II As Zeb and Oreb evil sped,
So let their princes speed;
As Zeba and Zalmunna bled,

So let their princes bleed.

12 For they amidst their pride have said,
"By right now shall we seize

God's houses, and will now invade
7 Their stately palaces."

7 Neoth Elohim bears

13 My God, oh make them as a wheel; both. No quiet let them find;

Giddy and restless let them reel.

Like stubble from the wind.

14 As, when an aged wood takes fire
Which on a sudden strays,

The greedy flame runs higher and higher,
Till all the mountains blaze;

15 So with thy whirlwind them pursue,

And with thy tempest chase;

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16 And till they yield thee honour due, They seek

Lord, fill with shame their face.

17 Ashamed and troubled let them be, Troubled and shamed for ever.

Ever confounded, and so die

With shame, and scape it never.

thy name :
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18 Then shall they know that thou, whose name
Jehovah is, alone

Art the Most High, and thou the same
O'er all the earth art One.

PSALM LXXXIV.

I How lovely are thy dwellings fair!
O Lord of Hosts, how dear

The pleasant tabernacles are

Where thou dost dwell so near!

2 My soul doth long and almost die

Thy courts, O Lord, to see;
My heart and flesh aloud do cry,

O living God, for thee.

3 There even the sparrow, freed from wrong, Hath found a house of rest;

The swallow there, to lay her young,

Hath built her brooding nest;
Even by thy altars, Lord of Hosts,

They find their safe abode;

And home they fly from round the coasts
Toward thee, my King, my God.

4 Happy who in thy house reside,

Where thee they ever praise !

5 Happy whose strength in thee doth bide, And in their hearts thy ways!

6 They pass through Baca's thirsty vale, That dry and barren ground,

As through a fruitful watery dale

Where springs and showers abound. 7 They journey on from strength to strength With joy and gladsome cheer,

Till all before our God at length

In Sion do appear.

8 Lord God of Hosts, hear now my prayer,

O Jacob's God, give ear:

9 Thou, God, our shield, look on the face

Of thy anointed dear.

10 For one day in thy courts to be

Is better and more blest

Than in the joys of vanity

A thousand days at best.

I in the temple of my God

Had rather keep a door

Than dwell in tents and rich abode

With sin for evermore.

II For God, the Lord, both sun and shield,

Gives grace and glory bright;

No good from them shall be withheld
Whose ways are just and right.

12 Lord God of Hosts that reign'st on high,
That man is truly blest

Who only on thee doth rely,
And in thee only rest.

PSALM LXXXV.

I THY land to favour graciously

Thou hast not, Lord, been slack;
Thou hast from hard captivity

Returned Jacob back.

2 The iniquity thou didst forgive
That wrought thy people woe,
And all their sin that did thee grieve
Hast hid where none shall know.

3 Thine anger all thou hadst removed,

And calmly didst return

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From thy1 fierce wrath, which we had 1 Heb.: The

proved

Far worse than fire to burn.

4 God of our saving health and peace,

Turn us, and us restore;

'Thine indignation cause to cease Toward us, and chide no more.

5 Wilt thou be angry without end, For ever angry thus ?

Wilt thou thy frowning ire extend

From age to age on us?

burning heat of thy wrath.

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6 Wilt thou not turn and hear our voice, 2 Heb.: Turn

And us again 2 revive,

That so thy people may rejoice,

By thee preserved alive?

7 Cause us to see thy goodness, Lord;

to quicken us.

To us thy mercy shew;

Thy saving health to us afford,

And life in us renew.

8 And now what God the Lord will speak

I will go straight and hear,

For to his people he speaks peace,

And to his saints full dear;

To his dear saints he will speak peace;

But let them never more

Return to folly, but surcease
To trespass as before.

9 Surely to such as do him fear
Salvation is at hand,

And glory shall ere long appear

To dwell within our land.

10 Mercy and Truth, that long were missed,
Now joyfully are met;

Sweet Peace and Righteousness have kissed,
And hand in hand are set.

II Truth from the earth like to a flower
Shall bud and blossom then;

And Justice from her heavenly bower
Look down on mortal men.

12 The Lord will also then bestow

Whatever thing is good;

Our land shall forth in plenty throw
Her fruits to be our food.

13 Before him Righteousness shall go,
His royal harbinger:

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Then will he come, and not be slow;

His footsteps cannot err.

PSALM LXXXVI.

I THY gracious ear, O Lord, incline;
O hear me, I thee pray;

For I am poor, and almost pine

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3 Heb. will set his steps to the way.

With need and sad decay.

2 Preserve my soul; for I have trod Thy ways, and love the just : Save thou thy servant, O my God,

Who still in thee doth trust.

3 Pity me, Lord, for daily thee

I call; 4 Oh make rejoice

Thy servant's soul! for, Lord, to thee

I lift my soul and voice.

1 Heb.: I am good, loving, a doer of good and holy things.

5 For thou art good; thou, Lord, art prone To pardon; thou to all

Art full of mercy, thou alone,

To them that on thee call.
6 Unto my supplication, Lord,
Give ear, and to the cry
Of my incessant prayers afford

Thy hearing graciously.

7 I in the day of my distress

Will call on thee for aid;

For thou wilt grant me free access,
And answer what I prayed.

8 Like thee among the gods is none,
O Lord; nor any works

Of all that other gods have done

Like to thy glorious works.

9 The nations all whom thou hast made Shall come, and all shall frame

To bow them low before thee, Lord,

And glorify thy name.

10 For great thou art, and wonders great
By thy strong hand are done;

Thou in thy everlasting seat
Remainest God alone.

II Teach me, O Lord, thy way most right;
I in thy truth will bide;

To fear thy name my heart unite;