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PSALM LXXXI.

I To God our strength sing loud and clear;
Sing loud to God our King;

To Jacob's God, that all may hear,

Loud acclamations ring.

2 Prepare a hymn, prepare a song;
The timbrel hither bring;
The cheerful psaltery bring along,
And harp with pleasant string.
3 Blow, as is wont, in the new moon,
With trumpet's lofty sound,

The appointed time, the day whereon
Our solemn feast comes round.

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;
The tongue I heard was strange.

6 From burden, and from slavish toil,
I set his shoulder free;

His hands from pots, and miry soil,
Deliver'd were by me.

7 When trouble did thee sore assail,
On me then didst thou call,
And I to free thee did not fail,
And led thee out of thrall.
I answer'd thee 1in thunder deep,
With clouds encompass'd round;
I tried thee at the water steep
Of Meriba renowned.

8 Hear, O my people, hearken well:
I testify to thee,

Thou ancient stock of Israel,

If thou wilt list to me:

1 Be Sether ragnam.

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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
Thee out of Egypt land;

Ask large enough, and I, besought,
Will grant thy full demand.

II And yet my people would not hear,
Nor hearken to my voice;

And Israel, whom I loved so dear,
Misliked me for his choice.

12 Then did I leave them to their will,
And to their wandering mind;

Their own conceits they follow'd still,
Their own devices blind.

13 Oh that my people would be wise,
To serve me all their days!

And oh that Israel would advise

To walk my righteous ways!

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;

Their time should have no end.

16 And he would feed them from the shock
With flour of finest wheat,

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

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PSALM LXXXII.

1 GOD in the 1great 1assembly stands Of kings and lordly states;

'Among the gods on both his hands He judges and debates.

2 How long will ye pervert the right With judgment false and wrong, Favouring the wicked by your might, Who thence grow bold and strong? 3 Regard the weak and fatherless;

'Despatch the 'poor man's cause; And raise the man in deep distress By just and equal laws. 4 Defend the poor and desolate, And rescue from the hands Of wicked men the low estate Of him that help demands.

5 They know not, nor will understand;
In darkness they walk on;

The earth's foundations all are "moved,
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

The nations all possess.

1 Bagnadath-el.

& Tishphetu [Tishpetu] gnavel. 6 Jimmotu.

Hatzdiku.

2 Bekerev.

4 Shiphtu-dal.

7 Shiphta [Shophtah].

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PSALM LXXXIII.

I BE not thou silent now at length;
O God, hold not thy peace:

Sit not thou still, O God of strength,
We cry and do not cease.

2 For lo! thy furious foes now 1swell,
And storm outrageously;

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

3 Against thy people they contrive

3Their plots and counsels deep; 4Them to ensnare they chiefly strive "Whom thou dost hide and keep.

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

That Israel's name for ever may

Be lost in memory.'

5 For they consult 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
Of scornful Ishmael,

Moab, with them of Hagar's blood,
That in the desert dwell,

7 Gebal and Ammon there conspire,
And hateful Amalec,

The Philistims, and they of Tyre,
Whose bounds the sea doth check.

8 With them great Asshur also bands,
And doth confirm the knot;

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

9 Do to them as to Midian bold,

That wasted all the coast;

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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 roll'd
As dung upon the plain.
11 As Zeb and Oreb evil sped,
So let their princes speed;
As Zeba and Zalmunna bled,
So let their princes bleed.

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

1God's houses, and will now invade

Their stately palaces.'

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

Giddy and restless let them reel,

Like stubble from the wind.

14 As, when an aged wood takes fire

Which on a sudden strays,

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

15 So with thy whirlwind them pursue,

And with thy tempest chase;

16 And till they yield thee honour due, Lord, fill with shame their face.

17 Ashamed and troubled let them be, Troubled and shamed for ever, Ever confounded, and so die

With shame, and scape it never.

18 Then shall they know that thou, whose name

Jehovah is alone,

Art the Most High, and thou the same
O'er all the earth art One.

1 Neoth Elohim bears both.
They seek thy Name: Heb.

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