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Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917.

By Christopher Newman Hall

My Times Are in Thy Hands!

“I trusted in thee, O Lord; I said, Thou art my God. My times are in Thy hand!”—Ps. xxxi., 14, 15.

MY times are in Thy hand!

I know not what a day

Or e’en an hour may bring to me,

But I am safe while trusting Thee,

Though all things fade away.

All weakness, I

On Him rely

Who fixed the earth and spread the starry sky.

My times are in Thy hand!

Pale poverty or wealth,

Corroding care or calm repose,

Spring’s balmy breath or winter’s snows,

Sickness or buoyant health,—

Whate’er betide,

If God provide,

’Tis for the best; I wish no lot beside.

My times are in Thy hand!

Should friendship pure illume

And strew my path with fairest flowers,

Or should I spend life’s dreary hours

In solitude’s dark gloom,—

Thou art a friend,

Till time shall end

Unchangeably the same; in Thee all beauties blend.

My times are in Thy hand!

Many or few my days,

I leave with Thee,—this only pray,

That by Thy grace I, every day

Devoting to Thy praise,

May ready be

To welcome Thee

Whene’er Thou com’st to set my spirit free.