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The Book of Psalms in English Metre

The Newest Version Fitted to the Common Tunes. By Charles Darby

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The Psalms of David.

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Psalm CXIV.

1

When from the strange Egyptian land
The Lord did Israel bring,
In Judah was his holy place,
And there he sat as king.

2

The sea beheld and backward went,
And Jordan fled away:
The mountains skipt about like rams,
And hills like lambs did play.

3

What means the sea thus to retreat,
And Jordan flee away:
The mountains skip about like rams,
And hills like lambs to play?

4

Tremble thou earth before the Lord,
At sight of Jacob's king:
Who to a fountain turn'd the rock,
And flint into a spring.
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