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9 Help us, O God of our salvaon, for the glory of thy name: deliver us

7 Turn us again, thou God of hosts; show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole. 8 Thou hast brought a vine out and be merciful un-of Egypt; thou hast cast out the for thy name's sake. heathen, and planted it. 10 Wherefore do the heathen 9 Thou madest room for it; day, Where is now their God? and when it had taken root, it

do our

11 O let the vengeance of thy filled the land.

ervants' blood that is shed, be 10 The hills were covered with penly showed upon the heathen, the shadow of it, and the boughs In our sight. thereof were like the goodly ce

12 0 let the sorrowful sighing dar trees.

f the prisoners come before 11 She stretched out her ee; according to the greatness.

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hat are appointed to die.

unto the river. de 12 Why hast thou then broken 13 And for the blasphemy down her hedge, that all they herewith our neighbours have that go by pluck off her grapes? asphemed thee, reward thou 13 The wild boar out of the em, O Lord, seven-fold into wood doth root it up, and the eir bosomal wild beasts of the field devour it.

14 So we that are thy people,| 14 Turn thee again, thou God had sheep of thy pasture, shall of hosts, look down from heaven, ve thee thanks for ever, and will behold and visit this vine, lway be showing forth thy praise om generation to generation.

15 And the place of the vineyard that thy right hand hath Psalm 80. Qui regis Israel. planted, and the branch that thou EAR, O thou Shepherd of madest so strong for thyself. Israel, thou that leadest Jo-| 16 It is burnt with fire, and cut ph like a sheep; show thyself down; and they shall perish at So, thou that sittest upon the the rebuke of thy countenance. herubimos 17 Let thy hand be upon the 2 Before Ephraim, Benjamin, man of thy right hand, and upon d Manasses, stir up thy strength, the son of man, whom thou madad come est so strong for thine own self. 3 Turn and help us. again, O God; show 18 And so will not we go back countenance, and from thee: O let us live, and we shall call upon thy name.hive

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40 Lord God of hosts, how

19 Turn us again, O Lord God

ng wilt thou be augry with thy of hosts; show the light of thy eople that prayeth?

countenance, and we shall be

5 Thou feedest them with the whole. read of tears, and givest them

Psalm 81. Exultaté Deo.

lenteousness of tears to drink. SING we merrily unto God, our 6 Thou hast made us a very strength; make a cheerful rife unto our neighbours, and noise unto the God of Jacob.

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13 So I gave them up unto not thyself, O God; their own hearts' lusts, and let 2 For lo, thine enemies make them follow their own imagina- a murmuring; and they that hate thee have lift up their head. 14 0 that my people would 3 They have imagined craftily have hearkened unto me; for if against thy people, and take Israel had walked in my ways, counsel against thy secret ones 15 I should soon have put down 4 They have said, Come, and their enemies, and turned my let us root them out, that they be hand against their adversaries. no more a people, and that the

16 The haters of the Lord name of Israel may be no more should have been found liars; in remembrance.

5 For they have cast their heads of the Lord; my heart and my ogether with one consent, and flesh rejoice in the living God. ere confederate against thee; 3 Yea, the sparrow hath found 6 The tabernacle of the Edom- her an house, and the swallow a tes, and the Ishmaelites; the nest, t, where she may lay her Moabites, and Hagarenes; young; even thy altars, O Lord 7 Gebal, and Ammon, and of hosts, my King and my God. Amalek; the Philistines, with 4 Blessed are they that dwell -hem that dwell at Tyre. in thy house; they will be alway with praising thee.

8 Assur also is joined hem, and have holpen the chilIren of Lot.

5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are thy ways.

9 But do thou to them as unto he Midianites; unto Sisera, and 6 Who, going through the vale nto Jabin at the brook of Kison; of misery, use it for a well; and 10 Who perished at Endor, and the pools are filled with water. ecame as the dung of the earth. 7 They will go from strength # 11 Make them and their prin- to strength, and unto the God of es like Oreb and Zeb; yea, make gods appeareth every one of them their princes like as Zeba and in Sion.

almana; 8. O Lord God of hosts, hear 12 Who say, Let us take to my prayer; hearken, O God of urselves the houses of God in Jacob:

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9 Behold, O God, our defender,

13 0 my God, make them like and look upon the face of thine nto a wheel, and as the stubble Anointed.

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10 For one day in thy courts.

14 Like as the fire that burneth is better than a thousand.

the wood, and as the flame

at consumeth the mountains.

11 I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God,

15 Persecute them even so than to dwell in the tents of unith thy tempest, and make them godliness.

raid with thy storm.

12 For the Lord God is a light 16 Make their faces ashamed, and defence; the Lord will give Lord, that they may seek thy grace and worship; and no good thing shall he withhold from them

ame.

17 Let them be confounded and that live a godly life.

exed ever more and more; let 13 O Lord God of hosts, blessem be put to shame, and perish. ed is the man that putteth his 18 And they shall know that trust in thee.

ou, whose name is Jehovah,{ Psalm 85. Benedixisti, Domine. only the Most Highest over

the earth.

Psalm 84. Quam dilecta! How amiable are thy dwellings, thou Lord of Hosts! My soul hath a desire and ponging to enter into the courts

ORD, thou art become gra

cious unto thy land; thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob. 2 Thou hast forgiven the offence of thy people, and covered all their sins.

3-Thou hast taken away all thy

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