David prayeth for favour, David prayeth for famour in judgment; 3 be HEAR my prayer, O LORD, give ear to 3 For the enemy hath perfecuted my foul; he hath fmitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as thofe that have been long dead. 4 Therefore is my fpirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is defolate. 5 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I mufe on the work of thy hands. 61 firetch forth my hands unto thee: my foul thirfleth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah. 7 Hear me fpeedily, O LORD: my fuirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, left I be like unto them that go down into the pit. 8 Caufe me to hear thy loving kindness in the morning; for in thee do I trutt: caufe me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my foul unto thee. 9 Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me. 10 Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy fpirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightnefs. 11 Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's fake for thy righteoufnels fake bring my foul cut of trouble. 12 And of thy mercy cut off mine ene mies, and deftroy all them that afflict my foul: for I am thy fervant. PSALM CXLIV. 1 David bleffeth God for his mercy both to him and to man; 5 he prayeth that God would powerfully deliver him from his enemies; 9 be promifeth to praise God. B Pfalm of David. Leffed be the LORD my frength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my tingers to fight; 2 My goodness, and my fortrefs; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and be in whom I truft; who fubducth my people under me. 3 LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the fon of man, that thou makeft account of him! 4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a fhadow that paffeth away. 5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they thall Imoke. 6 Caft forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them. 7 Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of trange children; 8 Whose mouth fpeaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of tallehood. 9 I will fing a new fong unto thee, O God upon pfaltery and an innrument of ten Aeings will I sing praises into thee. and praiseth God's goodnejs, to it is he that giveth falvation unto kings: who delivereth David his fervant from the hurtful fword. 11 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whofe mouth speakerh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood: 12 That our fons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner ftones, polifhed after the timi litude of a palace : 13 That our garners may be full, affording all manner o, tore; that our theep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our freets: 14 That our oxen may be ftrong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets. 15 Happy is that people, that is in fuch a cafe: yea, happy is that peopie, whofe God the LORD. PSALM CXLV. 1 David praifeth God for his fame, 8, goodnefs, 1 kingdom, 14 providence, 17 and for his faving mercy. David's Pfalm of praise. Will extol thee, my God, O king; and 1 will blefs thy name for ever and ever. 2 Every day will I blefs thee; and I will praite thy name for ever and ever. 3 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praifed; and his greatness is unfearchable. 4 One generation thall praife thy works to another, and thall declare thy mighty acis. 5 I will fpeak of the glorious honour of thy majefty, and of thy wondrous works. 6 And men thall fpeak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness. 7 They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and fhall fing of thy righteoufnefs. 8The LORD is gracious, and full of com. pailion; flow to anger, and of great mercy. 9 The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works. 10 All thy works fhall praife thee, O LORD; and thy faints thall bless thee. 1 They hali fpeak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power; 12 To make known to the fons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majefly of his kingdom. 13 Thy kingdom is an everlasting king. dom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations. 14 The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raifeth up all those that be bowed down. 15 The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due feafon. 15 Thou openeft thine hand, and fatisficft the delire of every living thing. 17 The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works. 18 The Lokn is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. 19 He will find the defire of them that fear himu: he alfo will hear their cry, and will fave them. 20 The LORD preferveth all them that love him but all the wicked will he destroy. 21 My mouth shall (peak the praife of the LORD: and let all helli bleis as holy naine for ever and ever. PSALM CXLVI. 1 The plaint? vostnih perpetual praifes $6 God David's comfort in God's mercy and providence. 18 He fendeth cut his word, and melteth them: he caufeth his wind to biow, and the waters flow. PSALM S. God; 3 be exhorteth not to truft in man. $ God, for his power, juftice, mercy, and kingdom, is only worthy to be trufted. PRAISE ye the LORD. Praife the LORD, my foul. 2 While I live will I praife the LORD: I will fing praifes unto my God while I have any being. 3 Put not your truft in princes, nor in the fon of man, in whom there is no help. 4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. 5 happy is be that bath the God of Jacob for his help, whofe hope is in the LORD his God: 6 Which made heaven and earth, the fea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever: 7 Which executeth judgment for the uppreffed which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD loofeth the prifoners: 8 The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous. 9 The LORD preferveth the ftrangers; he relieveth the fatherlefs and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down. 10 The LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praife ye the LORD. PSALM CXLVII. The prophet exhorteth to praise God for his care of the church, 4 his power, 6 and bis mercy; to praise him for his providence; 12 to praise him for his blefings upon the kingdom, 15 for his power over the meteors, 19 and for his ordinances in the church. PRAISE ye the LORD: for it is good to fing praifes unto our God; for it is plea fant; and praite is comely. 2 The LORD doth build up Jerufalem: he gathereth together the outcafts of Ifrael. 3 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. 4 He telleth the number of the ftars; he calleth them all by their names. 