8 Hear, O my people, hearken well: I testify to thee, Thou ancient stock of Israel, If thou wilt list to me: 9 Throughout the land of thy abode No alien God shall be, Nor shalt thou to a foreign god In honour bend thy knee. Io I am the Lord thy God, which brought Ask large enough, and I, besought, Will grant thy full demand. 11 And yet my people would not hear, And Israel, whom I loved so dear, 12 Then did I leave them to their will, Their own conceits they followed still, 13 Oh that my people would be wise, And oh that Israel would advise 14 Then would I soon bring down their foes, And turn my hand against all those That are their enemies. 15 Who hate the Lord should then be fain But they, his people, should remain ; 16 And he would feed them from the shock And satisfy them from the rock VOL. I. Q 40 50 60 PSALM LXXXII. 1 GOD in the 1great1 assembly stands 2 How long will ye 3 pervert the right With3 judgment false and wrong, Favouring the wicked by your might, Who thence grow bold and strong? 3 4 Regard the 4 weak and fatherless; 4 Despatch the poor man's cause; And 5 raise the man in deep distress By 5 just and equal laws. 4 Defend the poor and desolate, And rescue from the hands Of wicked men the low estate Of him that help demands. 5 They know not, nor will understand; In darkness they walk on; 1 Bagna dath-el. • Bekered 3 Tishphetu gnavel. 4 Shiphtu dal. II 5 Hatzdiku. The earth's foundations all are 6moved, 6 Jimmotu. And out of order gone. 6 I said that ye were gods, yea all The sons of God Most High; 7 But ye shall die like men, and fall As other princes die. 8 Rise, God; 7judge thou the earth in might; For thou art he who shalt by right PSALM LXXXIII. 7 Shiphta I BE not thou silent now at length; 20 2 For lo! thy furious foes now 'swell, And they that hate thee, proud and fell, 3 Against thy people they 2 contrive 4 3 Their plots and counsels deep; 5 Whom thou dost hide and keep. Come, let us cut them off," say they, That Israel's name for ever may Be lost in memory." 1 Jehemajun. ทน. Jagnari 3 Sod. 4 Jithjagnatsu gnal. 5 Tsephu neca. 10 5 For they consult. with all their might, 6 Lev jach. 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 Gebal and Ammon there conspire, The Philistines, and they of Tyre, All these have lent their armed hands 9 Do to them as to Midian bold, To Sisera, and as is told Thou didst to Jabin's host, 10 At Endor quite cut off, and rolled dau. 11 As Zeb and Oreb evil sped, So let their princes speed; As Zeba and Zalmunna bled, So let their princes bleed. 12 For they amidst their pride have said, "By right now shall we seize God's houses, and will now invade 7 Their stately palaces." 7 Neoth Elo him bears 13 My God, oh make them as a wheel; both. No quiet let them find; Giddy and restless let them reel, Like stubble from the wind. 14 As, when an aged wood takes fire The greedy flame runs higher and higher, 15 So with thy whirlwind them pursue, And with thy tempest chase; 16 And till they yield thee honour due, Lord, fill with shame their face. 17 Ashamed and troubled let them be, Troubled and shamed for ever. Ever confounded, and so die With shame, and scape it never. 50 They seek thy name : бе 18 Then shall they know that thou, whose name Jehovah is, alone Art the Most High, and thou the same O'er all the earth art One. PSALM LXXXIV. I How lovely are thy dwellings fair! Where thou dost dwell so near! 2 My soul doth long and almost die Thy courts, O Lord, to see; O living God, for thee. 3 There even the sparrow, freed from wrong, Hath found a house of rest; The swallow there, to lay her young, Hath built her brooding nest; They find their safe abode; And home they fly from round the coasts 4 Happy who in thy house reside, Where thee they ever praise ! 5 Happy whose strength 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 springs and showers abound. 7 They journey on from strength to strength With joy and gladsome cheer, Till all before our God at length In Sion do appear. 8 Lord God of Hosts, hear now my prayer, O Jacob's God, give ear: 9 Thou, God, our shield, look on the face Of thy anointed dear. IO For one day in thy courts to be Is better and more blest Than in the joys of vanity A thousand days at best. I in the temple of my God Had rather keep a door Than dwell in tents and rich abode With sin for evermore. 40 II For God, the Lord, both sun and shield, |