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PSALM LXXX.

1 HEAR, Isr'el's Shepherd! like a flock thou that dost Joseph guide; Shine forth, O thou that dost between the cherubims abide.

2 In Ephraim's, and Benjamin's, and in Manasseh's sight,

O come for our salvation;

stir up thy strength and might. 3 Turn us again, O Lord our God, and upon us vouchsafe

To make thy countenance to shine,
and so we shall be safe.

4 O Lord of hosts, almighty God,
how long shall kindled be
Thy wrath against the prayer made
by thine own folk to thee.?

5 Thou tears of sorrow giv'st to them
instead of bread to eat;

Yea, tears instead of drink thou giv'st to them in measure great.

6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours round about; Our enemies among themselves at us do laugh and flout,

18 The boar who from the forest comes doth waste it at his pleasure; The wild beast of the field also devours it out of measure.

14 O God of hosts, we thee beseech, return now unto thine;

Look down from heav'n in love, behold, and visit this thy vine:

15 This vineyard, which thine own right hand

hath planted us among;

And that same branch, which for thythou hast made to be strong.

16 Burnt up it is with flaming fire,
it also is cut down:

They utterly are perished,
when as thy face doth frown.

17 O let thy hand be still upon

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the Man of thy right hand, The Son of man, whom for thyself thou madest strong to stand.

18 So henceforth we will not go back, nor turn from thee at all: O do thou quicken us, and we upon thy name will call.

1 SING loud to God our strength; with to Jacob's God do sing. [joy

2 Take up a psalm, the pleasant harp, timbrel and psalt'ry bring.

3 Blow trumpets at new-moon, what day our feast appointed is:

4 For charge to Isr'el, and a law of Jacob's God was this.

5 To Joseph this a testimony

he made, when Egypt land He travell'd through, where speech I I did not understand. [heard

6 His shoulder I from burdens took, his hands from pots did free.

7 Thou didst in trouble on me call,
and I deliver'd thee:

In secret place of thundering
I did thee answer make;

And at the streams of Meribah
of thee a proof did take,

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8 O thou, my people, give an ear,
I'll testify to thee:

To thee, O Isr'el, if thou wilt
but hearken unto me.

9 In midst of thee there shall not be
any strange god at all;
Nor unto any god unknown
thou bowing down shalt fall.

10 I am the Lord thy God, which did
from Egypt land thee guide;
I'll fill thy mouth abundantly,
do thou it open wide.

11 But yet my people to my voice
would not attentive be:
And ev'n my chosen Israel
he would have none of me.

12 So to the lust of their own hearts I them delivered;

And then in counsels of their own they vainly wandered.

13 O that my people had me heard, Isr'el my ways had chose!

14 I had their en'mies soon subdu'd, my hand turu'd on their foes. 15 The haters of the Lord to him

submission should have feign'd;

1 IN gods' assembly God doth stand; he judgeth gods among.

2 How long, accepting persons vile,
will ve give judgment wrong?

3 Defend the poor and fatherless;
to poor oppress'd do right.
4 The poor and needy ones set free;
rid them from ill men's might.

5 They know not, nor will understand
in darkness they walk on:
All the foundations of the earth
out of their course are gone.

6 I said that ye are gods, and are sons of the Highest all:

7 But ye shall die like men, and as one of the princes fall.

8 O God, do thou raise up thyself, the earth to judgment call: For thou, as thine inheritance, shalt take the nations all.

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PSALM LXXXIII.

1 KEEP not, O God, we thee entreat,
O keep not silence now:
Do thou not hold thy peace, O God,
and still no more be thou.

2 For, lo, thine enemies a noise

tumultuously have made;
And they that haters are of thee
have lifted up the head.

3 Against thy chosen people they
do crafty counsel take;
And they against thy hidden ones
do consultations make.

4 Come, let us cut them off, said they,
from being a nation,

That of the name of Isr'el may
no more be mention..

5 For with joint heart they plot, in league against thee they combine.

6 The tents of Edom, Ishm'elites, Moab's and Hagar's line;

7 Gebal, and Ammon, Amalek, Philistines, those of Tyre;

8 And Assur join'd with them, to help Lot's children they conspire.

9 Do to them as to Midian,
Jabin at Kison strand;
10 And Sis'ra, which at En-dor fell,
as dung to fat the land.

11 Like Oreb and like Zeeb make
their noble men to fall;
Like Zeba and Zalmunna like,
make thou their princes all;

12 Who said, For our possession
let us God's houses take.

13 My God, them like a wheel, as chaff before the wind, them make.

14 As fire consumes the wood, as flame doth mountains set on fire,

15 Chase and affright them with the and tempest of thine ire. [storm

16 Their faces fill with shame, O Lord, that they may seek thy name.

17 Let them confounded be, and vex'd, and perish in their shame:

18 That men may know that thou, to alone doth appertain [whoin

The name JEHOVAH, dost most high o'er all the earth remain.

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PSALM LXXXIV.

1 HOW lovely is thy dwelling-place,
O Lord of hosts, to me!
The tabernacles of thy grace
how pleasant, Lord, they be!
2 My thirsty soul longs veh'mently,
yea faints, thy courts to see:
My very heart and flesh cry out,
O living God, for thee.

3 Behold, the sparrow findeth out
an house wherein to rest;
The swallow also for herself
hath purchased a nest;

Ev'n thine own altars, where she safe
her young ones forth may bring,
O thou almighty Lord of hosts,
who art my God and King.