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It Is Well With My Soul arr. Mack Wilberg

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It is Well With My Soul Horatio Spafford, arr. Mack Willberg Conductor: Yuriy Kravets https://www.lyricasacra.com
The Historic Faith · Hymn Companion

It Is Well With My Soul arr. Mack Wilberg

Words by Horatio G. SpaffordMusic by Philip P. BlissWritten Tune VILLE DU HAVRE

When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say,
It is well, it is well with my soul.

It is well with my soul,
It is well, it is well with my soul.

Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,
Let this blest assurance control,
That Christ hath regarded my helpless estate,
And hath shed His own blood for my soul.

My sin--oh, the bliss of this glorious thought!--
My sin, not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to His cross, and I bear it no more;
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!

For me, be it Christ, be it Christ hence to live;
If Jordan above me shall roll,
No pang shall be mine, for in death as in life
Thou wilt whisper Thy peace to my soul.

But, Lord, 'tis for Thee, for Thy coming we wait,
The sky, not the grave, is our goal;
O trump of the angel! O voice of the Lord!
Blessed hope, blessed rest of my soul!

And Lord, haste the day when the faith shall be sight,
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll;
The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend;
Even so, it is well with my soul.

Story Behind the Song

Horatio G. Spafford wrote the text after a series of family tragedies, most famously the 1873 shipwreck of the Ville du Havre in which his four daughters died while crossing the Atlantic. As Spafford later sailed to meet his surviving wife, he is traditionally said to have written the hymn near the place where the ship had gone down. Philip P. Bliss set the words to music in 1876 and named the tune VILLE DU HAVRE.

Scripture

Found In

Gospel Songs No. 2, The Baptist Hymnal, The United Methodist Hymnal, Trinity Hymnal