Words by Horatio G. Spafford (1828–1888) · Public domain
It Is Well with My Soul
Words: Horatio G. Spafford (1828–1888)
The words
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Stanza 1. 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.”
Refrain
It is well with my soul,It is well, it is well with my soul.
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Stanza 2. Tho’ Satan should buffet, tho’ trials should come,Let this blest assurance control,That Christ hath regarded my helpless estate,And hath shed his own blood for my soul.
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Stanza 3. My sin—O the bliss of the glorious tho’t!—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!
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Stanza 4. 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.
The refrain is sung after each stanza.
Text as printed in Christ in Song (Revised and Enlarged), 1908, no. 516. Public domain. www.praylock.com/hymnal/it-is-well-with-my-soul
Christ in Song (Revised and Enlarged) (1908), no. 516. See the 1908 page
Credited in 1908 as
H. G. Spafford
Public domain
Printed in 1908; the writer died in 1888, more than 100 years ago.
Notes on this text
In the refrain the lower voices echo “It is well”; the words are shown once.
The 1908 copyright line on this page (1904, The John Church Co.) is for the printing of Philip P. Bliss’s music. That copyright line covers the music, which isn’t on this page.
Index entry: Hymnary.org. Checked against the page scan on .
