Explore "Exodus 17: 15" by John Newton on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
I: To aim the dreadful blow, / When he Goliath fought, / And laid the Gittite low?
No sword nor spear the stripling took, / But chose a peeble from the brook.
II: 'Twas Israel's God and King / Who sent him to the fight --
Who gave him strength to sling, / And skill to aim aright.
Ye feeble saints, your strength endures, / Because young David's God is yours.
III: Who order'd Gideon forth / To storm th' invader's camp, / With arms of little worth --
A pitcher and a lamp?
The trumpets made his coming known, / And all the host was overthrown.
IV: Oh! I have seen the day / When, with a single word, / God helping me to say, / My trust is in the Lord, / My soul has quell'd a thousand foes, / Fearless of all that could oppose.
V: But unbelief, self-will, / Self-righteousness, and pride, / How often do they steal / My weapon from my side!
Yet David's Lord and Gideon's friend / Will help his servant to the end.