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Isaac Watts - Psalm 76Isaac Watts - Psalm 76
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Israel saved, and the Assyrians destroyed. In Judah God of old was known; His name in Isr`el great; In Salem stood his holy throne, And Zion was his seat. Among the praises of his saints His dwelling there he chose; There he received their just complaints Against their haughty foes. From Zion went his dreadful word, And broke the threat`ning spear, The bow, the arrows, and the sword, And crushed th` Assyrian war. What are the earth`s wide kingdoms else But mighty hills of prey? The hill on which Jehovah dwells Is glorious more than they. `Twas Zion`s King that stopped the breath Of captains and their bands; The men of might slept fast in death, And never found their hands. At thy rebuke, O Jacob`s God, Both horse and chariot fell: Who knows the terrors of thy rod? Thy vengeance who can tell? What power can stand before thy sight, When once thy wrath appears? When heav`n shines round with dreadful light, The earth lies still and fears. When God in his own sovereign ways Comes down to save th` oppressed, The wrath of man shall work his praise, And he`ll restrain the rest. [Vow to the Lord, and tribute bring, Ye princes, fear his frown; His terror shakes the proudest king, And cuts an army down. The thunder of his sharp rebuke Our haughty foes shall feel; For Jacob`s God hath not forsook But dwells in Zion still.]
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