Why Have You Cast Us Off

Verse 1

Why have you cast us off, O Lord? Return, return, Your Church to aid; We sink beneath Your chastening rod! O heal the breaches You have made!

Verse 2

How long will You, Your people prove? How long the cup of trembling give? Unfurl the banner of Your love; Proclaim Your grace, and bid us live.

Verse 3

'Tis sweet in trouble's gathering night, To muse on Your unfailing Word, To think of all Your love and might, And, trembling, trust in You, O Lord.

Verse 4

Vain is the help that earth affords, Vain all that human hands bestow; But You are with us, LORD of lords, And soon we rise o'er ev'ry foe.