From Every Stormy Wind

From Every Stormy Wind

Text written by Hugh Stowell, 1828

Sung to the hymn tune RETREAT, composed by Thomas Hastings, 1842

Exodus 25:22 I will meet with you there above the mercy seat, between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the testimony; I will speak with you from there about all that I command you regarding the Israelites.

V. 1 From every stormy wind that blows,

From every swelling tide of woes,

There is a calm, a sure retreat;

'Tis found beneath the mercy seat.

Hebrews 1:9 You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; this is why God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of joy rather than Your companions.

V. 2 There is a place where Jesus sheds

The oil of gladness on our heads,

A place than all besides more sweet;

It is the blood-bought mercy seat.

Hebrews 4:16 Therefore let us approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us at the proper time.

V. 3 There is a scene where spirits blend,

Where friend holds fellowship with friend;

Though sundered far, by faith they meet

Around one common mercy seat.

V. 4 There, there, on angel's wings we soar,

And earthly cares molest no more,

And heaven comes down our souls to greet,

And glory crowns the mercy seat.

V. 5 Ah! whither should we flee for aid,

When tempted, desolate, dismayed?

Or how the hosts of sin defeat, 

Had suffering saints no mercy seat?