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STITUTED IN THE TEAR MDCOOXTI.
1863.
THE

BOOK OF PSALMS.

PSALM I.
1 The happiness of the godly. 4 The unhappiness of the
ungodly.
"DLESSED is the man that walketh not in the
-^ counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the
way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the
scornful. 2 But his delight is in the law of the Lokd:
and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
, 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the
rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in
his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and
whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
4 The ungodly are not so : but are like the
chaff which the wind driveth away.
5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the
judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the
righteous. 6 For the Lokd knoweth the way of the right
eous : but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
3

The kingdom PSALMS. of Christ
PSALM II.
1 The kingdom of Christ. 10 Kings are exhorted to accept it.
"V^THY do the heathen rage, and the people
imagine a vain thing 1
2 The kings of the . earth set themselves, and
the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord,
and against his Anointed, saying)
3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast
away their cords from us.
4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh:
the Lord shall have them in derision.
5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath,
and vex them in his sore displeasure.
6 Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of
Zion. *7 I will declare the decree : the Lokd hath said
unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I be
gotten thee.
8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen
for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of
the earth for thy possession.
9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron;
thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's
vessel. 10 Be wise now therefore, 0 ye kings: be in
structed, ye judges of the earth.
11 Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with
trembling. 12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye
perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled
but a little. Blessed are all they that put their
trust in him.
4

The security of PSALMS. GoaV s protection.
PSALM III.
The security of God's protection.
A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.
1 ORD, how are they increased that trouble
-^ me ! many are they that rise up against
me. 2 Many there be which say of my soul, There
is no help for him in God. Selah.
3 But thou, 0 Lord, art a shield for me ; my
glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
4 I cried unto the Lord with my voice, and he
heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
5 I laid me down and slept ; I awaked ; for the
Lord sustained me.
6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of peo
ple, that have set themselves against me round
about. 7 Arise, 0 Lord ; save me, 0 my God : for thou
hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek
bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the un
godly. 8 Salvation belongeth unto the Lord: thy bless
ing is upon thy people. Selah.
PSALM IY.
1 David prayeth for audience. 2 He reproveth and exhort-
eth his enemies. 6 Man's happiness is in God's favour.
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David.
TTEAR me when I call, 0 God of my right-
¦*-¦*- eousness: thou hast enlarged me when I
was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear
nry prayer.
2 0 ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my

David prayeth PSALMS. to God.
glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity,
and seek after leasing? Selah.
3 But know that the Lord hath set apart him
that is godly for himself: the Lord will hear when
I call unto him.
4 Stand in awe, and sin not : commune with your
own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put
your trust in the Lord.
6 There be many that say, Who will shew us
any good? Lord, lift thou up the light of thy
countenance upon us.
7 Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more
than in the time that their corn and their wine
increased. 8 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep :
for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.
PSALM Y.
1 David prayeth, and professeth his study in prayer. 4 God
favoureth not the wicked. 7 David, professing his faith,
prayeth unto God to guide him, 10 to destroy his enemies,
1 1 and to preserve the godly.
To the chief Musician upon Nehiloth, A Psalm of David.
C^ I YE ear to my words, 0 Lord ; consider my
" meditation.
2 Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King,
and my God: for unto thee will I pray.
3 My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, 0
Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer
unto thee, and will look up.
4 For thou art not a God that hath pleasure
in wickedness : neither shall evil dwell with thee.
6

Godfavoureth PSALMS. not the wicked.
5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight : thou
hatest all workers of iniquity.
6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing:
the Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
7 But as for me, I will come into thy house
in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear
will I worship toward thy holy temple.
8 Lead me, 0 Lord, in thy righteousness be
cause of mine enemies; make thy way straight
before my face.
9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth;
their inward part is very wickedness ; their throat
is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their
tongue. 10 Destroy thou them, 0 God; let them fall
by their own counsels; cast them out in the
multitude of their transgressions; for they have
rebelled against thee.
11 But let all those that put their trust in
thee rejoice : let them ever shout for joy, because
thou defendest them: let them also that love thy
name be joyful in thee.
12 For thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous;
with favour wilt thou compass him as with a
shield. PSALM YI.
1 David's complaint in his sickness. 8 By faith he triumpheth
over his enemies.
To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm
of David.
OLORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, nei
ther chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
2 Have mercy upon me, 0 Lord ; for I am
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David V complaint PSALMS. in his sicknessi
weak : 0 Lord, heal me ; for my bones are
vexed. 3 My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, 0
Lord, how long?
4 Return, 0 Lord, deliver . my soul : oh save
me for thy mercies' sake.
5 For in death there is no remembrance of
thee : in the grave who shall give thee thanks ?
6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night
make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with
my tears.
7 Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it
waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
8 Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity;
for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping.
9 The Lord hath heard my supplication; the
Lord will receive my prayer.
10 Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore
vexed: let them return and be ashamed sud
denly. PSALM TIL
1 David prayeth against the malice of Ms enemies, professing
his innocency. 10 By faith he seeth his defence, and the
destruction of his enemies.
Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto the Lord, concerning
the words of Cush the Benjamite.
OLORD my God, in thee do I put my trust:
save me from all them that persecute me,
and deliver me:
2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it
in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
3 0 Lord my God, if I have done this; if
there be iniquity in my hands;
8

He prayeth y, PSALMS, against his enemies.
4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was
at peace with me ; (yea, I have delivered him
that without cause is mine enemy;)
5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take
-ity yea, let him tread , down my life upon the
earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
6 Arise, 0 Lord, in thine anger, lift up thyself
because of the rage of mine enemies : and awake
for me to1 the judgment that thou hast com
manded. 7 So shall the congregation of the people com
pass thee about: for their sakes therefore re
turn thou on high. &:«
8 The Lord shall judge the people : judge me,
0 Lord, according to my righteousness, and ac
cording to j mine integrity that is in me.
9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come
to an end; but establish the just: for the right
eous God trieth the hearts and reins. ¦
10 My defence is of God, which saveth the
upright in heart.
11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is
angry with the wicked every day.
12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he
hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
13 He hath also prepared for him the instru
ments, of death ; he ordaineth his arrows against
the persecutors.
14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath
conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. J
15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen
into the ditch which he made. U
9

God)s great PSALMS. love to man,
16 His mischief shall return upon his own
head, and his violent dealing shall come down
upon his own pate.
17 I will praise the Lord according to his
righteousness: and will sing praise to the name
of the Lord most high.
PSALM Till.
God's glory is magnified by his works, and by his love to
man.
To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David.
f~\ LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name
^^ in all the earth ! who hast set thy glory
above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings
hast thou ordained strength because of thine
enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and
the avenger.
3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of
thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou
hast ordained;
4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him?
and the son of man, that thou visitest him ?
5 For thou hast made him a httle lower than
the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and
honour. 6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the
works of thy hands; thou hast put all things
under his feet:
7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of
the field;
8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and
whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
10

David PSALMS. praiseth God.
9 0 Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name
in all the earth! PSALM IX.
1 David praiseth God for executing of Judgment. 1 1 He
inciteth others to praise him. 13 He prayeth that he may
have cause to praise him.
To the chief Musician upon Muth-labben, A Psalm of David.
I WILL praise thee, 0 Lord, with my whole
-*- heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous
works. 2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee : I will
sing praise to thy name, 0 thou Most High.
3 When mine enemies are turned back, they
shall fall and perish at thy presence.
4 For thou hast maintained my right and my
cause ; thou satest in the throne judging right.
5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast
destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their
name for ever and ever.
6 0 thou enemy, destructions are come to a
perpetual end : and thou hast destroyed cities ;
their memorial is perished with them.
7 But the Lord shall endure for ever: he hath
prepared his throne for judgment.
8 And he shall judge the world in righteous
ness, he shall minister judgment to the people in
uprightness. 9 The Lord also will be a refuge for the op- '
pressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
• 10 And they that know thy name will put
their trust in thee: for thou, Lord, hast not
forsaken them that seek thee. 11

David PSALMS. praiseth God.
11 Sing praises to the Lord, which dwelleth in
Zion: declare among the people his doings.
12 When he maketh inquisition for blood, he
remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry
of the humble.
13 Have mercy upon me, 0 Lord; consider
my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me,
thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
14 That I may shew forth all thy praise in the
gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in
thy salvation.
15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that
they made : in the net which they hid is their
own foot taken.
16 The Lord is known by the judgment which
he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work
of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and
all the nations that forget God.
18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten:
the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
19 Arise, 0 Lord; let not man prevail: let the
heathen be judged in thy sight.
20 Put them in fear, 0 Lord: that the nations
may know themselves to be but men. Selah.
PSALM X.
1 David complaineth to God of the outrage of the wicked.
12 He prayeth for remedy. 16 He professeth his con-r
fidence.
TTTHY standest thou afar off, 0 Lord? why
* ' hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the
12

David complaineth PSALMS. of the wicked.
poor : let them be taken in the devices that they
have imagined.
3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire,
and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord ab-
horreth. 4 The wicked, through the pride of his coun
tenance, wih not seek after God: God is not in
all his thoughts.
5 His ways are always grievous; thy judg
ments are far above out of his sight : as for all
his enemies, he puffeth at them.
6 He hath said in his heart, I shall not be
moved : for I shall never be in adversity.
7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and
fraud : under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
( 8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the vil
lages : in the secret places doth he murder the
innocent : his eyes are privily set against the
poor. 9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his
den : he lieth in wait to catch the poor : he doth
catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
10 lie croucheth, and humbleth himself, that
the poor may fall by his strong ones.
11 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgot
ten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
12 Arise, 0 Lord ; 0 God, lift up thine hand :
forget not the humble.
13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God?
he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mis
chief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the
13

Providence and PSALMS. justice of God.
poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the
helper of the fatherless.
15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil
man : seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
16 The Lord is King for ever and ever: the
heathen are perished out of his land.
17 Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the
humble : thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt
cause thine ear to hear:
18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed,
that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
PSALM XL
1 David encourdgeth himself in God against his enemies. 4 The
providence and justice of God.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
TX the Lord put I my trust: how say ye to
-"- my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they
make ready their arrow upon the string, that
they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.
3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can
the righteous do?
4 The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord's
throne is in heaven : his eyes behold? his eye^
lids try, the children of men.
5 The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wick
ed and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire
and brimstone, and a horrible tempest: this shall
be the portion of their cup.
7 For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness;
his countenance doth behold the upright.
14

David craveth PSALMS. God^s help.
PSALM XII.
1 David, destitute of human comfort, craveth help of God. 3 He
comforteth himself with God's judgments on the wicked, and
confidence in God's tried promises.
To the chief Musician upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.
TTELP, Lord ; for the godly man ceaseth ; for
-¦— *- the faithful fail from among the children of
men. 2 They speak vanity every one with his neigh
bour: with flattering lips and with a double
heart do they speak.
3 The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and
the tongue that speaketh proud things :
4 Who have said, With our tongue will we pre
vail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing
of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord ; I
will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
6 The words of the Lord are pure words : as
silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven
times. 7 Thou shalt keep them, 0 Lord, thou shalt
preserve them from this generation for ever.
8 The wicked walk on every side, when the
Tilest men are exalted. PSALM XIII.
1 David complaineth of delay in, help. 3 He prayeth for pre
venting grace. 5 He boasteth of divine mercy.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
HOW long wilt thou forget me, 0 Lord? for
ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face
from me? 15

The corruption of PSALMS. a natural man.
2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul,
having sorrow in my heart daily? how long
shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
3 Consider and hear me, 0 Lord my God:
lighten mine eyes, lest' I sleep the sleep of
death ;
4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against
him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I
am moved.
5 But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart
shall rejoice in thy salvation.
6 I will sing unto the Lord, because he hath
dealt bountifully with me.
PSALM XIY.
1 David describeth the corruption of a natural man. 4 He con
vinceth the wicked by the light of their conscience. 7 He glo-
rieth in ihe salvation of God. )
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
HP HE fool hath said in his heart, There is no
*- God. They are corrupt, they have done
abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
2 The Lord looked down from heaven upon
the children of men, to see if there were any
that did understand, and seek God.
3 They are all gone aside, they are all to
gether become filthy: there is none that doeth
good, no, not one.
4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowl
edge? who eat up my people as they eat bread,
and call not upon the Lord.
5 There were they in great fear: for God is
in the generation of the righteous.
16

David describeth PSALMS. a citken of Zion.
6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor,
because the Lord is his refuge.
7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come
out of Zion ! when the Lord bringeth back the
captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and
Israel shall be glad. PSALM XY. \
David describeth a citizen of Zion.
A Psalm of David.
T ORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle?
•*** who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh
righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his
heart. 3 He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor
doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a
reproach against his neighbour.
4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned;
but he honoureth them that fear the Lord. He
that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
5 He that putteth not out his money to usury,
nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that
doeth these things shall never be moved.
PSALM XYI.
1 David, in distrust of merits, and hatred of idolatry, fleeth to
God for preservation. 5 He sheweth the hope of his calling,
of the resurrection, and life everlasting.
Michtam of David.
"DRESERYE me, 0 God: for in thed do I
-*- put my trust.
2 0 my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou
art my Lord : my goodness extendeth not to thee ;
B 17

David's trust in PSALMS. GoaVs providence.
3 But to the saints that are in the earth, and
to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hast
en after another god : their drink offerings of
blood will I not offer, nor take up their names
into my lips.
5 The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance
and of my cup : thou maintainest my lot.
6 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant
places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
7 I will bless the Lord, who hath given me
counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night
seasons. >
8 I have set the Lord always before me : because
he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory
rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell;
neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see
corruption. 11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in
thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand
there are pleasures for evermore.
PSALM XYII.
1 David, in confidence of his integrity, craveth. defence of God
against his enemies. 10 He sheweth their pride, craft, and
eagerness. 13 He prayeth against them in confidence of his
hope.
A Prayer of David.
TTEAR the right, 0 Lord, attend unto my
¦*-¦*- cry; give ear unto my prayer, that goeth
not out of feigned lips.
2 Let my sentence come forth from thy pres-
18

David craveth PSALMS. defence of God.
ence ; let thine eyes behold the things that are
equal. ,
3 Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast vis
ited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and
shalt find nothing: I am purposed that my mouth
shall not transgress.
4 Concerning the works of men, by the word
of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of
the destroyer.
5 Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my
footsteps slip not
6 I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear
me, 0 God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear
my speech.
7 Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, 0 thou
that savest by thy right hand them which put
their trust in thee from those that rise up against
them. 8 Keep me as the apple of the eye; hide me
under the shadow of thy wings,
9 From the wicked that oppress me, from my
deadly enemies, who compass me about.
10 They are inclosed in their own fat: with
their mouth they speak proudly.
11 They have now compassed us in our steps:
they have set their eyes bowing down to the
earth ;
12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and
as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
13 Arise, 0 Lord, disappoint him, cast him
down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which
is thy sword: 19

David1 s psalm of PSALMS. thanksgiving for
14 From men which are thy hand, 0 Lord,
from men of the world, which have their portion
in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy
hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave
the rest of their substance to their babes.
15 As for me, I will behold thy face in right
eousness : I shall be satisfied, -when I awake,
with thy likeness. PSALM XYIIL
David praiseth God for his manifold and marvellous blessings.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the
Lord, who spake unto the Lord** the words of this song in
the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all
his enemies, and from the hand of Saul : And he said,
T WILL love thee, 0 Lord, my strength.
-*- 2 The Lord '.is my rock, and my fortress,
and my deliverer; i my God, my strength, in
whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of
my salvation and my high tower.
3 I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to
be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
, 4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and
the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about:
the snares of death prevented me.
6 In my distress I called upon the Lord, and
cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of
his; temple, and my cry came „ before him, even
into his ears. ;
7 Then the earth shook and trembled ; the
foundations, also of the hills moved and were
shaken, because he was wroth.
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Gdo?s mighty PSALMS. deliverances.
8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils,
and fire out of his . mouth devoured : coals were
kindled by it.
9 He bowed the -heavens also, and came down :
and darkness was under his feet.
10 And he » .-rode upon a cherub, and did fly:
yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
11 He made darkness his secret: place; his
pavilion round about him were, daxk waters and
thick , clouds of the skies.
12 At the brightness that was, before him his
thick clouds passed, hail > stones and coals of fire.
13; The Lord also thundered in the heavens,
and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and
coals of fire.
14 Yea,4he sent out his arrows, and scattered
them ; and he shot out lightnings, and discom
fited them.
15 Then the channels of waters were seen;
and the foundations ofthe world were discov
ered at thy rebuke, 0 Lord, at the blast of the
breath of thy nostrils.
16 He sent from above, he took me^ he drew
me out of many waters.
17 He delivered me ;' from my strong enemy,
and from them which hated me : for they were
too strong for me.
18 They prevented me in the day of my ca
lamity: but the Lord was my stay.
19 He brought me forth also into ; a large place;
he delivered 'me, because he delighted in me. !
20 The Lord rewarded me according to my
21

David1 s psalm PSALMS. of thanksgiving
righteousness ; according to.- the cleanness of my
hands hath he recompensed me.
21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord,
and have not wickedly departed from my God.
22 For all his judgments were before me, and
I did not put away , his statutes from me.
23 I was also upright before him, and I kept
myself from mine iniquity.
24 Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me
according to my righteousness, according to the
cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
25 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself
merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew
thyself upright ;
26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure;
and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself
froward. 27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but
wilt , bring down high looks.
,28 For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord
my God will enlighten my darkness.
29 For by thee I have run through a troop;
and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
30 As for God, his way is perfect : the word
of the Lord is tried: he is a buckler to all
those that trust in him.
31 For who is God save the Lord? or who
is a rock save our God ?
32 It is God that girdeth -me with strength,
and maketh my way perfect.
33 He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and
setteth me upon my high places.
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for Gods PSALMS, manifold blessings.
34 He teacheth my hands to war, so that
a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
35 Thou hast also given me the shield of
thy salvation : and thy right hand hath hold
en me up, and thy gentleness hath made me
great. 36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me,
that my feet did not slip.
37 I have pursued mine enemies, and over
taken them: neither did I turn again till they
were consumed.
38 I have wounded them that they were not
able to rise : they are fallen under my feet.
39 For thou hast girded me with strength
unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me
those that rose up against me.
40 Thou hast also given me the necks of
mine enemies; that I might destroy them that
hate me.
41 They cried, but there was none to save
them: even unto the Lord, but he answered
them not.
42 Then did I beat them small as the dust
before the wind: I did cast them out as the
dirt in the streets.
43 Thou hast delivered me from the strivings
of the people ; and thou hast made me the head
of the heathen: a people whom. I have not
known shall serve me.
44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall
obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves
unto me. 23

Gods works . PSALMS, proclaim his glory.
45 The strangers shall fade away, and be
afraid out of their close places.
46 The Lord liveth ; and blessed be my Rock ;
and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
47 It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth
the people under me.
48 He delivereth me from mine enemies : yea,
thou liftest me up above those that rise up
against me : thou hast dehvered me from the
violent man.
49 Therefore will I give thanks unto thee,
0 Lord, among the heathen, and sing praises
unto thy name.
50 Great deliverance giveth he to his king;
and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David,
and to his seed for evermore.
PSALM XIX.
1 The creatures shew God's glory. 7 The word his grace.
12 David prayeth for grace.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
*rpHE heavens declare the glory of God; and
-*- the firmament sheweth his handywork.
2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night
unto night sheweth knowledge.
3 There is no speech nor language, where
their voice is not heard.
4 Their line is gone out through all the earth,
and their words to the end of the world. In
them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of
his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to
run a race. 24

Mcceliency of * PSALMS. the divine law,
6 His going forth is from the end of the
heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it : and
there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
7 The law of the Lord is perfect, converting
the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure,
making wise the simple.
8 The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoic
ing the heart: the commandment of the Lord
is pure, enlightening the eyes.
1 9 The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for
ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and
righteous altogether.
10 More to be desired are they than gold,
yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than
honey and the honeycomb.
11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned:
and in keeping of them there is great reward.
12 Who can understand his errors? cleanse
* thou me from secret faults.
13 Keep back thy servant also from presump
tuous sins y let them not have dominion over
me: then' shall I be upright, and I shall be
innocent from the great transgression.
14 Let the words of my mouth, and the med
itation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight,
0 Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.
PSALM XX.
1 The church blesseth the king in his exploits. 7 Her con
fidence in God's succour. >
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
THE Lord hear thee in the day of trouble;
the name of the God of Jacob defend thee ;
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Confidence in PSALMS. Gods succour.
2 Send thee help from the sanctuary, and
strengthen thee out of Zion ;
3 Remember ah thy offerings, and accept thy
burnt sacrifice; Selah.
4 Grant thee according to thine own heart,
and fulfil all thy counsel.
5 We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the
name of our God we will set up our banners:
the Lord fulfil all thy petitions.
6 Xow know I that the Lord saveth his
anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven
with the saving strength of his right hand. -
7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses:
but we will remember the name of the Lord
our God.
8 They are brought down and fallen: but we
are risen, and stand upright.
/ 9 Save, Lord : let the king hear us when we
call. PSALM XXI.
, 1 A thanksgiving for victory. 7 Confidence of further success.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
npHE king shall joy in thy strength, 0 Lord;
.-*- and in thy salvation how greatly shall he
rejoice !
2 Thou. hast given him his heart's desire, and
hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.
3 For thou preVentest him with the blessings
of goodness : thou settest a crown of pure gold
on his head.
4 He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it
him, even length of days for ever and ever.
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A thanksgiving PSALMS. for victory.
5 His glory is' great in thy salvation : honour
and majesty hast thou laid upon him.
6 For thou hast made him most blessed for
ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with
thy countenance.
7 For the king trusteth in the Lord, and
through the mercy of the Most High he shall
not be moved.
8 Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies:
thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
9 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in
the time of thine anger: the Lord shall swal
low them up in his wrath, and the fire shall
devour them.
10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the
earth, and their seed from among the children
of men.
11 For they intended evil against thee: they
imagined a mischievous device, which they are
not able to perform.
12 Therefore shalt thou make them turn their
back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows
upon thy strings against the face of them.
13 Be thou exalted, Lord, in thine own
strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.
PSALM XXII.
1 David complaineth in great discouragement. 9 He prayeth
in great ' distress. 23 He praiseth God.
To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David.
lY/TY God, my God, why hast thou forsaken
^*- me? why art thou so far from helping me,
and from the words of my roaring? 27

David complaineth PSALMS. in great distress.
2 0 my God, I cry in ihe m daytime, but thou
hearest not; and in the night season, and am
not silent.
3, But •? thou art holy, 0 thou that inhabitest
the praises of Israel.
4 Our fathers . trusted in thee: they trusted,
and thou didst deliver, them. *?*
5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered:
they trusted in thee, and were not qonfounded.
6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach
of men, and despised of the people.
7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn:
Ihey shoot out the lip, they shake the head,
saying,¦¦8 He trusted on the Lord that he would
deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he
delighted in him.
9 But thou art , he that took me out of the
womb : thou didst make me hope when I was
upon my mother's breasts.
10 I was cast upon thee from the womb:
thou art my God from my mother's belly.
11 Be not far from me; for trouble -is near;
for there is none to help.
12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong
bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
13 They gaped upon me with .their , mouths,
as a ravening and a roaring lion.
14 I am poured out like water, and all my
bones are out of joint : my heart is like wax ;
it is melted in the midst of my ^bowels..
15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd j
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He praiseth PSALMS. God.
and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou
hast brought me into the dust of death.
16 For dogs have compassed me: the as
sembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they
pierced my hands and my feet.
17 I may 'tell all my bones: they look and
stare upon me. ;
18 They part my garments among them, and
cast lots upon my vesture.
19 But be not thou far from me, 0* Lord:
0 my strength; haste, thee to help me.
{ 20 Deliven my soul from the sword; my dar
ling from the power of the dog.
21 Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou
hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren:
in the midst of the congregation will I praise
thee. 23 Ye that fear the Lord, praise him; all ye
the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him,
all ye the seed of Israel.
24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred
the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he
hid his face from him ; but when he cried unto
him, he heard, iv1-
25 My praise shall be of thee in the great
congregation : I will pay my Vows before them
that fear him.
26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they
shall praise the Lord that seek him : your heart
shall live for ever.
27 All the ends of the world shall remember 29

