4 Filgnagu. Wherewith their cheeks are wet. 6 A strife thou mak'st us and a prey To every neighbour foe; 4 4 Among themselves they laugh, they play, + 7 Return us, and thy grace divine, 8 A Vine from Egypt thou hast brought, 9 Thou didst prepare for it a place, And filled the land at last. IO With her green shade that covered all Her boughs as high as cedars tall II Her branches on the western side Her other branches went. 12 Why hast thou laid her hedges low, That all may pluck her, as they go, 13 The tusked boar out of the wood Upturns it by the roots; Wild beasts there browse, and make their food Her grapes and tender shoots. 14 Return now, God of Hosts; look down Behold us, but without a frown, 60 15 Visit this Vine, which thy right hand Hath set, and planted long, And the young branch, that for thyself 16 But now it is consumed with fire, They perish at thy dreadful ire, 17 Upon the Man of thy right hand 70 50 40 309 Upon the Son of Man, whom Thou 18 So shall we not go back from thee 19 Return us, and thy grace divine, PSALM LXXXI. 1 To God our strength sing loud and clear; To Jacob's God, that all may hear, 2 Prepare a hymn, prepare a song; The cheerful psaltery bring along, 3 Blow, as is wont, in the new moon, The appointed time, the day whereon 4 This was a statute given of old A law of Jacob's God to hold, From whence they might not swerve. 5 This he a testimony ordained In Joseph, not to change, When as he passed through Egypt-land; 6 From burden, and from slavish toil, His hands from pots, and miry soil, 7 When trouble did thee sore assail, I answered thee in thunder deep, 8 Hear, O my people, hearken well: Thou ancient stock of Israel, 9 Throughout the land of thy abode Nor shalt thou to a foreign god In honour bend thy knee. Io I am the Lord thy God, which brought Ask large enough, and I, besought, II And yet my people would not hear, And Israel, whom I loved so dear, 12 Then did I leave them to their will, Their own conceits they followed still 13 Oh that my people would be wise, And oh that Israel would advise 14 Then would I soon bring down their foes, And turn my hand against all those 15 Who hate the Lord should then be fain But they, his people, should remain; Their time should have no end. 16 And he would feed them from the shock And satisfy them from the rock 40 50 4 3 Regard the weak and fatherless ; 5 4 Defend the poor and desolate, 5 They know not, nor will understand; The earth's foundations all are moved, 6 I said that ye were gods, yea all 7 But ye shall die like men, and fall As other princes die. 8 Rise, God; judge thou the earth in might; This wicked earth? redress; For thou art he who shalt by right The nations all possess. PSALM LXXXIII. I BE not thou silent now at length; 2 For lo! thy furious foes now 1swell, And they that hate thee, proud and fell, 3 Against thy people they 2 contrive 3 Their plots and counsels deep; 4 Them to ensnare they chiefly strive 5 Whom thou dost hide and keep. 4 "Come, let us cut them off," say they, "Till they no nation be; That Israel's name for ever may Be lost in memory." 6 For they consult with all their might, Themselves against thee they unite, And in firm union bind. 3 The tents of Edom, and the brood Of scornful Ishmael, 7 Neoth Elohim bears both. 8 They seek thy name: Heb. Moab, with them of Hagar's blood, 7 Gebal and Ammon there conspire, The Philistines, and they of Tyre, All these have lent their armed hands To aid the sons of Lot. 9 Do to them as to Midian bold, To Sisera, and as is told Thou didst to Jabin's host, When at the brook of Kishon old 10 At Endor quite cut off, and rolled II As Zeb and Oreb evil sped, 12 For they amidst their pride have said, God's houses, and will now invade 7 Their stately palaces." 13 My God, oh make them as a wheel; Giddy and restless let them reel, Like stubble from the wind. 14 As, when an aged wood takes fire The greedy flame runs higher and higher, 15 So with thy whirlwind them pursue, And with thy tempest chase; 168 And till they yield thee honour due, 17 Ashamed and troubled let them be, With shame, and scape it never. 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. 30 40 50 60 |