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 OF THE 
 
 P S A L M S, 
 
 ORIGINALLY WRITTEN 
 
 BY THE 
 
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 REV. JAMES MERRICK, A.M. 
 
 DIVIDED INTO STANZAS, 
 
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 ADAPTED TO THE PURPOSES 
 
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 LONDON: 
 
 Printed for Thomas Payne and Son, at the Mews Gate; 
 Benjamin White and Son, Fleet Street; Roeson 
 and Clarke, New Bond Street; G. G. J. and J. 
 Robinson, Paternofter Row; Mr. Fletcher and 
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 and Joseph Bence, Wotton under Edge* 
 
 M.DCC.LXXXIX. 
 
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 MJBLIC OR PRIVATE DEVOTION, ^ 
 
 By the Rev. W. D. TATTERS ALL, A.M. \f 
 
 Vicar of Wotton under Edge, Gloucestershire, K) 
 and Chaplain to the Hon. Mr. Juftice Buller. 
 
T O 
 
 THE KING. 
 
 SIR, 
 
 » 
 
 JTTM3E following work, the refult 
 ■** of much application, was at 
 firft undertaken, and has been com- 
 pleted folely from a defire to promote 
 the caufe of Religion, and the credit 
 of the Eftabliihed Church. 
 
 In this point of view, I truft, it 
 may not appear unworthy the regard 
 of a Monarch, who has uniformly 
 fhewn himfelf the firm fupporter of 
 that Church, and gracioufly expreffed 
 his conviction of its intrinfic purity, 
 § and 
 
DEDICATION. 
 
 and infeparable connection with our 
 excellent Conftitution. 
 
 That the Church of England may- 
 continue to flourifh, and preferve its 
 accuftomed mildnefs and moderation, 
 under the happy government of Your 
 Majefly and Your illuftrious defcend- 
 ants, to the lateft ages, is the earneft 
 prayer of^ 
 
 SIR, 
 
 - Yo ur Majesty's 
 Moft dutiful, and 
 
 moft obedient Servant, 
 
 W. D. TATTERSALL. 
 
ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 THIS alteration <rf Mr. MERRICK's learned 
 and truly Poetical Verfion of the Pfalms 
 would have been too prefumptuous an undertaking, 
 if its aim had not been to improve that part of our 
 Church Service which has long been the fubjecl: of 
 the moll fevere animadverfions. Although it has 
 been printed nearly two years, the Editor was unwil- 
 ling to offer it to the Public, till he had collected 
 the fentiments of the Rulers of our Church, and 
 of thofe friends whofe abilities are well known, 
 and on whofe judgment he could fafely rely. He 
 has the greater! pleafure to perceive that the 
 principal objection to its admiffion into paridi 
 churches appears to be the difficulty of adapting 
 fcveral of our beft old tunes to a metre differing 
 from the ancient veHIon. Some tunes have been 
 varied in his mufical collection *, whence an opinion 
 may be formed of farther improvements : and if this 
 objection mould be done away, the Editor will have 
 reafon to entertain hopes that his undertaking may, 
 at fome future period, obtain a proper fanction for 
 
 * To be had at Bland's Mufic-Warehoufe, N° 45, 
 <Holborn j and of all Bockfellers in town and country. 
 
 its 
 
ADVERTISEMENT, 
 
 its general introdu&ion into churches. He has 
 therefore taken fome pains to felect a number of 
 tunes more than fufficient to anfwer the defign of hav- 
 ing one to each pfalm, and intends to fubmit them to 
 the infpe&ion of the beft judges of mufic, that he may- 
 retain thofe only which mall be efteemed moll likely 
 to do credit to the fervice, and which he intends 
 publifhing hereafter, in addition to the prefent 
 work. Dr. Cooke, Dr. Hayes, Dr. Parsons, 
 Mr. Callcott, the Rev. Osborne Wight, 
 Mr. Web be, Mr. Shield, Mr. Stevens, and 
 many other perfons of mufical fkill and eminence, 
 have kindly promifed him their afliflance ; and, as it 
 is his earneft wifh to bring forward fuch a work as 
 may be an ornament to our Liturgy, he folicits the 
 like ailiilance from the Profeflbrsof Mufic in ge- 
 neral, and will think himfelf extremely obliged to 
 any gentlemen, who will favour him with tunes, 
 either of their own compoiition, or felected from old 
 melodies, that may be adapted to the purpofes of 
 Pfalmody, or calculated to employ the leifure hours 
 of a Sunday evening. 
 
 Wotton under Edge, 
 May 1 791. 
 
THE A U T H O R's 
 
 PREFACE, 
 
 THE following attempt on the Pfalms, 
 though a mixture of Tranflation and 
 Paraphnift). will, I hope, be found to contain 
 
 little more of the latter kind than what may 
 be ufeful either in opening the knk, or in 
 pointing out the connexion, of the Original, 
 The defects of it, great as they muft be, 
 would probably have been much greater, 
 had it not been favoured with a revifal by a 
 gentleman, whofe various and well-known 
 abilities, together with his fingular acquaint- 
 ance with the Hebrew Poetry, rendered him 
 peculiarly qualified for the office. The Re- 
 A 2 verend 
 
THE A U T H O R > s 
 
 verend Dodtor Lowth, Prebendary of Dur- 
 ham, having read a part of the work, was 
 pleafed to exprefs a defire of feeing the 
 whole : The Author of it was too fenfible 
 of the advantage which was likely to re- 
 fult from his infpe&ian of it, to decline 
 fuch an ofFer 9 and takes this opportunity 
 of publicly acknowledging the very great 
 iervice which he has received from this gen- 
 tleman's ailiftance ; who, after having in a 
 moft friendly and candid manner propofed 
 his objections where he judged them ne- 
 ceflary, was pleafed to encourage and advife 
 the publication of the work. My thanks are 
 alfo particularly due to my very worthy and 
 learned neighbour John Loveday, Efq; ta 
 whofe perufal the feveral parts of the work 
 were fubmitted, almoft as foon as compofed, 
 and whofe accurate criticifms have rendered 
 it lefs unworthy of the public light ; to 
 which, without confulting fuch judicious 
 friends as himfelf and the gentleman above- 
 mentioned, it had been preemption to ex- 
 pofe it: As the latter of thefe gentle- 
 men (whofe fon Mr, John Loveday, of 
 
 • Magdalen 
 
PREFACE. v 
 
 Magdalen- College, Oxford, a young gen- 
 tleman of diftinguifhed abilities and learning, 
 has feconded him in every office of friendfhip 
 and humanity towards me) has moil: readily 
 a/lifted me in confidering the fenfe of the 
 Original whenever I have applied to him, fo 
 the former has favoured me with a great- 
 number of obfervations on the Hebrew Text.; 
 which I may hereafter (if God give me 
 health) commit to the prefs, together with 
 many others communicated to me by perfons 
 of very great learning and eminence, and 
 with fuck remarks as have occurred to 
 rnyfelf in comparing my Verfion or Para- 
 ph rafe with the Original. Though the an- 
 notations which 1 have received from Dr k 
 Lowth were written in a- very expeditious 
 manner, without confulting many commen- 
 tators, yet the fingular attention which" that • 
 learned gentleman appears (in his admirable 
 le&ures on the Hebrew Poetry) to have paid 
 to the Pfalm's, as well as to the other poeti- 
 cal parts of Holy Scripture, had fo prepared 
 him for the work which he has thus obligingly 
 taken upon him, that they will, I am per- 
 A 3 fuaded, 
 
vi THE AUTHOR'S 
 
 fuaded, be found worthy of their author. A$ 
 thofe annotations which have been put into 
 my hands are (many of them at leaft) fuch 
 as will not be underftood by any perfons 
 who have not applied themfelves to the 
 fludy of the learned languages, I have ra- 
 ther chofen to referve them for a feparate 
 volume than to fubjoin them to the Ver- 
 fion or Paraphrafe which is here prefented 
 to the reader. The inconveniences arifing 
 from my ntuation, remote from any of the 
 moft public libraries, have been in a great 
 mcafure remedied by my accefs to the large 
 and well-chofen libraries of a gentleman be_ 
 fore mentioned, and of my late pious, learn- 
 ed, and ingenious friend, the Reverend 
 Doctor Bolton Dean of Carlifle, as alfo 
 by the favour of the moft Reverend the 
 Lord Archbifhop of Canterbury ; who 
 has (in addition to the many other inftances, 
 which I have experienced, of his Grace's 
 goodnefs and condefcenfion) been pleafed 
 to honour me, on this occaiion, with the 
 voluntary offer, and the ufe, of fome of the 
 moft conJiderab-le expofitions gf the Pfalms ; 
 
 fuch 
 
PREFACE. vir 
 
 fuch as thofe of Geierus, Michaelis, and 
 Houbigant ; together with Celfius's Hie- 
 robotanicon, Hillerus's Hierophyticon, and 
 feveral new Verfions of the Pfalter in dif- 
 ferent languages. As the communication 
 of thefe valuable helps demands my hum- 
 bled gratitude, fo it likewife encourages 
 me to hope (though my own incapacity 
 and a long courfe of ill health will fcarce 
 allow me to think of attempting a regular 
 Comment on the Pfalms) that it may be 
 in my power, in fome inftances, to confirm 
 by fufficient authorities fuch interpretations of 
 feveral difficult texts as I have followed, and, 
 in others, to difcover the errors which I 
 have committed. 
 
 It may be proper to advertife the reader, 
 that The Verfion or Paraphrafe of the 
 Pfalms now put into his hands has not 
 been calculated for the ufes of public Wor- 
 fliip. The tranflator knew not how, with- 
 out negleiting the Poetry, to write in fuch 
 language as the common fort of people 
 would be likely to underftand : For the 
 fame reafon he cguld not confine himfelf 
 
 in 
 
viii THE AUTHOR'S 
 
 in general to ftanzas, nor, confequently, 
 adopt the meafures to which the tunes 
 ufed in our Churches correfpond. How- 
 ever, as his meafures are all of the Lyric 
 kind, his work may, he hopes, anfwer the 
 purpofes of private devotion. Two of the 
 Pfalms, the hundred and eleventh and the 
 hundred and twelfth, have indeed been 
 purpofely tranflated or paraphrafed in the 
 meafure which anfwers to the tune of 
 the hundredth Pfalm, as it is fung in the 
 Church, on account of its known excel- 
 lence. 
 
 The judicious reader will not, it is 
 hoped, be offended, if he finds the fame 
 phrafes, and even the fame lines, fome- 
 times occur in different Pfalms, when he 
 confiders what liberty of repetition the He- 
 brew Poetry admits in one and the fame 
 Poem, and, confequently, how often the 
 fame expreffions are likely to be found in 
 a collection of many Hebrew Poems com- 
 pofed on fimilar fubjecls. The candid 
 Critic may the better judge what degree 
 of indulgence the tranflator of fuch a work 
 
 may 
 
f R E F A C E. ix 
 
 j*ay fcand in need of, if he knows to how 
 great difficulties no lefs able a writer than 
 Corneille was reduced on a like occa- 
 fion : whofe words, in the Preface to his 
 poetical Verfion and Paraphrafe of Thomas 
 
 a Kempis, are as follows ; Sur tout les 
 
 redites y font ft frequenter que quand nojire 
 Langue feroit dix fols plus abondante qu' ' elle 
 n y ejiy je P aurois epuifee fort aifhnent, et j 9 
 avoue que j,e rC ay pu trouver le fecret de di- 
 verfifiir mes ixpnJfions y touUs lesfois que f ay 
 tu la mefme chofe a exprimer. 
 
 Whatever imperfections may be difco- 
 yered in the following performance, when 
 examined with a critical view, I fhall by no 
 means think my labour either ufelefs or un~ 
 recompenfed, if any pious perfons (hall find 
 their devotion aflifted and improved by it, 
 or their love more ftrongly excited towards 
 the great Author of our Salvation, fo evi- 
 dently pointed out in the courfe of thefe 
 iivine Compofiticns*. 
 
 June 5, 1765, 
 
 THE 
 
THE EDITOR'S 
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 THE Liturgy of the Church of England 
 is allowed, by the moll learned and 
 devout of the reformed churches abroad, as 
 well as by the moft candid and liberal of all 
 religious fe&s among ourfelves, to contain a 
 judieious compilation of fublime and admir- 
 able compofitions. Probably it is altogether 
 the beft that ever was formed for the ufc 
 of any Chriftian community, except perhaps 
 in the apoftolic age. It has, therefore, been 
 often lamented, that the poetical verfion of the 
 Pfalms, by Sternhold and Hopkins, fhould be, 
 on the whole, fo unfuitable to it; that the part 
 of the fervice, which confifts in finging the 
 praifes of our Creator, has confequently fuffer- 
 ed a fhameful neglect; and that, from the fame 
 eaufe, various abufes have gradually arifen, 
 which it requires a very careful interference 
 to correct. For the removal of thefe com- 
 plaints, it appeared to the Editor,, that the 
 
 verfioa 
 
THE EDITOR'S PREFACE, xi 
 
 verfion compofed by the late Mr. Merrick 
 was peculiarly fitted, excepting only that it 
 was not divided into ftanzas throughout; an 
 objection which it has coft him fome time 
 2nd attention to obviate. Frequent endea- 
 vours have indeed been ufed to render the 
 old verfion lefs objectionable, by fele£ting 
 from it certain portions of the Pfalms; but 
 thefe well-meant defigns, from fome defeft 
 or other, have generally failed of producing 
 the defired effect. As a more complete re- 
 medy, Brady and Tate employed themfelves 
 in forming an entire new verfion, which 
 they obtained permiflion to introduce among 
 thofe congregations who were inclined to 
 receive it. This performance did indeed 
 deferve confiderable approbation when pro- 
 duced, but appears to come far fhort of 
 that fince made by Mr. Merrick, both 
 in perfpicuity and fublimity of expreffion. 
 Yet the utmoft hope of this excellent 
 Author, refpedling the practical ufe of his 
 verfion, feems to have been that it might be 
 found to ferve the purpofes of private devo- 
 tion. He has even affigned a reafon why 
 he could not make it fit for public worfhip ; 
 namely, u that he knew not how, without 
 ^ w neglecting the poetry, to write in fuch lan- 
 * c g ua ge as the common fort of people would 
 iC be likely to underftand. And for the fame 
 
 « reafon,' 5 
 
xu 
 
 THE E D I TO R's 
 
 cc reafon," he adds, " he could not confine 
 u himfelf in general to ftanzas, nor confe- 
 w quently adopt the meafures to which the 
 w tunes ufed in eur chuiches correfpond." 
 He has, however, with a view to the former 
 purpofe, compofed Doxologies adapted to his 
 own metre?, and that even where he has not 
 divided the Pfalm into ftanzas : a circum- 
 ftance very favourable to the defigti of intro- 
 ducing his verfion into general ufe* 
 
 Many perfons indeed have thought with 
 the Author himfelf, that Mr. Merrick's ver- 
 fion is entirely above the capacity of the 
 loweft clafs of people; and perhaps it is hardly 
 pofiible to write any thing, which, to perfons 
 fo uninftru&ed, mall be in all refpeebs intelli*. 
 gible : but whoever compares it with the 
 verfion of Sternhold and Hopkins, or the 
 later production of Brady and Tate, will cer- 
 tainly difcover that this objection holds not 
 lefs ftrongly againft them : and that, in the 
 work before us, the expreffions which convey 
 the fentiments of the Royal Prophet, are for 
 the moft part clear, as well as poetical and 
 fublime. But though the Author found it 
 not convenient to divide the Pfalms in gene- 
 ral into ftanzas, a difficulty has arifen to fome 
 readers from that very circumftance : for in 
 long-continued fentences they have feemed to 
 3 want, 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 xai 
 
 want, notwithstanding the punctuation, fome 
 guide to direcl: and fix their attention, and to 
 fhew them where to reft. In the form now 
 given to thefe compofitions, befides that they 
 are thereby fitted for parochial ufe, the reader 
 will be enabled to dwell upon each ve-rfe at 
 pleafure, and digeft the fenfe, without fear of 
 error, as he proceeds. 
 
 The two former verfions, allowing for 
 the times in which they were made, may 
 certainly be regarded as efforts greatly laud- 
 able ; but when we confider to what de- 
 gree of perfection our language has now ar- 
 rived, and with w ? hat propriety and elegance 
 Mr. Merrick has exprefled, and often ex- 
 plained the fenic of his infpired Author, it is 
 no unfair derogation from them to point out 
 where the preference muft unavoidably be gi- 
 ven. The luftre of Mr. Merrick's performance 
 will perhaps be found in fome meafure di- 
 minifhed in thofe places where the Editor 
 has been obliged to make a few alterations : 
 but when his motive for the undertaking 
 mail be fairly confidered, he flatters himfelf 
 that not many will cenfure him for the li- 
 berty, which, through necefnty, he has taken. 
 As Mr. Merrick has declared that he was 
 particularly attentive to the poetry in his 
 verfion, and as the fuccefs of that atten- 
 a tion 
 
xiv THE EDITOR'S 
 
 tion is univerfally allowed, the Editor has 
 been always on his guard to vary from him 
 as little, and as feldom as poffib'le : and, to 
 render the performance free from all ma- 
 terial exceptions, whenever an addition was 
 necefTary, he has preferred, aim oft conftantly, 
 the introduction of lines written by Mr. 
 Merrick himfelf, in fome other part of the 
 verfion, to fupplying the dencience by his 
 own pen. Where this could not conveniently 
 be done, he has carefully endeavoured to 
 imitate Mr. Merrick's ftyle. He has alfo paid 
 great attention to the Bible tranflation, and 
 has been guided and directed by the belt com- 
 mentators. 
 
 Some perfons, on being ccnfulted, have fug- 
 gefted, that by leaving out certain lines which 
 appear rather redundant, the neceflary altera- 
 tions would frequently have been made with 
 greater eafe. The afTertion perhaps is juft ; 
 but, unwilling to omit any part of compo- 
 fitions fo defervedly admired, the Editor 
 has generally put himfelf to difficulties to 
 preferve as many as poffible of the original 
 lines. In fome paflages however he found omif- 
 fion altogether unavoidable : he was necefli- 
 tated alfo in a few inftances to alter the tenfes, 
 the perfons, and the flops, that the fenfe in 
 each verfe might be clear and diftindr. This 
 
 liberty 
 
PREFACE. xv 
 
 liberty he thought himfelf fully warranted to 
 take, upon the authority of that very worthy 
 and judicious critic, Dr. Lowth, the late Bi- 
 fhop of London, who, in one of his remarks 
 on the eighteenth Pfalm, has delivered his 
 fentiments to Mr. Merrick in this manner ; 
 4C You feem in doubt here about the Time. 
 u You fee the Paft and the Future are all 
 " along very much confounded in the He- 
 14 brew ; and, I believe, the befl direction will 
 " be, to fuit the Time as well as you can to 
 cc the context and courfe of your verfion." 
 
 The Pfalm s are d'vided into ftanzas of 
 from four to twelve lines, by which means 
 the purpofe of variety is fully anfwered. The 
 fhorteft fianza has been in general preferred. 
 The Editor, fome few years fince, formed a 
 portion of Mr. Merrick's Pfalms into ftanzas 
 for the ufe of his own church ; and at the 
 fame time, with the aid of feveral ingenious 
 profeflbrs of mufic, adapted to the words fome 
 of the choiceft tunes he could obtain, which 
 he has now publifhed as a fpecimen of what 
 may be effected : from that partial attempt 
 he has been led on imperceptibly through 
 the whole work. It is certain he met with 
 many difficulties at the firft, in removing the 
 prejudices of his congregation, who were 
 ftrongly attached to the verfion they had been 
 a 2 fo 
 
xvi THE EDITOR 
 
 fo long accuftomed to ufe, and were little 
 difpofed to admit of any innovation: yet he 
 has the fatisfa&ion to obferve, that, by per- 
 feverance, every obftacle has been overcome; 
 that his parishioners now, fo far from obje£t- 
 ing to the change, are highly pleafed with it, 
 and give it every encouragement. It is, in- 
 deed, the general remark, that there are few 
 churches, where the pfalmody is more de- 
 cently and folemnly performed, and, on the 
 whole, more juftly admired. 
 
 There can be little occafion further to de- 
 tain the reader with remarks, either on the 
 prefent imperfections of our pfalmody, fince 
 they are very generally acknowledged, or 
 on the means of removing them, among 
 which, the prefent publications, affifted by 
 the attention of the clergy and others, will, 
 it is hoped, be found efficacious. Should any 
 thing further be thought necefTary to illus- 
 trate either of thefe points, it may be given 
 under the authority of names that carry 
 with them the utmoft weight. I Dr. Brown, 
 in his Differtation on the Rife, &c. of Poetry 
 and Mufic, obferves, that 4t in the Pfalms as 
 u they are verfified by Sternhold and Hopkins, 
 u there are few ftanzas which do not prefent 
 u expreffions to excite the ridicule of fome 
 
 4< part 
 
PREFACE. xvii 
 
 c< part of every congregation." tc This ver- 
 44 fion," he adds, " might well be abolished, 
 11 as it expofeth one of the nobleft parts of 
 4C divine fervice to contempt. Efpecially as 
 " there is another verfion already privileged, 
 " which, though not excellent, is not intole- 
 44 rable. The parochial Mufic feems to need 
 44 no reform : its fimplicity and folemnity fuit 
 44 we!l its general deftination, and it is of 
 44 power, when properly performed, to raife 
 u affections of the nobleft nature." And 
 Dr. Vincent *, in his excellent treatife, inti- 
 tled, " Confiderations on Parochial Mufic," 
 after citing the above obfervations, declares, 
 that u if from the improvement of our lan- 
 " guage, or the refinement of our knowledge, 
 41 the whole is become unfit for its office ; 
 " the dictates of reafon, and the fervice of re- 
 " ligion, require that it mould now be dif- 
 4C carded, and fome fubftitute prepared to fup- 
 (4 ply its place." He further remarks, that 
 44 if pfalmody were once reftored to its origi- 
 44 nal rank and estimation, it would become 
 " an object of regard to the ruling powers to 
 44 -have this whole matter re coniidered and 
 44 revifed. In that cafe it would not be diffi.- 
 
 * Head Matter of Weftminiter School, Sub-almoner and 
 Cluplain to the King, and Keftor of Allhallows the Great 
 and Lcfs, London, 
 
 a 3 « cult 
 
xviii THE E D I T O R's 
 
 u cult to form a collection from different au- 
 " triors, which might carry this point as near 
 <c perfection as is requifite. There is a ver- 
 " fion by King James the Firft, which Mr. 
 " Pope commends, and is worthy his com- 
 a mendation ; there is another by Sandys ; 
 u an excellent one by Mr. Merrick ; there 
 u are detached pfalms in Milton, and other 
 " authors ; all which might be examined and 
 <c appreciated, and a whole formed which 
 <c would do honour to our own or any other 
 <c church ; and if fuch a feledtion were once 
 u fanftioned by Epifcopal and Royal Autho- 
 u rity, it would come to the people with every 
 M profpecl: of producing all the reformation 
 * that is defired. Such a work as this, would 
 •f contribute to form a national tafte, as well 
 4C as promote the national religion, nor is it 
 " impoffible, that,, with fuitable encourage- 
 M ment, religious mufic {hould again enter 
 " into the recreation of domeftic leifure, and 
 a revive the fentiments of primitive religion. 
 c< Then alfo an opportunity might offer for 
 " once more calling in the aid of frefti mu- 
 €f * fical composition, which new metres might 
 4i require, or the fimplicity of the prefent 
 a metres could admit ; but nothing of this 
 u fort can be attempted till many of the pre- 
 *> \Jous points are eftabVifhed." 
 
 It 
 
PREFACE. xfx 
 
 It appears indeed highly defirable, that the 
 poetical verfion of the Pfalms fhould be render- 
 ed as pleafing as poffible to every perfon who 
 is a member of the church, whether he be em- 
 ployed as a performer, or only as a reader and 
 hearer ; for it frequently happens that many 
 in our congregations, without being much 
 attracted by the mufic, will take up their 
 prayer-books to follow the fingers in the 
 words. But fuch perfons, though ferioufly 
 difpofed, have feldom been able, where the 
 old verfion was ufed, to forbear finiling 
 at the quaint and injudicious expreflions 
 which there continually prefent themfelves : 
 nor can it be expected that many readers 
 of this age will be induced to look more 
 than once into the verfion of Sternhold and 
 Hopkins, with the view of deriving any ra- 
 tional fatisfa£tion from the perufal. This, it 
 may fafely be afTerted, can never be the cafe 
 with the work of Mr. Merrick, which, on a 
 variety of accounts, muft, to every judicious 
 mind, afford the trueft fatisfadiion and de- 
 light. The following quotation from the po- 
 etical Prelections of the late Bifhop of Lon- 
 don,, would be alone fufficient to recommend 
 that verfion to public notice: — u Vir doftijfi- 
 " mus Jacobus Merrick, Ferfionem Pfalma- 
 * rum carmine vernaculo jam aljolvlt \ opus 
 t w eximium y 
 
xx THE EDITORS PREFACE. 
 
 " exim'tum^ multis eruditionis^ arils^ ingenii !u~ 
 <c minibus dijlinffum* " 
 
 Should the ftanzas in this Edition ap- 
 pear to be arranged with fufficient fkiil and 
 judgment to deferve the fuffrage of the pub- 
 lic > and fhould Mr. Merrick's work, in this 
 form, be confequently annexed, by permifllon 
 or authority, to our book of common prayer, 
 it might loon, inftead of lying hid in the libra- 
 ries of the learned, become a very pleafing 
 and improving help to religious meditation 
 and praife. The devout member of the 
 church, having poured out his foul in prayer 
 with zeal and fervency, would naturally be 
 inclined to clofe his addrefs with the pious 
 effufions of the infpired Pfalmift ; which, 
 when exprefied as they are in this verfion, 
 with a dignity and energy proportioned to 
 their original excellence, would be found to 
 fupply a variety of hymns, the mofl animating 
 that religion can employ, and adapted to every 
 poffible (late and condition of human life. 
 
 * " Mr. J:imes Merrick, a man of great learning, has 
 " lately finiflied a verfien of the Pfairns in Epglifc; an 
 « admirable work, diftinguifhed by many fpiendid marks 
 M of learning, art, and genius."— Lowth Prel. 26. p, 34^. 
 
 Not. 
 
 IN DEX. 
 
( xxi ) 
 
 N D E X. 
 
 A. Page 
 
 A RACE by God unbleft who rear 349 
 Arife, ye People, clap the hand 116 
 As pants the Hart for cooling fprings - 103 
 Awake, my Soul, to hymns of praife - 268 
 
 B. 
 Behold, my God, what numerous foes - 4 
 Behold my griefs ; my Soul preferve - 339 
 Behold the Fool, whofe heart denies 25-132 
 Behold the wretch, in error loft - - 85 
 Behold, while wearied with delay - 329 
 Be Thou my Judge : thy fearching eyes 57 
 Bleft be the Lord my ftrength, whofe aids 376 
 Bleft Objedt of my foul's defire - 32 
 Bleft, who with gen'rous pity glows - 100 
 By thy unwearied ftrength upheld - 44 
 
 C. 
 Come, celebrate your God and King - 274 
 
 D. 
 Defender of my rightful caufe - 6 
 
 Do Thou, juft God, my caufe defend - 80 
 
 E, Earth, 
 
xxii INDEX. 
 
 E. Page 
 
 Earthy big with Empires, to thy Reign - 52 
 
 F. 
 
 Far hence each Superftition vain - 333 
 
 Father of All ! my foul defend - 28 
 
 Fix'd in the Heav'ns, eternal Lord, - 330 
 
 Fix'd is thy bafe : throughout its coafts 224 
 
 G. 
 
 God my Strength, to Thee I pray - 61 
 
 God of my health ! to Thee by day - 226 
 
 God of my praife, thy filence break - 298 
 
 God the Heav'ns aloud proclaim - - 39 
 
 Great is our God: With warmeft zeal 117 
 
 Great Ruler of this earthly Ball - 353 
 
 H. 
 
 Had God abandon'd from his care - 346 
 Hail, Arbiter fupreme! thy Will - - 337 
 Hafte to my aid, my Saviour, hafte - 173 
 Hear, Lord, my pray'r, and let my cries 260 
 How bleft the Man his God who fears 305 
 How bleft the Man, whofe confcious grief 71 
 How bleft the fight, the joy how fweet 356 
 How bleft the Sculs, their God who fear 349 
 How bleft the talk, with fervent heart 241 
 How bleft who Thee, great God, obey 319 
 How early wife, {hall Youth, O fay - 320 
 How glows with grateful Love my breaft 31 1 
 How long (hall I, my God, in vain 24 
 
 How fvveet thy Dwelling, Lord, how fair 2i3 
 
 I. Jehovah 
 
INDEX. xxiii 
 
 I. Page 
 
 Jehovah reigns : Ye Nations own - 256 
 Immortal King ! thro' Earth's wide frame 13 
 Inftrudt, great God, the kingly heart 178 
 Is this a Dream ? amaz'd we cried - 34.8 
 
 L. 
 Let God arife, and let his foes - 161 
 
 Let not the Sinner's wealth or might - 87 
 Let fongs of joy to God afcend - - 282 
 Let thy various Realms, O Earth - 314 
 Lift your voice, and thankful fing 314-360 
 Lo ! from the Hills my help defcends 343 
 Lo, my Shepherd's hand divine - - 51 
 Lord (for on Thee fupported (land - 67 
 Lord ! to my wants thine Ear incline 222 
 Low in the dud my foul is laid - - 322 
 
 M. 
 May God his fav'ring ear incline - 160 
 May He whom Heav'n and Earth obey 42 
 Mercy, Judgment, now my tongue - 258 
 My God, my God, O tell me why - 46 
 My God, no longer filent ftand - - 215 
 My grateful heart thy Love has known 327 
 My grateful tongue, immortal King - 228 
 My heart is fix'd, eternal Sire - - 295 
 My heart its noblefc Theme has found 1 1 1 
 My heart's beft portion. Lord, art Thou 326 
 My impious foes, great God, repel - 369 
 My Soul in God its reft has found - 149 
 
 My 
 
xxlvr INDEX. 
 
 Page 
 My Soul, throughout thine inmoft frame 265 
 My Soul with facred zeal infpir'd - 304 
 My fteps Difcretion's rules ftiall guide 95 
 
 O. 
 O blefs Jehovah : Sweet the Joy - - 383 
 O come, and to th' eternal King - 248 
 Oft from my youth, may Ifrael fay - 351 
 O hear my voice, All-potent Sire - 134 
 O help me, Lord : For none I fee - 22 
 O how bleft the Man whofe ear - 1 
 
 O how the Wonders of thy Law - 336 
 O IfraeVs Father, King, and God - 206 
 O Maker, Guide, and Judge of All 338 
 
 O let me, Lord, thy Mercy know - 324 
 O let my Cries thy heav'nly feat - 341 
 O let not Us, thou God of Hofts - - 308 
 O Lord, whofe Mercies vaft amount - 127 
 On God my ftedfaft Hopes rely - 21 
 
 On Thee, great Ruler of the Skies - 1 14 
 On Thee, O God, with fteady frame 174 
 Qpprefs'd with grief, in exile loft - 148 
 O reach me, Lord, thy aiding Pow'r - 137 
 O fave me, Lord, and to my foes - j 1 
 O fpare me, Lord, nor o'er my head - 9-92 
 O Thou, whofe hand has Ifrael led - 186 
 Our Eyes, great God, have feen thy grace 220 
 O weigh me, Lord, in equal fcale - 106 
 
 P. 
 Praife, O praife th« Name divine - 390 
 
 Praife-, 
 
INDEX. xxv 
 
 Page 
 
 Praife, praife thy God, my Soul j his 
 
 Name - 3&i 
 
 R. 
 Repuls'd, difpers'd, chaftis'd by Thee - 146 
 
 S. 
 Say, Lord, why thus thy aiding pow'r - 18 
 Shepherd of Ifrael y bow thine ear - 209 
 Sing to our God the new-form'd lay - 388 
 Sing to the God whom we adore - 254 
 Sing to the Lord fome new-taught Song 250 
 Sing, ye Sons of Might, O fing - 63 
 
 T. 
 Taught by our Sires, great God, our ear 107 
 Teach me, O teach me. Lord, thy Way 323 
 TV Almighty Lord, beneath whofe feat 302 
 Thee, Lord, my harp's awaken'd firings 365 
 Thee, Lord, their dwelling, Thee alone 236 
 Thee Sion's praife, O Lord, attends - 155 
 Thee will I blefs, my God and King - 379 
 Thee will I thank,, and day by day - 77 
 The feftal Morn, my God, is come - 343 
 The Lord, th' Almighty Monarch, fpake 123 
 The Lord th* eternal fcepter rears - 244 
 The words that from my lips proceeds - 7 
 TV impending ftorm, my God, afluage 144 
 They, who with holy confidence - 347 
 Thine ear, my God, propitious lend - 374 
 Thine ear, thou Majefty divine - 153 
 Thine Eyes, my God, nor lofty Mind 353 
 b Thou 
 
xxvi INDEX. 
 
 Page 
 Thou art my God ; to Thee my eyes - 15 x 
 Thou, Lord, haft fearch'd me out j thine 
 
 Eyes - - - 366 
 
 Thou, God, with vengeance arm'd ap- 
 pear - - 245 
 Thou, Lord, my fafety, Thou my light 58 
 Thy Confines, Judab^ God have known 192 
 Thy Law, from Sinai's mount reveaP.d 332 
 Thy Mercy let thy Servant fee - 321 
 Thy Mercy, Lord, amidftmy woes - 139 
 Thy Name, immortal God, thy name 190 
 Thy Name my ftedfaft heart avows - 133 
 Thy plaftic art, throughout my frame - 328 
 Thy promifes, Almighty Sire - - 325 
 To God above, from all below - 289 
 To God belongs th' eternal Sway - 252 
 To God I cried, with anguifh ftung - 342 
 To God I cry ; to Him my pray'r - 373 
 To God my fuppliant voice I rear - 194 
 To God our Strength exalt the fong - 212 
 To Thee, above the ftarry Spheres - 345 
 To Thee from out the Deeps I pray - 352 
 To Thee, great God, my foul fhall rife 54 
 To Thee, great Ruler of the fkies - 65 
 To Thee I call, O hafte thee near 168-371 
 To Thee, the Judge inthron'd on high 29 
 
 W. 
 Warm'd to its inmoft depth, my breaft - 14 
 When Jacobs Sons through paths un- 
 known - - 307 
 
 Where 
 
INDEX. xxvii 
 
 Page 
 Where BahylorCs proud water flows - 363 
 While, cloth'd with pow'r divine, their 
 
 bar - 214 
 
 While Juftice o'er my life prefides 335 
 
 While princely Pow'r without a caufe 340 
 Who makes Omnipotence his Aid - 239 
 Who fhall tow'rd thy chofen feat - 26 
 Why thus enrag'd, ye Tribes profane - 2 
 Why, Tyrant, boafts thy Heart the pow'r 130 
 With patient hope my God I fought - 97 
 With what defire, great God, I burn - 331 
 
 Y. 
 Ye bleft Inhabitants of Heav'n - - 386 
 Ye faithftil Servants of your God 306-357 
 Ye Nations, hear : Ye Sons of Earth - 120 
 Ye Nations, to my Law give ear - 197 
 Ye Saints (to you the tafk belongs - 74 
 Ye Servants of th' eternal King - - 356 
 Yes : mightieft Lord ! My foul has known 181 
 Ye Sons of Men, in God rejoice - 157 
 Ye Tribes of Earth, in God rejoice - 257 
 Ye whofe lips the caufe decide • 141 
 
Psalm. 
 
 IV 
 X 
 
 XXII 
 
 XXIV 
 
 XXXI 
 
 XXXVII 
 
 LXXIV 
 
 LXXV 
 
 CI 
 
 CI1 6 
 CXXXVI 81 
 
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 OF THE 
 
 PSALMS. 
 
 PSALM L 
 i. 
 
 OHovv bfeft the Man, whofe ear 
 Impious counfel fhuns to hear, 
 Who nor loves to tread the way 
 Where the Sons of Folly ftray, 
 Nor their frantic mirth to fhare, 
 Seated in Derifion's chair; 
 But, to Virtue's path confin'd, 
 Spurns the men of finful mind, 
 And, poilefs'd with facred awe, 
 Meditates, great God, thy Law j 
 This by day his fix'd employ, 
 This by night his conftant joy* 
 2. 
 
 Like the Tree that, taught to grow 
 Where the ftreams irriguous flew, 
 Oft as the revolving Sun 
 Through the deftin'd Months has run, 
 Regular, its feafon knows, 
 Bending low its loaded boughs, 
 
 B He 
 
t PSALM I. 
 
 He his verdant branch (hall fpread, 
 Nor his fick'ning leaves fhall (lied \ 
 He, whate'er his thoughts devife. 
 Joyful to the work applies, 
 Sure to find the wifh'd fuccefs 
 Crown his hope, his labour bleis. 
 
 3- 
 
 See, ah! fee a different fate 
 
 God's obdurate foes await ; 
 
 See them, to his wrath confign'd, 
 
 Fly like chaff before the wind. 
 
 When thy Judge, O Earth, fhall come, 
 
 And to Each anlgn their doom, 
 
 Say, fhall then the impious Band 
 
 With the Juft affembled Hand ? 
 
 Thefe th' Almighty, Thefe alone, 
 
 Obje&s of his Love fhall own, 
 
 While his vengeance who defy 
 
 Whelm'd in endlefs ruin lie. 
 
 PSALM II. 
 i. 
 
 WH Y thus enrag'd, ye Tribes profane ? 
 Why flrive the Gentiles thus in vain ? 
 Why, rouz'd by Difcord's fierce Alarms, 
 Do headlong Nations rufh to Arms ? 
 
 2. 
 
 Earth's fcepter'd Lords rebellious rife 
 
 Againft the Ruler of the Skies, 
 
 And Him on whofe diftinguim'd head 
 
 His hand the facred oil has fhed. 
 
 3, In 
 
PSALM II. 3 
 
 3- 
 
 In factious Counfcls thus they join, 
 
 And vaunting brave the Povv'r divine ; 
 <• Quick let us each renounce their Sway, 
 cc And caft their hated bands away." 
 
 4- 
 God from on high their threats fhall hear, 
 Laugh, as the tumult meets his ear, 
 And, arm'd with vengeance, thus aloud 
 Superior quell the frantic Croud : 
 
 5- 
 cc Yet, Mortals, yet your Monarch fee, 
 M And bow to Him the humble knee ; 
 <c His throne on £/Ws hill my hand 
 " Has built, and what I build (hall ftand." 
 
 6. 
 Thy Will, great Father, I obey ; 
 Pleas'd I accept the offer'd Sway, 
 And through the Earth's extended frame 
 The Counfels of thy Love proclaim. 
 
 7- 
 
 " Thou art my Son, on this bleft Day 
 
 " Begotten ; (thus I hear thee fay;) 
 cc Prefer thy wifh, and to thy hand 
 4C Lo ! I confign each heathen Land. 
 
 8. 
 iC I bid thee rule the Nations round, 
 " Far as to Earth's remotefr bound j 
 " Though join'd in firmed league, thy foes 
 " With vain attempt thy pow'r oppofe. 
 
 B 2 9. "Thy 
 
4 P S A L M II. 
 
 9- 
 
 " Thy arm the iron rod extends; 
 
 ** Behold them, as the ftroke defcends, 
 c< Crufh'd like the potter's brittle ftore, 
 " And fcatter'd, to unite no more." 
 
 10. 
 Ye Kings, from Error's fleep arife, 
 Ye Judges of the Earth, be wife ; 
 And, warm'd with duteous zeal, confpire 
 To ferve v/ith joy th' eternal Sire. 
 
 ii. 
 O, left Ye periih from the way 
 That leads to realms of endlefs day, 
 With awful love, with holy fear, 
 His Son, the World's great Hope, revere, 
 
 12. 
 If yet but kindling in his hand 
 The vengeful bolt uplifted ftand, 
 Thrice happy, who on Him depend, 
 And thankful own th' almighty Friend. 
 
 PSALM III. 
 i. 
 
 BEHOLD, my God, what numerous foes 
 With dire intent. my fteps inclofe, 
 While, flufh'd with hope, the impious Band 
 In haughty triumph round me ftand : 
 a Lo i there," they cry, " our obvious prey, 
 cc The wretch whom God has caft away." 
 
 2, But 
 
P S A L M III. 
 
 But fee Omnipotence my (hield ! 
 
 My head aloft by Thee upheld. 
 
 Thy fav'ring beams around me fhine ; 
 
 Thou, Lord, from Sion's hallow'd fhrine 
 
 With kind regard {halt hear my cry, 
 
 And inftant grant the wifh'd reply, 
 
 3- 
 
 Opprefs'd with toil, I fought repofe, 
 
 I laid me down, I flept, I rofe ; 
 
 For Thou, my God, wert waking ftill, 
 
 To guard my flumb'ring head from ill : 
 
 Though Myriads, leagu'd, agai-nft me rife,- 
 
 My heart fecure their rage defies, 
 
 4- 
 Thy aid, bleft Lord, indulgent yield : 
 Oft, as I trod the doubtful field, 
 Each h-oftile cheek has felt thy ftroke ; 
 Thy rod their teeth vindictive broke $ 
 O yield (nor fhall I afk in vain,) 
 That oft experienc'd aid again. 
 
 5- 
 
 Th' impending ftorm, my God, affwag€ 3 
 f Tis thine to quell their impious Rage, 
 'Tis thine, great God, 'tis thine to fave 
 Thy Servants from th' expecting grave-, 
 'Tis thine to blefs them from above, 
 And crown them with eternal Love. 
 
 B 3 PSALM 
 
PSALM IV. 
 
 i. 
 
 DEFENDER of my rightful caufe, 
 While anguifh from my bofom draws 
 The deep-felt dgh, the ceafelefs pray'r, 
 O make thy fervant frill thy care ; 
 That aid, which oft my griefs has heaPd, 
 That aid again, intreated, yield, 
 
 2. 
 How long, ye fons of pride, how long 
 Shall falihood arm your impious tongue ? 
 How long (hall fecret love of ill 
 To wretched malice urge your will, 
 And erring rage your breaft inflame, 
 My pow'r to thwart, my acts defame r 
 
 3- 
 
 To God my heart (hall vent its woe, 
 
 Who, prompt his bleffings to beftow 
 
 On each whofe breaft has learn'd his fear, 
 
 Bows to my plaint the willing ear : 
 
 Him wduldft thou pleafe ? With rev'rent awe 
 
 Obferve the diclates of his Law. 
 
 4- 
 In fecret on thy couch reclin'd 
 Search to its depth thy reftlefs mind. 
 Till hirfh'd to peace the tumult lie, 
 And wrath and ftrife within thee die : 
 With pureft gifts approach his (hrine, 
 And fafe to Him thy care refign. 
 
 4 5-1 
 
PSALM IV, 7 
 
 5- 
 I hear a hopelefs train demand, 
 " Where's now the wim'd Deliverer's hand i* 9 
 
 Do Thou, my God, do Thou reply, 
 And let thy prefence from on high 
 In fall effufion o'er our head 
 Its all-enliv'ning influence (bed. 
 
 6. 
 What joy my confcious heart overflows ! 
 ■ Not fueh th 5 exulting lah'rer knows, 
 When to his long-expecting eyes 
 The vintage and the bar veils rife^ 
 And, fhadowing wide the cultur'd foil. 
 With full requital crown his toil, 
 
 7- 
 
 My weary eyes in fleep I clofe, 
 
 My limbs, fc cure, to reft compofe ; 
 
 For Thou, great God, (halt fcreen my head. 
 
 And plant a guard around my bed, 
 
 Thy choiceft Gifts /halt bid me (hare, 
 
 And make my fafety ftill thy care. 
 
 PSALM V. 
 i. 
 
 TH E words that from my lips proceed, 
 My thoughts (for Thou thofe thoughts 
 canft read,) 
 My God, my King, attentive weigh, 
 And hear, O hear me, when I pray. 
 
 2. 
 
 With earliefl zeal, with wakeful care, 
 To Thee my foul (hall pour its pray'r, 
 
 And, 
 
8 P S A L M V. 
 
 And, ere the dawn has ftreak'd the iky, 
 To Thee direct its longing eye :— 
 
 t. 
 To Thee, whom nought obfcur'd by ftain 
 Can pleafe \ whofe doors to feet profane 
 Inexorable ftand ; whofe Law 
 Offenders from thy fight fliall awe. 
 
 4- 
 
 Let each whofe tongue to lies is turn'd, 
 Who leffons of deceit has Icarn'd, 
 Or thirfts a brother's blood to fhed, 
 Thy hate and heavieft vengeance dread. 
 
 5- 
 But I, whole hope thy Love fupperts,^ 
 ( How great that Love ! ) will tread thy Courts, 
 My knees in lowlieft rev'rence bend, 
 And tow'rd thy fiiriive my hands extend. 
 
 6. 
 Do Thou, juft God, my path prepare, 
 And guard me from each hoftile fnare j 
 O lend me thy conducting ray, 
 And level to my fteps thy way. 
 
 7' 
 
 Behold me by a troop inclos'd, 
 
 Of hatred and of guilt compos'd, 
 
 Nurs'd in deceit, in fin allied, 
 
 Nor faith nor truth their actions guide ; 
 
 8. 
 Their throat a fepulchre difplays, 
 Deep, wide, infatiate 3 in their praife 
 Lurks flatt'ry, and with fpecious art 
 Belies the purpoie of their heart. 
 
 9. O 
 
PSALM V. 
 
 9- , 
 O let the mifchiefs they intend 
 
 Retorted on themfelyes defcend, 
 
 And let thy wrath correct their fin, 
 
 Whofe hearts thy mercy fails to win. 
 
 10. 
 
 May All who truft in Thee, employ 
 Their grateful voice in fongs of joy, 
 And fhare the gifts on thofe beftow'ii, 
 Who love the name of Jacob's God, 
 
 II. 
 To each, who bears a guiltlefs heart, 
 Thy grace its bleffing mall impart ; 
 Strong as the brazen fhield, thy aid 
 Around him cafts its covering fnade. 
 
 PSALM VI. 
 i. 
 
 O Spare me. Lord, nor o'er my head 
 The fulnefs of thy vengeance fhed > 
 With pitying eye my weaknefs view, 
 Heal my vex'd Soul, my ftrength renew, 
 And O, if yet my fins demand 
 The wife corrections of thy hand, 
 Yet give my pains their bounds to know, 
 And fix a period to my woe. 
 
 Return, great God, return, and fare 
 Thy fervant from the greedy grave* 
 2. 
 Shall Death's long-filent tongue, O fay. 
 The records' o'f thy pcw'r difplay, - 
 
 Or 
 
to P S A L M VI. 
 
 Or pale Corruption's ftartled ear 
 Thy praife within its prifon hear? 
 By languor, grief, and care, opprefs'd, 
 With groans perpetual heaves my bieaft, 
 And tears, in large profufion fhed, 
 Incefiant lave my fleeplefs bed. 
 
 Return, great God, return, and fave 
 Thy fervant from the greedy grave, 
 
 3- 
 
 While clouds of grief around me roll, 
 And hoftile florms invade my foul, 
 My life, though yet in mid career, 
 Beholds the winter of its year 
 Relentlefs from my cheek each trace 
 Of youth -and blooming health erafe, 
 And fpread before my wafting fight 
 The (hades of all-obfcuring night. 
 Return, great God, return, and fave 
 Thy fervant from the greedy grave. 
 
 4- 
 
 Hence, ye profane : My Saviour hears ; . 
 While yet I fpeak, he w T ipes my tears, 
 Accepts my pray'r, and bids each foe 
 With fhame their vain attempts forego, 
 His vengeance whelms their fouls in dread, 
 And burfts in tempefts o'er their head, 
 While, ftruck with horror from on high, 
 In wild amaze they backward fly. 
 
 My Saviour hears ; and deigns to fave 
 His fervant from the greedy grave. 
 
 PSALM 
 
It 
 
 PSA L M VIL 
 
 I. 
 
 OSavc me, Lord, and to my foes 
 Do Thou (in Thee I truft) oppofe 
 Thy pow'r, and let the arm divine, 
 Stretch'd in my caufe, befpeak me thine : 
 
 2. 
 Left, while I mourn thy abfent aid, 
 The Lion fierce my foul invade, 
 Pleas'd, with my blood his thirft allay, 
 And rend the unrefifting prey. 
 
 3- 
 
 My God, if truth their cenfure guide. 
 
 If guilt be in my facts defcried, 
 
 If e'er from my diflembling heart 
 
 My Friend has found the hoftile part,— 
 
 4- 
 If, gracious Lord, with ftubborn mind 
 To wrathful violence inclin'd, 
 Impell'd by wrongs, I taught my Foe 
 The terrors of my hand to know,— 
 
 5- 
 That Foe's worfl vengeance let me meet, 
 Till trampled underneath his feet 
 Low in the duft my life be laid, 
 And Earth's dark womb my glory fliade. 
 6. 
 Rife, mightieft Lord, triumphant rife 
 O'er each whofe hand thy pow'r defies ; 
 O let thy wrath chaftife my Foes, 
 Hear, and relieve thy Servant's woes. 
 
 7- J ud ge- 
 
ra PSALM VII. 
 
 7- 
 
 Judgement is thine : In awful ftate, 
 
 While circling crouds the doom await, 
 Afcend thy throne, great God, again, 
 And juftify thy ways to Men. 
 
 8. 
 O Thou, on whom our fates depend, 
 My caufe, my guiltlefs caufe, defend ; 
 Awake, thy aiding ftrength excite, 
 Awake and vindicate my right. 
 
 9 * 
 
 Sin's baneful growth do Thou controul, 
 
 And guard from ill the upright foul ; 
 For Thou, juft Lord, with fearching eye 
 The heart and inmoft reins canft try. 
 10. 
 To God, my Soul, for help repair, 
 Who makes the faithful heart his care, 
 Th' impartial Judge! whofe eyes each day, 
 Indignant, fcenes of guilt furvey. 
 
 II. 
 If Man his Law refufe to know, 
 He whets his fword, he bends his bow, 
 He tips with fire the fatal dart, 
 Ordain'd to pierce th' Oppreffor's heart. 
 
 12. 
 
 With mifchief teem their bread:?, but woe 
 And fruftrate hope attend the throe ; 
 They dig, and with exacted: care 
 A pit, but for themfelves, prepare* 
 
 13. They 
 
J* S A L M VII. ij 
 
 They toll, and each, condemned to gain 
 The lucklefs harveft of his pain, 
 Ills For a brother's head defign'd 
 Retorted on his own fhall find. 
 
 14. 
 Thy juftice, Lord, fhall on my breaft 
 In fure remembrance ftand imprefs'd, 
 With grateful joy my heart infpire, 
 And wake to ceafelefs praife my lyre. 
 
 P S A L M VI IT. 
 1. 
 
 }Mmortal King! Thro' Earth's wide frame 
 How great thy honour, praife, and name * 
 Whofe reign o'er drftant worlds extends, 
 Whofe glory heav Vs vaft height tranfcends. , 
 
 2. 
 From infants Thou canft ftrength upraife, 
 And form their lifping tongues to praife, 
 That (truck with awe, each wrathful band 
 In mute aftonifhment may ftand. 
 
 3- 
 
 When, rapt in thought, with wakefuJ eye 
 I view the wonders of the flcy, 
 Whofe frame thy fingers o'er our he^d 
 In rich magnificence have fpread, — 
 
 The filent Moon, with waxiiig hens 
 Along th' ethereal region borne, 
 The Stars with vivid luftre crown'd, 
 That nightly walk their defiiu'd round, — 
 
 C 5. _iord! 
 
14 PSALM VIII. 
 
 5- 
 
 Lord ! What is Man, that in thy care 
 His humble lot fhould find a ftiare, 
 Or what the Son of Man, that Thou 
 Thus to his wants thy ear fhouldft bow ? 
 
 6. 
 His rank awhile, by thy decree, 
 Th' Angelic Tribes beneath them fee* 
 Till round him thy imparted rays 
 With unextinguiuVd glory blaze. 
 
 7- 
 
 "Subjected to his feet by Thee 
 
 To Him all Nature bows the knee ; 
 The beaits in Him their Lord behold, 
 The grazing herd, the bleating fold,-— 
 
 8. 
 The fowls, of various wing, that fly 
 O'er the vaft defert of the fky, 
 And all the watry tribes, that glide 
 Through paths to human fight denied. 
 
 9- 
 
 Immortal King ! Thro' Earth's wide frame 
 How great thy honour, praife, and name ! 
 Thy reign o'er diitant worlds extends, 
 Thy glory Heav'n's vail height tranfeends. 
 
 -PSALM IX. 
 i. 
 
 WARM'D to its inmoft depth my bread 
 Thanks, not by words to be exprefs'd, 
 Conceives, nor (hall my grateful tongue 
 E'er leave thy wondrous ads unfung. 
 
 2. Thee, 
 
PSALM IX, 15 
 
 2. 
 Thee, Lord, I bbaft my blifs fupreme, 
 Thy praife my Cong's exhauftlefs theme ; 
 O higher than the higheft, hail ! 
 Thou, Thou haft bid my caufe prevail. 
 
 3- 
 Lo ! from the terror of thine eye 
 My foes with ftumbling ftep (hall fly, 
 Or, ftruck by thy refiftlefs hand, 
 In heaps promifcuous flrew the Land. 
 
 4- 
 StricT: Juftice, Lord, fupports thy throne, 
 And Her decrees and Thine are one ; 
 Thy ftern rebuke the Heathen feel, 
 Their name Oblivion's fnades conceal. 
 
 5- 
 See, o'er their guilt- polluted plain 
 Deftruflion, Death, and Horror reign ; 
 While, where the rural wafte extends, 
 No more the village fmoke afcends : 
 
 6. 
 No more their cities brave the fky, 
 But (ras'd by Thee,) forgotten lie, 
 Scarce ev'n in fhapelefs ruins view'd, 
 That mark where once the Wonder flood. 
 
 7- 
 
 But Thou, when Time (hall reach fts end, 
 Unchang'd the fcepter malt extend ; 
 Then fill thy Throne in awful State, 
 While Man's whole Race thy Judgment wait. 
 C 2 8. Come 
 
i6 P S A L M IX. 
 
 8. 
 
 Come Ye, who in the dang'rcus hour 
 Wife for your guard the ftrong-built tow'r £ 
 Each terror to the winds refign'd, 
 In Gcd a furer refuge find. 
 
 9- 
 
 The fouls, that erft opprefs'd with woe 
 
 Have iearn'd thy name, great God, to know, 
 Their hope on Thee fhall itill fuftain, 
 Whom none has fought, and fought in vain* 
 
 10. 
 In Stan God has fix'd his reft ; 
 O be his praife aloud confeft; 
 His Acts through ev'ry clime refound, 
 Far as to Earth's extremed bcund. 
 
 II. 
 He from the proud Oppreflbr's hands 
 The poor man's guilders blood demands, 
 And (nor with unregarding ear,) 
 His juft .complaint from heav'n fhall hear* 
 
 12. 
 O Thou, whofe care prolongs my breathy 
 And lifts me from the gates of death, 
 Thy fervant's woes attentive view, 
 While impious men my fteps purfue i 
 
 So fhall thy praife employ my tongue, 
 And S ion's portals hear my fong, 
 While with experienc'd heart I {how 
 What joys from thy Salvation flow* 
 
 14. Lo\y 
 
PSALM IX, 17 
 
 14. 
 Low in the pit for others made 
 Th' artificers of death are laid, 
 And, (truck with dire amazement, find 
 Their nets around themfelves intwin'd. 
 
 IS- 
 
 His juftice thus our God difplays, 
 And mifchief with itfelf repays 
 On thofe who thus their Arts prepare. 
 And for the guiltlefs plant the Snare. 
 
 16. 
 Behold the grave its jaws extend, 
 While to its depths the crouds defcend, 
 Who dare in lawlefs counfels join, 
 Forgetful of the will divine. 
 
 *?• 
 
 Por think not, O ye Good diftrefr, 
 
 That in the all-remembring breaft 
 Your woes and wrongs unnotic'd xife, 
 That Virtue's hope for ever dies. 
 18. 
 Up, Lord, nor let the impious foul 
 Build fin on fin without controul ; 
 Thy balance, mightiefl: Judge, afiume, 
 Pafs on the heathen race their doom. 
 
 19. 
 O let thy terrors, featter'd wide, 
 Correct them, till each fon of pride, 
 By Thee convinc'd, his weaknefs fcan, 
 And humbled ownhimfelf but Man. 
 
 C3 PSALM 
 
i8 
 
 PSALM X. 
 i. 
 
 SAY, Lord, why thus thy aiding pow'r 
 Deferts us in the needful hour, 
 Why -clouds impervious, round thee roll'd, 
 Thy prefence from our light withhold. 
 
 Shall impious men efcape thy view, 
 While thus the guiltlefs they purfue ? 
 O let them, by themfelves chaitis'd, 
 The ills fuftain for Him devise- 
 s' 
 No longer boaft their mad defires, 
 And afts which headlong rage infpires, 
 Or joyous grafp their lawlefs gain, 
 And Thee, the foul's beft wealth, difdain. 
 
 4- 
 Proud Wretch ] who (huns o'er Nature's face 
 The footfteps of thy care to trace, 
 And Thee, th' all-potent Monarch, Thee 
 Denies, who gav'ft himfelf to be. 
 
 Behold, while, high above all height, 
 Thy Judgements, Lord, his diftant fight 
 Elude, this Minifter of woe 
 Blaft with his breath each obvious foe ; 
 
 6. 
 * 4 See, proof to each afTault I Hand : 
 44 What pow'r (hall e'er my fear demand ? 
 41 What ill, to life's remotefl: day, 
 * OWirufi the teuour of my way ?" 
 
 7. His 
 
P S A L M X. r$ 
 
 7- 
 
 His venom'd lips, with curfes fraught, 
 Words ill according to his thought 
 Have utter'd, and beneath his tongue 
 Lurk fraud, and violence, and wrong. 
 
 8. 
 Befide the folitary way, 
 Intent the helplefs poor to flay, 
 He waits, and with malignant eye 
 Infidious marks each paffer by. 
 
 9- 
 As, couch'd within his bufhylair, 
 The lion fierce with hideous glare 
 Around him cafts his wide furvey. 
 And meditates the future prey, — 
 
 10. 
 So longs the man of blood to feize 
 The Souls that own thy juft Decrees % 
 When planted with fuccefsful care, 
 His nets their captive feet infnare : 
 
 II. 
 
 What, Lord, his fury fhall withftand, 
 
 Or fave them from the murth'rous Band, 
 That, leagu'd in fin, aflift his toil, 
 And fnare with him the guilty fpoil ? 
 
 12. 
 
 u Shall HeavVs high Lord, he cries, defcend 
 li The human aftions to attend ? 
 u The paths by Me at will purfu'd 
 li His mem'ry and his thought dude." 
 
 i 3 . Rifr, 
 
to P S A L M X, 
 
 Rife, mightieft Lord, and lift thy hand, 
 Nor let the injur'd pocr demand 
 Thy faving Aid with fruitlefs Pray'r, 
 But guard them by thy foft'ring Care. 
 
 14. 
 Why fhould the fouls, who Thee defy, 
 With impious Tongue reproachful cry, 
 " 'Tis not within th' Almighty's plan 
 « To fcrutinize the acts of Man r" 
 
 What eyes, like thine, eternal Sire, 
 Through fin's obfeureft depths inquire ? 
 What Judge, like Thee, on Virtue's foes 
 The needful vengance can impofe ? 
 
 16. 
 The meek obferver of thy Laws 
 To Thee commits his injur'd caufe \ 
 In Thee, each anxious fear refign'd. 
 The fatherlefs a Father find. 
 
 O, break the arm of impious might 5 
 So fhall their threats no more excite 
 Our dread, nor thy offended eye 
 The triumphs of their guilt defcry, 
 18. 
 Thine is the throne : Beneath thy reign. 
 Immortal King ! the tribes profane 
 Behold their dreams of conqueft o'er, 
 And vanilh to be feen no more* 
 
 19, Thcuj 
 
PSALM X, 2* 
 
 19. 
 
 Thou, Lord, thy People's wim canft read, 
 Ere from their lips the pray'r proceed ; 
 'Tis thine their drooping hearts to rear, 
 And when they call incline thine ear; 
 
 20. 
 'Tis Thine the Orphan's cheek to dry, 
 The guiltlefs SufPrer's caufe to try, 
 To rein each earthborn Tyrant's willj 
 And bid the Sons of Pride be ftill. 
 
 PSALM XL 
 
 1. 
 
 ON God my ftedfaft hopes rely: 
 Why urge ye then my foul to fly, 
 And fwifton trembling wings convey'd 
 To feek the mountain's cov'ring (hade ? 
 See, prompt to ill, th' infidious foe 
 Now couch'd in fecret bend the bow, 
 Now to the firing adjuft the dart, 
 Thatthirfts to wound the guiltlefs heart : 
 While Juftice mourns her Bafe o'erthrown, 
 Say who the injur 'd caufe fhall own ? 
 
 2. 
 Thou, Lord, that caufe wilt ftill fuftain ^ 
 Thou, thron'd amid thy heav'nly fane > 
 Shalt caft, regardful, from on high 
 On fufPring innocence thine eye, 
 
 EacFt 
 
22 Psalm xt 
 
 Each human heart intent to prove, 
 And bid the fouls that feek thy Love* 
 Bleft objects of thy conftant care, 
 The fulnefs of thy bounty fhare; 
 While lawlefs hands and hearts impure 
 Thy wrath and ftedfaft hate endure. 
 
 Behold the lightnings wing their way, 
 Behold the fires vindictive ftray ; 
 While from thy hand the baleful draught, 
 With ftorm and mingled fulphur fraught,. 
 In wild amaze the impious Train 
 Low to its utmoft dregs fhall drain : 
 For (juft himfelf,) where'er it fhines 
 To Juftice God his Love inclines, 
 Delighted in the upright mind 
 His own reflected beams to find. 
 
 PSALM XII. 
 
 i. 
 
 OHelp me, Lord : For none I fee, 
 Whofe acts conform to thy Decree ; 
 
 Nor truth nor faith my fearchcan trace 
 Amid the fons of human race : 
 
 2. 
 
 New Plans of fraud each Mind has known, 
 And fpeaks a language not its own ; 
 Their Lips have learn'd with fpecious Art 
 To veil the Purpofe of the Heart ; 
 
 3- But 
 
PSALM XII. 23 
 
 3- 
 
 But God with vengeance arm'd fhall rife, 
 The tongue of Flatt'ry to chaftife, 
 And Juftice to the lip of Pride 
 Its ftroke with aim unerring guide. 
 
 4- 
 What force, exclaims the impious Band, 
 Shall eloquence like ours withftand? 
 And fay, to whom the tafk belongs 
 To fix the bridle on our tongues, 
 
 5. 
 "Enough (th' eternal Sire has cried) 
 <c Enough my fufPring Saints have figh'd, 
 " To Me difclos'd their ceafelefs fear, 
 " And pour'd their forrows in mine ear : 
 
 6. 
 " My hand (hall fee their wrongs redreft, 
 tt And footh to peace their troubled breaft, 
 <c Its faving Aid around them throw, 
 * c And guard them from th' infulting Foe.'* 
 
 m 
 /• 
 
 Pure are thy words, almighty Lord, 
 As Silver, that, by art explor'd, 
 Has feen the fev'nth tormenting fire 
 Around th' inclofing vafe afpire. 
 
 8. 
 Thy Love thy Servants, Lord, ftiall (hare, 
 And, fafe in thy protecting care, 
 Behold, unmov'd, an impious Age 
 Aim at their life its fruitlefs rage. 
 
 9. When 
 
24 PS AL M XII. 
 
 9- 
 
 When Men, by ev'ry Crime debas'd, 
 In Seats of fov'reign Rule are plac'd, 
 Then wrong and fraud the Earth o'erfpread, 
 And Vice triumphant lifts the head. 
 
 PSALM XIII. 
 i. 
 
 HOW long fhall I, my God, in vain, 
 Preft by a weight of griefs, complain? 
 Say, (hall I fink in deep defpair, 
 For ever banifh'd from thy care ? 
 
 2. 
 Condemned thy abfent beams to mourn 
 Still to divided counfels turn 
 My lab'ring thought, and hear the foe 
 Exulting triumph in my woe ? 
 
 3- 
 
 Thy Suppliant's voice attentive weigh, 
 And bid, O bid, thy heav'nly ray 
 With healing influence o'er me rife, 
 £re death's dark {lumber clofe my eyes. 
 
