David's complaint. PSALMS, 25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not feen the righteous forfaken, nor his feed begging bread. 20 He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his feed is bleffed. 27 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore. 28 For the LORD loveth judgment, and forfaketh not his faints; they are preferved for ever: but the feed of the wicked shall be cut off. 29 The righteous fhall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever. 30 The mouth of the righteous fpeaketh wifdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment. 31 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his fteps thall flide. 32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and feeketh to flay him. 33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged. 34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt fee it. 35 I have feen the wicked in great power, and fpreading himself like a green bay tree: 36 Yet he pafted away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I fought him, but he could not be found. 37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace. 38 But the tranfgreffors fhall be deftroy. ed together; the end of the wicked thall be cut off. 39 But the falvation of the righteous is of the LORD; be is their strength in the time of trouble. 40 And the LORD thall help them, and deliver them: he thall deliver them from the wicked, and fave them, because they truft in him. PSALM XXXVIII. brance. LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath; neither chaften me in thy hot difpleasure. 2 For thine arrows ftick faft in me, and thy hand preffeth me fore. 3 There is no foundrefs in my flesh beqaufe of thine anger; neither is there any reft in my bones because of my fin 4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. 5 My wounds flink and are corrupt becaufe of my foolishness. 6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. 7 For my loins are filled with a loathfome difcafe: and there is no foundness in my ficth. 8 I am feeble and fore broken: I have roared by reafon of the difquietnefs of my heart. 9 LORD, all my defire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. To My heart panteth, my itrength faileth me: as for the fight of mine eyes, it alfo is gone from me. 11 My lovers and my friends ftand aloof. from my fore; and my kinûneu ftand atar off. 12 They alfo that feek after my life lay Chares far me; and they that feek my hurt The vanity of life. fpeak mifchievous things, and imagine de ceits all the day long. 13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. 14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not: and in whofe mouth are no reproots. 15 For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O LORD my God. 16 For I faid, Hear me, left otherwise they fhould rejoice over me: when my foot flippeth, they magnity themselves against me. is continually before me. 18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be forry for my fin. are ftrong: and they that hate me wrong19 But mine enemies are lively, and they fully are multiplied. 20 They alfo that render evil for good are mine adverfaries; because I follow the thing that good is. 21 Forfake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me. 22 Make hafte to help me, O LORD my falvation. PSALM XXXIX. 1 David's care of his thoughts. 4 The confi deration of the brevity and vanity of life. 7 The reverence of Go@s judgments, c. To the chief Mulcian, even to Jeduthun, A Pfalm of David. Said, I will take heed to my ways, that I fin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, "while the wicked is before me. 2 I was dumb with filence, I held my peace, even from good; and my forrow was itirred. 3 My heart was hot within me, while I was muling the fire burned: then ipake 1 with my tongue, 4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail 1 am. s Behold, thou haft made my days as an hand breadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his bet ftate is altogether vanity. Selah. 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain fhew: furely they are difquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall ga. ther them. 7 And now, LORD, what wait I for? My hope is in thee. Deliver me from all my tranfgreffions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. 91 was dumb, l'opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. 10 Remove thy ftroke away from me: I am confumed by the blow of thine hand. When thou with rebukes doft corre& man for iniquity, thou makeft his beauty tỏ confume away like a moth: furely every man is vanity. Selah. 12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a ftranger with thee, and a fojourner, as all my fathers were. 13 Ofpare me, that I may recover frength, before I go hence, and be no more. PSALM XL. 1 The benefit of confidence in God. 6 Obe- I Of trufting in God, David's zeal for God. nity: his heart gatheret iniquity to itfl when he goeth abroad he telleth it. PSALM 9. Waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. 2 He brought me up alfo out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and fet my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. 