Why fled the ocean? And why skipp'd the mountains? PSALM CXXXVI. LET us, with a gladsome mind, Let us blaze his name abroad, For of gods he is the God; For his, &c. Oh, let us his praises tell, Who doth the wrathful tyrants quell; For his, &c. Who, with his miracles, doth make Amazed heaven and earth to shake; For his, &c. Who, by his wisdom, did create The painted heavens so full of state; For his, &c. Who did the solid earth ordain To rise above the watery plain; For his, &c. Who, by his all-commanding might, And caused the golden-tressed sun ΤΟ 20 30 The horned moon to shine by night, He, with his thunder-clasping hand, And, in despite of Pharaoh fell, He brought from thence his Israel; For his, &c. The ruddy waves he cleft in twain Of the Erythræan main; For his, &c. The floods stood still, like walls of glass, While the Hebrew bands did pass; 50 40 He hath, with a piteous eye, For his, &c. And freed us from the slavery Of the invading enemy; For his, &c. All living creatures he doth feed, And with full hand supplies their need; .80 90 |