32 For all this they sinned still,

And believed not in his wondrous works.

33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity,
And their years in terror.

34 When he slew them, then they inquired after him:
And they returned and sought God 'early.
35 And they remembered that God was their rock,
And the Most High God their redeemer.
36 But they flattered him with their mouth,
And lied unto him with their tongue.
37 For their heart was not 'right with him,
Neither were they faithful in his covenant.
38 But he, being full of compassion, forgave their
iniquity, and destroyed them not:

Yea, many a time turned he his anger away,
And did not stir up all his wrath.

39 And he remembered that they were but flesh;
A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
40 How oft did they rebel against him in the
wilderness,

And grieve him in the desert!

41 And they turned again and tempted God,

And 'provoked the Holy One of Israel.

42 They remembered not his hand,

Nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary.

43 How he set his signs in Egypt,

And his wonders in the field of Zoan;

44 And turned their rivers into blood,

And their streams, that they could not drink.

45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them;

And frogs, which destroyed them.

46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, And their labour unto the locust.

47 He 'destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycomore trees with frost.

48 He gave over their cattle also to the hail,

1 Or, earnestly

2 Or, stedfast

3 Or, limited

4 Heb. killed.

5 Or, great hailstones

1 Heb.

A sending.

2 Heb. levelled.

3 Or, their

beasts to the murrain

4 Heb. beginning.

See Deut. xxi.

17.

And their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, 49
Wrath, and indignation, and trouble,
'A band of angels of evil.

He 'made a path for his anger;
He spared not their soul from death,
But gave 'their life over to the pestilence;
And smote all the firstborn in Egypt,

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51

52

The 'chief of their strength in the tents of Ham:
But he led forth his own people like sheep,
And guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
And he led them safely, so that they feared not: 53
But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

Or, his holy And he brought them to the border of his 54

border

6 Or, mountain land

sanctuary,

To this mountain, which his right hand had

purchased.

He drove out the nations also before them,
And allotted them for an inheritance by line,
And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their

tents.

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Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most 56
High God,

And kept not his testimonies ;

But turned back, and dealt treacherously like 57 their fathers:

They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

For they provoked him to anger with their high 58 places,

And moved him to jealousy with their graven

And his glory into the adversary's hand.

He gave his people over also unto the sword;

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And was wroth with his inheritance.

63 Fire devoured their young men ;

And their maidens had no marriage-song. 64 Their priests fell by the sword;

And their widows made no lamentation.

65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep,
Like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of
wine.

66 And he smote his adversaries backward:
He put them to a perpetual reproach.
67 Moreover he refused the tent of Joseph,
And chose not the tribe of Ephraim;

68 But chose the tribe of Judah,

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The mount Zion which he loved.

69 And he built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which he hath established for

ever.

70 He chose David also his servant,

And took him from the sheepfolds:

71 From following the ewes that give suck he brought him,

To feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inherit

ance.

72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his

heart;

And guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

A Psalm of Asaph.

I O God, the 'heathen are come into thine in- 1Or, nations

heritance;

Thy holy temple have they defiled;

They have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, The flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem;

And there was none to bury them.

We are become a reproach to our neighbours,
A scorn and derision to them that are round

about us.

4

How long, O LORD, wilt thou be angry for 5 ever?

Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that 6 know thee not,

And upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy

name.

For they have devoured Jacob,

And laid waste his 'habitation.

7

Remember not against us the iniquities of our 8
forefathers:

Let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us :
For we are brought very low.

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

And deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.

Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is 10 their God?

Let the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed

Be known among the heathen in our sight.

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before 11 thee;

According to the greatness of thy power preserve thou 'those that are appointed to death;

And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into 12 their bosom

Their reproach, wherewith they have reproached
thee, O Lord.

So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture 13
Will give thee thanks for ever:

We will shew forth thy praise to all generations.

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For the Chief Musician; set to 'Shoshannim Eduth. 1 That is,
A Psalm of Asaph.

I Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,

Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock;

Lilies, a testimony.

Thou that 'sittest upon the cherubim, shine forth. Or, dwellest 2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh,

3

stir up thy might,

And come to save us.

3 Turn us again, O God;

And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be

saved.

4 O LORD God of hosts,

5

between

3 Or, Restore

How long wilt thou be angry against the Heb. will
prayer of thy people?

Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears,
And given them tears to drink in large measure.
6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours :
And our enemies laugh among themselves.

7 Turn us again, O God of hosts;

And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be
saved.

8 Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt:

Thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst
it.

9 Thou preparedst room before it,

And it took deep root, and filled the land.

10 The mountains were covered with the shadow

of it,

thou smoke. See Ps.

lxxiv. I.

5

And the boughs thereof were like 'cedars of Or, the
God.

II She sent out her branches unto the sea,
And her shoots unto the River.

12 Why hast thou broken down her fences,
So that all they which pass by the way
her?

do pluck

13 The boar out of the wood doth ravage it,

cedars of God with the

boughs thereof

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Or, goodly cedars