4 Let therefore earth's inhabitants 5 With harp and hymn's soft melody, 6 The trumpet and shrill cornet's sound, 7 Let the loud ocean roar her joy, 8 With joy let rivulets swell to streams, redoubled shouts convey; 9 To welcome down the world's great Judge, who does with justice come, And with impartial equity, both to reward and doom. PSALM 99. JEHOVAH reigns; let therefore all the guilty nations quake: On Cherubs' wings he sits enthroned; let earth's foundations shake. 2 On Sion's hill he keeps his court, his palace makes her towers; Yet thence his sovereignty extends supreme o'er earthly powers. 3 Let therefore all with praise address his great and dreadful name; And, with his unresisted might, his holiness proclaim. 4 For truth and justice, in his reign, 5 Therefore exalt the Lord our God; 6 Moses and Aaron thus of old [march, 7 For with their camp, to guide their obedient servants proved. 9 With worship at his sacred courts WITH one consent, let all the earth to God their cheerful voices raise Glad homage pay, with awfu mirth. and sing before him songs of praise 3 Convinced that he is God alone, from whom both we and all proceed; We, whom he chooses for his own, the flock that he vouchsafes to feed. 4 O enter then his temple gate, thence to his courts devoutly press; And still your grateful bymns repeat, and still his name with praises bless. 5 For he's the Lord, supremely good, his mercy is for ever sure; His truth, which always firmly stood, to endless ages shall endure. PSALM 101. mercy's never-failing spring, 5 The private slanderer shall be 8 All those who wicked courses take, W THEN I pour out my soul in praye To thy eternal throne of grace 2 0 hide not thou thy glorious face my sorrows soon redress. 4 My heart, like grass that feels the bi I spend my breath in groans; My flesh is worn away, my skin scarce hides my starting bones! $ I'm like a pelican become, that does in deserts mourn, Or like an owl, that sits all day on barren trees forlorn. 37 In watchings, or in restless dreams, the night by me is spent, As by those solitary birds, that lonesome roofs frequent. 8 All day by railing foes I'm made the subject of their scorn; Who all, possess'd with furious rage, have my destruction sworn. #9 When grovelling on the ground I lie, oppress'd with grief and fears, My bread is strew'd with ashes o'er, my drink is mix'd with tears. 10 Because on me with double weight thy heavy wrath doth lie; For thou, to make my fall more great, didst lift me up on high. 11 My days, just hastening to their end, 12 But thy eternal state, O Lord, 15 Thou shalt arise, and Sion view For now her time is come, thy own appointed day of grace. 14 Her scatter'd ruins by thy saints 15, 16 The name and glory of the Lord all heathen kings shall fear; When he shall Sion build again, and in full state appear. 24 Lord, end not thou my life, said I, when half is scarcely past; Thy years, from worldly changes free, to endless ages last. 25 The strong foundations of the earth of old by thee were laid; Thy hands the beauteous arch of heaven with wondrous skill have made. 26, 27 Whilst thou for ever shalt endure, they soon shall pass away; And, like a garment often worn, shall tarnish and decay. Like that, when thou ordain'st their to thy command they bend; [change But thou continuest still the same, nor have thy years an end. 28 Thou to the children of thy saints My soul, inspired with sacred love, God's holy name for ever bless; Of all his favours mindful prove, and still thy grateful thanks express. 3,4 'Tis he that all thy sins forgives, and after sickness makes thee sound; From danger he thy life retrieves, by him with grace and mercy crown'd 5, 6 He with good things thy mouth supplies, thy vigour, eagle-like, renews, He, when the guiltless sufferer cries, his foe with just revenge pursues. 7 God made of old his righteous ways to Moses and our fathers known; His works, to his eternal praise, were to the sons of Jacob shown. 8 The Lord abounds with tender love, and unexampled acts of grace; 17, 18 When he regards the poor's re- His waken'd wrath doth slowly move, quest, nor slights their earnest prayer; Dur sons, for their recorded grace, shall his just praise declare. 19 For God, from his abode on high, his gracious beams display'd: The Lord, from heaven, his lofty throne, bath all the earth survey'd. 20 He listen'd to the captives' moans, he heard their mournful cry, And freed, by his resistless power, the wretches doom'd to die. 21 That they in Sion, where he dwells, might celebrate his fame, And through the holy city sing loud praises to his name: 22 When all the tribes assembling there, their solemn vows address, And neighb'ring lands, with glad consent, the Lord their God confess. 23 But e'er my race is run, my strength through his fierce wrath decays; le has, when all my wishes bloom'd, cut short my hopeful days. his willing mercy flies apace. 