God's great and gracious works. o Psal. 9, 7. 9 When God arose to judgment, to save all the έ and his strength, and his wonderful works that he P Ps. 72, 4. P meek of the earth. Selah. hath done. q Esth. 3, 9. Rev. 11, 3. 10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain. 11 Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all Rev. & that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared. a Psal. 5, 2. b Ps. 50, 15. c Isa. 26, 9. 12 He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth. PSALM LXXVII. 5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and g Isa. 20 appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their b Deut. 4, 2. { children; 6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born, who should arise and declare them to their children: 7 That they might set their hope in God, and not The Psalmist sheweth what fierce combat he had with diffi- forget the works of God; but keep his commandments: dence. To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun. c ICRIED unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave bear unto me. 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the LORD: d Luke 18,1. my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. 6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I Psal. 4, 4. 1 commune with mine own heart, and my spirit made diligent search. k Jonah 2,4. Isa. 49, 15. m Ps. 31,22. 7 Will the LORD cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no inore? 8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? 9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah. 10 And I said, This is my " infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High. 11 I will remember the works of the LORD; surely P143,. I will remember thy wonders" of old. i Isa. 53, 14 9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. Hosea 10, 7. 10 They kept not the covenant of God, and "refused to walk in his law; 11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them. Jer. 2, 32. Num. 15, Ezek. 19,14. 12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. 15 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as a heap. Ex. 14,21. 14 In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, r Neh. 9,19. and all the night with a light of fire. 15 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave 1 Cor. 16 them drink as out of the great depths. 16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and 17 And they sinned yet more against him, by a 20 Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give a Ps. 196, bread also? can he provide flesh for his people? Mat. 6, 25. 13 Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is 21 Therefore the LORD heard this, and was ↳ Num. 11, so great a God as our God! wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and an14 Thou art the God that P doest wonders: thouger also came up against Israel. hast declared thy strength among the people. 22 Because they believed not in God, and trust15 Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy peo-ed not in his salvation; ple, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah. 16 The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw F14,24, thee: they were afraid; the depths also were troubled. 17 The clouds poured out water; the skies sent Joh. 15, out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad. 11. o Num. 1, 3. 9, 11. Neh, S 18 The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled 1,2, and shook. Rom.11.33. 2 Cor. 3, 7. 19 Thy way is "in the sea, and thy path in the Ex 19. great waters, and thy footsteps are not known. 20 Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron. Weah & 4. Aris 7, 35, 24 And had rained down manna upon them to 19. 26 He caused an east wind 'to blow in the heaven; 29 So they did eat, and were well filled: for he God's wrath against the disobedient. • Hos. 5, 15. PSALMS. The desolation of Jerusalem. 34 When he slew them, then they sought him; 64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their x1 San and they returned and inquired early after God: widows made no lamentation. 39 For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. 40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilder Isa. 63, 10. ness, and grieve him in the desert! u Deut. 6, 16. I verse 20. y Ex. 7, 19, 20. Rev. 16, 4, 6. & 11, 8. 1 Ex. 8, 24. a Rev. 16, 13. b Ex. 10, 13. c Rev. 9, 3, || Or, great u 41 Yea, they turned back, and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. 42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy: 43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan: 44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink. 45 He sent * divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. 46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust. 47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore-trees with frost. 48 He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and hail-to their flocks to hot thunderbolts. & word only here, Ex. 9, 24 d 2 Sam. 22, 9. ↑ Heb. 49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending tevil angels among them. 50 He made a way to his anger; he spared not messengers, their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; or, angels of evil, Job 1, 12, 16. e 51 And smote all the first-born in Egypt; the e Ex. 12,23. chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham: 52 But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided then in the wilderness like a flock. f Gen. 10, 6. g Ps. 77, 20. h 53 And he led them on safely, so that they feared Ex. 14,27. not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. 54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right I Deut. 11, 11. Ps. 4,3 hand had purchased. 1 Deut. 7, 1. 55 He cast out the heathen also before them, and Josh. 13, m divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. n Isa. 26,10. o Deut. 4, 45. p Num. 14, 23. Josh. 7, 16. r 1 kings 11, 7. 57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like? Ptheir fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow. r 58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to' jealousy with their › Ex. 20, 4. graven images. 