Devotional Verses Founded on and Illustrative of select Texts of Scripture [by Bernard Barton] |
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A PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH. |
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A PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH.
“Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake
as in the ancient days, in the generations of old.”
—Isaiah, li. 9.
Arm of the Lord, awake,
Put on thy strength as in the days of yore,
And for the Church's sake
Exert thy righteous energies once more.
Put on thy strength as in the days of yore,
And for the Church's sake
Exert thy righteous energies once more.
Art Thou not it—whose might
Smote Rahab?—gave the Dragon's cureless wound?
Oh! deign for us to fight,
Whom foes as deadly now beset around.
Smote Rahab?—gave the Dragon's cureless wound?
Oh! deign for us to fight,
Whom foes as deadly now beset around.
Art Thou not it—whose power
Dried the sea's depths in Israel's earlier day,
And in their favour'd hour,
Made for the ransom'd of the Lord a way?
Dried the sea's depths in Israel's earlier day,
And in their favour'd hour,
Made for the ransom'd of the Lord a way?
Once more, once more arise;
As in the ancient days for us appear;
The deep before us lies,
And worse than Pharaoh's host are in our rear.
As in the ancient days for us appear;
The deep before us lies,
And worse than Pharaoh's host are in our rear.
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That so the Lord's redeem'd
With songs of praise to Zion may be led,
Thy glory be esteem'd,
And everlasting joy be on our head.
With songs of praise to Zion may be led,
Thy glory be esteem'd,
And everlasting joy be on our head.
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