 4- 
 What Tranfport would my Fall impart, 
 To each incens'd Oppofer's Heart, 
 Who would his utmoft Art addrefs 
 The Friend of Peace and Truth t' opprefs I 
 
 5- 
 u Behold," the hoflile tongue would cry, 
 " Beneath my feet behold him lie, 
 u The wretch that, hafiing to his end, 
 u With pow'r fuperior durft contend." 
 
 8 6. But, 
 
PSALM XIII. is 
 
 6. 
 But, while their ceafelefs threats I hear f 
 Thy mercy, Lord, difpels my fear ^ 
 My hopes on thy Salvation reft, 
 And fill with confcious joy my breaft. 
 
 7- 
 Well pleas'd that mercy to proclaim, 
 
 To Thee, inftinft with holy flame, 
 
 To Thee my tongue from day to day 
 
 Shall meditate the grateful lay, 
 
 PSALM XIV. 
 i. 
 
 BEHOLD the Fool, whofe heart denies 
 The God whoform'dthe Earth and Skies: 
 While, fearlefs, fin's worft paths he treads, 
 Mark how the dire example fpreads. 
 
 2. 
 
 Of Man's whole race not one we find 
 To Virtue's Heav'n-taught rules inclined, 
 Who 'midft infectious times has flood 
 Unftain'd, and obftinately good. 
 
 3- 
 
 Th' eternal Monarch from on high 
 
 Caft on the fons of Earth his eye, 
 If haply fome he yet might fee 
 True to their God, from Error free. 
 
 4- 
 He look'd : but ah ! not one could find 
 To Virtue's Heav'n -taught rules inclined; 
 Each, led from Wifdom's path aftray, 
 Purfues the tenour.of his way. 
 
26 PSALM XIV. 
 
 S* 
 
 O fay, what frenzy thus could blind 
 
 Their fouls, that with remorfelefs mind 
 As bread my People they devour, 
 Nor fuppliant own their Maker's pow*r. 
 
 6. 
 Yet fee their thoughts tumultuous roll. 
 See various terrors fhake their foul : 
 For God.amidft the Righteous dwells, 
 And each invading foe repels* 
 
 7- 
 And what are Ye, who thus deride 
 
 The fouls that in their God confide, 
 With wife fitnplicity of mind 
 To his all-juft Decrees refign'd ? 
 8. 
 Who, mightieft Lord, to Ifrael's eyes 
 Shall bid the wifh'd Salvation rife, 
 From Stores hill its healing ray 
 Extend, and round us pour the day ? 
 
 9- 
 
 When Thou thy captives (halt reftore 
 Thy praife (hall found through Judah's ihorc, 
 And ceafelefs fliouts, thro' heav'n's wide frame 
 Loud-echoing, Jacob's joy proclaim. 
 
 PSALM XV. 
 i. 
 
 WH O fhall tow'rd thy chofen feat 
 Turn in glad approach his feet ? 
 Who fhall at thine Altars bend ? 
 Who to Sion's Hill afcend i 
 
 Who, 
 
PSALM XV. 27 
 
 Who, great God, a welcome Gueft, 
 On that hallow'd Mountain reft ? — 
 He whofe heart thy Love has warm'd, 
 Fie whofe Will, to thine conform'd, 
 Bids his Life unfullied run ; 
 He whofe word and thought are one. 
 
 2. 
 
 He who ne'er with cruel aim 
 
 Seeks to wound an honeft fame. 
 
 Nor with gloomy joy poffefs'd * 
 
 Can a Brother's peace moleft, 
 
 Or to Slander's tongue fevere 
 
 Stoops with eafy faith his ear : 
 
 Who from fervile terror free 
 
 Spurns at thofe who fpurn at Thee, 
 
 And to each who Thee obeys 
 
 Love and lowlieft rev'rence pays. 
 
 3- 
 What he fwears, with ftedfaft will 
 To his lofs he fhall fulfil, 
 Nor by avaricious loan 
 Make the poor man's bread his own ; 
 Nor can bribes his fentence guide 
 'Gainft the guiltlefs to decide. 
 He who thus, with heart unftain'd, 
 Treads the path by Thes ordain'd, 
 He, great God, fhall own thy care, 
 And thy conflant blefiing (hare.. 
 
 D 2 PSALM 
 
28 
 
 PSALM XVI. 
 
 i. 
 
 FATHER of All ! my foul defend ; 
 On Thee my ftedfaft hopes depend. 
 " Thou, mightieft Lord, and none befide, 
 •* Thou art my God/' my heart has cried : 
 
 2. 
 
 In vain, with grateful zeal, I burn 
 Thy boundlefs goodnefs to return ; 
 In vain would gifts by Me beftow'd 
 Augment the treafures of my God. 
 
 3- 
 Yet fhall my love on All defcend, 
 Whofe Souls to thy Decrees attend, 
 My heart's defire to each incline, 
 Whofe faintlike Virtue marks him Thine. 
 
 4- 
 The Wretch, who madly ft rays from Thee, 
 And bows to Gods mifcallM the knee, 
 Shall find new forrows round him roll 
 And whelm in dread his confcious foul. 
 
 5- 
 
 Be witnefs to my guilt, if e'er , . 
 Their draughts of offer'd blood I fhare, 
 If, while thy breath my life fuftains, 
 Their name my hallow'd lip profanes. 
 
 6. 
 Thee, Lord, my patrimony, Thee 
 The portion of my cup I fee : 
 Thy care my envied lot fecures, 
 And life's bed gifcs around me pours. 
 
 7. Thee 
 
PSALM XVL 29 
 
 7- 
 
 Thee let me blefs, the faithful Guide > 
 Whofe counfels o'er my life prefide, 
 And wifdom to my wakeful breaft 
 At midnight's filent hour fuggeft. 
 
 8. 
 In all my acts, in each intent, 
 Thee to my foul my thoughts prefent, 
 Whofe fure defence my gate has barr'd, 
 And planted on my right a guard. 
 
 9- 
 For this my heart, for this my tongue. 
 Shall meditate the joyful fong ; 
 Hope ev'n in death fhall be my gueft 
 And fmooth the pillow of my reft. 
 
 10. 
 Thou from the grave my foul (halt free, 
 Nor leave thy Holy One to fee 
 Corruption's pow'r : — before my eyes 
 The op'ning paths of life fhall rife ; 
 
 II. 
 Thofe paths that to thy prefence bear \ 
 For plenitude of Blifs is there : 
 And pleafures, Lord, unmix'd with woe. 
 At thy right hand for ever flow. 
 
 PSALM XVII. 
 1. 
 
 TO Thee, the Judge inthronM on high, 
 Shall injur'd Innocence apply : 
 O let my pray'r by Thee be heard, 
 From undiflembling lips prefer'd > 
 
 D 3 Olct 
 
33 PSALM XVII. 
 
 O let my Doom from Thee proceed, 
 And gracious mark the upright deed. 
 
 2. 
 When night's dark fhades were round me 
 
 pour'd, 
 Thy thoughts my fpirit have explor'd ; 
 Say, to thy all-difcerning eyes 
 If aught of guilt within me rife, 
 If offer'd violence and wrong 
 Have urg'd to Sin my thoughtlefs tongue. 
 
 3- 
 
 Taught by thy Word my ftedfaft mind 
 
 Has each nefarious path declin'd ; 
 
 O ftill my Guardian, ftill my Guide, 
 
 Forbid my wav'ring feet to Aide ; 
 
 To Thee (for Thou the pray'r canft hear,) 
 
 To Thee my fuppliant voice I rear $ 
 
 4- 
 O treat me not with cold difdain, 
 Nor let my vows return in vain : 
 O Thou, whofe hand th' oppreffor quells* 
 And each invading pow'r repels 
 Frcm him whofe hopes on Theerepcfe, 
 To Me thy wondrous grace difclofe, 
 
 5* 
 What care the pupil of the eye 
 Demands, that care to Me apply ; 
 Let thy prevailing beams difpel 
 The clouds of grief that o'er me dwell, 
 c< And keep, O keep me, King of Kings, 
 €1 Beneath thy own almighty wings." 
 
 2 6, Rich 
 
PSALM XVII. 3 f 
 
 6. 
 
 Rich in my fpoils, with murth'rous hate 
 A pamper'd croud around me wait ; 
 Their heart, with impious fury ftung, 
 To mad prefumption prompts their tongue, 
 Pride on their neck its chain has bound, 
 And Violence inverts them round. 
 
 7- 
 With watchful look they mark my way, 
 
 As lurks, expectant of the prey, 
 
 The Lion, ©r his tawny Brood 
 
 To rapine born, and nurs'd in blood 5 
 
 Rife, Lord, and let me, by thy aid 
 
 Prcferv'd, their threatning jaws evade : 
 
 8. 
 
 With fword unfheath'd, and lifted hand, 
 
 Preventive crufh the lawlefs Band, 
 
 WhofeDays, with Life's full bleffings fraught, 
 
 To Earth's low fcene confine their thought 3 
 
 Whofe eyes a num'rous race behold, 
 
 To heir their heaps of treafur'd gold. 
 
 9- 
 
 Far other blifs my foul fhall own, 
 
 A blifs to guilty minds unknown 
 O ! when, awaken'd by thy care, 
 Thy face I view, thy image bear, 
 How fhall my breaft with tranfport glow, 
 What full delight my heart o'erflow ! 
 
 PSALM 
 
3* 
 
 PSALM XVIII. 
 
 I. 
 
 BLEST Object of my foul's defire, 
 To Thee my grateful thoughts afpire ; 
 On Thee my ftedfaft hope I build ; 
 My God, my Reft, my Rock, my Shield ; 
 
 2. 
 The Strength of my Salvation Thee, 
 And Tow'r of fure defence, I fee ; 
 Protected by thy powerful arm, 
 No danger can my foul alarm ; 
 
 3- 
 
 What foe fhall e'er my terror raife, 
 While thus I pay my debt of praife, 
 And, as the doubtful field I tread, 
 To God my fuppliant hands outfpread ? 
 
 4- 
 Woes heap'd on woes my heart deplor'd, 
 While Sin's tumultuous torrents roar'd, 
 And, fpreading wide before my view, 
 Their gloomy horrors round me threw. 
 
 5- 
 
 The Sepulchre's extended hands 
 Had wrapt me in its ftrongeft bands, 
 And Death, infulting, o'er my head 
 Th' inextricable toils had fpread. 
 
 6. 
 My words, as griev'd to God I pray, 
 Wing to his heav'nly fane their way, 
 Through adverfe clouds their paflage clear. 
 Nor unaccepted reach his ear : 
 
 7. With 
 
PSALM XVIIL 33 
 
 7« 
 
 With ftrong convulfions groan'd the ground, 
 
 The hills, with waving forefts crown'd, 
 Loos'd from their bafe, their fummits nod, 
 And own the prefence of their God : 
 
 8. 
 Colle&ed clouds of wreathing fmoke 
 Forth from his angry noftrils broke, _ - 
 And orbs of fire, with dreadful glare, 
 Rufh'd onward through the glowing air. 
 
 9- 
 
 Incumbent on the bending fky 
 The Lord defcended from on high, 
 And bade the darknefs of the pole 
 Beneath his feet tremendous roll. 
 
 10. 
 The Cherub to his car he join'd, 
 And on the wings of mightieft wind, 
 As down to Earth his journey lay, 
 Refiftlefs urg'd his rapid way. 
 
 II. 
 Thick- woven clouds, around him closM, 
 His fecret refidence compos'd, 
 And waters high-fufpended fpread 
 Their dark pavilion o'er his head. 
 
 12. 
 
 In vain relu&ant to the Blaze 
 That previous pour'd its ftreaming rays, 
 As on he moves, the clouds retire, 
 Diftblv'd in hail wd rufhing fire : 
 
 13. His 
 
34 PSALM XVIIL 
 
 His voice th -^mighty Monarch reard, 
 Thro' heav'n's high vault in thunders hearJ^ 
 And down in fiercer conflict came 
 The hailftones dire and mingled flame, 
 
 14. 
 With aim direct his fhafts were fped, 
 In vain his foes before them fled ; 
 Now here, now there, his lightnings ftray* 
 And fure deitrudtion marks their way : 
 
 15- 
 
 Earth's bafis open to the eye, 
 
 And Ocean's fprings, were feen to lie, 
 
 As, chiding loud, his fury paft, 
 
 And o'er them breath'd the dreadful blaiftv 
 
 16. 
 God in my refcue from the fkies 
 His arm extends, and bids me rife 
 Emergent from the flood profound, 
 Whofe waves my ftruggling foul furround* 
 
 His hand my ftrongeft foes repell'd, 
 Their force by force fuperior quell'd, 
 And I, unequal to the fight, 2 
 Ev'n I have triumph'd in his might, 
 
 18. 
 Opprefs'd with languor, grief, and pain, 
 Ere yet my nerves their ftrength regain, 
 His fierce aflault th' Invader gave ; 
 But Thou wert prefent, Lord, to fave : 
 
 19. My 
 
PSALM XVIII. 3S 
 
 19. 
 My fpacious path by Thee outfpread, 
 With courfe fecure behold me tread ; 
 From Thee, when terrors clos'd me round, 
 My foul its fulleft fuccour found. 
 
 20. 
 
 Bleft in the favour of my God, 
 I fpealc the grace on all beftow'd, 
 Who guiltlefs hands to him can raife, 
 And offer unpolluted praife. 
 
 21. 
 His precepts, fix'd before my view, 
 My thoughts with ftedfaft aim purfue, 
 Nor error's cloud nor arts of fin 
 My foul from his obedience win, 
 
 22. 
 Thou feeft, eternal Judge, my breaffc 
 Each taint of inward guilt deteft ; 
 Thine eye my innocence furveys, 
 Thy pow'r with fulleft blifs repays. 
 
 Thy ways to ours conform : in Thee 
 The Holy fhali the Holy fee, 
 The Pure the P ure ; the Perfect Mind 
 In Thee Perfedion's felf fhail find : 
 
 24. 
 Their arts the men of froward turn 
 Surpafs'd by deeper art fhall mourn, 
 Wh b They their pow'rs with effort vain 
 Unite againft thepious Train. 
 
 25. By 
 
36 PSALM XVIII. 
 
 25. 
 By Thee their Guardian, ever nigh, 
 The poor are fav'd ; the haughty eye, 
 Chaftis'd by thy affiiaing ftroke, 
 Bends to the earth its humbled look. 
 
 26. 
 While night's thick (hades around me ftand, 
 My lamp, illumin'd by thy hand, 
 Pours through the gloom its fteady ray, 
 And turns my darknefs into day. 
 
 27. ^ 
 My arm, if Thou thine aid fupply, 
 Shall bid whole hofts before me fly ; 
 My feet, if Thou my finews firing, 
 High o'er the wall exulting fpring. 
 
 • 28. 
 Author of Good ! nor fin, nor guile 
 The purenefs of thy path defile ; 
 On thy tried Word who build their truft, 
 Shall find their confidence was juft. 
 
 29. 
 What God but Thee ihall Ifraelknow, 
 Or Who, O Who can fave but Thou? 
 'Tis God that arms me for the fight, 
 'Tis God that girds my foul with might ; 
 
 30. 
 Upheld by Him, in air fublime, 
 Swift as the hind, the rock I climb, 
 Girded with ftrength, there fix my ftand, 
 Safe from each proud Invader's hand. 
 
 31. By 
 
PSALM XVIII. 37 
 
 V' 
 
 By Him inform'd, with fureft art 
 
 My hands direct the pointed dart, 
 And forceful break the fteely bow, 
 New wrefted from the ftruggling foe* 
 
 32- 
 
 Thou, mightieft Lord > haft o'er my head 
 The fhield of thy Salvation fpread ; 
 Thee its defence my Soul has found, 
 And gratefully thy fuccour own'd* 
 
 33- 
 
 By Thy right hand I walk'd upheld, 
 
 Great in thy mercy trod the field 
 
 With ftep enlarg'd, and, Thou my Guide, 
 
 Nor fear'd to fall, nor knew to Hide. 
 
 34- 
 
 With fierce purfuit my foes I prefs'd, 
 
 Beheld my fpear their flight arreft, 
 Nor bade my fword its fury ftay, 
 Till proftrate on the earth they lay\ 
 
 35- 
 They bow'd, they fell, diftain'd with gore; 
 They bow'd, they fell, and rcfe no more : 
 My foes, beneath my feet o'erthrown, 
 The terrors of my hand have known* 
 
 36. 
 
 Bled Lord ! 'Twas Thy refiftlefs pow'r 
 That arm'd me for the dreadful hour, 
 Their backs expos'd to many a wound, 
 And Ilretch'd them breathlefs on the ground. 
 E 37. Aloud, 
 
38 PSALM XVIII. 
 
 37- 
 Aloud, opprefs'd with horror, cried 
 The rebel Throng ; but None replied : 
 To God they call ; but God th.eir pray'r, 
 Abhorrent, fcatters to the air, 
 
 38. 
 
 Behold their troops before me chas'd, 
 As duft before the driving blaft, 
 And trampled, as the yielding clay 
 Extended o'er the beaten way. 
 
 39- 
 "When factious Crouds againft me rofe, 
 How prompt thy hand to interpofe ! 
 O'er realms, thathave but heard my name, 
 Through Thee the juft command I claim $ 
 
 40. 
 The Tribes, that from their God eftrang'd 
 Through climes to Me unknown had rang'd, 
 With flatt'ring lip their homage pay, 
 And trembling own a foreign fway» 
 
 41. 
 In vain they feek themfelves to hide 
 In walls and forts their ftrength and pride. 
 Each dreads my vengeance to Juftain, 
 Nor walls nor forts their fears reftrain. 
 
 42. 
 Bleft be the living God, w r hofe aid, 
 When impious foes my peace invade, 
 Their rage inftructs me to decline, 
 And makes his wifh'd Salvation mine ; 
 
 43. His 
 
PSALM XVIII. 39 
 
 43- 
 His pow'r inflicts th' avenging flroke, 
 And bends the Nations to my yoke, 
 Each force, that durfl: my reign conteft, 
 By His refiftlefs ftrength fupprefs'd. 
 
 44. 
 For this, thy pow'r my fong fhall claim, 
 And diftant regions hear thy fame, 
 Whofe hands thy David to the throne 
 Have rais'd \ whofe oil his temples own. 
 
 45- 
 Profperity and fair fuccefs 
 His counfels and his arms fhall blef?, 
 Thy Love on him and on his Line 
 With unextinguifhM luftre ftiinc. 
 
 PSALM XIX. 
 
 GOD the Heav'ns aloud proclaim 
 Through their wide-extended frame, 
 And the Firmament each hour 
 Speaks the wonders of his pow'r : 
 
 2. 
 Day to the fucceeding day 
 Joys the notice to convey, 
 And the Nights, in ceafelefs round, 
 Each to each repeat the found : 
 
 3- 
 
 Prompt, without or fpeech or tongue, 
 In his praife to form the fong, 
 To the Lord they raife the theme, 
 Who of Gods is God Supreme. 
 
 E 2 4. Fleas'd 
 
40 PSALM XIX. 
 
 4- 
 PIcas'd to hear their voice extend 
 Far as to her utmoft end, 
 Earth the Heav'n-taught knowledge boafts 
 Through her many languag'd coafts ^ 
 
 5- 
 
 While the Sun above her head 
 Sees his tabernacle fpread, 
 And from out his chamber bright 
 Like a Bridegroom fprings to fight : 
 
 6. 
 See him with gigantic pace 
 Joyous run his deftin'd race, 
 See him, ev'ry breaft to chear, 
 Pafs through Heav'n in fwift career ; 
 
 7- 
 
 Now to fartheft regions borne 
 
 Onward fpeed, and now return, 
 And to All, with welcome ray, 
 Life and genial warmth convey. 
 
 . 8. 
 Warmth and life each thankful heart 
 Feels thy Law, great God, impart $ 
 Clear from ev'ry fpot it (bines* 
 And the guilt-ftain'd Thought refines ; 
 
 9- 
 Truth's firm bafe its frame upholds, 
 
 While it Myftcries unfolds, 
 
 Which the childlike mind explores, 
 
 And to heav'nly fcience foars. 
 
 10. Preft 
 
PSALM XIX. 41 
 
 10. 
 Preft with forrows, doubts, and fears, 
 What like this the fpirit chears, 
 Big with a£ts that fhall fuggeft 
 Lafting joy to ev'ry breaft i 
 
 11. 
 What fo perfe&, what fo pure ? 
 What to Reafon's eye obfcure 
 Can fuch wondrous light afford 
 As the dilates of thy Word ? 
 
 12. 
 Where thy Fear its fruit matures, 
 (Fruit, that endlefs years endures) 
 There the mind, with ftedfaft truft, 
 Owns thy ftatutes wife, and juft. 
 
 *3- 
 
 Nor can Gold fuch worth acquire 
 
 From the fev'nth exploring fire, 
 
 Nor the labour of the bees 
 
 E'er in fweetnefs vie with Thefe : 
 
 J 4. 
 Taught by Them, thy Servant's breaft 
 Joys the Bleffings to atteft 
 Heap'd on thofe vvhofe hearts fincere 
 Learn thy Precepts to revere. 
 
 Beft Inftru&or, from thy ways 
 Who can tell how oft he ftrays ? 
 Save from Error's growth my mind, 
 Leave not, Lord, one root behind : 
 
 E 3 16. Purge 
 
42 PSALM XIX. 
 
 16. 
 Purge me from the guilt that lies 
 Wrapt within my heart's difguife * % 
 Let me thence, by Thee renew'd y 
 Each prefumptuous fin exclude ; 
 
 So my lot fhall ne'er be join'd 
 With the Men whofe impious mind, 
 Fearlefs of thy juft command, 
 Braves the vengeance of thy hand. 
 
 18. 
 Let my tongue, from error free, 
 Speak the words approv'd by Thee j 
 To thy all-obferving eyes 
 Let my thoughts accepted rife : 
 
 While I thus thy name adore. 
 And thy healing grace implore, 
 JBleft Redeemer, bow thine ear, 
 God my Strength, propitious hear. 
 
 PSALM XX. 
 1. 
 
 MAY He whom Heav'n and Eartli obejr 
 Regard thee in the dreadful day, 
 May Jacob's Lord above thy head 
 His own victorious banner fpread. 
 
 2. 
 May He from out his hallow'd flirine 
 Reach to thy aid the hand divine, 
 And ftrength into thy foul inftill 
 From beauteous S ion's favour'd hill. 
 
 3, There 
 
PSALM XX. 43 
 
 3- 
 
 There may thy incenfe to the fides 
 In fweet memarial ever rife ; 
 Thy victims there in fmoke afpire, 
 Touch'd by his own celeftial fire. 
 
 4- 
 May He thy ev'ry wifh approve,. 
 May He indulgent from above 
 His wonted benefits impart, 
 And grant the wifhes of thine heart $ 
 
 5- 
 
 May He in dangers intervene, 
 While We, his great Salvation {eerij 
 Aflift thy joy, thy triumphs fhare, 
 And blefs the God who hears thy pray'r* 
 
 6, 
 I fee, I fee th' Almighty fhed 
 His bleflings on th* anointed head, 
 Attentive from his holy Heav'n 
 Protect the crown Himfeif has giv'n* 
 
 7- 
 I fee th' Almighty to thy foes 
 His all fubduing ftrength oppofe, 
 And, cloth'd with mercy, reach his hand 
 To fave Thee from the impious band. 
 
 8. 
 Thefe urge to Fight the rattling Car, 
 And Thofe the fiery Steed prepare, 
 Unenvied Both by Us, who fee 
 Our fure defence, great God, in Thee. 
 
 7 9. Driv'a 
 
44 P S A L M XX. 
 
 Driv'n by fuperior force they fly, 
 Or, fain, in heaps promifcuous lie, 
 While We our heads exulting raife, 
 And fing our great Deliv'rer's praife. 
 
 10. 
 O, when we praife, and when we pray, 
 Do Thou, whom Heav'n and Earth obey, 
 Accept the praife, confirm the pray'r, 
 And make our fafety ftill thy care. 
 
 PSALM XXL 
 r. 
 
 BY Thy unwearied ftrength upheld 
 To Thee the King his thanks fhall yield, 
 And, taught by bleft experience, know 
 What joys from Thy falvation flow. 
 
 2, 
 
 Thy cares his heart's defire complete ; 
 His pray'r from Thy eternal feat, 
 As low to Thee his knees he bends, 
 In full acceptance back defcends. 
 
 3- 
 
 Thou, Lord, preventive of his want, 
 
 The bleffings of thy Love wilt grant, 
 And bid the golden circlet fpread 
 Its pureft fplendors round his head. 
 
 4- 
 He afk'd thee Life, and finds it giv'n, 
 Life, lafting as the days of heav'n ; 
 The co;iquefts, which thy hands beftow, 
 With grace and glory bind his brow. 
 
 5- He, 
 
PSALM XXL 4$ 
 
 5- 
 
 He, crown'd with blifs perpetual, He 
 Thy face in full difplay fhall fee, 
 And (for on Thee his hopes rely,) 
 Unmov'd each adverfe fhock defy, 
 
 6. 
 Thy hand fliall find each Intent foe, 
 And vengeful ftrike th" unerring blow, 
 Mark as their crimes for juftice call, 
 And teach thy Terrors where to fall. 
 
 7- 
 Fierce as the kindled furnace glows, 
 Whofe fides the crackling thorns inclofe, 
 Thy wrath its flames fhall round them pour, 
 And quick their boafted ftrength devour, 
 
 8. 
 Their fruit, a lucklefs progeny, 
 Uprooted from the ground fhall die, 
 And Earth their tribe no more behold 
 Amidft her families inroll'd. 
 
 9- 
 
 In vain each hoftiie art they try; 
 Beheld, as trembling back they fly, 
 Thy fhafts, adjufted to the firing, 
 Impatient wait upon the wing. 
 
 10. 
 
 Maker of All, through Earth and Skies 
 O let thy pow'r confpicuous rife, 
 And furnifh to our grateful lays 
 A theme of everlafting praife. 
 
 PSALM 
 
PSALM XXII. 
 
 i. 
 
 MY God, my God, O tell me, why 
 Unheeded ftill afcends my cry. 
 Why thus from my afflicted heart 
 Thy prefence and thy health depart. 
 
 2. 
 Eternal Lord, throughout the day 
 With fruitlefs plaint to Thee I pray ; 
 Nor fleeps the anguifh of my foul, 
 When night's dark fhades involve the pole. 
 
 3- 
 
 Yet unimpeach'd thy Faith appears, 
 Thy Sanctity my heart reveres, 
 O Thou, to whom in homage join 
 The Sons of Jacob's chcfen line, 
 
 4- 
 Thee, Lord, our Sires their ftrength confeft, 
 And found thee, as their ftedfaft breaft 
 To Thee its full affiance gave, 
 Nor flow to hear, nor weak to fave. 
 
 5- 
 
 Lord, what am I ? A Man in form, 
 Yet brother to the trampled worm \ 
 An outcaft from the human kind, 
 To fierce derifion's rage confign'd : 
 
 6~. 
 They fhake the head, they fhout, they gaze ; 
 Each eye, each lip, contempt betrays \ 
 u On God, they cry, thy hope was ftaid ; 
 " Be God, if His thou art, thy aid." 
 
 7. Thine, 
 
PSALM XXIT. 47 
 
 7- 
 Thine, mightieft Father, thine I am ; 
 By Thee from out the womb I came, 
 From Thee my ev'ry comfort fprung, 
 While yet upon the breafl: I hung. 
 
 8. 
 Hail, from my birth and to my end 
 My God, my Guardian, and my Friend ; 
 O hafte, thy needful help beftow, 
 And fave me from th' invading foe* 
 
 9- 
 
 O view me not with diftant eye, 
 While various griefs await me nigh : 
 Thy aid withheld, what friendly pow'r 
 Shall fhield me in the dang'rous hour ? 
 
 io. 
 See Bafan's bulls around me roar, 
 Nor rage the famifh'd Lions more, 
 When nightly through the ftarlefs gloom 
 Along the howling Wild they roam. 
 
 II. 
 My frame, disjoin'd, in fwift decay 
 Waftes like the running ftream away ; 
 My heart in groans its grief proclaims, 
 And melts, as wax before the flames, 
 
 12. 
 
 Faff to my jaws my tongue is chained, 
 My flefh its vital moifture drain'd, 
 While, Lord, thy chaftifement it bears 
 Dry as the clayform'd vafe appears ; 
 
 13. O how 
 
4$ PSALM XXII. 
 
 13- 
 
 Yet, patient ft ill of ev'ry pain 
 Unerring Wifdom can ordain, 
 I wait till Thou refume my breath, 
 And lodge me in the duft of death. 
 
 14. 
 A hoftile throng who Thee defpife, 
 Dogs fierce of kind, againft me rife ; 
 And, while faft-ifiuing ftreams the gore, 
 My hands and feet relentlefs bore. 
 
 15. 
 
 My ftarting bones to ev'ry eye 
 Expos'd, O Ye that, paffing by, 
 In wonder (not in pity) join, 
 O fay, was ever grief like mine ? 
 
 16. 
 My raiment each with each divides, 
 My vefture, as the lot decides, 
 Becomes fome new pofleflbr's fpoil, 
 The prize that crowns his impious toil. 
 
 17- 
 My God, my Strength, recede not far, 
 But hafte, and make my foul thy care, 
 My foul, purfu'd by hoftile hate, 
 Affli&ed, helplefs, defolate ? 
 
 18. 
 My God, (for Thou their rage haft feen) 
 With timelieft fuccour intervene, 
 And turn th' impending fwords away, 
 Nor yield me to the Dog a prey. 
 
 19. The 
 
PSALM XXII. 
 
 49 
 
 19. 
 
 The foaming Lion's wrath affuage, 
 Nor let the Oryx, in his rage, 
 With headlong force againft me borne, 
 Aim at my Jife the pointed horn, 
 
 20. 
 So will I joy thy honour'd name 
 Amidft my brethren to proclaim, 
 And gath'ring Crouds fhall hear my tongue 
 Thus to my God awake the fong. 
 
 21. 
 <( Exalt, ye Saints, the Pow'r divine, 
 «« Exalt him, All of Jacob's line, 
 H And let each tribe with duteous fear 
 u His boundlefs Majefty revere, 
 
 22. 
 u 'Tis not in Him, with cold difdain 
 u To hear the helplefs Poor complain ; 
 a He kindly fees their wrongs redreft, 
 u And fooihes to peace their troubled breaft : 
 
 23- 
 
 " He (nor with unrelenting eye) 
 u Each falling tear, each heaving figh, 
 u Regards, attentive to perceive 
 u Their wants,and faithful to relieve." 
 
 24. 
 Such Strains thy Mercy fhall infpire, 
 While in the full-aflembled Choir 
 To Thee the votive Song I raife, 
 And thankful pay my debt of praife. 
 
 F 25- Te 
 
50 P S A L M XXII. 
 
 25. 
 
 To You, ye humble, meek, and good, 
 Who afk from IfraePs Lord your food, 
 His hand indulgent from on high 
 Shall yield at full the wifh'd fupply : 
 
 26. 
 Who feek like You their God, like You 
 To Him their praifes fhall renew, 
 Whofe Love immortal life imparts, 
 And fwells with joy their confcious hearts, 
 
 27- 
 Maker of All ! through ev'ry Land 
 Thy Deeds in full record fhall ftand, 
 And fartheft Realms converted join 
 In homage to the Name divine j 
 
 28. 
 Kings fhall in Thee their Mightier greet, 
 And lay their fcepters at thy feet : 
 (Thy grace by facriiice implor'd,) 
 Earth's tribes fhall fpread the feftal board : 
 
 29. 
 And All Mankind, whofe mortal frame 
 Th' infatiate Grave prepares to claim, 
 Thy Pow'r, immortal Judge, fhall own, 
 And proftrate kneel before thy Throne. 
 
 30. 
 See, while by Thee redeem'd I live, 
 A Race from Me their birth derive, 
 A Race by juft poffeffion thine, 
 Whofe hearts infpir'd, to truth incline : 
 
 31. Whofe 
 
PSALM XXII. 51 
 
 3 r - 
 
 Whole tongue thv glory fhall difplay, 
 
 Infrruft th; world thy will t' obey, 
 And bid thy righteous Acts engage 
 The wonder of the future Age. 
 
 PSALM XXIII. 
 1. 
 
 LO, my Shepherd's hand divine! 
 Want (hall never more be mine. 
 In a pafture fair and large 
 He fhall feed his happy Charge, 
 And my couch with tend'reft care 
 *Midft the fpringing grafs prepare : 
 When I faint with fummer's heat, 
 He mall lead my weary feet 
 To the ftreams that ftill and flow 
 Through the verdant meadow flow. 
 
 2. 
 He my foul anew fhall frame, 
 And, his mercy to proclaim, 
 When through devious paths I ftray, 
 Teach my fteps the better way : 
 Though the dreary vale I tread 
 By the fhades of death o'erfpread, 
 There I walk from terror free, 
 While my ev'ry wifh I fee 
 By thy rod and ftafTfupplied, 
 This my guard, and that my guide. 
 
 3- 
 
 While my foes are gazing on, 
 
 Thou thy fav'ring care haft fhown; 
 
 F 2 Thou 
 
52 PSALM XXIII. 
 
 Thou my plenteous board haft fpread, 
 Thou with oil refrefh'd my head : 
 Fill'd by Thee my cup o'erflows, 
 For thy Love no limit knows ; 
 Conftant, to my lateft end 
 This my footfteps fhall attend, 
 And fhall bid thy hallow'd Dome 
 Yield me an eternal home. 
 
 PSALM XXIV. 
 i. 
 
 EARTH, big with Empires, to thy Reign 
 Submits, great God, its wide domain ; 
 Whate'er this Orb's vaft bounds confine, 
 By juft poffeiTion, Lord, is thine : 
 
 2. 
 That Orb amid the watry wafte 
 Thy hands, beft Architect, have plac'd, 
 And bid th' unfathomable Deep 
 Beneath its firm foundations fleep. 
 
 3- 
 Lord, who fhall to thy Hill afcend ? 
 Who fuppliant at thine altars bend, 
 Therajoyful find a fure abode, 
 And own the prefence of his God ? 
 
 4- 
 Whofe hands and heart from guilt are free, 
 
 Who ne'er to idols bow'd the knee, 
 Nor, ftudious of deceit, would try 
 By oaths to confecrate a lye. 
 
 5. On 
 
PSALM XXIV. 53 
 
 5- 
 On fuch th' Almighty from above 
 Shall heap the blefTings of his Love, \ 
 
 And, purg'd from fin's tranfmiffive ftain, 
 Admit them to his facred Fane. 
 
 6. 
 Such only form the chofen Choir, 
 Whofe feet, with licens'd ftep, afpire 
 To vifit Sions bleft Abode ; 
 Who feek the face of Jacob's God. 
 
 7- 
 lift, lift your heads, each hallow'd Gate 3 
 Aloft, with fudden fpring, your weight, 
 Ye everlafting Portals, rear ; 
 Behold the King of glory near ! 
 
 8. 
 And who this King of glory ? fay. 
 That Lord who bears th' eternal fway ; 
 Who, cloth'd with ftrength, to war defcends 
 And conqueft on his fvvord attends. 
 
 9- 
 
 Lift, lift your heads, each hallow'd Gate, 
 
 Aloft, with fudden fpring, your weight. 
 Ye everlafting Portals, rear ; 
 Behold the King of glory near ! 
 
 10. 
 
 And who this King of glory? fay. 
 
 The God, whom Heav'n's high Hofts obey : 
 
 In him that King of glory view, 
 
 And yield to Him the homage due^ 
 
 F 3 PSALM 
 
54 
 
 PSALM XXV. 
 
 i. 
 
 TO Thee, great God, my foul (hall rife $ 
 On Thee my ftedfaft mind relies ; 
 O fave me, Lord, from fhame and wee, 
 And blaft the triumphs of my foe. 
 
 2. 
 Nor fhame nor woe the heart attends, 
 Whofe truft on Jacob's God depends : 
 But grief, confufion, doubt, and fear 
 The fouls that raihly fin ftiall tear. 
 
 3- 
 
 Thy paths, bleft Source of light, difplay, 
 And teach my doubting fteps thy way. 
 God of my health, from morn to eve 
 In Thee my hopes have learn'd to live : 
 
 4- 
 O lead me in thy truth, and ftorc 
 
 My heart with thy celeftial lore ; 
 
 Thy mercy, Lord, recall to mind, 
 
 Whofe beams from earliefl age have (hin'dr 
 
 5- . 
 O let oblivion's thickeft veil 
 Th' offences of my youth conceal, 
 That I with Them my lot may bear, 
 Whofe fouls thy kind remembrance fhare. 
 
 6. 
 Good, Lord, and juft art Thou ; thy Love 
 Returning Sinners joy to prove, 
 And led by thy aufpicious ray 
 Correct the error of their way, 
 
 7. In 
 
 
PSALM XXV. 55 
 
 7- 
 
 In Thee (hall each of humble mind 
 The Friend and fure Inftrudtor find, 
 And each, whofe truft on Thee is plac'd, 
 Shall happinefs perpetual tafte ; 
 
 8. 
 Thus, while the dictates of thy Law, 
 His thoughts to full obedience awe, 
 With joy thy paths the Juft (hall tread, 
 By Mercy and by Truth outfpread. 
 
 Thy wonted pity, Lord, impart, 
 While in the anguifh of my heart 
 The burthen of my guilt I own, 
 And humbled bow before thy Throne* 
 
 10. 
 
 Ye Souls that to his fear incline, 
 Secure to God your fteps refign, 
 And learn from his directing hand 
 What path may belt your choice demand. 
 
 ii. 
 How bleft, thy precepts, Lord, who knows ! 
 As o'er Life's pilgrimage he goes, 
 See Peace and Safety nightly fpread 
 Their tent around his favour'd head : 
 
 12. 
 See, rang'd in fair defcent, his line 
 The lot which thy Decrees affign 
 Divide, and, long as time mail laft, 
 The bleffings of thy Bounty tafte. 
 
 13, Who 
 
56 P S A L M XXV 
 
 Who bow to Thee th' attentive ear, 
 The fecrets of thy will fhall hear ; 
 Thy Compact, Lord, to fuch reveaPd, 
 Shall light and heav'nly tranfport yield, 
 14. 
 Wrapt in the hoftile fnare I lie, 
 Yet lift to Thee th' expecting eye, 
 Till thou my full relief decree, 
 And bid my captive foul go free, 
 
 O turn thee, Lord, in pity turn, 
 Behold me helplefs and forlorn ; 
 See various griefs my heart opprefs ; 
 My wants fupply, my wrongs redrefs ; 
 
 16. 
 O let me thy attention wilt, 
 And feal the pardon of my fin ; 
 For who like Thee with quickening ray 
 Can chafe each cloud of grief away. 
 
 While factious Crouds around me wait, 
 Inflam'd with rage, and impious hate, 
 Stretch to my aid the arm of pow'r, 
 And guard me in the dang'rous hour. 
 
 18. , 
 Let not my foul, on Thee reclin'd, 
 Its forrows utter to the wind j 
 Let Truth and fpotlefs Innocence 
 Their fuccours to my heart difpenfe. 
 
 19. Indulgent 
 
PSALM XXV. 57 
 
 Indulgent to my pray'r, with Mine 
 My Country's wifti'd deliv'rance join ; 
 God of my hope, thy Love difclofe, 
 And heal, O heal, thy People's woes. 
 
 PSALM XXVI. 
 i. 
 
 BE Thou my Judge : thy fearching eyes 
 My guiitlefs life have known : 
 On Thee my ftedfaft foul relies. 
 Nor fear of lapfe fhall own, 
 2. 
 O fearch me ftill ; my heart, my reins, 
 
 With ftrideft view furvey: 
 Thy Love, great God, my hope fuftainf, 
 Thy Truth directs my way. 
 
 3- 
 
 The houfe of guile, and feat of lies, 
 
 With ftudious care I fhun : 
 From Crouds that impious deeds devife 
 
 My fteps abhorrent run. 
 
 4- 
 In innocence I warn, my hands, 
 
 Thy altar compafs round, 
 And grateful lead the facred Bands, 
 
 Whofe hymns thy adts refound. 
 
 5' 
 
 How oft, inftincT: with warmth divine, 
 
 Thy th remold have I trod ! 
 How lov'd the Courts whofe w r alls infhrine 
 The Glory of my God ! 
 
 6. O let 
 
58 P S A L M XXVI. 
 
 6. 
 O let me not the vengeance (hare, 
 
 That waits the guilty Tribe, 
 Whofe murth'rous hands each mifchief dare, 
 
 And grafp the ofter'd bribe : 
 
 7- 
 
 But pour, O pour, while thus I tread 
 
 The path by Thee prepared, 
 Thy beams of mercy on my head, 
 
 And round me plant a guard. 
 8. 
 Thou, Lord, my fteps haft fix'd aright, 
 
 And pleas'd fhalt hear my tongue 
 With Ifrael's thankful Sons unite 
 
 To form the feftal Song. 
 
 PSALM XXVII. 
 i. 
 
 THOU, Lord, my fafety, Thou my light, 
 What danger mall my foul affright ? 
 Strength of my life ! What arm (hall dare 
 To hurt whom Thou haft own'd thy care ? 
 
 2. 
 When erft, impatient to devour, 
 Againft me rcfe each hoitile pow'r, 
 Their fierce attempts fuccefslefs found, 
 They (tumbled, fell, and bit the ground. 
 
 3- 
 
 Though adverfe hofts the ftandard rear, 
 Thy fervant ftiall without a fear 
 The gath'ring War around him fee, 
 And fix, fecure, his truft on Thee. 
 
 4. One 
 
PSALM XXVIL 59 
 
 4- 
 One wifh, with holy tranfport warm, 
 My heart has form'd and yet fhall form ; 
 That in thy Pre fence. I may ftand, 
 And {hare the bleffings of thy hand. 
 
 5- 
 One gift I afk ; that to my end 
 Fair S ion's Dome I may attend, 
 There joyful find a fure abode, 
 And view the beauty of my God. 
 
 6. 
 For He within his hallow'd fhrine 
 My fecret refuge (hall aflign, 
 And, while the ftorms around me beat, 
 Fix on the rock my ftedfaft feet. 
 
 7- 
 My heart fecure to God refign'd 
 
 In him its fafety boafts to find, 
 
 For he, his arm beneath me fpread, 
 
 High o'er my foes exalts my head. 
 
 8. 
 
 For this, with grateful joy beftow'd, 
 
 My ofPring fhall his altar load, 
 
 My tongue its note exulting raife, 
 
 And dictate to the harp his praifc. 
 
 9- 
 O hear me, Lord -, on Thee I call, 
 And proftrate at thy footftool fall : 
 Propitious in my caufe appear, 
 And bow to my requeft thine ear. 
 
 4 10. "Seek 
 
6o PSALM XXVIL 
 
 IQ. 
 
 u Seek Ye my face with duteous care, 
 " And frequent to my Throne repair," 
 Thus to my heart I hear thee fpeak; 
 Thy face, my heart replies, I feek : 
 
 II. 
 
 Look down, my only Hope ! look down, 
 Behold me, but without a frown, 
 And ne'er to my defiring eye 
 Thy prefence, heav'nly Lord, deny : 
 
 12. 
 
 O let me, on thy aid reclin'd, 
 Thee ftill my great Salvation find, 
 Nor leave me, helplefs and forlorn, 
 The abfence of thy grace to mourn. 
 
 J 3- 
 When, doom'd the Orphan's lot to bear, 
 No Father's kind concern I (hare, 
 Nor o'er me wakes a Mother's eye, 
 My wants attentive to fupply. 
 
 14. 
 Adopted by thy care, in Thee 
 The Parent and the Friend I fee, 
 And nourifh'd by thy foft'ring hand, 
 Within thy courts fecure I ftand. 
 
 IS- 
 
 InftrudT: me, Lord, thy path to know, 
 And, while with fecret art the foe 
 My doubting lleps would turn afide, 
 Be Thou my Guardian and my Guide. 
 
 16. O 
 
PSALM XXVII. 61 
 
 16. 
 
 O fave me from the hand of wrong ; 
 My foul by each malignant tongue 
 With caufelefs infult loaded view, 
 And charg'd with guilt it never knew. 
 
 O how had grief confum'd my frame, 
 But that I hop'd, while yet my name 
 Amidft the living (lands inroll'd, 
 Thv boundlefs Mercy to behold. 
 18. 
 With patient hope, with mind fedate, ' 
 On IfraeVs God expectant wait ; 
 Be ftrong, be ftedfaft : So thy heart 
 Shall feel his grace its aid impart. 
 
 PSALM XXVIII. 
 1. 
 
 GO D my Strength, to Thee I pray ; 
 Turn not Thou thine ear away > 
 Left, while to thy Suppliant's cry 
 Thou thy iinfwer (halt deny, 
 Sudden 1 my place affume 
 'Midft the tenants of the tomb : 
 Gracious to my vows attend, 
 While the humble knee I bend, 
 And, infpir'd with holy fear, 
 Tow'rd thy fhrine my hands uprear. 
 
 2. 
 Give me not thy wrath to know, 
 Nor to feel the vengeful blow 
 
 G By 
 
62 PS III. 
 
 Ey thy juft decre 
 
 To the Men of impit>u 
 
 Who, their hearts intent on ong, 
 Smooth with lies their tongue. 
 
 Let whate'er their thoughts cfeviffc, 
 Thus aloud thy Juftice crie?, 
 What their ruthlefs arm has dar'd, 
 Meet from Thee its full reward : 
 
 3- 
 
 While thy wrath with fteady pace 
 Step by ftep their feet {hall trace, 
 And, though now their ftubborn ear 
 Shun thy wondrous acts to hear, 
 Teach them to confefs thy pow'r, 
 Shatter'd like fome Heav'n-ftruck Tow'r, 
 That before th' aftonifli'd fight, 
 Stooping from its airy height, 
 'Midft the thunder's awful roar, 
 Falls, to be rebuilt no more. 
 
 4- 
 Let me (for with pitying ear 
 God my pray'r has deign'd to hear,) 
 Let me thanks perpetual yield; 
 He my Strength, and He my Shield, 
 On his long-experienc'd aid 
 See my hope for ever ftay'd, 
 While my heart, with joy poflefs'd, 
 Dances in my throbbing breaft, 
 And my tongue in grateful lays 
 Confccrates to Him its praife. 
 
 4 5. Thou 
 
PSALM XXVIII. 63 
 
 ^ 5- 
 Thou whofe arm is o'er us fpread, 
 Prompt to guard th' anointed head, 
 And from each invader's hand 
 Vindicate thy chofen Land, 
 Save thy People from diftrefs, 
 And thy Patrimony blefs ! 
 Give them, Lord, thy Love to fhare, 
 Feed them with a Shepherd's care, 
 And their pow'r to lateft days 
 O'er their foes triumphant raife. 
 
 PSALM XXIX. 
 
 1. 
 
 SI N G, ye Sons of Might, O fing 
 Praife to Heav'n's eternal King ; 
 Raife to Him fome new-taught fc»ng, 
 To his praife the note prolong, 
 
 2. 
 Pow'r and ftrength to Him affign, 
 And before his hallow'd fhrine 
 Yield the homage that his Name 
 From a Creature's lips may claim. 
 
 3- 
 Hark ! his voice in thunder breaks 3, 
 
 HunVd to filence, while he fpeaks, 
 
 Ocean's waves from pole to pole 
 
 Hear the awful accents roll : 
 
 G 2 4. See 
 
64 PSALM XXIX, 
 
 4- 
 See, as louder yet they rife, 
 
 Echoing through the vaulted Skies, 
 
 Loftieft Cedars lie overthrown, 
 
 Cedars of fteep Lebanon. 
 
 5- 
 
 See, uprooted from its feat, 
 Lebanon itfelf retreat j 
 Trembling at the threat divine, 
 Sirion haftes its flight to join : 
 
 ' 6. 
 See them like the heifer borne, 
 Like the beaft vvhofe pointed horn 
 Strikes with dread the fylvan train, 
 Bound impetuous on the plain. 
 
 7- 
 Now the burfting clouds give wav, 
 
 And the vivid lightnings play, 
 
 And the wilds by Man untrod 
 
 Hear, difmay'd, th' approaching God, 
 
 8. 
 
 Cades, o'er thy lonely wafte 
 
 Oft the dreaded founds have part : 
 
 Oft his ftroke the Wood invades, 
 
 Widow'd of its leafy ihades. 
 
 9- 
 Mightieft oaks its fury know ; 
 
 While the pregnant Hind her throe 
 
 Inftant feels, and on the earth 
 
 Trembling drops th' unfinifh'd birth. 
 
 io. Proftrate 
 
PS AL M XXIX. 65 
 
 10. 
 
 Proftrate on the facred floor 
 IfraeFs Sons his name adore, 
 While his a£ts to ev'ry tongue 
 Yield its argument of fong. 
 
 II. 
 He the fwelling forge commands ; 
 Fix'd his Throne for ever ftands ; 
 He his People fhall increafe, 
 Arm with ftrength, and blefs with peace, 
 
 PSALM XXX. 
 i. 
 
 TO Thee, great Ruler of the fkies, 
 Whofe arm its conftant aid fupplies. 
 While vanquifh'd foes confefs my fway, 
 My heart its ready vows fhall pay; 
 My grateful tongue, immortal King, 
 Thy mercy fhall for ever fing, 
 
 2. 
 As, prefs'd with woe, to Thee I cried, 
 Thy hand its healing pow'r applied, 
 And, while increafing languors gave 
 The fignal to th' expecting grave 
 This mortal fabrick to receive, 
 Revers'd the doom, and bade me live. 
 
 3- 
 
 Ye faithful Sons of IfraePs name, 
 Your Maker's fan&ity proclaim, 
 And, while his mercies on your breaft 
 In fweet memorial ftand imprefs'd, 
 
 G 3 To 
 
$6 PSALM XXX. 
 
 To him in joyful accents raife 
 The fong of gratitude and praife. 
 
 4- 
 
 How well our great Preferver knows 
 
 To weigh and to relieve our woes ! 
 Behold his Wrath's avenging blaft, 
 How flow to rife, how foon o'erpaft, 
 How prompt his Favour to difpejife 
 Its life-imparting influence. 
 
 5- 
 
 How fpeedy his paternal love 
 Our deep afflictions to remove \ 
 Grief for a night, obtrufive Gucft, 
 Beneath our roof perchance may reft, 
 But Joy, with the returning day, 
 Shall wipe each tranfient tear away. 
 6. 
 As pleas'd I caft my eyes around, 
 And view'd my life with bleffings crown'd, 
 (While, fafe in thy protecting hand, 
 High on the rock I took my ftand,) 
 In confidence of foul I faid, 
 " What ills fhall e'er my peace invade V* 
 
 7- 
 But, inftant, Thou thy face hadft turn'd, 
 
 And proftrate on the earth I mourn'd : 
 
 I mourn'd, and, O my Guard, my Guide, 
 
 (With humbler fpirit thus I cried,} 
 
 Shall aught of profit, if the ground 
 
 My blood abforb, to Thee redound ? 
 
 8. Shall, 
 
PSALM XXX. 67 
 
 8. 
 Shall, vocal in thy praife, the Duft 
 Proclaim thy Counfels wife and juft, 
 And wake thy wondrous A£ls to tell 
 Amid Corruption's dreary cell ? 
 Thy aid, my God, in pity lend, 
 And gracious to my plaints attend. 
 
 9- 
 Again the face of joy I wear; 
 Thy hand, indulgent to my pray'r, 
 The fackcloth from my loins unbound, 
 With mirth's fair cincture wraps me round: 
 Thy ftrength my fainting fpirit chears, 
 And checks my griefs and calms my fears. 
 
 10. 
 For this, with facred tranfport fill'd, 
 To Thee my foul its praife fhall yield, 
 My thankful heart with zeal fhall burii,, 
 My tongue the bands of filence fpurn, 
 And pleas'd, through life, in grateful verfe 
 Thy Love, eternal Lord, rehearfe. 
 
 PSALM XXXI. 
 
 1. 
 
 LORD (for on Thee fupported ftand 
 My hopes,) O let thy aiding hand 
 The juftice of my caufe proclaim, 
 Aad fave me from impending fhanxe. 
 
 2. Thy 
 
68 P.SAL M XXXL 
 
 2. 
 
 Thy ear, thou Majefty divine, 
 Propitious to my pray'r incline : 
 Hafte to my help, and let thy pow'r 
 My rock prefent and brazen tow'r : 
 
 3- 
 
 That rock, that tow'r, my God, in Thee y 
 Snatch'd from furrounding ills, I fee ; 
 Shew me thy path, and fo thy Name 
 Shall praife and thanks perpetual claim, 
 
 4- 
 O let me, by thy counfel led, 
 That path with ftep unerring tread, 
 And, fav'd by thy preventive care, 
 Shake from my feet the broken fnare. 
 
 5- 
 
 God of my ftrength, the Wife, the Juft, 
 To Thee my fpirit I intruft ; 
 From Thee, when terrors clos'd me round, 
 My foul its full redemption found. 
 
 6. 
 My thoughts the felf-deceiving train, 
 Enflav'd to fuperftitions vain, 
 Abhor, and 'midft increafing woes 
 Their confidence on Thee repofe. 
 
 7- 
 Thy Mercy {hall my thanks eittploy, 
 My conftant theme, my higheft joy ; 
 For Thou, my foul by griefs purfu'd, 
 My ftate with pitying eye haft view'd. 
 
 8. Thy 
 
PSALM XXXI. 69 
 
 8. 
 
 Thy hand, while rang'd in clofe array 
 Infulting hofts around me lay, 
 Gave to the wind their vain defign, 
 And made the paths of freedom mine. 
 
 9- 
 Once more, my fight with inward grief 
 Confum'd, vouchfafe me thy relief, 
 Confefs me thine, difpel the fighs 
 That in my heaving bofom rife ; 
 
 10. 
 For while my foul its ceafelefs pains 
 Deep through its inmoft frame fuftains, 
 Life's noon for eve exchang'd I bear, 
 And Age invited on by Care. 
 
 11. 
 The guilt that in my thought revolves 
 My ftrength impairs, my joints diflblves ; 
 The fcorn of Foes, and, keener yet, 
 The fcorns of Friends, my foul befet : 
 
 12. 
 .My former guefts, if in their way 
 My wafted form they now furvey, 
 With horror {truck the fight forego, 
 And fhun th' infection of my woe. 
 
 With lonely ftep the earth I tread, 
 Forgotten as the filent Dead, 
 Or as the vafe of meaneft clay, 
 In ufelefs fragments caft away. 
 
 14. My 
 
7 o P S A L M XXXI, 
 
 My fame opprobrious tongues invade, 
 While terrors wrap me in their fhade, 
 And crouds with meditated rage 
 Againft my life their pow'rs engage. 
 
 Yet fee me, Lord, in Thee confide ; 
 Thou art my God, my heart has cried ; 
 From Thee my time its limit knows 9 
 O fave me from devouring foes. 
 
 16, 
 O Itt thy prefencc on me beam. 
 Thy clemency my life redeem, 
 Nor let me, Lord, the fhame .fuftain 
 Thy aid to afk, and aik in yam. 
 
 1 7- 
 Theirs be the /name, thy pow'r who brave, 
 
 Nor ceafe their infuits, till the grave, 
 
 Abforbing quick the guilty throng, 
 
 In endlefs fiience feal their tongue : 
 
 18. 
 Such fiience on their lips impofe, 
 Whofe words their pride-fwoln heart difclofe, 
 At Wifdom's Sons their malice aim, 
 And blaft with lies the guiltlefs name. 
 
 19. 
 O, how mall All who feek thy Love 
 The fulnefs of thy bounty prove ! 
 And teach th' admiring World to fee 
 How bleft the fouls that truft in Thee ! 
 
 20. Thy 
 
PSALM XXXI.. 
 
 n 
 
 20. 
 Thy Saints, while breath their life prolongs, 
 Sav'd by thy care from ftrife of tongues, 
 Shall fee thy tabernacle fpread 
 Its awful fplendors o'er their head. 
 
 21. 
 
 Bleft be the name of JacoFt God, 
 Whofe Love, in happieft hour beftow'd, 
 Has giv'n within my lot to fall 
 The ftrong-built City's guarding wall. 
 
 22. 
 
 Awhile, with uncollected mind, 
 As banifh'd from thy fight, I pin'd ; 
 But Thou thy Servant's pray'r haft heard, 
 In anguifh of my heart prefer'd. 
 
 Ye Souls devoted to his fear, 
 With thankful love your God revere, 
 Who wakes your chofen Train to guard. 
 And deals to Pride its juft reward. 
 
 24. 
 Be ftrong, be ftedfaft : So your mind 
 From Him its full fupport fhall find, 
 (Ye Saints that in his care confide,) 
 Nor own nor afk a help befide. 
 
 PSALM XXXII. 
 1. 
 
 HOW bleft the Man, whofe confcious grief 
 FromThee, great God, has found relief* 
 Whofe guilt thy boundlefs Love has veil'd, 
 His fears compos'd, his weaknds heal'd ; 
 
 2. To 
 
72 P S A L M XXXII. 
 
 2. 
 
 To whom th' offences of his hand 
 No longer now imputed ftand, 
 Who learns thy precepts to revere, 
 Whofe heart is pure, whofe tongue fincere 
 
 3- 
 
 While deep within my lab'ring breaft 
 
 My mind its dire difeafe fupprefs'd, 
 Inceflant groans, that fhun'd controul, 
 Betray'd the anguifh of my foul. 
 
 4- 
 See Age-anticipating Care 
 My joints diflblve, my ftrength impair, 
 Relentlefs from my cheek each trace 
 Of youth and blooming health erafe. 
 
 5- 
 When Night extends its dufky cone, 
 
 Beneath thy terrors, Lord, I groan ; 
 The fhades anon retreating fee ; 
 And Day to All.reftor'd, but Me. 
 
 6. 
 Behold my frame with drought confum'd, 
 That late with youthful vigour bloom'd j 
 Such drought the blafted fields betray, 
 Beneath the dog-ftar's burning ray. 
 
 7- 
 
 My humbled Soul its crimes fhall own : — 
 Behold me bow before thy Throne, 
 To Thee my inmoft guilt difclofe, 
 And in thy bofom pour my woes. 
 
 8. But 
 
 
PSALM XXXII. 73 
 
 8. 
 But lo ! while yet my hands I rear, 
 The voice of Mercy to my ear 
 Defcends, and whifp'ring peace within 
 Confirms the pardon of my fin. 
 
 9- 
 For this fhall All who Thee adore, 
 Ere yet the day of grace be o'er, 
 To Thee with ftedfaft hope repair, 
 To Thee prefer th' unwearied pray'r : 
 
 10. 
 
 So, when affliction's tempefts rife, 
 And heave the billows to the fkies, 
 They, fafe in Thee, the ftorm fhall brave, 
 And diftant view the madding wave. 
 
 II. 
 When various griefs my foul furround, 
 In Thee my fure retreat is found ; 
 Thy wifh'd Salvation meets my eyes, 
 And fongs of triumph round me rife. 
 i a. 
 Come, from thy God inftru&i on learn j 
 While, prompt from error's path to turn 
 Thy feet, thy ev'ry ftep I fcan, 
 Let Reafon's ufe befpeak thee Man ; 
 
 13- 
 
 Nor imitate the Steed and Mule, 
 Whofe brutal mouth, averfe to rule, 
 To guard thee from their rage, muft feel 
 The forceful rein, and curbing fteel. 
 
 H 14. What 
 
74 P S A L M XXXII. 
 
 14. . 
 What pangs the impious Tribe await, 
 While hope and joy his heart dilate, 
 Who trufts In Thee, O King of Kings, 
 And Mercy round him fpreads her wings ! 
 
 *£• 
 
 Ye Saints, exulting lift your voice, 
 Ye pure of mind, in Him rejoice, 
 Whofe prefence on the foul imprefs'd 
 With heav'nly tranfport fills the breaft. 
 
 PSALM XXXIII. 
 1. 
 
 YE Saints (to you the tafk belongs, 
 And Praife fits comely on your tongues j) 
 Blefs, blefs Jehovah I fweet the joy 
 When tafks like thefe the voice employ; 
 Wake to Jehovah's name the lute, 
 Nor let the ten-ftring'd lyre be mute. 
 
 2. 
 O fing, in accents loud and ftrong, 
 O fing fome new-invented fong ; 
 And let the finger's artful ftroke 
 The pfalt'ry's various pow'r provoke, 
 And teach the praife of Ifrael's Lord 
 To vibrate on the founding chord. 
 
 3- 
 
 His words eternal Truth has feal'd ; 
 His promifes in a£i fulfill'd 
 Shall Equity and Judgement prove 
 The changlefs objects of his love, 
 
 Anc 
 
PSALM XXXIII. 75 
 
 And bid the Earth's wide confines know 
 The gifts that from his bounty flow. 
 
 4- 
 His Word yon azure vault outfpread, 
 Ere Time the Seafons onward led ; ' 
 Form'd by his breath the flarry hpft 
 Their unextinguifh'd luftre boait; 
 While in their cavern'd ftorehoufe fleep 
 The treafures of the watry deep. 
 
 5- 
 
 Thy Maker's name, O Earth, revere -> 
 
 And let thy Sons with holy fear 
 
 To Him in low proftration bend > 
 
 And duteous his decrees attend. 
 
 He fpake : And Heav'n, and Seas, and Land 
 
 Appear'd. He bade : And lo, they Hand. 
 
 6. 
 Their counfels vain the Heathen Tribes 
 Unite i but God th' event prefcribes, 
 Arid blafts at will each hope that fprings 
 Within the breaft of haughtieft Kings $ 
 His counfel, from controul fecure, 
 His counfel only {hall endure. 
 
 7- . 
 
 His thoughts to Time's remoteft bound 
 
 With fure effect lhail e'er be crown'd : 
 How bleft the People that have known 
 Him for their God, and Him alone; 
 The Flock His heritage declar'd, 
 And objects of His fix'd regard ! 
 
 H 2 8, Wide 
 
 > 
 
76 PiA L M XXXIII. 
 
 8. 
 
 Wide o'er the Sons of Earth his eye 
 The Povv'r eternal from on high 
 Extends, (that Pow'r, whofe hand, with 2rf 
 'Myfterious^ forms the human heart,) 
 Through !ife ? s wild maze their Heps pUrfues,, 
 Each act^ each thought, attentive views. 
 
 Think not, ye Kingf, (His aid refign'd,) 
 la well-armM Hofts your help to find : 
 In vain the Warrior bold and young 
 ^Exults, his arm with vigour ftrung : 
 In vain, his Lord to fave, the fteed 
 Vaunts in the fight his flrength and fpee& 
 
 10. 
 Hail, fure Protector of the Juft ! 
 From Him v/ho builds on Thee his truft 
 Thy arm averts with ftudious care 
 Each death that viewlefs wings the air ; 
 Thy hand with food his life fuftains, 
 When drought infefts the blafted plains, 
 
 II. 
 Our Souls by Thee, their Help and Shield, 
 With patient hope have flood upheld; 
 Thy facred Name our truft, each mind 
 From Thee fhall joy perpetual find : 
 In mercy give us, Lord, to fee 
 How juit the hope that refts on Thee. 
 
 PSALM 
 
77 
 
 psalm: xxxiv: 
 i. 
 
 THEE will I thank, and day by day 
 Form to thy praife the joyful lay ; 
 From morn to eve the fang extend,' 
 Thee boaft my Father, Thee my Friend : 
 
 2. 
 
 While pleas'd each heart of humble frame 
 Shall wake, great God, to hear thy fame ; 
 His voice 1: teach triumphant raife, 
 And fing with Me your Maker's praife. 
 
 3* 
 
 To Him my Soul difclos'd its care ; 
 He heard, and prefent to my pray'r 
 (His faithful buckler o'er me held,) 
 Each terror from my bread difpell'd. 
 
 4- 
 The fouls, that his decree regard, 
 Like Me his chearing light have fhar'd,, 
 And fearlefs of repulfe or fhame 
 The promife of his mercy claim. 
 
 5- 
 Behold a heart with woes opprefs'd? 
 Behold, its vows to God addrefs'd, 
 His hand its healing pow'r difplay, 
 And chafe each cloud of grief away* 
 
 6. 
 His Angel, nigh the juft man's tent 
 Encamp'd, each danger to prevent, 
 His fure protection round him throws, 
 Though harnefs'd Hofts his peace oppofe. 
 
 H 3 7- Hail, 
 
78 PSALM XXXIV. 
 
 7- 
 Hail, Saviour of the human race! 
 Hail, Fountain of exhauftlefs grace ! 
 Thrice happy, who on Thee recline, 
 Nor own nor afk a help but thine. 
 
 8. 
 O tafte tvith me ; O tafte and prove 
 The bleffings of his boundlefs love ; 
 His fear preferve, ye juft and pure, 
 And live from dread of want fecure. 
 
