O come for our salvation;

Stir up thy strength and might. 3 Turn us again, O Lord our God, And upon us vouchsafe

To make thy countenance to shine,
And so we shall be safe.

4 O Lord of Hosts, Almighty God,
How long shall kindled be

Thy wrath against the prayer made
By thine own folk to thee?

5 Thou tears of sorrow giv'st to them
Instead of bread to eat;

Yea, tears instead of drink thou giv'st
To them in measure great.
6 Thou makest us a strife unto
Our neighbours round about;
Our enemies among themselves
At us do laugh and flout.

7 Turn us again, O God of Hosts,
And upon us vouchsafe

To make thy countenance to shine,
And so we shall be safe.

8 A vine from Egypt brought thou hast,
By thine outstretched hand;

And thou the heathen out didst cast,
To plant it in their land.

9 Before it thou a room didst make,
Where it might grow and stand;
Thou causedst it deep root to take,
And it did fill the land.

10 The mountains vail'd were with its shade, As with a covering;

Like goodly cedars were the boughs
Which out from it did spring.

11 Upon the one hand to the sea
Her boughs she did out send;

On th' other side unto the flood

Her branches did extend.

12 Why hast thou then thus broken down.
And ta'en her hedge away?
So that all passengers do pluck,
And make of her a prey.

13 The boar who from the forest comes
Doth waste it at his pleasure;

The wild beast of the field also
Devours it out of measure.

14 O God of Hosts, we thee beseech,
Return now unto thine;

Look down from heav'n in love, behold,
And visit this thy vine:

15 This vineyard, which thine own right hand Hath planted us among;

And that same branch, which for thyself
Thou hast made to be strong.

16 Burnt up it is with flaming fire,
It also is cut down :
They utterly are perished

When as thy face doth frown.

170 let thy hand be still upon
The Man of thy right hand
The Son of man, whom for thyself
Thou madest strong to stand.
18 So henceforth we will not go back,
Nor turn from thee at all:

O do thou quicken us, and we
Upon thy name will call.

19 Turn us again, Lord God of hosts,
And upon us vouchsafe

To make thy countenance to shine,
And so we shall be safe.

PSALM LXXXI.

FULL of praise and divine expostulation with the sons of men- -the meaning obvious.

The shadows all for ever o'er,
Believing Greek, believing Jew,
O praise the Lord for evermore!

O praise the Lord with spirit new ! {.[]
Behold the humanized heart,

That fed the sympathising tear
Of Jesus-when the tender part

He acted o'er the city dear * !

1 SING

NING loud to God our strength; with joy,
To Jacob's God do sing.

2 Take up a psalm, the pleasant harp,
Timbrel and psalt'ry bring.

3 Blow trumpets at new-moon, what day Our feast appointed is:

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For charge to Isr'el, and a law
Of Jacob's God was this.

5 To Joseph this a testimony
He made, when Egypt land

He travell'd through, where speech I heard

I did not understand..

6 His shoulder I from burdens took,

His hands from pots did free.

7 Thou didst in trouble on me call,
And I deliver'd thee:

In secret place of thundering
I did thee answer make;
And at the streams of Meribah
Of thee a proof did take.

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* Luke xix. 41. "And when he was come near, be beheld i the city, and wept over it."

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80 thou, my people, give an ear,
I'll testify to thee;

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To thee, O Isr'el, if thou wilt

But hearken unto me.

9 In midst of thee there shall not be
Any strange god at all;
Nor unto any god unknown
Thou bowing down shalt fall.
10 I am the Lord thy God, which did
From Egypt land thee guide;
I'll fill thy mouth abundantly,
Do thou it open wide.

11 But yet my people to my voice
Would not attentive be;

And ev❜n my chosen Israel
He would have none of me.

12 So to the lust of their own hearts
I them delivered;

And then in counsels of their own
They vainly wandered.

180 that my people had me heard,
Isr'el my ways had chose !

14 I had their en'mies soon subdu'd
My hand turn'd on their foes.
15 The haters of the Lord to him
Submission should have feign'd;

But as for them, their time should have
For evermore remain'd.

16 He should have also fed them with
The finest of the wheat;

Of honey from the rock thy fill
I should have made thee eat.

PSALM LXXXII.

DESCRIPTIVE of the glory of THE SON OF GOD, and giving instruction to rulers. See John x. 34. and Psal. ii.

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IN

Among the gods the Lord is God:
Advance his praise on high!
Let all the princes kiss the rod,
And fall submissively!-
The world's into confusion gone,
And all its gods shall die;
But we adore TH' ETERNAL SON,
TH' ETERNAL GOD MOST HIGH.

N god's assembly God doth stand;
He judgeth gods among.

2 How long, accepting persons vile,
Will ye give judgment wrong?
3 Defend the poor and fatherless;
To poor oppress'd do right.

4 The poor and needy ones set free;
Rid them from ifl men's night.

5 They know not, nor will understand;
In darkness they walk on:
All the foundations of the earth
Out of their course are gone. {
6 I said that ye are gods, and are
Sons of the Highest all:

7 But ye shall die like men, and as
One of the princes fall.

8 O God, do thou raise up thyself,
The earth to judgment call:
For thou, as thine inheritance,
Shalt take the nations all.

• Isa. ix. 6. Prov. viii. 22-36. Dan. iii, 25. Heb. i. 6. &c.