It Is Well With My Soul

1  

When peace, like a river,  attendeth my way,  

When sorrows like sea billows roll;  

Whatever my lot,  Thou hast taught me to say,  

It is well, it is well with my soul.  

2  

Though Satan should buffet,  though trials should come,  

Let this blest assurance control,  

That Christ hath regarded  my helpless estate,  

And hath shed His own blood for my soul.  

3  

My sin—oh, the bliss  of this glorious thought!—  

My sin, not in part but the whole,  

Is nailed to the cross,  and I bear it no more,  

Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!  

4  

And Lord, haste the day  when the faith shall be sight,  

The clouds be rolled back as a scroll;  

The trump shall resound,  and the Lord shall descend,  

Even so, it is well with my soul.    

Refrain:  

It is well with my soul,  

It is well, it is well with my soul.

  

Horatio G. Spafford, 1873    

Here's something a bit different than usual -- a contemporary interpretation based on this hymn, with heartwarming video scenes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GwS8Rl98nY&list=RD9GwS8Rl98nY&start_radio=1

Revelation 6:14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.    

1 Thessalonians 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:    

John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.    

1 Peter 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.