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25 Whom then in heaven, but thee alone, 15. 'Thou clav'st the solid rock, and mad'st Have I, whose favour I require?

The waters largely flow; Throughout the spacious earth there's none Again, thou mad'st through parted streams That I besides thee can desire.

Thy wand'ring people go. 26 My trembling flesh, and aching heart, 16 Thine is the cheerful day, and thine May often fail to succour me;

The black return of night;
But God shall inward strength impart, Thou hast prepar'd the glorious sun,
And my eternal portion be.

And every feebler light.
27 For they that far from me remove, 17 By thee the borders of the earth
Shall into sudden ruin fall;

In perfect order stand; If after other gods they rove,

The summer's warmth, and winter's colda. Thy vengeance shall destroy them all. Attend on thy command. 28 But as for me, 'tis good and just

PART III.
That I should still to God repair;
In him I always put my trust,

18 Remember, Lord, how scornful foes And will his wondrous works declare. Have daily urg'd our shame;

And how the foolish people have
PSALM LXXIV.

Blasphem'd thy holy name.
HY hast thou cast us off, O God? 19 O! free thy mourning turtle-dove,

By sinful crowds beset;
O! why against thy chosen flock

Nor the assembly of thy poor Does thy fierce anger burn?

For evermore forget. 2 Think on thy ancient purchase, Lord, 20 Thy ancient cov'nant, Lord, regard, The land that is thy own,

And make thy promise good; By thee redeem'd; and Sion's mount, For now each corner of the land Where once thy glory shone.

Is fill'd with men of blood. 30! come and view our ruin'd state; 21 O! let not the oppress'd return How long our troubles last;

With sorrow cloth'd, and shame; See how the foe, wiib wicked rage,

But let the helpless and the poor Has laid thy temple waste.

For ever praise thy name. 4 Thy foes blaspheme thy name: where late 22 Arise, O God, in our behalf; Thy zealous servants pray'd,

Thy cause and ours maintain; The heathen there, with baughty pomp,

Remember how insulting fools Their banners have display'd.

Each day thy name profane. 5, 6 Those curious carvings, which did once 23 Make thou the boastings of thy foes Advance the artist's fame,

For evermore to cease;
With axe and hammer they destroy, Whose insolence, if unchastis'd,
Like works of vulgar frame.

Will more and more increase. 7 Thy holy temple they have burn'd;

PSALM LXXV.
And what escap'd the flame,
Has been profan'd, and quite defac'd,
Though sacred to thy name.

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9 His prophet, I, to all the world

Then search, consult, and ask my heart, This message will relate;

Where's now that wondrous aid? The justice then of Jacob's God

7 Has God for ever cast us off? My song shall celebrate.

Withdrawn his favours quite? 10 The wicked's pride I will reduce, 8 Are both his mercy and his truth Their cruelty disarm;

Retir'd to endless night? Exalt the just, and seat him high

9 Can his long practis'd love forget Above the reach of harm.

Its wonted aids to bring?
PSALM LXXVI.

Has he in wrath shut up and seal'd

His mercy's healing spring?

10 I said, my weakness hints these fears ; Almighty there by wonders shown: But I'll-my fears disband; His name in Jacob does excel :

I'll yet remember the Most High, 2 His sanctu’ry in Salem stands;

And years of his right hand.
The Majesty that heaven commands, 11 I'll call to mind his works of old,
In Sion condescends to dwell.

The wonders of his might;
3 He brake the bow and arrows there, 12 On them my heart shall meditate,
The shield, and temper'd sword, and spear; My tongue shall them recite.

There slain the mighty army lay: 13 Safe lodg’d from human search on high, 4 Whence Sion's fame through earth is spread, O God, thy counsels are ! Of greater glory, greater dread,

Who is so great a God as ours?
Than hills where robbers lodge their prey. Who can with him compare?
5 Their valiant chiefs, who came for spoil, 14 Long since a God of wonders thee
Themselves met there a shameful foi):

Thy rescu'd people found;
Securely down to sleep they lay,

15 Long since hast thou thy chosen seed But wak'd no more, their stoutest band With strong deliv'rance crown’d. Ne'er lifted one resisting hand

