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27 He caufed the east-wind to blow under heaven: and through his power he brought in the fouth-weft-wind.

28 He rained flesh upon them as thick as duft: and feathered fowls like as the fand of the fea.

29 He let it fall among their tents: even round about their habitation.

30 So they did eat, and were well filled, for he gave them their own defire: they were not disappointed of their luft.

31 But while the meat was yet in their mouths, the heavy wrath of God came upon them, and flew the wealthieft of them yea, and fmote down the chofen men that were in Ifrael.

32 But for all this they finned yet more: and believed not his wonderous works.

33 Therefore their days did he confume in vanity and their years in trouble.

34 When he flew them, they fought him: and turned them early, and enquired after God.

35 And they remembered that God was their ftrength: and that the high God was their redeemer.

36 Nevertheless, they did but flatter him with their mouth and diffembled with him in their tongue.

37 For their heart was not whole with him: neither continued they stedfast in his covenant.

38 But he was fo merciful, that he forgave their mifdeeds: and deftroyed them not.

39 Yea, many a time turned he his wrath away and would not fuffer his whole difpleasure to arife.

40 For he confidered that they were but flesh and that they were even a wind that paffeth away, and cometh not again.

41 Many a time did they provoke him in the wilderness : and grieved him in the defert.

42 They turned back, and tempted God; and moved the holy One in Ifrael.

43 They thought not of his hand and of the day when he delivered them from the hand of the enemy;

44 How he had wrought his miracles in Egypt: and his wonders in the field of Zoan.

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45 He turned their waters into blood: fo that they might not drink of the rivers.

46 He fent lice among them, and devoured them up: an frogs to destroy them.

47 He gave their fruit unto the caterpillar : and their labour unt the grashopper.

48 He deftroyed their vines with hailftones: and their mulberry-trees with the fr ft.

49 He fmote their cattle alfo with hailftones: and their flocks with hot thunder bolts.

50 He caft upon them the furioufnefs of his wrath, anger, difpleasure, and trouble: and fent evil angels among them. 1 He made a way to his indignation, and fpared not their foul from death: but gave their life over to the pestiler ce.

52 And fmote all the first-born in Egypt: the most principal and mightieft in the dwellings of Ham.

53 But as for his own people, he led them forth like fheep and carried them in the wilderness like a flock. 54 He brought them out fafely, that they fhould not fear and overwhelmed their enemies with the fea.

55 And brought them within the borders of his fanctuary even to his mountain which he purchased with his right hand.

56 He caft out the heathen alfo before them: caufed their land to be divided among them for an heritage, and made the tribes of Ifrael to dwell in their tents.

57 So they tempted and difpleafed the most high God: and kept not his teftimonies;

58 But turned their backs, and fell away like their forefathers ftarting afide like a broken bow.

59 For they grieved him with their hill-altars: and provoked him to difpleasure with their images.

60 When God heard this, he was wroth: and took fore difpleasure at Ifrael;

61 So that he forfook the tabernacle in Silo: even the tent that he had pitched among men.

62 He delivered their power into captivity: and their beauty into the enemies hand.

63 He gave his people over alfo unto the fword: and was wroth with his inheritance.

64 The fire confumed their young men and their maidens were not given to marriage.

65 Their priests were flain with the fword: and there were no widows to make lamentation.

66 So the Lord awaked as one out of fleep: and like a giant refreshed with wine.

67 He fmote his enemies in the hinder parts: and put them to a perpetual fhaine.

68 He refused the tabernacle of Jofeph: and chose not the tribe of Ephraim;

69 But chofe the tribe of Judah: even the hill of Sion which he loved.

70 And there he built his temple on high: and laid the foundation of it like the ground which he hath made continually.

71 He chose David alfo his fervant: and took him away from the fheep-foles.

72 As he was following the ews great with young ones, he took him that he might feed Jacob his people, and Ifrael his inheritance.

73 So he fed them with a faithful and true heart and ruled them prudently with all his power.

PRACTICAL OBSERVATION S.

