8 Hymns to Sing in Response to Tragedy

5. Be Still, My Soul (FINLANDIA)
Katharina von Schlegel, 1752; trans. Jane Laurie Borthwick, 1855

Be still, my soul: thy God doth undertake
to guide the future surely as the past.
Thy hope, thy confidence let nothing shake;
all now mysterious shall be bright at last.
Be still, my soul: the waves and winds still know
his voice who ruled them while he dwelt below.