Darkness and clouds around me roll,
But God shall in the clouds appear,
In this thick darkness of my soul
The great invisible is near:
He now in his pavilion dwells;
And when he doth the veil remove,
And when his glory he reveals,
My fear shall all be lost in love.
Darkness and clouds around me roll
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The Lord said, that he would dwell in the thick darkness.”—[I. Kings] viii. 12. 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 174.
Publishing: Public Domain