Pfalm lxxviii.] This pfalm, which was written for the intruction of the Ifraelites, fhould likewife ferve for ours, and may teach us, 1. That we ought carefully to preferve the remembrance of God's mercies; and that it is the duty of parents to teach them to their children and their pofterity. 2. That the mercies of God fhould engage us to love and fear him; and that if the Jews became guilty before God, by their fine and frequent r bellions, our ing atitude would be ftill more heinous. if after all that God has done for us, we fhould prove faithiefs. 3. The judgments which fell upon the Jews, inform us, that God cannot leave thofe fins unpunished, which are commit.ed h perfons who have received great favours from him; and that if we imitate the Jews in their rebelTion, we have reafon to expect the moft drea ful effects of God's wrath and vengeance. Laftly, The judgments of God upon the enemies of his people, and the favours he bestowed on them after he had affl'&ted them, should convince us, that God cannot neglect to promote his own glory, and will for ever be the fupport and defender of his church

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MORNING PRAYER.

Pfalm. lxxix. Deus, venerunt.

God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance: thy holy temple have they defiled, and made Jerufalem an heap of ftones,

2 The dead bodies of thy fervants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the air: and the flesh of thy faints unto the beafts of the land.

3 Their blood have they fhed like water on every fide of Jerufalem and there was no man to bury them.

4 We are become an open fhame to our enemies: a very fcorn and derifion unto them that are round about us.

5 Lord, how long wilt thou be angry: fhall thy jealousy burn like fire for ever?

Pour out thine indignation upon the heathen that have not known thee: and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy Name.

7 For they have devoured Jacob: and laid waste his dwelling-place,

8 O remember not our old fins, but have mercy upon us, and that foon for we are come to great mifery.

9 Help us, O God of our falvation, for the glory of thy Name: O deliver us, and be merciful unto our fins for thy Name's fake.

10 Wherefore do the heathen fay: Where is now their God?

11 O let the vengeance of thy fervants blood that is fhed: be openly fhewed upon the heathen in our fight.

12 Olet the forrowful fighing of the prifoners come before thee: according to the greatness of thy power preferve thou thofe that are appointed to die.

13 And for the blafphemy wherewith our neighbours have blafphemed thee: reward thou them, O Lord, sevenfold, into their bosom.

14 So we that are thy people and sheep of thy pafture fhall give thee thanks for ever: and will alway be fhewing forth thy praise from generation to generation.

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Pfalm. lxxx. Qui regis Ifrael.

EAR, O thou fhepherd of Ifrael, thou that leadeft Jofeph like a fheep: fhew thyfelf alfo, thou that fitteft upon the Cherubims.

2 Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manaffes: ftir up thy ftrength, and come and help us.

3 Turn us again, O God: fhew the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole.

4 O Lord God of hofts: how long wilt thou be angry with thy people that prayeth?

5 Thou feedeft them with the bread of tears: and givest them plenteousness of tears to drink.

6 Thou haft made us a very strife unto our neighbours : and our enemies laugh us to fcorn.

7 Turn us again, thou God of hofts: fhew the light of thy countenance, and we fhall be whole.

8 Thou haft brought a vine out of Egypt: thou haft caft out the heathen, and planted it.

9 Thou madeft room for it: and when it had taken root, it filled the land.

10 The hills were covered with the fhadow of it: and the boughs thereof were like the godly cedar-trees...

II She ftretched out her branches unto the fea and her boughs unto the river.

12 Why haft thou then broken down her hedge: that all they that go by pluck off her grapes?

13 The wild boar out of the wood doth root it up and the wild beafts of the field devour it.

14 Turn thee again, thou God of hofts, look down from heaven: behold, and visit this vine;

15. And the place of the vine-yard that thy right hand hath planted and the branch that thou madeft so strong for thyself.

16 It is burnt with fire, and cut down and they shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance..

17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand : and upon the fon of man, whom thou madeft fo strong for thine own felf.

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