PSALM XXVI.

HAVE mercy on us, Lord,
And grant to us thy grace;
To shew to us do thou accord
The brightness of thy face:

That thy most holy way

May to the earth be shewn; And that thy great salvation may To all mankind be known.

Let all the world, with fear,
Give praise unto thy name;
O let the people ev'ry where
Extol and laud the same.

PSALM XXVIII.

BE light and glad, in God rejoice,
Who is our strength and stay:
Be joyful, and lift up your voice
To Jacob's God alway.

Prepare your instruments most neat
Some joyful psalm to sing;
Strike up with harp and lute so sweet,
On ev'ry pleasant string.

Blow as it were in the new moon,
With trumpets of the best,

As it was used to be done

At any solemn feast.

For this is unto Israel

A statute, which was made

By Jacob's God, and must full well
Be evermore obey'd.

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PSALM XXIX.

How pleasant is thy dwelling-place,
O Lord of hosts, to me;
The tabernacles of thy grace,
How pleasant, Lord, they be!

My soul doth daily long to go
Into thy blest abodes;

My heart with zeal devout doth glow di

For thee, the living God.

The sparrows find a room to rest,
And save themselves from wrong;

The swallow also hath a nest,

Wherein to keep her young.

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PSALM XXX.

O LORD of hosts incline thine ear,
And hear me when I cry;
And, of thy mercy, on me cast
A favourable eye.

For in thy courts one single day,
Employ'd before thy face,
Is better than a thousand spent
In any other place.

Much rather would I keep a door
Within the house of God,

Than in the tents of wickedness

Take up my sole abode.

PSALM XXXI.

JEHOVAH reigns! ye nations own,
With humble hearts, his sway;
Betwixt the cherubs stands his throne;
Earth, tremble and obey!

His pow'r with equity ally'd,

Through time's long course has stood; Jacob thy judgments, Lord, has try'd, And known them just and good.

Let each with humble joy elate,
Before thy footstool bow;

Thee ceaseless praise; for, who so great,
So holy, Lord, as thou?.