William Preston Johnston - The Law lyrics

FROM Egypt's teeming fields the Hebrews fled, Pa**ed the deep waters, tracked the desert sand, Following his steps where'er the Seer led, And to the Mountain came, an altar grand, Reared in the waste by an Almighty hand, That here Earth's self should smoke, and flames arise, While royal Moses as High Priest should stand, The tables twain to take, and sacrifice. Then came the Law amid a nation's cries Of fear and mad revolt from God's command And lurid light that, issuing from the skies, Made all the Earth, at last, a Holy Land; Commandments forged to fetter men from wrong But wrought by righteousness to weapons strong.