Be still my soul
Be still my soul
Cease from the labour and the toil
Refreshing springs of peace await
The troubled minds and hearts that ache
Be still my soul
God knows your way
And He will guide
For His name's sake
Plunge in the rivers of His grace
Rest in the arms of His embrace
Be still my soul
Be still my soul
Though battles round you rage and roar
One thing you need and nothing more
To hear the whisper of your Lord
Be still My child
I know your way
And I will guide
For My name's sake
Plunge in the rivers of My grace
Rest in the arms of My embrace
Be still, be still my soul
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Be Still My Soul
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Sep 30, 2026 updated
Let Your Glory Fall album
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Song Meaning
Don Moen's arrangement of this nineteenth-century hymn keeps its central instruction simple and repeated: "be still my soul, cease from the labour and the toil." The command reaches back to Psalm 46:10's "be still, and know that I am God," addressed originally to nations at war, not a private moment of quiet.
"Plunge in the rivers of His grace, rest in the arms of His embrace" pictures the kind of rest Psalm 23:2 describes — "he makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters" — restoration as something given rather than achieved. The final verse shifts into God's own first-person voice, "be still, My child, I know your way," turning the hymn's own instruction into a direct address rather than only advice the singer gives to themselves.
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