6 And now, ev`n at this present time,
Mine head shall lifted be
Above all those that are my foes,

And round encompass me:
Therefore unto his tabernacle
I'll sacrifices bring

Of joyfulness; I'll sing, yea,
To God will praises sing.

70 Lord, give ear unto my voice,
When I do cry to thee:
Upon me also mercy have,
And do thou answer me.

8 When thou didst say, Seek
Then unto thee reply

ye my face,

Thus did my heart, Above all things
Thy face, Lord, seek will I.

¡9 Far from me hide not thou thy face;
Put not away from thee
Thy servant in thy wrath: thou hast
An helper been to me.

O God of my salvation,

Leave me not, nor forsake:

10 Though me my parents both should leave, The Lord will me uptake.

11 O Lord, instruct me in thy way,
To me a leader be

In a plain path, because of those
That hatred bear to me.

12 Give me not to mine en'mies will;
For witnesses that lie

Against me risen are, and such
As breathe out cruelty.

13 I fainted had, unless that I

Believed had to see

The Lord's own goodness in the land
Of them that living be.

14 Wait on the Lord, and be thou strong,
And he shall strength afford

Unto thine heart; yea, do thou wait,
I say, upon the Lord.

PSALM XXVIII.

SEE the last two Psalms.

Their blood upon their own head lies,
'Gainst whom the blood of JESUS cries :
O unbelievers, then, take heed;
For, if bereav'd, bereav'd indeed!
Your souls descend alive to hell,
In darkness evermore to dwell:
How shall ye mourn for evermore,
And your neglected day deplore,

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thee I'll cry, O Lord, my rock;

Hold not thy peace to me;

Lest like those that to pit descend
I by thy silence be.

2 The voice hear of my humble pray'rs,
When unto thee I cry;

When to thine holy oracle

I lift mine hands on high.

3 With ill men draw me not away
That work iniquity:

That speak peace to their friends, while in
Their hearts doth mischief lie.

4 Give them according to their deeds
And ills endeavoured:

And as their handy-works deserve,
To them be rendered.

5 God shall not build, but them destroy,
Who would not understand

The Lord's own works, nor did regard

The doing of his hand.

6 For ever blessed be the Lord,

For graciously he heard

The voice of my petitions,

And prayers

did regard.

7 The Lord's my strength and shield; my heart Upon him did rely;

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And I am helped; hence my heart
Doth joy exceedingly,

And with my song I will him praise.
Their strength is God alone:
He also is the saving strength
Of his anointed one.

9 O thine own people do thou save,
Bless thine inheritance;

Them also do thou feed, and them
For evermore advance.

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PSALM XXIX.

SEE Psalm ii.

The Voice, the WORD, th' incarnate WORD,
Th' eternal God, th' almighty Lord,
From whom the universe began,
Who perfects all his Father's plan,
Upholding all things by his pow'r-
He reigneth King for evermore:
Let heav'n and earth in one combine,
To give him glory all divine!

GIVE ye unto the Lord,

ye sons
That of the mighty be,

All strength and glory to the Lord
With cheerfulness give ye.

2 Unto the Lord the glory give
That to his name is due ;
And in the beauty of holiness
Unto JEHOVAH bow.

3 The Lord's voice on the waters is;
The God of majesty

Doth thunder, and on multitudes
Of waters sitteth he.

4 A pow'rful voice it is that comes
Out from the Lord most high;
The voice of that great Lord is full
Of glorious majesty.

5 The voice of the Eternal doth
Asunder cedars tear;

Yea, God the Lord doth cedars break
That Lebanon doth bear.
6 He makes them like a calf to skip,
Ev'n that great Lebanon,

And, like to a young unicorn,
The mountain Sirion.

7 God's voice divides the flames of fire;
The desert it doth shake:

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The Lord doth make the wilderness

Of Kadesh all to quake.

9 God's voice doth make the hinds to calve,

It makes the forest bare:

And in his temple ev'ry one

His glory doth declare.

10 The Lord sits on the floods; the Lord Sits King, and ever shall.

11 The Lord will give his people strength, And with peace bless them all.

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PSALM XXX.

THIS most delicate and heavenly Psalm has been most grossly and grievously abused by our modern sons of Levi, together with their bewitched followers, whom, by their blind zeal and unhallowed diligence, they seem to have rendered twofold more (if possible) the children of hell than themselves, particularly in these memorable words of the 7th verse, Thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled ;' which they, good people and wise! universally apply to David, and, by consequence, to the weaklings of the flock, whom they call babes in Christ, as being often uncertain of their sonship, and that they have known the Father, and that their sins are forgiven them, (See 1 John ii. 12 to the 4th verse of chap. iii.), under certain hidings and withdrawings of their Father's countenance, in certain times of darkness and desertion. But, leaving dreams and old wives' fables, the words are expressive of the agonies and death of the person who uses them; as is clear from Psalm civ. 29; and so by the Lord they are applied, John xii. 27. Now is my soul 'troubled; and what shall I say?'-and Matt. xxvi. 38. C My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death; and, chap. xxvii. 46. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?'-N. B. These words in the 5th verse of this Psalm ought particularly to be remarked, as literally fulfilled in the death and resurrection of Christ, whereof they are an evident prophecy, viz. Weeping may,' or shall, endure,' or commence, in the night,' (the Hebrew reads, according to the note on the margin, * in the evening'), the same night wherein he was betrayed; but joy cometh in the morning,' namely, of the resurrection, early in the morning of the first day of the week, as saith the Scripture.

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Prose Psalms of the Bible.