Church Book ‎#479

479. Affliction is a stormy deep

1 Affliction is a stormy deep,
Where wave resounds to wave;
Though o'er my head the billows roll,
I know the Lord can save.

2 The hand that now withholds my joys
Can reinstate my peace:
And He who bade the tempest roar,
Can bid that tempest cease.

3 In the dark watches of the night,
I'll count His mercies o'er;
I'll praise Him for ten thousand past,
And humbly sue for more.

4 When darkness and when sorrows rose
And pressed on every side,
The Lord has still sustained my steps,
And still has been my Guide.

5 Here will I rest, and build my hopes,
Nor murmur at His rod;
He's more than all the world to me,
My Health, my Life, my God!

Text Information

• First Line: Affliction is a stormy deep
• Author: Nathaniel Cotton (1791, a.)
• Meter: C. M.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1890
• Scripture:
  Psalm 42
• Topic: The Cross and Comfort; The Cross and Comfort: In Outward Suffering; Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity
• Notes: Alternate tune: #105 or #253

Tune Information

• Name: DOMINE CLAMAVI
• Meter: C. M.
• Key: f minor
• Notes: Composer from index: J. H. Knecht, 1797