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*salvation to kings: who redeems his known to the sons of men thy power, + Or, victory. servant David from the and the glorious majesty of thy kinghurtful sword. "Deliver me, and dom. 13 Thy kingdom is + Gr. a kingrescue me from the hand of strange an everlasting kingdom, dom of all ages. children, whose mouth has spoken and thy dominion endures + Gr. in every vanity, and their right hand is a through all generations. generation. right hand of iniquity. 12 Whose The Lord is faithful in his words, and children are as plants, strengthened holy in all his works. 14 The Lord in their youth, their daughters are supports all that are falling, and sets beautiful, sumptuously adorned after up all that are broken down. 15 The the similitude of a temple. 13 Their eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou garners are full, and bursting with givest them their food in due season. one kind of store after another; their 16 Thou openest thine hands, and fillest sheep are prolific, multiplying in their every living thing with pleasure. streets. 14 Their oxen are fat: there 7 The Lord is righteous in all his is no falling down of a hedge, nor going ways, and holy in all his works. 18 The Or, habita- out, nor cry in their folds. Lord is near to all that call upon him, 15 Men bless the people to to all that call upon him in truth. whom this lot belongs, but 19 He will perform the desire of them blessed is the people whose that fear him: and he will hear their supplication, and save them. 20 The Lord preserves all that love him: but 21 My mouth shall speak the praise of all sinners he will utterly destroy. the Lord: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.

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+ Possibly 'whose Lord is their God.'

God is the Lord.

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144. (145) David's Psalm of Praise. I will exalt thee, my God, my king; and I will bless thy name for 'ever + Lit. to the and ever. 2 Every day will age of the age. I bless thee, and I will praise thy name for ever and ever. The Lord is great, and greatly to be praised; and there is no end of his greatness. 4 Generation after generation shall praise thy works, and tell of thy power. And they shall speak of the glorious majesty of thy holiness, and recount thy wonders. And they shall speak of the power of thy terrible acts; and recount thy greatness. Gr. eructa- They shall utter the memory of the abundance of thy goodness, and shall exult in thy righteousness. The Lord is compassionate, and merciful; long-suffering, and abundant in mercy. The Lord is good to those that wait on him; and his compassions are over all his works. 10 Let all thy works, O Lord, give thanks to thee; and let thy saints bless thee. "They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy dominion; 12 to make

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My soul, praise the Lord. 2 While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist. 3 Trust not in princes, nor in the children of men, in whom there is no safety. His breath shall go forth, and he shall return to his earth; in that day all his thoughts shall perish. Blessed is he whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God: 6 who made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all things in them: who keeps truth for ever: who executes judgment for the wronged: who gives food to the hungry. The Lord looses the fettered ones: the Lord gives wisdom to the blind: the Lord sets up the broken down: the Lord loves the righteous: the Lord preserves the strangers; he will relieve the orphan and widow: but will

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utterly remove the way of sinners. | wind, and the waters shall flow. 19 He 10 The Lord shall reign for ever, even sends his word to Jacob, his ordinances thy God, O Sion, to all generations. and judgments to Israel. 20 He has not done so to any other

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146. (147) Alleluia, a Psalm of Ag-nation; and he has not shown them gæus and Zacharias. his judgments.

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148. Alleluia, a Psalm of Aggæus and

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Praise ye the Lord: for psalmody is a good thing; let praise be sweetly sung to our God. 2 The Lord builds up Jerusalem; and he will gather to- Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: gether the dispersed of Israel. 3 He praise him in the highest. 2 Praise ye heals the broken in heart, and binds him, all his angels: praise ye him, all up their wounds. He numbers the his hosts. Praise him, sun and moon: multitudes of stars; and calls them all praise him, all ye stars and light. by names. 5 Great is our Lord, and Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, great is his strength; and his under- and the water that is above the heavens. standing is infinite. 6 The Lord lifts 5 Let them praise the name of the Lord: up the meck; but brings sinners down for he spoke, and they were made; he to the ground. Begin the song with commanded, and they were created. thanksgiving to the Lord; sing praises He has established them for ever, on the harp to our God: who covers even for ever and ever: he has made the heaven with clouds, who prepares an ordinance, and it shall not pass rain for the earth, who causes grass to away. Praise the Lord from the spring up on the mountains, [and earth, ye serpents, and all deeps. Fire, See Ps. 103. green herb for the service hail, snow, ice, stormy wind; the things of men;] and gives to that perform his word. 9 Mountains, cattle their food, and to the young and all hills; fruitful trees, and all ravens that call upon him. 10 He will cedars: 10 wild beasts, and all cattle; not take pleasure in the strength of a reptiles, and winged birds: "kings horse; neither is he well-pleased with of the earth, and all peoples; princes, the legs of a man. 11 The Lord takes and all judges of the earth: young pleasure in them that fear him, and in men and virgins, old men with youths: all that hope in his mercy. 13 let them praise the name of the Lord: for his name only is exalted;

