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9 Do to them as to Midian bold,

That wafted all the coaft,

To Sifera, and as is told

Thou didst to Jabin's hoft,

When at the brook of Kishon old

They were repuls'd and flain,

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,

As Zeba, and Zalmunna bled,

So let their princes bleed.

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

God's houses, and will now invade

Their flately palaces.

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Neoth Elohim bears both.

13 My God, oh make them as a wheel,

No quiet let them find,

Giddy and reflefs let them reel

Like ftubble from the wind.

14 As when an aged wood takes fire Which on a fudden frays,

Till all the mountains blaze,

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The greedy flame runs higher and higher

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15 So with thy whirlwind them pursue,

And with thy tempeft chase;

16+And till they † yield thee honor due;

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Lord fill withshame their face.+They feekthy Name.Heb.

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17 Afham'd, and troubled let them be,

Troubled, and fham'd for ever, Ever confounded, and fo die

With fhame, and scape it never.

18 Then shall they know that thou whose name 65

Jehovah is alone,

Art the most high, and thou the fame

O'er all the earth art one.

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O Lord of Hofts, how dear

The pleafant tabernacles are,

Where thou doft dwell fo near!

2 My foul doth long and almost die Thy courts O Lord to fee,

My heart and flesh aloud do cry,

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O living God, for thee.

There ev'n the sparrow freed from wrong

Hath found a house of rest,

The swallow there, to lay her young

Hath built her brooding neft,

Ev'n by thy altars, Lord of Hofts,

They find their fafe abode,

And home they fly from round the coafts,

Toward thee, my King, my God. 4 Happy, who in thy house reside,

Where thee they ever praise,

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5 Happy, whose strength in thee doth bide, And in their hearts thy ways.

6 They pass through Baca's thirЛly vale, That dry and barren ground,

As through a fruitful watry dale

Where springs and show'rs abound.

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With joy and gladsome chear,

Till all before our God at length

In Sion do appear.

8 Lord God of Hofts hear now my prayer,

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Is better, and more bleft,

Than in the joys of vanity
A thousand days at best.
I in the temple of my God

Had rather keep a door,

Than dwell in tents, and rich abode,

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With fin for evermore.

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11 For God the Lord both fun and fhield

Gives grace and glory bright,

No good from them shall be withheld

Whose ways are just and right.

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Returned Jacob back.

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***w that from hard captivity
Thiniquity thou didst forgive
That wrought thy people woe,
And all their fin, that did thee grieve,
Haft hid where none fhall know.

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Thine anger all thou hadft remov'd,

And calmly didft return

From thy fierce wrath which we had prov'd

Far worse than fire to burn.

God of our faving health and peace,

Turn us, and us restore,

Thine indignation cause to cease

Toward us, and chide no more.

5 Wilt thou be angry without end,

For ever angry thus,

Wilt thou thy frowning ire extend

From age to age on us?

6 Wilt thou not ‡ turn, and hear our voice,

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And now what God the Lord will speak,

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I will go ftrait and hear,

For to his people he speaks peace,

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11 Truth from the earth, like to a flow'r,

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Shall bud and bloffom then,

And Justice from her heav'nly bow'r

Look down on mortal men.

12 The Lord will also then bestow

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