The Lord is mighty and can save by many or by few."

I saw again, when sin-enslaved, by Jabin's hand oppressed,

A people's cry went up to God for rescue and for rest.

Then up rose Deborah, judge and seer, with all her valiant band,

And drove the oppressor from her gates, his chariots from her land.

And Jael, wife of Heber, slew his captain with the sword;

So woman's hand achieved that day the victory for the Lord.

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And woman's voice extolled in song the great Deliverer's name:—

"Praise God! He hath avenged His own, for willingly they came.

"The mountains melt before His face, the tribes their strength renew;

The Lord is mighty and doth save by many or by few."

I saw when Gideon led his band down to the water's bank

To prove and set them in array, as man by man they drank,

And with the handful chosen thus went forth against the foe,

And vanquished all the Midian host, and laid their princes low.

Not with the thousands called from far, who pitched by Harod's well;

Nor yet the undismayed who stood when the faint-hearted fell;

But "Now, with these three hundred men, go forward," said the Lord;

"Do thou thy part, let them do theirs, trust, and obey my word."

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