All nature spake, and with convulsive shock
Gave awful proof of the descending God.
Samuel Hayes.
Those laws which from Mount Sinai
Jehovah, clothed with terrors, while thick clouds
And darkness wrapt him round, pronounced, in sounds
Which chilled the hearts of those who heard, and froze
Their very blood. Beneath His awful feet
Earth trembled, and the lofty mountain shook;
Hoarse thunder growled, and livid lightnings flashed,