3 And he hath put a new fong in my mouth, even praife unto our God: many fhail fee it, and fear, and thall truft in the LORD. 4 Bleffed is that man that maketh the LORD his truft: and refpecieth not the proud, nor fuch as turn afide to lies. 5 Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou haft done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and peak of them, they are more than can be numbered, 6 Sacrifice and offering thou didft not defire; mine ears haft thou opened: burnt offering and fin-offering haft thou not required. 7 Then faid I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me; 8 I delight to do thy will, O my God. yea, thy law is within my heart. 9 I have preached righteoufnefs in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knoweft. 7 All that hate me whisper together againft me: againit nie do they devife my hurt. 8 An evil deafe, Fay they, cleaveth faft unto him: and now that he lieth he that! rife up no more. Yea, mine own familiar friend in whom I truited, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel againtì me. 10 But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and rafe me up, that I may requite them. 11 By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me. 12 And as for me, thou upholdet me in mine integrity, and fetteft me before thy face for ever. Amen. 13 Bleffed be the LORD God of Ifrael from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen and PSALM XIII. David's zeal to ferve God in the temple. To the chief Mufician, Mafchil, for the fons of Korah. the hart after the water 17h, ve Hot bd thy righteoufnefs with- A brooks, do panteth my foul after thee, in my heart; I have declared thy faithfuinefs and thy falvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation. 11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preferve me. 12 For innumerable evils have compared me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, fo that I am not able to look up: they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me. 13 Be pleafed, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make hatte to help me. 14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that feek after my foul to deftroy it; let them be driven backward, and put to fhame, that with me evil. 15 Let them be defolate for a reward of their fhame, that fay unto me, Aha, aha! 16 Let all thofe that feek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let fuch as love thy falvation fay continually, The LORD be magnified. 17 But I am poor and needy; yet the LORD thinketh apon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God. PSALM XLI. 1 God's care of the poor. 4 David complaineth of his enemies' treachery. To the chief Musician, A Pfalm of David. B Leffed is he that confidereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. 2 The LORD will preferve him, and keep him alive; and he fhall be bleed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him into the will of his enemies. 3 The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languithing: thou wilt make all his bed in his fickness. 4 I faid, LORD, be merciful unto me; heal my foul; for I have finned against thee." 5 Mire enemies fpeak evil of me; When that he die, and his name perifh? 6 And if he come to fee me he speaketh va O God. 2 My foul thirfteth for God, for the liv. ing God: when thall I come and appear be fore God? night, while they continually say unto me, 3 My tears have been my meat day and Where is thy God? 4 When I remember these things, I pour out my foul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holy day. 5 Why art thou caft down, O my foul and God: for I thali yet praife him for the heip of why art thou difquieted in me! Hope thou in his countenance. 60 my God, my foul is caft down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. water fpouts: all thy waves and thy billows 7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy are gone over me. 8 Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindnefs in the day time, and in the night his fong ball be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. 9 I will fay unto God my rock, Why haft caufe of he oppreffion of the enemy? thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning be enemies reproach me; while they fay daily 10 As with a word in my bones, mine unto me, Where is thy God. 11 Why art thou caff down, O my foul? and thou in God: for I thall yet praife him, who is why art thou difquieted within me? Hope the health of my countenance, and my God. PSALM XLII. David, praying to be restored to the temple, promifeth to ferve God joyfully. Jain an ungodly nation: O deliver me UDGE me, O God, and plead my caufe a from the deceitful and unjuft man. 2 For thou art the God of my strength: why doft thou caft me off? Why go I mourning because of the oppreifion of the enemy? 3 Ofend out thy light and thy truth: let R them The church's complaint. PSALMS. them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. 