Scripture Verse

I am the Lord, I change not. Malachi 3:6

Introduction

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James Evans
(1785–1849)

Words: James H. Ev­ans (1785–1849).

Music: Sher­­borne (Mus­grave) John T. Mus­grave (🔊 pdf nwc). Ap­peared in The Hym­nal Com­pan­ion to the Book of Com­mon Pray­er with Ac­com­pa­ny­ing Tunes, 3rd edi­tion, re­vised and en­larged, ed­it­ed by Da­vid J. Wood & John Stain­er (Lon­don: Samp­son Low & Mars­ton, 1893), num­ber 287.

If you know where to get a good pho­to of Mus­grave (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els),

Lyrics

Change is our por­tion here;
Soon fades the sum­mer sky,
The land­scape droops in au­tumn sear,
And spring flow­ers bloom to die:
But faith­ful is Je­ho­vah’s word,
I will be with thee, sa­ith the Lord.

Change is our por­tion here;
Along the heav­en­ly road:
In faith and hope and ho­ly fear,
In love to­wards our God:
How oft­en we dis­trust the word,
I will be with thee, sa­ith the Lord.

Change is our por­tion here;
Yet midst our chang­ing lot,
Midst wi­ther­ing flow­ers and tem­pests drear,
There is that chang­es not.
Unchangeable Je­ho­vah’s word,
I will be with thee, sa­ith the Lord.

Changeless, the way of peace:
Changeless, Em­man­uel’s name;
Changeless, the cov­en­ant of grace;
Eternally the same.
I change not is a Fa­ther’s word.
And I am with thee, sa­ith the Lord.