The Works of John Hookham Frere In Verse and Prose Now First Collected with a Prefatory Memoir by his Nephews W. E. and Sir Bartle Frere |
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JUDGES.
Chap. V. v. 9—13.
I love the noble and the great,
The learned and the wise,
Ready to rouse and animate,
Ready to share the common fate,
The common enterprise:
Join me then with frank accord,
Join to praise and bless the Lord.
The learned and the wise,
Ready to rouse and animate,
Ready to share the common fate,
The common enterprise:
Join me then with frank accord,
Join to praise and bless the Lord.
Ye that on pacers snowy white,
Are wont to ride, a comely sight—
Or on the judgment-seat
Sit with a grave and steady cheer,
Or move majestic and severe,
Thoughtful and awful in the street,
Let your daily duties cease—
Noisy debates and petty pleas,
For drawing water from a well,
Proclaim aloud in Israel,
Jehovah's judgments and decrees,
The statutes of Jehovah's reign,
His bounty to the villages,
The vassals of his own domain;
Proclaim them where this people wait
As suitors at the city gate.
Are wont to ride, a comely sight—
Or on the judgment-seat
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Or move majestic and severe,
Thoughtful and awful in the street,
Let your daily duties cease—
Noisy debates and petty pleas,
For drawing water from a well,
Proclaim aloud in Israel,
Jehovah's judgments and decrees,
The statutes of Jehovah's reign,
His bounty to the villages,
The vassals of his own domain;
Proclaim them where this people wait
As suitors at the city gate.
Rouse, rouse thee, Deborah, raise,
Loud and high, the song of praise;
Barak, in thy manly worth,
Son of Abinoam, stand forth,
A captive and a refugee,
Advanced to power and victory,
Henceforth appointed to command
Among the nobles of the land:
For me, Jehovah will afford
Counsel and succour: He, the Lord
Will prosper and direct by me
The mighty chiefs of victory.
Loud and high, the song of praise;
Barak, in thy manly worth,
Son of Abinoam, stand forth,
A captive and a refugee,
Advanced to power and victory,
Henceforth appointed to command
Among the nobles of the land:
For me, Jehovah will afford
Counsel and succour: He, the Lord
Will prosper and direct by me
The mighty chiefs of victory.
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