Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs
Date: 1853
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: A Campbell
First Line: God struck the first-born dead
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Meter: 6s and 8s
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Hymn Number: Song 382
Page Number: 439, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsGOD struck the first-born dead
Of Egypt's stubborn land;
And thence his people led
With his resistless hand:
For God doth prove our constant friend
His boundless love shall never end.
By him the raging sea,
As if in pieces rent,
Disclos'd a middle way,
Through which his people went.
Where soon he overthrew
Proud Pharaoh and his host,
Who, daring to pursue,
Were in the billows lost.
Through deserts vast and wild
He led the chosen seed;
And famous princes foil'd,
And made great monarchs bleed.
Sihon, whose potent hand
Great Ammon's sceptre sway'd;
And Og, whose stern command
Rich Bashan's land obey'd.
And, of his wondrous grace,
Their lands whom he destroy'd
He gave to Israel's race,
To be by them enjoy'd.
He, in our depth of woes,
On us with favor thought,
And from our cruel foes
In peace and safety brought:
For God will prove our constant friend,
His boundless love shall never end.