God, find them guilty; let them fall By their own counfels quell'd; Push them in their rebellions all Still on; for against thee they have rebell'd. Then all who truft in thee fhall bring Their joy, while thou from blame Defend't them, they shall ever fing And fhall triumph in thee, who love thy name For thou, Jehovah, wilt be found To blefs the juft man ftill, As with a fhield thou wilt furround Him with thy lasting favor and good-will. Pfalm vx. Aug. 13, 1653. ORD, in thine anger do not reprehend Pity me, Lord, for I am much deje, And very weak and faint; heal and amend For all my bones, that ev'n with anguish ake Are troubled, yea, my foul is troubled fore, And thou, O Lord, how long? turn, restore My foul, O fave me for thy goodness' fake: For in death no remembrance is of thee; Who in the grave can celebrate thy praife! Wearied I am with fighing out my days, Nightly my couch I make a kind of fea; My bed I water with my tears; mine eye Through grief confumes, is waxen old and I' th' midst of all mine enemies that mark. Depart all ye that work iniquity, Depart from me, for the voice of my weeping The Lord hath heard, the Lord hath heard 15 The bloody' and guileful man God doth deteft. But I will in thy mercies dear, Or done this, if wickedness No word is firm or footh; Let th' enemy pursue my foul Their infide, troubles miferable; And overtake it, let him tread An open grave their throat, their tongue they My life down to the earth, and roll 15 fmooth. In the duft my glory dead, he duft, and there out-spread ge it with difhonor foul. Jehovah, in thine ire, my foes that urge like fire; ethyfelf amidst the rage 20 II When I behold thy Heav'ns, thy fingers' art, 20 dwake for me, their fury' affwage; ment here thou didst engage command, which I defire. th' affemblies of each nation furround thee, feeking right, ence to thy glorious habitation urn on high and in their fight. ovah judgeth most upright people from the world's foundation. ge me, Lord, be judge in this tording to my righteousness, d the innocence which is n me: caufe at length to cease evil men the wickedness d their power that do amiss. the just establish fast, ce thou art the juft God that tries arts and reins. On God is caft defence, and in him lies, 25 30 35 40 I Who leadeft like a flock of fheep Thy loved Jofeph's feed; th' unjuft will not forbear, 45 That fitft between the Cherubs bright, 5 sfword he whets, his bow hath bended Between their wings out-fpread, ready, and for him intended e tools of death, that waits him near. Shine forth, and from thy cloud give light, Then will I Jehovah's praife According to his juftice raife, And fing the Name and Deity Of Jehovah the most high. 20 60 5 Thou feed'ft them with the bread of tears, Their bread with tears they eat, Pfalm VIII. Aug. 14, 1653. Jehovah our Lord, how wondrous great And glorious is thy name thro' all the earth! So as above the Heav'ns thy praise to fet Out of the tender mouths of latest birth. Out of the mouths of babes and fucklings thou 5 Haft founded ftrength becaufe of all thy focs, To tint th' enemy, and flack th' avenger's brow, That bends his rage thy providence to oppose. And mak'st them ‡ largely drink the tears 6 A ftrife thou mak'ft us and a prey To every neighbour foe, Among themselves they laugh, they || play, And flouts at us they throw. 7 Return us, and thy grace divine, O God of Hofts, vouchsafe; Caufe thou thy face on us to fhine, And then we fhall be fafe. 8 A vine from Egypt thou haft brought, I Pfalm LXXXI. To God our ftrength fing loud, and clear, To Jacob's God, that all may bear, Loud acclamations ring. 2 Prepare a hymn, prepare a fong, The chearful pfaltry bring along, 3 Blow, as is wont, in the new moon Th' appointed time, the day whereon 4 This was a itatute giv'n of eld A law of Jacob's God, to hold, 5 This he a teftimony ordain'd 30 15 When as he pafs'd through Egypt land; His hands from pots, and miry foil, 7 When trouble did thee fore afsail, I anfwer'd thee in § thunder-deep Of Meriba renown'd. 8 Hear, O my People, bearken well, I testify to thee, Thou ancient 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 honor bend thy knee. Io I am the Lord thy God which brought Afk large enough, and I, befought, Will grant thy full demand." II And yet my people would not bear, And Ifrael, whom I lov'd fo dear, Miflik'd me for his choice. 