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Play “The Church's Safety and Triumph Among National Desolations”
Free same-meter accompaniment for The Church's Safety and Triumph Among National Desolations (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 6 verses, with the words on screen. Choose the key and speed, add an introduction, project the words on a TV, or practice your own choir part. Made for churches and home groups without a musician.
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- 1God is the refuge of His saints,
- When storms of sharp distress invade;
- Ere we can offer our complaints,
- Behold Him present with His aid!
- 2Let mountains from their seats be hurled
- Down to the deep, and buried there,
- Convulsions shake the solid world,
- Our faith shall never yield to fear.
- 3Loud may the troubled ocean roar;
- In sacred peace our souls abide;
- While every nation, every shore,
- Trembles, and dreads the swelling tide.
- 4There is a stream, whose gentle flow
- Supplies the city of our God;
- Life, love, and joy still gliding through,
- And watering our divine abode.
- 5That sacred stream, Thy living word,
- Thus all our anxious fear controls;
- Sweet peace Thy promises afford,
- And give new strength to fainting souls.
- 6Zion enjoys her Monarch's love,
- Secure against the threatening hour;
- Nor can her firm foundation move,
- Built on His faithfulness and power.
About this music
OLD 100TH — Louis Bourgeois. Setting: Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter, 1561.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from ccel from Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter 1561. Words: "Hymnal and Canticles of the Protestant Episcopal Church", 1875, hymn 405.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the The Church's Safety and Triumph Among National Desolations page.
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