863, alt.) |
Meter: | LM with refrain |
Key: | F Major |
This hymn develops the imagery of Jesus’ remark (Matthew 7:24–27/Luke 6:47–49) that those who believe in him and act on that belief are like someone who builds a house on a rock. The text is set to a tune created for it by a prolific 19th-century American composer and editor.
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Audio recording: | ![]() |