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When friends and parents me forsake,
From kindred far exil'd,
The Lord on me will pity take,

And bless his helpless child.

4 Direct me, Lord, to thine abode
O, make thy footsteps plain;
Because my foes beset the road,
And would my feet detain.

5 Preserve my soul from those who swear,
To 'assault and take my life,
Their perjur'd lips false witness bear,
They breathe out death and strife.
6 My fainting flesh had died of grief,
Had not my soul believ'd,

To see thy grace provide relief,
Nor was mine hope deceiv'd.

7 Wait on the Lord, O trembling saint,
Come trust his power to save;
He 'upholds the weak, inspires the faint,
And well rewards the brave.

PSALM 28. L. M.

God the refuge of the oppressed.

í TO God, my Rock, for help I cry, Make haste my soul to hear and save, If God in silence pass me by,

I sink, and perish in the grave.

2 When toward his holy hill I raise

My suppliant hands and weeping voice,
The Lord will turn my prayer to praise,
And bid my mourning soul rejoice.
3 Dissemblers, Lord, despise thy law,

They speak of peace, but war intend,
My soul with theirs thou wilt not draw,
Nor bring me to their dreadful end.

4 The Lord shall recompense their way, He sees what impious sinners do, / And tho his justice long delay,

Yet death at last shall strike them thro. 5 Because they disregard his grace,

And all his works of power disdain, The Lord shall drive them from his face, And plunge them deep in endless pain. 6 The Lord, my Refuge and my Rest, Shall be for ever lov'd and fear'd; He saw my weeping soul opprest And God, my Savior, soon appear'd. 7 My strength is in the Lord my shield, The conquering power to God belongs, He brings me shouting from the field, To praise my Savior in my songs. O God, our everlasting Rock,

The saving strength of all the just, Now bless thy people, feed thy flock, And raise thy children from the dust.

PSALM 29. Part 1. L. M.

Storm and thunder.

1 GIVE to the Lord the praise and power,
Give to the Lord the chief renown,
His voice commands the gathering shower,
And sends his blazing lightnings down.
2 The Lord, how dreadful is his name,
When his majestic thunder roars,
The heavens appear a quivering flame,
And trembling earth his power adores.
3 High seated on the 'electric cloud,

Across the fields and floods he flies;
The foaming ocean roars aloud,
And darkness overspreads the skies.

4 Who dares the God of heaven to 'assault?
Ah! who can stand before his ire,
When downward thro the 'etherial vault,
He darts his living streams of fire?
5 Where'er the raging tempest goes
His whirlwinds rush with fearful haste;
The forests skip like frighted roes,
The desart seems a dreary waste.
6 To Lebanon with crashing noise,
The Lord almighty comes apace,
The mountains fall from off their poise,
And earth stands trembling on its base.
7 The nimble hart, and frighted hind,

Leap off, and scarcely touch the ground;
But in his temple saints shall find
The Lord can use a gentler sound.
8 Jehovah rules the swelling flood,

He sits enthron'd the 'eternal King,
The saints, redeem'd by Jesus' blood,
Shall in his church his glory sing.

PSALM 29. Part 2. L. M.

The voice of the Lord.

1 GIVE to the Lord, ye sons of fame,
Give to the Lord his dreadful name;
Give to the Lord, the just and true,
Give to the Lord the glory due.
2 The voice of God is heard aloud,
Behold he comes in yonder cloud,
O'er watʼry regions, lo, he rides,
His hand the forked lightning guides!
3 The voice of God is full of power,

The heavens grow black, the tempests lower;
How swift and awful is his gait,

A thousand whirlwinds round him wait.

4 The voice of God the cedar rends,
All Lebanon before him bends;
Proud Sirion skips with shattered horn,
Like a young calf, or unicorn.*
5 The voice of God divides a way
To give his nimble lightnings play;
Corusant† heaven with luster gleams,
And down the God of thunder streams.
6 The voice of God, the desart moves,
All nature shakes when God reproves,
His word with terror Kadesh knows
And trembles when his spirit blows.
7 The voice of God, with fearful sound,
Does the parturient‡ roe confound,

He speaks thro heaven's tremendous valve,
And makes the 'affrighted hind to calve.
8 Yet when in Zion God appears,
A gentler sound the sinner hears;
He speaks, and whispers fill his voice,
That make repenting souls rejoice.
9 The 'almighty Lord, who rules the flood,
Is King o'er men of every blood,

This God his people will increase,
And bless his saints with endless peace.

PSALM 30. Part 1. L. M.

The convalescent.

THY name, Almighty God, be prais❜d,
1 Who me from death's dark border rais'd,
Nor o'er me let the foe rejoice,
When thus to heaven I rais'd my voice.

Unicorn, à beast with one horn.
Corusant, glitering by flashes.

+ Parturient, about to bring forth young.

2❝ On thee, my God, I humbly call, Before the hand of death I fall; Thy stronger arm to me reveal,

And show thy sovreign power to heal.
3 When death prevails and few survive,
Who, but the Lord, can keep alive?
What, but almighty power, can save
A dying sinner from the grave?"
4 The Lord reviv'd my fainting breath,
And snatch'd me back from yawning death:
I did my soul to God commit,

And God redeem'd me from the pit.
5 Sing to the Lord, ye suffering saints,
Give thanks and tell him your complaints,
Remember all his works of grace,
And all your faith in Jesus place.
6 His anger but a moment stays,
His love is life and length of days;
If grief and tears the night employ,
The morning star restores the joy.

PSALM 30. Part 2. L. M.

Health, sickness, and recovery.

1 FIRM was mine health, my days were bright,
And I presum❜d 'twould ne'er be night,
I fondly said within mine heart,
"Pleasure and peace shall ne'er depart."
2 'Twas favor made my mountain stand,
But I forgot the Favorer's hand:

Because my nerves were firm and strong,
I thought I could my life prolong.
3 The Lord my rashness soon reprov'd
With sleepless nights and health remov❜d,
He turn❜d from me his blissful face,
And, lo, my, troubles came apace.

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