But they, his people, should remain ;
Their time should have no end.

16 And he would feed them from the shock
With flour of finest wheat,
And satisfy them from the rock
With honey for their meat.

PSALM LXXXII

I GOD in the 1 great 1 assembly stands
Of kings and lordly states;

2 Among the gods 2 on both his hands
He judges and debates.

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2 How long will ye pervert the right
With judgement false and wrong,
Favouring the wicked by your might,
Who thence grow bold and strong

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3 Regard the weak and fatherless;
4 Despatch the poor man's cause;
And raise the man in deep distress
By just and equal laws.

4 Defend the poor and desolate,
And rescue from the hands
Of wicked men the low estate
Of him that help demands.

5 They know not, nor will understand;
In darkness they walk on;

The earth's foundations all are moved,
And out of order gone.

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6 I said that ye were gods, yea all

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The sons of God Most High;

But ye shall die like men, and fall

As other princes die.

8 Rise, God; judge thou the earth in might;

This wicked earth 7 redress;

For thou art he who shalt by right

The nations all possess.

1 Bagnadath-e.
Tishphetu gnavel.
Hatzdiku.
"Shiphta.

2 Bekerev.

• Shiphtudal.

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Jimmotu.

PSALM LXXXIII

I BE not thou silent now at length;
O God, hold not thy peace:
Sit thou not still, O God of strength,
We cry and do not cease.

2 For lo! thy furious foes now 1 swell,
And storm outrageously;

And they that hate thee, proud and fell,
Exalt their heads full high.

3 Against thy people they 2 contrive
Their plots and counsels deep;
Them to ensnare they chiefly strive
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."

5 For they consult with all their might,

And all as one in mind

Themselves against thee they unite,

And in firm union bind.

6 The tents of Edom, and the brood
Of scornful Ishmael,

Moab, with them of Hagar's blood,
That in the desert dwell,

7 Gebal and Ammon there conspire,
And hateful Amalec,

The Philistines, and they of Tyre, Whose bounds the sea doth check. 8 With them great Ashur also bands,

And doth confirm the knot;

All these have lent their armed hands

To aid the sons of Lot.

9 Do to them as to Midian bold,

That wasted all the coast;

To Sisera, and as is told

1 Jehemajun.

• Sod. Tsephuneca.

⚫ Jagnarimu.

Jithjagnassu gnal. • Lev jachdau.

ΙΟ

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Thou didst to Jabin's host,
When at the brook of Kishon old
They were repulsed and slain,

10 At Endor quite cut off, and rolled
As dung upon the plain.

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

1 Their stately palaces."

13 My God, oh make them as a wheel; 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;

162 And till they 2 yield thee honour due, 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.

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.

1 Neoth Elohim bears both.
They seek thy name: Heb.

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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

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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

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Hast hid where none shall know.
all thou hadst removed,

Thine

anger

And calmly didst return

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From thy 1 fierce wrath, which we had 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?

6 Wilt thou not 2 turn and hear our voice,

And us again 2 revive,

That so thy people may rejoice,

By thee preserved alive?

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7 Cause us to see thy goodness, Lord;

To us thy mercy show;

Heb. The burning heat of thy wrath.
Heb.: Turn to quicken us.