Hymn
Victory Over the Fears of Death
- Writer
- Isaac Watts
- Occasion
- Funerals
- Theme
- Faith
O for an overcoming faith,
To cheer my dying hours,
To triumph o’er the monster, Death,
And all his frightful powers.
Joyful with all the strength I have
My quivering lips should sing,
“Where is thy boasted victory, Grave?
And where’s the monster’s sting?”
If sin be pardoned, I’m secure;
Death has no sting beside;
The law gives sin its damning power,
But Christ, my ransom, died.
Now to the God of victory
Immortal thanks be paid,
Who makes us conquerors, though we die,
Through Christ our living Head.
Victory Over the Fears of Death — Text from A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship, 1844. Public domain. https://yeshuanow.com/hymns/victory-over-the-fears-of-death
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Questions about this hymn
Who wrote Victory Over the Fears of Death?
The words of Victory Over the Fears of Death were written by Isaac Watts; the version here was published in 1844. The library holds 248 more hymns by Isaac Watts, including Blessed Are the Dead that Die in the Lord and Religion Vain Without Love.
Is Victory Over the Fears of Death public domain?
Yes. The words here are taken from A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship, published in 1844. Works published before 1931 are out of copyright in the United States, so you can print, project, perform and record this hymn freely. How we source and check every hymn.
What is the meter of Victory Over the Fears of Death?
Victory Over the Fears of Death is in Common Meter (8.6.8.6). Hymns in the same meter can usually be sung to the same tunes — for example, Blest is the man, whose softening heart, Lord, When We Bend and The Heart Dissolving in Love.