For as I once to Noah swore

Verse 1
For as I once to Noah swore
“A flood should drown the world no more”
Again the gracious oath I take,
Howe’er I may my own chastise,
My utmost wrath shall never rise,
I will no more my church forsake:

Verse 2
The hills and mountains may depart,
But deeper rooted in my heart,
From hence thou never shalt remove,
I will not take my Spirit away,
But always with my people stay,
The covenant-God of endless love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “For this is as the waters of Noah unto me, &c.”—[Isa.] liv. 9, 10. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 442.
Publishing: Public Domain