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A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations: Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

Religion

A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations: Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

Quotations; Religious poetry

And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but _Israel_:
for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast
prevailed.--Genesis, xxxii. 27, 28.

Truly God is good to _Israel_.--Psalm lxxiii. 1.

He that keepeth _Israel_ shall neither slumber nor sleep.--Psalm cxxi.
4.

For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose _Israel_,
and set them in their own land.--Isaiah, xiv. 1.


                  Whilst Pharoah’s pride withstood,
    His pools turned poison, and his Nile ran blood,
    From whose corrupting channel, moist and warm,
    Leaped forth the frogs, a foul, offensive swarm;
    No place was sheltered from their loathsome tread,
    The festive banquet, nor the bridal bed.
    Anon, destructive sweeps the burning hail,
    His trees stand branchless, and his furrows fail;
    Whilst from the East, devouring locusts rise,
    To spoil the pittance spared him by the skies.
    But why on each particular token dwell
    Of God’s deep wrath, or all His judgments tell?
    Enough to add, that _Israel’s_ thraldom ceased,
    From Pharaoh’s stubborn hand, by him released.
                                      _William Gibson._


    Backsliding _Israel_, hear the voice
      Of thy forgiving God;
    Nor force such goodness to exert
      The terrors of the rod.

    Thus saith the Lord--“My mercy flows,
      An unexhausted stream;
    And after all its millions saved,
      Its sway is still supreme.”

    Own but the follies thou hast done,
      And mourn thy sins in dust,
    And soon thy trembling heart shall learn
      To hope, and love, and trust.
                                 _Doddridge._


    The day of Freedom dawns; rise, _Israel_, from thy tomb.
                                                     _Croly._




                               JEHOVAH.


And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the Lord:

And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of
God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I known to them.--Exodus, vi.
2, 3.

That men may know that thou, whose name is JEHOVAH, art the
most high over all the earth.--Psalm lxxxiii. 18.

Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the
Lord JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my
salvation.--Isaiah, xii. 2.


        Tell mankind _Jehovah_ reigns;
    He shall bind the world in chains,
    So as it shall never slide,
    And with sacred justice guide.
    Let the smiling heavens rejoice,
    Joyful earth exalt her voice:
    Let the dancing billows roar,
    Echoes answer from the shore,
    Fields their flowery mantles shake,
    All shall in their joy partake;
    While the wood-musicians sing
    To the ever-youthful spring,
    Fill His courts with sacred mirth.
    He, He comes to judge the earth.
    Justly He the world shall sway,
    And His truth to men display.
                       _Dr. Henry More._

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Religion

A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations: Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

Quotations; Religious poetry

And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but _Israel_:
for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast
prevailed.--Genesis, xxxii. 27, 28.

Truly God is good to _Israel_.--Psalm lxxiii. 1.

He that keepeth _Israel_ shall neither slumber nor sleep.--Psalm cxxi.
4.

For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose _Israel_,
and set them in their own land.--Isaiah, xiv. 1.


                  Whilst Pharoah’s pride withstood,
    His pools turned poison, and his Nile ran blood,
    From whose corrupting channel, moist and warm,
    Leaped forth the frogs, a foul, offensive swarm;
    No place was sheltered from their loathsome tread,
    The festive banquet, nor the bridal bed.
    Anon, destructive sweeps the burning hail,
    His trees stand branchless, and his furrows fail;
    Whilst from the East, devouring locusts rise,
    To spoil the pittance spared him by the skies.
    But why on each particular token dwell
    Of God’s deep wrath, or all His judgments tell?
    Enough to add, that _Israel’s_ thraldom ceased,
    From Pharaoh’s stubborn hand, by him released.
                                      _William Gibson._


    Backsliding _Israel_, hear the voice
      Of thy forgiving God;
    Nor force such goodness to exert
      The terrors of the rod.

    Thus saith the Lord--“My mercy flows,
      An unexhausted stream;
    And after all its millions saved,
      Its sway is still supreme.”

    Own but the follies thou hast done,
      And mourn thy sins in dust,
    And soon thy trembling heart shall learn
      To hope, and love, and trust.
                                 _Doddridge._


    The day of Freedom dawns; rise, _Israel_, from thy tomb.
                                                     _Croly._




                               JEHOVAH.


And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the Lord:

And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of
God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I known to them.--Exodus, vi.
2, 3.

That men may know that thou, whose name is JEHOVAH, art the
most high over all the earth.--Psalm lxxxiii. 18.

Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the
Lord JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my
salvation.--Isaiah, xii. 2.


        Tell mankind _Jehovah_ reigns;
    He shall bind the world in chains,
    So as it shall never slide,
    And with sacred justice guide.
    Let the smiling heavens rejoice,
    Joyful earth exalt her voice:
    Let the dancing billows roar,
    Echoes answer from the shore,
    Fields their flowery mantles shake,
    All shall in their joy partake;
    While the wood-musicians sing
    To the ever-youthful spring,
    Fill His courts with sacred mirth.
    He, He comes to judge the earth.
    Justly He the world shall sway,
    And His truth to men display.
                       _Dr. Henry More._

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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