Scripture Songs, Song 2
The SONG Of MOSES.
EXODUS XV.
UNto the Lord I will sing praise, for he hath gloriously
Tryumph'd the Horse and Rider he hath thrown into the sea.
verse 2 Jehovah is my strength and song, yea my salvation;
My God, for him I will prepare an habitation.
My fathers God, him will I then exalt and spread his fame:
verse 3 Jehovah is a man of war, Jehovah is his name.
verse 4 He Pharaoh's chariots, and his host, into the sea hath thrown;
His chosen captains he likewise in the red sea did drown.
verse 5 The depths below have cov'red them yea they did sink each one
Into the bottom of the sea, even like unto a stone.
verse 6 Thy right hand Lord it is become glorious in power, yea lo
Thy right hand (Lord) to pieces hath dash'd and destroy'd thy foe.
verse 7 In thine excelling greatness thou hast vanquish'd them that rose
Against thee yea thy wrath consum'd (as stubble) hath thy foes.
verse 8 And by the breath and blast which was out of thy Nostrils sent,
The waters which divided were, again together went.
The floods likewise did stand upright and as an heap appear:
And in the heart even of the sea, the depths congealed were.
verse 9 The enemy said, I will pursue, yea I will overtake;
And of the spoyl which shal be found I will division make.
Upon them I will satisfie my lust, and it fulfil;
I will draw out my sword, my hand shall them destroy and kill.
verse 10 Thy winds did blow, and over them the sea it self did spread;
And in the mighty waters they sank down like lumps of lead.
verse 11 O who is there that's like to thee, O Lord? sure there is none;
Who is there like to thee among the Gods? there is not one.
Glorious thou art in holiness, yea and in praises, thou
Art very fearful, and thou dost abroad thy wonders show.
verse 12 Thou didst put forth, & stretchedst out the right hand of thy power;
And then the earth did swallow up deem'd thy foes, & them devour.
verse 13 The people which thou hast rethou ledst forth in thy grace:
Guiding them by thy strength, unto thy holy dwelling place.
verse 14 The people they shall-hear of this and fear shall them oppress;
And such as dwell in Palestine, sorrow shall them possess.
verse 15 Then Edoms dukes shal be amaz'd and trembling shall take hold
On Moabs mighties, Canaans folk shall melt when this is told:
verse 16 Yea fear and dread shall fall on them, and they shall be each one
By greatness of thine arm and power as still as is a stone.
Until the people which are thine, O Lord, are passed over;
I say, until the folk which thou hast purchased▪ pass over.
verse 17 Thou Lord shalt bring this people in, and planted they shall be
Even in the mountain which belongs dwell as heritage to thee.
The place O Lord, where thou wilt and where thy house shall stand,
The sanctuary which thou hast establish'd with thy hand.
verse 18 The Lord shal reign for evermore verse 19 For Pharaohs horse did go
With charets & with horsemen eke into the sea below.
The Lord then made the sea return▪ and over them to stand;
But Israels folk in midst of Sea did walk upon dry land.
1. I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath tryumphed gloriously, the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the Sea.
2. The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation; he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation, My fathers God, and I will exalt him.
3. The Lord is a man of war, the Lord is his name.
4. Pharaohs chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea, his chosen captains also are drowned in the red sea.
5. The depths have covered them, they sank into the bottome as a stone.
6. Thy right hand O Lord, is become glorious in power, thy right hand O Lord, hath dashed to pieces the enemy.
7. And in the greatnesse of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee, thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
8. And with the blast of thy nostrills the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the Sea.
9. The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; My lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
10. Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them, they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
11. Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the Gods? Who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
12. Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
13. Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed, thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.
14. The people shall hear and be afraid▪ sorrow shal take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina
15. Then the Dukes of Edom shall be amazed, the mighty men of Moab trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.
16. Fear and dread shall fall upon them, by the greatnesse of thine arme they shall be as still as a stone, till the people pass over which thou hast purchased.
17. Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place O Lord which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary O Lord which thy hands have established.
18. The Lord shall reign for ever and ever.
19. For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots, & with his horsmen into the Sea, and the Lord brought again the waters of the Sea upon them, but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.
DEUT. XXXII.
