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Text:Give to the Winds Your Fears
Paraphraser:Paul Gerhardt
Translator:John Wesley
Tune:DIADEMATA
Composer:George J. Elvey

618. Give to the Winds Your Fears

1 Give to the winds your fears,
in hope be undismayed;
God hears your sighs and counts your tears,
God shall lift up your head;
through waves and clouds and storms
he gently clears the way;
wait for his time, so shall the night
soon end in joyous day.

2 Far, far above your thought
his counsel shall appear,
when fully he the work has wrought
that caused your needless fear.
Leave to God's sovereign will
to choose and to command:
with wonder filled you then shall own
how wise, how strong his hand.

Text Information
First Line: Give to the winds your fears
Title: Give to the Winds Your Fears
Paraphraser: Paul Gerhardt (1653)
Translator: John Wesley (1739, alt.)
Meter: S.M.D.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1990
Scripture: ; ;
Topic: Encouragement; Fears; God: Comforter (2 more...)
Tune Information
Name: DIADEMATA
Composer: George J. Elvey (1868)
Meter: S.M.D.
Key: D Major



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