2 As fmoke is driv'n before the wind,
So drive them fuddenly from thee;
As wax that melts to fire confign'd,
Confum'd before thee, let them be.
3 But let the juftified, glad,
Before their Juftifier fing,
In robes of royal glory clad,
Exulting in the Lord their King.
4. Chant to your God melodioufly,
Sing, fing to your Emmanuel's name:
He rides along the heav'ns on high,
By hisname JAH, the Lord fupreme:
Exult before him, dance and fing;

5

The widow's heart fhall bound for joy,
The fatherless fhall leap and fpring,
And hope the heavy heart fhall buoy :
In 's holy habitation, he,

The widow's Husband, Judge, and God, Shall vindicate and fet her free,

And train her children with his rod.

6 God makes the folitary dwell

In manfions of eternal love,

And draws the flaves of death and hell,
By pow'r divine, to heav'n above;

But those who rife againft their Prince,

And fcorn to wear the chains of grace,
Their doom is paft in heav'n long fince,
That they fhall never fee his face :
In darkness how they mourn and wail,
And curfe their refuges of lies,
Now fwept away by driving hail,

In depths of hell, no more to rife!

7 O God, when thou in glory didft Before thy people Ifra'l march,

The howling wilderness amidft,

Where drought and heat the ground did parch,

8 Lo,

8 Lo, then the earth a-trembling fell, And then the heav'ns began to drop, Before the God of Ifrael,

Defcending on Mount Sinai's top:

Thou Sinai, too, didft quake and bow, And totter to thy very root, When God Almighty on thy brow Did flightly prefs thee with his foot. 9 Then thou, O God, didft fend thy rain. In plenty on the weary ground, Whereby thou didst revive again Thy parch'd inheritance around: 10 Thy congregation, Lord, did make With thee their habitation there, And of thy goodness did partake, Which for the poor thou didst prepare. 11 The Lord himfelf did give the word, The word divine abroad did fpread; Great was the company, O Lord, Of those the fame who published.

12 Kings of great armies foiled were, And forc'd to fly away apace; The prince who ruleth in the air,

With all his hofts, the Lord did chafe.-
But his dear fpoufe, who ftaid at home,
He call'd to diftribute the spoil;
She fprang with joy to fee him come,
Returning glorious from his toil.

13 Though ye have lien among the pots,
Like doves anon ye fhall appear,
Whofe wings with gold and filver fpots,
In varied hue, fhine bright and clear.
14 When there th' Almighty fcatter'd kings,
Who glow'd in robes of gloffy white,
Death few on them with thoufand wings,
Like driving fnow on Salmon's height.

15 The hill of God, as Bafhan-hill,

As Bafhan-hill both high and great, With wonder fhall the kingdoms fill, And all the world with pomp and state. 16 Why do ye leap, ye lofty hills, Thus far retiring from your place? This is the hill Jehovah fills

With grace, with mercy, truth, and peace.

Jehovah dwells for evermore,

And here alone defires to dwell,
On Zion-hill;-where, o'er and o'er,
We fhall his glorious actions tell.
17 God's chariots twenty thousand are,

And angels thoufands thousands bright,
His pow'r and glory do declare,

And celebrate with matchlefs might:

The Lord among them ever reigns,
As lately on Mount Sinai's brow,
He gave his law in awful strains,
Along their ranks, in Ifra'ls view.
18 Thou haft, O Lord moft glorious,
Afcended up to God on high,
And, in triumph victorious,
Haft captive led captivity.

Thou haft received gifts for men,
Yea, ev'n for those who did rebel;
That God the Holy Ghoft might reign,
And evermore within them dwell.
19 Blefs'd be the Lord, who daily does
With his moft gracious bleffings load
The happy dwellers in his house;
Who is of our falvation God!

20 For he who is our God most high,
Is our Redeemer kind and good,
Who came from heav'n our fouls to buy,
To buy them with his precious blood:

Ev'n to our God the Lord belong

The iffues both from death and hell; 21 But God fhall quell the finful throng, Against his gofpel who rebel.

22 The Lord hath faid, I'll bring again
My faints from Bafhan's fartheft hill;
Yea, from the deep devouring Main
My people bring again I will;
23 O Jacob, that thy foot may be
Dipt in the blood of all thy foes,
And that the dogs who fawn on thee
May lap it as it smokes and flows.
24 Thy goings have confpicuous been,
The goings of my King and God;
His ways the people all have feen,
Within his holy high abode.
25 The fingers rais'd the lofty fong,

The players caught the folemn found, The tab'ring damfels play'd along, And fweetly led the choirs around. 26 Blefs, blefs ye God, th' affembly fings, Blefs, blefs the Lord, from Ifra'ls Fount; The temple all rebounds and rings, While God's high praifes they recount.

27 Lo, there is little Benjamin,

With him the Ruler of their flock;
Thy princes, Judah, there are seen,
With their grave senatorial stock;

The princes too of Zebulun,

With thofe of Naphtali, the hind; With all the thoufands round them run, When Ifra'l's flags play in the wind. 28 Zion, thy God commands thy ftrength; Oftrengthen, Lord, thy Zion now, That we may fee thy face at length, And all thy glorious works may know. 29 Because

29 Because of thy Jerufalem,

And temple thou haft built thee there,
Great kings fhall come, and bring with them
Rich royal prefents, treasures rare!
30 O God, rebuke thofe companies

Of fpearmen, with that multitude
Of bulls, who roaring round us rise,
Raging and bellowing for our blood:
Let all the people fly like calves
Purfued hard by flaughter-hounds;
Nor foil thy foes, O God, by halves,
But let them fall by mortal wounds;
Unless themselves they foon fubmit,
And for their tribute off'rings bring;
For they muft fall into the pit,

Who rife against the Lord their King.
31 Princes fhall come from foreign lands,
Thou, Egypt, foon fhalt bow to God;
Thou, Ethiopia, ftretch thine hands,
And pay the homage thou haft ow'd.
32 Let all the world adore and bow;
-Let all the kingdoms of the earth
Sing praife, fing praise their Lord unto!
Let all the nations fhew their mirth!

33 To him who rides upon the heav'n,
The heav'n of heav'ns which were of old,
The pow'r and kingdom both be giv❜n;
His glorious acts we will unfold.
He fendeth out his mighty voice,

His mighty voice fhall found abroad;
His tidings of eternal joys

Shall fill the univerfe of God.

34 To Christ afcribe ye ftrength and might,
His glory over Ifra'l fhines;

His excellence is joy and light,
To manifeft his high defigns: