Let Ja­cob to his mak­er sing,
And praise his great re­deem­ing king;
Called by a new, a gra­cious name,
Let Is­ra­el loud his God pro­claim.

He knows our souls in all their fears,
And gent­ly wipes our fall­ing tears,
Forms trem­bling voic­es to a song,
And bids the fee­ble heart be strong.

Then let the ri­vers swell around,
And ris­ing floods o’er­flow the ground;
Rivers and floods and seas di­vide,
And hom­age pay to Is­ra­el’s guide.

Then let the fires their rage dis­play,
And flam­ing terr­ors bar the way;
Unburnt, un­singed He leads them through,
And makes the flames re­fresh­ing, too.

The fires but on their bonds shall prey, *
The floods but wash their stains away,
And grace di­vine new tro­phies raise
Amidst the del­uge, and the blaze.