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That Rock was Christ.
1 Cor. 10:4.
Israel the desert trod,
Sustained by power divine,
While wondrous mercy marked the road
With many a mystic sign.
2 When Moses gave the stroke,
From Horeb’s flinty side
Issued a river, and the rock
The Hebrew’s thirst supplied.
3 But O! what nobler themes
Does gospel grace afford!
From Calvary spring superior streams—
There hung the smitten Lord!
4 Of every hope bereft,
Sinners to Jesus go;
Behold the Rock of Ages cleft,
And living currents flow.
5 Here may our spirits bathe,
Here may our joys abound!
Till (passed the wilderness and death)
We tread celestial ground.