The fifth part.
[verse 36] The first-begotten in their land
eke deadly did he smite:
Yea, the beginning and first-fruit
of all their strength and might.
[verse 37] With gold and silver he them brought
from Egypt land to pass:
And in the number of their tribes
no feeble one there was.
[verse 38] Egypt was glad and joyful then
when they did thence depart:
For terrour and the fear of them
was faln upon their heart.
[verse 39] To shroud them from the parching heat,
a cloud he did display:
And fire he sent to give them light
when night had hid the day.
[verse 40] They asked, and he caused quails
to rain at their request:
And fully with the bread of heaven
their hunger he represt.
[verse 41] He opened the stony rock,
and waters gushed out:
And eke the dry and parched ground
like rivers ran about.
[verse 42] For of his holy covenant
ay mindful was he tho:
Which to his servant Abraham
he plighted long ago.
[verse 43] He brought his people forth with mirth,
and his elect with joy.
Out of the cruel land where they
had liv'd in great annoy.
[verse 44] And of the heathen men he gave
to them the fruitful lands:
The labours of the people eke
they took into their hands.
[verse 45] That they his holy statutes might
observe for evermore,
And faithfully obey his laws:
praise ye the Lord therefore.