No politics shall recommend
His country's foe to be my friend:
None e'er shall to my favour rise,
By flattering or malicious lies.

8 All those who wicked courses take,
An early sacrifice I'll make;
Cut off, destroy, till none remain
God's holy city to profane.

PSALM CII.

114 Her scatter'd ruins by thy saints
With pity are survey'd;

They grieve to see her lofty spires
In dust and rubbish laid.

15, 16 The name and glory of the
Lord

All heathen kings shall fear;
When he shall Sion build again,
And in full state appear.

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Our sons, for their recorded grace,
Shall his just praise declare.
19 For God, from his abode on high,
His gracious beams display'd:
The Lord, from heaven, his lofty throne,
Hath all the earth survey'd

20 He listen'd to the captives' moans,
He heard their mournful cry,
And freed, by his resistless power,

The wretches doom'd to die.

21 That they in Sion, where he dwells,
Might celebrate his fame,

Does languish so with grief, that scarce And through the holy city sing
My needful food I mind.

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With an unclouded face;

or now her time is come, thy own
Appointed day of grace.

Loud praises to his name:

22 When all the tribes assembling there,
Their solemn vows address,
And neighb'ring lands, with glad con-
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The Lord their God confess..
23 But e'er my race is run, my strength
Through his fierce wrath decays;
He has, when all my wishes bloom'd,
Cut short my hopeful days.

24 Lord, end not thou my life, said I,
When half is scarcely past;
Thy years, from worldly changes free,
To endless ages last.

25 The strong foundations of the earth
Of old by thee were laid;

Thy hands the beauteous arch of heaven
With wondrous skill have made.
26, 27 Whilst thou for ever shalt endure,
They soon shall pass away;

And, like a garment often worn,
Shall tarnish and decay.

Like that, when thou ordain'st their
change,

To thy command they bend;
But thou continuest still the same,
Nor have thy years an end.

28 Thou to the children of thy saints
Shalt lasting quiet give;
Whose happy race, securely fix'd,
Shall in thy presence live.

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16 The trees of God, without the care
Or art of man, with sap are fed:
The mountain-cedar looks as fair
As those in royal gardens bred.
17 Safe in the lofty cedar's arms

The wanderers of the air may rest;
The hospitable pine from harms

Protects the stork, her pious guest.
18 Wild goats the craggy rock ascend,
Its towering heights their fortress
We make,

Whose cells in labyrinths extend,

Where feebler creatures refuge take.
19 The moon's inconstant aspect shows
Th' appointed seasons of the year;
Th' instructed sun his duty knows,

His hour to rise and disappear.
20, 21 Darkness he makes the earth to
shroud,

When forest beasts securely stray;
Young lions roar their wants aloud
To providence, that sends them prey.
22 They range all night on slaughter
bent,

Till summon'd by the rising morn,
To skulk in dens, with one consent
The conscious ravagers return.
bas 23 Forth to the tillage of his soil
unk
The husbandman securely goes,
Commencing with the sun his toil,
With him returns to his repose.
24 How various, Lord, thy works are
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The earth is with thy treasure crown'd,
Till nature's hand can grasp no more.
PART IV.

25 But still the vast unfathom'd main,
Of wonders a new scene supplies,
Whose depths inhabitants contain
Of every form, and every size.
26 Full-freighted ships from every port
There cut their unmolested way;
hady Leviathan, whom there to sport

Thou mad'st, has compass there to play.
27 These various troops of sea and land
In sense of common want agree;
All wait on thy dispensing hand,

And have their daily alms from thee.
28 They gather what thy stores disperse,
Without their trouble to provide;
Thou op'st thy hand, the universe,
The craving world, is all supply'd.
29 Thou for a moment hid'st thy face,
The num'rous ranks of creatures
mourn;

Thou tak'st their breath, all nature's race

Forthwith to mother earth return. 30 Again thou send'st thy spirit forth

T' inspire the mass with vital seed; Nature's restor'd, and parent earth Smiles on her new-created breed.

131 Thus through successive ages stands Firm fix'd thy providential care; Pleased with the work of thy own hands, Thou dost the waste of time repair. 32 One look of thine, one wrathful look, Earth's panting breast with terror fills;

One touch from thee, with clouds of smoke

In darkness shrouds the proudest hills. 33 In praising God, while he prolongs My breath, I will that breath employ; 34 And join devotion to my songs, Sincere, as in him is my joy. 35 While sinners from earth's face are hurl'd,

My soul, praise thou his holy name,
Till with my soug the list'ning world
Join concert, and his praise proclaim.
PSALM CV.

Render thanks, and bless the Lord;
Invoke his sacred name;

Acquaint the nations with his deeds,
His matchless deeds proclaim.
2 Sing to his praise in lofty hymns;
His wondrous works rehearse;
Make them the theme of your discourse,
And subject of your verse.

3 Rejoice in his Almighty name,
Alone to be ador'd;

And let their hearts o'erflow with joy
That humbly seek the Lord.

4 Seek ye the Lord, his saving strength
Devoutly still implore;

And, where he's ever present, seek
His face for evermore.

5 The wonders that his hands have
wrought

Keep thankfully in mind;
The righteous statutes of his mouth,
And laws to us assign'd.

6 Know ye, his servant Abraham's seed,
And Jacob's chosen race;

7 He's still our God, his judgments still
Throughout the earth take place.
8 His cov'nant he hath kept in mind
For num'rous ages past,

Which yet for thousand ages more
In equal force shall last.