When Israel Out of Egypt Went

lyricist: The Psalter, 1912
Composer: Wenzel Müller, 1828

When Is­ra­el out of Egypt went

From people of a speech un­known

The Lord among His peo­ple dwelt

And there He set his roy­al throne.

The sea be­held and fled away

The Jor­dan’s waters back­ward turned

The lof­ty mount­ains and the hills

With trem­bling awe our God dis­cerned.

What ail­eth thee

O trou­bled sea?

Thou Jor­dan

why thy riv­en tide?

Ye mount­ains and ye lit­tle hills

Why thus dis­mayed on ev­ery side?

O trem­ble

earth

be­fore the Lord

In pre­sence of Je­ho­vah fear

Beneath whose touch the flin­ty rock

Became a fount of wa­ter clear.

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