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Cast Thy Burden Upon the Lord
Verse 1
Cast thy burden upon the Lord,
And He shall sustain thee;
He never will suffer the righteous to fall;
He is at thy right hand.
Thy mercy, Lord, is great, and far above the heavens;
Let none be made ashamed, that wait upon Thee.
And He shall sustain thee;
He never will suffer the righteous to fall;
He is at thy right hand.
Thy mercy, Lord, is great, and far above the heavens;
Let none be made ashamed, that wait upon Thee.
This text is drawn from Psalm 55:22 and set to a quartet from Felix Mendelssohn's oratorio 'Elijah' (1846), one of the most beloved choral responses in Protestant hymnody.