11 And yet my people would not ‹ hear”, 'Nor' hearken to my voice; And Ifrael, whom I lov'd fo dear,? Miflik'd me for his choice. 45 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 50 be wife," 55 all their days,' To' ferve me And O that Ifrael would advife" To' walk my righteous' ways. 14 Then would I foon bring down their foes, That now fo proudly rife," And turn my hand against 'That are' their enemies. all thofe' 15 Who hate the Lord fhould To' bow to him and bend, then be fain' But they, his people, fhould remain," 16 And he would feed them With flow'r of finest wheat, And fatisfy them from the rock With honey for their meat." from the fhock' 65 PSAL. LXXXII. OD in the * great * affembly stands Gof kings and lordly states, Among the Gods, † on both his hands He judges and debates. 2 How long will ye pervert the right With judgment false and wrong, 5 Favoring * Bagnadath-el. + Bekerev. Tishphetu gnavel. * Favoring the wicked by your might,' * 4 Defend the poor and defolate, And rescue from the hands 5 They know not, nor will understand, gone. The earth's foundations all are ‡ mov'd, 7 But ye shall die like men, and fall 1.5 20 8 Rife God, judge thou the earth in might,' 25 This wicked' earth || redrefs, For thou art he who fhalt by right The nations all poffefs. PSAL. LXXXIII, BE E not thou filent now at length,' Sit thou not ftill O God of strength,' 'We cry, and do not cease.' 2 For lo thy furious' foes now' + fwell, And ftorm outrageously, And they that hate thee proud and fell' *Shiphtu-dal. + Hatzdiku. S 3 Against Jimmotu. Shiphta. + Jehemajun. * 3 Against thy people they contrive That Ifrael's name for ever may Be loft in memory. For they confult with all their might, And all as one in mind Themselves against thee they unite, And in firm union bind. 6 The tents of Edom, and the brood Moab, with them of Hagar's blood, 7 The Philiftims, and they of Tyre, • Whose bounds the Sea doth check. All these have lent their armed hands' 9 Do to them as to Midian bold," To Sifera, and as ' is told' 35 That wafted all the coaft,' Thou didft' to Jabin's hoft," "When' at the brook of Kihon 'old' 40 TI As Jirthjagnatsu + Lev jachdau, 11 As Zeb and Oreb evil sped, So let their princes speed, 12 For they amidft their pride' have said, By right now fhall we seise God's houfes, and will now invade' *Their stately palaces. 13 My God, oh make them as a wheel, No quiet let them find,' Giddy andreftlefs' 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 whirlwind them pursue, And with thy tempeft chafe; 16 † And till they † yield thee honor due; 17 Afham'd, and troubled let them be, With fhame, and fcape it never." 18 Then fhall they Jehovah is alone, Art the most high, I 45 50 55 60 know that thou whose name 65 and thou the same' O'er all the earth art one.' H 6 PSAL. LXXXIV. OW lovely are thy dwellings fair! The pleasant' tabernacles are, *Neoth Elohim bears both. thy Name. Heb, 2 My †They feek 2 My foul 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 ev'n the fparrow freed from wrong' Hath found a house of 'reft,' The swallow there, to lay her young Hath built her brooding' neft, Ev'n by thy altars, Lord of Hofts, They find their safe abode,' And home they fly from round the coasts' 4 Happy, who in thy house refide, 5 Happy whofe ftrength in thee doth bide, And in their hearts thy ways. 6 They pass through Baca's thirsty' vale, As through a fruitful watry dale 7 They journey on from ftrength to strength Till' all before our' God at length' In Sion do appear. 8 Lord God of Hofts. hear now' my prayer, 30 O Jacob's God give ear, 9 Thou God our fhield look on the face Of thy anointed' dear.' 10 For one day in thy courts 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, to be' 35 Than dwell in tents, ' and rich abode,* With fin for evermore.' 40 11 For |