And satisfy them from the rock,
With honey for their meat.'

PS ALM LXXXII.

GOD in the great * assembly stands.
'Of kings and lordly states;'
Among the gods, † on both his hands
He judges and debates.

How long will ye ‡ pervert the right
With judgment false and wrong,
Favouring the wicked, ' by your might,'
Who thence grow bold and strong?'

Regard the weak and fatherless,
Despatch the poor § man's cause,
And raise the man in deep distress
By just and equal laws.

Defend the poor and desolate,
And rescue from the hands
Of wicked men the low estate
Of him that help demands.'

They know not, nor will understand,
In darkness they walk on;
The earth's foundations all are ¶ mov'd,
And ¶ out of order gone.

I said that ye were gods; yea, all
The sons of God Most High;
But ye shall die like men, and fall
As other princes die.'

Rise God; ** judge thou the earth 'in might,

This wicked' earth redress,'

Bagnadath-el. Bekerev. Tishphetu gnavel. Shiptu-dal.

§ Hatzdiku.

¶ Jimmotu. **Shiphts.

T

For thou art he who shalt by right
The nations all possess.

PSALM LXXXIII.

Be not thou silent 'now at length,'
O God! hold not thy peace;
Sit thou not still O God of ' strength,'
We cry, and do not cease.'

For lo! thy furious' foes'now' * swell
And storm outrageously,

And they that hate thee 'proud and fell’
Exalt their heads full high.

Against thy people they † contrive
Their plots and councils deep;
Them to ensnare they chiefly strive,
Whom thou dost hide and keep.

Come, let us cut them off, say they,
Till they no nation be;

That Israel's name for ever may
Be lost in memory.

For they consult T with all their might,
And all, as one in mind
Themselves against thee they unite,
And in firm union bind!

The tents of Edom, and the brood
Of scornful' Ishmael,

Moab, with them of Hagar's blood,

Gebal and Ammon there conspire,'

And hateful' Amalec,

* Jehemajun.

+ Jagnarimu.

Jirthjagnatsu gnal. | Tsephuneca.

+ Sod.

¶ Lev Jackdau.

The Philistines and they of Tyre,

'Whose bounds the sea doth check;'

With them 'great' Ashur also bands, 'And doth confirm the knot;

'All these have lent their armed hands' To aid the sons of Lot.

Do to them as to Midian' bold,'
'That wasted all the coast,'

To Sisera; and, as 'is told,'
"Thou didst' to Jabin's host.'

When at the brook of Kishon' old,'
They were repuls'd and slain,
At Endor quite cut off, and roll'd
As dung upon the plain.

As Zeb and Oreb, evil sped,
So let their princes speed;
As Zeba, and Zalmunnabled,'
So let their princes' bleed.'

'For they amidst their pride' have said,
By right now shall we seize

God's houses, and will now invade'
Their stately palaces.

*

My God! oh make them as a wheel,
'No quiet let them find;'

Giddy and 'restless,' let 'them reel'
Like stubble from the wind.

As 'when' an 'aged' wood takes fire 'Which on a sudden strays,'

The greedy' flame runs higher and higher Till all the mountains blaze;

*Neoth Elohim bears both.

Jehovah judgeth most upright

All people from the world's foundation.

Judge me, Lord; be judge in this
According to my righteousness,
And the innocence which is
Upon me; cause at length to cease
Of evil men the wickedness,
And their power that do amiss.

But the just establish fast,

Since thou art the just God that tries
Hearts and reins. On God is cast
My defence, and in him lies:
In him who both just and wise,
Saves the upright of heart at last.

God is a just judge and severe,
And God is every day offended;
If the unjust will not forbear,

His sword he whets, his bow hath bended
Already, and for him intended

The tools of death, that wait him near.

(His arrows purposely made he
For them that prosecute :) Behold,
He travels big with vanity;
Trouble he hath conceiv'd of old,
As in a womb; and from that mould.
Hath at length brought forth a lie.

He digged a pit and delv'd it deep,
And fell into the pit he made;

His mischief, that due course doth keep,
Turns on his head, and his ill trade
Of violence will, undelay'd,

Fall on his crown with ruin steep.

Then will I Jehovah's praise
According to his justice raise.

And sing the name and Deity
Of Jehovah the Most High!

PSALM VIII.

[August 14, 1653.]

O JEHOVAH Our Lord, how wondrous great
And glorious is thy Name through all the earth!
So as above the heavens thy praise to set
Out of the tender mouths of latest birth.

Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings, thou
Hast founded strength, because of all thy foes,
To stint the enemy, and slack th' avenger's brow,
That bends his rage thy providence to oppose.

When I behold thy heavens, thy fingers' art,
The moon, and stars, which thou so bright has

set

In the pure firmanent, then saith my heart,
O, what is man that thou rememb'rest yet,

And think'st upon him; or of man begot,

That him thou visit'st, and of him art found? Scarce to be less than gods, thou mad'st his lot, With honour and with state thou hast him crown'd.

O'er the works of thy hand thou mad'st him Lord,
Thou hast put all under his lordly feet;
All flocks, and herds, by thy commanding word,
All beasts that in the field or forest meet,

owl of the heavens, and fish that through the wet Sea-paths in shoals do slide, and know no dearth: O Jehovah our Lord, how wondrous great

And glorious is thy Name through all the earth!