48 Lightning and hail made flocks and 65 Then, as a giant rous'd from steep,

herds

Whom wine had throughly warm'd,
Shouts out aloud, the Lord awak'd,
And his proud foe alarm'd.

66 He smote their host, that from the field
A scatter'd remnant came,
With wounds imprinted on their backs
Of everlasting shame.

67 With conquest crown'd, he Joseph's

tents

One general sacrifice.

49 He turn'd his anger loose, and set
No time for it to cease;

And with their plagues ill angels sent,
Their torments to increase.

50 He clear'd a passage for his wrath
To ravage uncontroll'd;

The murrain on their firstlings seiz'd,
In every field and fold.

51 The deadly pest from beast to man,
From field to city, came;
It slew their heirs, their eldest hopes,
Through all the tents of Ham.
52 But his own tribe, like folded sheep,
He brought from their distress;
And them conducted like a flock,
Throughout the wilderness.

53 He led them on, and in their way
No cause of fear they found;
But march'd securely through those
deeps

In which their foes were drown'd.
54 Nor ceas'd his care, till them he

brought

Safe to his promised land;

And to his holy mount, the prize

Of his victorious hand.

55 To them the outcast heathen's land

He did by lot divide;

And in their foe's abandon'd tents
Made Israel's tribes reside.
PART III.

As for a common prey, contest;
Our foes with spiteful joys abound,
And at our loss condition jest.
7 Do thou convert us, Lord, do thou
The lustre of thy face display;
And all the ills we suffer now,

Like scatter'd clouds, shall pass away.
PART II.

Thou brought'st a vine from Egypt's]
land;

And, casting out the heathen race,
Didst plant it with thine own right hand,
And firmly fix it in their place.
9 Before it thou prepar'dst the way,
And mad'st it take a lasting root,

i

4 For this a statute was of old,
Which Jacob's God decreed
To be with pious care observ'd
By Israel's chosen seed.

Defend the orphans and the poor;.
Let such your justice find.

5 This he for a memorial fix'd,
When, freed from Egypt's land,
Strange nations' barb'rous speech we 4 Protect the humble helpless man,
Reduc'd to deep distress;
And let not him become a prey
To such as would oppress.

5 They neither know, nor will they learn,
But blindly rove and stray;
Justice and truth, the world's support,

heard,

But could not understand.

6 Your burden'd shoulders I reliev'd,
(Thus seems our God to say)
Your servile hands by me were freed
From lab'ring in the clay.

7 Your ancestors, with wrongs oppress'd,
To me for aid did call;
With pity I their sufferings saw,
And set them free from all.
They sought for me, and from the cloud
In thunder I reply'd;

At Meribah's contentious stream
Their faith and duty try'd.
PART II.

While I my solemn will declare,
My chosen people, hear:
If thou, O Israel, to my words
Will lend thy list'ning ear;
9 Then shall no God besides myself
Within thy coast be found;
Nor shalt thou worship any god
Of all the nations round.

10 The Lord thy God am I, who thee
Brought forth from Egypt's land;
'Tis I that all thy just desires
Supply with lib'ral hand.

11 But they, my chosen race, refus'd To hearken to my voice;

Nor would rebellious Israel's sons
Make me their happy choice.
12 So I, provok'd, resign'd them up,
To ev'ry lust a prey;

And in their own perverse designs
Permitted them to stray.

13 O that my people wisely would
My just commandments heed!
And Israel in my righteous ways

With pious care proceed!
14 Then should my heavy judgments fall
On all that them oppose,
And my avenging hand be turn'd
Against their num❜rous foes.

15 Their enemies and mine should all
Before my foot-stool bend;
But as for them, their happy state
Should never know an end.
16 All parts with plenty should abound;
With finest wheat their field:
The barren rocks, to please their taste,
Should richest honey yield.

PSALM LXXXII.

YOD in the great assembly stands,
Where his impartial eve

In state surveys the earthly gods,
And does their judgments try.
2, 3 How dare ye then unjustly judge,
Or be to sinners kind?

Through all the land decay. 6 Well then might God in anger say, 'I've call'd you by my name; 'I've said ye're gods, and all ally'd

'To the Most High in fame: 7 But ne'ertheless your unjust deeds 'To strict account I'll call; You all shall die like common men, 'Like other tyrants fall.' 8 Arise, and thy just judgments, Lord, Throughout the earth display; And all the nations of the world Shall own thy righteous sway.

PSALM LXXXIII.

HOLD

TOLD not thy peace, O Lord our God,
No longer silent be;
Nor with consenting quiet looks
Our ruin calmly see.

2 For lo! the tumults of thy foes
O'er all the land are spread;
And those who hate thy saints and thee,
Lift up their threat'ning head.
3 Against thy zealous people, Lord,
They craftily combine;
And to destroy thy chosen saints
Have laid their close design.
4 Come let us cut them off, say they,
'Their nation quite deface;
That no remembrance may remain
'Of Israel's hated race.'

5 Thus they against thy people's peace
Consult with one consent;
And diff'ring nations, jointly leagu'd,
Their common malice vent.

6 The Ishmaelites, that dwell in tents,
With warlike Edom join'd,
And Moab's sons, our ruin vow,
With Hagar's race combin'd.
7 Proud Ammon's offspring, Gabal too,
With Amalek conspire;
The lords of Palestine, and all
The wealthy sons of Tyre.
8 All these the strong Assyrian king
Their firm ally have got;
Who with a pow'rful army aids
Th' incestuous race of Lot.

PART II.

9 But let such vengeance come to them, As once to Midian came.

17 Thus they proceed from strength to strength,

thee

Their sure protection made;

Who long to tread the sacred ways
That to thy dwelling lead!

6 Who pass through Baca's thirsty vale,
Yet no refreshment want;

Their pools are fill'd with rain, which

thou

1 At their request dost grant.

5 Thrice happy they, whose choice has 8 God's answer patiently I'll wait;

For he, with glad success,
If they no more to folly turn,