12. Then believed they his words, they fang his praise.

13. But within a while they forgat his works, and waited not for his counsel :

14. But lufted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the defart.

15. And he

gave

ing into their foul.

them their defire, but fent loath

16. They envied Mofes alfo in the camp, and Aaron the faint of the Lord.

17. So the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and closed upon the company of Abiram. 18. And a fire was kindled in their company, the flame burnt up the wicked.

19. They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.

20. Thus they turned their glory into the fimilitude of an ox eating grafs.

21. They forgat God their Saviour, who had done fo great things in Egypt:

22. Wondrous works in the land of Ham; fearful things in the Red Sea.

23. Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Mofes his chofen ftood before him in the breach; to turn away his wrath, left he should destroy.

24. Yea, they despised the pleasant land; and gave no credence to his word.

25. But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord.

26. Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to caft them down in the wilderness:

27. To overthrow their feed alfo among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.

28. They joined hands alfo in honour of Baal-· peor, and eat the offerings of the dead.

29. Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions, and the plague brake in upon them.

30. Then Phinehas stood up and executed judgment, and the plague was stayed.

31. And that was counted to him for righteousnefs, among all pofterities for evermore.

32. They angered him alfo at the water of Meribah, fo that it went ill with Mofes for their fakes.

33. Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.

34. They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the Lord commanded them;

35. But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works :

36. Infomuch that they worshipped their idols, which were unto them a snare.

37. Yea, they facrificed their fons and their daughters unto evil

powers;

38. And fhed innocent blood, even the blood of their fons and of their daughters, whom they facri

ficed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.

39. Thus were they stained with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

40. Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, infomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.

41. And he gave them over into the hands of the heathen; and they that hated them, were lords over them.

42. Their enemies alfo oppreffed them, and they were brought into fubjection under their hand.

43. Many a time did he deliver them, but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

44. Nevertheless, he regarded their affliction when he heard their complaint.

45. He remembered alfo for them his covenant; and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

46. Yea, he made all those that led them away captive to pity them.

47. Deliver us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen, that we may give thanks unto thy holy name, and make our boast in thy praise.

48. Bleffed be the Lord God of Ifrael from everlafting to everlasting, and let all the people say, Amen. Praife ye the Lord.

TWENTY-SECOND MORNING.

Morning Prayer.

PSALM CVII.

The Pfalmift here fets forth the praises of divine Providence which extends itself to all mankind; and which he illuftrates by inftances of God's merciful protection, ft. to exiles, 2. to prifoners, (in which be alludes particularly to the return from the Babylonish captivity), 3. to the fick, 4. to mariners, and 5. to countries and individuals.

1. O GIVE thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious, and his mercy endureth for ever.

2. Thus let the redeemed of the Lord fay, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;

3. And gathered them out of the lands from the east and from the weft, from the north and from the fouth.

4. They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

5. Hungry were they and thirsty; their fouls fainted in them.

6. Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distress.

7. And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation:

8. Oh, that men would praise the Lord for his goodnefs, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

9. For to the hungry he hath given a fufficiency, and the famished he hath filled with good.

10. Those that fat in darknefs and in the fhadow of death, fast bound in mifery and iron;

11. Because they had rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the Most High;

12. But he brought down their hearts with forrow; they fell down and there was none to help.

13. Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he faved them out of their distress.

14. He brought them out of darkness, and the fhadow of death, and brake their bonds in funder.

15. Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodnefs, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

16. For he hath broken the gates of brafs, and cut the bars of iron in funder.

17. The foolish because of their tranfgreffion, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

18. Their foul abhorreth all manner of food, and they draw near unto the gates of death.