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T The Book of PSALMS.

PSALM I.

Huppy State of the Godly, &c. LESSED is the man that walkBLE eth not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sin nors in the congregation of the righteous.

6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

PSALM II.

Christ's Spiritual Kingdom. THY do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain

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2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his Anointed, saying,

3 Let us break their bands asun

der, and cast away their cords

from us.

4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision.

5 Then shall he speak unto them. in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.

6 Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of Zion.

7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

9 Thou shalt broak them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.

11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. PSALM III.

The Security of God's Protection. TA Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.

ORD, how are they increased

they that rise up against me.

2 Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.

3 But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of my head.

4 I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.

5 I laid me down and slept; f awaked; for the LORD sustained me.

6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.

7 Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God; for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.

8 Salvation belongcth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.

PSALM IV.
David prayeth for Audience.
To the chief Musician on Negi-
noth, A Psalm of David.
TEAR me when I call, O God of

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my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my

prayer.

20 ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.

3 But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.

4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.

6 There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy counte

rance upon us.

7 Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.

12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. 8 I will both lay me down in

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David's Profession in Prayer.

His complaint.

5 For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

6 I am weary with my groan

To the chief Musician upon Ne-ing; all the night make I my bed to hiloth, A Psalm of David. swim; I water my couch with my GLED Consider my deditato my words, O tears.

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tion.

2 Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.

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 pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.

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

6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful

man.

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

8 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.

David prayeth against his Enemies.

T Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto the LORD, concerning the words of Cush the Benja. mite.

LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from them that persecute me, and deliver me:

7 But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy and in thy fear will I wor-all ship toward thy holy templc.

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

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; let them fall 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 defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.

12 For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.

PSALM VI.

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2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

3 O 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, I 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 people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.

8 The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.

90 let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.

10 My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.

11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

12 If he turn not, he will whet

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his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

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

David praiseth him

back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.

4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.

5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for

14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth false-ever and ever. hood.

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

60 thou enemy! destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them. 16 His mischief shall return upon 7 But the LORD shall endure for his own head, and his violent deal-ever: he hath prepared his throne ing shall come down upon his own for judgment.

pate. 8 And he shall judge the world 17 I will praise the LORD accord-in righteousness, he shall minister ing to his righteousness: and will judgment to the people in upsing praise to the name of the rightness. LORD most high.

PSALM VIII. God's great 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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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 ho

nour.

6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

11 Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.

12 When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.

13 Have mercy upon me, 0 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. Higgaion. Selah.

8 The fowl of the air, and the 17 The wicked shall be turned fish of the sea, and whatsoever pass-into hell, and all the nations that eth through the paths of the seas. forget God. 9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

PSALM IX.
David praiseth God, &c.
To the chief Musician upon
Muth-labben, A Psalm of David.
I with my whole heart; will
WILL praise thee, O LORD,
shew forth all thy marvellous
works.

2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise the name, O thou Most High.

3 When mine enemies are turned 512

18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

19 Arise, O LORD; let not man in thy sight. prevail; let the heathen be judged

20 Put them in fear, O LORD: selves to be but men. Selah. that the nations may know them

PSALM X.

WHY standest thou afar off,
David's Complaint of the Wicked.
WD Lotan why hidest thou

thyself in times of trouble?
2 The wicked in his pride doth

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David imploreth help

persecute the poor: let them be, 2 For lo, the wicked bend their taken in the devices that they have bow, they make ready their arrow imagined. upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

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

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

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

6 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 and vanity.

8 He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the

poor.

9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

10 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.

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 a horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

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

PSALM XII.

David imploreth Help from God. To the chief Musician upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.

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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.

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

4 Who have said, With our tongue 12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift will we prevail; our lips are our up thy hand: forget not the hum-own: who is lord over us? ble.

13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, thou wilt not require it.

14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

15 Break thou the arm of the 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 prepare their heart, thou wilt cause.

hear:

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

6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

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

PSALM XIII. David complaineth of Delay. T To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. long wilt

hine ear to the fatherless and HOLORD wir thou forget me,

the oppressed, that the man of the wilt thou hide thy face from me? earth may no more oppress. PSALM XI.

The Psalmist's Confidence in God. To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

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

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, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

4 Lest mine enemy say, I have

PSALMS.

Corruption of mankind.
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, be-
cause he hath dealt bountifully
with me.
PSALM XIV.

The Depravity of a natural Man.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm

of David.

HE fool hath said in his heart, hath in heart, There is no God. 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 refuge.

7 Oh 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.

PSALM XV.

A Citizen of Zion described.
TA Psalm of David.

The Psalmist's hope.

20 my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;

3 But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.

4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.

5 The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.

6 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

7I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins. also instruct me in the night seasons..

8I 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.

10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thy Holy One to see corruption.

11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

PSALM XVII.

David craveth Help of God. 1 A Prayer of David. HEAR the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes

LORD, who shall abide in thy behold the things that are equal.

tabernacle? who shall dwell

in thy holy hill?

3 Thou hast proved my heart; thou hast visited me in the night; 2 He that walketh uprightly, and thou hast tried me, and shalt find worketh righteousness, and speak-nothing; I am purposed that my eth the truth in his heart. mouth shall not transgress.

3 He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.

4 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. David fleeth to God. T Michtam of David. RESERVE me, O God: in thee do I put my trust. 514

for

4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.

5 Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

61 have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.

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.

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

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

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