My God, my everlasting hope
by Isaac Watts·1719·Meter 8.6.8.6 (CM)
Based on Ps 71:5-9
1
My God, my everlasting hope,
I live upon thy truth;
Thine hands have held my childhood up,
And strengthened all my youth.
2
My flesh was fashioned by thy power,
With all these limbs of mine;
And from my mother's painful hour,
I've been entirely thine.
3
Still has my life new wonders seen
Repeated every year;
Behold, my days that yet remain,
I trust them to thy care.
4
Cast me not off when strength declines,
When hoary hairs arise;
And round me let thy glory shine,
Whene'er thy servant dies.
5
Then in the hist'ry of my age,
When men review my days,
They'll read thy love in every page,
In every line thy praise.