David complaineth of his enemies, PSALM S. and prayeth for God's affiliance. A Song or Pfalm of David. 2 Awake, pfaltery and harp: I myself will awake early. 31 will praife thee, O LORD, among the people and I will fing praifes 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, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth; 6 That thy beloved may be delivered: fave with thy right hand, and answer me. 7 God hath fpoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth. 8 Gilead is mine; Manaffeh is mine; Ephraim alfo is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver; y Moab is my wathpot; over Edom will I caft out my thoe; over Philiftia will I triumph. 10 Who will bring me into the ftrong city? who will lead me into Edom? 11 Wilt not thou, O God, who haft caft us off and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hofts? 12 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man. 13 Through God we fhall do valiantly: for he it is that thall tread down our enemies. PSALM CIX. David complaining of bis flanderous enemies, under the perfon of fudas, devoteth them: 16 be fheweth their fin: 22 complaining of his own misery, he prayeth for belp: 30 be promifeth thankfulness. To the chief Musician, A Pfalm of David. HID not thy peace, O God of my praife; 2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have fpoken against me with a lying tongue 3 They compaffed me about alfo with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause. 4 For my love they are my adverfaries: but I give myself unto prayer. S And they bave rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. 6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan ftand at his right hand. 7 When he thall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become fin. 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 feek their bread elfo out of their defolate places. 11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the ftrangers fpoil his labour.. 12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children. 13 Let his pofterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blot ted out. 14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the fin of his mother be blotted out. ally, that he may cut off the memory of them 15 Let them be before the LORD continu. from the earth. 16 Because that he remembered not to needy man, that he might even flay the fhew mercy, but perfecuted the poor ad broken in heart. him: as he delighted not in bleiling, fo let 17 As he loved curfing, fo let it come unto it be iar from him. 18 As he clothed himself with curfing like his bowels like water, and like oil into his as with his garment, fo let it come into bones. which covereth him, and for a girdle where19 Let it be unto him as the garment with he is girded continually. 20 Let this be the reward of mine adverfaries from the LORD, and of them that fpeak evil against my foul. for thy name's fake: because thy mercy is 21 But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, good, deliver thou me. 22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. clineth: I am toffed up and down as the 23 I am gone like the fhadow when it de locuft. 24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatnefs. when they looked upon me they flaked according to thy mercy: hand; that thou, LORD, haft dore it. they arife, let them be aflamed; but let thy fhame, and let them cover themselves with 29 Let mine adverfaries be clothed with their own confusion as with a mantle. 30 I will greatly praife the LORD with my multitude. mouth; yea, I will praise him among the 31 For he fhall ftand at the right hand of the poor, to fave him from thofe that con. demn his foul. The kingdom, 4 the priesthood, 5 the con PSALM CX. queft, and the pafton of Chrift. A Pfalm of David. THE HE LORD faid unto my Lord, Sit thou enemies thy footstool. at my right hand, until I make thine 2 The LORD thall fend the rod of thy ftrength out of Zion: rule thou in the midft of thine enemies. 3 Thy people fall be willing in the day from the womb of the morning: thou hast of thy power, in the beauties of holiness the dew of thy youth. 4 The LORD hath (worn, and will not re pent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. through kings in the day of his wrath. fhall fill the places with the dead bodies; he therefore shall he lift up the head. 1 The pfalmift by his example exciteth arbets S The prosperity of the godly. PSALM S. to praise God for bis glorious, 4 and gracinus works. PRAISE ye the LORD. I will praife the LORD with my whole heart, in the af fembly of the upright, and in the congregation. 2 The works of the LOPD are great, fought out of all them that have pleasure therein. 3 His work is honourable and glorious: and his righteoufnefs en lureth for ever. 4 He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the LORD is gracious and full of compartic.. 5 He hath given meat unto them that fear him he will ver be mindful of his covenant. 6 He hath dhewed 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 judgment; all his commandments are fure. 8 They ftand fat for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness. 9 He fent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name. 15 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have ali they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever. PSALM CXII. 1 Godliness hath the promifes of this life, 4 and of the life to come. in The profperity of the godly shall be an eyefore to the wicked. Peareth the LORD, that delighteth RAISE ye the LORD. Bleffed is the man greatly in his commandments. 