God's wonders 19 Thy way 18 in the sea, and thy path | him: by provoking the Most High in the in the great waters: and thy foot-steps wilderness. are not known. 20 Thou leddest thy people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron. PSALM LXXVIII. The Law of God. ¶ Maschil of Asaph. 18 And they tempted God in their heart: by asking meat for their lust. 19 Yea, they spake against God: they said, Can God furnish a table in the wil derness? 20 Behold, he smote the rock, that the LIVE ear, O my people, to my Law: waters gushed out, and the streams over. GIVE ear, O my toe words of Hoved, can he give bread also I can te my mouth. 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, shewing to the generation to come, the praises of the LORD: and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath 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 set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God: but keep his Commandments, 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 steadfast with God. 9 The children of Ephraim being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. 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 had shewed 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. 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: and trusted not in his salvation: 23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above: and opened the doors of heaven: 24 And had rained down Manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven. 25 Man did eat Angel's 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. 29 So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire. 30 They were not estranged from their lust: but while their meat was yet in their mouths, 31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them: and smote down the chosen men of Israel. 32 For all this they sinned 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 flatter him with their mouth: and they lied unto him with their tongues. 37 For their heart was not right with him: neither were they steadfast in his 17 And they sinned yet more against covenant. 38 But he being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not; yea many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath. 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 wilderness and grieve him in the desert? 41 Yea they turned back and tempted God and limited the holy one of Israel. 42 They remembered not his hand: nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy: 43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt and his wonders in the field of Zoan: : 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. 47 He destroyed their vines with hail : and their Sycamore trees with frost. 48 He gave up their cattle also to the hail and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. 49 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 the tabernacles of Ham: David chosen. 57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were 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 of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men, 61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand. 62 He gave his people over also unto the sword: and was wroth with his inheritance. 63 The fire consumed their young men and their maidens were not given to marriage. 64 Their priests fell by the sword: and their widows made no lamentation. 65 Then the Lord 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 hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach. 67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph and chose not the tribe of Ephraim. 68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved. 69 And he built his sanctuary like high palaces: like the earth which he hath established for ever. 70 He chose David also his 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 ininheritance. 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. 54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary: even to this mountain which his right hand had purchased. 55 He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. 56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies: 72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart: and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. PSALM LXXIX. The desolation of Jerusalem. TA Psalm of Asaph. GOD, the heathen are come into thine inheritance, thy holy temple have they defiled: they have laid Jeru salem on heaps. 2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven: the flesh of thy Saints unto the beasts of the earth. Ta 3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them. 4 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? 6 Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name. 7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place. 8 O remember not against us former iniquities, 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 thy 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. 12 And render unto our neighbours seven fold into their bosom, their reproach wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord. 13 So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture, will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations. PSALM LXXX. The miseries of the Church. To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim Eduth, a Psalm of Asaph. LIVE ear, O shepherd of Israel, thou Gendest Joseph like a flock, the Church. 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. 9 Thou preparedst room before it: and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. 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 her 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 burnt with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy coun tenance. 17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand: upon the son of man, whom thou madest strong for thyself. 18 So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy Name. 19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved. PSALM LXXXI. A solemn praising of God. T To the chief Musician upon Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph. ING aloud unto God our strength: thou that dwellest between the Cheru-make a joyful noise unto the God bim, shine forth. 2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin, and Manassch, 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 O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? 5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears and givest them tears to drink in great measure. : 6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours and our enemies laugh among themselves. 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 solemn feast day. 4 For this was a Statute for Israel: and a Law of the God of Jacob. 5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language, that I understood not. 6 I removed his shoulder from the A complaint to God. PSALM LXXXIII. Of the enemies' conspiracies. livered thee, I answered thee in the KEEP not thou silence. O God: secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah. 8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me: 9 There shall no strange god be in thee neither shalt thou worship any strange god. 10 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. 11 But my people would not hearken to my voice and Israel would none of me. 12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust and they walked in their own counsels. 13 O that my people had hearkened unto me and Israel had walked in my ways! 14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. 15 The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever. 16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock, should I have satisfied thee. PSALM LXXXII. The Psalmist prayeth God to judge. A Psalm of Asaph. GOD standeth in the Congregation of the mighty he judgeth among the gods. 2 How long will ye judge unjustly: and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. 3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. 4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked. 5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course. 6 I have said, Ye are gods: and all of you are children of the Most High: 7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the Princes. 8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations. hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. 2 For lo, thine enemies make a tú mult: and they that hate thee, have lifted up the head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. 4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation: that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. 5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee. 6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites: of Moab, and the Haga. renes. 7 Gebal and Ammon, and Amalek: the Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre. 8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah. 9 Do unto them as unto the Midianites: as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison : 10 Which perished at En-dor: they became as dung for the earth. 11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna: 12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves, the houses of God in possession. 13 O my God, make them like a wheel: : as the stubble before the wind. 14 As the fire burneth a wood and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire: 15 So persecute them with thy tempest: and make them afraid with thy storm. 16 Fill their faces with shame that they may seek thy name, O LORD. 17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever: yea let them be put to shame, and perish : 18 That men may know, that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most High over all the earth. PSALM LXXXIV. The Prophet longing for the Sanctuary. ¶ To the chief musician upon Gittith, a Psalm for the sons of Korah. [OW amiable are thy tabernacles, HO LORD of hosts! The desire PSALMS. of the godly. 2 My soul longeth, yea even fainteth | 8 I will hear what God the LORD for the courts of the LORD: my heart will speak: for he will speak peace unto and my flesh crieth out for the living his people, and to his saints: but let God. them not turn again to folly. 3 Yea the sparrow hath found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my king and my God. 4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house they will be still praising thee. Selah. 5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee in whose heart are the ways of them : : 6 Who passing through the valley of Baca, make it a well: the rain also filleth the pools. 7 They go from strength to strength: every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. 8 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah. 9 Behold, O God our shield; and look upon the face of thine anointed. 10 For a day in thy courts, is better than a thousand: I had rather be a door keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. 11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. 12 O LORD of hosts: blessed is the man that trusteth in thee. PSALM LXXXV. LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob. 2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah. 3 Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierce. ness of thine anger. 4 Turn us, O God of our salvation: and cause thine anger towards us to cease. 5 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations? 6 Wilt thou not revive us again, that thy people may rejoice in thee? 7 Shew us thy mercy, O LORD; and grant us thy salvation. 13 Righteousness shall go before him: and shall set us in the way of his steps. PSALM LXXXVI. David strengtheneth his prayer by the conscience of his Religion. Bow A prayer of David. down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy. 2 Preserve my soul, for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant, that trusteth in thee. 3 Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily. 4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. 5 For thou Lord art good, and ready to forgive and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee. 6 Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer: and attend to the voice of my supplica. tions. 7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me. 8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord: neither are there any works like unto thy works. 9 All nations whom thou hast made, shall come and worship before thee, O Lord and shall glorify thy Name. 10 For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone. 11 Teach me thy way, O LORD, I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy Name. 12 I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy Name for evermore. 13 For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell. 14 O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men |