9, 10 God will not always harshly chide, but with his anger quickly part; And loves his punishments to guide more by his love than our desert. 11 As high as heaven its arch extends above this little spot of clay, So much his boundless love transcends the small respects that we can pay. 12, 13 As far as 'tis from east to west, so far has he our sins removed; Who, with a father's tender breast, has such as fear'd him always loved. 14, 15 For God, who all our frame sur considers that we are but clay; [veys, How fresh soe'er we seem, our days like grass or flowers must fade away. 16, 17 Whilst they are nipt with sudden blasts, nor can we find their former place; God's faithful mercy ever lasts, to those that fear him and their race. 18 This shall attend on such as still proceed in his appointed way; BLE LESS God, my soul: thou, Lord, alone possessest empire without bounds; With honour thou art crown'd, thy throne eternal majesty surrounds. 2 With light thou dost thyself enrobe, and glory for a garment take; Heaven's curtains stretch beyond the globe, thy canopy of state to make. 3 Goa builds on liquid air, and forms his palace chambers in the skies; The clouds his chariots are, and storms the swift-wing'd steeds with which he flies. 4 As bright as flame, as swift as wind, his ministers heaven's palace fill, To have their sundry tasks assign'd, all proud to serve their Sovereign's will. 5, 6 Earth on her centre fix'd, he set, her face with waters overspread; Nor proudest mountains dared as yet to lift above the waves their head. 7 But when thy awful face appear'd, the insulting waves dispersed; they fled, When once thy thunder's voice they heard, and by their haste confess'd their dread. 8 Thence up by secret tracts they creep, and, gushing from the mountain's side, Through valleys travel to the deep, appointed to receive their tide. 9 There hast thou fix'd the ocean's bounds, the threatening surges to repel; That they no more o'erpass their mounds, nor to a second deluge swell. PART II 10 Yet thence in smaller parties drawn, the sea recovers her lost hills; And starting springs from every lawn surprise the vales with plenteous rills. 11 The field's tame beasts are thither led, weary with labour, faint with drought; And asses on wild mountains bred have sense to find these currents out. 12 There shady trees from scorching beams Field shelter to the feather'd throng; They drink, and to the bounteous streams return the tribute of their song. 13 His rains from heaven parch'd hills recruit, that soon transmit the liquid store, Till earth is burden'd with her fruit, and nature's lap can hold no more. 14 Grass, for our cattle to devour, he makes the growth of every field: Herbs, for man's use, of various power, that either food or physic yield. 15 With cluster'd grapes he crowns the vine, to cheer man's heart, oppress'd with cares; Gives oil, that makes his face to shine, and corn, that wasted strength repairs. PART III. 16 The trees of God, without the care or art of man, with sap are fed: The mountain-cedar looks as fair as those in royal gardens bred. 17 Safe in the lofty cedar's arms the wanderers of the air may rest; The hospitable pine from harms protects the stork, her pious guest. 18 Wild goats the craggy rock ascend, its towering heights their fortress make Whose cells in labyrinths extend, where feebler creatures refuge take. 19 The moon's inconstant aspect shows the appointed seasons of the year; The instructed sun his duty knows, his hours to rise and disappear. 20, 21 Darkness he makes the earth 10 shroud, when forest beasts securely stray; Young lions roar their wants aloud to Providence, that sends them prey. 22 They range all night,on slaughter bent, till summon'd by the rising morn To skulk in dens, with one consent the conscious ravagers return. 23 Forth to the tillage of his soil the husbandman securely goes, Commencing with the sun his toil, with him returns to his repose. 24 How various, Lord, thy works are found; for which thy wisdom we adore! The earth is with thy treasure crown'd, till nature's hand can grasp no more. PART IV. 25 But still the vast unfathom'd main, of wonders a new scene supplies, Whose depths inhabitants contain of every form, and every size. 26 Full-freighted ships from every port there cut their unmolested way; Leviathan, whom there to sport thou mad'st, has compass there to play. 27 These various troops of sea and land in sense of common want agree; All wait on thy dispensing hard, and have their daily alms from thee. 28 They gather what thy stores disperse, without their trouble to provide; Thou op'st thy hand, the universe, the craving world,is all supply'd. 29 Thou for a moment hid'st thy face, the numerous ranks of creatures mourn; Thou tak'st their breath, all nature's race forthwith to mother earth return. 