menty terrors past distract my mind, Babyd fears of blacker days behind. fame of Thy wrath hast burst upon my head, With that day terrors fill my soul with dread; grant Environed as with waves combined, irage and for a general deluge joined. It still of My lovers, friends, familiars, all Almighty dark oblivion all retired, at many moved from sight, and out of call; generad,

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or at least to me expired.

PSALM LXXXIX.

In thee the sov'reign right remains Of earth and heaven; thee, Lord, alone The world, and all that it contains,

Their Maker and Preserver own. 12 The poles on which the globe does

rest

Were form'd by thy creating voice;. Tabor and Hermon, east and west, In thy sustaining power rejoice. 13 Thy arm is mighty, strong thy hand, Yet, Lord, thou dost with justice reign; 14 Possess'd of absolute command,

Thou truth and mercy dost maintain. 15 Happy, thrice happy they, who hear Thy sacred trumpet's joyful sound; Who may at festivals appear,

With thy most glorious presence crown'd.

Sion hai HY mercies, Lord, shall be my song; 16 Thy saints shall always be o'erjoy'd, uch as my song on them-shall ever dwell;| and and ages yet unborn, my tongue (hertrahy never-failing truth shall tell. she shall have affirm'd and still maintain, ater from mercy shall for ever last;

y truth, that does the heavens sustain, PSA Like them shall stand for ever fast.

Who on thy sacred name rely;
And in thy righteousness employ'd,
Above their foes be rais'd on high.
17 For in thy strength they shall ad-

vance,

Whose conquests from thy favour spring;

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voice, And Israel's God our Israel's King. With David I a league have made: 19 Thus spak'st thou by thy Prophet's him, my servant, and my choice,

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voice.

By solemn oath this grant convey'd: A mighty champion I will send; While earth, and seas, and skies en-From Judah's tribe have I made choice. dure, Of one, who shall the rest defend. Thy seed shall in my sight remain; 20 My servant David I have found, o them thy throne I will ensure, With holy oil anointed him; They shall to endless ages reign.' Him shall the hand support that For such stupendous truth and love, crown'd, Both heaven and earth just praises owe, omy choirs of angels sung above, And by assembled saints below. What seraph of celestial birth with To vie with Israel's God shall dare? who among the gods of earth With our Almighty Lord compare? om With rev'rence and religious dread, lunge His saints should to his temple press;

has

ballBut if, with more than common strength, 19 Because, with well-plac'd confidence, Te To eighty we arrive,

ConsYet then our boasted strength decays,
The disti To sorrow turn'd and pain;
o meto soon the slender thread is cut,
But hate And we no more remain.

A thousand at thy side shall die,8,9 sight thy right hand ten thousand lie, While thy firm health untouch'd remains;

Who his He fathe To him theri

3 For God the Lord, enthron'd in state,19 To worship at his sacred court,
with unrivall'd glory, great:

A King superior far to all

bailar Whom gods the heathen falsely call.
4 The depths of earth are in his hand,
Her secret wealth at his cominand;
The strength of hills that reach the skies,
Subjected to his empire lies.

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By the same sov'reign right, is his; Tis mov'd by his Almighty hand, That form'd and fix'd the solid land. O let us to his courts repair, Lord And bow with adoration there; kindnesDown on our knees devoutly all by thy Before the Lord, our Maker, fall. ost long

For he's our God, our Shepherd he, This man His flock and pasture sheep are we: seasons If then you'll, like his flock, draw near, God To-day, if you his voice will hear,

t stubs Let not your harden'd hearts renew God Your father's crimes and judgments too; favour Nor here provoke my wrath, as they

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In desert plains of Meribah.

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wide10 They forty years my patience griev'd, The Though daily I their wants reliev'd. cleo Then-Tis a faithless race, I said, Long Whose heart from me has always stray'd. 11 They ne'er will tread my righteous path;

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SING to the Lord a new bad throng
Let earth in one assembled throng
Her common Patron's praise resound:

Let all the trembling world resort.
10 Proclaim aloud, Jehovah reigns,
Whose power the universe sustains,
And banish'd justice will restore;
11 Let therefore heaven new joys con.
fess;

And heavenly mirth let earth express;
Its loud applause the ocean roar;
Its mute inhabitants rejoice,
And for this triumph find a voice.
12 For joy let fertile vallies sing,
The cheerful groves their tribute bring,
The tuneful choir of birds awake,
13 The Lord's approach to celebrate;
Who now sets out with awful state,

His circuit through the earth to take:
From heaven to judge the world he's

come,

With justice to reward and doom.
PSALM XCVII.

JEHOVAH reigus, let all the earth
In his just government rejoice;
Let all the isles, with sacred mirth,
In his applause unite their voice.
2 Darkness and clouds of awful shade
His dazzling glory shroud in state;
Justice and truth his guards are made,
And fix'd by his pavilion wait.
3 Devouring fire before his face,

His foes around with vengeance
struck;

4 His lightning set the world on blaze;
Earth saw it, and with terror shook.
The proudest hills his presence felt,
Their height nor strength could help
afford;

The proudest hills like wax did melt
In presence of th' Almighty Lord.
6 The heavens, his righteousness to show,
With storms of fire our foes pursu❜d,
And all the trembling world below
Have his descending glory view'd.

2. Sing to the Lord, and bless his name, 7 Confounded be their impious hosts,

of in From day to day his praise proclaim,

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Who us has with salvation crown'd: defents 3 To heathen lands his fame rehearse, he Lord His wonders to the universe.

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4 He's great, and greatly to be prais'd:
In majesty and glory rais'd

Who make the gods to whom they pray;

All who of pageant idols boast:

To him, ye gods, your worship pay. 8 Glad Sion of thy triumph heard,

And Judah's daughters were o'erjoy'd; Because thy righteous judgments, Lord, Have pagan pride and power destroy'd.

Above all other deities:
5 For pageantry and idols all
Are they, whom gods the heathen call;
He only rules, who made the skies; 9 For thou, O God, art seated high,
6 With majesty and honour crown'd, Above earth's potentates enthron'd;
Beauty and strength his throne sur-Thou, Lord, unrivall'd in the sky,

da round.
s7 Be therefore both to him restar'd

Supreme by all the gods art own'd: 10 Ye who to serve this Lord aspire, Abhor what's ill, and truth esteem; He'll keep his servants' souls entire,

And them from wicked hands redeem. 11 For seeds are sown of glorious light, A future harvest for the just;