Manna

Manna to Israel well supplied The want of other bread; While God is able to provide, His people shall be fed.

(Thus though the corn and wine should fail, And creature-streams be dry, The prayer of faith will still prevail For blessings from on high.)

Of his kind care how sweet a proof; It suited every taste: Who gather’d most had just enough— Enough who gather’d least.

’Tis thus our gracious Lord provides Our comforts and our cares; His own unerring hand divides, And gives us each our shares.

He knows how much the weak can bear, And helps them when they cry; The strongest have no strength to spare, For such he’ll strongly try.

Daily they saw the manna come And cover all the ground; But what they tried to keep at home Corrupted soon was found.

Vain their attempt to store it up, This was to tempt the Lord: Israel must live by faith and hope, And not upon a hoard.