Shield in the Night

Voices rise against me

Say I'm done

Say I'm through

They laugh at my failing

Say my God won’t pull me through

But You surround my breathing

You lift my hanging head

I cry out in the midnight

You answer what I said

You’re my shield in the night

Fire in the fight

You break the jaws of fear and every lie

I lay down

I awake

’Cause You hold my days

You alone

My glory and my cry

How long will they slander

Chase shadows and chase dust

Stack their pride like towers

While their hearts decay with rust

You set apart the broken

You hear the trembled call

So I stand in holy anger

But I will not let it fall

Search my rage

Search my veins

On my bed

I wrestle shame

In the dark

In the ache

Teach my hands a better flame

You’re my shield in the night

Fire in the fight

You break the jaws of fear and every lie

I lay down

I awake

’Cause You hold my days

You alone

My glory and my cry

Many are crying

“Who will show us good?” (hey!)

Turn Your light upon us

Burn it through this wood

I’ve got more joy in the hunger and the lack

Than their tables overflowing

Still they crack

So I’ll lie down

Unshaken

In this place

’Cause You alone make me dwell in fearless space

You’re my shield in the night

Fire in the fight

You break the jaws of fear and every lie

I lay down

I awake

’Cause You hold my days

You alone

My glory and my cry

Though the war encircles

I will not lose my breath

’Cause You rise

My salvation

Over death

Over death