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Thou didst to Jabin's host,
When, at the brook of Kishon old,
They were repuls'd 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

God'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.

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16+ And, till they † yield thee honour due,

Lord fill with shame their face.

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17 Asham'd, and troubled, let them be,

Ever confounded, and so die

Troubled, and and sham'd for ever;

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.

*Neoth Elohim bears both. Heb.

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+ They seek thy name.

PSALM LXXXIV.

HOW lovely are thy dwellings fair!
O Lord of losts, how dear
The pleasant tabernacles are,

Where thou dost dwell so near ! 2 My soul doth long and almost die Thy courts, O Lord, to see ;

My heart and flesh aloud do cry,

O living God, for thee.

3 There ev'n the sparrow, freed from wrong,

Hath found a house of rest:

The swallow there, to lay her young,

Hath built her brooding nest;

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Where thee they ever praise!

5 Happy whose strength in thee doth bide, And in their hearts thy ways!

6 They pass through Baca's thirsty vale, That dry and barren ground,

As through a fruitful wat❜ry dale,

Where springs and show'rs abound.

7 They journey on from strength to strength

With joy and gladsome cheer,

Till all before our God at length

In Sion do appear.

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S Lord God of Hosts, hear now my pray❜r,

O Jacob's God, give ear;

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9 Thou God, our shield, look on the face

Of thy anointed dear.

10 For one day in thy courts to be

I's better, and more blest,

5 Wilt thou be angry without end, For every angury thus ?

Wilt thou thy frowing ire extend

From age to age on us?

6 Wilt thou not * turn, and hear our voice,

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And us again revive,

That so thy people may rejoice

By thee preserv'd alive?

7 Cause us to see thy goodness, Lord,

To us thy mercy shew;

Thy saving health to us afford,

And life in us renew.

8 And now what God the Lord will speak,

1 will go straight and hear,

For to his people he speaks peace,

Aud to his saints full dear,

To his dear saints he will speak peace :

But let them never more

Return to folly, but surcease

To trespass as before.

9 Surely to such as do him fear

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Salvation is at hand ;'

And glory shall ere long appear

To dwell within our land.

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10 Mercy and Truth, that long were miss'd,

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5 For thou art good, thou, Lord, art prone

To pardon, thou to all

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Art full of mercy, thou alone

To them that on thee call.

6 Unto my supplication, Lord,
Give ear, and to the cry
Of my incessant pray'rs afford
Thy hearing graciously.
7 I, in the day of my distress,

Will call on thee for aid:

For thou wilt grant me free access,
And answer what I pray'd.

*Heb. He will set his steps to the way.

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Heb. I am good, loving, a doer of good and poly things, Vol. III.

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