When Israel to their native fields return'd

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When Israel to their native fields return'd, And left the barb'rous lands, where long they 'ad mourn'd

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Their God protectful led them in the way, And o'er their camp his banners did display:

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The troubled sea beheld him, and sh fled; Flow'd back th' affrighted Jordan to his head;

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The lofty hills from their foundations mov'd; Like sportive flocks along the plains, they rov'd.

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What saw the sea, that she so sudden fled? Why roll'd his streams stunn'd Jordan to his head?

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Why did the hills from their foundations move? Why, like the flocks, along the pastures, rove?

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Why? 'Cause all earth was at his presence aw'd, And trembled when she saw th' almighty God;

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Who turn'd the rock into a living stream, Who gave the word, and strait the waters came.