We came into fire and water:

And Thou leddest us out to affluence.

13

14

15

16

III.

I will enter Thy house with burnt-offerings:
I will pay to Thee my vows,

Which my lips have utter'd, and which

My mouth hath spoken in trouble.

Fat lambs will I bring Thee as holocausts,
With smoke of rams:

I will offer bullocks with goats.

Come, hearken, and let me tell,

19

The Lord would not have heard me.
But verily God hath heard me :
He hath heeded the voice of my prayer.
20 Blessed be God, who hath not removed
My prayer, nor His mercy

from me.

STROPHE-DIVISION 7. 5. 8.-12. 8.-20.

PSALM LXVII.

TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN. A PSALM FOR STRINGED

INSTRUMENTS.

A SONG OF PRAISE.

I.

1

2

MAY God be gracious to us, and bless us :
And cause His face to shine along with us!
That Thy way may be known upon earth:
Thy salvation 'mong all the heathen.

II.

3

4

The peoples shall praise Thee, O God :
The peoples shall praise Thee, all of them.
The nations shall joy and sing:

5

For Thou judgest the peoples righteously
Thou guidest the nations on earth.

III.

The peoples shall praise Thee, O God:
The peoples shall praise Thee, all of them

6

The land produces its increase :

And God, our God, doth bless us.

God doth bless us, and all

The ends of the earth shall fear Him

STROPHE DIVISION 2. 2. 3. 4. 3.—7.

I

1.

PSALM LXVIII.

A PSALM OF DAVID. A SONG OF PRAISE.

I.

2

GOD arises: His foes are scatter'd :

And those who hate Him flee before Him.

3

4

5

6

7

As smoke doth vanish, Thou makest them vanish :
As wax doth melt from the presence of fire,

From the presence of God the wicked perish.
But the righteous are glad, and exult in God's
presence:

They also rejoice with gladness.

Sing ye to God: sing psalms to His Name:

Make a highway for Him who rides through the
deserts:

(His Name is JAH :) and rejoice before Him.
A Father of orphans,-a God of widows,—

Is God in His holy habitation.

God makes the solitary dwell in families:
He leadeth the prisoners forth to prosperity:
But the rebels inhabit a land of drought.

8

II.

O God, when Thou wentest before Thy people:
When Thou marchedst forth in the wilderness :

PAUSE.

9

10

11

The earth did quake, yea, the heavens did drop,
At the presence of God:

This Sinai quaked at the presence of God,

The God of Israel.

Thou didst scatter a rain of gifts:

Thyself didst strengthen Thy weary heritage.
Thy host, they dwell in the land:
Thou through Thy goodness, O God,
Preparest a home for the wretched.

III.

12

The Lord announces the word :

13

14

15

The female heralds of joy

Are a numerous host.

Kings of armies flee: they flee:

And the dweller at home, she divides the spoil.

When ye lie between the ridges,

Ye shall be like the wings of a dove,

Cover'd with silver,

And her feathers with gleaming gold.
When the Almighty scatters kings in it,
It snows on Salmon.

IV.

16

A mountain of God Mount Bashan is:

A mountain of peaks Mount Bashan is.

17

Why are ye piqued, ye peaked mountains,

At the mountain which God desires to dwell in?
Yea, Jehovah will dwell therein for ever.

V.

God is to us a God of deliverances :
To Jehovah the Lord belong

The goings forth for death.

Yea, God will wound the head of His enemies :
The hairy scalp

That perseveres in his trespasses.

"I will bring back," saith the Lord," from

Bashan :

"I will bring back from the depths of the sea : "That thou mayest stain thy foot

"And the tongue of thy dogs in the blood "Of every one of thine enemies."