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Send out thy light and truth, O God!
With sound of trumpet from above;
Break not the nations with thy rod,
But draw them as with cords of love;
Justice and mercy meet;
The work is well begun,
Through every clime their feet,
Who bring glad tidings, run;
In earth, as heaven, thy will be done.
Before thee every idol fall,
Rend the false prophet�s veil of lies;
The fulness of the Gentiles call,
Be Israel saved, let Jacob rise:
Thy kingdom come indeed,
Thy church with union bless,
All Scripture be her creed,
And every tongue confess
One Lord,�the Lord of Righteousness
Now for the travail of his soul,
Messiah�s peaceful reign advance;
From sea to sea, from pole to pole,
He claims his pledged inheritance:
O thou most mighty! gird
Thy Sword upon thy thigh,�
That two-edged sword,�thy word,
By which thy foes shall die,
Then be new-born beneath thine eye.
So perish all thine enemies,
Their enmity alone be slain;
Them, in the arms of mercy seize,
Breathe, and their souls shall come again:
So may thy friends at length,
Oft smitten, oft laid low,
Forth, like the sun in strength,
Conquering, to conquer go,
Till to thy throne all nations flow.
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