Verse 1. My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.
Refrain On Christ, the Solid Rock, I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand.
Verse 2. When darkness veils his lovely face,
I rest on his unchanging grace;
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the vail.
Verse 3. His oath, his covenant, his blood,
Support me in the whelming flood;
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my hope and stay.
Verse 4. When he shall come with trumpet sound.
O, may I then in him be found;
Dressed in his righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.
The refrain is sung after each verse.
Text copied from The Otterbein Hymnal (1892). The words were published in 1836, which places them in the public domain in the United States, so your church may print them, show them and sing them without a license.
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