Counted With the Stars (Out From Egypt, #1)

by Connilyn Cossette

They sang in their own language, a beautiful, lyrical tongue, a tongue I had no knowledge of. When I had heard the language in the marketplace, it seemed foreign and awkward to my Egyptian ears. But as Shira’s voice rose and spun higher, I understood the beauty, the complicated dips and swells of the words swirling together to form a poetry beyond anything I had ever before experienced.

It was the song of her people, desperate for their God, crying out to him in their bondage: the plaintive cry from a broken heart, from a nation of broken hearts. The cry rose in one verse and fell in another, as the tide of hope grew and receded. Over two hundred years of bitter bondage had seen the rise and fall of the Hebrews’ hope, time and again.