4 Enter his gates and courts with praise,
To thank him go ye thither:
To him express your thankfulness
And bless his name together.

5 Because the Lord our God is good,
His mercy faileth never;

And to all generations
His truth endureth ever.

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PSALM CI.

CHRIST'S undertaking and vow.

A song of God's beloved Son,
Which he to David did impart,
ways, anon

Concerning all the

See Psal. lxxv.

To be fulfill'd in Christ's own heart.

MERCY will and judgment sing,
Lord, I will sing to thee.

2 With wisdom in a perfect way,
Shall my behaviour be.
O when, in kindness unto me,
Wilt thou be pleas'd to come?
I with a perfect heart will walk
Within my house at home.

3 I will endure no wicked thing
Before mine eyes to be:

I hate their work that turn aside,
'It shall not cleave to me.

4 A stubborn and a froward heart
Depart quite from me shall;
A person giv'n to wickedness
I will not know at all.

5 I'll cut him off that slandereth
His neighbour privily :

The haughty heart I will not bear,
Nor him that looketh high.

6 Upon the faithful of the land

Mine eyes shall be, that they
May dwell with me: he shall me serve
That walks in perfect way.

7 Who of deceit a worker is

In my house shall not dwell;
And in my presence shall he not
Remain that lies doth tell.

8 Yea, all the wicked of the land
Early destroy will I
All from God's city to cut off
That work iniquity.

PSALM CII.

In this Psalm we behold the sufferings of Christ, as expressed in his own person, by the Holy Ghost, from the beginning to verse 12, contrasted with the following glory, as declared by the same Spirit in the person of the Father, from verse 12 to 23. Then, from the 23d to the middle of verse 24, the dialogue is again renewed, as at the beginning of the Psalm, in the person of the Son-to whom, from the middle of verse 24, to the end of the Psalm, the Father is again represented, as replying according to the former manner, mentioned from ver. 12 to 23: for so this Psalm, ver. 25, &c. is expressly applied and interpreted by the Holy Ghost, Heb. i. Unto the 'Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever-And thou, Lord, in the beginning, hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands,' &c.-' And they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.'

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A pray'r of God's afflicted SON,

With anguish well nigh overwhelm'd ;--
When to the Lord he pour'd his moan,
He found his spirit all becalm'd.

LORD, unto my pray'r give ear,
My cry let come to thee;

2 And in the day of my distress
Hide not thy face from me.
Give ear to me; what time I call,
To answer me make haste:

3 For, as an hearth, my bones are burnt,
My days, like smoke, do waste.

4 My heart within me smitten is,
And it is withered

Like very grass; so that I do
Forget to eat my bread.

5 By reason of my groaning voice
My bones cleave to my skin.
6 Like pelican in wilderness
Forsaken I have been:

I like an owl in desert am,
That nightly there doth moan;
7 I watch, and like a sparrow am
On the house-top alone.

8 My bitter en'mies all the day
Reproaches cast on me;

And, being mad at me, with rage
Against me sworn they be.

9 For why, I ashes eaten have

Like bread, in sorrows deep;
My drink I also mingled have
With tears that I did weep.
10 Thy wrath and indignation
Did cause this grief and pain;
For thou hast lift me up on high,
And cast me down again.

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11 My days are like unto a shade,
Which doth declining pass;
And I am dry'd and withered,
Ev'n like unto the grass.
12 But thou, Lord, everlasting art,
And thy remembrance shall
Continually endure, and be
To generations all.

13 Thou shalt arise, and mercy have
Upon thy Sion yet;

The time to favour her is come,
The time that thou hast set.

14 For in her rubbish and her stones
Thy servants pleasure take;
Yea, they the very dust thereof
Do favour for her sake.

15 So shall the heathen people fear
The Lord's most holy name;

And all the kings on earth shall dread
Thy glory and thy fame.

16 When Zion by the mighty Lord
Built up again shall be,

In glory then and majesty
To men appear shall he.

17 The prayer of the destitute
He surely will regard;
Their prayer will he not despise,
By him it shall be heard,

18 For generations yet to come
This shall be on record:

So shall the people that shall be
Created praise the Lord.

19 He from his sanctuary's height
Hath downward cast his eye;
And from his glorious throne in heav'n
The Lord the earth did spy;

20 That of the mournful prisoner

The groanings he might hear,
To set them free that unto death
By men appointed are:

21 That they in Sion may declare
The Lord's most holy name,
And publish in Jerusalem
The praises of the same;
22 When as the people gather shall
In troops with one accord,
When kingdoms shall assembled be
To serve the highest Lord.

23 My wonted strength and force he hath Abated in the way,

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And he my days hath shortened:
Thus therefore did I say,
My God, in mid-time of my days

Take thou me not away:
From age to age eternally
Thy years endure and stay.

25 The firm foundation of the earth
Of old time thou hast laid;
The heavens also are the work

Which thine own hands have made.

26 Thou shalt for evermore endure,
But they shall perish all;
Yea, ev'ry one of them wax old,
Like to a garment, shall:

Thou, as a vesture, shalt them change,
And they shall changed be:

27 But thou the same art, and thy years Are to eternity.

28 The children of thy servants shall
Continually endure;

And in thy sight, O Lord, their seed.
Shall be establish'd sure.