PSALMS LXIX. 77 PSALM LXIX. 14 =21, 26, 29, 32. PART II. [C. M.]. The passion and exaltation of Christ. 1 NOW let our lips with holy fear, And'mournful pleasure sing The suff'rings of our great High- priest, The sorrows of ourking. 2 He sinks in floods of deep distress; HOW high the waters rise ; While to his heav'nly Father's ear He sends perpetual cries. 3 " Hearne, O Lord, and save thy Son, Nor hide thy shining face; Why should thy fav'rite look like one Forsaken (dilly grace ? 4 With rage they persecute the man That groans beneath thy wound; While, for a sacrifice, I pour My life upon the ground. b Theytread my honour to the dust, And laugh when I complain; Their sharp insulting slanders add Fresh anguish to my pain. 4 All my, reproach is known to thee, .. The scandal and the shame ; Reproach has broke my bleedingheart, And lies defil'd my name. 9 I tooled for pity, but in vain; My kindredare my grief; I ask my friends for comfort round; But meet with no relief. 8 With vinegar they mock my thirst, They give me gall for food; And sporting with my dying groans,. They triumph in my blood. e Shine into, my distressed soul, Let thy compassions save; And rho my flesh sink down to death, Redeem it from the grave. to I shall arise to praise thy name, Shall reign in worlds unknown, And thy salvation, O my God, Shall seat me on thy throne." PSALM LXIX PART III. [C. M.] Christ's obedience and death; or, God glorified and sinners saved. 1 FATHER, I sing thy wondrousgrace, I bless my Saviour's name,. He bought salvation for the poor; And bore the sinner's shame. 2 His deep distress has rais'd us high, His duty and his zeal Fulfill'd the law which mortals broke, And fmish'd all thy will. 3 His dying groans, bis living sons Sha'1 better please my God, Than harp or trumpet's solemn sound; Than goats or bullock's blood. 4 This shall his humble followers see, And set their hearts at rest; They by his death draw near to thee, And live for ever blest. 5 Let heav'n, and all that dwell on hig1, To God their voices raise, While lands and seas assist the sky, And join t' advance the praise. 6 Zion is thine, most holy God; Thy Son shall bless her gates : And glory purchas'd by his blood For thy own Israel waits. PSALM LXIX. PART I. [L. M.] Christ's passion, and sinner's salvation. 1 DEEP in our hearts let us record The deeper sorrows of our Lord; Behold the rising billows roll To overwhelm his holy sort 2 In long complaints he spends his breath, While hosts of hell,and pow'rsof death i And all the sons ofmalice join To execute their curst design. 3 Yet, gracious God, thy pow'r and love Has made the curse a blessing prove: Those.dreadful sufí rings of thy Sob Aton'd for sins which we had done. 4 The pangs of our expiring Lord The honours of thy law restor'd; His sorrows made thy justice known, And paid for follies nothis own. 5 Ofor his sake our guilt forgive, And let the mourning sinner live; The Lord will hear us in his name, Nor shall our hope be turn'd to shan't. PSALM LXIX. ver. 7, &e. PART II. [L. M.] Christ's sufferings and zeal. 1 'TWAS for thy sake, Eternal God, 'Thy Son sustam'd that heavy load Of base reproach and sore disgrace, And shame defil'd his sacred -face, 2 Theiews, his brethren and his. kin: Abus'd the man that check'dtheirsin : While he fulfill'd thy holy laws, They hate him, but without a cause. 3 [ "M,yFather's house, said he,wasmade " A place for not for trade ;" Then scatt'ring all their gold and brass, He scourg'd the merchants from the place. 4 [Zeal for the temple of his God Consum'd his life, expos'd his blood: Reproachesat thy glory thrown He felt, and mourn'd them as his own.] 5 [His friends forsook, hisfollowers fled, While foes and arms surround hishead Thevcnrsehimwith a sland'rous tongue, Andthefalse j ndgomaintainsthewrong.] 6 His life they -load with hatefil lies, And charge his lips with blssph miles a
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