Psalm 68, Part 1

PART I,
Let God, the glorious God, arise.
And scatter evil with His eyes,
And make His foes before Him flee
His angry look the rebels chase,
Who scornfully reject His grace,
And hate the' incarnate Deity.
Arise, the Lord of earth and heaven!
As smoke before the wind is driven,
So let them at His presence fly;
Dissolved as wax before the fire.
Sinners shall feel His flaming ire,
And perish, and for ever die.
But let the saints, with grateful joy.
Their happy days for Him employ,
And triumph in His saving grace
Vie with the elder sons of light,
And walk exulting in His sight.
And hymn His everlasting praise.

Sing unto God, His praise proclaim,
Extol the great Jehovah's name.
Who rides upon the stormy sky:
His name His essence doth display:
Rejoice before the' eternal J AH,
The Lord most merciful, most high!

A father of the fatherless;
The widow, in her sad distress,
Is sure to find a friend in Him;
He every helpless soul befriends;
To all His servants condescends.
In goodness as in power supreme.

Poor desolate souls He makes His own;
T is God collects them into one;
T is God that sets the prisoners free;
But lets His rebels feel their chain.
Till, forced, they own, in want and pain,
That sin is perfect misery.

When Thou, O Lord, didst greatly lead
Thy people from the furnace freed,
From haughty PharaoJis iron yoke.
All nature did its Lord confess.
Slow-marching through the wilderness,
And earth and heaven Thy presence shuuk.

Trembled the earth before Thy frown.
The heavens in flakes of fire dropp'd down,
The sea dried up, the mountains flow'd!
Sinai was moved W'ith sacred awe,
And quaked to hear the fiery law.
And groan'd to feel the' incumbent God.

Thou didst, O God, Thy blessing pour,
A plenteous earth-reviving shower,
Thy weary IsraePs camp to cheer;
Type of the grace through Christ bestow'd,
Dropp'd from the tutelary cloud
The promise of a gospel year.

Still Thou art IsraePs sure defence;
The lot of Thine inheritance
Thou dost with hosts of angels guard;
Thou hast prepared the gospel-feast.
Hast, for the needy and distress'd.
The manna of Thy love prepared.