Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Affliction is a stormy deep
Topic: The New Life/Afflictions
Writer: <no first name given> Cotton
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1004
Page Number: 595, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsAffliction is a stormy deep,
Where wave resounds to wave;
Though o'er our heads the billows roll,
We know the Lord can save.
When darkness, and when sorrows rose,
And pressed on every side,
The Lord hath still sustained our steps,
And still hath been our guide.
Perhaps, before the morning dawn,
He will restore our peace;
For he who bade the tempest roar
Can bid the tempest cease.
Here will we rest, here build our hopes
Nor murmur at his rod;
He's more to us than all the world,
Our Health, our Life, our God.