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147. Alleluia, a Psalm of Aggæus and his praise is above the earth and heaven, 14 and he shall exalt the horn hymn for all his saints, even of his people, there is a + Or, who is of the children of Israel, a people who draw near to him.

12 Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Sion. 13 For he has strengthened the bars of thy gates; he has blessed thy children within thee. 14 He makes thy borders peace+ Lit. fat of ful, and fills thee with the

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*flour of wheat. 15 He sends his oracle to the earth his word will run swiftly. 16 He gives snow like wool: he scatters the mist like ashes. 17 Casting forth his ice like morsels: who shall stand before his cold? 18 He shall send out his word, and melt them: he shall blow with his

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Sing to the Lord a new song: his praise is in the assembly of the saints. Let Israel rejoice in him that made him; and let the children of Sion exult in their king. 3 Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises to him with timbrel and psaltery. For the Lord takes pleasure

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Gr. exalta- beds. The 'high praises tollings. of God shall be in their throat, and two-edged swords in their hands; to execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments among the peoples; to bind their kings with fetters, and their nobles with manacles *Gr. inscribed, of iron; to execute on them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.

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I was small among my brethren, and youngest in my father's house: I tended my father's sheep. 2 My hands formed a musical instrument, and my fingers tuned a psaltery. And who shall tell my Lord? the Lord himself, he himself hears. He sent forth his angel, and took me from my father's sheep, and he anointed me with the oil of his anointing. My brothers were handsome and tall; but the Lord did not take pleasure in them. I went forth to meet the Philistine; and he cursed me by his idols. 7 But I drew his own sword, and beheaded him, and removed reproach from the children of Israel.

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CHAPTER I. VERSES 1-28.

1. THE proverbs of Solomon son | vide a common purse, and let us have of David, who reigned in Israel; 2 to one pouch: 15 go not in the way with know wisdom and instruction; and to them, but turn aside thy foot from perceive words of understanding; and their paths: 17 for nets are + For ver. 16, + Gr. turn- to receive hard sayings, not without cause spread see Appendix. ings, or, q. d. and to understand true for birds. 18 For they that are conjustice, and how to direct cerned in murder store up evils for judgment; that he might give sub- themselves; and the overthrow of tlety to the simple, and to the young transgressors is evil. 19 These are the + Or, discretion. man discernment and un- ways of all that perform lawless deeds; derstanding. For by the hearing of for by ungodliness they destroy their these a wise man will be wiser; and own life.20 Wisdom sings aloud in the man of understanding will gain passages, and in the broad places speaks direction; 6 and will understand a boldly. 21 And she makes proclamaparable, and a dark speech; the say- tion on the top of the walls, and sits ings of the wise also, and riddles. by the gates of princes; and at the The fear of the Lord is the begin- gates of the city boldly says, 22 So long + Or, sum, or, ning of wisdom; and there as the simple cleave to justice, they is good understanding to shall not be ashamed: but the foolish all that practise it: and piety towards being lovers of haughtiness, having God is the beginning of discernment; become ungodly have hated knowbut the ungodly will set at nought ledge, and are become subject to rewisdom and instruction. 8 Hear, my proofs. 23 Behold, I will bring forth son, the instruction of thy father, and to you the utterance of my breath, and reject not the rules of thy mother. I will instruct you in my speech. 9 For thou shalt receive for thine head 24Since I called, and ye did not hearken; a crown of graces, and a chain of gold and I spoke at length, and ye gave no round thy neck. My son, let not heed; 25 but ye set at nought my ungodly men lead thee astray, neither counsels, and disregarded my reproofs; consent thou to them. "If they should 26 therefore I also will laugh at your exhort thee, saying, Come with us, destruction; and I will rejoice against partake in blood, and let us unjustly you when ruin comes upon you: hide the just man in the earth: 12 and when dismay suddenly comes upon let us swallow him alive, as Hades you, and your overthrow shall arrive would, and remove the memorial of like a tempest; and when tribulation him from the earth: 13 let us seize on and distress shall come upon you, or his valuable property and let us fill our when ruin shall come upon you. 28 For houses with spoils: but do thou cast it shall be that when ye call upon me, in thy lot with us, 14 and let us all proI will not hearken to you: wicked men

