The desolation PSALMS. of the sanctuary. 16 When I thought to know this, itjary, they have defiled by casting donor was too painful for me ; the dwelling-place of thy uame to the 17 Until I went into the sanctuary of ground. God; then understood I their end. 8 They said in their hearts, Let us de18 Surely thou didst set them in slip-stroy them together: they have burupery places: thou castedst them downed up all the synagogues of God in the into destruction. land. 19 How are they brought into desola 9 We see not our signs: there is no tion, as in a moment! they are utterlyfmore any prophet; neither is there consumed with terrors. 20 As a dream when one awaketh ;] so, O LORD, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. 21 Thus my heart was grieved, and 1|| was pricked in my reins. 22. So foolish was I, and ignorant: 1 was as a beast before thec. 23 Nevertheless I am continually with theer thou hast holden me by my right hand. 24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and alterward receive me to glory. among us any that knoweth how long, 10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach ? shall the enemy blas pheme thy name for ever ? 11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out ul thy bosom. 12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. 13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of tie dragons in the waters. 14 Thou brakest the heads of levi than in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wil 25 Whom have I in heaven bid thee and there is none upon earth that I de-derncas. eire besides thee. 26 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. 27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish thou bast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee. 28 But it is good for me to draw year to God: I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may deckare all thy works. 15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the food: thou driedst up mighty riv ers. 16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. 17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth; thou hast made summer and winter. 18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Lond, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. PSALM LXXIV. T Maschil of Asaplı. GOD, why hast thou cast us off 19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtlefor ever? why doth thine anger dove unto the multitude of the wicked: smoke against the sheep of thy pas-forget not the congregation of my poor ture? for ever. 2 Remember thy congregation,which 20 Have respect unto the covenant; thou has purchased of old; the rod of for the dark places of the earth are thine inheritance, which thou hast re-full of the habitations of cruelty. deemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt. 3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; cven all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary, 4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregation; they set up their ensigns for signs. 21 0 let not the oppressed retur ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name. 22. Arise, O God, plead thine own cause; remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily. 23 Forget not the voice of thine ene.. nies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseths continually. PSALM. LXXV. 5. A man was tamuus according as he nad lifted up axes upou the thick trees. 6 But now they break down the carv-T To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, ed work thereof at once with axes and A Psalm or Song of Asaph. Lammers. amme have cast fire into thy sanctuUanks to thee do we give God's great and PSALMS. gracious works. thanks: for that thy name is near, thy bring presents unto him that ought to wondrous works declare. be feared. 12 He shall cut off the spirit of prin ces: he is terrible to the kings of the earth. PSALM LXXVII. To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaphi. ishly; and to the wicked, Lift not upŢ CRIED unto God with my voice, the horn: 5 Lift not up your born on high: speak not with a stiff neck. 6 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. 7 But God is the judge: he putteth down one and setteth up another. 8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them. 9 But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. 10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut ofl'; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted. PSALM LXXVI. To the chief Musician on Neginoth, N Judah is God known: his name IN Judah is God!! 2 In Salem also is bis tabernacle,and his dwelling-place in Zion. 3 There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah. 4 Thou art more glorious and ex cellent than the mountains of prey. 5 The stout-hearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands. 6 At thy rebuke,O God of Jacob,both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep. 7 Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry ? s Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from beaven; the earth feared, and was still, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the LORD: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. 3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. 4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: 1 am so troubled that I cannot speak. 5 I have considered the days of oldj. the years of ancient times. 6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: Icommune with mine own heart; and iny spirit made diligent search. 7 Will the LORD cast off for ever? and will be be favourable no more? 8 Is lus mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? 9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah. 10 And I said, This is my infirmity; but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High. 11 I will remember the works of the LORD; surely I will remember thy wonders of old. 12 I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings. 13 Thy way, O God,is in the sanctu ary; who is so great a God as our God ? 14 Thon art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people. 15 Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah. 16 The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid the depths also were troubled. 17 The clouds poured out water; the skies sent out a sound: thine arrow a also went abroad. 9 When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah. 10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath 18 The voice of thy thunder was in shalt thou restrain. the heaven: the lightnings lightened 11 Vow, and pay unto the LORD your the world: the earth trembled and God: let all that be round about himļshook God's wrath against PSALMS. the disobedient. 19 Thy way is in the sea,and thy path him, by provoking the Most High in in the great waters, and thy footsteps the wilderness. are not known. 20 Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron. PSALM LXXVIII. T Maschil of Asaph. IVE ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of iny mouth. G 2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old ; 3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. 4 We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he bath done. 5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children; 6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born, who should arise and declare them to their children. 7 That they might eet their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: 18 And they tempted God in their heart, by asking meat for their lust. 19 Yea,they spake against (iod; they 9aid, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? 20 Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out,and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can be provide flesh for his people? 21 Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob,and anger also came up against Israel; 22 Because they believed not in God, aud trusted not in bis salvation: 23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven, 24 And had rained dowu manna upon them to eat, and had given thein of the corn of heaven. 