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5 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
Of fcornful Ishmael,

Moab, with them of Hagar's blood,
That in the defert dwell;

7 Gebal and Ammon there confpire,
And bateful Amalec,

The Philistins, and they of Tyre,
Whofe bounds the fea doth check.

8 With them great Afhur alfo bands
And doth confirm the knot:

All these have lent their armed bands

To aid the fons 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 hoft,

When at the brook of Kifhon old,
They were repuls'd and slain,

10 At Endor quite cut off, and roll'd

As dung upon the plain.

II As Zeb and Oreb evil fped,

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So let their princes speed,

As Zeba, and Zalmunna bled,

So let their princes bleed.

* Lev jachdau.

12 For they amidst their pride have said, By right now feize fhall we

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 and restless let them reel

Like ftubble from the wind.

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

The greedy flame runs higher and higher
Till all the mountains blaze;

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15 So with thy whirlwind them pursue,

And with thy tempest chase;

16 † And till they † yield thee honor due,

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Lord, fill with fhame their face.

17 Afham'd, and troubled let them be,

Troubled, and sham'd for ever,

Ever confounded, and fo die

With shame, and scape it never.

18 Then fhall they know that thou, whofe name

Jehovah is alone,

Art the most high, and thou the fame

O'er all the earth art one.

*Neoth Elohim bears both.
They feek thy Name. Heb.

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PS AL. LXXXIV..

OW lovely are thy dwellings fair!·

O Lord of Hofts, how dear

The pleasant tabernacles are,
Where thou doft dwell so near!

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 rest;

The swallow there, to lay her young

Hath built her brooding neft,

Ev'n by thy altars, Lord of Hofts,
They find their fafe abode,

And home they fly from round the coafts
Toward thee, my King, my God.
4 Happy, who in thy houfe 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 watery dale

Where fprings and fhowers abound.

They journey on from strength to strength
With joy and gladjome chear,

Till all before our God at length

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In Sion do appear..

Lord God of Hofts, hear now my prayer;
O Jacob's God, give ear,

9 Thou God our shield, look on the face
Of thy anointed dear.

To For one day in thy courts to be
Is better, and more bleft,
Than in the joys of vanity
A thousand days at beft.
I in the temple of my God
Had rather keep a door,

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12 Lord God of Hofts, that reign'ft on high,

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That man is truly bleft,

Who only on thee doth rely,

And in thee only rest.

PSAL. LXXXV.

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Thou haft not, Lord, been flack,

Thou haft from hard captivity

Returned Jacob back.

2 Th' iniquity thou didst forgive

That wrought thy people woe,

And all their fin, that did thee grieve,
Haft hid where none ball know.

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3 Thine anger all thou hadst remov'd,

And calmly didft return

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From thy fierce wrath, which we had prov'd

Far worse than fire to burn.

4 God of our faving health and peace,

Turn us, and us restore,

Thine indignation cause to cease
Toward us, and chide no more.

5 Wilt thou be angry without end,

For ever angry thus,

Wilt thou thy frowning ire extend

From age to age on us?

6 Wilt thou not † turn, and hear our voice,

And us again † revive,

That fo thy people may rejoice,

By thee preferv'd alive?

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7 Caufe us to fee thy goodness, Lord,

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To us thy mercy fhew;

Thy faving health to us afford,

And life in us renew.

8 And now what God the Lord will speak,

I will go ftrait and hear,

For to his people he speaks peace,

And to his faints full dear,

To his dear faints he will speak peace,

But let them never more

Return to folly, but furceafe
To trefpafs as before.

* Heb. The burning heat of thy wrath.
+ Heb. Turn to quicken us.

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