9838. "No God For Me!" The Fool Exclaims

1 "No God for me!" the fool exclaims,
And half believes the wish he frames.
’Twere well there was no God for them,
Whom God exists but to condemn.

2 Plunged in the desperate depths of sin,
Debased without, corrupt within,
What wonder men should wish to fly
An awful omnipresent eye?

3 Yet Jesus from His throne above
Holds out the scepter of His love,
And offers peace to them, to all
That contrite at His feet will fall.

4 Rise, Sun of righteousness, and fling
A brighter morning from Thy wing;
The mourner cheer, the captive free,
And win Thy wanderers all to Thee.

Text Information
First Line: "No God for me!" the fool exclaims
Title: "No God For Me!" The Fool Exclaims
Author: Henry F. Lyte
Meter: LM
Language: English
Source: Spirit of the Psalms, 1834
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: ERHALT UNS, HERR
Meter: LM
Key: e minor
Source: Geistliche Lieder (Wittenberg, Germany, 1543)
Copyright: Public Domain



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