and confidence in God. 2 For they shall soon be cut down | dered by the LORD: and he delighteth in Ps. 90.5, 6. b like the grass, and wither as the green herb. + Heb. in truth, or, stableness. < Isai. 58. 14 ↑ Heb. Roll thy way upon the LORD. d Ps. 55-22. Prov. 16. 3 Matt. 6. 25Luke 12.22. 1 Pet. 57. 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. 5+4Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. e 6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as Job 11. 17. the noonday. Micah 7-9 f Ps. 62. 1. ↑ Heb. Be 7+ Rest in the LORD, and wait palent to the tiently for him: "fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked LORD. Isai. 30. 15Lam. 3. 26. h ver. 1, 8. Jer. 12. 1. iP's. 73-3 devices to pass. 8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: Eh fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. 9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall 1 ver. 11, 22, inherit the earth. k Job 27. 13, 14 29. Isai. 57 13. m Hebr. 10. 36,37. 10 For m yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, "thou shalt Job 7. 10. diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. $ 20.9 his way. 20. & 49. 2. & 24 Though he fall, he shall not be fPs. 31. 19, utterly cast down: for the LORD uphold- 91. 12. Prov. eth 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 forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: 1but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off. m 29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever. 50 "The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, 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 Pwatcheth 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 green bay tree. tree that groweth in his own soil. x Job 20.5, 36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could &c. not be found. 37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace. Isai. 32. 17. & 57.2. 52. 5. a Ps. 3. 8. 39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength bin bPs. 9.9. 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 XXXVIII. David moveth God to take compassion of his pitiful case. Isai. 31.5. di Chron. 5. 20. Dan. 3. 17, 28. & 6. 23. A Psalm of David, to bring to remem- *P.70,title. brance. either chasten me in thy hot dis- pleasure. 2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. c 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 b Job 6. 4. c Ps. 32. 4 d Ps. 6. 2. + Heb. peace, or, health. P. 40. 12. e Ezra 9. 6. David imploreth God's mercy. f Matt. 11. 28. + Heb. ' wried. PSALMS. mine head: as an 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 P. 35 14 greatly; I go mourning all the day h Job 30. 28. long. Ps. 42. 9. & 43. 2. i Job 7.5. k ver. 3. 1 Job 3. 24. Ps. 22. 1. 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 Isai 39. 11. 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 failm Ps. 6. 7. & eth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. 88.9. + Heb. is not with me. n Ps. 31. 11. o Luke 10. 31, 32. + Heb. p Luke 23. 12 Sam. 17. 49 1, 2, 3. T 2 Sam. 16. 7,8. 11" My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my +sore; and my kinsmen P 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. The benefit of confidence in God. I was musing the fire burned: then spake 4 LORD, 'make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. Jer. 20. 9. P. 9. 12. & 119.84. Or, what time I have here. h ver. 11. + Heb. set 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as & P. 90.4. nothing before thee: "verily every man fat bre his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. 144-4 6 Surely every man walketh in a te vain shew: surely they are disquieted in ↑ Heb. an. vain: *he heapeth up riches, and know i eth not who shall gather them. 7 And now, LORD, what wait I for? Eccles. 2. 15, 1 my hope is in thee. 11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest this which is to be beauty to consume away like a moth: openeth'surely every man is vanity. Selah. 13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; "and I was as a dumb man that Ps. 35- 20. not his mouth. t See 2 Sam. 16.10. u Ps. 39. 2,9. Or, thee do I wait for. x 2 Sam. 16. 12. Ps. 39.7 Or, answer. y Ps. 13. 4. z Deut. 32. 35. a Ps. 35. 26. + Heb. for Prov. 28. 13. will be sorry for my sin. c 2 Cor. 7.9, 10. 