Sound The Loud Timbrel. Miriam's Song. (Alr.--Avison.)[1]

"And Miriam, the Prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her band; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances."             --Exod. xv. 20.     Sound the loud Timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea!     JEHOVAH has triumphed--his people are free.     Sing--for the pride of the Tyrant is broken,         His chariots, his horsemen, all splendid and brave--     How vain was their boast, for the LORD hath but spoken,         And chariots and horsemen are sunk in the wave.     Sound the loud Timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea;     JEHOVAH has triumphed--his people are free.     Praise to the Conqueror, praise to the LORD!     His word was our arrow, his breath was our sword--     Who shall return to tell Egypt the story         Of those she sent forth in the hour of her pride?     For the LORD hath looked out from his pillar of glory,[2]         And all her brave thousands are dashed in the tide.     Sound the loud Timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea,     JEHOVAH has triumphed--his people are free!