2 His feed thall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright thall be bleffed. 3 Wealth and riches balt be in his houfe: and his righteousness endureth for ever. 4 no the upright there arifech light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compaision, and righteous. 5 A good man thewech favour, and leadeth: he will guide his affairs with difcretion. 6 Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous thall be in everlasting remem brance. 7 He thall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD. 8 His heart is established, he thall not be a fraid, until he fee his defire upon his enemies. 9 He hath difpered, he hath given to the poor; his righteoufnefs endurein or ever; his horn fhall be exalted with bonour. To The wi ked shall fee it, and be grieved; he thall goath with his teeth, and melt away: the defire of the wicked thall perish. PSALM CXPI 1. An exhortation to praife God for his excel- the LORD. z Bleifed be the name of the LORD from this time torch and for evermore. 3 From the ring of the fun unto the going down of the fame, the LORD's name is to be praised. 4 The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens. 5 Who like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high, 6 Who humbleh bifelf to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth? The Vanity of idolt. 7 He raifeth up the poor out of the duff, and litteth the needy out of the dunghill; 8 That he may fet him with princes, even with the princes of his people. 9 He maketh the barien woman to keep Youfe, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praife ye the LORD. PSALM CXIV. exhortation, by the example of the dumb creatures, to fear God in bis church. HFN Ifrael went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language; 2 Judah was his fanctuary, and Ifrael his dominion. 3 The fea faw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back. 4 The mountains skipped like tams, and the little hills like lambs. 5 What afled thee, O thou fea, that thou feddeft? thou Jordan, that thon watt driven back? 6 Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs 7 Tremble, thou earth, at the prefence of the LORD, at the prefence of the God of Jacob; 8 Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters. PSALM CXV. Because God is truly glorious, 4 and idols are vanity, 9 he exhorteth to confidence in God. 12 God is to be praised for his blej ngs. NOT OT unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mer cy, and for thy truth's fake. 2 Wherefore thould the heathen say, Where is now their God? 3 But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatfoever he pleased. 4 Their idols are filver and gold, the work of men's hands 5 They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they fee not: 6 They have ears, bu they hear not: noses have they, but they finell not. 7 They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither fpeak they through their throat. 8 They that make them are like unto them; fo is every one that truiteth in then. 90 Ifrael, trust thou in the LORD: he is their help and their fhield. to Choufe of Aaron, truft in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. 11 Ye that fear the LORD, truf in the LORD: he is their hei and their thield. 12 The LORD hath been mindiul of us : he will blefs us; he will blefs the house of Ifrael; he will biefs the house of Aaron. 13 He will blefs them that fear the LORD, both mall and grea 14 The LORD hall increafe you more and more, you and your children. 15 Ye are biciled or the LORD which made heaven and car.. 16 The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD's: but the earth hath Le given to the children of men. 17 The dead praife not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence. 18 But we will blefs the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the LORD. PSALM I Thanksgiving for mercy. PSALM CXVI. PSALM S. 8 It is better to trait in the LORD than to put confidence in man. Sundry prayers and praises. The pfalmifi profeffeth his love and duty to God for his deliverance; 12 he fludicth to be thankful. Love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my fupplications. 2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live, 3 The forrows of death compared me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and forrow. 4 Then called I upon the name of the LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my foul. 5 Gracious is the LORD, and righteous: yea, our God is merciful. 6 The LORD preferveth the fimple: I was brought low, and he helped me. 7 Return unto thy reft, O my foul! for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee. 8 For thou hart delivered my foul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. 9 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living. 10 I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: 11 I faid in my hate, All men are liars. 12 What thail I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me? 13 I will take the cup of falvation, and call upon the name of the LORD. 14 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now In the prefence of all his people. 15 Precious in the fight of the LORD is the death of his faints. 16 O LORD, truly I am thy fervant; I am thy fervant, and the fon of thine handmaid: thou haft loofed my bonds. 171 will offer to thee the facrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD. 18 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the prefence of all his people, 19 In the courts of the LORD's houfe, in the midst of thee, O Jerufalem. Praife ye the LORD. PSALM CXVII. An exhortation to praise God for his mercy,&c. Praise the LORD ali ye nations: praife him all ye people. 