10 With her green fhade that cover'd all,

The hills were over-fpread,

Her boughs as high as cedars tall

12 Why haft thou laid her hedges low,

And broken down her fence,

That all may pluck her, as they go,

With rudeft violence?

13 The tusked boar out of the wood

Up turns it by the roots,

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Her grapes and tender fhoots.

14 Return now, God of Hofts, look down

From Heav'n, thy feat divine,

Behold us, but without a frown,

And visit this thy vine.

15 Vifit this vine, which thy right hand

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Hath fet, and planted long,

And the young branch, that for thyself

Thou haft made firm and ftrong.

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16 But now it is confum'd with fire,

And cut with axes down, sidin

They perish at thy dreadful ire, olen playyo

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At thy rebuke and frown. Shane quid boots 17 Upon the man of thy right hand

Let thy good hand be laid,

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Upon the fon of man, whom thous sou Strong for thyself haft made, fit amal we 18 So fhall we not go back from thee

To ways of fin and shame,

Quicken us thou, then gladly we

Shall call upon thy Name.

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19 Return us, and thy grace divine
Lord God of Hofts vouchsafe,
Caufe thou thy face on us to fhine,
And then we shall be safe.

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O 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 song, en sunn til da

The timbrel hither bring,

And harp with pleasant ftring.

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

Th' appointed time, the day whereon

Our folemn feast comes round.

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4 This was a statute giv'n of old For Ifrael to obferve,

A law of Jacob's God, to hold,

From whence they might not swerve." W. Hal?

5 This he a testimony ordain'd

In Jofeph, not to change,

When as he pass'd through Egypt land;
The tongue I heard was strange.

6 From burden, and from flavish toil
I fet his fhoulder free:

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

7 When trouble did thee fore affail,
On me then didst thou call,

And I to free thee did not fail,
And led thee out of thrall.

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I answer'd thee in *thunder deep * Be Sether regn
With clouds incompass'd round;
I try'd thee at the water fleep

Of Meriba renown'd.

8 Hear, O my People, hearken 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 honour bend thy knee.

10 I am the Lord thy God which brought

Thee out of Egypt land

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Ask large enough, and I, befought,

Will grant thy full demand.

II And yet my people would not hear,

Nor hearken to my voice;

And Ifrael, whom I lov'd fo dear,

Miflik'd me for his choice.

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12 Then did I leave them to their will,

And to their wand'ring mind;

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Their own conceits they follow'd still,

Their own devices blind.

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3 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 so proudly rise,

And turn my

hand against all those

That are their enemies.

15 Who hate the Lord fhould then be fain

To bow to him and bend,

But they, his people, should remain,

Their time should have no end.

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With flow'r of finest wheat,

And fatisfy them from the rock
With honey for their meat.

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OD in the great * affembly stands
Of kings and lordly ftates,

+Among the Gods, † on both his hands † Bekere.

He judges and debates.

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