16 When thee, O God, the waters saw, 'Gainst his, that did their legions slay. The frighted billows shrunk; 6 When Jacob's God began to frown,

The troubled depths themselves for fear Both horse and charioteers, o'erthrown, Beneath their channels sunk. Together slept in endless night:

17 The clouds pour'd down, while rending 7 When thou, whom earth and heav'n revere, skies Dost once with wrathful look appear,

Did with their noise conspire? What mortal power can stand thy sight? Thy arrows all abroad were sent, 8 Pronounc'd from heaven, earth heard its Wing’d with avenging fire. doom,

18 Heav'n with thy thunder's voice was torn, Grew hush'd with fear, when thou didst W bilst all the lower world

With lightnings blaz’d, earth shook, and 9 The meek with justice to restore:

seem'd 10 The wrath of man shall yield thee praise; From her foundations hurl'd. Its last attempts but serve to raise

19 Through rolling streams thou find'st they The triumphs of Almighty power.

way,
11 Vow to the Lord, ye nations; bring Thy paths in waters lie;
Vow'd presents to th' eternal King;

Thy wond'rous passage, where no sight
Thus to his name due rev'rence pay, Thy footsteps can descry.
12 Who proudest potentates can quell, 20 Thou lead'st thy people like a flock
To earthly kings more terrible,

Safe through the desert land,
Than to their trembling subjects they. By Moses, their meek skilful guide,

And Aaron's sacred hand.
PSALM LXXVII.

PSALM LXXVIII.
Did graciously repair:
2 In trouble's dismal day I sought

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To help

6 That generations yet to come

1 Though from the stores of heaven they dict Should to their unborn heirs

Sustaining corn receive. Religiously transmit the same,

25 Thus man with angels' sacred food, And they again to theirs.

Ungrateful man was fed; 7 To teach them that in God alone

Not sparingly, for still they found Their hope securely stands ;

A plenteous table spread. That they should ne'er his works forget, 26 From heaven he made an east wind blow, But keep his just commands.

Then did the south command 8 Lest, like their fathers they might prove 27 To rain down flesh like dust, and fowls A stiff rebellious race,

Like sea's unnumber'd sand. False-hearted, fickle to their God,

28 Within their trenehes he let fall Unsteadfast in his grace.

The luscious easy prey; 9 Such were revolting Ephraim's sons, And all around their spreading camp Who though to warfare bred,

The ready booty lay: And skilful archers, arm’d with bows, 29 They fed, were fill’d; he gave them leave From field ignobly fled.

Their appetites to feast; 10, 11 They falsified their league with God, 30, 31 Yet still their wanton lust crar'd on, His order's disobey'd,

Nor with their hunger ceas'd. Forgot his works and miracles

But whilst in their luxurious mouths, Before their eyes display'd.

They did their dainties chew, 12 Nor wonders, which their fathers saw, The wrath of God smote down their chiefs Did they in mind retain,

And Israel's chosen slew. Prodigious things in Egypt done,

PART II. And Zoan's fertile plain.

32 Yet still they sipn'd, nor would afford 13 He cut the seas to let them pass,

His miracles belief: Restrain’d the pressing flood;

33 Therefore through fruitless travels he While pild on heaps, on either side

Consum'd their lives in grief. The solid waters stood.

34 When some were slain, the rest return'd 14 A wondrous pillar led them on,

To God with early cry ; Compos'd of shade and light ;

35 Own’d him the Rock of their defence, A shelt'ring cloud it prov'd by day,

Their Saviour, God most high. A leading fire by night.

56 But this was feign'd submission all; 15 When drought oppress’d them, where no Their heart their tongue bely'd; stream

37_Their heart was still perverse, nor would The wilderness supply'd,

Firm in his league abide. He cleft the rock, whose flinty breast

38 Yet, full of mercy, he forgave, Dissolv'd into a tide.

Nor did with death chastise;
16 Streams from the solid rock he brought, But turn'd his kindled wrath aside,
Which down in rivers fell,

Or would not let it rise.
That, trav’lling with their camp, each day 39 For he remember'd they were flesh,
Renew'd the miracle..

That could not long remain;
17 Yet there they sinn'd against him more, A murm'ring wind, that's quickly past,
Provoking the Most High,

And ne'er returns again. In that same desert where he did

40 How oft did they provoke him there, Their fainting souls supply.

How oft his patience grieve,
18 They first incens'd him in their hearts, In that same desert, where he did
That did his power distrust,

Their fainting souls relieve!
And long'd for meat, not urg'd by want, 41 They tempted him by turning back,
But to indulge their lust.

And wickedly repin'd,
19 Then utter d their blaspheming doubts; When Israel's God refus'd to be
“Can God,” say they, prepare

By their desires confin'd. “ A table in the wilderness,

42 Nor call'd to mind the hand and day “Set out with various fare?

That their redemption brought; 20 “ He smote the flinty rock, 'tis true, 43 His signs in Egypt, wondrous works “ And gushing streams ensu’d;

In Zoau's valley wrought. “ But can he corn and flesh provide

44 He turn'd their rivers into blood, « For such a multitude ?”

That man and beast forbore, 21 The Lord with indignation heard: And rather chose to die of thirst, From heaven avenging flame

Than drink the putrid gore. On Jacob fell, consuming wrath

45 He sent devouring swarms of flies ; On thankless Israel came;

Hoarse trogs annoy'd their soil ; 22 Because their unbelieving hearts 46 Locusts and caterpillars reap'd In God would not confide,

The harvest of their toil. Nor trust his care, who had from heav'n 47 Their viues with batt'ring hail were broke; Their wants so oft supply'd;

With frost the fig-tree dies; 23 Though he had made his clouds discharge 48 Lightning and hail make flocks and herds Provisions down in show'rs;

One gen'ral sacrifice.
And when earth faild, reliev'd their needs 49 He turn'd his anger loose, and set
From his celestial stores;

No time for it to cease;
24. Though tasteful manna was rain'd down, And with their plagues ill angels sent,
Their hunger to relieve;

Their torments to increase.

50 He clear'd a passage for his wrath And from the sheepfolds him advanc'd To ravage uncontrold;

To sit on Judah's throne. The murrain on their firstlings seiz'd, 71 From tending on the teeming ewesy In every field and fold.

He brought him forth to feed 51 The deadly pest from beast to man, His own inheritance, the tribes From field to city, came;

Of Israel's chosen seed.
It slew their heirs, their eldest hopes, 72 Exalted thus, the monarch prov'd
Through all the tents of Ham.

A faithful shepherd still;
52 But his own tribe, like folded sheep, He fed them with an upright lieart,
He brought from their distress;

And guided them with skill. And them conducted like a flock,

PSALM LXXIX. Throughout the wilderness. 53 He led them on, and in their way

EHOLD, O God, how heathen hosts No cause of fear they found; But march'd securely through those deeps, Thy sacred house they have defild, In which their toes were drown'd.

Thy holy city raz’d! 54 Nor ceas'd his care, till them be brought 2 The mangled bodies of thy saints Safe to his promis'd land;

Abroad unbury'd lay; And to his holy mount, the prize

Their flesh expos’d to savage beasts, Of his victorious hand.

And rav'nous birds of prey. 55 To them the outcast heathen's land 2 Quite through Jerus'lem was their blood He did by lot divide;

Like common water shed; And in their foes' abandon'd tents

And none were left alive to pay
Made Israel's tribes reside.

Last duties to the dead.
PART III.

4 The neighb'ring lands our small remains

With loud reproaches wound; 56 Yet still they tempted, still provok'd And we a laughing-stock are made The wrath of God most high;

To all the nations round. Nor would to practise his commands 5 How long wilt thou be angry, Lord? Their stubborn hearts apply;.

Must we for ever mourp? 57 But in their faithless fathers' steps Shall thy devouring jealous rage, Perversely chose to go;

Like fire, for ever burn? They turn'd aside, like arrows shot

6 On foreign lands, that know not thec, From some deceitful bow.

Thy heavy vengeance show'r; 58 For him to fury they provok'd

In our deliv’rance the effects

PSALM LXXXI. Of thy resistless strength to find. 3 Do thou convert us, Lord, do thou

O The lustre of thy face display ;

With loud applauses sing; And all the ills we suffer now,

And jointly make a cheerful noise
Like scatter'd clouds, shall pass away. To Jacob's awful King.
4 Othon, whom heavenly hosts obey, 2 Compose a hymn of praise, and touch