 9- 
 
 The ftrengthful Lion's tawny brood 
 With third and penury of food ' 
 Are ftung ; but who in God confide 
 Shall find their ev'ry wifh fupplied. 
 
 io. 
 Ye Children, come ; my precepts hear, 
 And learn the dictates of his fear : 
 O come ; if long extent of days, 
 With bleffings crown'd, thy hope can raife : 
 
 ii. 
 Averfe from each injurious art, 
 Letfalfehood from thy lips depart; 
 Be Good thy choice ; from Evil ceafe ; 
 And plight the ready hand to peace. 
 
 12. 
 
 Him ferve, whofe fav'ring eyes furvey 
 The hearts that his commands obey ; 
 Him ferve, whofe ever open ear 
 With juft regard their pray'r fhall hear. 
 
 13. But 
 
PSALM XXXIV. 79 
 
 But terrors planted on his brow 
 Inftruct the ftubborn foul to bow, 
 And vengeance, kindled to a flame, 
 Blots from the earth the impious name. 
 
 14. 
 With fuppliant voice, in each difTrefs, 
 His fole fupport, his fole redrefs, 
 From God the Man of faithful mind 
 Shall feek, and what he feeks fhall find. 
 
 IS- 
 
 A fpirit griev'd is facrifice 
 Delightful to th' all-feeing eyes; 
 God, ever watchful, ever near, 
 The meek and contrite foul fhall chear j 
 
 16. 
 What though the Juft, by his decree, 
 Awhile a Man of griefs we fee. 
 His Love fhall foon its aid bellow, 
 Relieve his cares, and foothe his woe. 
 
 17- 
 To violence expos'd, his frame 
 
 Thy fix'd attention, Lord, fhall claim ; 
 Nor Hell's worft rage one bone fhall dare 
 To break, when Thou haft bid to fpare. 
 
 18. 
 But ill on All who ill intend 
 In full proportion fhall defcend : 
 Who tow'rd the Juft in hatred join, 
 Shall feel, great God, the weight of thine, , 
 
 19. J Ti* 
 
8o P S A L M XXXIV. 
 
 i,> 
 'Tis thine thy Saints from woes to free; 
 Nor Time throughout its courfe (hall fee 
 The foul, whofe hop* on Thee is ftaid, 
 Neglected mourn thy abfent aid* 
 
 PSALM XXXV. 
 i. 
 
 DO Thou, juft God, my caufe defend, 
 O let thy pow'r its aid extend, 
 And make my quarrel thine ; my foes 
 Let thy refiftlefs arm oppofe ; 
 Arife thy fpeedieft help to yield, 
 And reach the corfler, reach the fhield, 
 Grafp in thy hand the glittering lance, 
 And obvious in the breach advance ; 
 Say to my troubled Soul ; " In Me 
 u Thy ftrength and <iire falvation fee." 
 
 Let fhame their glowing cheeks o'erfpread, 
 
 Whofe ceafelefs threats excite my dread $ 
 
 And let them, ftruck with wild affright, 
 
 Inglorious backward urge their flight, 
 
 Difpers'd, as chaff before the wind, 
 
 Thy Angel preiliag clofe behind, 
 
 Along the dark and flipp'ry way, 
 
 Whofe paths their ftagg'ring fteps betray ; 
 
 And from the arm ethereal find 
 
 The vengeance to their guilt aflign'd. 
 
 3- 
 Thou feeft them, Lord, with caufelefs hate, 
 Befide my path infidious wait, 
 
 With 
 
P S A L M XXXV. 8-x 
 
 With caufelefs hate the pit prepare, 
 And plant before my fteps their fnare. 
 O let deftru&ion's fudden flroke, 
 While thus thy juftice they provoke, 
 Defcend, vindictive, on their head ; 
 Fall in the net for Me outfpread 
 Involv'd, let each repentant groan, 
 And reap the mifchiefs he has {"own. 
 
 4- 
 Rut Thow, my Soul, with awful joy 
 On God thy ftedfaft thought employ, 
 And, his Salvation taught to prove, 
 Record the wonders of his Love : 
 Each bone whofe ftrength fupports my frame 
 With grateful tranfport {hall exclaim, 
 Lord ! whom like Thee {hall Mortals find, 
 For ever juft, for ever kind, 
 Like Thee prepared th' afflicted poor 
 From ftern Oppreffion to fecure. 
 
 5- 
 Thus poor and thus opprefs'd with wrong 
 Awhile was I : a hofliie Throng 
 (Whofe Tongue to fraud has loos'd the reins 
 And lie with lie connected feigns) 
 Againft me urg'd, to fcandal prone, 
 The guilt my breaft had never known t 
 And left me helplefs and forlorn 
 The friendfhip ill repay'd to mourn, 
 That, when Affliction's weight they bare, 
 Had taught my heart their woes to {hare : 
 
 6. While 
 
Sz P S A L M XXXV. 
 
 6. 
 While ficknefs wrapt them in its chain, 
 And fix'd them on the bed of pain, 
 My hearty thai no affection ow'd, 
 With fympathizing pity glow'd, 
 I knew their fuff'rings to bewail, 
 And funk with grief, with failing pate, 
 To God, in forrow's garb array'd, 
 With humbleft interceffion pray'd, 
 And found the pray'r their pride has fpurn'4 
 With blefTmgs on. my head return'd : 
 
 7- 
 Difiblv'd in tear?, with languor worn, 
 What mifery my foul has borne 1 
 Nor Friend for Friend fincerer woes > 
 Nor Brother for a Brother, knows ; 
 Nor feels the Son his melting bread 
 With deeper fenfe of grief imprefs'd, 
 That grafps a dying Mother's hand-, 
 And waits to take her laft command, 
 Or o'er her lofs in fecret pines, 
 And wraps the fackcloth round his loins* 
 
 8. 
 Not fuch the pity fhown to Me : 
 Ev'n abjeits my abjection fee 
 With fcornful gaze, as round me fland, 
 In adverfe league, a lawlefs Band, 
 Thefe taught with well-difTembled art 
 To veil the purpofe of their heart, 
 While Thofe in open hate engage, 
 And ceafelefs vent their murth'rous rr»ge, 
 
 m * Nov? 
 
PSALM XXXV. 83 
 
 Now furious grind their teeth, and now 
 Intuiting aim the deathful blow. 
 
 9- 
 How long wilt Thou, my God, how long 
 With patient eye behold my wrong ? 
 How long (hall I, with anguifh torn, 
 Thy face, my God, averted mourn ? 
 With vain and fruitlefs hope attend 
 Till Thou, my Guardian and my Friend, 
 The Lion's dreaded rage controul, 
 And reicue my deferted foul, 
 That, 'mid th' alTembled Tribes, my tongue 
 May raife to Thee the thankful foag ? 
 
 10. 
 O let not my uninjur'd foes, 
 With fpeaking eye, amid ft my woes, 
 As round they ftand in clofe array, 
 The triumphs of their heart betray : 
 Behold them, Lord, their arts addrefs, 
 The friends of peace and truth t' opprefs, 
 But chief my name with infiilts load : 
 " Thou wretch abandon'd of thy God, 
 " In vain," they clamour, " what our eyes 
 11 Atteft, thy confcious tongue denies." 
 
 11. 
 My God, (for Thou their rage haft ieen,) 
 With timelieft fuccour intervene, 
 Nor filent long, Almighty Sire, 
 Remain, nor diftant far retire ; 
 Arife, thy faving pow'r difclofe, 
 And heal with pitying Hand my woes ; 
 
 Awake, 
 
84 PSALM XXXV. 
 
 Awake, thy aiding ftrength excite, 
 Awake, and vindicate my right > 
 Let Juftice teach them, by thy ftroke, 
 Their frantic triumphs to revoke. 
 12. 
 
 Let not their heart, its wifh complete, 
 With fecret joy tranfported beat, 
 Orboafting hail th' expected hour, 
 That gives me to the Murth'rer's pow'r; 
 But back my threaten'd life demand 
 From ftern Oppreffion's iron hand : 
 Let All who make my grief their fcorn 
 Their blafted hopes aftonifh'd mourn ; 
 Let ftern rebuke and foul difgrace 
 With ftiame perpetual clothe their face. 
 
 Lo, nigh me rang'd, with thankful voice, 
 The friends of innocence rejoice, 
 And « Bleft," they cry, « be Jacob's Lord, 
 <c The God by Heav'n and Earth ador'd, 
 e< Who joys his Servant's caufe to plead,' 
 u And crowns with peace his favour'd head." 
 While, loudeft in the choir, my tongue 
 To notes of praife fhall tune its fong, 
 And pleas'd through each revolving day 
 Thy Juftice, mightieft Lord, difplay. 
 
 PSALM 
 
*5 
 
 P S A L M XXXVL 
 
 i. 
 
 BE HOLD the wretch, in error loft, 
 Whofe ftubborn heart with impious boaft 
 His Law rejecls, his fear denies, 
 Who form'd the earth, and feas, and fkics \ 
 
 2. 
 
 He ne'er repentant looks within, 
 
 To view the meafure of his fin ; 
 
 His tongue to falfehood train'd, his mind 
 
 No more to ads of good inclin'd , 
 
 3- 
 
 Concerted mifchiefs croud his breaft, 
 And rob his midnight hours of reft j 
 Nor Wifdom to her paths his will 
 Can turn, or wean his foul from ill. 
 
 4- 
 Thy Mercy, Lord, to Heav'n extends, 
 Thy Truth the lofty clouds tranfcends ; 
 Fix'd as the Mountain's folid bafe 
 Thy righteoufnefs maintains her place. 
 
 5- 
 
 Who feeks to trace the Will divine 
 By Reafon's aid, with fcanty line 
 (Prepoft'rous,) would the Deep explore, 
 And meafure with his fpan its fhore. 
 
 6. 
 Nor reft thy cares alone confin'd 
 To Us, the Sons of human kind ; 
 Thy hand th' unconfcious Brute fuftains, 
 And fpreads his pafture on the plains : 
 
 I 7. But 
 
36 PSALM XXXVL 
 
 7- 
 But We, with pious truft, who know 
 What gifts we to thy Mercy owe, 
 (O, what that Mercy can excel ?) 
 Beneath thy foft'ring wings fliali dwell. 
 
 .8. 
 To each who feeks thy name behold 
 Thy Houfe its richeft ftores unfold, 
 And blifs unintermix'd with woe 
 In fulleft ftreams their bread o'erflow. 
 
 9- 
 From out thy Seat, immortal King, 
 Forth iflues Life's perennial fpring ; 
 Thy light with unextinguifh'd rays 
 Shall o'er our heads aufpicious blaze. 
 
 10. 
 
 Still may the fouls who Thee have known 
 The Blefiings of thy Mercy own, 
 And each who bears a fpotlefs mind 
 His refuge in thy Juftice find. 
 
 II. 
 Me let thy care, Almighty Friend, 
 From Pride's injurious foot defend ; 
 Each impious hand that feeks my hurt 
 Let thy fuperior ftrength avert. 
 
 12. 
 
 O bid before my fight each foe 
 The terrors of thy vengeance know ; 
 Lo, there they fall, their triumphs o'er, 
 And proftrate lie, to rife no more. 
 
 PSALM 
 
8; 
 
 PSALM XXXVII. 
 
 i. 
 
 LE T riot the Sinner's wealth or might 
 The envy of thy foul excite : 
 Anon thine eye (hall fee him fade 
 Quick as the Sow'r or vernal blade, 
 That now rejoicing lifts the head, 
 Now with'ring on the earth is fpread. 
 
 2. 
 But Thou' thy will to Heav'n's high Lord 
 (His Faith thy truft, thy rule his Word,) 
 Submit, and nouriih'd by his hand 
 Inherit from his gift the Land : 
 In Him delight, on Him depend ; 
 Him chufe thy Guide, thy Way, thy End. 
 
 3- 
 
 So fhall his Love thy wiflies grant, 
 His Care anticipate thy want, 
 And bid thy a£ls in light ferene 
 Fair as the rifing morn be fecn^ 
 Thy Juftice as the noon of day 
 Diffufive pour its cloudlefs ray. 
 
 4- 
 With patient hope await his will, 
 Nor let the fight of profp'rous ill 
 Impel thee with difquiet vain 
 His wife difpofals to arraign, 
 Left wrath and doubt thy confcience blind, 
 And urge to a£ts of guilt thy mind. 
 
 5- 
 
 See, from their dwelling torn, th' unjuffc 
 
 To thofe who fix on God their truft 
 
 I 2 (So 
 
88 PS AL M XXXV'IL 
 
 (So wills the Majefty divine,) 
 Their forfeit heritage refign : 
 Wait but awhile, then look around ; 
 No more the impious race are found* 
 
 6. 
 But fee the met k and pious Band 
 (Advanc'd by God's almighty hand 
 The pow'r among them to divide, 
 To fierce Ambition's fword denied,) 
 Earth's bounds poflfefs, and, Peace their care, 
 The fulnefs of its blcffings (hare. 
 
 7- 
 
 Gnafliing his teeth the fool prepares 
 
 To catch the upright in his fnares ; 
 But God his frantic rage derides, 
 And fees the Day, as on it glides, 
 Whofe beamr, with wrath uncommon red, 
 Shall ftream in vengeance o'er his head. 
 
 8. 
 On You, ye Poor, with vain intent, 
 The fword is drawn, the bow is bent ; 
 The fword, with better aim imprefs'd, 
 Defcends into its Owner's breaft ; 
 Reluctant to the Archer's will - 
 Burfts the tough bow, and mocks his fklll. 
 
 Exchange not Ye your fcanty llore 
 For heaps of guilt-polluted ore : 
 That God, ye Saints, whofe Love ye feek, 
 The arm of lawlefs pow'r fhall break, 
 And bid the Juft protected ftand 
 geneath the fhadow of his hand. 
 
 io. By 
 
P S A L M XXXVII. 89 
 
 10. 
 By Him your years determin'd flow ; 
 The Lot, which his Decrees beftow, 
 From Sire to Son, till time (hall end. 
 In (lire fucceffion fhall defcend ; 
 No diftant time fhall fee his love 
 Its bleffings from his Saints remove. 
 
 11. 
 When War's dire flames around you burn, 
 From You the darts their points (hall turn ; 
 Each blaft that taints the red'ning iky 
 From Your exempted fields (hall fly ; 
 Nor fliame nor want the heart attends 
 Whofe truft on Jacob's God depends. 
 
 12. 
 Who know not Thee, great God, to dread, 
 As Victims for the (laughter fed, 
 Gonfum'd by Heav'n's avenging fire 
 Shall perifh and in fmoke afpire : 
 How fwift how fudden is their fate, 
 What horrors, Lord, their death await ! 
 
 13- 
 
 While faithlefs Thefe th' intruded loan 
 With bafe ingratitude difown, 
 His plenteous alms the Juft can give, 
 And pleas'd a Brother's wants relieve ; 
 Earth's goods thy Bleffing to the Pure 
 Shall grant, and what it grants infure : 
 
 14. 
 While guilty fouls the Curfe divine 
 To full excifion (hall confign; 
 
 I 3 The 
 
90 PSALM XXXVII. 
 
 The Juft, bled object of thy Love, 
 Thou, Lord, wi!t lead, his path approve, 
 Thy faithful hands his fteps fuftain ; 
 Nor falls he, but to rife again. 
 
 15. 
 Once was I young, and now am old. 
 Yet ne'er the Righteous could behold 
 By God deferted, nor his feed 
 Requeuing at my gate their bread : 
 Secure he lives, and for his heirs 
 Profperity and peace prepares. 
 
 16. 
 From III recede ; to Good incline 
 Thy thought; and endkfs life be thine. 
 Delighted whom his Laws delight 
 Th' Almighty views ; nor Day nor Night 
 The foul that bows to his Decree 
 Abandon'd from his Love (hall fee. 
 
 17. 
 Behold, ye Juft, th' eternal Doom 
 The Sinner's fkort-liv'd days confume j 
 His fruit a lucklefs progeny 
 Uprooted from the ground fhall die 1 
 While happier Ye to Yours affign'd 
 A heritage perpetual find* 
 
 )8. 
 How bleft whomThou, great God, haft taught! 
 His lips, with facred fcience fraught, 
 The leffons of thy truth impart ; 
 And, grav'd within his inmoft heart. 
 Thy Law, the ever faithful Guide, 
 Forbids his ftedfaft feet to Aide. 
 
 x 19. Each 
 
PSALM XXXVII. 91 
 
 19. 
 
 Each art the murth'rous tribe efTay, 
 And mark the guiltlefs for their prey ; 
 But God his refcue has decreed; 
 Himfelf will rife His caufe to plead, 
 Refute th' Accufer's perjur'd tongue, 
 And fave him from the hand of wrong* 
 
 20. 
 
 Wait on thy God ; obferve his ways : 
 His pow'r aloft thy head ihall raife 5 
 Exerted in thy right his hand 
 Shall vindicate to Thee the Land, 
 And bid, before thy fight, his foe 
 The terrors of his vengeance know, 
 
 21. 
 The profp'ring Sinner once L view'd ; 
 Strong as the healthful Tree he flood, 
 That, (hadowing wide its native foil, 
 Nor knows, nor afks, the planter's toil ; 
 I went, I came, and look'd again; 
 I look'd, but fought his place in vain. 
 
 - 22. 
 Behold the Juft, and mark his end ; 
 See Peace his eve of life attend : 
 But fee, ah ! fee a diff rent fate 
 The Sinner's wretched courfe awa't ; 
 For lo, upon his lateft hour 
 The ftorms of heavieft vengeance low'i. 
 
 To God the Juft his fafety owes, 
 
 Him owns his Strength amidft his woe5, 
 
 Affur'd 
 
gz PSALM XXXVII. 
 
 Afflir'd that He {hall each defend 
 Whofe conftant hopes on Him depend, 
 And, while his foes their peace invade, 
 Reach, in their eaufe, his promis'd aid,. 
 
 PSALM XXXVIII. 
 i. 
 
 O Spare me, Lord, nor o'er my head 
 The fulnefs of thy vengeance fhed : 
 Pierc'd by thy (hafts, great God, I ftand, 
 And feel the preffure of thy hand. 
 
 2. 
 Thou feeft, from health eflrang'd, my frame 
 The terrors of thy v. rath proclaim, 
 While confcious guilt alarms my breaft, 
 And robs my tortur'd joints of reft. 
 
 3- 
 
 WJielm'd' with a weight of fins I mourn^ 
 A weight too heavy to be borne ; 
 My wounds, whofe fmart thofe fins repays, 
 The wide-infected air betrays. 
 
 4- 
 See ! bow'd, from morn to eve, with woe, 
 And wrapt in fackcloth drear, I go ; 
 My reins with hidden torments wrung, 
 Each limb difeas'd, each nerve unftrung.. 
 
 5. 
 Aloud my fufprings I bemoan, 
 And fainting pour the frequent groan ; 
 But Thou, ere yet my groans proceed, 
 My griefs and inmoft wifh canft: read. 
 
 6. Behold 
 
PSALM XXXVIII. 93 
 
 6. 
 
 Behold my heart with anguith torn, 
 My ftrength with long affliction worn, 
 And ftretch'd before my wafted fight 
 The fhadows of approaching night, 
 
 7- 
 Each kind confoler of my care, 
 
 Who wont my plenteous board to (hare, 
 With pitying eye,, with filent gaze 
 My alter'd lineaments furveys. 
 
 8. 
 My Friends, and next Allies by birth, 
 (Once dear Companions of my mirth, 
 When wing'd with health the moments flew) 
 My griefs with diftant horror view. 
 
 9- 
 
 With fnares my foes befet my way, 
 Intent en death throughout the day 
 With fierceft rage my name revile, 
 And difcipline their thoughts to guile : 
 
 10, 
 
 Invented crimes, and taunts fevere, 
 With fteadieft patience, Lord, I hear, 
 Unmov'd, as One who deaf and mute 
 Nor cenfure feels, nor can refute : 
 
 ir. 
 For Thou, beft Advocate, art nigh ; 
 On Thee, great Go J, my hopes rely ; 
 O vindicate my fame from wrong, 
 And filence the reproachful tongue* 
 
 12. Thou 
 
94 P S A L M XXXVIII. 
 
 12. 
 
 Thou know'ft the tenour of my pray*( ; 
 O let me not their infults bear: 
 But hear, and to my foul difplay 
 Thy Mercy's all-enliv 5 ning ray. 
 
 *3- 
 
 Mark, when my fteps have chanc'd to Aide,. 
 The (bouts that rife on ev'ry fide, 
 And, echoing through the wounded air, 
 The triumphs of their heart declare. 
 
 14. 
 Thou feeft how prone to lapfe my ftet r 
 What woes my eyes inceffant meet j 
 Nor fhuns my foul its guilt to own, 
 But forrowing bows before thy throne. 
 
 How ftrpng, how num'rous, are the foes 
 That unprovok'd my peace oppofe, 
 Their veins with health's full current warmy 
 And flrung with active might their arm ! 
 
 16. 
 Ill for my Good return'd I find, 
 Nor know from aught (but that, iticlin'd 
 To Good, their deeds I fhun,) to date 
 The ground of their prepoft'rous hate. 
 
 7' 
 
 O let me, rais'd by Thee, no more 
 The abfence of thine aid deplore ; 
 God of my life, recede not far, 
 But hafle, and make that life thy care. 
 
 P S A L M 
 
 I 
 
95 
 PSAL M XXXIX. 
 
 i. 
 
 Mi Y fteps Difcretion's rulesihall guide ; 
 Nor error from my lips fhall-flide, 
 (Thus to myfelf refolv'd I faid ;) 
 Nor word, in Wifdom's fcale unweish'd ; 
 
 2. 
 
 While lawlefs crouds attend me nigh, 
 And mark me with infidious eye, 
 Behold me with the fteady rein 
 Each effort of my tongue reftrain. 
 
 3- 
 
 Awhile my foul its purpofe keeps ; 
 A ftuhborn filence feals my lips : 
 But O ! from themes of good withheld, 
 How oft my full-fwoln heart rebell'd I 
 
 .4- 
 
 My thoughts in various tumult roll ; 
 
 At length, impatient of controul, 
 Forth from my ftruggling bofom brake 
 The kindled flame ; and thus I fpake : 
 
 5- 
 
 Taught by thy Wifdom, let me learn 
 How foon my fabric fhall return 
 To Earth, and in the filent tomb 
 Its feat of lading reft affume. 
 
 O let me, heav'nly Lord, extend 
 My view to life's approaching end ; 
 What are my days ? (a fpan their line;) 
 And what my age compar'd with thine ? 
 
 7, Our 
 
9 6 PSALM XXXIX. 
 
 7- 
 
 Our life advancing to its clofe, 
 While fcarce its earlieft dawn it knows, 
 Swift through an emptj fhade we run, 
 And Vanity and Man are one : 
 
 8. 
 With anxious pain this Son of care 
 Toils to inrich an unknown heir, 
 And, eying oft his heapy ftore, 
 With vain difquiet thirfts for more* 
 
 9- 
 Where, Lord, fhall I my refuge fee ? 
 On whom repofe my hope but Thee ? 
 
 purge my guilt, nor let my foe 
 Exulting mock my heighten'd woe. 
 
 10. 
 
 Convinc'd that thy paternal hand 
 Inflicts but what my fins demand, 
 
 1 fpeechlefs fate ; nor plaintive word, 
 Nor murmur, from my lips was heard. 
 
 II. 
 But O, in thy appointed hour 
 Withdraw thy rod \ left Nature's pow'r, 
 While griefs on griefs my heart aflail, 
 Unequal to the conflict, fail. 
 
 12. 
 O, how thy chaftifements impair 
 The human form, however fair ! 
 How frail the ftrongeft frame we fee, 
 If Thou the Sinner's fate decree ! 
 
 13. As 
 
PSALM XXXIX. 97 
 
 As when the fretting moths confume 
 The labour of the curious loom, 
 The texture fails, the dyes decay, 
 And all its luftre fades away. 
 
 14. 
 Such, Man, thy ftate ! then, humbled, own 
 That Vanity and Thou are one ; 
 Thyfelf when in the balance weigh'd 
 A Nothing, and thy life a fhade. 
 
 15- 
 
 To Thee, great God, my knees I bend ; 
 To Thee my ceafelefs pray'rs afcend -> 
 
 let my forrows reach thine ears, 
 
 And mark my fighs, my groans, my tear?* 
 
 16. 
 God of my Fathers ! Here, as They, 
 
 1 walk the Pilgrim of a day; 
 
 A tranfient Gueft, thy works admire, 
 And inftant to my home retire. 
 
 17; 
 
 fpare me, Lord, awhile, O fpare, 
 
 And Nature's ruin'd ftrength repair, 
 Ere, life's fliort circuit wander'd o'er, 
 
 1 perifli, and am feen no more. 
 
 w 
 
 PSALM XL. 
 1. 
 
 ITH patient hope my God I fought ; 
 He to his Suppliant's want his thought 
 In happiefl hour applied : 
 
 K He 
 
98 PSALM XL. 
 
 He from the dark and miry pit 
 High on the rock has rais'd my feet \ 
 
 Nor fear my fteps to Aide. 
 2. 
 His praife infpires my grateful tongue, 
 And dictates to my lips a fong 
 
 In ftrains unheard before. 
 Admiring crouds his work fhall fee, 
 Their ftrength on Him repofe with Me, 
 
 With Me his name adore. 
 
 3- 
 
 Bleft, who in Thee, great God, confide, 
 Nor madly truft the arm of pride, 
 
 And helps that but betray. 
 Thy Mercies, Lord, all praife furmount, 
 Nor numbers can their fum recount, 
 
 Nor words their worth difplay. 
 
 4- 
 Nor Sacrifice thy Love can win, 
 Nor OfTrings from the ftain of fin 
 
 Obnoxious Man fliall clear : 
 Thy hand my mortal frame prepares, 
 (Thy hand, whofe fignature it bears,) 
 
 And opes my willing ear. 
 
 5- 
 And, fince the Blood of Victims flain, 
 And hallow'd Gifts, attempt in vain 
 
 T' avert th' Offender's doom, 
 Myfelf th' atonement will provide ; 
 Lo ! (touch'd with pity thus I cried,) 
 I come, my God, I come. 
 
 § 6. Thy 
 
 
P S A L M XL. 99 
 
 6. 
 Thy Book, by facred Bards unroll'd, 
 My full obedience has foretold 
 
 To Thy myfterious Will. 
 His jufi aflent thy Servant gives, 
 Thy words my Breaft with joy receives, 
 
 My Hands with zeal fulfil. 
 
 7- 
 The faithful Witnefs to thy fame, 
 Aloud thy Juftice I proclaim 
 
 To Abraham's chofen Race : 
 My lips, Thou know'fr, have ne'er declined 
 To preach the Theme by Thee injoin'd, 
 
 The Wonders of thy Grace. 
 8. 
 With ftrong defire my bofom glows 
 Thy Truth and Mercy to difclale, 
 
 In Man's relief difplay'd : 
 O let that Truth difpel my woe, 
 That Mercy, Lord, around mc throw 
 
 Its all-protecting (hade. 
 
 9- 
 
 While griefs on griefs my cup have mix'd, 
 
 On earth my downward looks are fix'd \ 
 
 The Sins whofe weight I bear, 
 (Thofe Sins, that number'd by the eye 
 The hairs that fhade my head outvie>) 
 My heart with anguifh tear. 
 
 10. 
 
 Hade to thy Servant's refcue, hafte ; 
 
 .My Soul, by hoftile numbers chas'd, 
 
 To Thee directs its pray'r. 
 
 K 2 To 
 
ioo PSALM XL, 
 
 In wild confufion backward borne 
 Their wifh defeated let them mourn, 
 
 And loft in empty air. 
 ii. 
 Be fhame their juft reward affign'd, 
 While round me with relentlefs mind 
 
 Derifion's fhout they raife : 
 Thy Blifs let All who feek thee (hare, 
 And, taught thy Love, that Love declare 
 
 In fongs of ceafelefs praife. 
 
 12. 
 
 While Thefe in thy Salvation joy, 
 Increafing griefs my thought employ, 
 
 And fpeedieft aid demand : 
 My Helper and Redeemer, hear ; 
 O, inftant in my caufe appear, 
 
 And reach thy faving hand. 
 
 PSALM XLL 
 
 i. 
 
 BLEST, who with gen'rous pity glows, 
 Who learns to feel another's woes, 
 Bows to the poor man's want his ear, 
 And wipes the helplefs Orphan's tear : 
 
 2. 
 
 Who to th' afflicled gives relief, 
 And kindly foothes each anxious grief; 
 In ev'ry want, in ev'ry woe, 
 Himftlf thy pity. Lord, fhall know ; 
 
 3- Thy 
 
PSALM XLL ioi 
 
 3- 
 
 Thy Love his life mall guard, thy hand 
 Give to his lot the chofen land, 
 Nor leave him in the dreadful day 
 To unrelenting foes a prey. 
 
 4- 
 When languid with difeafe and pain, 
 Thou, Lord, his fpirit wilt fuftain, 
 Prop with thine arm his finking head, 
 And turn with tend'reft care his bed. 
 
 5- 
 
 O let me, Lord, thy mercy (hare, 
 (Thus to my God I form'd the pray'r,) 
 Health to my fainting foul difpenfe, 
 That humbled owns its dire offence. 
 
 6. 
 " When (hall he perifh ?" Thus my foes 
 With ruthlefs tongue their wifh difclofe \ 
 <c Why lingers Death's appointed hour 
 " Oblivion on his name to pourr" 
 
 7- 
 The hoftilc vifitants appear 
 
 Befide my couch, and drop the tear, 
 Though, feigning, o*fcr my griefs they mourn 
 Their hearts with fee ret malice burn. 
 
 8. 
 See taem, fcarce parted from my gate, 
 Aloud proclaim their fettled hate ; 
 Now pleas'd they form fome dark defign. 
 Now whifp'iing thus in curfes join : 
 
 K 3 g. « Still 
 
102 PSALM XLL 
 
 9- 
 
 c < Still may the guilt unpurg'd remain, 
 
 c< That binds him on the bed of pain; 
 cc Nor let him from that bed arife, 
 ic But clofe in endlefs fleep his eyes.'* 
 
 10. 
 
 Yea Thou, the friend to whom my heart 
 Its inmoft counfels went t' impart, 
 Ev'n Thou, in fubtlety difguis'd, 
 Ths Man whom chief of friends I priz'd ; 
 
 II. 
 For whom the focial board I fpread, 
 And broke with lib'ral hand my bread, 
 With lifted heel, (fevere return!) 
 The partner of thy breaft couldft fpurn. 
 
 12. 
 
 Maker of All ! be Thou my guard : 
 Give me, (my ftrength by Thee repair'd,) 
 Give me to teach the faithlefs band 
 To own the juftice of thy hand. 
 
 So, while my pray'rs indulg'd approve 
 My Soul the object of thy Love, 
 My foes, with inward anguifh torn, 
 Shall each his blafted triumphs mourn ; 
 
 14. 
 And I (for Thou thy aid (halt yield,) 
 In innocence of heart upheld 
 Thy Courts (hall ever tread, and there 
 The fulnefs of thy prefence ihare. 
 
 15. O 
 
PSALM XLI. 103 
 
 O thankful blefs th' Almighty Lord, 
 The God by Jacob's Sons ador'd ; 
 With joyful hearts his Love proclaim, 
 And praife, O praife, his holy name. 
 
 16. 
 His fame, ere Time its courfe began, 
 O'er Heav'n's wide region echoing ran ; 
 To Him through endlefs ages raife 
 One fong of oft-repeated praife. 
 
 PSALM XLII. 
 1. 
 
 AS pants the Hart for, cooling fprings, 
 So longs my Soul, O King of Kings, 
 Thy face in near approach to fee, 
 So thirfts, great Source of Life, for Thee, 
 
 2. 
 With ardent zeal, with ftrong defires 
 To Thee, to Thee my Soul afpires ; 
 When fliall I reach thy bleft abode ? 
 When meet the prefence of my God ? 
 
 3- 
 
 Tears, Lord, Thou know'ft, have been my 
 
 bread, 
 By day, by night, profufely fhed, 
 While thus they urge me to defpair : 
 " Where's now thy God, thou Outcaft, 
 
 where ?" 
 
 4. While 
 
104 PSALM XLIL 
 
 4- 
 While griefs like thefe befet my Soul, 
 While thus my thoughts tumultuous roll, 
 To Thee my heart afcends in pray'r, 
 And in thy bofom pours its care. 
 
 5- 
 Oft, Lord, in luxury of woe 
 Back to thofe happier hours I go, 
 When up fair &Wshigh afcent 
 The Tribes in long proceffion went ; 
 
 6. 
 There, while thy praife in grateful fongs 
 Refounded from a thoufand tongues, 
 I, rank'd amid the feftive Train, 
 Exulting trod thy hallow'a Fane. 
 
 7- 
 Why thus, my Soul, with care opprefs'd ? 
 And whence the woes that f 11 my breaft ? 
 In all thy cares, in all thy woes, 
 On God thy ftedfaft hope repofe ; 
 
 8. 
 To Him my thanks fhall ftiH be paid, 
 My fure Defence, my conftant Aid ; 
 His Name my zeal (hall ever-raife, 
 And di&ate to my lips his praife. 
 
 9; 
 
 When griefs like thefe befet my foul, 
 
 My thoughts with vain impatience roll, 
 Thy mercies, Lord, before my eyes 
 Shall yet in fweet remembrance rife ; 
 
 io. Though 
 
PSALM XLII. 105 
 
 10. 
 
 Though now with mournful flep and flow 
 O'er Jordan's lonely banks I go, 
 And, exil'd from thy much-lov'd Dome, 
 On diftant Hermon penfive roam. 
 
 11. 
 Deeps to confed'rate Deeps aloud 
 Have call'd, and from the burfting cloud 
 Their licens'd rage the ftorms have fhed, 
 And heap'd the billows o'er my head* 
 
 12. 
 Yet 'midft the ftorm, and 'midft the wave, 
 Thy Love the beams of comfort gave ; 
 Thy name by day employs my tongue, 
 By night infpires my pray'r, and fong. 
 
 God of my ftrength, attend my cry, 
 Say why, my great Preferver, why, 
 Excluded from thy fight I go, 
 And bend beneath a weight of woe ? 
 
 14. 
 Why (harper than the biting fteel 
 Th' infulting Foe's reproach I feel, 
 While thus they urge me to defpair: 
 " Where's now thy God, thou Outcaft, 
 where r" 
 
 Why thus, my Soul, with care opprefs'd ? 
 And whence the woes that fill my breaft ? 
 In a!l thy cares, in all thy woes, 
 On God thy ftedfaft hope repofe - y 
 
 lb. To 
 
ic6 PSALM XLIL 
 
 16. 
 To Him my thanks fhall ftill be paid, 
 My fure Defence, my conftant Aid •> 
 His Name my zeal fhall ever raife, 
 And dictate to my lips his praife. 
 
 P S A L M XLIII. 
 i. 
 
 O Weigh me, Lord, in equal fcale, 
 And let my injur'd caufe prevail : 
 
 fave me from an impious Throng, 
 The Sons of Violence and Wrong. 
 
 2. 
 
 God of my ftrength, to Thee I cry ^ 
 Say why, by Thee rejected, why, 
 
 1 bend beneath a weight of woe, 
 And bear the infults of the Foe. 
 
 3- 
 
 O let thy Light attend my way, 
 Thy Truth afford its fteady ray, 
 To S ion's Hill direct my feet, 
 And bring me to thy hallow'd Seat: 
 
 4- 
 
 Admitted to thy Altars there, 
 My hands to Thee the gift fhall bear, 
 Whofe Mercies, to my heart reveal'd, 
 A theme of endlefs tranfport yield, 
 
 5- 
 Thy praife, O God, my God, the lyre 
 Shall wake, thy Love its fong infpire, 
 And thankful teach the rapt'rous lay 
 Thy bounteous goodnefs to difplay. 
 
 6. Why 
 
PSALM XLIII. 107 
 
 6. 
 
 Why thus, my Soul, with care opprefs'd ? 
 And whence the woes that fill my bread ? 
 In all thy cares, in all thy woes, 
 On God thy ftedfaft hope repofe ; 
 
 7- 
 To Him my thanks (hall ftill be paid, 
 
 My fure Defence, my conflant Aid \ 
 
 His Name my zeal mall ever raife, 
 
 And dictate to my lips his praife. 
 
 P S A L M XLIV. 
 r, 
 
 T Aught by our Sires, great God, our ear 
 Thy wondrous A£ls has wak'd to hear, 
 The Mercies to their Tribes reveal'd, 
 When Ages long o'erpaft beheld 
 By Thee diflodg'd an impious race 
 Yield to their chofen Seed a place ; 
 
 2. 
 When IfraePs Sons, thy foes overthrown, 
 Obtain'd pofleiiions not their own ; 
 Where, planted by the hand divine, 
 With large increafe their profp'ring Line 
 Are blefs'd, and nourifh'd by thy care 
 The fulnefs of thy bounty fhare. 
 
 3- 
 
 For not the arm of human might, 
 Nor fword of fteel, upheld their right ; 
 Thy pow'r exerted in their aid, 
 Thy prefence o'er their heads difplay'd, 
 
 Proclaimed 
 
io8 PSALM XLIV. 
 
 Proclaim'd them favour'd from on high, 
 And bade each force before them fly. 
 
 Thee, Lord, our King, and Thee alone, 
 Attentive to thy Laws we own ; 
 Indulgent ftill, Almighty Friend, 
 Thy Arm in IfraePs caufe extend, 
 And let us, on thy aid reclin'd, 
 Thee ftill our great Salvation find. 
 
 5- 
 Through Thee our Hofts unmov'd fhal! ftand, 
 Strike with the horn each aaVerfe band, 
 Thy name invok'd, their fury meet, 
 And tread them breathlefs at their feet : 
 Not frorn our fword or from our bow 
 Our fouls fuch confidence fhall know ; 
 
 6. 
 Thou, Lord, each adverfe pow'r fhalt quel!, 
 Thy ftrength their gath'ring troops difpel : 
 That ftrength our boaft, thy hallow'd name, 
 Our hymns of loudeft praife fhall claim, 
 While Time fhall roll its rapid tide, 
 And Day and Night thy works divide. 
 
 7- 
 But now, thy wonted aid withheld, 
 Repuls'd, afham'd, we quit the field ; 
 No more we fee, to battle led, 
 Th' Almighty Conqu'ror at our head, 
 But quick retreat in wild difmay, 
 Abandon'd to our foes a prey. 
 
 8. Beneath 
 
PSALM XLIV. 109 
 
 8. 
 
 Beneath thy anger, Lord, we groan, 
 
 The flock whom thou hadft fealM thine own, 
 
 As Beafts for food decreed we die, 
 
 Or, fpar'd, as worthlefs in thine eye 
 
 See ! fold for nought our Lords we change, 
 
 And loft through diftant climates range. 
 
 9- 
 
 Each neighb'ring Realm with fcornful gaze 
 
 Thy People's ruin'd ftate furveys ; 
 Our name, amid the Nations round, 
 A proverb in each mouth is found; 
 Aflembled Crouds infulting fiand, 
 And fierce Derifion claps the hand. 
 
 10. 
 How feels my heart the dire difgrace ! 
 How glows with ceafelefs fhame my face, 
 While thus, diverted of thy fear, 
 With keen reproach they wound my ear, 
 And with revengeful hand fulfil 
 The di&ates of their lawlefs will ! 
 
 11. 
 Yet, torn with grief, with dread opprefs'd, 
 Thy eyes can witnefs that our breaft 
 Its truft from Thee has ne'er remov'd, 
 Nor faithlefs to thy Compa<5l prov'd, 
 For lo ! the dictates of thy Law 
 Our thoughts to full obedience awe : 
 
 12. 
 No Lord but Thee thy Servants greet, 
 Nor wander from thy paths our feet, 
 
 L Though^ 
 
no PSALM XLIV. 
 
 Though, fir'd with ceafelefs rage, a croud 
 Advance, and round us roar aloud, 
 Though 'midft the dragon's haunts we tread, 
 And death's dark fhades are o'er us fpread. 
 
 If, ever, of the name divine 
 
 Forgetful, we our faith refign, 
 
 Or if, averfe to thy command, 
 
 To Stranger-Gods v/e lift the hand, 
 
 Say, (hall our crime thy fearch elude, 
 
 Whofe eyes our inmoft thoughts have view'd ? 
 
 14. 
 Thy Caufe we ftill avow ; thy Caufe 
 The hoftile fword againft us draws, 
 And numbers to the death our train, 
 As Sheep, whofe blood the hallovv'd fane, 
 Before the altar's kindled flames, 
 By regular allotment claims. 
 
 IS- 
 Arife, eternal God, arife; 
 Why fits this flumber on thine eyes ? 
 Awake, nor from thy care expel 
 Thy once regarded Ifrael : 
 Say why from our afflided race, 
 Why veils th' impervious cloud thv face ? 
 
 16. 
 O tell us why thine ear denies 
 To hear thy captive People's cries, 
 As funk with forrow's weight we bend, 
 And proftrate in the duft defcend : 
 Arife, thy faving pow'r difclofe, 
 And heal with pitying hand our woes. 
 
 PSALM 
 
Ill 
 
 PSALM XLV. 
 
 i. 
 
 MY heart its nobleft Theme has found: 
 O Thou, with regal fplendor crown'd, 
 Thy pow'r, thy greatnefs taught to know, 
 How (hall my lips with praife o'erflow ! 
 
 2. 
 To Thee the grateful (trains belong ; 
 Thy Worth ihail bid my willing tongue, 
 Quick as the pen of readied art, 
 The di&ates of my foul impart, 
 
 3- 
 
 Hail, fairer than the Sons of Men ! 
 Grace on thy lips and Beauty reign, 
 That fpeak thee honour'd from above, 
 And bleft with God's eternal Love. 
 
 4- 
 Hail, Thou whom Nations own their Lord ! 
 Gird on thy thigh the glittering fword •> 
 By Mercy, Truth, and Juftice led, 
 Ride glorious on, thy conquefls fpread : 
 
 5- 
 
 Thy ftubborn foes, a guilty race, 
 Thy hand with faithful fearch fhall trace, 
 Mark, as their crimes for vengeance call, 
 And teach thy terrors where to fall : 
 
 6. 
 While, edg'd with wrath, thy ev'ry dart 
 Shall pierce fome proud Oppofer's heart, 
 ^LfTert the caufe ofjudab's King, 
 And dip in impious blood its wing: 
 
 L 2 7. O 
 
ii2 PSA L M XLV, 
 
 7* 
 
 O God, through ages lafts toy Throne> 
 Thy Scepter Juftice calls her own, 
 Thy heart th' all perfect Law purfues, 
 And guilt with iix'd abhorrence views : 
 
 8. 
 For this thy God, who rules the fkies, 
 Has o'er thine Equals bid thee rife, 
 And, pleas'd, the oil of gladnefs fhed 
 In large profufion on thy head. 
 
 9- 
 Myrrh, Aloes, Caffia, to the feme 
 
 Their all-reviving fweets difpenfe, 
 
 While, recent from the iv'ry cell, 
 
 Their mingled odours round thee dwell. 
 
 10. 
 Their Daughters mightieft Kings behold 
 Amid thy Virgin Train inroll'd ; 
 And, feated on thy right, the Queen 
 Array'd in robes of gold is feen. 
 
 ir. 
 Hear, Daughter, and attentive weigh 
 The precepts of the Heav'n-taught Lay ; 
 Within thy thought retain no* more 
 Thy Father's houfe and native more : 
 
 12. 
 
 So mall the King delighted fee 
 Thy fpotlefs Form ; and O, be He, 
 That Lord whom Heav'n's high hofts revere, 
 Thy only Love, thy only Fear. 
 
 13. Im- 
 
PSALM XLV. 113 
 
 13. 
 
 Imperial Tyre, that, thron'd on high, 
 O'er fubject feas extends her eye, 
 Her Gifts, O Prince, fhall bring to Thee, 
 And fuppliant Nobles iloop the knee, 
 
 14. 
 The Virgin (Offspring of a King,) 
 Whom now thy happy Choice we fing, 
 (Herfelf with each perfection ble;t) 
 Ere Thee (he greets, aflumes the veft ; 
 
 15. 
 
 That veft, where 'mid th' inwoven gold 
 A thoufand colours we behold, 
 That, kindled by the beams of day, 
 The needle's utmoft art difplay, 
 
 16. 
 By eminence of beauty known 
 Amidft her fair Afibciates, on 
 She moves, and joys with them to tread 
 The paths that to thy prefence lead. 
 
 No more the Patriarchs of thy line 
 In Time's long records chief (hall fhine; 
 Thy greater Sons, to Empire bom, 
 Its future annals fhall adorn. 
 
 18. 
 Thy Pow'r to Them deriv'd difplay, 
 Andflretch thro' Earth their boundtefs fways 
 O'er fubjedt realms their wide command 
 Through diftant times confirm'd fhall (land. 
 L 3 19. Thofe 
 
ii4 P S A L M XLV. 
 
 19. 
 Thofe realms, while thus to Thee I raife 
 A lading Monument of praife, 
 With thankful voice {hall join the ftrain, 
 And own the Bleffings of thy Reign. 
 
 P S A L M XLVL 
 1. 
 
 ON Thee, great Ruler of the Skies, 
 On Thee our ftedfaft hope relies : 
 Vv hen hoftile pow'rs againft us join, 
 What Aid fo prefent, Lord, as thine ? 
 
 2. 
 By Thee fecur'd, no fears we own, 
 Though Earth, convuls'd, beneath us groan, 
 Though tempefts o'er her furface fweep, 
 And whirl her hills into the Deep : 
 
 3- 
 Though, arm'd with rage, before our eyes 
 
 That Deep in all its horrors rife, 
 While, as the tumult fpreads around, 
 The mountains tremble at the found. 
 
 4- 
 Behold fair Stan's bleft retreat, 
 Where God has fix'd his awful Seat ; 
 Whofe walls to heav'n's Almighty Lord 
 His chofen refidence afford : 
 
 5- 
 
 No Tempefts there licentious ftray, 
 But foft along their level way 
 The facred Streams their courfe maintain, 
 And crown with health her happy plain. 
 
 2 6. God, 
 
PSALM XLVL 115 
 
 6. 
 
 God, ever watchful, ever nigh, 
 Bids ftorms around her harmlefs fly ; 
 His early care each foe withftands, 
 And backward turns the yielding Bands, 
 
 7- 
 
 See, rous'd by Difcord's fierce alarms, 
 
 The headlong Nations rufh to arms - 9 
 
 But God aloud afferts his fway, 
 
 And Earth's whole fabrick melts away. 
 
 8. 
 
 On Heav'n's high Lord our truft we build } 
 
 The God of Jacob is our Shield ; 
 
 His arm, exerted in our right, 
 
 Shall turn each adverfe pow'r to flight. 
 
 9- 
 O come, behold a fcene of dread, 
 
 Behold a World with {laughter fpread ; 
 
 And know, 'tis God who bids each Land 
 
 Thus feel the terrors of his hand. 
 
 10. 
 'Tis His, again the Earth to chear, 
 To break the bow, to fnap the fpear, 
 To wrap in flames the glitt'ring car, 
 And hufh the tumult of the war. 
 
 11. 
 Be ftill, ye Sons of Pride, and own 
 That I am God, and I alone : 
 Exalted o'er each heathen Land, 
 Exalted o'er the Earth I ftand 5 
 
 12, On 
 
n6 PSALM XLVI. 
 
 12. 
 
 On Heav'n's high Lord ourtruft we build j 
 The God of Jacob is our Shield, 
 His arm, exerted in our right, 
 Shall turn each adverle pow'r to flight. 
 
 PSALM XLVII. 
 
 I. v 
 
 AR I S E, ye People, clap the hand ; 
 Exulting ftrike the chord : 
 Let ev'ry Ifle, and ev'ry Land, 
 Confefs th' Almighty Lord. 
 
 2. 
 
 How awful his myftericus Name ! 
 
 How high advanc'd his Seat ! 
 Who bids the Nations own our claim,. 
 
 And cafts them at our feet. 
 
 3- 
 
 He to our lot a Land affign'd, 
 
 His favour'd Jacob's boafl, 
 And bleft with gifts of various kind 
 
 Her health-incircled coaft. 
 
 4- 
 Hear, while the fliouts wide-echoing round 
 
 Th' afcending God proclaim, 
 The anfw'ring trump through Heav'n refound, 
 
 And fhake its vaulted frame. 
 
 5- 
 Sing to our God; in loudeft ftrain 
 
 Perpetual praifes fing : 
 ? er Earth's wide bounds extends his reign ; 
 O praife our God and King. 
 
 6. Prepare, 
 
P S A L M XL VII. 117 
 
 6. 
 Prepare, prepare, with tuneful art. 
 
 In one aflembled throng, 
 Your fhares of harmony to part, 
 And raife the Heav'n-taught Song. 
 
 7' 
 His fway the Sons of human kind 
 
 With humbled homage own ; 
 And Sanctity with pow'r combin'd 
 
 Supports his lading throne. 
 8. 
 Kings from afar conven'd behold, 
 
 Whofe breads with ?eal have glowed. 
 Among the tribes to dand inroil'd, 
 
 That bow to Abraham's God. 
 
 9- 
 
 For He, whofe hands amid the fkies 
 
 Th' eternal fcepter wield, 
 To Earth's whole race his care applies, 
 And o'er them fpreads the fliield. 
 
 PSALM XLVIII. 
 1. 
 
 GREAT is our God : With warmed zeal 
 O let his name be bled, 
 Within the precincts of his Hill, 
 And City of his red. 
 2. 
 Fair is that Hill 5 how wondrous fair ! 
 
 Imperial Sion's Seat : 
 There centers, Earth, thy Joy, and there 
 Its meafure owns complete. 
 
 3. Her 
 
n8 PSALM XLVIII. 
 
 3- 
 
 Her Walls, while there his lov'd recefs 
 The Northern Heav'n furveys, 
 
 With fafety God vouchfafes to blefs, 
 And pleas'd her fcepter fways. 
 
 4- 
 Earth's haughty Monarchs thither came ; 
 
 They came, they faw, they fled, 
 Amazement (hook their inmoft frame, 
 
 And undiflembled dread. 
 
 Such fears they (hare as Matrons find 
 
 That feel th' increafing throe, 
 Struck by that God, whofe fhatt'ring wind 
 
 Thy Ships, O Tharfis^ know. 
 6. 
 Lord ! what our ears long fince have known t 
 
 Our eyes delighted trace, 
 Thy Love in long fucceffion fhown 
 
 To Salem's chofen race, 
 
 7- 
 
 Thrice blefl: Abode ! whofe ev'ry tow'r 
 
 By Thee fupported Hands, 
 That God whofe wide-extended pow'r 
 
 Th' ethereal Hoft commands. 
 8. 
 When, proftrate at thy hallow' d Shrine, 
 
 ' ;y mercies each furveys, 
 Tranfported with the view, we join 
 
 In wonder, love, and praife. 
 
 9- Thy 
 
PSALM XLVIII. 119 
 
 9- 
 
 Thy Name, through Earth's wide confines 
 fpread, 
 
 Eternal honours crown ; 
 Each fentence by thy hand decreed 
 
 Fair Juftice ftamps her own. 
 10. 
 Let Siorfs Heav'n-devoted Mount 
 
 With fhouts of triumph ring, 
 And Judah's Daughters pleas'd recount 
 
 The Judgments of her King. 
 11. 
 Go, walk her facred ftreets along, 
 
 And let her tow'rs be told; 
 With curious eye her bulwarks ftrong 
 
 And beauteous domes behold, 
 12. 
 So fhall the fair defcription laft, 
 
 Preferv'd in full record, 
 And tell what glories once have grac'd 
 
 The Seat of Jacob's Lord. 
 
 13- 
 
 To Him our thankful hearts (hall bow, 
 
 Nor own a God befide ; 
 To life's laft period Him avow 
 
 The ever faithful Guide. 
 
 PSALM 
 
I2& 
 
 PSALM XLIX. 
 
 i. 
 
 YE Nations, hear : Ye Sons of Earth, 
 Of higheft or obfcureft birth, 
 Ye who from wealth's full board are fed^ 
 And Ye who eat with toil your bread. 
 
 2. 
 
 My words with jufl: attention weigh, 
 And liften to the hallow'd Lay ; 
 While, touch'd with holy fire, my tongue 
 Forms to the harp the myftic fong. 
 
 3- 
 
 My lips mall Wifdom's lefTons yield, 
 My heart, with nobleft fcience fill'd, 
 Shall prompt me with obedient ear 
 The Heav'n-defcending truths to hear. 
 
 4- 
 
 Why mould my foul with anxious dread 
 Behold the foes around me fpread, 
 Who build on wealth their trufr, and ftore 
 In boafted heaps the glit'ring ore ? 
 
 5- 
 
 Ceafe, Mortals, ceafe your pride ; nor dream 
 That riches fhall from death redeem, 
 Or from the all-difpofing hand 
 A Brother's forfeit life demand. 
 
 6. 
 In vain would Friendfhip's zeal eflay 
 The full equivalent to pay, 
 In vain the flitting breath to fave, 
 And plead exemption from the grave; 
 
 7. In 
 
PSALM XLIX. 12! 
 
 ?• 
 In vain, though Ophir's wealtrrieft mine 
 Its treafures to the purchafe join ; 
 Then, taught the Soul's beft price to know, 
 At once the frantic thought forego. 
 
 8. 
 Thou feeft the Man in Wifdom's fchool 
 Long tutor'd, like. the untaught fool 
 To death fubmit, and leave his heir 
 His heaps of gather'd wealth to fhare. 
 
 ?' 
 What though they build the Dome fublime, 
 
 Proof to the rage of eating Time, 
 
 While Lands fubje£ted to their claim 
 
 Take from their haughty Lord a name, 
 
 10. 
 Yet Man, with erring pride elate, 
 And high in pow'r, in honour great, 
 Shares with the Brute an equal doom, 
 And fleeps forgotten in the tomb. 
 
 ii. & 
 Their hope, thus fond thus faithlefs found, 
 Their Sons affumc ; in endlefs round 
 Another and another race 
 Their Fathers' wayward fteps fhall trace, 
 
 12. 
 
 Together now behold them laid, 
 As Sheep, when Night extends her (hade, 
 While Death within the vaulted rock, 
 ! Stern Shepherd, guards the flumb'ring flock: 
 M 13. Corruption 
 
122 P S A L M XLIX: 
 
 Corruption there its work fhall ply, 
 And, wrapt in darknefs as they lie, 
 Each feature fair, each boafted grace, 
 With unrelenting hand efface. 
 
 14. 
 Ye Juft, exulting lift your eyes ; 
 Behold the promis'd Morn arife, 
 That bids you, o'er each haughty foe 
 Exalted, endlefs triumphs know: 
 
 15- 
 
 My Soul, amidft your happy train, 
 The wifli'd redemption (hall obtain, 
 By God adopted, Death fhall brave, 
 And mock the difappointed Grave, 
 
 16. 
 Let not the Sight thy heart difmay, 
 If Man's proud Offspring thou furvey 
 With growing wealth incircled round, 
 Or mark his houfe with honours crown'd : 
 
 Think not his treafures, at his end, 
 Shall with him to the grave defcend, 
 Or the vain pomp, that ffrikes thy view, 
 Through Death's dark fnade its Lord purfue. 
 
 18. 
 His life with each delight was fraught, 
 How blefs'd his pamper'd Soul its lot ! 
 Thee too, while pleafure crowns thy days, 
 Admiring Crouds perchance may praife; 
 
 5 19. Yet 
 
PSALM XLIX. 123 
 
 19. 
 Yet Thou, like Him, the way (halt tread, 
 Which, one by one, thy Sires have led, 
 And 'midft th' impenetrable gloom 
 Shalt find with Them thy lading home. 
 
 20. 
 For A4an, with erring pride elate, 
 And high in pow'r, in honour great, 
 Shares with the Brute an equal doom, 
 And fleeps forgotten in the tomb. 
 
 PSALM L. 
 1. 
 
 THE Ldrd,th* Almighty Monarch, fpake, 
 And bade the Earth the fummons take, 
 Far as his eyes the realms furvey 
 Of riling and declining day. 
 
 2. 
 ReveaPd from Stan's facred bound, 
 The Scat with matchlefs beauty crown'd, 
 Our God his courfe fhall downward bend, 
 Nor filent to his Work defcend. 
 
 3- 
 
 At his approach the fire fhall blaze, 
 
 And kindled pour its flrearning rays ; 
 Devouring flames fhall march before, 
 And mightieft tempefts round him roar* 
 
 4- 
 
 Heav'n from above fhall hear his call, 
 And Thou, the vaft terreftrial Ball ! [meet, 
 While Man's whole race their Judge fhall 
 In countlefs throngs before his Seat. 
 
 M % 5, " My 
 
124 PS AL M L. 
 
 5- 
 " My Saints collect from diftant Poles y 
 <c Collect the juft and faithful Souls, 
 <c With whom my compact firm has flood, 
 " Seal'd with the fpotlefs Victim's blood." 
 
 6. 
 Th' applauding Heav'ns the ehangelefs Doom, 
 While God the balance fhall afllime, 
 In full memorial fhall record, 
 And own the Juftice of their Lord. 
 
 7- 
 
 With humbleft: awe, my People, hear ; 
 
 For God, thy God, his voice fhall rear : 
 
 Myfelf, O Ifrae^ will atteft 
 
 The guilt that ftains thy erring breafh 
 
 8. 
 Though at the Altar's kindled fire 
 No bleeding Victim mould expire, 
 Not ritual Sacrifice withheld 
 My theme of juft complaint fhall' yield : 
 
 9- 
 
 Still let thy Stall the Steer detain, 
 Still let thy Goat untouch'd remain 
 Amidft his herd-mates : from thy hands 
 Nor Goat nor Steer thy Lord demands : 
 
 10. 
 
 Mine are the Beafts that range the weed, 
 Mine all the tame or fa v age Brood 
 Whofe train the Earth's wide pafture fills, 
 And wanders o'er her thoufend hills. 
 
 ii. Each 
 
PSALM L. 125 
 
 11. 
 
 Each fowl, that from its airy flight 
 Defcends upon the mountain's height, 
 Each brute, that o'er the champaign ftrays. 
 My all-obferving eyefurveys. 
 
 12, 
 Admit, I hunger; fhall thy God 
 Defcend from Thee to afk his food, 
 Lord of the World and all its Store 
 Thy aid, thou Child of Earth, implore ? 
 
 Shall Bulls to eafe my want be flain, 
 Or blood of Goats my thirft reftrain ? 
 Go, fuppliant at my altar bow, 
 And pay thy thanks, and pay thy vow : 
 
 14. 
 (Be this thy Offering :) In thy woes 
 On Me with ftedfaft hope repofe ; 
 So (hall my ear receive thy pray'r, 
 And, grateful, Thou my mercy fhare. 
 
 I5 \ 
 
 Thou Wretch by difcipline unaw'd, 
 
 (Thus to the Impious fpeaks my God,) 
 Thy fecret crimes to Me are known i 
 I fee my Laws behind thee thrown: 
 
 16. 
 And Thou, doft Thou with lips profane 
 The precepts of my will explain, 
 And, rank'd thyfelf amid my foes, 
 My terms of offer'd grace propofe ? 
 
 M 3 17. Say, 
 
126 P S A L M U 
 
 Say, has the Thief to Thee applied^ 
 And Thou thy wanted aid denied ? 
 Or fail'd th' Adult'rer e'er to fee 
 A partner of his guilt in Thee ? 
 
 18. 
 Train'd in each well-difTembled art 
 To veil the purpofe of thine heart, 
 Thy tongue to fraud has loos'd the reinsj 
 And lye with lye connected feigns. 
 
 19, 
 Haft thou not fat, with cruel aim v 
 Reflecting on a Brother's fame, 
 And with invented fcandal ftain'd 
 Whom erft one womb with Thee contain'd ? 
 
 20. 
 While yet my anger I fupprefs'd 
 Within the fecrets of my breaft, 
 And filent deign'd thy crimes to fee, 
 Thy folly pi&ur'd Me like Thee : 
 
 But foon my op'ning lips {hall yield 
 The juft rebuke fo long withheld* 
 And bid, before thy confcious eyes 3 
 Thy guilt in all its horror rife. 
 
 22. 
 Ye Souls forgetful of my fear, 
 With full regard my dictates hear ; 
 Left, at my word, your life the Grave 
 Demand, and none be nigh to fave. 
 
 23. Who 
 
PS AL M L. 127 
 
 23. 
 
 Who yields the Sacrifice of praife, 
 His heft-accepted homage pays : 
 Who forms his fteps aright, fhall know 
 What Joys from my Salvation flow* 
 
 P S A L M LI. 
 1* 
 
 OLord, whofe Mercies vaft amount. 
 Nor words nor numbers can recount, 
 Let now thy clemency divine 
 Confpicuous in my pardon fhine ; 
 
 2. 
 O let the fulnefs of thy grace 
 Each error of my life efface, 
 Its influence to my foul convey, 
 And wafh my ev'ry ftain away. 
 
 3- 
 
 My confcious heart its guilt (hall own 1 
 My Deed to Thee, and Thee alone, 
 Obnoxious, nor the day nor night 
 Conceals from my abhorring fight. 
 
 4- 
 Right is thy fentence, holieft Lord, 
 (God of my hope) thy ev'ry word 
 In truth's unvarying balance weigh'd 
 Thy ev'ry acl: by Juftiee fway'd. 
 
 5- 
 Thou from the birth my foul couldft view, 
 As fhap'd in fin my breath I drew, 
 And feeft me guilt's tranfmiffive ftain 
 Through life's revolving courfe retain. 
 
 6, But 
 
i 2 8 PSALM LI. 
 
 6. 
 But thy decrees, Almighty Sire, 
 Integrity of heart require; 
 Thy hand, corrective of my will, 
 Shall wifdom in my bread inftill : 
 
 / • 
 With hallow'd hyiTop fprinkled o'er, 
 
 My foul its fpots fhall mourn no more, 
 
 But, cleans'd by Thee, the whitenefs know 
 
 That clothes the new-defcenaed fnovv. 
 
 8. 
 
 How fhall my ear thy pard'ning voice 
 
 Tranfported welcome ! How rejoice 
 
 My bones, with vital moifture fill'd, 
 
 That, crufh'd by Thee, by Thee are heal'd ! 
 
 9- 
 O turn, great Ruler of the Skies, 
 
 Turn from my Sin thy fearching eyes, 
 Nor let th' offences of my hand 
 Within thy book recorded ftand. 
 
 10. 
 
 Give me a will to thine fubdu'd, 
 A confcience pure, a foul renew'd, 
 Nor let me, wrapt in endlefs gloom, 
 An outcaft from thy prefence roam. 
 
 II. 
 O let thy Spirit to my heart 
 Once more his quick'ning aid impart, 
 My mind from ev'ry fear releafe, 
 And footh my troubled thoughts to peace. 
 
 12, S3 
 
P S A L M LI. 129 
 
 12. 
 So fhall the Souls, whom Error's fway 
 Has urg'd from Thee, bleft Lord, to ftray, 
 From Me thy heav'nly precepts learn.. 
 And humbled to their God return. 
 
 13- 
 
 O would thy healing grace beftow'd 
 
 Abfolve me from my debt of blood, 
 
 How fhould my breaft with tranfport glow, 
 
 What Gratitude my heart o'erflow ! 
 
 14. 
 How fhould my tongue thy Juftice fing, 
 Invifible, Immortal King, 
 And, long as breath extends my days, 
 The God of my Salvation praifc ! 
 
 15. 
 
 Not VicTims, Lord, in folemn rite 
 Prefented, thy defire excite ; 
 Hlfe fhould my hand with zealous care 
 Th' exacted holocauft prepare. 
 
 16. 
 Prompt is thy powY, when ills invade, 
 The meek and contrite foul to aid ; 
 A Spirit griev'd is facrifice 
 Delightful to th' all-feeing eyes; 
 
 The heart, that, taught its guilt to know* 
 Repentant heaves with inward woe, 
 Shall find its pray'r, its groans, its fighs, 
 To Thee in full acceptance rift. 
 
 1 8. Thy 
 
i 3 o PSALM LI. 
 
 18. 
 
 Thy grace to Sion^ Lord, extend, 
 And bid fair Salem's walls afcend : 
 So mall the Sons ofjfacob's line 
 With pureft offerings load thy Shrine ; 
 
 19. 
 And, while in many a lengthen'd wreath 
 Their incenfe (hall its odours breathe, 
 Before thy altar doom'd to bleed 
 The flaughter'd fteer the flames fhall feed. 
 
 PSALM LII. 
 
 1. 
 
