My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less
The same words as 4 hymnals printed them. Pick two versions to see every change between them: words added, dropped or altered, and verses left out.
4 words changed · 2 stanzas only in SDA Hymnal #522
Verse 1
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness; ;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus' name.
Verse 1
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus' name.
Verse 2
When darkness seems to veil His face,
I rest on His unchanging grace; ;
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.
Verse 2
When darkness seems to veil His face,
I rest on His unchanging grace;
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.
Verse 3
His promise, covenant, and blood
Support me in the whelming flood; ;
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my hope and stay.
Verse 3
His oath, His covenant, and blood
Support me in the whelming flood;
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my hope and stay.
Not in this version
Verse 4
When He shall come with trumpet sound,
O may I then in Him be found;
Clad in His righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.
Not in this version
Refrain
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand,
All other ground is sinking sand.