Sing Loud to God Our Strength

Words: Psalm 81:1-10 Scottish Psalter, 1650

Tune: Rockway C.M.D. Stephen Pribble, 2001

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   1. Sing loud to God our strength; with joy
         to Jacob's God do sing.
      Take up a psalm, the pleasant harp,
         timbrel and psalt'ry bring.
      Blow trumpets at new-moon, what day
         our feast appointed is:
      For charge to Isr'el, and a law
         of Jacob's God was this.

   2. To Joseph this a testimony
         he made, when Egypt land
      He traveled through, where speech I heard
         I did not understand.
      His shoulder I from burdens took,
         his hands from pots did free.
      Thou didst in trouble on me call,
         and I delivered thee:

   3. In secret place of thundering
         I did thee answer make;
      And at the streams of Meribah
         of thee a proof did take.
      O thou, my people, give an ear,
         I'll testify to thee;
      To thee, O Isr'el, if thou wilt
         but hearken unto me.

   4. In midst of thee there shall not be
         any strange god at all;
      Nor unto any god unknown
         thou bowing down shalt fall.
      I am the Lord thy God, which did
         from Egypt land thee guide;
      I'll fill thy mouth abundantly,
         do thou it open wide.