And in the net which they have hid
Their own feet fast are snar'd.

16 The Lord is by the judgment known
Which he himself hath wrought:
The sinners' hands do make the snares
Wherewith themselves are caught.

17 They who are wicked into hell
Each one shall turned be;
And all the nations that forget
To seek the Lord most high.

18 For they that needy are shall not
Forgotten be alway;

The expectation of the poor
Shall not be lost for ay.

19 Arise, Lord, let not inan prevail;
Judge heathen in thy sight:

20 That they may know themselves but men, The nations, Lord, affright.

PSALM X.

CONCERNING this Psalm, nothing more needs be said, but that it is evidently a continuation of the last; with this further evidence of its meaning, that it begins in terms precisely parallel with the xxiid Psalm, and issues, like it, in the perfect victory, and eternal reign, of the Messiah with his saints, contrasted with the final and fearful overthrow of all the powers of antichristian darkness; which shall be completely accomplished only at the resurrection of the just, and the restoration of all things, when death and hell shall be cast into the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, and the mediatorial kingdom delivered up to the Father, that God may be all in all,

Messiah, suffering for a while,
And sore beset with woes,

Repels the pow'r, the pride, the guile,
Of all his spiteful foes;

But, raised by the Lord, on high,

His King for evermore,

Gives all his friends, eternally,

Aloft with him to soar.

1 WHEREFORE is it that thou, O Lord, Dost stand from us afar?

And wherefore hidest thou thyself
When times so troubl'ous are?

2 The wicked in his loftiness
Doth persecute the poor:

In these devices they have fram'd
Let them be taken sure.

3 The wicked of his heart's desire
Doth talk with boasting great;
He blesseth him that's covetous,
Whom yet the Lord doth hate.
4 The wicked, through his pride of face,
On God he doth not call;
And in the counsels of his heart
The Lord is not at all.

5 His ways they always grievous are;
Thy judgments from his sight
Removed are; at all his foes

He puffeth with despight.

6 Within his heart he thus hath said, I shall not moved be;

And no adversity at all

Shall ever come to me.

7 His mouth with cursing, fraud, deceit,
Is fill'd abundantly;

And underneath his tongue there is
Mischief and vanity.

8 He closely sits in villages; He slays the innocent. Against the

His cruel

poor that pass

eyes are bent.

him by

9 He, lion-like, lurks in his den;
He waits the poor to take;
And when he draws him in his net,
His prey he doth him make.
10 Himself he humbleth very low,
He croucheth down withal,
That so a multitude of poor
May by his strong ones fall,

11 He thus hath said within his heart,
The Lord hath quite forgot;
He hides his countenance, and he
For ever sees it not.

12 O Lord, do thou arise; O God,
Lift up thine hand on high:
Put not the meek afflicted ones
Out of thy memory.

13 Why is it that the wicked man
Thus doth the Lord despise?
Because that God will it require

He in his heart denies.

14 Thou hast it seen; for their mischief
And spite thou wilt repay:
The poor commits himself to thee;
Thou art the orphan's stay.

15 The arm break of the wicked man,
And of the evil one;

Do thou seek out his wickedness,
Until thou findest none.

16 The Lord is king through ages all,
Ev'n to eternity;

The heathen people from his land
Are perish'd utterly.

17 O Lord, of those that humble are Thou the desire didst hear;

Thou wilt prepare their heart, and thou To hear wilt bend thine ear;

18 To judge the fatherless, and those
That are oppressed sore:

That man, that is but sprung of earth,
May them oppress no more.

PSALM XI.

SEE the illustration of Psalm lxxv.

I

Messiah's foes against him rise ;
But he defies them all,

And fearless to his mountain flies,
From whence he sees them fall:
For his foundation stands secure,
The righteousness of God;
While they the fiercest strokes endure
Of God's avenging rod.

ye

IN the Lord do put my trust;
How is it then that
Say to my soul, Flee, as a bird,
Unto your mountain high?

2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow,
Their shafts on string they fit,
That those who upright are in heart
They privily may hit.

3 If the foundations be destroy'd,
What hath the righteous done?1

4 God in his holy temple is,

5

In heaven is his throne:

His eyes do see, his eyelids try

Men's sons. The just he proves: But his soul hates the wicked man, And him that vi'lence loves.

L

6 Snares, fire and brimstone, furious storms, On sinners he shall rain :

This, as the portion of their cup,

Doth unto them pertain.

7 Because the Lord most righteous doth
In righteousness delight;
And with a pleasant countenance
Beholdeth the upright.

PSALM XII.

THIS Psalm, like the last, abundantly plain of itself, needs no particular illustration; only the judicious reader will consult the marginal references.

The Prince Messiah intercedes
For his own elect faithful race;
But prays to quash the impious deeds
Of all the scorners of his grace:
Though hypocrites may reign a while,
Advanc'd to fame by this world's god;
The Lord at length shall judge the vile,
And smite them with his iron rod.

HELP, Lord, because the godly man
Doth daily fade away;

And from among the sons of men
The faithful do decay.

2 Unto his neighbour ev'ry one
Doth utter vanity:

They with a double heart do speak,
And lips of flattery.

3 God shall cut off all flatt'ring lips,
Tongues that speak proudly thus,

4 We'll with our tongue prevail, our lips Are ours whose lord o'er us?