4 Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praife thee, O God my God. 5 Why art thou caft down, O my foul and why art thou difquieted within me? Hope in God: for I shall yet praife him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. PSALM XLIV. The church, in memory of former favours, complaineth of her prefent evil: 1f profell me ber integrity, 24 she fervently prayeth To the chief Mufician for the fons of Korah, Mafchil. fuccour. WE have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didit in their days, in the times of old. 2 How thou didft drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedit them; bow thou didft afflict the people, and caft them out. 3 For they got not the land in poffeflion by their own fword, neither did their own arm fave them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, becaufe thou hadft a favour unto them. 4 Thou art my king, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. 5 Through thee will we push down our enemies through thy name we will tread them under that rife up againft us. 6 For I will not truit in my bow, neither fhall my fword fave me. 7 But thou haft faved us from our enemies, and hait put them to shame that hated us. 8 In God we boaft all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah." 9 But thou hath caft off, and put us to shame : and gbeft not forth with our armies. 10 Thou makeft us to turn back from the eneny and they which hate us fpoil for themselves. 11 Thou haft given us like sheep appointed for meat; and haft fcattered us among the heathen. 12 Thou felleft thy people for nought, and doft not increase thy wealth by their price. 13 Thou makeft us a reproach to our neigh bours, a fcorn and a derition to them that are round about us. 14 Thou makeft us a by word among the heathen, a thaking of the head among the people. 15 My confufion is continually before me, and the thame of my face hath covered me, 16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blafphemeth; by reafon of the enemy and avenger. 17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falfely in thy covenant. 18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; 19 Though thou hart fore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the Thadow of death. 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or ftretched out our hands to a ftrange God; 21 shall not God fearch this out! for he knoweth the fecrets of the heart. 22 Yea, for thy fake are we killed all the day kong, we are counted as theep for the flaughter. 13 Awake, why fleepeit thou, O LORD! A ise, caft us out ott for ever. The grace of Chrift's kingdom. 24 Wherefore hideft thou thy face, and for. getteft our affliction and our oppression? 25 For our foul is bowed down to the duft : our belly cleaveth unto the earth. 25 Arife for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' fake. PSALM XLV. The majefty and grace of Chrift's kingdom. 10 The duty of the church. To the chief Muficían upon Shofhannim, for the fons of Korah, Maschil, A fong of loves. My heart is inditing a good matter: I fpeak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. 2 Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath bleffed thee for ever. 3 Gird thy fword upon thy thigh, O mo mighty, with thy glory and thy majefty. 4 And in thy majefty ride profperoutly be caufe of truth and meeknefs and righteouf nefs; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. 5 Thine arrows are tharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee. 6 Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the fceptre of thy kingdom is a right fceptre. 7 Thou lovett righteoufnefs, and hateft wickednefs: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. 8 All thy garments fmell of myrrh, and aloes, and caffia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad." 9 Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did ftand the queen in gold of Ophir. 10 Hearken, O daughter, and confider, and incline thine car; forget alfo thine own people, and thy father's houfe; II So fhall the king greatly defire thy beauty: for he is thy LORD; and worship thou him. 12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people fhall entreat thy favour. 13 The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold. 14 She thall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her thali be brought unto thee. 15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: theythail enter into the king's palace. 16 Instead of thy father's fhall be thy children, whom thou mayeft make princes in all the earth. 17 I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore thall the people praife thee for ever and ever. PSALM XLVI. 1 The confidence which the church bath in God: 8 an exbortation to contemplate the works of Providence, To the chief Mufician for the fons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth. GOD is our refuge and strength, a very prefent help in trouble. 2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midit or the fea; 3 Thonga the waters thereot roar and be troubled The ornaments of the church. PSALMS. troubled, though the mountains shake with the fwelling thereof. Selah. 4 There is a river, the ftreams whereof fhall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Moit High. 5 God is in the midft of her; the fhall not be moved: God thall help her, and that right early. 