- When Israel by God’s address,
- from Pharaoh’s land was bent:
- And Jacob’s house the strangers left,
- and in the same train went.
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- 2 In Judah God his glory showed
- his holiness most bright:
- So did the Israelites declare
- his kingdom, power, and might.
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- 3 The sea it saw, and suddenly
- as all amazed did flee:
- The roaring streams of Jordan’s flood
- recoiled backwardly.
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- 4 As rams afraid the mountains skipped,
- their strength did them forsake:
- And as the silly trembling Lambs,
- their tops did beat and shake.
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- 5 What ailed the sea as all amazed,
- so suddenly to flee?
- Ye rolling waves of Jordan’s flood,
- why ran ye backwardly.
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- 6 Why shook ye hills as Rams afraid,
- why did your strength so shake?
- Why did your tops as trembling lambs,
- for fear quiver and quake?
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- 7 O Earth confess thy sovereign Lord,
- and dread his mighty hand:
- Before the face of Jacob’s God,
- fear ye both sea and land.
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- 8 I mean the God which from hard rocks
- doth cause main floods appear:
- And from the stony flint doth make,
- gush out the fountain clear.