12 Then did I leave them to their will, Their own conceits they follow'd still, 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 f proudly rife, And turn my hand against all thofe That are their enemies. 15 Who hate the Lord should then be fain To bow to him and bend, But they, bis people, fould remain, Their time fhould have no end. 16 And he would feed them from the fbeck With flower of finct wheat, And fatisfy them from the rock I With honey for their meat. G of kings and lordly fiates, OD in the great • affembly stands Among the Gods, on both his hands 2 How long will yet pervert the right 5 Tifopbetu gazed!. 3 Regard the weak and fatherless, Dispatch the poor man's cause, And raise the man in deep diftrefs Byt just and equal laws. 4 Defend the poor and defolate, And refcue 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. 6 I faid that ye were Gods, yea all The fons 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, 25 This wicked earth § redress, For thou art he who fhalt by right I The nations all poffefs. Pfalm LXXX111. BO God, hold not thy peace; E not thou filent now at length, Sit thou not ftill, O God of ftrength, 2 For lo thy furious foes now || fwell, And they that hate thee, proud and fell, Exalt their heads full high. 3 Against thy people they contrive **Their plots and counfels deep, Them to infnare they chiefly strive, #Whom thou doft hide and keep. 4 Come let us cut them off, fay 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 Themfelves against thee they unite, And in firm union bind. 10 Their ftately palaces. 13 My God, oh make them as a wheel, No quiet let them find, Giddy and reflefs let them reel Like ftubble from the wind. 50 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; 55 15 So with thy whirlwind them pursue, And with thy tempeft chase; 16+ And till they † yield thee honor due, Lord, fill with fhame their face. 60 15 20 6 The tents of Edom, and the brood Of fcornful Ishmael, Moab, with them of Hagar's blood, That in the defert dwell; O'er all the earth art one. 66 5 Pfalm LXXXIV. HLord of Hofts, how dear The pleasant tabernacles are, Where thou dost dwell fo 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 reft, The swallow there, to lay her young Hath built her brooding neft; They find their fufe abode, 7 Gebal and Ammon there confpire, 25 And bateful Amalec, Ev'n by thy altars, Lord of Hofts, The Philiftins, and they of Tyre, Whofe bounds the fea doth check. And home they fly from round the ccafts 15 8 With them great Afhur alfo bands And doth confirm the knot: 30 All these bave lent their armed hands To aid the fons of Lot. Toward thee, my King, my God. 4 Happy, who in thy house refide, Where thee they ever praife: 5 Happy, whofe ftrength in thee doth bide, And in their hearts thy ways. 6 They pass through Baca's thirfty vale, As through a fruitful watery dale Neoth Elobim bears both. †They feck thy Name. Heb. 20 And in thee only rest. His footsteps cannot err. Then will he come, and not be flow, 55 45 Pfalm LXXXV. "HY land to favor graciously nut, flack, Thou haft from hard captivity 2 Th' iniquity thou didst forgive And all their fin, that did thee grieve, 3 Thine anger all thou hadst remov'd, 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 reftore, Thine indignation cause to cease Toward us, and chide no more. 5 Wilt thou be angry without end, 5 ΙΟ 15 I THY Pfalm LXXXVI. HY gracious ear, O Lord, incline, For I am peor, and almost pine With need, and fad decay. 2 Preferve my foul, for I have trod 3 Pity me, Lord, for daily thee I call; 4. O make rejoice Thy fervant's foul; for, Lord, to thee I lift my foul and voice. 5 For thou art good, thou, Lord, art prone To pardon, thou to all Art full of mercy, thou alone To them that on thee call 6 Unto my fupplication, Lord, Give ear, and to the cry Of my inceffant prayers afford Thy hearing graciously. For ever angry thus, 7 I in the day of my diftrefs Wilt thou thy frowning ire extend Will call on thee for aid; For thou wilt grant me free access, And answer what I pray'd. 8 Like thee among the Gods is none, O Lord, nor any works Of all that other Gods have done Like to thy glorious works. 9 The nations all whom thou haft made Shall come, and all fall frame To bow them low before thee, Lord, And glorify thy name. 10 For great thou art, and wonders great By thy ftrong hand are done, Thou in thy everlasting feat Remaineft God alone. But let them never more |