GOD is our refuge and our strength,

GOD is our refuge and our strength, In straits a present aid; Therefore, although the earth remove, We will not be afraid.

Though hills amidst the seas be cast; Though waters roaring make, And troubled be; yea, though the hills By swelling seas do shake.

A river is, whose streams do glad The city of our God; The holy place, wherein the Lord Most high hath His abode.

God in the midst of her doth dwell; Nothing shall her remove: The Lord to her an helper will, And that right early, prove.

Our God, who is the Lord of hosts, Is still upon our side; The God of Jacob, our defence For ever will abide. 1641, a .