Peace Be Still Lyrics

Peace Be Still - Joe Beecham

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1 Master, the tempest is raging!

The billows are tossing high!

The sky is o'ershadowed with blackness,

No shelter or help is nigh;

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!"

Whether the wrath of the storm-tossed sea,

Or struggles or 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!"

2 Master, with anguish of spirit

I bow in my grief today;

The depths of my sad heart are troubled,

Oh, waken and save, I pray;

Torrents of sin and of anguish

Sweep o’er my sinking soul!

And I perish! I perish, dear Master:

Oh, hasten and take control. [Refrain]

3 Master, the terror is over,

The elements sweetly rest;

Earth’s sun in the calm lake is mirrored,

And heaven’s within my breast.

Linger, O blessed Redeemer,

Leave me alone no more;

And with joy I shall make the blest harbor,

And rest on the blissful shore. [Refrain