Trust
My Hope Is Built
- Words:
- Edward Mote, circa 1834.
- Music:
- 'Melita' John Bacchus Dykes, 1861.
- Setting:
- "Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869.
- Metre:
- 8 8 8 8 8 8
- 1My hope is built on nothing lessThan Jesus' blood and righteousness.I dare not trust the sweetest frame,But wholly trust in Jesus' Name.On Christ the solid Rock I stand,All other ground is sinking sand.
- 2When darkness veils His lovely face,I rest on His unchanging grace.In every high and stormy gale,My anchor holds within the veil.On Christ the solid Rock I stand,All other ground is sinking sand.
- 3His 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.On Christ the solid Rock I stand,All other ground is sinking sand.
- 4When He shall come with trumpet sound,Oh may I then in Him be found.Dressed in His righteousness alone,Faultless to stand before the throne.On Christ the solid Rock I stand,All other ground is sinking sand.
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- Written in 1834, the words are in 1,265 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Melita, is in 561 hymnals. The tune →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. Further sheet music is from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.