The story of God's wrath against PSALMS. 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 will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old, 12 I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings. 13 Thy way, O 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, O 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. 10 The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven 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 band of Moses and Aaron, PSALM LXXVIII. 1 An exhortation both to learn and to preach the law of God. 9 The story of God's wrath against the incredulous and disobedient. 67 The Israelites being rejected, God chose Judar, Zion, and David. Maschil of Asaph. the incredulous and disobedient. 13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through: and he made the waters to stand as an heap. 14 In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. 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 overdowed; 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. and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea. 27 He rained flesh also upon them as dust, 28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp. round about their habitations. 29 So they did eat, and were well filled : for he gave them their own desire; 30 They were not estranged from their GIVE ear, O my people, to my law: incline lust; but while their meat was yet in their your ear 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. mouths, 31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and sinote down the chosen men of Israel. 32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works. 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 wouder-vanity, and their years in trouble. ful works that he hath done. 33 Therefore their days did he consume in 5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded 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 commandments: 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 Nevertheless 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. 33 But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, 8 And might not be as their fathers, a stub-many a time turned he his auger away, and did born and rebellious generation; a generation not stir up all his wrath. that set not their heart aright, and whose spiit 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 be in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. 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 wil 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. 43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt and his readers in the Beld of Zean · 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 destroyed them. 46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, 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; be spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; 51 And smote all the first-born 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 enemies. 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, 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 like a deceitful 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 Shiloh, 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. Asaph's complaint for the church PSALM LXXIX. 1 The psalmist complaineth of the desolation of Jerusalem: 8 he prayeth for deliverance, 13. and promiseth thankfulness. A Psalm of Asaph. 0 GOD, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. 2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they give 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 neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us. 5 How long, LORD? Wilt thou be angry for ever! 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. 7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling-place. 8 O remember not against us former iniquities; let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low. 9 Help us, O 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, O LORD. 13 So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations. PSALM LXXX. 63 The fire consumed their young nion; and their maidens were not given to mar¶ riage. 64 Their priests fell by the sword; 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 part: he put them to a perpetual reproach. The pralmist in his prayer complaineth of To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim- G leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that IVE ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth. 2. Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us. 3 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face. 67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Jo-to shine; and we shall be saved. seph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim: 4 O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou 63 But chose the tribe of Judail, the mount be angry against the prayer of thy people 1Zion, which he loved. 5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; 69 And he built his sanctuary like high and givest them tears to drink in great mea palaces, like the earth which he hath establish-sure. ed for ever. 70 He chose David also his servant, and took bim from the sheepfolds: 71 From following the ewes great with young, he brought him to feed Jacob his pecple, and Israel his inheritan 72 So be fed them according to the integrity of this be us: sud guided them by the skilful 6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves. 7 Turn us again, O 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 Thow preparesist room before it, and didst An exhortation to praise God. PSALMS. Negligent judges reproved. 10 The hills were covered with the shadow finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the of it, and the boughs thereof were like the good-rock should I have satisfied thee. ly cedars. PSALM LXXXII 11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and 1 The psalmist, having exhorted the judges, her branches unto the river. 5 and reproved their negligence, 8 prayeth God to judge. 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, O 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 burnt with fire, it is cut down: perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. G A Psalm of Asaph. mighty; he judgeth among the gods. OD standeth in the congregation of the 2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept 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 under stand; they walk on in darkness: all the foun theydations 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, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations. PSALM LXXXIII. ING aloud unto God our strength: make a ones: joyful noise uate the God of Jacob. 4 They have said, Come, and let us cut 2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the tim-them off from being a nation; that the name brel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. of Israel may be no more in remembrance. 7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the 5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that runder-holpen the children of Lot. Selah. stood not. 9 Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as 6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison: his hands were delivered from the pots. 10 Which perished at En-dor: they became 7 Thou calledst în trouble, and I delivered as dung for the earth. thee; I answered thee in the secret place of 11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like thunder I proved thee at the waters of Meri-Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as bah. Selah. 8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; 9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither 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' fust and they walked in their own counsels. 13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! Zalmunna: 12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession. 