13 This man shall rest and safety find They still, through unbelief, rebell’d, In seasons of distress;

Whilst they my wondrous works beheld. Whilst God prepares a pit for those

10 They forty years my patience grievid, That stubbornly transgress.

Though daily' I their wants reliev'd. 14 For God will never from his saints

Then 'Tis a faithless race, I said, His favour wholly take;

Whose heart from me has always stray'd. His own possession and his lot

11 They ne'er will tread my righteous path: He will not quite forsake.

Therefore to them, in settled wrath, 15 The world shall then confess thee just Since they despis'd my rest, I sware, in all that thou hast dotie;

That they should never enter there. And those that choose thy upright ways,

PSALM XCVI. Shall in those paths go on.

ING to the Lord a new-made song; 16 Who will app -ar in my behalf, When wicked men invade?

2 The Lord has through th' astonish’d world W'To God their fieerful voices raise ;

Confounded be their impious host, 14 For truth and justice, in his reign,

Who make the gods to whom they pray ; Of strength and power take place ; All who of pageant idols boast :

His judgments are with righteousness To him, ye gods, your worship pay.

Dispens'd to Jacob's race. 8 Glad Sion of thy triumph heard,

5 Therefore exalt the Lord our God; And Judah's daughters were o'erjoy'd; Before his footstool fall; Because thy righteous judgments, Lord, And, with his unresisted might,

Have pagan pride and power destroy'd. His holiness exto). 9 For thou, o God, art seated high, 6 Moses and Aaron thus of old

Above earth’s potentates enthron'd; Among his priests ador'd; Thou, Lord, unrivalld in the sky,

Among his prophets. Samuel thus Supreme by all the gods art own'd.

His sacred name implor'd. 10 Ye who to serve this Lord aspire, Distress’d, upon the Lord they call’d, Abhor what's ill, and truth esteem;

Who ne'er their suit deny'd; He'll keep his servants' souls eptire,

But, as with rev'rence they implor'd,
And them from wicked hands redeem. He graciously reply'd.
11 For seeds are sown of glorious light, 17 For with their camp, to guide their march,
A future harvest for the just;

The cloudy pillar mov'd;
And gladness for the heart that's right, They kept his law, and to his will
To recompense its pious trust.

Obedient servants prov'd.
12 Rejoice, ye righteous, in the Lord; 8 He answer'd them, forgiving oft
Memorials of his holiness

His people for their sake;
Deep in your faithful breasts record, And those who rashly them oppos'd,
And with your thankful tongues confess. Did sad examples make.
PSALM XCVII.

9 With worship at his sacred courts

Exalt our God and Lord; ING to the Lord a new-made song, For he, who only holy is,

Alone should be ador'á. With his right hand and holy arm

PSALM C.
conquest he has .

TITH one consent, all the
Display'd his saving might,
And made his righteous acts appear Glad homage pay, with awful mirth,
In all the heathen's sight.

And sing before him songs of praise : 3 Of Israel's house his love and truth

3 Convinc'd that he is God alone, Have ever mindful been;

From whom both we and all proceed;
Wide earth’s remotest parts the power We, whom he chooses for his own,
Of Israel's God have seen.

The flock that he vouchsafes to feeds 4 Let therefore earth's inhabitants

4 O enter then his temple gate, Their cheerful voices raise ;

Thence to his courts devoutly. press; And all, with universal joy,

And still your grateful hymns repeat,' Resound their Maker's praise.

And still his name with praises bless, 5 With harp and hymn's soft melody, 5 For he's the Lord, supremely good, Into the concert bring

His mercy is for ever sure; 6 The trumpet and shrill cornet's sound, His truth, which always firmly stood, Before th’ Almighty King.

