_Under trouble I see the tents of Kûshān,[431] The curtains of Midian’s land are quivering. Is it with hills[432] Jehovah is wroth? Is Thine anger with rivers? Or against the sea is Thy wrath, That Thou ridest it with horses, Thy chariots of victory? Thy bow is stripped bare;[433] Thou gluttest (?) Thy shafts.[434] Into rivers Thou cleavest the earth;[435] Mountains see Thee and writhe; The rainstorm sweeps on:[436] The Deep utters his voice, He lifts up his roar upon high.[437] Sun and moon stand still in their dwelling, At the flash of Thy shafts as they speed, At the sheen of the lightning, Thy lance. In wrath Thou stridest the earth, In anger Thou threshest the nations! Thou art forth to the help of Thy people, To save Thine anointed.[438] Thou hast shattered the head from the house of the wicked, Laying bare from ...[439] to the neck. Thou hast pierced with Thy spears the head of his princes.[440] They stormed forth to crush me; Their triumph was as to devour the poor in secret.[441] Thou hast marched on the sea with Thy horses; Foamed[442] the great waters._ _I have heard, and my heart[443] shakes; At the sound my lips tremble,[444] Rottenness enters my bones,[445] My steps shake under me.[446] I will ...[447] for the day of trouble That pours in on the people.[448]_ _Though the fig-tree do not blossom,[449] And no fruit be on the vines, Fail the produce of the olive, And the fields yield no meat, Cut off[450] be the flock from the fold, And no cattle in the stalls, Yet in the LORD will I exult, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation. Jehovah, the Lord, is my might; He hath made my feet like the hinds’, And on my heights He gives me to march._ This Psalm, whose musical signs prove it to have been employed in the liturgy of the Jewish Temple, has also largely entered into the use of the Christian Church. The vivid style, the sweep of vision, the exultation in the extreme of adversity with which it closes, have made it a frequent theme of preachers and of poets. St. Augustine’s exposition of the Septuagint version spiritualises almost every clause into a description of the first and second advents of Christ.[451] Calvin’s more sober and accurate learning interpreted it of God’s guidance of Israel from the time of the Egyptian plagues to the days of Joshua and Gideon, and made it enforce the lesson that He who so wonderfully delivered His people in their youth will not forsake them in the midway of their career.[452] The closing verses have been torn from the rest to form the essence of a large number of hymns in many languages.