PSALM LXXXI. 1. To God our strength sing loud, and clear, Sing loud to God our King; To Jacob's God, that all may hear, 2. Prepare a hymn, prepare a song, The timbrel hither bring; The cheerful psaltery bring along, 3. Blow, as is wont, in the new moon The appointed time, the day whereon 4. This was a statute given of old For Israel to observe ; A law of Jacob's God, to hold, From whence they might not swerve. 5. This he a testimony ordain'd In Joseph, not to change, When as he pass'd through Egypt land; 6. From burden, and from slavish toil, His hands from pots, and miry soil, 7. When trouble did thee sore assail, Of Meriba renown'd. 8. Hear, O my People, hearken well; I testify to thee, 9. Throughout the land of thy abode t No alien God shall be, Nor shalt thou to a foreign God In honour bend thy knee.'' 10. I am the Lord thy God which brought Thee out of Egypt land; Ask large enough, and I, besought, 11. And yet my people would not hear, 12. Then did I leave them to their will, 13. O, that my people would be wise, 14. Then would I soon bring down their foes, That now so proudly rise; 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, 16. And he would feed them from the shock With flower of finest wheat, And satisfy them from the rock PSALM LXXXII. 1. God in the great assembly stands 2. How long will ye pervert the right With judgement false and wrong, Favouring the wicked by your might, Who thence grow bold and strong? 3. Regard the weak and fatherless, 4. Defend the poor and desolate, Of wicked men the low estate 5. They know not, nor will understand, In darkness they walk on. |