In midft of thee there fhall no more Be any frange god found at all; Nor unto any god unknown.

Thou, bowing down, from hence fhalt fall. to I am the Lord thy God, thy guide,

Who brought thee from the ftranger's land:
Open thy mouth, and open't wide;
I'll feed thee with my lib'ral hand.

11 But yet, my people to my voice
Would not-would not attentive be;
Ev'n Ifra'l, whom I made my choice,
He would have none

have none of me!

12 So then I yielded them unto

The lufts of their own foolish hearts;
And, lo, they wander'd to and fro,

Aftray from me, in defert parts. 13 O that my people had me heard!

That Ifra'l had my counfels chofe ! 14 I had their en'mies foon debarr'd,

And turn'd my hand upon their foes: 15 The haters of the Lord to him,

Submifhon lowly fhould have feign'd;
But as for them, th' accepted time.
Should have for evermore remain’d.

16 He should have fed them, to their will,
With finest of the chofen wheat;

Of honey from the rock, thy fill

I should have made thee freely eat.
Behold, defcrib'd, Meffiah's reign!
Melliah reigns for evermore,
God Bleffed over all, arten.
Let loyalty and love adore.

PSALM

PSALM LXXXII.

DESCRIPTIVE of the glory of THE SON OF GOD, and giving inftruction to rulers. See John x. 34and Pfal. ii.

1

Among the gods the Lord is God:
Advance his praife on high!
Let all the princes kifs the rod,
And fall fubmiffively!
The world's into confufion gone,
And all its gods fhall die;

But we adore TH ETERNAL SON,
TH' ETERNAL GOD MOST HIGH.

E ftands THE SON OF GOD declar'd,
God bleffed over all;

Among th' aflembled gods, prepar'd
To judge both great and fmail.
2 How long will ye unjustly judge,
Accepting perfon's vile,

And bear my holy ones a grudge,
Becaufe devoid of guile?

3 Defend the poor and fatherless;
Do juftice to the weak:

4 Deliver thofe whom men opprefs; Their proud oppreffors break.

5 They know not, nor will understand;
They walk in darkness on:

All the foundations of the land ·
Are to confufion gone,

6 I have pronounc'd you gods, and all
The fons of the Moft High;

7 But ye fhall die like men, and fall, As all the princes die.

8 Arife, O God, and judge the land;
For nations all are thine:

And we, thine heritage, fhall stand;
For thou haft laid our line.

PSALM

Or the fame fpirit with Pfäl. ii. and xxxv.. ^

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Behold, thine enemies advance
With roaring rage, like feas,
To fwallow up thy faints at once,
Devouring them with cafe,
Unless thou, Lord, in mercy come,
And drive them back again—
Behold, Meffiah brings us home,
And with him makes us reignt

Be not filent, thou our God;
O hold thy peace no more :
2 For, Jo, thine enemies abroad :
Like bears against thee roar..

They foam, and rage, and ftamp, and fwell,
And make a tumult high:

Arife, O God, the tumult quell
Of thofe who thee defy.

Against thy hidden ones poco bA That they may take them in their snare, D And ridicule their groans.

4 Come, come, fay they, let us deftroy Thofe people, great and fmall;"

That Ifra'l may no more annoy;

Nor be a name at all.

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For they confpire with one confent,
And all their pow'rs combine,

In fworn confederacy bent, modi Indo ca
O Lord, 'gainst thee and thine.
The tents of Edom form the
With thofe of th' fhma'lite;

Moab and Hagar, as one man,

ted

With heart and hand unite; united I'

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7 Gebal,

7 Gebal, and Ammon, Amalek,
And thofe of Palestine,

8 Against the Lord their wrath to wreak,
With Tyre and Affur join:
Lo, with a proud menacing eye,
Like death and hell they frown,
And lift aloft their hand on high,
To fmite thy people down.

9 Do to them as to Midianite,
Who fell beneath thy rod;
Like Sifera and Jabin fmite,
As erft at Kifon flood:

10 Make them as those who perished
Where Endor's fountains rife,
Who fell, and all on heaps were laid,

'The land to fertilize.

fi Like Oreb, and like Ze-eb, now
Make thou their nobles fall,
Like Zeba, and Zalmunna too,
Make thou their princes all :

12 Because they vaunted in their pride,
And boafted to destroy

God's heritage on ev'ry fide pos
That they might all enjoyi

13 My God, let their foundations move,
And roll like wheels away;

And let them like the ftubble prove, When fweeping whirlwinds play; 14 As fire confumes the parched wood,

' As flames the mountains fire; ek 15 So chafe them with the tempeft loud,

And whirlwind of thine ire. 14 0

16 O fill their faces, Lord, with thames
And caufe them lick the duft,
That they may dread Meffiah's name,
And mourn their ways unjuft.

17 Let them, confounded and difmay'dod O With fhame eternal fall;

That men may fee thy name difplay'd,

JEHOVAH Over àll.

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PSALM LXXXIV.

EXACTLY fimilar in all refpects to Pfalm lxij. whofe illuftration fee, cv biseri v

To manfions in our Father's houfe,

Our FORERUNNER has gone, or at find That he may them prepare for us,

And come again 1 anom

How pleafant were they unto him!

How pleafant now to us!

Our glory there fhall ne'er grow dim;
Our gain ne'er fuffer loss! 's

HOW lovely is thy dwelling-place,

O Lord of Hofts, to me!

The tabernacles of thy grace, How pleafant, Lord, they be! 2 My thirfty foul longs veh'mently, Yea faints, thy courts to fee; My very heart and fleth do cry, O living God, for thee.

3 My fpirit like the fwallow flies, 1
And round thine altar plays,

With anxious purpose, while the plies
Her domicil to raised in
And, like the fparrow, ever near, 10

She hops and fprings about,

Within thy walls herfelf to cheer,
And bring her fam❜ly out;

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