9 When God to judgment rose, to save all meek on earth that were.

10 Surely the very wrath of man unto thy praise redounds: Thou to the remnant of his wrath wilt set restraining bounds.

11 Vow to the Lord your God, and pay: all ye that near him be,

Bring gifts and presents unto him;
for to be fear'd is he.

12 By him the sp'rits shall be cut off
of those that princes are:
Unto the kings that are on earth
he fearful doth appear.

1 UNTO the Lord I with my voice,
I unto God did cry;

Ev'n with my voice, and unto me
his ear he did apply.

2 I in my trouble sought the Lord,
my sore by night did run,
And ceased not; my grieved soul
did consolation shun.

3 I to remembrance God did call,
yet trouble did remain;
And overwhelm'd my spirit was,
whilst I did sore complain.

4 Mine eyes, debarr'd from rest and
thou makest still to wake; [sleep,
My trouble is so great, that I
unable am to speak.

5 The days of old to mind I call'd,
and oft did think upon

The times and ages that are past
full many years agone.

6 By night my song I call to mind,
and commune with my heart;
My sp'rit did carefully enquire
how I might ease my smart.
7 For ever will the Lord cast off,
and gracious be no more?
8 For ever is his mercy gone?
fails his word evermore?
9 Is't true that to be gracious
the Lord forgotten hath?
And that his tender mercies he
hath shut up in his wrath?
Then did I say, That surely this
is mine infirmity:

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I'll mind the years of the right hand of him that is most High.

11 Yea, I remember will the works

performed by the Lord:

The wonders done of old by thee
I surely will record.

12 I also will of all thy works
my meditation make;
And of thy doings to discourse
great pleasure I will take.
13 O God, thy way most holy is
within thy sanctuary;

And what God is so great in pow'r
as is our God most high?

14 Thou art the God that wonders dost by thy right hand most strong: Thy mighty pow'r thou hast declar'd the nations among.

15 To thine own people with thine arm
thou didst redemption bring;
To Jacob's sons, and to the tribes
of Joseph that do spring.

16 The waters, Lord, perceived thee,
the waters saw thee well;
And they for fear aside did flee;
the depths on trembling fell.

17 The clouds in water forth were pour'd,
sound loudly did the sky;
And swiftly through the world abroad
thine arrows fierce did fly.
18 Thy thunder's voice alongst the
a mighty noise did make; [heav'n

By lightnings lighten'd was the world,

th' earth tremble did and shake. 19 Thy way is in the sea, and in

the waters great thy path; Yet are thy footsteps híd, O Lord; none knowledge thereof hath.

20 Thy people thou didst safely lead,
like to a flock of sheep;

By Moses' hand and Aaron's thou
didst them conduct and keep.

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1 ATTEND, my people, to my law; thereto give thou an ear;

The words that from my mouth proattentively do hear. [ceed

2 My mouth shall speak a parable, and sayings dark of old;

3 The same which we have heard and and us our fathers told. [known,

4 We also will them not conceal

from their posterity;

Them to the generation

to come declare will we: The praises of the Lord our God, and his almighty strength, [done, The wondrous works that he hath we will shew forth at length.

5 His testimony and his law in Isr'el he did place,

And charg'd our fathers it to show to their succeeding race;

6 That so the race which was to come might well them learn and know; And sons unborn, who should arise, might to their sons them show:

7 That they might set their hope in and suffer not to fall [God, His mighty works out of their mind, but keep his precepts all:

8 And might not, like their fathers, be a stiff rebellious race;

A race not right in heart; with God whose sp'rit not stedfast was.

9 The sons of Ephraim, who nor bows nor other arms did lack,

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When as the day of battle was, They brake God's cov'nant, and they faintly turned back.

[refus'd

in his commands to go; His works and wonders they forgot, which he to them did show.

Things marvellous he brought to

their fathers them beheld Within the land of Egypt done,

yea, ev'n in Zoan's field.

13 By him divided was the sea,

[pass;

he caus'd them through to pass; And made the waters so to stand, as like an heap it was.

14 With cloud by day, with light of fire all night, he did them guide.

15 In desert rocks he clave, and drink, as from great depths, supply'd. 16 He from the rock brought streams, like floods

made waters to run down. 17 Yet sinning more, in desert they provok'd the highest One.

