3 My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.

4 For thou art not a God that hath Rev. 21.8. pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.

f Pa. 55. 23.
3 Heb.
the man
of bloods

and deceit. 81 Kings 8.

29,30,35,38. Ps. 28. 2. & 132. 7. & 138. 2.

4 Heb. the temple of thy holiness.

h Ps. 25. 5. 6 Heb. those which ob

serve me. Ps. 27.11.

1 Ps. 25. 4. & 27.11.

• Or, stedfastness.

7 Heb. in his mouth, that

is, in the mouth of any of them. 8 Heb.wickednesses.

k Luke 11. 44.

Rom. 3. 13. 1 Ps. 62.4. Or, Make

them guilty

m 2 Sam. 15.

31. & 17.14,

23.

2 Or,

from their counsels.

n Is. 65. 13.

5 a The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: f 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

7 Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.

88 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 suddenly.

PSALM VII.

1 David prayeth against the malice of his enemies, professing his innocency. 10 By faith he seeth his defence, and the destruction of his enemics.

*

&

Is. 38. 18.

3 Or, every

night.

Job 17.7. 38. 10. & 88.

Ps. 31.9. &

9.

Lam. 5. 17.

P8.119.115. Matt. 7.23.

& 25. 41.

Luke 13.27. b Ps. 3. 4.

* Hab. 3. 1.

cir. 1062. 4 Or,

*Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto the LORD, concerning the *2 Sam. 16. 4 words of Cush the Benjamite. LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from Ps. 31. 15. all them that persecute me, and deliver me:

4

toward thy holy temple.

8b Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; 'make thy way straight before my face.

8

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, O God; mlet them fall 2 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 defend

8 Heb. thou est them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.

business.

30 LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands; 4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, fI1 Sam. 24. have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy :)

5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

6 Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.

7 So shall the congregation of the

• See Matt. 11. 25. & 21. 16.

1 Cor. 1. 27. 6 Heb. founded. d Ps. 44. 16.

e Ps. 111. 2.

f Job 7.17. Ps. 144. 3. Heb. 2.6.

8 Gen. 1. 26, 28.

b 1 Cor. 15.
27.
Heb. 2.8.

6 Heb. Flocks and

13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; "he ordaineth his arrows against the per

secutors.

14° Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

15 He made a pit, and digged it, P and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

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 VIII.

God's glory is magnified by his works, and by

his love to man.

To the chief Musician * upon Gittith, A Psalm of David.

LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

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b

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 little 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; h thou hast put all things under his feet:

oxen all of beasts of the field;

7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the

them.

David praiseth God.

8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

9 O LORD our Lord, how excel-1 ver. 1. lent is thy name in all the earth! PSALM IX.

1 David praiseth God for executing of judgment. 11 He inciteth others to praise him. 13 He prayeth that he may have cause to praise him.

To the chief Musician upon Muthlabben, A Psalm of David.

WILL praise thee, O LORD, with

my

whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.

1018.

2 I will be glad and a rejoice in Ps. 5. 11. thee: I will sing praise to thy name, Ob thou most High.

b Ps. 56. 2.

3 When mine enemies are turned & 83.18. back, they shall fall and perish at thy

13 Have mercy upon me, O 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. 7 Higgaion. Selah.

David complaineth of

• Job 8. 13. Ps. 50. 22.

p ver. 12.

Ps. 12. 5.

q Prov. 23. 18. & 24. 14.

2 Heb. In the pride of the wicked he doth persecute. a Ps. 7. 16. & 9. 15, 16. Prov. 5. 22.

b Ps. 94. 4. 3 Heb. soul's.

Prov. 28.4.

Rom. 1. 32.

4 Or, the co

2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

3 For the wicked boasteth of his vetous bless-heart's desire, and 4 blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.

eth himself,

he abhor

reth the
LORD.

d Ps. 14. 2. 5 Or, all his thoughts are, There is no God.

e Ps. 14. 1. & 53. 1.

f Prov. 24.7. Is. 26. 11.

g Ps. 12. 5.

h Ps. 30. 6. Eccles.8.11. Is. 56.12.

1 Rev. 18. 7. 6 Heb. unto generation and generation.

k Rom. 3.14. 7 Heb. deceits.

4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

е

5 His ways are always grievous; fthy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, she puffeth at them.

6 h 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 mand vanity.

8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: "in the secret places 1 Job 20. 12. doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. 9 P He lieth in wait 2secretly as a n Hab.3. 14. lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

m Ps. 12. 2. 8 Or, iniquity.

o Ps.17.11.

9 Heb. hide themselves.

p Ps. 17. 12. Mic. 7.2.

2 Heb. in the secret places.

3 Heb. He breaketh himself.

4 Or, into his strong parts.

103 He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

11 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.

5

12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up 2 Job 22. 13. thine hand: forget not the humble. 13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.

Ps. 73.11. & 94.7. Ezek. 8. 12. & 9.9.

r Mic. 5. 9. 5 Or,

aflicted.

6 Heb. leaveth.

•2 Tim.1.12.

14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor

t

com

1 Pet. 4. 19. mitteth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

t Ps. 68. 5. Hos. 14. 3.

a Ps. 37. 17.

