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My Hope is Built on Nothing Less

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My hope is built on nothing less

Author: Edward Mote (1834)
Tune: SOLID ROCK
Songs of Response
Published in 1110 hymnals

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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.

Refrain:
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand:
all other ground is sinking sand;
all other ground is sinking sand.

2 When darkness veils his lovely face,
I rest on his unchanging grace;
in every high and stormy gale,
my anchor holds within the veil. [Refrain]

3 His oath, his covenant, his blood,
support me in the whelming flood;
when all around my soul gives way,
he then is all my hope and stay. [Refrain]

4 When he shall come with trumpet sound,
O may I then in him be found:
dressed in his righteousness alone,
faultless to stand before the throne. [Refrain]

Worship and Rejoice (2003)

Author: Edward Mote

Mote, Edward, was born in Upper Thames Street, London, Jan. 21, 1797. Through the preaching of the Rev. J. Hyatt, of Tottenham Court Road Chapel, he underwent a great spiritual change; and ultimately he became a Baptist minister. For the last 26 years of his life he was pastor at Horsham, Sussex, where he died Nov. 13, 1874. Mr. Mote published several small pamphlets; and also:- Hymns of Praise. A New Selection of Gospel Hymns, combining all the Excellencies of our spiritual Poets, with many Originals. By E. Mote. London. J. Nichols, 1836. The Originals number nearly 100. Concerning the authorship of one of these original hymns much uncertainty has existed. The hymn is:— 1. Nor earth, nor hell my soul can move. [Jesus All in All.… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: My hope is built on nothing less
Title: My Hope is Built on Nothing Less
Author: Edward Mote (1834)
Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8.8
Language: English
Refrain First Line: On Christ the solid rock I stand
Notes: English paraphrase (based on "Cha kutumaini sina"): See "There's no other place I can hide" by Greg Scheer; Portuguese translation: "Minha esperança, até o fim, é Cristo">by Francisco Caetano Borges da Silva; Spanish translation: See "Segura mi esperanza esta" by Juan N. De Los Santos, translation based on "There's no other place I can hide" See" "No existe otro lugar" by Gerardo Oberman; Swahili translation: See "Cha kutumaini sina"
Copyright: Public Domain
Liturgical Use: Songs of Response

Notes

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Tune

SOLID ROCK

The Sunday school hymn writer William B. Bradbury (PHH 114) composed SOLID ROCK in 1863 for Edward Mote's "My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less." The tune name derives from that song's refrain: "On Christ, the solid rock, I stand. . . .” Bradbury published SOLID ROCK in his 1864 children's collection…

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