GIve ear to me, ye heavens high, and I will utter speech;
And hear O earth, attend unto the words my mouth shal teach.
verse 2 My doctrine as the rain shall drop my speech as dew shall pass;
As rain that's small, on tender herb, as showers upon the grass.
verse 3 Because that I will utter forth, and publish all abroad
His name, who is the Lord, ascribe ye greatness to our God.
verse 4 He is the rock, perfect his work, his ways all judgement be;
A God of truth, without all sin, yea yea just and right is he.
verse 5 They have themselves corrupted▪ yea the spot which they do bear,
Is not his childrens spot, perverse and crooked ones they are.
verse 6 And do ye in this sort requite the Lord, O ye that are
A foolish people, and unwise, so ye your selves declare?
Is not the Lord thy father? yea and hath he not thee bought?
Hath he not made & stablish'd thee? Oh hath he not thus wrought?
verse 7 Look back unto the days of old, do ye the same remember;
The many generations past, do ye likewise consider.
Ask thou thy father, and enquire, and he to thee will show;
Ask thou the Elders, they will tell, and thou by them shalt know.
verse 8 When the most high divided to the Nations their estate
For heritage, and Adam's sons did likewise separate.
Then did he set the peoples bounds, within the same to dwell,
According to the number of the seed of Israel.
verse 9 For why? the Lord his people doth his portion take to be:
The lot of his inheritance, Jacob alone is he.
verse 10 Even in a dry and desart land he found him to be cast;
And in the houling wilderness, both desolate and wast.
He did him gently lead about instruction also gave;
And as the apple of his eye he did him keep and save.
verse 11 As Eagle stirreth up her nest, and flutters o're her young▪
Spreads forth her wings, doth take & bear them on her wings along.
verse 12 So did the Lord him lead & guide yea he himself alone;
And as for other stranger god, with him there was not one.
verse 13 Upon high places of the earth he made him ride, that he
Might eat of such increase as in the fields abroad should be:
Yea from the rock he made him suck honey, and thereon feed;
And likewise oyl, which did from hard and flinty rock proceed.
verse 14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, was that whereon he fed;
Yea also fat of lambs and rams that were in Bashan bred.
On goats he fed, yea with the fat of kidneys of the wheat;
Yea and the pure blood o'th grape thou drankest with thy meat.
verse 15 But Jesurun he waxed fat, and did begin to kick;
Even thou I say art waxen fat, and likewise art grown thick.
Covered with fat▪ then he forsook God which did him redeem,
The rock of his salvation he lightly did esteem.
verse 16 With strange gods▪ unto jealousie they did him much provoke;
And with abominations, they his anger made to smoke.
verse 17 To divels (not to God) they did their sacrifice present;
Yea unto Gods they did not know, their wicked heart was bent.
New gods (I say) whom they did serve newly come up they were;
They were such gods as formerly your fathers did not fear.
verse 18 Thou art unmindful of the rock, even him that thee begate;
Yea thou forgotten hast the God that form'd thee to this state.
verse 19 And when the Lord saw this, they were abhorr'd of him therefore,
Because his sons and daughters eke provoked him so sore.
verse 20 And being thus provok'd, he said I will now from them hide
My face, and likewise I will see what end shall them betide.
For why, a generation of froward ones they be;
Yea they are children in whose hearts no faith at all I see.
verse 21 With that which is not god, they made my jealousie to smoke:
To anger with their vanities, they did me much provoke:
I will them move to jealousie, their anger eke shall rise,
And be provok'd by such as are no people, folk unwise.
verse 22 For in mine anger kindled is a fire, which I will shew;
Yea I will make it burn unto the deeps of hell below.
The earth with her increase it shall consume and waste away;
Foundations it shall set on fire whereon the mountains stay.
verse 23 Yea mischiefs I will multiply, by heaps upon them send;
The arrows also of my wrath I will upon them spend.
verse 24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and also a burning heat;
Bitter destruction shall devour and eat them up like meat.
Yea I will send the teeth of beasts, wherewith they shall be crusht
Together, with the poyson of the serpents of the dust.
verse 25 The sword without, terror within shall stroy, and shall not spare
Yongman, nor Virgin, sucking babe, nor him that hath gray hair.
verse 26 I said that I would scatter them, and into corners chase;
And cause that their remembrance should wth men have any place
verse 27 Were it not for the enemy that I his wrath did fear,
And adversary should himself strangely behave and bear;
And lest that they should speak & say our hand full high it is,
And lifted up; as for the Lord, he hath not done all this.
verse 28 For they are such a Nation, as is void of counsel sound,
For understanding there is none they in them for to be found.
verse 29 O that these men were wise, that hereto their minds would bend,
To understand this thing, and would ponder their latter end.
