The Psalms - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 726
The Psalms, Solomon and Sacred Writers
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And gave up to vermin their produce,
And theirgardens to grasshoppers gave,
Their vines He destroyed by the hail,
And their fig-trees, by sharp~cutting frost,
And He shut up their towns by the hail,
And their ware-rooms, by lightning's bright flash,
And sent them Hisifurious wrath,
Indignation, and rage, and distress,
The troops of the agents of woe !
He levelled a path for His wrath,
Nor protected their souls from the death,
But delivered their lives to the plague.
And in Mitzer struck all the iirst·born,-—
The first of their love in Ham's Halls!
But marched out His People like sheep,
And led like a fiock in the Waste.
He led them without fear and secure-
Tho' covered their foes with the,Sea,
And brought to the district, He chose,
This Hill His right hand had acquired.
And He drove out the Heathen before,
And allotted their holdings by rule,
And put Israel’s Tribes in their homes.
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Yet they tried, and rebelled from HIGH GOD,
And regarded not what He decreed,
But they tricked and betrayed, like their fathers
Like a broken bow jumping aside,
And insulted by raising up mounds,
And provoked by the Idols they made.
But GOD heard, and indignant He was,
And at Israel felt great disgust.
And abandoned His dwelling in Shilo ;-·
The First, where He dwelt among men.
And He gave up to slavery their strong,
And their fair girls, to Tyranny’s hand;
And His people resigned to the Sword,
His Inheritance to the Destroyer;
Their Youths were by tire consumed,
And their.Maidens not sung to as Brides.
And their Priests were struck down by the sword,
And their Widows forbid to lament!
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Then the Loan woke, as if from a sleep,
Like a hero refreshed with his wine.
And their tyrants He struck on the back,
And gave them perpetual shame;
But abandoned His dwelling with joseph,
And chose not the Tribe of Ephraim,
But it was ]udah‘s Tribe He selected,
Zion's Hill as the spot which He loved,
And built there His Great Holy Fane,
As He had built the Earth for all Time!
And He, for His Servant, chose David,
Took him from the care of a flock,
And He afterwards raised and appointed,
To shepherd His people of jacob,
And Israel, whom He possessed,
Who pastured them by His right heart,
And led by the skill of His hands.
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