Explore "Exodus 15: 23-–-25" by John Newton on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
I: Bitter indeed the waters are / Which in this desert flow; / Though to the eye they promise fair, / They taste of sin and woe.
II: Of pleasing draughts I once could dream; / But now, awake, I find / That sin has poison'd every stream, / And left a curse behind.
III: But there's a wonder-working wood, / I've heard believers say, / Can make these bitter waters good, / And take the curse away.
IV: The virtues of this healing tree / Are known and prized by few:
Reveal the secret, Lord, to me, / That I may prize it too.
V: The cross on which the Saviour died / And conquer'd for his saints, / This is the tree by faith applied, / Which sweetens all complaints.
VI: Thousands have found the bless'd effect, / Nor longer mourn their lot; / While on his sorrows they reflect, / Their own are all forgot.
VII: When they, by faith, behold the cross, / Though many griefs they meet, / They draw a gain from every loss, / And find the bitter sweet.