Davids confidence PSALMS, in Gods grace.
and turn unto the ** Lord: and all the kindreds
of the nations shall worship before thee.
28 For the kingdom is the Lord's : and he is
the governor among the nations.
29 All they that be fat upon earth shall eat
and worship : all they that: go down to the dust
shall bow before him: and none can keep alive
his own soul.
30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be ac
counted to the Lord for a generation.
31 They shall come, and shall declare his
righteousness unto a people that shall be born,
that he hath done this.
PSALM XXIII.
David's confidence in God's grace.
A Psalm of David.
^THE Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want,
¦*- 2 He maketh me to lie down in green
pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in
the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of
the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for
thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they
comfort me.
5 Thou preparest a table before me in the
presence of mine enemies : thou anointest my
head with oil; my cup runneth over.
6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
all the days of my life : and I will dwell in the
house of the Lord for ever.
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Gods sovereignty PSALMS. over the world.
PSALM XXIY.
1 God's lordship in the world. 3 The citizens of his spiritual
kingdom. 7 An exhortation to receive him.
A Psalm of David.
HP HE earth is the Lord's, and the fulness
¦*- thereof; the world, and they that dwell
therein. 2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and
established it upon the floods.
3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord ?
or who shall stand in his holy place?
4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart;
who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity,
nor sworn deceitfully.
5 He shall receive the blessing from the Lord,
and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
6 This is the generation of them that seek
him, that seek thy face, 0 Jacob. Selah.
7 Lift up your heads, 0 ye gates; and be ye
lifted up, ye everlasting doors ; and the King of
glory shall come in.
8 Who is this King of glory? The Lord
strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.
9 Lift up your heads, 0 ye gates; even lift
them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of
glory shall come in.
10 Who is this King of glory? The Lord of
hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.
PSALM XXY.
1 David's confidence in prayer. 7 He prayeth for remission of
sins, 16 and for help in affliction.
A Psalm of David. 31

Davids confidence PSALMS. in prayer:
I TXTO thee, 0 Lord, do I lift up my soul.
^ 2 0 my God, I trust in thee: let me not
be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over
me. 3 Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed:
let them be ashamed which transgress without
cause. 4 Shew me thy ways, 0 Lord; teach me thy
paths. 5 Lead me in thy* truth, and teach me : for
thou art the God of my salvation; on thee doJ
I wait all the day.
6 Remember, 0 Lord, thy tender mercies and
thy lovingkindnesses ; for they have been ever
of old.
7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor
my transgressions: according to thy mercy re
member thou me for thy goodness' sake, 0 Lord:
8 Good and upright is the Lord: therefore
will he teach sinners in the way.
9 The meek will he guide in judgment: and
the meek will he teach his way.
10 All the paths of the Lord are mercy and
truth unto such as keep his covenant and his
testimonies. 11 For thy name's sake, 0 Lord, pardon
mine iniquity; for it is great.
12 What man is he that feareth the Lord 1
him shall he teach in the way that he shall
choose. 13 His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed
shall inherit the earth.
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David prayeth for PSALMS, pardon and help.
14 The secret of the Lord is with them that
fear him ; and he will shew them his cov
enant. 15 Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord; for
he shall pluck my feet out of the net.
16 Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon
me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged: 0
bring thou me out of my distresses.
18 Look upon mine affliction and my pain*
and forgive all my sins.
19 Consider mine enemies; for they are many;
and they hate me with cruel hatred.
20 0 keep my soul, and deliver me : let
me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in
thee. 21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me;
for I wait on thee.
22 Redeem Israel, 0 God, out of all his
troubles. PSALM XXYI.
David resorteth unto God in confidence of his integrity.
A Psalm of David. \\(i,
TUDGE me, 0 Lord; for I have walked in
** mine integrity: I have trusted also in the
Lord ; therefore I shall not slide.
2 Examine me, 0 Lord, and prove me; try
my reins and my heart.
3 For thy lovingkindness is- before mine eyes:
and I have walked in thy truth.
4 I have not sat with vain persons, neither
will I go in with dissemblers. c 33

David resorteth PSALMS. unto God.
5 I have hated the congregation of evil doers;
and will not sit with the wicked.
6 I will wash mine hands in innocency: so
will I compass thine altar, 0 Lord:
7 That I may publish with the voice of
thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.
8 Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy
house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
9 Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my
life with bloody men :
10 In whose hands is mischief, and their
right hand is full of bribes.
11 But as for me, I will walk in mine integ
rity : : redeem me, and be merciful unto me.
12 My foot standeth in an even place: in the
congregations will I bless the Lord.
PSALM XXYII.
1 David sustaineth his faith by the power of God, 4 by his love
to the service of God, 9 by prayer.
A Psalm of David.
THE Lord is my light and my salvation;
¦*- whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength
of my life ; of whom shall I be afraid ?
2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and
my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh,
they stumbled and fell.
3 Though a host should encamp against me,
my heart shall not fear: though war should
rise against me, in this will I be confident.
4 One thing have I desired of the Lord, that
will I seek after; that I may dwell in the
house of the Lord all the days, of my life, to
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His faith in PSALMS. God s protection.
behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire
in his temple.
5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide
me in his pavilion: in the secret of his taber
nacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up
upon a rock.
6 And now shall mine head be lifted up
above mine enemies round about me : there
fore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of
joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto
the Lord.
7 Hear, 0 Lord, when I cry with my voice:
have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
8 When thou saidst, Seek ye my face ; my heart
said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek.
9 Hide not thy face far from me ; put not
thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my
help ; leave me not, neither forsake me, 0 God
of my salvation.
10 When my father and my mother forsake
me, then the Lord will take me up.
11 Teach me thy way, 0 Lord, and lead me
in a plain path, because of mine enemies.
12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine
enemies : for false witnesses are risen up against
me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
. 13 / had fainted, unless I had believed to
see the goodness of the Lord in the land of
the living.
14 Wait on the Lord : be of good courage,
and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I
say, on the Lord. 35

David PSALMS. blesseth God.
PSALM XXYIII.
1 David prayeth earnestly against his enemies. 6 He blesseth
God. 9 He prayeth for the people.
A Psalm of David.
TTXTO thee will I cry, 0 Lord my rock; be
^ not silent to me : lest, if thou be silent to
me, I become hke them that go down into the
pit. 2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when
I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands to
ward thy holy oracle.
3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and
with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace
to their neighbours, but mischief is in their
hearts. 4 Give them according to their deeds, and
according to the wickedness of their endeav
ours: give them after the work of their hands;
render to them their desert.
5 Because they regard not the works of the
Lord, nor the operation of his hands, he shall
destroy them, and not build them up.
6 Blessed be the Lord, because he hath heard
the voice of my supplications.
7 The Lord is my strength and my shield;
my heart trusted in him, and I am helped:
therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with
my song will I praise him.
8 The Lord is their strength, and he is the
saving strength of his anointed.
9 Save: thy! people, and bless thine inherit
ance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.
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He exhorteth to PSALMS, give glory to God.
PSALM XXIX.
1 David exhorteth princes to give glory to God, 3 by reason of
his power, 1 1 and protection of his people.
A Psalm of David.
C^ I YE unto the Lord, 0 ye mighty, give
^-* unto the Lord glory and strength.
2 Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his
name ; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness,
3 The voice of the Lord is upon the waters :
the God of glory thundereth: the Lord is upon
many waters.
4 The voice of the Lord is powerful; the
voice of the Lord is full of majesty.
5 The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars ;
yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf;
Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
7 The voice of the Lord divideth the flames
of fire.
8 The voice of the Lord shaketh the wilder
ness ; the Lord shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.
9 The voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to
calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his
temple doth every one speak of his glory.
: 10 The Lord sitteth upon the flood; yea, the
Lord sitteth King for ever.
11 The Lord will give strength unto his peo
ple; the Lord will bless his people with peace.
PSALM XXX.
1 David praiseth God for his deliverance. 4 He exhorteth others
to praise him by example of God's dealing with him.
A Psalm and Song at the dedication of the house of David.
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Exhortation to PSALMS. praise God.
WILL extol thee, 0 Lord; for thou hast
lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to
rejoice over me.
2 0 Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and
thou hast healed me.
3 0 Lord, thou hast brought up my soul
from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that
I should not go down to the pit.
4 Sing unto the Lord, 0 ye saints of his,
and give thanks at the remembrance of his ho
liness. 5 For his anger endureth but a moment; in
his favour is hfe : weeping may endure for a
night, but joy cometh in the morning.
6 And in my prosperity I said, I shall never
be moved.
7 Lord, by thy favour thou hast made my
mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy
face, and I was troubled.
8 I cried to thee, 0 Lord; and unto the
Lord I made supplication.
9 What profit is there in my blood, when I
go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise
thee? shall it declare thy truth?
10 Hear, 0 Lord, and have mercy upon me:
Lord, be thou my helper.
11 Thou hast turned for me my mourning
into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth,
and girded me with gladness;
12 To the end that my glory may sing praise
to thee, and not be silent. 0 Lord my God,
I will give thanks unto thee for ever.
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David craveth PSALMS. Gods help.
PSALM XXXI.
1 David shewing his confidence in God craveth his help. 7 He
rejoiceth in his mercy. 9 He prayeth in his calamity. 19 He
praiseth God for his goodness.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
TX thee, 0 Lord, do I put my trust; let me never
-*- be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
2 Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me
speedily: be thou my strong rock, for a house
of defence to save me.
3 For thou art my rock and my fortress;
therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and
guide me.
4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid
privily for me: for thou art my strength.
5 Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou
hast redeemed me, 0 Lord God of truth.
6 I have hated them that regard lying vani
ties : but I trust in the Lord.
7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy:
for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast
known my soul in adversities;
8 And hast not shut me up into the hand of
the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large
room. 9 Have mercy upon me, 0 Lord, for I am
in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief,
yea, my soul and my belly.
10 For my life is spent with grief, and my
years with sighing: my strength faileth because
of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
11 I was a reproach among all mine ene-
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David prayeth PSALMS. in calamity.
mies, but especially among my neighbours, and
a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see
me without fled from me.
12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of
mind: I am like a broken vessel.
13 For I have heard the slander of many:
fear was on every side: while they took counsel
together against me, they devised to take away
my hfe.
14 But I trusted in thee, 0 Lord: I said,
Thou art my God.
15 My times are in thy hand: deliver me
from the hand of mine enemies, and from them
that persecute me.
16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant:
save me for thy mercies' sake.
17 Let me not be ashamed, 0 Lord; for I
have called upon thee: let the wicked be asham
ed, and let them be silent in the grave.
18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which
speak grievous things proudly and contemptu
ously against the righteous.
19 Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou
hast laid up for them that fear thee; which
thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee
before the sons of men !
20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy
presence from the pride of man: thou shalt
keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife
of tongues.
21 Blessed be the Lord: for he hath shewed
me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.
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Remission of sins PSALMS. a great blessing.
22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from
before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the
voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
23 0 love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the
Lord preserveth the faithful, and plentifully re-
wardeth the proud doer.
24 Be of good courage, and he shall strength
en your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.
PSALM XXXII.
1 Blessedness consisteth in remission of sins. 3 Confession of
sins giveth ease to the conscience. 8 God's promises bring
joy. A Psalm of David, Maschil.
T3 LESS ED is he whose transgression is for-
-^ given, whose sin is covered.
2 Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord
imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there
is no guile.
3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old
through my roaring all the day long.
4 For day and night thy hand was heavy
upon me : my moisture is turned into the drought
of summer. Selah.
5 I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine
iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess
my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou for-
gavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
6 For this shall every one that is godly pray
unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found:
surely in the floods of great waters they shall
not come nigh unto him.
7 Thou art my hiding place ; thou shalt pre-
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God's promises PSALMS. bring joy.
serve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me
about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the
way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee
with mine eye.
9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule,
which have no understanding: whose mouth
must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they
come near unto thee.
10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but
he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall com
pass him about.
11 Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye right
eous : and shout for joy, all ye that are upright
in heart. PSALM XXXIII.
1 God is to be praised for his goodness, 6 for his power, 1 2 and
for his providence. 20 Confidence is to be placed in God.
T> EJOICE in the Lord, 0 ye righteous : for
-*-^ praise is comely for the upright.
2 Praise the Lord with harp : sing unto him
with the psaltery and an instrument of ten
strings. 3 Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully
with a loud noise.
4 For the word of the Lord is right ; and all
his works are done in truth.
5 He loveth righteousness and judgment : the
earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.
6 By the word of the Lord were the heavens
made; and all the host of them by the breath
of his mouth. 42

An exhortation PSALMS. to praise God.
7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together
as a heap : he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
8 Let all the earth fear the Lord : let all the
inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
9 For he spake, and it was done; he com
manded, and it stood fast.
10 The Lord bringeth the counsel of the
heathen to nought : he maketh the devices of
the people of none effect.
11 The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever,
the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the
Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for
his own inheritance.
13 The Lord looketh from heaven; he be-
holdeth all the sons of men.
14 From the place of his habitation he look
eth upon all the inhabitants of the earth.
15 He fashioneth their hearts alike; he con-
, sidereth all their works.
16 There is no king saved by the multitude
of a host: a mighty man is not delivered by
much strength.
. 17 A horse is a vain thing for safety: neither
shall he deliver any by his great strength.
18 Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them
that fear him, upon them that hope in his
mercy ;
19 To deliver their soul from death, and to
keep them alive in famine.
20 Our soul waiteth for the Lord: he is our
help and our shield. 43

David PSALMS. praiseth God.
21 For our heart shall rejoice in him, because
we have trusted in his holy name.
22 Let thy mercy, 0 Lord, be upon us, ac
cording as we hope in thee.
PSALM XXXIY.
1 David praiseth God, and exhorteth others thereto by his expe
rience. 8 They are blessed that trust in God. 11 He exhort
eth to the fear of God. 15 The privileges ofthe righteous.
A Psalm of David, when he changed his behaviour before
Abimelech ; who drove him away, and he departed.
1 WILL bless the Lord at all times: his
-^ praise shall continually be in my mouth.
2 My soul shall make her boast in the Lord:
the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.
3 0 magnify the Lord with me, and let us
exalt his name together.
4 I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and
delivered me from all my fears.
5 They looked unto him, and were lightened:
and their faces were not ashamed.
6 This poor man cried, and the Lord heard
him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
7 The angel of the Lord encampeth round
about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
8 0 taste and see that the Lord is good:
blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
9 0 fear the Lord, ye his saints : for there
is no want to them that fear him.
10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hun
ger: but they that seek the Lord shall not
want any good thing.
11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I
will teach you the fear of the Lord.
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The privileges PSALMS. ofthe righteous.
12 What man is he that desireth life, and
loveth many days, that he may see good?
13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips
from speaking guile.
14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace,
and pursue it.
15 The eyes of the Lord are upon the right
eous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
16 The face of the Lord is against them that
do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them
from the earth.
17 The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth,
and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
18 The Lord is nigh unto them that are of
a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a
contrite spirit.
19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous:
but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.
20 He keepeth all his bones : not one of them
is broken.
21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that
hate the righteous shall be desolate.
22 The Lord redeemeth the soul of his serv
ants : and none of them that trust in him shall
be desolate. PSALM XXXY.
1 David prayeth for his own safety, and his enemies' confusion.
1 1 He complaineth of their wrongful dealing. 22 Thereby he
inciteth God against them.
A Psalm of David.
PLEAD my cause, 0 Lord, with them that
strive with me: fight against them that
fight against me. 45

David prayeth PSALMS. for safety,
2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand
up for mine help.
3 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way
against them that persecute me: say unto my
soul, I am thy salvation.
4 Let them be confounded and put to shame
that seek after my soul: let them be turned back
and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and
let the angel of the Lord chase them.
6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and
let the angel of the Lord persecute them.
7 For without cause have they hid for me
their net in a pit, which without cause they
have digged for my soul.
8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares ;
and let his net that he hath hid catch himself:
into that very destruction let him fall.
9 And my soul shall be joyful in the Lord:
it shah rejoice in his salvation.
10 All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like
unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him
that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and
the needy from him that spoileth him?
11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to
my charge things that I knew not.
12 They rewarded me evil for good to the
spoiling of my soul.
13 But as for me, when they were sick, my
clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with
fasting ; and my prayer returned into mine own
bosom. 46

and for his PSALMS, enemies1 confusion.
14 I behaved myself as though he had been
my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily,
as one that mourneth for his mother.
15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and
gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects
gathered themselves together against me, and
I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased
not: 16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they
gnashed upon me with their teeth.
17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue
my soul from their destructions, my darling
from the lions.
18 I will give thee thanks in the great con
gregation : I will praise thee among much people.
19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrong
fully rejoice over me : neither let them wink
with the eye that hate me without a cause.
20 For they speak not peace: but they devise
deceitful matters against them that are quiet in
the land.
21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against
me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
22 This thou hast seen, 0 Lord: keep not
silence : 0 Lord, be not far from me.
23 Stir up thyself, and awake to my judg
ment, even unto my cause, my God and my
Lord. 24 Judge me, 0 Lord my God, according to
thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice
over me.
25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so
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The falsehood PSALMS. of ihe wicked.
would we have it: let them not say, We have
swallowed him up.
26 Let them be ashamed and brought to con
fusion together that rejoice at mine hurt : let
them be clothed with shame and dishonour that
magnify themselves against me.
27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad,
that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them
say continually, Let the Lord be magnified,
which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his
servant. 28 And my tongue shall speak of thy right
eousness and of thy praise all the day long.
PSALM XXXYI.
1 The grievous estate of the wicked. 5 The excellency of God's
mercy. 10 David prayeth for favour to God's children.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David the servant of the
Lord.
HP HE transgression of the wicked saith within
•*- my heart, that there is no fear of God be
fore his eyes.
2 For he flattereth himself in his own eyes,
until his iniquity be found to be hateful.
3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and
deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do
good. 4 He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he set
teth himself in a way that is not good; he ab-
horreth not evil.
5 Thy mercy, 0 Lord, is in the heavens ; and
thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
6 Thy righteousness is like the great mount-
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Excellency of PSALMS. Gods mercy.
ains ; thy judgments are a great deep : 0 Lord,
thou preservest man and beast.
7 How excellent is thy lovingkindness, 0 God !
therefore the children of men put their trust
under the shadow of thy wings.
8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the
fatness of thy house ; and thou shalt make them
drink of the river of thy pleasures.
9 For with thee is the fountain of life : in thy
light shall we see light.
10 0 continue thy lovingkindness unto them
that know thee; and thy righteousness to the
upright in heart.
11 Let not the foot of pride come against me,
and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
12 There are the workers of iniquity fallen :
they are cast down, and shall not be able to
rise. PSALM XXXYII.
David persuadeth to patience and confidence in God, by the dif
ferent estate of the godly and the Wicked.
A Psalm of David.
T^RET not thyself because of evil doers, nei-
-*- ther be thou envious against the workers
of iniquity.
2 For they shall soon be cut down like the
grass, and wither as the green herb.
3 Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt
thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be
fed. 4 Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he
shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
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The different PSALMS. estate of
5 Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also
in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
6 And he shall bring forth thy righteous
ness as the light, and thy judgment as the noon
day. 7 Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for
him: fret not thyself because of him who pros-
pereth in his way, because of the man who
bringeth wicked devices to pass.
8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret
not thyself in any wise to do evil.
9 For evil doers shall be cut off: but those
that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the
earth. 10 For yet a little while, and the wicked
shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider
his place, and it shall not be.
11 But the meek shah inherit the earth; and
shah delight themselves in the abundance of
peace. 12 The wicked plotteth against the .just, and
gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
13 The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth
that his day is coming.
14 The wicked have drawn out the sword,
and have bent their bow, to cast down the
poor and needy, and to slay such as be of up
right conversation.
15 Their sword shall enter into their own
heart, and their bows shall be broken.
16 A little that a righteous man hath is bet
ter than the riches of many wicked.
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the godly PSALMS. and the wicked.
17 For the arms of the wicked shall be bro
ken: but the Lord upholdeth the righteous.
18 The Lord knoweth the days of the up
right: and their inheritance shall be for ever.
19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil
time: and in the days of famine they shall be
satisfied. 20 But the wicked shall perish, and the ene
mies of the Lord shall be as the fat of lambs:
they shall consume; into smoke shall they con
sume away.
21 The wicked borroweth, and pay eth not
again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and
giveth. 22 For such as be blessed of him shall inherit
the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall
be cut off.
23 The steps of a good man are ordered by
the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.
24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly
cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his
hand. 25 I have been young, and now am old; yet
have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his
seed begging bread.
,26 He is ever merciful, and lendeth ; and his
seed is blessed.
27 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell
for evermore.
28 For the Lord loveth judgment, and forsak-
eth not his saints; they are preserved for ever:
but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off
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Different end of PSALMS, good and bad men.
29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and
dwell therein for ever.
30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wis
dom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
31 The law of his God is in his heart; none
of his steps shall slide.
32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and
seeketh to slay him.
33 The Lord will not leave him in his hand,
nor condemn him when he is judged.
34 Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and
he shall exalt thee to inherit the land : when
the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.
35 I have seen the wicked in great power,
and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not:
yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the up
right : for the end of that man is peace.
38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed
together : the end of the wicked shall be cut off.
39 But the salvation of the righteous is of
the Lord: he 'is their strength in the time of
trouble. 40 And the Lord shall help them, and deliver
them : he shall deliver them from the wicked,
and save them, because they trust in him.
PSALM XXXYIII.
David moveth God to take compassion of his pitiful case.
A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.
OLORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: nei
ther chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
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David imploreth PSALMS. Gods mercy.
2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy
hand presseth me sore.
3 There is no soundness in my flesh because
of thine anger ; neither is there any rest in my
bones because of my sin.
4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head:
as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because
of my foolishness.
6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly;
I go mourning all the day long.
7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome
disease : and there is no soundness in my flesh.
8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared
by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
9 Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my
groaning is not hid from thee.
10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me :
as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone
from me.
11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof
from' my sore ; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
12 They also that seek after my life lay
snares for me; and they that seek my hurt
speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits
all the day long.
13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I
was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not,
and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
15 For in thee, 0 Lord, do I hope: thou wilt
hear, 0 Lord my God. 53

