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Surely God is My Salvation

Isaiah 12:2-6

Many will recognize this as The First Song of Isaiah. I was planning the mid-week Lenten services for this year, based upon the Service of Prayer and Preaching, and it called for a canticle based on Isaiah 12:2-6. None of the readily available sources in my congregations had a hymn based on this text except for one with a difficult tune out of a hymnal supplement that only one of my congregations had; and this one was even copyrighted, so it couldn't easily be copied for use at the other congregation. So, I sought to write a hymn myself based on this text for use in the services.

How did I settle on those tunes? Well, as I wrote the first phrase, I wrote it singing it to the first tune, without realizing what tune I was using. So, I scrambled to find the tune, writing the second and third phrases and getting the meter, then searching a hymnal index for the tunes that matched that meter. While looking at all the tunes in that meter in the index (a grand whopping total of 4), I thought that the second tune also matched the words well enough.


  1. Surely God is my salvation,
    I will trust and never fear;
    He my shield and my foundation,
    And His grace is ever near.
    Oh give thanks unto the Lord,
    And proclaim His holy Word;
    Tell His name in every nation:
    That the Lord is your salvation.
  2. With great joy I shall draw water
    From the Lord, the living Spring.
    By His grace, I shall not falter
    And His praises ever sing.
    Sing to God in all your needs;
    Tell about His glorious deeds;
    Shout abroad the joy within you,
    That the Lord is great among you.

Tunes:

Werde munter by Johann Schop, 1642

Freu dich sehr from the Genevan Psalter, 1551
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