Text: | Whate'er my God ordains is right |
Author: | Samuel Rodigast |
Translator: | Catherine Winkworth, 1829-1878 |
Tune: | WAS GOTT TUT |
Composer: | Severus Gastorius |
1 Whate'er my God ordains is right:
Holy his will abideth;
I will be still whate'er he doth;
And follow where he guideth:
He is my God:
Though dark my road,
He holds me that I shall not fall:
Wherefore to him I leave it all.
2 Whate'er my God ordains is right:
He never will deceive me;
He leads me by the proper path;
I know he will not leave me:
I take, content,
What he hath sent;
His hand can turn my griefs away,
And patiently I wait his day.
3 Whate'er my God ordains is right:
Though now this cup, in drinking,
May bitter seem to my faint heart,
I take it, all unshrinking:
My God is true;
Each morn anew
Sweet comfort yet shall fill my heart,
And pain and sorrow shall depart.
4 Whate'er my God ordains is right:
Here shall my stand be taken;
Though sorrow, need, or death be mine,
Yet am I not forsaken;
My Father's care Is round me there;
He holds me that I shall not fall:
And so to him I leave it all.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Whate'er my God ordains is right |
Author: | Samuel Rodigast (1675) |
Translator: | Catherine Winkworth, 1829-1878 |
Meter: | 8. 7. 8. 7. 4. 4. 8. 8. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1961 |
Topic: | Decrees of God; God: Justice of; God: Sovereignty of(5 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | WAS GOTT TUT |
Composer: | Severus Gastorius (1881) |
Meter: | 8. 7. 8. 7. 4. 4. 8. 8. |
Key: | G Major |
Copyright: | Harmony from "The Revised Church Hymnary" by permission of Oxford University Press |
Notes: | Now Public Domain |