1 An exhortation to a solemn praising of God. A complaint for the church. dience. Ps. have ||†submitted themselves unto him: 10r, yielded 16 He should have fed them also PSALM LXXXII. 1 The psalmist, having exhorted the judges, A Psalm || of Asaph. feigned obe 18. 44. & 66, 3. Heb. lied. 13, 14. Ps. 14714 r Deut. 32. + Heb. with the fat of wheat. # Job 29. 6. G of the mighty; he judgeth among a b the gods. 2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. 3+Defend the poor and fatherless: Pa. S, title. To the chief Musician *upon Gittith, Ado justice to the afflicted and needy. Psalm of Asaph. NING aloud unto God our strength: S 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 Or,against. testimony, when he went out through b Ps 114 the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not. Isai. 9.4. & 10.271 6 I removed his shoulder from the Heb. par burden: his hands +were delivered from d the pots. ed acty. d Exod. 1. 14. • Exod. 2.23 Or, for Asaph. a 2 Chron. 19.6. Eccles. b Exod. 21. 6. & 22. 28. Deut. 1. 17. 2 Chron. 19. 7. Prov. 18. 5 Heb. Judge. d Jer. 22.3. e Job 29.12. Prov. 24. 11. fall i Job 21. 32. 'for k Mic. 7. 2, 1 A complaint to God of the enemies' conspi- Ps. 49. 12. 7. 1 Ps. 2. 8. Rev. 11. 15. 1 Or, for Asaph. A Song or Psalm || of Asaph. K hold à 7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I de& 14 10. P. livered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of || Meribah. Selah. 50. 15. f Exod. 19. 19. Exod. 17. 6. 7. Numb. 22. 13. 8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt Or, strife hearken unto me; b Ps. 50. 7. 5 Exod. 20.3 9 'There shall no strange god be in Deut. 32. thee; neither shalt thou worship any Isa. 43 strange god. 12. 12 in Pe. 37-3.4 m John 15- 7. 1 Exod. 20. 2 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. Eph. 3. 20. 11 But my people would not hearken 1 Exod. 32. to my voice; and Israel would "none of me. 7. Deut. 32 15. 18. © Acts 7.42. & 14. 16. 109. 1. Acts 4.25c Ps. 81. 15. 2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tu- b Ps. 2. 1. mult: 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 Israel may be no more in remembrance. &. 20. d Ps. 27. 5 See Esther 119 & 31. 3.6, 9. Jer. 36. 5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confeder- +Heb.heart. ate against thee: S 2 Chron. 20. 1, 10. 11. 6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes; 7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre; 8 Assur also is joined with them: have been an 13 Oh that my people had hearken-they have holpen the children of Lot. arm to the Selah. 12 So I gave them up || unto their Rom. 124 own hearts' lust: and they walked in Or, to the their own counsels. 18 That men may know that thou, Exod. 6. 3. whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth. t Ps. 92. 8. He prayeth for God's mercies. PSALM LXXXV. 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. Or, of. To the chief Musician, A Psalm || for Ps. 42,titie the sons of Korah. ORD, thou hast been favourable ! Or, well pleased, P's. Luno thy land: thou hast brought pleas back the captivity of Jacob. b 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 hast 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 generations? a Ezra 1. 11. & 2.1. Pr 147. Je Ezra, 30. 18, & 31 25. Joel 3.1. b Ps. 32. 1. Or, the hast turned chine anger from waring het, Deut 13-17- P41 & 75& 6 Wilt thou not revive us again: that e Hab. 32. 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 i that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land. 10 Mercy and truth are met together; 1righteousness and peace have kissed each other. m 11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven. 12 "Yea, the LORD shall give that which 38411 is good; and our land shall yield her P increase. 13 PRighteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps. PSALM LXXXVI. 1 David strengtheneth his prayer by the conscience of his religion, 5 by the goodness and power of God. 11 He desireth the continuance of former grace. 14 Complarn ing of the proud he craveth some token of God's goodness. p Pr. $14 A Prayer of David. OW down thine ear, O LORD, hearing me: for I am poor and needy. 2 Preserve my soul; for I am | holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that re trusteth in thee. 5 Be merciful unto me, O LORD: I cry unto thee || daily. a Isai. D for b &54 Or, the day CP. 51 & 143. S d ver. 15. P 1307846 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 9-J all them that call upon thee. 6 Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplica tions. 23 & 143. & name for evermore. 13 For great is thy mercy toward me: Ps. 56. 13 and thou hast delivered my soul from Or, grave, the lowest || hell. & 116.8. n Ps. 54-3 + Heb. ter rible. o Exod. 34. 6. Numb. 14. 17. ver. 5. 111.4. & 130. 4.7. & 1458. Joel 2. 13. 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 18. Neh. 9 of compassion, and gracious, longsufferPs. 103.8.& ing, and plenteous in mercy and truth. 16 O turn unto me, and have mercy p Ps. 25 16. 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. & 59. 16. q Ps. 116. 16. A mournful prayer. 2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; e Ps. 107. 18. 3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. 4 I am counted with them that go d Ps. 28. 1. down into the pit: I am as a man that Ps. 31. 12. 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 flani. 