Whence Do Our Mournful Thoughts Arise?

Verse 1

Whence do our mournful thoughts arise?
And where’s our courage fled?
Has restless sin and raging hell
Struck all our comforts dead?

Verse 2

Have we forgot th’ almighty Name
That form’d the earth and sea?
And can an all-creating arm
Grow weary or decay?

Verse 3

Treasures of everlasting might
In our Jehovah dwell;
He gives the conquest to the weak,
And treads their foes to hell.

Verse 4

Mere mortal power shall fade and die,
And youthful vigour cease;
But we that wait upon the Lord
Shall feel our strength increase.

Verse 5

The saints shall mount on eagles’ wings
And taste the promis’d bliss,
Till their unwearied feet arrive
Where perfect pleasure is.