30 Again thou send'st thy Spirit forth to inspire the mass with vital seed; Nature's restored, and parent earth smiles on her new-created breed. Si Thus through successive ages stands firm fix'd thy providential care; Pleased with the work of thy own hands, thou dost the waste of time repair. 32 One look of thine, one wrathful look, earth's panting breast with terror fills; One touch from thee, with clouds of smoke in darkness shrouds the proudest hills. S3 In praising God, while he prolongs my breath, I will that breath employ; 54 And join devotion to my songs, sincere, as in him is my joy. $5 While sinners from earth's face are burl'd, my soul,praise thou his holy name, Till with my song the listening world join concert, and his praise proclaim. PSALM 105. RENDER thanks, and bless the invoke his sacred name; [Lord; Acquaint the nations with his deeds, his matchless deeds proclaim. 2 Sing to his praise in lofty hymns; his wondrous works rehearse; Make them the theme of your discourse, and subject of your verse. 3 Rejoice in his Almighty name, alone to be adored; And let their hearts o'erflow with joy, that humbly seek the Lord. 4 Seek ye the Lord, his saving strength devoutly still implore; And, where he's ever present, seek his face for evermore. 5 The wonders that his hands have keep thankfully in mind; [wrought The righteous statutes of his mouth, and laws to us assign'd. 6 Know ye, his servant Abraham's seed, and Jacob's chosen race; 7 He's still our God, his judgments still First sign'd to Abra'm, next, by oath 10 To Jacob and his heirs a law, for ever to endure: 12 But few in number, and those few all friendless strangers there. 18 In pilgrimage, from realm to reali securely they removed; 14 Whilst proudest monarchs, for their 16 A dearth, at last, by his command, Sold into Egypt, but their death, 18 His feet with heavy chains were with calumny his fame; [crush'd, 19 Till God's appointed time and word to his deliverance came. 20 The king his sovereign order sent, and rescued him with speed; Whom private malice had confined, the people's ruler freed. 21 His court, revenues, realms, were all subjected to his will; 22 His greatest princes to control, 1 24 The Almighty there with such in- his chosen Aaron too, 27 Empower'd with signs and miracles, to prove their mission true. 28 He call'd for darkness, darkness came, 29 Each stream and lake, transform'd to at Pharaoh's board and bed. 31 He gave the sign, and swarms of flies 33 He smote their vines,and forest plants. 11 That Canaan's land should be their lot, 34 He spake the word, and locust; came, when yet but few they were; and caterpillars join'd; They prey'd upon the poor remains the storm had left behind. 35 From trees to herbage they descend, no verdant thing they spare; But, like the naked fallow field, leave all the pastures bare. 36 From fields to villages and towns, commission'd vengeance flew; One fatal stroke their eldest hopes and strength of Egypt slew. 37 He bro't his servants forth, enrich'd with Egypt's borrow'd wealth; And, what transcends all treasure else, enrich'd with vigorous health. 38 Egypt rejoiced, in hopes to find her plagues with them removed; Taught dearly now to fear worse ills. by those already proved. 39 Their shrouding canopy by day a journeying cloud was spread; A fiery pillar all the night their desert marches led. 6 But ah! can we expect such grace, 9 To right and left, at his command, were, Who closely press'd upon their rear; 11 Whose rage pursued them to those waves, That proved the rash pursuers' graves. 40 They long'd for flesh; with evening 12 The watery mountains' sudden fall quails he furnish'd every tent; From heaven's high granary, each morn, the bread of angels sent. 41 He smote the rock, whose flinty breast pour'd forth a gushing tide; Whose flowing stream, where'er they march'd, the desert's drought supply'd. 42 For still he did on Abra'm's faith and ancient league reflect; 43 He brought his people forth with joy, with triumph his elect. 44 Quite rooting out their heathen foes from Canaan's fertile soil, To them in cheap possession gave the fruit of other's toil: 45 That they his statutes might observe, his sacred laws obey: For benefits so vast, let us our songs of praise repay. PSALM 106. RENDER thanks to God above, The fountain of eternal love; Whose mercy firm through ages past Has stood, and shall for ever last, 2 Who can his mighty deeds express, Not only vast, but numberless? What mortal eloquence can raise Itis tribute of immortal praise? S Happy are they, and only they, Who from thy judgments never stray: Who know what's right; nor only so, But always practise what they know. 4 Extend to me that favour, Lord, Thou to thy chosen dost afford: When thou return'st to set them free, Let thy salvation visit me. O may I worthy prove to see Thy saints in full prosperity; That I the joyful choir may join, And count thy people's triumph mine. O'erwhelm'd proud Pharaoh,host and all; 13 But soon these wonders they forget, 23 Thus urged,his vengeful hand he rear To perish in the wilderness; |