Psalm 76
Words: Isaac Watts
Israel saved, and the Assyrians destroyed.
1 In Judah God of old was known;
His name in Israel great;
In Salem stood his holy throne,
And Zion was his seat.
2 Among the praises of his saints
His dwelling there he chose;
There he received their just complaints
Against their haughty foes.
3 From Zion went his dreadful word,
And broke the threat'ning spear,
The bow, the arrows, and the sword,
And crushed th' Assyrian war.
4 What are the earth's wide kingdoms else
But mighty hills of prey?
The hill on which Jehovah dwells
Is glorious more than they.
5 '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.
6 At thy rebuke, O Jacob's God,
Both horse and chariot fell:
Who knows the terrors of thy rod ?
Thy vengeance who can tell?
7 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.
8 When God in his own sov'reign ways
Comes down to save th' oppressed,
The wrath of man shall work his praise,
And he'll restrain the rest.
9 Vow to the Lord, and tribute bring,
Ye princes, fear his frown;
His terror shakes the proudest king,
And cuts an army down.
10 The thunder of his sharp rebuke
Our haughty foes shall feel;
For Jacob's God hath not forsook
But dwells in Zion still.
