Hymn Number 9 - Rock of Ages

Words by Augustus M. Toplady, 1776

Music by Thomas Hastings, 1830

 

1 ROCK of ages cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in thee;
Let the water and the blood,
From thy side, a healing flood,
Be of sin the double cure--
Save from wrath, and make me pure.

 

            Not in Field Prayer Book

Not the labor of my hands
Can fulfill Thy law’s demands;
Could my zeal no respite know,
Could my tears forever flow,
All for sin could not atone;
Thou must save, and Thou alone.

2 Should my tears forever flow,
Should my zeal no languor know,
All for sin could not atone;
Thou must save, and thou alone;
In my hand no price I bring;
Simply to thy cross I cling.

 

3 While I draw this fleeting breath,
When mine eyelids close in death,
When I rise to worlds unknown,
See thee on thy judgment throne,
Rock of ages cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in thee.