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by Bible or other Sacred Texts and sometimes misattributed to Walter Scott, Sir (1771 - 1832)

When Israel, of the Lord beloved
Language: English 
When Israel, of the Lord beloved,
    Out of the land of bondage came,
Her father’s God before her moved,
    An awful guide, in smoke and flame.
By day, along the astonish’d lands
    The cloudy pillar glided slow;
By night, Arabia’s crimson’d sands
    Return’d the fiery column’s glow.

There rose the choral hymn of praise,
    And trump and timbrel answer’d keen,
And Zion’s daughters pour’d their lays,
    With priest’s and warrior’s voice between.
No portents now our foes amaze,
    Forsaken Israel wanders lone;
Our fathers would not know THY ways,
    And THOU hast left them to their own.

But, present still, though now unseen;
    When brightly shines the prosperous day,
Be thoughts of THEE a cloudy screen
    To temper the deceitful ray.
And oh, when stoops on Judah’s path
    In shade and storm the frequent night,
Be THOU, long-suffering, slow to wrath,
    A burning, and a shining light!

Our harps we left by Babel’s streams,
    The tyrant’s jest, the Gentile’s scorn;
No censer round our altar beams,
    And mute our timbrel, trump, and horn.
But THOU hast said, the blood of goat,
    The flesh of rams, I will not prize;
A contrite heart, and humble thought,
    Are mine accepted sacrifice.

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Note: as quoted in Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott.


Text Authorship:

  • by Bible or other Sacred Texts , no title [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
  • sometimes misattributed to Walter Scott, Sir (1771 - 1832)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Eliza Flower (1803 - 1846), "Rebecca's hymn", published 1831? [ chorus and piano ], from Musical Illustrations of the Waverley Novels, no. 9, London : Jos. Alfred Novello [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2023-06-28
Line count: 32
Word count: 199

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