mouth unto the heaven, and their 34 Whom have I in heaven tongue goeth through the world. but thee? and there is none upon 10 Therefore fall the people earth that I desire in comparison unto them, and thereout suck of thee.

they no small advantage.

35 My flesh and my heart fail11 Tush, say they, how should eth; but God is the strength of God perceive it? is there know- my heart, and my portion forever. ledge in the Most High? 36 For lo, they that forsake 12 Lo, these are the ungodly thee shall perish; thou hast dethese prosper in the world; and stroyed all them that commit for these have riches in possession: nication against thee. and I said, Then have I cleansed 37 But it is good for me to hold my heart in vain, and washed me fast by God, to put my trust mine hands in innocency. in the Lord God, and to speak of 13 All the day long have I been all thy works in the gates of the punished, and chastened every daughter of Sion. morning.

Psalm 74. Ut quid, Deus? God, wherefore art thou absent from us so long? why is

14 Yea, and I had almost said even as they; but lo, then I should have condemned the generation thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy children. of thy pasture?

15 Then thought I to understand 20 think upon thy congrega this; but it was too hard for me, tion, whom thou hast purchased, 16 Until I went into the sanc- and redeemed of old.

Auary of God: then understood I 3 Think upon the tribe of thine he end of these men; inheritance, and mount Sion,

17 Namely, how thou dost set wherein thou hast dwelt.

hem in slippery places, and castest

4 Lift up thy feet, that thou them down and destroyest them. mayest utterly destroy every one18 0 how suddenly do they my, which hath done evil in thy onsume, perish, and come to a sanctuary. yearful end!

5 Thine adversaries roar in the

19 Yea, even like as a dream midst of thy congregations, and when one awaketh; so shalt thou set up their banners for tokens. make their image to vanish out of he city.

6 He that hewed timber afore out of the thick trees, was known 20 Thus my heart was grieved, to bring it to an excellent work; and it went even through my 7 But now they break down all

eins,

21 So foolish was I, and ignoant, even as it were a beast betore thee.

the carved work thereof with axes and hammers.

8 They have set fire upon thy holy places, and have defiled the 22 Nevertheless, I am alway dwelling-place of thy name, even by thee; for thou hast holden me unto the ground. by my right hand.

9 Yea, they said in their hearts, 33 Thou shalt guide me with Let us make havock of them alto thy counsel, and after that receive gether: Thus have they burnt up me with glory. all the houses of God in the land.

2 At Salem is his tabernacle, and his dwelling in Sion.

3 There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, the sword, and the battle.

5 I have considered the days of old, and the years that are past.

6 I call to remembrance my song, and in the night I commune with mine own heart, and search 4 Thou art of more honour and out my spirits.

might than the hills of the robbers. 7 Will the Lord absent himself The proud are robbed; they for ever; and will he be no more have slept their sleep; and all the intreated?

men whose hands were mighty, 8 Is his mercy clean gone for have found nothing. ever; and is his promise come 6 At thy rebuke, O God of Ja- utterly to an end for evermore? cob, both the chariot and horse 9 Hath God forgotten to be bare fallen. gracious; and will he shut up his

7 Thou, even thou art to be loving-kindness in displeasure? eared; and who may stand in 10 And I said, It is mine own thy sight, when thou art angry? infirmity; but I will remember 8 Thou didst cause thy judg-the years of the right hand of the nent to be heard from heaven; Most Highest.

the earth trembled, and was still, 11 I will remember the works 9 When God arose to judg-of the Lord, and call to mind the nent, and to help all the meek wonders of old time.

pon earth.

10 The fierceness of man shall hurn to thy praise, and the fierceress of them shalt thou refrain.

12 I will think also of all thy works, and my talking shall be of thy doings.

13 Thy way, O God, is holy: 11 Promise unto the Lord your who is so great a God as our God? God, and keep it, all ye that are 14 Thou art the God that doeth round about him; bring presents wonders, and hast declared thy nto him that ought to be feared. power among the people. 12 He shall refrain the spirit of 15 Thou hast mightily deliverPrinces, and is wonderful amonged thy people, even the sons of he kings of the earth. Jacob and Joseph.

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waters saw thee, O waters saw thee, and were afraid; the depths also were troubled.

Psalm 77. Voce mea ad Dominum. Will cry unto God with my God, voice; even unto God will cry with my voice, and he shall searken unto me.

17 The clouds poured out waIn the time of my trouble Iter, the air thundered, and thine Sought the Lord: my sore ran, arrows went abroad. and ceased not in the night-sea- 18 The voice of thy thunder was ion; my soul refused comfort. heard round about: the lightnings 3 When I am in heaviness, Ishone upon the ground; the earth will think upon God; when my was moved and shook withal. heart is vexed, I will complain. 19 Thy way is in the sea, and 4 Thou holdest mine eyes wak-thy paths in the great waters, and ing: I am so feeble that I cannot thy foot-steps are not known. speak. 20 Thou leddest thy people

ed foo

blow under heaven; and through were but flesh, and that they were his power he brought in the even a wind that passeth away, south-west wind. and cometh not again. 28 He rained flesh upon them 41 Many a time did they prois thick as dust, and feathered voke him in the wilderness, and owls like as the sand of the sea.grieved him in the desert. 29 He let it fall among their 42 They turned back, and ents, even round about their ha-tempted God; and moved the Ditation. Holy One in Israel.

30 So they did eat and were 43 They thought not of his well filled; for he gave them their hand, and of the day when he wn desire they were not disap-delivered them from the hand of pointed of their lust. the enemy.

31 But while the meat was yet 44 How he had wrought his their mouths, the heavy wrath miracles in Egypt, and his wonof God came upon them, and slew ders in the field of Zoan. he wealthiest of them; yea, and 45 He He turned their waters into mote down the chosen men that blood, so that they might not Vere in Israel. drink of the rivers.

32 But for all this, they sinned et more, and believed not his Wondrous works.

33 Therefore their days did he onsume in vanity, and their gears in trouble.

34 When he slew them, they ought him, and turned them arly, and inquired after God. 35 And they remembered that od was their strength, and that e high God was their Re

eemer.

46 He sent lice among them, and devoured them up, and frogs to destroy them.

47 He gave their fruit unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the grasshopper.

48 He destroyed their vines with hail-stones, and their mulberry trees with the frost.

49 He smote their cattle also with bail-stones, and their flocks with hot thunder-bolts.

and

50 He cast upon them the fu36 Nevertheless, they did but riousness of his wrath, anger, atter him with their mouth, and displeasure, and trouble; issembled with him in their sent evil angels among them. ngue. 51 He made a way to his in37 For their heart was not dignation, and spared not their hole with him, neither continu-soul from death; but gave their d they steadfast in his cove-life over to the pestilence; 52 And smote all the first-born 38 But he was so merciful, that in Egypt, the most principal and e forgave their misdeeds, and mightiest in the dwellings of estroyed them not. Ham.

ant.

39 Yea, many a time turned he 53 But as for his own people, is wrath away, and would not he led them forth like sheep, and affer his whole displeasure to carried them in the wilderness rise: like a flock.

40 For he considered that they

54 He brought them out safely,