God is my strong salvation

God is my strong salvation. James Montgomery* (1771-1854). Written in May 1822 and published in Montgomery’s Songs of Zion (1822) in two 8-line stanzas, as ‘Psalm XXVII, No 1.’ It was printed subsequently in his Original Hymns (1853) with the title ‘Trust in the Lord’. It has become standardized in four 4-line stanzas, generally unaltered except for stanza 3 line 3, where ‘His truth be thine affiance’ (‘trust’) has sometimes been altered to avoid the archaism to ‘His truth is your assurance’(as in RS ). It is based on Psalm 27, especially verses 1, 3, 14, and 16. The last two lines refer also to 1 Kings 3: 14 and Numbers 6: 26. In Britain the hymn is found in CP, BBCHB, CH3, WOV,...