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Chariots of our God are twice ten thousand,

Thousands told again and yet again:

And the Lord's Great Presence is

Here in Sion, as in Sinai then.

Thou hast gone up on high,

Thou hast captive led captivity,

among them

Thou hast received gifts for men; Yea-for rebels, who allegiance owed,

That the Lord God may have meet abode.

IV.

Bless'd be the Lord,

Day after day!

Whoever loads us with sorrow,

God is our Saviour for aye.
This God is to us the God

Of Salvation-and of Him the Lord
Out of death are manifold issues:

Surely He will bruise

The very head of His foes,

And the hairy scalp of such an one

As walketh on still in his sin.

Saith the Lord, "I will bring thee from Bashan ;

I will bring thee again

From the dark, voiceful, depths of the sea; That thou thy footsteps mayst dash,

Red-wetshod, in blood of the foe,

And the tongue of thy dogs in the same."

V.

They are seen-Thy goings, O God!-
Thy goings, my God and my King!

In the place which is holy to Thee.

First, went the song-men in front,
Behind, those who strook the strings,
In the midst the choir of the maidens,
Who skill the tabrets to beat.
In the full assemblies, O bless ye,
God the Lord, ye souls

That well forth in living waves,
From Israel's fountain-head!
Benjamin's tribe is there;

Small, but his chief at his head.
The princes of Judah are there,
With their goodly company;
The princes of Zebulun,
And the princes of Naphtali.

VI.

Thy God assureth thee strength,
Strengthen, O God! Thy decree,
The things Thou workest for us,
Because of Thy palace, which hangs
Dominant over Jerusalem.

So shall kings bring presents to Thee !
Rebuke the thronging mass

Of the men who hold the lance-
The swarming horde of the bisons,
The young steers among the herds
That are nations of mighty men—

Till they move themselves restlessly forward, With tribute of silver bars.

He has scattered the hordes of nations

Whose will is the onset of war. -Nobles shall come out of Egypt, And Cush-his hands in haste Shall yet be uplifted to God.

Sing ye to God,

VII.

Earth's kingdoms !-sing psalms to the Lord!

To Him who rides forth

On the heaven of heavens eterne.

Behold! He gives forth His voice,

And that a voice of strength.

Ascribe ye strength to God,

His loftiness is over Israel;

His strength abides above,
Where the thin clouds fleck the sky.
Terrible art Thou, O God!
From Thy sanctuaries-Israel's God !—
Giving strength and strong defences
To the nation. Blessed be God!

PSALM XCIII.

I.

THE Lord is crowned!

With splendour robed around,
Robed with strength His Majesty is found.

2

So the world may rest-it will not move, I trow, Stayed upon the Throne that rests in the eternal Now,

From the ancient days, everlasting Thou!

3.

Lifted up the floods, O Lord! in anger,
Lifted up the floods the voice they have.
Yea, the floods will yet lift up a stranger,
More unearthly music with their wave.

Grand majestic voices of the manifold.
Waters! tumbling breakers of the sea!
Grander, more majestic, on those old

Eternal heights, the Lord, than even ye.

4.

Thy laws are made steadfast for ever,

The beauty of Holiness sits on Thy shrine,

O Lord! through the stretch of the days that are Thine.

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