and go to him: he shall tell thee 2 Kings vill, 14. So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me that thou shouldest surely recover. ON SPIRITUAL THINGS. 2 Kings xxii, 12, 13. And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Abikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying, Go ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us. up for us against the Canaanites | Then said David, O Lord God d Israel, thy servant had certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come ti Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake. Will the men of Kar deliver me up into his hand? Saul come down, as thy servac hath heard? O LORD God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell th servant. And the LORD said, Et will come down. Then s David, Will the men of Ke deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the Las said, They will deliver the op Judges xviii, 3-6. When they rere by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou in this place and what hast thou here? And he said unto them. Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest. And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous. And the before the LORD is your way priest said unto them, Go in peace: wherein ye go. Judges xx, 18, 23, 24, 26-28. And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah shall go up first. (And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until even, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the LORD said, Go up against them.) And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day. Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept and sat there before the LORD and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt-offerings and peaceofferings before the LORD. And the children of Israel enquired of Jer. xlii, 1-3. Then all the cap-nant of God was there in those the LORD, (for the ark of the cove tains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshalah, and all the people, from the least even unto Jer. xxiii, 35-37. Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath the LORD spoken? And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more; for every man's word shall be his burden: for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God. Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken? the greatest, came near, And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the LORD thy God, even for all this remnant; (for we are left but a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us;) That the LORD thy God may shiew us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do. Zech. vii, 3. And to speak unto the priests which cere in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth mouth, separat ing myself, as I have done these so many years? ON THE EVENTS OF WAR. Judges i, 1. Now, after the death of Joshua, it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go days; And Phinehas the son of hand. 1 Sam. xxiii, 1-4, 10-13. Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshing-floors. Therefore David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And the LORD said unto David, Go and smite the Philistines, and said unto him, Behold, we be afraid save Keilah, And David's men here in Judah: how much more then it we come to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines? Then David enquired of the LORD yet again. And the LORD answered him, and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into thine hand. Then David and his men ric were about six hundred, ane and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they call go. And it was told Saul the David was escaped from Ke and he forbare to go forth. 2 Sam. ii, 1. And it came to p the LORD, saying, Shall I g97 after this, that David enquired : into any of the cities of Jud And the LORD said unto him b Hebron. 2 Sam. v, 19, 22-25. And Dar enquired of the LOED Shall I go up to the Philist wilt thou deliver them into hand? And the LORD said David, Go up; for I will doubl deliver the Philistines into th hand. And the Philistines co up yet again, and spread th selves in the valley of Rep And when David enquired of LORD, he said, Thou shalt not up; but fetch a compass bel them, and come upon them of against the mulberry-trees. A let it be, when thou hearest the mulberry-trees, that theat sound of a going in the tops shalt bestir thyself; for then sta the LORD go out before thes smite the host of the Phil And David did so, as the L had commanded him; and s the Philistines from Geba thou come to Gazer. 1 Chron. xiv, 10, 11. And Dar enquired of God, saying, Stall go up against the Philistines st wilt thou deliver them into hand? And the LORD said him, Go up; for I will deliver into thine hand. So they came Baal-perazim; and David them there. Then David s God hath broken in upon enemies by mine hand like fore they called the name of breaking forth of waters 19 place Baal perazim. 2 Chron. xviii, 4-7, 14. And hoshaphat said unto the ki Israel, Enquire, I pray thee word of the LORD to-day. T fore the king of Israel gathe together of prophets fear dred men, and said unto the Shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for God will deliver it into the king's hand. But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might enquire of him? And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so. And when he was come to the king, the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gllead to battle, or shall I forbear? And he said, Go ye up, and prosper, and they shall be delivered into your hand. Jer. xxi, 2--4. Enquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us, (for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us,) if so be that the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us. Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city. Jer. xxxvii, 17. Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out; and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is; for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon. Jer. xxxviii, 14. Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that is in the house of the LORD: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing, hido nothing from me. DANGER OF OMISSION. Josh. ix, 14. And the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of the LORD. 1 Sam. xiv, 18, 19. And Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring hither the ark of God: (for the ark of God was at that time with the children of Israel.) And it came to pass, while Saul talked unto the priest, that the noise that was in the host of the Philistines went on and increased: and Saul said unto the priest, Withdraw thine hand. 1 Chron. x, 14. And enquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse. Zeph i, 6. And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him. ENQUIRIES UNANSWERED. 1 Sam. xiv, 35-38. And Saul built an altar unto the LORD: the same was the first altar that he built unto the LORD. And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning-light, and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God. And Saul asked counsel of God. Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of that day. And Saul said, Draw Israel? But he answered him not ye near hither all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day. PRAYER FOR THE DIVINE GRACE. Ps. xvi, 4, 5. Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer. Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not. Ps. xix, 11-13. Moreover, by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great Who can understand reward. his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults. Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression. Ps. xxv, 19-21. Consider mine enemies, for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred. O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee. Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee. Ps. xl, 11. Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy loving-kindness and thy truth continually preserve me. transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee. Ezek. xiv, 1-3, 7-10. Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me. And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumbling Ps. li, 9-13. Hide thy face from block of their iniquity before my sins, and blot out all mine their face: should I be enquired iniquities. Create in me a clean of at all by them? For every one heart, O God, and renew a right of the house of Israel, or of the spirit within me. Cast me not stranger that sojourneth in Israel, away from thy presence; and take which separateth himself from not thy Holy Spirit from me. Reme, and setteth up his idols in his store unto me the joy of thy salheart, and putteth the stumbling-vation; and uphold me with thy Then will I teach block of his iniquity before his free Spirit: face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself: And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet; and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh unto him. Ezek. xx, 1-8. And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to enquire of the LORD, and sat before me. Then came the word of the LORD unto me, saying, Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD, Are ye come to enquire of me? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you. Ps. lxviii, 28. Thy God hath commandedthystrength; strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us. Ps. lxxi, 3. Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress. Ps. lxxx, 18. So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name. Ps. lxxxvi, 11. Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name. Ps. cxix, 5, 6, 8. 35-40, 43-45, 80, 87, 88, 116, 117, 133, 134, 156, 159, 160, 175. Oh that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments. I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly. Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight. Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness. Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way. Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear. Turn away my reproach which I tear: for thy judgments are good. Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness. And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments. So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever. And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts. Let my heart be sound in thy statutes, that I be not ashamed. They had almost consumed me upon earth: but I forsook not thy precepts. Quicken me after thy loving-kindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth. Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope. Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually. Order my steps in thy word; and let not any iniquity have dominion over me. Deliver me from the oppression of man: 80 will I keep thy precepts. Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments. Consider how I love thy precepts: me, O LORD, according to thy quicken loving kindness. Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever. Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me. Ps. cxx, 2, 3. Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue. Ps. cxli, 3. Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips. Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity; and let me not eat of their dainties. Acts iv, 29. And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word. FOR DELIVERANCE FROM Ps. iil, 7. Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God; for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek-bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly. P8. vii, 1, 2. O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me; Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none say, I have prevailed against him; Ps. xvii, 8, 9, 13. Keep me as the soul with sinners, nor my life with with the wicked, and with the Ps. xxxi, 15. My times are in cause, O LORD, with them that foot of pride come against me, workers of iniquity fallen: they Ps. xxxviii, 16. For I said, Hear to deliver me: O LORD, make haste Ps. xliii, 1, 2. Judge me, O God, mine enemies, O my God; defend 656 ers of iniquity, and save me from O God, in my prayer: preserve Ps. Ixix, 18. Draw nigh unte my soul, and redeem it: deliver me, because of mine enemies. Ps. Ixx, 1-3. Make haste, 0 God to deliver me; make baste to he me, O LORD. Let them be asham ed and confounded that seek after ward, and put to confusion, that thy righteousness, and cause me Let the thy mercy; That they may k my God: O save me according Ps. cix, 26-29. Help me, O Los that this is thy hand; that thos LORD, hast done it. arise, let them be ashamed; t curse, but bless thou: when ther let thy servant rejoice. Let min adversaries be clothed with shape and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as w a mantle. Ps. cxix, 121, 122, 154. I base done judgment and justice: lear me not to mine oppressors. B surety for thy servant for good quicken me according to t Plead my cause, and deliver let not the proud oppress ze word. from the hands of the wicket preserve me from the violeni Ps. cxl, 4, 8. Keep me, O Les man; who have purposed to on throw my goings. Grant not o LORD, the desires of the wicked further not his wicked derics, lest they exalt themselves. Selab. deliver me from my persecuices cry; for I am brought very low: Ps. cxlii, 6, 7. Attend unto my for they are stronger than I Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the right thou shalt deal bountifully with eous shall compass me about & me. from mine enemies: I flee this Ps. cxliil, 9. Deliver me, O Lo thee to hide me. livered out of the band of our grant unto us, that we, being de Luke 1, 74, 75. That he would fear, In holiness and righteous enemies, might serve him witho ness before him, all the days of Therefore is my spirit overour life. whelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate. I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands. COMPLAINT TO GOD AGAINST ENEMIES. Ps. ill, 1, 2. LORD, how are they increased that trouble me? many are they that rise up against me. Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah. P3. xxxviii, 19. But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong; and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied. FOR THEIR OVERTHROW. Deut. xxxiii, 11. Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again. Ps. v, 10. Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own Ps. liv, 3. For strangers are counsels; cast them out in the risen up against me, and oppres-multitude of their transgressions; sors seek after my soul: they for they have rebelled against have not set God before them. Selab. thee. Ps. vi, 10. Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed, let them return and be ashamed suddenly. Ps. Ivi, 1-3, 6, 7. Be merciful unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up: he fighting daily oppresseth me. Mine enemies would daily swallowme up: forthey Ps. x, 13, 14. Wherefore doth be many that fight against me, O the wicked contemn God? he thou most High. What time I hath said in his heart, Thou wilt am afraid, I will trust in thee. not require it. Thou hast seen They gather themselves together, it; for thou beholdest mischief they hide themselves, they mark and spite, to require it with thy my steps, when they wait for my hand: the poor committeth himsoul. Shall they escape by ini-self unto thee: thou art the helper quity? in thine anger cast down of the fatherless. the people, O God. Ps. lix, 3-5. For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the miglity are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD. They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold. Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah. Ps. Ixix, 4. They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head; they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took Ps, cxliii, 1--5. Hear my prayer, O LORD; give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness. And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground: he hath Ps. xxxi, 17, 18. Let me not be ashamed, O LORD, for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave. Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous. Ps. xxxv, 4, 8, 9, 20. Let them be contounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt. Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall. And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in bis salvation. For they speak not peace; but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land. their lips let them even be taken in their pride; and for cursing and Conlying which they speak. sume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be; and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah. Ps. lxviii, 1, 2. Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him. As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God. Ps. lxxi, 13. Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt. Ps. lxxxiii, 18-18. O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire. So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm. Fill their faces with shame; that they seek thy name, O LORD. Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish: That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the Most High over all the earth. Ps. civ, 35. Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD. Ps. cix, 28, 29. Let them curse, but bless thou:when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice. Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle. Ps. cxix, 78. Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts. Ps. cxxix, 5-8. Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion: Let them be as the Pз. xl, 14, 15. Let them be grass upon the house-tops, which ashamed and confounded together withereth afore it groweth up; that seek after my soul to destroy Wherewith the mower filleth not it; let them be driven backward, his hand, nor he that bindeth and put to shame, that wish me sheaves his bosom. evil. Let them be desolate for a they which go by say, The blessreward of their shame that saying of the LORD be upon you: we unto me, Aha, aha! bless you in the name of the LORD. Ps, liv, 5. He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy truth. Ps. lv, 9. Destroy, O LORD, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strite in the city. made me to dwell in darkness, as Ps. lix, 12, 13. For the sin of those that have been long dead. I their mouth, and the words of 557 Neither do Ps. cxl, 11. Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him. Ps. cxliii, 12. And of thy mercy cut off inine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant, Jer. x 3. But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter. Jer. xvii. 18. Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded; let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction. Lam. ii, 65. 66. Give them Borrow of heart, thy curse unto them. Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD. Num. xxil, 6-12. Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people, for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thon cursest is cursed. And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Judges xvi, 28. And Samson; O LORD God of hosts, the God of called unto the LORD, and said, Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me. I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes. 1 Sam. xxvi, 19. Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the childreu of men, cursed be they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods. FOR PUNISHMENT TO THEM. Num. xvi. 15. And Moses was very wroth and said unto the LORD, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither bave I hurt one of them. Neh. iv, 4, 5. Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity. And cover Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selab And at evening let them retur and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city. Let them wander up and dow for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied. Ps. lxix, 27, 28. Add in unto their iniquity; and let De not come into thy righteousnes Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and but be written with the righteous. Ps. xciv, 2-4. Lift up th thou Judge of the earth; rendera reward to the proud. Loo, Low long shall the wicked, how l shall the wicked triumph? Ex hard things? and all the worker long shall they utter and speak of iniquity boast themselves? Ps. cix, 7- 20. When he sh be judged, let him be condem and let his prayer become s other take his office. Let s Let his days be few; and let children be fatherless, and b wife a widow. Let his childre be continually vagabonds, Balaam, and spake unto him the not their iniquity, and let not beg; let them seek their tra words of Balak. Aud Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me, saying, Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which covereth the face of the earth: come now, curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out. And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed. Num. xxiv, 10. And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to curse mine enemies, also out of their desolate pisos Let the extortioner catch all t their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked he hath; and let the strange thee to anger before the builders. spoil his labour. Let there > and said, So God shake out every neither let there be any to fin Neh. v, 13. Also I shook my lap, none to extend mercy unto man from his house, and from his his fatherless children. Let labour, that performeth not this posterity be cut off, and in the promise, even thus be he shaken generation following let the out and emptied. And all the name be blotted out. Let praised the LORD. And the peo-bered with the LORD; and le: congregation said, Amen, and iniquity of his fathers be reelsple did according to this promise. the sin of his mother be ble Job xxvii, 7. Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous. Ps. x, 2. The wicked in his pride and, behold, thou hast altogether taken in the devices that they doth persecute the poor: let them blessed them these three times. Joshua xxiv, 9-11. Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you: But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand. And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand. Judges v, 23. Curse ye Meroz, (said the angel of the LORD,) curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty. have imagined. out. LORD continually, that he may Let them be before the cut off the memory of them fros the earth: Because that he membered not to shew mers needy man, that he might e but persecuted the poor slay the broken in heart. As Ps. xxviii, 4. Give them accord-loved cursing, so let it come ing to their deeds, and according him; as he delighted not in blas to the wickedness of their ening, so let it be far from hi deavours: give them after the As he clothed himself with them their desert. work of their hands; render to ing, like as with his garmen❤ let it come into his bowels 13: Let it be unto him as the garest water, and like oil into his bos which covereth him, and for girdle wherewith he is girl continually. Let this be the ward of mine adversaries fra the LORD, and of them that sp evil against my soul. Ps. xli, 10-12. But thou O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them. By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me. And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever. Ps. lv, 15. Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them. Ps. lix, 5, 14, 15. Thou therefore, Ps. cxix, 84. How many are days of thy servant? when thou execute judgment on the that persecute me? P3. cxl, 9, 10. As for the head those that compass me abo the mischief of their own p |