6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted. 7 The LORD of hofts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. 8 Come, behold the works of the LORD, what defolations he hath made in the earth. 9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth Of the refurre&ion. of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments. 12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tel. the towers thereof. 13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, confider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation tolloving. 14 For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide ever unto death. PSALM XLIX. An earnest perfusion to build the faith of the refurrection, not on worldly power, but on God. 16 Worldly profperity is not to he admired. To the chief Mufician, A Pfalm for the fons of Korah. the fpear in funder; he burneth the chariot HEAR this, all ye people; give ear, all ye in the fire. 10 Be ftill, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heather, I will be exalted in the earth. 11 The LORD of hofts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. PSALM XLVII. The nations are exhorted cheerfully to enter tain the kingdom of Chrift. To the chief Mufician, A Plaim for the fons of Korah. Clap your hands, all ye people; thout unto with the voice of triumph. 2 For the LORD moft high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth. 3 He shall fubdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet. 4 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selab. 5 God is gone up with a fhout, the LORD with the found of a trumpet. 6 Sing praifes to God, fing praifes: fing praises unto our King, fing praifes. 7 For God is the King of all the earth: fing ye praifes with understanding. 8 God reigneth over the heathen: God fitteth upon the throne of his holiness. 9 The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the fhields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted. PSALM XLVIII. The ornaments and privileges of the church. A Song and Pfalm for the fons of Korah. GREAT is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holinefs. 2 Beautiful for fituation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the fides of the north, the city of the great King. 3 God is known in her palaces for a refuge. 4 For, lo, the kings were affembled, they pailed by together. 5 They faw it, and fo they marvelled; they were troubled, and hafted away. 6 Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail. 7 Thou breakeft the ships of Tarshish with an east wind. 8 As we have heard, fo have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will eftablish it for ever. Selah. 9 We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the mid of thy temple: 10 According to thy name, O God, fo is thy praife unto the ends of the earth: thy fight hand is full of righteousness. * Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters inhabitants of the world: 2 Both low and high, rich and poor, toge ther. 3 My mouth fhall fpeak of wildom; and the meditation of my heart fall be of underftanding. 4I will incline mine ear to a parable: f will open my dark faying upon the harp. 5 Wheretore fhould I tear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels fhall compafs me about? 6 They that trust in their wealth, and boaft themselves in the multitude of their riches; 7 None of them can by any means redeem' his brother, nor give to God a raniom for him: 8 (For the redemption of their foul is pre cious, and it ceaseth for ever;) 9 That he thould still live for ever, and not fec corruption. 10 For he feeth that wife men die, likewife the fool and the brutish peron perish, and leave their wealth to others. Their inward thought is, that their houfes fhall continue for ever and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names. 12 Nevertheless, man being in honour a bideth not: he is like the beafts that perifh. 13 This their way is their olly: yet their pofterity approve their fayings. Selah. 14 Like theep they are laid in the grave; deach fhall feed on them; and the upright fhall have dominion over them in the morn ing; and their beauty fhall confume in the grave from their dwelling. 15 But God will redeem my foul from the power of the grave: for he thall receive me. Selah. 16 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased; 17 For when he dieth he hall carry no thing away: his glory thall not defcend after him. 18 Though while he lived he bleffed his foul and men will praife thee, when thou doel well to thyself. 19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they thail never fee light. 20 Man that is in honour, and underftandeth not, is like the beafts that perish. PSALM L. 1 The majefly of God in the church: 5 bis order to gather faints. 7 The pleasure ot God is not in ceremonies, 14 but in jucerity of obedience. A Palm of Asaph. THE mighty God, even the LORD, hath fpoken, and called the earth from the R 2 rifipg God's majefly in the church. PSALMS. David's prayer for jan&ification; rifing of the fun unto the going down thereof. 