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, O LORD: God, be not far from me. O my 22 Make haste to help me, O LORD my salvation. PSALM XXXIX. 1 David's care of his 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. 16.41. & 25. To the chief Musician, even to * Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while muzzle for the wicked is before me. 1. Ps. 62, & 77, title. a 1 Kings 2. 4. 2 Kings 10. 31. + Heb. a bridle, or, my mouth. b Ps. 141.3. Jam. 3. 2. 2 I was dumb with silence, I held my Col. 4. 5. peace, even from good; and my sorrow d Ps. 38. 13 was stirred. + Heb. troubled. 3 My heart was hot within me, while 12 Hear my prayer, O 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 "O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. PSALM XL. I The benefit of confidence in God. 6 Obe- 21. & 14.5 dience is the best sacrifice. 11 The sense of David's evils inflameth his prayer. To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. x Jeb 14 19 11, 12. + Heb. In waiting waited. I and he inclined unto me, and heard APK. 17. 14 +WAITED patiently for the LORD; my cry. & 37-7+ Heb. & pif 24 2 He brought me up also out of tan of horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and b set my feet upon a rock, and establish- e P. 27.5 my goings. ed 3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even 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, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, 1and 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. m d Ps. 3. 4 ePs. 33. 3 fP P 34 & ler. 17.7. j Ps. 195'5 Ed. 11. 15 Jez a is s & 9. la Pr 5 & 139 6 6 Sacrifice and offering thou not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering thou not required. y Ps. 73 25 + Heb. for saketh. z Ps. 70. 1, a Ps. 35-4, 26. 870.2, 3. & 71. 13. Ps. 70. 3< På. 73. 19. d Ps. 70. 4. y 13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me. 14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven back. ward 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 € Ps. 35- 27. salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified. f Ps. 20. 5. 17 But I am poor and needy; yet the 1Pet. 5-7 LORD thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God. PSALM XLI. 1 God's care of the poor. 4 David complain- David's zeal to serve him. + Heb. evil to me. against me: against me do they devise 12. Job 19. 12, 13, 20. 9Yea, mine own familiar friend, in 2 Sam. 15. whom I trusted, which did eat of my 19. P. 55. bread, hath + lifted up his heel against me. Jer. 20. 10. 10 But thou, O LORD, be merciful + Heb. the unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them. man of my peace. f Obad. 7. John 13. 18. nified. 11 By this I know that thou favourest Heb. magme, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me. 12 And as for me, in mine integrity, and thy face for ever. thou upholdest me 13 h Blessed be the LORD God of Israel h Ps. 106. 48 from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen. 56 Why art thou cast down, O my $.45 soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? +Heb. bowed hope thou in God: for I shall yet ||praise h Lam. 3.24. him for the help of his countenance. ! Or, give 6 O my God, my soul is cast down with- Or, his preLESSED is he that considereth in me: therefore will I remember theesence is sal To the chief Musician, A Psalm of in Ps. 133. and 1 Lev. 25. 21. Deut.388. m Job 35.10. Ps. 32.7. & 63.6.& 149. 5. 9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me?" why go I mourn-3.38.6, ing because of the oppression of the enemy? 3. 10 As with a || sword in my bones, mine 10r, killing. enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God? 11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet Joel 2. 17. Mic. 7. 10. p ver. 5. & 43.5 The church's complaint. 1023. ■ Ps. 26. 1. & 35.24. b Ps. 35. 1. | Or, inmerciful. ↑ Heb. from a man of de PSALMS. praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. PSALM XLIII. 1 David, praying to be restored to the temple, me, O God, and plead my She professeth her integrily, 11 Thou hast given us +like sheep 12 Thou sellest thy people for m Rom. 8.36. + Heb. as sheep of meat. n Deut. 4.27. 86 Pe. 60 1. o Isai. 52-3. 4. Jer. 15 13 + Heb. with JUDGE mainst an ungodly nation: neighbours, a scores us a reproach to our eat riche. O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. 