"When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language, Judah was His sanctuary, and Israel His dominion. The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.... What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? Thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?" (Psalm 114:1-3).
When Israel had left the land
In which God's people had been slaves,
They surely knew it well firsthand
That God alone protects and saves.
The Red Sea saw it then, and fled.
The Jordan, too, was driven back;
God by cloud and pillar led,
And never did His people lack.
What accounts for their success?
How on earth could they survive?
Throughout that desert wilderness
God alone kept them alive.
And so it is through joy or pain,
That as we walk this desert land,
We have our refuge in His reign;
Our preservation by His hand.
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