Unto The Hills
- Words:
- 9th Duke of Argyll (Psalms 121)
- Music:
- C. H. Purday
Sheet music
- 1Unto the hills around doI lift up My longing eyes;O whence for me shall my salvation come,From whence arise?From God the Lord doth come my certain aid,From God the Lord, who heav’n and earth hath made.
- 2He will not suffer that thy foot be moved:Safe shalt thou be;No careless slumber shall His eyelids close,Who keepeth thee;Behold He sleepeth not, He slumb‘reth ne’er,Who keepeth Israel in His holy care.
- 3Jehovah is Himself thy Keeper true:Thy changeless shade,Jehovah evermore on thy right handHimself hath made;And thee no sun by day shall ever smite,No moon shall harm thee in the silent night.
- 4From ev’ry evil shall He keep thy soul,From ev’ry sin;Jehovah shall preserve thy going out,Thy coming in;Above thee watching, He whom we adoreShall keep thee henceforth, yea, forevermore.
In the hymnals
- The words are in 134 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.