Davids care of PSALMS. his thoughts.
16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they
should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth,
they magnify themselves against me.
17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow
is continually before me.
18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be
sorry for my sin.
19 But mine enemies are lively, and they are
strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are
multiplied. 20 They also that render evil for good are
mine adversaries; because I follow the thing
that good is.
21 Forsake me not, 0 Lord: 0 my God, be
not far from me.
22 Make haste to help me, 0 Lord my sal
vation. PSALM XXXIX.
1 David 's care ofhis thoughts. 4 The consideration of the brevity
and vanity of life, 7 the reverence of God's judgments, 10 and
prayer, are his bridles of impatiency.
To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.
T SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that
-*- I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my
mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before
me. 2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace,
even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
3 My heart was hot within me; while I was
musing the fire burned: then spake I with my
tongue, 4 Lord, make me to know mine end, and the
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The brevity and PSALMS. vanity of life.
measure of my days, what it is ; that I may
know how frail I am.
5 Behold, thou hast made my days as a hand-
breadth; and mine age is as nothing before
thee: verily every man at his best state is alto
gether vanity. Selah.
6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew :
surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up
riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope
is in thee.
8 Deliver me from all my transgressions : make
me not the reproach of the foolish.
9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; be
cause thou didst it.
10 Remove thy stroke away from me : I am
consumed by the blow of thine hand.
11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for
iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away
like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
12 Hear my prayer, 0 Lord, and give ear
unto my cry ; hold not thy peace at my tears :
for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner,
as all my fathers were.
13 0 spare me, that I may recover strength,
before I go hence, and be no more.
PSALM XL.
1 The benefit of confidence in God. 6 Obedience is the best sac
rifice. 11 The sense of David's evils infiameth his prayer.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
T WAITED patiently for the Lord; and he
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The benefit of PSALMS, confidence in God.
2 He brought me up also out of a horrible
pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon,'
a rock, and established my goings.
3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth,
men praise unto our God: many shall see it,
and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.
4 Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord
his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such
as turn aside to lies.
5 Many, 0 Lord my God, are thy wonderful
works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts
which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned
up in order unto thee: if I would declare and
speak of them, they are more than can be num
bered. 6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire ;
mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and
sin offering hast thou not required.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come : in the volume of
the book it is written of me,
8 I delight to do thy will, 0 my God : yea,
thy law is within my heart.
9 I have preached righteousness in the great
congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips,
0 Lord, thou knowest.
10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my
heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy
salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkind
ness and thy truth from the great congregation.
11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from
me, 0 Lord : let thy lovingkindness and thy
truth continually preserve me.
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God's care PSALMS. of the poor.
12 For innumerable evils have compassed me
about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me,
so that I am not able to look up; they are
more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my
heart faileth me.
13 Be pleased, 0 Lord, to deliver me : 0
Lord, make haste to help me.
14 Let them be ashamed and confounded to
gether that seek after my soul to destroy it; let
them be driven backward and put to shame
that wish me evil.
15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their
shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be
glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say
continually, The Lord be magnified.
17 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord
thinketh upon me : thou art my help and my
deliverer; make no tarrying, 0 my God.
PSALM XLI.
1 God's care of the poor. 4 David complaineth of his enemies'
treachery. 10 He fleet h to God for succour.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
"DLESSED is he that considereth the poor:
-*-* the Lord will deliver him in time of
trouble. 2 The Lord will preserve him, and keep him
alive ; and he shall be blessed upon the earth :
and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of
his enemies.
3 The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed
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David fleeth to PSALMS. God for succour.
of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in
his sickness.
4 I said, Lord, be merciful unto me: heal my
soul; for I have sinned against thee.
5 Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall
he die, and his name perish?
6 And if he come to see me, he speaketh van
ity: his heart gather eth iniquity to itself; when
he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
7 All that hate me whisper together against
me: against me do they devise my hurt.
8 An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto
him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no
more. 9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I
trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted
up his heel against me.
10 But thou, 0 Lord, be merciful unto me,
and raise me up, that I may requite them.
11 By this I know that thou favourest me,
because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
12 And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine
integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.
13 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from
everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.
PSALM XLIL
1 David?s zeal to serve God in the temple. 5 He encourageth
his soul to trust in God.
To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah.
A S the hart panteth after the water brooks,
-^- so panteth my soul after thee, 0 God.
2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living
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David's zeal PSALMS. to serve God.
God: when shall I come and appear before
God? 3 My tears have been my meat day and night,
while they continually say unto me, Where is
thy God?
4 When I remember these things, I pour out
my soul in me: for I had gone with the multi
tude, I went with them to the house of God,
with the voice of joy and praise, with a multi
tude that kept holyday.
5 Why art thou cast down, 0 my soul? and
why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in
God : for I shall yet praise him for the help of
his countenance.
6 0 my God, my soul is cast down within me:
therefore will I remember thee from the land of
Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy
waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are
gone over me.
8 Yet the Lord will command his lovingkind
ness in the daytime, and in the night his song
shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God
of my life.
9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast
thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because
of the oppression of the enemy ?
10 As with a sword in my bones, mine ene
mies reproach me; while they say daily unto
me, Where is thy God?
11 Why art thou cast down, 0 my soul? and
why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou
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David's trust PSALMS. in God.
in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the
health of my countenance, and my God.
PSALM XLIII.
1 David, praying to be restored to the temple, promiseth to serve
God joyfully. 5 He encourageth his soul to trust in God.
TUDGE me, 0 God, and plead my cause
** against an ungodly nation: 0 deliver me
from the deceitful and unjust man.
2 For thou art the God of my strength: why
dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning be
cause of the oppression of the enemy?
3 0 send out thy light and thy truth : let them
lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill,
and to thy tabernacles.
4 Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto
God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will
I praise thee, 0 God my God.
5 Why art thou cast down, 0 my soul? and
why art thou disquieted within me? hope in
God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the
health of my countenance, and my God.
PSALM XLIY.
1 The church, in memory of former favours, 7 complaineth of
their present evils. 17 Professing her integrity, 23 she fer
vently prayeth for succour.
To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.
TTTE have heard with our ears, 0 God, our
** fathers have told us, what work thou
didst in their days, in the times of old.
2 How thou didst drive out the heathen with
thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst
afflict the people, and cast them out.
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The church's PSALMS. complaint.
3 For they got not the land in possession by
their own sword, neither did their own arm
save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm,
and the light of thy countenance, because thou
hadst a favour unto them.
4 Thou art my King, 0 God: command de
liverances for Jacob.
5 Through thee will we push down our ene
mies : through thy name will we tread them
under that rise up against us.
6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither
shall my sword save me.
7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies,
and hast put them to shame that hated us.
8 In God we boast all the day long, and
praise thy name for ever. Selah.
9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame;
and goest not forth with our armies.
10 Thou makest us to turn back from the en
emy : and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed
for meat; and hast scattered us among the
heathen. 12 Thou sellest thy people for. nought, and
dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neigh
bours, a scorn and a derision to them that are
round about us.
14 Thou makest us a byword among the
heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
15 My confusion is continually before me, and
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The church prayeth PSALMS. for succour.
16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and
blasphemeth ; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
17 AU this is come upon us; yet have we not
forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in
thy covenant.
18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have
our steps declined from thy way;
19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the
place of dragons, and covered us with the shad
ow of death.
20 If we have forgotten the name of our God,
or stretched out our hands to a strange, god;
21 Shall not God search this out? for he
knoweth the secrets of the heart.
22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day
long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter^
23 Awake, why sleepest thou, 0 Lord? arise,
cast us not off for ever.
24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and for-
gettest our affliction and our oppression?
25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust:
our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy
mercies' sake. PSALM XLY.
1 The majesty and grace of Christ's kingdom. 10 The duty of
the church, and the benefits thereof
To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah,
Maschil, A Song of loves.
MY heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of
the things which I have made touching the
King : my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. ,
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The majesty of PSALMS. Christ's kingdom.
2 Thou art fairer than the children of men:
grace is poured into thy lips : therefore God
hath blessed thee for ever.
3 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, 0 most
Mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
4 And in thy majesty ride prosperously, be
cause of truth and meekness and righteousness ;
and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
5 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the
King's enemies; whereby the people faU under
thee. 6 Thy throne, 0 God, is for ever and ever :
the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.
7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wick
edness : therefore God, thy God, hath anointed
thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
8 All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes,
and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby
they have made thee glad.
9 Kings' daughters were among thy honour
able women: upon thy right hand did stand the
queen in gold of Ophir.
10 Hearken, 0 daughter, and consider, and in
cline thine ear; forget also thine own people,
and thy father's house;
11 So shall the King greatly desire thy beau
ty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.
12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there
with a gift; even the rich among the people
shall entreat thy favour.
13 The King's daughter is' all glorious within:
her clothing is of wrought gold. 63

The church's PSALMS. confidence.
14 She shall be brought unto the King in rai
ment of needlework: the virgins her companions
that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be
brought : they shall enter into the King's palace.
16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy chil
dren, whom thou mayest make princes in all the
earth. 17 I will make thy name to be remembered
in all generations : therefore shall the people
praise thee for ever and ever.
PSALM XLYI.
1 The confidence which the church hath in God. 8 An exhorta
tion to behold it.
To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon
Alamoth.
C^ OD is our refuge and strength, a very pres-
" ent help in trouble.
2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth
be removed, and though, the mountains be car
ried into the midst of the sea ;
3 Though the waters thereof roar and be
troubled, though the mountains shake with the
swelling thereof. Selah.
4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall
make glad the city of God, the holy place of
the tabernacles of the Most High.
5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not
be moved: God shall help her, and that right
early. 6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were
moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
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Of Christ's PSALMS. kingdom.
7 The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of
Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
8 Come, behold the works of the Lord, what
desolations he hath made in the earth.
9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of
the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the
spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will
be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted
in the earth.
11 The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of
Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
PSALM XLYII.
The nations are exhorted cheerfully to entertain the kingdom of
Christ.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm fpr the sons of Korah.
f\ CLAP your hands, all ye people ; shout
^-^ unto God with the voice of triumph.
2 For the Lord most high .is. terrible; he is a
great King over ah the earth.
3 He shall subdue the people under us, and
the nations under our feet.
4 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the
excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
5 God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with
the sound> of a trumpet.
6 Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing
praises unto our King, sing praises.
7 For God is the King of all the earth : sing
ye praises with understanding.
8 God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth
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The privileges PSALMS. of the church
9 The princes of the people are gathered to
gether, even the people of the God of Abraham :.
for the shields of the earth belong unto God:
he is greatly exalted. PSALM XLYIII.
The ornaments and privileges of the church.
A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah.
f^\ RE AT is the Lord, and greatly to be prais-
^* ed in the city of our God, in the mountain
of his holiness.
2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole
earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north,
the city of the great King.
3 God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
4 For, lo, the kings were assembled, they
passed by together.
5 They saw it, and so they marvelled; they
were troubled, and hasted away.
6 Fear took hold upon them there, and pain,
as of a woman in travail.
7 Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an
east wind.
8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the
city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our
God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
9 We have thought of thy lovingkindness, 0
God, in the midst of thy temple.
10 According to thy name, 0 God, so is thy
praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right
hand is full of righteousness.
11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters
of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
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The vanity of PSALMS, trusting in riches.
12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her:
tell the towers thereof.
13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her pala
ces ; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
14 For this God is our God for ever and
ever: he wiU be our guide even unto death.
PSALM XLIX
1 An earnest persuasion to build the faith of resurrection, not on
worldly power, but on God. 16 Worldly prosperity is not to
be admired.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.
TTEAR this, all. ye people; give ear, all ye
•*- -*¦ inhabitants of the world :
2 Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the
meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.
4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will
open my dark saying upon the harp.
5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil,
when the iniquity of my heels shaU compass me
about ?
6 They that trust in their wealth, and boast
themselves in the multitude of their riches ;
7 Xone of them can by any means redeem his
brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
8 (For the redemption of their soul is pre
cious, and it ceaseth for ever:)
9 That he should still live for ever, and not
see corruption.
10 For he seeth that wise men die, likewise
the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave
their wealth to others. 67

The vanity of PSALMS. worldly riches.
11 Their inward thought is, that their houses
shall continue for . ever, and their dwellingplaces
to all generations; they call their lands after
their own names.
12 Xevertheless man being in honour abideth
not : he is like the beasts that perish.
13 This their way is their folly: yet their pos
terity approve their sayings. Selah.
14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave;
death shall feed on them; and the upright shall
have dominion over them in the morning; and
their beauty shall consume in the grave from
their dwelling.
15 But God will redeem my soul from the
power of the grave: for he shaU receive me.
Selah. 16 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich,
when the glory of his house is increased;
17 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing
away: his glory shall not descend after him.
18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul,
(and men will praise thee, when thou doest well
to thyself,)
19 He shall go to the generation of his fa
thers; they shall never see light.
20 Man that is in honour, and understandeth
not, is like the beasts that perish.
PSALM L.
1 The majesty of God in the church. 5 His order to gather saints.
7 The pleasure of God is not in ceremonies, 14 but in sin
cerity of obedience.
A Psalm of Asaph.
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God's majesty. PSALMS. in the church,
¦T^HE mighty God, even the Lord, hath spok-
-*- en, and called the earth from the rising of
the sun unto the going down thereof.
2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God
hath shined.
3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep si
lence: a fire shaU devour before him, and it
shall be . very tempestuous round about him.
4 He shall call to the heavens from above,
and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
5 Gather my saints together unto me ; those
that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
6 And the heavens shall declare his righteous
ness : for God is judge himself. Selah.
7 Hear, 0 my people, and I, will speak; 0 Is
rael, and I wiU testify against thee : I am God,
even thy God.
8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or
thy burnt offerings, to have been continually be
fore me.
9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor
he goats out of thy folds :
10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and
the cattle upon a thousand hills.
11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and
the wild beasts of the field are mine.
12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee :
for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
13 T^ill I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the
blood of goats ?
14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy
vows unto the Most High: 69

God delighteth PSALMS. . in sincerity.
15 And call upon me in the day of trouble ;
I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast
thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou
shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest
my words behind thee.
18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou con-
sentedst with him, and hast been partaker with
adulterers. 19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy
tongue frameth deceit.
20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy broth
er; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
21 These things hast thou done, and I kept
silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether
such a one as thyself: but I will reprove thee,
and set them in order before thine eyes.
22 Xow consider this, ye that forget God, lest
I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me : and
to him that ordereth his conversation aright will
I shew the salvation of God.
PSALM LI.
1 David prayeth for remission of sins, whereof he maketh a deep
confession. 6 He prayeth for sanctification. 16 God delight
eth not in sacrifice, but in sincerity'. 18 He prayeth for the
church.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the
prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.
TTAYE mercy upon me, 0 God, according to
-*-*- thy lovingkindness: according unto the mul-
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David prayeth PSALMS, for sanctification.
titude of thy tender mercies blot out my trans
gressions. 2 Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and
cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I acknowledge my transgressions : and
my sin is ever before me.
4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and
done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest
be justified when thou speakest, and be clear
when thou judgest.
5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin
did my mother conceive me.
6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward
parts : and in the hidden part thou shalt make
me to know wisdom.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean :
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the
bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out
all mine iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, 0 God; and
renew a right spirit within me. ;
11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and
take not thy Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation;
and uphold me with thy free Spirit.
13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways;
and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, 0 God,
thou God of my salvation : and my tongue shall
sing aloud of thy righteousness. 71

Doeg's destruction PSALMS. prophesied.
15 0 Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth
shall shew forth thy praise.
16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would
I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit:
a broken and a contrite heart, 0 God, thou wilt
not despise.
18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion:
build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacri
fices of righteousness, with burnt offering and
whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bull
ocks upon thine altar. PSALM LIL
1 David, condemning the spitefulness of Doeg, prophesieth his
destruction. 6 The righteous shall rejoice at it. 8 David,
upon his confidence in God's mercy, giveth thanks.
To the chief Musician, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when Doeg
the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David
is come to the house of Ahimelech.
TX/"HY boastest thou thyself in mischief, 0
? " mighty man ? the goodness of God endur-
eth continually.
2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp
razor, working deceitfully.
3 Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying
rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
4 Thou lovest all devouring words, 0 thou de
ceitful tongue.
5 God shall likewise destroy thee for eVer, he
shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy
dwellingplace, and root thee out of the land of
the living. Selah.
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The corruption PSALMS, of a natural man.
6 The righteous also shah see, and fear, and
shall laugh at him :
7 Lo, this is the man that made not God his
strength; but trusted in the abundance of his
riches, and strengthened himself in his wicked
ness. 8 But I am like a green olive tree in the
house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for
ever and ever.
9 I will praise thee for ever, because thou
hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for
it is good before thy saints.
PSALM Lilt
1 David describeth the corruption of a natural man. 4 He con
vinceth the wicked by the light of their own conscience. 6 He
glorieth in the salvation of God.
To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of
David.
HHHE fool hath said in his heart, There is
¦*- no God. Corrupt are they, and have done
abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth
good. 2 God looked down from heaven upon the
children of men, to see if there were any that
did understand, that did seek God.
3 Every one of them is gone back: they are
altogether become filthy; there is none that
doeth good, no, not one.
4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowl
edge? who eat up my people as they eat
bread: they have not called upon God.
5 There were they in great fear, where no fear
was: for God hath scattered the bones of him
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David prayeth PSALMS. for salvation.
that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them
to shame, because God hath despised them.
6 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out
of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity
of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel
shall be glad. PSALM LIT
1 David, complaining of the Ziphim, prayeth for salvation.
4 Upon his confidence in God's help he promiseth sacrifice.
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David,
when the Ziphim came and said to Saul, Doth not David
¦ hide himself with us ?
O AYE me, 0 God, by thy name, and judge
^ me by thy strength.
2 Hear my prayer, 0 God; give ear to the
words of my mouth.
3 For strangers are risen up against me, and
oppressors seek after my soul: they have not
set God before them. Selah.
4 Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord 'is
with them that uphold my soul.
5 He shall reward evil unto mine enemies :
cut them off in thy truth.
6 I will freely sacrifice unto thee: I will praise
thy name, 0 Lord ; for it is good.
7 For he hath delivered me out of all trouble:
and mine eye hath seen his desire upon mine
enemies. PSALM LT
1 David in his prayer complaineth of his fearful case. 9 He
prayeth against his enemies, of whose wickedness and treachery
he complaineth. 16 He comforteth himself in God's preserva
tion of him, and confusion of his enemies.
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David.
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David's prayer PSALMS. in distress.
/^IIYE ear to my prayer, 0 God; and hide
" not thyself from my supplication.
2 Attend unto me, and hear me : I mourn in
my complaint, and make a noise;
3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because
of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast
iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
4 My heart is sore pained within me: and the
terrors of death are fallen upon me.
5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon
me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a
dove ! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
7 Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain
in the wilderness. Selah.
,81 would hasten my escape from the windy
storm and tempest.
9 Destroy, 0 Lord, and divide their tongues:
for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
10 Day and night they go about it upon the
walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in
the midst of it.
11 Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit
and guile depart not from her streets.
12 For it was not an enemy that reproached
me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he
that hated me that did magnify himself against
me ; then I would have hid myself from him :
13 But it was thou, a man mine equal, my
guide, and mine acquaintance.
14 We took sweet counsel together, and walk
ed unto the house of God in company. 75

David complaineth PSALMS. of his enemies.
15 Let death seize upon them, and let them
go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in
their dwellings, and among them.
16 As for me, I wiU caU upon God; and the
Lord shaU save me.
17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will
I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my
voice. 18 He hath delivered my soul in peace from
the battle that was against me : for there were
many with me.
19 God shaU hear, and afflict them, even he
that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have
no changes, therefore they fear not God.
20 He hath put forth his hands against such
as be at peace with him: he hath broken his
covenant. 21 The words of his mouth were smoother
than butter, but war was in his heart: his words
were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
22 Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he
shall sustain thee: he shaU never suffer the
righteous to be moved.
23 But thou, 0 God, shalt bring them down into
the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men
shall not live out half their days ; but I will trust
in thee. PSALM LYI.
1 David, praying to God in confidence of his word, complaineth
of his enemies. 9 He professeth his confidence in God's word,
and promiseth to praise him.
To the chief Musician upon Jonath-elem-rechokim, Michtam of
David, when the Philistines took him in Gath.
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Confidence in PSALMS. God's word.
T>E merciful unto me, 0 God: for man would
• swallow me up; he fighting daily oppress-
eth me.
2 Mine enemies would daily swallow me up :
for they be many that fight against me, 0 thou
Most High.
3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
4 In God I will praise his word, in God I
have put my trust; I wiU not fear what flesh
can do unto me.
5 Every day they wrest my words: all their
thoughts are against me for evil.
6 They gather themselves together, they hide
themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait
for my soul.
7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine an
ger cast down the people, 0 God.
8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my
tears into thy bottle : are they not in thy book ?
9 When I cry unto thee, then shall mine en
emies turn back: this I know; for God is for
me. 10 In God wfll I praise his word: in the
Lord wUl I praise his word.
11 In God have I put my trust: I will not
be afraid what man can do unto me.
12 Thy vows are upon me, 0 God: I will ren
der praises unto thee.
13 For thou hast delivered my soul from
death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from fall
ing, that I may walk before God in the light of
the living? 77

David in prayer PSALMS. fleeth unto God.
PSALM LYII.
1 David in prayer fleeing unto God complaineth ofhis dangerous
case. 7 He encourageth himself to praise God.
To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David, when he
fled from Saul in the cave.
T>E merciful unto me, 0 God, be merciful un-
-*^ to me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in
the shadow of thy wings will I make my ref
uge, until these calamities be overpast.
2 I wiU cry unto God most high; unto God
that performeth all things for me.
3 He shall send from heaven, and save me
from the reproach of him that would swallow
me up. Selah. God shaU send forth his mercy
and his truth.
4 My soul is among lions : and I lie even
among them that are set on fire, even the sons
of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and
their tongue a sharp sword.
5 Be thou exalted, 0 God, above the heavens;
let thy glory be above all the earth.
6 They have prepared a net for my steps ; my
soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit be
fore me, into the midst whereof they are fallen
themselves. Selah.
7 My heart is fixed, 0 God, my heart is fix
ed: I wiU sing and give praise.
8 Awake up, my glory ; awake, psaltery and
harp : I myself wm awake early.
9 I will praise thee, 0 Lord, among the
people: I will sing unto thee among the na
tions. 78

Wicked judges PSALMS. reproved.
10 For thy mercy is great unto the heavens,
and thy truth unto the clouds.
11 Be thou exalted, 0 God, above the heav
ens: let thy glory be above all the earth.
PSALM LYIII.
1 David reproveth wicked judges, 3 describeth the nature of the
vricked, 6 devoteth them to God's judgments, 10 whereat the
righteous shall rejoice.
To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David.
1T\0 ye indeed speak righteousness, 0 congre-
^~* gation? do ye judge uprightly, 0 ye sons
of men?
2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh
the violence of your hands in the earth.
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb :
they go astray as soon as they be born, speak
ing lies.
4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent:
they are hke the deaf adder that stoppeth her
ear; 5 Which will not hearken to the voice of
charmers, charming never so wisely.
6 Break their teeth, 0 God, in their mouth:
break out the great teeth of the young lions, 0
Lord. 7 Let them melt away as waters which run
continually : when he bendeth his bow to shoot
his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8 As a snail which melteth, let every one of
them pass away: like the untimely birth of a
woman, that they may not see the sun.
9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall
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David prayeth PSALMS. to God.
take them away as with a whirlwind, both liv
ing, and in his wrath.
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth
the vengeance : he shall wash his feet in the
blood of the wicked.
11 So that a man shaU say, Yerily there is a
reward for the righteous: verily he is a God
that judgeth in the earth.
PSALM LIX.
1 David prayeth to be delivered from his enemies. 6 He complain
eth of their cruelty. 8 He trusteth in God. 11 He prayeth
against them. 16 He praiseth God.
To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David ; when
Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.
T^ELIYER me from mine enemies, 0 my God:
-*-^ defend me from them that rise up against me.
2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity,
and save me from bloody men.
3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the
mighty are gathered against me; not for my
transgression, nor for my sin, 0 Lord.
4 They run and prepare themselves without
my fault : awake to help me, and behold.
5 Thou therefore, 0 Lord God of hosts, the
God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen : be
not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.
6 They return at evening: they make a noise
like a dog, and go round about the city.
7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth:
swords are in their lips: for who, say they,
doth hear?
8 But thou, 0 Lord, shalt laugh at them; thou
shalt have all the heathen in derision.
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He prayeth PSALMS, against his enemies.
9 Because of his strength will I wait upon
thee: for God is my defence.
10 The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God
shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies.
11 Slay them not, lest my people forget: scat
ter them by thy power; and bring them down,
0 Lord our shield.
12 For the sin of their mouth and the words
of their lips let them even be taken in their
pride : and for cursing and lying which they
speak. - •
13 Consume them in wrath, consume them, that
they may not be: and let them know that God
ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.
14 And at evening let them return; and let
them make a noise like a dog, and go round
about the city.
15 Let them wander up and down for meat,
and grudge if they be not satisfied.
16 But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will
sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for
thou hast been my defence and refuge in the
day of my trouble.
17 Unto thee, 0 my strength, will I sing: for
God is my defence, and the God of my mercy.
PSALM LX.
1 David, complaining to God of former judgment, 4 now, upon
better hope, prayeth for deliverance. 6 Comforting himself in
God's promises, he craveth that help whereon he trusteth.
To the chief Musician upon Shushan-eduth, Michtam of David,
to teach ; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with
Aram-zobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the
valley of salt twelve thousand. F 81

