The waves of the sea, When highest they rise

Verse 1
The waves of the sea, When highest they rise,
Are govern’d by Thee, Our Lord in the skies:
Thy succour imploring, Thy presence we find,
To silence the roaring, And tie up the wind.

Verse 2
The fierceness of men, Who threaten so loud,
Thy word can restrain, And bridle the croud;
And when it represses Their madness of will
The hurricane ceases, The tumult is84 still.

Verse 3
Whoe’er in thy hand The instrument be,
Thine only command, And action we see;
So nigh to deliver Acknowledge thy power,
Thy mercy forever And ever adore.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.’—[Acts 19,] v. 41." This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 365.
Publishing: Public Domain