Explore "Exodus 16: 18" by John Newton on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
I: Manna to Israel well supplied / The want of other bread; / While God is able to provide, / His people shall be fed.
II: (Thus though the corn and wine should fail, / And creature-streams be dry, / The prayer of faith will still prevail / For blessings from on high.)
III: Of his kind care how sweet a proof; / It suited every taste:
Who gather'd most had just enough --
Enough who gather'd least.
IV: 'Tis thus our gracious Lord provides / Our comforts and our cares; / His own unerring hand divides, / And gives us each our shares.
V: He knows how much the weak can bear, / And helps them when they cry; / The strongest have no strength to spare, / For such he'll strongly try.
VI: Daily they saw the manna come / And cover all the ground; / But what they tried to keep at home / Corrupted soon was found.
VII: Vain their attempt to store it up, / This was to tempt the Lord:
Israel must live by faith and hope, / And not upon a hoard.