- F Alto Recorder
- C Tenor Recorder
- F Bass Recorder
- C Great Bass Recorder
- Verse 1
- Rebels, who had dared to show
- Proud contempt of God Most High,
- Bound in iron and in woe,
- Shades of death and darkness night,
- Humbled low with toil and pain,
- Fell, and looked for help in vain.
- Verse 2
- To Jehovah then they cried
- In their trouble, and He saved,
- Threw the prison open wide
- Where they lay to death enslaved,
- Bade the gloomy shadows flee,
- Broke their bonds and set them free.
- Verse 3
- Sons of men, awake to praise
- God the Lord Who reigns above,
- Gracious in His works and ways,
- Wondrous in redeeming love;
- Iron bars He breaks like clay,
- And the brazen gates give way.
- November 6 entry for the 2022 Weekly Hymns Challenge.
- Dix composed 1838 by Conrad Kocher (1786-1872).
- Lyrics adapted from Psalm CVII
- Hymn #267 in The Hymnary Of The United Church of Canada