5 God is with shouts gone up, the Lord With trumpets sounding high.

6 Sing praise to God, sing praise, sing praise, Praise to our King sing ye..

7 For God is King of all the earth; With knowledge praise express.

8 God rules the nations: God sits on His throne of holiness.

9 The princes of the people are
Assembled willingly;

Ev'n of the God of Abraham
They who the people be.

For why? the shields that do defend
The earth are only his :

They to the Lord belong; yea,
Exalted greatly is.

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PSALM XLVIII.

THIS Psalm seems to be only a second part of the fast; and the meaning of it is equally obvious.

The universal pow'r and sway

Of Jesus Christ the Lord of Hosts,
Through all the nations force their way,
And fill the world through all her coasts.
Let Zion mount rejoice and sing!

Let all her children join their voice!
Hosannah to the Lord our King,

Who fills us with eternal joys!

1 GREAT is the Lord, and greatly he
Is to be praised still,

Within the city of our God,
Upon his holy hill.

2 Mount Sion stands most beautiful,
The joy of all the land:
The city of the mighty King

On her north side doth stand.

3 The Lord within her palaces Is for a refuge known.

4 For, lo, the kings that gather'd were Together, by have

gone.

5 But when they did behold the same,
They, wond'ring, would not stay;
But, being troubled at the sight,
They thence did haste away.

6 Great terror there took hold on them,
They were possess'd with fear;
Their grief came like a woman's pain,
When she a child doth bear.

7 Thou Tarshish ships with east wind break`st : As we have heard it told,

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In our God's city, which his hand
For ever stablish will.

9 We of thy loving-kindness thought,
Lord in thy temple still.

10 O Lord, according to thy name,
Through all the earth's thy praise;
And thy right hand, O Lord, is full
Of righteousness always.

11 Because thy judgments are made known,
Let Sion mount rejoice;

Of Judah let the daughters all

Send forth a cheerful voice.

12 Walk about Sion, and go round; The high tow'rs thereof tell:

13 Consider ye her palaces,

And mark her bulwarks well;

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That ye may tell posterity.

For this God doth abide
Our God for evermore; he will
Ev'n unto death us guide.

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PSALM XLIX.

THE speaker in this Psalm (for it is all spoken in one person) is the Lord Jesus Christ; as he also is in Psal. lxxviii.; for the 2d verse of that, and the 4th of this, are so interpreted, Matt. xiii. 35, where it is written, All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake ⚫ he not unto them; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.Among other parallels, see Psal. xxxix. lii. and lxii. The eternal wisdom sends her call, And makes her voice to flow, Like sounding winds, around the ball, To all the high and low:

Be wise, repent, and live to-day:

To-morrow you shall die

As th' axe-struck tree shall yield and sway—
So shall it ever lie.'

1 HE

[EAR this, all people, and give ear,
All in the world that dwell;

2 Both low and high, both rich and poor,

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My mouth shall wisdom tell :

My heart shall knowledge meditate.
I will incline mine ear

To parables, and on the harp
My sayings dark declare.

5 Amidst those days that evil be,

Why should I fearing, doubt,

When of my heels th' iniquity
Shall compass me about.

6 Whoe'er they be that in their wealth
Their confidence do pitch,

And boast themselves, because they are
Become exceeding rich:

7 Yet none of these his brother can
Redeem by any way;

Nor can he unto God for him

Sufficient ransom pay,

8 (Their soul's redemption precious is, And it can never be,)

9 That still he should for ever live, And not corruption see.

10 For why? he seeth that wise men die,
And brutish fools also

Do perish; and their wealth, when dead',
To others they let go.

11 Their inward thought is, that their house And dwelling-places shall

Stand through all ages; they their lands
By their own names do call.

12 But yet in honour shall not man
Abide continually;

But passing hence, may be compar'd
Unto the beasts that die.
13 Thus brutish folly plainly is

Their wisdom and their way ;,
Yet their posterity approve

What they do fondly say.

14 Like sheep they in the grave are laid,
And death shall them devour;
And in the morning upright men
Shall over them have pow'r:

Their beauty from their dwelling shall
Consume within the grave.

15 But from hell's hand God will me free,. For he shall me receive.

16 Be thou not then afraid when one
Enriched thou dost see,

Nor when the glory of his house
Advanced is on high:

17 For he shall carry nothing hence
When death his days doth end;
Nor shall his glory after him
Into the grave descend.

18 Although he his own soul did bless
Whilst he on earth did live;
(And when thou to thyself dost well,
Men will thee praises give ;)
19 He to his fathers' race shall go,
They never shall see light.

20 Man honour'd wanting knowledge is
Like beasts that perish quite.

PSALM L.

To be a stranger to the spirit and truth of this, and of the following Psalm, is to be a stranger to the whole of the New Testament, and of the Old : for the Lord is that Spirit: God manifest in the flesh is that Spirit; and they that worship him must worship him in that spirit, and in that truth. See John iv. 23, &c. with the parallel passages.In a word, the meaning of this and the next Psalm is, in a short sum, the meaning of the whole connected testimony of God. See Psalm ii, with its parallels, and those on the margin. *

The Lord descends in flaming fire,
Amidst the angels of his pow'r,
His servants' talents to require,
And all the faithless to devour :

* Prose Psalms of the Bible.