David prayeth PSALMS. for deliverance.
f\ GOD, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scat-
^ tered us, thou hast been displeased; 0 turn
thyself to us again.
2 Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou
hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it
shaketh. 3 Thou hast shewed thy people hard things:
thou hast made us to drink the wine of aston
ishment. 4 Thou hast given a banner to them that fear
the%, that it may be displayed because of the
truth. Selah.
5 That thy beloved may be delivered; save
with thy right hand, and hear me.
6 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will re
joice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the
valley of Succoth.
7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine ; Ephra
im also is the strength of mine head; Judah is
my lawgiver;
8 Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast
out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of
me. 9 Who will bring me into the strong city?
who will lead me into Edom?
10 Wilt not thou, 0 God, which hadst cast us
off? and thou, 0 God, which didst not go out
with our armies?
11 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the
help of man.
12 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he
it is that shall tread down our enemies.
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David's trust in PSALMS. Gods promises.
PSALM LXI.
1 David fketh to God upon his former experience. 4 He voweth
perpetual service unto him, because of his promises.
To the chief Musician upon Neginah, A Psalm of David.
TTEAR my cry, 0 God; attend unto my
-*-"*¦ prayer.
2 From the end of the earth will I cry unto
thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me
to the rock that is higher than I.
3 For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a
strong tower from the enemy.
4 I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I
will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah.
5 For thou, 0 God, hast heard my vows: thou
hast given me the heritage of those that fear thy
name. 6 Thou wilt prolong the king's life: and his
years as many generations.
7 He shall abide before God for ever: 0 pre
pare mercy and truth, which may preserve him.
8 So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever,
that I may daily perform my vows.
PSALM LXII.
1 David professing his confidence in God discourageth his enemies.
5 In the same confidence he encourageth the godly. 9 No trust
is to be put in worldly things. 1 1 Power and mercy belong to
God. To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.
nPRLLY my soul waiteth upon God: from
-*- him cometh my salvation.
2 He only is my rock and my salvation; he
is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
3 How long will ye imagine mischief against
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Davids confidence PSALMS. in God.
a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bow
ing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
4 They only consult to cast him down from
his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless
with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
5 My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my
expectation is from him.
6 He only is my rock and my salvation: he is
my defence; I shall not be moved.
7 In God is my salvation and my glory: the
rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
8 Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour
out your heart before him: God is a refuge for
us. Selah.
9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and
men of high degree are a lie : to be laid in
the balance, they are altogether lighter than
vanity. 10 Trust not in oppression, and become not
vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your
heart upon them.
11 God hath spoken once; twice have I heard
this; that power belongeth unto God.
12 Also unto thee, 0 Lord, belongeth mercy:
for thou renderest to every man according to
his work. PSALM LXIII.
1 David's thirst for God. 4 His manner of blessing God. 9 His
confidence of his enemies' destruction, and his own safety.
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.
OGOD, thou art my God; early will I seek
thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh
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David's thirst PSALMS. for God.
longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where
no water is;
2 To see thy power and thy glory, so as I
have seen thee in the sanctuary.
3 Because thy lovingkindness is better than life,
my lips shall praise thee.
4 Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will
hft up my hands in thy name.
5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow
and fatness; and my mouth shaU praise thee with
joyful lips:
6 When I remember thee upon my bed, and
meditate on thee in the night watches.
7 Because thou hast been my help, therefore
in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.
8 My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right
hand upholdeth me.
9 But those that seek my soul, to destroy it,
shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
10 They shall faU by the sword: they shall be
a portion for foxes.
11 But the king shall rejoice in God; every
one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the
mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
PSALM LXIT
1 David prayeth for deliverance^ complaining ofhis enemies. 7 He
promiseth himself to see such an evident destruction of his en
emies, as the righteous shall rejoice at it.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
TTEAR my voice, 0 God, in my prayer: pre-
¦*¦"¦- serve my life from fear of the enemy.
2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the
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David prayeth PSALMS. for deliverance.
wicked; from the insurrection of the workers
of iniquity :
3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and
bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bit
ter words:
4 That they may shoot in secret at the per
fect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
5 They encourage themselves in an evil mat
ter: they commune of laying snares privily; they
say, Who shall see them?
6 They search out iniquities ; they accomplish
a diligent search: both the inward thought of
every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
7 But God shall shoot at them with an arrow;
suddenly shall they be wounded.
8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall
upon themselves: aU that see them shall flee
away. 9 And all men shaU fear, and shaU declare
the work of God; for they shall wisely consider
of his doing.
10 The righteous shall be glad in the Lord,
and shall trust in him; and all the upright in
heart shall glory. PSALM LXT
1 David praiseth God for his grace. 4 The blessedness of God's
chosen by reason of benefits.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm and Song of David.
PRAISE waiteth for thee, 0 God, in Zion:
and unto thee shall the vow be performed.
2 0 thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall
all flesh come.
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The blessedness PSALMS. of God's chosen.
3 Iniquities prevail against me: as for our
transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.
4 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and
causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell
in thy courts : we shall be satisfied with the
goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.
5 By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou
answer us, 0 God of our salvation ; who art the
confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of
them that are afar off upon the sea :
6 Which by his strength setteth fast the mount
ains; being girded with power:
7 Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise
of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
8 They also that dwell in the uttermost parts
are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the out
goings of the morning and evening to rejoice.
9 Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou
greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which
is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when
thou hast so provided for it.
10 Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundant
ly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou mak
est it soft with showers : thou blessest the spring
ing thereof.
11 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness;
and thy paths drop fatness.
12 They drop upon the pastures of the wil
derness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.
13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; the
valleys also are covered over with corn; they
shout for joy, they also sing.
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An exhortation PSALMS. to praise God,
PSALM LXYI.
1 David exhorteth to praise God, 5 to observe his great works, 8 to
bless him for his gracious benefits. 12 He vdweth for himself
religious service to God. 16 He declareth God's 'special good1
ness to himself
To the chief Musician, A Song or Psalm.
TV/TAKE a joyful noise unto God, aU ye lands :
^¦*- 2 Sing forth the honour of his name : make
his praise glorious.
3 Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy
works! through the greatness of thy power shall
thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.
4 All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing
unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah.
5 Come and see the works of God: he is ter
rible in his doing toward the children of men.
6 He turned the sea into dry land: they went
through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice
in him.
7 He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes
behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt
themselves. Selah.
8 0 bless our God, ye people, and make the
voice of his praise to be heard:
9 Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth
not our feet to be moved.
10 For thou, 0 God, hast proved us: thou
hast tried us, as silver is tried.
11 Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst
affliction upon our loins.
12 Thou hast caused men >to ride over our
heads; we went through fire and through wa-
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A prayer for PSALMS. God's kingdom.
ter: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy
place. 13 I will go into thy house with burnt offer
ings: I will pay thee my vows,
14 Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth
hath spoken, when I was in trouble.
15 I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of
fatlings, with the incense of rams : I will offer
bullocks with goats. Selah.
16 Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and
I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
17 I cried unto him with my mouth, and he
was extolled with my tongue.
18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord
will not hear me:
19 But verily God hath heard me; he hath
attended to the voice of my prayer.
20 Blessed be God, which hath not turned away
my prayer, nor his mercy from me.
PSALM LXYII. mliTT
1 A prayer for the enlargement of God's kingdom, 3 to the joy of
the people, 6 and the increase of God's blessings.
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm or Song.
C"\ OD be merciful unto us, and bless us; and
^ cause his face to shine upon us ; Selah.
2 That thy way may be known upon earth,
thy saving health among all nations.
3 Let the people praise thee, 0 God; let all
the people praise thee.
4 0 let the nations be glad and sing for joy:
for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and
govern the nations upon earth. Selah. 89

Exhortation to PSALMS. praise God.
5 Let the people praise thee, 0 God; let all
the people praise thee.
6 Then shall the earth yield her increase; and
God, even our own God, shall bless us.
7 God shall bless us ; and all the ends of the
earth shall fear him.
PSALM LXYIII.
1 A prayer at the removing of the ark. 4 An exhortation to
praise God for his mercies, 7 for his care of the church, 19 for
his great works.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm or Song of David.
T ET God arise, let his enemies be scattered:
-¦-^ let them also that hate him flee before him.
2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them
away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the
wicked perish at the presence of God.
3 But let the righteous be glad; let them
rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly
rejoice. 4 Sing unto God, sing praises to his name:
extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his
name J AH, and rejoice before him.
5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of
the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
6 God setteth the solitary in families: he bring
eth out those which are bound with chains: but
the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
7 0 God, when thou wentest forth before thy
people, when thou didst march through the wil
derness; Selah:
8 The earth shook, the heavens also dropped
at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was
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God's care PSALMS. of the church.
moved at the presence of God, the God of
Israel. 9 Thou, 0 God, didst send a plentiful rain,
whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance,
when it was weary.
10 Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou,
0 God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the
poor. 11 The Lord gave the word: great was the
company of those that published it.
12 Kings of armies did flee apace: and she
that tarried at home divided the spoil.
13 Though ye have lain among the pots, yet
shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with
silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
14 When the Almighty scattered kings in it,
it was white as snow in Salmon.
15 The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan;
a high hill as the hiU of Bashan.
16 Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill
which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the Lord
will dwell in it for ever.
17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand,
even thousands of angels : the Lord is among
them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.
18 Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led
captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for
men ; yea, for the rebellious also, that the Lord
God might dwell among them.
19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us
with benefits, even the God of our salvation.
Selah. 91

God praised for PSALMS. his great works.
20 He that is our God is the God of salva
tion; and unto God the Lord belong the issues
from death.
21 But God shall wound the head of his ene
mies, and the hairy scalp of such a one as go-
eth on still in his trespasses.
22 The Lord said, I will bring again from Ba
shan, I will bring my people again from the
depths of the sea :
23 That thy foot may be dipped in the blood
of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in
the same.
24 They have seen thy goings, 0 God; even
the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.
25 The singers went before, the players on in
struments followed after; among them were the
damsels playing with timbrels.
26 Bless ye God in the congregations, even
the Lord, from the fountain of Israel.
27 There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the
princes of Judah and their council, the princes
of Zebulun, and the princes of Xaphtali.
28 Thy God hath commanded thy strength:
strengthen, 0 God, that which thou hast wrought
for us.
29 Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall
kings bring presents unto thee.
30 Rebuke the company of spearmen, the mul
titude of the bulls, with the calves of the peo
ple, till every one submit himself with pieces of
silver: scatter thou the people that delight in
war. 92

David complaineth PSALMS. of his affliction.
31 Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia
shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
32 Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth;
0 sing praises unto the Lord; Selah:
33 To him that rideth upon the heavens of
heavens, which were of old; lo, he doth send out
his voice, and that a mighty voice.
34 Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excel
lency is over Israel, and his strength is in the
clouds. 35 0 God, thou art terrible out of thy holy
places: the God of Israel is he that giveth
strength and power unto his people. Blessed be
God. PSALM LXIX.
1 David complaineth of his affliction. 13 He prayeth for deliv
erance. 22 He devoteth his enemies to destruction. 30 He
praiseth God with thanksgiving.
To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David.
AYE me, 0 God; for the waters are come
in unto my soul.
2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no stand
ing : I am come into deep waters, where the
floods overflow me.
3 I am weary of my crying : my throat
is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my
God. 4 They that hate me without a cause are more
than the hairs of mine head: they that would
destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are
mighty: then I restored that which I took not
away. 93

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David prayeth PSALMS. for deliverance.
5 0 God, thou knowest my foolishness; and
my sins are not hid from thee.
6 Let not them that wait on thee, 0 Lord
God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake : let not
those that seek thee be confounded for my sake,
0 God of Israel.
7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach;
shame hath covered my face.
8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren,
and an alien unto my mother's children.
9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me
up; and the reproaches of them that reproached
thee are fallen upon me.
10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with
fasting, that was to my reproach.
11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I
became a proverb to them.
12 They that sit in the gate speak against
me ; and I was the song of the drunkards.
13 But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, 0
Lord, in an acceptable time: 0 God, in the
multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth
of thy salvation.
14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me
not sink: let me be delivered from them that
hate me, and out of the deep waters.
15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, nei
ther let the deep swallow me up, and let not
the pit shut her mouth upon me.
16 Hear me, 0 Lord; for thy lovingkindness
is good: turn unto me according to the multi
tude of thy tender mercies.
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Prayer for PSALMS. deliverance.
17 And hide not thy face from thy servant;
for I am in trouble : hear me speedily.
18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it:
deliver me because of mine enemies.
19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my
shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are
all before thee.
20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am
full of heaviness : and I looked for some to take
pity, but there was none; and for comforters,
but I found none.
21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and
in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22 Let their table become a snare before them:
and that which should have been for their wel
fare, let it become a trap.
23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they
see not; and make their loins continually to
shake. 24 Pour out thine indignation upon them,w and
let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let
none dwell in their tents.
26 For they persecute him whom thou hast
smitten; and they talk to the grief of those
whom thou hast wounded.
27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let
them not come into thy righteousness.
28 Let them be blotted out of the book of
the living, and not be written with the righteous.
29 But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy sal
vation, 0 God, set me up on high. 95

David imploreth PSALMS. God's speedy help.
30 I will praise the name of God with a song,
and wiU magnify him with thanksgiving.
31 This also shall please the Lord better than
an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
32 The humble shall see this, and be glad:
and your heart shaU live that seek God.
33 For the Lord heareth the poor, and de
spiseth not his prisoners.
34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the
seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
35 For God will save Zion, and will buUd the
cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and
have it in possession.
36 The seed also ofhis servants shall inherit it:
and they that love his name shall dweU therein.
PSALM LXX.
David soliciteth God to the1' speedy destruction of the wicked, and
preservation of the godly.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, to bring to remem
brance.
IK/TAKE haste, 0 God, to deliver me; make
¦*-'¦*- haste to help me, 0 Lord.
2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that
seek after my soul: let them be turned back
ward, and put to confusion, that desire my
hurt. 3 Let them be turned back for a reward of
their shame that say, Aha, aha.
4 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be
glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation
say continually, Let God be magnified.
5 But I am poor and needy; make haste unto
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David prayeth PSALMS. for himself.
me, 0 God: thou art my help and my deliv
erer; 0 Lord, make no tarrying.
PSALM LXXI.
1 David, in confidence of faith, and experience of God's favour,
prayeth both for himself, and against the enemies of his soul.
14 He promiseth constancy. 17 He prayeth for perseverance.
19 He praiseth God, and promiseth to do it cheerfully.
TX thee, 0 Lord, do I put my trust: let me
-*- never be put to confusion.
2 Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me
to escape : incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
3 Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I
may continually resort: thou hast given com
mandment to save me; for thou art my rock
and my fortress.
4 Deliver me, 0 my God, out of the hand of
the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous
and cruel man.
5 For thou aH my hope, 0 Lord God: thou
art my trust from my youth.
6 By thee have I been holden up from the
womb: thou art he that took me out of my
mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually
of thee.
7 I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art
my strong refuge.
8 Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and
with thy honour all the day.
9 Cast me not off in the time of old age ; for
sake me not when my strength faileth.
10 For mine enemies speak against me; and they
that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
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David promiseth PSALMS. acts of praise.
11 Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute
and take him; for there is none to deliver him.
12 0 God, be not far from me : 0 my God,
make haste for my help.
13 Let them be confounded and consumed that
are adversaries to my soul; let them be cov
ered with reproach and dishonour that seek my
hurt. 14 But I will hope continually, and will yet
praise thee more and more.
15 My mouth shall shew forth thy righteous
ness and thy salvation all the day; for I know
not the numbers thereof.
16 I wiU go in the strength of the Lord God:
I will make mention of thy righteousness, even
of thine only.
17 0 God, thou hast taught me from my
youth: and hitherto have I declared thy won
drous works.
18 Xow also when I am old and grayheaded,
0 God, forsake me not; until I have shewed
thy strength unto this generation, and thy pow
er to every one that is to come.
19 Thy righteousness also, 0 God, is very high,
who hast done great things: 0 God, who is like
unto thee !
20 Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore
troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring
me up again from the depths of the earth.
21 Thou shalt increase my greatness, and com
fort me on every side.
22 I will also praise thee with the psaltery,
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His prayer PSALMS. for Solomon.
even thy truth, 0 my God: unto thee will I sing
with the harp, 0 thou Holy One of Israel.
23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing
unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast re
deemed. 24 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteous
ness all the day long: for they are confounded,
for they are brought unto shame, that seek my
hurt. PSALM LXXII.
1 David, praying for Solomon, sheweth the goodness and glory of
his, in type, and in truth, of Christ's kingdom. 18 He blesseth
God.
A Psalm for Solomon.
f^ IYE the king thy judgments, 0 God, and
" thy righteousness unto the king's son.
2 He shall judge thy people with righteous
ness, and thy poor with judgment.
3 The mountains shall bring peace to the peo
ple, and the little hills, by righteousness.
4 He shall judge the poor of the people, he
shall save the children of the needy, and shall
break in pieces the oppressor.
5 They shall fear thee as long as the sun and
moon endure, throughout all generations.
6 He shall come down hke rain upon the mown
grass: as showers that water the earth.
7 In his days shall the righteous flourish; and
abundance of peace so long as the moon en-
dureth. 8 He shall have dominion also from sea to
sea, and from the river unto the ends of the
earth. 99

David's prayer PSALMS. for Solomon.
9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow
before him; and his enemies shaU lick the dust.
10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall
bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba
shall offer gifts.
11 Yea, all kings shall fall down before him:
all nations shall serve him.
12 For he shall deliver the needy when he
crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.
13 He shall spare the poor and needy, and
shall save the souls of the needy.
14 He shall redeem their soul from deceit and
violence: and precious shall their blood be in
his sight.
15 And he shall live, and to him shall be given
of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made
for him continually; and daily shaU he be praised.
16 There shall be a handful of corn in the
earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit
thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of
the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
17 His name shall endure for ever: his name
shall be continued as long as the sun: and men
shaU be blessed in him: all nations shall call
him blessed.
18 Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Is
rael, who only doeth wondrous things.
19 And blessed be his glorious name for ever:
and let the whole earth be filled with his glory.
Amen, and Amen. ...
20 The prayers of David the son of Jesse are
ended. 100

The prosperity PSALMS. of the wicked.
PSALM LXXIII.
1 The prophet, prevailing in a temptation, 2 sheweth the occasion
thereof, the prosperity of the wicked. 13 The wound given there
by, diffidence. 15 The victory over it, knowledge of God's pur
pose, in destroying of the wicked, and sustaining the righteous.
A Psalm of Asaph.
nHRULY God is good to Israel, even to such
-*- as are of a clean heart.
2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone;
my steps had well nigh slipped.
3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I
saw the prosperity of the wicked.
4 For there are no bands in their death: but
their strength is firm.
5 They are not in trouble as other men; nei
ther are they plagued like other men.
6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a
chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have
more than heart could wish.
8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly con
cerning oppression: they speak loftily.
9 They set their mouth against the heavens,
and their tongue walketh through the earth.
10 Therefore his people return hither: and wa
ters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
11 And they say, How doth God know? and
is there knowledge in the Most High?
12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who pros
per in the world ; they increase in riches.
13 Yerily I have cleansed my heart in vain,
and washed my hands in innocency. 101

The fearful end PSALMS. of the wicked.
14 For all the day long have I been plagued,
and chastened every morning.
15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should
offend against the generation of thy children.
16 When I thought to know this, it was too
painful for me;
17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God;
then understood I their end.
18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places:
thou castedst them down into destruction.
19 How are they brought into desolation, as
in a moment ! they are utterly consumed with
terrors. 20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, 0
Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise
their image.
21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was
pricked in my reins.
22 So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as
a beast before thee.
23 Xevertheless I am continually with thee:
thou hast holden me by my right hand.
24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and
afterward receive me to glory.
25 Whom have I in heaven but theef and there
is none upon earth that I desire besides thee.
26 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is
the strength of my heart, and my portion for
ever. 27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall
perish: thou hast destroyed aU them that go a
whoring from thee.
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The desolation PSALMS. of the sanctuary.
28 But it is good for me to draw near to
God: I have put my trust in the Lord God,
that I may declare all thy works.
PSALM LXXIT
1 The prophet complaineth of the desolation of the sanctuary.
10 He moveth God to help in consideration of his power, 18 of
his reproachful enemies, of his children, and of his covenant.
Maschil of Asaph.
f\ GOD, why hast thou cast us off for ever?
^ why doth thine anger smoke against the
sheep of thy pasture ?
2 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast
purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance,
which thou hast redeemed ; this mount Zion,
wherein thou hast dwelt.
3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desola
tions; even aU that the enemy hath done wick
edly in the sanctuary.
4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy
congregations; they set up their ensigns for
signs. 5 A man was famous according as he had lift
ed up axes upon the thick trees.
6 But now they break down the carved work
thereof at once with axes and hammers.
7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they
have defiled by casting down the dwellingplace
of thy name to the ground.
8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy
them together: they have burned up all the syn
agogues of God in the land.
9 We see not our signs: there is no more any
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The psalmist cravethVS ALMS. God's help.
prophet: neither is there among us any that
knoweth how long.
10 0 God, how long shall the adversary re
proach? shaU the enemy blaspheme thy name
for ever?
11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy
right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.
12 For God is my King of old, working sal
vation in the midst of the earth.
13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength:
thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the
waters. 14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in
pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people
inhabiting the wilderness.
15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the
flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
16 The day is thine, the night also is thine:
thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth:
thou hast made summer and winter.
18 Remember this, that the enemy hath re
proached, 0 Lord, and that the foolish people
have blasphemed thy name.
19 0 deliver not the soul of thy turtledove
unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the
congregation of thy poor for ever.
20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the
dark places of the earth are full of the habita
tions of cruelty.
21 0 let not the oppressed return ashamed:
let the poor and needy praise thy name.
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The proud PSALMS. rebuked.
22 Arise, 0 God, plead thine own cause : remem
ber how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies : the
tumult of those that rise up against thee in-
creaseth continually. PSALM LXXT
1 The prophet praiseth God. 2 He promiseth to judge uprightly.
4 He rebuketh the proud by consideration of God's providence.
9 He praiseth God, and promiseth to execute justice.
To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, A Psalm or Song of Asaph.
TTXTO thee, 0 God, do we give thanks, unto
^ thee do we give thanks : for that thy name
is near thy wondrous works declare.
2 When I shaU receive the congregation I will
judge uprightly.
3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are
dissolved : I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
4 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and
to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:
5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not
with a stiff neck.
6 For promotion cometh neither from the east,
nor from the west, nor from the south.
7 But God is the judge: he putteth down one,
and setteth up another.
8 For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup,
and the wine is red ; it is full of mixture ; and
he poureth out of the same : but the dregs there
of, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them
out, and drink them.
9 But I will declare for ever; I will sing
praises to the God of Jacob! 105

