Our solemn feast comes round. 4 This was a statute given of old For Israel to observe,

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;
The tongue I heard was strange.

6 From burden, and from slavish toil,
I set his shoulder free;

His hands from pots, and miry soil,
Delivered were by me.

7 When trouble did thee sore assail,
On me then didst thou call,
And I to free thee did not fail,
And led thee out of thrall.

I answered thee in1 thunder deep,
With clouds encompassed round;
I tried thee at the water steep

Of Meriba renowned.

8 Hear, O my people, hearken well: I testify to thee,

Thou ancient stock of Israel,

If thou wilt list to me:

9 Throughout the land of thy abode No alien God shall be,

Nor shalt thou to a foreign God

In honour bend thy knee.

1 Be Sether ragnam.

10 I am the Lord thy God, which brought

Thee out of Egypt-land;

Ask large enough, and I, besought,
Will grant thy full demand.

II And yet my people would not hear,
Nor hearken to my voice;

And Israel, whom I loved so dear,

Misliked me for his choice.

12 Then did I leave them to their will, And to their wandering mind;

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Their own conceits they followed still
Their own devices blind.

13 Oh that my people would be wise,
To serve me all their days!
And oh that Israel would advise
To walk my righteous ways!

14 Then would I soon bring down their foes;
That now so proudly rise,

And turn my hand against all those
That are their enemies.

15 Who hate the Lord should then be fain
To bow to him and bend;

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 great1 assembly stands
Of kings and lordly states;
Among the Gods on both his hands
He judges and debates.

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Tishphetu 2 How long will ye pervert the right

gnavel.

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With judgment false and wrong,
Favouring the wicked by your might,
Who thence grow bold and strong?

Shiptudal. 3 Regard the weak and fatherless;

Hatzdiku.

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Despatch the poor man's cause;
And raise the man in deep distress
By just and equal laws.
Defend the poor and desolate,

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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;

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The earth's foundations are all "moved, Jimmotu.

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And out of order gone.

6 I said that ye were Gods, yea all

The sons of God Most High;

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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.

7 Shiphta.

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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 'swell,
And1 storm outrageously;

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

3 Against thy people they contrive

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3 Their plots and counsels deep;

+ Them to ensnare they chiefly strive 5 Whom thou dost hide and keep.

Come, let us cut them off," say they,
"Till they no nation be;

That Israel's name for ever may

Be lost in memory."

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5 For they consult with all their might, dau

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,

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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

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
"Their stately palaces."

bears both. 13 My God, oh make them as a wheel;

8 They seek thy name: Heb.

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,

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

So with thy whirlwind them pursue,
And with thy tempest chase;
And till they yield thee honour due,
Lord, fill with shame their face.

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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

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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.

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