The joy of the Lord is your strength.
Nehemiah 8:10
Words: Fanny Crosby, in Young People’s Songs of Praise, by Ira D. Sankey (Chicago, Illinois: Biglow & Main, 1902), number 148. Some hymnals give the author as Wilson Meade, one of Fanny’s pseudonyms.
Music: Potenza I. Allan Sankey, 1902 (🔊 pdf nwc).
I will not be weary,
Tho’ trials may come,
And troubles before me I see,
But count them as nothing
Compared with the love,
Of Jesus, my Savior, to me.
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I’ll sing of His love,
Of His wonderful love,
Tho’ billows like mountains may roll;
I fear not the tempest,
I dread not the storm,
For O, there is joy in my soul.
I cannot be weary
When He is my rest;
Whate’er my temptations may be,
I’ll trust in His promise
Because He has said:
My grace is sufficient for thee.
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There’s joy that no language
Or thought can express,
It comes from His presence divine;
And when in His likeness
At last I awake,
Its fullness I know will be mine.
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