With clouds encompass'd round;

I try'd thee at the water fleep

· Of Meriba renown'd.

8 Hear, O my People, bearken wel, I teftify to thee,

Thou antient flock of Ifrael,

If thou wilt lift to me;

9 Throughout the Land of thy abode

No alien God shall be,
Nor fhalt thou to a foreign God

In honour bend thy knee.

to I am the Lord thy God which brought

Thee out of Egypt's Land;

Afk large enough, and I, befought,

Will grant thy full demand.

11 And yet my people would not hear, Nor hearken to my voice;

And Ifrael, zuhom I lov'd fo dear,

Miflik'd me for his choice.

12 Then did I leave them to their will,
And to their wand'ring mind;
Their own conceits they follow'd still,
Their own devices blind.

13 O that my People would be wife,

To ferve me all their days,

And O that Ifrael would advise

To walk my righteous ways!

14 Then would I foon bring down their foes,

That now fo proudly rise,

And turn my hand against all thofe

That are their Enemies.

N 5

15 Who hate the Lord should then he fais
To bow to him and bend;

But they, bis People, fhould remain,
Their time fhould have no end.
16 And he would feed them from the shock
With Flow'r of fineft wheat;

And fatisfy them from the Rock
With Honey for their meat.

PSAL. LXXXII.

I

G

OD in the

*

great

* Bagnadatb-el,

affembly ftands

† Bekerev,

Of Kings and lordly States, † Among the Gods, † on both his hands,

He judges and debates,

*

2 How long will ye * pervert the right Tifh pheta

With judgment false and wrong,

Favouring the wicked by your might,
Who thence grow bold and firong?

3

gravel.

* Regard the * weak and fatherless, * Shipbtu-dal. * Dispatch the poor man's caufe,

And † raise the man in deep diftrefs

By † juft and equal Laws. 4 Defend the poor and defolate,

And rescue from the hands Of wicked men the low eftate

Of him, that help demands.

5 They know not, nor will understand,
In darkness they walk on;

The earth's foundations all are mov❜d,
And out of order gone,

↑ Hatzdiku.

* Jimmetu,

6 I faid that ye were Gods, yea all

The Sons of God most high;

7 But ye fhall die like men, and fall

As other Princes die.

8 Rife, God, * judge thou the earth in might,

This wicked earth * redress;

For thou art he, who fhalt by right

The Nations all poffefs.

'B'

PSAL. LXXXIII.

E not thou filent now at length,
O God hold not thy peace,

Sit not thou ftill, O God of firength;
We cry, and do not ceafe.

2 For lo! thy furious foes now fwell,

And storm outragiously,

* Shiphia.

* Febemajun.

And they, that hate thee, proud and fell

Exalt their heads full high.

3 Against thy People they † contrive † Jagnarimu. Their Plots and Counfels deep;

Them to infnare they chiefly ftrive,

↑ Sod.

• Fithjagnatsu gnal.

* Whom thou doft hide and keep. * Tfephuneca、

4 Come, let us cut them off, say they,

Till they no Nation be,

That Ifrael's name for ever may

Be loft in memory.

5 For they confult † with all their might,

And all as one in mind,

Levjachdan.

Them

.

Themselves against thee they unite,
And in firm union bind:

6 The tents of Edom, and the brood
Of Scornful Ishmael,

Moab, with them of Hagar's blood,
That in the Defart dwell.

7 Gebal and Ammon there confpire,
And bateful Amelec,

The Philiftines, and they of Tyre,
Whofe bounds the Sea doth check;
8 With them great Asfhur alfo bands,
And doth confirm the knot ;

All these bave lent their armed bands
To aid the Sons of Lot.

9 Do to them as to Midian bold,
That wafted all the coaft,

To Sifera, and as is told

Thou didst to Jabin's boft,

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,

II As Zeb and Oreb evil fped,
'So let their Princes fpeed;

As Zeba and Zalmunna bled,

So let their Princes bleed.

12 For they amidst their pride have faid,

By right now fhall we feize

God's Houfes and will now invade

†Their stately Palaces. † Neoth Elobim bears both

13 My God, oh make them as a Wheel,

No quiet let them find ;

Giddy

Giddy and reftlefs let them reel,

Like ftubble from the wind.

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

The greedy Flame runs higher and higher,
Till all the Mountains blaze;

15 So with thy whirl-wind them pursue,

And with thy tempeft chase;

16* And till they yield thee honour due,

Lord fill with fhame their face. * They feek thy 17 Asham'd, and troubled, let them be, Name, Heb. Troubl'd, and fham'd for ever,

Ever confounded and fo die

With fhame, and fcape it never.

18 Then shall they know that thou, whofe name Jehovah is alone,

Art the most high, and thou the fame,

O'er all the earth art one.

'H°

PSAL. LXXXIV.

O W lovely are thy dwellings fair,
O Lord of Hofts! how dear

The pleasant Tabernacles are,

Where thou doft dwell so near!

2 My Soul doth long, and almost die, Thy Courts, O Lord, to fee,

My heart and flesh aloud do cry,

O living God for thee.

3 There