18 For in their heart they tempted God, and, speaking with mistrust, They greedily did meat require to satisfy their lust.

19 Against the Lord himself they spake, and, murmuring, said thus, A table in the wilderness can God prepare for us?

20 Behold, he smote the rock, and thence came streams and waters great; But can he give his people bread? and send them flesh to eat?

21 The Lord did hear, and waxed wroth; so kindled was a flame 'Gainst Jacob, and 'gainst Israel up indignation came.

22 For they believ'd not God, nor trust in his salvation had; [mand, 23 Though clouds above he did comand heav'n's doors open made, 24 And manna rain'd on them, and gave them corn of heav'n to eat. 25 Man angels' food did eat; to them he to the full sent meat.

26 And in the heaven he did cause an eastern wind to blow; And by his power he let out

the southern wind to go.

27 Then flesh as thick as dust he made to rain down them among; And feather'd fowls, like as the sand which li'th the shore along.

28 At his command amidst their camp these show'rs of flesh down fell, All round about the tabernacles and tents where they did dwell. 29 So they did eat abundantly,

and had of meat their fill;

For he did give to them what was
their own desire and will.

30 They from their lust had not estrang'd
their heart and their desire;
But while the meat was in their
which they did so require, [mouths,
31 God's wrath upon them came, and
the fattest of them all; [slew
So that the choice of Israel,
o'erthrown by death, did fall.

32 Yet, notwithstanding of all this, they sinned still the more; And though he had great wonders wrought,

believ'd him not therefore: 33 Wherefore their days in vanity he did consume and waste;

And by his wrath their wretched away in trouble past. [years

34 But when he slew them, then they to seek him shew desire; [did Yea, they return'd, and after God right early did enquire.

35 And that the Lord had been their they did remember then; [Rock Ev'n that the high almighty God

had their Redeemer been.

36 Yet with their mouth they flatter'd and spake but feignedly; [him, And they unto the God of truth with their false tongues did lie. 37 For though their words were good, their heart

with him was not sincere ; Unstedfast and perfidious

they in his cov'nant were.

38 But, full of pity, he forgave their sin, them did not slay; Nor stirr'd up all his wrath, but oft his anger turn'd away.

39 For that they were but fading flesh to mind he did recall;

A wind that passeth soon away,
and not returns at all.

40 How often did they him provoke
within the wilderness!

And in the desert did him grieve
with their rebelliousness!

41 Yea, turning back, they tempted and limits set upon

[God, Him, who in midst of Isr'el is the only Holy One.

42 They did not call to mind his pow'r, nor yet the day when he Deliver'd them out of the hand

of their fierce enemy;

43 Nor how great signs in Egypt land
he openly had wrought;
What miracles in Zoan's field

his hand to pass had brought.

44 How lakes and rivers ev'ry where he turned into blood;

So that nor man nor beast could drink of standing lake or flood.

45 He brought among them swarms of which did them sore annoy; [flies, And divers kinds of filthy frogs he sent them to destroy.

46 He to the caterpillar gave

the fruits of all their soil; Their labours he deliver'd up unto the locusts' spoil.

47 Their vines with hail, their sycamores he with the frost did blast: 48 Their beasts to hail he gave; their hot thunderbolts did waste. [flocks

[cast,

49 Fierce burning wrath he on them and indignation strong, And troubles sore, by sending forth ill angels them among.

50 He to his wrath made way; their soul from death he did not save;

But over to the pestilence
the lives of them he gave.

51 In Egypt land the first-born all
he smote down ev'ry where;
Among the tents of Ham, ev'n these
chief of their strength that were.
52 But his own people, like to sheep,
thence to go forth he made;
And he, amidst the wilderness,
them, as a flock, did lead.

53 And he them safely on did lead,
so that they did not fear;
Whereas their en'mies by the sea
quite overwhelmed were.
54 To borders of his sanctuary

the Lord his people led,

Ev'n to the mount which his right for them had purchased.

55 The nations of Canaan,

by his almighty hand,
Before their face he did expel
out of their native land;

Which for inheritance to them
by line he did divide,

And made the tribes of Israel

within their tents abide.