2 Out of Zion, the periection of beauty, God hath th.ned. 3 Our God thall come, and thall not keep filence: a fire thall devour beicre him, and it hall be very tempeftuc us round about him. +He thall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth that he may judge his people. 5 Gather my faints together unto me; thofe that have made a covenant with me by facrifice. And the heavens fhall declare his righteoufnefs: tor God is judge himfelt. Selah. 7 Hear, O my people, and I will fpeak; O Ifrael, and I will teftity against thee: I'am God, even thy God. 8 I will not reprove thee for thy facrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. I will take no bullock out of thy houfe, nor he goats out of thy folds. 10 Forevery beaft of the foreft is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. 11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild bearts of the field are mine. 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. 13 Will I eat the flesh of balls, or drink the blood of goats! 14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the Most High: is And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. 16 But unto the wicked God faith, What haft thou to do to declare my ftatutes, or the thou thouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? 17 Seeing thou hateft inftruction, and caft. eft iny words behind thee. 18 When tnou faweit a thief, then thou confented with him, and hart been partaker with adulterert. 19 Thou givet thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue trameth deceit. 20 Thqu fitteft and speakest against thy brother; thou landereft thine own mother's fon. 21 These things hatt thou done, and I kept 4 Against thee, thee only, have I finned, and done this evil in thy fight: that thou might. eft be juftified when thou ipeakeft, and be clear when thou judgett. 5 Behold, I was thapen in iniquity, and in fin did my mother conceive me. 6 Behold, thou defireft truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou fhalt make me to know wifdom. 7 Furge me with hyffop, and I shall be clean: wath me, and I shall be whiter than fnow. 8 Make me to hear joy and gladnefs; that the bones which thou haft broken may re joice. 9 Hide thy face from my fins, and blot out all mine faiquities. 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right fpirit within me. 11 Caft me not away from shy prefence; and take not thy holy fpirit from me. 12 Reftore unto me the joy of thy falva. tion: and uphold me with thy free Spirit. 13 Then will I teach tranfgreffors thy ways; and finners shall be converted unto thee. 14 Deliver me from blood guiltinefs, O God, thou God of my falvation: and my tongue thall fing aloud of thy righteouf. nefs. 15 O LORD, open thou my lips; and my mouth fhall fhew forth thy praise. 16 For thou defireft not facrifice; elfe would I give it: thou delightett not in burnt-offering. The facrifices of God are a broken fpirit a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not defpife. 18 Do good in try good pleasure unto Zi. on: build thou the walls of Jerufalem. 19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the facrifices of righteoufnefs, with burnt-offering, and whole burnt-offering: then shall they orter bullocks upon thine altar. PSALM LII. David, reproving the spitefulness of Doeg. prophefieth bis deftrućtion : 6 the righteous fhall rejoice at it. To the chict Mufician, Maschil, A Pfalm of David, when Doeg the Edom.te came and told Saul, and faid unto him, David is come to the houfe of Ahimelech, WHY bcafteft thou thyfelf in mifchief, O filence; thou thou hteft that I was altoge. W mighty, man? The goodness of God ther fuch an one as thy feif: but I will reprove thee, and fet them in order before thine eyes. 22 Now confider this, ye that forget God, left I tear you in picces, and there be none to deliver. 23 Whofo offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright w:11 1 shew the falvation of God. PSALM LI. 1 David prayeth for remifion of fins, whereof be maketh a drep confejon: 6 he prayeth for fanctification To the chief Mutician, A Pfaim of David, when Natian the prophet came unto him, aiter he had gone in to Bathsheba. H AVE mercy upon me, O God, acording to thy lovin, kindocts: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies biot out my tranficmons. 2 Wall ine the rou, hly from mine iniquity, and cleante me trom my fin. 3 For I acknowledge my tranfgrons; and my fin is ever before me. endureth continually. 2 Thy tongue devifeth mifchiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 3 Thou lovett evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Sclan. 4 Thou loveft all devouring words, ✪ thou deceitful tongue. 5 Gotthall likewife deftroy thee for ever: he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land or the living, selah. 6 The rightecus alfo all fee, and fear, and shall laugh at him: 7 Lo, this is the man that made not God his frength; but trufted in the abundance of his riches, and ftrengthened Linuelt in his wickednefs. 8 But I am like a green olive tree in the houfe of God: I trud in the mercy of Go for ever and ever. 9 I will praife thee for ever, because thou haft |