HYMN Lyrics Text: Be Thou My Vision

1. Be thou my vision,

O Lord of my heart

Naught be all use to me

Save that thou art

Thou my best thought

in the day and night,

in waking or sleeping,

thy presence my light.

2. Be thou my Wisdom,

Be thou my true word

I ever with thee and thou with me,

Lord thou my great father

and I thy true son

thou in me dwelling,

and I with thee one.

3. Be thou my breast-plate,

my sword for the fight,

be thou my armour,

and thou my might

thou my soul’s shelter,

and thou my high tower

raise thou me heaven ward,

O power of my power.

4. Riches I need not.

Nor man’s empty praise

thou mine inheritance

through all my days

thou, and thou only,

the first in my heart

high king of heaven

my treasure thou art.

5. High king of heaven

when battle is done

grant heaven. Joy to me,

O bright heaven’s Sun

Christ of my own heart,

Whatever befall

Still be my vision, O ruler of all