3 For I envious was, and grudg'd

the foolish folk to see, When I perceiv'd the wicked sort enjoy prosperity.

4 For still their strength continueth their death of bands is free. [firm; 5 They are not toil'd like other men, nor plagu'd, as others be.

6 Therefore their pride, like to a chain, them compasseth about; And, as a garment, violence doth cover them throughout.

7 Their eyes stand out with fat; they have

more than their hearts could wish. 8 They are corrupt; their talk of wrong both lewd and lofty is.

17 Till to God's sanctuary I went, then I their end did see.

18 Assuredly thou didst them set a slipp'ry place upon; Them suddenly thou castedst down into destruction.

19 How in a moment suddenly to ruin brought are they! With fearful terrors utterly they are consum'd away.

20 Ev'n like unto a dream, when one from sleeping doth arise;

21

22

9 They set their mouth against the heav'ns

23

So thou, O Lord, when thou awak'st
their image shalt despise.
Thus grieved was my heart in me,
and me my reins opprest:

So rude was I, and ignorant,
and in thy sight a beast.

Nevertheless, continually,
O Lord, I am with thee:
Thou dost me hold by my right hand,
and still upholdest me.

24 Thou, with thy counsel, while I live
wilt me conduct and guide;
And to thy glory afterward
receive me to abide.

25 Whom have I in the heavens high but thee, O Lord, alone? And in the earth whom I desire besides thee there is none.

26 My flesh and heart doth faint and but God doth fail me never: [fail For of my heart God is the strength and portion for ever.

27 For, lo, they that are far from thee for ever perish shall;

Them that a whoring from thee go thou hast destroyed all.

28 But surely it is good for me

that I draw near to God:

In God I trust, that all thy works
I may declare abroad.

thine anger smoke so sore? O call to thy rememberance thy congregation,

Which thou hast purchased of old;
still think the same upon :
The rod of thine inheritance,
which thou redeemed hast,
This Sion hill, wherein thou hadst
thy dwelling in times past.
To these long desolations

thy feet lift, do not tarry;
For all the ills thy foes have done
within thy sanctuary.

Amidst thy congregations
thine enemies do roar :
Their ensigns they set up for signs
of triumph thee before.

A man was famous, and was had
in estimation,
According as he lifted up

his axe thick trees upon.

6 But all at once with axes now and hammers they go to, And down the carved work thereof they break, and quite undo.

7 They fired have thy sanctuary,
and have defil'd the same,
By casting down unto the ground
the place where dwelt thy name.
8 Thus said they in their hearts, Let us
destroy them out of hand:
They burnt up all the synagogues
of God within the land.

9 Our signs we do not now behold;
there is not us among
A prophet more, nor any one

that knows the time how long.

to How long, Lord, shall the enemy
thus in reproach exclaim?
And shall the adversary thus
always blaspheme thy name?

Thy hand, ev'n thy right hand of
might,

why dost thou thus draw back? O from thy bosom pluck it out for our deliv'rance' sake.

ev'n from the times of old, Working in midst of all the earth salyation manifold.

13 The sea, by thy great pow'r, to part asunder thou didst make;

And thou the dragons' heads, O Lord,
within the waters brake.

14 The leviathan's head thou brak'st
in pieces, and didst give
Him to be meat unto the folk

in wilderness that live.

[flood, 15 Thou clav'st the fountain and the which did with streams abound: Thou dry'dst the mighty waters up unto the very ground.

16 Thine only is the day, O Lord,
thine also is the night;
And thou alone prepared hast
the sun and shining light.

17 By thee the borders of the earth
were settled ev'ry where :
The summer and the winter both
by thee created were.

18 That th' enemy reproached hath,
O keep it in record;

And that the foolish people have
blasphem'd thy name, O Lord.

19 Unto the multitude do not
thy turtle's soul deliver:
The congregation of thy poor
do not forget for ever.

20 Unto thy cov'nant have respect:
for earth's dark places be
Full of the habitations

of horrid cruelty.

21 O let not those that be oppress'd return again with shame : Let those that poor and needy are give praise unto thy name. 22 Do thou, O God, arise and plead the cause that is thine own: Remember how thou art reproach'd still by the foolish one.