59 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: t 60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men; 61 And delivered " his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand. 62 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance. 63 The fire consumed their young men ; and their maidens were not given to marriage. 8 O remember not against us' former iniquities: 11. 64, 2. let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us for we are brought " very low. 9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name; and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake. P m Fs. 41, 1. n 2 Chr. 14, o Josh. 7. Ps. 106, f p Ps. 42, 10. 10 Wherefore should the heathen say, ? Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight, by the revenging of the blood of thy ser- qJer.51,36 vants which is shed. Rev. 18, 24. 11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before r Ps. 12, & thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die : 12 And render unto our neighbours seven-fold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O LORD. • Pr. 30, 7. t Isn. 65, 7 13 So we thy people, and sheep of thy pasture, will give thee thanks for ever; we will † shew forth Heb thy praise to all generations. PSALM LXXX. number, Isa. 49, 21 9 Thou 'preparedst room before it, and didst cause Josh. 24, 12. it to take deep root, and it filled the land. m Ps. 72, 2. o Isa. 5, 5. o Rev. 17,6 10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. 11 She sent out her boughs unto the "sea, and her branches unto the river. 12 Why hast thou then " broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? 13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and p Rev. 18, 5. the P wild beast of the field doth devour it. q Isa. 63, 15. 14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts, look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; 15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath Isa. 49, 1, planted, and the branch that thou madest 'strong for thyself. 2, 3, 4, 5, 5. 16 It is burnt with fire; it is cut down: they perish Ps. 59, 11. at the rebuke of thy countenance. 17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right Ps. 110, 1. hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong Jan. 7, 13. Acts 10, 38 Col. 1, 19. Ps. 149, 5. b 2 Sam. 22, $3. John 15, 5. 10. for thyself. } Rom. 1, 2 A prayer for the church. 12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust ; and they walked in their own counsels. 13"Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! Isa. 30 1. a Deut. A 21 14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, 12 Sam. 7, and turned my hand against their adversaries. 12. y Rom. 1, 15 The haters of the LORD should have submit- 30. ted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever. 13. 16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat and with honey out of the rock should Deut. 32, I have satisfied thee. PSALM LXXXII. The Psalmist, having exhorted the judges, prayeth to God. Go OD standeth in the congregation of the 'mighty: a Eccl 5,8. he judgeth among the gods. 2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. b Ex. 21, 6. c Deut. 1, 17. 3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to d Jer. 22, s the afflicted and needy. 4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the Job 29,12 hand of the wicked. fMicah 3, 1 5 They know not, neither will they understand; g Mic. 3, 9. they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are "out of course. h Ps. 11, 3. 1 John 10 6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you arc 34 children of the Most High: 7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. 8 Arise, O God, 'judge the earth: for " thou shalt inherit all nations. k Job 21,32 1 Gen. 18, 25. m Rev. 11, 15. 18 So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, KEEP not thou silence, O God: hold not thy P. 2. 1. 3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast-day, 4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. 5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt; where I heard a language that I understood not. 6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots. 7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the 'secret place of thunder; proved thee at the waters of "Meribah. Selah. 8 Hear, O my people, and I will "testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; 9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. 10 I am the LORD thy God, which brought theesetteth the mountains on fire, Ex. 15,26. out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, p Ex. 20, 3. and I will fill it. qJohn 15,7. 11 But my people would not hearken to my voice: Ex 32 1. and Israel would none of me. 15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make J9, 17. them afraid with thy storm. 16 Fill their faces with shame that they may {seek thy name, O LORD. 4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they d Rev. 4, 8, will be still praising thee. Selah. 9. e Lam. 1, 4. Or, Mulberry-trees, 2.Sam. 5, 22. f Jer. 2, 13. 2 Cor. 9, 3, 6. h Pr. 4, 18. 2 Cor. 5, 18. A Zech. 14, 17. Psalm 2 1 Isa. 60, 19. d 5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them, 6 Who passing through the valley of || Baca, make ita well: the rain also filleth the pools. 7 They go from strength to strength; every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. 80 LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selahi. 9 Behold, O God, our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed. 10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. 11 For the LORD God is 'a sun and shield; the Hev. 21, 2, LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. 3. m Ps. 2, 3. a Ps. 14,7. 12 O LORD of hosts, "blessed is the man that trusteth in thee. PSALM LXXXV. a He complaineth of the proud, PSALM LXXXVI. David strengtheneth his prayer by the conscience of his B religion. A Prayer of David. OW down thine ear, O LORD, hear me; for I a Ps. 6, 2 am poor and needy. c 2 Preserve my soul, for I am holy: O thou my b Ps. 4,3. God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee. 3 Be merciful unto me, O LORD for I thee "daily. cry unto 4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul. e 5 Forthou, LORD, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee. 6 Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications. 