How long shall thy fierce anger burn? Your instruments of joy ;
How long thy suff’ring people pray, Let psalteries and pleasant harps

And to their prayers have no return? Your grateful skill employ.
5 Whep hungry, we are forc'd to drench 3 Let trumpets at the great new moon
Our scanty food in floods of woe;

Their joy ful voices raise, When dry, our raging thirst we quench To celebrate th' appointed time,

With streams of tears that largely flow. The solemn day of praise. 6 For us the heathen nations round,

4 For this a statute was of old, As for a common prey, contest;

Which Jacob's God decreed; Our foes with spitetul joys abound,

To be with pious care observ'd . And at our lost condition jest.

By Israel's chosen seed. 7 Do thou convert us, Lord, do thou 5 This he for a memorial fix'd, The lustre of thy face display,

When, freed from Egypt's land, Anel all the ills we suffer now,

Strange nations' barb'rous speech we heard, Like scatter'd clouds, shall pass away.

Bit could not understand.

6 Your burden'd shoulders I reliev'd, PART II.

(Thus seems our God to say)

Your servile hands by me were freed, 8 Thou bronght'st a vine from Egypt's land; From lab'ring in the clay.

And, casting out the heathen race, 17 Your ancestors, with wrongs oppress’d, Didst plant it with thine own right hand, Tome for aid did call; And firmly fix it in their place.

With pity I their suff'rings saw, 9 Before it thou prepar’dst the way,

And set them free from all. And mad'st it take a lasting root,

They sought for me, and from the cloud Which, bless’d with thy indulgent ray,

In thunder I reply'd; O'er all the land did widely shoot.

At Meribah's contentious stream 10, 11 The hills were cover'd with its shade, Their faith and duty try'd. Its goodly boughs did cedars seem;

PART II. Its branches to the sea were spread,

And reach'd to proud Euphrates' stream. 8 While I my solemn will declare, 12 Why then hast thou its hedge o’erthrown, My chosen people, hear :

Which thou hast made so film and strong? If thou, O Israel, to my words Whilst all its grapes, defenceless grown, Wilt lend thy list ning ear ;

Are pluck'd by those that pass along. 9 Then shall no God besides myself 13 See how the bristling forest-boar

Within thy coasts be found; With dreadful fury lays it waste;

Nor shalt thou worship any God
Hark! how the savage monsters roar,

Of all the nations round.
And to their helpless prey make haste. 10 The Lord thy God am I, who thee

Brought forth from Egypt's land;
PART III.

'Tis I that all thy just desires

Supply with lib'ral hand. 14 To thee, O God of hosts, we pray ; 11 But they, my chosen race, refus'd

Thy wonted goodness, Lord, renew ; To hearken to my voice ; From heaven, thy throne, this vine survey, Nor would rebellious Israel's sons And her sad state with pity view.

Make me their happy choice.
15 Behold the vineyard made by thee, 12 So I, provok'd, resign'd them up,

Which thy right hand did guard so long; To every lust a prey;
And keep that branch from danger free, And in their own perverse designs
Which for thyself thou mad'st so strong.

Permitted them to stray.
16 To wasting fames 'tis made a prey, 13 O that my people wisely would

And all its spreading boughs cut down; My just commandments heed ! At thy rebuke they soon decay,

And Israel in my righteous ways And perish at thy dreadful frown.

With pious care proceed! 17 Crown thou the King with good success, 14 Then should my heavy judgments fall By thy right hand secur'd from wrong;

On all that them oppose, The Son of Man in mercy bless,

And my avenging hand be turn'd Whom for thyself thou mad'st so strong. Against their num'rous foes. 18 So shall we still continue free

15 Their enemies and mine should all From whatsoe'er deserves thy blame; Before my foot-stool bend; And, if once more reviv'd by thee,

But as for them, their happy state Will always praise thy holy name.

Should never know an end. 19 Do thou convert us, Lord, do thou 16 All parts with plenty should abound; The lustre of thy face display ;

With finest wheat their field: And all the ills we suífer now,

The barren rocks, to please their taste, Like scatter'd clouds, shall pass away. Should richest honey yield.