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of the wicked unto thee will I sing with the harp, Oftains; the fruit thereof shall shake like thou Holy One of Israel. Lebanon; and they of the city shall 23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when flourish like grass of the earth. I sing unto thee; and my soul, which 17 His name shall endure for ever: thou hast redeemed. his name shall be continued as long as 24 My tongue also shall talk of thy the sun; and men shall be blessed in righteousness all the day long: for him: all nations shall call him blessed. they are confounded, for they are 18 Blessed be the LORD God, the God brought unto shame, that seek my of Israel, who only doeth wondrous hurt. things.

2 He shall judge thy people with Jesse are ended. righteousness, and thy poor with judg

13 1le shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy. 14 He shall redeem their soul from 13 Verily I have cleansed my heart deceit and violence: and precious in vain, and washed my hands in shall their blood be in his sight.

15 And he shall live, and to him shall 14 For all the day long have I been be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer plagued, and chastened every mornalso shall be made for him continually;ing.

15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, 16 There shall be a handful of corn in 1 should offend against the generation the earth upon the top of the moun-of thy children.

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The desolation of the sanctuary. 16 When I thought to know this, itjary, they have defiled by casting down was too painful for me; the dwelling place of thy name to the 17 Until I went into the sanctuary of ground. God; then understood I their end. 8 They said in their hearts, Let us de 18 Surely thou didst set them in slip-stroy them together: they have burnpery places: thou castedst them downed up all the synagogues of God in the into destruction. land.

19 How are they brought into desola tion, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O LORD, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

21 Thus my heart was grieved, and was pricked in my reins.

22 So foolish as I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. 23 Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.

24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

9 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long. 10 O God, how long shall the adver sary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever? 111 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.

12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. 13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wil

25 Whom have I in heaven bit thee? and there is none upon earth that I de-derness. sire besides thee.

26 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perishi: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee. 28 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.

PSALM LXXIV.

Maschil of Asaph. GOD, why hast thou casts off for ever? chy doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture ?

2 Remember thy congregation,chich thou has purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast re deemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt

15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty riv ers.

16 The day is thine, the night also i thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.

18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy

name.

190 deliver not the soul of thy turtle dove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.

20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy

22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.

3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual praise thy name. desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary, 4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregation; they set up their ens.gns for signs.

23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually. PSALM LXXV.

A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees. 6 But now they break down the carv-T ed work thereof at once with axes and hammers.

7 They have cast fire into thy sanctu

To the chief Musician, Al-taschith,
A Psalm or Song of Asapl.
INTO thee, O God, do we give
thanks, unto thee do we give

God's great and

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gracious tom ke thanks: for that thy name is near, thy bring presents unto him that ought to wondrous works declare. be feared.

PSALM LXXVII.

To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun,
A Psalm of Asaph.

CRIED unto God with my voice even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.

2 In the day of my trouble I sought the LORD: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selab.

8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full 4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: of mixture; and he poureth out of the I am so troubled that I cannot speak. same: but the dregs thereof, all the 5 I have considered the days of old, wicked of the earth shall wring them the years of ancient times. out, and drink them.

9 But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

PSALM LXXVI.

To the chief Musician on Neginoth,
A Psalm or Song of Asaph.

6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: Icommune with mine own heart; and my spirit made diligent search,

7 Will the LORD cast off for ever? and will be be favourable no more? 8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? 9 Hath God forgotten to be gracions?

IN Judah is God known: his name hath he get set up his tender

is great in Israel.

2 In Salem also is his tabernacle,and his dwelling-place in Zion.

3 There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.

4 Thou art more glorious and ex cellent than the mountains of prey. 5 The stout-hearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep; and none of the men of might have found their bands. 6 At thy rebuke,O God of Jacob,both the chariot and horse are cast into dead sleep.

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7 Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?

8 Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,

mercies? Selah.

10 And I said, This is my infirmity; but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.

I will remember the works of the LORD; surely I will remember thy wonders of old.

12 I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.

13 Thy way, O God,is in the sanctu ary: who is so great a God as our God? 14 Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength Jamong the people.

15 Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

16 The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid; the depths also were troubled.

17 The clouds poured out water; the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.

9 When God arose to judgment, to Bave all the meek of the earth. Selah. 10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath 18 The voice of thy thunder was in shalt thou restrain. the heaven: the lightnings lightened 11 Vow, and pay unto the LORD your the world: the earth trembled and God: let all that be round about him shook.

God's wrath against

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the disobedient

19 Thy way is in the sea,and thy path him, by provoking the Most High an m the great waters, and thy footsteps the wilderness. are not known.

20 Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron. PSALM LXXVII.

Maschil of Asaph.

18 And they tempted God in their heart, by asking meat for their lust. 19 Yea,they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

G incline your ears to the words of the waters gushed out, and the streams

IVE ear, O my people, to my law: 20 Belokl, he smote the rock, that

my mouth.

2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old; 3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

4 We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.

5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;

6 That the generation to come might kuow them, even the children which should be born, who should arise and declare them to their children.

7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his comin indments:

8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

9 The children of Ephraim, being arined, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; 11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had showed them. 12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

13 He divided the sea, and caused then to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as a heap.

14 In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with light of fire.

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15 He clave the rocks in the wilder ness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.

16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

17 And they sinned yet more against

overflowed; can he give bread also? can be provide flesh for his people? 21 Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled Jagainst Jacob,and auger also came up against Israel;

22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation: 23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,

24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.

25 Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.

26 He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven; and by his power he brought in the south wind.

27 He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea;

28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habita tions.

29 So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire; 30 They were not estranged from their lust: but while their meat was yet in their mouths,

31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel. 32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works. 33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

34 When he slew them, then they sought him; and they returned and inquired early after God.

35 And they remembered that God was their Rock, and the bigh God their Redeemer.

36 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto bim with their tongues.

37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

The desolation

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of Jerusalem. 38 But he, being full of compassion, the most high God, and kept not his forgave their iniquity, and destroyed testimonies; them not: yea, many a time turned 57 But turned back, and dealt unbe his anger away, and did not stir up faithfully like their fathers: they were all his wrath. turned aside like a deceitful bow. 55 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. 59 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: 60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent tokich he placed among men;

39 For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

41 Yea, they turned back and tempt ed God, and limited the Holy Oue of Israel.

42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.

43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:

61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the ene my's hand.

62 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.

63 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not

44 And had turned their rivers into
blood and their floods, that they given to marriage.
could not drink.

64 Their priests fell by the sword; 45 He sent divers sorts of flies among and their widows made no lamenta them, which devoured them; and tion. frogs, which destroyed them.

46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust.

47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore-trees with frost. 48 He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.

50 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; 51 And smote all the first-born in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:

52 But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

53 And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this! mountain, which his right hand had purchased.

55 He cast out the heathen also be fore them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. 56 Yet they tempted and provoked

65 Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

66 Aud he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a per petual reproach.

67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved. 69 And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.

70 He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheep-folds: 71 From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inher itauce.

72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. PSALM LXXIX.

A Psalm of Asaph. GOD, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy tem have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

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2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. 3 Their blood bave they shed like