The prosperity

of the wicked.

15 And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised.

16 There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall 01 Kings 4. shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

20.

p Ps. 89. 36. 3 Heb. shall be.

4 Heb. shall to continue his father's

be as a son

name for ever.

q Gen. 12. 3. & 22. 18. Jer. 4. 2.

r Luke 1. 48. B1Chr.29.10. Ps. 41. 13. & 106. 48.

t Ex. 15. 11. Ps. 77. 14.

& 136. 4.

a Neh. 9. 5.

x Num. 14. 21. Zech. 14.9.

5 Or, A Psalm for Asaph. *Pa.50,title.

6 Or, Yet. 7 Пeb.clean

of heart.

a Job 21.7. Ps. 37. 1.

Jer. 12. 1.

8 Heb.fat.

b Job 21.9.

17 PHis name 'shall endure for ever: 'his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.

8

18 Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things.

19 And "blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.

20 The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

PSALM LXXIII.

1 The prophet, prevailing in a temptation, 2 showeth the occasion thereof, the prosperity of the wicked. 13 The wound given thereby, diffidence. 15 The victory over it, knowledge of God's purpose, in destroying of the wicked, and sustaining the righteous.

5A Psalm of *.
*Asaph.

6

heart.

2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.

3 a For I was envious at the fool

ish, when I saw the prosperity of the

wicked.

4 For there are no bands in their death but their strength is firm.

5 They are not in trouble as Heb. in the other men; neither are they plagued 2like other men.

trouble of other men. 2 Heb. with.

6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence So Ps. 109. Covereth them as a garment. 7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.

18.

a Job 15. 27. Ps. 17. 10.

& 119. 70.

Jer. 5. 28.

3 Heb. they pass the

3

8They are corrupt, and 'speak thoughts of wickedly concerning oppression : they speak loftily.

the heart.

• Ps. 53. 1.

f Hos. 7. 16.

Jude 16.

h

9 They set their mouth against 82 Pet. 2.18. the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth. 10 Therefore his people return

h Rev. 13. 6.

glory.

Ps. 90. 5.

Is. 29.7,8.

t Pa. 78. 65.

u ver. 3.

Ps. 92. 6.

Prov. 30. 2. 4 Heb. I

knew not.

6 Heb. with

thee.

Ps. 32.8.

Is. 58.8.

25 Whom have I in heaven but Phil. 3.8. thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.

26 a My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.

28 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all thy works.

PSALM LXXIV.

6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.

7 13They have cast fire into thy 3 Heb. They Sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.

have sent

thy sanctuary into the fire.

k Ps. 89. 39. 1 Ps. 83. 4. 4 Heb. break.

m1 Sam.3.1. Amos 8. 11.

☐ Lam. 2.3.

o Ps. 44. 4.

p Ex. 14.21. 5 Heb. break.

Is. 51.9.10.

Ezek. 29. 3.. & 32.2.

8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

9 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

11 n Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.

12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

13 PThou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

14 Thou brakest the heads of Or,whales. leviathan in pieces and gavest him Num. 14.9. to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

. Ps. 72.9.

t Ex. 17.5.6.

Num. 20.11.

15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: "thou driedst up Josh. 3.13, mighty rivers.

Ps. 105. 41. Is. 48.21.

&c.

7Heb.rivers

7

16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared Gen. 1.14, the light and the sun.

of strength.

&C.

y Acts 17.26.

17 Thou hast set all the borders

The prophet praiseth God.

nant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. 21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish ver. 18. man reproacheth thee daily.

23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.

PSALM LXXV.

Ps. 89. 51.

2 Heb. ascendeth, Jonah 1. 2.

7 But God is the judge: che putteth down one, and setteth up another. 8 For din the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he pour-Jer. 25. 15. eth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.

9 But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

PSALM LXXVI.

1 A declaration of God's majesty in the church.

11 An exhortation to serve him reverently.

To the chief Musician on Neginoth,
A Psalm or Song of Asaph.

P's. 60. 3.

Rev. 14. 10.

& 16. 19. e Prov. 23.

d

. Ps. 13. 3. Jer. 51.39.

The psalmist's fierce

f Ex. 15.1, 21.

none of the men of might have found their hands.

6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, Ezek. 39.20. both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.

Nah. 2. 13. Zech. 12. 4.

7 Thou, even thou, art to be feared: 8 Nah. 1.6. and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?

h Ezek. 38. 20.

12 Chr. 20. 29, 30.

k P3. 9. 7,8, 9. & 72.4.

1 See Ex. 9. 16. & 18. 11. Ps. 65.7.

m Eccles. 5. 4, 5, 6.

n 2 Chr.'32. 22, 23.

Ps. 68. 29. & 89.7.

2 Heb. to fear.

i

8 Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,

9 When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.

10 'Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.

11 m Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: "let all that be round about him bring presents 2 unto him that ought to be feared.

12 He shall cut off the spirit of Ps. 68. 35. princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.

* Ps. 39, & 62, title.

