We are the Hebrews! Praise the Lord!
We’re from the other side.
Throughout our hist’ry we have passed
Through rivers deep and wide.
Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
He has brought
All us river-crossing Hebrews
To the land
to build up
The temple of our God.
Old Noah’s age was so corrupt
In deep depravity;
So Noah passed across the flood—
That separating sea.
Praise the Lord! He has brought
From the old
To a new recovered region
Where he built in this land
An altar for his God.
Then Abraham was called apart
For Godto take a stand;
So through the river he was led
Into a new
good land.
Step by step he was led
From Chaldee
Through the river into Canaan
That good land
there to be
The servant of his God.
The Israelites in bondage were
To Pharaoh’s choking hand.
The God of Hebrews made a way
For them to leave that land.
Through the sea
they all passed;
Egypt fell
Hallelujah! In the good land
They built up God’s own house
To satisfy His heart.
Then wand’ring through the wilderness
The land they could not find;
Till through the Jordan they did pass
To leave themselves behind.
Praise the Lord! In the land
They built up
God’s own temple. Hallelujah!
Praise the Lord! There they dwelt
His people and their God.
But then religion conquered all
So John the Baptist came
And buried all beneath that flood.
The Jews were not the same.
Buried all! Buried all!
Buried all!
Underneath the Jordan River
Buried all to become
The Hebrews passing through.
Now in the church life
we have left
The world
religion too;
Now we’re the river-crossing ones
Enjoying Christ so new!
We have passed
From the oldness
Hallelujah
Into Christ—one new man.
And now we’re one with Him!
O Lord
You’ve taken us across
The fiery sea of glass
With all the worldly things beneath;
Across the sea we’ve passed.
Now we stand
As the Hebrews
On the sea! Praise the Lord!
We’ve passed through everything!
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