15 Break thou the arm of the

the outrage of the wicked.

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 25 prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:

Ps. 29. 10. 146.10.

& 145, 13, &

Jer. 10. 10. Lam. 5. 19.

Dan. 4. 34.

& 6. 26. 1 Tim. 1.17. 2 Or, establish.

y 1 Chr. 29. 18.

z P8. 82. 3.

18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the Is. 11.4. earth may no more 3 oppress.

PSALM XI.

1 David encourageth himself in God against his enemies. 4 The providence and justice of God.

30r,terrify.

cir. 1060.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of Ps. 56.11.

David.

N the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

d

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 eyelids try, the children of men.

5 The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth

violence his soul hateth.

6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

7 For the righteous LORD mloveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.

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 7* upon She-7Or, upon minith, A Psalm of David. ELP, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men. 2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

b

3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh 2 proud things:

d2

4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

4f

Or, Save. Is. 57.1.

Ps. 10.7.

Mic. 7.2.

c P3. 28.3. & 62.4.

Jer. 9.8. m

Rom. 16. 18.

heart and an heart.

1Chr. 12.33.

now

8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

PSALM XIII.

1 David complaineth of delay in help. 3 He prayeth for preventing grace. 5 He boasteth of divine mercy.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of

David.

How long wilt thou forget me, O

LORD? for ever? a how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

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, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, clest 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 XIV.

David fleeth to God.

PSALM XV.

David describeth a citizen of Zion. A Psalm of David.

a

LORD, who shall abide in thy P8.24.3,&c. bthy holy hill?

tabernacle? who shall dwell in

2 Heb. 80journ.

b Ps. 2. 6. & 3.4.

• Is. 83. 15.

2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speak-Zech.8.16. eth 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.

48 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 XVI.

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.

4*Michtam of David.

PRESE

RESERVE me, O God: a for in thee do I put my trust.

man. 4 He convinceth the wicked by the light of their conscience. 7 He glorieth in the salvation of God.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. THE HE a fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. b 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 together become 'filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? 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.

6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his

Ps. 9.9.& refuge.

142. 5.

7 Heb. Who

will give,&c. See Rom. 11. 28. h Ps. 53. 6.

1 Job 42. 10. Ps. 126. 1.

7 75Oh 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.

Ephes. 4.25.

Lev. 19.16.

PB. 34. 13.

Ex. 23. 1.

3 Or, receiveth, or,

endureth. Esth. 3.2.

35.

Judg. 11.

& 35. 7,8. Ps. 50.9.

Rom.11.35.

6 Or, give gifts to

another. Josh. 23. 7.

© Ex. 23. 13.

Hos. 2. 16, 17.

d Deut.32.9.

Rs.73.26.

& 119.57. & 142. 5. Lam. 3. 24.

10.16.

Heb. of

my part.

Ps. 11.6.

f Ps. 17.3.

&c.

Acts 2. 25,
Ps. 73. 23.

& 110.5.
& 121. 5.

Ps. 15.5.

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.

30. 12.

7 Heb..
dwell

confidently.
1P8. 49. 15.

Acts 2. 27, 31. & 13. 35. m Lev. 19.

my 28. Num. 6. 6.

10 For thou wilt not leave m 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; Pat thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

n Matt. 7. 14.

Ps. 17. 15. & 21.6.

Matt. 5. 8.

1 Cor.13.12. 1 John 3.2.

P Ps. 36. 8.

1 Ps. 10. 8,

9.10.

8 Heb. The likeness of him (that is, of every one of them) is as a lion that desireth to ravin.

9 Heb. sitting. 2 Heb. prevent his face. m Is. 10. 5.

sword.

4 Or, From men by thine hand.

7 Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.

f

Keep me as the apple of the & hide me under the shadow of eye, thy wings,

9 From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.

i

10 They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they I speak proudly.

k

11 They have now compassed us in our steps: 1they 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, ŎLORD, 2 disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, m3 which is thy sword:

14 From men which are thy hand, 3 Or, by thy O 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.

Ps. 73. 12. Luke 16.25.

Jam. 5. 5. 6 Or, their children are full.

01 John 3.2. p Ps. 4. 6,7.

& 16. 11. & 65.4.

*Ps. 36, title.

5

15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: PI shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy

likeness.

He praiseth God for

who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that *2 Sam. 22. the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said,

I WILL love thee, O LORD, my Ps. 144. 1.

2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and deliverer; my God,

my

rock.

2my strength, in whom I will trust; 2 Heb. my vation, and my high tower. my buckler, and the horn of my sal-Heb. 2. 13.

is

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worthy to be praised: so shall I be 3 I will call upon the LORD, who saved from mine enemies.

Ps. 76. 4.

d Pa. 116. 3. 3 Heb. Belial.

heavens, and the Highest gave 'his P8. 29. 3. voice; hail stones and coals of fire.

14 m Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.

15 Then the channels of waters world were discovered at thy rebuke, were seen, and the foundations of the O 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

m Josh. 10. 10.

Ps. 144. 6.

Is. 30. 30.

Ex. 15. 8.

Ps. 106. 9.

Ps. 144.7.
Or great

waters.