Psalm 76 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBD EFEF GHIJ KLML NONO PQPQ RSRS TUTU VWVW XYZA2Israel saved and the Assyrians destroyed | A |
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In Judah God of old was known | B |
His name in Isr'el great | C |
In Salem stood his holy throne | B |
And Zion was his seat | D |
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Among the praises of his saints | E |
His dwelling there he chose | F |
There he received their just complaints | E |
Against their haughty foes | F |
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From Zion went his dreadful word | G |
And broke the threat'ning spear | H |
The bow the arrows and the sword | I |
And crushed th' Assyrian war | J |
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What are the earth's wide kingdoms else | K |
But mighty hills of prey | L |
The hill on which Jehovah dwells | M |
Is glorious more than they | L |
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'Twas Zion's King that stopped the breath | N |
Of captains and their bands | O |
The men of might slept fast in death | N |
And never found their hands | O |
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At thy rebuke O Jacob's God | P |
Both horse and chariot fell | Q |
Who knows the terrors of thy rod | P |
Thy vengeance who can tell | Q |
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What power can stand before thy sight | R |
When once thy wrath appears | S |
When heav'n shines round with dreadful light | R |
The earth lies still and fears | S |
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When God in his own sovereign ways | T |
Comes down to save th' oppressed | U |
The wrath of man shall work his praise | T |
And he'll restrain the rest | U |
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Vow to the Lord and tribute bring | V |
Ye princes fear his frown | W |
His terror shakes the proudest king | V |
And cuts an army down | W |
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The thunder of his sharp rebuke | X |
Our haughty foes shall feel | Y |
For Jacob's God hath not forsook | Z |
But dwells in Zion still | A2 |
Isaac Watts
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