Eternal God, How They’re Increased

Eternal God

how they’re in­creased

Who great­ly trou­ble me!

How ma­ny are the men that stand

In tri­umph over me!

Many there be who ev­er are

Saying un­to my soul

There’s no sal­va­tion to be had

For him in God at all.

But now about me Thou’rt a shield

O Thou eter­nal God;

Thou art my glo­ry

and Thou art

Th’uplifter of my head.

I laid me down

and took my sleep

And then I did awake;

Because that the eter­nal God

Sustained me all along.

Salvation is what does be­long

To the eter­nal God;

On those that are Thy peo­ple is

Thy be­ne­dict­ion still.