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I answered thee in thunder deep
With clouds encompass'd round;
I tried thee at the water steep

Of Meribah renown'd.

8 Hear, O my people, hearken well, I testify to thee,

Thou ancient stock of Israel,

If thou wilt list to me,

9 Throughout the land of thy abode No alien God shall be,

Nor shalt thou to a foreign God

In honour bend thy knee.

10 I am the Lord thy God which brought

Thee out of Egypt land;

Ask large enough, and I, besought,

Will grant thy full demand.

11 And yet my people would not hear, Nor hearken to my voice;

And Israel, whom I lov'd so dear,

Mislik'd me for his choice.

12 Then did I leave them to their will,

And to their wand'ring mind;

Their own conceits they follow'd still,

Their own devices blind.

13 O that my people would be wise, To serve me all their days, And O that Israel would advise

To walk my righteous ways.

14 Then would I soon bring down their foes, That now so proudly rise,

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And turn my hand against all those

That are their enemies.

15 Who hate the Lord should then be fain To bow to him and bend,

But they, his people, should remain,

Their time should have no end.

16 And he would feed them from the shock

With flow'r of finest wheat,

And satisfy them from the rock
With honey for their meat.

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PSALM LXXXII.

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1 GOD in the great assembly stands

Of kings and lordly states,

Among the Gods, f on both his hands
He judges and debates.

2 How long will ye & pervert the right

With judgment false and wrong,
Favouring the wicked by your might,

Who thence grow bold and strong? 3 h Regard the weak and fatherless,

Dispatch the b poor man's cause,
And raise the man in deep distress

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f Bekerev.

* Tishphetu gnavel.

i Hatzdiku.

5 They know not, nor will understand, In darkness they walk on,

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The earth's foundations all are mov'd,
And out of order gone.

6 I said that ye were Gods, yea all

The sons of God most high;

7 But ye shall die like men, and fall

As other princes die.

8 Rise God, 'judge thou the earth in might, This wicked earth redress,

For thou art he who shalt by right

The nations all possess.

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PSALM LXXXIII.

1 BE not thou silent now at length,
O God, hold not thy peace,
Sit thou not still, O God of strength,
We cry, and do not cease.

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2 For, lo, thy furious foes now swell,
And storm outrageously,

And they that hate thee proud and fell
Exalt their heads full high.

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3 Against thy people they " contrive

• Their plots and counsels deep, P Them to insnare they chiefly strive, a Whom thou dost hide and keep. 4 Come let us cut them off, say they, Till they no nation be,

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That Israel's name for ever may

Be lost in memory.

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5 For they consult with all their might, And all as one in mind

Themselves against thee they unite,

And in firm union bind.

6 The tents of Edom, and the brood
Of scornful Ishmael,

Moab, with them of Hagar's blood,
That in the desert dwell,

7 Gebal and Ammon there conspire,
And hateful Amalec,

The Philistines, and they of Tyre,

Whose bounds the sea doth check.

8 With them great Ashur also bands.

And doth confirm the knot:

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When at the brook of Kishon old

They were repuls'd and slain,

10 At Endor quite cut off, and roll'd As dung upon the plain.

11 As Zeb and Oreb evil sped,

So let their princes speed,

Lev jachdau.

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brood.] Race. So above, And Ode F. Inf. "That heavenly Ps. iv. 27." This world's brood."

"brood." T. Warton.

As Zeba, and Zalmunna bled,

So let their princes bleed.

12 For they amidst their pride have said, By right now shall we seize

God's houses, and will now invade

• Their stately palaces.

13 My God, oh make them as a wheel, No quiet let them find,

Giddy and restless let them reel

Like stubble from the wind.

14 As when an aged wood takes fire

Which on a sudden strays,

The greedy flame runs higher and higher

Till all the mountains blaze,

15 So with thy whirlwind them pursue,

And with thy tempest chase;

16 t And till they t yield thee honour due; Lord, fill with shame their face.

17 Asham'd, and troubled let them be,

Troubled and sham'd for ever,

Ever confounded, and so die

With shame, and scape

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18 Then shall they know that thou, whose name

Jehovah is alone,

Art the most high, and thou the same

O'er all the earth art one.

PSALM LXXXIV.

1 HOW lovely are thy dwellings fair!

O Lord of Hosts, how dear

'Neoth Elohim bears both. 'They seek thy name. Heh.

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