7 In the ' day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me. k i c 2 Chr. 14, 11. Ps. 50, 15. Ex. 15,11. & 136, 4. 8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O LORD; neither are there any works like unto thy works. 9 m All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O LORD; and shall glorify mPs. 72,8. thy name. 10 For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art " God alone. 11 Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: P unite my heart to fear thy name. 12 I will praise thee, O LORD my God, with all' my heart; and I will glorify thy name for evermore. 13 For great is thy mercy toward me; and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell. 14 O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul, and have not set thee before them. n 1 Cor. 8,4 Eph. 4, 6. o Jer. 10,23. 2 Cor. 1, Eph. 4, 15. 12. 160 turn unto me, and have mercy upon me: give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of The Psalmist prayeth for the continuance of former mercies.thy handmaid. To the chief Musician. A Psalm for the sons of Korah. ORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob. 2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people; b Ps. 32, 2. thou hast covered all their sin. Selah. 3 Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger. 4 Turn tis, O God of our salvation, and cause thine 17 Shew me a token " for good; that they which Luke 11, hate me may see it, and be ashamed; because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me. PSALM LXXXVII. 7 As well the singers as the players on instruments ķ Ezek. 15, 10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteous-shall be there: all my springs are in thec. ness and peace have "kissed each other. 11 Truth shal! spring out of the earth; and rightPJames 1, eousness shall look down from heaven. PSALM LXXXVIII. A prayer containing a grievous complaint. A song or Psalm for the sons of Korah. To the chief a LORD God of my salvation, I have cried © day 9. I Rev. 7, 15 a 1 Kings b Ex. 15, 2 Ps. 86, 3 Luke 18, 7 A grievous complaint. d Lam. 3, 8. e Ps. 107, 18. f Ps. 31, 12. PSALMS. 2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; 3 For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. 4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: 5' Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and ga. 53, 8. they are cut off from thy hand. + Heb. 6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in† darkness, drknesses, in the deeps. Psal. 69, 2. 7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast & Ps. 42, 7. afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah. i Job 19 13. 8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance' far from Psal. 31, 11. me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: k Lam. 3, 7. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. 9 Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee; I have stretched out my hands unto thee. 10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the 1 Psal. 6, 5. dead arise and praise thee? Selah. 11 Shall thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness † in destruction? n 12 Shall thy wonders be known in the " dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? 13 But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the o Ps. 31, 12. morning shall my prayer prevent thee. Eccl. 8, 10. & 9, 5. p Job ¡9, 7. ↑ Heb. 14 LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me? 15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. 16 Thy † fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors burnings have cut me off. 26. 17 They came round about me daily like water, Sam. 23, they compassed me about together. 18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, Job 19, 13. and mine acquaintance into darkness. PSALM LXXXIX. Psal. 38, 11. God's care of the church. as for the world, and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them. 12 The north and the south thou hast created p Job 26, 7 them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name. 13 Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. 14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face. 15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful 9 Num. 12, sound; they shall walk, Ó LORD, in the light of thy 28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. 29 His seed also will I make to endure' for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. m 30 If his chilaren forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; 31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; 32 Then will I visit their transgression with the ° rod, and their iniquity with stripes. a 13. John 14, 1 Cor. 15, 26. b 2 Thess. 2, 3. C Ps. 110, 1. Dan. 2, 35. dEp. 1,20, 21. Phil. 2, 9. e P6. 72, 8. 5. f Heb. 1, 4, g Col. 1, 15, 18. 33 Nevertheless my loving-kindness will IP not o Heb. 12, utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. 34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. T 35 Once have I sworn by my holiness, that I will not lie unto David. 36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. 37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and tas a faithful witness in heaven. Selah. p Rom. 8, 35. Mal. 3, 6. James 1, 17. reb. 6. 13. 38 But thou hast " cast off and abhorred, thou hast 2 Kings been wroth with thine anointed. 39 Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant; thou hast profaned his crown, by casting it to the ground. 40 Thou hast broken down all his hastbrought his strong holds to ruin. 41 All that pass by the way spoil reproach to his neighbours. 25, 10 16. hedges; thou y Ps. 80, 12 him: he is a Mat. 25, 40. Acts 9, 4 Isa. 10. 42 Thou hast set up the right hand of his adver11 The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine:saries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice. |