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Text:God is our Refuge and our Strength
Tune:WINCHESTER OLD

91. God is our Refuge and our Strength

1 God is our Refuge and our Strength,
In straits a present aid;
Therefore, although the earth remove,
We will not be afraid;

2 Though hills amidst the seas be cast;
Though waters roaring make
And troubled be; yea, though the hills
By swelling seas do shake.

3 A river is, whose streams make glad
The city of our God;
The holy place, wherein the Lord
Most high hath His abode.

4 God in the midst of her doth dwell;
And nothing shall her move;
The Lord to her an helper will,
And that right early, prove.

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: God is our Refuge and our Strength
Meter: C. M.
Publication Date: 1950
Scripture:
Topic: God the Father: His Love and Fatherhood; God: Love and Fatherhood, His; God: Presence, His Abiding (2 more...)
Source: "Scottish Psalter," 1650
Tune Information
Name: WINCHESTER OLD
Meter: C. M.
Key: F Major
Source: "Este's Psalter," 1592



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