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!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AFTER WINTER by STERLING ALLEN BROWN HEINE'S GRAVE by MATTHEW ARNOLD ADESTE FIDELES by BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: A LETTER TO CORDELIA by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 7 by BLISS CARMAN |