53.8. || from thy hand. 6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. Or, by thy hand, 7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves, & Ps. 42. 7. Selah. 8 h 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. 19. P. 31. 11. & 142. 4 h Job 19. 13, i Lam. 3.7 1 Ps. 86. 3. m Job 11.13. 9 Mine eye mourneth by reason of k Ps. 38. 10. affliction: LORD, 'I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands Ps. 143. 6. unto thee. 10 "Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah. 11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction? in 12 Shall thy wonders be known the dark? Pand thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? n Ps. 6. 5. & 30. 9. & 115.17. & 118. 17. Isai. 38. 18. o Job 10. 21. Ps. 143. 3. p Ps. 31. 12. ver. 5. Eccles. 8. 10. & 9.5. Ps. 5. 3. 13 But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer pre- &19147. vent thee. r Ps. 43. 2. s Job 13. 24. 14 LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why "hidest thou thy face from me? Ps. 13. 1. 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. t Job 6. 4. day. 17 They came round about me || daily for, all the like water; they "compassed me about u Ps. 22. 16. together. x Job 19. 13. 18 Lover and friend hast thou put far P.31. 1. & from me, and mine acquaintance into 38. 11. darkness. 4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, Ezek. 34. 23. and build up thy throne 'to all genera Hos. 3-5 ever. 29, 36. tions. f See ver. 1. 33 g Ps. 19. 1. 97. 6. Rev. 7. 10, 11, 12. 5 P. 40. 5. & 71. 19. & 5. 1Exod. 15. 11. 1 Sam. 2.2. Ps. 35 10. & 71. 19. m Ps. 05. 7. & 93.3, 4. & 107.29. n Exod. 14. 26, 27, 28. Ps. 87.4. Isai. 30. 7. & 51.9. Or, Egypt. + Heb. with the arm of thy strength. 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 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 O 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 ⚫ Gen. 1. 1. also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them. 1 Chron. 29. 11. Ps. 24. 1, 2. & 50. 12. P Job 26. 7. q Josh. 19. 22. r Josh. 12. + Heb. an arm with night. s Ps. 97. 2. Or, establishment. t Ps. 85. 13. n Numb. 10. 10. & 23. 21. Ps. 98. 6. x Ps. 4. 6. & 44-3 y var. 24. 12 The north and the south thou hast 13 Thou hast ta mighty arm: strong 16 In thy name shall they rejoice all 17 For thou art the glory of their P. 75. 10. & strength: 'and in thy favour our horn 92. 10. & 132. shall be exalted. 25 I will set his hand also in the and his right hand in the rivers. father, my God, and the rock of 26 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my 14.1 Chron. vation. my h 2 Sam. 7. sal. 21. 10. firstborn, i 2 Sam. 22. 47. k Po. 2.7. Col. 1. 15 18. 1higher than the kings of the earth. g 7. Isa. 55. 3. n ver. 34 o ver. 4.K ver. 29 His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days 4 of heaven. Jer. 13. 17. q Deut. 11. law, 21. and walk not in my judgments; 33 "Nevertheless my lovingkindness 34 My covenant will I not break, nor 47 'Remember how short my time is: && wherefore hast thou made all men in vain? iba shall not see death? shall he deliver his b 48 What man is he that liveth, and Pes soul from the hand of the grave? Selah. kindnesses, which thou swarest unto 15 49 LORD, where are thy former loving- m = S David "in thy truth? 3. 17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou The happy state of the godly. the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. The state of the godly. PSALM XCI. 3 Their safety. 9 Their habitation. 11 Their servants. 14 Their friend; with the effects of them all. a & HE that dwelleth in the secret place 31.05.2 of the most high shall abide bun- 7, der the shadow of the Almighty. + Heb. lodge. 2 I will say of the LORD, He is my b Ps. 17. 8. refuge and my fortress: my God; in him c Ps. 142. 5will I trust. 3 Surely he shall deliver thee from d Ps. 127. the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. 57. 1. & 61.4. 4 He shall cover thee with his fea- Ps. 17.8.& thers, 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 darkness: nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. 7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. Jobs 19, 7 & 121.6. &c. Ps. 112. Prov. 3. 23. 24. Isai. 43 2. 8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou be- M hold and see the reward of the wicked. 9 Because thou hast made the LORD which is my refuge, even the most high, thy habitation; Ps. 37. 34. hver. 2. i Ps. 71. 3. & 90. 1. 21. 10 There shall no evil befall thee, Prov. 12. neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. 11 1For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. 12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. m 1 Ps. 34-7& 71.3. Matt. 4. 6. Luke 4. 10, 11. Hebr.1. m 14. Ps. 37. 24 13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon | Or, asp shalt thou trample 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. Ps. 9. 10. 15 He shall call upon me, and IPs. 50. 15. will answer him: "I will be with him in p Isai. 43-2. trouble; I will deliver him, and honour 91 Sam. 2. him. 30. 16 With long life will I satisfy him, Heb. and shew him my salvation. 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. length of days. Prov. 3.2. A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day. song, and to sing praises unto "Tis a good thing to give thanks unto a P. 147. 1. thy name, O most high: 2 To shew forth thy lovingkindness b Ps. 89. 1. |