When Moses came as Israel’s friend,
His brethren cast him out:
When Jesus came unto His own,
His own received Him not.
“Who made thee ruler and a judge?”
To Moses was their word;
“We will not have this man to rule,”
They said to Christ their Lord.
Rejected Moses went away,
Thus treated with disgrace;
So Christ the Lord has likewise gone,
And left the Jewish race.
But Moses then took care of sheep,
Within a stranger’s land;
So now poor Gentile wandering sheep
Are kept in Jesus’ hand.
As Moses married far away,
Cast off by Israel’s pride;
So Jesus sought poor Gentiles out,
And took them for His bride.
But all this time poor Israel lay
Beneath the tyrant’s frown;
So still Jerusalem lies waste,
And still is trodden down.
At length their cry came up to God,
He saw them sigh and weep;
And so again when Israel cries,
The Lord will wake from sleep.
This Moses, whom they once refused,
Was sent in their distress;
So Jesus, whom they crucified,
Again will come to bless.