3 Thine anger all thou hadft remov'd, And calmly didft return * From thy fierce wrath, which we had prov'd Far worse than fire to burn. 4 God of our faving health and peace, Turn us, and us restore, Thine indignation cause to cease Toward us, and chide no more. Wilt thou be angry without end, For ever angry thus, Wilt thou thy frowning ire extend From age to age on us? 6 Wilt thou not † turn, and hear our voice, And us again † revive, That so thy people may rejoice, By thee preferv'd alive? 7 Cause us to fee thy goodness, Lord, To us thy mercy shew; Thy faving health to us afford, And life in us renew. 8 And now what God the Lord will speak, I will go ftrait and hear, For to his people he speaks peace, And to his faints full dear, To his dear faints he will speak peace, But let them never more Return to folly, but furceafe To trefpafs as before. *Heb. The burning heat of thy wrath. + Heb. Turn to quicken us. 10 15 20 25 30 35 9 Surely 9 Surely to fuch as do him fear Salvation is at hand, And glory fhall ere long appear To dwell within our land. 10 Mercy and Truth.that long were miss'd' Sweet Peace and Righteousness have kiss'd, 40 11 Truth from the earth, like to a flower, 45 Shall bud and bloffom then, And Justice from her heavenly bower Look down on mortal men. 12 The Lord will alfo then bestow Whatever thing is good, Our land shall forth in plenty throw r3 Before him Righteoufhiefs fhall go Then will he come, and not be flow, His footsteps cannot err. PSAL. LXXXVI. • THY HY gracious ear, O Lord, incline, For I am poor, and almost pine *Heb. He will fet his fteps to the way. 50 55 2 Preferve 2 Preferve my foul, for* I have trod Thy ways, and love the just; Save thou thy fervant, O my God, Who fill in thee doth trust. 3 Pity me, Lord, for daily thee I call; 4. O make rejoice Thy fervant's foul; for, Lord, to thee 5 For thou art good, thou, Lord, art prone To pardon, thou to all 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 inceffant prayers 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, 8 Like thee among the Gods is none, Of all that other Gods have done Like to thy glorious works. 9 The nations all whom thou haft made Shall come, and all shall frame To bow them low before thee, Lord, And glorify thy name. 15 20 25 30 * Heb. I am good, loving, a doer of good and holy things. VOL. III. 10 For great thou art, and wonders great By thy ftrong hand are done, Thou in thy everlasting feat 11 Teach me, O Lord, thy way most right, I in thy truth will bide, To fear thy name my heart unite, So fhall it never flide. 12 Thee will I praise, O Lord my God, Thee honor and adore With my whole heart, and blaze abroad Thy name for evermore. 13 For great thy mercy is tow'rd me, And thou haft free'd my foul, :'. Ev'n from the lowest Hell fet free, From deepest darkness foul. 14 O God, the proud against me rife, And violent men are met To feek my life, and in their eyes No fear of thee have fet, 15 But thou, Lord, art the God most mild, Readieft thy grace to shew, Slow to be angry, and art fil'd Moft merciful, moft true. 16 O turn to me thy face at length, 37 Some fign of good to me afford, And be afham'd, because thou, Lord, I A PS AL. LXXXVII. MONG the holy mountains high There feated is his fanctuary, ➜ Sion's fair gates the Lord loves more Of Jacob's land, though there be flore, 3 City of God, most glorious things I mention Egypt, where proud kings I mention Babel to my friends, And Tyre with Ethiop's utmoft ends, 5 But twice that praise fball in our ear Be faid of Sion last, This and this man was born in her, High God fhall fix her fast. 6 The Lord fhall write it in a scroll That ne'er fhall be out-worn, When he the nations doth inroll, 10 15 20 |