Hope Never Hopeless

Tune: Song 34

('Amidst us our Belovéd stands'

OR 'Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go')

Habakkuk 3 v.17-19 {Old Testament Prophet}

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Although the fig tree not blossom

Nor produce figs, not even some

Neither if no fruit in the vines

Or seems no blessings there no signs

 

And if labour of olive fails

If meaning so poor crop entails

And if the fields no produce yield

Or seems heavens as brass and sealed

 

If the flock cut off from the fold

And the stalls they no herd do hold

yet through all these things I will still

Rejoice in the Lord, and hope feel

 

Yes, I will joy in Him, He be

The God of my salvation, see

He my strength, e'en though all else may

Wither, decay in trouble's day