No more be still, just God; no more delay

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No more be still, just God; no more delay; Speak in their cause, who thy commands obey;

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For lo! with lofty crefts exult thy foes, With loud tumultuous roar they've all arose:

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Fix'd are their counsels; all their schemes they bend 'Gainst those whom thou hast promis'd to defend.

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"Haste (they cry all) be this our sole employ, "These favour'd tribes, this Israel to deftroy."

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See, with what firm envenom'd hate they join, And 'gainst thy people and thy law combine.

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Idume, Moabm Amalek, conspire, With Geball Amman, Ishmael's race and Tyre; Nor has Philistia her defeats forgot, And proud Assyria joins the sons of Lot.

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But let them fall by our avenging hands, As perish'd Sisera and his hostile bands: At Kishon perish'd they, and with their blood Ting'd, as it gently stream'd, his ancient flood: Their carcasses along his margin lay, To rav'ning vultures and fell wolves a prey.

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As Oreb fled and mighty Zeb in vain, As Zeb and Zalmunna bit the plain; Who fiercely said; Be ours their wide domains, Their fenced cities, and their hallow'd fanes;" So let their nobles and their princes fall; So in thy direful wrath consume them all;

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Swift let them fly, while follow we behind, And drive them far like stubble 'fore the wind.

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As crackling fires along the mountains roar, And the tall honours of the grove devour,

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'Gainst them send forth the tempest of thy wrath, And let thy whirlwinds sink them all in death.

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Their faces cover with reproach, with shame, That e'en their woes thy Godhead may proclaim;

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With terror, with affright, their souls confound; A dread example to the nations round;

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That all may know, Jehovah is the Lord, And that his name mav be by all ador'd.