23 Do not forget the voice of those
that are thine enemies:

Of those the tumult ever grows
that do against thee rise.

4

I to the foolish people said,
do not deal foolishly;
And unto those that wicked are,
Lift not your horn on high.
Lift not your horn on high, nor speak
with stubborn neck. But know,
That not from east, nor west, nor
promotion doth flow. [south,

7 But God is judge; he puts down one, and sets another up.

8 For in the hand of God most high of red wine is a cup:

'Tis full of mixture, he pours forth, and makes the wicked all Wring out the bitter dregs thereof; yea, and they drink them shall. 9 But I for ever will declare,

I Jacob's God will praise. 10 All horns of lewd men I'll cut off; but just men's horns will raise.

5 Those that were stout of heart are spoil'd,

they slept their sleep outright; And none of those their hands did that were the men of might. [find, 6 When thy rebuke, O Jacob's God, had forth against them past, Their horses and their chariots both were in a dead sleep cast.

7 Thou, Lord, ev'n thou art he that be fear'd; and who is he [should That may stand up before thy sight, if once thou angry be?

8 From heav'n thou judgment caus'd be heard;

the earth was still with fear, 9 When God to judgment rose, to save all meek on earth that were.

10 Surely the very wrath of man

unto thy praise redounds:
Thou to the remnant of his wrath
wilt set restraining bounds.

II Vow to the Lord your God, and pay: all ye that near him be,

Bring gifts and presents unto him;
for to be fear'd is he.

12 By him the sp'rits shall be cut off
of those that princes are:
Unto the kings that are on earth
he fearful doth appear.

PSALM LXXVII.

77 C. M. St. Paul, Farrant. Chant. Lemon. I UNTO the Lord I with my voice, I unto God did cry; Ev'n with my voice, and unto me his ear he did apply.

2 I in my trouble sought the Lord, my sore by night did run,

3

And ceased not; my grieved soul did consolation shun.

I to remembrance God did call, yet trouble did remain;

And overwhelm'd my spirit was, whilst I did sore complain.

4 Mine eyes, debarr'd from rest and thou makest still to wake; [sleep, My trouble is so great that I unable am to speak.

The days of old to mind I call'd,
and oft did think upon
The times and ages that are past
full many years agone.
By night my song I call to mind,
and commune with my heart;
My sp'rit did carefully enquire
how I might ease my smart.
(For ever will the Lord cast off,
and gracious be no more?
For ever is his mercy gone?
fails his word evermore?
Is't true that to be gracious
the Lord forgotten hath?
And that his tender mercies he
hath shut up in his wrath?
Then did I say, That surely this
is mine infirmity:

I'll mind the years of the right hand
of him that is most High."
Yea, I remember will the works
performed by the Lord:

The wonders done of old by thee
I surely will record.

I also will of all thy works my meditation make; And of thy doings to discourse great pleasure I will take, 80 God, thy way most holy is within thy sanctuary; And what God is so great in pow'r as is our God most high? Thou art the God that wonders dost by thy right hand most strong: Thy mighty pow'r thou hast declar'd the nations among.

To thine own people with thine arm
thou didst redemption bring;
To Jacob's sons, and to the tribes
of Joseph that do spring.

16 The waters, Lord, perceived thee,
the waters saw thee well;
And they for fear aside did flee;

the depths on trembling fell.

17 The clouds in water forth were sound loudly did the sky; [pour'd, And swiftly through the world abroad thine arrows fierce did fly.

2 My mouth shall speak a parable, and sayings dark of old;

3

The same which we have heard and
and us our fathers told. [known,

4 We also will them not conceal
from their posterity;
Them to the generation

to come declare will we: The praises of the Lord our God, and his almighty strength, The wondrous works that he hath we will shew forth at length. [done, 5 His testimony and his law

in Isr'el he did place,

And charg'd our fathers it to show to their succeeding race;

6 That so the race which was to come might well them learn and know; And sons unborn, who should arise, might to their sons them show: 7 That they might set their hope in and suffer not to fall [God, His mighty works out of their mind, but keep his precepts all 8 And might not, like their fathers, be a stiff rebellious race;