 IITHYj Tyrant, boafls thy heart the 
 
 To work a Brother's woe ; 
 While God his mercy bids each hour 
 
 In ftreams unmeafur'd flow ? 
 2. 
 With joy thy tongue, to falfehood prone, 
 
 Its venom deals around $ 
 Nor razor fharpen'd on the (tone 
 
 Inflicts fo deep a wound. 
 
 3- 
 
 Thy lips far readier 111 than Good 
 
 And Lies than Truth have fought ; 
 Nor e'er has word that aim'd at blood 
 Un welcomed met thy thought. 
 
 4. But 
 
PSALM LII. 131 
 
 4- 
 But God, whofe wrath thy crimes inflame, 
 
 Shall pluck thee from thy home, 
 Root from the land of life thy name, 
 
 And feal thy changelefs doom. 
 
 5- 
 
 The Juft, with thankful awe poTefs'd, 
 
 Shall view thy blafted pride, 
 And, from their fierceft foe reieas'd, 
 
 Thy impious boafts deride. 
 6. 
 u Lo there the wretch in trefpafs bold, 
 
 « Who God's fupport difdain'd, 
 u And on his heaps of treafiir'd gold 
 
 c< His frantic hope fufta'n'd." 
 
 7; 
 Frefh as the verdant olive, I 
 
 Within thy Courts fhall ftand, 
 And, fix'd, indulgent Lord, rely 
 
 On thy protecting hand, 
 8. 
 Thy A£ts my praife (hall ever claim, 
 
 Thy Name, am id ft my woes, 
 (How grateful to thy Saints that Name !) 
 
 My ev'ry fear compofc. 
 
 PSALM 
 
*3- 
 
 PSALM LIII. 
 
 i. 
 
 BEHOLD the Fool, whofe heart denies 
 The God who form'd the Earth and 
 Skies : 
 While, fearlefs, fin's worfr paths he treads, 
 Mark how the dire example fpreads. 
 
 2. 
 Of Man's whole race not one we find 
 To Virtue's Heav'n-taught rules inclin'd, 
 Who 'midft infectious times has flood 
 Unftain'd, and obftinatelv good. 
 
 3- 
 
 Th' eternal Monarch from on high 
 Caft on the Sons of Earth his eye, 
 If haply fome he yet might fee 
 True to their God, from error free. 
 
 4- 
 He look'd : But ah S not one could find 
 To Virtue's Heav'n-taught rules inclin'd : 
 Each, led from Wifdom's path aftray, 
 Purfues the tenour of his way. 
 
 5- 
 
 O fay, what frenzy thus could blind 
 Their Souls, that with remorfelefs mind 
 As bread my People they devour, 
 Nor fuppliant own their Maker's powV, 
 
 6. 
 Yet fee their thoughts tumultuous roll, 
 See caufelefs terrors {hake their foul; 
 By juft alarms of confcience driv'n 
 To tremble at the wrath of Heav'n ! 
 
 7. Wide 
 
F S A L M LIII. r 33 
 
 7- 
 
 Wide o'er the field the bones are fpread 
 Of Chiefs who by thy fword have bled, 
 And fpealc the doom that All muft fhare, 
 Whom God abandons from his care. 
 
 8. 
 Who, mightieft Lord, to IfraeVs eyes 
 Shall bid the wifh'd Salvation rife, 
 From Sions hill its healing ray 
 Extend, and round us pour the day ? 
 
 ?• 
 
 When Thou thy captives {haltreftore, 
 
 Thy praife lhall found through Juclab's fliore, 
 And ceafelefs fhouts, through heav'n's wide 
 
 frame 
 Loud echoing, Jacob's joy proclaim. 
 
 PSALM LIV. 
 i. 
 
 THY Name my fledfaft heart avows ; 
 Do Thou my injur'd caufe efpoufe, 
 And be thy Strength my aid : 
 My plaints, eternal Monarch, hear, 
 And let them by thy pitying ear 
 With full regard be weigh'd. 
 
 2. 
 
 For Nations from thy fear eftrang'd, 
 With Tyrants fierce, againft me rang'd, 
 
 My guiltlefs foul purfue : 
 But 'midft my helpe s HeavVs high Lord 
 Shall ftand, and faithful to his word 
 
 Each adverfe pow'r fubdue. 
 
 N 3. O 
 
i 3 4 PSALM LIV. 
 
 3- 
 
 O let my heart, their rage repell'd, 
 Itfelf a willing ofPring yield ; 
 
 To Thee its praife fhall flow, 
 While to my thought thy Mercies rife, 
 That gave me with exulting eyes 
 
 To fee my proftrate foe. 
 
 PSALM LV. 
 i. 
 
 OHear my voice, All-potent Sire, 
 Nor diftant from the pray'r retire, 
 Whofe accents to thine ear impart 
 The anguifli of my heaving heart. 
 
 2. 
 
 A Croud, whofe thoughts from Thee have 
 
 ftray'd, 
 With falfehood arm'd, my peace invade, 
 And, leagu'd in fin, reproaching foes 
 With fettled hate my fteps inclofe. 
 
 3- 
 
 Oppreflion's fhouts around me roar. 
 Death's blackeft horrors whelm me o'er, 
 And griefs and fears, that ftiun controul, 
 Shake to its inmoft depth my foul. 
 
 4- 
 O who (hall give me (thus my breaft 
 Its vain inquietude exprefs'd,) 
 The Dove's light wing, that through the air 
 My foul to peaceful reft may bear ? 
 
 5. How 
 
PSALM LV. 135 
 
 5- 
 
 How would I mount the waftino: wind, 
 How leave the wrathful ftorms behind, 
 And in the Defert's lone retreat 
 Contented fix my lafting Seat ! 
 
 6. 
 Thy vengeance. Lord, inflict ; their tongue 
 Divide; for Tumult, Strife, and Wrong, 
 Where'er I turn, before my eyes 
 In giant forms amid them rife ; 
 
 7- 
 Within their wall's unhallow'd bound 
 
 By day, by night, they take their rounds 
 
 Nor ceafe their guilty ftreets to hear 
 
 The voice of falfehood, grief, and fear, 
 
 8. 
 
 If foes profeft had aim'd the wound, 
 
 My foul fome fafe recefs had found, 
 
 Or, difciplin'd by previous care, 
 
 Had learn'd th' expe£ted ill to bear \ 
 
 9- 
 
 But Thou, 'twas Thou, the Friend difguis'd, 
 
 The Man, whom chief of Friends I priz'd, 
 To whom, its Counfellor and Guide, 
 My foul in ev'ry doubt applied : 
 
 10. 
 In bands of fvveeteft union join'd* 
 Each wiih, each ftcret of the mind, 
 We fhar'd, and Wft th' aflembled Train 
 Familiar trod the haliow'd Fane. 
 
 N z ik Let 
 
136 P S A L M LV. 
 
 11. 
 
 Let Earth its op'ning jaws extend, 
 While living to the grave defcend 
 The lawlefs Throng ; vvhofe Land profane 
 HelPs worft-in vented mifchiefs ftain. 
 
 12. 
 God, as with fervent lips I pray, 
 At dawn, at noon, at clofe of day, 
 Shall ftocp to my complaint his ear, 
 And inftant in my caufe appear. 
 
 He, when the battle round me bled, 
 From- hofiile myriads fcreen'd my head. 
 Gave to my pray'r the winYd-for peace, 
 And bade the dreadful tumult ceafe. 
 
 14. 
 That Pow'r who reign'd thro' ages paft, 
 Whofe counfels fhall for ever laft, 
 That Pow'r my conteft fhall decide, 
 And humble to the duft their pride* 
 
 *$. 
 
 See, unprovok'd, the reftlefs foe 
 Aim at thy Saints the deathful blow, 
 (Thy fear, great God, behind him thrown,} 
 And compacts oft confirm'd difown. 
 
 16. 
 While War's fierce flames within him burn. 
 As milk new foaming from the churn 
 Smooth are his lips ; as oil his words ; 
 Yet wound they deep as keencft fwords* 
 
 17. O 
 
PSALM LV. 137 
 
 O caft thee fearlefs on thy God ; 
 He, prompt to fave, the grateful load 
 Within his foft'ring arms fhall bear, 
 And feed thee with a parent's care. 
 18. 
 Author^of good ! beneath thy hand 
 Secure from lapfe the Juft fhall ftand, 
 While (fuch thy Mandate !) on his foes 
 Destruction's pit its mouth (hall clofe. 
 
 19. 
 Who thirft for blood, who falfehoods raife, 
 To death (hall yield, ere half their days 
 Be numher'd, while, exulting, I 
 On Thee with ftedfaft hope rely. 
 
 PSALM LVI. 
 1. 
 
 O Reach me, Lord, thy aiding powY, 
 While hoflile troops my ftrength devour; 
 My ftrength devour, and day by day 
 With fierceft threats my heart difmay: 
 Yet Truft in Thee my fpirit chears, 
 And checks my fighs, and wipes my tears. 
 
 2. 
 
 Thy promife, Lord, to notes of praife 
 In each diftrefs my fong {hall raife ; 
 Thy word my breaft with joy fhall fwell, 
 And all my anxious cares difpel: 
 God in my caufe his arm will rear ; 
 And Man, fhall Man excite my fear ? 
 
 N 3 3. My 
 
138 PSALM LVI. 
 
 3- 
 
 My words they torture ; and, their thought 
 
 Each hour with deepeft malice fraught, 
 In impious council nightly meet, 
 To watch, with murth'rous aim, my feet, 
 And guileful, onward as I tread, 
 Befide my path their nets outfpread. 
 
 4; 
 
 On wrong, and fuperftition vain, 
 
 Their hope the frantic tribe fuftain ; 
 But teach them, Lord, thy wrath to know, 
 And quell the infults of my foe ; 
 O let thine arm their crimes repay, 
 Who feek my footiteps to betray* 
 5- 
 
 My grief to thine obferving eye, 
 As chas'd from realm to realm I fly, 
 In full difplay, great God, appears ; 
 O treafure in thy vafe my tears : 
 But fee ! already by thy hand • 
 
 Recorded in thy bock they ftand. 
 
 6. 
 Whene'er to Thee, my God, I cry, 
 Secure of help the fight I try, 
 For thou thine aid, when afk'd, wilt give, 
 And teach my fainting hope to live; 
 While hofts beneath my falchion bleed, 
 And back with headlong flight recede. 
 
 V 
 
 Thy promife, Lord, to notes of praife 
 
 In each diftrefs my fong lhall raife; 
 
 4 ' Thy 
 
PSALM LVL i 39 
 
 Thy word my breaft with joy fhall fwell, 
 Thy promife, Lord, my woes difpel : 
 God in my caufe his arm will rear ; 
 And Man, (hall Man excite my fear ? 
 
 8. 
 Their thanks, their vows, ((hy juft demand,) 
 My lips fhall yield : Thy fav'ring hand 
 My feet from error, from the grave 
 My fainting foul, has deign'd to fave, 
 And bids me ftill, to Thee allied, 
 Within the land of life refiae. 
 
 PSALM LVIL 
 
 i. 
 
 THY Mercy, Lord, amidft my woes, 
 To my defiring eyes difclofe \ 
 Propitious to thy fervant's heart 
 Thy wonted clemency impart : 
 2. 
 
 Let me, my hope on Thee reclin'd, 
 Beneath thy wings a refuge find, 
 Till thy prevailing beams difpel 
 The clouds of grief that o'er me dwell. 
 
 3- 
 To Thee, the God who reigns on high, 
 
 To Thee with fuppliant voice I cry, 
 
 Aflur'd that Thou, indulgent ftill, 
 
 My plaint (halt hear, my pray'r fulfil, 
 
 4- Thy 
 
i + o P S A L M LVIL 
 
 Thy timelieft aid from heav'n extend, 
 My fame from obloquy defend, 
 And bid thy Truth and Mercy fhed 
 Their kindeft influence on my head. 
 
 5- 
 The Lions round me roar aloud ; 
 And, fir'd with caufelefs rage, a Croud 
 Advance, (thy foes, eternal Lord,) 
 Whofe teeth are fpears, whofe tongue a fword. 
 
 6. 
 Inthron' d thyfelf above the fkies, 
 O bid thy fulleft glory rife, 
 And to the earth v/ith cloudlefs ray 
 The wonders of thy pow'r difplay. 
 
 7- 
 Oft, as amid the fnares I tread, 
 
 Each hour by hoilile fraud outfprcad, 
 
 What clouds of grief around me roll, 
 
 What dreadful ftorms invade my foul ! 
 
 8 
 
 What fears, what woes, my bofom prove ! 
 
 Yet, fav'd by thy preventing Love, 
 
 Th' artificers of death I fee • 
 
 Fall'n in the pit prepared for mc. 
 
 9 \ 
 My heart is fix'd, Almighty Sire, 
 
 My heart is fix'd : to Thee afpire 
 
 My thoughts, and di£iate to my lays 
 
 An argument of endlefs praife. 
 
 ic. Awake 
 
PSALM LVII. 141 
 
 10. 
 Awake, thou glory of my frame, 
 Awake, my tongue, to loud acclaim \ 
 Pfalt'ry awake, and joyful pay 
 To God the tribute of the day ; 
 
 II. 
 Awake my lute, and new-ftrung lyre > 
 InftincT:, myfelf, with holy fire 
 I wake ; and lo, the dawning fun 
 Already hears the {train begun. 
 
 12. 
 
 From Me aflembling crouds fhall burn 
 The triumphs of thy Love to learn, 
 And, rapt with zeal, the Nations round 
 Catchf rom my lips the facred found. 
 
 Lo ! to the clouds thy Truth extends, 
 And Heav'n's ftupendous height tranfcends ; 
 Far as to earth's extremeft bound 
 In all thy works is mercy found : 
 
 14. 
 Inthron'd thyfelf above the fkies, 
 O bid thy fulleft glory rife, 
 And to the earth with cloudlefs ray 
 The wonders of thy pow'r difplay. 
 
 PSALM LVIIL 
 1. 
 
 YE whofe lips the caufe decide, 
 Say, does Truth your fentence guide ? 
 Are your thoughts by JuiYice fway'd, 
 And in Reafon's balance weigh 'd ? 
 
 Let 
 
142 PSALM LVIII. 
 
 Let your confcious tongues atteft 
 What ye harbour in your breaft. 
 
 2. 
 Hearts ye bear, that deep within 
 Cherifh each fuggefted fin, 
 While on fierce contention bent 
 Arts of mifchiefye invent, 
 And^the dictates of your will 
 With remorfelefs hands fulfil. 
 
 3- 
 
 From the womb, in error's W3y 
 
 See the infant finner ftray : 
 Nurtur'd in deceit and wrong 
 See him with advent'rous tongue 
 (Prompt his earlieft fkill to try,) 
 Lifp the meditated lye. 
 
 4- 
 See their veins with venom fwell j 
 
 Arm'd with fuch, the Adder fell 
 
 Stops her ear, in many a fold 
 
 'Mid the (helt'ring brake uproll'd, 
 
 While each note the Charmer tries, 
 
 And his utmoft art defies. 
 
 5- 
 
 Smite, great God, the Lions' cheek, 
 And their fangs indignant break. 
 While they arm them for the war, 
 And their quiver'd (lores prepare, 
 Let th' Oppreflbrs feel thy pow'r, 
 Let thy fword their ftrength devour $ 
 
 6. Let 
 
PSALM LVIII. 
 
 6. 
 
 Let them wafte in fwift decay, 
 As the Torrents pafs away, 
 As the earth-bred Snails confumc, 
 As th' Abortions of the womb 
 (Life's fhort circuit fcarce begun,) 
 Perifli ere they fee the fun. 
 
 7- 
 Ere the Caldron learn to glow 
 
 From the kindling thorns below, 
 
 Let thy hotter wrath be fhed 
 
 Quick on each rebellious head : 
 
 Let thy whirlwinds, through the Iky, 
 
 Minifters of vengeance, fly. 
 
 8. 
 
 Let them, Lord, at thy beheft, 
 
 Sweep from earth the living Pefl : 
 
 While the Souls that truft in Thee 
 
 Pleas'd their caufe aveng'd fhall fee, 
 
 And, the dreadful conflict o'er, 
 
 Wafh their fteps in hoftile gore. 
 
 9- 
 
 • Doubtlefs," each convinc'd {hall cry, 
 
 m Doubtlefs, there's a God on high, 
 • c Who in awful Pomp array'd, 
 u Comes to judge the world he made, 
 " All who His commands regard, 
 " Reap at length their full reward." 
 
 H3 
 
 PSALM 
 
144 
 
 PSALM LIX. 
 
 u 
 
 TH' impending ftorm, my God, affuage ; 
 High o'er the foes, that round me rage, 
 Exalt me, (foes, whofe ftubborn mind, 
 To wrong and violence refign'd, 
 Thy facred Laws has long withftood,) 
 And fave me from the Man of blood. 
 
 2. 
 Aflembling crouds the deadly fnare, 
 Without my crime, great God, prepare ; 
 Without my crime, in fin allied, 
 To dirPrent paths their courfe divide : 
 O, obvious to my pray'r, arife, 
 Nor let their guilt efcape thine eyes. 
 
 3- 
 
 Leader of Hofls, and IfraePs God ! 
 Stretch o'er the Heathen tribes thy rod, 
 Nor let them vauntingly each hour 
 With mad prefumption brave thy pow'r, 
 But inftant from thy feat arife 
 The proud tranfgrefTors to chaftife. 
 
 4- ► 
 When eve's dark fhades o'er heav'n are hung, 
 See ! as the Dog v/ith fury flung, 
 While hideous yells their wrath betray, 
 From ftreet to ftreet they urge their way; 
 Sword c in their lips, without a fear 
 Their eats they vent: for who fliall hear ? 
 
 5. Thou 
 
PSALM LIX. 145 
 
 5. 
 Thou, Lord, their menace fhalt deride, 
 And check with jufl reproach their pride. 
 Rock of my ftrength ! to Thee on high 
 My Soul fhall lift the ftedfaft eye, 
 Whofc aid, e'er yet invok'd, each foe 
 Beneath my conqu'ring feet fhall throw* 
 
 6. 
 Let not thy wrath, O God our fhield, 
 Their name to full excifion yield, 
 Left, vanifh'd from th' obferving eye, 
 Th' example of thy vengeance di^ ; 
 But, arm'd with pow'r, through foreign lands 
 Diftribute wide their vanquifh/d Bands, 
 
 7; 
 
 Such vengeance from thine arm, great Sire, 
 Their tongues repeated crimes require, 
 Their thoughts, inflam'd with impious pride 5 
 Their oaths to guile's worft ends applied, 
 And urge thee with impartial doom 
 Each bold tranfgreflbr to confume : 
 
 8. 
 Strike, Lord, O ftrike the needful blow, 
 And teach an erring World to know, 
 How vain its efforts to withftand 
 The force of thy refiftkfs hand ; 
 While Jacob's Sons thy pow'r obey, 
 And Earth's wide confines own thy iway.- 
 
 9- 
 
 When eve's dark (hades o'er heav'nare hung, 
 
 Still, as the Dog with fury flung, 
 
 * O Still 
 
146 P S A,L M LIX. 
 
 Still let them clam'ring for their prey, 
 From ftreet to ftreet purfue their way, 
 Infatiate -, while their deftin'd fpoil 
 Elufive mocks their fruitlefs toil. 
 
 10. 
 
 I, Lord, fecure in Thee, thy might 
 Will praife, and with the rifing light 
 Thy Love, that in the dreadful day 
 Redeem'd me, on my harp difplay, 
 Thee own my refuge, (heav'nly King !) 
 And Mercy's unexhaufted Spring. 
 
 PSALM LX. 
 i. 
 
 REPULS'D, difpers'd, chaftis'd by Thee, 
 O grant us, Lord, thy face to fee, 
 And let the People, once thy care, 
 Again thy fav'ring prefence fhare. 
 
 2. 
 How trembles this divided Land 
 Beneath the terrors of thy hand ! 
 O Thou, the God whom we adore, 
 Its breaches heal, its peace reftore. 
 
 3- 
 Thy juft Decrees to Ifrael's eyes 
 
 Have bid a fcene of forrow rife, 
 
 And to his pallid lips the wine 
 
 Of dire Aftonifhment confign. 
 
 4- 
 
 Yet fee, thy hands a ftandard rear ; 
 
 Beneath it Each, who owns thy fear, 
 
 Engag'd 
 
 
PSALM LX. 147 
 
 Engag'd in Truth's neglected caufe, 
 His fword, fecure of conqueft, draws, 
 
 5. 
 Such, objects of thy tend'reft Love, 
 Defend propitious from above ; 
 Let Me with Them thy Mercy fhare, 
 And hear, O hear, my ceafelefs pray'r. 
 
 6. 
 God's truth (hall ne'er forget to guard 
 The promife by his lips declar'd ; 
 And what th' Almighty Monarch wills* 
 My ready hand with Joy fulfills, 
 
 7- 
 
 Behold me Sicberrfs plain divide ; 
 My line, to Succotb's vale applied, 
 Its bound defer ibes ; Thee mine I fee, 
 O Gilead> and, Manaffes^ Thee. 
 
 8. 
 Thou, Epkraim^ art my ftrong defence, 
 Thou, Judah, fhalt my Law difpenie ; 
 A different lot fhall Moab find, 
 A Vafe to vileft ufe affign'd , 
 
 9- 
 
 A doom like his fhall Edom meet, 
 
 And wips the duft from offmy feet. 
 Pbilijlia fhall her tribute bring, 
 And own in Me her future King. 
 
 10. 
 Who, as our troops in clofe array 
 To Edom's forts direct their way, 
 Arm'd with refiftlefs ftrength fhall bid 
 Her gates unfold, her bolts recede ? 
 
 O 2 II. Behold 
 
i 4 8 P S A L M XL. 
 
 ii. 
 
 Behold us, Lord, opprefs'd with woe, 
 As exiPd from thy care we go : 
 Shall Ifrael's hofts, thy aid withheld. 
 Still unfuGcefsful take the field ? 
 
 12. 
 
 Our hope, on Man repos'd in vain, 
 O let thy Strength, great God, fuftain, 
 And let us on thy aid reclin'd, 
 In thee our firm Protector find : 
 
 Thus arm'd, each adverfe pow'r we dare, 
 And dauntlefs meet the rufhing war, 
 While from thy fword our foes retire, 
 Or trampled in the duft expire. 
 
 PSALM LXL 
 i. 
 
 OPPRESS'D with grief, in exile loft, 
 To Thee from Judah's utmoft coaft 
 My voice, eternal God, I fend : 
 O hear my plaint ; my pray'r attend. 
 
 2. 
 High on the rock my footfte'ps rear ; 
 There let me ftand unmov'd, and hear 
 The ftormsj that now around me beat, 
 At diftance roll beneath my feet. 
 
 3- 
 Thee, Lord, I feek, whene'er my foes 
 With dire intent my path inclofe, 
 And own thee in the dang'rous hour 
 My firmeft Hope, mv ftrongeft Tow'r. 
 
 4, Remote 
 
PSALM LXL 149 
 
 4- 
 Remote from fear, within thy fhrine 
 Thou, Lord, my dwelling (halt aflign ; 
 And, while the ttorms around me beat, 
 Fix on the rock my ftedfaft feet. 
 
 5- 
 
 Thy wings (hall wrap me in their (hade ; 
 Thou, Thou haft heard me when I pray'd, 
 And yielded to my wifh the joys 
 Of Thofe whofe care thy Will employs. 
 
 6. 
 Long Life fhall Ifraels King behold, 
 And ages count on ages roll'd ; 
 With lafting joy thy fervant's eyes 
 Shall fee his children's children rife : 
 
 7- 
 Safe in thy prefence let him ftand, 
 
 And fhare the bleffings of thy hand j 
 
 His dwelling let thy Truth defend, 
 
 Thy Mercy on his fteps attend. 
 
 8. 
 
 So {hall thy Love awake my fong, 
 
 Thy Name the willing note prolong, 
 
 While warm'd with zeal, my vows 1 pay, 
 
 And blefs thee to my lateft day. 
 
 PSALM LXIL 
 i. 
 
 MY Soul in God its reft has found ; 
 When various griefs befet me round, 
 His Love {hall fure deliv'rance yield ; 
 By Him through life I walk upheld, 
 
 O 3 And 
 
i*o P S A L M LXII. 
 
 And fafe from lapfe my courfe maintain, 
 Or, falling, inftant rife again. 
 
 2. 
 How long, Artificers of ill, 
 Shall fchemes of death employ your fkiil ? 
 Behold the mifchiefs ye intend 
 Retorted on your heads defcend : 
 Your femblance fee yon loofen'd Wall, 
 Yon Bulwark, nodding to its fall. 
 
 3- 
 Vain are the wiles for Him prepar'd, 
 Whom Heav'n's hicrh Lord vouchfafes to 
 
 o 
 
 guard ; 
 See, vers'd in fraud, the impious Throng 
 With bleffings charge their guileful tongue, 
 While deep within the heart's difguiie 
 The fecret curfe invelcp'd lies. 
 
 But Thou, my Soul, on God reclin'd. 
 In Him thy wifh'd for reft (halt find ; 
 His Love (hall fure deliv'rance yield $ . 
 By Him through life I walk upheld, 
 Superior brave the hofiile Train, 
 And fafe from lapfe my courfe maintain. 
 
 5- 
 Thee, Lord, my Glory, Thee alone 
 
 My Rock, my Health, my Strength, I own \ 
 
 Ye Tribes, in God your help behold, 
 
 To Him, with me, your hearts unfold ; 
 
 Each want confefs, each grief reveal ; 
 
 For whojO who like Him can heal ? 
 
 6.0 
 
PSALM LXII. 151 
 
 6. 
 O Vanity, thy Name is Man : 
 Intent the human mind to fcan, 
 Come, try, if aught of weight there feem ; 
 Sufpend the balance, fix the beam : 
 In vain. — With equal eafe were weigh'd 
 The flitting air, or empty (hade. 
 
 7- 
 
 Truft not in Wrong and Fraud ; no more 
 
 On Hope's light wing prefumptuous foar ; 
 
 Let gather'd wealth before thee lie 
 
 Beheld with unretorted eye, 
 
 Nor let the glitt'ring heap impart 
 
 One wifh to thy deluded heart. 
 
 8. 
 Once from his throne th' Almighty fpake 3 
 And forth again the accents brake : 
 41 See Pow'r in Me with Mercy dwells, 
 44 And where my fear the mind impels 
 44 Each aft I mark with kind regard, 
 u And pleas'd confer the juft reward." 
 
 PSALM LXIII. 
 it 
 
 THOU art my God \ to Thee my eyes 
 I lift, e'er yet the dawn arife : 
 With facred thirft, O Lord, I burn, 
 My Heart, my Flefh, thy abfence mourn, 
 As o'er th' unhofpitable way 
 Amidft a barren wafte I ftray 5 
 
 2. Yet 
 
i 5 2 tf S A L M LXIII. 
 
 2. 
 
 Yet here, by heav'nly Wifdom led, 
 Expectant wait, till o'er my head 
 Thy beams in mild effulgence play, 
 And turn my darknefs into day -, 
 Thofe beams which oft my eyes beheld 
 From Salem's hallow'd Shrine reveal'd. 
 
 3- 
 Thy Love my lips fhall ever tell, 
 (Can Life itfelf that Love excell ?) 
 Nor ceafe, while breath prolongs my days, 
 In thankful notes the hymn to raife : 
 To Thee thy Servant, Lord, as now, 
 His hands (hall rear, his knees fhall bow. 
 
 4: 
 
 For nought like this my foul can chear ; 
 Nor. marrow from the fatted fteer 
 Could e'er to the luxurious fenfe 
 Such full delight, my God, difpenfe, 
 As what my fatiate foul enjoys, 
 Whene'er thy praife my tongue employs. 
 
 Thou Moon, be witnefs if my bed 
 Forgetful of my God I fpread ; 
 And Thou, revolving Sun, if e'er 
 I wake unconfcious of his care: 
 Each night and each returning day 
 To him my grateful vows I pay. 
 
 6. 
 Safe in the ftiadow of thy wings, 
 In Thee I joy, O King of Kings j 
 
 When 
 
PSALM LXIIL 153 
 
 When dangers threaten to devour, 
 Superior to each adverfe pow'r 
 Thy Arm extends the help divine, 
 And long Experience calls it mine. 
 
 7« 
 
 Behold my foes in dread retire, 
 
 Or proftrate at my feet expire : 
 While to my conqu'ring fword they yield, 
 The Beafls that nightly range the field 
 Amid the flaughter'd heaps mail ftray, 
 And rav'nous feize their iicens'd prey. 
 
 8. 
 By Thee exalted to the throne 
 Shall Judab's King thy mercies own ; 
 And bleft be Each, my God, whofe tongue 
 With Him (hall raife the grateful fong, 
 Who fuppliant at thy fhrinefhall kneel, 
 While fhame the Lyar's lips fnall feal. 
 
 PSALM LXIV. 
 1. 
 
 THINE ear, thou Majefry divine, 
 Propitious to mypray'r incline, 
 O hear, my voice in pity hear, 
 And fave my life from hoftile fear. 
 
 2. 
 Behold the men of impious mind, 
 Their pow'rs in fecret league combin'd, 
 With faction s rage my foul purfue, 
 And hide, O hide me from their view. 
 
 3. Behold 
 
154 P S A L M LXIV. 
 
 3-' 
 
 Behold the flaughter-breathiiig Throng 
 
 Whet as a fword their baleful tongue, 
 And words, as arrows keen, prepare, 
 That edg'd with death (hall walk the air. 
 
 4- 
 Conceal'd they ev'ry fear difclaim, 
 And level at the Jul! their aim, 
 Nor re{t, till in the blamelefs heart 
 Their hand has lodg'd the fudden dart. 
 
 5- 
 
 Their dire defigns, in guilt allied, 
 They form j fecure, their fnares provide ; 
 " And who our aim fhall thwart ? What eye 
 " (They afk,) the hidden death defcry V y 
 
 6. 
 With future mifchiefs teem their breafts, 
 (As each to each new wiles fuggefts,) 
 And feek in art's obfcureft veil 
 Their guilty purpofe to conceal. 
 
 7- 
 
 Ah ! Wretches, whither will ye fly ? 
 Behold the arrow from on high 
 Defcend, that bears upon its. wing 
 The wrath of Heav'n's offended King. 
 8. 
 Their tongue, that feeks another's hurt, 
 Itfelf their footfteps fhall fubvert, 
 And paffers by with inward dread 
 Behold them on the earth outfpread. 
 
 9. Each 
 
 
PSALM LXIV. I5S 
 
 9- 
 
 Each heart fhall own, with rev'rent thought, 
 That Thou the work, great God, haft wrought, 
 And, pleas'd, thy chaftifements fhall trace, 
 Infli£t.ed on their guilty race ; 
 
 10. 
 While, refcu'd from their rage, the pure 
 In peaceful reft fhall live fecure, 
 And with triumphant joy the juft 
 Exulting fix on Thee their truft. 
 
 PSALM LXV. 
 i. 
 
 THEE Sion's praife, O Lord, attends, 
 To Thee the frequent vow afcends 
 From each whom Salem's walls behold 
 Among her faithful fons inroll'd : 
 To Thee, whofe ready ear the pray'r 
 Prevents, {hall Man's whole race repair : 
 
 2. 
 Behold, their Maker taught to own, 
 Behold them bow before thy throne, 
 Amidft them at thy footftool I, 
 Prefs'd with a weight of guilt, apply, 
 Affur'd from Thy free grace to win 
 The wiih'd atonement of my fin. 
 
 3- 
 
 Bleft, who by fweet experience knows, 
 What Joys thy Prefence, Lord, beftows, 
 The Man, who, privileg'd by Thee, 
 Thy face in near approach fhall fee, 
 
 .Behold 
 
i 5 6 P S A L M LXV. 
 
 Behold thy beams effulgent play, 
 And in thy Dwelling fix his flay.. 
 
 4- 
 Let IfraeVs Tribes, their foes o'erthrown, 
 The terrors of thy Juftice own, 
 O Thou, the Hope of human race, 
 Of all whom Earth's wide arms embrace, 
 Of all who toft by tempefts fweep 
 The furface of the pathlefs Deep. 
 
 5. 
 In Thee they truft, who girt with pow'r 
 Haft bid the Mountains heav'nward tow'r, 
 And fix'd their Bafe ; — who know'ft to rein 
 The infults of the foaming Main, 
 Check the brute waves that roar aloud, 
 And ftill the madnefs of the Croud. 
 
 6. 
 Remoteft Realms with dire difmay 
 Thy wonders, mightieft Lord, furvey ; 
 Struck with furprize thy pow'r they own, 
 And humbled bow before thy throne ; ■ 
 While, as they walk th' ethereal Round, 
 The Morn and Eve thy praife refound. 
 
 7- 
 
 Thy vifits teach the grateful foil 
 To recompenfe the tiller's toil : 
 By unexhaufted fprings fupplied 
 Thy River pours its copious tide, 
 And bids the ftrength-infufing grain 
 Earth's countlefs Family fuftain. 
 
 x 8. The 
 
 
¥ S A L M LXV. 
 
 *57 
 
 'The Clouds, in frequent fhow'rs diftili'o\ 
 Drop fatnefs on the pregnant field, 
 Break the tough glebe, the furrows chear, 
 And crown with good the gliding year ; 
 Th' exulting Hills, th' extended Wade, 
 Thy gifts in rich profufion tafe. 
 
 9- 
 
 Nurs'd by thy care the fleecy train 
 Invefts with white the rural plain, 
 While, as beneath the fav 'ring fkies 
 In crouded ranks the harvefts rife, 
 The laughing Vale aflfumes a tongue, 
 .And burfts-triumphant into fong. 
 
 PSALM LXVL 
 i. 
 
 YE Sons of Men, in God rejoice ; 
 Lift in one choir your thankful voices 
 And fpread through Earth's extended frame* ■ 
 The honour of your Maker's name. 
 
 2. 
 Ye Nations round aflembled meet ! 
 Thus let your fong his praife repeat ; 
 
 Eternal Ruler of the fkies, 
 How awful are thy works, how wife ! 
 
 3- 
 Thy late obdurate foes behold, 
 By thy fuperior ftrength controul'd, 
 With flatt'ring lip their homage pay, 
 And Earth's whole empire own thy fway. 
 
 i J 4. Each 
 
i 5 « P S A L M LXVL 
 
 4- 
 Each tribe of human race to Thee 
 Shall fuppliant bend the humble knee, 
 liach tongue iii hymns of praife fhall join, 
 And joyful blefs the name divine. 
 
 5- 
 
 O come, and view with rev'rent thought 
 The acts by fleav'n'c high Monarch wrought. 
 His wonders mown fince Time began, 
 And frieadlike intercourfe with Man. 
 
 j6. 
 His word the Deep's vafls channel dried, 
 And backward roll'd th' obedient Tide i 
 Avv'd by his voice the briny flood 
 In liquid heaps fufpended flood : 
 
 7- 
 
 Now fafe athwart its fandy bed 
 
 By Him our refcu'd troops are led, 
 Now loft in grateful tranfport ftand, 
 And fliouts of triumph (hake the ftrand^ 
 
 8. 
 Time's lateft period long o'erpaft, 
 His pow'r fhall fclf-fupported laft ; 
 Kis eyes the earth furvey ; — in vain 
 Its rebel fons oppofe his jeign. 
 
 9- 
 
 Ye Nations iill of various tongue, 
 
 To yacob's God exalt the fong ; 
 Sing, fmg aloud, fruit Nature's car 
 His praife through all her bounds may hear, 
 8 io. Whole 
 
 
P S A L M LXVI. i 59 
 
 10. 
 
 Whofe wakeful care within our breaft 
 (Though co-untlcf* foes our peace infcft,) 
 Still gives the vital pulfe to beat, 
 And guards from dread of lapfe our feet. 
 
 II. 
 Oft has thy hand, All-potent Lord, 
 By various proof our faith explor'd, 
 And bid the flame each heart refine, 
 As filver recent from the mine : 
 
 12. 
 Now round us waves the net, and now 
 Beneath Oppreflion's weight we bow. 
 While o'er our heads the Sons of pride 
 With hoflile fcorn exulting ride. 
 
 Through fires, through torrents, ledbyThee* 
 At length th' expected Land we fee, 
 Where ftreams irriguous cleave the foil, 
 And crown with wealth the tiller's toil* 
 
 14. 
 Lo, to thy Dome, my God and King, 
 The facred Holocauft I bring, 
 That late, opprefs'd by forrow's cloud, 
 To Thee with fervent lip I vow'd: 
 
 Before thy Altar's kindled fire ^ 
 
 The promis'd victims fhall expire, 
 Here bleed the full-fed Goat, and here 
 The fleecy Ram, and ftubborn Steer* 
 
 P 2 16.O 
 
i£o P S A L M- LXVIi. 
 
 16. 
 
 O come, Ye Souls that fear your God,, 
 .And learn his grace on Me beftow'd, 
 As, fupplicatiqg loud > my tongue 
 Wak'd to his praife the hallow'd fong, 
 
 J 7. 
 Kftd confcious guilt my bofom ftain'd, 
 How had his ear my pray'r difdain'd, 
 That upward now through tracts of day 
 In jure acceptance wings its way ! 
 
 18. 
 Eleft be my God, who, thron'd on high^ 
 Rejects not from his care my cry, 
 Nor, while afflictions round me rife,. 
 His mercy to my foul denies. 
 
 PSAL M LXVII. 
 
 MAY God his fav'ring ear incline 
 And bid his face on Ijrael (hine^ 
 That All thy counfels, Lord, may know,/ 
 Where Earth extends, or Oceans flow, 
 And, thankful, to their wondring eyes 
 Behold thy wiih'd Salvation rife. 
 To Thee, of life th' eternal Spring, 
 Invifiblc, All-potent King, 
 One chorus let the Nations raife,. 
 One fhout of univerfal praife. 
 2. 
 Ye diftant Realms your voice employ 
 Ifc fangs of gratitude and joy \ 
 
 Exult 
 
psalm orflrr. & 
 
 Exult each Tribe, exult each Land ; 
 Heav'n's mighty Lord with equal hand 
 The balance holds, and Earth's domain 
 Shall own to latefr. age his reign. 
 
 To Thee, cf life th' eternal Spring, 
 
 Invifible, All-potent King, 
 
 One chorus let the Nations raife, 
 
 One fhout of univerfal praife. 
 
 3- 
 
 So, warm'd by genial funs, the field 
 
 With full increafe its fruits fhall yield, 
 And God, thy God, O IjVae!, fhed 
 His choiceft bleffings on thy head. 
 God fhall on us his bleflings fhowV, 
 And Man's whole race revere his pow'r. 
 
 To Thee, of life th' eternal Spring, 
 
 Invifible, Ail-potent King, 
 
 One chorus let the Nations raife, 
 
 One fhout of univerfal praife. 
 
 PSALM LXVIIL 
 i. 
 
 LE T God arife, and let his foes, 
 His arm unable to oppofe, 
 Back from the field, with wild affright 
 O'erwhelm'd, precipitate their flight, 
 
 2. 
 
 Behold, great God, the impious Hoft 
 Like fmoke in quick difperiion loll : 
 Behold them, at thy look, expire, 
 DiiTblv'd, as wax before the fire ; 
 
 P 3 3. While 
 
i&> P% A L M LXVIIL 
 
 3- 
 
 While ail who own thyjuft command 
 Exulting in thy prefence ftand, 
 And bid the fliout of triumph rife 
 Loud echoing to the diftant fktes. 
 
 4- 
 Your fongs for Ifraels God prepare,. 
 Who, feated on his regal Car,, 
 Triumphant o'er the Defert wide 
 In ibiemn flate is feen to rids : 
 
 5- 
 
 His name Jehovah; Theme ofpraife- 
 Exhauftiefs !— in His prefence raife 
 The grateful-drain, and joyous fing 
 The Mercies of your heav'nly King. 
 
 6. 
 Their Parent Him the Orphans hail ; 
 He bids the Widow's caufe prevail,, 
 And, fhrin'd above th' empyreal fky. 
 Extends to All his equal eye ; 
 
 7- 
 A manfion to the Outcaft gives, 
 
 The Captive from his chain relieves; 
 But bids the Sinner wear away 
 In barren wilds his fhorten'd day, 
 
 8. 
 When o'er the long-extended Wafte 
 Thy Prefence before Ifracl pafr, 
 And, beaming o'er thy People's head, 
 Their Bands to certain cojqueft k4j — 
 
 o. Earth, 
 
PSALM LXVTII. 163 
 
 9- 
 
 Earth, groaning to its centre, reel'd;. 
 The Heav'ns, in clouds diflblv'd, beheld 
 The footileps of th' approaching God r 
 Ev'n Sinai bow'd with lowly nod. 
 
 10. 
 While yet the burning fands they tread,. 
 Thy kindlieft rains, around them flied, 
 Befpeak them fav 'rites of thy care r 
 And Natures wearied pow'rs repair.- 
 
 11. 
 Thus joy the Tribes whom Thou haft lov'dy 
 Thus boaft their lot by Thee imprOv'd y 
 Whofe aid the humble and the poor 
 Shall ne'er with fruidefs vows implore; 
 
 12. 
 Heav'n's mighty Monarch gave the wordf 
 His mandate Sion's Daughters heard r 
 And thus in one affembled throng 
 With fweet accordance form the Song : 
 
 *3- 
 
 w Kings with their hofts have fled; and We y 
 
 u Who- fate from toils of battle free, 
 
 " (Content the houfhoid's care to guide,) 
 
 u The Victor's richer! fpoils divide." 
 
 Again f their form obfcur'd awhile 
 By tafks of fervitude and toil,) 
 Again the Sons oi Abraham's line 
 Array 'd in fpotlefs tuftre Ihine, — 
 
 15* As 
 
16+ PSALM LXVIII. 
 
 15- 
 
 As Doves, while obvious to the Sun 
 From plume to plume the fpiendors run y 
 Their wings in filver dipt unfold, 
 And necks that glow with living gold. 
 
 16. 
 While back thy foes, O Ifrael^ turn, 
 Thy God amid thy gloom a morn 
 Prefents, unfuliied as the fnow 
 Diffus'd o'er Salmon's ample brow. 
 
 No more, O Bafan^ vaunt thy height, 
 That ftrikes with awe the diftant fights 
 No more, ye fweliing Mountains, rife 
 In haughty triumph to the fkies : 
 
 18. 
 On humbler Sion's favour'd head 
 His tent th' eternal King has fprtad, 
 Her facred Hill his choice confefr, 
 And lafting manlion cf his reft, 
 
 19. 
 Ten thoufand Cars, and yet again 
 Ten thoufand Cars, in lengthen'd train 
 Along her hallow'd way proceed, 
 While God the Pomp vouchfafes to lead ; — • 
 
 20. 
 
 Thus Ifrael views within her fhrine 
 (Bleil feat of Miijsfty divine,) 
 The fcene that erft his Tribes beheld 
 On Sinai's my flic top reveal J d. 
 
 21. Admiring 
 
PS-A L M LXVIIL 165 
 
 21. 
 Admiring Crouds with upcaft eye 
 Have teen thee, Lord, afcend on high :. 
 Behind Thee move a captive Train, 
 Fall fetter'd with the fervile chain,, 
 
 22. 
 While gifts through Thee on All below 
 From Heav'n's high throne tranfmitted flow;. 
 A Race, who (hun'd thy Laws to own, 
 Thy Prefence and thy Aid have known* * 
 
 To God, our ever-conftant Aid, 
 Be thanks and ceafelefs honour paid : 
 To whom belongs the pow'r to fave 
 His fervants from th' expe&ipg grave* 
 
 24, 
 On Him thy winVd falvation reds-; 
 Him, Ifrael, praife ; whofe high behefls 
 Death's dreaded march thro' Earth's domain 
 To paths by Him prefcrib'd reftrain. 
 
 25. 
 To Each whofe heart rejects his fv/ay, 
 His terrors {hall their guilt repay ; 
 De.ftru6t.ion, with unwearied pace, 
 Through Sin's dark maze their path (hall trace; 
 
 26. 
 Intent on. plans of future ill r 
 His ftroke the hairy fcalp {hall feel, 
 And (hare the vengeance, thus aloud 
 Denounc'd on. the rebellious Croud. 
 
 27. " Once 
 
r66 PSALM LXVItf. 
 
 u Once more from Bnfan's fertile plain, 
 cc Once more from the divided Main 
 <c Thee, Jacob, my icfiillefs hand 
 " Shall lead, and guard thy chofen Band. 
 
 28. 
 u When foes thy fword prefumptuous brave, 
 %c Thy feet the fanguine ftream fhall lave^ 
 41 Thy dogs devour fhe flaughter'd throng, 
 4t And tinge with impious gore their tongue." 
 
 29. 
 My God, my King, with joyful view 
 Thy fteps our wond'ring eyes purfiic, 
 As on thou moveft to thy fhrine 
 Attended by thy chofen Line. 
 
 Before the Singers walk; behind 
 The Minftrels tread, in concert join'd^ 
 While, in the midfr, the Virgin train 
 Awake the trimbrel's loudeft ftrain. 
 
 3*« 
 
 " Your praifes'* (thus begins the lay,) 
 " To Heav'n's eternal Sov'reign pay, 
 " Ye Tribes that boaft your hallow'd Race 
 " From Ifrael's fruitful fource to trace." 
 
 3 2 - 
 
 Leaft of that Race, Thou, Benjamin> 
 
 With mightier Judab there art feen, 
 While Naphthali's glad Chiefs confpire 
 With Tttbukn to form the choir. 
 
 33. Strong 
 
PSALM LXVIII. 167 
 
 33- 
 
 Strong in thy God, O Ifrael, rife ; 
 And Thou, great Ruler of the Skies^ 
 Thy Work perpetuate ; and increafe 
 Thy People's ftrength by lafting peace* 
 
 34- 
 
 O let thy grace and boundlefs love, 
 fair Salem's fhrine incircling, move 
 Afiembled Kings her Courts to greet, 
 And call their gifts before thy feet. 
 
 3S« 
 
 The Beaft, that from his reedy bed 
 On Nile's proud bank uplifts the head, 
 Rebuke, and check the impious band 
 Who lift to idol Gods the hand* 
 
 36. 
 
 From whom the Heifer, and the Steer, 
 The offer'd Vow unconfcious hear, 
 While to the filver's tinkling found 
 Their feet in folemn dance rebound. 
 
 37- 
 Their thirft of war, great God,, reftraio, 
 
 And backward drive their fcatter'd train : 
 
 So, fummon'd from her fartheft end, 
 
 Shall Egypt's Lords to Salem bend ; 
 
 38. 
 
 So fhall Arabia's fertile land 
 Extend to Thee the fuppliant hand : 
 The various Realms that Earth divide, 
 Shall fing to IJrml s God and Guide : 
 
 39* He 
 
*68 PSALM LXV11L 
 
 39- 
 He o'er the fkies, in awful flate, 
 From earliefi age, exalted fate ; 
 His voice, in frequent thunders giv'n, 
 Tremendous (hakes the vault of Heav'm 
 
 40. 
 To Him the pow'r afcribe, whofe rays 
 'To Jacob's view confpicuous blaze, 
 Who downward from th' ethereal height 
 O'er fubj eel; Worlds extends his fight.- 
 
 41. 
 What terrors from thy prefence flow ! 
 -O Thou, of Ifrael's foes the Foe, 
 Whofe ftrength his arm for toil prepares. 
 And crowns with fure fuccefs his wars. 
 
 42. 
 Bleft be the name of IfraePs Lord, 
 The God -by Jacob's fons ador'd, 
 To Him, till Time fhall reach its end, 
 Let fongs of higheft praife afcend. 
 
 PSALM LXIX. 
 1. 
 
 TO Thee I call 5 O hafte thee near, 
 My -voice, great God, indulgent hear. 
 Extend thy powerful arm, and fave 
 My foul from the voracious wave. 
 
 2. 
 In depths of mire behold me bound; 
 In vain my finking feet the ground 
 Explore ; while high above my head 
 The whelming floods their billows fprcad. 
 
 3, Faint 
 
PSALM LXIX. 169 
 
 Faint are my limbs, my palate dry, 
 While ceafelefs to my God I cry ; 
 With wafting orbs my eyes attend 
 To fee his promis'd grace defcend* 
 
 4- 
 Behold my Foes around me fpread, 
 The hairs that fhade my haplefs Iread 
 Outnumb'ring ; Foes, that, arm'd with pow'r, 
 My foul have labour'd to devour; 
 
 5- 
 
 Yet pure of each offence I ftand, 
 Plight to their terms my willing hand. 
 Nor fhun (Extortion's eafy prey,) 
 The wrong-imputed debt to pay. 
 
 6. 
 To Thee, my God, to Thee alone 
 The errors of my heart are known : 
 Thine eyes my inmoft guilt have view'd } 
 Nor can my thought thy fearch elude. 
 
 7- 
 O let not, heav'nly Lord, thine aid 
 Thus long to my requeft delay'd 
 Their hope to hoftile fcorn confign, 
 Whofe hearts on IfraePs God recline, 
 
 8. 
 Thy Caufe,4?y Me avow'd, my fame 
 To infult gives, my cheek to fhame : 
 The impious mockers on me gaze, 
 Each eye, each lip contempt betrays. 
 
 Q_ 9. Dome/tie 
 
1 7 o PSALM LXIX. 
 
 9; 
 .Domeflic Wrath and kindred Hate, 
 In thy defence, my foul await ; 
 The Brothers of my blood in Me 
 An Alien and an Outcaft fee 
 
 10. 
 The zeal that to thy houfe I bear 
 My foul confumes; each taunt fevere 
 That loud-tongu'd Rage for Thee intends, 
 On Me withiullefl weight defcends. 
 
 II. 
 DiiToJv'd in tears, with failing worn, 
 What obloquy my foul has borne ! 
 My loins with forrow's garb o'erfpread 
 With jells their cruel fancy fed; 
 
 12. 
 
 I pafs the crouded gate, purfu'd 
 By laughter and reproaches rude, 
 The proverb of the Drunkard's tongue, 
 And theme familiar of his fong. 
 
 O let me in th' accepted hour 
 In pray'r to Thee my fpirit pour ; 
 Thine ear in full accordance bend, 
 And pleas'd thy promis'd help extend, 
 
 ^ 14. 
 Snatch from the miry depths my feet; 
 Back let my furious foes retreat, 
 Safe from their hate thy Servant keep, 
 Nox leave hin 1 the deep. 
 
 15, O then 
 
P S A L M LXIX. 171 
 
 15- 
 
 then the fwelling ftorm afluage, 
 Ere yet the flood's remorfelefs rage 
 In dreadful whirlpools wrap me round, 
 And plunge me In the dark profound. 
 
 16. 
 Hear, Lord* and to my foul difplay 
 Thy Mercy's all-enliv'ning ray; 
 Look down, eternal God, look down, 
 Behold me, but without a frown : 
 
 Ne'er to thy Servant's longing eye 
 Thy face, amidft my woes, deny, 
 Hafte to my aid, O hafte thee near, 
 Releafe my foul from hoftile fear. 
 
 18, 
 Thine ears have heard each infult keen, 
 Thine eyes, juft Lord, my fhame have feen, 
 And ftedfaft mark'd the adverfe Band, 
 That leagu'd in guilt around me Hand. 
 
 19. 
 My foul, by evil tongues aflail'd, 
 Unequal to the conflict fail'd : 
 
 1 wifh'd, in vain, fome friend to find, 
 Whofe voice might foothe my troubled mind. 
 
 20. 
 
 Thefe, 'mid the Croud that wait me nigh, 
 Gall to my loathing lips apply ; 
 While Thefe my third's afflictive rage 
 With juice of fharpeft tafte afluage. 
 
 Q_2 21. While 
 
i;* PS.AL M LXIX. 
 
 21. 
 
 While pleas'd the fecial board they {hare, 
 Let Death around it plant a fnare, 
 And what fhould blifs and health beftow 
 With aim inverted work their woe, 
 
 22. 
 Let blindnefs check their fell dengns, 
 Bow with affii&ion's weight their Ioin^ 
 And let thy Wrath, with loofen'd rein, 
 Defcending crufh the rebel Train. 
 
 23- 
 Let Horror and Deftru&ion drear 
 Amid their tents the flandard rear, 
 Nor human habitant be found 
 Within their dome's capacious round : 
 
 24. 
 Since, unprovok'd, with murth'rous view, 
 Whom Thou haft fmitten they purfue> 
 And feek, inftinit with cruel joy, 
 The Man of forrows to deftroy. 
 
 Let Each (for nought their hearts could bend) 
 From depth to depth in fin defcend, 
 Ne'er, touch'd by healing Mercy, fee 
 The path that leads to Blifs and Thee ; 
 
 26. 
 Let vengeance, kindled to a flame, 
 Blot from the earth their hateful name, 
 Nor let them, 'mid thy chofen Band, 
 In life's fair page recorded ftand. 
 
 27. And 
 
PSALM LXIX. 173 
 
 27. 
 And O ! while prefs'd with ills I lie, 
 Caft on my ftate a pitying eye, 
 And let thy Mercy to my grief 
 In full fufficience yield relief. 
 
 28. 
 For this to Thee my voice Irear; 
 Nor fhall the hoof d and horned Steer, 
 New draughted from the fat'ning field, 
 A Sacrifice fo grateful yield, 
 
 29. 
 Ye humble Souls, that feek his aid, 
 His Love,' in my relenfe difplay'd, 
 His Love your dying hearts fhall cheat, 
 Who floops the captive poor to hear, 
 
 30. 
 O praife him, Heav'n, and Seas, and Earth, 
 And All whom Nature wakes to birth : 
 Him praife, who Sion deigns to fhield, 
 Whofe hand fhall Judah'% Cities build : 
 
 3*- 
 
 He bids her Sons the Land divide, 
 Where unmolefted fhall refide, 
 Through rolling Time's extended Year* 
 A Race devoted to his fear. 
 
 H 
 
 PSA L M LXX. 
 1. 
 
 ASTE to my aid, my Saviour, hafte y 
 My Soul, by hoftile numbers chas'd, 
 To Thee dire&s its pray'r; 
 
 Q.3 ' In 
 
174 PSALM LXX, 
 
 In wild confufion backward borne 
 Their wifh defeated let them mourn, 
 And loft in empty air. 
 
 2. 
 
 Be fhame theif juft reward affign'd, 
 While round me with relentlefs mind 
 
 Derifion's fhout they raife ; 
 Thy Blifs let All who feek thee (hare, 
 And, taught thy Love, that Love declare 
 
 Infongs of ceafelefs praife. 
 
 3- 
 
 While Thefe in thy Salvation joy, 
 Increafing griefs my thought employ, 
 
 And fpeedieft aid demand. 
 My Helper and Redeemer, hear j 
 O, inftant in my caufe appear. 
 
 And reach thy faving hand. 
 
 PSALM LXXL 
 
 i. 
 
 ON Tliee, O God*, with fteady frame, 
 (O blaft not Thou my hope with fhame) 
 On Thee my Soul its truft has ftaid, 
 And afks thy Juftice to its aid : 
 
 2. 
 Thy Servant, God of Gods fupreme, 
 O hear, and haften to redeem ; 
 Be Thou my Rock, and fafe Refort ;— 
 My Rock thou art, my ftrongeft Fort : 
 
 3. Thy 
 
P S A L M LXXL 175 
 
 3- 
 Thy lips my refcue have decreed, 
 And bid each threaten'd ill recede : 
 O let thy promis'd help o'erthrow 
 Each impious and revengeful Foe. 
 
 4< 
 On Thee my hopes fupported ftand 5 
 My Life from earlieft youth thy hand 
 (That Life which firft from Thee began,) 
 Preferv'd, and led me up to Man. 
 
 5* 
 When lodg'd within the womb I lay, 
 Thy Care produc'd me to the day, 
 And, while that Care my years prolongs, 
 Thy Name fhall animate my fongs. 
 
 6. 
 Though Crouds, with filent gaze, in Me 
 A fpe&acle of wond,er fee, 
 Amidfl: my grief, amidft my pain, 
 Thy Love fhall ftill my faith fuftain, 
 
 7- 
 
 Thy arm in my relief employ, 
 
 That foon, my hope abforb'd in joy, 
 From op'ning dawn to clofing eve 
 Thy praifes on my tongue may live* 
 
 8. 
 O let me not, Almighty Friend, 
 While with a weight of Age I bend, 
 And wearied Nature's fuccours fail, 
 The abfence of thine aid bewail. 
 
 9. "Behold" 
 
iffr 1 P S A B M LXXI. 
 
 9- 
 "Behold" (fuch words the ranc'rous heart' 
 Suggefts, while, pleas'd, with fecret art 
 My foes the deathful fnare provide,) 
 " A Wretch whom God has caft afide : 
 
 10. 
 
 "Come" (thus, bylawlefs counfel led, 
 Aloud they cry) " deftrucllon fpread -, 
 t( Purfue, and mark him for the grave ; 
 l * Purfue - y for None is nigh to fave." 
 
 ii. 
 My God, my God, depart not far, 
 But hafte, and make my life thy care ; • 
 O obvious to my pray'r arife ; 
 Nor let their guilt efcape thine eyes. 
 
 12. 
 
 Let Shame, let Death their deeds repay, 
 Who wifh myguiltlefs foul'their prey, 
 And black Difgrace their name o'erfpread, , 
 Who aim their mifchiefs at my head. 
 
 13- 
 
 My heart (hall ftill on Thee depend ; 
 My thankful voice to Thee afcend, 
 And, through the day, my God and King,; 
 Thy Juftice, thy Salvation, fing, 
 
 14. 
 Thy Mercies, Lord, all praife furmount, 
 No numbers can their fum recount, 
 For ne'er can words in equal ftrain 
 The meafure of thy love explain. 
 
 15. Lot' 
 
PSALM LXXI. 177 
 
 Lo ! in thy ftrength I take my way, 
 Thou art my God, and thou my flay ; 
 Thy righteoufhefs alone, and love 
 My heart fhall warm, my fong improve. 
 
 16. 
 Thy Leflbns on my youthful breaft 
 Fair Wifdom's facred lines imprefs'd, 
 And taught me, each advancing hour, 
 To fpeak the wonders of thy Pow'r. 
 
 Recede not now, while grey with years 
 His hands to Thee thy Servant rears, 
 Nor e'er thy wonted help withhold, 
 Till, pleas'd, my tongue thy Aits has told : 
 
 18. 
 Such A&s as fhall the ear invite 
 Of All who now th' ethereal light 
 Enjoy, and oft rehears'd engage 
 The wonder of each future age. 
 
 19. 
 How great thy pow'r, thy works how great ! 
 Say, what in Earth, or Heav'n's high feat, 
 What (hall the fearching eye to Thee 
 Or equal, Lord, or fecond, fee ? 
 
 20. 
 How haft thou bid my foul to know 
 A long viciflitude of woe, 
 Yet, back return'd, with quick'ning ray 
 H«ft chas'd each cloud of grief away ! 
 
 2f. Thy 
 
i 7 S PSALM LXXI. 
 
 21. 
 
 Thy hand, when Earth had clos'd me rounds 
 Has fnatch'd me from t^e dark profound, 
 My head with endlefs honours blefs'd, 
 Ancr footh'd my anxious thoughts to /eft* 
 
 22. 
 O Thou, whom, wrapt in holy fear, 
 The Sons of Ifrael's Line revere -, 
 Thy Pow'r, thy Mercy ftiallmy lay 
 In fweet harmonious founds difp!ay. 
 
 23- 
 Thy Truth my pfalt'ry ftiall infpire, 
 And tune to loudeft notes my lyre, 
 My willing lips with praife o'erflow,, 
 My refcu'd foul with transport glow.- 
 
 24. 
 From morn to night, indulgent Lord,, 
 My tongue thy Juftice fhall record j 
 That gave the period to my woes, 
 And whelm'd in fhame my vaunting foes*- 
 
 P S A L M LXXIL 
 
 INSTRUCT, great God, the kingly hearty 
 Nor ceafe thy guidance to impart, 
 Till, pleas'd, the Heir of Judah's throne 
 Thy precept's full extent has known, 
 
 2; 
 So fhall his hand difpenfe thy Laws, 
 Prompt to defend the poor man's caufcv 
 In his protecting arm the meek 
 With fure fuccefs their aid ftiall feek. 
 
 3. Peace 
 
PSALM LXXII. 579 
 
 3- 
 
 Peace from the fort-clad Mountain's brow 
 Shall blefs the happy plains below, 
 And Juftice from each rocky cell 
 Shall Violence and Fraud expel. 
 
 4- 
 
 In Him the Souls to fcorn confign'd 
 The Advocate and Friend fhall find ; 
 His arm their injur'd race fhall right, 
 And crufli the proud Oppreffor's might, 
 
 5- 
 
 Thy fear fucceeding Times fhall own. 
 Long as the Sun and waxing Moon, 
 With varied light, in fwift career, 
 Alternate guide the circling year* 
 
 6. 
 Behold his influence downward pour, 
 Delightful as the copious ihow'r, 
 Whofe drops refrefh the new-fhorn plain, 
 And fwell with life the foodful grain* 
 
 7- 
 His Care the Juft aloft fhall raife, 
 Nor fair Profperity his days 
 Defift to crown, till round the pole 
 The meafur'd Months fhall ceafe to rolL 
 
 8. 
 From Sea to Sea his wide Command 
 Shall reach, and from Euphrates 9 ftrand 
 Through Realms of various tongue extend 
 Far as to Earth's remoteft end, 
 
 9. To 
 
iSo P S A L IvX LXXII. 
 
 9- 
 To Him the Defert's Tribes {hall kneel ; 
 His Foes, that on their conqu'ring fteel 
 Repos'd erewhile their frantic truft. 
 Shall proftrate fall, and lick the duflv 
 
 Before his throne aflembled meet 
 The Chiefs, at whole imperial feet 
 Arabia's far-divided fhores 
 Prolific fpread their richefl: ftores. 
 
 II. 
 See Kings from Thatjis and each ifle, 
 Their prefents bring with willing toil ; 
 Each Prince to Him (hall homage pay, 
 Each Nation own his equal Sway. 
 
 12. 
 
 He, when the helplefs Poor fhall cry, 
 Shall hear propitious from on high, 
 Health to their fainting fouls convey, 
 And challenge from the Grave its prey. 
 
 Nor Fraud, nor Rapine's iron hand 
 Shall dare to touch the pious Band j 
 For facred is their blood, and hi eh 
 Its price in his paternal eye. 
 
 14. 
 Long fhall he live, and Sheba's gold 
 In tributary heaps behold 
 Difplay'd, while Crouds fhall fuppliant bow, 
 And thankful pay their daily vow* 
 
 15. Lift 
 
PSALM LXXIL 181 
 
 IS- 
 
 Lift to the Mountain's height your eyes > 
 And fee the yellow harvefts rife, 
 Wide- waving, as the verdure fpread 
 On Lebanon's exalted head. 
 
 16. 
 Behold his Cities o'er the plain 
 Pour from their gates a num'rous Train, 
 And healthful as the vernal Birth, 
 That fhades with green the joyous Earth. 
 
 17- 
 
 From age to age the Orb of day 
 His brighter glories (hall furvey, 
 While Man's whole Race his Love confefs, 
 And, bleft in Him, his Name fliall blefs. 
 18. 
 Exalt, exalt your heav'nly Lord, 
 In all his wond'rous aits ador'd : 
 To Him inloftiefl praifes join, 
 And blefs the Majefty divine; 
 
 19. 
 That Majefty whofe cloudlefs rays 
 O'er Earth's capacious round (hall blaze : 
 To Him again in praifes join ; 
 O, blefs the Majefty divine. 
 
 PSALM LXXIII. 
 1. 
 
 YES : mightieft Lord ! My foul has known 
 Thy Love to IfraeFs Offspring fhown, 
 And owns the Blifs by Thee ordain'd 
 To each who bears a heart unftain'd. 
 
 R 2. Ytt 
 
1 82 PSALM LXXIIL 
 
 Yet griev'd awhile thy paths, my God, 
 With hefitating flep I trod, 
 And, but for Thee, the faithful Guide, 
 My erring feet had fwerv'd afide. 
 
 3- 
 
 As fix'd in happieft ftate I fee 
 
 The foes to Virtue, Truth, and Thee, 
 Their Blefllngs on my thoughts imprefs'd 
 With envy near had fill'd my breaft : 
 
 Health firings their nerves ; and Death, (their 
 
 hour 
 Approaching), with remitted pow'r 
 And flow advance his eafy doom 
 Inflicting, bows them to the tomb, 
 
 5- 
 
 Forbid the gen'ral lot to fhare 
 Of pain, affliction, want, and care, 
 The lawlefs Tribe with cruel fkill 
 Augment the woes that others feel. 
 