2 For his merciful kindness is great to. ward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praife ye the LORD. PSALM CXVIII. 1 An exhortation to praise God for his mercy. 5 The pfalmift feweth how good it is totruff in God. 19 The coming of Chrip's kingdom typified. ever. Give thanks unto the LORD! for he is good: because his mercy endureth for 2 Let Ifrael now fay, that his mercy en dureth for ever 3 Let the house of Aaron now fay, that his mercy endureth forever. 4 Let them now that fear the LORD fay, that his mercy endureth or ever. I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and fet me in a large place. 6 The LORD is on my fide; I will not icar: what can ma do unto me? 7 The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore fhall I fee my defire upon them that hate me. 9 It is better to truth in the LORD than to put confidence in princes. 10 All nations compailed me about: but in the name of the LORD will destroy them. 11 They compaffed me about; yea, they compaled me about: but in the name of the LORD I will deftroy them. 12 They compañed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will deftroy them. 13 Thou haft thrust for at me, that I might fall: but the LORD helped me. 14 The LORD is my Arength and fong, and is Lecome my falvation. 15 The voice of rejoicing and falvation 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 thall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD. 18 The LORD hath chaftened me fore: but he hath not given me over unto death. 19 Open to me the gates of righteouf nefs: I will go into them, and I will praife the LORD: 20 This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous thall enter. 21 I will praile thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my falvation. 22 The flone which the builders refufed is become the head one 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, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, fend now profperity. 26 Bleiled be he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have bleifed you out of the houfe of the LORD. 27 God is the LORD, which hath thewed us light, bind the facrifice with cords, "ven 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 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. PSALM CXIX. This pfalm contains fundry prayers, praifes, and profej ons of obedience. ALEPH. Bhowalk in the law of the LORD. LESSED are the undefled in the way, 2 Bleed are they that keep his teftimonies, and that feek him with the whole heart. 3 They alfo do no iniquity: they walk in his was s 4 Thou haft commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. 5 Ch that my ways were directed to keep thy ftatutes! Then thall I not be ashamed, when I have relpect unto all thy commandments. 7 I will praite thee with uprightnets of heart, when I shall have learned thy righ teous judgments. 8 I will keep thy ftatutes: O forfake me not utterly. BETH. 9 Wherewith fhall a young man cleanfe his way by taking heed thereto according to thy word. TO With to With my whole heart have I fought thee. O let me not wander from thy commandments. 1 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not fin against thee. 12 Bleifed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy ftatutes. 13 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth. 14 I have rejoiced in the way of the teftimonies, as much as in all riches. 15 I will meditate in thy precepts, and - have refpect unto thy ways. 15 I will delight myself in thy ftatutes: I will not forget thy word. GIMEL. 28 My foul melteth for heaviness: ftrengthen thou me according unto thy word. 29 Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously. 30 I have choten the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me. 31 I have fuck unto thy teftimonies: O LORD, put me not to thame. 32 will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart. HE. 33 Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy ftatutes; and I shall keep it unto the end. 34 Give me undertanding, and I fhall keep thy law; yea, I thall obferve it with my whole heart." 35 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight. 35 Incline my heart unto thy lettimonies, and not to covetousness. 37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity and quicken thou me in thy way. 38 Stablish thy word unto thy fervant, who is devoted to thy fear. 39 Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy juigments are good. 40 Echoll, I have longed after thy precepts : quickes me in thy righteousnels. VA U. 41 Let thy mercies come alfo unto me, O LORD, even thy falvation, according to thy word. 42 So fhall I have wherewith to anfwer and prayers. him that reproacheth me: for I truft in thy word. 43 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments. 44 So fhall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever. 45 And I will walk at liberty: for I feek thy precepts. 46 I will fpeak of thy teftimonies also be. tore kings, and will not be ashamed. 47 And I will delight myfelf in thy commandments, which I have loved. 48 My hands alfo will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will medicate in thy ftatutes. ZAIN. 49 Remember the word unto thy fervant, upon which thou haft caufed 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 deriñon: yer have I not declined from thy law. 52 I remembered thy judgments of cld, 01.ORD; and have comforted myself. 53 Horror hath taken hold upon me be caule of the wicked that forfake thy law. 54 Thy ftatutes have been my fongs in the house of my pilgrimage. 