God our defence

Verse 1

O God, how many are my fears! How fast my foes increase! Conspiring my eternal death, they try to break my peace. I cry, and from your holy hill you bow a listening ear; I call on you, my Lord and God, and you subdue my fear.

Verse 2

You give soft slumbers to my eyes, in spite of all my foes; I wake, and wonder at the grace which guarded my repose. What though the hosts of death and hell, all armed, against me stood! Such foes shall shake my soul no more; my refuge is in God.

Verse 3

Arise, O Lord! Fulfill your grace! It moves my heart to sing! My God will break the serpent's teeth, and death has lost its sting. Salvation is from you, O God; your arm alone will save; your blessings will attend us here and reach beyond the grave.