Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A PSALM FOR THE TIMES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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First Line: God is refuge and strength
Last Line: "and I will be ruler of men!"
Subject(s): Bible


God is refuge and strength,
Quick help in this arduous day;
Fear we not then, though at length
The vast world vanish away;
Though mountains fall into the main,
And the sea by the tempest is swayed,
Though the mountains tremble again,
We will trust and not be afraid.

For there is a river we know
Making glad the city of God;
Peaceful and holy its flow
Beneath God's governing rod.
Let the nations rage as they will,
Let the kingdoms totter and fall;
"Be still!" saith Jehovah, "Be still!"
And quiet flows over them all.

O come, see the works of the Lord:
He breaketh the spear and the bow,
He burneth the war-car abhorred,
He endeth war's terrible woe.
Where murderous monsters have trod,
Saith Jehovah who holds them in ken:
"Be still, and know I am God,
And I will be ruler of men!"





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