Give to the Winds They Fears

51 Give to the Winds They Fears

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,
   He gently clears the way;
   wait thou His time, so shall this night
   soon end in joyous day.

3 Leave to His sov'reign sway
   to choose and to command,
   so shalt thou wond'ring own His way,
   how wise, how strong His hand!

4 Let us in life, in death,
   Thy steadfast truth declare,
   and publish with our latest breath
   Thy love and guardian care.
                         Paul Gerhardt
                         Trans. by John Wesley
                         The Methodist Hymnal 1964 edition

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Be sure to take the time to read the short bio of the hymnwriter at the link above. This hymn occurs in about 500 hymnals. Hymnary.org inserts four verses:

3 Still heavy is thy heart,
   still sink thy spirits down?
   Cast off the weight, let fear depart,
   and every care be gone.

4 What though thou rulest not,
   yet heav'n, and earth, and hell
   proclaim, God sitteth on the throne,
   and ruleth all things well.

6 Far, far above thy thought
   His counsel shall appear
   when fully He the work hath wrought,
   that caused thy needless fear.

7 Thou seest our weakness, Lord,
   our hearts are known to Thee;
   O lift Thou up the sinking heart,
   confirm the feeble knee.

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