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shall seek me, but shall not find me. 29 For they hated wisdom, and did not choose the word of the Lord: 30 neither would they attend to my counsels; but they sneered at my reproofs. 31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruits of their own way, and shall be filled with their own ungodliness. 32 For because they wronged the simple, they shall be slain; and an inquisition shall destroy the ungodly. 33 But he that hearkens to me shall dwell See Ps. 16. in confidence, and shall rest securely from all evil.

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straight way, and to es- + Lit. wheel
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eous purpose. My son, let is.
not evil counsel overtake
thee, 17 of her who has forsaken the in-
struction of her youth, and forgotten
the covenant of God. 18 For she has
fixed her house near death, and guided
her wheels near Hades with the 'giants.
19 None that go by her shall + See Heb.
return, neither shall they take hold of
right paths, for they are not appre-
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paths, they would have found the paths
of righteousness 'easy. 21 For + Gr. smooth.
the upright shall dwell in the earth,
and the holy shall be left behind in it.
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out of the earth, and transgressors shall
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2. My son, if thou wilt receive the utterance of my commandment, and hide it with thee; 2 thine ear shall hearken to wisdom; thou shalt also apply thine heart to understanding, and shalt apply it to the instruction of thy son. 3 For if thou shalt call to wisdom, and utter thy voice for understanding; and if thou shalt seek it as silver, and search 3. My son, forget not my laws; but diligently for it as for treasures; then let thine heart keep my words: 2 for shalt thou understand the fear of the length of existence, and years of life, Lord, and find the knowledge of God. and peace, shall they add to thee. For the Lord gives wisdom; and Let not mercy and truth+Alex. + ‘and from his presence come knowledge and forsake thee; but bind them the table of understanding, and he treasures up about thy neck: so shalt thine heart.' salvation for them that 'walk uprightly: thou find favour and do 12. 17. q. d. direct he will protect their way; thou provide things honest in the aright. 8 that he may guard the sight of the Lord, and of men. Trust Gr. ways of righteous ways: and he in God with all thine heart; and be will keep throughout the not exalted in thine own wisdom. In way of them that fear him. Then all thy ways acquaint thyself with her, shalt thou understand righteousness, that she may rightly direct Gr. divide. and judgment; and shalt direct all thy paths. Be not wise 13. Gr. all good thy course aright. 10 For in thine own conceit; but fear God, lines, lit.axles. if wisdom shall come into and depart from all evil. 8 Then shall thine understanding, and discernment there be health to thy body, and good shall seem pleasing to thy soul, "good keeping to thy bones. Honour the counsel shall guard thee, and holy un- Lord with thy just labours, and give derstanding shall keep thee; 12 to de- him the first of thy fruits of righteousliver thee from the evil way, and from ness: that thy storehouses may be the man that speaks nothing faithfully. completely filled with corn, and that 13 Alas for those who forsake right thy presses may burst forth with wine. paths, to walk in ways of darkness; 11 My son, despise not the +Heb. 12. 5, 6. 14 who rejoice in evils, and delight in chastening of the Lord; nor faint wicked perverseness; 15 whose paths when thou art rebuked of him : 2 for are crooked, and their courses wind- whom the Lord loves, he rebukes,

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