When my heart is all sorrow, and trials aggrieve me, To whom can I safely my secrets unlock?
No bosom (save one) has the power to relieve me,
The bosom which bled for me, JESUS MY ROCK!

When Life's gloomy curtain, at last, shall close o'er me, And the chill hand of death unexpectedly knock,
I will look up to HIM who hath felt it before me,
And cleave all the closer to JESUS MY ROCK!

Companions may smile, and the world may deride me,
And with the cold finger of ridicule mock;
But no trial, nor coldness, nor death shall divide me, From the Shelter of Ages!—from JESUS MY ROCK!

O Thou! who on earth, in the days of thy sorrow,
Didst fold to thy bosom the Lambs of thy Flock,
Prevent me (though young) putting off till to-morrow, In fleeing for refuge to—JESUS MY ROCK!

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Job 2:4.

[2] Psalm 9:6.

[3] Ezekiel 18:4.

[4] Proverbs 11:21.

[5] Romans 3:23.

[6] Genesis 19:17.

[7] Romans 8:35.

[8] Revelation 3:7.

[9] Matthew 19:14.

[10] Psalm 8:2.

[11] Psalm 31:21.

[12] Isaiah 6:3.

[13] Mark 1:24.

[14] Exodus 12:5.

[15] Jeremiah 23:5.

[16] Hebrews 7:26.

[17] John 8:46.

[18] Revelation 3:7.

[19] Acts 4:27.

[20] Luke 2:52.

[21] "The Land and the Book."

[22] Genesis 12:8.

[23] John 4:14.

[24] Isaiah 53:4.

[25] Hebrews 7:25.

[26] Isaiah 28:16.

[27] Isaiah 9:6.

[28] Deuteronomy 1:31.

[29] Psalm 40:17.

[30] Luke 15:5.

[31] Psalm 4:8.

[32] John 10:28.

[33] Mark 1:7.

[34] Colossians 1:20.

[35] Ephesians 2:6.

[36] Ephesians 2:13.

[37] Romans 8:83.

[38] Luke 11:21.

[39] Psalm 18:2.

[40] Proverbs 18:10.

[41] Psalm 9:9, 10.

[42] 1 Corinthians 15:55.

[43] Isaiah 32:2.

[44] Zechariah 13:7.

[45] Nahum 1:7.

[46] Romans 8:1.

[47] Luke 11:22.

[48] Isaiah 26:4.

[49] Psalm 22:12, 13.

[50] Philippians 2:9.

[51] 1 Pet. iv.12, 13.

[52] 1 Pet. i.8.

[53] Matthew 25:21.

[54] Acts 8:8.

[55] John 15:11.

[56] Hebrews 13:8.

[57] Numbers 35:25.

[58] Romans 8:34.

[59] John 6:35.

[60] John 7:37.

[61] Hebrews 1:14.

[62] Isaiah 26:2.

[63] Psalm 118:19.

[64] Psalm 107:4.

[65] 1 John 1:7.

[66] Romans 13:14.

[67] Ezekiel 34:25.

[68] Romans 12:19.

[69] Sol. Song i.3.

[70] Isaiah 26:1.

[71] Exodus 34:7.