55 I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law. 56 This I had because I kept thy precepts. CHETH. 57 Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have faid that I would keep thy words. 58 I entreated thy favour with my whole heart: be mercifuí unto me according to thy word. 59 I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies. 60 I made hafte, 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 1 will rife to give thanks unto thee, because of thy righteous judg ments. 63 I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts. 64 The earth, O FORD, is full of thy mer. cy: teach me thy ftatutes. ments. 67 Before I was afflicted I went aftray: but now have I kept thy word. 68 Thou art good, and doeft good; teach me thy ftatutes. 69 The proud have forged a lie againft me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart. 70 Their heart is as fat as greafe; but I delight in thy law. 71 it is good for me that I have been af flicted; that I might learn thy ftatutes. 72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and filver. JOD. 73 Thy hands have made me and fashioned me give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments. 74 They 74 They that fear thee will be glad when they fee me: because I have hoped in thy word. 75 I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness haft afflicted me. 76 Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness te for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy fervant. 77 Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live for thy law is my delight. 78 Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perverfely with me without a caufe: but I will meditate in thy precepts. 79 Let thofe that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy teftimonies. 80 Let my heart be found in thy ftatutes; that I be not ashamed. САРН. 81 My foul fainteth for thy falvation: but I hope in thy word. 82 Mine eyes fail for thy word, faying, When wilt thou comfort me? 83 For I am become like a bottle in the fmoke; yet do I not forget thy ftatutes. 84 How many are the days of thy fer vant! when wilt thou execute judgment on them that perfecute me? 85 The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law. 86 All thy commandments are faithful: they perfecute me wrongfully; help thou me. 87 They had almoft confumed me upon earth; but I forfook not thy precepts. 88 Quicken me after thy loving kindness; fo fhall I keep the teftimony of thy mouth. LAME D. 89 For ever, O LORD, thy word is fettled in heaven. 90 Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou haft established the earth, and it abideth. 91 They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy fervants. 92 Unless thy law had been my delights, I fhould then have perished in mine affliction. 93 I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou haft quickened me. 94 I am thine, fave me; for I have fought thy precepts. 95 The wicked have waited for me to defroy me: but I will conûder thy teftimonies. 96 I have feen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad. MM. 97 O how love I thy law! It is my meditation all the day. 98 Thou through thy commandments, hait made me wifer than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy teftimonies are my meditation. ICO I understand more than the ancients, because 1 keep thy precepts. IOI I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word. 102 I have not departed trom thy judg Rents: for thou haft taught me. 103 How sweet are thy words unto my talte! yea, freeter than honey to my mouth! 104 Through thy precepts I get underftanding: therefore I hate every false way. NUN. His zeal 105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. 106 I have fworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments. 107 I am afflicted very much quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word. 108 Accept, I beseech thee, the freewillofferings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments. 109 My foul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law. 110 The wicked have laid a fnare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts. III Thy teftimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart. 112 I have inclined mine heart to perform thy ftatutes alway, even unto the end. SAMECH. 113 I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love. 114 Thou art my hiding place and my fhield: I hope in thy word." 115 Depart from me, ye evil doers: for 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 will have refpect unto thy statutes con. tinually. 118 Thou haft trodden down all them that err from thy ftatutes: for their deceit is falfehood. 119 Thou putteft away all the wicked of the earth like drofs: therefore I love thy teftimonies. 120 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments. ΑΙΝ. 121 I have done judgment and juftice: leave me not to mine oppreffors. 122 Be furety tor thy ferant for good: let not the proud of prefs me. 123 Mine eyes fail for thy falvation, and for the word of thy righteousness. 124 Deal with thy fervant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy ftatutes. 125 I am thy fervant; give me understands 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 concerning all things to be right; and I hate every falfe way. PE. 129 Thy teftimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my foul 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 unto me, as thou useft to do unto thofe 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 oppreifion of man: fo will I keep thy precepts. 135 Make thy face to thine upon thy fer. vant; and teach me thy ftatutes. S3 136 Rivers |