6 Insulting foes, how long can ye (5) b_o_st. Of ruin'd cities boast! (5) Blunderings, _Siccorrige Your plunderings now as well as they meo periculo_. That's a Are in oblivion lost: lie, for Gibbs remembers them. 7 But God eternally remains (6) (6) That's false and Fixt in His throne on high, profane; God is not fixed anywhere. 8 And to the world from thence ordains (7) Did anybody ever Impartial equity:(7) hear of _partial_ equity? 9 And for their injured souls extend That extending a refuge, A refuge most secure. is pretty. 12 He hears the injured poor, and then _i.e._ is angry at their Does all their cries resent. cries. 13 And thus consider still, O Lord, (8) Nothing is restored The justice of my cause; but what has been taken Who often hast my life (8) restor'd away; so that he has been From death's devouring jaws: often raised from the dead, if this be true. 15 The heathen nations are dismay'd (9) (9) We heard a while They're all to ruin brought, ago their very names were For in the treacherous nets, they laid, dead,[1] now (it seems) Ev'n they themselves are caught: they're only dismay'd. [Footnote 1: Ver. 5. "They and their very names are dead."] 16 Lo, thus the Lord to execute True judgment still inclines; This is profane, as if it were only an inclination in God to be just. X. PSALM OF DAVID: 1 Lord, why in times of deep distress If the woes require aid Dost Thou from us retire, it is to increase them, When dismal woes our souls oppress, they cannot require it And Thy kind aid require! against themselves. 2 The wicked do with lawless pride (1) (1) Proide. Pronounce The helpless persecute; it like the Scotch. But let them be themselves destroy'd, And fall in their pursuit: Ay, let them! 3 For still they triumph, when success I cannot crock this Does their designs attend, stave. And then their ways, who thus oppress, Profanely they commend: * * * * *