No. 4, O Mighty Leader, See, Beneath Thy Feet
演唱:Michael Mofidian、Early Opera Company、Christian Curnyn"O mighty Leader, see, beneath thy Feet,
Thy native Country, prostrate Gilead, sues.
Behold her ravaged Borders, view her Fields
With hostile Arms o’erspread, and Jordan
swell’d
Above his Banks, with passing Hosts surcharg’d.
Jair, our Leader, sleeps; in Camon sleeps;
And Israel now, on Mispeh’s Plains encamp’d,
Sees all around the Ammonitish Tents
Whiten her Fields; and ev’ry Moment waits
His Ruin imminent; unless his God,
Indulgent some belov’d Deliv’rer raise."
Thy native Country, prostrate Gilead, sues.
Behold her ravaged Borders, view her Fields
With hostile Arms o’erspread, and Jordan
swell’d
Above his Banks, with passing Hosts surcharg’d.
Jair, our Leader, sleeps; in Camon sleeps;
And Israel now, on Mispeh’s Plains encamp’d,
Sees all around the Ammonitish Tents
Whiten her Fields; and ev’ry Moment waits
His Ruin imminent; unless his God,
Indulgent some belov’d Deliv’rer raise."