- F Alto Recorder
- C Tenor Recorder
- F Bass Recorder
- C Great Bass Recorder
- Verse 1
- Give to the winds thy fears;
- Hope, and be undismayed:
- God hears thy sighs, and counts thy tears;
- God shall lift up thy head.
- Verse 2
- Through waves, and clouds, and storms
- He gently clears thy way:
- Wait thou His time, so shall this night
- Soon end in joyous day.
- Verse 3
- Leave to His sovereign sway
- To choose and to command;
- So shalt thou, wondering, own His way,
- How wise, how strong His hand.
- Verse 4
- Thou seest our weakness, Lord;
- Our hearts are known to Thee;
- O lift Thou up the sinking hand,
- Confirm the feeble knee.
- Verse 5
- Let us in life, in death,
- Thy steadfast truth declare,
- And publish with our latest breath,
- Thy love and guardian care.
- August 21 entry for the 2022 Weekly Hymns Challenge.
- Old 134th, AKA St. Michael (Genevan) composed by Loys
Louis
Bourgeois (ca. 1510-1559).
- Original German lyrics written 1656 by Paul Gerhardt (1607-1676)
- Lyrics translated from German to English by John Wesley (1703-1791)
- Hymn #421 in The Hymnary Of The United Church of Canada