fon fhall live, and in thy feed, SONG VII. The Propbetical Song of Moses, fetting forth GOD'S Mercy and Vengeance. Deut. xxii. 1,-43. SECT. I. GOD and ISRAEL characterized. Ver. LOFTY heav'ns! give ear, I'll speak; I 2 3 To the inftructions of my mouth An ear devoutly lend. My doctrine down like rain fhall drop, My fpeech diftil like dew; As fmall rain chears the tender herb And fhow'rs the grafs renew. Becaufe aloud I publifh will And greatnefs to our God. 4 The Rock whofe work moft perfect is, A God of truth, and without fin, 5 But they have ftain'd themfelves, their spot For they a crooked nation are, A race of perverse ones. Ver. O! do you thus requite the Lord, 6 Unwife and foolifh ye? Is not the Lord thy Father kind, That bought, made, fettled thee? SECT. II. The great Things GoD bad done for ISRAEL. 7 Mind days of old, mark what the years Thy father afk, he will thee fhow; 8 That when the Higheft did divide 10 He found him in a defart waste, He led him round, him taught, him kept, II As th' eagle fond ftirs up her nest, Spreads out, and then upon her wings, 12 Ev'n fo the Lord along him led, As an afliftant, join'd with him, 13 On earth's high places, forts, and holds, That of the increase of the fields, He might with pleasure eat. 1 honey sweet, for him to fuck, And made, for him, the flinty rock 14 Butter of kine, and milk of fheep, With fat of lambs, and goats, and rams, With fat of wheaten kidneys fine, SECT. III. JESHURUN'S Ingratitude and Sin. 15 But, ah! Jefhurun when poffeft Did make and him redeem; 16 Yea, with strange gods they stirred up His jealoufy like fire: And with abominations great 17 Altars to devils, not to God, To gods unknown, new upstart gods, 18 The mighty Rock, that thee begat, Thou haft the God, that formed thee, 19 When this JEHOVAH's eye beheld, 20 Ver. He faid, I'll hide from them my face, 21 They have me mov'd to jealousy, To wrath they have provoked me, So them to wrath I'll move with these And, with a foolish nation, will Provoke and vex them too. SECT. IV. GOD's Indignation against ISRAEL for their Sins. 22 For in my indignation hot Enkindled is a fire, Which to the loweft hell fhall burn, With unappeafed ire: It fhall confume the earth, with all And, flaming fierce, fhall fet on fire 23 Mischiefs I will upon them heap, 24 With hunger burn, with heat devour, I'll fend on them the cruel teeth 25 The fword without, and dread within 26 Thus faid I, I will fcatter them And make their whole remembrance cease Among the fons of men : 27 Ver. But that I fear'd their wrathful foes, 28 For they a foolish nation are, 29 But, O that they were wife in heart, That they would mind their latter end, 30 For, how fhall one a thoufand chafe, Had not the Lord, their rock, them fuld, 31 For their rock cannot equal ours, Our foes themfelves are, to their coft, 32 For, lo! their vines of Sodom are Their grapes are loathfome, are leathfome, grapes of gall, 33 Like to the dragon's poifon is 34 And is not this laid up in ftare, Seal'd up among my treafures hid, 35 To me belongeth vengeance juft, Their foot fhall therefore furely flide The day of their calamity The woful things to come on them, |