To endless ages shall endure. 7 Let the loud ocean roar her joy,

PSALM CI.
With all the seas contain;
The earth, and her inhabitants,

F mercy's never-failing spring,
Join concert with the main.
8 With joy let rivlets swell to streams, And since they both to thee belong,
To spreading torrents they ;

To thee, O Lord, address my song.
And echoing vales from hill to hill

2 When, Lord, thou shalt with me reside, Redoubled shouts convey;

Wise discipline my reigo shall guide; 9 To welcome down the world's great Judge, With blameless life myself I'll make Who does with justice come,

A pattern for my court to take. And with impartial equity,

3 No ill design will I pursue, Both to reward and doom,

Nor those my fav’rites make that do:
PSALM XCIX.

4 Who to reproof has no regard,

Iim will I totally discard. (EHOVAH reigns; let therefore all 5 The private slanderer shall be The guilty nations quake:

O sing:

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8 All those who wicked courses take, The Lord, from heaven, his lofty throne, An early sacrifice I'll make;

Hath all the earth survey'd. Cut off, destroy, till none remain

20 He listen’d to the captives' moans, God's holy city to profane.

He heard their mournful cry,
PSALM CII.

And freed, by his resistless power,

The wretches doom'd to die.
HEN I pour out my soul in prayer, 21 That they in Sion, where he dwells,

Might celebrate his fame,
To thy eternal throne of grace

And through the holy city sing Let my sad cry ascend.

Loud praises to his name: 2 O bide not thou thy glorious face 22 When all the tribes assembling there, In times of deep distress;

Their solemn vows address, Incline thine ear, and when I call,

And neighb'ring lands, with glad consent, My sorrows soon redress.

The Lord their God confess. 3 Each cloudy portion of my life,

23 But e'er my race is run, my strength Like scatter'd smoke expires;

Through his fierce wrath decays; My shrivell'a bones are like a hearth He has, when all my wishes bloom'd, Parch'd with continual fires.

Cut short my hopeful days.
4 My heart, like grass that feels the blast 24 Lord, end not thou my life, said I,
Of some infectious wind,

When half is scarcely past;
Does languish so with grief, that scarce Thy years, from worldly changes free,
My needful food I mind.

To endless ages last. 5 By reason of my sad estate

25 The strong foundations of the earth I spend my breath in groans;

Of old by thee were laid; My flesh is worn away, my skin

Thy hands the beauteous arch of heaven Scarce hides my starting bones.

With wondrous skill have made. 6 I'm like a pelican become,

26, 27 Whilst thou for ever shalt endure, That does in deserts mourn;

They soon shall pass away ; Or like an owl, that sits all day

And, like a garment often worn, On barren trees forlorn.

Shall tarnish and decay. 7 In watchings, or in restless dreams, Like that, when thou ordain'st their change, The night by me is spent,

To thy command they bend; As hy those solitary birds,

But thou continu'st still the same, That lonesome roofs frequent.

Nor have thy years an end. 8 All day by railing foes I'm made

28 Thou to the children of thy saints The subject of their scorn;

Shalt lasting quiet give;
Who all, possess’d with furious rage, Whose happy race, securely fix’d,
Have my destruction sworn.

Shall in thy presence live. 9 When grov'ling on the ground I lie,

PSALM CIII.
Oppress'd with grief and fears,
My bread is strew'd with ashes o'er,

Y soul, inspir'd with sacred love,
My drink is mix'd with tears.
10 Because on me with double weight Of all his favours mindful prove,
Thy heavy wrath doth lie;

And still thy grateful thanks express.
For thou, to make my fall more great, 3, 4 'Tis he that all thy sins forgives,
Didst lift me up on high.

And after sickness makes thee sound; 11 My days, just hast’ning to their end, From danger he thy life retrieves, Are like an ev’ning shade;

By him with grace and mercy crown'd. My beauty does, like wither'd grass, 5, 6' He with good things thy mouth supplies, With waning lustre fade.

Thy vigour, eagle-like, renews; 12 But thy eternal state, O Lord,

He, when the guiltless suff'rer cries, No length of time shall waste;

His foe with just revenge pursues. The mem'ry of thy wondrous works 7 God made of old his righteous ways From age to age shall last.