25 Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full. 26 He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven; and by his power he brought in the south wind.. 27 He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea; 28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habita tions. 8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not sted-29 So they did eat, and were well fillfast with God. ed: for he gave them their own desire ; 9 The children of Ephraim, being 30 They were not estranged from arined, and carrying bows, turned their lust: but while their meat was back in the day of batile. yet in their mouths, 10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; 11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he bad showed them. 12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. 13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as a heap. 14 In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. 15 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths. 16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. 17 And they sinned yet more against 31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and snote down the chosen men of Israel. 32 For all this they einned still, and believed not for his wondrous works. 33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble. 34 When he slew them, then they sought him; and they returned and inquired early after God. 35 And they remembered that God was their Rock, and the high God their Redeemer. 36 Nevertheless they did Aatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues. 37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in hil covenant. The desolation PSALMS. of Jerusalem. 38 But he, being full of compassion, the most high God, and kept not his forgave their iniquity, and destroyed testimonies; them not; yea, many a time turned] 57 But turned back, and dealt unbe his anger away, and did not stir up faithfully like their fathers; they were all his wrath. turned aside like a deceitful bow. 58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. 59 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: 60 So that he forsook the tabernacle 41 Yea, they turned back and tempt-of Shiloh, the tent which he placed ed God, and limited the Holy Oue of among men; Israel. 39 For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. 40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderuces, and grieve him in the desert! 42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy. 61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and bis glory into the ene my's hand. 62 He gave his people over also unto 43 How he had wrought his signs in the sword; and was wroth with his Egypt, and his wonders in the field of inheritance. Zoan: 63 The fire consumed their young 44 And had turned their rivers intonen; and their maidens were not blood: and their floods, that they given to marriage. could not drink. 45 He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. 46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust. 64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation. 65 Then the Lond awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. 66 And he smote his enemies in the binder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach. 47 He destroyed their vines with hail, nd their sycamore-trees with frost. 48 He gave up their cattle also to the 67 Moreover he refused the tabernahail, and their flocks to hot thunder-cle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe bolts. of Ephraim: 19 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. 50 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; 51 And smote all the first-born in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham: 52 But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. 53. And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. 64 And he brought them to the bor: der of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased. 68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which be loved. 69 And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever. 70 He chose David also bis servant, and took him from the sheep-folds: 71 From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inber itance. 72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. PSALM LXXIX. TA Psalm of Asaph. GOD, the heathen art come inte thine inheritance; thy holy tem ple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. 55 He cast out the heathen also be 2 The dead bodies of thy servants Core them, and divided them an in-have they given to be meat unto the neritance by line, and made the tribes fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy of Israel to dwell in their tents. saints unto the beasts of the earth. 56 Yet they tempted and provoked) 3 Their blood have they shed like An exhortation PSALMS. water round about Jerusalem; and 'here was none to bury them. 4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us. 5 How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire? to praise God. neighbours: and our enemies laugh ainong themselves. 7 Turn us again, O God of hosts,and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. 8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt; thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. 6 Pour out thy wrath upon the beathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not call-and it filled the land. ed upon thy name. 9 Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, 7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling-place. 3 O remember not against us former miquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us; for we are brought very low. 9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of tùy name; and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake. 10 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed. 11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die; 10 The hills were covered, with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. 11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river. 12 Why hast thou then broken down ber hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? 13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it,and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. 14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven,and behold, and visit this vine; 15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself. 16. It is burned with fire, it is ent down; they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. 12 And render unto our neighbours 17 Let thy band be upon the man of seven-fold into their bosom their re-thy right hand, upon the son of man proach, wherewith they have re-whom thou madest strong for thysell. proached thee, O LORD. 18 So will not we go back from thee: 13 So we thy people and sheep of thy quicken us, and we will call upon thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever;uame we will show forth thy praise to all generations. PSALM LXXX. To the chief Musician upon Shoshannin-eduth, A Psalm of Asaph. IVE car, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth. 2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and] Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us. 3 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. 4 0 Lond God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? 19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts,cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. PSALM LXXXI. T To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph. YING aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. 2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. 3 Blow up the trumpet in the new. moon, in the time appointed, on our solemi feast-day. For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. 5 This he ordained in Joseph for i, testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard & language that I understood not. 6. Thɔɔu makest us a strife unto our 6 I removed his shoulder from the 5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure. |