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.

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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

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be wife,"

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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,"
Their time fhould have no end.

16 And he would feed them

With flow'r of finest wheat, And fatisfy them from the rock With honey for their meat."

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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,

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Favoring

* Bagnadath-el. + Bekerev.

Tishphetu

gnavel.

*

Favoring the wicked by your might,'
• Who thence grow bold and strong ?'
3 Regard the weak and fatherless,
* Dispatch the poor man's cause,
And raise the man in deep diftress
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,

gone.

The earth's foundations all are ‡ mov'd,
And out of order
6 I faid that ye were Gods, yea all
The fons of God moft high;

7 But ye shall die like men, and fall
As other princes die.'

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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,'
O God hold not thy peace,

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'
Exalt their heads full high.

*Shiphtu-dal. + Hatzdiku.

S

3 Against

Jimmotu.

Shiphta.

+ Jehemajun.

*

3 Against thy people they contrive
Their plots and counfels deep,
Them to infnare they chiefly strive,
Whom thou doft hide and keep.
Come let us cut them off, fay they,
Till they no nation be,

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
Offcornful' Ishmael,

Moab, with them of Hagar's blood,
That in the defert dwell,'
Gebal and Ammon there confpire,"
And hateful' Amalec,

7

The Philiftims, and they of Tyre,

• Whose bounds the Sea doth check.
With them 'great' Afhur alfo bands
'And doth confirm the knot:"

All these have lent their armed hands'
To aid the fons of Lot.

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Do to them as to Midian bold,"

To Sifera, and as ' is told'

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That wafted all the coaft,'

Thou didft' to Jabin's hoft,"

"When' at the brook of Kihon 'old'
• They were repuls'd and slain,'
10 At Endor quite cut off, and roll'ɗ
As dung upon the plain.

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Jirthjagnatsu

+ Lev jachdau,

11 As Zeb and Oreb evil sped,

So let their princes speed,
As Zeba, and Zalmunnabled,'
So let their princes bleed.

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;
Lord fill with fhame their face.

17 Afham'd, and troubled let them be,
Troubled, and fham'd for ever,
Ever confounded, and fo die

With fhame,

and fcape it never."

18 Then fhall they

Jehovah is alone,

Art the most high,

I

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and thou the same'

O'er all the earth art one.'

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PSAL. LXXXIV.

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

The pleasant' tabernacles are,
Where thou dost dwell so near!

*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'
Toward thee,' my King, my God.

4 Happy, who in thy house refide,
Where thee they ever praise,

5 Happy whofe ftrength in thee doth bide, And in their hearts thy ways.

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

As through a fruitful watry dale
Where fprings and show'rs abound.

7 They journey on from ftrength to strength
With joy and gladfome 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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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'

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Than dwell in tents, ' and rich abode,*

With fin for evermore.'

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11 For