Master, the tempest is raging!

The billows are tossing high!

The sky is o’ershadowed with blackness,

No shelter or help is nigh;

Oh, carest Thou not that we perish? How canst Thou lie asleep,

When each moment so madly is threat’ning

A grave in the angry deep?

Refrain:

The winds and the waves shall obey Thy will.

Peace, be still, peace, be still.

Whether the wrath of the storm-tossed sea,

Or struggles of evil, whatever it be.

No water can swallow the ship where lies

The Master of ocean and earth and skies!

They all shall sweetly obey Thy will.

Peace be still, peace, be still.

They all shall sweetly obey Thy will;

Peace, peace, be still.

Master, with anguish of spirit I bow in my grief today;

The depths of my sad heart are troubled,

Oh, be with me now, I pray,

Torrents of sin and of anguish swept o’er my sinking soul!

And I feared I would perish dear Master:

Thou hastened and took control.

Refrain

Master, Thou rulest in judgment, Thy people doth face the test;

The earth is now covered with darkness,

While I in Thy Word shall rest.

Oh, linger, Thou blessed Redeemer, shelter me evermore;

And with joy I shall make the blest harbor,

And rest on the blissful shore.

Refrain

Ending

They all shall sweetly obey Thy will

Peace be still, peace, be still.

They all shall sweetly obey Thy will;

Peace, peace, be still.

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