My God, How Many Are My Fears! from Psalm 3 Isaac Watts (1674-1748)

MY REFUGE (C.M.) Mitch Cervinka* 2000 Score

My God how ma-ny are my fears!
   How fast my foes in-crease!
Con-spi-ring my e-ter-nal death,
   They break my pre-sent peace.

The ly-ing temp-ter would per-suade
   There's no re-lief in heaven;
And all my swell-ing sins ap-pear
   Too big to be for-given.

But Thou, my glo-ry and my strength,
   Shalt on the temp-ter tread,
Shalt si-lence all my threat-ening guilt,
   And raise my droop-ing head.

I cried, and from His ho-ly hill
   He bowed a listen-ing ear,
I called my Fa-ther, and my God,
   And He sub-dued my fear.

He shed soft slum-bers on mine eyes,
   In spite of all my foes;
I woke, and won-dered at the grace
   That guard-ed my re-pose.

What though the hosts of death and hell
   All armed a-gainst me stood,
Ter-rors no more shall shake my soul,
   My ref-uge is my God.

A-rise, O Lord, ful-fill Thy grace,
   While I Thy glo-ry sing:
My God hath broke the ser-pent's teeth,
   And death hath lost its sting.

Sal-va-tion to the Lord be-longs,
   His arm a-lone can save:
Bles-sings at-tend Thy peo-ple here,
   And reach be-yond the grave.

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*Music: Composed 2000 by Mitch Cervinka.
Donated to the Public Domain for the unrestricted use of Christ's church.