Gods majesty PSALMS. in the church
10 All the horns of the wicked also will I
cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be
exalted. PSALM LXXYI.
1 A declaration of God's majesty in the church. 1 1 An exhorta
tion to serve him reverently.
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm or Song of Asaph.
TX Judah is God known: his name is great
¦*- in Israel.
2 In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his
dwellingplace in Zion.
3 There brake he the arrows of the bow, the
shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
4 Thou art more glorious and excellent than
the mountains of prey.
5 The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept
their sleep : and none of the men of might have
found their hands.
6 At thy rebuke, 0 God of Jacob, both the
chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
7 Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who
may stand in thy sight when once thou art
angry ?
8 Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from
heaven; the earth feared, and was still,
9 When God arose to judgment, to save all
the meek of the earth. Selah.
10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee:
the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
11 Yow, and pay unto the Lord your God:
let all that be round about him bring presents
unto him that ought to be feared.
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Psalmistfs combat PSALMS. with diffidence.
12 He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is
terrible to the kings of the earth.
PSALM LXXYII.
1 The psalmist sheweth what fierce combat he had with diffidence.
10 The victory which he had by consideration of God's great
and gracious works.
To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph.
T CRIED unto God with my voice, even unto
¦*• God with my voice ; and he gave ear unto me.
2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord:
my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my
soul refused to be comforted.
3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I com
plained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so
troubled that I cannot speak.
5 I have considered the days of old, the years
of ancient times.
6 I caU to remembrance my song in the night:
I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit
made diligent search.
7 Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he
be favourable no more?
8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his
promise fail for evermore?
9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he
in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah,
10 And I said, This is my infirmity: but I
will remember the years of the right hand of the
Most High.
11 I wiU remember the works of the Lord:
surely I will remember thy wonders of old.
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God's great works. PSALMS. An exhortation
12 I wiU meditate also of all thy work, and
talk of thy doings.
13 Thy way, 0 God, is in the sanctuary: who
is so great a God as our God?
„ 14 Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou
hast declared thy strength among the people.
15 Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy
people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
16 The waters saw thee, 0 God, the waters
saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were
troubled. 17 The clouds poured out water: the skies sent
out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.
18 The voice of thy thunder was in the heav
en: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth
trembled and shook.
19 Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the
great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
20 Thou leddest thy people like a flock by
the hand of Moses and Aaron.
PSALM LXXYIII.
1 An exhortation both to learn and to preach the law of God.
9 The story of God's wrath against the incredulous and disobe
dient. 67 The Israelites being rejected, God chose Judah, Zion,
and David.
Maschil of Asaph.
GIYE ear, 0 my people, to my law: incline
your ears to the words of my mouth.
2 I will open my mouth in a parable : I will
utter dark sayings of old:
3 Which we have heard and known, and our
fathers have told us.
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to learn PSALMS. God's law.
4 We will not hide them from their children,
shewing to the generation to come the praises
of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonder
ful works that he hath done.
5 For he established a testimony in Jacob,
and appointed a law in Israel, which he com
manded our fathers, that they should make them
known to their children:
6 That the generation to come might know
them, even the children which should be born; who
should arise and declare them to their children :
7 That they might set their hope in God, and
not forget the works of God, but keep his com
mandments :
8 And might not be as their fathers, a stub
born and rebellious generation; a generation that
set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was
not steadfast with God.
9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and
carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
10 They kept not the covenant of God, and
refused to walk in his law;
11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that
he had shewed them.
12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of
their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field
of Zoan.
13 He divided the sea, and caused them to
pass through; and he made the waters to stand
as a heap.
14 In the daytime also he led them with a
cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
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The story of PSALMS. God's wrath against
15 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and
gave them drink as out of the great depths.
16 He brought streams also out of the rock,
and caused waters to run down like rivers.
17 And they sinned yet more against him by
provoking the Most High in the wilderness.
18 And they tempted God in their heart by
asking meat for their lust.
19 Yea, they spake against God; they said,
Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
20 Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters
gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he
give bread also? can he provide flesh for his
people ?
21 Therefore the Lord heard this, and was
wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and
anger also came up against Israel;
22 Because they believed not in God, and
trusted not in his salvation:
23 Though he had commanded the clouds from
above, and opened the doors of heaven,
24 And had rained down manna upon them to
eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
25 Man did eat angels' food: he sent them
meat to the full.
26 He caused an east wind to blow in the
heaven: and by his power he brought in the
south wind.
27 He rained flesh also upon them as dust,
and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea :
28 And he let it faU in the midst of their
camp, round about their habitations.
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the incredulous PSALMS. and disobedient.
29 So they did eat, and were well filled: for
he gave them their own desire;
30 They were not estranged from their lust:
but while their meat was yet in their mouths,
31 The wrath of God came upon them, and
slew the fattest of them, and smote down the
chosen men of Israel.
32 For all this they sinned still, and believed
not for his wondrous works.
33 Therefore their days did he consume in van
ity, and tlieir years in trouble.
34 When he slew them, then they sought him:
and they returned and inquired early after God.
35 And they remembered that God was their
Rock, and the high God their Redeemer.
36 Xevertheless they did flatter him with their
mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
37 For their heart was not right with him,
neither were they steadfast in his covenant.
38 But he, being full of compassion, forgave
their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many
a time turned he his anger away, and did not
stir up all his wrath.
39 For he remembered that they were but
flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh
not again.
40 How oft did they provoke him in the wU-
derness, and grieve him in the desert !
41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God,
and limited the Holy One of Israel.
42 They remembered not his hand, nor the
day when he delivered them from the enemy:
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The story of PSALMS. God's wrath against
43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt,
and his wonders in the field of Zoan :
44 And had turned their rivers into blood;
and their floods, that they could not drink.
45 He sent divers sorts of flies among them,
which devoured them; and frogs, which destroy
ed them.
46 He gave also their increase unto the cat
erpillar, and their labour unto the locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and
their sycamore trees with frost.
48 He gave up their cattle also to the hail,
and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his
anger, wrath, and ' indignation, and trouble, by
sending evil angels among them.
50 He made a way to his anger; he spared
not their soul from death, but gave their life
over to the pestilence;
51 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the
chief of their strength in the tabernacles of
Ham: 52 But made his own people to go forth like
sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like
a flock.
53 And he led them on safely, so that they
feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their en
emies. 54 And 'he brought them to the border of his
sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right
hand had purchased.
55 He cast out the heathen also before them,
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the incredulous PSALMS. and disobedient.
and divided them an inheritance by line, and
made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most
high God, and kept not his testimonies:
57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like
their fathers: they were turned aside hke a de
ceitful bow.
58 For they provoked him to anger with their
high places, and moved him to jealousy with
their graven images.
59 When God heard this, he was wroth, and
greatly abhorred Israel:
60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shi-
loh, the tent which he placed among men;
61 And delivered his strength into captivity,
and his glory into the enemy's hand.
62 He gave his people over also unto the
sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
63 The fire consumed their young men; and
their maidens were not given to marriage.
64 Their priests fell by the sworcl; and their
widows made no lamentation.
65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep,
and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason
of wine.
66 And he smote his enemies in the hinder
parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Jo
seph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim :
68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount
Zion which he loved.
69 And he built his sanctuary hke high pal-
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Desolation of PSALMS. Jerusalem.
aces, like the earth which he hath established
for ever.
70 He chose David also his servant, and took
him from the sheepfolds:
71 From following the ewes great with young
he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and
Israel his inheritance.
72 So he fed them according to the integrity
of his heart; and guided them by the skilful-
ness of his hands. PSALM LXXIX.
1 The psalmist complaineth of the desolation of Jerusaletn. 8 He
prayeth for deliverance, 1 3 and promiseth thankfulness.
A Psalm of Asaph.
(~\ GOD, the heathen are come into thine in-
^^ heritance; thy holy temple have they de
filed; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they
given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven,
the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the
earth. 3 Their blood have they shed like water round
about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury
them. 4 We are become a reproach to our neigh
bours, a scorn and derision to them that are
round about us.
5 How long, Lord ? wilt thou be angry for
ever ?i shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
6 Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that
have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms
that have not called upon thy name.
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Prayer for PSALMS. deliverance.
7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid
waste his dweUingplace.
8 0 remember not against us former iniqui
ties: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us;
for we are brought very low.
9 Help us, 0 God of our salvation, for the
glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge
away our sins, for thy name's sake.
10 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where
is their God? let him be known among the
heathen in our sight by the revenging of the
blood of thy servants which is shed.
11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before
thee; according to the greatness of thy power
preserve thou those that are appointed to die;
12 And render unto our neighbours sevenfold
into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they
have reproached thee, 0 Lord.
13 So we thy people and sheep of thy pas
ture will give thee thanks for ever: we wUl shew
forth thy praise to all generations.
PSALM LXXX.
1 The psalmist in his prayer complaineth of the miseries of the,
church. 8 God's former favours are turned into judgments.
14 He prayeth for deliverance.
To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim-Eduth, A Psalm of
Asaph.
/^J_IYE ear, 0 Shepherd of Israel, thou that
^ leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwell-
est between the cherubim, shine forth.
2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh
stir up thy strength, and come and save us.
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The miseries PSALMS. of the church.
3 Turn us again, 0 God, and cause thy face
to shine; and we shall be saved.
4 0 Lord Gocl of hosts, how long wilt thou
be angry against the prayer of thy people?
5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears ;
and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours:
and our enemies laugh among themselves.
7 Turn us again, 0 God of hosts, and cause
thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt:
thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
9 Thou preparedst room before it, and didst
cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
10 The hills were covered with the shadow of
it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly
cedars. 11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and
her branches unto the river.
12 Why hast thou then broken down her
hedges, so that all they which pass by the way
do pluck her?
13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it,
and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
14 Return, we beseech thee, 0 God of hosts:
look down from heaven, and behold, and visit
this vine;
15 And the vineyard which thy right hand
hath planted, and the branch that thou madest
strong for thyself.
16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they
perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
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Exhortation to PSALMS. praise God.
17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy
right hand, upon the son of man whom thou
madest strong for thyself.
18 So will not we go back from thee: quicken
us, and we will call upon thy name.
19 Turn us again, 0 Lord God of hosts, cause
thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
PSALM LXXXI.
1 An exhortation to a solemn praising of God. 4 God chal
lenged that duty by reason of his benefits. 8 God, exhorting
to obedience, complaineth of their disobedience, which proveth
their own hurt.
To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph.
OIXG aloud unto God our strength: make a
•^ joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel,
the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in
the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law
of the God of Jacob.
5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony,
when he went out through the land of Egypt:
where I heard a language that I understood not.
6 I removed his shoulder from the burden:
his hands were delivered from the pots.
7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered
thee; I answered thee in the secret place of
thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meri-
bah. Selah.
8 Hear, 0 my people, and I will testify unto
thee : 0 Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me ;
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The judges PSALMS. reproved.
9 There shall no strange god be in thee; nei
ther shalt thou worship any strange god.
10 I am the Lord thy God, which brought
thee out of the land of Egypt : open thy mouth
wide, and I will fill it.
11 But my people would not hearken to my
voice ; and Israel would none of me.
12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts'
lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me,
and Israel had walked in my ways!
14 I should soon have subdued their enemies,
and turned my hand against their adversaries.
15 The haters of the Lord should have sub
mitted themselves unto him : but their time should
have endured for ever.
16 He should have fed them also with the
finest of the wheat : and with honey out of the
rock should I have satisfied thee.
m PSALM LXXXII.
1 The psalmist, having exhorted the judges, 5 and reproved their
negligence, 8 prayeth God to judge.
A Psalm of Asaph.
GOD standeth in the congregation of the
mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and ac
cept the persons of the wicked ? Selah.
3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice
to the afflicted and needy.
4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out
of the hand of the wicked.
5 They know not, neither will they understand;
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A complaint PSALMS. to God.
they walk on in darkness: all the foundations
of the earth are out of course.
6 I have said, Ye are gods ; and all of you
are children of the Most High.
7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one
of the princes.
8 Arise, 0 God, judge the earth: for thou shalt
inherit all nations. PSALM LXXXIII.
1 A complaint to God of the enemies' conspiracies. 9 A prayer
against them that oppress the church.
A Song or Psalm of Asaph.
TT'EEP not thou silence, 0 God: hold not thy
-*-*^- peace, and be not still, 0 God.
2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and
they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
3 They have taken crafty counsel against
thy people, and consulted against thy hidden
ones. 4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them
off from, being a nation; that the name of Is
rael may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one
consent : they are confederate against thee :
6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmael-
ites ; of Moab, and the Hagarenes ;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Phi
listines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8 Assur also is joined with them: they have
holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
9 Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to
Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison: 119

Prayer against PSALMS. Israel's enemies.
10 Which perished at En-dor: they became as
dung for the earth.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb:
yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the
houses of God in possession.
13 0 my God, make them like a wheel; as
the stubble before the wind.
14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the
flame setteth the mountains on fire ;
15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and
make them afraid with thy storm.
16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may
seek thy name, 0 Lord.
17 Let them be confounded and troubled for
ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:
18 That men may know that thou, whose name
alone is JEHOYAH, art the Most High over all
the earth. PSALM LXXXIT
1 The prophet, longing for the communion of the sanctuary,
4 sheweth how blessed they are that dwell therein. 8 He pray
eth to be restored unto it.
To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of
Korah.
TTOW amiable are thy tabernacles, 0 Lord
*-"*- of hosts!
2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the
courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh cri-
eth out for the living God.
3 Yea, the sparrow hath found a house, and
the swallow a nest for herself, where she may
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Blessedness of PSALMS. God's service.
lay her young, even thine altars, 0 Lord of hosts,
my King, and my God.
4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house :
they will be still praising thee. Selah.
5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee;
in whose heart are the ways of them.
6 Who passing through the valley of Baca
make it a well; the rain also fiUeth the pools.
7 They go from strength to strength, every one
of them in Zion appeareth before God.
8 0 Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: give
ear, 0 God of Jacob. Selah.
9 Behold, 0 God our shield, and look upon
the face of thine anointed.
10 For a day in thy courts is better than a
thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the
house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of
wickedness. 11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield:
the Lord will give grace and glory: no good
thing will he withhold from them that walk up
rightly. 12 0 Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that
trusteth in thee. PSALM LXXXY.
1 The psalmist, out of the experience of former mercies, prayeth for
the continuance thereof. 8 He promiseth to wait thereon, out
of confidence of God's goodness.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.
f" ORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy
-¦^ land: thou hast brought back the captivity
of Jacob. 121

The psalmist1 s PSALMS, confidence in God.
2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy peo
ple; thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.
3 Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou
hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine
anger. 4 Turn us, 0 God of our salvation, and cause
thine anger toward us to cease.
5 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt
thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
6 Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy peo
ple may rejoice in thee?
7 Shew us thy mercy, 0 Lord, and grant us
thy salvation.
8 I will hear what God the Lord will speak:
for he will speak peace unto his people, and to
his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.
9 Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear
him; that glory may dweU in our land.
10 Mercy and truth are met together; right
eousness and peace have kissed each other.
11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and
righteousness shall look down from heaven.
12 Yea, the Lord shall give that which is
good; and our land shall yield her increase.
13 Righteousness shall go before him; and
shall set us in the way of his steps.
PSALM LXXXYI.
1 David strengtheneth his prayer by the conscience of his religion,
5 by the goodness and power of God. 11 He desireth the con
tinuance of former grace. 14 Complaining of the proud, he
craveth some token of God's goodness.
A Prayer of David.
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David prayeth PSALMS. , for grace.
"DOW down thine ear, 0 Lord, hear me: for
-*-* I am poor and needy.
2 Preserve my soul; for I am holy: 0 thou
my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.
3 Be merciful unto me, 0 Lord: for I cry un
to thee daily.
4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto
thee, 0 Lord, do I lift up my soul.
5 For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to for
give; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that
call upon thee.
6 Give ear, 0 Lord, unto my prayer; and at
tend to the voice of my supplications.
7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon
thee: for thou wflt answer me.
8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee,
0 Lord; neither are there any works like unto
thy works.
9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come
and worship before thee, 0 Lord; and shall glo
rify thy name.
10 For thou art great, and doest wondrous
things: thou art God alone.
11 Teach me thy way, 0 Lord; I will walk
in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.
12 I will praise thee, 0 Lord my God, with
all my heart : and I will glorify thy name for
evermore. 13 For great is thy mercy toward me: and
thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest
hell. 14 0 God, the proud are risen against me,
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The glory of PSALMS. the church.
and the assemblies of violent men have sought
after my soul ; and have not set thee before them.
15 But thou, 0 Lord, art a God full of com
passion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plente
ous in mercy and truth.
16 0 turn unto me, and have mercy upon me;
give thy strength unto thy servant, and save
the son of thine handmaid.
17 Shew me a token for good ; that they which
hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because
thou, Lord, hast holpen me, and comforted me.
PSALM LXXXYII.
1 The nature and glory of the church. 4 The increase, honour,
and comfort of the members thereof
A Psalm or Song for the sons of Korah.
TTIS foundation is in the holy mountains.
-¦"•*- 2 The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more
than all the dwellings of Jacob.
3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, 0 city
of God. Selah.
4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon
to them that know me : behold Philistia, and
Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.
5 And of Zion it shall be said, This and that
man was born in her: and the Highest himself
shall establish her.
6 The Lord shall count, when he writeth up
the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
7 As well the singers as the plaj^ers on in
struments shall be there: all my springs are in
thee. 124

A complaint PSALMS. in distress.
PSALM LXXXYIII.
A prayer containing a grievous complaint.
A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician
upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.
f\ LORD God of my salvation, I have cried
^-^ day and night before thee :
2 Let my prayer come before thee : incline
thine ear unto my cry;
3 For my soul is full of troubles : and my life
draweth nigh unto the grave.
4 I am counted with them that go down into
the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie
in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more :
and they are cut off from thy hand.
6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in dark
ness, in the deeps.
7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou
hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far
from me; thou hast made me an abomination
unto them: / am shut up, and I cannot come
forth. 9 Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction:
Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have
stretched out my hands unto thee.
10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall
the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
11 ShaU thy lovingkindness be declared in the
grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?
12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark?
and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness ?
125

The psalmist PSALMS. praiseth God.
1 3 But unto thee have I cried, 0 Lord ; and
in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
14 Lord, why castest thou off my soul? why
hidest thou thy face from me?
15 1 am afflicted and ready to die from my youth
up : while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me ; thy ter
rors have cut me off.
17 They came round about me daily like wa
ter; they compassed me about together.
18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from
me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
PSALM LXXXIX.
1 The psalmist praiseth God for his covenant, 5 for his wonderful
power, lb for the care of his church, 19 for his favour to the
kingdom of David. 38 Then complaining of contrary events,
46 he expostulated, prayeth, and blesseth God.
Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.
T WILL sing of the mercies of the Lord for
¦*- ever: with my mouth wiU I make known thy
faithfulness to all generations.
2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up
for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in
the very heavens.
3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I
have sworn unto David my servant,
4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build
up thy throne to all generations. Selah.
5 And the heavens shall praise thy wonders,
0 Lord: thy faithfulness also in the congrega
tion of the saints.
6 For who in the heaven can be compared
126

The psalmist PSALMS, praiseth God.
unto the Lord? who among the sons of the
mighty can be likened unto the Lord?
7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly
of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all
them that are about him.
8 0 Lord God of hosts, who is a strong Lord
like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about
thee? 9 Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the
waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
10 Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one
that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies
with thy strong arm.
11 The heavens are thine, the earth also is
thine : as for the world and the fulness thereof,
thou hast founded them.
12 The north and the south thou hast created
them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy
name. 13 Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy
hand, and high is thy right hand.
14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of
thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy
face. 15 Blessed is the* people that know the joyful
sound: they shall walk, 0 Lord, in the light of
thy countenance.
16 In thy name shall they rejoice all the
day: and in thy righteousness shall they be ex
alted. 17 For thou art the glory of their strength:
and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted. 127

Gods promises PSALMS. of favour
18 For the Lord is our defence; and the Holy
One of Israel is our King.
19 Then thou spakest in vision to thy Holy
One, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that
is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the
people. 20 I have found David my servant; with my
holy oil have I anointed him:
21 With whom my hand shall be established:
mine arm also shall strengthen him.
22 The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor
the son of wickedness afflict him.
23 And I wUl beat down his foes before his
face, and plague them that hate him.
24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall
be with him: and in my name shall his horn be
exalted. 25 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his
right hand in the rivers.
26 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father,
my God, and the Rock of my salvation.
27 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher
than the kings of the earth.
28 My mercy will I keep for him for ever
more, and my covenant shall stand fast with
him. 29 His seed also will I make to endure for
ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
30 If his children forsake my law, and walk
not in my judgments ;
31 If they break my statutes, and keep not
my commandments; 128

to the kingdom PSALMS. of David.
32 Then will I visit their transgression with
the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
33 Xevertheless my lovingkindness will I not
utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness
to fail.
34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter
the thing that is gone out of my lips.
35 Once have I sworn by my hoUness that I
will not lie unto David.
36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his
throne as the sun before me.
37 It shall be established for ever as the moon,
and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
38 But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou
hast been wroth with thine anointed.
39 Thou hast made void the covenant of thy
servant: thou hast profaned his crown by cast
ing it to the ground.
40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou
hast brought his strong holds to ruin.
41 All that pass by the way spoil him: he is
a reproach to his neighbours.
42 Thou hast set up the right hand of his
adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to
rejoice. 43 Thou hast also turned the edge of his
sword, and hast not made him to stand in the
battle. 44 Thou hast made his glory to cease, and
cast his throne down to the ground.
45 The days of his youth hast thou shortened:
thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.
i 129

The providence PSALMS. of God.
46 How long, Lord ? wilt thou hide thyself
for ever? shaU thy wrath burn like fire?
47 Remember how short my time is: where
fore hast thou made all men in vain?
48 What man is he that liveth, and shall not
see death? shall he deliver his soul from the
hand of the grave? Selah.
49 Lord, where are thy former lovingkind-
nesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy
truth ?
50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy serv
ants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach
of all the mighty people ;
51 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached,
0 Lord; wherewith they have reproached the
footsteps of thine anointed.
52 Blessed be the Lord for evermore. Amen,
and Amen. PSALM XC.
1 Moses, setting forth God's providence, 3 complaineth of human
fragility, 7 divine chastisements, 10 and brevity of life. 12 He
prayeth for the knowledge and sensible experience of God's good
providence.
A Prayer of Moses the man of God.
T ORD, thou hast been our dwellingplace in all
¦*"* generations.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or
ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world,
even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest,
Return, ye children of men.
4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but
130

The frailty PSALMS. of human life.
as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in
the night.
5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood;
they are as a sleep : in the morning they are
like grass which groweth up.
6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth
up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and
by thy wrath are we troubled.
8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our
secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
9 For all our days are passed away in thy
wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is
told. 10 The days of our years are threescore years
and ten; and if by reason of strength they be
fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and
sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger?
even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
12 So teach us to number our days, that we
may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
13 Return, 0 Lord, how long? and let it re
pent thee concerning thy servants.
14 0 satisfy us early with thy mercy; that
we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15 Make us glad according to the days where
in thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein
we have seen evil.
16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and
thy glory unto their children.
17 And let the beauty of the Lord our God
131

The security PSALMS. of the godly.
be upon us: and establish thou the work of our
hands upon us ; yea, the work of our hands estab
lish thou it. PSALM XCI.
1 The state of the godly. 3 Their safety. 9 Their habita
tion. 11 Their servants. 14 Their friend; with the effects
of them all.
TTE that dwelleth in the secret place of the
-^ Most High shall abide under the shadow
of the .Almighty.
2 I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and
my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare
of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and
under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall
be thy shield and buckler.
5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by
night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in dark
ness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at
noonday. 7 A thousand shaU fall at thy side, and ten
thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not
come nigh thee.
8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and
see the reward of the wicked.
9 Because thou hast made the Lord, which is
my refuge, even the Most High, thy habitation;
10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall
any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
11 For he shall give his angels charge over
thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
132

Exhortation to ' PSALMS. praise God.
12 They shall bear thee up in their hands,
lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder:
the young lion and the dragon shalt thou tram
ple under feet.
14 Because he hath set his love upon me,
therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on
high, because he hath known my name.
15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer
him: I will be with him in trouble; I will de
liver him, and honour him.
16 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew
him my salvation, a
PSALM XCII.
1 The prophet exhorteth to praise God, 4 for his great works,
6 for his judgments on the wicked, 10 and for his goodness
to the godly. A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day.
TT is a good thing to give thanks unto the
-*- Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name,
0 Most High:
2 To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the
morning, and thy faithfulness every night,
3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon
the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.
4 For thou, Lord, hast made me glad through
thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy
hands. 5 0 Lord, how great are thy works ! and thy
thoughts are very deep.
6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a
fool understand this. 133

The majesty of PSALMS. Christ's kingdom.
7 When the wicked spring as the grass, and
when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it
is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
8 But thou, Lord, art most high for evermore.
9 For, lo, thine enemies, 0 Lord, for, lo, thine
enemies shall perish ; all the workers of iniquity
shall be scattered.
10 But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn
of a unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
11 Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine
enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of
the wicked that rise up against me.
12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm
tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
13 Those that be planted in the house of the
Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God.
14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age;
they shall be fat and flourishing;
15 To shew that the Lord is upright: he is
my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
PSALM XCIII.
The majesty, power, and holiness of Christ's kingdom.
¦T^HE Lord reigneth, he is clothed with maj-
¦*- esty; the Lord is clothed with strength,
wherewith he hath girded himself: the world
also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
2 Thy throne is established of old: thou art
from everlasting.
3 The floods have lifted up, 0 Lord, the floods
have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their
waves. 134

.The providence PSALMS. of God.
4 The Lord on high is mightier than the noise
of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of
the sea.
5 Thy testimonies are very sure : holiness be-
cometh thine house, 0 Lord, for ever.
PSALM XCIT
1 The prophet, calling for justice, complaineth of tyranny and
impiety. 8 He teacheth God's providence. 12 He sheweth the
blessedness of affliction. 16 God is the defender of the% afflicted.
f\ LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth;
^ 0 God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew
thyself. 2 Lift up thyself, thou Judge of the earth : ren
der a reward to the proud^
3 Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long
shall the wicked triumph?
4 How long shall they utter- and speak hard
things ? and aU' the .workers --of iniquity boast
themselves?/ <>/^- ^:,.-<f
5 They , break in pieces thy people, 0 Lord,
and afflict .Ihine heritage.
6 They ..slay the widow and the stranger, and
murder (he fatherless.
7 Yet they say, The Lord shall not see, nei
ther shall the God of Jacob regard it.
8 Understand, ye brutish among the people:
and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?
he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
10 He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not
he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge,
shall not he know? 135

The blessedness PSALMS. of affliction.
11 The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man,
that they are vanity.
12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest,
0 Lord, and teachest him out of thy law;
13 That thou mayest give him rest from the
days of adversity, until the pit be digged for
the wicked.
14 For the Lord will not cast off his people,
neither will he forsake his inheritance.
15 But judgment shall return unto righteous
ness : and all the upright in heart shall follow
it. 16 Who will rise up for me against the evil
doers? or who will stand up for me against the
workers of iniquity ?
17 Unless the Lord had been my help, my
soul had almost dwelt in silence.
18 When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy,
0 Lord, held me up.
19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me
thy comforts delight my soul.
20 ShaU the throne of iniquity have fellowship
with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
21 They gather themselves together against
the soul of the righteous, and condemn the in
nocent blood.
22 But the Lord is my defence; and my God
is the rock of my refuge.
23 And he shall bring upon them their own
iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own
wickedness; yea, the Lord our God shall cut
them off. 136

An exhortation PSALMS. to praise God.
PSALM XCT
1 An exhortation to praise God, 3 for his greatness, 6 and for his
goodness, 8 and not to tempt him.
f\ COME, let us sing unto the Lord: let us
^-^ make a joyful noise to the Rock of our
salvation. 2 Let us come before his presence with thanks
giving, and make a joyful noise unto him with
psalms. 3 For the Lord is a great God, and a great
King above all gods.
4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth :
the strength of the hills is his also.
5 The sea is his, and he made it: and his
hands formed the dry land.
6 0 come, let us worship and bow down: let
us kneel before the Lord our maker.
7 For he is our God; and we are the people
of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To
day if ye will hear his voice,
8 Harden not your heart, as in the provoca
tion, and as in the day of temptation in the
wilderness :
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me,
and saw my work.
10 Forty years long was I grieved with this
generation, and said, It is a people that do err
in their heart, and they have not known my
ways: 11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they
should not enter into my rest. 137

