Explore "Exodus 32: 4, 31" by John Newton on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
I: When Israel heard the fiery law / From Sinai's top proclaim'd, / Their hearts seem'd full of holy awe, / Their stubborn spirits tamed:
II: Yet, as forgetting all they knew, / Ere forty days were past, / With blazing Sinai still in view, / A molten calf they cast.
III: Yea, Aaron, God's anointed priest.
Who on the mount had been, / He durst prepare the idol-beast, / And lead them on to sin!
IV: Lord, what is man, and what are we, / To recompense thee thus?
In their offence our own we see --
Their story points at us.
V: From Mount Sinai we heard thee speak.
And from Mount Calv'ry too; / And yet to idols oft we seek, / While thou art in our view.
VI: Some golden calf, or golden dream, / Some fancied creature-good, / Presumes to share the heart with Him / Who bought the whole with blood.
VII: Lord, save us from our golden calves, / Our sin with grief we own; / We would no more be thine by halves, / But live to thee alone.