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Exodus xv
I NOW shall the praises of the Lord be sung; | |
| For he a most renowned Triumph won: | |
| Both horse and men into the sea he flung. | |
| And them together there hath overthrown. | |
| The Lord is he whose strength doth make me strong | 5 |
| And he is my salvation and my song: | |
| My God, for whom I will a house prepare | |
| My father’s God whose praise I will declare. | |
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II Well knows the Lord to war what doth pertain, | |
| The Lord Almighty is his glorious name; | 10 |
| He Pharaoh’s chariots, and his arméd train | |
| Amid the sea o’erwhelming, overcame; | |
| Those of his army that are most renowned | |
| He hath together in the Red Sea drown’d, | |
| The deeps a covering over them were thrown, | 15 |
| And to the bottom sunk they like a stone. | |
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III Lord, by thy power thy right hand famous grows; | |
| Thy right hand, Lord, thy foe destroyéd hath; | |
| Thy glory thy opposers overthrows, | |
| And stubble-like consumes them in thy wrath. | 20 |
| A blast but from thy nostrils forth did go | |
| And up together did the waters flow; | |
| Yea, rolled up on heaps the liquid flood | |
| Amid the sea, as if congealèd, stood. | |
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IV I will pursue them (their pursuer cried), | 25 |
| I will o’ertake them, and the spoil enjoy; | |
| My lust upon them shall be satisfied; | |
| With sword unsheathed my hand shall them destroy. | |
| Then from thy breath a gale of wind was sent; | |
| The billows of the sea quite o’er them went. | 30 |
| And they the mighty waters sunk into | |
| E’en as a weighty piece of lead will do. | |
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V Lord, who like thee among the Gods is there! | |
| In holiness so glorious who may be! | |
| Whose praises so exceeding dreadful are! | 35 |
| In doing wonders, who can equal thee! | |
| Thy glorious right hand thou on high didst rear, | |
| And in the earth they quickly swallowed were, | |
| But thou in mercy onward hast conveyed | |
| Thy people, whose redemption thou hast paid. | 40 |
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VI Them by thy strength thou hast been pleased to bear | |
| Unto a holy dwelling place of thine; | |
| The nations at report thereof shall fear, | |
| And grieve shall they that dwell in Palestine. | |
| On Edom’s princes shall amazement fall; | 45 |
| The mighty men of Moab tremble shall | |
| And such as in the land of Canaan dwell, | |
| Shall pine away, of this when they hear tell. | |
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VII They shall be seizéd with a horrid fear. | |
| Stone-quiet thy right hand shall make them be, | 50 |
| Till passéd over, Lord, thy people are; | |
| Till those pass over, that were brought by thee. | |
| For thou shalt make them to thy hill repair, | |
| And plant them there (O Lord) where thou art heir, | |
| E’en there where thou thy dwelling hast prepared, | 55 |
| That holy place which thine own hands have reared. | |
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VIII The Lord shall ever and forever reign, | |
| His sovereignty shall never have an end: | |
| For when as Pharaoh did into the main | |
| With chariots and with horsemen, down descend, | 60 |
| The Lord did back again the sea recall, | |
| And with those waters overwhelm’d them all. | |
| But through the very inmost of the same | |
| The seed of Israel safe and dry-shod came. | |
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