 6. 
 Pride on their neck its chain has bound, 
 And Violence invefts them round j 
 Their fwelling eyes and pamper'd frame 
 Their boundlefs appetite proclaim : 
 
 7- 
 Their wifhes by fuccefs outrun, 
 Their headlong wills controulment fhun ; 
 And words with fury wing'd impart 
 The genuine dictates of their heart. 
 
 8. Lo, 
 
PSALM LXXIII. 183 
 
 8. 
 Lo, train'd to iiifplence and wrong, 
 Againft the Heav'ns their impious tongue 
 Defiance and reproach has hurl'd, 
 And unreiifted walks the world. 
 
 9- 
 Untaught to fcan thy wife Decree, 
 With wonder, Lord, thy People fee 
 Life's choiceft gifts their want fupply, 
 Whofe hreafts thy ev'ry threat defy : 
 
 10. 
 Who afk, <c Shall He our a&s furvey, 
 tc Whofe hands th' ethereal fcepter fway ? 
 " Shall He, inthron'd above the ftars, 
 u To Earth's low fcene extend his cares I" 
 
 11. 
 While daring Mortals thus each hour 
 Thee, Lord, infult, and brave thy pow'r, 
 Yet, funk in eafe, and bleft with health, 
 Amafs in heaps their growing wealth ; 
 
 12. 
 In vain, (thy Servant cried,) in vain, 
 I purge my bread from ev'ry ftai 
 My acts conform to thy commands, 
 And warn, in innocence my hands. 
 
 Each day opprefl with fierceft pains, 
 Thy fcourge my chaften'd Soul fuftains ; 
 Each Morn, that rifing ftreaks the Iky, 
 Awakes me but to mifery. 
 
 R 2 14. My 
 
1 84 PSALM LXXIIL 
 
 My heart, while thus by grief aflkiPd, 
 In filence long its thought has veil'd, 
 Left Doubts like mine thy Saints betray 
 From thy Decrees, great God, to ftray. 
 
 Thy Conduft weigh'd, awhile my mind 
 Its hidden Caufe effay'd to find ; 
 That Caufe, as deeper it inquires, 
 Still farther from its fearch retires. 
 
 16. 
 
 Thy Fane at length I feek ; and there, 
 (My anxious foul efFus'd in pray'r,) 
 Inftrudled by thy Spirit, read 
 The period to their guilt decreed. 
 
 17- 
 
 I fee Thee on the flipp'ry feat 
 Of high Ambition plant their feet, 
 Then mark them as they downward bend, 
 And headlong to the earth defcend. 
 
 18. 
 Thy hand in unexpected hour 
 Deftroys the phantom of their pow'r, 
 How fwift, how Hidden is their fate ! 
 What horrors, Lord, their death await f 
 
 19. 
 Wrapt in Oblivion's (hade they lie, 
 Their image vanifh'd from the eye, 
 As the light fabric of a Dream, 
 Diflblv'd by day's intruding beam, 
 
 v 20. Such 
 
PSALM LXXIIL 1 85 
 
 20. 
 Such woes, in error's fetters chain'd, 
 Such heart-felt anguifh, I fuflain'd, 
 Infenfate, as the Brutes that rove 
 Th' extended Wild, or fhady Grove : 
 
 21. 
 
 Yet frill thy Care confefs'd me thine ; 
 My hand within the hand divine 
 Was lock'd ; Thou, Thou, Almighty friend, 
 Propitious (halt my caufe defend. 
 
 22. 
 
 By thy dire£tive counfel led, 
 Life's maze I yet, fecure, mail tread. 
 And wait till thy appointed hour 
 The promis'd Glory round me pour. 
 
 23- 
 O fay, in Heav'n's capacious round 
 What Friend like Thee my Soul has found ; 
 Or who, great God, on Earth refides, 
 Whole love with thine my breaft divides* 
 
 My heart, my flefli, have fail'd ; but Thee 
 My lafting heritage I fee ; 
 Thy ftrength my fainting fpirit chears, 
 And checks my grief, and calms my fears* 
 
 25. 
 
 Who, taught to fpurn his equal fway, 
 From Ifrael's God adult'rous ftray, 
 His Juftice, with reverfelefs doom, 
 In Life's full vigour fhall confume : 
 
 R s 26. WMe ?> 
 
1 86 PSALM LXX1IL 
 
 26. 
 While, warm with holy tranfport, I 
 To Him with lure fuccefs apply, 
 Him truft, and, guarded by his Care, 
 To Man's whole race his a£ts declare. 
 
 PSALM LXXIV. 
 1. 
 
 OThou, whole hand has Ifrael led, 
 His fold enlarg'd, his pafture fpread,- 
 Why haft thou doom'd us thus to bear 
 A long exclufion from thy care ? 
 
 2. 
 
 Why thus beneath thy anger groan 
 The Flock whomThou haft feal'd thine own ? 
 Gall to thy thought the facred Band 
 Once own'd the purchafe of thy hand : 
 
 3- 
 The Heritage by Thee redeem'd, 
 
 Fair Sion's Mount, where copious ft ream \i 
 Th 5 eternal light, and fpoke her Shrine 
 The Seat of Majefty divine : 
 
 4- 
 
 Lift to that Seat thy fteps again ; 
 See Defolation fpread her reign 
 Around it 5 and its wide extent 
 Each mark of hoftile rage prefent. 
 
 5« 
 
 With clamours fierce a lawlefs Train 
 The filence of thy Courts profane, 
 And bid their ftandard to the fkies 
 Aloft in haughty triumph rife, 
 
 6. A* 
 
PSALM LXXIV. 187 
 
 6. 
 As when the Woodman's ftroke invades 
 The lofty Grove's thick- woven (hades, 
 So through thy Temple's awful bounds, 
 Ndw here, now there, the axe refounds $ 
 
 7- 
 
 Down, down in fhapelefs ruins fall 
 The fculptures fair that grac'd its wall, 
 Rich with the foreft's nobleft fpoil, 
 And wrought by Heav'n-dire&ed toil. 
 
 8. 
 Along the violated Dome 
 Th' intruding flames licentious roam, 
 Swift, fwift the fiery deluge ftrays 
 And wraps thy Fabric in its blaze. 
 
 9- 
 
 Thy fpacious Courts, and Tow'rs fublime, 
 Whofe roofs through long-revolving time 
 With holy wonder ftruck each eye, 
 Now heap'd in dire confufion lie* 
 
 10. 
 " Come," (thus th' infulting foe has cried,} 
 41 Come, deal the vengeance far and wide s 
 " And let the flames with equal doom 
 11 Each Houfe of IfraeFs God confume*" 
 
 11. 
 They fpeak : and, inftant, all around 
 The blazing ruins ftrew the ground. 
 No more thy wonders to our eyes, 
 Blcft fignals of thy prefence, rife* 
 
 4 «• No 
 
188 PSALM LXXIV. 
 
 12. 
 
 No more the Prophet's lips thy will 
 In myftic Oracles reveal, 
 Or to thy People's view difclofe 
 The deftin'd period of their woes. 
 
 But fay, O fay, great God, how long 
 Thus unchaftis'd the hoftile tongue 
 Shall mock thy pow'r, thy fear difdaim, 
 And load with loud reproach thy Name. 
 
 14. 
 While Crimes like thefe redrefs demand, 
 Why in thy bofom fleeps thy hand ? 
 O pluck it forth, and let the foe 
 Repentant feel th' inflicted blow. 
 
 15- 
 Thee from of old my King I fee, 
 Nor knows my heart a Friend but Thee t 
 Thine arm alone, in jfacob's right, 
 Has turn'd each adverfe pow'r to flight. 
 
 16. 
 At thy command, the watry Deeps 
 Sufpended flood, in liquid heaps ; 
 And fafe, as o'er the fandy wafte, 
 Th' admiring troops betwixt them part; 
 
 I7 \ 
 The proud Leviathan, his head 
 
 Low to thy ftroke fubmitted, bled, 
 
 And, 'midft returning waves, his train 
 
 Around their mighty King are flain. 
 
 1 8. White 
 
PSALM LXXIV. 189 
 
 18. 
 
 While Rapine waits upon the ftrand, 
 And calls from far her hungry Band, 
 That fcatter'd range the Defert wide, 
 The promis'd banquet to divide. 
 
 19. 
 Thy ftroke the rock's dark entrails clave ; 
 Forth from its depth the foaming wave 
 Sprang inftant, and with lengthen'd train 
 Irriguous lav'd the thirfty plain, 
 
 20. 
 Thy Mandate Jordan's channel dried, 
 And backward roll'd his wondring tide ; 
 While IfraePs Sons, by Thee, O God, 
 Conducted, fafe the channel trod. 
 
 21. 
 By Thee prepar'd, the Night and Day 
 Alternate walk th' ethereal way; 
 Thy Art the Light's thin texture fpun, 
 And with it cloth'd the jocund Sun -, 
 
 22. 
 Thy hand the Earth's vaft fabric rounds, 
 Its balance fixes, marks its bounds, 
 With fummer's fhow'rs its glebe unbinds, 
 Or warps it with the wintry winds. 
 
 Parent of Nature ! God fupreme ! 
 While Folly's Sons thy acts blafpheme, 
 O vindicate thy Name from wrong, 
 And filence the reproachful tongue. 
 
 24. Let 
 
I go PSALM LXXIY. 
 
 24. 
 Let not the fangs of cruel pow'r 
 Thy trembling Turtle's life devour, 
 Nor dark Oblivion's (hade our pain 
 For ever from thy thought detain. 
 
 25. 
 O give the Flock that bears thy Name, 
 Thy fed'ral mercy yet to claim : 
 Eehold within each cavern'd cell 
 Fraud, Violence, and Rapine dwell. 
 
 26. 
 Behold ; and let th' affii&ed Poor, 
 From terror and from (hame fecure, 
 With grateful heart, and joyous tongue, 
 Wake to thy praife the hallow'd fong. 
 
 Rife, mightieft Lord, thy caufe defend : 
 Wide o'er a guilty Race extend 
 Thy rod, and let the needful blow 
 Reprefs the licenfe of the Foe. 
 
 28. 
 O let thy hand correct' their fin, 
 Whofe hearts thy mercy fails. to win, 
 Whofe mad prefumption ev'ry hour 
 With heighten'd rage infults thy pow'r, 
 
 PSALM LXXV. ' 
 1. 
 
 THY Name, immortal God, thy name 
 Our love and higheft praife fhajl claim, 
 Whofe Acts atteft thee ever near, 
 And plant within each heart thy fear. 
 
 2. To 
 
PSALM LXXV. 191 
 
 2. 
 
 To Me, to Me the hour is known, 
 When, feared on th' appointed Throne, 
 My Juftice (hall aflert its Laws, 
 And arbitrate each dubious caufe. 
 
 3- 
 
 Though all the Land before mine eye 
 DifTolv'd in w T ide confufion lie, 
 Secure fromlapfe its pillars ftand, 
 And reft on my fupporting hand. 
 
 4- 
 Lift not the horn, ye Sons of pride, 
 (Aloud with fierce rebuke I cried,) 
 Lift not the horn ; nor thus in vain, 
 With ftubborn neck oppofe my reign. 
 
 5- 
 
 ' Shall pow'r, to Eaft or Weft inclin'd, 
 Float cafual on the wafting wind, 
 Or uTue from the Climes, that blaze 
 Beneath the Sun's meridian rays : 
 
 6. 
 That God, who erft the Heav'ns outfpread, 
 The regal crown from head to head 
 Transfers: Wealth, Honour, Pow'r, his Doom 
 At will fhall grant, at will refume, 
 
 7- 
 His hand the full-charg'd cup prefents, 
 While red with wrath its wine ferments, 
 Whofe mixture Earth's rebellious Train 
 Low to its utmoft dregs fhall drain. 
 
 8. But 
 
i 9 2 PSALM LXXV. 
 
 8. 
 But I, with facred tranfport fill'd, 
 To Jacob's God my praife will yield ; 
 Through Life's continu'd round, my tongue 
 Shall wake to Him the joyous fong. 
 
 9- 
 
 Behold me, conqu'ring in his right, 
 
 Now crufh the horn bf impious Might, 
 Now bid the Juft, that proftrate lies, 
 With lifted head triumphant rife, 
 
 PSALM LXXVL 
 
 THY Confines, Judah, God have known, 
 His greatnefs Ifrael's Offspring own, 
 His glories Salem's temple fill, 
 And reft on Sion's facred hill. 
 
 2. 
 There broke his hand the fword and fhield, 
 And call them ufelefs on the field ; 
 There fnap'd the arrows wing'd with fire, 
 And bade the raging War expire. 
 
 3- 
 O cloth'd with Majefty divine, 
 O fay, what ftrength (hall equal thine; 
 Not fuch the Mountains boaft, whofe feat 
 To robbers yield a fafe retreat. 
 
 4- 
 When erft, impatient to devour, 
 Infulting rofe each hoftile pow'r, 
 Who wont with fpoils the earth to heap, 
 Now fpoil'd themfelves have flept their fleep : 
 
 5. Amaz'd 
 
PSALM LXXVI. 193 
 
 5- 
 
 Amaz'd the Chiefs were feen to ftand ; 
 Nor knew the once refiftlefs hand 
 Its taflc, but, fummon'd to their aid, 
 Shrunk trembling back and difobey'd, 
 
 i>. 
 The Steed, the Car that o'er the plain 
 Rufli'd headlong on, nor heard the rein, 
 With horror ftruck confefs thee nigh, 
 And wrapt in iron (lumber lie, 
 
 7- 
 Thou, Thou alone our fear fhalt claim : 
 O who, when, kindled to a flame, 
 Thy Vengeance (hall its debt demand, 
 Shall dare within thy fight to ftand ? 
 8. 
 Earth heard, when God the judgment gave, 
 And rofe his injur'd Saints to fave, 
 In filent dread beheld his look, 
 And inftant to her centre (hook. 
 
 9- 
 
 While impious Crouds oppofe thy Reign, 
 Thou, Lord, their fury (halt reftrain, 
 Thy ftroke correct their ftubborn will, 
 And teach them at thy fhrine to kneel. 
 
 10. 
 Low to our God, ye Nations, bow, 
 Yield to his Name the faithful vow, 
 Him ferve with fear, and duteous bring 
 Your prefents to the heav'nly King ; 
 
 S ii. That 
 
i 9 4 PSALM LXXVI. 
 
 ii. 
 
 That King, whofe fword, in wrath applied, 
 Lops in mid growth the Tyrant's pride, 
 And threatful bids each earthly throne 
 His mightier fway fubmiffive own. 
 
 PSALM LXXVIL 
 i. 
 
 TO God my fuppliant voice I rear, 
 With holy violence his ear 
 Solicit, and expectant kneel, 
 Till He my inward anguifli heal. 
 
 2, 
 To Him with fervent zeal I cried, 
 In whom alone my hopes refidc ; 
 With ftretch'd-out hand, and refllefs thought, 
 Befet with woes, his aid I fought; 
 
 3- 
 
 When night's dark fbades the earth inyeft, 
 
 And weary Nature finks to reft, 
 Still, deaf to comfort, I complain, 
 And give my ftruggling griefs the rein. 
 
 4- 
 Now fix'd on God, to Him in pray'r 
 
 My fainting fpirit pour'd its care, 
 
 And words, in artlefs form compos'd, 
 
 The tumult of my foul difclos'd : 
 
 5- 
 
 Now, dumb with forrow while I weep, 
 My eyes their ceafelefs vigils keep ; 
 Aqon my mind its fearch began ; 
 And back to diftant years I ran,~=- 
 
 8 6. The 
 
PSALM LXXVII. t 95 
 
 6. 
 
 The years whofe wonders to my tongue 
 Yield fruitful themes of joyous fong, 
 And deep inquiry to my breaft 
 At midnight's thoughtful hour fuggefh 
 
 7- 
 
 Will God a heart opprefs'd as miarc 
 For ever to its griefs refign ? 
 Has Mercy from his bofom fled ? 
 My hope his promife vainly fed ? 
 
 8. 
 Forgets th* Almighty to be kind ? 
 And fhall his Love, in wrath confined, 
 No more its wonted aid beftow, 
 Or fix a meafure to my woe ? 
 
 9- 
 
 Now Reafon's pow'rs collected rife, 
 And thus each anxious doubt chafiife; 
 Though preft with various ills I ftand, 
 And mourn the changes of his hand,— 
 10. 
 
 His Works, atchiev'd in ages paft, 
 Shall fix'd in my remembrance latt j 
 His Wonders on my thought (hall dwell, 
 My tongue his A<fts unwearied tell. 
 
 II. 
 For San£tity thy counfel guides, 
 And o'er thy paths, Bleft Sire, prefidcs : 
 Where finds, O where, the fearching eye 
 A God, with Ifrael's God to vie ? 
 
 S 2 12. Make* 
 
i 9 6 PSALM LXXVIL 
 
 12. 
 
 Maker of All ! At thy command 
 Revers'd the Laws of Nature (land ; 
 Stupendous fcenes thy A£ls afford, 
 And bid the Nations know their Lord* 
 
 13- 
 
 Let Jacob and let Jofepb fay, 
 How ftrong thy Arm to chafe away- 
 Each woe that waits thy People near, 
 Each danger that excites their fear. 
 
 14. 
 The Deeps beheld thee, heav'nly King ! 
 The Deeps beheld thee; and each Spring, 
 That rofe from out their fandy bed, 
 Tumultuous own'd its fudden dread, 
 
 I5 \ 
 
 Incefiant from the burfting cloud 
 
 Down ftream'd the bidden rain ; aloud 
 PeaPd the big thunder; through the fky 
 Thy flaming fhafts were feen to fly ; 
 
 16. 
 And, as thy voice around the pole 
 In awful threats was heard to roll, 
 Earth trembling groan'd, while o'er her head 
 Its livid fheet the lightning fpread. 
 
 Wide yawn'd the Flood from fhore to fhore,. 
 And op'd a path unknown before, 
 While 1/raeVs Guardian and his God 
 With tracklcfe ftep its channel trod. 
 
 18. As 
 
PSALM LXXVIL 197 
 
 18. 
 
 As flieep to diftant paftures led, 
 Secure thy people march'd, convey'd 
 By Mofes' and by Jaron's hand 
 To promis'd Canaan's happy Land. 
 
 PSALM LXXVIIL 
 1. 
 
 YE Nations, to my Law give ear, 
 The dilates of my lips revere, 
 While Heav'n-taught Parables they yield. 
 And Truths in myftic fong conceal'd : 
 
 2. 
 Truths, which, from earlieft ages hear J, 
 To Us in facred truft transferr'd, 
 From Sire to Son fucceflive flow, 
 That lateft times our God may know; 
 
 3- 
 That lateft times in thankful verfe 
 His boundlefs Mercies may rehearfe, 
 And own the Wonders of his hand 
 Whofe pow'r prefides o'er Judab's land, 
 
 4- 
 He, bounteous Parent of mankind, 
 His Law to jfacob's race confign'd, 
 (Fit theme! — and worthy to engage 
 Th' attention of each future age !) 
 
 5- 
 
 That Children, yet unborn, might learn 
 That Law, and yield the juft return ; 
 Truft in his aid, his works record, 
 And mark the precepts of his word : 
 
 S3 6. Unlike 
 
19S P S A L M LXXVIir. 
 
 6. 
 Unlike the Fathers of their line, 
 Who, rebels to the Will divine, 
 Turn'd from that Word their ftubborn ear, 
 Nor fought his Love, nor own'd his Fear, 
 
 7- 
 Such Ephrai?ns fons \ a heartlefs train, 
 
 That, arm'd for war, but arm'd in vain, 
 With bows unbended from the fight 
 In wild diforder urg'd their flight. 
 
 8. 
 His facred League, and juft Decrees, 
 Th' Almighty Lord forgotten fees, 
 His wonders by their Sires beheld 
 On Nile's wide banks, and Zoan's field. 
 
 9- 
 
 What hand but His from fide to fide 
 Could bid the foaming Deep divide, 
 In liquid heaps fufpended ftand, 
 And fafe tranfmit the chofen Band ? 
 
 10. 
 
 That hand the cloud around them threw, 
 Day's kindled fervors to fubdue ; 
 And, lit by Him, with friendly ray 
 The fire no£lurnal led their way. 
 
 ii. 
 To quench their thirft the copious wave, 
 Call'd from the rock, its waters gave, 
 And onward pour'd with headlong hafte 
 Luxuriant lav'd the burning Wafte : 
 
 12. Strange 
 
PSALM LXXVIII. 19? 
 
 12. 
 
 Strange to relate ! Yet, ftranger (till, 
 Their Bands, rebellious to his Will, 
 In rafh and heighten'd fin confpire, 
 And dare to wrath the heav'nly Sire, 
 
 As o'er the Wafte their courfe they held* 
 By lawlefs appetite impell'd, 
 Each, from th' Almighty's lib'ra! hands, 
 Meat for his fancied want demanJs. 
 
 14. 
 * Will God, to give his People bread, 
 u A table in the Defert fpread ? 
 " Our eyes have own'd the flinty Rock 
 * c Obfequious to his mighty ftroke, — 
 
 15- 
 
 cc Havefeen the ftreams, with lengthen'd train, 
 " Run copious o'er the thirfty plain ; 
 <c But can his ftores, exhauftlefs ftill, 
 <c With flefh our hungring myriads fill r" 
 16. 
 He hears, and now in kindling flames 
 His vengeance dire at Ifrael aims, 
 Whofe impious fpeech a heart betray'd 
 Diftruftful of his promis'd aid. 
 
 For them He opes the doors of Heav'n, 
 Back to their wifh the clouds are driv'n, 
 And, downward pour'd, th' ethereal grain 
 In wide profufion fills the plain. 
 
 18. Their 
 
too PSALM LXXVIIL 
 
 iff. 
 
 Their wants attentive to fupply, 
 He gives them Manna from on high : 
 His fulleft bounties they have known, 
 And angels food, and their 's are one- 
 
 19. 
 The Winds, that o'er the Defert fly, 
 New paths, by Him directed, try, 
 And onward, through th' aerial way, 
 In flocks the vagrant fowls convey. 
 
 20. 
 Till o'er their tents the cloud impends, 
 And down the living fhow'r defcends, 
 Thick as the duft, cr as the fand 
 That lies upon the fea-beat ft rand. 
 
 21. 
 Fed to the full, th' infenfate throng 
 At will the joyous feaft prolong, 
 No more their frenzy they reftrain, 
 But give their wild defires the rein : 
 
 22. 
 While o'er their heads the vengeful fvvord 
 Hangs viewlefs, and but waits the word 
 To fnatch their Princes to the tomb, 
 And IfraeFs choiceft ftrcngth confume. 
 
 Yet fufPrings ftill to fufPrings join'd 
 Fail to correal their faithlefs mind, 
 Though fhorten'd in duration flow 
 Their years, and meafur'd out by woe. 
 
 24. When 
 
PSALM LXXVIIL 201 
 
 24* 
 
 When ftruck by his refiftlefs hand, 
 Their Tribes lie fcatter'd o'er the land, 
 Thus fcourg'd his pow'r they humbly own. 
 And early bow before his throne* 
 
 25. 
 With feeming gratitude poffefs'd, 
 
 His arm each tongue their fhield confefs'd * y 
 
 And u who fo ftrong to fave," they cry, 
 
 « As Thou, great Ruler of the Sky ?" 
 
 26. 
 Diffembling praife their lips prepare, 
 And folemn mockery of pray'r, 
 While, deep within, a mind they nurfc 
 To Truth and to his Laws averfe. 
 
 27. 
 Yet He their trefpafs can forgive, 
 And bid th' obdurate Sinners live ;, 
 Oft arts of mild perfuafion tries, 
 Nor lets his whole difpleafure rife* 
 
 28. 
 Indulgent He their frame furvey'd, 
 Of flefli and frailty knew them made r 
 A Wind, that lifers fliort paflage o'er 
 Flits tranfient, and returns no more, 
 
 29. 
 The confcious Wildernefs fhall tell 
 How oft the thanklefs Race rebel ; 
 How oft, by mercies unfubdu'd, 
 They grieve their Maker, juft and good* 
 
 30. Yea,, 
 
i02 PSALM LXXVtfL 
 
 3 °: 
 
 Yea, frantic, to their will they bind 
 The Counfels of th' eternal mindj 
 And boldly challenge to the teft 
 His Pow'r, fo late their Aid confeft,— ~ 
 
 When Cham's proud offspring felt his Hand 
 Diffufing vengeance through their Land, 
 And fcenes, each hour, to Nature new, 
 In dreadful feries met their view* 
 
 3*- 
 
 Their Nile corrupted now they mourn, 
 And, though with fierceft third they burn^ 
 Start back, affrighted, from the flood ; 
 For Ah ! its channel foams with blood. 
 
 33« 
 
 Athirft for human gore, the Fly 
 
 In countlefs legions fills the fky, 
 
 And fwarming Frogs, where'er they tread r 
 
 With dire intrufion round them fpread, 
 
 34- 
 
 The Beetle, cluft'ring on their trees, 
 
 Now haftes the ripen'd fruit to feize r 
 While Locufts fell the tiller's toil 
 Confume, and riot in the fpoiL 
 
 35- 
 
 By furious Blafts deftroy'd, and torn, 
 Their falFn ihades the forefts mourn ^ 
 Their froft-burnt fig-trees fade and die, 
 Their vines by hailftones ruin'd lie : 
 
 36. The? 
 
PSALM LXXVIII. 203 
 
 36. 
 The fturdy tenants of the flail 
 Beneath the rattling tempefts fall 5 
 The flocks, by fire ethereal flain, 
 In heaps promifcuous ftrew the plain. 
 
 37- 
 Wrath, horror, trouble, at his word, 
 Quick on the guilty Race were pour'd, 
 And Angel-Forms with dreadful hafte 
 From dpor to door vindi&ive paft. 
 
 38. 
 
 With courfe direct his Vengeance flew, 
 Its path, by Him inftru&ed, knew, 
 And Peftilence with noxious breath 
 Sow'd through the air the feeds of death: 
 
 39- 
 
 Now to the grave, with anguifh torn, 
 Each Mpther yields her eldeft-born. 
 And Egypt, through her wafted fhores, 
 The firft-fruits of her ftrength deplores^ 
 
 40. 
 Now, Ifraely fliines the Day to Thee, 
 That bids thy captive Sons go free, 
 Safe as beneath the fhepherd's care 
 The flocks frpm wafte to wafte repair, 
 
 41. 
 Each hoftile fear by Him difpell'd, 
 Their deftin'd courfe his People held, 
 While deep beneath the whelming wave 
 Their proud Purfuers found a grave. 
 
 42. Behold 
 
404 PSALM LXXVIIL 
 
 42. 
 Behold them, borne to feats of reft, 
 Seats by his hallow'd prefence bleft, 
 With joyful ftep the Mount afcend, 
 By his victorious arm obtained. 
 
 43- 
 Lo! there^ refiftlefs, Jacob's Line 
 
 The Tribes whom Canaati's tents confine 
 
 By Heav'n's high Doom appointed quell, 
 
 And from their forfeit Lands expel. 
 
 44. 
 Yet, like therr Sires, perverfe they prove, 
 Rejeft the offers of his Love, 
 And led from Wifdom's path aftray 
 Purfue the tenour of their way ; 
 
 45- 
 As ftarts aflant the Bow of fteel, 
 And faithlefs mocks the archer's Ikill, 
 They, rebels to his juft command, 
 Elude the guidance of his hand. 
 
 46. 
 
 On interdicted Hills uprais'd, 
 With impious flame their altars blaz'd, 
 While figures by the Artift made 
 Thy honours, mightiefl: Lord, invade. 
 
 47- 
 
 See, urg'd to wrath, th' eternal Sire 
 From Silo's hallow'd Tent retire, 
 And quit the feat fo lov'd before, 
 Refolv'd with Man to dwell no more. 
 
 48. His 
 
PSALM LXXVIII. 205 
 
 48. 
 Hfs Ark, inviolated fhrine 
 Of Strength and Majefty divine, 
 Now wanders captive o'er the plain?,. 
 Where Guilt in all its horror reigns. 
 
 49. 
 Prevailing foes, convened from far, 
 On Ifrael pour the tide of war, 
 While God his Houftiold from en high 
 Beholds with alienated eye. 
 
 No Virgins to the nuptial band 
 Affenting give the plighted hand, 
 While, fhatch'd by the devouring fire, 
 Their Sons in early youth expire. 
 
 The fvvord deftruction round them fpread, 
 Nor fpar'd the Prieft's anointed head; 
 Nor lives the Widow to bemoan 
 Her Hufband's fate, but meets her own. 
 
 52. 
 His People's cry th.' Eternal hears; 
 As wak'd from fleep, his flrength he rears, 
 Shouts like a Giant chear'd with wine, 
 And wrathful lifts the Arm divine: 
 
 53- 
 Th' averted Foe that Arm confer!. 
 
 With fhame and dire difeafe opprefs'd, 
 
 Struck with furprize and wild affright 
 
 Inglorious backward urg'd their flight, 
 
 T 54. But 
 
206 PSALM LXXVIII. 
 
 54- 
 But where, O Ifrael^ {hall thy God 
 Returning chufe his bleft Abode ? 
 Nor Ephrairris Dwellings to his eyes, 
 Nor Thine, Manajfeh> grateful rife : 
 
 55- 
 On Judah's Tribe he plac'd his care ; 
 Thy Temple, Sion^ founded there, 
 From age to age his Love demands, 
 Fix'd as the ground whereon it ftands. 
 
 5 6. 
 
 That Tribe his David's birth has known, 
 Rais'd from a fheep-fold to a Throne, 
 O'er Jacob's realms to ftretch the rod 
 And feed the heritage of God, 
 
 57- 
 As o'er the wafte the teeming ewes 
 
 His eye with wakeful care purfues, 
 
 A Voice arrefts the youthful Swain, 
 
 And calls him from the humble plain* , 
 
 58. 
 
 He hears, and, while each kingly art 
 Thy fuccours to his breaft impart, 
 (All-potent Lord !) with faithful mind 
 Abfolves the charge by Thee affign'd. 
 
 PSALM LXXIX. 
 u 
 
 OlfraeVs Father* King, and God ! 
 The Heathen Pow'rs thy lov'd abode 
 Rapacious feize ; the Heathen Pow'rs 
 Thy (hrine profane ; and Salem's Tow'rs 
 
 5 That 
 
PSALM LXXIX. 207 
 
 That frruck with facred awe the eye, 
 Now whelrn'd in wide confufion lie. 
 
 2. 
 Beafts, and each Bird that wings the air, 
 Thy flaughter'd Saints infatiate tear, 
 Whofe blood beneath the Victor's fword 
 In ftreams round Salem's walls was poar'd $ 
 None wept their fall, or pitying gave 
 The cheap indulgence of a grave. 
 
 3- 
 
 See on our heads each neighbour Foe 
 Reproach and fierce derifion throw ; 
 See, Lord, and fay how long thine ire 
 Shall blaze with unextinguifh'd fire, 
 How long thy Flock are doom'd to prove 
 The fad fufpenfion of thy Love. 
 
 4- 
 On Nations who thy Laws difown, 
 Nor yet, with humbled heart, have known 
 Thy Pow'r to fear, thy Name invoke, 
 On Thefe, great God, inflict thy ftroke ; 
 On Thefe, — who Jacob's ftrength devour, 
 And ruin on his Dwelling pour, 
 
 5- 
 
 O let not our tranfgreflions paft 
 
 Within thy breaft remember'd lad, 
 Buthafte, while helplefs thus we grieve,. 
 Thy long-loft People to relieve, 
 And IfraeFs trefpafs purg'd away 
 Thy boundlefs clemency difplay. 
 
 T 2 6. Bteft 
 
208 PSALM LXXIX. 
 
 6. 
 
 Blefi: Saviour ! Let thy pow'r divine 
 Confpicuous in our refcue fhine ; 
 Say, why mould the reproaching Foe 
 His triumphs build on Judab's woe, 
 And afk, while thus thy fcourge we bear, 
 "Where's now your God,yeOutcafts, where? v> 
 
 7- 
 
 Behold, behold thy Servants flain ; 
 
 Nor let their loud-tongued blood in vain 
 The vengeance of thine arm demand, 
 But give us o'er each hoftile Land 
 To fee thy Wrath terrific rife, 
 And Folly's impious Brood chaftifc. 
 
 8. 
 O hear the wretched Captive's groan \ 
 The Souls whom Death hasm ark'd his own 
 Propitious fave ; the ceafelefs wrongs, 
 By hands profane, and daring tongues,. 
 Repeated, in thy balance weigh, 
 And fev'nfold to thy foes repay. 
 
 9- 
 
 So mall the Flock acknowledg'd thine 
 To Thee in grateful homage -join, 
 To Thee their loudefr accents raife, 
 With thankful voices fing thy praife ; 
 And> long as Ifrael boafts a name, 
 From fire to fon tranfmit thy fame.. 
 
 PSALM 
 
209 
 PSALM LXXX. 
 
 SHEPHEPvD oUfrael, bow thine ear* 
 O Thou our pray'r indulgent hear, 
 Who Jofeph's pafture haft prepar'd, 
 His Guide by day, by night his Guard. 
 
 2. 
 Betwixt the Cherubs feated high, 
 Glad with thy beams our longing eye : 
 Thine aid, great God, intreated give, 
 And teach our fainting hope to live. 
 
 3- 
 
 With All who from Manajfes claim 
 Their birth, and All of Ephrairrfs name, 
 Each hoftile pow'r by Thee o'erthrown, 
 Let Benjamin thy prefence own ; 
 
 4- 
 Leader of Hofts, Almighty Lord ! 
 Extend thy fuccours oft implor'd ; 
 Turn us again, thy face difplay, 
 And grief and fear (hall fly away. 
 
 5- 
 How long fhall IfraeFs Offspring fee 
 Thy wrath (while thus with bended knee 
 Their fupplicating hands they fpread,) 
 Smoke unextinguifh'd o'er their head? 
 
 6. 
 Her food the bread of tears, her draught 
 With forrow's largeft mixture fraught, 
 Sad Sion fees deriding foes 
 Her fons, their deftin'd prey, inclofe. 
 
 T 3 i % Leader 
 
H6 P S A L M LXXX. 
 
 Leader of Hofts, Almighty Lord f 
 Extend thy fuccours oft implor'd ; 
 Turn us again, thy face difplay, 
 And grief and fear (hall fly away. 
 
 8. • 
 Each pow'r in adverfe league combin'd, 
 *To juft excifion firft confign'd, 
 Behold a Vine from Egypt's Land, 
 Tranfplanted by thy foft'ring hand : 
 
 9- 
 Behold in Canaan's fhores, her bed 
 By Thee prepared, her root outfpread 
 Far as the utmoft coaft extends ; 
 .While o'er the Hills her fhade afcends. 
 
 10. 
 Her branches tow'ring to the fkies 
 With healthful ftem confpicuous rife, 
 And round the Cedar's loftieft boughs 
 Her cov'ring veil intwin'd (he throws. 
 
 ii. 
 Long cherifh'd by thy care {he flood ; 
 Here, verging tow'rd th' Affyrian Flood, 
 In circuit wide the earth fhe crown'd, 
 And, There, the Ocean mark'd her bound-. 
 
 12. 
 
 But now, in fad reverfe, (Ah ! why?) 
 By Thee o'erthrown the fences lie, 
 The fruit expos'd befide the way, 
 To each papacious hand a prey. 
 
 13. The 
 
PSALM LXXX. 211 
 
 J 3- 
 
 The favage Boar with reftlefs toil 
 Uproots it from the loofen'd foil, 
 And ev'ry Monfter of the wood 
 Crops from the branch his obvious food. 
 
 14. 
 Leader of Hofts, and IfraeFs Lord ! 
 Return : Thy fuccours oft implor'd 
 Extend : from Heav'n's high feat incline 
 Thy eyes, and vifit this thy Vine. 
 
 15- 
 
 Behold the offspring of thy hand, . 
 
 The- Plant, which Thou hadft bid to {land, 
 And ftrengthen'd by thy pow'r defy 
 Each florm that rends the wintry fky : 
 
 16. 
 The gathering flames its trunk furround, 
 Its rum'd honours ftrew the ground. 
 Beneath the terrors of thine eye 
 We tremble, Lord, we faint, we die. 
 
 O let the Man whom, arm'd with might, 
 Thy hand ordains our caufe to right, 
 By Thee, great God, fupported {rand \ 
 And fave, O fave, a finking Land. 
 
 18. 
 So ne'er (hall Sin our fouls enflave; 
 O fnatch us from th' expecting grave, 
 And ev'ry knee to Thee {hall bend, 
 Thy praife from ev'ry tongue afcend. 
 
 19. Leader 
 
212 PSALM LXXX. 
 
 19. 
 
 Leader of Hofts, Almighty Lord ! 
 Extend thy fuccours o£t implor'd ; 
 Turn us again, thy face difplay, 
 And grief arid fear fhall fly away. 
 
 PSALM LXXXL 
 
 TO God our Strength exalt the fong, 
 To Jacob's Lord the note prolong ; 
 Prepare, prepare with tuneful art 
 Your fhares of harmony to part : 
 
 2. 
 Come, take the Hymn, the timbrel ring, 
 Praife on the harp your heav'nly King ; 
 Strike into life the trembling wire, 
 With loudeft blafts the trump infpire ; 
 
 3- 
 
 For fee the Moon with recent horn 
 Lead joyous on the feftal Morn, 
 Whofe hallow'd mirth to Ifrael's Tribes 
 Thy Mandate, mightieft Lord, prefcribes. 
 
 4- 
 Its juft obfervance Jofeph learn'd, 
 When, pleas'd, with parting ftep he fpurn'd 
 The ruthlefs foil, along whofe fhore 
 A voice he heard unknown before. 
 
 5- 
 Thus fpake th' Almighty— I, his God, 
 I from his fhoulders took the load ; 
 I from the clay his toiling hands 
 Releas'd, and burft his ftubborn bands. 
 
 6. O Thou, 
 
■P S A L M LXXXI. 213 
 
 , 6. 
 O Thou, the voice of whofe diftrefs 
 From out the thunder's dark recefs, 
 Propitious to thy pray'r, I heard ; 
 In whofe defence my arm I rear J d; 
 
 7- 
 Whofe faith my light inflictions tried 
 
 Near Meribah's contentious tide, 
 
 O Ifrael! — with attentive ear 
 
 Thy Maker's juft injunction hear. 
 
 8. 
 
 - Let none thy homage claim but Me, 
 
 Nor bow to foreign Gods the knee ; 
 
 Jehovah only be thy Dread ; 
 
 Thy footfteps He from Egypt led ; 
 
 9- 
 
 He gracious bids thee wide extend 
 Thy laps while down his gifts defcend, 
 And dreaming copious from on high 
 Yield to thy wifh the full fupply. 
 
 10. 
 Thus fpake my Voice, but fpake in vain ; 
 Th' obdurate Race, with fierce difdain, 
 Refolv'd their error to purfue, 
 Back from my yoke their neck withdrew- 
 
 II. 
 No more their frenzy I reftrain, 
 But give their wild defires the rein, 
 And leave them, guidelefs, to fulfil 
 The dictates of a headlong Will. 
 
 12. O had 
 
214 PSALM LXXXL 
 
 12. 
 
 O had my People in their breaft, 
 By heav'nly Difcipline imprefs'd, 
 The leflbns of my Love retain'd, 
 And trod the path by Me ordain'd ! 
 
 *3- 
 
 When forth to War thy troops were !ed> 
 
 iMyfelf, O Ifraely at their head 
 
 Had met the Battle on its wav, 
 
 Thy Guide to Time's remoteft day ; — 
 
 H. 
 
 Each humbled foe had own'd thy pov/r, 
 To eafe thy want, its pureft flour 
 Th' augmented harveft had beftow'd, 
 And honey from the rock had flow'd. 
 
 PSALM LXXX1I. 
 
 "T T THile, cloth'd with pow'r divine, their 
 
 Earth's Lords have fix'd, a mightier far 
 
 Amidftthe Confiftory ftands, 
 
 And juftice from their lips demands. 
 
 2. 
 How long mall your unequal fcale 
 Thus bid the impious caufe prevail ? 
 Why are your thoughts by Falfehood fway'd> 
 And not in Reafon's balance weigh'd ? 
 
 3- Let 
 
PSALM LXXXII. us 
 
 3- 
 
 Let Law the Orphan's claim fecure ; 
 Lend to the helplefs and the poor 
 Your willing ear; afiert their right, 
 And fave them from oppreffive might. 
 
 t 
 In vain I call : Their ftubborn mind 
 
 To blacked: darknefs is refign'd, 
 
 While Earth the dire confufion feels, 
 
 And, groaning > to her centre reels. 
 
 5- 
 Gods Ye were nam'd ; Earth's tribes in You 
 The Sons of Heav'n's high Monarch view ; 
 But Death your frailty flial! betray, 
 And mix with vulgar mould your clay. 
 
 6. 
 Rife, migbtieft King, to judgment rife> 
 Th' opprefs'd redeem, the proud chaftife^ 
 Till Man's whole offspring Thee alone 
 Their Lord and juft PoflefTor own. 
 
 PSALM LXXXIIL 
 i» 
 
 MY God, no longer filent ftand \ 
 No longer let thy pow'rful hand 
 Withhold its oft-requefted aid, 
 While thus thy foes our peace invade \ 
 2. 
 
 While flufh'd with hope the impious Band 
 In mingled tumult round us ftand, 
 Exulting in our forrows rife, 
 And brave with lifted head the fkies. 
 
 3. Behold 
 
2 i6 P S A L M LXXXIII. 
 
 3- 
 
 Behold them, Lord, their arts employ, 
 The Heav'n-rais'd People to deftroy, 
 The Souls, whom with thy favour crown'd 
 Thy fecret prefence wraps around. 
 
 4- 
 <c Come, (thus, by lawlefs fury led, 
 
 <c Aloud they cry,) deftruclion fpread 
 
 cc Along their defolated fhore, 
 
 44 Till Ifrael's name be heard no more," 
 
 5- 
 Their leagues, their plans, with frantic aim, 
 Againft Omnipotence they frame ; 
 And, fir'd to rage, with fierce alarms 
 The headlong Nations rufh to arms. 
 
 6. 
 The tents of Edc?n o'er the plain 
 Here vomit forth their impious train, 
 While with the Sons of IfmaeFs line 
 The harnefs'd Agar a am join. 
 
 7- 
 
 Here Gcbal^ Moab^ A?n?non (land, 
 
 With vengeance arm'd th' unconquer'd b3nd 
 
 Of Amalek in clofe array 
 
 The triumphs of their heart betray. 
 
 8. 
 See, fearlefs, with imperial Tyre 
 Phili/lia's habitants confpire ; 
 See Affur draw the hoftile blade, 
 And lend to Lot's vile race his aid. 
 
PSALM LXXXIII. -217 
 
 9* 
 
 But give them, Lord, thine Arm to feel, 
 That Arm that made fierce Mldian reel. 
 And to th' expecting Mother's pride 
 $Her Si/era's return denied ; — 
 
 ID. 
 That Jabms warlike troops flibdu'd 
 Near ancient Kifens purpled flood, 
 While Endor IfraeVs foes beheld 
 Enrich with flau^hter'd heap- her field. 
 
 11. 
 ,As Omyand as Zecb overthrown, 
 Beneath thy terrors let them groan ; 
 And feel that vengeance which thy fwor^ 
 On 'Lehah and Zahnunna pour'd. 
 
 12. 
 
 Such let their Princes, Lord, -endure, 
 Who vaunting to their arms injure 
 The Land by holy Patriarchs trod, 
 The Heritage of Jacob's God ; 
 
 Such let their Princes ever find ; 
 As thiftle-down before the wind, 
 As chaff, as ilubbie, let them fly, 
 That diiv'n in air obicure the fky. 
 
 14. 
 5 wift as the fiery deluge {trays, 
 And wraps the foreft in its blaze, 
 Or, furious, onward as it pours, 
 The mountain's fhaggy Wafte devours,— 
 
 U 15. I'urfuc 
 
2i8 PSALM LXXXI1I. 
 
 IS- 
 
 Purfue them, mightieft Lord, purfue, 
 And -let thy vengeance, to their view 
 Prefer. ted, whelm their fouls in dread^ 
 And burii in tempefts o'er their head. 
 
 16. 
 With wild confufion clothe their cheek, 
 And teach them, Lord, thy Name to feek, 
 While ruin, death, and fhame, they fee 
 To eaefe ordain'd that errs from Thee. 
 
 * Jehovah;' flrall the Rebels cry, 
 ct "Jehovah only reigns on high, 
 li And o'er the Earth from dav to day 
 6( Aflerts his evcrlafting Sway." 
 
 PSALM LXXXIV. 
 
 i. 
 
 TLT O W fweet thy Dwellings, Lord, how 
 
 Jri feiri 
 
 What Peace, what Blifs, inhabit there ! 
 With ardent hope, with ftrong defire, 
 My heart, my flefh, to Thee afpire ; 
 ] burn to tread thy Courts, and Thee, 
 My God, the living God, to fee, 
 
 2. 
 Eternal King, within thy Dome 
 The Sparrow finds her peaceful home ; 
 VVith her the Dove, a licensed Gueft, 
 Affzduous tends her infant neft, 
 
 And 
 
PSALM LXXXIV. 219 
 
 And to thy Altar's fure defence 
 Commits th' unfeather'd innocence. 
 
 3- 
 
 Bleft, who, like thefe, from day to day 
 To praife Thee in thy Temple ftay ; 
 Bleft, wno, their ftrength on Thee reeling 
 Thy Seat explore with conftant mind, 
 And, Salem's diftant tow'rs in view, 
 With active zeal their way purfue : 
 
 4- 
 Secure the thirfty Vale they tread, 
 While, caird from out their fandy bed, 
 As grateful fhow'rs fron Heav'n diftill'd 
 Which, frefheftj kindlieft rnoifture yield, 
 'J 'he copious fprings their fteps beguile, 
 An J bid the cheariefs Defer* iiniic. 
 
 5- 
 
 From ftage to flage advancing ftill, 
 Behold them reach fair Sigh's hill, 
 And proftrate at her hallo w'd fhriae, 
 Adore the Majefty divine, 
 Where thy refulgent glory fpreads 
 Its pureft fplendors o'er their heads. 
 
 6. 
 O Thou, whom Heav'n's high Hofts revere 
 God of our Fathers, bow thine ear : 
 Look down, our only Hope ! look down \ 
 Behold us, but without a frown ; 
 And let thy beams, in mercy filed, 
 Stream copious on th' anointed head. 
 
 U 2 7. One 
 
220 PSALM LXXXPA 
 
 7- 
 One day if in thy Courts ! dwell. 
 That day a thou land (hall excel ; 
 Far happier lot on Thee to wait, 
 And guard th' approaches of thy gate* 
 Than with, the impious fcns o£ Pride 
 In rich pavilions to abide* 
 
 & 
 Thou, Lord, art IfraeVs Sun and Shield; 
 Thy Love (hall grace and glory yield., 
 Nor e'er permit the pious train 
 Thy gifts to afk, and afk in vain. 
 Bled, who in confidence of pray'r 
 To Thee, great God, refign their care, 
 
 P S A L M LXXXV, 
 i. 
 
 ,U R eyes, great God, have ken thy grace 
 Its beams efTufe on Jacob's race, 
 Loofe from their chains the captive Band, 
 And call them to their native land. 
 
 Thy Mercy, Lord, their woes has heal'd, 
 Their trefpafs hid, their pardon feal'd, 
 Check'd in mid courfe thy dreadful ire, 
 And bid its kindled flames expire, 
 
 3- 
 O grant us ftill thy Love to fhare ; 
 God of our health ! accept the pray'r, 
 That feeks thy clemency to win, 
 And cleanfe, O cleanfe us from our fin. 
 
 4. How 
 
PSALM LXXXV. 2zi 
 
 4- 
 How long fhall Jacob's offspring prove 
 The fad fufpenfion of thy Love ; 
 Say, fhall thy Wrath perpetual burn ; 
 And wilt thou ne'er, appeas'd, retura ? 
 
 5; 
 
 Wilt thou thy quiek'ning force impart, 
 
 And wake to mirth each grateful heart, 
 While IfraeFs refcu'd Tribes in Thee 
 Their Blifs and full Salvation fee ? 
 
 6. 
 No longer, heav'nly Sire, delay 
 Thy wonted Mercy to difplay, 
 But let thy All-difpofing Will 
 Thy People's ftedfaft'hope fulfil. 
 
 7- 
 
 Rev'rent I wait God's high Decree ; 
 
 What fhall he fpeak, but peace, to Thee 
 O Ifrael' 9 and to each who learns 
 His Law, nor back to fin returns ? 
 
 8. 
 Behold, ye Souls that own his fear, 
 Behold your wifh'd Redemption near ; 
 See Glory make our Land her feat, 
 There Verity and Mercy meet. 
 
 9- 
 
 With mutual ftep advancing There 
 Shall Peace and Juftice, heav'nly Pair, 
 To lading compa£t onward move, 
 Seal'd by the kifs of facred Love. 
 
 U 3 ic. Truth 
 
222 PSALM LXXXV. 
 
 3 0. 
 
 Truth from thy furrows, Earth, fhall fpring > 
 And Righteoufnefs on healing wing 
 From Heav'n defcend, while God our toil 
 Shall crown, and blefs our happy foil, 
 
 II. 
 She, as on earth thy feet fhall tread, 
 Shall march direct, with lifted head 
 Preceding, and^with duteous care 
 Thy path, eternal King, prepare. 
 
 PSALM LXXXVI. 
 i. 
 
 LO RD ! to my wants thy ear incline^ 
 Behold me, as with grief I pine » 
 My hope confirm, and guard from ill 
 A foul fubje&ed to thy Will. 
 
 2. 
 
 From riling to declining day 
 To Thee with fervent lip I pray ; 
 Propitious, to thy fervant's heart 
 Thy chearing influence impart : 
 
 3- 
 
 To The^, to Thee I vent my care; 
 
 I know thee, Lord, nor flow to fpare, 
 Nor weak to vindicate from harm 
 The Souls with pure devotion warm. 
 
 4- 
 My days with ibrrow clouded o'er, , 
 
 Thy wonted fuccours I implore : 
 
 Regard me, gracious ; nor forbear 
 
 The voice of my requeft to hear. 
 
 5. What 
 
PSALM LXXXVI. 223 
 
 J- 
 What pow'r, great God, fhall boaft a name 
 Like Thine s like Thee our homage claim? 
 Or who, among the feats divine, 
 Difplay fuch wond'rous Works as thine ? 
 
 6. 
 Behold, their Maker taught to own, 
 Earth's future Sons before thy Throne 
 In Sion fuppliant kneel, and raife 
 To IfraeV% God their joyful Lays. 
 
 7- 
 Eternal Excellence ! Thy hand 
 
 At will fhall Nature's pow'rs command ; 
 Thy wonders, through her confines wide > 
 She fpeaks, nor owns a God befide. 
 
 8. 
 O give me, Lord, thy paths to tread, 
 And, while thy Truth my fteps fhall lea<% 
 (The faithful Guide by Thee afiign'd,) 
 Train to thy fear my willing mind. 
 
 9- 
 
 My heart, by facred zeal impell'd, 
 
 To Thee the grateful fong fhall yield; 
 My Tongue, the witnefs of thy Fame, 
 Thy boundlefs Glory fhall proclaim. 
 
 10. 
 
 Long as I breathe the vital air 
 Thy Love my loudeft praife fhall fhare, 
 Whofe aid my foul with health has crown'd> 
 And jhatch'd me fr om the pit profound. 
 
 % ii. Thou 
 
224 PSALM LXXXVL 
 
 ii. 
 
 Thou feeft, my God, the Sons of Pride, 
 In leagues of violence allied, 
 (Thy fear behind them thrown) my way 
 Surround, and mark me for their prey :. 
 
 12. 
 
 But well my great Preferver knows 
 To weigh and to relieve my woes j 
 Suftain'd by his Almighty aid, 
 What danger can my Soul invade ? 
 
 Long is thy patience, flow thine ire ; 
 Eternal Mercy, mightieft Sire, 
 Thy word (on that my truft I build ;} 
 And unrepenting Truth have feaFd. 
 
 14. 
 My griefs with tend'reft pity view, 
 With ftrength thy Servant's heart renew, 
 And inftant from th' expecting grave 
 The Offspring of thy Handmaid fave. 
 
 15- 
 O grant me, Lord, fome fav'ring fign, 
 Some pledge that may befpeak me Thine* 
 That, ftung with fhame, my foes may fee 
 What Aid, what Blifs, I boaft in Thee. 
 
 PSALM LXXXVII. 
 1. 
 
 FIX'D is thy bafe : throughout its coafls 
 No city Jacob's region boafts, 
 Whofe gates, O Sion y (hare, like thine, 
 The favour of the hand divine, 
 
 2. Thee 
 
P S A L M LXXXVIL 225 
 
 2. 
 
 Thee God the Manfion of his reft, 
 And Seat of Empire has confefs'd, 
 While thus aloud to lateft days 
 His heav'nly Edi£t fpeaks thy praife ; 
 
 3- 
 
 Amidft the Souls that own my fway, 
 And learn my precepts to obey, 
 Thy Sons, O Nile, (hall find a place, 
 And Babylon^ accepted Race ; 
 
 4- 
 
 Nor thine, O- Tyre, nor, Midian, thine., 
 Nor whom Philijlia's bounds confine, 
 Excluded from my thought fhall ftand, 
 But mix with Stan's facred Band. 
 
 Each tenant of the peopled Earth 
 Shall claim from Her his happy birth : 
 Aliens no njore, within her Seat 
 Behold th ? united Myriads meet: 
 
 6. 
 Joyous they tread her bleft Abode, 
 The Ifrae! and the Heirs of God : 
 That God, whofe pow'r upholds her State, 
 And feals to endlefs time her date. 
 
 7- 
 
 When on the page, whofe wide extent 
 Shall Adam's num'rous Line prefent, 
 Each Kindred, Family, and Tribe, 
 Th' eternal Ceafor fhall infcribe, — 
 
 8* His 
 
pa p s a l u lxxxvh, 
 
 - 8. 
 
 His hand th' adopted Names fliall there 
 Thy Natives, Solymci* declare, 
 And bid them with thy Sons refide, 
 In concord's ftricleft bands allied. 
 
 9- 
 Hark, how the trump, and tuneful tongue., 
 The facred Jubilee prolong, 
 To notes of loudeft triu-mph rife,. 
 And echo to the diftant fkies i 
 
 10. 
 
 While I (thy Maker, God, and King,) 
 I, Sale?n y bid the living Spring 
 Amid thee yield its copious Abort* 
 And crown with health thy happy fhore. 
 
 PSALM LXXXVIIL 
 i. 
 
 GO D of my health ! To Thee by day^. 
 To Thee by night, aloud I pray : 
 
 bend thine ear, and let my cries . 
 Accepted to thy throne arife. 
 
 2. 
 
 Satiate of griefs, with downward ket 
 
 1 feek the hollow grave's retreat, 
 
 And, ftrengthlefs, mingle with the traia 
 That fill its melancholy reiga. 
 
 3- 
 
 A Gueft familiar of the Dead, 
 
 Lo, in the duft I make my bed, 
 
 As One, on whom thy flroke its aim 
 
 Directs, and blots from Earth his name. 
 
 4- As* 
 
PSALM LXXXVIII. 227 
 
 4- 
 As, loft to ev'ry human eye, 
 Deep in the lowed pit I lie, 
 Thy wrath incumbent whelms me o'er, 
 And all thy billows round me roar. 
 
 5- 
 
 No friendly feet approach me nigh, 
 But backward all abhorrent fly ; 
 With horror ftruck, the fight forego. 
 And fhun th' infection of my woe, 
 
 6. 
 While, in my prifon faft immur'd, 
 My eye with forrow's mift obfcur'd, 
 With ceafelefs moan my fuppliant hand 
 To Thee, great Monarch, I expand. 
 
 /• 
 
 Shall, whom the bands of death infold, 
 The wonders of thy pow'r behold, 
 And, ftarting from the tomb, thy Name 
 In hymns of joyful praife proclaim ? 
 
 8. 
 Shall echo on thy Mercies dwell 
 Amid the dark fepulchral cell ? 
 Or through DeftrucYion's vaults profound 
 Thy Truth, eternal God, refound ? 
 
 9- 
 
 Shall regions that exclude die day 
 Thy miracles to view difplay, 
 And pale Oblivion's confines drear 
 The records of thy Juftice hear ? . 
 
 io. To 
 
22? PSALM LXXXVIIL 
 
 10, 
 
 To Thee I call 4 to Thee in pray'r 
 At earlieft dawn difclofe my care : 
 Lord ! why haft Thou my foul repelPd? 
 Why thus thy quick'ning beams withheld? 
 
 II, 
 Ere y£t to manly years I grew, 
 My fainting heart thy terrors knew. 
 And through fucceeding life fuftains 
 A long viciffitude of pains. 
 
 12. 
 Beneath thy heavy hand I groan ; 
 Woes heap'd on woes come rolling on, 
 And o'er me hang, ordain'd by Thee, 
 Tremendous as a fwelling fea. 
 
 Each Friend, that wont my board to fhai e, 
 
 Each kind Confoler of my care, 
 
 As round I look, my fight evades, 
 
 And feeks conceal mint's thickeft fnades. 
 
 PSALM LXXXIX. 
 1. 
 
 MY grateful tongue, immortal King, 
 Thy Mercy {hall for ever fing, 
 My verfe to time's remoteft day 
 Thy Truth in facred notes difplay. 
 
 2. 
 That Mercy (thus thy Voice mine ear 
 Befpeaks,) on firmed bale I rear ; 
 That Truth in Heav'n my lips command 
 From age to age confirm'd to ftand. 
 
 3, My 
 
PSALM LXXXIX. 229 
 
 3- 
 My Love to Jejfe's Son reveal'd 
 Th' irrevocable Oath has feal'd ; 
 Th' irrevocable Oath is fworn, 
 Nought fhall my fteady purpofe turn. 
 
 4- 
 Blefl: Object of my choice ! Thy Line, 
 Protected by the Hand divine, 
 In long defcent thy Throne (hall heir, 
 Nor rolling years their pov/r impair* 
 
 5- 
 Thy A&s, great God, Heav Vs lofty Seat 
 With awful wonder fhall repeat ; 
 Affembled Saints their voice fhall raifc, 
 And ev'ry tongue proclaim thy praiie. 
 
 6. 
 O fav, what ftrength fhall vie with Thine? 
 What Name among the Seats divine, 
 Of equal excellence poflefs'd, 
 Thy fov'reignty, great God, conteft ? 
 
 Ye Tribes that form his chofen Choir, 
 Let IJraeW God your fear infpire, 
 Ye Natives of each neighb'ring fhore, 
 With proftrate hearts his pow r r adore. 
 
 8. 
 Thee, Lord, Heav'ivs Hofts their Leader ownj 
 Thee Might unbounded, Thee alone, 
 With endlefs majefty has crown'd, 
 And faith unfullied vefts.thee round. 
 
 - X 9. 9 Ti$ 
 
230 P S A L M LXXXIX. 
 
 'Tis thine the Ocean's rage to guide, 
 And calm at will its fwelling tide: 
 From Thee the deep-infli&ed wound, 
 Her guilt's juft portion, Egypt found ; 
 10. 
 
 When, rang'd in fight, the lawlefs Band 
 Thy pow'r, prefumptuous, durft withftand, 
 Each foe thine Arm beheld with dread. 
 And back in wild confufion fled. 
 
 ii. 
 The Heav'n above, and Earth below, 
 Thee, Lord, their great Pofleffor know; 
 By Thee this Orb to being rofe, 
 And All that Nature's bounds inclofe. 
 
 12. 
 
 While Tabor's brow, with ev'ning red, 
 And Eaflern Hermon's unfhorn head, 
 Wide through their echoing groves thy name 
 In fongs of grateful joy proclaim s — 
 
 From Thee amid th'ethereal fpace 
 The North and South ailiime their place; 
 Strong is thine Arm ; thy ftedfaft Will 
 Thy Hands with fure effect fulfil ; 
 
 14. 
 While Juftice, 'mid th' ethereal plain, 
 And Equity thy Throne fuflain, 
 And white-rob'd Truth and Mercy fair 
 Thy fteps precede, thy path prepare. 
 
 15.0, 
 

 PSALM LXXXIX, 231 
 
 O, Bleft the Tribes, whofe willing ear 
 Awakes the feftai fliout to hear; 
 Who thankful fee, where'er they tread, 
 Thy fav'ring beams around them fpreacU 
 
 16. 
 How (hall they joy from day to day 
 Thy boundlefs Mercy to difplay, 
 Thy Righteoufnefs, indulgent Lord, 
 With holy confidence record. 
 
 I/- 
 
 By bleft experience taught to know 
 What bleflings from thy Bounty flow ! 
 Thy Strength their fureft help they deem. 
 Thy Grace their dignity fupreme ! 
 
 18. 
 Behold, ye Saints, behold a Shield 
 In IfraeFs aid by God upheld i 
 Behold exalted to the Throne 
 A King, whom He has feal'd his own. 
 
 19. 
 Thy Vifions, Lord, from Heav'ji reveal'd, 
 The raptur'd Prophet has beheld ; 
 And thus thy Voice in awful {trains 
 The purpofe of thy Love explains. 
 
 20. 
 To One fele&ed from thy Line 
 Thy fafety, Jacob y I confign, 
 And, clotrTd with ftrength, before thy eyes 
 High o'er his Equals bid him rife. 
 
 X z 21. See 
 
232 PSALM LXXXIX. 
 
 21. 
 
 Fee David, prompt my will t' obey : 
 On Him th' important charge I lay, 
 . And copious on his favour'd head 
 Ths confecrating undlion fhed. 
 
 22. 
 
 My hand (hall hold him fad ; my care 
 From each afiaqlt, from evYy fnare, 
 Shall guard him; nigh me fhall he ftand 
 Safe from each proud Oppreffor's hand. 
 
 When hoftile Crouds his wrath provoke, 
 With certain and refifilefs ftroke 
 My Arm fhall crufh the impious train, 
 And lead v/ith fiaughter'd heaps the plain, 
 
 24. 
 On Mercy and on Truth divine 
 Behold him (nor in vain) recline 
 His truft, and, by my ftrength upborne, 
 Aioft, exulting, lift the horn \ 
 
 25. 
 While (fuch my Will) o'er fubj eft Lands 
 In wide extent are ftretch'd his hands •> 
 Beneath his left the Ocean rolls, 
 JHis right th' AJfyrian Flood controuls, 
 
 26. 
 Thou art my Father, ( thus my Name 
 His lips, inftincT: with grateful flame, 
 Aloud (hall hail ;.) My God in Thee, 
 And Rock of fure defence, I fee. 
 
 27. Hira 
 
PSALM LXXXTX. 233 
 
 27. 
 
 Him, pleas'd, my Firftborn I avow. 
 Bid mightieft Kings before him bow, 
 And Bleffings to his reach expand, 
 Infur'd by Compaq's facred band. 
 
 28. 
 Transfer'd by Me from Sire to Son, 
 To Heav'n's extremeft date his Throne 
 Shall laft ; if to my Laws his line, 
 With grateful zeal, their fteps incline : 
 
 29. 
 But fhould their hearts reject my fway, 
 Fond in forbidden paths to ftray, 
 My rod their trefpafs fhall purfue, 
 My fcourge their ftubborn will fubdue. 
 
 3°- 
 Yet never, never, (hall my Love 
 From Him its fteady beams remove ; 
 Ne'er fhall my Truth forget to guard 
 The promife by my lips declar'd. 
 
 3*- 
 
 To Davul^ once, (nor need I more,) 
 Once by my Sanctity I fwore, 
 That, cheriuYd by my care, his Race 
 Thy Throne, O Jitdah^ long fhall grace $ 
 
 32. 
 
 Long as the Sun, with welcome ray, 
 Shall warmth and life to Earth convey, 
 Or Thou, O Moon, in circuit wide 
 The witnefs of my Compact glide, 
 
 X 3 * 33. Yet 
 
234 P S A L M LXXXIX. 
 
 33- 
 
 Yet Ah ! repuls'd, contemn'd, by Thce y 
 Th' Anointed of thy hand we fee 
 No more thy p'ighted mercy mare, 
 But, doom'd thy wrath, juft God, to bear. 
 
 34- 
 With countlefs woes he drives : His Crown 
 Low in the duft by Thee is thrown; 
 No more his Forts afcend on high, 
 But, fell'n, in heapy ruins lie ; 
 
 35- 
 
 No more his Walls the War exclude ; 
 But paffers»by with infult rude 
 His rights invade, and Nations round. 
 His ear with keen reproaches wound, 
 
 36. 
 
 Behold while rang'd in clofe array 
 /nfulting hofls around him fey, 
 Their hand by Thine uprais'd, each foe 
 Aims at his head the deathful blow v 
 
 37- 
 With fiercer! joy their bofom burns, 
 
 While back with edge rebated turns 
 
 His fword, and, thy fupport withheld, 
 
 His vanquifh'd legions quit the field. 
 
