Let Jacob to His Maker Sing

Let Ja­cob to his mak­er sing

And praise his great re­deem­ing king;

Called by a new

a gra­cious name

Let Is­ra­el loud his God pro­claim.

He knows our souls in all their fears

And gent­ly wipes our fall­ing tears

Forms trem­bling voic­es to a song

And bids the fee­ble heart be strong.

Then let the riv­ers swell around

And ris­ing floods o’er­flow the ground;

Rivers and floods and seas di­vide

And hom­age pay to Is­ra­el’s guide.

Then let the fires their rage dis­play

And flam­ing terr­ors bar the way;

Unburnt

un­singed He leads them through

And makes the flames re­fresh­ing

too.

The fires but on their bonds shall prey

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The floods but wash their stains away

And grace di­vine new tro­phies raise

Amidst the del­uge

and the blaze.