And in Israel, his own Might was shewn, And his power and strength unbounded. 3. The sea seeing him come nigh, As one frighted and perplexed; All his surges from earth part Ran to succour it, so vexed. Fled, as to his life's sole-giver; If the sea, amaz'd did flee, Much more he, But a brook, a petty river. 4. Mountains leap'd like frolic rams, And like lambs Frisking in some flowery valley: Mountainets did trembling trip, Dance, and skip, Seeming sportfully to dally. 5. Say, O Sea, what ailed thee So to flee, And thy channel to discover? Jordan, why hadst thou recourse And thy wonted way gav'st over? 6. Mountains, why leap'd ye like rams, And like lambs Frisking in some flowery valley? Mountainets, why did ye trip, Dance, and skip, Seeming sportfully to dally? 7. The firm-founded earth did quake, At the Lord's all-daunting presence; Jacob's God, all creature's essence. 8. Who the dry hard craggy rock With a knock Makes a fountain fully flowing; And the fire-sire flint a pool, So to cool Israel, with thirst's heat glowing. PSALM CXXIII. Anonymous. 1. WITH misery enclos'd, By all the world oppos'd, To thee I lift mine eye, O thou that dwell'st on high, Assur'd that thou wilt hear, And me dejected cheer! 2. Lo, as a servant's eye Still looks regardfully Upon his master's hand For gift more than command; And as a handmaid still Attends her mistress's will: So we, with sorrow fraight, Our hopeful eye and heart Fix'd on thee, never start, Some pity on us take. 3. O Lord, we do resort To thee, our safest port; With help compassionate Our healthless, helpless state; For we, and we alone, Are scorn'd and trampled on. 4. Our souls are fill'd with vaunts, And with reproachful taunts, From them that wealthy be, And hate both us and thee, And with derisions From proud and mighty ones. PSALM CXXIV. By Joseph Bryan. 1. Ir the Lord, our God and Guide, On our side Had not been, and us protected, Israel's seed may truly say, By this day, This day, so much to be respected: 2. If the Lord, our God and Guide, On our side Had not been, and us protected, When our foes, with malice fraught, Their damn'd plots to have effected: 3. They had then devour'd us all, And engulph'd us quick and quickly; And so wood, That no milder doom was likely. 4. Then the waters, hemming round, Had us drown'd, And the floods our souls had drenched. 5. Then our souls in swelling waves, As in graves, Had been swallow'd, and entrenched. 6. Prais'd be God, with all our souls, Who controuls Our proud foes, and hath not given Us a prey to their fell jaws Or fierce paws, But their forces back hath driven. |