God Our Refuge

Come now with joy and sing­ing

Loud hal­le­lu­jahs ring­ing

Our grate­ful trib­ute bring­ing

To our al­migh­ty friend;

Offering with pur­est plea­sure

To Him the heart’s full trea­sure

Whose love no thought can mea­sure

Whose praise shall nev­er end.

We sing with ex­ul­ta­tion

Lord God of our sal­va­tion;

Thou art our sure foun­da­tion

Our re­fuge ev­er­more.

When to this re­fuge fly­ing

Turn sin­ners

help­less

dy­ing

On Christ alone re­ly­ing

No harm can reach them there;

When floods of grief are dash­ing

And waves of sor­row splash­ing

Light to the soul comes flash­ing—

God’s smile through dark des­pair.

In wak­ing or in sleep­ing

Bright days

or nights of weep­ing

Our souls are in Thy keep­ing

While here we wait be­low;

In Thee alone abid­ing

And in Thy love con­fid­ing

Safe when Thy hand is guid­ing

We’ll ev­er glad­ly go.