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Give praise and thanks unto the Lord,
for bountiful is he;
His tender mercy doth endure
unto eternity.
God’s mighty works who can express?
or shew forth all his praise?
Blessed are they that judgment keep,
and justly do always.
Remember me, Lord, with that love
which thou to thine dost bear;
With thy salvation, O my God,
to visit me draw near:
That I thy chosen’s good may see,
and in their joy rejoice;
And may with thine inheritance
triumph with cheerful voice.
We with our fathers sinned have,
and of iniquity
Too long we have the workers been;
we have done wickedly.
The wonders great, which thou, O Lord,
didst work in Egypt land,
Our fathers, though they saw, yet them
they did not understand:
And they thy mercies’ multitude
kept not in memory;
But at the sea, ev’n the Red sea,
provok’d him grievously.
Nevertheless he saved them,
ev’n for his own name’s sake;
That so he might to be well known
his mighty power make.
When he the Red sea did rebuke,
then dried up it was:
Through depths, as through the wilderness,
he safely made them pass.
From hands of those that hated them
he did his people save;
And from the en’my’s cruel hand
to them redemption gave.
The waters overwhelm’d their foes;
not one was left alive.
Then they believ’d his word, and praise
to him in songs did give.
But soon did they his mighty works
forget unthankfully,
And on his counsel and his will
did not wait patiently;
But much did lust in wilderness,
and God in desert tempt.
He gave them what they sought, but to
their soul he leanness sent.
And against Moses in the camp
their envy did appear;
At Aaron they, the saint of God,
envious also were.
Therefore the earth did open wide,
and Dathan did devour,
And all Abiram’s company
did cover in that hour.
Likewise among their company
a fire was kindled then;
And so the hot consuming flame
burnt up these wicked men.
Upon the hill of Horeb they
an idol-calf did frame,
A molten image they did make,
and worshipped the same.
And thus their glory, and their God,
most vainly changed they
Into the likeness of an ox
that eateth grass or hay.
They did forget the mighty God,
that had their saviour been,
By whom such great things brought to pass
they had in Egypt seen.
In Ham’s land he did wondrous works,
things terrible did he,
When he his mighty hand and arm
stretch’d out at the Red sea.
Then said he, He would them destroy,
had not, his wrath to stay,
His chosen Moses stood in breach,
that them he should not slay.
Yea, they despis’d the pleasant land,
believed not his word:
But in their tents they murmured,
not heark’ning to the Lord.
Therefore in desert them to slay
he lifted up his hand:
’Mong nations to o’erthrow their seed,
and scatter in each land.
They unto Baal-peor did
themselves associate;
The sacrifices of the dead
they did profanely eat.
Thus, by their lewd inventions,
they did provoke his ire;
And then upon them suddenly
the plague brake in as fire.
Then Phin’has rose, and justice did,
and so the plague did cease;
That to all ages counted was
to him for righteousness.
And at the waters, where they strove,
they did him angry make,
In such sort, that it fared ill
with Moses for their sake:
Because they there his spirit meek
provoked bitterly,
So that he utter’d with his lips
words unadvisedly.
Nor, as the Lord commanded them,
did they the nations slay:
But with the heathen mingled were,
and learn’d of them their way.
And they their idols serv’d, which did
a snare unto them turn.
Their sons and daughters they to dev’ls
in sacrifice did burn.
In their own children’s guiltless blood
their hands they did imbrue,
Whom to Canaan’s idols they
for sacrifices slew:
So was the land defil’d with blood.
They stain’d with their own way,
And with their own inventions
a whoring they did stray.
Against his people kindled was
the wrath of God therefore,
Insomuch that he did his own
inheritance abhor.
He gave them to the heathen’s hand;
their foes did them command.
Their en’mies them oppress’d, they were
made subject to their hand.
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