For this God doth abide Our God for evermore; he will ev'n unto death us guide.
Thou, with thy counsel, while I live, wilt me conduct and guide; And to thy glory afterward receive me to abide.
The meek in judgment he will guide, and make his path to know.
My flesh and heart doth faint and fail, but God doth fail me never: For of my heart God is the strength and portion for ever.
But as for me, O Lord, my trust upon thee I did lay; And I to thee, Thou art my God, did confidently say.
To God thus was my speech, Thou art my Lord; and unto thee my goodness doth not reach:
And now, Lord, leave me not, when I old and gray-headed grow: Till to this age thy strength and pow'r to all to come I show.