O God, to Our Repeated Cries

O God

to our re­peat­ed cries

No longe­r si­lence keep;

Hold not Thy peace

as un­con­cerned

Nor let Thy ven­geance sleep.

For lo

Thine ene­mies

O God

Have a fierce tu­mult made;

And those

that im­pi­ous­ly Thee hate

In pride lift up the head.

Against Thy peo­ple they con­sult

And all their craft em­ploy;

Their chief de­sign’s Thy hid­den ones

Entirely to de­stroy.

Come

said they

let us whol­ly root

The na­tion from the ground;

That Is­ra­el’s hated name

no more

Be in re­mem­brance found.

Together they

with one con­sent

In coun­sel

have com­bined;

These dif­fer­ing na­tions

close in league

Against Thee

Lord

are joined.

There’s Esau’s sons

who dwell in tents

Ishmael’s re­ject­ed line

Moab

of in­cest eld­est brood

With Ha­gar’s Ar­abs join.

Strong Ge­bal

Am­mon

Mo­ab’s kin

With Am­alek conspire;

The lords of Pa­les­tine’s sea coast

And with them weal­thy Tyre.

Proud As­sur’s pow­er­ful troops

the league

And com­mon cause

es­pouse;

These prove the strong­est arm of strength

To Lot’s apos­tate house.

But let such ven­geance on them fall

As Midian overtook;

As Si­se­ra

and Ja­bin

felt

At Ki­son’s fa­tal brook.

Where all their migh­ty nu­mer­ous host

Were put to rout

and slain;

Who left their car­cass­es for dung

On En­dor’s fer­tile plain.

As Zeeb

and Or­eb

make their chiefs

Like ven­geance seize them all:

As Ze­bah

and Zal­mun­na

fell.

May all their princ­es fall.

Who boast­ing

said

Let’s seize for ours

Each house of God we find.

My God

to ru­in whirl them round.

As chaff be­fore the wind.

As rag­ing fire con­sumes the woods

With flames the mount­ains blaze.

So with Thy tem­pest them pur­sue

And with Thy storm amaze.

Their faces fill with shame

that they

May seek Je­ho­vah’s name.

Or them con­found

and ter­ri­fy

Until they die in shame.

The na­tions then shall know that Thou

To whom alone per­tains

The name Je­ho­vah

art Most High

O’er earth’s ex­tend­ed plains.