5 Their impious tongues blaspheme The everlasting God: Their malice blasts the good man's name, 6 But, 1 with flowing tears, 7 The tumults of my thought 8 9 Till to thy house my feet were brought, Thy word with light and power I view'd the sinners' lives before, On what a slippery steep 10 Lord, at thy feet I bow, My thoughts no more repine; I call my God my portion now, And all my powers are thine. PSALM 74.-C. M. [*] The church pleading with God under sore per 1 secution. ILL God forever cast us off? Against the people of his love, 2 Think of the tribes so dearly bought Nor let thy Zion be forgot, 3 Lift up thy feet and march in haste, See what a wide and fearful waste 4 Where once thy churches pray'd and sang, 5 How are the seats of worship broke! With flames they threaten to destroy 7 And still, to heighten our distress, Thy wonted signs of power and grace, 8 No prophet speaks to calm our woes, There's not a soul amongst us knows PAUSE. 9 How long, eternal God! how long 10 Canst thou forever sit and hear Thine holy name profan'd? And still thy jealousy forbear, And still withhold thine hand? 11 What strange deliverance hast thou In ages long before! And now no other God we own, No other God adore. 12 Thou didst divide the raging sea, By thy resistless might, [shown To make thy tribes a wondrous way, 18 Is not the world of nature thine, 14 Hath not thy power form'd every coast, 15 And shall the sons of earth and dust Will not thy hand, that form'd them first, 16 Think on the cov'nant thou hast made, And all thy words of love: Nor let the birds of prey invade 17 Our foes would triumph in our blood, PSALM 75.-L. M. [*] Power and government from God alone. thee, most holy, and most high, 1TTo thee we bring our thankful praise; Thy works declare thy name is nigh, Thy works of wonder and of grace. "To slavery doom'd, thy chosen sons "Beheld their foes triumphant rise; "And, sore oppress'd by earthly thrones, "They sought the Sovereign of the skies. 3 ""Twas then, great God, with equal power, "Arose thy vengeance and thy grace, "To scourge their legions from the shore, "And save the remnant of thy race." 4 Let haughty sinners sink their pride, Nor lift so high their scornful head; But lay their foolish thoughts aside, And own the “empire” God hath made. 5 Such honours never come by chance, Nor do the wads promotion blow; 'Tis God the judge doth one advance, 'Tis God that lays another low. 6 No vain pretence to royal birth PSALM 76 C. M. [*] Israel saved, and the Assyrians destroyed; or, God's vengeance against his enemies proceeds from his church. 1 IN Judah God of old was known; In Salem stood his holy throne, 2 Among the praises of his saints, 3 From Zion went his dreadful word, What are the earth's wide kingdoms else The hill on which Jehovah dwells Is glorious more than they. 5 'Twas Zion's King that stopp'd the breath Of captains and their bands: The men of might slept fast in death, 6 At thy rebuke, O Jacob's God, 7 What power can stand before thy sight, When once thy wrath appears? When heaven shines round with dreadful [light, 8 When God, in his own sovereign ways, Comes down to save th' oppress'd |