5 Great is our LORD, and of great power: his understanding is infinite. 6 The LORD lifteth up the meek: he cafteth the wicked down to the ground. 7 Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; fing praife upon the harp unto our God: 8 Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grafs to grow upon the mountains. 9 He giveth to the beaft his food, and to the young ravens which cry. 10 He delighteth not in the ftrength of the horse he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man. The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy. 12 Praife the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion. 13 For he hath ftrengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath bleifed thy children within thee. 14 He maketh peace in thy borders, and Alleth thee with the tineft of the wheat. 15 He fendeth forth his commandment pon earth: his word runneth very swiftly. 16 He giveth fnow like wool: he fcattereth the hoar froft like athes. 17 He cafteth forth his ice like morfels: ho can ftand before his cold? 19 He theweth his word unto Jacob, his ftatutes and his judgments unto [frael. 20 He hath not dealt fo with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praite ye the LORD. PSALM CXLVIII. 1 The pfalmift exhorteth the celeftial, the terrefrial, 11 and the rational creatures to praise God. PRAISE ye the LORD. Praife ye the LORD from the heavens: praise him in the heights. 2 Praife ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hofts. 3 Praife ye him, fun and moon: praise him, all ye ftars of light. 4 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens. 5 Let them praife the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created. 6 He hath alfo ftablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which thall not país. 7 Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps: 8 Fire, and hail; fnow, and vapours; ftormy wind fulfilling his word: 9 Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars: 10 Erafts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl: 11 Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth: 12 Both young men, and maidens, old men, and children: 13 Let them praife the name of the LORD: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven. 14 He alfo exaiteth the horn of nis people, the praise of all his faints; even of the chil dren of Ifrael, a people near unto him. Praise ye the LORD. PSALM CXLIX. I The e prophet exhorteth to praise God for his love to the church, 5 and for that power which he hath given to the church. PRAISE ve the LORD., Sing unto the LORD a new fong, and his praife in the congregation of faints. 2 Let Ifrael rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful ia their king. 3 Let them praise his name in the dance: let them fing praifes unto him with the tim brel and harp. 4 For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with falvation. 5 Let the faints be joyful in glory: let them fing aloud upon their beds. 6 Let the high praifes of God be in their mouth, and a two edged sword in their hand; 7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and puaithments upon the people; 8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 9 To execute upon them the judgment written this honour have all his faints. Praife ye the LORD. PSALM CL. 1 An exhortation to praise God, 3 with all kinds of infiruments. PRAISE ye the LORD. Praise God in his fanctuary: praife him in the firmament of his power. 2 Praise The use of the proverbs. Chap. 2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. 3 Praise him with the sound of the trum pet praise him with the pialtery and harp. 4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: СНАР. I. The PROVERBS. 1 The use of the proverbs. An exhortation to fear God, and believe his word; 10 to avoid the enticings of finners. 20 Wisdom complaineth of her contempt. THE proverbs of solomon, the fon of David king of Ifrael; 2 To know wisdom and inftruction; to perceive the words of understanding; 3 To receive the inftruction or wisdom, juftice, and judgment, and equity; 4 To give fubtilty to the fimple, to the young man knowledge and difcretion. 5 A wife man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wife counfels : 6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation! the words of the wife, and their dark fayings. 7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools defpife wisdom and inftruction. 8 My fon, hear the inftruction of thy father, and torfake not the law of thy mother : 9 For they all be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. 10 My fon, if finners entice thee, confent thou not. 11 If they fay, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the in"nocent without caufe: 12 Let us (wallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as thofe that go down into the pit: 13 We shall find all precious fubftance, we shall fill our houfes with spoil: 14 Caft in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse. 15 My fon, walk not thou in the way with them; retrain thy foot from their path: 16 For their feet run to evil, and make hafte to fhed blood. 17 (Surely in vain the net is fpread in the fight of any bird.) 18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. 19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof. 20 Wisdom crieth without; he uttereth her voice in the streets; 21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city the uttereth her words, faying, 22 How long, ye fimple ones, will ye love fimplicity and the fcorners delight in their fcorning, and fools hate knowledge? 23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my Spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. 24 Becaufe I have called, and ye refufed; I have ftretched out my hand, and no man regarded; 25 But ye have fet at nought all my coun fel, and would none of my reproof: 26 I alfo will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; 27 When your fear cometh as defolation, and your deftruction cometh as a whirlwind; when diftrefs and anguifh cometh upon you. 28 Then fhall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they thall feek me early, but they thall not find me: 29 For that they hated knowledge, and did nct choose the fear of the LORD: 30 They would none of my counsel: they defpifed all my reproof. 31 Therefore hall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. 