GIVE TO THE WINDS THY FEARS
"I sought the Lord, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my
fears." Psalms 34:4
Words: Paul Gerhardt, Praxis Pietatis Melica, 1656; translated from
German to English by John Wesley in Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1739.
Music: "Festal Song," William Henry Walter, 1894.
Give to the winds thy fears,
Hope and be undismayed.
God hears thy sighs and counts thy tears,
God shall lift up thy head.
Through waves and clouds and storms,
He gently clears thy way;
Wait thou His time; so shall this night
Soon end in joyous day.
What though Thou rulest not;
Yet heaven, and earth, and hell
Proclaim, God sitteth on the throne,
And ruleth all things well.
And whatsoe'er Thou will'st,
Thou dost, O King of kings;
What Thine unerring wisdom chose,
Thy power to being brings.
Leave to God's sovereign sway
To choose and to command;
So shalt thou, wondering, own that way,
How wise, how strong this hand.
Let us in life, in death,
Thy steadfast truth declare,
And publish with our latest breath
Thy love and guardian care.