LYRICS
| Meter: | 10 4 10 4 10 10
| | Writer(s): | John Douglas Sutherland Campbell
| | Transl/Adapt: |
| | Dates: | 1877
| | Bible Refs: | Ps 121:1-2
| Anglican Hymn Book 1965
| 1965
| 567
| Common Praise (Anglican C. of Canada)
| 1998
| 543
| Hymns for Today's Church 2
| 1988
| 48
| Hymns of Faith
| 1964
| 392
| The Book of Common Praise
| 1908
| 656
| The Book of Common Praise - Revised
| 1938
| 520
| The Church Hymnal for the Christian Year
| 1917
| 586
| The Hymn Book of Angl & Unit Ch Canada
| 1971
| 129
| Trinity Hymnal
| 1961
| 82
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MUSIC
Alternate Tunes
| SANDON | 10 4 10 4 10 10 | Charles Henry Purdey | | LUX BEATA | 10 4 10 4 10 10 | Albert Lister Peace |
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| 1. Unto the hills around do I lift up
my longing eyes
O whence for me
shall my salvation come,
from whence arise?
From God, the Lord,
doth come my certain aid,
From God, the Lord,
Who heaven and earth hath made.
2. He will not suffer
that thy foot be moved:
safe shalt thou be.
No careless slumber
shall His eyelids close,
Who keepeth thee.
Behold, He sleepeth not,
He slumbereth ne’er,
Who keepeth Israel in His holy care.
3. Jehovah is Himself thy Keeper true,
thy changeless Shade;
Jehovah thy Defense
on thy right hand
Himself hath made.
And thee no sun by day
shall ever smite;
No moon shall harm thee
in the silent night.
4. From every evil shall
He keep thy soul,
from every sin;
Jehovah shall preserve thy going out,
thy coming in.
Above thee watching,
He Whom we adore
Shall keep thee henceforth,
yea, forevermore.
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