LXXII. NUMBERS, Chap. XI. Ver. 1. to 6. 120 v. 1. When the people complained, it displeased the Lord and the Lord heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the Lord burnt among them, and confumed them that were in the uttermoft parts of the camp. 2. And the people cried untoMoles; and when Mofes prayed unto the Lord, the fire was quenched. 3. And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the Lord burnt among them. LXXIII. Quails Given. The People Plagu'd H! who the Depths of Man's falfe Heart And bafe Ingratitude, as deep as Hell! As faft as God can Pardon, we rebel : You loath, like Manna now, your own defire, } He said, when ftrait tempeftuous Winds arife, And fill with Clouds of Quails,the burthen'd Skies: Tired with their Flight they fall the Camp around, And cover wide away the Sandy Ground; Thick as th' unnumber'd Drops, when Aufter brings Warm fruitful Rains upon his Humid Wings, The People feize the animated Show'r, And half alive their bleeding Limbs devour. Nor long behind the thanklets Gluttons ftaid, Nor was the threatn'd Vengeance long delay'd: A fudden Plague from Heav'n th' Unjuft confumes, And late Pofterity with Horror fhows their Tombs. LXXIII. LXXIII. NUMBERS, Chap. XI. Ver. 31. to 34, 131 v. 31. There went forth a wind from the Lord,and brought quails from the fea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a days journey on this fide, and as it were a days journey on the other fide, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth. 32. And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: be that gathered leaft, gathered ten bomers: and they spread them all abroad for themfelves round about the camp, &c. LXXIV. 29 ma Aaron and Miriam's fedition, her Leprofie and Cure. M° TOSES, on Earth the meekeft Man in vain; The Foe to Goodness moves domeftic Strife (rag'd, And And were you not, audacious Pair! affraid Against my Servant Mofes to repine, And with th' accurfed murm'ting Crowd combine? He faid, and from the guilty Pair withdrew; Fell at his Feet, and thus with Tears began: He hears, he prays, and Heav'n did her restore, The Plague remov'd, as found and beauteous as be fore. NUMBERS, Chap. XII, VI. Miriam and Aaron Spake against Mofes because of the Ethiopian woman, whom he had married, for he had married an Ethiopian woman. 2. And they faid, bath the Lord indeed spoken only by Moles? bath he not spoken also by us? And the Lord beard it, &c. |