Sing Praise For Hebrew Midwives

Based on Exodus 1:15-2:10
Recommended tune: Merle's Tune by Hal Hopson (1983)
Meter:76.76.D

Sing praise for Hebrew midwives,
for by them God was served.
They brought to birth God's people.
A remnant was preserved.
They used both fact and fiction,
and found a cunning way
to counter male dominion,
and give God's will full sway.

Praise, too, the loving mother
who saved her son from death.
She placed him in the water,
with trembling, fearful breath.
Then entered Pharaoh's daughter,
who found the hidden one.
Defying her own father,
she took him for her son.

Sing praise for this son, Moses,
who, by the midwives' act,
was saved to lead God's people,
and given faith he lacked.
Revere defiant women
who seek to bring to birth
new life from wombs of promise
to live God's will on earth.

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