58. But turned their backs, and fell away' like their forefathers starting aside' like a' broken bow.

59. For they grieved him with' their hill-altars and provoked him to dis'pleasure' with their images.

60. When God heard this,' he was wroth and took' sore dis'pleasure at Israel.

61. So that he forsook the taber'nacle in Silo: even the tent that he had' pitched a'mong men.

62. He delivered their power' into captivity and their beauty' into the enemy's hand.

63. He gave his people over also un'to the sword: and was' wroth with' his inheritance.

64. The fire consumed their young and their maidens were' not' given to marriage.

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6. Pour out thine indignation upon the heathen that have' not known thee:

and upon the kingdoms that have not'

called up on thy Name.

7. For they have de'voured Jacob : and laid' waste his' dwelling-place.

8. O remember not our old sins, but have mercy upon us, and' that soon: for we are' come to' great misery.

9. Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy Name : O deliver us, and be merciful unto our' sins, for' thy Name's sake.

10. Wherefore do the' heathen say : Where' is now their God?

11. O let the vengeance of thy servants" blood that is shed be openly shewed upon the' heathen' in our sight.

12. O let the sorrowful sighing of the prisoners' come before thee: according to the greatness of thy power, preserve thou those that' are appointed to die.

13. And for the blasphemy wherewith our neighbours' have blasphemed thee reward thou them, O Lord,' seven-fold' into their bosom.

14. So we, that are thy people, and sheep of thy pasture, shall give thee' thanks for ever and will alway be shewing forth thy praise from gene'ration to generation.

PSALM 80. Qui regis Israel.

HEAR, O thou Shepherd of Israel,

thou that leadest Joseph' like a sheep shew thyself also, thou that' sittest up'on the cherubims.

2. Before Ephraim,' Benjamin, and Manasses stir up thy' strength, and' come, and help us.

3. Turn us a'gain, O God: shew the light of thy' countenance, and' we shall be whole.

4. O Lord' God of hosts: how long wilt thou be angry with thy people that prayeth?

5. Thou feedest them with the' bread of tears: and givest them' plenteousness of' tears to drink.

6. Thou hast made us a very strife un'to our neighbours : and our enemies' laugh us to scorn.

7. Turn us again, thou' God of hosts: shew the light of thy' countenance, and' we shall be whole.

8. Thou hast brought a' vine out of Egypt thou hast cast' out the' hea then, and planted it.

9. Thou' madest room for it and when it had taken' root it' filled the land.

10. The hills were covered with the'

were' like the' goodly cedar-trees.

11. She stretched out her branches un'to the sea and her boughs un'to the river.

12. Why hast thou then broken' down her hedge that all they that go' by pluck' off her grapes?

13. The wild boar out of the wood doth' root it up and the wild' beasts of the' field devour it.

14. Turn thee again, thou God of hosts, look' down from heaven: be'hold, and visit this vine;

15. And the place of the vineyard that thy right hand hath planted :

and the branch that thou madest so' strong' for thyself.

16. It is burnt with' fire, and cut down and they shall perish at the re'buke' of thy countenance.

17. Let thy hand be upon the' man of thy right hand and upon the son of man, whom thou madest so strong for thine own self.

18. And so will not we go back from thee: O let us live, and we shall' call upon thy Name.

19. Turn us again, O Lord' God of hosts shew the light of thy' countenance, and' we shall be whole.

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7. Thou calledst upon me in troubles, and' I delivered thee and heard thee what time as the' storm' fell upon thee.

8. I' proved thee also: at the' waters of strife.

9. Hear, O my people, and I will as sure thee, O Israel: if' thou wilt' hearken unto me,

10. There shall no strange god be in thee neither shalt thou worship' any' other god.

11. I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the' land of Egypt: open thy mouth' wide, and' I shall fill it.

12. But my people would not hear my voice and' Israel would' not obey

me.

13. So I gave them up unto their' own hearts' lusts: and let them follow their own i'maginations.

14. O that my people would have' hearkened unto me for if Israel had' walked in my ways,

15. I should soon have put down their enemies and turned my hand a'gainst their adversaries.

16. The haters of the Lord should have been' found liars: but their time' should have en'dured for ever.

17. He should have fed them also with the finest wheat-flour : and with honey out of the stony rock should' I have satisfied thee.