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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
Nor in thy hot difpleafure me correct;

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,

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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

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The bloody' and guileful man God doth deteft.

But I will in thy mercies dear,

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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

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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;

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When I behold thy Heav'ns, thy fingers' art,
The moon and ftars which thou fo bright haft fet
In the pure firmament, then faith my heart,
O what is man that thou remembrest yet,
And think'ft upon him; or of man begot,
That him thou vifit'ft, and of him art found?
Scarce to be less than Gods, thou mad'st his lot,
With honor and with state thou haft him crown'd.
O'er the works of thy hand thou mad'st him Lord,
Thou haft put all under his lordly feet,
All flocks, and herds, by thy commanding word,
All beafts that in the field or foreft mect,
Fowl of the Heav'ns, and fish that thro' the wet
Sea paths in fhoals do flide, and know no dearth,
O Jehovah our Lord, how wondrous great
And glorious is thy name through all the earth!

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Who leadeft like a flock of fheep

Thy loved Jofeph's feed;

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Between their wings out-fpread,

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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
Wherewith their cheeks are wet.

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,
Thy free love made it thine,
And drov'ft out nations, proud and baut,
To plant this lovely vine.

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Pfalm LXXXI.

To God our ftrength fing loud, and clear,
Sing loud to God our King,

To Jacob's God, that all may bear,

Loud acclamations ring.

2 Prepare a hymn, prepare a fong,
The timbrel hither bring,

The chearful pfaltry bring along,
And harp with pleasant firing.

3 Blow, as is wont, in the new moon
With trumpets' lefty found,

Th' appointed time, the day whereon
Our folemn feaft comes round.

4 This was a itatute giv'n of eld
For Ifracl to dlferve,

A law of Jacob's God, to hold,
From whence they might not fwerze.

5 This he a teftimony ordain'd
In Jofeph, not to change,

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When as he pafs'd through Egypt land;
The tongue I heard was ftrange.
6 From burden, and from flavife toil,
I fet his fhoulder free:

His hands from pots, and miry foil,
Deliver'd were by me.

7 When trouble did thee fore afsail,
On me then didst thou call,
And I to free thee did not fail,
And led thee out of thrall.

I anfwer'd thee in § thunder-deep
With clouds incompass'd round;
I try'd thee at the water fleep

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
Thee out of Egypt land;

Afk large enough, and I, befought,

Will grant thy full demand."

II And yet my people would not bear,
Nor hearken to my voice;

And Ifrael, whom I lov'd fo dear,

Miflik'd me for his choice.

12 Then did I leave them to their will,
And to their wandering 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 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

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G of kings and lordly fiates,

OD in the great • affembly stands

Among the Gods, on both his hands
He judges and debates.

2 How long will yet pervert the right
With judgment falfe and wrong,
Favoring the wicked by your might,
Who thence grow bold and fireng?

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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.

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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,
We cry, and do not cease.

2 For lo thy furious foes now || fwell,
And I ftorm outrageously,

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.

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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.

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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 tempeft chase; 16+ And till they † yield thee honor due, Lord, fill with fhame their face.

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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.

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Pfalm LXXXIV.

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

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,

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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

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

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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,
That dry and barren ground,

As through a fruitful watery dale
Where fprings and fhowers abound.

Neoth Elobim bears both. †They feck thy Name. Heb.

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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,
Hatt hid where none fball know.

3 Thine anger all thou hadst remov'd,
And calmly didft return

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,

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Pfalm LXXXVI.

HY gracious ear, O Lord, incline,
O hear me, I thee pray,

For I am peor, and almost pine

With need, and fad decay.

2 Preferve my foul, for I have trod
Thy ways, and love the just ;
Save thon thy fervant, O my God,
Who fill in thee doth truft.

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.

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7 I in the day of my diftrefs

Wilt thou thy frowning ire extend

Will call on thee for aid;

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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.

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