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MO'OZ TSUR YESHU'OSI (A CHANUKAH HYMN), by                    
First Line: "mighty, praised beyond compare"
Last Line: Haste to my salvation!
Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts;hanukkah;jews; Judaism


MIGHTY, praised beyond compare,
Rock of my salvation,
Build again my house of pray'r
For Thy habitation!
Haste my restoration; let a ransomed nation
Joyful sing
To its King
Psalms of dedication!

Woe was mine in Egypt-land
(Tyrant kings enslaved me)
Till Thy mighty, outstretched Hand
From oppression saved me.
Pharaoh, rash pursuing, vowed my swift undoing;
Soon, his host
That proud boast
'Neath the waves was rueing!

To Thy Holy Hill, the way
Mad'st Thou clear before me;
With false gods I went astray—
Foes to exile bore me.
Torn from all I cherished, almost had I perished;
Babylon fell,
Zerubabel
Bad'st Thou to restore me!

Then the vengeful Haman wrought
Subtly to betray me;
In his snare himself he caught—
He that plann'd to slay me.
(Haled from Esther's palace, hanged on his own gallows!)
Seal and ring
Persia's king
Gave Thy servant zealous.

When the brave Asmonèans broke
Javan's chain in sunder,
Through the holy oil, Thy folk
Didst Thou show a wonder.
Ever full remain-ed the vessel unprofan-ed;
These eight days,
Lights and praise
Therefore, were ordain-ed.

Lord, Thy Holy Arm make bare,
Speed my restoration;
Be my martyr's blood Thy care—
Judge each guilty nation.
Long is my probation; sore my tribulation;
Bid, from Heaven,
Thy shepherds seven,
Haste to my salvation!





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