13 O my God, make them like a wheel, as the stubble before the wind. 14 As the fire burneth the wood, and as the Bame 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, O 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, whese 14 I should soon have subdued their ene-name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high mies, and turned my hand against their adverfoxer all the earth. saries. 15 The haters of the Bond should have sub-1 mitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever. 16 Le should be fed them alse with the PSALM LXXXIV. The prophet, longing for the communion of the sanctuary, 4 sheweth how blessed they are that dwelt there is: & he prayeth to be res stored into it. A complaint for the church. To the chief Musician upon Gittith, of PSALMS. HOW amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD 2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. 3 Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a uest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O 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 filleth the pools. 7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. 8 Ŏ LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah. 9 Behold, O 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 door-keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. David's confidence in God. ing of the proud, he craveth some token of God's goodness. A Prayer of David. Bow down thine ear, O LOAD, hear me. for I am poor and needy. 2 Preserve my soul: for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee. 3 Be merciful unto me, O LORD: for I cry unto thee daily. 4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant : for unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul. 5 For thou, LORD, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that upon thee. 6 Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications. 7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me. 8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O LORD; neither are there any works like unto thy works. 9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O LORD; and sball glorify thy name. 10 For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone. 11 Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy 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-name. rightly. 12 I will praise thee, O LORD my God, with 12 O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for trusteth in thee. PSALM LXXXV. 1 The psalmist, from the experience of former mercies, prayeth for the continuance thereof: 8 he promiseth to wait thereon, out of confidence in God's goodness. To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy evermore. 13 For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell. 14 O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them. 15 But thou, O LORD, art a God full of comland: thou hast brought back the captivi-passion, and gracious, long-suffering, and pienty of Jacob. teous in mercy and truth. 2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah. 3 Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou bast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger. 4 Turn us, O 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 genera-1 tions? 6 Wilt thou not revive us again; that thy people may rejoice in thee? 7 Shew us thy mercy, O 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 dwell in our land. 16 O 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 LXXXVII. 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. HIS 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, O 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 10 Mercy and truth are met together; right-there. 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 ehall yield ber increase. 13 Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps. PSALM LXXXVI. David strengtheneth his prayer by his consciousness of religion: 11 he desireth the rentiazance of former grace: le complain 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 be writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah. 7 As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee. PSALM LXXXVII A Prayer containing a grievous complaint. A complaint in affliction. PSALMS. A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to LORD God of my salvation, I have cried 2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; 3 For my soul is full of troubles life draweth nigh unto the grave. and my 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 darkness, in the deeps. 7 Day wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afficted me with all thy waves. Selah. 8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I 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. God's favour to David. LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee? the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. 11 The heavens are thine, the earth also is 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 fore thy face. of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go be ful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the 15 Blessed is the people that know the joylight of thy countenance. 16 In thy name shall they rejoice all the exalted. day and in thy righteousness shall they be 17 For thou art the glory of their strength and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted. 18 For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our King. 10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? Shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah. 11 Shall thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave! or thy faithfulness in destruc-one, and saidet, I have laid help upon one that is tion? mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the 19 Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy 12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? people. and thy righteousness in the land of forgetful- | ness? 13 But unto thee have I cried, O 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 I 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 terrors have cut me off 17 They came round about me daily like water; 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 wonderful power, 15 for the care of his church, 19 and favour to David's kingdom: 38 complaining of contrary events, 46 he prayeth and blesseth God. I Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite. WILL sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever with my mouth will 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, O LORD thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints. 6 For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? Who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Loan? 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. 80 LORD God of hosts, who is a strong 401 20 I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him: mine arm also shall strengthen him. nor the son of wickedness afflict him. 23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him. 24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall exalted. be with him: and in my name shall his horn be 25 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. ther, my God, and the Rock of my salvation. 26 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Fa27 Also I will make him my first-born, high er than the kings of the earth. more, and my covenant shall stand fast with 28 My mercy will I keep for him for everhim. 29 His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. not in my judgments; 30 If his children forsake my law, and walk 31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. not atterly take from him, nor suffer my faith- 34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. I will not lie unto David. thron as the sun before me. 37 It shall be established for ever as the 38 But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed. 39 Thou hast made void the coregant of |