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Moravian Hymn Book, #376: Is God my strong salvation

Ist Gott füf mich, so trete.

1656. P. Gerhardt

Is God my strong salvation, No enemy I fear, He hears my supplication, Dispelling all my care: If he, my Head and Master, Defend me from above, What pain, or what disaster, Can part me from his love?

I fully am persuaded And joyfully declare, I'm never left unaided, My Father hears my prayer; His comforts never fail me, He stands at my right hand; When tempests fierce assail me, They're calm at his command.

The ground of my profession Is Jesus and his blood; He giveth me possession Of everlasting good. To me his Spirit speaketh Full many a precious word-- Of rest to him who seeketh A refuge in the Lord.

Should earth lose its foundation, He stands my lasting rock; No temporal desolation Shall give my love a shock; I'll cleave to Christ my Saviour, No object, small or great, Nor height, no depth, shall ever Me from him separate.

My merry heart is springing, It can no more be sad; With laughter and with singing, In God's own sunshine glad; For Christ is now preparing His city new and bright, Where saints his throne are sharing And faith is turned to sight.

1725. J. C. Jacobi, a.

Moravian Hymn Book, #376