 38. 
 
 His pow'r extin£t, his luftre gone, 
 On earth, fubverted, lies his Throne : 
 Age on his Youth has ftoln ; and fhame 
 With thickeft cloud obfcures his fame.. 
 
 39. How 
 
PSALM LXXXIX. 235 
 
 39- 
 How long fhall I, with anguifh torn, 
 Thy face, my God, averted mourn ? 
 How long behold, in dire amaze, 
 Thy wrath with flames inceffant blaze ? 
 
 40. 
 O weigh within thy thought my State ! 
 How frail my life ! how fhort its date ! 
 Why is thine Art employ'd in vain, 
 Or Man created but to pain ? 
 
 41. 
 O leave not, Lord, my doubtful Mind 
 To fad inquietude refign'd, 
 While thus through varied fcenes of woe 
 With haft'ning ftep to death we go, 
 
 42. 
 For who fhall boaft, of human frame, 
 Exemption from his doom to claim, 
 Or, arm'd with native might, withftand 
 The Sepulchre's rapacious hand ? 
 
 43- 
 Say, where is now the Love, O where, 
 Which erft thy lips to David fware ? 
 That Love, by Truth eternal feal'd, 
 Again to view, great Father, yield : 
 
 44. 
 O think what wrongs thy Servants bear, 
 Wrongs pour'd on Me in largeft fhare, 
 As deep within my filent breaft 
 Each offer'd infult I digeft. 
 
 45. Elate 
 
236 PSALM LXXXIX. 
 
 45- ] 
 Elate with pow'r, the nations round 
 My Ear with keen reproaches wound, 
 And impious Crouds his fteps revile, - 
 Whom Thou haft touch'd with facred oil. 
 
 4 6. 
 
 O wife in all thy Works ! thy Name 
 Let Man's whole Race aloud proclaim, 
 And, grateful, through the length of days, 
 In ceafelefs fongs repeat thy praife. 
 
 PSALM XC. 
 1. 
 
 THEE, Lord, their dwelling, Thee alone 
 From earlieft age thy People own: 
 Thee, Lord, with fulleft confidence 
 Thev boaft their Refuse and Defence. 
 
 2. 
 
 Ere yet the Mountains rofe to birth, 
 Ere yet their form the Heav'ns and Earth 
 Aflum'd, Thou cloth'd in light divine 
 Haft fhone; and flialt for ever fhine. 
 
 3- 
 Thou to the Sons of human kind 
 In fhort extenfion haft aflign'd 
 Their term, and bid them, at its end, 
 Low to their native duft defcend. 
 
 4. 
 
 To Thee as Yefterday appears 
 
 The profpe£t of a thoufand Years ; 
 And Ages, rolPd fucceffive on, 
 Quick as the circling Watch are gone. 
 
 5. As 
 
P S A L M XC. 237 
 
 5- 
 As plants that drink the nightly fhow'r, 
 Refrefn'd by fleep's irriguous pow'r 
 At morn they flour iih : Ev'mng nigh > 
 Cropt like the plant, they fade and die, 
 
 6. 
 Thy hand with unremitted force 
 In mid progreflion flops our courfe, 
 While ftorms of vengeance round us roll, 
 And whelm in dread our confcious foul. 
 
 7- 
 Thy eyes our inmofr, guilt can read ; 
 
 Thy prefence, Lord, on each mifdeed, 
 
 That ftudious fhuns the fight of day, 
 
 Refiftlefs darts its fearching ray. 
 
 . 8. 
 
 See, fart as words diflblv'd in air, . * 
 
 While crimes on crimes thy Juftice dare, 
 
 Our days in rapid flight confume, 
 
 And bear us onward to the tomb. 
 
 9- 
 Its date to fev'nty years confm'd, 
 
 If aught of life remain behind, 
 
 If Nature yet a ten years' day 
 
 Indulge us, ere her debt we pay, — 
 
 10. 
 
 Our ftrength but weaknefs then we know, 
 
 And added Age but lengthen'd Woe j 
 
 Stripp'd of our pride, we clofe our fpan, 
 
 And vanifii from the eye of Man, 
 
 11. o„ 
 
238 PSALM XC, 
 
 ii. 
 
 O, who thy terrors juftly weighs ? 
 Who to thy pow'r fubmiffive pays 
 The homage due ? Thy vengeance drear 
 They feel proportion'd to their fear, 
 
 12. 
 Teach us, kind Lord, O teach us Thou 
 To count life's moments as they flow, 
 And, while its end our thoughts furvey> 
 By Wifdom's line to guide our way. 
 
 Return, All-potent Lord, return: 
 How long fhall we thy abfence mourn ? 
 Return, and let thy wonted Love 
 With fpeedieft aid our griefs remove : 
 
 14. 
 Thy Mercy, to our Souls reveaFd, 
 Satiety of blifs (hall yield* 
 And, while thy breath our life prolongs, 
 With grateful mirth infpire our tongues : 
 
 15- 
 
 That Mercy, mightieft Lord, difplay \ 
 And bid at length fome happier day 
 Compenfate with its joys the years 
 Confign'd to forrow, groans, and tears. 
 
 16. 
 Author of Good, thy Work mature ; 
 Let Ifrael's Tribes, in Thee fecure, 
 From age to age the Bleffings trace 
 Inuil'd on their diftinguifti'd Race, 
 
 17. O 
 
P S A L M XC. 239 
 
 O let thy Majefly divine 
 On us in perfect beauty mine, 
 And dreaming copious o'er our head 
 Its mildeft beams around us fpread : 
 
 18. 
 And while, new Scenes of hope to view 
 Difclos'd, our labour we purfue, 
 O may thy hand with full fuccefs 
 That hope confirm, that labour blefs* 
 
 PSALM XCI. 
 1. 
 
 WH O makes Omnipotence his Aid, 
 Who refts beneath Jehovah's fhadr 
 And joyful cries, u My God in Thee 
 <(f My Fortrefs and my Hope I fee," — 
 
 2. 
 How bleft that Man ! — Thy Maker's care 
 Shall fnatch thee from the hunter's fiiare : 
 When fick'ning Nature's pow'rs {hall fail, 
 No fatal flroke {hall Thee aflail : 
 
 3- 
 
 His wings around thee mall be fpread, 
 His pinions guard thy favour'd head : 
 His Truth, thy all -protecting {hield, 
 From boftile rage a melter yield. 
 
 4- 
 Hail, favour'd Man ! nor terror pale 
 By night {hall o'er thy foul prevail, 
 Nor {haft, that aims its flight by day, 
 Thy guiltlefs bofom {hall difmay; 
 
 § 5. Nor 
 
40 PSALM XCL 
 
 5- 
 
 Nor Plague, that with gigantic ftride 
 In darknefs walks its circuit wide, 
 Nor fultry blaft, whofe dreaded breath 
 Taints the meridian air with death* 
 
 6. 
 Though thoufands by thy fide are flain, 
 And myriads round thee prefs the plain. 
 No dart mall thy deftrudtion dare, 
 Or wound whom God has bid to fpare. 
 
 7- 
 
 Behold him on each impious head 
 The fulnefs of his vengeance fhed : 
 Thy foes before thine eyes o'erthrown, 
 Still (halt thou pafs in triumph on ; 
 
 8. 
 And, fince thy heart, to God refign'd, 
 In him its refuge boafts to find, 
 No dangers fhall thy path await, 
 Or touch thine interdicted gate. 
 
 9- 
 While, round thee plac'd, th' Angelic Train 
 Thy fteps with tend'reft care fuftain, 
 Safe (halt thou walk through ways unknown, 
 Nor ftrike thy foot againft the ftone. 
 
 10. 
 Go, fearlefs on the Dragon tread, 
 And prefs the proftrate Lion's head: 
 Behold the Tyrant of the wood 
 In vain with youthful ftrength indu'd ; 
 
 11. Behold 
 
PSALM XCI. 241 
 
 11. 
 
 Behold the Serpent (in his veins 
 Though half the poifon of the plains 
 Belodg'd,) before thee vanquifh'd lie, 
 And clofe in death his languid eye. 
 12. 
 Thy duteous Zeal, thy filial Love, 
 I mark, and all thy A£te approve : 
 For this, thy head aloft I rear, 
 And bow to thy requefts my ear. 
 
 Thy fears, thy forrows I attend, 
 Thy God, thy Guardian, and thy Friend ; 
 Thy years prolong, and to thy heart 
 My health-difpenfing grace impart. 
 
 PSALM XCII. 
 1. 
 
 HOW bleft the tafk, with fervent heart 
 To fummon from the tuneful Art 
 Its fuccours, and thy Name record, 
 O Thou whom Nature owns her Lord ! 
 
 2. 
 Thy boundlefs Mercies, heav'nly King, 
 At morning's earlieft hour to frng, 
 And, rapt in praife, thy Truth to tell, 
 When night's dark (hades around us dweH. 
 
 3- 
 
 While with the ten-ftring'd inftrument 
 The pfaltry's meafur'd ftrains confent, 
 Afld o'er the harp each liquid note 
 With folemn found is taught to float. 
 
 o ■ 
 
 4. How 
 
-34* PSALM XCII. 
 
 How have thy A£ls my wakeful breaft 
 With rapt'rous gratitude imprefs'd ! 
 How joys my tongue, with holy flame 
 Infpir'd, thy Wonders to proclaim ! 
 
 5- 
 
 With what delight, great God, I trace 
 
 Each A61 of thy ftupendous grace ! 
 <Jreat are the works thy hand has wrought, 
 And deep beyond all fearch thy Thought. 
 
 6. 
 Thy Afls the minds of brutifli mould 
 With unregarding eye behold, 
 And, ftrangers to thy wife defigfl, 
 In erring cenfure madly join ;— 
 
 7- 
 
 Nor know, that, when the impious Band, 
 
 Frefh as the flow'r, confpicuous ftand, 
 Mature for death their heads they rfear, ' 
 And fwift deftru&ion waits them near* 
 
 8. 
 But Thou, above the ftarry plain, 
 In endlefs Majefty (halt reign : 
 And downward from th* ethereal height, 
 O'er fubje& worlds extend thy might. 
 
 Thy foe?, eternal God, thy foes 
 In death's long fleep their eyes fliall clofe. 
 And all, whofe hearts thy pow'r defy, 
 in wide difperfion backward fly : 
 
 While 
 
 
PSALM XCII 243 
 
 10, 
 
 While I, by heav'nly Might upborne, 
 
 Strong as the Oryx lift the horn ; 
 
 And o'er my head in copious fhow'rs 
 Thy Oil its richeft fragrance pours. 
 
 II. 
 When fa£Uous Crouds againft me rife r 
 With fcenes of triumph Thou my eyes 
 Shalt fatiate, and their full defeat 
 My ears with happieft tidings greet. 
 
 12. 
 
 Fair as amklft their native bed 
 The ftately Palms their branches fpread* 
 Or Cedars, tow'ring to the fides, 
 On Lebanon's broad fummit rife ; 
 
 Within thy Courts the Juft fhall ftand 
 And, nouriih'd by thy foft'ring hand > 
 Bleft Obje&s of thy conftant care, 
 The bounties of thy Love fhall fhare. 
 
 14. 
 Their fruits, each blaft by Thee repell'd, 
 To lateft age they ftill fhall yield 
 In large increafe, through life's whole rouncS 
 With health and youthful verdure crown'd. 
 
 15- 
 
 Thy Goodnefs fhall their lips record, 
 (God of my ftrength !) thy ev'ry Word 
 InTruth's unvarying balance weigh'd, 
 Thy ev'ry Ad by Juftice fway'd. 
 
 Y 2 PSALM 
 
244 
 
 P S A L M XCIII. 
 i. 
 
 TH E Lord th' eternal fcepter rears, 
 And Nature's pow'r obfervant hears 
 Whate'er his Will enjoins : 
 His head with pureft fplendors crown'd, 
 With Majefty he vefts him round, 
 And girds with ftrength his loins* 
 
 2. 
 
 Encircled by th' ethereal fpace, 
 And fix'd by Him on firmeft bafe, 
 
 The Earth's vaft Orb appears : 
 From earlieft age, great God, thy Throne 
 Aloft in Heav'n prepar'd has fhone ; 
 
 Nor numbers Time thy years. 
 
 3- 
 
 A fcene of horror ftrikes my eyes ; 
 
 The Floods, my God, the Floods arife, 
 And lift their voice on high : 
 
 What pow'r (hall curb the headlong tide ? 
 
 AVhat bid the fwelling waves fubfide, 
 And clear the ftormy fky ? 
 
 4- 
 Thee o'er all height exalted, Thee 
 The Deeps revere ; at thy Decree 
 The Waves their rage refign : 
 Fix'd are the Lav/s by Thee ordaiu'd ; 
 And Truth and San&ity unftain'd 
 Adorn thy awful ftirine. 
 
 PSALM 
 
P S A I M XCIV- 
 
 THOU God, with vengeance arm'd* 
 appear ; 
 Thou God, with vengeance arm'd, whofefear 
 The Earth (for Thee her Judge (he knows,) 
 Submiffive owns, thy pow'r difclofe, 
 
 2. 
 O inftant from thy feat arife, 
 Each bold tranfgreffor to chaftife ; 
 Let Juftice to the Sons of pride 
 Thy ftroke with aim unerring guide* 
 
 2- 
 
 How long (hall impious Crouds, how long^ 
 With haughtieft infultarm their tongue ? 
 How long in bitt'reft gall each word 
 Infufe, and boaft their conqu'ring fword ?' 
 
 4- 
 Thy Flock, great God, their fury own ; 
 Beneath their ftroke thy People groan : 
 And long thy heritage have borne 
 Their keen reproach and hoftile feorn. 
 
 5 
 Their hands remorfelefs, to the tomb 
 The Widow and the Stranger doom j 
 Nor innocence nor tend'reft age 
 Can (hield the Orphan from their rage, 
 
 V 3, 6, « Ne ? e* 
 
l\b P S A L M XCIV 
 
 6. 
 cc Ne'er fhall our deeds in Heav'n be known, 
 " Or reach (they cry,) the diftant Throne 
 « Or IfraePs Lord."— Ye fools and blind! 
 Return, and feek a better mind. 
 
 7- 
 
 Say when (hall Wifdom's light ferene 
 
 Your Souls from error's chidhood wean ? 
 Who knew to plant the ear, fhall He 
 Not hear ? Who forrn'd the eye, not fee ? 
 
 8. 
 Shall aught of guilt his fearch evade, 
 Who bids the Nations he has made, 
 Inform'd by his paternal care, 
 The gifts of various Science fhare, — 
 
 9- 
 
 Who Reafon in the bofom pours, 
 
 Its growth improves, its fruit matures, 
 Each counfel of the human brain 
 Weighs in his fcale, and ftamps it vain ? 
 10. 
 
 O, Bleft the man, for ever bleft, 
 Whofe faithful heart by thee imprefsM, 
 Eternal Teacher, from thy Laws 
 The leflbns of his conduit draws j 
 
 ii. 
 Who fhelter'd from the evil day 
 Its diftant dangers (hall furvey, 
 And wait till Thou the pit prepare 
 Vqx each v/hofe crimes thy vengeance dare. 
 a 12. Ne'er 
 
PSALM XCIV. 247 
 
 12. 
 
 Ne'er from the Children of his Love 
 Shall Heav'n's high Lord his care remove, 
 Or to the foes of IfraeFs Line 
 His purchas'd Heritage refign : 
 
 J 3- 
 
 For Judgement fhall its feat affume, 
 Triumphant ; while its equal doom 
 Each heart to Virtue's caufe a friend 
 With confcious tranfport (hall attend. 
 14. 
 Say, who with Me will plight the hand, 
 With Me the fons of guilt withftand ? 
 Had God his aiding pow'r withheld,. 
 How had my foul in filence dwelPd ! 
 
 15- 
 
 But when my foot with fault'ring tread 
 Suggefted to my thought a dread, 
 Thy Love, its fpeedieft care applied, 
 Forbade my dubious fteps to Aide. 
 
 16. 
 While deepeft woe my bofom tries, 
 And thoughts with thoughts conflicting rife, 
 Thy comforts, Lord, my foul fuftain, 
 And calm my fears, and footh my pain. 
 
 Shall proud Oppreflion's lawlefs Chair 
 In thy Alliance find a fhare, 
 Whofe Mandates to the impious Tribe 
 Their talks of cruelty prcfcribe? 
 
 18. See 
 
i 4 3 psalm xcrr. 
 
 18. 
 
 See willing Myriads, at its word 
 Aflembled, grafp the hoftile fword, 
 In guiltlefs biood their thirft allay, 
 And mark the Righteous for their prey. 
 
 19. 
 But God, my refuge and my fhield, 
 Firm on himfelf my truft fhall build ; 
 To him, my foul, for help repair, 
 Who makes the faithful heart his care. 
 
 20. 
 That Lord, whom IfraeFs Sons adore, 
 Their fin fhall in their lap reftore, 
 Their fteps with certain vengeance trace, 
 And root from earth th' offending Race* 
 
 PSAL M XCV. 
 . 1. 
 
 OCome, and to th' eternal King 
 New fongs of triumph let us fing ; 
 With holy tranfport Him alone 
 The ftrength of our Salvation own >— 
 
 2. 
 Admitted to his prefence pay 
 The tribute of the grateful lay, 
 And, while his A6ls our mirth infplre 3 
 Wake to his praife the vocal lyre. 
 
 3- 
 
 Extended wide beyond all bound, 
 Beyond all height, his pow'r is found, 
 Nor Lord,,with Him, nor Gods befide 
 The honours of his Throne divide. 
 
 4. Earth's- 
 
PSALM XCV. 249 
 
 4- 
 Earth's ftores, throughout its inmoft frame. 
 He, great Proprietor, {hall claim ; 
 Your Range, ye cloud-tranfcending Hills, 
 His pow'r commands, his prefence fills. 
 
 5- 
 
 Inrich'd by his prolific hand, 
 
 In Him the All-productive Land, 
 
 In Him the Sea, that rounds its fhore> 
 
 Their Maker and their Lord adore. 
 
 6. 
 O come, and let your knees with mine 
 Tq Him in lowlieft homage join ; 
 To Him, for He your pray'rs will hear, 
 To Him your fuppliant voices rear, 
 
 7- 
 In Him your God, your Father, fee, 
 
 The People of his pafture Ye, 
 
 The Flock that guided by his care 
 
 The bleffings of his bounty fhare. 
 
 8. 
 
 O Judcth) if in this thy day 
 
 My WilJ thou purpofe to obey, 
 
 Steel not thy breaft to truths divine, 
 
 As erft the Fathers of thy line >— 
 
 9- 
 Whofe Bands th' inclofing Defert faw, 
 Rebellious to the Heav'n-taught Law, 
 With mad prefumption from my hand 
 The fignals of my pow'r demand ; 
 
 io. Their 
 
250 PSALM XCV. 
 
 10. 
 
 Their eyes, the wifh'd for fight obtain^ 
 Indulg'd, require it yet again ; 
 Such their demand a heart betray'd 
 Diftruftful of my promised aid. 
 
 il. 
 Through forty years the circling fun 
 Beheld their date of mercy run, 
 As, griev'd, I ftrove, but ftrove in vain> 
 Their growing frenzy to reftrain : 
 
 12. 
 
 Behold a Race, at length I cried, 
 Whofe heart from Me has fwerv'd afide r 
 (By Error's pow'r fubdu'd, ) nor known 
 That Wifdom's paths and Mine are one* 
 
 My Oath, for by Myfelf I fwear, 
 My kindled anger ftall declare, 
 And bar them from my Reft, decreed 
 To hithful Abraham's chofen Seed. 
 
 PSALM XCVI. 
 I. 
 
 SING to the Lord fome new-taught Song ; 
 Earth, to his praife the note prolong : 
 With rapt'rous zeal, with holy flame 
 Infpir'd, his benefits proclaim, 
 
 2. 
 
 Blefs, blefs his Name ; from day to day 
 Let His Salvation prompt the lay, 
 Till Realms remote his A6ls have known, 
 And Man's whole Race his Wonders own. 
 
 3. Great 
 
PSALM XCVI # 251 
 
 3- 
 
 Great is the Lord, and great his Praife : 
 What God like Him our fear can raife ? 
 Not fucli as Heathen Lands afford, 
 Created jfirft, and then ador'd : 
 
 4. 
 Creation Him its Lord avow'd, 
 When erft the arch of Heav'n he bow'd 5 
 And Light and Majefty divine 
 With fadelefs fplendor grace his fhrine, 
 
 5- 
 
 Let ev'ry People, evVy Tribe, 
 Pow'r, glory, ftrength, to Him afcribe : 
 Let fartheft realms converted join 
 In homage to the name divine. 
 
 6. 
 Yield to that Name the honours due & 
 Oft to his Courts your way purfue 
 With folemn ftep, and joyful bring 
 The offering to your heav'nly King* 
 
 7- 
 Before the Beauty of his fhrine, 
 
 Ye Saints, in low proftration join ; 
 
 Ye Natives of each diftant ftiore, 
 
 His Pow'r revere ; his Name adore 
 
 8. 
 
 O tell to All whom Earth Tuftains, 
 
 O tell them, that Jehovah reigns, 
 
 That, fix'd by His Almighty hand, 
 
 Its ponderous Orb unmov'd lhall ftand, 
 
 3, O tell 
 
252 PSALM XCVI. 
 
 9- 
 
 O tell to all whom earth fuftains, 
 
 O tell them, that "Jehovah reigns, 
 And All who ifiue from its womb 
 Receive from Him th' unerring doom> 
 
 io. 
 Exult, ye HeavVs ; exult, O Earth ; 
 And, partner in the facred mirth, 
 Let Ocean in its fulnefs rife, 
 And thunder to the diftant fldes. 
 
 II. 
 Rich in his gifts, ye Fields, rejoice ; 
 While in his praife the Woods their voice 
 Exalt, and hail with lowly nod 
 The prefence of th' approaching God. 
 
 12. 
 
 He comes, in awful pomp array'd, 
 He comes, to judge the World he made. 
 Truth {hall with Him the caufe decide,' 
 And Equity his fentence guide. 
 
 PSALM XCVII. 
 i. 
 
 TO God belongs th* eternal Sway; 
 Let Earth with joy his Will obey 
 Exult, ye Ifles that crown the Main, 
 Bleft in his mild aufpicious Reign. 
 2. 
 
 The ftation'd Clouds around him meet, 
 And Darknefs rolls beneath his feet ; 
 While Equity and Truth combine 
 To rear aloft his awful fhrine. 
 
 3. Before 
 
PSALM XCVII. * 53 
 
 3- 
 
 Before him walks the wafting Fire ; 
 Wrapt in the blaft his foes expire ; 
 While Earth, convuls'd, in dire difmay, 
 Beholds the forky lightnings play,— - 
 
 4- 
 And down, like wax before the flame, 
 Down flows the Mountain's folid frame, 
 ^That late, ambitious, met the fky ; 
 For God, the World's great Lord, is nigh. 
 
 5- 
 
 His righteous A£ls the Heav'ns difplay, 
 His fame from pole to pole convey, 
 And bid the Majefty divine 
 To ev'ry eye confpicuous fhine. 
 
 6. 
 Shame to the Wretch that wood and ftones 
 The Obje&s of his homage owns, 
 And frantic to the Creature pays 
 The Maker's intervened praife. 
 
 7- 
 Ye Gods, his fov'reign Might avow, 
 
 And rev'rent at his footftool bow ; 
 Submiffive at the hallow'd Shrine 
 Adore the Majefty divine. 
 8. 
 Well-pleas'd thy Counfels, Lord, to hear, 
 Imperial Salem bows the ear ; 
 And Judab's happy Daughters fing 
 The .Mercies of th' eternal Kin::. 
 
 Z 9. Thou 
 
254 P S A L M XCVIL 
 
 9- 
 Thou, Lord, in Majefty ferene 
 
 Exalted o'er the Iiarth art feen : 
 
 What PowV, great God, fliall boafl a Name 
 
 Like Thine ? Like Thee our homage claim ? 
 
 10. 
 
 Ye Souls with Love divine imprefs'd ; 
 
 Jufl: to its precepts, Sin deteft ; 
 
 Averie from each injurious art, 
 
 Let evil from your thoughts depart : 
 
 II. 
 
 Each fear deliver'd to the wind, 
 
 In God your certain refuge find, 
 
 Whofe pow'r protects the pious Band, 
 
 Tho' Myriads, lea^u'd, againft them ftand. 
 
 12. 
 
 To You, ye Good, to You alone 
 
 The feeds of heav'nly light are fown, 
 
 That wake within the human breaft . 
 
 Joys ne'er by human tongue exprefs'd. 
 
 O crown'd with Mercies from above, 
 To God your grateful zeal approve : 
 His Sanctity revere ; his Name 
 In hymns of loudeft praife proclaim. 
 
 PSALM XCVIII. 
 i. 
 
 SI N G to the G od whom we adore ; 
 O fing, In lays unheard before, 
 The Mercies ftiown us from above, 
 The Wonders of redeeming Love : 
 
 1 His 
 
PSALM XCVIIL 255 
 
 His powerful Hand Salvation fends, 
 And Cortqueffc on his Arm attends. 
 2. 
 
 His Juftice through the World has fhin'd 5 
 His Truth, with endlefs Mercy join'd, 
 Now feals the promife of his Grace 
 To faithful Abraham's chofen Race ; 
 And Earth, to juft obedience aw'd, 
 Has own'd her Saviour and her God, 
 
 3- 
 
 Ye dhlant Realms, your voice employ 
 
 In fhouts of gratitude and joy : 
 Let hymns of rapture fwell each throat; 
 Call from the harp th' according note ; 
 On the fhrill trump your mirth prolong, 
 And found the cornet to the fong. 
 
 4. 
 To Him who claims th' eternal fway, 
 To Him the vocal tribute pay : 
 Him let the hoarfe-refounding Tide, 
 With All that in its depths refide, 
 Praife, thank, and blefs, in loudeft ftrains ; 
 Him Earth, and Ail whom Earth fuftains. 
 
 5- 
 Ye Floods, triumphant clap the hand ; 
 Ye cloud-topt hills, exulting ftand ; 
 See, thron'd aloft in awful ftate, 
 While Man's whole Race his fentence wait, 
 The Judge fupreme his fcale aflume ; 
 And Equity dire&s the Doom, 
 
 Z 2 PSALM 
 
256 
 
 PSALM XCIX. 
 
 1. 
 
 JEHOVAH reigns : Ye Nations own, 
 With proftrate hearts, his fway : 
 Betwixt the Cherubs ftands his Throne ; 
 Earth ! tremble and obey, 
 2. 
 His Rule, in Sion long confeft, 
 
 O'er All extends ; his Name 
 Shall hallow with its fear each breaft, 
 Each tongue with zeal inflame, 
 
 3- 
 Thy PowV with Equity allied 
 
 Through time's long courfe has flood : 
 
 Thy Judgements Jacob>JLord y has tried, 
 
 And knows them jufl and good, 
 
 *\ 
 
 Let Each, with humble joy elate, 
 
 Before thy footftool bow ; 
 Thee, ceafelefs, praife : For who fo great, 
 So holy, Lord, as Thou ? 
 
 5. 
 
 By God with facred honours crown'd, 
 
 See MofeSy Aaron fee, 
 And Samuely ever faithful found, 
 To Him incline the knee. 
 6. 
 To Him the favoured Three aloud 
 The frequent Vow prefer'd, 
 1 And inftant from the pillar'd cloud 
 His awful Anfwer heard. 
 
 7. With 
 
PSALM XCIX 257 
 
 7- 
 
 With wakeful zeal their bofoms burn'd j 
 
 Obfervant of his Will, 
 With joy the heav'nly precept learn'd, 
 
 And haften'd to fulfil. 
 8. 
 To Thee, great God, their ev'ry pray'r 
 
 In full acceptance rofe : 
 Thy hand their weaknefs knew to fpare, 
 
 And, pitying, heal'd their woes. 
 
 9- 
 Yet could thy Wrath, when Sin had dar'd 
 
 Their erring breaft to ftain, 
 Deal to their guilt its juft reward, 
 
 And vindicate thy Reign* 
 io. 
 Let Each, with humble joy elate, 
 
 On Sion's Mountain bow ; 
 Thee, ceafelefs, praife : For who fo great, 
 
 So holy, Lord, as Thou r 
 
 PSALM C. 
 i. 
 
 YE Tribes of Earth, in God rejoice, 
 His prefence hail with thankful voice $ 
 To Him your willing homage pay, 
 And wake the tributary lay. 
 
 2. 
 Submiffive to his Will, in Him 
 Behold the God of Gods fupreme ; 
 Nor Lords with Him, nor Gods befide 
 The Honours of his Throne divide, 
 
 Z 3 3. With 
 
258 PSALM C. 
 
 3- 
 
 With confcious wonder oft furvey'd, 
 He, not Ourfelves, our frame has made : 
 The fubjects of his pow'r we ftand, 
 The fheep that own his guiding hand. 
 
 O, enter then his gates with praife, 
 To Him your loudeft accents raife, 
 With grateful hearts his Love proclaim^ 
 And blefs, O blefs, his awful Name. 
 
 5- 
 
 For Truth in Him and Mercy live : 
 That Truth fhal! time rtfelf furvive ; 
 That Mercy through the length of days 
 Unclouded pour its healing rays. 
 
 M 
 
 PSALM CI. 
 i. 
 
 ERCY, Judgement, now. my tongue 
 Makes the fubject of its Song : 
 
 Lord ! to whom then (hall I fing, 
 But to Thee, th' eternal King ? 
 
 2. 
 
 WifJom (hall my footfteps guide, 
 Nor permit my feet to Aide, 
 Or from thy All-perfect Way, 
 Loft in paths of Sin to ftray. 
 
 B Come, O come, celeftial Gueft, 
 Let m) roof with Thee be bieft ? 
 Let thy Beams effulgent play, 
 And within my Manfion ft ay? 
 
 Lo! 
 
PSALM CI. *59 
 
 4- 
 Lo ! my heart with ftudious care 
 For thy prefence I prepare, 
 And my Dwelling's full extent 
 "Spbtlefs to thy view prefent. 
 
 5- 
 Ne'er fhall my prefumptuous hand 
 Dare to break thy juft Command ; 
 Ne'er within me fhalt thou find 
 Aught that fpeaks a faithlefs mind. 
 
 6. 
 Serv'd by none who ferve not Thee, 
 Let me not the Impious fee ; 
 Let the wretch of froward heart 
 From my gate repuls'd depart ; 
 
 7- 
 
 Let the Man of lofty eye, 
 Scornful mien, and ftomach high, 
 And the Tongue to flander bred, 
 Learn my heavieft wrath to dread, 
 
 8. 
 Come, ye faithful, juft and good, 
 Eager for the bright abode, 
 Come, ye pure in heart, O come. 
 Sure with me to find a home. 
 
 9- 
 
 Pleas'd I fee the pious Band 
 
 Round my throne attendant (land, 
 
 And in facred homage join 
 
 To their own great Lord and mine. 
 
 I0» Hence 
 
2 6o PSALM CI. 
 
 10. 
 
 Hence ye Children of deceit, 
 From my tbrefhold turn your feet : 
 Let the foul that dares a lye 
 Inftant from my prefence fly. 
 
 li. 
 Soon, O Judah^ fhall my hand 
 Root th' offenders from thy Land ; 
 Soon my guilt-avenging rod 
 Purge the City of my God. 
 
 PSALM CIL 
 i. 
 
 EAR, Lord, my pray'r, and let my cries 
 Accepted to thy Throne arife; 
 O turn not Thou thy face away, 
 Nor longer my relief delay 5 
 
 2. 
 
 Lord, mark my forrows from on high, 
 And pitying to my call reply ; 
 Faft as the mounting fmoke decays, 
 On times light pinion flit my days : 
 
 3- 
 
 My bones the hearth's fierce heat fuftain j 
 My heart the herbage of the plain 
 Refembles, o'er whofe leaves have paft 
 The fervors of the fouthern blaft. 
 
 4- 
 For ah! forgetful of my food, 
 Inceflant o'er my griefs I brood, 
 While ftruggling groans their weight proclaim, 
 And waile with toil my languid frame. 
 
 5. Not 
 
PSALM CIL 261 
 
 5- 
 Not the wide Defert's confines drear 
 Laments of louder accent hear, 
 When midft the folitary gloom 
 The Birds of Night their plaints refume ; 
 
 6. 
 When, 'midft its fens, with difmal note 
 The Pelican dtftends her throat, 
 Or to the winds in lengthen'd {trains 
 The felf-fequeftring Owl complains j 
 
 7- 
 Nor vents its fifter-bird a moan 
 So deep, when on the roof alone 
 She fits ; whofe woes, like mine, affright 
 The filence of the tedious night. 
 
 8. 
 From Morn, till Eve extend its veil, 
 Reproaches keen my ears aflail ; 
 And, leagu'd by mutual oaths, my foes 
 With fierce intent my fteps inclofe. 
 
 9- 
 See afhes, fcatter'd o'er my head, 
 Mix, undiftinguifh'd, with my bread ; 
 By Languor, Care, and Grief opprefs'd, 
 With groans perpetual heaves my bread. 
 
 10. 
 See mingled tears my cup fupply; 
 Since firft thy wrathful Arm on high 
 Caught me amaz'd, and fwiftly round 
 Reverting hurl'd me on the ground. 
 
 j 1. As 
 
262 PSALM CII. 
 
 As fades the fhadow of the fun, 
 With quick decline my moments run, 
 My life, juft verging to its clofe, 
 With rapid courfe unheeded Hows. 
 
 12. 
 
 My form is wafted, and my face, 
 Its vernal bloom and youthful grace 
 Extinguifh'd, withers on the eye, 
 As plants beneath a hoftile fky. 
 
 But Thou, Bleft Guard of I/raeFs fold, 
 Shalt ages fee on ages rolPd, 
 And, thron'd above, to endlefs days 
 Extend thy honour, name, and praife. 
 
 14. 
 O rife, (th' appointed hour is come;) 
 Rife, mightieft Lord, thy Charge aflumej 
 And let lad Sion's feat no more 
 The abfence of thine aid deplore. 
 
 15. 
 
 How lovely to thy Servants* ^eyes, 
 How lovely ev'n in ruin lies 
 Her hallow'd Wall, her facred Shrine, 
 The Seat of Majefly divine! 
 
 16. 
 Thy fervants, Lord, a penfive Throng, 
 Walk her defencelefs Arrets along, 
 And, ss her fcatter'd waftes appear, 
 Drop on her duft the pitying tear. 
 
 17. How, 
 
PSALM CIL 263 
 
 How, Lord, fhall each from day to day, 
 The terrors of thy wrath difplay ! 
 How fhall thy Name, great Sire, its dread 
 Through Earth's awaken'd regions fpread ! 
 
 18. 
 How fhall her Kings with deep difmay 
 Thy boundlefs Majefty farvey, 
 When Salem's ftru£lures from their fall 
 Thy hand, propitious, fhall recal. 
 
 19. 
 While down th' eternal Glory pours, 
 Incircles with its blaze her tow'rs, 
 And fpeaks thy favour (oft implor'd,) 
 To Ifrael's exil'd Tribes reftor'd ! 
 
 20. 
 Thy A&s the faithful pen fhall trace, 
 And Myriads of the human Race, 
 Yet ftrangers to the birth, thy fame 
 In Songs of loudeft note proclaim, 
 
 21. 
 For He, beneath whofe facred feat 
 The ftarry Orbs their courfe repeat, 
 Th' eternal Ruler of the fky, 
 Has call on Earth his equal eye. 
 
 22. 
 He deigns the injur'd caufe to own, 
 To hear the helplefs Captive's groan, 
 The Souls to death confign'd to fave, 
 And fnatch them from the greedy £rave. 
 
 23. For 
 
264 PSAL M CII. 
 
 *3- 
 
 For this, through S ion's ample bound 
 Jehovah's Name fhall oft refound, 
 Thy fhouts, diftinguifh'd Salem, raife, 
 And wake thy tongue to hymns of praife : 
 
 24. 
 See to thy Courts the Nations floWj 
 His juft dominion taught to know, 
 And, Each with Thee in compact join'd, 
 Their hearts to his obedience bind, 
 
 25. 
 'Twas He, whofe unrefifted force 
 In mid progreffion ftop'd my courfe ; 
 My healthful vigour reft away 5 
 And haften'd to its eve my day. 
 
 26. 
 Spare, mightieft Lord! nor thus, I cried, 
 My brittle chain of years divide, 
 O Thou, of Life th' exhauftlefs Spring, 
 Invifible, Immortal King ! 
 
 27. 
 Thy hand the Earth's foundation laid, 
 Thy hand the Heav'n aloft difplay'd, 
 Ere yet along the van: profound 
 The reftlefs Months began their round : 
 
 28. 
 That Earth, that Heav'n's ftupendous frame, 
 Corruption with permitted claim 
 Shall feize: But Thou, from Age fecure, 
 Shalt felf-exifteitf flill endure. 
 
 29. Thefe, 
 
PSALM CIL 265 
 
 29* 
 
 Thefe, as the labours of the loom, 
 Shall time with gradual force confume? 
 Till Thou again thy Hand apply, 
 And fold them up* and lay them byj 
 
 Thou, Lord, whofe hand their texture fpun, 
 When Time its ftated courfe has run, 
 Shalt brighter Scenes difclofe to view, 
 And Nature's varied face renews 
 
 3i- 
 
 But varyings Thou haft none: Thy rays 
 With undiminifh'd luftre blaze j 
 Thy years fhall circumfcription fpurn, 
 And back upon themfelves return. 
 
 3^ 
 Thee, Lord, their fure Protestor, Thee 
 Thy Saints their ftrong Support fhall fee.; 
 And, rang'd in long fucceffion, fhare 
 The gifts of thy paternal Care* 
 
 PSALM CIII. 
 1. 
 
 MY Soul, throughout thine inmoft frame, 
 Blefs, blefs the great Jehovah's Name; 
 Ceafe not with ftudious thought to trace 
 The A£ts of his ftupendous Grace- 
 
 2. 
 
 He blots from HeavVs record thy fin, 
 And, though thy paflions war within, 
 Affuafive calms their furious ftrife, 
 And refcues from the pit thy life ; 
 
 A a 3, He 
 
266 PSALM Cm. 
 
 3- 
 
 He bids his bleflings round thee rife ; 
 
 Thy ev'ry wi(h with Good fupplies ; 
 Thy years renews in their decline; 
 And makes the Eagle's vigour thine. 
 
 4- 
 *Tis God's, the friendlefs and the poor 
 From proud Oppreffion to fecure, 
 Their wants attentive to perceive, 
 And, ever faithful, to relieve. 
 
 5- 
 
 His ways to Mofes flood reveaPd ; 
 Thou, Ifraelj haft his Works beheld, 
 His breaft with mercy fraught haft known, 
 To anger flow, to pity prone. 
 
 6. 
 He ne'er with erring mortals knew 
 A ceafelefs conteft to purfue, 
 But, when their crimes his vengeance raife, 
 His wrath in mid effufion ftays. 
 
 7- 
 
 If e'er our trefpafs he chaftife, 
 Not to its weight proportion'd rife 
 The juft corre£Hons of his hand, 
 But bounded by his Mercy (land : 
 
 8. 
 That Mercy to the ftarry pole 
 Extends ; and, far as from his goal 
 The Sun in daily circuit roves, 
 The humbled finner's guilt removes. 
 
 9 , What 
 
PSALM CIII. 267 
 
 9; 
 
 What fondnefs for his infant Care 
 A Father's bofom learns to fhare, 
 Such from th' eternal Monarch claim 
 The Souls that rev'rent own his Name. 
 
 10. 
 
 For well his eye our texture knows; 
 Sees that the duft's light grains compofe 
 Our frame; and marks the days of Man 
 Contracted to a narrow fpan; 
 
 11. 
 How fhort, how tranfient is its date ! 
 As flow'rs, that in their vig'rous ftatc 
 Exalted^ now the field adorn, 
 And now by palling ftorms are torn : 
 
 12. 
 Behold the rip'ning herb decay, 
 Each flow'r, its vigour refc away 
 At once its vernal pride refigns, 
 And with'ring on the earth reclines: 
 
 13- 
 
 In fwift decay behold it wafte ; 
 
 Nor knows the foil, whofe bed it grae'd, 
 To witnefs to th' inquirer's view, 
 Where late the fhort-liv'd wonder grew 
 
 14. 
 But Thy Companions,. Lord, the Juft 
 From age to age with ftedfaft truft 
 Shall own, and, fill'd with holy flame, 
 Thy care and tendernefs proclaim : 
 
 A a 2 15. Thy 
 
a6* PSALM CHI. 
 
 Thy Righteoufnefs their favour'd Race, 
 In long defcent, fhall joy to trace, 
 While pleas'd thy Compa& they fulfil,. 
 And frame to thy Decrees their will. 
 16. 
 His Seat above th' empyreal plain 
 Our God has fix'd ; his equal Reigu 
 Creation's utmoft bounds confefs, 
 And, bleft in him, their Maker blefs. 
 
 O magnify your heav'nly King, 
 His praife, ye tribes angelic, fmg, 
 Who, cloth'd with might, his word obey, 
 And wing, as He direfts, your way. 
 
 18. ' 
 Him praife, ye bright ethereal Band, 
 That rang'd beneath his banner ftand, 
 And Ye who round his Throne of State 
 With duteous zeal mmiftrant wait. 
 
 19. 
 Ye Works of God, where'er his fway 
 Extends, your Maker's fame difplay; 
 Nor Thou, my Soul, forget to fing 
 The Mercies of th' eternal King. 
 
 PSALM CIV. 
 1. 
 
 AWAKE, my Soul, to hymns of praife ; 
 To God the fong of triumph raifc, 
 And thankful blcfs th' almighty Lord, 
 The God in cv'ry act ador'd., 
 
 2. O 
 
PSALM CIV. 269 
 
 2. 
 
 O cloth'd with Majefty divine, 
 What pomp, what glory, Lord, are thine ' 
 Light forms thy robe, and round thy head 
 The Heav'ns their ample curtain fpread. 
 
 3- 
 
 Thou know'ft amid the fluid fpace 
 The ftrong-compa£ied beams to place^ 
 That proof to wafting Ages lie, 
 And prop the chambers of the fky. 
 
 4- 
 Behold, aloft, the King of Kings, 
 Borne on the Wind's expanded wings, 
 (His Chariot by the Clouds fupplied,) 
 Through Heav'n's wide realms triumphant 
 ride. 
 
 5. 
 
 Around him rang'd in awful ftatc 
 Th' afiembled Storms miniftrant wait * 9 
 And Flames, attentive to fulfil 
 The dictates of his mighty Will. 
 
 6. 
 To Him the all-prolific earth, 
 From Chaos call'd, afcribes her birth, 
 And fix'd by, his Almighty hand 
 Has flood, and fhall for ages ftand. 
 
 7- 
 He fpake ; and o'er each Mountain's head 
 The Deep its watry mantle fpread : 
 He fpake ; and from the whelming flood 
 Again their tops emergent flood ; 
 
 A a 3 8. Now 
 
%jo PSALM CIV, 
 
 8, 
 
 Now faft adown their bending fide 
 With refluent ftream the Currents glide ; 
 Aw'd by his ftern rebuke they fly, 
 While peals of thunder rend the (ky; 
 
 9- 
 
 In mingled tumult backward led, 
 
 They hafte to their appointed bed, 
 
 And, taught their deftin'd bounds to know, 
 
 No more th' affrighted Earth o'erflow. 
 
 10. 
 The fprings, the rivulets (their coude 
 By Nature's ever-copious fource 
 Supplied,) refrelh the hilly plain, 
 And life in all its forms fuftain. 
 
 ii. 
 Here {looping o'er the river's brink 
 The herds and flocks promifcuous drink \ 
 There, 'mid the barren defert nurs'd, 
 The Wild-Afs cools his burning thirft : . 
 
 12. 
 While faft befide the murm'ring fpring 
 The feather'd minftrels fit and fing, 
 And fhelter'd in the branches fhun 
 The fervors of the mid-day fun. 
 
 His fhow'rs with verdure crown the hills ; 
 The earth with various fruits he fills : 
 Preventive of their wants, his aid 
 Yields to the Brute the fpringing blade ; 
 
 4 14. For 
 
PSALM CIV. 271 
 
 14. 
 For Man, chief obje£t of his care, 
 His hands the foodful herb prepare, 
 The glad'ning wine, refrefhing oil, 
 And bread that firings his nerves for toil. 
 
 By Him with genial moifture fed 
 The Trees their {hades luxuriant fpread ; 
 The Cedars, nurtur'd by his hand, 
 On Lebanon s high fummit ftand: 
 
 16. 
 They weave their focial boughs, defign'd 
 A refuge for th' aerial kind : 
 While on the Fir-tree's fpiry top 
 The vagrant Stork is feen to flop. 
 
 17- 
 
 See from the hills the Goats depend, 
 
 Or bounding from the cliff defcend : 
 The lefler tribes, in furry pride 
 Array'd, the rock's dark caverns hide. 
 
 18. 
 Her way by Him prefcrib'd, the Moon 
 Our feafons marks, and knows her own.; 
 And, taught by Him, the Orb of day 
 Slopes in the Weft his parting ray. 
 
 19. 
 Now Night from Ocean's bed afcends, 
 And o'er the earth her wings extends ; 
 While favour'd by the friendly gloom 
 The fylvan race licentious roam ; 
 
 20. The 
 
272 PSALM CIV. 
 
 20. 
 
 The Lions chief, with hideous roar, 
 From God their needful food implore, 
 And eager for the wonted prey 
 Along the echoing Defert ftray ; 
 
 71. 
 
 Till now, as Morn approaches nigh, 
 Back to their cavern'd haunts they fly; 
 Where, fatiate with the bloody feaft, 
 The lordly favage finks to reft. 
 
 22. 
 His care fufficient to the day, 
 Man to his labour takes his way, 
 His tafk at earlieft dawn begun, 
 And ended with the fetting fun. 
 
 23- 
 Eternal Ruler of the Skies, 
 
 How various are thy Works, how wife ! 
 
 How great the Wonders thou haft wrought, 
 
 And deep beyond all fearch of thought ! 
 
 24. 
 Nor Earth alone beholds her fhores 
 Inrich'dfrom thy exhauftlefs ftores ; 
 Alike, throughout their liquid reign, 
 Th' extended Seas thy gifts contain : 
 
 25. 
 Beneath, unnumber'd reptiles fwarm, 
 Of difPrent fize, of different form ; 
 Above, the (hips enormous glide, 
 Incumbent on the burthen'd tide 5— 
 
 26. And 
 
PSALM CIV. 273 
 
 26. 
 And oft, the rolling waves between, 
 The huge Leviathan is feen, 
 There privileg'd by Thee to ftray, 
 And wanton o'er the watry way. 
 
 27. 
 Thy care, great God, fuftains them All ; 
 By hunger urg'd, on Thee they call, 
 And reap from thy extended hand 
 Whate'er their various wants demand. 
 
 28. 
 If Thou thy face but turn away, 
 Their troubled looks their grief betray ; 
 If Thou the vital air deny, 
 Behold them ficken, faint, and die ! 
 
 29. 
 His breath refign'd, on Earth's low bed 
 Behold the Mortal reft his head j 
 Duft to its kindred duft returns, 
 And Earth her ruin'd offspring mourns : 
 
 30. 
 
 But foon thy breath her lofs fupplies ; 
 She fees a new-born race arife, 
 And, o'er her regions fcatter'd wide, 
 The bleffings of thy hand divide. 
 
 3'- 
 
 Thy Glory, fearlefs of decline, 
 
 Thy Glory, Lord, {hall ever fnine, 
 Thy Works in changelefs order lie. 
 And glad their great Creator's eye. 
 
 32. Earth 
 
274 PSALM CIV. 
 
 32. 
 Earth at thy look (hall trembling ftand, 
 Confcious of fov 'reign pow'r at hand, 
 And, touch'd by Thee, Almighty Sire, 
 The cloud-topt Hills in fmoke afpire. 
 
 33- 
 
 To God in ceafelefe ftrains my tongue 
 
 Shall meditate the grateful fong, 
 And, long as breath informs my frame, 
 The wonders of his'Love proclaim. 
 
 34- 
 Afliir'd that his paternal ear 
 
 With full regard my voice will hear j 
 His A&s fhall be its conftant theme, 
 His Favour my delight fupreme. 
 
 35. 
 Behold his wrath on Sinners fhed; 
 Behold them number'd with the dead : 
 And, ftruck by his refiftlefs hand, 
 In heaps promifcuous ftrew the land ! 
 
 36. 
 
 But Thou, my Soul, the hymn of praife 
 In loudeft notes triumphant raife ; 
 And let confenting Nations join 
 To blefs with Me the Name divine. 
 
 PSALM CV. 
 i. 
 
 COME, celebrate your God and King •, 
 Awake the fong, awake the firing ; 
 With awful rev'rence own his name \ 
 His pow'r invoke, his praife proclaim. 
 
 2. Aloud 
 
PSALM CV. 275 
 
 2. 
 
 Aloud declare, through ev'ry Land, 
 The Wonders of his mighty hand ; 
 And let his Name your thought employ ; 
 His Name, fit theme of higheft joy : 
 
 3- 
 
 Such joy may each for ever fhare, 
 
 Whofe fteps to Salem's Fane repair : 
 O frequent feek that bleft Abode, 
 O feek the face of Jacob's God. 
 
 4- 
 The Afts of Heav'n's Almighty Lord 
 Let IfraeVs thankful Sons record $ 
 Ye Seed of Abraham, his Friend, 
 With joy to his Commands attend. 
 
 5- 
 
 To You his prefence ftands confeft ; 
 
 His judgments Earth's wide Realms attefl : 
 His Promife kind, and wife Decree, 
 Though Man forget, yet will not He - y 
 
 6. 
 The Oath confirm'd through periods paft, 
 And doom'd to lateft times to laft - 3 
 To TeraVs Son, to Ifaac, made, 
 And thus to Jacob's hands convey'd ; 
 
 7- 
 c< Arife, thou favour'd of thy God, 
 
 " And claim the Gift by Him beftow'd : 
 ; Behold thy Sons their wide command 
 <c Extend o'er Canaan's fertile £and," 
 
 8. But 
 
276 PSALM CV. 
 
 8. 
 
 But when ? or how ? Their number view \ 
 (It afks no toil ;) a helplefs Few, 
 And Strangers there, doom'd long to roam, 
 And feek through diftant climes a home. 
 
 Yet, privileg'd by Him from wrong, 
 Secure the Exiles march along : 
 Kings hear his dread reproof, nor dare 
 To hurt whom God has bid to fpare. 
 
 10. 
 
 cc Touch, touch not Thefe ; for on their heacfe 
 " My hand the facred unftion flieds : 
 " Your eyes in Them my Prophets fee; 
 " And what they fpeak, they fpeak from Me/* 
 ir. 
 He calls ; and on the cultur'd ground 
 Life's needful ftaffno more is found, 
 While Drought, incumbent o'er the plain, 
 Checks in mid growth the rip'ning grain. 
 12. 
 
 Yet Mercy ftill his Wrath outran ; 
 Thy fhores, O JV/'Z?, receive the Man, 
 Ordain'd the chofen Race to fave, 
 Thy future Lord, though now thy Slave. 
 
 What though, his feet in fetters bound, 
 His foul th' afflidting irons wound, 
 Though various griefs around him wait 
 Through kindred envy, wrath, and hate j— 
 
 14. Yet, 
 

 PSALM CV. 277 
 
 14. 
 
 Yet, Jofeph) patient bear thy lot : 
 Thy lips, with heav'nly fcience fraught^ 
 Shall foon the myftic Dream explain, 
 That ends thy woes, and breaks thy chain. 
 
 The Monarch bids ; the prifon door 
 Detains the injur'd Saint no more; 
 But through fucceeding Life he gains 
 A full exemption from his pains. 
 
 16. 
 New honours now his wrongs repair; 
 The regal Palace to his care 
 Its wealth configns ; and Egypt's land 
 Bows to her Captive's wife command. 
 
 Ev'n Princes own'd with cev'rent aw« 
 The di£tates of his will their Law, 
 And Senates on his youthful tongue 
 4i filent wonder lift'ning hung. 
 
 18. 
 -He fends ; and lo, opprefs'd with years, 
 Jacob on Mizraim's Coaft appears ; 
 Th' illuftrious Pilgrim's wearied feet 
 la Egypt fix their laft retreat. 
 
 19. 
 With large increafe his Line is bleft, 
 And Zoan in th' adopted Gueft 
 With hoftile eye beholds up-growii 
 A ftrength fuperior to her own. 
 
 B b 20. See 
 
2;3 PSALM CV. 
 
 20. 
 
 See hence the woes on Egypt pour'J ! 
 (But Thou, O Monarch, fhouldft thy word' 
 Abfblve, nor thus with impious rod 
 Opprefs the Servants of thy God.) 
 
 2j. 
 See MofeS) pleading, ftretch the hand ; 
 See AaronXxh the facred wand, 
 And lead th* invited vengeance on 
 In fcenes to Nature's Laws unknown. 
 
 22. 
 
 But O, what" terrors, Cham^ are thine, 
 While quick on thy devoted Line, 
 Far as thy utmoft coafts extend, 
 Thou fee ft the various pelt defcend ! 
 
 If Fear their ftubborn hearts may melt, 
 Let Darknefs, Darknefs to be felt, 
 Inclofe their Land, and o'er their head 
 Its melancholy mantle fpread. 
 
 24. 
 Thus, thus th' Almighty Monarch fpake ; 
 As forth the awful accents brake, 
 Darknefs the high bsheft obey'd, 
 And round them wrapt its thickeft fhade. 
 
 25. 
 The Heav'n ftruck Nile's extended flood 
 Now rolls a current black with blood : 
 While breathlefs on their oozy bed . 
 In heaps the finny tribes are fpread. 
 
 %6. The 
 
PSALM CV. 27 
 
 26. 
 The Ioathfome Frog a num'rous Birth, 
 Springs inftant from the teeming earth, 
 
 Nor walls that guard a Monarch's reft 
 Know to exclude the hideous gueft. 
 
 27. 
 He bids ; and through the darken'd air 
 In troops th' aflernbling Flies repair. 
 And fwarms of Reptiles fcatter'd wide, 
 Rebuke- the faithlels Tyrant's pride 
 
 28. 
 In league cgainft them now confpfre 
 The rufhing Hail, and bick'ring Fire ; 
 And, inilant by the tempeft torn, 
 Their ruin'd fhades the forefts mourn : 
 
 29. 
 No more array'd in native green 
 The fig-tree, and the vine are feen, 
 No more with flow'ring honours crown'd, 
 But ufelefs load th' incumbered ground 
 
 $0. 
 He bids ; and join'd in clofe array 
 Th' embattled Lccufts take their way: 
 Before them plains with verdure grac'd 
 Appear ; behind a barren wade : 
 
 3*- 
 
 While the dun Beetle through the fky 
 
 With eager fpeed is feen to fly, 
 And, partner in the offer'd fpoil, 
 Confumes th' aftonifh'd planter's toil. 
 
 B b 2 32. Now 
 
a8o PSALM CV. 
 
 3 2 - 
 
 .Now to the grave with anguifli toni, 
 Each Mother yields her eldeft-born \ 
 And Egypt's land, along its fhores, 
 The firft-fruits of its ftrength deplores. 
 
 33- 
 Now, Ifrael^ {hines the day to Thee 
 That bids thy captive Sons go free : 
 Rife, quickly rife ; for in their ear 
 Thy Sons the voice of Freedom hear : 
 
 34- 
 The wealth of their relenting foes 
 Earth's fov'reign Lord on Them beftows 
 And bids them leave the hoftile foil, 
 Each ftrong for travel, ftrong for toiL 
 
 35- 
 
 As now their deftin'd path they tread, 
 
 Egypt* y et P a ' e w * tn recent dread, 
 
 Exulting fees the facred Band 
 
 With parting footfteps prefs her flrand. 
 
 36. 
 
 Expanded wide above their heads 
 The fhadowing Cloud its curtain fpreads ; 
 Before them walks th' embodied Fire, 
 And Lids the (hades of night retire. 
 
 37- 
 
 His hand indulgent from on high 
 Yields to their wants the wiih'd fupply ; 
 Quails on their appetite beftow'd, 
 And Bread ethereal, give them food ; 
 
 38. While 
 
PSALM CV. 281 
 
 38. 
 
 While, at his word, from out the rock 
 
 Th' imprifo/t'd itreams luxuriant broke, 
 And onward pour'd with lengthen'd train, 
 Ran murm'ring o'er the thirfty plain. 
 
 39- 
 
 Such Mercies, All-indulgent Lord, 
 
 Thy changelefc promifes afford, 
 Such Bleiiings thy remembrance kind 
 Of Abraham's ever faithful mind. 
 
 40. 
 Redeemed from ftern Oppreffion's feat, 
 With grateful joy their bofoms beat ; 
 With fuch as ev'ry heart o'erflows 
 When refcu'd from its cruel foes ; 
 
 41. 
 Joy, yet enlarg'd, when Canaan's Land 
 Refigns her fcepter to their hand, 
 And bids them reap from off her foil 
 The harveft of another's toil. 
 
 42. 
 Behold the Love to Ifrael mown, 
 That We, great God, thy pow'r might own, 
 And each with rtedfaft heart fulfil 
 The dilates of thy mighty Will. 
 
 43- 
 Awake the fong, awake the firing, 
 And thankful praife th' immortal King, 
 And, faithful Heralds to his fame, 
 To diftant Lands his praife proclaim. 
 
 Bb 3 PSALM 
 
282 
 
 PSALM CVI. Hallelujah. 
 I. 
 
 LET fongs of joy to God afcend, 
 Whofe Love nor limit knows nor end. 
 But O, what tongue in equal lay 
 His acts can fpeak, his praife difplay ? 
 
 2. 
 Thrice happy who with ftcdfaft will 
 The dilates of his Law fulfil! 
 With Thefe, thy chofen Flock, affign'd 
 May I my lot for ever find : 
 
 3- 
 
 O grant me, Lord, with Thefe to prove 
 The pow'r of thy redeeming Love, 
 The grace thy Saints are bleft to know 
 That Grace to ,me benignant (hew. 
 
 4- 
 
 Too faithful followers of our Sires, 
 Our Life with theirs, great God, con'fpires 
 Thy wrath on Judah's Realm to call* 
 And teach thy terrors where to fall. 
 
 5- 
 O fay, thou Erythraan Main, 
 (Thy Waves beheld the rebel Train ;) 
 How foon Oblivion could efface 
 Each a£t of God's flupendous Grace,— 
 
 6. 
 .How foon efface each a& his hand 
 Perform'd in Cha?n's affrighted land : 
 Yet, ftill, that Man his pow'r might own, 
 Conspicuous in their aid it (hone : 
 
 7. Aw'd 
 
PSALM CVI. 2g 3 
 
 7- 
 Aw'd by his voice the briny Flood 
 
 In gath'ring heaps fufpended flood, 
 
 While, fafe as o'er the fandy wafte, 
 
 Th' admiring troops betwixt them paft : 
 
 8. 
 Soon as they reach the adverfe ftrand 
 Th' impetuous wave the hoftile Band 
 O'erwhelms ; nor one exempted Man 
 Back with the dreadful tidings ran, 
 
 9, 
 Convinc'd they now (What could they lefs ?) 
 His words the words of truth confefs, 
 Yield to his Name th' extorted praife, 
 And fongs of grateful triumph raife; 
 
 10. 
 But foon rebellious as before 
 (His Works remember'd now no more,) 
 To Times by Them prefcrib'd confine 
 The counfels of the Will divine* 
 
 11. 
 By lawlefs appetite impell'd, 
 As o'er the Wild their courfe they held, 
 Fierce rife their Bands, in evil hour, 
 And challenge to the proof his Pow'r : 
 
 12. 
 That pow'r (while ev'ry eager eye 
 Rafhly demands the quick fupply) 
 Difpleas'd the wifh'd for ill (hall grant 
 And fatiatc their imagin'd want ; 
 
 13 That 
 
284 PSALM CVL 
 
 That pow'r alone their outrage fell 
 From Thee, O Mofes> could repel, 
 And uncontefted rev'rence claim 
 To confecrated Aaron's name. 
 
 14. 
 Wide, difcontinuous, yawn'd the ground^ 
 And Dathan in the dark profound, 
 With pmud Abiram\ frantic Train, 
 Receiving inftant, closed again ; 
 
 15- 
 
 The Almighty Lord, with wrath inflam'd 
 His vengeance dire at Ifrael aim'd, 
 His Fires impetuous, rolPd along, 
 Wrapt in the blaze th' apoftate Throng. 
 
 16. 
 But Horeb ! What is wrought on Thee ? 
 Blufh, confrious Earth, O blufli to fee 
 A figure from the grazing herd 
 To God, the living God, prefer'd : 
 
 That God, their Glory late confeil j 
 But Ah ! within their thanklefs bread 
 No longer now recorded (land 
 The wonders of his faving hand} 
 
 iS. 
 No more with gratitude imprefs'd 
 His Miracles their hearts atteft 
 In vain on Egypt fhown, in vain 
 Repeated on the bord'ring Main : 
 
 19. Sec 
 
PSALM CVI. 285 
 
 19. 
 Sec, as in awful threatnings heard, 
 Eternal Juftice gives the word, 
 The fummon'd Storms the heav'nly Throne 
 Sarround, impatient to begone : 
 
 20. 
 But Mojes in the breach appears, 
 And, as his fuppliant voice he rears, 
 Averts, yet waiting on the wing, 
 The vengeance of th' Almighty King. 
 
 21. 
 As now in near approach theyfland 
 To promis'd, Canaan's fertile Land, 
 That promifr, feaPd by Truth divine, 
 They doubt, and at the gift repine ; 
 
 22. 
 From tent to tent the murmur runs, 
 While each the heav'nly counfel fhuns, 
 That bids them fafe in Him confide, 
 Their God, their Guardian and their Guide, 
 
 Their guilt mature for vengeance found, 
 Th' uplifted fword, in a£t to wound, 
 
 Jangs imminent ; and myriads ilain 
 In heaps promifcuous load the plain, 
 24. 
 
 "he conqu'ring Foe through unknown wa^s 
 
 "he fcatter'd Fugitives conveys ; 
 Secluded from their promis'd home, 
 In foreign countries long they roam, 
 
 25. Their 
 
286 PSALM CVL 
 
 25. 
 Their names Bel-pbegor's fanes behold 
 Amidft his Votaries enroll'd, 
 While pleas'd, the impious board they fpread, 
 And eat the offerings of the Dead. 
 
 26. 
 New crimes new chaftifements provoke y 
 And forth jthe Peft wide-wafting broke,. 
 Unfeen the furious onfet gave, 
 And fwept them to the crouded grave ; 
 
 27. 
 Till, Phineas, thy prevenient care 
 . Purg'd from its taint the deathful air i 
 The pious deed to lateft days 
 Shall confecrate the Hero's praife* 
 
 23. 
 Nor Meribah's yet thirfty ground 
 Unconfcious of their guilt is found; 
 Till, fummon'd from the rock, the wave 
 Her plain in full effufion lave. 
 
 20/ 
 Nor He, who often mildly ftrove 
 To draw them with the cords of Love ^ 
 Not Mofes^ Leader of their Bands, 
 ^rom touch of blame exempted ftands ; 
 
 While murmurs heard on ev'ry fide, 
 And loud reproach, his patience tried, 
 Refentment quick his bofom ftung, 
 And words unweigh'd efcap'd his tongue. 
 
 31. The 
 
PSALM CVL 287 
 
 The Nations round, with error blind, 
 To juftexcifion long defign'd, 
 Rebellious to their God they fpare, 
 Nor !hun the heathen rite to fliare. 
 
 32- 
 
 Proftrate they fall to fculptur'd ftone, 
 And frenzy's deepeft influence own, 
 To Damons rear'd their altars ftand, 
 And fcenes of blood pollute the Land. 
 
 33- 
 
 While with untrembling hands the Sires 
 Their Son, their Daughter, to the fires 
 A Victim yield, and, of their cry 
 Regardlefs, fee their offspring die. 
 
 34- 
 To images, to lifelefs Gods 
 (Such, Canaan, fhame thy dire abodes ;) 
 Streams on the knife the filial gore, 
 And, guiltlefs, flains th' unhallow'd floor. 
 
 35- 
 
 What, Ifrael, now (hall wafh thee clean, 
 While Leflbns of inventive Sin 
 Have prompted thy adult'rous heart 
 Thus from thy Maker to depart ? 
 
 36. 
 
