Hymns

His Eye Is on the Sparrow

Words: Civilla D. Martin · Music: Charles H. Gabriel · 1905

Verse 1
Why should I feel discouraged?
Why should the shadows come?
Why should my heart feel lonely
and long for heav'n and home
when Jesus is my portion?
A constant Friend is he:
his eye is on the sparrow,
and I know he watches me.
His eye is on the sparrow,
and I know he watches me.

Chorus
I sing because I'm happy,
I sing because I'm free;
for his eye is on the sparrow,
and I know he watches me.

Verse 2
"Let not your heart be troubled,"
his tender words I hear;
and resting on his goodness,
I lose my doubt and fear.
Though by the path he leadeth
but one step I may see:
his eye is on the sparrow,
and I know he watches me.
His eye is on the sparrow,
and I know he watches me.

Verse 3
Whenever I am tempted,
whenever clouds arise,
when songs give place to sighing,
when hope within me dies,
I draw the closer to him;
from care he sets me free:
his eye is on the sparrow,
and I know he watches me.
His eye is on the sparrow,
and I know he watches me.

Words: Civilla D. Martin, 1905 | Music: Charles H. Gabriel, 1905

Psalm 23; Psalm 32; Isaiah 41; Matthew 6; Matthew 10; Luke 12; John 14; 1 Corinthians 10; Philippians 4; 1 Peter 5

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