How Firme a Foundation

How firm a foundation, ye saints of the lord

Is laid for your faith in his excellent word!

What more can he say than to you, he hath said

Who unto the savior, who unto the savior

Who unto the savior for refuge have fled?

In every condition—in sickness, in health

In poverty’s vale or abounding in wealth

At home or abroad, on the land or the sea—

As thy days may demand, as thy days may demand

As thy days may demand, so thy succor shall be

Fear not, I am with thee; oh, be not dismayed

For I am thy God and will still give thee aid

I’ll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to stand

Upheld by my righteous, upheld by my righteous

Upheld by my righteous, omnipotent hand

When through the deep waters I call thee to go

The rivers of sorrow shall not thee o’erflow

For I will be with thee, thy troubles to bless

And sanctify to thee, and sanctify to thee

And sanctify to thee thy deepest distress

When through fiery trials thy pathway shall lie

My grace, all sufficient, shall be thy supply

The flame shall not hurt thee; I only design

Thy dross to consume, thy dross to consume

Thy dross to consume and thy gold to refine

E’en down to old age, all my people shall prove

My sov’reign, eternal, unchangeable love

And then, when gray hair shall their temples adorn

Like lambs shall they still, like lambs shall they still

Like lambs shall they still in my bosom be borne

The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose

I will not, I cannot, desert to his foes

That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake

I’ll never, no never, I’ll never, no never

I’ll never, no never, no never forsake!