2 For thou art the God of my strength; ceit and ini- why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? quity. c Ps. 28.7. d P's. 42.9. e Pr. 40. 11. & 57-3 3°O 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, O God my God. 5 Why art thou cast down, O 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 XLIV. 1 The church, in memory of former favours, To the chief Musician for the sons of 18 Our heart is not turned back, "nei- Jeb ther have our || steps declined from thy way; 19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us x "with the shadow 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 E have heard with our ears, O the day long; we are counted as sheep WE by our fathers have told us, for the slaughter. a what work thou didst in their days, in the 2 How thou didst drive out the hea1. P. 78. 55. then with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out. & 80.8. Or, g z Job 11. 13 Pr. 68. 31. Job 31 14 Ps. 135 1. Rom. 8. á © Ps. 7.6. & 35.23&5 45 & 7865 d ver.s e 13. LS 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, Jobs 2 and forgettest our affliction and our oppression? 25 For four soul is bowed down to 19 S the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth. 26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake. PSALM XLV. 1 The majesty and grace of Christ's kingdom. + Heb.a hilp To the chief Musician *upon Shoshan-o. & nim, for the sons of Korah, || Maschil, | Or.~*~ A Song of loves. Y heart is inditing a good matter: eth, ot, bas 6 For I will not trust in my bow, nei-MI speak of the things which I have birth up ther shall my sword save me. 7 But thou hast saved us from our eneLPs. 40. 14. mies, and hast put them to shame that hated us. i Ps. 34. 2. Jer. 9. 24. k Ps. 60. 1,10. 8 In God we boast all the day long, Rom. 2. 17. and praise thy name for ever. Selah. 9 But thou hast cast off, and put us 1938. to shame; and goest not forth with our armies. & 74. 1. & 88. & 108. 11. Deut. 28. 25. 1 Lev. 96. 17. 10 Thou makest us to turn back from Josh. 7.8,12. the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves. The church's duty, and benefits thereof. e Ps. 93. 2. Hebr. 1. 8. f Ps. 33.510r, O God. g Isai. 61. 1. h 1 Kings 1. 39,40. i Ps. 21. 6. k Cant. 1. 3. I Cant, 6. 8. in See 1 Kings 2. 9. PSALMS. 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 fall under thee. 6 Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. 7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore | God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. m 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 honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir. 10 Hearken, O daughter, and consiSet Deut. der, and incline thine ear; "forget also thine own people, and thy father's house; 11 So shall the king greatly desire thy P. 95. 6. beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him. 21.13 Isai. 54-5 The beauty of the church. were moved: he uttered his voice, the Josh. 2.9 earth melted. 24. 2 For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all 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. a Isai. 55. 12. 5 God is gone up with a shout, the Ps. 68. 24, LORD with the sound of a trumpet. 6 Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises. 9. 7 For God is the King of all the g Zech. 14earth: "sing ye praises || with under- h 1 Cor. 14. standing. : 8 God reigneth over the heathen God sitteth upon the throne of his holi ness. k 9 ||The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: 'for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted. PSALM XLVIII. 15, 16. Or, every hath under one that standing. i 1 Chron. 16. 31. Ps. 93. 1. & 96. &991. Rev. 19.6. 10. & 97. 1. 1 Or, The voluntary of the people are gathered unto the people of the God of Abra The ornaments and privileges of the church. A Song and Psalm ||for the sons of Korah. REAT is the LORD, and greatly to k Rom. 4. ham. 11, 12. G be praised in the city of our God, 1 Ps. 89. 18. in the mountain of his holiness. C 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 refuge. | Or, of. & P.464 3. Mic. 4. L 87.3. b Isai. 2. 2, Zech. 8. 3. a 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. c Ps. 50. 2. Jer. 3. 19. Lam. 2 15. Dan. 8. 9. & 11. 16. dEzek. 20.6. e Isai. 14. 13. f Matt. 5-35 2Sam. 10. 8, 14, 16, 18, |