JUDAH.
When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
Judah was his sanctuary and Israel his dominion.—Psalm cxiv. 1, 2.
Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.—Joel, iii. 20.
It is evident that our Lord sprang out of Judah.—Hebrews, vii. 14.
Judah! thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise,
Thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies:
Thy father’s children shall bow down before thee.
Judah is a lion’s whelp!
From the prey, my son, thou art gone up:
He stooped down, he crouched as a lion,
And as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah,
Nor a lawgiver from between his feet,
Until Shiloh come,
And unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Jacob’s Benediction of Judah, Genesis, xlix. 8, 9, 10.
Dr. Caunter’s Metrical Arrangement.
O, Thou, the Shepherd of Thy flock,
Who led’st Thy people through the wave,
And gav’st them water from the rock,
And bar’dst thine arm in might to save:—
Hear Thou the strain our hearts prolong—
List—list the suppliant captive’s cry—
O, when shall cease the mournful song,
O, when shall Judah’s tears be dry?
C. W. Everest.
For yet the tenfold film shall fall
O, Judah, from thy sight,
And every eye be purged to read
Thy testimonies right,
When thou, with all Messiah’s signs
In Christ distinctly seen,
Shall, by Jehovah’s nameless name,
Invoke the Nazarene.
William Crosswell.