Tune: "Promised Land"
(New verses by William J. Everett, with traditional refrain adapted from Samuel Stennett's "On Jordan's Stormy Banks I stand")
Though nations war throughout the lands
And peoples cry in despair,
We lift our weak and trembling hands,
The cross of life to bear.We are bound for the promised land,
We are bound for the promised land.
Oh, who will come and go with us?
We are bound for the promised land.Expelled from home in pain extreme,
We refugees arrive.
As pilgrims let us join the stream
Called out to Christ-like lives.REFRAIN
From the broken promises of our birth
And bondage to our lies,
To the rainbow of a greater worth
God turns our tear-stained eyes.REFRAIN
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