Psalm 68, Part 2

The Lord, the all-redeeming Lord,
Sent forth His everlasting Word,
His Word to save a world of foes;
His heralds spread the joyful sound,
And, lo! through all the nations round
A cloud of witnesses arose.

Divinely struck with sudden dread,
Kings with their alien armies fled,
And to weak women left the spoil;
The feeblest souls that Jesus know
Shall still the world and sin o'erthrow.
And all the powers of darkness foil.

Though ye among the pots have been.
The sordid slaves of hell and sin.
Yet soon the silver-pinion'd Dove
The purifying grace shall shed.
The wings of His protection spread,
And wrap you in His hallowing love.

When God made bare His arm in fight,
And scatter'd kings in IsraeVs right,
His love's omnipotence to show;
His people did His name express,
Just in the Lord their Righteousness,
And whiter than the mountain snow.

His people are all just and clean;
Beyond the reach of earth and sin
Their hidden life is lodged above;
Freed from their hellish Pharaoh's chain,
His people in His church remain,
The mountain of His pardoning love.

Why, ye ambitious mountains, why
With Sion would ye vainly vie?
What mountain can with ours compare?
The Lord doth in His church delight,
Majestic walks on Sion's height.
And deigns to dwell for ever there.

Around His church the angels stand.
The countless troops of His command,
And God doth with His chariots go;
(As when of old the heavens He bow'd;)
Enshrines His glory in a cloud.
And rests on all His saints below,

Thou, Jesus, art gone up on high.
Hast captive led captivity,
The powers that held our souls in chains:
Thy blood hath sign'd our souls' release;
Pardon, and liberty, and ieacc,
Thy precious blood for all obtains.

Thou hast received the promised grace
For all of Adam's helpless race, —
The glorious gift unspeakable;
That all Thine image might retrieve,
That man again in God might live,
That God again in man might dwell.

Bless'd be the God of pardoning love,
Who showers His blessings from above.
And fills us with His richest store;
The God of our salvation, — He
Redeems from all iniquity.
And bids us hve, and sin no more.