To Moses and our fathers known; 13 Thou shalt arise, and Sion view

His works, to his eternal praise, With an unclouded face;

Were to the sons of Jacob shown. For now her time is come, thy own

8 The Lord abounds with tender love, Appointed day of grace.

And unexampled acts of grace; 14 Her scatter'd ruins by thy saints

His wakeu'd wrath doth slowly move, With pity are surveyd;

His willing mercy flies apace. They grieve to see her lofty spires

9, 10 God will not always harshly chide, In dust and rubbish laid.

But with his anger quiekly part; 15, 16. The name and glory of the Lord And loves his punishments to guide All heathen kings shall fear;

More by his love than our desert. When he shall Sion build again,

11 As high as heaven its arch extends And in full state appear:

Above this little spot of clay, 17, 18 When he regards the poor's request,

So much his boundless love transcends Nor slights their earnest prayer;

The small respects that we can pay. Our sons, for their recorded grace,

12, 13 As far as 'tis from east to west, Shall his just praise declare.

So far has he our sins remov’d; 19 For God, fi'om his abode on high, Who, with a father's tender breast, His gracious beams display'd:

Has such as fear'd him always lov'd.

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14, 15 For God, who all our frame surveys, 13 His rains from heaven parch'd hills recruit, Considers that we are but clay;

That soon transmit the liquid store, How fresh soe'er we seem, our days

Till earth is burden'd with her fruit, Like grass or flowers must fade away. And nature's lap can hold no more. 16, 17 Whilst they are nipt with sudden blasts, 14 Grass, for our cattle to devour, Nor can we find their former place;

He makes the growth of every field: God's faithful mercy ever lasts,

Herbs, for man's use, of various power, To those that fear him, and their race. That either food or physic yield. 18 This shall attend on such as still

15 With cluster'd grapes he crowns the vine, Proceed in his appointed way;

To cheer man's heart, oppress’d with cares; And who not only know his will,

Gives oil, that makes his face to shine, But to it just obedience pay.

And corn, that wasted strength repairs.. 19, 20 The Lord, the universal King,

PART III.
In heaven has fix'd his lofty throne:
To him, ye angels, praises sing,

16 The trees of God, without the care In whose great strength his power is shown. Or art of man, with sap are fed: Ye that his just commands obey,

The mountain-cedar looks as fair And hear and do his sacred will,

As those in royal gardens bred. 21 Ye hosts of his, this tribute pay,

17 Safe in the lofty cedar's arms Who still what he ordains fulfil.

The wand'rers of the air may rest 22 Let every creature jointly bless

O Prender blanker and bless the Lord;

31 Thus through saccessive ages stands 119 Til God's appointed time and word Firma fix'd thy providential care;

To his deliv'rance eame.
Pleas'd with the work of thy own hands, 20 The king his sov’reign order sent,
Thou dost the waste of time repair.

And rescu'd him with speed;
32 One look of thine, one wrathful look, Whom private malice had confin'd,

Earth's panting breast with terror fills; The people's ruler freed. One touch from thee, with clouds of smoke 21 His court, revenues, realms, were al

In darkness shrouds the proudest hills. Subjected to his will; 33 In praising God, while he prolongs 22 His greatest princes to control

My breath, I will that breath employ, ; And teach his statesmen skill. 94 And join devotion to my songs,

PART II.
Sincere, as in him is my joy.
35 Wbile sinners from earth's face are hur’d, 23 To Egypt then, invited guests,
My soul, praise thou his holy name,

Half-famish'd Israel came;
Till with my song the list’ning world And Jacob held, by royal grant,
Join concert, and his praise proclaim.

The fertile soil of Ham.
PSALM CV.

24 Th' Almighty there with such increase

His people multiply'd,

Till with their proud oppressors they
Invoke his sacred name;