YE princes and kings, with joyful accord,
All glory and might ascribe to the Lord;
And while the loud anthem ye rightfully raise,
Be comely and holy the voice of your praise.
God’s voice on the sea is powerful and strong;
Majestic it swells the billows along.
The voice of Jehovah in thunder forth breaks!
He sits on the deep and its echoes awakes.
The voice of the Lord uproots and upbreaks
The cedars that grow on Lebanon’s peaks;
Yea, God makes Libanus and Sirion, uptorn,
To leap like a calf or a young unicorn.
The lightnings of heaven are scattered abroad
And flash at the voice of Israel’s God;
When God speaks in anger the wilderness shakes,
The desert of Kadesh all fearfully quakes.
The forests are stript; the oaks in the wood,
Laid prostrate, attest the voice of our God.
Meanwhile in his temple his people record
With gladness the glory and might of the Lord.
God sits on the flood; his kingdom shall never
Be shaken for aye: he reigneth forever.
Jehovah will strengthen his people, and bless
The seed of his saints with unchangeable peace.
(John Dunmore Lang)
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