[hand

56 Yet God most high they did provoke, and tempted ever still;

And to observe his testimonies
did not incline their will:

57 But, like their fathers, turned back,
And dealt unfaithfully;
Aside they turned, like a bow
that shoots deceitfully.

58 For they to anger did provoke him with their places high; And with their graven images mov'd him to jealousy.

59 When God heard this, he waxed wroth,

and much loath'd Isr'el then: 60 So Shiloh's tent he left, the tent which he had plac'd with men.

61 And he his strength delivered into captivity;

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He left his glory in the hand of his proud enemy.

His people also he gave o'er unto the sword's fierce rage: So sore his wrath inflamed was against his heritage.

The fire consum'd their choice young

men;

their maids no marriage had; And when their priests fell by the sword,

their wives no mourning made.
65 But then the Lord arose, as one
that doth from sleep awake;
And like a giant that, by wine
refresh'd, a shout doth make:
66 Upon his en'mies' hinder parts
he made his stroke to fall;
And so upon them he did put
a shame perpetual.
67 Moreover, he the tabernacle
of Joseph did refuse;

The mighty tribe of Ephraim
he would in no wise chuse :

68 But he did chuse Jehudah's tribe
to be the rest above;

And of mount Sion he made choice, which he so much did love.

69 And he his sanctuary built

like to a palace high,

Like to the earth which he did found to perpetuity.

70 Of David, that his servant was,

he also choice did make,

And even from the folds of sheep

was pleased him to take: [young, 71 From waiting on the ewes with he brought him forth to feed Israel, his inheritance,

his people, Jacob's seed.

72 So after the integrity

he of his heart them fed;

And by the good skill of his hands
them wisely governed.

3 Their blood about Jerusalem
like water they have shed;
And there was none to bury them
when they were slain and dead.
4 Unto our neighbours a reproach
most base become are we;

A scorn and laughingstock to them
that round about us be.

5 How long, Lord, shall thine anger wilt thou still keep the same? [last? And shall thy fervent jealousy

burn like unto a flame?

6 On heathen pour thy fury forth, that have thee never known, And on those kingdoms which thy have never call'd upon. [name

7 For these are they who Jacob have devoured cruelly;

And they his habitation

have caused waste to lie.

8 Against us mind not former sins;
thy tender mercies show;
Let them prevent us speedily,
for we're brought very low.

9 For thy name's glory help us, Lord,
who hast our Saviour been:
Deliver us; for thy name's sake,
O purge away our sin.

10 Why say the heathen, Where's their

let him to them be known; [God? When those who shed thy servants' are in our sight o'erthrown. [blood 11 O let the pris'ner's sighs ascend

before thy sight on high; Preserve those in thy mighty pow'r that are design'd to die.

12 And to our neighbours' bosom cause it sev'n fold render'd be, Ev'n the reproach wherewith they O Lord, reproached thee. [have,

13 So we thy folk, and pasture-sheep, shall give thee thanks always;

1 HEAR, Isr'el's Shepherd! like a flock thou that dost Joseph guide;

Shine forth, O thou that dost between the cherubims abide.

2 In Ephraim's, and Benjamin's, and in Manasseh's sight,

O come for our salvation;

stir up thy strength and might. 3 Turn us again, O Lord our God, and upon us vouchsafe

To make thy countenance to shine, and so we shall be safe.

4 O Lord of hosts, almighty God, how long shall kindled be

Thy wrath against the prayer made by thine own folk to thee?

5 Thou tears of sorrow giv'st to them instead of bread to eat;

Yea, tears instead of drink thou giv'st to them in measure great.

6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours round about; Our enemies among themselves at us do laugh and flout.

7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and upon us vouchsafe

To make thy countenance to shine, and so we shall be safe.

8 A vine from Egypt brought thou hast, by thine outstretched hand;

And thou the heathen out didst cast, to plant it in their land.

9 Before it thou a room didst make, where it might grow and stand; Thou causedst it deep root to take, and it did fill the land.

10 The mountains vail'd were with its as with a covering; [shade, Like goodly cedars were the boughs which out from it did spring.

11 Upon the one hand to the sea

her boughs she did out send; On th' other side unto the flood her branches did extend.

12 Why hast thou then thus broken down and ta'en her hedge away? So that all passengers do pluck, and make of her a prey.