 Fierce o'er thy head his anger burns ; 
 From his own Heritage he turns, 
 Abhorrent : now let Jacob's foes 
 At will th' abandon'd race inclofe. 
 
 37. Behold 
 
tiS PSALM cvr. 
 
 37- 
 Behold them by oppreffion torn, 
 And fix'd the mark of hoftile fcorn, 
 With flatt'ring Lip their homage pay, 
 And trembling own tyrannic fvvay. 
 
 38. 
 
 Oft they were fav'd, and oft again 
 Rebellious fpurn'd his equal Reign, 
 Again their ruin'd ftate deplor'd, 
 And bow'd beneath a foreign Lord. 
 
 , 39- 
 Yet He with pity from on high, 
 True to his Compact, heard their cry, 
 His hand in their Defence he rear'd, 
 And gracious in their caufe appear'd. 
 
 40. 
 He faw them drag the fervile chain, 
 And, ftudious to relieve their pain, 
 Compaffion's tend'reft fenfe imprefs'd 
 On the ftern Victor's iron breaft. 
 
 41. 
 O (till our Father, ftill our Friend, 
 To Jfrael's woes, great God attend : 
 From diftant climes, and hoftile lands, 
 Collect once more our fcatter'd Bands j 
 
 42. 
 That Sion with delighted ear 
 The hallow'd {trains again may hear ; 
 Thy Name the fubject of each fong, 
 Thy Praife the boaft of ev'rv tongue, 
 
 8 +3 .0 
 
PSALM CVI; 289 
 
 43- 
 O thankful hail th* Almighty Lord, 
 The God by Jacob's Sons ador'd: 
 His fame, ere Time its courfe began, 
 O'er Heav'n's wide region echoing ran; 
 
 44- 
 To Him through endlefs ages raife 
 One fong of oft-repeated praife ; 
 And let confenting Nations join 
 To blefs with Us the Pow'r divine. 
 
 Hallelujah* 
 
 PSALM CVIL 
 
 1. 
 
 TO God above from All below 
 Let hymns of praife afcend; 
 Whofe Bleffings unexhaufted flow, 
 Whofe Mercy knows no end. 
 2. 
 But chief by Thofe his name be bleft, 
 
 To whom his aid he gave ; 
 Beheld them by the Foe opprefs'd, 
 And reach'd his arm to fave. 
 
 3- 
 
 To Eafl, to Weft, to South, to North, 
 
 Condemned awhile to roam, 
 His hand in pity brought them forth, 
 And call'd the Wand'reis home. 
 
 C c 4. Behold 
 
2£ PSALM CVII. 
 
 4- 
 Behold them o'er the Defert ftray, 
 
 A helplefs, hopelefe, Train : 
 ;Some City, where their fteps to flay* 
 
 They feek, but feek in vain, 
 
 5- 
 
 Ah ! what fliall chear their fainting mind* 
 
 Or what their woes afTuage, 
 To thirft's afflictive pain confign'd, 
 
 And famine's fierceft rage ? 
 6. 
 Biftrefs'd, to God they make their pray'r i 
 
 He guides, directs their feet; 
 And* fafe in his protecting care, 
 
 They reach their deftin'd feat. 
 
 7- 
 O then that All would blefs his Name, 
 
 Whofe Mercy thus they prove, 
 And pleas'd from age to age proclaim 
 
 The wonders of his Love. 
 8. 
 That Love, whofe gifts with thankful breaft 
 
 The Sons of want divide, 
 And find their ev'ry grief redrefs'd, 
 
 Their tv'ry wifh fupplied. 
 
 9- 
 Thefe erft he bade th' Avenger's hand 
 
 In Death's dark fhades detain; 
 And added to the iron band 
 Afflicl ion's heavier chain, 
 
 io. Such 
 
P S A L M CVfL 
 
 t$t 
 
 10. 
 
 Such is die Doom to thofe a3i"m ?: .L 
 
 Who, frantic, durft withftand 
 The Counfek of th' Almighty Mind,* 
 
 And fpurn his juft Command. 
 n. 
 O'erwhelm'd with deepeft woe they lie. 
 
 And finking to the grave : 
 No pitying ear attends their cry ; 
 
 No hand is nigh to fevfc. 
 vim 
 Diftref^d, to God they make their pray'r; 
 
 He, inftant, near them ftahds, 
 Difpells the gloom of black Defpair, 
 
 And breaks their ftubbom bands.- 
 
 O ifoen that All would blefs his Name^ 
 
 Whofe Mercy thus they prove, 
 And pleas'dfronvage to age proclaim* 
 
 The wonders of his Love : 
 14. 
 That Love, that oft its fuccour gives, 
 
 The Captive's woes to heal, 
 The gates of brafs in funder cleaves, 
 
 And burfts the bars of fteel. 
 
 15. 
 
 Beneath his terrors bid to groan, 
 
 Behold the impious Band 
 The fruits of Folly reap, and own 
 
 The Juftice of his hand. 
 
 C c 2 16. Eftnuig'd 
 
292 PSALM CVIL 
 
 16. 
 
 Eftrang'd from food, their languid foul 
 
 The needful meal foregoes : 
 Life feels its current faintly roll, 
 
 And haftens to its clofe.. 
 
 Diftrefs'd, to God they make their pray'r^ 
 
 And Nature, joyous, fees 
 His Word her ruin'd ftrength repair, 
 
 Her fierceft tortures eafe, 
 18. 
 O then that All would blefs his Name, 
 
 Whofe Mercy thus they prove, 
 And pleas'd from age to age proclaim 
 
 The wonders of his Love : 
 19. 
 That Realms of various tongue would fi#g 
 
 His Acts in frequent lays, 
 And yield to Heav'n's eternal King 
 
 The facrifice of praife. 
 20. 
 
 Who o'er the Waves from fhore to {hor$ 
 
 The gifts of Commerce bear, 
 The wonders of the Deep explore, 
 
 And own that God is there, 
 21. 
 By Thefe his Works are feen ; his Ways. 
 
 By Thefe are underftood : 
 He fpeaks the word ; the Storm obeys, 
 
 And rjfing lifts the Flood. 
 
 Z2.. Now 
 
PSALM CVII. 293 
 
 22. 
 Now high as Heav'n the Bark afccnds, 
 
 Now feeks the depth below : 
 Each heart beneath the terror bends; 
 
 And melts with inward woe. 
 
 As gorg'd with wine, in wild amaze 
 
 They reel from fide to fide : 
 Nor Hope furvives, their fouls to raife, 
 Nor Reafon wakes to guide. 
 24. 
 Diftrefs'd, to God they make their pray'r; 
 
 Obedient to his Will, 
 The Storms that rag'd their rage forbear. 
 The Seas that roar'd are ftill. 
 
 25- 
 Each grief, each fear, at oncerefign'd^ . 
 
 They fee their labour o'er ; 
 
 Then led by Him their haven find, . 
 
 And touch the wifiYd for ihore. 
 
 26,, 
 
 G then that All would blefs his Name^ 
 
 Whofe Mercy thus they prove, 
 
 And pleas'd from age to age proclaim 
 
 The wonders of his Love ; 
 
 27,. 
 
 That Salem in her faered ferine 
 
 His praife with thankful tongue 
 
 Would utter^ while her Elders join 
 
 To fwell the feftal fong. 
 
 Ccj 28, He 
 
294- PSALM CVm, 
 
 He bids ; and lo a burning Wafte, 
 
 Where roll'd the floods before; 
 And, touch'd by the defcending blaft r 
 - The fprings are feen no more. 
 29. 
 Sad witnefs of fome dire offence,* 
 
 Behold the fertile foil 
 No more its wonted gifts difpenfe, 
 But mock the tiller's toil. 
 
 30. 
 He bids ; and o'er the Defert wide 
 
 The liquid Lake is fpread : 
 New fprings the thirfty earth divide,, 
 
 And murm'ring lift the head. 
 
 3*; 
 
 There Myriads,. late with hunger wan 3 
 
 By Him aflembled, meet; 
 There pleas'd the future City plan. 
 
 And fix their fure Retreat. 
 
 32. 
 
 And now they fow the foodful grain,. 
 
 The tender vine they rear ; 
 Now waves the har veil o'er the plain^ 
 
 And plenty crowns the year, 
 
 33- 
 
 Bleft in his care, the Sires with joy 
 
 A num'rous race behold ; 
 
 Nor dares Difeafe their herds annoy, 
 
 Or wafts the peopled fold, 
 
 34. Ano% 
 
PSALM CVIL * 9 $ 
 
 Anon, if, funk with heavieft woe, 
 They feel oppreffion's pow'rj 
 
 If civil rage, or conquering foe, 
 
 Their boafted ftrength devour ; 
 
 35- 
 
 Though, humbled from their ftate, awhile 
 
 Their Princes feel his rod, 
 And wander o'er a barren foil, 
 
 By human ftep untrod, 
 
 36. 
 
 His hand affords the wifh'd releafej 
 
 Colle&s their fcatter'd train; 
 And bids them like the flocks increafe* 
 
 That fill the verdant plain. 
 
 37- 
 
 Such Truths his Servants fhall attefly 
 
 And, joyful, wake the fong ; 
 While fhame the impious fhall inveft^ 
 And chain their fpeechlefs tongue* 
 
 38. 
 
 His Works attentive while it fees* 
 
 The Heav'n-inftruaed Mind 
 Shall own, how equal his Decrees* 
 
 His Providence how kind. 
 
 PSALM CVIIL 
 1. 
 
 MY heart is fix'd 5 eternal Sire 5 
 My heart is fix'd : To Thee afpire 
 My Thoughts, and dictate to my lays 
 An argument of endlefs praife* 
 
 a. To 
 
* 9 £ PSA EM> CVKL 
 
 2. 
 
 To Thee, great God, my joyous tongue 
 Preluding forms the grateful fong : 
 That tongue, whofe higheft praife fhall be 
 The pow'r it boafts ofpraifing Thee. 
 
 Awake, my lute, and new-ftrung lyre 5; 
 Inftinft, myfelf,with holy fire 
 I wake ; and lo, the dawning Sun 
 Already hears the flrain begun. 
 
 4- 
 From Me aflembling Crouds fhall burn 
 
 The triumphs of thy Love to learn, 
 
 And, rapt with zeal, the Nations round 
 
 Gatch from my lips the facred found. 
 
 5- 
 Lo ! to the clouds thy Truth extends ; 
 And heavVs ftupendous height tranfcends*. 
 Far as to Earth's extremeft bound 
 In all thy Works is Mercy found • 
 
 6. 
 Inthron'd thy felf above the fkies,. 
 O, bid thy fulleft Glory rife, 
 And to the earth with cloudlefs ray 
 The wonders of thy powVdifplay* 
 
 If 
 
 The Juft, bleft Objeftsof thy Love, 
 Defend propitious from above : 
 Let Me with Them thy Mercy fhare, 
 And hear, O hear, my ceafelefs pray'r. 
 
 8. God's 
 
PSALM CVIII. *9f 
 
 8. 
 
 God's Truth (hall ne'er forget to guard 
 The promife by his lips declar'd ; 
 And what th' Almighty Monarch wills* 
 My ready hand with joy fulfills : 
 
 9- 
 
 Behold me Slchems plain divide ; 
 My line, to Succotb's vale applied* 
 Its bound defcribes ; Thee mine I fee* 
 O G Heady and, Manajfes^ Thee. 
 
 io. 
 Thou, Ephraimy art my ftrong defence^ 
 Thou, Judah, {halt my Law difpenfe ; 
 A difPrent lot fhall Moab find, 
 A Vafe to vileft ufe affign'd ; 
 
 II. 
 A doom like his (hall Edom meet* 
 And wipe the duft from off my feet* 
 Philijila fhall her tribute bring, 
 And own in Me her future King, 
 
 12. 
 
 Who, as our troops in clofe array 
 To Edom y s forts dire£i their way, 
 Arm'd with refiftlefs ftrength fhall bid' 
 Her gates unfold, her bolts recede ? 
 
 Behold us, Lord, opprefs'd with woe*. 
 As exil'd from thy care we go : 
 Shall Ifrael's hofts, thy aid withheld*. 
 Still unfuccefsful take the field? 
 
 14. Our 
 
g$ff PSALM CVIII. 
 
 14. 
 
 Our hope, on Man repos'd in vain, 
 O let thy ftrength, great God, fuftain r 
 And let us on thy help reclin'd 
 In Thee our firm Prote&or find. 
 
 Thus arm 'd, each adverfe pow r r we dare. 
 And dauntlefs meet the rufhing war, 
 While from thy fword our foes retire^ 
 Or trampled in the duft expire, 
 
 P S A L M CIX. 
 
 GO D of my praife, thy filence break ; 
 Thy timelieft aid my woes befpeak r 
 While tongues to falfehood train'd prepare 
 To wrap me in the deathful fnars : 
 
 2. 
 Now words of deepeft art they try ; 
 Now hoftile threats around me fly ; 
 And Crouds, inflam'd with caufelefs rage,. 
 Wars, fierceft wars, againft me wage,. 
 
 3- 
 
 While thus with Enmity profeft 
 My Fame they wound, my Peace molefty 
 While ftedfaft Hate my Love repays, 
 To Thee. my Soul incefiant prays : 
 
 4- 
 But O ! what anguifh rends my mind, 
 What keen regret ! condemned to find 
 ( Afr giftSr on gifts my hands beftow,) 
 In each expe&ed friend a foe, 
 
 5. Oft 
 
PSALM CIX. *99 
 
 5- 
 
 On Him whofe heart, with malice fraught, 
 Againft my peace has bent its thought, 
 Thus let thy Juftice, Lord, by Me 
 Aloud proclaim its fix'd Decree. 
 
 6. 
 Arraign'd at ftern Oppreffion's bar, 
 Some dread accufer let him fhare, 
 That, planted on his right, may {land, 
 And vengeance from his Judge demand; 
 
 7- 
 Nor let his deprecation win 
 The wifh'd for pardon to his fin, 
 But witnefs of his guilt become, 
 And feal, beyond reverfe, his doom. 
 
 8. 
 Let death's accelerated day 
 To worthier hands his Charge convey, 
 His roof a weeping Widow fee, 
 Her Orphans hanging at her knee ; 
 
 9- 
 
 While as from Morn to Eve they roam, 
 (Some ruin'dcell their cafual home,) 
 Let thefe, by pinching hunger led, 
 Seek at the rich man's gate their bread. 
 
 10. 
 
 His wealth let fell Extortion fpoil ; 
 The gather'd harveft of his toil 
 Let Rapine's greedy hand furprize, 
 While Each his woes unpitying eyes; 
 
 8 II. And 
 
3 oo PSALM CIX. 
 
 XI. 
 
 And let his Race, no fuccour near* 
 Corre&ed, leflbn in thy fear 
 This Age; and, one fucceffion o'er, 
 Be feen by human eye no more* 
 
 12. 
 
 Let what of fin his Sires have done, 
 What guilt his Mother's heart has knowa, 
 In Heav'n be noted, and their Crime 
 Recorded ftand to endlefs Time* 
 
 Let Wrath and Horror at thy word 
 Quick on th' abandon'd offspring pour'd, 
 (The meafure of their fins fulfill'd) 
 Their name to juft extinction yield, 
 
 I* 
 Such vengeance on the mifcreani reft, 
 Who, when with heavieft woes opprefs'd 
 The helplefs innocent he view'd, 
 With murth'rous hate his foul purfu'd, 
 
 15- 
 
 In Curfes (for in them his heart 
 Delighted,) let him bear his part, 
 Dread Spectacle ! a foe profeft 
 To Bleffing, and himfelf unbleft. 
 
 1 6. 
 Himfelf he veils in curfings dire, 
 That, fprung from Hell-enkindled fire j 
 Like water fhall his bowels rend, 
 Like oil into his bones defcend : 
 
 17. Fall 
 
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 Faft as his vefture to his fide 
 Still let them cleave, by Thee applied, 
 And, o'er his loyns forever bound, 
 In painful cincture wrap him round. 
 
 18. 
 Such recompence my Foe fhall claim; 
 Such All who blaft with lies my fame ; 
 But let thy Grace on Me beftow'd 
 Thy Name exalt, immortal God. 
 
 19. 
 Thy Love (how fweet that Love !) reveal, 
 And ftretch the hand my heart to heal, 
 That fainting pours th' incefTant groan, 
 And forrows deepeft wounds has known. 
 
 20. 
 To Life's laft verge, impell'd by woe, 
 Faft as the flitting (hade I go ; 
 Chac'd as the Locuft fee me roam, 
 My ftrength by hunger's force o'ercome. 
 
 21. 
 While thus within my wafted frame 
 Sinks, half extinct, the vital flame, 
 Reproaching foes, around me fpread, 
 With haughtieft triumph fhake the head, 
 
 2fc. 
 
 Thy wonted Clemency beftow ; 
 And give them, mightieft Lord, to know 
 Thy Care extended to my aid, 
 Thy Pow'r in their repulfe difplay'd. 
 
 D d 23> Though 
 
3 oa PSALM CIX. 
 
 2 3- 
 Though curs'd by Them, yet bJefs me Thou 
 O teach their ftubborn hearts to bow j 
 And let their rage by Thee fupprefs'd 
 With grateful tranfport fill my breaft. 
 
 24. 
 On each who calls himfelf my foe 
 Let fhame its thicker! mantle throw ; 
 Let black difgrace their nanue o'erfpread, 
 Who aim their curfes at my head : 
 
 25. 
 While I, amid th' afiembled Throng, 
 Raife to my God the ceafelefs fong, 
 Who, conftant at his fide, the Poor 
 From lawlefs judgment fhall fecure, 
 
 PSALM CX. 
 1. 
 
 TH E Almighty Lord, beneath whofefeat 
 The ftarry Orbs their courfe repeat, 
 ]i\ awful Majefty array'd, 
 Thus to my Lord Mejfiah — faid— - 
 
 2. 
 Come feat thee at my own right hand, 
 Till, at my word, the hoftile Band, 
 As low with proftrate necks they lie, 
 A footftool to thy fteps fupply. 
 
 3- 
 
 Thy God from Sion's lofty tow'r 
 Shall bid Thee ftretch the rod of powV ; 
 Victorious o'er the rebel train, 
 Arife, and vindicate thy reign» 
 
 9 4. Behold 
 
PSALM CX. 303 
 
 4- 
 Behold the long-expe&ed day, 
 When willing Crouds their homage pay; 
 To Thee their facred off rings bring, 
 And hail their Saviour and their King. 
 
 5- 
 
 Thy future Offspring view, a Birth 
 More num'rous than the Dews, on earth 
 (Beneath the twilight's dubious gloom) 
 Diffus'd from Morn's prolific womb, 
 
 6. 
 TV irrevocable Oath is fworn : 
 « My Beft-belov'd, my eldeft-born, 
 M Charg'd with th' eternal Priefthood fee r 
 « And rank'd, Mekhizedec y with Thee." 
 
 7- 
 
 Thine arm th* anointed Prince fhall fhield, 
 
 Thou, Lord, befide him tread the field, 
 While Kings (hall feel th' infli&ed wound, 
 And hardieft Warriors prefs the ground. 
 
 8. 
 His Name the fubjeft World fliall awe, 
 His fvvord to diftant Lands give law ; 
 By him their fcepter'd Chiefs are (lain, 
 And heaps of carnage load the plain. 
 
 9- 
 
 The Streams, that glide along the way, 
 Shall to his heart new ftrength convey, 
 And bid him, 'mid the fcene of dread, 
 Secure of conqueft, lift the head. 
 
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304 
 
 P S A L M CXI. Hallelujah 
 i. 
 
 MY Soul with facred zeal infpir'd, 
 Shall wake to God the thankful ftrain, 
 In fecret with his Saints retir'd, 
 And 'midft fair S ion's crouded fane. 
 
 2. 
 Great are his Works : With ftudious aim 
 Each faithful heart thofe Works has trac'd m y 
 His A& fhall higheft honour claim, 
 His Equity for ever laft. 
 
 3- 
 
 His Wonders to the grateful fenfe 
 
 In fweet memorial ftand confeft ;. 
 For boundlefs grace his hands difpenfe, 
 And tend'reft pity warms his breaft. 
 
 4- 
 His Love the Souls to Him allied 
 With food of heav'nly growth has filPd; 
 Nor fuffers from his thought to Aide 
 The Promife to his People feal'd. 
 
 5- 
 
 Thy Pow'r that People, Lord, have knowa* 
 Bleft Heirs of Canaan's fertile Land: 
 Thy Precept Truth and Juftice own, 
 And bid thy Deeds reverfelefs ftand. 
 
 6. 
 Salvation from our God defcends ; 
 His Faith mall IfraeH blifs infure ; 
 Majeftic Awe his Name attends, 
 And Sanftity from blemifh pure, 
 
 Ji His 
 
PSALM CXI. 303 
 
 7- 
 His fear th' obedient heart refines, 
 And Wifdom's path to view difplays : 
 In brighteft beams array'd it fbines, 
 And prompts each tongue with endlefs praife; 
 
 PSAL M CXIL Hallelujah^ 
 i. 
 
 HOw bleft the Man, his God who fears ! 
 Thy Precept, on hisThoughts imprefs'd 5 , 
 Eternal King, his Spirit chears, 
 And peace perpetual fills his breaft,. 
 
 2. 
 
 His Sons the reins of pow'r fhall hold, 
 Tranfmiffive Bleffings on their Line 
 Be pour'd, his treafures fwell with gold,, 
 His Righteoufnefs for ever fhine,- 
 
 3* 
 
 How to thy Saints, juft, kind, and good, 
 Has light amidft the gloom -upfprung ! 
 Their hands have ampleft gifts beftow'd, , 
 And fair Difcretion guides their tongue. 
 
 4- 
 Secure from fall the Juft (hall ftand, 
 Nor e'er from thy remembrance Aide : 
 No rumour'd ills his fear demand, 
 Whofe hopes in Thee, great God, refide. 
 
 5- 
 Without a dread (Thy ftrength his truft,) 
 
 He meets the battle on its way, 
 
 Nor turns, till proftrate in the duft 
 
 His eyes the vaunting Foe furvey. 
 
 D d 3, 6. Inrich'd 
 
3 o6 PSALM CXIL 
 
 6. 
 
 Xnrich'd by what he gives, his hands 
 Deal to the fons of want his bread ; 
 His Innocence unfullied ftands ; 
 And lafting honours crown his head. 
 
 7- 
 His blifs Tranfgrefiors fhall behold, 
 
 And grind their teeth,. and inly groan, 
 
 Their impious toil by Thee controul'd,- 
 
 Their ev'ry w r ifh by Thee o'erthrown. 
 
 PSALM CXIU. Hallelujah. 
 
 I. 
 
 Y£ faithful Servants of your God, 
 On Him be all your praife beftow'd; 
 Through time's extended courfe his Name 
 Shall praife, and thanks, and homage, claim* 
 
 2. 
 
 Its circuit from the Eaft begun^ 
 To fartheft Weft his fame fhall run, 
 His glory Earth's wide Realms o'erflow, 
 Nor higheft Heav'ns its limit know. 
 
 3- 
 
 Great is the Lord, and great his Praife ; 
 What God like Him our Thoughts can raife ? 
 O whom to Him (hall Mortals dare 
 To equal, whom to Him compare ? 
 
 4, He 
 
PSALM CXIII. 307 
 
 4- 
 He fits aloft, o'er Gods a God, 
 Eternity his dread Abode, 
 Yet ftoops to view, and, view'd, records 
 The fcenes that Earth's low feat affords 5 
 
 5- 
 He from the duft uplifts the Poor, 
 And gives the abject and obfcure, 
 The dunghill for a throne exchang'd, 
 To fit with mightieft Monarchs rang'd. 
 
 6. 
 5 Tis His the barren houfe to blefs ; 
 His gift let each the Babes confefs, 
 That, long to her requeft denied, 
 The joyful Mother's care divide. 
 
 Hallelujah 1 
 
 PSALM CXIV, 
 1. 
 
 WHEN Jacob's Sons through paths 
 unknown 
 From Egypt took their way, 
 In Judrb's Tribe his prefence fhone, 
 And Ifrael own'd his fway. 
 
 2. 
 
 Old Ocean faw them as they came; 
 
 He faw, and backward fled : 
 Recoiling Jordan tum'd his ftream, 
 
 And fought his fountain-head. 
 
 3. The 
 
3 o£ PSAL M CXIV. 
 
 3- 
 
 The Mountains feel the fudden (hock; 
 
 As rams, from off the ground 
 They fpring : As younglings of the flock^. 
 
 The Hills affrighted bound. 
 
 4- 
 Thou^Ocea-n, fay, why, as they came, 
 
 Thy billows backward fled: 
 And what, O Jordan^ urg'd thyftream 
 
 To feek its fountain-head ? 
 
 5- 
 
 Ye Mountains, whence the fudden fhock? 
 
 Why leap ye from the ground 
 As rams ? As younglings of the flock, 
 
 Say why, O Hills, ye bound. 
 6. 
 Earth, inftant, to thy loweft bafe 
 
 Convuls'd, avow thy fear, 
 While Heav'n's high Lord reveals his face,. 
 
 While Jacob's God is near : 
 
 7- 
 Biflblv'd beneath whofe potent ftroke 
 
 The flint a torrent gave; 
 Who fpake ; and from the yielding rock 
 
 GuftiM forth the bidden wave. 
 
 PSALM CXV. 
 i. 
 
 OLet not Us, thou God of Hofts,^ 
 O let not Us, with frantic boafts, 
 The merit and the glory claim, 
 Due only to thy hallow'd name, 
 
 2. To> 
 
PSALM CXV. 309 
 
 2. 
 To Thee, great God, to Thee alone, 
 Thy Truth and Grace, to Ifrael known,. 
 Shall ceafelefs hoaour yield, and raife 
 Each heart to Love, each tongue to Praife. 
 
 3- 
 
 Why fliould the heathen tribes demand, 
 " Where's now the God of IfraePs Land?" 
 In Heav'n our God has fix'd his throne, 
 That Lord whofe Will and A61 are one. 
 
 4- 
 Not fuch the Gods whom Ye adore, 
 That, once a mafs of fhapelefs ore, 
 Now crown'd with furtive honours ftand, 
 The. creatures of the Artift's hand; 
 
 5- 
 
 Mouths have they, not for fpeech defign'd ; 
 And ears and eyes, yet deaf and blind ; 
 Their noftrils, as along the fane 
 It breathes, the incenfe greets in vain : 
 
 6. 
 Their hands th' imprinted kifs ne'er feel, 
 While fuppliant crouds before them kneel $ 
 Their feet have never ftep efTay'd ; 
 Their throat has never found conveyed : 
 
 7- 
 Unvifited by Wifdom's ray 
 
 Their breaft : nor lefs infenfate They, 
 
 Who made their mimic forms, or, made, 
 
 With fruitlefs pray'r inyoke their aid. 
 
 8. Y& 
 
3io PSALM CXV. 
 
 8. 
 
 Ye happier Sons of IfraeFs Line, 
 Conducted by the Light divine, 
 On God your firm reliance build ; 
 Him own your refuge, Him your IhielcL 
 
 9- 
 Ye, who from veiled Aaron trace 
 The honours of your chofen Race, 
 On God your firm reliance build ; 
 Him own your refuge, Him your fhiekL 
 
 io. 
 Ye Souls, with pure devotion warm, 
 Whofe Lives to his Decrees conform, 
 On God your firm reliance build ; 
 Him own your refuge, Him your fhield^ 
 
 li. 
 Behold his beams around us fhine : 
 He, Jacob, He {ball blcfs thy Line, 
 You, who from veiled Aaron trace 
 The honours of your chofen Race* 
 
 12. 
 And You, with pure devotion warm> 
 Whofe Lives to his Decrees conform, 
 From Him whofe hand the foepter guides^ 
 To Him who in the cot refides. 
 
 To You, to Yours, till time {hall end, 
 His Love its blefiings fhall extend, 
 Heirs of the changelefs promife giv'n 
 By Himwho form'd the Earth and Heav'n : 
 
 14. Tha 
 
PSALM CXV. 311 
 
 14. 
 That Heav'n, within whofe awful bound 
 Himfelf, with brighteft glory crown'd, 
 His Seat has rear'd ; while Adam\ Sons 
 The Earth (his Gift) its tenants owns. 
 
 15- 
 
 Not Thofe whom death has fnatch'd away 
 The debt of hallow'd praife (hall pay, 
 Or wake his wonders to difclofe, 
 But filent in the duft: repofe : 
 
 16. 
 'Tis Ours, who fiill thofe wonders view, 
 The grateful labour to purfue ; 
 Nor ever fhall our lips decline 
 To crown with hymns the Name divine. 
 
 Hallelujah. 
 
 PSALM CXVI. 
 1. 
 
 HO Wglows with grateful Love my breaft ! 
 For God the voice of my requefi 
 Accepts, and, while my hands I rear, 
 Bows to my plaint the willing ear : 
 For this, to Life's extremeft hour, 
 My lips to Him the pray'r fhall pour, 
 
 2. 
 While Death its fnares around me threw, 
 The grave, its horrors to my view 
 Prefenting, prefs'd with heavieft grief, 
 From Thee, great God, I fought relief : 
 w O fave me, heav'nly Sire, I cried, 
 " And turn th' impending ftroke afide." 
 
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312 PSALM CXVL 
 
 3- 
 
 Great is our God, beyond all bound 
 His Providence and Pow'r are found y 
 Juft, good, and kind, is IfraeVs Lord, 
 His breaft with tend'refi picy ftor'd, 
 And prompt his Arm, when Ills invade, 
 The guilelefs and the meek to aid. 
 
 4- 
 His Mercies, 'midft thy deepeft woe, 
 By bleff experience taught to know. 
 Turn, turn tlv e to thy reft, my Soul ; 
 For He who fits ab jve the pole 
 (Treme: Jous Name) has o'er thy head 
 The fulnefs of his bouncy (lied. 
 
 5- 
 
 Thou, mightieft Father, Thou wert nigh, 
 To fave my foul from death, mine eye 
 From tears, to guard from lapfe my kct y 
 And bid me in this earthly Seat 
 (Life's wide dominion) ftill refide, 
 To Thee in filial fear allied. 
 
 6. 
 To God my heart refign'd its care; 
 To Him my tongue addrefs'd its pray'r : 
 While, ftruck with terrors as I flood, 
 A fea of forrovvS round me flow'd, 
 " No more, my Soul, no more, I cried, 
 " In Man's fallacious aid confide." 
 
 7- 
 
 O, what requital at my hand 
 
 Shall Mercies, Lord, like Thine, demand ? 
 
 By 
 
PSALM CXVT. 313 
 
 By Thee from each diftrefs enlarg'd. 
 The Cup with benediction charg'd 
 I take, and, touch'd with holy flame, 
 Invoke my great Deliverer's name. 
 
 8. 
 Ev'n now, before th' affembled Train, 
 Ev'n now, within thy {acred Fane, 
 {That Fane, whofe Walls, on firmeft bafe 
 Uprear'd, fair Salem's confines grace,) 
 Behold me at thine altar bow, 
 And, pleas'd, abfolve my offer 'd vow, 
 
 9- 
 
 Who Thy Decrees, great God, obey, 
 
 Secure on Thee their hope fhall ftay ; 
 Nor Fraud nor Rapine's iron hand 
 Shall dare to touch the pious Band, 
 For facred is their blood, and high 
 Its price in thy paternal eye, 
 
 10. 
 In Me thy Servant, Lord, in Me 
 The Offspring of thy Handmaid fee, 
 Releas'd by thee, from day to day 
 The facrifice of praife to pay 
 I joy, and, touch'd with holy flame, 
 Invoke my great Deliverer's Name* 
 
 11. 
 Ev'n now, before th' affembled Train, 
 Ev'n now within thy facred Fane, 
 (That Fane, whofe walls, on firmeft bafe 
 Uprear'd, fair Salem's confines grace,) 
 
 E e Behold 
 
3f4 PSALM CXVIL 
 
 Behold me at thine altar bow, 
 
 And, pleas'd, abfolve my ofrer'd vow. 
 
 Hallelujah* 
 
 PSALM CXVII. 
 i. 
 
 LE T thy various Realms, O Earth, 
 •Fraifes yield to BeavVs high Lord $ 
 Praife him All of human birth, 
 And his wondrous Acts record* 
 
 2. 
 See his Mercy o'er our Land 
 Spread its ever-healing wing, 
 And his Truth through ages ftand; 
 Praife, O praife, th' eternal King. 
 
 PSALM CXV7II. 
 i. 
 
 LIFT your voice, and thankful fing 
 Praifes to your heav'nly King - 9 
 For his Mercies far extend, 
 And his Bounty knows no end* 
 
 2. 
 
 JJraeU thy Creator blefs, 
 And with joyous tongue confefs ? 
 That his Mercies far extend, 
 And his Bounty knows no end* 
 
 3- 
 
 jiardn^ let thy chofen Line 
 
 Grateful in th' avowal join, 
 That his Mercies far extend, 
 And his Bounty knows no end, 
 
 5 4- Ye 
 
PSALM CXV1IL 315 
 
 4- 
 Ye who make his Will your care. 
 
 With aflenting voice declare, 
 
 That his Mercies far extend, 
 
 And his Bounty knows no end, 
 
 5- 
 
 To my plaint propitious, He 
 
 Bade my captive Soul go free \ 
 He fhall in my caufe appear \ 
 Let not Man excite my fear. 
 
 6. 
 He amid my Helpers Hands ; 
 Struck by Him, th* oppofing Bands 
 Inftant from before mine eye 
 Back in wild retreat fhall fly, 
 
 7- 
 O, how fafe the Man, whofe mind 
 Refls on Jacob's God reclin'd ! 
 Safer far then they who truft 
 On the help of breathing dufh 
 
 8- 
 O how fafe the Man, whofe mind 
 Refts on Jacob's God reclin'd ! 
 Safer far than they who deem 
 Kings on Earth their pow'r fupreme. 
 
 9- 
 
 Gather'd from each diftant Coaft 
 
 Round me prefs'd th' embattled Hoft; 
 But my Arm, by God upheld, 
 Strew'd with flaughter'd heaps the field. 
 
 E e 2 10. Round 
 
3r# PSALM CXVHT. 
 
 10, 
 
 Round me, thirfting for my blood. 
 Round me adverfe myriads fiood ; 
 But my Arm, by God upheld, 
 ^trew'd with flaughterM heaps the field. 
 
 11. 
 Round me, fee ! as Bees they dwell,. 
 Bees, that, iffuing from their cell, 
 Mix in fwarms, and on the wing 
 Arm'd with fury onward fpring : 
 
 12. 
 
 See their rage at once expire 
 Like the thorn-enkindled fire ; 
 While my Arm, by God upheld, 
 Strews with flaughter'd heaps the field. 
 
 13- 
 Soon thy ftr.oke, relentlefs Foe, 
 Soon thy ftroke had laid me low, 
 Had not God's fupporting hand 
 Bid my fault'ring feet toftand. 
 
 14. 
 He my Strength, and he my Song, 
 Lo ! my days I yet prolong, 
 And, each hoftile force o'erthrown, . 
 Him my great Salvation own, 
 
 I* 
 
 Shouts of health and hymns of praife 
 
 Wifdom's faithful followers raife, 
 While amid their peaceful Seat 
 Thus the car their accents greet : 
 
 16. "O 
 
PSALM CXVIII. 317 
 
 16. 
 
 c< O how ftrong the hand divine ! 
 " O what wonders, Lord, are thine !" 
 See that hand, from Heav'n reveal'd, 
 Wonders yet on wonders yield. 
 
 ??• 
 
 Vaunt thy terrors > Death, no more 5 
 
 He whom IfraeFs Sons adore, 
 He, each danger chac'd away, 
 Bids me ftill his A&s difplay. 
 
 18. 
 He indulgent, juft, and kind, 
 Trials to my lot affign'd, 
 Yet amidft the doubtful ftrife 
 Refcu'd from the fword my life. 
 19. 
 Ope the gates of Righteoufnefs $ 
 Let my feet have full accefs ; 
 There I'll praife my Saviour's Name, 
 And his boundlefs Love proclaim. 
 20. 
 Here the hallow'd gate behold \ 
 See its valves at once unfold, 
 Pleas'd t' admit the chofen Train, 
 Pure from Sin's infedious ftain. 
 21. 
 Thee, the God inthron'd above, 
 Thee my lips (hall fing, whofe Love 
 To my voice attention gave, 
 Prompt to hear, and ftrong to fave. 
 
 E e 3 22. See 
 
3 i8 P S A L M CXVIIL 
 
 22. 
 
 See the Stone, that, caft afide 
 By the Builders' erring pride, 
 In the Dome afiumes its place, 
 Own'd the Angle's nobleft grace, 
 
 23- 
 Thou the Work, great God, haft wrought ; 
 In its fcenes our wond'ring Thought 
 Joys thy clemency to trace, 
 Seal'd to Jacob's favour'd Race. 
 
 24. 
 Lit by thy aufpicious ray 
 Downward ftreams the wifh'd-for Day, 
 Big with Ads that (hall fuggeft 
 Endlefs mirth to Ifrael's breaft. 
 
 25. 
 Save, O fave, eternal Lord, 
 And thy profp'ring aid afford: 
 Bleft the Man, who, fent by God, 
 Vifits Salem's lov'd abode. 
 
 26. 
 Come, ye Saints, and in his Train 
 Tread with licens'd ftep her Fane, 
 While from out her facred Tow'r 
 Bleffings on your head we pour. 
 
 27. 
 Safe in IfraePs Lord confide ; 
 He is God, and none befide ; 
 See his fav'ring beams arife 
 To his People's longing eyes* 
 
 28. Fair, 
 
PSALM CXVIII. 3 r 9 
 
 28. 
 Fair, and innocent of fpot, 
 Let the vidtim Lamb be brought, 
 And befide his Altar ftand, 
 Fetterd in the writhen band. 
 
 29. 
 Thee, my God, in lengthen'd lays, 
 Thee my raptur'd lips fhall praife \ 
 Thee, my God, aloud proclaim, 
 Zealous to exalt thy fame, 
 
 30. 
 
 Lift your voice, and thankful fing 
 Praifes to your heav'nly King $ 
 For his Mercies far extend, 
 And his Bounty knows no end. 
 
 PSALM CXIX. 
 
 A i E P H, 
 I. 
 
 HOW bleft, who Thee, great God, obey, 
 And ftedfaft walk th' all-perfeft way ! 
 How bleft, whofe hearts with will intire 
 Thy prefence feek, Almighty Sire ; 
 Whofe feet thy guidance own ; whofe mind 
 Has each nefarious a£t declin'd, 
 
 2. 
 Thy voice has charg'd us to fulfil 
 The dictates of thy heav'nly Will ; 
 Such, Lord, thy charge ; and O may I 
 Attentive to the talk apply, 
 
 Truft 
 
320 PSALM CXIX. 
 
 Truft in thy Aid, thy Works record, 
 And mark the Precepts of thy Word, 
 
 3- 
 
 My fteps conform'd to thy Decrees, 
 Nor (hame nor dread my Soul (hall feize $. 
 Thy Precepts on my mind imprefs'd 
 Shall fwell with joy my faithful bread:, 
 Thy Juftice prompt my tongue to raife 
 The fong of gratitude and praife. 
 
 4- 
 Thy Law my love (hall claim : Do Thou 
 Thy ear to my petition bow y 
 O treat me not with cold difdain, 
 Let not my Vows return in vain, 
 Nor leave me,, helplefs and forlorn, 
 The abfence of thy grace to mourn, 
 
 Beth. 
 i. 
 
 TTO W, early wife, (hall Youth, O fay, 
 
 In Innocence direfl its way ? 
 Thy Word its fteps, to Thee refign'd, 
 The ever faithful Guide (hall find. 
 
 2. 
 Hail, beft Inftruclor ! Thee my Thought 
 With full defire, great God, has fought; 
 O let me not, by Error's fway 
 Impell'd, from thy direction ftray. 
 
 3- 
 
 Thy Precept, in my bread conceaPd, 
 
 From Sin's aflault my heart (hall (hield : 
 Bleft is thy Name, eternal Lord ! 
 O write within my mind thy Word : 
 
 4, Thas 
 
P S A L M CXIX. 321 
 
 4- 
 That Word, whofe rules from day to day 
 My lips with grateful zeal difplay; 
 Thefe, my beft wealth, my treafur'd ftore 
 I keep, and view them o'er and o'er. 
 
 5- 
 
 Thy Dictates ftill, my conftantjoy, 
 My foul's attention fhall employ ; 
 Nor aught (hall from my fight withdraw 
 Thy path, or from my thought thy Law. 
 
 G I M E L. 
 1. 
 
 HP H Y Mercy let thy Servant fee, 
 
 Grant me to live conformed to Thee, 
 And let my Soul, each mifr. away, 
 The wonders of thy Law furvey. 
 
 2. 
 
 Behold me, abfent from my home, 
 Through Life's wild maze a Pilgrim roam, 
 Nor Thou to my defiring eye 
 Thy Word's directing beams deny. 
 
 3- 
 
 With ardent zeal, with ftrong defire, 
 
 My thoughts to thy Decrees afpire ; 
 V\ ith fervent hope thy paths I tread 
 By Mercy and by Truth outfpread. 
 
 4- 
 O Thou, whofe threat the proud fubdues, 
 Whofe wrath the finner's fteps purfues, 
 My foul, of each tranfgreflion pure, 
 From fcorn and fierce reproach fecure. 
 
 5. While 
 
322 P S A L M CXIX. v 
 
 5. 
 
 While Princes with malignant aim 
 AfTembled wound my honeft fame, 
 My Life, thy will its fix'd purfuit, 
 Shall each opprobrious tongue refute, 
 
 6. 
 Thy Laws my ev'ry thought controu!, 
 While, fill'd with facred joy, my Soul 
 Its ever faithful Friends in Thefe 
 And inmates of its counfel fees. 
 
 Daleth. 
 
 OW in the duft my foul is laid j 
 O reach me, Lord, thy promis'd aid ; 
 Thou, as my heart its guilt avow'd, 
 Thy pitying ear, great God, haft bow'd ; 
 Let thy Commands my footfteps lead ; 
 O give me, Lord, thy paths to tread ; 
 And let me, leflbn'd in thy way, 
 The wonders of thy Grace furvey : 
 
 2. 
 While on my foul, that melts with woe, 
 That Grace its fuccours {hall bellow, 
 (Such hope thy Word has bid me form ;) 
 Let me, with holy tranfport warm, 
 And privileg'd thy Law to learn, 
 From Error's path abhorrent turn j 
 Averfe from each injurious art, 
 Let falfehood from my lips depart. 
 
 3- Truth* 
 
PSALM CXIX. 323 
 
 3- 
 
 Truth, Lord, my fteady thoughts purfue 3 
 Thy Judgments fix'd before my view 
 In full difplay : Exempt from fhame 
 O give me Thou by Thefe to frame 
 My courfe ; and mark with what delight^. 
 (As onward Thefe my fteps invite,) 
 J Its bands by Thee diffolv'd, my Soul 
 Anticipates the diflant goaL 
 
 H e. 
 
 I. 
 fpEACH me, O teach me, Lord, thy Way ; 
 
 Soto my life's remoteft day, 
 By thy unerring Precepts led, 
 My willing feet its paths fha'll tread* 
 
 2. 
 Inform'd by Thee, with facred awe 
 My lieart fhall meditate thy Law^ 
 And with celeftial Wifdom fill'd 
 To Thee its full obedience yield, 
 
 3- 
 
 Give me to know thy Words aright, 
 
 (Thy Words, my foul's fupreme delight) 
 That, purg'd from third of gold, my mind 
 In Them its better wealth may find. 
 
 4- 
 O turn from Vanity mine eye, 
 
 To Me thy quick' ning ftrength fupply, 
 
 And with thy promis'd mercy chear 
 
 A heart devoted to thy fear. 
 
 5. o 
 
324 P S A L U CXIX. 
 
 5- 
 O vindicate my Name from wrong, 
 And filence the reproachful tongue ; 
 My dreaded fhame, great God, remove \ 
 Thy Judgments, Lord, my thoughts approve. 
 
 6. 
 Thy wife Commands my breaft inflame - 3 
 O hafte, and to my inmoft frame 
 Permit thy Juftice to difpenfe 
 Its all-reviving influence. 
 
 V A U. 
 I. 
 
 £~\ LET me, Lord, thy Mercy know ; 
 
 Thy promis'd health, great God, bellow; 
 So from my Soul, on Thee reclia'd, 
 Shall each reproach an anfwer find. 
 
 2. 
 
 My truft thy Judgments, mightfeft Lord, 
 Support ; O let not then thy Word 
 (Thy Word, by Truth eternal feal'd) 
 Be ever from my lips withheld : 
 
 . 3- 
 That Word to Life's extremeft ftage. 
 My juft remembrance fhali engage, 
 My Soul to thy Decrees incline, 
 And make the paths of freedom mine. 
 
 4- 
 The Heav'n-taught truths that warm mybreau 
 My tongue to Monarchs fhall fuggefr, 
 Arid, rapt with zeal, each, check difclairn 
 Of fervile dread, and infant fhame. 
 
 5- Thy 
 
PSALM CXIX. 325 
 
 5- 
 
 Thy Dictates on my Thoughts imprefs'd 
 With fweet delight (hall fill my breaft * 
 Thy Law, 'Jehovah^ ftill (hall (hare 
 My ardent Love, my conftant Care ; 
 
 6. 
 And, while from Thee with lifted hands 
 Pleas'd I receive its juft commands, 
 My Life, fubmitted to its rein, 
 Shall (peak them not receiv'd in vain. 
 
 Z A I K. 
 I. 
 
 } \ K H Y promifes, Almighty Sire, 
 
 Accomplish: Thefe my hope infpire ; 
 Thefe, when opprefs'd with ills I lie, 
 With vital ftrength my foul fupply ; 
 Nor loud reproach nor hoftile fcorn 
 My heart from thy obedience turn : 
 Amid my woes, through ages paft 
 In long memorial backward trac'd, 
 Thy Judgments have my truft upheld, 
 And forrow's heavieft cloud difpelFd. 
 
 2. 
 
 How trembles, Lord, my heart to fee 
 The fouls that err from thy Decree ! 
 Long as within this feat of clay, 
 My houfe of Pilgrimage, I flay, 
 Thy Statutes are my Song ; thy Name 
 Wakes in my breaft the holy flame, 
 
 F f That' 
 
3^6 PSALM CXIX. 
 
 That heav'n-ward lifts my thoughtful foul, 
 When night's dark fhades inveft the pole. 
 What hopes, great God, are mine, what joy, 
 While thy Commands my care employ ! 
 
 C H E T H. 
 I. 
 
 TV/T Y heart's beft portion, Lord, art Thou ; 
 ** To Thee my Thoughts obedience vow: 
 To Thee with ardent zeal I pray ; 
 Thy promis'd mercy, Lord, difplay. 
 
 2. 
 
 While back my yet unfinifh'd race 
 With fcrutiny fevere I trace, 
 Thy Law with full delight I greet, 
 And turn to Thee my willing feet. 
 
 3- 
 
 With ftudious hafte I ran, I flew, 
 Intent thy Dictates to purfue, 
 Nor Thefe forget, though troops of foes 
 Amid their fnare my fteps inclofe. 
 
 4- 
 Thy juft Decrees within my breaft 
 Revolv'd, I quit my bed of reft, 
 And pleas'd, at midnight's awful hour, 
 In thanks to Thee my fpirit pour. 
 
 5. 
 I mark where'er the fouls I find 
 To Thy Commands, great God, inclined ; 
 I mark them, and with fuch refide 
 In friendfhip's ftri&eft bands ally'd. 
 
 6. That 
 
PSALM CXrX. 327 
 
 6. 
 
 That Mercy, Lord, whofe beams extend 
 Far as to Earth's remoteft end, 
 That Mercy to my Soul impart, 
 And grave thy precepts on my heart, 
 
 T E T H. 
 
 1. 
 
 "jy It Y grateful heart thy Love has known, 
 XtX q 7^011, vvhofe words and deeds are one ^ 
 O ftill that Love impart, and (lore 
 My Soul with thy celeftial Lore, 
 Whofe thought its full affent refigns 
 To what thy facred Will injoins* 
 
 2. 
 In devious paths awhile I trod, 
 Ere yet corrected by thy rod; 
 But from thy juft and perfe£l Law 
 Fair Virtue's Leflbns now I draw, 
 And, difciplin'd, great Sire, by Thee, 
 Obfequious bow to thy Decree, 
 
 3- 
 
 Thy Mercies, Lord, exhauftlefs flow; 
 O give my Soul thy Will to know : 
 While Crouds, whole hearts thy fear difclaim, 
 With ftudied falfehood blaft my fame, 
 Thee, Lord, I feek; by thy Command 
 My Acts, my Thoughts, directed ftand. 
 
 4- 
 Amidft their rage, with joyful view 
 My heart thy Precepts can purfue, 
 While folly theirs from truth withholds, 
 And round them wraps its thickeft folds : 
 
 F f 2 Behold 
 
328 PSALM CXIX. 
 
 Behold them, Lord, in Error loft, 
 Thy Law reje£t with impious boaft, 
 
 5- 
 
 Bleft be thy hand, feverely kind, 
 
 Whofe flroke recalFd my erring Mind, 
 
 And urg'd me, as to Thee I turn, 
 
 Thy hallow'd Inftitutes to learn, 
 
 And, taught their worth, to prize them more 
 
 Than heaps of Ophir's richeft ore. 
 
 J O D. 
 I* 
 
 HP H Y plaftic art, throughout my frame, 
 **• Each limb, each nerve, great God ? pro* 
 
 claim ; 
 O give me Thou with mind fincere 
 To learn th' Inftrudions of thy Fear : 
 
 2. 
 So (hall the Souls, that Fear who know, 
 With focial joy, my God, o'erflow, 
 And pleas'd my conftant heart approve, 
 That waits, with Them, thy plighted Love* 
 
 3- 
 
 Thy Judgments praife eternal claim, 
 Wife, juft, and good; with friendlieft aim 
 Thy faithful hand each woe I feel 
 Infli&s, and wounds me but to heal. 
 
 4- 
 O let thy promised mercy fhed 
 
 Its quick'ning effluence on my head, 
 And comfort to my Soul inftil, 
 That loves the dictates of thy Will. 
 
 4 5. Let 
 
PSALM CXIX. 329 
 
 5- 
 Let fhame th' AggrefTors proud repay, 
 Who feek my footfteps to betray : 
 Thine aid I afk, eternal Lord, 
 And treafure in my heart thy Word* 
 
 6. 
 With Me infacred friendfhip join 
 The fouls that to thy fear incline, 
 And from the well-fpring of thy Law 
 Exhauftlefs ftreams of knowledge dravr. 
 
 7- 
 O never from my conftant heart 
 Let thy Decrees, great God, depart, 
 So (hall I thence, by Thee renew'd, 
 Guilt, and its offspring Shame, exclude; 
 
 C A P H. 
 1. 
 
 T>E HOLD, while wearied with delay 
 My foul y my fight r confume away, 
 Thy Servant o'er th' ethereal plain 
 Send the long look, but fend in vain, 
 
 2. 
 
 when, to my expecting eyes, 
 When (hall thy wifh'd Salvation rife, 
 Through ftruggling clouds its promis'd ray 
 Tranfmit, and o'er me pour the day ? 
 
 3- 
 
 Faft as the wine-exhaufted hide 
 Amid the circling fmoke is dried, 
 
 1 wafte ; yet never from my heart 
 
 Shall thy Commands, great God, depart- 
 
 F f 3 4. How 
 
3 3 o PSALM CXIX. 
 
 4- 
 How long (hall I my days, O fay, 
 In fad fucceffion roll'd furvey \ 
 How long to haughtieft infult yield, 
 Thy vengeance from my foes withheld ? 
 
 5- 
 The Proud 5 thy Precepts who defpife, 
 (Thy Precepts, Lord, how juft, how wife !) 
 With caufelefs rage their pits prepare ; 
 O hafte, and make my life thy care. 
 
 6. 
 How nigh had Conqueft crown'd their aim, 
 And rooted from the earth my name ! 
 While ftill thy paths, eternal God, 
 With undiverted ftep I trod. 
 
 7- 
 
 O let thy Mercy to my heart 
 
 Its life-fuftaining pow'r impart ; 
 So fhall my Soul with facred awe, 
 And juft obfervance, hear thy Law, 
 
 Lamed. 
 i. 
 
 Yj I X ' D in the Heav'ns, eternal Lord> 
 
 On firmed bafis refts thy Word - 3 
 Thy Truth, unconfeious of decay, 
 Sees wafting ages roll away, 
 
 2. 
 Pois'd on its centre by thy hand 
 Earth long has flood, and yet fhall ftand : 
 The whole Creation, ev'ry hour, 
 Subfervient owns thy fov 'reign Pow'r. 
 
 3. How 
 
PSALM CXIX. 331 
 
 3- 
 
 How had I perifh'd, 'midft my woes, 
 But that within my bofom rofe 
 The joys which thy Injunctions yield, 
 And each invading grief difpell'd ! 
 
 4- 
 
 O never, never, (hall my heart, 
 
 Forgetful, from thy Law depart, 
 Which, inftant, kindlier! fuccour gave, 
 And wrought my refcue from the grave, 
 
 5- 
 Behold me, Lord, behold me thine- 
 Thy ear to my requeft incline, 
 And fave a Soul whofe wakeful Thought 
 
 o 
 
 With fervent zeal thy Truths has fought* 
 
 6. 
 And though with fecret art their fnare 
 The impious for my Life prepare, 
 Thy Precepts ftiil, my confiant joy 
 My fix'd attention fhall employ. 
 
 7- 
 
 Mine eyes Perfection's limit fee 
 Through Nature's Works ; but thy Decree 
 No period, mightieft Monarch, knows. 
 Nor bounds of fpace its breadth inclofe. 
 
 M E M. 
 I. 
 
 \X7 1 T H what denre, great God, I burn 
 
 Thy facred Oracles to learn ! 
 Each day, each hour, with ftedfaft mind 
 Thy Truths I meditate, and find 
 
 The 
 
332 PSALM CXIX. 
 
 The knowledge, to my foes denied, 
 To Me in fulleft weight fupplied. 
 
 2. 
 My Teachers, while from out thy Law 
 The leiTons of my life I draw, 
 My guidance afk ; the Aged Me 
 Their Elder in difcretion fee, 
 As, onward led, with fteady pace 
 The Heav'n-appointed paths I trace. 
 
 3- 
 
 O with what zeal my bofom burn'd, 
 With joy the heav'nly precept learn'd ! 
 How have I kept my feet from ill. 
 Intent thy Mandate to fulfil, 
 My ear to difcipline refign'd, 
 Nor ever from its rules declin'd ! 
 
 4- 
 In full fatiety of joy 
 
 Abforpt, thy Words my thought employ, 
 
 And fweeter on my palate dwell 
 
 Than honey dropping from its cell : 
 
 My Soul, by thy Inftruclion, wife, 
 
 From Error's path abhorrent flies* 
 
 Nun. 
 i 
 HP H Y Law, from Sinai's mount reveal'd, 
 "** A lantern to my feet fhall yield, 
 A light, whofe beams fhall o'er me dwell, 
 And night's incircling (hades difpel. 
 
 2. Thy 
 
PSALM CXIX. 333 
 
 2. 
 
 Thy Precepts (thus my tongue has fworn, 
 Nor aught my purpofe, Lord, (hall turn;) 
 Thy Precepts, juft, and wife, and true, 
 My fteps, unwearied, {hall purfue. 
 
 3- 
 
 Beneath a weight of woes^ I bend ; 
 
 Thy promis'd aid, my God, extend : 
 My lips their willing off'rings pay; 
 Accept them, gracious Lord, I pray. 
 
 4- 
 Thy Judgments to my longing eyes 
 Difplay; while dangers round rne rife, 
 My foul jufl ready to refign, 
 To Thefe my thoughts I ftill incline. 
 
 5- 
 No impious force, or hoftile fnare, 
 Shall alienate from Thefe mv care ; 
 Nor e'er fliall Sin my fteps betray 
 From thefe in devious Paths to ftray. 
 
 6. 
 Thefe, while their worth my Soul inflames, 
 Its lafting heritage it claims, 
 And pleas'd the di&ates of thy Will 
 To life's laft period {hall fulfil. 
 
 S A M E C H. 
 I. 
 
 T^ A R hence each Superftition vain, 
 A Wild offspring of the human brain ; 
 The Truths that fill thy hallow'd page 
 My happier choice, great God, engage ; 
 
 Safe 
 
334 PSALM CXIX. 
 Safe on thy Word my truft I build, 
 O Thou, my Refuge, and my Shield. 
 
 2. 
 Ye impious, from my fight away ; 
 My Soul (hall God's behefts obey : 
 
 ever faithful to thy Word, 
 
 Do Thou thy vital ftrength afford ; 
 Thy help impart, eternal Sire, 
 Nor let my hope in fhame expire, 
 
 3- 
 
 Suftain'd by thy Almighty aid, 
 
 What danger (hall my Soul invade ? 
 Nor error's cloud, nor arts of fin, 
 My foul from thy obedience win ; 
 In vain fhall thefe their force apply 
 To turn from thy Decrees mine eye. 
 
 4- 
 Subverted by their own deceit, 
 And fpurn'd beneath thy conqu'ring feet, 
 Thy wrath the rebel tribes deplore ; 
 Spurn'd, — as the drofs, that from the ore 
 (Amid the glowing furnace caft) 
 Is fever'd by the fiery blaft. 
 
 5- 
 For this, with ardent Love thyXaw 
 
 1 feek ; for this, while rev'rent Awe 
 And holy Horror make my frame, 
 Thy dreaded judgments I proclaim ; 
 And, wrapt in fear, moft mighty Lord, 
 Thy powV, thy righteoufnefs record. 
 
 A IN, 
 
PSALM CXIX. 
 
 335 
 
 A I N\ 
 
 r. 
 
 "V^H I L E Juftice o'er my life prefide?, 
 
 Each a&,each word, each purpofe guides. 
 Friend of the guiltlefs ! nigh me (land, 
 And fave me from th' Oppreflbr's hand. 
 
 2. 
 
 O ftill thy wonted grace difclofe ; 
 Still in my quarrel interpofe 
 Thine arm, nor let my haughty foe 
 Exulting triumph in my woe. 
 
 3- 
 
 My wafting eyes with earneft view 
 
 Thy promis'd health, my God, purfue : 
 
 Thy mercies to thy Servant fhow, 
 
 Give me each Heav'n-taught rule to know. 
 
 4- 
 Behold me, Lord, behold me thine, 
 And let thy influence on me (hine, 
 Till, each illuuon purg'd away, 
 My Soul thy myftic Truths furvey. 
 
 5- 
 
 Thy wife Injunctions caft afide, 
 The fons of Infolence and Pride 
 With oft-repeated crimes demand 
 Th' unwilling vengeance from thy hand. 
 
 6. 
 Thy Dictates on my thought imprefs'd 
 With fweet delight (hall fill my breaft ; 
 Not Gold like Thefe my love (hall claim, 
 Gold fev'n times tortur'd in the flame. 
 
 7. Thefe, 
 
336 PSALM CXIX. 
 
 7- 
 
 Thefe, Lord, I keep, thy Works record, 
 And mark the precepts of thy word, 
 Truft in thine aid, and, fix'd, decree 
 To fhun each path that leads from Thee. 
 Pe, 
 i. 
 /^\ H O W the Wonders of thy Law 
 ^* My heart to juft obedience awe ! 
 What ftreams of pureft knowledge yield 
 Thy Words in full difplay reveal'd ! 
 By Thefe the Souls untaught before 
 To heights of heav'nly fcience foar. 
 
 2. 
 With earneft zeal, and anxious thought 
 Thy words my panting boforn fought ; 
 With thirft, with facred thirft I burn'd ; 
 To Thefe my op'ning mouth I turn'd, 
 And from thy Precept wife and true 
 Its life-imparting fpirit drew : 
 
 3- 
 
 What grace thy Saints are bleft to know; 
 
 That grace on Me, great God, beftow ; 
 Thy Dictates to my foul convey, 
 And level to my fteps thy way * 
 Redeem from Error's growth my mind, 
 Nor leave one baleful root behind. 
 
 4- 
 O fave me from Oppreflicn's hand ; 
 So (hall my foul thy wife command 
 Obferve, and, lefTon'd inthy fear, 
 The precepts of thy law revere : 
 
 Indulgent 
 
PSALM CXIX. 337 
 
 Indulgent on thy fervant fnine, 
 
 And make the paths of knowledge mine. 
 
 5- 
 My tears, great God, my zeal difclofe, 
 And down the copious torrent flows, 
 As oft, with inward anguiih torn, 
 Thy violated Laws I mourn 
 By guilty Souls, whofe Love of ill 
 To rafli Tranfgreffion prompts their will* 
 
 T S A D D I. 
 I. 
 
 TJT AIL, Arbiter fupreme ! thy Will 
 Truth, Equity, and Juftice fcal ; 
 Truth, Juftice, Equity, thy Voice 
 Prefcribes to favour'd IfraeCs choice ; 
 Thefe while my foe prefumptuous fpurns, 
 With zeal confum'd my bofom burn 
 
 2. 
 O how thy Precepts, in the fire 
 Long prov'd, thy fervant's Love infpire ! 
 To indigence and fcorn refign'd, 
 Thefe ftill I feek with ftudious mind ; 
 Nor ceafe with conftant thought to trace 
 The acts of thy ftupendous grace, 
 
 3; 
 
 Eternal Rectitude is thine ; 
 Truth to thy Laws adjufts its line ; 
 Thy Laws, my Soul's beft comfort found, 
 When pains and forrows wrapt me round : 
 Thy juft Decrees fhall Time furvive ; 
 Them teach me, and my Soul fhall live. 
 
 G g Koph. 
 
338 PSALM CXIX. 
 
 Koph, 
 J. 
 f\ Maker, Guide, and Judge of All ! 
 
 With earneft voice to Thee I call - 9 
 To Thee I call ; propitious hear; 
 So mall the Precepts of thy fear 
 My Soul inform, and, Thou my aid, 
 My ev'ry Act by Thefe be fway'd. 
 
 2. 
 Ere yet the dawn has ftreak'd the iky, 
 God of my Life, to Thee I cry; 
 My hope (nor fhall that hope be vain,) 
 Thy facred promifes fuftain : 
 On thy Decrees, great God, intent, 
 My Thoughts the early watch prevent, 
 
 3- 
 
 O let thy Mercy, while I pray, 
 My night illumine, guide my day, 
 Thy Word within my inmoft frame 
 Awake the everliving flame, 
 And, inftant, to my breaft difpenfe 
 Its all-reviving influence. 
 
 4- 
 Behold a Croud, from Thee efirang'd, 
 
 In dire alliance near me rang'd ; 
 
 But Thou, my God, art nearer ftill : 
 
 My Soul the dictates of thy Will 
 
 Fix'd on eternal bafe has view'd, 
 
 And owns them wife, and jufr, and good. 
 
 Resh. 
 
P S A L M CXIX. 33^ 
 
 Res h. 
 i. 
 "D EHOLD my griefs ; my Soul preferve ; 
 
 For ne'er from thy direftion fwerve 
 My thoughts : Do Thou my caufe defend; 
 O let thy word its aid extend. 
 
 2. 
 
 In vain thy grace the Souls would heal, 
 Whofe crimes their juft rejection fea! \ 
 Who, bold each impious deed to try, 
 Thy Laws oppofe, thy Pow'r defy* 
 
 3- 
 
 O let thy Mercy, Lord, (how great 
 
 That Mercy !) on thy Servant wait, 
 Its beams in full efruiion give, 
 And teach my fainting heart to live. 
 
 While hoftile Crouds around me ftand, 
 My fteps I guide by thy Command" 
 Unvarying, and indignant fee 
 The Souls whofe Will has err'd from Thee. 
 
 5- 
 Behold what love, what full delight, 
 Thy Precepts in my breafr. excite, 
 And let thy Favour o'er my head 
 Its vital pow'r inceiTant (bed. 
 
 6. 
 With truth thy Word, great God, was crown'd, 
 Ere time began its reftlefs round : 
 Thy Laws through length of days extend, 
 Firft, midfr, and lad, and without end. 
 
 G 2 2 Schik, 
 
340 P S A L M CXIX. 
 
 S C H I N. 
 
 I. 
 
 T\7HILE princely Pow'r, without a cauls* 
 
 The threat'ning fwordagainil me draw?, 
 My mind, to thy Commands applied, 
 Them fears 3 nor owns a fear be fide. 
 
 2. 
 
 My heart with fecret tranfport fwells, 
 While ftudious on thy Word it dwells ; 
 Nor weakhieft fpoils fuch joy beftcw, 
 New wrefted from the profirate foe* 
 
 3- 
 To Lies averfe, thy Laws I love ; 
 Thy juft Decrees my Thoughts approve j , 
 And fe\ r n times, each revolving day, 
 To Thee my grateful vows I pay. 
 
