Introduction
Words & Music: Edmund S. Lorenz, in Hymns New and Old, No. 2, by Daniel B. Towner (New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1890), number 159 (🔊 pdf nwc). Some hymnals give the author as E. D. Mund, one of Lorenz’ pseudonyms.
Underneath are the everlasting arms.
Deuteronomy 33:27
Words & Music: Edmund S. Lorenz, in Hymns New and Old, No. 2, by Daniel B. Towner (New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1890), number 159 (🔊 pdf nwc). Some hymnals give the author as E. D. Mund, one of Lorenz’ pseudonyms.
I am safe, whatever may betide me;
I am safe, whoever may deride me;
I am safe, as long as I confide me
In the hollow of God’s hand.
Refrain
In the hollow of His hand!
In the hollow of His hand!
I am safe while God Himself doth hold me
In the hollow of His hand.
What tho’ fierce the stormy blasts roar round me;
What tho’ sore life’s trials oft confound me;
I am safe, for naught of ill can wound me
In the hollow of God’s hand.
Refrain
Everlasting arms of love enfold me;
Words of peace the voice divine has told me;
I am safe, while God Himself doth hold me,
In the hollow of His hand.
Refrain