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Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal · No. 666 · Words: William Bartholomew (from Mendelssohn's 'Elijah')
Cast Thy Burden Upon the Lord
Create PowerPoint slides from this hymn →A quartet text from Felix Mendelssohn's oratorio 'Elijah' (1846), with English words by William Bartholomew, drawn from Psalm 55:22. It offers assurance of God's sustaining care for those who place their burdens on Him.
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.
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