814 | Glory to God#815 | 816 |
Text: | Give to the Winds Thy Fears |
Author: | Paul Gerhardt |
Translator: | John Wesley |
Tune: | FESTAL SONG |
Composer: | William H. Walter |
Media: | Audio recording |
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.
2 Through waves and clouds and storms
God gently clears the way.
Wait patiently; so shall this night
soon end in joyous day.
3 Leave to God’s sovereign sway
to choose and to command.
So shalt thou, wondering, own God’s way,
how wise, how strong God’s hand!
4 Let us in life, in death,
thy steadfast truth declare,
and publish with our final breath
thy love and guardian care.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Give to the winds thy fears |
Title: | Give to the Winds Thy Fears |
Author: | Paul Gerhardt (1653) |
Translator: | John Wesley (1737, alt.) |
Meter: | SM |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2013 |
Scripture: | ; ; ; ; ; ; ; |
Topic: | Hope; LIVING AND DYING IN CHRIST; Sovereignty of God(1 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | FESTAL SONG |
Composer: | William H. Walter (1872) |
Meter: | SM |
Key: | A♭ Major |
Notes: | This tune in a higher key, 744 |
This text uses selected stanzas from sixteen four-line English stanzas based on the original German text, which was twice as long. The German hymn was constructed as an acrostic on Martin Luther’s translation of Psalm 37:5, and much of the spirit of that psalm is retained here.
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Audio recording: | Audio (MP3) |