Exhortation to PSALMS. praise God.
PSALM XCYI.
1 An exhortation to praise God, 4 for his greatness, 8 for his
kingdom, 1 1 for his general judgment.
OSIXG unto the Lord a new song: sing
unto the Lord, all the earth.
2 Sing unto the Lord, bless his name; shew
forth his salvation from day to day.
3 Declare his glory among the heathen, his
wonders among all people.
4 For the Lord is great, and greatly to be
praised: he is to be feared above all gods.
5 For all the gods of the nations are idols:
but the Lord made the heavens.
6 Honour and majesty are before him: strength
and beauty are in his sanctuary.
7 Give unto the Lord, 0 ye kindreds of the
people, give unto the Lord glory and strength.
8 Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his
name: bring an offering, and come into his
courts. 9 0 worship the Lord in the beauty of holi
ness: fear before him, all the earth.
10 Say among the heathen that the Lord
reigneth : the world also shall be established
that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the
people righteously.
11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth
be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.
12 Let the field be joyful, and all that is there
in : then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice
13 Before the Lord : for he cometh, for he
138

The majesty of PSALMS. God's kingdom.
cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the
world with righteousness, and the people with
his truth. PSALM XCYII.
1 The majesty of God's kingdom. 7 The church rejoiceth at
God's judgments upon idolaters. 10 An exhortation to godli
ness and gladness.
-T^HE Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let
-*- the multitude of isles be glad thereof
2 Clouds and darkness are round about him:
righteousness and judgment are the habitation
of his throne.
3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his
enemies round about.
4 His lightnings enlightened the world: the
earth saw, and trembled.
5 The hills melted like wax at the presence
of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the
whole earth.
6 The heavens declare his righteousness, and
all the people see his glory.
7 Confounded be all they that serve graven
images, that boast themselves of idols : worship
him, all ye gods.
8 Zion heard, and was glad; and the daugh
ters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments,
0 Lord.
9 For thou, Lord, art high above all the earth:
thou art exalted far above all gods.
10 Ye that love the Lord, hate evil: he pre
serveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth
them out of the hand of the wicked. 139

Gods salvation PSALMS. toward Israel.
11 Light is sown for the righteous, and glad
ness for the upright in heart.
12 Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous; and give
thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
PSALM XCYIII.
1 The psalmist exhorteth the Jews, 4 the Gentiles, 7 and all the
creatures to praise God.
A Psalm.
f\ SIXG unto the Lord a new song; for he
^ hath done marvellous things: his right
hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the
victory. 2 The Lord hath made known his salvation:
his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the
sight of the heathen.
3 He hath remembered his mercy and his truth
toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the
earth have seen the salvation of our God.
4 Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the
earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing
praise. 5 Sing unto the Lord with the harp; with the
harp, and the voice of a psalm.
6 With trumpets and sound of cornet make a
joyful noise before the Lord, the King.
7 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof;
the world, and they that dwell therein.
8 Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills
be joyful together
9 Before the Lord; for he cometh to judge
the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the
world, and the people with equity.
140

Exhortation to PSALMS. worship God.
PSALM XCIX.
1 The prophet, setting forth the kingdom of God in Zion,
5 exhorteth all, by the example of forefathers, to worship God
at his holy hill.
¦T^HE Lord reigneth; let the people tremble:
¦*- he sitteth between the cherubim; let the
earth be moved.
2 The Lord is great in Zion ; and he is high
above all the people.
3 Let them praise thy great and terrible name ;
for it is holy.
4 The king's strength also loveth judgment;
thou dost establish equity, thou executest judg
ment and righteousness in Jacob.
5 Exalt ye the Lord our God, and worship at
his footstool; for he is holy.
6 Moses and Aaron among his priests, and
Samuel among them that call upon his name;
they called upon the Lord, and he answered
them, 7 He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar :
they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that
he gave them.
8 Thou answeredst them, 0 Lord our God:
thou wast a God that forgavest them, though
thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.
9 Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at
his holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy.
PSALM C.
1 An exhortation to praise God cheerfully, 3 for his greatness,
4 and for his power.
A Psalm of praise. 141

Exhortation to PSALMS. praise God.
1VTAKE a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye
^*- lands.
2 Serve the Lord with gladness: come before
his presence with singing.
3 Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he
that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we
are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and
into his courts with praise : be thankful unto him,
and bless his name.
5 For the Lord is good; his mercy is ever
lasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
PSALM 01.
David maketh a vow and profession of godliness.
A Psalm of David.
T WILL sing of mercy and judgment: unto
-*- thee, 0 Lord, will I sing.
2 I wiU behave myself wisely in a perfect
way. 0 when wilt thou come unto me? I will
walk within my house with a perfect heart.
3 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes:
I hate the work of them that turn aside; it
shall not cleave to me.
4 A froward heart shall depart from me: I
will not know a wicked person.
5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him
will I cut off: him that hath a high look and a
proud heart will not I suffer.
6 Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the
land, that they may dwell with me: he that
walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.
7 (He that worketh deceit shall not dwell
142

The prophet's PSALMS, grievous complaint.
within my house: he that telleth lies shall not
tarry in my sight./
8 I will early destroy all the wicked of the
land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from
the city of the Lord. PSALM OIL
-1 The prophet in his prayer maketh a grievous complaint.
12 He taketh comfort in the eternity and mercy of God.
18 The mercies of God are to be recwded. 23 He sustaineth
his weakness by the unchangeableness of God.
A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and pour
eth out his complaint before the Lord.
XT EAR my prayer, 0 Lord, and let my cry
-a-J- come unto thee.
2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when
I am in trouble ; incline thine ear unto me : in
the day when I call answer me speedily.
3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and
my bones are burned as a hearth.
4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass ;
so that I forget to eat my bread.
5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my
bones cleave to my skin.
6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness : I am
like an owl of the desert.
7 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon
the housetop.
8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and
they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and min
gled my drink with weeping,
10 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath:
for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
143

Eternity and PSALMS. mercy of God.
11 My days are like a shadow that decline th;
and I am withered like grass.
12 But thou, 0 Lord, shalt endure for ever;
and thy remembrance unto all generations.
13 Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon
Zion : for the - time to favour her, yea, the set
time, is come.
14 For thy servants take pleasure in her
stones, and favour the dust thereof.
15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the
Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
16 When the Lord shall build up Zion, he
shall appear in his glory.
17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute,
and not despise their prayer.
18 This shall be written for the generation
to come: and the people which shall be created
shall praise the Lord.
19 For he hath looked down from the height
of his sanctuary; from heaven did the Lord be
hold the earth;
20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner ; to
loose those that are appointed to death;
21 To declare the name of the Lord in Zion,
and his praise in Jerusalem;
22 When the people are gathered together,
and the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.
23 He weakened my strength in the way; he
shortened my days.
24 I said, 0 my God, take me not away in
the midst of my days : thy years are throughout
all generations. 144

An exhortation PSALMS. to bless God.
25 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the
earth: and the heavens are the work of thy
hands. 26 They shaU perish, but thou shalt endure :
yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment;
as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they
shall be changed:
27 But thou art the same, and thy years shall
have no end.
28 The children of thy servants shall continue,
and their seed shall be estabUshed before thee.
PSALM GUI.
I An exhortation to bless God for his mercy, 15 and for the
constancy thereof.
A Psalm of David.
T3LESS the Lord, 0 my soul: and all that is
¦*-* within me, bless his holy name.
2 Bless the Lord, 0 my soul, and forget not
all his benefits:
3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who heal-
eth aU thy diseases;
4 Who redeemeth thy hfe from destruction;
who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and ten
der mercies;
5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things;
so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
6 The Lord executeth righteousness and judg
ment for all that are oppressed.
7 He made known his ways unto Moses, his
acts unto the children of Israel.
8 The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to
anger, and plenteous in mercy.
k " 145

An exhortation PSALMS. to bless God.
9 He will not always chide: neither wUl he
keep his anger for ever.
10 He hath not dealt with us after our sins;
nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
11 For as the heaven is high above the earth,
so great is his mercy toward them that fear
him. 12 As far as the east is from the west, so far
hath he removed our transgressions from us.
13 Like as a father pitieth his children, so the
Lord pitieth them that fear him.
14 For he knoweth our frame; he remember
eth that we are dust.
15 As for man, his days are as grass: as a
flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is
gone; and the place thereof shall know it no
more. }17 But the mercy of the Lord is from ever
lasting to everlasting upon them that fear him,
and his righteousness unto chUdren's chUdren;
1 18 To such as keep his covenant, and to those
that remember his commandments to do them. J
19 The Lord hath prepared his throne in the
heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.
20 Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel
in strength, that do his commandments, heark
ening unto the voice of his word.
21 Bless ye the Lord, aU ye his hosts; ye
ministers of his, that do his pleasure.
22 Bless the Lord, all his works in all places
of his dominion : bless the Lord, 0 my soul.
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Of God's PSALMS. mighty power.
PSALM CIT
1 A meditation upon the mighty power, 7 and wonderful prov
idence of God. 31 God's glory is eternal. 33 The prophet
voweth perpetually to praise God.
"OLESS the Lord, 0 my soul. 0 Lord my
-¦-* God, thou art very great; thou art clothed
with honour and majesty:
2 Who coverest thyself with light as with a
garment: who stretchest out the heavens hke a
curtain :
3 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in
the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot:
who walketh upon the wings of the wind :
4 Who maketh his angels spirits; his minis
ters a flaming fire :
5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that
it should not be removed for ever.
6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a
garment: the waters stood above the mount
ains. 7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy
thunder they hasted away.
8 They go up by the mountains ; they go down
by the vaUeys unto the place which thou hast
founded for them.
9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not
pass over ; that they turn not again to cover the
earth. 10 He sendeth the springs into the valleys,
which run among the hills.
11 They give drink to every beast of the field:
the wild asses quench their thirst. 147

Of God's PSALMS. mighty power.
12 By them shall the fowls of the heaven
have their habitation, which sing among the
branches. 13 He watereth the hiUs from his chambers:
the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.
14 He causeth the grass to grow for the cat
tle, and herb for the service of man: that he
may bring forth food out of the earth ;
15 And wine that maketh glad the heart of
man, and oil to make his face to shine, and
bread which strengtheneth man's heart.
16 The trees of the Lord are full of sap ; the
cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted ;
17 Where the birds make their nests: as for
the stork, the fir trees are her house.
18 The high hills are a refuge for the wild
goats; and the rocks for the conies.
19 He appointed the moon for seasons: the
sun knoweth his going down.
20 Thou makest darkness, and it is night:
wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep
forth. 21 The young lions roar after their prey, and
seek their meat from God.
22 The sun ariseth, they gather themselves to
gether, and lay them down in their dens.
23 Man goeth forth unto his work and to his
labour untU the evening.
24 0 Lord, how manifold are thy works! in
wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is
full of thy riches.
25 So is this great and wide sea, wherein are
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God's glory PSALMS. is eternal.
things creeping innumerable, both small and great
beasts. 26 There go the ships: there is that leviathan,
whom thou hast made to play therein.
27 These wait all upon thee; that thou may
est give them their meat in due season.
28 That thou givest them they gather: thou
openest thine hand, they are filled with good.
29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled:
thou takest away their breath, they die, and re
turn to their dust.
30 Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are cre
ated : and thou renewest the face of the earth.
31 The glory of the Lord shall endure for
ever: the Lord shall rejoice in his works.
32 He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth:
he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.
33 1 will sing unto the Lord as long as I live : I
will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
34 My meditation of him shall be sweet: I
will be glad in the Lord.
35 Let the sinners be consumed out of the
earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless
thou the Lord, 0 my soul. Praise ye the Lord.
PSALM CT
1 An exhortation to praise God, and to seek out his works.
7 The story of God's providence over Abraham, 16 over Joseph,
23 over Jacob in Egypt, 26 over Moses delivering the Israel
ites, 37 over the Israelites brought out of Egypt, fed in the
wilderness, and planted in Canaan.
f\ GIYE thanks unto the Lord; call upon his
^ name: make known his deeds among the
people. 149

An exhortation PSALMS. to praise God.
2 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk
ye of all his wondrous works.
3 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of
them rejoice that seek the Lord.
4 Seek the Lord, and his strength: seek his
face evermore.
5 Remember his marvellous works that he hath
done; his wonders, and the judgments of his
mouth ;
6 0 ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye chil
dren of Jacob his chosen.
7 He is the Lord our God : his judgments are
in all the earth.
8 He hath remembered his covenant for ever,
the word which he commanded to a thousand
generations. 9 Which covenant he made with Abraham, and
his oath unto Isaac;
10 And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a
law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant :
11 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of
Canaan, the lot of your inheritance :
12 When they were but a few men in num
ber; yea, very few, and strangers in it.
13 When they went from one nation to an
other, from one kingdom to another people;
14 He suffered no man to do them wrong:
yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;
15 Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do
my prophets no harm.
16 Moreover he called for a. famine upon the
land : he brake the whole staff of bread.
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God's providence PSALMS, over his servants.
17 He sent a man before them, even Joseph,
who was sold for a servant:
18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was
laid in iron:
19 Until the time that his word came: the
word of the Lord tried him.
20 The king sent and loosed him; even the
ruler of the people, and let him go free.
21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler
of aU his substance:
22 To bind his princes at his pleasure; and
teach his senators wisdom.
23 Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob
sojourned in the land of Ham.
24 And he increased his people greatly; and
made them stronger than their enemies.
25 He turned their heart to hate his people,
to deal subtilely with his servants.
26 He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron
whom he had chosen.
27 They shewed his signs among them, and
wonders in the land of Ham.
28 He sent darkness, and made it dark; and
they rebeUed not against his word.
29 He turned their waters into blood, and slew
their fish.
30 Their land f brought forth frogs in abund
ance, in the chambers of their kings.
31 He spake, and there came divers sorts of
flies, and lice in aU their coasts.
32 He gave ,them haU for rain, and flaming
fire in their land. 151

Gods providence PSALMS, over his servants.
33 He smote their vines also and their Hg
trees ; and brake the trees of their coasts.
34 He spake, and the locusts came, and cat
erpillars, and that without number,
35 And did eat up all the herbs in their land,
and devoured the fruit of their ground.
36 He smote also aU the firstborn in their land,
the chief of all their strength.
37 He brought them forth also with silver and
gold : and there was not one feeble person among
their tribes.
38 Egypt was glad when they departed: for
the fear of them fell upon them.
39 He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire
to give hght in the night.
40 The people asked, and he brought quails,
and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
41 He opened the rock, and the waters gush
ed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.
42 For he remembered his holy promise, and
Abraham his servant.
43 And he brought forth his people with joy,
and his chosen with gladness:
44 And gave them the lands of the heathen:
and they inherited the labour of the people ;
45 That they might observe his statutes, and
keep his laws. Praise ye the Lord.
PSALM CYI.
1 The psalmist exhorteth to praise God. 4 He prayeth for
pardon of sin, as God did with the fathers. 7 The story of
the people's rebellion, and God's mercy. 47 He concludelh
vjith prayer and praise.
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Exhortation to PSALMS. praise
"DRAISE ye the Lord. 0 give thanks
-*- to the Lord; for he is good: for his mere|
endureth for ever.
2 Who can utter the mighty acts of the Lord ?
who can shew forth all his praise?
3 Blessed are they that keep judgment, and
he that doeth righteousness at all times.
4 Remember me, 0 Lord, with the favour that
thou bearest unto thy people: 0 visit me with
thy salvation;
5 That I may see the good of thy chosen,
that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation,
that I may glory with thine inheritance.
6 We have sinned with our fathers, we have
committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
7 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in
Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of
thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even
at the Red sea.
8 Xevertheless he saved them for his name's
sake, that he might make his mighty power to
be known.
9 He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was
dried up : so he led them through the depths,
as through the wilderness.
10 And he saved them from the hand of him
that hated them, and redeemed them from the
hand of the enemy.
11 And the waters covered their enemies :
there was not one of them left.
12 Then believed they his words; they sang
his praise. 153

Israel's rebellions, PSALMS, and God's mercies.
13 They soon forgat his works; they waited
not for his counsel:
14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,
and tempted God in the desert.
15 And he gave them their request; but sent
leanness into their soul.
16 They envied Moses also in the camp, and
Aaron the saint of the Lord.
17 The earth opened and swallowed up Da-
than, and covered the company of Abiram.
18 And a fire was kindled in their company;
the flame burned up the wicked.
19 They made a calf in Horeb, and worship
ped the molten image.
20 Thus they changed their glory into the
similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
21 They forgat God their saviour, which had
done great things in Egypt;
22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and
terrible things by the Red sea.
23 Therefore he said that he would destroy
them, had not Moses his chosen stood before
him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest
he should destroy them.
24 Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they
believed not his word:
25 But murmured in their tents, and heark
ened not unto the voice of the Lord.
26 Therefore he lifted up his hand against
them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:
27 To overthrow their seed also among the
nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
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Israel's rebellions, PSALMS, and God's mercies.
28 They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor,
and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their
inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
30 Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judg
ment: and so the plague was stayed.
31 And that was counted unto him for right
eousness unto all generations for evermore.
32 They angered him also at the waters of
strife, so that it went iU with Moses for their
sakes :
33 Because they provoked his spirit, so that
he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
34 They did not destroy the nations, concern
ing whom the Lord commanded them:
35 But were mingled among the heathen, and
learned their works.
36 And they served their idols: which were
a snare unto them.
37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their
daughters unto devils,
38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood
of their sons and of their daughters, whom they
sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land
was polluted with blood.
39 Thus were they defiled with their own
works, and went a whoring with their own in
ventions. 40 Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kin
dled against his people, insomuch that he ab
horred his own inheritance.
41 And he gave them into the hand of the
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Israel's rebellions, PSALMS, and God's mercies.
heathen; and they that hated them ruled over
them. 42 Their enemies also oppressed them, and they
were brought into subjection under their hand.
43 Many times did he deliver them; but
they provoked him with their counsel, and were
brought low for their iniquity.
44 Xevertheless he regarded their affliction,
when he heard their cry:
45 And he remembered for them his covenant,
and repented according to the multitude of his
mercies. 46 He made them also to be pitied of all those
that carried them captives.
47 Save us, 0 Lord our God, and gather us
from among the heathen, to give thanks unto
thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.
48 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from
everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people
say, Amen. Praise ye the Lord.
PSALM CYII.
1 The psalmist exhorteth the redeemed, in praising God, to ob
serve his manifold providence, 4c over travellers, 10 over cap
tives, 17 over sick men, 23 over seamen, 33 and in divers
varieties, of life.
OGIYE thanks unto the Lord, for he is
good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
2 Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom
he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;
3 And gathered them out of the lands, from
the east, and from the west, from the north,
and from the south.
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God's providence PSALMS. over all.
4 They wandered in the wilderness in a sol
itary way; they found no city to dwell in.
5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in
them. 6 Then they cried unto the Lord in their
trouble, and he delivered them out of their dis
tresses. 7 And he led them forth by the right way,
that they might go to a city of habitation.
8 Oh that men would praise the Lord for his
goodness, and for his wonderful works to the
children of men !
9 For he satisfieth the longing soul, and fiU
eth the hungry soul with goodness.
10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow
of death, being bound in affliction and iron ;
11 Because they rebelled against the words of
God, and contemned the counsel of the Most
High :
12 Therefore he brought down their heart with
labour; they fell down, and there was none to
help. 13 Then they cried unto the Lord in their
trouble, and he saved them out of their dis
tresses. 14 He brought them out of darkness and the
shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
15 Oh that men would praise the Lord for
his goodness, and for his wonderful works to
the children of men !
16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, and
cut the bars of iron in sunder. 157

God's providence PSALMS. overall.
17 Fools, because of their transgression, and
because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
18 Their soul abhorreth aU manner of meat;
and they draw near unto the gates of death.
19 Then they cry unto the Lord in their
trouble, and he saveth them out of their dis
tresses. 20 He sent his word, and healed them, and
dehvered them from their destructions.
21 Oh that men would praise the Lord for
his goodness, and for his wonderful works to
the children of men !
22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of
thanksgiving, and declare his works with re
joicing. 23 They that go down to the sea in ships,
that do business in great waters;
24 These see the works of the Lord, and his
wonders in the deep.
25 For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy
wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
26 They mount up to the heaven, they go
down again to the depths : their soul is melted
because of trouble.
27 They reel to and fro, and stagger Uke a
drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
28 Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble,,
and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
29 He maketh the storm a calm, so that the
waves thereof are still.
30 Then are they glad because they be quiet;
so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
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Gods providence PSALMS. over all.
31 Oh that men would praise the Lord for
his goodness, and for his wonderful works to
the children of men !
32 Let them exalt him also in the congrega
tion of the people, and praise him in the assem
bly of the elders.
33 He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and
the watersprings into dry ground ;
34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wick
edness of them that dwell therem.
35 He turneth the wUderness into a standing
water, and dry ground into watersprings.
36 And there he maketh the hungry to dwell,
that they may prepare a city for habitation;
37 And sow the fields, and plant vineyards,
which may yield fruits of increase.
38 He blesseth them also, so that they are
multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle
to decrease.
39 Again, they are minished and brought low
through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
40 He poureth contempt upon princes, and
causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where
there is no way.
41 Yet setteth he the poor on high from
affliction, and maketh him families Uke a
flock. 42 The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and
all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
43 WTioso is wise, and will observe these
things, even they shall understand the loving
kindness of the Lord. 159

