My hope is built (The solid rock) - Edward Mote & William B. Bradbury

Translated into ASL by David Bar-Tzur

Created 15 January 2006, links updated monthly with the help of LinkAlarm.

EXPLANATION OF THE GLOSSING SYSTEM
(to understand how I describe the signs in this translation).

1. MY HOPE DEPEND ONLY "WHAT"?
JESUS HIS-lf BLOOD, HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS.
MAYBE PEOPLE SWEET, THEY-rt TRY HARD
STILL BETTER TRUST JESUS ONLY.

Refrain: CHRIST LIKE ROCK, FOUNDATION STRONG.
||: DEPEND OTHER SUPPORT, FALL-APART WILL. :||

2. HAPPEN LIFE SAD, JESUS FACE MURKY.
HIS-lf GRACE STILL COMFORT ME ALWAYS.
TERRIBLE HAPPEN, LIFE IDEA~LIKE SHIP
SHIP-TOSS WHY? WIND. HE MY ANCHOR. Refrain

3. HIS PROMISE, HIS COVENANT, HIS BLOOD
SUPPORT ME, STORM PUT-ASIDE.
IF WORLD TRY MY SOUL PULL-DOWN,
HE-lf GIVE-me HOPE, SUPPORT ALWAYS. Refrain

4. LOOK-FORWARD HE-lf ARRIVE POW.
REALLY-WANT GO-WITH-TO-Heaven HEAVEN.
HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS MY ONLY HOPE.
APPROACH HIS-lf THRONE, MY SIN ABSOLVE. Refrain


Notes: RIGHTEOUSNESS - Elbow of DH [S] is placed firmly against the backhand of NDH [B], PO down.

THEY - Underlined words are honorific indices ("indexes"), using the FT of the upturned palm to indicate who is being honored.

FOUNDATION - NDH [S], PO > signer, FO > DS, is held out with arm parallel to the chest and DH [S], PO > signer, strikes hand from below and then strikes elbow from below.

The signs between "||:" and ":||" are to be repeated.

FALL-APART - (2h)[5:], POs ><, FTs interlaced, FTs move down while still interlaced to make POs down.

MURKY - Both hands start in handshape and orientation like TEACH, but the hands cross while opening to (2H)[5] and the dominant hand's palm rubs across the dorsal side (back hand) of NDH.

GRACE - [O^] or [S], held high and PO > Heaven, supinates and opens to [5] while being brought towards head. For an animated gif of this sign, see Animated dictionary of religious signs - Deaf Missions: Grace.

COMFORT - COMFORTABLE.

IDEA~LIKE - a blending where IDEA has a [Y] instead of an [I] in anticipation of LIKE which is signed smoothly right afterwards.

SHIP-TOSS - The sign BOAT weaves up and down as if tossed by the sea.

ANCHOR - (2h)[F] interlink and are pulled down sharply like an anchor.

COVENANT - AGREE RELATIONSHIP-WITH-God.

PUT-ASIDE - (2h)[B], POs > DS, with DH higher, palms are pressed against imaginary wall that is pushed to one side.

PULL-DOWN - (2h)[5:], POs up, FOs away, pull down as if grasping something while closing to (2h)[S].

POW - - Touch ear with index finger then (2h)[S], PO down, FO away, move antisymmetrically from side to side while mouthing "pow". For a QuickTime movie of this sign, see ASL browser - thunder.

REALLY-WANT - WANT but shaken back and forth to show intensity.

GO-WITH-TO-Heaven - (2h)[A] are held with knuckles touching as in TOGETHER and both hands move up to Heaven.

RIGHTEOUSNESS - - Elbow of DH [S] is placed firmly against the backhand of NDH [B], PO down.

APPROACH - (2h)[B], FOs up, DH PO away, ND is held in front of NDH and palm faces it, then both hands approach one another slightly.

THRONE - SIT + (2h)[B:], POs down, FOs away, behave as if they were on the arms of a throne.

ABSOLVE - EXCUSE is signed once, dominance is reversed and EXCUSE is signed again.

Lyrics:

1. My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' blood an righteousness
I dare not trust the sweetest frame
But wholly lean on Jesus' name

Refrain: On Christ the solid rock I stand
All other ground is sinking sand
All other ground is sinking sand

2. When darkness veils his lovely face
I rest on His unchanging grace
In ev'ry high and stormy gale
My anchor holds within the veil

3. His oath, his covenant, his blood
Support me in the whelming flood
When all around my soul gives way
He then is all my hope and stay

4. When He shall come with trumpet sound
Oh, may I then in Him be found
Dressed in his righteousness alone
Faultless to stand before the throne

treble clef as a symbol for musicTo hear the music (without words), go to My hope is built (The solid rock).

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