Rock of Ages Cleft for Me by Brian Cochran

The following song, Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me, from the Trinity Psalter Hymnal, is sung by Brian Cochran. It is from his YouTube site Brian Cochran.

Lyrics are pasted in below the song so that you can also sing along. I find it easier to sing along when someone else is singing, as though I were at church, singing along with the congregation. If you don’t need accompaniment, then all the songs at the Trinity Psalter Hymnal have piano accompaniment.

This song is being posted because it fits well with my posts of the topic under consideration by Pastor Hines, Romans 1.

 

 

Lyrics From the website: https://www.trinitypsalterhymnal.org/hymns/rock-of-ages-cleft-for-me/

Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me

1. Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
   let me hide myself in thee;
   let the water and the blood,
   from thy riven side which flowed,
   be of sin the double cure,
   cleanse me from its guilt and pow’r.
2. Not the labors of my hands
   can fulfill thy law’s demands;
   could my zeal no respite know,
   could my tears forever flow,
   all for sin could not atone;
   thou must save, and thou alone.
3. Nothing in my hand I bring,
   simply to thy cross I cling;
   naked, come to thee for dress;
   helpless, look to thee for grace;
   foul, I to the Fountain fly;
   wash me, Savior, or I die.
4. While I draw this fleeting breath,
   when mine eyelids close in death,
   when I soar to worlds unknown,
   see thee on thy judgment throne,
   Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
   let me hide myself in thee.

Hymn

 

452

Scripture Reference

1 Corinthians 10:4, John 19:34, Ephesians 2:8-9

Tune

 

TOPLADY

Meter

 

7.7.7.7.7.7.

Composer Information

 

Hastings, Thomas (1830)

• Author: Toplady, Augustus M. (310)
• Author: Cotterill, Thomas (65)