When Israel, led by Yahweh’s hand

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When Israel, led by Yahweh’s hand

Paraphraser: Harriet Auber (1829)
Published in 1 hymnal

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1. When Israel, led by Yahweh’s hand,
Approached fair Canaan’s happy land,
What pow’r then made the deep divide
And Jordan backward roll its tide!

2. Lo! every mountain, every flood,
Confessed the presence of its God;
Earth trembled to its utmost base,
And ocean fled before his face.

3. So once again the earth shall shake,
When all who sleep in dust awake,
When all the awful trumpet hear,
And at the judgment seat appear.

4. Flee then to him who from the rock
Brought water for his fainting flock,
And caused those living streams to flow,
Which life and health and bliss bestow.

Source: Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship #133b

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Paraphraser: Harriet Auber

Auber, Harriet, daughter of Mr. James Auber, b. in London, Oct. 4, 1773. During the greater part of her quiet and secluded life she resided at Broxbourne and Hoddesdon, Herts, and died at the latter place on the 20th Jan., 1862. Miss Auber wrote devotional and other poetry, but only a portion of the former was published in her Spirit of the Psalms, in 1829. This collection is mainly her work, and from it some useful versions of the Psalms have been taken and included in modern hymn-books, about 20 appearing in Spurgeon's Our Own Hymn Book, 1866. Miss Auber's name is widely known, but it is principally through her exquisite lyric, "Our blest Redeemer, ere He breathed," and the Epiphany hymn, "Bright was the guiding star that led." (For criti… Go to person page >

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