Voices United ‎#652

652. Be Still, My Soul

1 Be still, my soul, for God is on your side;
bear patiently the cross of grief or pain.
Trust in your God, your Saviour and your guide,
who through all changes faithful will remain.
Be still, my soul, your best, your heavenly friend
through stormy ways leads to a peaceful end.

2 Be still, my soul, for God will undertake
to guide the future surely as the past.
Your hope, your confidence let nothing shake,
all now mysterious shall be bright at last.
Be still, my soul, life's tempests still obey
the voice that once the waves' wild fury strayed.

3 Be still, my soul, the hour is hastening on
when we shall be for ever in God's peace;
when disappointment, grief, and fear are gone,
love’s joys restored, our strivings shall cease.
Be still, my soul: when change and tears are past,
all safe and blessed we shall meet at last.

Text Information

• First Line: Be still, my soul, for God is on your side
• Title: Be Still, My Soul
• Translator: Jane Laurie Borthwick (1855, alt.)
• Author: Katharina von Schlagel (1752)
• Meter: 10 10 10 10 10 10
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1996
• Topic: The Church in the World: Commitment: Trust; Calmness and Serenity; Change; Christian Year: New Year; Comfort/Consolation; Commitment; Eternal Life; Faith; Funerals and Memorial Services; God: Faithfulness; God: Guidance; God: Providence; Grief; Heaven(s)/Paradise; Hope; Jesus Christ: Friend; Jesus Christ: Lord of Life; Joy; Life; Peace (Inner, Calmness, Serenity; Suffering; Trust; Epiphany 8: Year A; Easter 5: Year A; Proper 7: Year B

Tune Information

• Name: FINLANDIA
• Composer: Jean Sibelius (1899)
• Meter: 10 10 10 10 10 10
• Key: F Major
• Copyright: Arrangement copyright © 1933, renewed 1961, Presbyterian Board of Christian Education, Westminster John Knox Press.