Justification
Rock of Ages
- Words:
- Augustus Montague Toplady, 1776. Music: 'Toplady' Thomas Hastings, 1830.
- Setting:
- "Congregational Church Music with 150 Psalms and Hymns", 1854.
- Metre:
- 7 7 7 7 7 7
- 1Rock of Ages, cleft for me,Let me hide myself in Thee;Let the water and the blood,From Thy wounded side which flowed,Be of sin the double cure;Save from wrath and make me pure.
- 2Not the labor of my handsCan fulfill Thy law's demands;Could my zeal no respite know,Could my tears forever flow,All for sin could not atone;Thou must save, and Thou alone.
- 3Nothing in my hand I bring,Simply to the cross I cling;Naked, come to Thee for dress;Helpless look to Thee for grace;Foul, I to the fountain fly;Wash me, Savior, or I die.
- 4While I draw this fleeting breath,When mine eyes shall close in death,When I soar to worlds unknown,See Thee on Thy judgment throne,Rock of Ages, cleft for me,Let me hide myself in Thee.
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- Written in 1776, the words are in 3,280 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Toplady, is in 1,603 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.