146th Stanza.

Psalm xxvii. 35, 36.—I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Yet he passeth away, and, lo! he was not seen; yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

Eccles. i. 14.—I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Jerem. xv. 9.—She that hath borne seven languisheth : she hath given up the ghost, her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded; and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the Lord.

147th Stanza.

Isaiah xv. 2.—He is gone to Bajith and to Dibon, his high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.

148th Stanza.

Lam. ii. 6.-And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised, in the indignation of his anger, the king and the priests.

Rev. xviii. 8.-Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire; for strong is the Lord God who judgeth

her.

149th Stanza.

Job xxi. 22.-Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.

Jerem. viii. 19.-Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people, because of them that dwell in a far country. Is not the Lord in Zion? Is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger, with their graven images, and with strange vanities?

Jerem. xxv. 36.-A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the Lord hath spoiled her pasture.

150th Stanza.

Jerem. xv. 1.-Then said the Lord unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

151st Stanza.

Micah i. 10.-Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.

152d Stanza.

Jerem. xlviii, 32.—O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen even upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.

mercy upon her children;

Hosea ii. 4.And I will not have for they be the children of whoredoms.

153d Stanza.

Isaiah i. 9.-Except the Lord of Hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

154th Stanza.

Heb. iv. 9.-There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

Isaiah lxv. 9. And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.

Rom. ix. 11.-For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth.

Rom. xi. 5.-Even so then at this present time, also, there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

155th Stanza.

Matt. vii. 27.—And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell, and great was the fall of it.

Rom. xi. 7.-What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.

156th Stanza.

Gal. i. 6.—I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another Gospel. Psalm xlix. 11, 12.-Their inward thought is that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling-places to all generations: they call their lands after their own names. Nevertheless, man being in honour, abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.

157th Stanza.

Rev. v. 5.—And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not, behold the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.

Exod. xii. 12.-For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the first-born in the land of

Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord.

John xx. 17.-Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father; and to my God, and unto your God.-Also Heb. i. 9.

158th Stanza.

Read the whole of the 51st and 52d chapters of Isaiah; the 4th chapter of the prophet Amos; and the 19th chapter of the Revelation of St. John.

John xvi. 25.-These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall show you plainly of the Father.

159th Stanza.

Hosea ii. 12.—And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

Ezek. xv. 2.-Son of Man, what is the vine tree more than any tree; or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?

160th Stanza.

Ezek. xi. 17.-Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God, I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

161st Stanza.

Psalm xix. 2.-Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge.

Isaiah Ixi. 2. To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God: to comfort all that mourn.

Isaiah xxxiv. 8.-For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance and the year of recompense for the controversy of Sion.

Rev. xiv. 19.—And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great wine-press of the wrath of God.

Rev. xxi. 23.-And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

THE END.

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