That I shall judgment uprightly 3 Dissolved is the land, with all And unto those that wicked are, 5 Lift not your horn on high, nor speak 6 That not from east, nor west, nor south, 7 But God is judge; he puts down one, 8 For in the hand of God most high "Tis full of mixture, he pours forth, 9 But I for ever will declare, I Jacob's God will praise. 10 All horns of lewd men I'll cut off; But just men's horns will raise. PSALM LXXVI. SIMILAR in subject, spirit, and expression, to Psalm xlvi. xlviii. &c. Who was, and is, and is to come, 1 IN By him subdu'd their enemies Shall be consign'd to hell; But they with him, above the skies, 'N Judah's land God is well known, 2 In Salem is his tabernacle, : In Sion is his seat. 3 There arrows of the bow he brake, The shield, the sword, the war. 4 More glorious thou than hills of prey, More excellent art far. 5 Those that were stout of heart are spoil'd, 6 When thy rebuke, O Jacob's God, 7 Thou, Lord, ev'n thou art he that should That may stand up before thy sight, '8 From heav'n thou judgment caus'd be heard; The earth was still with fear, 9 When God to judgment rose, to save 10 Surely the very wrath of man pay, 11 Vow to the Lord your God, and 12 By him the spirits shall be cut off PSALM LXXVII. THE same as Psal. lxxxviii. and cxliii. with their parallels; whose illustrations see, especially the cxliii. with the general preface. 1 Who came to save us, from on high, By his almighty pow'r- In day of his deep agony, And in the darkest hour, While death and hell possess'd his soul, His desolations to console, He thought on THE MOST HIGH. UNTO the Lord I with my unto God did cry; voice, Ev'n with my voice, and unto me 2 I in my trouble sought the Lord, And ceased not; my grieved soul 3 I to remembrance God did call, 4 Mine eyes, debarr'd from rest and sleep, My trouble is so great that I 5 The days of old to mind I call'd, A The times and ages that are past 6 By night my song I call to mind, 7 For ever will the Lord cast off, 10 Then did I say, That surely this I'll mind the years of the right hand 11 Yea, I remember will the works The wonders done of old by thee 12 I also will of all thy works And what God is so great in pow'r 14 Thou art the God that wonders do'st 15 To thine own people with thine arm Thou didst redemption bring; To Jacob's sons, and to the tribes Of Joseph that do spring. 16 The waters, Lord, perceived thee, The waters saw thee well; And they for fear aside did flee; And swiftly through the world abroad 18 Thy thunder's voice alongst the heav'n By lightnings lighten'd was the world. 19 Thy way is in the sea, and in 20 Thy people thou didst safely lead, By Moses' hand and Aaron's thou PSALM LXXVIII, HISTORICAL and commemorative; spoken in the person of Christ, concerning those things, which happened unto the people of old for examples unto us; that we, through patience and comfort of the Scriptures, might have great consolation, who have fled for refuge to the hope set before us. See Psal. xlix. parallels, and references.* Prose Psalms of the Bible. |