And unto those that are so proud
A due reward impart.

3 How long, O mighty God, shall they
Who lewd and wicked be,

How long shall they who wicked are
Thus triumph haughtily?

4 How long shall things most hard by them. Be uttered and told?

And all that work iniquity

To boast themselves be bold?..

5 Thy folk they break in pieces, Lord, Thine heritage oppress:

6 The widow they and stranger slay, And kill the fatherless.

7 Yet say they, God it shall not see,
Nor God of Jacob know.

8 Ye brutish people! understand;
Fools! when wise will ye grow?
9 The Lord did plant the ear of man,
And hear then shall not he?
He only form'd the eye, and then
Shall he not clearly see?

10 He that the nations doth correct,
Shall he not chastise you?

He knowledge unto man doth teach,
And shall himself not know?

11 Man's thoughts to be but vanity
The Lord doth well discern.

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12 Bless'd is the man thou chast'nest, Lord, And mak'st thy law to learn: htA

13 That thou may'st give him rest from days
Of sad adversity,

Until the pit be digg'd for those
That work iniquity.

14 For sure the Lord will not cast off Those that his people be,

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Neither his own inheritance

Quit and forsake will he:
15 But judgment unto righteousness
Shall yet return again;
And all shall follow after it
That are right hearted men.

16 Who will rise up for me against
Those that do wickedly?

Who will stand up for me 'gainst those
That work iniquity.

17 Unless the Lord had been my help
When I was sore opprest,
Almost my soul had in the house
Of silence been at rest..

18 When I had uttered this word,
(My foot doth slip away,)
Thy mercy held me up, O Lord,
Thy goodness did me stay.

19 Amidst the multitude of thoughts
Which in my heart do fight,
My soul, lest it be overcharg'd,
Thy comforts do delight.

20 Shall of iniquity the throne
Have fellowship with thee,

Which mischief, cunningly contriv❜d,
Doth by a law decree?

21 Against the righteous souls they join, They guiltless blood condemn."

22 But of my refuge God's the rock, And my defence from them.

23 On them their own iniquity

The Lord shall bring and lay,
And cut them off in their own sin;
Our Lord God shall them slay.

PSALM XCV.

INTERPRETED and improved by its Author, Heb. iii. 4. concerning Christ and the gospel-day-And so, for the same reason, its parallels must be applied. To-day, to-day, the HOLY GHOST

Upon the saints doth loudly call,

In CHRIST alone to make their boast,
And lowly at his footstool fall:
For unbelievers evermore,

Who sin against the HOLY GHOST,
In outer darkness howl and roar,
And wail God's rest for ever lost!

10 COME, let us sing to the Lord:

Come, let us ev'ry one

A joyful noise make to the Rock
Of our salvation.

2 Let us before his presence come
With praise and thankful voice;
Let us sing psalms to him with grace,
And make a joyful noise.

3 For God a great God, and great King,
Above all gods he is.

4 Depths of the earth are in his hand,
The strength of hills is his.

5 To him the spacious sea belongs,
For he the same did make;
The dry land also from his hands
Its form at first did take.

60 come, and let us worship him,
Let us bow down withal,

And on our knees before the Lord
Our Maker let us fall.

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7 For he's our God, the people we Of his own pasture are,

And of his hand the sheep; to day,
If ye his voice will hear,

8 Then harden not your hearts, as in

The provocation,

As in the desert, on the day

Of the tentation.

9 When me your fathers tempt'd and prov'd, And did my working see; 10 Ev'n for the space of forty years This race hath grieved me.

I said, This people errs in heart,
My ways they do not know:

11 To whom I sware in wrath, that to
My rest they should not go.

PSALM XCVI.

SIMILAR to Psal. ii. See the margin.

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Advance, advance the voice of praise!
Let heav'n and earth resound our lays!
Messiah reigns for evermore!

Let all the world their Judge adore!

SING a new song to the Lord:
Sing all the earth to God.

2 To God sing, bless his name, shew still
His saving health abroad.

3 Among the heathen nations

His glory do declare;

And unto all the people shew

His works that wondrous are.

4 For great's the Lord, and greatly he: Is to be magnify'd;

• Prose Psalms of the Bible.

Yea, worthy to be fear'd is he
Above all gods beside.

5 For all the gods are idols dumb,
Which blinded nations fear;

But our God is the Lord, by whom
The heav'ns created were.

6 Great honour is before his face,
And majesty divine;

Strength is within his holy place,
And there doth beauty shine.
7 Do ye ascribe unto the Lord,
Of people ev'ry tribe,
Glory do ye unto the Lord,
And mighty pow'r ascribe.

8 Give ye the glory to the Lord
That to his name is due;

Come ye into his courts and bring
An offering with you.

9 In beauty of his holiness,

O do the Lord adore;

Likewise let all the earth throughout
Tremble his face before.

10 Among the heathen say, God reigns; The world shall stedfastly

Be fix'd from moving: he shall judge
The people righteously.

11 Let heavens be glad before the Lord, And let the earth rejoice;

Let seas and all that is therein,
Cry out, and make a noise.

12 Let fields rejoice, and ev'ry thing
That springeth of the earth:
Then woods and ev'ry tree shall sing
With gladness and with mirth

13 Before the Lord; because he comes, To judge the earth comes he: