and makeft it waste, and turneft it up fide down, and scattereft abroad the inhabitants thereof; thou art coming out of thy place, to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; for thou fbalt rife up, as in mount Perazzim, thou shalt be wroth, as in the valley of Gibeon; that thou mayft do thy work, thy strange work; and bring to pass thy ett, thy Arrange act. At the noife of the tumult, the people fhall flee; at the lifting up of thyself, the nations fhall be fcattered, and their spoil shall be gathered, like the Spoiling of the caterpillars; as the running to and fro of locufts, so shalt thou ruă upon them; for thy sword shall be bathed in heaven, it fball come upon Idumea, and upon the people of thy curse, unto judgment: thy fword shall be filled with blond, and shall be made fat with fatness: for thou hast a facrifice in Bozrah, and a great Alaughter in the land of Idumea; and the unicorns fball come down with them, and the bullocks, with the bulis, and their land fhall be foaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness: for the day of vengeance is in thine heart, and the year of thy redeemed is come. Thou art looking, and there is none to help; and thou wondereft that there is none to uphold; therefore thine arm shall bring fal vation unto thee, and thy fury it shall uphold thee: thou wilt put on righteousness as a breaft-plate, as an helment of falvation upon thine head: and thou balt put on the garments of vengeance for cloth ing, and fhalt be clothed with zeal as a cloak and thou wilt tread down the people in thine anger, and make them drunk in thy fury; and wilt bring down their ftrength to the earth. Gird thy fword on thy thigh, most mighty, with thy glory and thy ma jefty and in thy majefly ride profperously, be saufe of truth, meskness, and righteousness: and

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thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things: be thou a refuge for the oppreffed, a refuge in times of trouble. When thou makeft inquifition for blood, remember them: forget not the cry of the humble that they may fhew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: that thou mayft be known by the judgments thou executeft, when the wicked is fnared in the works of his own hands: let not the needy always be forgotten; O let not the expectation of the poor perish for ever. Arife, O Lord, let not man prevail; put thine enemies in fear, O Lord, that they may know themfelves to be but men. Behold, they travel with iniquity, and have conceived mifchief, and have brought forth falfe hood: they have made a pit, and digged it; let them fall into the ditch which they have made t let their mischief return upon their own head, and their violent dealing come down upon their own pate. But those that truft in thee, let them rejoice, let them ever fhout for joy, because thou defendeft them.. Even let the righteous rejoice, when he feeth the vengeance: let him wafb his feet in the blood of the wicked; fo that a man may fay, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily thou art a God that judgeft in the earth. Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Lord; and that the foolish people have blafphemed thy name. deliver not the foul of thy turtle-dove unto the mul titude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever: have a respect unto thy cove nant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. O let not the oppreffed return afbamed; let the poor and needy praife thy name: forget not the voice of thine enemies : the tumult of those that rife up against thee incafeth continually. They have taken crafty coun

fel against thy people, and confulted against thine hidden ones they have jaid, Come let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Ifrael may no more be in remembrance; for they have confulted together, with one confent: they are confederate against thee. O make them like a wheel, O my God, as the stubble before the wind; that men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the Moft High over all the earth. O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth, O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself: lift up thyself, thou Judge of the earth, render a reward to the proud. O Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long fall the wicked triumph? how long shall they utter and Speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boaft themfelves? They break in pieces thy people, O Lord, and afflict thine heritage: yet they say The Lord fball not fee, neither fhall the God of Jacob regard it. But thou shalt arife and have mercy upen Zion; for the time to favour her, yea, the fet time is come; for thy fervants take pleasure in her ftones, and favour the duft thereof; for thy mercy is great above the heavens, and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds. Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, and thy glory above all the earth: that thy beloved, may be delivered, fave with thy right hand. Wilt thou not give us help from trouble? for vain is the help of man. Through thee we shall do valiantly; for thou art he that shall tread down our enemies.

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mouth fhall be filled with laughter, and our tongue with rejoicing thou shalt put a new song in our mauth; each one of us fall fing forth, Q Lord, thou art my God, I will exalt thee; I will praise thy name; for thou haft done wonderful things, thy counfels of ld are faithfulnefs and truth: fer thou hast been a Arength

Arength to the poor, a ftrength to the needy in his difrefs; a refuge from the ftorm, and a shadow from the heat; when the blast of the terrible one is as a form against the wall. Lo, this is our God, we have waited for him, and he will fave us: this is the Lord, we have waited for him; we will be glad and rejoice in his falvation. We have a strong city, falvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation, which keepeth the truth, may enter in. I cannot but fmile, and leap for joy, through the forethoughts of the glorious days we fhall fee a little hence. Verily, Wellbeloved, thou haft perfuaded me with a ftrong hand, that the glory of the second temple fhall far furpass the glory of the first; and that fuch a day of thy power and excellency fhall arife very fhortly upon Britain, as fhall dazzle the eyes of all the beholders, confound and put to shame all thy adverfaries, rejoice exceedingly the hearts of thy now faddened and fainting friends, and have a frong influence and refplendency throughout the whole earth. We are thy covenanted people, thine in a more peculiar manner than any people, nation, or language throughout the univerfal world; thy name is called moft fignally over us, thy glory and renown is moft efpecially concerned in our affairs; greater mercy, power, wisdom, and fovereignty haft thou not manifested on any people, ince thou afcended on high: how majeftic and glorious have thy outgoings been among us? as if here had been the chief place of thy dwelling on earth. Such majdic banners of merey and juftice haft thou erected among us, as have amazed the nations about: and though, ere it be long, thou wilt pour out our blood, like water, by the force of the fword, because of our hor

rid apoftafies and inventions; yet thy loving-kindnefs fhalt thou never remove from us, but fhalt erect a banner of love over us, until the day of thine appearance. Thou haft manifefted, that thou art well pleased with thine espousing of us, and that thou ftandeft to the bargain, by thy begetting a progeny of fons and daughters, which appear to exceed, in number and excellency, all others through the habitable world. Though our iniquities teflify against us, and cry for utter defolation, until we be like Admah and Zeboim; yet, what, wilt thou do for thy great name, which will be greatly blafphemed throughout the world, if thou utterly confume us? Haft thou begun a work; and fhalt thou not perfect it? Haft thou laid the foundation; and fhalt thou not erect it unto the cope-ftone, that all may cry. Grace, grace unto it? Haft thou not ever fruftrate the cruel and hellish intents of thine enemies, and made their devices to fall on their own heads; and shalt thou not now plunge them into the midst of their own mifchiefs, as that the inhabitants of the world fhall cry out, Higgaion, Selah? Haft thou fuch a numerous and excellent remnant, according to the election of grace; and fhall they not hold thee from removing altogether from hence; yea, fo hold thee, as thou fhalt dwell most gloriously amongst us, and bless us with a double bleffing? Art thou the hearer of prayer; and shall not the fighs, and tears, and groans of thy afflicted, perfe cuted ones prevail strongly with thee? Are there not thousands of thousands of prayers lying before the throne, yet not anfwered? How many

ftrong wrestlers have prayed and wept for thy vindicating thy work and people, and died pray. ing? Though fighs and tears did not move thee,

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