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Prais'd by the saints, and heav'nly host,
For all his works of wonder done!

BLESS God

LESS God my soul: O Lord my God,
Thou art exceeding great;

With honour and with majesty

Thou clothed art in state.

2 With light as with a robe, thyself
Thou coverest about;

And, like unto a curtain, thou
The heavens stretchest out.

3 Who of his chambers doth the beams
Within the waters lay;

Who doth the clouds his chariot make,
On wings of wind make way.
4 Who flaming fire his ministers,
His angels sp'rits, doth make:
5 Who earth's foundations did lay,
That it should never shake.

6 Thou didst it cover with the deep,
As with a garment spread :
The waters stood above the hills,
When thou the word but said.
7 But at the voice of thy rebuke
They fled, and would not stay;
They at thy thunder's dreadful voice
Did haste them fast away.

8 They by the mountains do ascend,
And by the valley-ground
Descend, unto that very place

Which thou for them didst found.
9 Thou hast a bound unto them set,
That they may not pass over,
That they do not return again
The face of earth to cover.

10 He to the valleys sends the springs,
Which runs among the hills:
among

11 They to all beasts of field give drink, Wild asses drink their fills.

12 By them the fowls of heav'n shall have.
Their habitation,

Which do among the branches sing
With delectation.

13 He from his chambers watereth
The hills, when they are dry'd:
With fruit and increase of thy works
The earth is satisfy'd.

14 For cattle he makes grass to grow,
He makes the herb to spring

For th' use of man, that food to him
He from the earth may bring;

15 And wine, that to the heart of man
Doth cheerfulness impart,

Oil that his face makes shine, and bread.
That strengtheneth his heart.

16 The trees of God are full of
The cedars that do stand

sap

In Lebanon, which planted were
By his almighty hand.

17 Birds of the air upon their boughs
Do chuse their nests to make;
As for the stork, the fir-tree she
Doth for her dwelling take.

18 The lofty mountains for wild goats
A place of refuge be;

The conies also to the rocks.

Do for their safety flee.

19 He sets the moon in heav'n, thereby

The seasons to discern:"

From him the sun his certain time
Of going down doth learn.

20 Thou darkness mak'st, 'tis night, then beasts Of forests creep abroad.

21 The lions young roar for their prey, And seek their meat from God.

22 The sun doth rise, and home they flock, Down in their dens they lie.

23 Man goes to work, his labour he Doth to the ev❜ning ply.

24 How manifold, Lord, are thy works!
In wisdom wonderful

Thou ev'ry one of them hast made;
Earth's of thy riches full:

25 So is this great and spacious sea,
Wherein things creeping are,
Which number'd cannot be; and beasts
Both great and small are there.

26 There ships go; there thou mak'st to play That leviathan great.

27 These all wait on thee, that thou may'st In due time give them meat.

28 That which thou givest unto them
They gather for their food;

Thine hand thou open'st lib'rally,
They filled are with good.

29 Thou hid'st thy face; they troubled are, Their breath thou tak'st away;

Then do they die, and to their dust
Return again do they.

30 Thy quick ning Spirit thou send'st forth, 'I'hen they created be;

And then the earth's decayed face

Renewed is by thee.

31 The glory of the mighty Lord
Continue shall for ever:

The Lord JEHOVAH shall rejoice
In all his works together.

32 Earth, as affrighted, trembleth all
If he on it but look;

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And if the mountains he but touch,
They presently do smoke..

33 I will sing to the Lord most high,
So long as I shall live;

And while I being have I shall
To my God praises give.
34 Of him my meditation shall
Sweet thoughts to me afford;
And as for me, I will rejoice
In God, my only Lord.

35 From earth let sinners be consum'd,
Let ill men no more be.

O thou my soul, bless thou the Lord.
Praise to the Lord give ye.

PSALM CV.

HISTORICAL, Commemorative, and monitory; setting forth the ways of the Lord towards his people, and their conditions before him-serving for examples to us. See 1 Cor. x. 4. Now these things

were our examples,' &c.—and, Rom. xv. 4. For 'whatsoever things were written aforetime, were written for our learning,' &c.

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O thanks and praise be to the Lord

For all his holy ways,

Whose mercies stand upon record
To everlasting days!

VIVE thanks to God, call on his name;

GIVE

To men his deeds make known.

2 Sing ye to him, sing psalms; proclaim His wondrous works each one.

3 See that ye in his holy name
To glory do accord;

And let the heart of ev'ry one
Rejoice that seeks the Lord.

4 The Lord Almighty, and his strength, With stedfast hearts seek

ye:

His blessed and his gracious face
Seek ye continually.

5 Think on the works that he hath done,
Which admiration breed;

His wonders and the judgments all
Which from his mouth proceed :

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ye that are of Abr'ham's race,
His servant well approv'n;
And ye that Jacob's children are,
Whom he chose for his own.

7 Because he, and he only, is

The mighty Lord our God;

And his most righteous judgments are.
In all the earth abroad.

8 His cov'nant he remember'd hath,
That it may ever stand:

To thousand generations

The word he did command.

9 Which covenant he firmly made
With faithful Abraham,

And unto Isaac, by his oath,
He did renew the same:

10 And unto Jacob, for a law,
He made it firm and sure,

A covenant to Israel,

Which ever should endure.

11 He said, I'll give Canaan's land

For heritage to you;

12 While they were strangers there, and few, In number very few :

13 While yet they went from land to land
Without a sure abode;

And while through sundry kingdoms they
Did wander far abroad;