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| BE still, and know He doeth all things well, | |
| Working the purpose of His holy will, | |
| And if His high designs He do not tell | |
| Till He accomplish them—do thou be still. | |
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| Why should’st thou strive and fret and fear and doubt, | 5 |
| As if His way, being dark, must bode thee ill? | |
| If thine own way be clearly pointed out, | |
| Leave Him to clear up His, and be thou still. | |
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| Was ever yet thy trust in Him misplaced? | |
| And hoping in Him, did He not fulfil | 10 |
| The word on which He caused thee to rest, | |
| Though not as thou had’st thought, perchance? Be still. | |
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| What if the road be rough which might be smooth? | |
| Is not the rough road best for thee, until | |
| Thou learn by patient walking in the truth | 15 |
| To trust and hope in God, and to be still? | |
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| A little faith is more than clearest views; | |
| Would’st thou have ocean like a babbling rill? | |
| God without mystery were not good news; | |
| Wrestle not with the darkness, but be still. | 20 |
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| Be still, and know that He is God indeed | |
| Who reigns in glory on His holy hill, | |
| Yet once upon the Cross did hang and bleed, | |
| And heard the people raging—and was still. | |
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