 Great is the peace prepar'd for AH, 
 Whole willing feet obey thy Call ; 
 Great is the peace for fuch prepar'd, 
 Nor aught their footfteps fha!l retard. 
 
 5- 
 Thy health, my God, I wait, thy Will 
 With unremitted zeal fulfil, 
 And wrapt in. love and filial fear 
 The Heav'n-defcended Truths revere, 
 
 6. 
 Thy Truths my foul reveres : Each day^ 
 Thy wife Inftruclions I obey, 
 Afiur'd that to thy fearching eyes 
 My life's whole path confpicuous lies. 
 
 Tau, 
 
PSALM CXIX. 341 
 
 T a u, 
 I. 
 
 f\ Let my cries thy heav'nly feat 
 ^^^ Approach ; my pray'r indulgent meet, 
 And give (for on thy Word relies 
 My hope;) O give me to be wife. 
 
 2. 
 Behold, (for Mercy lives in Thee ;} 
 Behold me fuppliant bend the knee, 
 And let thy promis'd aid difpel 
 The clouds of grief that o'er me dwell. 
 
 3- 
 
 Thy facred Precepts taught to know, 
 
 How {hall my lips, great God, o'erflow 
 With praife, and, touch'd with holy flame, 
 The juftice of thy Laws proclaim ! 
 
 4- 
 While pleas'd I bow to thy Command, 
 Reach, in my refcue, reach thy hand ; 
 Do Thou, whofe Dictates warm my hearty 
 Thy long-expected health impart. 
 
 5. 
 
 O let my Soul, to life reftor'd, 
 
 Thy Love in lafting hymns record, 
 While o'er my head its beams fliall fhine, 
 And make thy great Salvation mine. 
 
 6. 
 Thine eyes in Me the Sheep behold, 
 Whofe feet have wander'd from the fold, 
 That, guidelefs, helplefs, ftrives in vain 
 To find its fafe retreat again \ 
 
 G g 3 7. Now 
 
342 PSALM CXX. 
 
 7- 
 
 Now liftens, if perchance its ear 
 
 The Shepherd's well-known voice may hear, 
 Nov/, as the tempefts round it blow, 
 In plaintive accent vents its woe. 
 
 • 8. 
 Great Ruler of this earthly Ball, 
 Do Thou my erring (reps recall : 
 O feek thou Him who Thee has fought, 
 Nor turns from thy Decrees his thought. 
 
 PSALM CXX. 
 I. 
 
 TO God I cried, with anguiih ilung, 
 Nor form'd a fruitlefs pray'r. 
 O fave me from the lying tongue, 
 And lips that would inihare. 
 2. 
 Thou Child of Guilt, to falfehood bred. 
 
 Say, what fiiall be thine end ? 
 See keeneft arrows o'er thy head, 
 And quenchlefs coals, impend. 
 
 3- 
 
 Ah ! Woe is Me, to Mefech's feat 
 
 And Kedar's tents connn'd $ 
 Perpetual infult doom'd to meet 
 From Men of reftlefs mind. 
 
 4- 
 When offers mild of Peace I make, 
 And friendlieft terms prepare, 
 My words their flumb'ring rage awake, 
 Aad arm them for the War. 
 
 PSALM 
 
343 
 
 PSALM CXXL 
 
 i. 
 
 LO ! from the Hills my help defcends ^ 
 To Tliem I lift mine eyes : 
 My ftrength on Him alone depends, 
 Who form'd the Earth and Skies* 
 
 2. 
 
 He, ever watchful, ever nigh, 
 
 Forbids thy feet to Aide ; 
 Nor fleep nor {lumber feals the eye 
 
 Of Ifrael's Guard and Guide* 
 
 3- 
 
 He at thy hand, array'd in mighr, 
 His fhield fhall o'er thee fpread; 
 
 Nor Sun by day, nor Moon by nighty 
 Shall hurt thy favour'dhead, 
 
 4- 
 Safe fhalt thou go, and fafe return, 
 
 While He thy Life defends, 
 Whofe eyes thy ev'ry ftep difcern, 
 
 Whofe Mercy never ends, 
 
 PSALM CXXII. 
 
 THE feftal Morn, my God, is come, 
 That calls me to thy honour'd Dome$ 
 Thy prefence to adore : 
 My feet the fummons fhall attend, 
 With willing ftep thy Courts afcend, 
 And tread the hallow'd floor. 
 
 x 2. Ev'n 
 
344 PSALM CXXII. 
 
 2. 
 
 Ev'n now to our tranfported eyes 
 Fair Stan's tow'rs in profpe£t rife ^ 
 
 Within her gates we ftand, 
 And, loft in wonder and delight, 
 Behold her happy Sons unite 
 
 In friendship's firmeft band, 
 
 3- 
 
 Hither from Judah's utmoft end 
 The Heav'n-protecled Tribes afcend ; 
 
 Their ofPrings hither bring; 
 Here, eager to attcft their joy, 
 In hymns of praife their tongues employ,, 
 
 And hail th' immortal Kins;. 
 
 o 
 
 4. 
 By His Command impell'd, to Her 
 Contending Crouds their caufe refer ; 
 
 While Princes from her Throne 
 With equal doom th* unerring Law 
 Difpenfe, who boaft their birth to draw 
 
 From Jejfe's favour'd Son. 
 
 5- 
 Be Peace by Each implor'd on Thee, 
 O Salem^ while with beaded knee 
 
 To Jacob's God we pray : 
 How bleft, who calls himfelf thy Friend ! 
 Succefs his labour fhall attend, 
 And fafety guard his way. 
 6. 
 O may'ft thou, free from hoftile fear, 
 Nor the loud voice of tumult hear, 
 Nor war's wild waftes deplore ; 
 
 May 
 
P S A L M CXXIII. 345 
 
 May Plenty nigh thee take her ftand, 
 And in thy Courts with lavifh hand 
 Diftribute all her ftore. 
 
 7- 
 Seat of my Friends and Brethren, hail! 
 How can my tongue, O Salem, fail 
 
 To bids thy lov'd Abode ? 
 How ceafe the zeal that in me glows 
 Thy good to feek, whofe walls inclofe 
 
 The Manflon of my God ? 
 
 PSALM CXXIII. 
 i. 
 
 TO Thee, above the ftarry fpheres 
 Inthron'd, his look thy fuppliant rears • 
 As tow'rds their Lord the menial Band, 
 As Maidens tow'rds their Miftrefs' hand 
 Obfervant caft th' expecting eye, 
 So lift we ours, great God, on high, 
 Till Thou thy mercy (halt difplay, 
 And chaie thefe elouds of grief away. 
 
 2. 
 Enough thy People,, Lord, have borne 
 Of infult keen, and hoftile fcorn : 
 O let thy clemency divine 
 Confpicuous in our refcue mine, 
 And hear, in pity hear s the fighs 
 From our full hearts inceffant rife, 
 While, round us rang'd, the Sons of pride 
 Our name revile, our woes deride. 
 
 PSAL M 
 
3# 
 
 PSALM cxxrv. 
 
 I. 
 
 HA D God abandon'd from his care 
 Our caufe, when adverfe hofts to war 
 Uprofe j had God, may lfrael fay,. 
 Our caufe abandon'd, in the day 
 When o'er the plain their troops were pour'd^ 
 Our tribes their fury had devour'd ; 
 
 2- 
 Down we had funk; and o'er our head 
 The dwelling floods their waves had fpread ; 
 Down we had funk ; but bleft be God, 
 Whofe arm the timely help beftow'd, 
 And, each invader chas'd away, 
 Snatch'dfrom their jaws th' expected prey. 
 
 3- 
 
 See ! as the Bird with fudden fpring 
 Exulting mounts upon the wing, 
 Juft refcu'd from the fowler's art, 
 So triumph We, with thankful heart, 
 And, fav'd by his preventing care, 
 Shake from our feet the broken fnare. 
 
 4- 
 When woes, when dangers round us rife, 
 On Him alone our Hope relies, 
 To Him our Liberty we owe, 
 And own his ftrengtb againft the foe, 
 Whofe hand thy center fix'd, O Earth, 
 And gave th' enduring Heav'ns their birth. 
 
 PSALM 
 
34-7 
 
 P S A L M CXXV. 
 
 i. 
 
 TH EY, who with holy confidence, 
 Truft ia the Lord for their defence, 
 Secur'd by his protecting hand, 
 Shall ftedfaft as Mount Sion ftand, 
 That, proof to Ages, meets the fkies, 
 And, fix'd, each adverfe {hock defies, 
 
 2. 
 Behold fair Salerns hallow'd ground, 
 By fhadowing hills eneompafs'd round ; 
 Thy prefence thus, great God, we trace 
 Incircling Jacob's choien Race : 
 Nor diftant times fhall fee thy Love 
 Its bleflings from thy Saints remove, 
 
 3- 
 Ne'er on the lot by Thefe pofTefs'd 
 Shall impious Pow'r its fcepter reft ; 
 Left Sin, eftablifh'd into Law, 
 Their hearts from thy obedience draw: 
 O ftill our Guardian, ftill our Friend, 
 Thy mercies to the Juft extend ; 
 
 4- 
 While All, whofe heart from Wifdonvs way 
 Through paths perverfe has lov'd to ftray, 
 In fufF'rings, as in guilt, allied, 
 Shall fee the Peace to them denied 
 The fulnefs of its influence fhed 
 On happier Ifrael's favour'd head. 
 
 PSALM 
 
348 
 
 PSALM CXXVI. 
 
 i. 
 
 IS this a Dream ? arnaz'd we cried, 
 When, led by their celeftial Guide, 
 Fair S ion's captive Tribes again 
 Beheld her late deferted plain : 
 Then forth to laughter burft each tongue, 
 And fongs of loudeft triumph fung. 
 
 2. 
 The Nations round, with fecret awe, 
 The mighty work admiring faw ; 
 And, " Great (they cried,) the Gift beitow'd 
 " On Thefe, the favour'd of their God !" 
 <c O, great the Gift \ v Our hearts rejoin, 
 And joyful blefs the hand divine. 
 
 3- 
 
 Let thofe, whofe exile Hill we mourn, 
 Beneath thy conduct, Lord, return, 
 Fail: as the copious torrents glide, 
 When, to its vacant bed their tide 
 Reftoring, o'er the waftes they run, 
 That burn beneath the fouthern Sun, 
 
 4- 
 Let fcenes of Hope our thought employ ; 
 Who fow in tears, (hall reap in joy : 
 The weeping Hind, whofe dubious hand 
 Now ftrews with grain the furrow'd land, 
 Shall homeward foon exulting bear 
 The Bleffings of the loaded year. 
 
 PSALM 
 
349 
 
 PSALM CXXVII, 
 
 i. 
 
 A Race by God unbleft who rear, 
 A fruitlefs toil fuftain ; 
 If God to fhield the Town forbear, 
 The Watchman wakes in vain, 
 
 2. 
 
 Why rife Ye early, late take reft, 
 
 And eat the bread of care ? 
 The balm of fleep, his gift confeft, 
 
 His Children only lhare. 
 
 3- 
 
 Know too thy Sons, that round thee ftancl, 
 
 A gift by Him prepared ; 
 Nor arrows in the Giant's hand 
 
 Can yield fo fure a guard. 
 
 4- 
 Bleft, who his quiver ftores with Thefe : 
 
 When hoftile troops are near, 
 His gate the ftorm approaching fee?, 
 
 Yet fees without a fear. 
 
 PSALM CXXVIIL 
 i. 
 
 HOW bleft the Souls, their God who fear, 
 His Pow'r confefs, his Law revere ! 
 Who ftedfaft walk th' all perfect way. 
 Nor loft in paths of folly ftray. 
 
 Hh a.O 
 
350 PSALM CXXVIIL 
 
 2. 
 
 O happy Thou ! ordained to fhare 
 Thy Maker's ever conftant care ; 
 Thou privileg'd from want fnalt ftand, 
 And eat the labour of thy hand. 
 
 3- 
 
 The Object of thy wedded Love 
 Prolific as the Vine fhall prove, 
 Whofe foliage o'er thy walls difplay'd 
 Spreads wide its amicable fhade : 
 
 4- 
 While, as the Olive-branches fair, 
 Around thy board thy infant Care 
 Shall croud, and bid thy heart o'errlow 
 With joys that only Parents know. 
 
 c. 
 Such Blefiings, Lord, thy hands provide 
 For all who make thy fear their guid?, 
 And ftedfaft walk th' all perfect way, 
 Nor loll in paths of folly ftray. 
 
 6. 
 Hail, favour'd Man ! From Sion's Tow'r 
 Thy God on Thee his gifts fhall fhow'r : 
 Thou, thankful, to thy lateft day 
 Shalt Salem's profp'ring ftate furvey. 
 
 7- 
 
 With lengthen'd joy, thine aged eyes 
 
 Shall fee thy Children's Children rife, 
 And Peace her healing wings expand 
 O'er Judab's Heav'n-diftinguifh'd Land. 
 
 PSA LM 
 
35* 
 PSALM CXXIX. 
 
 OF T from my youth, may Ifrael fay, 
 Oft from my youth, in clofe array 
 Againft me rang'd, the hoftile train 
 My ruin fought, but fought in vain. 
 
 2. 
 My back with ftripes the ploughers tore ; 
 The lengthen'd furrows flream'd with gore; 
 But Thou, juft God, haft burft their bands, 
 And fav'd me from their r'uthlefs hands. 
 
 3« 
 
 Back let them fly in wild retreat, 
 
 Whofe rage fair S ion's hallow'd feat 
 Purfues : Let fliame their guilt repay ; 
 And let them like the grafs decay.— 
 
 4- 
 That, on the houfe-top ken to rife, 
 Stops in mid growth, and fades, and dies ; 
 Nor fills the Mower's hand, nor gives 
 One grafp to him who binds the {heaves; 
 
 5- 
 
 Nor prompts th' obferving pafTenger 
 To greet them with this friendly pray'r; 
 <c May Heav'n's high Lord your labours blefs, 
 " And crown them with the wilh'd fuccefs." 
 
 Hha PSALM 
 
352 
 
 PSALM CXXX. 
 
 i. 
 
 TO Thee from out the Deeps I pray, 
 With heavieft woes opprefs'd ; 
 Lord, let thine ears attentive weigh 
 The voice of my requeft. 
 2. 
 If from the Sons of human birth 
 Thy wrath its debt demand, 
 O who, throughout the peopled earth, 
 Beneath that wrath fhall ftand ? 
 
 3; 
 
 But Sin's worft wounds thy Mercy heals : 
 As down its pow'rs defcend, 
 
 The grateful Soul their influence feels, 
 And trembles to offend* 
 
 4- 
 Thee, Lord, I feek, the Wife, the Juft $ 
 
 My foul, by Thee upheld, 
 Expe£lant waits (thy Word its trufl) 
 
 Till Thou thy beams fhalt yield, 
 
 5- 
 Not thus intent their longing fight 
 The wearied Watchmen rear, 
 Not thus intent the growing light 
 Obferve, when morn is near. 
 6. 
 O trufl: in God ; for Love in Him, 
 And Grace abundant, reign : 
 He, Jacob, fhall thy Sons redeem, 
 And purge their ev'ry ftain. 
 
 P S A L M 
 
353 
 
 PSALM . CXXXI. 
 
 i. 
 
 THINE eyes, my God, nor lofty mind 
 Nor haughty look in me fliall find. 
 Nor Earth's vain pomp attracts my view, 
 Nor Honour's prize my thoughts purfue. 
 
 2. 
 
 Behold* me of affections mild, 
 Behold me humble as the Child, 
 That meek and filent finks to reft, 
 Wean'd from the tender Parent's breaft. 
 
 3- 
 
 O, fonder than that Parent, fee 
 
 Thy Maker, Ifrael, cherifli Thee : 
 
 To latefl times on Him depend, 
 
 Thy Guide, thy Guardian, and thy Friend. 
 
 PSALM CXXXIL 
 i. 
 
 GR E A T Ru ler of this earthly Ball, 
 Thy David to thy thought recall ^ 
 O hear my voice, All-potent Sire, 
 Nor diftant from the pray'r retire. 
 
 2. 
 
 O think what pangs his bofom tore, 
 When to his God the Oath he fwore, 
 And thus, with various preilures bow'd, 
 To Jacob's Lord a Manfion vow'd. 
 
 H h 3 2. Be 
 
354 PSALM CXXXI 
 
 3* 
 Be Witnefs, if my floor I tread, 
 Be Witnefs, if my couch I fpread, 
 If fleep thefe weary orbs fhal! feal, 
 Or 11 umber o'er mine eyelids (leal,— ■ 
 
 4- 
 Till to my fearch fair Judah's Land 
 Some place prefent, whereon may (land, 
 Through future age, thy fix'd Abode,, 
 The Seat of Jacob's mighty God. 
 
 5- 
 To Thee, O Epbrata, we came, 
 Inquifitive, and, led by fame, 
 The hallow'd Tabernacle found 
 Within the forefts ample bound. 
 
 6. 
 Behold us, Lord, with willing feet 
 The manfion of thy prefence greet, 
 (Lach heart inflam'd with grateful zeal,) 
 And proftrate at thy footftool kneel. 
 
 7- 
 
 Rife, IfraeVs F ther, God, and Friend ; 
 Pleas'd to thy place of rell afeend, 
 Thou and thine Ark, tremendous fhrine 
 Of Majefty and Pow*r divine. 
 
 8. 
 While Righteoufnefs thy Priefts arrays, 
 O let thy Saints their thankful lay* 
 Prolong ; and in thy Davias name 
 Let Judah'% King thy fevour ciaim. 
 
 g. Thus 
 
PSALM CXXXI. 355 
 
 9- 
 
 Thus to the Prince oijejfe born 
 God the reverfelefs Oath has fworn ; 
 Thy Throne, protected by my care, 
 The offspring of thy loyns mall heir, 
 
 10. 
 Through diftant times their hallowed Line, 
 Long as to Me their hearts incline, 
 My Compact keep, my Laws obey, 
 Shall, uncontroul'd, extend their fway. 
 
 ii. 
 Thy Walls, O Sion, to thy Lord 
 His deftin'd reiidence afford ; 
 Here will I reft, nor e'er my Love 
 From thy diftinguifh'd feat remove. 
 
 12. 
 Thy plenteous board my hand fhall fpread, 
 Diftribute to thy Poor their bread, 
 Thy Priefis with lafting health invert, 
 And wake to mirth each faithful breaft. 
 
 Amid thy Race, O David, here, 
 Salvation (hall her ftandard rear, 
 While copious on th' anointed head 
 The heav'nly Lamp its beams fhall filed. 
 
 14. 
 Thy foes with fhame invelop'd o'er, 
 Their blafted counfels <~ha!l deplore, 
 And fee the Crown that binds thy brow 
 With unextinguifVd fplendors glow, 
 
 PSALM 
 
PSALM CXXXIIT. 
 i. 
 
 HOW bleft the fight, the joy how fweet, 
 When Brothers join'd with Brothers 
 meet 
 In bands of mutual Love ! 
 Lefs fweet the liquid fragrance, fhed 
 On Aaron % confecrated head, 
 Ran trickling from above, 
 2. 
 And reach'd his beard, and reach'd his veft : 
 Lefs fweet the Dews on Her?non\ brcaft 
 
 Or Sions Hill defcend : 
 That Hill has God with Bleflings crown'd, 
 There promis'd Grace that knows no bound, 
 And Life that knows no end. 
 
 PSALM CXXXIV. 
 i. 
 
 *\r E Servants of th' eternal King, 
 
 JL Your grateful hymns triumphant fing : 
 To You I call, the chofen Band, 
 Who take amid his Courts your ftand, 
 While, gliding round the dufky pole, 
 The ftarry Orbs in filence roll. 
 
 Within his Temple's vaulted frame, 
 With lifted hands, his praife proclaim : 
 And He, may He, whofe pow'r has made 
 The Earth, and Heav'n's wide arch difplay'd, 
 From facred Sion bid thee prove 
 The Bleflings of his boundlefs Love. 
 
 PSALM 
 
357 
 
 PSALM CXXXV. Hallelujah. 
 i. 
 
 TT" E faithful Servants of your God, 
 
 "* To him be all your thanks beitow'd; 
 Through Times extended courfe, his fame 
 In fongs of higheftpraife proclaim : 
 2. 
 
 Ye who, on his behefts intent, 
 The Courts of Ifrael's Lord frequent, 
 And pleas'd, within his hallow'd gate, 
 In regular fucceilion wait : 
 
 3- 
 
 Him praife, the everlafting King, 
 And Mercy's unexhaufted fpring ; 
 Hafte, to his Name your voices rear ; 
 What Name like his the heart can chear ? 
 
 4- 
 His Love from out the num'rous Birth, 
 That crowns the wide-extended Earth, 
 Sele£ts the Race of Ifaac's Sons, 
 And Jacob his pofTeflion owns, 
 
 5- 
 
 Thy Greatnefs, Lord, my thoughts atteft, 
 With awful gratitude imprefs'd, 
 Nor know, among the Seats divine, 
 A Pow'r that fhall contend with Thine. 
 
 6. 
 Tis God, whofe All-difpofing Sway 
 The Heav'n's, the Earth, and Seas obey ; 
 Whofe Might through all extent extends , 
 Sinks through all depth, all Height tranfcends— 
 
 7. From 
 
358 PSAL M CXXXV, 
 
 7- 
 
 From Earth's low margin to the Skies 
 He bids the pregnant Vapours rife, 
 The Lightning's pallid (heet expands, 
 And glads with fhow'rs the furrow'd lands $ 
 
 8. 
 Now from His Storehoufe built on high, 
 He gives th' imprifon'd Winds to fly, 
 And, guided by tBf Will, to fweep 
 Thefurface of the foaming Deep. 
 
 9- 
 
 By His refiftlefs ftroke afTail'd, 
 Her Eldeii-born proud Egypt wail'd ; 
 Nor rag'd His fvvord on Man alone $. 
 Her flocks, Her herds, its fury own. 
 
 io. 
 New fcenes of Dread her Land furpriz'd, 
 When God the haughty chief chaftis'd, 
 And Each who lent th' affifting hand 
 To execute his ftern command. 
 
 II. 
 ■ From Egypt's defolated fhore 
 Its courfe His vengeance onward bore 
 To diftant realms, by Juftice led ; 
 And mightieft Kings beneath it bled : 
 12. 
 
 Their Monarch Hefbons Coafls dcplor'd, 
 And Bafan her gigantic Lord, 
 While Canaan wept her forfeit Lands 
 Refign'd to Ifraefo chofcn Bands. 
 
 13. Thy 
 
P S A L M CXXXV. 
 
 3?9 
 
 «3- 
 
 Thy Name fliall ever live, thy Name 
 Shall ceafeLefs Praife and Honour claim ; 
 Thy Works, atchiev'd in ages pad:, 
 To endlefs time remember'd laft. 
 
 14. 
 From Thee our Judge, we wait our doom : 
 ThoUj, Lord, the balance wilt affume, 
 And, prompt thy People's woes to hea!, 
 The fentence of thy wrath repeal, 
 
 IS- 
 
 Behold, on each polluted fliore 
 The heathen tribes their Gods adore ; 
 Of Gold and Silver form'd, they ftand 
 The Creatures of the Artifts hand. 
 
 16. 
 Mouths have they, not for fpeech defign'd, 
 And Ears and Eyes, yet deaf and blind : 
 Their lips, by Nature's finger feal'd, 
 Ne'er knew the vital breath to yield ; 
 
 17. 
 Unvifited by Wifdom's ray 
 Their breaft :Nor lefs infenfate They, 
 Who made their mimic forms, or made, 
 With fruitlefs pray'r invoke their aid, 
 
 18, 
 Ye favoured Tribes, from Ifrael fprung, 
 Jehovah's Praife with grateful Tongue 
 Aloud proclaim, and thankful join 
 To blefs the Majefty divine, 
 
 19. Him 
 
3 6o PSALM CXXXV. 
 
 *)- 
 
 Him blefs, ye Sons of Aaron's race; 
 
 Ye who your birth from Levi trace, 
 And All whofe heart His Laws delight, 
 In thanks to Him your fongs unite. 
 
 20. 
 Let Sion with enraptur'd ear 
 His fame throughout her precin&s hear, 
 Who 'midft her walls-, eternal Gueft, 
 Has fix'd the Manfion of his reft. 
 
 Hallelujah. 
 
 PSALM CXXXVL 
 i. 
 
 LIFT your voice, and thankful fing 
 Praifes to your heav'nly King ; 
 For his Bleflings far extend, 
 And his Mercy knows no end. 
 2. 
 Be the Lord your only theme, 
 Who of Gods is God fupreme ; 
 For his Bleffing?, &c. 
 
 3- 
 
 He to whom All Lords befide 
 Bow the knee, and vail their pride ; 
 For his Bleflings, &c. 
 
 4- 
 Who afTerts his juft Command 
 By the Wonders of his hand ; 
 For his, &c. 
 
 5. Her 
 
PSAL M CXXXVL 361 
 
 5- 
 He, whofe Wifdom, thron'd onhi^h, 
 Built the Manfions of the fky ; 
 For his, &c. 
 
 6. 
 He, who bade the watry Deep 
 Under Earth's foundation fleep ; 
 For his, &c. 
 
 7- 
 And the Orbs that gild the pole 
 
 Through the boundlefs iEther roll ; 
 
 For his, &c. 
 
 8. 
 Thee, O Sun, whofe pow'rful ray 
 Rules the Empire cf the Days 
 
 For his, &c. 
 
 9- 
 You, O Moon and Stars, whofe light 
 
 Breaks the horrors of the Night ; 
 For his, &c. 
 
 10. 
 When his vengeful wrath he fhed, 
 Egypt mourn'd her Firftborn dead ; 
 For his, &c. 
 
 11. 
 Thence by Him from bondage freed 
 March'd all IfraeFs chofen feed; 
 For his, &c. 
 
 12. 
 While his mighty hand he rear'd, 
 And his outftretch'd arm appear'd 5 
 For his, &c. 
 
 Ii 13. AwM 
 
362 P S A L M CXXXVL 
 
 *3- 
 Aw'd by Him, from fide to fide, 
 
 Lo, th' obedient Deeps divide; 
 
 For his, &c. 
 
 14. 
 At his word the billows ftay, 
 Part, and give his People way ; 
 
 For his, &c. 
 
 15- 
 
 At his word again they clofe 
 >0'erthe head of Jacob's foes^ 
 For his, &c. 
 
 16. 
 Safe in his Almighty aid 
 Ifrael o'er the Defert ftray'd ; 
 For his, &c. 
 
 I7 ' 
 
 Kings, unable to withftand, 
 
 Felt the vengeance of his hand ; 
 For his, &c. 
 
 18. 
 Chiefs for hardieft deeds renown'd 
 Proftrate fell, and bit the ground \ 
 For his, &c. 
 
 19. 
 Sihon fierce, who forth to fight 
 Led the harnefs'd Amorite \ 
 For his, &c. 
 
 20. 
 Mightieft Ogj beneath whofe fway 
 Safari's fertile region lay 5 
 For his, &c. 
 
 21. Thefc 
 
PSALM CXXXVI. 363 
 
 21. 
 
 Thefe he flew, and from their hands 
 Took the forfeit of their Lands ; 
 For his, &c. 
 
 22. 
 
 Lands, which erft by promife due, 
 Sons of Jacobs fell to You ; 
 For his, &c. 
 
 On our forrows from on high 
 He with pity caft an eye j 
 
 For his, &c. 
 
 24. 
 In our battles o'er each head 
 He the fhield of fafety fpread \ 
 
 For his, &c. 
 
 He with food fuftains, O Earth, 
 
 All who claim from Thee their birth ; 
 For his, &c. 
 
 26. 
 
 Lift your voice, and thankful fing 
 
 Eraife to Heav'n's eternal King ; 
 For his Bleffings far extend, 
 And his Mercy knows no end. 
 
 PSALM CXXXVIL 
 1. 
 
 WHERE Babylon's proud water flows, 
 We fate and wept, while in us rofe 
 The dear remembrance of thy name, 
 O fair, O loft Jerufalem ! 
 
 I i 2 Our 
 
364 P S A L M CXXXVII. 
 
 Our filent harps the willows bore, 
 Whofe branches fhade tW extended ftiore, 
 
 2. 
 In haughty triumph thus the Foe 
 Infulting aggravates our woe : 
 <c Come, tune to rnirih your fullen tongue - f 
 u Rife, Hebrew flaves, and give the fong ; 
 u Such drains as wont your fane to fill 
 " On captive SWs boafted Hill." 
 
 3- 
 
 How (hall we yield to the demand ? 
 How, exiles in a heathen Land, 
 Prefume the heav'n-taught fong to raife> 
 And defecrate the hallow'd lays ? 
 Shall IfraeVs vanquifVd Tribes employ 
 Their mournful voice in hymns of joy i 
 
 4- 
 If Sion from my breaft depart, 
 Forget my hand its tuneful art : 
 Faft to my palate cleave my tongue, 
 If, when I form my fprightliefr. fong, 
 Aught to my mirth fupply a theme, 
 But Thou, O lov'd Jeriffalcm, 
 
 5' 
 
 Think, Lord, O think, when Sion lay 
 Abandon'd to the dreadful day, 
 How, as thy heavieft wrath fhe tried, 
 " Down, down, exulting Edom cried, 
 "Down let the hated City fall, 
 " And level to the duft her wall." 
 
 6, Daughter 
 
PSALM CXXXVII 365 
 
 6. 
 
 Daughter of Babylon^ that woe, 
 Deprefs'd, confum'd, thyfelf lhalt know, 
 Which We, direMurth'refs, found from Thee: 
 And Bleft the Man whom God's Decree 
 Ordains to lead the flaughter on, 
 And dafti thine Infants on the ftone. 
 
 PSALM CXXXVIII. 
 1. 
 
 THEE, Lord, my harp's awaken'd firings 
 Shall praife, and to the ear of Kings, 
 Whofe pow'rs thy facred imprefs bear, 
 The ardor of my zeal declare. 
 
 2* 
 
 In low proftration, tow'rd thy flirine, 
 His knees thy Servant fhall incline, 
 And thankful teach the rapt'rous lay 
 Thy Faith and Mercy to difplay. 
 
 3- 
 
 Thy Sanctity all height tranfcends ; ; 
 Thy word eternal Truth attends ; 
 Thy Pow'r, while Thee my pray'r addrefs'd. 
 Has fill'd with Heav'n-born flrength my 
 breaft. 
 
 4- 
 Earth's Lords, by thy inflru&ions led, 
 With IfraeFs fons thy path mall tread. 
 And, joyous, as they march along, 
 Thy Glory chaunt in grateful fong. 
 
 I i 3 5, Inthron'd 
 
366 PSALM CXXXVIII. 
 
 5- 
 Inthron'd above the loftiefl ficy, 
 Thou deign'ft the Humble to defery, 
 And, from thy diftant feat, deride 
 The frantic boafts of human pride. 
 
 6. 
 When hoflile troops excite my fear, 
 Thy quick'ning Grace my heart fhall chear, 
 Thy hand compofe their furious (rrife, 
 And refcue from the fvvord my life. 
 
 /• 
 What blifs thy promife bids me {hare, 
 
 Hafte, Lord, to yield ; nor from thy care 
 
 (O ever faithful, wife and good,} 
 
 The creature of thy hands exclude. 
 
 P S A L M CXXXIX. 
 i. 
 
 THOU, Lord, haft fearch'd me out $ 
 thine eyes 
 Mark when I fit, and when I rife ; 
 By Thee my future thoughts are read ; 
 Thou, round my path, and round my bed, 
 Attendeft vigilant ; each word, 
 Ere yet I fpeak, by Thee is heard* 
 2. 
 
 Life's maze, before my view outfpread, 
 Within thy prefence wrapt I tread, 
 And touch'd with confcious horror (land 
 Beneath the fhadow of thy hand ; 
 Such knowledge, Lord, how deep ! in vain 
 I feek its fummit to attain. 
 
 3. Where 
 
PSALM CXXXIX. 367 
 
 3- 
 
 Where fhall I fhun thy wakeful eye, 
 Or whither from thy Spirit fly ? 
 Aloft to Heav'n my courfe 1 bear; 
 In vain ; for Thou, my God, art there : 
 If prone to Hell my feet defcend, 
 Thou ft ill my footfteps {halt attend* 
 
 4- 
 If now, on fwifteft wings upborne, 
 I feek the regions oa the Morn, 
 Or hafte me to the weitern Steep, 
 Where Eve fits brooding o'er the Deep, 
 Thy hand the fugitive fhall flay, 
 And dictate to my fteps their way, 
 
 5. 
 
 Perchance within its thicken: veil 
 
 The Darknefs fhall my head conceal; 
 
 But, inftant, Thou haft chas'd away 
 
 The gloom, and round me pour'd the day : 
 
 Darknefs, great God, to Thee there's none ; 
 
 Darknefs and Lieht to Thee are one. 
 o 
 
 6. 
 My reins, my fabrick's ev'ry part, 
 The wonders of thy plaftic art 
 Proclaim, and prompt my willing tongue 
 To meditate the grateful fong : 
 With deepeft awe my Thought their frame 
 Surveys : — IC I tremble that I am." 
 
 7- 
 
 While yet a ftranger to the day 
 Within the burthen'd womb I lay, 
 
 My 
 
3 68 PSALM CXXXIX. 
 
 My bones, familiar to thy view, 
 By juft degrees to firmnefs grew : 
 Thy pow'r my lineaments began, 
 To fhapes prefcribed the texture ran. 
 
 8. 
 Day to facceeding day confign'd 
 Th' unfiniflrd Birth ; thy mighty Mind 
 Each limb, each nerve, ere yet they were, 
 Contemplated diftindr. and clear ; 
 Thofe nerves thy curious finger fpun, 
 Thofe limbs it fafhion'd one by one ;— ► 
 
 9- 
 
 And, as thy pen in fair defign 
 
 Trac'd on thy book each fhadowy line, 
 Thy Handmaid Nature read them there, 
 And made the growing work her care, 
 Conform'd it to th' unerring plan, 
 And gradual wrought me into Man, 
 10. 
 With what delight, great God, I trace 
 The A&s of thy ftupendous Grace ! 
 To count them, were to count the fand 
 That lies upon the fea-beat ftrand : 
 When from my temples fleep retires, 
 Thy prefence, Lord, my heart infpires. 
 
 ii. 
 Shall impious Men thy will withstand, 
 Nor feel the vengeance of thy hand ? 
 Shall not thy wrath terrific rife, 
 The bold tranfgreflbrs to chaftife ? 
 Hence, Murth'rers, hence, nor near me ftay ; 
 Ye Sons of Violence, away. 
 
 12. When 
 
PSALM CXXXIX. 369 
 
 12. 
 When lawlefs Crouds with infult vain 
 Thy Works revile, thy Name profane, 
 Can I unmov'd thofe infults fee, 
 Nor hate the Wretch that hateth Thee ? 
 Indignant, in thy Caufe I join, 
 And all thy foes, my God, are mine. 
 
 IS- 
 
 -Searcher of hearts, my thoughts review ; 
 With kind feverity purfue 
 Through each difguife thy Servant's mind, 
 Nor leave one ftain of guilt behind : 
 Guide through th' eternal path my feet/ 
 And bring me to thy blifsful Seat. 
 
 PSALM CXL. 
 
 MY impious foes, great God, repel ; 
 Their rage by pow'r fuperior quell $ 
 Do thou fubdue the adverfe band, 
 That, leagu'd in guilt, againft me ftand. 
 
 2. 
 They toil, on fierce contention bent, 
 New arts of mifchief to invent -, 
 Whet, as the Afp, their tongues, and dip 
 In Death's worft gall their venom'd lip. 
 
 3- 
 
 () fave me from the hand of Wrong, 
 
 And backward turn the frantic Throng, 
 That, pleas'd, in dire alliance meet, 
 And tempt to fatal lapfe my feet. 
 
 4. The 
 
370 PSALM CXL. 
 
 4- 
 The murth'rous trap, th' intwining fnare^ 
 The Sons of Violence prepare, 
 And guileful, onward as I tread, 
 Befide my path their net outfpread. 
 
 5- 
 Thou art my God; to Thee on high 
 Thus proftrate at thy throne I cry ; 
 O let my pray'r by Thee be heard, 
 From undhTembling lips prefer'd : 
 
 6. 
 Strength of my health, indulgent Lord,, 
 Thy Arm unfeen each adverfe fword r 
 As o'er the field the battle burn'd, 
 Preventive from my head has turn'd* 
 
 7« 
 O let not the remorfelefs Band 
 (Each counfel by thy profp'ring hand 
 Accomplifh'd, and each wifli fupplied^J 
 Their conquefts boaft with growtftg pride :■■ 
 
 8. 
 Do Thou, vindi&ive, on their heads 
 (While round the hoftile circle fpreads, 
 Intent my guiltlefs Soul to flay,) 
 The mifchief of their lips repay.* 
 
 9- 
 
 Let rufhing flames their fin chafiife ; 
 
 Prone tcw'rd the pit (no more to rife,) 
 Let each with fault'ring footfteps bend, 
 And headlong to its depths defcend, 
 
 10. The 
 
PSALM CXL. 37s 
 
 10. 
 The tongue to Wifdom unfubdu'd 
 Trom blifs its Owner fhall exclude : 
 Detraction in the Earth's domain 
 No lafting heritage fhall gain. 
 
 II. 
 The feet to violence inclin'd, 
 Deftru&ion, following faft behind, 
 Shall hunt, and with unwearied pace 
 Thro' fin's dark maze their path fhall trace, 
 
 12. 
 
 My heart has known Thee, Lord, prepar'd 
 The helplefs and the poor to guard, 
 To fave them from Qppreflion's jaws, 
 And vindicate their injur'd caufe. 
 
 13 
 
 The Souls fubje&ed to thy fear 
 
 To Thee the thankful voice fhall rear, 
 And, ftudious of thy juft Command, 
 Within thy fight accepted ftand. 
 
 PSALM CXLI. 
 i. 
 
 TO Thee I call ; O hafte thee near ; 
 My voice, great God, indulgent hear j 
 With grateful odour to the fkies 
 As incenfe let my pray'r arife, 
 And let my hands, uplifted high, 
 With full acceptance meet thine eye, 
 As Vi&ims on thine altar laid, 
 When Eve extends its deep'ning fhade, 
 
 2. O 
 
372 PSALM CXLI. 
 
 2. 
 
 O let my mouth to guilt be barr'd, 
 And o'er its portal plant a guard ; 
 Turn, turn from fin's purfuit my will, 
 Nor let th' artificers of ill 
 In Me the wifli'd aflociate greet, 
 Or fee me to their path my feet 
 Incline, and, caught in Error's fhare, 
 Their feaftful board luxurious fhare. 
 
 3- 
 
 Let Virtue's Friends, feverely kind, 
 With welcome chaflifement my mind 
 Correct, and by their precepts won 
 Let me each error learn to ihun ; 
 But give not thefe, great God, to fhed 
 The balm of flatt'ry o'er my head, 
 Left fudden from thy wrath I feel 
 The ftroke, that none fhall know to heal. 
 
 4- 
 The pray'r, that from my lips proceeds, 
 My juft abhorrence of their deeds 
 Shall fpeak ; nor Thou that pray'r defpife, 
 But, while before their ftartled eyes 
 From rocky heights their Chiefs are thrown > 
 Incline their ftubborn hearts to own 
 How fweet my words, and, taught thy fear, - 
 The lefibns of thy truth to hear. 
 
 5- 
 
 The beafts, the birds that wing the air 
 Thy flaughter'd faints infatiate tear, 
 Behold the grave's wide mouth difplay'd. 
 Our bones in heaps before it laid, 
 
 i As 
 
PSALM CXLI. 373 
 
 As when beneath the Woodman's ftroke 
 From the tall Afli or fpreading Oak 
 The branches fall, and fcatter'd round 
 In wild diforder flrew the ground, 
 
 6. 
 Father of All ! to Thee mine eyes 
 I lift : on Thee my hope relies : 
 Do Thou, as 'mid the toils I tread 
 By Men of impious heart outfpread, 
 My danger (nor regardlefs,) fee, 
 And let me, while by thy decree 
 Wrapt in the fnare themfelves I view, 
 With ftep fecure my path purfue. 
 
 PSALM CXLIL 
 i. 
 
 TO God I cry; to Him my pray'r 
 Addrefs ; to Him my heart its care 
 Shall pour, and to his ear difclofe, 
 In fad recital, all its woes : 
 To Him (for He the pray'r can hear) 
 To Him my fuppliant voice I rear. 
 
 2. 
 To Thee, great God, to Thee alone, 
 The traces of my paths are known ; 
 Thy fearching eyes, with fteady view, 
 Through forrow's gloom my {reps purfue, 
 And fee my foes athwart my way 
 The cover'd fnare infidious lay, 
 
 3- 
 
 I turn'd me, anxious, on the right, 
 
 I turn'd, and round me caft my fight 
 
 Kk With 
 
374 PSALM CXLII. 
 
 With fruitlefs fearch ; no friend was nigh, 
 Th' expected fuccour to fupply, 
 With lenient tongue my griefs to chear, 
 Or pitying drop the fecial tear. 
 
 4- 
 Forlorn of help, Thee, mightieft Lord, 
 My Soul with humble truft implor'd : 
 In Thee, All-bounteous God, I cried, 
 In Thee alone my hopes refide ; 
 C) while beneath my woes 1 bend, 
 To me thy kindlieft fuccour lend. 
 
 5- 
 
 While life along my veins (hall ftream, 
 Its portion Thee and blifs fupreme 
 My heart fliall own : O gracious hear, 
 While worn with griefs my voice I rear, 
 And let my foe's fuperior might 
 Thy pity to my aid excite. 
 
 6. 
 Do Thou my prifon doors unbar ; 
 So mall my tongue thy Love declare 
 In hymns of praife, while, joy'd in Me • 
 Th' event of pious Hope to fee, 
 The Souls that own thy jufl Command 
 With thankful wonder round me ftand. 
 
 PSALM CXLIII. 
 i. 
 
 THINE ear, my God, propitious lend i 
 O ever juft and true, extend 
 Thy pity, while to Thee I pray, 
 Nor fcrutinize with ftri£t furvey 
 
 Thy 
 6 
 
PSALM CXLIII. 375 
 
 Thy fervant's Acts ; for who, O who, 
 Shall pure of guilt approach thy view ? 
 
 2. 
 Thou feeft the Foe with furious ftrife 
 My foul purfue ; to earth my life 
 He treads, and in the horrid gloom, 
 (As thofe who 'mid the filent tomb 
 Through ages fleep,) from human eye 
 Secluded far, has bid me lie. 
 
 3- 
 
 I feel my vital ftrength depart, 
 
 And wild amazement fills my heart : 
 
 But, backward borne to periods pad, 
 
 Thy Mercies, Lord, my thoughts have trac'd ; 
 
 And in my bread recorded ftand 
 
 The wonders of thy mighty hand. 
 
 4- 
 
 Aloft my fuppliant palms I fpread ; 
 Nor more the glebe, its moifture fled, 
 Longs the defcending fhow'r to fee, 
 Than thirds my wearied foul for Thee : 
 O hide not, Lord, thy face, but fave 
 Thy fervant from the yawning grave, 
 
 5- 
 O let the hour that wakes the day 
 Thy Mercy to my ear convey : 
 While (for on Thee my hope depends) 
 In fervent thought my mind afcends, 
 Expectant, towVd thy heav'nly Seat , 
 Train to the paths of Truth my feet. 
 
 K k 2 6. To 
 
376 PSALM CXLIII. 
 
 6. 
 
 To Thee, my refuge, Lord, I fly ; 
 Do Thou the deaths that wait me nigh 
 Repel. My will to thine (for Thou, 
 Thou, art my God) corrective bow, 
 And give me, by thy Spirit led, 
 The Land of Righteoufnefs to tread. 
 
 7- 
 Thy wonted mercy, Lord, impart, 
 O quicken with thy grace my heart, 
 And let thy Juftice interpofe, 
 My-forrpws to relieve^ my foes 
 To crufh, and from their rage remove 
 A Soul devoted to thy Love. 
 
 PSALM CXLIV. 
 i. 
 
 BLEST be the Lord my ftrength, whofe 
 aids, 
 When lawlefs force my peace invades, 
 My fingers for their tafk prepare, 
 And difcipline my hands to War : 
 
 2. 
 My hope, my fhield, my ftrongeft towV, 
 The Friend that in the dang'rous hour 
 My life protects, and bids each land 
 Subjected own my juft command. 
 
 3- 
 
 Lord, what is Man, that in thy care 
 His humble lot fhould find a (hare ? 
 Or what the Son of Man, that Thou 
 Thus to his wants thine ear fhouldft bow ? 
 
 4. What 
 
PSALM CXLIV. 377 
 
 4- 
 What are his days ? (a fpan their line;) 
 Or what his age compar'd with thine ? 
 Himfelf, when in the balance weigh'd, 
 A Nothing, and his Life a fhade. 
 
 5 
 
 Defcend, from Heav'n's vaft height defcend : 
 Its wide-fpread arch beneath thee bend : 
 Touch the proud hills, eternal Sire ; 
 And fee them quick in fmoke afpire ! 
 
 6. 
 Let fierceft lightnings through the air 
 Now rufhing now reverting tear 
 Thy ftubborn foes ; and, edg'd with flame* 
 Swift at their heads thy arrows aim. 
 
 7- 
 Stretch to my aid thine arm, and iave 
 
 My life from the devouring wave ; 
 
 Back let the vengeful foe retire, 
 
 Whofe lips, whofe hands, in fraud confpire, 
 
 8. 
 
 So (hall my finger's artful ftroke 
 
 The harp and tenftring'd lute provoke 
 
 New ftrains t' attempt, and with my tongue 
 
 In fweet divifion form the fong. 
 
 9- 
 
 Guardian of Kings ! thy fav'ring might 
 Thy David through the thickeft fight 
 With watchful care vouchfafes to guide, 
 And turns each threat'ning fword afide. 
 
 K k 3 io. Stretch 
 
378 PSALM CXLIV. 
 
 10, 
 Stretch to my Aid thine arm, and fave 
 My life from the devouring wave - y 
 Back let the vengeful foe retire, 
 Whofe lips, whole hands, in fraud confpire. 
 
 II. 
 So, rrurs'd beneath indulgent fides, 
 Our Sons with full increafe (hall rife, 
 Like youngling plants in order rang'd, 
 Of healthful Item, and leaf unchang'd — 
 
 12. 
 
 Our Daughters as the column fair, 
 That, fafhion'd by the Artift's care, 
 Claims in the regal Dome a place, 
 The polifh'd angle's nobleft grace. 
 
 So Avail the hind exulting bear 
 The bleflings of the loaded year, 
 And the rich harveft's gather'd ftore 
 Load with its heap th' extended floor, 
 
 14. 
 Our Oxen ftrong for toil behold ! 
 The teeming Mothers of the fold 
 See, fcatter'd o'er the rural fcene, 
 Their thoufands and their myriads yean. 
 
 15- 
 
 No more our Streets the cries of fear 
 Or fhouts of violence fhall hear : 
 Thou, Lord, the tumults fhalt afTuage 
 -Of hoftile force, and civil rage. 
 
 16. o 
 
PSALM CXLIV. 379 
 
 16. 
 
 O happy We, while thus our Race 
 The fignals of thy Love (hall grace! 
 O bleft the People, that in Thee 
 Their God and faithful Guardian fee ! 
 
 PSALM CXLV. 
 i. 
 
 THEE will I blefs, my God and King, 
 Nor ceafe thy wondrous Ads to fmo- : 
 From earlieft morn to lateft eve 
 Thy praifes on my tongue fhall live ; 
 To Thee my harp (hall wake each firing, 
 Nor ceafe thy wondrous ASts to fing. 
 
 2. 
 
 Great is our God : In vain our praife 
 
 His Excellence in equal lays 
 
 Would celebrate ; in vain the Mind 
 
 Its height its depth eftays to find : 
 
 Age to fucceding age thy Might 
 
 Shall fpeak, thy Works, bleft Lord, recite, 
 
 3- 
 
 My tongue thy glory (hall proclaim, 
 The faithful witnefs of thy fame, 
 Bid Contemplation's inmoft thought 
 Survey the wonders thou haft wrought, 
 And with aflenting myriads join 
 To blefs the Majefty divine. 
 
 4- 
 Thy dreaded pow'r fhall each rehearfe, 
 
 Thy Greatnefs fhall my thankful verfe 
 
 Infpire, 
 
380 PSALM CXLV, 
 
 Infpire, thy Righteoufnefs and Love 
 Our hearts inflame, our fongs improve : 
 Thee good and kind fhall Mortals own, 
 To anger flow, to pity prone. 
 
 5- 
 
 Far as Creation's bounds extend, 
 Thy Mercies, heav'nly Lord, defcend ; 
 One chorus of perpetual praife 
 To Thee thy various works fhall raife, 
 Thy Saints to Thee in hymns impart 
 The tranfports of a grateful heart, — 
 
 6. 
 The fplendors of thy Kingdom tell, 
 Delighted on thy wonders dwell, 
 And bid the Worlds wide realms admire 
 The glories of th' Almighty Sire, 
 Whofe Throne (hall Nature's wreck furvive 
 Whofe Pow'r through endlefs Ages live. 
 
 7- 
 Thy Promife Truth eternal guides, 
 
 And Mercy o'er each A£i prefides : 
 
 The feet whofe fteps to lapfe incline 
 
 With faithful care thy Arm divine 
 
 Shall prop ; the fpirit bow'd with woe 
 
 • Thy All-fupporting aid fhall know. 
 
 8. 
 
 From Thee, great God, while ev'ry eye 
 
 Expectant waits the wifh'd fupply, 
 
 Their bread proportion'd to the day 
 
 Thy op'ning hands to each convey : 
 
 Thy Ways eternal Juftice guides, 
 
 And Mercy o'er thine Aft prefides : 
 
 9. Who 
 
PSALM CXLV. 381 
 
 9- 
 
 Who afk thine aid with heart fincere, 
 
 Thee ever gracious, ever near, 
 Shall own ; their pray'r, in each diftrefs, 
 To Thee thy Servants, Lord, addrefs, 
 And find thee (verging on the grave,) 
 Nor flow to hear, nor weak to fave. 
 10. 
 
 Ye Souls among his Saints inroll'd, 
 In God your fure defence behold, 
 Who wakes your chofen Train to guard} 
 While Pride (hall meet its juft reward, 
 And fierce Deftru&ion at his Word 
 Shall bathe in impious blood its fword. 
 II. 
 
 Long as I breathe, my thankful tongue 
 To Him fhall meditate the fong ; 
 My willing lips with praife o'erflow, 
 My grateful foul with tranfport glow; 
 From Man's whole Race his hallow'd Name 
 Shall thanks and endlefs honour claim. 
 
 PSALM CXLVI. Halklujah. 
 1. 
 
 PRAISE, praife thy God, my Soul ; his 
 Name 
 To Life's laft date my thanks {hall claim, 
 And, long as I exift, my lyre 
 Shall wake to fing th' eternal Sire. 
 
 2. O 
 
382 PSALM CXLVL 
 
 2. 
 
 O feek not, with prefumption vain, 
 Your hope on Princes to fuftain, 
 Nor truft, when threat'ning ills invade, 
 The ftrengthlefs prop of human aid, 
 
 3- 
 
 His breath refign'd, on earth's low bed 
 Behold the Mortal reft his head ; 
 Nor farther fhall his Thoughts extend, 
 But with him to the grave defcend. 
 
 4- 
 
 Bleft, who their help in Thee alone, 
 
 The God to Jacob's Offspring known, 
 Have found, and to the hand divine 
 In each diftrefs their care refign : 
 
 5- 
 That hand, that form'd the Heav'ns and Earth 
 And callM the watry Deep to birth, 
 With All that in the ample round 
 Of Nature's utmoft reign is found. 
 
 6. 
 'Tis God's, whofe Truth, through Ages paft 
 Confirmed, mall time's extent outlaft ; 
 'Tis His, the injur'd caufe to right, 
 And crufh the arm of lawlefs Might; 
 
 7- 
 'Tis his to loofe the Captive's chain, 
 
 With bread the hungry to fuftain, 
 
 The blind reftore, the weak uprear, 
 
 And fave the fouls that own his fear. 
 
 8. Through 
 
PSALM CXLVL 383 
 
 8. 
 Through diftant regions doom'd to roam. 
 In Him the ftranger finds a home ; 
 'Tis His, the Orphan's breaft to chear, 
 And wipe the heart-fwoln Widow's tear. 
 
 9- 
 
 The impious fouls, whofe Love of ill, 
 
 To rafh tranfgreflion prompts their will, 
 Who dare from his Decrees to ftray, 
 Shall reap the error of their way. 
 
 10. 
 O Siorij in thy God confide, 
 And know how fix'd his Reign, how wide; 
 O'er fubje£t Worlds his juft Command 
 To endlefs age confirm 'd fliall fland. 
 
 Hallelujah. 
 
 PSALM CXLVII. 
 1. 
 
 OBIefs Jehovah : Sweet the joy, 
 When tafks like thefe the voice employ $ 
 To Him our higheft thanks belong 
 And Praife fits comely on our tongue. 
 
 2. 
 'Tis He who builds fair Salem's walls, 
 And Ifrael's exil'd fons recalls ; 
 Yields to the contrite heart relief, 
 And binds its wounds, and fooths its grief: 
 
 3- 
 
 He to the ftars afiigns their names, 
 (As, fcatter'd wide, their vivid flames 
 Adorn the bright ethereal plain,) 
 And numbers with his eye their train. 
 
 4. Great 
 
3 34 PSAL M CXLVII. 
 
 4- 
 Great is our God : beyond all bound 
 His Pow'r, beyond al! fcarch is found 
 His Knowledge ; in his Arm the Meek 
 With fure fuccefs their Aid {hall feek ; 
 
 5- 
 That Arm, whofe unrefifted ftroke, 
 
 On Each who dares his Wrath provoke, 
 With fwift defcent its aim fhall guide. 
 And level to the duft their pride, 
 
 6. 
 Let ev'ry tongue, let ev'ry chord, 
 Exalt the Name of Jacob's Lord, 
 Whofe hand with clouds theHeav'n obfcures, 
 On Earth the genial moifture pours ; 
 
 7- 
 
 He bids the herb its mantle fpread, 
 Luxuriant o'er the Mountain's head : 
 Gives to the Beafts their wonted Food, 
 And ftills the Raven's clam'rous Brood. 
 8. 
 If o'er the field the battle bleed, 
 His watchful eye the ftrengthful Steed 
 Regards not, nor the Chiefs whofe feet 
 Unmov'd the fhock of legions meet. 
 
 9- 
 On You, in whom his fear refides, 
 On You whofe heart in Him confides, 
 His Grace its fignals fhall beftow, 
 His Arm with conqueft bind your brow. 
 
 io. O 
 
f S A L M CXLVIL 385 
 
 10. 
 
 O Solyma^ his lov'd Abode, 
 Him praife, unceafing ! Blefs thy God, 
 O Siofiy who thy gates has barr'd ; 
 Whofe various gifts thy Sons have fhar'd ; 
 
 II. 
 His vifits teach thy grateful foil 
 To recompenfe the tiller's toil ; 
 He crowns with peace thy happy plain ; 
 Calls from thy glebe the pureft grain. 
 
 12. 
 His Word, from Heav'n in fwift career 
 Convey'd, fuggefts to Nature's ear 
 The Laws that regulate her frame, 
 And gives her ev'ry a6t its aim. 
 
 13- 
 
 Flak'd by his Art, the woolly fnow 
 Falls filent on the ground below ; 
 By Him the froft, as afhes hoar, 
 Lies fprinkled earth's wide furface o'er; 
 
 14. 
 In harden'd fragments through the air, 
 While Man its rigours fhuns to bear, 
 His Hail defcends ; in icy chains 
 His hand the gliding ftream detains. 
 
 IS- 
 
 Till, at his Word, th' inftrufted wind 
 With friendly breath the Wave unbind, 
 And bid it, onward borne, again 
 With liquid lapfe its courfe maintain. 
 
 LI 16. Such 
 
386 PSALM CXLVII. 
 
 16. 
 
 Such is the God, and fuch his Might, 
 Whofe Precepts IfraeH Love invite, 
 And to his Tribes in full difplay 
 His Life-dire£ting truths convey, 
 
 17- 
 What Realm, thro' earth's extended Coafts, 
 His Care, like thine, O Judah^ boafts, 
 Or, taught, as Thou, his fear to own, 
 The di&ates of his Will has known ? 
 
 18. 
 O come, your thankful voices join, 
 And blefs the Majefty divine : 
 His praife, to Time's remoteft day, 
 His pow'r in facred notes difplay, 
 
 PSALM CXLVIII. Hallelujah. 
 i. 
 
 YE Bleft Inhabitants of Heav'n, 
 To God be all your praifes giv'n ; 
 O praife him from the realms that lie 
 Above the reach of mortal eye : 
 Him praife, ye Angels of his Train, 
 Him, All whom Heav'n's vaft Hofts contain, 
 
 2. 
 
 Praife Him, thou glorious orb of light, 
 And Thou, pale Ruler of the night ; 
 Praife Him, ye Stars ; His praife repeat, 
 Thou Heav'n of Heav'ns, his awful Seat, 
 And You, ye Floods, that, heap'd on high, 
 Prefs with your weight th' extended fky. 
 
 3. Let 
 
PSALM CXLVIIL 3S7 
 
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 Let Thefe to God their voices rear, 
 Who bade them be ; and ftrait they were 2 
 Who bids them ftand ; and ftand they fhall ; 
 Nor aught the Mandate fliall recall, 
 That, fix'd by his Almighty Mind, 
 To endlefs age their date affigivd, 
 
 4- 
 Nor let the Heav'n his praife confine J 
 O All of Earth the chorus join: 
 Ye Whales, ye Deeps, in praife confpire, 
 Snow, Vapour, Hail, and bick'ring Fire, 
 And ev'ry Wind, and ev'ry Storm, 
 That duteous his behefts perform ;— 
 
 5- 
 
 Ye lefler Hills, ye Mountains high, 
 
 Ye Trees, whofe fruits Man's food fupply> 
 
 Ye Cedars, whofe expanded Shade 
 
 Nor Storms nor Ages teach to fade, 
 
 Ye Beafts, that range th' uncultur'd foil, 
 
 Or patient lend to Man your toil. 
 
 6. 
 Praife Him, each Bird that wings the air^ 
 Each Reptile, nurtur'd by his care ; 
 Ye Kings and Nations of the Earth ; 
 O praife him All of princely birth, 
 And Ye, whofe Doom, as Juftice guides., 
 The long-conteited caufe decides, 
 
 7- 
 Ye Youthful Bands and Virgin Choir, 
 
 Each lifping Ba.be, and hoary Sire, 
 
 LI z Wake 
 
388 PSALM CXLVIII. 
 
 Wake to his Name your grateful fongs ; 
 To Him alone all Praife belongs ; 
 His glory Earth's wide bounds o'erflows, 
 Nor highefl Heav'n its limit knows. 
 
 8. 
 Ye Tribes, exalted by his Arm, 
 You, chief, the heav'nly Theme fhall warm, 
 Bleft Sons of lfrael'% hallow'd Land, 
 Who neighb'ring to his prefence Hand ; 
 O come, your thankful voices raife, 
 And confecrate to Him your praife. 
 
 PSALM CXLIX. Hallelujah. 
 
 I. 
 
 SI N G to our God the new-form'd lay ; 
 Ye Souls who his commands obey, 
 AiTembling join your thankful tongues, 
 And hallow with his praife your Songs. 
 
 2. 
 O Ifratly let thy Maker's Name 
 With joyous zeal thy breaft inflame. 
 And Sions fons exulting fing 
 The Mercies of their heav'nly King. 
 
 3- 
 Range in the dance the facred Band, 
 
 And urge the Minftrel's well-taught hand 
 
 To ftrike the loud-refounding lyre, 
 
 While timbrels in his praife confpire. 
 
 4. With 
 
PSALM CXLIX. 389 
 
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 With what delight, great God, behold 
 Thine eyes the People of thy fold ! 
 Thy Strength the Souls of humble frame 
 Their ever prefent Aid proclaim. 
 
 5. 
 
 With conqueft crown'd, and rapt in joy : 
 Let All whom thy Decrees employ 
 Thv Name exalt, and thankful raife 
 The fong of gratitude and praife : 
 
 6. 
 Let all unite with willing mind, 
 Nor ceafe, when on their beds reclin'd, 
 The filent midnight's lift'ning ear 
 With fongs of loudeft mirth to chear. 
 
 7- 
 
 Thy Mercy let their lips record ; 
 
 Give to their grafp the two-edg'd fword ; 
 
 And let them, guided by thy hand, 
 
 Deal vengeance through each heathen land, 
 
 8. 
 Let them the guilty tribes chaftife 
 Whofe impious Arm thy pow'r defies ; 
 Triumphant in the iron chain 
 Their Nobles and their Kings detain,— • 
 
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 And while, infpir'd with adtive zeal 
 Thy prefcript thus their hands fulfil, 
 The glories wear for All prepar'd, 
 Whofe hearts thy juft behefts regard. 
 
 Hallelujah* 
 PSALM 
 
39® 
 
 PSALM CL. Hallelujah. 
 
 I. 
 
 PRAI S E, O praife, the Name divine ; 
 Praife it at the hallow'd Shrine $ 
 Let the Firmament on high 
 To its Maker's praife reply. 
 
 2. 
 Let each tongue, and let each chord 
 Praife the name of Jacob's Lord, 
 Let his A£h, and How'r fupreme, 
 To your Songs fuggeft a theme. 
 
 3- 
 
 Be the harp no longer mute ; 
 
 Sound the trumpet, touch the lute; 
 Wake to life each tuneful firing j 
 Bring the pipe, the timbrel bring* 
 
 Let the organ in his praife 
 Learn its loudeft note to raife, 
 And the cymbal's varying found 
 From the vaulted roof rebound, 
 
 5- 
 All who vital breath enjoy, 
 In his praife that breath employ, , 
 And in one great Chorus join y 
 Praife, O praife, the Name divine* 
 
 GLORIA 
 
39 * 
 
 GLORIA P A T R L 
 i. 
 
 IN Thee, O Heav'n, O Earth, in Thee 
 Be Glory to th' eternal Three; 
 That Glory, which through ages pad 
 Was , is 3 and fhall for ever laft. 
 
 OR THIS. 
 
 2. 
 
 To Father, Son, and Spirit bled, 
 Be praife in Heav'n and Earth addrefs'd, 
 As was, and is, and yet (hall be, 
 When Time its lateft hour fhall fee. 
 
 OR THIS. 
 
 3- 
 To Father, Son, and Spirit blefT, 
 
 Be praife in loudeft notes addrefs'd, 
 Such praife as from th' Angelic Choirs, 
 And Saints whom zeal like theirs infpires, 
 In Heav'n above and Earth below 
 Still flows, and fhall for ever flow. 
 
 OR THIS. 
 
 To Father, Son, and Spirit bleft, 
 Be praife in loudeft notes addrefs'd, 
 Such as the Stars of Morning fung, 
 When Earth was on its balance hung, 
 Such praife as from th' Angelic Choirs, 
 And Saints whom zeal like theirs infpires, 
 In Heav'n above and Earth below 
 Still flows and fhall for ever flow. 
 
 a ANO- 
 
392 GLORIA P A T R L 
 
 ANOTHER. 
 
 5- 
 All Glory to th* Eternal Three ; 
 Thee, Father ; Thee, O Son ; and Thee, 
 
 The Spirit ever bleft : 
 That Glory, which through ages paft 
 Unchang'd has flood, and yet fhall laft, 
 
 When time has funk to reft, 
 
 ANOTHER. 
 6. 
 
 All Glory to th' Eternal Three, 
 
 As was, ere Time began to roll, 
 
 As is, nor yet (hall ceafe to be, 
 
 When Time has reach'd its deftin'd goal. 
 
 ANOTHER. 
 
 7- 
 Be Glory to th' Eternal Three 
 
 Afcrib'd, and higheft Praife, 
 As was, and is, and ftill (hall be 
 
 Beyond the end of days. 
 
 ANOTHER. 
 8. 
 
 To th' Eternal Three be giv'n 
 Praife on Earth, and Praife in Heav'n; 
 Such as was through Ages paft, 
 Is, and fhall for ever laft 
 
 %* The Tr inflations of the G L o R I A 
 P A T R i, here given^ exhibit a Specimen of 
 fix different Sorts of Metre nfed in the Verfon 
 vr Parvpbrafe of the Pfalms. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
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