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<h2>MY PEOPLE, GIVE EAR</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“Give ear, O My people, to My law: incline your ears to the words of My mouth.” Psalm 78:1</h3></p>
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<center><b>Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity<br>of the </b><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/" target = "_blank"><b>Cyber Hymnal Website</b></a><br><br><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/cyberhymnal_info.html" target = "_blank">Information about Cyber Hymnal Website</a></center>
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<p><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_g_a_gabriel_ch.jpg" alt="Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (1856-1932)" align="right" hspace="15" vspace="5" width="126" height="173.333333333333"><em>Words:</em> Paraphrased from Psalm 78, before 1913; author unknown.</p>
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Chios,” <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_g_a_gabriel_ch.html" target="_blank">Charles Hutchinson Gabriel</a> (1856-1932) </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_c_h_chios.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<li>“Hanover,” attributed to <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_c_r_croft_w.html" target="_blank">William Croft</a>, 1708 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_h_hanover.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>My people, give ear, attend to My Word,<br>
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In parables new deep truths shall be heard;<br>
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The wonderful story our fathers made known<br>
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To children succeeding by us must be shown.</p>
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<p>Instructing our sons we gladly record<br>
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The praises, the works, the might of the Lord,<br>
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For He hath commanded that what He hath done<br>
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Be passed in tradition from father to son.</p>
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<p>Let children thus learn from history’s light<br>
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To hope in our God and walk in His sight,<br>
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The God of their fathers to fear and obey,<br>
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And ne’er like their fathers to turn from His way.</p>
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<p>The story be told, to warn and restrain,<br>
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Of hearts that were hard, rebellious, and vain,<br>
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Of soldiers who faltered when battle was near,<br>
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Who kept not God’s cov’nant nor walked in His fear.</p>
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<p>God’s wonderful works to them He had shown,<br>
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His marvelous deeds their fathers had known;<br>
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He made for their pathway the waters divide,<br>
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His glorious pillar of cloud was their guide.</p>
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<p>He gave them to drink, relieving their thirst,<br>
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And forth from the rock caused water to burst;<br>
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Yet faithless they tempted their God, and they said,<br>
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Can He Who gave water supply us with bread?</p>
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<p>Jehovah was wroth because they forgot<br>
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To hope in their God, and trusted Him not;<br>
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Yet gracious, He opened the doors of the sky<br>
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And rained down the manna in richest supply.</p>
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<p>With bread from on high their need He supplied,<br>
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And more did He do when thankless they sighed;<br>
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The strong winds commanding from south and from east<br>
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He sent them abundance of quail for their feast.</p>
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<p>Though well they were filled, their folly they chose;<br>
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Till God in His wrath o’erwhelmed them with woes;<br>
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He slew of their strongest and smote their young men,<br>
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But still unbelieving they sinned even then.</p>
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<p>Because of their sin He smote with His rod,<br>
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And then they returned and sought for their God;<br>
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Their Rock and Redeemer was God the Most high,<br>
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Yet false were their praises, their promise a lie.</p>
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<p>Not right with their God in heart and in will,<br>
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They faithlessly broke His covenant still;<br>
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But He, in compassion, reluctant to slay,<br>
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Forgave them and oft turned His anger away.</p>
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<p>His pity was great, though often they sinned,<br>
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For they were but flesh, a swift passing wind;<br>
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Yet though His compassion and grace they beheld,<br>
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They tempted and grieved Him and often rebelled.</p>
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<p>They limited God, the Most Holy One,<br>
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And hindered the work His grace had begun;<br>
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The hand that was mighty to save they forgot,<br>
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The day of redemption remembering not.</p>
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<p>Ungrateful and blind, no longer they thought<br>
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Of wonders and signs and mighty deeds wrought,<br>
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Of how all the rivers of Egypt ran red,<br>
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And plagues in God’s anger were heaped on their head.</p>
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<p>They thought not of how, their freedom to gain,<br>
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In Egypt’s abodes the first born were slain,<br>
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And how all God’s people were led forth like sheep,<br>
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The flock He delighted in safety to keep.</p>
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<p>Unharmed through the sea, where perished their foe,<br>
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He caused them with ease and safety to go;<br>
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His holy land gaining, in peace they were brought<br>
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To dwell in the mountain the Lord’s hand had bought.</p>
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<p>He gave them the land, a heritage fair;<br>
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The nations that dwelt in wickedness there<br>
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He drove out before them with great overthrow<br>
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And gave to His people the tents of the foe.</p>
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<p>Again they rebelled and tempted the Lord,<br>
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Unfaithful, they turned to idols abhorred,<br>
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And God in His anger withdrew from them then,<br>
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No longer delighting to dwell among men.</p>
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<p>He gave them to death in battle, although<br>
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His glory and strength were scorned by the foe;<br>
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Their young men were fallen, their maidens unwed,<br>
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Their priest slain in battle, none wept for the dead.
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<p>Then mercy awoke, the Lord in His might<br>
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Returned, and the foes were scattered in flight;<br>
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Again to His people His favor He showed<br>
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And chose in Mount Zion to fix His abode.</p>
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<p>His servant He called, a shepherd of sheep,<br>
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From tending his flock, the people to keep;<br>
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So David their shepherd with wisdom and might<br>
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Protected and fed them and led them aright.</p>
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