O God, My Strength and Fortitude
O God, my Strength and For-ti-tude,
Of force I must love Thee;
Thou art my Cas-tle and De-fence
In my nec-es-sity.
My God, my Rock, in whom I trust,
The work-er of my wealth,
My Ref-uge, Buck-ler, and my Shield,
The horn of all my health.
I, when be-set with pain and grief,
Did pray to God for grace;
And He forth-with did hear my 'plaint
Out of His ho-ly place.
The Lord de-scend-ed from a-bove
And bowed the heav-ens high,
And un-der-neath His feet He cast
The dark-ness of the sky.
On cher-ub and n cher-u-bim
Full roy-al-ly He rode,
And on the wings of all the winds
Come fly-ing all a-broad.
Un-spot-ted are the ways of God,
His word is pure-ly tried;
He is a sure de-fence to such
As in His faith a-bide.