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and the trees of their coafts he fhivered!

He spoke and the locufts came,

and crickets, without number:

which ate up all the herbage in their land,
and devoured the fruits of their foil!

He, moreover, fmote the firft-born in their land,
the whole prime of their man-hood vigour.

He brought forth his people, with filver and gold:
nor was there a feeble one, among all their tribes.
The Egyptians rejoiced at their departure;
for the dread of them had fallen upon them.

He spread out a cloud for a covering to them;
and a fire to enlighten them by night!
At their requeft, he brought quails,

and fatisfied them with celeftial bread!
He opened the rock, and waters iffued forth;
in ftreams they flowed through the desert!
For he remembered his facred promife,
which he had made to his fervant Abraham:
and with joy he brought out his people;
with triumph his chofen ones.

He gave to them the lands of nations,

and the labours of other people they inherited:
on condition, that they would keep his ftatutes,
and would obferve his laws.-

PRAISE-JEHOVAH !

NOTES.

Ver. 18. That Joseph was put in chains, there is no word in Genesis: fo this must be a mere traditionary tale. Perhaps the Midianite merchants had bound him, in his way to Egypt. The metaphor of the iron piercing his foul I have retained, as it is readily understood. So

Simeon to Mary, in Luke 2. 35. Through thy foul, alfo, a fword fhall pafs."-Ver. 28. A negative particle in this verse has given much trouble to interpreters. It seems not to have been read by Sep. or Syr. yet it is found in the Latin Vulg. made from Sep. and in all the other verfions, except Syr. and Arab. which latter is a copy from Sep.-It would be tedious to detail here all the expedients that have been thought of by modern critics to remove the difficulty. Our various English tranflations, before Green, may be feen in Crutwell's edition of Bp. Wilfon's Bible. I think that the text is not to be disturbed; but that one word is to be differently pointed: This gives the congruous verfion, which I have made of the text. See C. R.-Ver. 40. celeftial bread. See the note on pfalm 78. 24.

PSALM CVI.-al. CV.

The subject of this psalm is similar to that of the former; and it was probably composed on the same occasion. It has no title, but

PRAISE-JEHOVAH!

GIVE thanks to JEHOVAH; for good is he: for his kindness endureth for ever.

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Who can exprefs the exploits of JEHOVAH?

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who can display all his praise-worthy deeds? Happy are they, who keep to justice;

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and, at all times, practise righteousness.

Remember me, JEHOVAH! when thou favoureft

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thy people:

vifit me with thy faving power;

that I may fee the profperity of thine elect;

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be joyful in the joy of thy people;

and congratulate with thine heritage.

Like our fathers, we have finned;

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have done iniquitous and wicked deeds.

Our fathers, in Egypt, confidered not thy wonders;

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but, unmindful of thy numerous benefits,

rebelled, while marching toward the Red-fea!
Yet he faved them for his own name's fake,
that he might display his mighty power.

He rebuked the Red-fea, and it was dried up;

and through the deeps he led them, as through a defert!

From the hands of their haters he faved them,

and rescued them from the hands of their enemies. The waters fo covered their enemies

that not one of them was left alive.

Then they believed his words, and fang his praife; but his works they fuddenly forgot;

and waited not, patiently,

for the accomplishment of his defign.

For, giving way to their lufts in the Defert,
they provoked GOD, in the Wilderness.

So he granted them their request;
but, at the fame time, fent a plague among

In the camp they were jealous of Mofes,
and of Aaron, the hallowed of JEHOVAH.
The gaping earth fwallowed up Dathan;
and overwhelmed the affociates of Abiram!
among their affociates a fire was kindled,
the flames burned up the impious!

At Horeb, they made a golden calf,
and worshipped a molten idol :

and thus changed the God of their glory
into the likeness of a grafs-eating bull!
They forgot the God, who had faved them;
who had done fuch great things in Egypt;

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and would not liften to the voice of JEHOVAH!

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They wore the badges of Baal-pheor, and facrificed to lifelefs idols:

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and fo provoked him by their practices,

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that a peftilence broke out among them.

But Phinehas ftood up, and avenged the crime:

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and thus the peftilence was reftrained:

and this, to him, was accounted for righteousness,

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whom they facrificed to the gods of Chanaan !
Thus the land was contaminated with blood:
they polluted themfelves by their misdeeds;
and idolatrized their own delufions.

Therefore, was the wrath of JEHOVAH
enkindled against his own people:

his own heritage he abominated!

He delivered them into the hands of the heathens,
and they who hated them ruled over them!
oppreffed they were by their enemies,

and under their hands were they humbled!
Many, many times he rescued them:

ftill they deliberately provoked him!

and again were they humbled, for their iniquity. Yet, when he heard their cries,

he regarded their affliction;

remembered the covenant he had made with them,
and relented according to his infinite bounty.
He hath alfo made them objects of compaffion,
in the fight of all those who had captived them.
Save us, JEHOVAH! our GOD!
and gather us from among the heathens,
to give thanks to thine holy name,

and to glory in praising thee.

Bleffed be JEHOVAH, the GOD of Ifrael,
from eternity to eternity!

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