Davids zeal PSALMS. in praising God.
PSALM CYIII.
1 David encourageth himself to praise God. 5 He prayeth for
God's assistance according to his promise. 11 His confidence
in God's help.
A Song or Psalm of David.
C\ GOD, my heart is fixed; I will sing and
^-^ give praise, even with my glory.
2 Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will
awake early.
3 I will praise thee, 0 Lord, among the people :
and I wiU sing praises unto thee among the nations.
4 For thy mercy is great above the heavens:
and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.
5 Be thou exalted, 0 God, above the heavens:
and thy glory above all the earth;
6 That thy beloved may be delivered: save
with thy right hand, and answer me.
7 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will re
joice, I wiU divide Shechem, and mete out the
valley of Succoth.
8 Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim
also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my
lawgiver ;
9 Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast
out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph.
10 Who will bring me into the strong city?
who will lead me into Edom?
11 Wilt not thou^ 0 God, who hast cast us
off? and wilt not thou, 0 God, go forth with
our hosts?
12 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the
help of man.
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David complaineth PSALMS. of his enemies.
13 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he
it is that shall tread down our enemies.
PSALM CIX.
1 David, complaining of his slanderous enemies, under the person
of Judas devoteth them. 16 He sheweth their sin. 21 Com
plaining of his own misery, he prayeth for help. 29 He prom
iseth thankfulness.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
TTOLD not thy peace, 0 God of my praise ;
J--*- 2 For the mouth of the wicked and the
mouth of the deceitful are opened against me :
they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
3 They compassed me about also with words of
hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
4 For my love they are my adversaries: but
I give myself unto prayer.
5 And they have rewarded me evil for good,
and hatred for my love.
6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let
Satan stand at his right hand.
7 When he shaU be judged, let him be con
demned: and let his prayer become sin.
8 Let his days be few; and let another take
his office.
9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife
a widow.
10 Let his children be continually vagabonds,
and beg: let them seek their bread also out of
their desolate places.
11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath;
and let the strangers spoil his labour.
12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto
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David devoteth PSALMS. his enemies.
him: neither let there be any to favour his fa
therless children.,
13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the gen
eration following let their name be blotted out.
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remem
bered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his
mother be blotted out.
15 Let them be before the Lord continuaUy,
that he may cut off the memory of them from
the earth.
16 Because that he remembered not to shew
mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy .man,
that he might even slay the broken in heart.
17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto
him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it
be far from him.
18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as
with his garment, so let it come into his bow
els like water, and like oU into his bones.
19 Let it be unto him as the garment which
covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is
girded continually.
20 let this be the reward of mine adversaries
from the Lord, and of them that speak evil
against my soul.
21 But do thou for me, 0 God the Lord, for
thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good,
deliver thou me.
22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart
is wounded within me.
23 I am gone like the shadow when it de-
clineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
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David prayeth PSALMS. for help.
24 My knees are weak through fasting; and
my flesh faileth of fatness.
25 I became also a reproach unto them: when
they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
26 Help me, ( 0 Lord my God : 0 save me
according to thy mercy:
27 That they may know that this is thy hand;
that thou, Lord, hast done it.
28 Let them curse, but bless thou: when they
arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy serv
ant rejoice.
29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame;
and let them cover themselves with their own
confusion, as with a mantle.
30 I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth;
yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the
poor, to save him from those that condemn his
soul. PSALM CX.
1 The kingdom, 4 the priesthood, 5 the conquest, 7 and the pas
sion of Christ.
A Psalm of David.
¦TH HE Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at
¦ my right hand, until I make thine enemies
thy footstool.
2 The Lord shaU send the rod of thy strength
out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine
enemies. 3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy
power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb
of the morning : thou hast the dew of thy youth.
4 The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent,
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A prediction of PSALMS. Christ's kingdom.
Thou art a priest for ever after the order of
Melchizedek. 5 The Lord at thy right hand shall strike
through kings in the day of his wrath.
6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall
fill the places with the dead bodies; he shaU
wound the heads over many countries.
7 He shall drink of the brook in the way:
therefore shaU he lift up the head.
PSALM CXI.
1 The psalmist by his example inciteth others to praise God for
his glorious, 5 and gracious works. 10 The fear of God
breedeth true wisdom.
"DRAISE ye the Lord. I wiU praise the
-*- Lord with my whole heart, in the assembly
of the upright, and in the congregation.
2 The works of the Lord are great, sought
out of all them that have pleasure therein.
3 His work is honourable and glorious : and
his righteousness endureth for ever.
4 He hath made his wonderful works to be
remembered: the Lord is gracious and full of
compassion. 5 He hath given meat unto them that fear
him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant.
6 He hath shewed his people the power of
his works, that he may give them the heritage
of the heathen.
7 The works of his hands are verity and judg
ment; all his commandments are sure.
8 They stand fast for ever and ever, and are
done in truth and uprightness.
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The security PSALMS. of the godly.
9 He sent redemption unto his people : he hath
commanded his covenant for ever: holy and rev
erend is his name.
10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wis
dom: a good understanding have all they that do
his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
PSALM CXIL
1 Godliness hath the promises of this life, 4 and of the life to
come. 10 The prosperity of the godly shall be an eyesore to
the wicked.
T)RAISE ye the Lord. Blessed is the man
-*- that feareth the Lord, that delighteth great
ly in his commandments.
2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the
generation of the upright shall be blessed.
3 Wealth and riches shall be in his house :
and his righteousness endureth for ever.
4 Unto the upright there ariseth light in the
darkness : he is gracious, and full of compassion,
and righteous.
5 A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth:
he wUl guide his affairs with discretion.
6 Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the
righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.
7 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings : his
heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord.
8 His heart is established, he shall not be
afraid, until he see his desire upon his enemies.
9 He hath dispersed, he hath given to the
poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his
horn shall be exalted with honour.
10 The wicked shall see it, and be grieved;
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An exhortation PSALMS. to praise God.
he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away:
the desire of the wicked shall perish.
PSALM CXIII.
1 An exhortation to praise God for his excellency, 6 for his
mercy.
T) RAISE ye the Lord. Praise, 0 ye serv-
-*- ants of the Lord, praise the name of the
Lord. 2 Blessed be the name of the Lord from this
time forth and for evermore.
3 From the rising of the sun unto the going
down of the same the Lord's name is to be
praised. 4 The Lord is high above all nations, and his
glory above the heavens.
5 Who is like unto the Lord our God, who
dwelleth on high,
6 Who humbleth himself to behold the things
that are in heaven, and in the earth !
7 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and
lifteth the needy out of the dunghill ;
8 That he may set him with princes, even with
the princes of his people.
9 He maketh the barren woman to keep
house, and to be a joyful mother of children.
Praise ye the Lord. PSALM CXIT
An exhortation, by the example of the dumb creatures, to fear
God in his church.
TXTHEX Israel went out of Egypt, the house
** of Jacob from a people of strange lan
guage ; 166

The vanity PSALMS. of idols.
2 Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his do
minion. 3 The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven
back. 4 The mountains skipped like rams, and the
Uttle hills like lambs.
5 What ailed thee, 0 thou sea, that thou fled-
dest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
6 Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams;
and ye little hills, like lambs ?
7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the
Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob ;
8 Which turned the rock into a standing wa
ter, the flint into a fountain of waters.
PSALM CXT
1 Because God is truly glorious, 4 and idols are vanity, 9 he
exhorteth to confidence in God. 12 God is to be blessed for
his blessings.
IVrOT unto us, 0 Lord, not unto us, but un-
-^^ to thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and
for thy truth's sake.
2 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where
is now their God?
3 But our God is in the heavens : he hath
done whatsoever he hath pleased.
4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of
men's hands. ,-\-
5 They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes
have they, but they see not :
6 They have ears, but they hear not: noses
have they, but they smell not:
7 They have hands, but they handle not : feet
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Exhortation to PSALMS. trust in God.
have they, but they walk not: neither speak they
through their throat.
8 They that make them are like unto them;
so is every one that trusteth in them.
9 0 Israel, trust thou in the Lord: he is their
help and their shield.
10 0 house of Aaron, trust in the Lord: he
is their help and their shield.
11 Ye that fear the Lord, trust in the Lord:
he is their help and their shield.
12 The Lord hath been mindful of us: he will
bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he
will bless the house of Aaron.
13 He will bless them that fear the Lord, both
small and great.
14 The Lord shall increase you more and
more, you and your children.
15 Ye are blessed of the Lord which made
heaven and earth.
16 The heaven, even the heavens, are the
Lord's: but the earth hath he given to the chil
dren of men.
17 The dead praise not the Lord, neither any
that go down into silence.
18 But we will bless the Lord from this time
forth and for evermore. Praise the Lord.
PSALM CXYI.
1 The psalmist professeth his love and duty to God for his deliv
erance. 12 He studieth to be thankful.
1 LOYE the Lord, because he hath heard my
¦*- voice and my supplications.
2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me,
168

Profession of PSALMS. love to God.
therefore will I call upon him as long as I
live. 3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and
the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found
trouble and sorrow.
4 Then called I upon the name of the Lord;
0 Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.
5 Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; yea,
our God is merciful.
6 The Lord preserveth the simple: I was
brought low, and he helped me.
7 Return unto thy rest, 0 my soul; for the
Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee.
8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death,
mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
9 I wiU walk before the Lord in the land of
the living.
10 I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was
greatly afflicted:
11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.
12 What shall I render unto the Lord for all
his benefits toward me?
13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call
upon the name of the Lord.
14 I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in
the presence of aU his people.
15 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the
death of his saints.
16 0 Lord, truly I am thy servant; I am thy
servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou
hast loosed my bonds.
17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanks-
169

Exhortation to PSALMS. praise God.
giving, and will call upon the name of the
Lord. 18 I will pay my vows unto the Lord now
in the presence of all his people,
19 In the courts of the Lord's house, in the
midst of thee, 0 Jerusalem. Praise ye the Lord.
PSALM CXYII.
An exhortation to praise God for his mercy and truth.
f~\ PRAISE the Lord, all ye nations : praise
^S him, all ye people.
2 For his merciful kindness is great toward
us: and the truth of the Lord endureth for
ever. Praise ye the Lord.
PSALM CXYIII.
1 An exhortation to praise God for his mercy. 5 The psalmist
by his experience sheweth how good it is to trust in God.
19 Under the type of the psalmist the coming of Christ in his
kingdom is expressed.
/~\ GIYE thanks unto the Lord ; for he is
^^ good: because his mercy endureth for ever.
2 Let Israel now say, that his mercy endureth
for ever.
3 Let the house of Aaron now say, that his
mercy endureth for ever.
4 Let them now that fear the Lord say, that
his mercy endureth for ever.
5 I called upon the Lord in distress: the Lord
answered me, and set menu a large place.
6 The Lord is on my side; I wiU not fear:
what can man do unto me?
7 The Lord taketh my part with them that
help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon
them that hate me.
170

An exhortation PSALMS. to praise God.
8 It is better to trust in the Lord than to
put cpnfidence in man.
9 It is better to trust in the Lord than to
put confidence in princes.
10 AU nations compassed me about: but in
the name of the Lord will I destroy them.
11 They compassed me about; yea, they com
passed me about: but in the name of the Lord
I will destroy them.
12 They compassed me about like bees; they_
are quenched as the fire of thorns : for in the
name of the Lord I will destroy them.
13 Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might
fall: but the Lord helped me.
14 The Lord is my strength and song, and
is become my salvation.
15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in
the tabernacles of the righteous : the right hand
of the Lord doeth valiantly.
16 The right hand of the Lord is exalted:
the right hand of the Lord doeth valiantly.
17 I shall not die, but live, and declare the
works Of the Lord.
18 The Lord hath chastened me sore : but he
hath not given me over unto death.
19 Open to me the gates of righteousness:
I wiU go into them, and I will praise the
Lord :
20 This gate of the Lord, into which the
righteous shall enter.
21 I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me,
and art become my salvation. 171

Sundry prayers, PSALMS. praises, and
22 The stone which the builders refused is be
come the head stone of the corner. *
23 This is the Lord's doing; it is marvellous
in our eyes.
24 This is the day which the Lord hath made;
we will rejoice and be glad in it.
25 Save now, I beseech thee, 0 Lord: 0 Lord,
I beseech thee, send now prosperity.
26 Blessed be he that cometh in the name of
. the Lord : we have blessed you out of the house
of the Lord.
27 God is the Lord, which hath shewed us
light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto
the horns of the altar.
28 Thou art my God, and I will praise thee:
thou art my God, I will exalt thee.
29 0 give thanks unto the Lord; for he is
good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
PSALM CXIX.
This psalm containeth sundry prayers, praises, and professions
of obedience.
ALEPH.
~D LES SED are the undefiled in the way, who
•*-* walk in the law of the Lord.
2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies,
and that seek him with the whole heart.
3 They also do no iniquity: they walk in his
ways. 4 Thou hast commanded us to keep thy pre
cepts diligently.
5 0 that my ways were directed to keep thy
statutes !
172

professions PSALMS. of obedience.
6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have
respect unto all thy commandments.
7 I wiU praise thee with uprightness of heart,
when I shaU have learned thy righteous judg
ments. 8 I will keep thy statutes : 0 forsake me not
utterly. BETH.
9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his
way? by taking heed thereto according to thy
word. 10 With my whole heart have I sought thee :
0 let me not wander from thy commandments.
11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that
I might not sin against thee.
12 Blessed art thou, 0 Lord : teach me thy
statutes. 13 With my lips have I declared all the judg
ments of thy mouth.
14 I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimo
nies, as much as in aU riches.
15 I will meditate in thy precepts, and have
respect unto thy ways.
16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will
not forget thy word. GIMEL.
17 Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I
may live, and keep thy word.
18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold
wondrous things out of thy law.
19 I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy
commandments from me. 173

Sundry prayers, PSALMS. praises, and
20 My soul breaketh for the longing that it
hath unto thy judgments at aU times.
21 Thou hast rebuked the proud that are
cursed, which do err from thy commandments.
22 Remove from me reproach and contempt;
for I have kept thy testimonies.
23 Princes also did sit and speak against me:
but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
24 Thy testimonies also are my delight, and
my counseUors. DALETH.
25 My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken
thou me according to thy word.
26 I have declared my ways, and thou heard
est me: teach me thy statutes.
27 Make me to understand the way of thy
precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.
28 My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen
thou me according unto thy word.
29 Remove from me the way of lying: and
grant me thy law graciously.
30 I have chosen the way of truth : thy judg
ments have I laid before me.
31 I have stuck unto thy testimonies: 0 Lord,
put me not to shame.
32 I wiU run the way of thy commandments,
when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
HE.
33 Teach me, 0 Lord, the way of thy stat
utes; and I shall keep it unto the end.
34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy
law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
174

professions PSALMS. of obedience.
35 Make me to go in the path of thy com
mandments; for therein do I delight.
36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and
not to covetousness.
37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding van
ity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
38 Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who
is devoted to thy fear.
39 Turn away my reproach which I fear: for
thy judgments are good.
40 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts:
quicken me in thy righteousness. VAU.
4l Let thy mercies come also unto me, 0
Lord, even thy salvation, according to thy
word. 42 So shaU I have wherewith to answer him
that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.
43 And take not the word of truth utterly
out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judg
ments. 44 So shall I keep thy law continually for
ever and ever.
45 And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy
precepts. 46 I will speak of thy testimonies also before
kings, and will not be ashamed.
47 And I wiU delight myself in thy command
ments, which I have loved.
48 My hands also wiU I lift up unto thy com
mandments, which I have loved; and I will med
itate in thy statutes. 175

Sundry prayers, PSALMS. praises, and
ZAIN.
49 Remember the word unto thy servant, up
on which thou hast caused me to hope.
50 This is my comfort in my affliction: for
thy word hath quickened me.
51 The proud have had me greatly in deris
ion: yet have I not declined from thy law.
52 I remembered thy judgments of old, 0
Lord; and have comforted myself.
53 Horror hath taken hold upon me because
of the wicked that forsake thy law.
54 Thy statutes have been my songs in the
house of my pilgrimage.
55 I have remembered thy name, 0 Lord, in
the night, and have kept thy law.
56 This I had, because I kept thy precepts.
CHETH.
57 Thou art my portion, 0 Lord: I have said
that I would keep thy words.
58 I entreated thy favour with my whole
heart: be merciful unto me according to thy
word. 59 I thought on my ways, and turned my feet
unto thy testimonies.
60 I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy
commandments. 61 The bands of the wicked have robbed me:
but I have not forgotten thy law.
62 At midnight I wiU rise to give thanks un
to thee because of thy righteous judgments.
63 I am a companion of all them that fear
thee, and of them that keep thy precepts. '
176

professions PSALMS. of obedience.
64 The earth, 0 Lord, is full of thy mercy:
teach me thy statutes. TETH.
65 Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, 0
Lord, according unto thy word.
66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge:
for I have believed thy commandments.
67 Before I was afflicted I went astray: but
now have I kept thy word.
68 Thou art good, and doest good: teach me
thy statutes.
69 The proud have forged a lie against me:
but I wiU keep thy precepts with my whole
heart. *
70 Their heart is as fat as grease: but I de
light in thy law.
71 It is good for me that I have been afflict
ed; that I might learn thy statutes.
72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me
than thousands of gold and silver.
JOD. .
73 Thy hands have made me and fashioned
me: give me understanding, that I may learn
thy commandments.
74 They that fear thee will be glad when they
see me; because I have hoped in thy word.
75 I know, 0 Lord, that thy judgments are
right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflict
ed me.
76 Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be
for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy
servant. m 177

Sundry prayers, PSALMS. praises, and
77 Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that
I may Uve: for thy law is my delight.
78 Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt
perversely with me without a cause: but I will
meditate in thy precepts.
. 79 Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and
those that have known thy testimonies.
80 Let my heart be sound in thy statutes;
that I be not ashamed. CAPH.
81 My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I
hope in thy word.
82 Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When
wilt thou comfort me? *
-83 For I am become like a bottle in the
smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
84 How many are the days of thy servant?
when wUt thou execute, judgment on them that
persecute me?
85 The proud have digged pits for me, which
are not after thy law.
86 All thy commandments are faithful: they
persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
87 They had almost consumed me upon earth;
but I forsook not thy precepts.
88 Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so
shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
LAMED.
89 For ever, 0 Lord, thy word is settled in
heaven. 90 Thy faithfulness is unto all generations:
thou hast estabUshed the earth, and it abideth. ,
178

professions PSALMS. of obedience.
91 They continue this day according to thine
ordinances: for all are thy servants.
92 Unless thy law had been my dehghts,
I should then have perished in mine afflic
tion. 93 I will never forget thy precepts: for with
them thou hast quickened me.
94 I am thine, save me; for I have sought
thy precepts.
95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy
me: but I wiU consider thy testimonies.
96 I have seen an end of all perfection: but
thy commandment is exceeding broad.
MEM.
97 0 how love I thy law ! it is my medita
tion all the day.
98 Thou through thy commandments hast made
me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever
with me.
99 I have more understanding than all my
teachers: for thy testimonies are my medita
tion. 100 I understand more than the ancients, be
cause I keep thy precepts.
101 I have refrained my feet from every evil
way, that I might keep thy word.
102 I have not departed from thy judgments:
for thou hast taught me.
103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste!
yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth.
104 Through thy precepts I get understand^
ing: therefore I hate every false way. 179

Sundry prayers, PSALMS. praises, and
NUN.
105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and
a Ught unto my path.
106 I have sworn, and I wiU perform it, that
I will keep thy righteous judgments.
107 I am afflicted very much: quicken me, 0
Lord, according unto thy word.
108 Accept, I beseech thee, the freewiU offer
ings of my mouth, 0 Lord, and teach me th^
judgments. 109 My soul is continually in my hand: yet
do I not forget thy law.
110 The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet
I erred not from thy precepts.
Ill Thy testimonies have I taken as a herit
age for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my
heart. 112 I have inclined mine heart to perform
thy statutes always, even unto the end.
SAMECH.
113 I hate vain thoughts : but thy law do I
love. 114 Thou art my hiding place and my shield:
I hope in thy word.
.115 Depart from" me, ye evil doers: for I will
keep the commandments of my God.
: 116 Uphold me according unto thy word, that
I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my
hope; 117 Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe:
and I wiU have respect unto thy statutes con
tinually. .. .?¦ . s ~
180

professions PSALMS. {¦ of obedience.
- 118 Thou hast trodden down all them that err*
from thy statutes : for their deceit is falsehood.
«¦ 119 Thou puttest away all the wicked of the
earth like dross : therefore I love thy testimonies.
120 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee ; and
I am afraid of thy judgments. AIN.
121 I have done judgment and justice: leave
me not to mine oppressors.
122 Be surety for thy servant for good: let
not the proud oppress me.
123 Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for
the word of thy righteousness.
124 Deal with thy servant according unto thy
mercy, and teach me thy statutes.
125 I am thy servant; give me understand
ing, that I may know thy testimonies.
126 It is time for thee, Lord, to work: for
they have made void thy law.
127 Therefore I love thy commandments above
gold; yea, above fine gold.
128 Therefore I esteem all thy precepts con
cerning all things to be right; and I hate every
false way. PE.
129 Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore
doth my soul keep them.
130 The entrance of thy words giveth light;
it giveth understanding unto the simple.
131 I opened my mouth, and panted: for I
longed for thy commandments.
132 Look thou upon me, and be merciful un-
181

Sundry prayers, PSALMS. praises, and
to me, as thou usest to do unto those that love
thy name.
133 Order my steps in thy word: and let not
any iniquity have dominion over me.
134 Deliver me from the oppression of man:
so will I keep thy precepts.
135 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant;
and teach me thy statutes.
136 Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, be
cause they keep not thy law.
TZADDI.
137 Righteous art thou, 0 Lord, and upright
are thy judgments.
138 Thy testimonies that thou hast command
ed are righteous and very faithful.
139 My zeal hath consumed me, because mine
enemies have forgotten thy words.
140 Thy word is very pure:, therefore thy
servant loveth it.
141 I am small and despised: yet do not I
forget thy precepts.
142 Thy righteousness is an everlasting right
eousness, and thy law is the truth.
143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on
me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
144 The righteousness of thy testimonies is ev
erlasting: give me understanding, and I shaU live.
KOPH.
145 I cried with my whole heart; hear me, 0
Lord: I will keep thy statutes.
146 I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall
keep thy testimonies.
182

professions PSALMS. of obedience.
147 I prevented the dawning of the morning,
and cried: I hoped in thy word.
148 Mine eyes prevent the night .watches, that
I might meditate in thy word.
149 Hear my voice according unto thy loving
kindness : 0 Lord, quicken me according to thy
judgment. 150 They draw nigh that follow after mischief:
they are far from thy law.
151 Thou art near, 0 Lord; and all thy com
mandments are truth.
152 Concerning thy testimonies, I have known
of old that thou hast founded them for ever.
RESH.
153 Consider mine affliction, and deliver me:
for I do not forget thy law.
154 Pleaa^'my #ause, and deliver me: quicken
me according to' thy word.
155 Salvation is far from the wicked: for they
seek not thy statutes.
156 Great are thy tender : mercies, 0 Lord:
quicken me according to thy judgments.
157 Many are my persecutors and mine ene
mies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.
158 I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved ;
because they kept not thy word.
159 Consider how I love thy precepts : quick
en me, 0 Lord, according to thy lovingkind
ness. •
160 Thy word is true from the beginning: and
every one of thy righteous judgments endureth
for ever. 183

Sundry prayers, PSALMS. praises, Sc.
SCHIN.
161 Princes have persecuted me without a
cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy
word. 162 I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth
great spoU.
163 I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do
I love.
164 Seven times a day do I praise thee, be
cause of thy righteous judgments.
165 Great peace have they which love thy
law: and nothing shaU offend them.
166 Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation, and
done thy commandments.
167 My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and
I love them exceedingly.
168 I have kept thy precepts and thy testi
monies: for all my ways are before thee.
TAU.
169 Let my cry come near before thee, 0
Lord: give me understanding according to thy
word. 170 Let my supplication come before thee:
deliver me according to thy word.
171 My Ups shall utter praise, when thou hast
taught me thy statutes.
172 My tongue shall speak of thy word: for
aU thy commandments are righteousness.
173 Let thine hand help me; for I have
chosen thy precepts.
174 I have longed for thy salvation, 0 Lord;
and thy law is my delight.
184

David prayeth PSALMS. against Doeg.
175 Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee;
and let thy judgments help me.
176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep:
seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy com
mandments. PSALM CXX.
1 David prayeth against Doeg, 3 reproveth his tongue, 5 com
plaineth of his necessary conversation with the wicked.
A Song of degrees.
TX my distress I cried unto the Lord, and he
¦*¦ heard me.
2 Deliver my soul, 0 Lord, from lying lips,
and from a deceitful tongue.
3 What shaU be given unto thee? or what
shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?
4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of
juniper. 5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that
I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
6 My soul hath long dwelt with him that
hateth peace.
7 I am for peace : but when I speak, they are
PSALM CXXI.
The great safety of the godly, who put their trust in God's pro
tection.
A Song of degrees.
I WILL lift up mine eyes unto the hiUs, from
-*- whence cometh my help.
2 My help cometh from the Lord, which made
heaven and earth.
3 He wiU not suffer thy foot to be moved: he
that keepeth thee will not slumber. 185

The great safety PSALMS. of the godly.
4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shaU neither
slumber nor sleep.
5 The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy
shade upon thy right hand.
6 The sun shaU not smite thee by day, nor
the moon by night.
7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil:
he shall preserve thy soul.
8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out and
thy coming in from this time forth, and even
for evermore. PSALM CXXII.
1 David professeth his joy for the church, 6 and prayeth for the
peace thereof.
A Song of degrees of David.
T WAS glad .when they said unto me, Let us
-¦- go into the house of the Lord.
2 Our feet shall stand within thy gates, 0 Je
rusalem. 3 Jerusalem is buUded as a city that is com
pact together:
4 Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the
Lord, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks
unto the name of the Lord.
5 For there are set thrones of judgment, the
thrones of the house of David.
6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall
prosper that love thee.
7 Peace be within thy waUs, and prosperity
within thy palaces.
8 For my brethren and companions' sakes, I
wiU now say, Peace be within thee.
186

The church PSALMS. blesseth God.
9 Because of the house of the Lord our God
I wUl seek thy good.
PSALM CXXIII.
1 The godly profess their confidence in God, 3 and pray to be
delivered from contempt.
A Song of degrees.
TTXTO thee lift I up mine eyes, 0 thou that
^ dwellest in the heavens.
2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto
the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a
maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our
eyes wait Upon the Lord our God, until that
he have mercy upon us.
3 Have mercy upon us, 0 Lord, have mercy
upon us: for we are exceedingly fiUed with
contempt. 4 Our soul is exceedingly fiUed with the scorn
ing of those that are at ease, and with the con
tempt of the proud. PSALM CXXIT
The church blesseth God for a miraculous deliverance.
A Song of degrees of David.
TF it had not been the Lord who was on our
A side, now may Israel say ;
2 If it had not been the Lord who was on
our side, when men rose up against us:
3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when
their wrath was kindled against us:
• 4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the
stream had gone over our soul:
5 Then the proud waters had gone over our
soul. 187

