The Psalms - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 750

20 21 22 26 33 34 35 37 $9 And they gave to Him thanks in their song. But soon they forgot of His acts, They would not await His designs, In the Desert they longed in their lust, They abandoned their God in the Waste! Yet He gave to them that which they asked, But sent to their bodies disease. Sranza 5. Then Moses they vexed in the Camp, With Ahron the Saint of the LORD; And earth opened, and swallowed up Dathan, And closed on the Tents of Abiram And {ire consumed in their meeting, The Wicked were burnt in its flame! Yet in Horeb they made them a Calf, g To a statue they bowed themselves down, And rejected their glory, For a pictured bull fed upon grass! Forgot GOD, their Saviour, Who in Mitzer had done mighty things, In I~Iam's country, wonders, At the Sea. of Weeds terrors! Then He spoke as about to destroy them, But Moses His chosen stood up in the breach, To turn back from ruin His wrath. Sranza 6. Then the land of Delight they despised ; They did not believe in His path, And complained in their tents, Not attending the voice of the Loan. Then He raised His hand against them, In the Desert their bodies to ding; And to fling out their Race to the Heathen, Andscatter about in the lands. Then they joined themselves to Bal·peor, And to Dead Men their oierings ate! Thus they provoked Him with their vice, And upon them plague burst ! Then Phineas arose to do right; And arrested the plague; And it gained him a fame, 'I`hro' ages, of ages, for ever.

Yet at Meribah’s water they vexed, When because of them Moses did wrong, _ For his temper they roused, and he spoke in his haste. Srzmza 7. And the Peoples they did not destroy, As the Loanhad commanded to them, But mixed with and learnt pagan crimes, And worshipped their Idols! And they became wrapped up in them, And their Sons offered up, And their Daughters,.t0 Devils, When to Cananite Idols they slaved, And polluted the Country with blood; And corrupted themselves by their acts, And gave them to Idols to whore! 750