8 Or, for Asaph. a Ps. 3. 4.

b Ps. 50. 15.

• Is. 26. 9, 16.

4 Heb. my hand.

d Ps. 142. 3. & 143. 4.

e Deut. 32.7. Ps. 143. 5. Is. 51. 9. f Ps. 42.8. 8 P8. 4. 4.

h Ps. 74. 1. 1 Ps. 85. 1.

3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and a my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. 5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

7 b Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he 'be favourable no more? 8 Is his mercy clean gone for Rom. 9.6. ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?

combat with diffidence.

PBx. 15. 11.

13 Thy way, O God, is in the Ps. 78. 17. sanctuary: P 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 2The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: arrows also went abroad.

18 The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: u 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 hand 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 Judah, Zion, and David.

*3 Maschil of Asaph. IVE ear, O my people, to my 3 Or, A

"Glaw: incline your ears 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. 4 We will not hide them from

d

their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.

5 For the 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:

8 And might not be as their fathers, ka stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

Psalm for Asaph to give instruction.

a Is. 51. 4. b Pa. 49. 4. Matt. 13.35. • Ps. 44. 1.

9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned 6 Reb. back in the day of battle.

throwing forth.

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 he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, Pin the field of Zoan.

13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made Ezek. 30.14. the waters to stand as an heap.

q Ex. 14. 21. r Ex. 15.8. Ps. 33.7.

8

14 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night

Ex. 13. 21. with a light of fire.

& 14. 24.

Ps. 105. 39. t Ex. 17. 6.

Num. 20.11. 1 Cor. 10.4.

Ps. 105. 41.

■ Deut.9.21. Ps. 105. 41.

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 Deut.9.22. against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.

Ps. 95. 8. Heb. 3. 16. y Ex. 16. 2.

* Num.11.4.

2 Heb. order.

a Ex. 17.6. Num. 20.11.

b Num. 11. 1,10.

• Heb. 3. 18. Jude 5.

22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation: 23 Though he had commanded the d Gen. 7.11. clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,

Mal. 3. 10.

• Ex. 16. 4,
14.

Ps. 105. 40.
John 6. 31.

1 Cor. 10. 3.

3 Or, Every one did eat

the bread of the mighty, Ps. 103. 20. (Num. 11. 81.

4 Heb.to go.

6 Heb. fowl of wing.

8 Num. 11. 20.

b Num. 11. 83.

d

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.

4

26 He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven and by his power he brought in the south wind.

27 He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:

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 lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,

31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them,

32 For all this 'they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous & 16, & 17. works.

33 'Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

34 m When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.

35 And they remembered that "God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.

36 Nevertheless they did Pflatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.

37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

a ver. 41. Ezek. 20.

27, 28.

57 But "turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were * Hos. 7. 16. 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.

y Deut. 32. 16, 21.

Judg. 2.12, Ezek. 20.28.

20.

z Deut. 12. 2,4.

1 Kings 11. 7. & 12. 31.

1Sam.4.11. Jer. 7. 12,14. & 26.6, 9.

b Judg. 18. 30.

•1Sam.4.10.

d Jer. 7. 34. & 16. 9.

& 25. 10.

3 Heb. praised.

e1 Sam. 4. 11. & 22. 18. f Job 27. 15. Ezek. 24.23. 8 Ps. 44. 23. b Is. 42. 13.

11 Sam.5.6, 12. & 6. 4.

k Ps. 87.2.

11 Kings 6.

4 Heb. founded.

m 1 Sam. 16. 11, 12.

2 Sam. 7.8.

5 Heb. From after.

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.

63 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not 3given to marriage.

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 parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.

67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.

69 And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.

incredulous and disobedient.

72 So he fed them according to the Pintegrity of his heart; and guided p1 Kings 9. them by the skilfulness of his hands.

PSALM LXXIX.

1 The psalmist complaineth of the desolation of Jerúsalem. 8 He prayeth for deliverance, 13 and promiseth thankfulness.

A Psalm 2of Asaph.

4.

2 Or, for Asaph.

Ex. 15. 17. Ps. 74. 2.

GOD, the heathen are come into a thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have bPs. 74.7. laid Jerusalem on heaps.

© 2 Kings 25. 9, 10.

2 Chr.36.19. Mic. 3. 12. d Jer. 7.33.

2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of & 16.4. thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

& 34. 20.

3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and Ps. 141.7. there was none to bury them.

Jer. 14. 16. & 16. 4. Rev. 11.9. f Ps. 44. 13.

4 fWe are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision & 80.6. 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.

Is. 40. 11.

o2 Sam. 5.2. 1 Chr. 11. 2.

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.

The psalmist in his prayer complaineth of the miseries of the church. 8 God's former favours are turned into judgments. 14 He prayeth for deliverance.

To the chief Musician *upon shannim-Eduth, A Psalm Asaph.

Sho-Ps. 45, & of

69, title. 8 Or for Asaph