verse 30 How should one chase a thousand men and two ten thousand put
To flight, except the Lord their rock had sold and shut them up.
verse 31 For why, their rock, it is not like the rock whereon we stay;
Our enemies themselves, if they be judges, thus will say.
verse 32 Their vine of Sodom is the vine, and of Gomorrahs field,
Yea grapes of gall, and bitter are the clusters which they yeild.
verse 33 As Dragons poyson, is the wine that doth thereout proceed;
Yea cruel venome of the Aspe, even such it is indeed.
verse 34 Is not this laid in store with me, my treasures seal'd among:
verse 35 Vengeance & recompense, it doth of right to me belong.
Their foot shal slide even in due time the day that shall them waste
It is at hand, the things that shall come on them, do make haste.
verse 36 For God shall judge his folk, and shal repent when he shall see
His servants power is gone, and that shut up or left none be.
verse 37 And then the Lord himself shall speak yea on this wise shall say,
Where are their gods, their rock, in whom they trusted, and did stay?
verse 38 Which of their sacrifices ate the fat, and drunk the wine
They offer'd? let them rise, and for your safety now combine.
verse 39 See now that I, even I am he, and with me there is none,
No God with me, I kill, I make alive, even I alone.
I wound, and I do heal again, and surely there is none
That can deliver from my hand, or rescue, no not one.
verse 40 For I lift up my hand on high to heaven, and then I give
This word, and of my self do say, for ever do I live.
verse 41 If I my bright & glittering sword shall go about to whet,
On judgement if my hand take hold, and thereunto be set:
Vengeance I render will on them mine enemies that are;
And eke they shall rewarded be, to me a hate that bear.
verse 42 Mine arrows they shal drunken be with blood, which shall be shed,
My sword also shall flesh devour, therewith it shall be fed.
The blood I say even of the slain, and them that captives be,
From the beginning of revenge upon the enemy.
verse 43 Rejoyce then O ye nations with his people, for he will
Avenge his servants blood upon all them that do it spill.
Upon his adversaries he the vengeance just will send,
But to his land and people he his mercy will extend.
1. GIve ear O ye heavens, & I wil speak; and hear O earth the words of my mouth:
2. My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the render herb, and as the flowers upon the grasse.
3. Because I will publish the name of the Lord, a scribe ye greatnesse unto our God.
4. He is the rock, his work is perfect; for all his ways are judgement, a God of truth, and without iniquity, just and right is he.
5. They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children, they are a perverse and crooked generation.
6. Do ye thus require the Lord, O foolish people, and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee and established thee?
7. Remember the days of old, consider the yeers of many generations; Ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy Elders, and they will tell thee:
8. When the most high divided to the Nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
9. For the Lords portion is his people, Iacob is the lot of his inheritance.
10. He found him in a desart land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye;
11. As an Eagle stirreth her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings.
12. So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange God with him.
13. He made him hide on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields, and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oyl out of the flinty rock.
14. Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of Lambs, and Rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat, and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
15. But Iesurun waxed fat and kicked; thou art waxed far, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the rock of his salvation.
16. They provoked him to jealousie with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
17. They sacrificed to Divels, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
18. Of the rock that begate thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
19. And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
20. And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be; for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.
21. They have moved me to jealousie with that which is not god, they have provoked me to anger with their vanities; and I will move them to jealousie with those which are not a people, I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
22. For a fire is kindled in my anger, and shall burn unto the lowest he, and shall consume the earth with her increase▪ and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
23. I will heap mischiefs upon them, I will spend mine arrows upon them.
24. They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction, I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
25. The sword without, and terror within shall destroy both the youngman and the virgin, the suckling also, with the man of gray hairs.
26. I said I would scatter thē into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men.
27. Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, our hand is high, and the Lord hath not done all this.
28. For they are a Nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
29. O that they were wise that they understood this that they would consider their latter end.
30. How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?
31. For their rock is not as our rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
32. For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorah, their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter.
33. Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venome of Aspes.
34. Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
35. To me belongeth vengeance & recompense. Their foot shall slide in due time, for the day of their calamity is at hand, & the things that shal com upon them, make haste.
36. For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up or left.
37. And he shall say, where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted?
38. Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings; let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
39. See now that I, even I am he, and there is no god with me; I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
40. For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
41. If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgement, I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
42. I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, and that with the blood of the slain, and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
43. Rejoyce O ye nations with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.