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; 12 By him the sp'rits shall be cut off 1 UNTO the Lord I with my voice, Ev'n with my voice, and unto me 2 I in my trouble sought the Lord, 3 I to remembrance God did call, 4 Mine eyes, debarr'd from rest and 5 The days of old to mind I call'd, The times and ages that are past 6 By night my song I call to mind, 10 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 12 I also will of all thy works And what God is so great in pow'r 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 16 The waters, Lord, perceived thee, 17 The clouds in water forth were pour'd, 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, By Moses' hand and Aaron's thou 78 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, 10 11 12 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 30 They from their lust had not estrang'd 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, 40 How often did they him provoke And in the desert did him grieve 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 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 51 In Egypt land the first-born all 53 And he them safely on did lead, 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, Which for inheritance to them 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 57 But, like their fathers, turned back, 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; 62 63 64 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. The mighty tribe of Ephraim 68 But he did chuse Jehudah's tribe 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 3 Their blood about Jerusalem A scorn and laughingstock to them 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; 9 For thy name's glory help us, Lord, 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? 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