O God, Thou Art My God Alone

Words:
James Montgomery
Music:
Ralph Harrison

Sheet music

  1. 1O God, Thou art my God alone;Early to Thee my soul shall cry,A pilgrim in a land unknown,A thirsty land whose springs are dry.Yet thru this rough and thorny mazeI follow hard on Thee, my God;Thy hand unseen upholds my ways;I safely tread where Thou hast trod.
  2. 2Thee in the watches of the nightWhen I remember on my bed,Thy presence makes the darkness light;Thy guardian wings are round my head.Better than life itself Thy love,Dearer than all beside to me;For whom have I in heav’n above,Or what on earth, compared with Thee?
  3. 3Praise with my heart, my mind, my voice,For all Thy mercy I will give;My soul shall still in God rejoice;My tongue shall bless Thee while I live.

In the hymnals

  • Written in 1822, the words are in 138 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →

Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are 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.

← Back to today's verse