4 Whence Sion's fame through earth is spread, Of greater glory, greater dread,

Than hills where robbers lodge their prey. 5 Their valiant chiefs, who came for spoil, Themselves met there a shameful foil: Securely down to sleep they lay,

But waked no more; their stoutest band
Ne'er lifted one resisting hand

'Gainst his, that did their legions slay.
6 When Jacob's God began to frown,
Both horse and charioteers, o'erthrown,
Together slept in endless night:

7 When thou, whom earth and heaven revere, Dost once with wrathful look appear,

What mortal power can stand thy sight?

8 Pronounced from heaven, earth heard its doom, Grew hushed with fear, when thou didst come The meek with justice to restore :

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10 The wrath of man shall yield thee praise; Its last attempts but serve to raise

The triumphs of almighty power. 11 Vow to the Lord, ye nations; bring Vowed presents to the eternal King:

Thus to his name due reverence pay, 12 Who proudest potentates can quell, To earthly kings more terrible

Than to their trembling subjects they.

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PSALM 77.

O God I cried, who to my help
Did graciously repair;

2 In trouble's dismal day I sought

My God with humble prayer.

All night my festering wound did run ;
No med'cine gave relief;

My soul no comfort would admit;
My soul indulged her grief.

3 I thought on God, and favours past;
But that increased my pain:

I found my spirit more oppressed,
The more I did complain.

4 Through every watch of tedious night
Thou keep'st my eyes awake:
My grief is swelled to that excess,
I sigh, but cannot speak.

5 I called to mind the days of old,
With signal mercy crowned;
Those famous years of ancient times,
For miracles renowned.

6 By night I recollect my songs,
On former triumphs made;
Then search, consult, and ask my heart,
Where's now that wondrous aid?

7 Has God for ever cast us off?
Withdrawn his favours quite?

8 Are both his mercy and his truth Retired to endless night?

9 Can his long-practised love forget
Its wonted aids to bring?

Has he in wrath shut up and sealed
His mercy's healing spring?

10 I said, My weakness hints these fears,
But I'll my fears disband;

I'll yet remember the Most High,
And years of his right hand.

11 I'll call to mind his works of old,
The wonders of his might;

12 On them my heart shall meditate;
My tongue shall them recite.

13 Safe lodged from human search on high,
O God, thy counsels are;
Who is so great a God as ours?
Who can with him compare ?

14 Long since a God of wonders thee
Thy rescued people found;

15 Long since hast thou thy chosen seed With strong deliverance crowned.

16 When thee, O God the waters saw,
The frighted billows shrunk ;

The troubled depths themselves, for fear,
Beneath their channels sunk.

17 The clouds poured down, while rending skies Did with their noise conspire;

Thy arrows all abroad were sent,
Wing'd with avenging fire.

18 Heaven with thy thunder's voice was torn,
Whilst all the lower world

With lightnings blazed; earth shook, and seemed
From her foundations hurled.

19 Through rolling streams thou find'st thy way,
Thy paths in waters lie;

Thy wondrous passage, where no sight
Thy footsteps can descry.

20 Thou ledd'st thy people, like a flock,
Safe through the desert land,
By Moses, their meek, skilful guide,
And Aaron's sacred hand.

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PSALM 78.

HEAR, O my people; to my law

Devout attention lend;

Let the instruction of my mouth
Deep in your hearts descend.

2 My tongue, by inspiration taught,
Shall parables unfold,

Dark oracles, but understood,
And owned for truths, of old,-
3 Which we from sacred registers
Of ancient times have known,
And our forefathers' pious care
To us has handed down.

4 We will not hide them from our sons;
Our offspring shall be taught
The praises of the Lord, whose strength
Has works of wonder wrought.

5 For Jacob he this law ordained,

This league with Israel made;
With charge to be from age to age,
From race to race, conveyed ;-

6 That generations yet to come
Should to their unborn heirs
Religiously transmit the same,
Aud they again to theirs ;-

7 To teach them that in God alone
Their hope securely stands;

That they should ne'er his works forget,
But keep his just commands ;-

8 Lest, like their fathers, they might prove
A stiff, rebellious race,
False-hearted, fickle to their God,
Unsteadfast in his grace.

9 Such were revolting Ephraim's sons,
Who, though to warfare bred,

And skilful archers, armed with bows,
From field ignobly fled.

10, 11 They falsified their league with God,
His orders disobeyed,

Forgot his works and miracles
Before their eyes displayed.

12 Nor wonders, which their fathers saw,
Did they in mind retain,
Prodigious things, in Egypt done,
And Zoan's fertile plain.

13 He cut the sea to let them pass,
Restrained the pressing flood,
While, piled on heaps, on either side
The solid waters stood.

14 A wondrous pillar led them on,
Composed of shade and light;

A shelt ring cloud it proved by day,
A leading fire by night.

15 When drought oppressed them, where no stream The wilderness supplied,

He cleft the rock, whose flinty breast
Dissolved into a tide.

16 Streams from the solid rock he brought,
Which down in rivers fell,

That, travelling with their camp, each day
Renewed the miracle.

17 Yet there they sinned against him more,
Provoking the Most High,

In that same desert where he did
Their fainting souls supply.

18 They first incensed him in their hearts,
That did his power distrust,

And longed for meat, not urged by want,
But to indulge their lust ;—

19 Then uttered their blaspheming doubts;
"Can God," say they, "prepare
"A table in the wilderness,

"Set out with various fare?

20" He smote the flinty rock, 'tis true,
"And gushing streams ensued;
"But can he corn and flesh provide
"For such a multitude ?"

21 The Lord with indignation heard:
From heaven avenging flame
On Jacob fell; consuming wrath
On thankless Israel came ;-

22 Because their unbelieving hearts
In God would not confide,

Nor trust his care, who had from heaven
Their wants so oft supplied;-

23 Though he had made his clouds discharge Provisions down in showers;

And, when earth failed, relieved their needs
From his celestial stores ;-

24 Though tasteful manna was rained down
Their hunger to relieve;

Though from the stores of heaven they did
Sustaining corn receive.

25 Thus man, with angels' sacred food,
Ungrateful man, was fed;

Not sparingly, for still they found

A plenteous table spread.

26 From heaven he made an east wind blow, Then did the south command

27 To rain down flesh like dust, and fowls Like sea's unnumbered sand.

28 Within their trenches he let fall

The luscious, easy prey,

And all around their spreading camp
The ready booty lay.

29 They fed, were filled; he gave them leave Their appetites to feast;

30, 31 Yet still their wanton lust craved on,
Nor with their hunger ceased.

But whilst, in their luxurious mouths,
They did their dainties chew,