Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
Isaiah 3:10
Words & Music: Robert Lowry, in Sabbath School Bell No. 2 (New York: Horace Waters, 1860), page 163 (🔊 pdf nwc).
On every sunny mountain,
In every gloomy dell—
Whate’er the robe that wraps the heart,
’Tis with the righteous well.
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’Tis well, ’tis well,
’Tis with the righteous well;
In pleasure’s light, and sorrow’s night,
’Tis with the righteous well.
’Tis well, ’tis well,
’Tis with the righteous well;
In pleasure’s light, and sorrow’s night,
’Tis with the righteous well.
What words of holy comfort!
Their sweetness who can tell?
Within the vale, and o’er the flood,
’Tis with the righteous well.
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Tho’ dripping clouds may gather,
And grief the bosom swell,
The trusting heart will ever sing—
’Tis with the righteous well.
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And when the strife is over,
And hushed the solemn knell,
Within the gates, around the throne,
’Tis with the righteous well.
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