Gods deliverance PSALMS. of Ms church
6 Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us
as a prey to their teeth.
7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the
snare of the fowlers : the snare is broken, and
we are escaped,
8 Our help is in the name of the Lord, who
made heaven and earth.
PSALM CXXT
1 The safety of such as trust in God. 4 A prayer for the
godly, and against the wicked.
A Song of degrees.
¦T^HEY that trust in the Lord shall be as
-*- mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but
abideth for ever.
2 As the mountains are round about Jerusa
lem, so the Lord is round about his people
from henceforth even for ever.
3 For the rod of the wicked shall not rest
upon the lot of the righteous; lest the right
eous put forth their hands unto iniquity.
4 Do good, 0 Lord, unto those that be good,
and to them that are upright in their hearts.
* 5 As for such as turn aside unto their crook
ed ways, the Lord shall lead them forth with
the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be up
on Israel. PSALM CXXYI.
1 The church, celebrating her incredible return out of captivity,
4 prayeth for, and prophesieth the good success thereof.
A Song of degrees.
TTTHEX the Lord turned again the captivity
* * of Zion, we were like them that dream.
188

Good children PSALMS. are God's gift.
2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter,
and our tongue with singing: then said they
among the heathen, The Lord hath done great
things for them.
3 The Lord hath done great things for us;
whereof we are glad.
4 Turn again our captivity, 0 Lord, as the
streams in the south.
5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing
precious seed, shall doubtless come again with
rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
PSALM CXXYII.
1 The virtue of God's blessing. 3 Good children are his gift.
, A Song of degrees for Solomon.
TTXCEPT the LoR]D build- the house, they la-
¦*-^ bour in vain that build it: except the Lord
keep the city, the watchman waketh but in
vain.. 2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit
up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he
giveth his beloved sleep. :
3 Lo, children are a, heritage of the Lord:
and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
4 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man;
so are children of the youth.
¦ 5 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full
of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they
shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
PSALM CXXYIII.
The sundry blessings which follow them that fear God.
: A Song of degrees. 189

An exhortation PSALMS. to praise God.
"O LES SED is every one that feareth the Lord;
"^ that walketh in his ways.
2 For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands :
happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with
thee. 3 Thy wife1- shall be as a fruitful vine by the
sides of thine house: thy children like olive
plants round about thy table.
4 Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed
that feareth the Lord.
5 The Lord shall bless thee out of Zion : and
thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the
days of thy Ufe.
6 Yea, thou shalt see thy chUdren's chUdren,
and peace upon Israel.
PSALM CXXIX.
1 An exhortation to praise God for saving Israel in their great
afflictions. 5 The haters of the church are cursed.
A Song of degrees.
MAXY a time have they afflicted me from
my youth, may Israel now say:
2 Many a time have they afflicted me from
my youth: yet they have not prevaUed against
me. 3 The ploughers ploughed upon my back: they
made long their furrows.
4 The Lord is righteous : he hath cut asunder
the cords of the wicked.
5 Let them all be confounded and turned back
that hate Zion.
6 Let them be as the grass upon the house
tops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
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The psalmist's PSALMS. hope in prayer.
7 Wherewith the mower fiUeth not his hand;
nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
8 Xeither do they which go by say, The bless
ing of the Lord be upon you: we bless you in
the name of the Lord.
PSALM CXXX.
1 The psalmist professeth his hope in prayer, 5 and his patience
in hope. 7 He exhorteth Israel to hope in God.
A Song of degrees.
/^*|UT of the depths have I cried unto thee, 0
^ Lord.
2 Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be at
tentive to the voice of my supphcations.
i 3 If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, 0
Lord, who shaU stand?
4 But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou
mayest be feared.
5 I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and
in his word do I hope.
6 My soul waiteth for the Lord more than
they that watch for the morning: / say, more
than they that watch for the morning.
7 Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the
Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous
redemption. 8 And he shall redeem Israel from aU his in
iquities. PSALM CXXXI.
1 David, professing his humility, 3 exhorteth Israel to hope in
God.
A Song of degrees of David. 191

Davids zealous PSALMS. care for the ark.
T ORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine
±J eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in
great matters, or in things too high for me.
. 2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself,
as a child that is weaned of his mother.: my
soul is even as a weaned child.
3 Let Israel hope in the Lord from hence
forth and for ever. PSALM CXXXII.
1 David in his prayer commendeth unto God the religious care
he had for the ark. 8 His prayer at the removing of the ark,
1 1 with a repetition of God's promises.
A Song of degrees.
| ORD, remember David, and all his afflictions:
-*~^ 2 How he sware unto the Lord, and vowed
unto the mighty God of Jacob ;
3 Surely I wUl not come into the tabernacle
of my house, nor go up into my bed ;
4 I will not give, sleep to mine eyes, or slum
ber to mine eyelids,
5 UntU I find out a place for the Lord, a
habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.
6 Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found
it in the fields -of the wood.
7 We will go into his tabernacles: we will
worship at his footstool.
8 Arise, 0 Lord, into thy rest; thou, and the
ark of thy strength.
9 Let thy priests be clothed with righteous
ness; and let thy saints shout for joy.
10 For thy servant David's sake turn not away
the face of thine anointed.
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God's promises PSALMS. to David.
11 The Lord hath sworn in truth unto David;
he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy
body will I set upon thy throne.
12 If thy children will keep my covenant
and my testimony that I shall teach them, their
children shall also sit upon thy throne for ever
more. 13 For the Lord hath chosen Zion; he hath
desired it for his habitation.
14 This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell;
for I have desired it.
15 I will abundantly bless her provision: I
will satisfy her poor with bread.
16 I will also clothe her priests with salva
tion: and her saints shaU shout aloud for joy.
17 There will I make the horn of David to
bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.
18 His enemies wiU I clothe with shame: but
upon himself shaU his crown flourish.
PSALM CXXXIII.
The benefit of the communion of saints.
A Song of degrees of David.
"D EH OLD, how good and how pleasant it is
¦*~* for brethren to dwell together in unity!
2 It is hke the precious ointment upon the
head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's
beard : * that went down to the skirts of his gar
ments ;
3 As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that
descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there
the Lord .commanded the blessing, even Ufe .for
evermore. n 193

An exhortation PSALMS. to praise God.
PSALM CXXXIT
An exhortation to bless God.
A Song of degrees.
T3EH0LD, bless ye the Lord, all ye servants
J-^ of the Lord, which by night stand in the
house of the Lord.
2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and
bless the Lord.
3 The Lord that made heaven and earth bless
thee out of Zion. PSALM CXXXY.
1 An exhortation to praise God for his mercy, 5 for his power,
8 for his judgments. 15 The vanity of idols. 19 An ex
hortation to bless God.
T) RAISE ye the Lord. Praise ye the name
¦*- of the Lord; praise him, 0 ye servants of
the Lord.
2 Ye that stand in the house of the Lord, in
the courts of the house of our God,
3 Praise the Lord; for the Lord is good: sing
praises unto his name; for it is pleasant.
4 For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto him
self, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.
5 For I know that the Lord is great, and
that our Lord is above all gods.
6 Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he
in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all
deep places.
7 He causeth the vapours to ascend from the
ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for
the rain ; he bringeth the wind out of his treas
uries. 194

The vanity PSALMS. of idols.
8 Who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of
man and beast.
9 Who sent tokens and wonders into the midst
of thee, 0 Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all
his servants.
10 Who smote great nations, and slew mighty
kings ;
11 Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og
king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of
Canaan :
12 And gave their land for a heritage, a herit
age unto Israel his people.
13 Thy name, 0 Lord, endureth for ever; and
thy memorial, 0 Lord, throughout aU genera
tions. 14 For the Lord will judge his people, and
he will repent himself concerning his serv
ants. 15 The idols of the heathen are silver and
gold, the work of men's hands.
16 They have mouths, but they speak not; ,
eyes have they, but they see not;
17 They have ears, but they hear not; neither
is there any breath in their mouths.
18 They that make them are like unto them:
so is every one that trusteth in them.
19 Bless the Lord, 0 house of Israel: bless
the Lord, 0 house of Aaron :
20 Bless the Lord, 0 house of Levi: ye that
fear the Lord, bless the Lord.
21 Blessed be the Lord out of Zion, which
dweUeth at Jerusalem. Praise ye the Lord.
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An exhortation PSALMS. to thanksgiving.
PSALM CXXXYI.
An exhortation to give thanks to God for particular mercies.
GIYE thanks unto the Lord ; for he is
good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
2 0 give thanks unto the God of gods: for
his mercy endureth for ever.
3 0 give thanks to the Lord of lords : for his
mercy endureth for ever.
4 To him who alone doeth great wonders: for
his mercy endureth for ever.
5 To him that by wisdom made the heavens:
for his mercy endureth for ever.
6 To him that stretched out the earth
above the waters: for his mercy endureth for
ever. 7 To him that made great lights: for his mercy
endureth for ever:
8 The sun to rule by day: for his mercy en
dureth for ever:
9 The moon and stars to rule by night: for
his mercy endureth for ever.
10 To him that smote Egypt in their first
born: for his mercy endureth for ever:
11 And brought out Israel from among them:
for his mercy endureth for ever:
12 With a strong hand, and with a stretched
out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever.
13 To him which divided the Red sea into
parts: for his mercy endureth for ever:
14 And made Israel to pass through the midst
of it : for his mercy endureth for ever :
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An exhortation PSALMS. to thanksgiving.
15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the
Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever.
16 To him which led his people through the
wilderness: for his mercy endureth for ever.
17 To him which smote great kings: for his
mercy endureth for ever:
18 And slew famous kings: for his mercy en
dureth for ever:
19 Sihon king of the Amorites : for his mercy
endureth for ever:
20 And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy
endureth for ever:
21 And gave their land for a heritage: for
his mercy endureth for ever:
22 Even a heritage unto Israel his servant:
for his mercy endureth for ever.
23 Who remembered us in our low estate: for
his mercy endureth for ever:
24 And hath redeemed us from our enemies:
for his mercy endureth for ever.
25 Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy
endureth for ever.
26 0 give thanks unto the God of heaven:
for his mercy endureth for ever.
PSALM CXXXYII.
1 The constancy of the Jews in captivity. 7 The prophet curseth
Edom and Babel.
T^Y the rivers of Babylon, there we sat
tM down, yea, we wept, when we remembered
Zion. 2 We hanged our harps upon the wUlows in
the midst thereof. 197

The Jews' PSALMS. constancy.
3 For there they that carried us away captive
required of us a song; and they that wasted us
required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the
songs of Zion.
4 How shall we sing the Lord's song in a
strange land?
5 If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right
hand forget her cunning.
6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue
cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not
Jerusalem above my chief joy.
7 Remember, 0 Lord, the children of Edom
in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase
it, even to the foundation thereof.
8 0 daughter of Babylon, who art to be de
stroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee
as thou hast served us.
9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth
thy little ones against the stones.
PSALM CXXXYIII.
1 David praiseth God for the truth of his word. 4 He prophesi-
eth that the kings of the earth shall praise God. 7 He pro
fesseth his confidence in God.
A Psalm of David.
T WILL praise thee with my whole heart: be-
¦*- fore the gods will I sing praise unto thee.
2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and
praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for
thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word
above all thy name.
3 In the day when I cried thou answeredst me,
and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.
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God's allseeing PSALMS. providence.
4 All the kings of the earth shall praise thee,
0 Lord, when they hear the words of thy mouth.
5 Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the Lord :
for great is the glory of the Lord.
6 Though the Lord be high, yet hath he re
spect unto the lowly: but the proud he know
eth afar off.
7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou
wilt revive me : thou shalt stretch forth thine
hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and
thy right hand shall save me.
8 The Lord wiU perfect that which concern-
eth me: thy mercy, 0 Lord, endureth for ever:
forsake not the works of thine own hands.
PSALM CXXXIX.
1 David praiseth God for his allseeing providence, 17 and for his
infinite mercies. 19 He defieth the wicked. 23 He prayeth
for sincerity.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.

0

2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine
uprising; thou understandest my thought afar off.
3 Thou compassest my path and my lying
down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but,
lo, 0 Lord, thou knowest it altogether.
5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and
laid thine hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it
is high, I cannot attain unto it.
7 Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? or
whither shaU I flee from thy presence? 199

Gods allseeing PSALMS. providence.
8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there :
ifl make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
9 If I take the wings of the morning, and
dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
10 Even there shaU thy hand lead me, and
thy right hand shaU hold me.
11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover
me; even the night shall be light about me.
12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee;
but the night shineth as the day: the darkness
and the light are both alike to thee.
13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou
hast covered me in my mother's womb.
14 I wiU praise thee; for I am fearfuUy and
wonderfuUy made: marvellous are thy works;
and that my soul knoweth right well.
15 My substance was not hid from thee, when
I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in
the lowest parts of the earth.
16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet be
ing unperfect; and in thy book all my members
were written, which in continuance were fash
ioned, when as yet there was none of them.
17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto
me, 0 God ! how great is the sum of them !
18 if I should count them, they are more in
number than the sand: when I awake, I am
still with thee.
19 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, 0 God:
depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
20 For they speak against thee wickedly, and
thine enemies take thy name in vain.
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David prayeth PSALMS, against his enemies.
21 Do not I hate them, 0 Lord, that hate
thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise
up against thee?
22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count
them mine enemies.
23 Search me, 0 God, and know my heart:
try me, and know my thoughts :
24 And see if there be any wicked way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.
PSALM CXL.
1 David prayeth to be delivered from Saul and Doeg. 8 He
prayeth against them. 12 He comforteth himself by confidence
in God.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
T^ EL IYER me, 0 Lord, from the evil man:
•*~^ preserve me from the violent man;
2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; con
tinually are they gathered together for war.
3 They have sharpened their tongues hke a
serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
4 Keep me, 0 Lord, from the hands of the
wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who
have purposed to overthrow my goings.
5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and
cords; they have spread a net by the way side;
they have set gins for me. Selah.
6 I said unto the Lord, Thou art my God:
hear the voice of. my supplications, 0 Lord.
7 0 God the Lord, the strength of my salva
tion, thou hast covered my head in the day of
battle. 8 Grant not, 0 Lord, the desires of the wicked:
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David's prayer PSALMS. for himself.
further not his wicked device; lest they exalt
themselves. Selah.
9 As for the head of those that compass me
about, let the mischief of their own lips cover
them. 10 Let burning coals fall upon them: let them
be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they
rise not up again.
11 Let not an evil speaker be established in
the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to
overthrow him.
12 I know that the Lord will maintain the
cause of the afflicted, and the right of the
poor. 13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto
thy name : the upright shall dwell in thy pres
ence. PSALM CXLI.
1 David prayeth that his suit may be acceptable, 3 his conscience
sincere, 7 and his life safe from snares.
A Psalm of David.
T ORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me;
¦*~^ give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto
thee. 2 Let my prayer be set forth before thee as
incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the
evening sacrifice.
3 Set a watch, 0 Lord, before my mouth; keep
the door of my lips.
4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to
practise wicked works with men that work in
iquity : and let me not eat of their dainties.
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Davids comfort PSALMS. in prayer.
5 Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a
kindness: and let him reprove me;, it shall be
an excellent oil, which shall not break my head:
for yet my prayer also shall be in their calam
ities. 6 When their judges are overthrown in stony
places, they shall hear my words ; for they are
sweet. 7 Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth,
as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the
earth. 8 J3ut mine eyes are unto thee, 0 God the
Lora: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul
destitute. 9 Keep me from the snares which they have
laid for me, and the gins of the workers of in
iquity. 10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets,
whilst that I withal escape.
PSALM CXLII.
David sheweth that in his trouble all his comfort was in prayer
unto God.
Maschil of David ; A Prayer when he was in the cave.
T CRIED unto the Lord with my voice; with
- my voice unto the Lord did I make my
supplication. 2 I poured out my complaint before him; I
shewed before him my trouble.
3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me,
then thou knewest my path. In the way where
in I walked have they privily laid a snare for
me. 203

David complaineth PSALMS. of his griefs.
4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but
there was no man that would know me: refuge
failed me; no man cared for my soul.
5 I cried unto thee, 0 Lord: I said, Thou art
my refuge and my portion in the land of the
living. 6 Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very
low: deUver me from my persecutors; for they
are stronger than I.
7 Bring my soul out of prison, that I may
praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me
about ; for thou shalt deal bountifuUy with me.
PSALM CXLIII.
1 David prayeth for favour in judgment. 3 He complaineth of
his griefs. 5 He strengtheneth his faith by meditation and
prayer. 7 He prayeth for grace, 9 for deliverance, 10 for
sanctification, 12 for destruction of his enemies.
A Psalm of David.
TTEAR my prayer, 0 Lord, give ear to my
J~L supphcations : in thy faithfulness answer me,
and in thy righteousness.
2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant:
for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he
hath smitten my life down to the ground; he
hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those
that have been long dead.
4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within
me; my heart within me is desolate.
5 I remember the days of old; I meditate on
all thy works ; I muse on the work of thy hands.
6 I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul
thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
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David PSALMS. blesseth God.
7 Hear me speedily, 0 Lord; my spirit fail
eth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like
unto them that go down into the pit.
8 Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the
morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to
know the way wherein I should walk; for I Uft
up my soul unto thee.
9 Deliver me, 0 Lord,, from mine enemies : I
flee unto thee to hide me.
10 Teach me to do thy wiU; for thou art my
God: thy Spirit is good; lead me into the land
of uprightness.
11 Quicken me, 0 Lord, for thy name's sake:
for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of
trouble. 12 And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies,
and destroy aU them that afflict my soul: for I
am thy servant. PSALM CXLIT
1 David blesseth God for his mercy both to him and to man.
5 He prayeth that God would powerfully deliver him from his
enemies. 9 He promiseth to praise God. 11 He prayeth for
the happy state of the kingdom.
A Psalm of David.
"DLESSED be the Lord my strength, which
•*-* teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers
to fight:
2 My goodness, and my fortress ; my high tow
er, and my deliverer ; my shield, and he in whom
I trust; who subdueth my people under me.
3 Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowl
edge of him! or the son of man, that thou
makest account of him ! 205

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David prayeth PSALMS. for deliverance.
4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a
shadow that passeth away.
5 Bow thy heavens, 0 Lord, and come down:
touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot
out thine arrows, and destroy them.
7 Send thine hand from above; rid me, and
deliver me out of great waters, from the hand
of strange children;
8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their
right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
9 I will sing a new song unto thee, 0 God:
upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings
will I sing praises unto thee.
10 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings :
who dehvereth David his servant from the hurt
ful sword.
11 Rid me, and dehver me from the hand of
strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity,
and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood :
12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in
their youth ; that our daughters may be as corner
stones, polished after the similitude of a palace :
13 That our garners may be full, affording all
manner of store ; that our sheep may bring forth
thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
14 That our oxen may be strong to labour;
that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that
there be no complaining in our streets.
15 Happy is that people, that is in such a
case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is
the Lord.\ 206

David extolleth PSALMS. God's goodness.
PSALM CXLT
1 David praiseth God for his fame, 8 for his goodness, 1 1 for
his kingdom, 14 for his providence, 17 for his saving mercy.
David's Psalm of praise.
T WILL extol thee, my God, 0 King; and I
-*- will bless thy name for ever and ever.
2 Every day will I bless thee; and I will
praise thy name for ever and ever.
3 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised;
and his greatness is unsearchable.
4 One generation shall praise thy works to
another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.
5 I will speak of the glorious honour of thy
majesty, and of thy wondrous works.
6 And men shall speak of the might of thy
terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness.
7 They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy
great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.
8 The Lord is gracious, and full of compas
sion ; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
9 The Lord is good to all: and his tender
mercies are over aU his works.
10 All thy works shall praise thee, 0 Lord;
and thy saints shall bless thee.
11 They shall speak of the glory of thy king
dom, and talk of thy power;
12 To make known to the sons of men his migh
ty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.
13 Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and
thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.
14 The Lord upholdeth all that fall, and rais
eth up all those that be bowed down. 207

The benefit of PSALMS. trusting in God.
15 The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou
givest them their meat in due season.
16 Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the
desire of every living thing.
17 The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and
holy in all his works.
18 The Lord is nigh unto all them that call
upon him, to aU that call upon him in truth.
19 He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him:
he also will hear their cry, and will save them.
20 The Lord preserveth all them that love
him: but all the wicked wiU he destroy.
21 My mouth shaU speak the praise ofthe Lord:
and let aU flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.
PSALM CXLYI.
1 The psalmist voweth perpetual praises to God. 3 He exhorteth
not to trust in man. 5 God, for his power, justice, mercy, and
kingdom, is only worthy to be trusted.
T) RAISE ye the Lord. Praise the Lord, 0
-*¦ my soul.
2 While I live will I praise the Lord: I wiU sing
praises unto my God while I have any being.
3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the
son of man, in whom there is no help.
4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his
earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
5 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for
his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:
6 Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and
all that therein is : which keepeth truth for ever :
7 Which executeth judgment for the oppress
ed: which giveth food to the hungry. The
Lord looseth the prisoners:
208

An exhortation PSALMS. to praise God.
8 The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind : the
Lord raiseth them that are bowed down: the
Lord loveth the righteous:
9 The Lord preserveth the strangers; he re-
lieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way
of the wicked he turneth upside down.
10 The Lord shall reign for ever, even thy God,
0 Zion, unto aU generations. Praise ye the Lord.
PSALM CXLYII.
1 The prophet exhorteth to praise God for his care ofthe church,
4 his power, 6 and his mercy: 7 to praise him for his prov
idence: 12 to praise him for his blessings upon the kingdom,
15 for his power over the meteors, 19 and for his ordinances
in the church.
T) RAISE ye the Lord: for it is good to sing
-*- praises unto our God; for it is pleasant;
and praise is comely.
2 The Lord doth build up Jerusalem: he gath-
ereth together the outcasts of Israel.
3 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth
up their wounds.
4 He telleth the number of the stars ; he call
eth them all by their names.
5 Great is our Lord, and of great power : his
understanding is infinite.
6 The Lord lifteth up the meek: he casteth
the wicked down to the ground.
7 Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing
praise upon the harp unto our God:
8 Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who
prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass
to grow upon the mountains. o ' 209

An exhortation PSALMS. to praise God.
9 He giveth to the beast his food, and to the
young ravens which cry.
10 He delighteth not in the strength of the
horse : he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.
11 The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear
him, in those that hope in his mercy.
12 Praise the Lord, 0 Jerusalem; praise thy
God, 0 Zion.
13 For he hath strengthened the bars of thy
gates; he hath blessed thy chUdren within thee.
14 He maketh peace in thy borders, and fiU
eth thee with the finest of the wheat.
15 He sendeth forth his commandment upon
earth: his word runneth very swiftly.
16 He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth
the hoar frost like ashes.
17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels : who
can stand before his cold?
18 He sendeth out his word, and melteth them:
he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
19 He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his stat
utes and his judgments unto Israel.
20 He hath not dealt so with any nation : and
as for his judgments,. they have not known them.
Praise ye the Lord.
PSALM CXLYIII.
1 The psalmist exhorteth the celestial, 7 the terrestrial, 11 and
the rational creatures to praise God.
PRAISE ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord
from the heavens: praise him in the heights.
2 Praise ye him, all his angels : praise ye him,
all his hosts. 210'

An exhortation PSALMS. to praise God.
3 Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him,
all ye stars of light.
4 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye
waters that be above the heavens.
5 Let them praise the name of the Lord : for
he commanded, and they were created.
6 He hath also stablished them for ever and
ever : he hath made a decree which shall not pass.
7 Praise the Lord from the earth, ye drag
ons, and all' deeps:
8 Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy
wind fulfilling his word:
9 Mountains, and ¦ all hiUs ; fruitful trees, and
all cedars :
10 Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and
flying fowl:
11 Kings of the earth, and all people; princes,
and all judges of the earth :
12 Both young men, and maidens; old men,
and children:
13 Let them praise the name of the Lord:
for his name alone is excellent; his glory is
above the earth and heaven.
14 He also exalteth the horn of his people, the
praise of all his saints ; even of the children of Is
rael, a people near unto him. Praise ye the Lord.
PSALM CXLIX.
1 The prophet exhorteth to praise God for his love lo the church,
5 and for that power which he hath given to the church.
T) RAISE ye the Lord. Sing unto the Lord
-*- a new song, and his praise in the congre
gation of saints. 211

Exhortations PSALMS. to praise God.
2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him:
let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
3 Let them praise his name in the dance : let them
sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
4 For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people:
he will beautify the meek with salvation.
5 Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them
sing aloud upon their beds.
6 let the high praises of God be in their
mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand;
7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and
punishments upon the people;
8 Tb bind their kings with chains, and their
nobles with fetters of iron ;
9 To execute upon them the judgment writ
ten: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye
the Lord. PSALM CL.
1 An exhortation to praise God, 3 with all kind of instruments.
"D RAISE ye the Lord. Praise God in his
-*- sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of
his power.
2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him
according to his excellent greatness.
3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet:
praise him with the psaltery and harp.
4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance:
praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals : praise
him upon the high sounding cymbals.
6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the
Lord. Praise ye the Lord.
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