Setting
When Isr’el out of Egypt came,
Free Church of Scotland psalter · L.M.
The words
When Isr’el out of Egypt came, From people of a foreign tongue, Then Judah was God’s holy place; In Israèl was set his throne.
The sea beheld and swiftly fled; The Jordan river turned away. The lofty mountains skipped like rams, The hills like little lambs at play.
O sea, why was it that you fled? Why, Jordan, did you turn away? Why, mountains did you skip like rams, You hills, like little lambs at play?
Tremble, O earth, before the Lord, Before the face of Jacob’s God, Who turned the rock into a pool; From solid rock the waters flowed.
Source & provenance
Free Church of Scotland psalter · psalter
An unedited transcription of the Sing Psalms (Free Church of Scotland, 2003) edition.
Full provenance & rights
- Base edition
- Sing Psalms (Free Church of Scotland, 2003)
- Editor
- Psalmody Committee of the Free Church of Scotland
- Editing
- unedited transcription
Rights
- Copyright
- rights-verified (display held); FCS terms recorded 2026-10-08 — verbatim text in a notated setting with independent tune MIDI is within terms (text free, FCS attribution displayed); copy/print/offline not granted; no audio derivatives
- Access
- free
- Display
- permitted
Tunes it can be sung to
3 tunes
Birling
curated well-matchedLM
Herongate
curated well-matchedLM
Uffingham
curated well-matchedLM
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