Her boughs as high as cedars tall II Her branches on the western side 12 Why hast thou laid her hedges low, That all may pluck her, as they go, With rudest violence? 13 The tusked boar out of the wood Upturns it by the roots; Wild beasts there browse, and make their food 14 Return now, God of Hosts; look down From Heaven, thy seat divine; Behold us, but without a frown, And visit this thy Vine. 15 Visit this Vine, which thy right hand And the young branch, that for thyself 16 But now it is consumed with fire, They perish at thy dreadful ire, 17 Upon the Man of thy right hand Let thy good hand be laid; 18 So shall we not go back from thee 19 Return us, and thy grace divine, 50 60 70 Cause thou thy face on us to shine, And then we shall be safe. PSALM LXXXI. 1 To God our strength sing loud and clear; To Jacob's God, that all may hear, 2 Prepare a hymn, prepare a song ; 3 Blow, as is wont, in the new moon, The appointed time, the day whereon 4 This was a statute given of old A law of Jacob's God to hold, From whence they might not swerve. 5 This he a testimony ordained In Joseph, not to change, When as he passed through Egypt-land ; 6 From burden, and from slavish toil, His hands from pots, and miry soil, 7 When trouble did thee sore assail, And led thee out of thrall. 1 I answered thee in 1 thunder deep, Of Meriba renowned. 1 Be Sether ragnam. 31 8 Hear, O my people, hearken well: I testify to thee, Thou ancient stock of Israel, If thou wilt list to me: 9 Throughout the land of thy abode No alien God shall be, Nor shalt thou to a foreign god In honour bend thy knee. Io I am the Lord thy God, which brought Ask large enough, and I, besought, Will grant thy full demand. II And yet my people would not hear, And Israel, whom I loved so dear, 12 Then did I leave them to their will, Their own conceits they followed still, 13 Oh that my people would be wise, And oh that Israel would advise 14 Then would I soon bring down their foes, And turn my hand against all those That are their enemies. 15 Who hate the Lord should then be fain To bow to him and bend; But they, his people, should remain; Their time should have no end. 16 And he would feed them from the shock And satisfy them from the rock VOL. I. 40 50 60 PSALM LXXXII. I GOD in the 1great1 assembly stands 2 Among the gods 2 on both his hands 2 How long will ye 3 pervert the right With judgment false and wrong, Favouring the wicked by your might, Who thence grow bold and strong? 3 4 Regard the weak and fatherless; Despatch the1 man's cause; poor And 5 raise the man in deep distress 4 By 5 just and equal laws. 4 Defend the poor and desolate, Of wicked men the low estate 5 They know not, nor will understand; The earth's foundations all are 6moved, 6 Jimmotu. And out of order gone. 6 I said that ye were gods, yea all The sons of God Most High; 7 But ye shall die like men, and fall As other princes die. 8 Rise, God; 7judge thou the earth in might; This wicked earth redress; For thou art he who shalt by right PSALM LXXXIII. 7 Shiphta I BE not thou silent now at length; 20 2 For lo! thy furious foes now 'swell, And1 storm outrageously; And they that hate thee, proud and fell, 3 Against thy people they 2 contrive 4 3 Their plots and counsels deep; 5 Whom thou dost hide and keep. "Till they no nation be; That Israel's name for ever may Be lost in memory." 5 For they consult 6 with all their might, And all as one in mind Themselves against thee they unite, And in firm union bind. 6 The tents of Edom, and the brood Moab, with them of Hagar's blood, 7 Gebal and Ammon there conspire, The Philistines, and they of Tyre, All these have lent their armed hands 9 Do to them as to Midian bold, To Sisera, and as is told Thou didst to Jabin's host, When at the brook of Kishon old They were repulsed and slain, 10 At Endor quite cut off, and rolled As dung upon the plain. 1 Jehemajun 2 Jagnari ทน. |