32 For the turning away of the fimple fhall flay them, and the profperity of tools shall deftroy them. 33 But whofo hearkeneth unto me shall dwell fafely, and shall be quiet from tear of evil. CHA P. II. 1 Wisdom promiseth godliness to her children, 10 and fafety from evil company, 20 and direction in good ways. Mand hide my commandments with thee Y fon, if thou wilt receive my words, 2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wifdom, and apply thine heart to underftanding; 3 Yea, if thou crieft after knowledge, and lifteft up thy voice for anderita and fearch 4 If thou feekeft her as filver, eft for her as for hid treasures! 5 Then fhalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. 6 For the LORD giveth wifdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and underftanding. 7 He layeth up found wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckier to them that walk uprightly. 8 He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preferveth the way of his faints. 9 Then fhalt thou undertand righteouf nefs, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path. 10 When wifdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy foul; Difcretion fhall preferve thee, under. ftanding fhall keep thee: 12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that fpeaketh froward things. 13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; 14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; 15 Whole ways are crooked, and they fro ward in their paths: from the ftrange woranger which flatter 16 To deliver thee man, even from the eth with her words; 17 Which forfaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. The happy gain of wisdom. PROVERBS. CHA P. III. An exhortation to obedience, 5 to faith, to mortification, 9 to devotion, 11 to patience. 13 The happy gain of wildom. 19 The poster, 21 and beneti.s of wisdom. 27 An exhortation to charitableness, 30 peaceableness, 31 and contentedness. 33 The curfed fate of the wicked. MY fon, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: 2 er length of days, and long life, and peac, fhall they add to thee. 3 Let not mercy and truth forfake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: 4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the fight of God and man 5 Truft in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he thall direct thy paths. 74 Be Hot wife in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. 8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. 9 Honour the LORD with thy fubftance, and with the first fruits of all thine increase: 10 So fhall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy preffes thall barft out with new wine. 11 My fon, defpife not the chattening of the LORD; neither be weary of his cor. rection : 12 For whom the LORD loveth he cor. recteth; even as a father the fon in whom he delighteth. 13 Happy is the man that findeth wif dom, and the man that getteth understanding. 14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain there. of than fine gold. 15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst defire are not to be compared unto her. 15 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her e.t hand riches and honour. 17 Her ways are ways of plealantnefs, and all her paths are peace. 18 she is a tree of life to them that lay hold up on her; and happy is every one that retaine h her. 19 The LORD by wifdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he eitablished the heavens. 20 By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew. 21 My fon, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep found wisdom and dif cretion: 22 So fhall they be life unto thy foul, and grace to thy neck. 23 Then thalt thou walk in thy way fately, hy foot shall not fumblę, Solomon perfuades to obedience. 24 When thou lieft down, thou shalt not be afraid yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy fleep shall be sweet. 25 Be not afraid of fudden fear, neither of the defolation of the wicked, when it cometh. 2 For the LORD thall be thy confidence, and fhall keep thy foot from being taken. 27 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it. 28 Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to-morrow I will give; when thou haft it by thee. 29¶ Devife not evil against thy neighbour, fecing he dwelleth fecurely by thee. 30 Strive not with a man without caufe, if he have done thee no harm. 31 Envy thou not the oppreffor, and choose none of his ways. 32 For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his fecret is with the righteous. 33 The curfe of the LORD is in the houfe of the wicked: but he bleffeth the habita. tion of the jutt. 34 Surely he fcorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly. 35 The wife fhall inherit glory: but shame fhall be the promotion of tools. CHA P. IV. 1 Solomon, to perfuade to obedience, 3 skeweth what inftruction he bad of his parents, sto fiudy wisdom, 14 and to bun the path of the wicked: 20 he exhorteth to faith, 23 and fantlification. Hather, and attend to EAR, ye children, the instruction of a know under. * ftanding. 2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law. 3 For I was my father's fon, tender and only beloved in the fight of my mother. 4 He taught me alfo, and faid unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. 5 Get wifdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. 6 Foríake her not, and the thall preserve thee: love her, and the thall keep thee. 7 Wifdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. 8 Exalt her, and the thail promote thee: the thall bring thee to honour, when thou doft embrace her. 9 She thall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory thall the deliver to thee. 10 Hear, O my fon, and receive my fayings; and the years of thy life thail be many. 11 I have taught thee in the way of wif dom; I have led thee in right paths. 12 When thou goeft, thy fteps fhall not be ftraitened; and when thou runneit, thou thalt not tumble. 13 Take at hold of inftruction: let ber not go: keep her; for he is thy life. 14 Enter no. into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. 15 Avoid it, país not by it, turn from it, and pafs away. 16 For they fleep not, except they have done mifchiei; and their sleep is taken a way, unless they cause fame to fail. 17 For they eat the bread or wickedness, and drink the wine of violence, The fludy of wisdom recommended. Chap. v, vi. 18 But the path of the just is as the thining light, that thineth more and more unto the perfect day. 1 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. 20 My fon, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my layings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midit of thine heart. Against Juretyship, Ec. 22 His own iniquities fhall take th: wicked himself, and he thall be holden with the cords of his ins. 23 He shall die without inftruction; and in the greatness of his folly he thall go aftray. CHAP. VI. 1 Agamft furetyship, & idlexefs, 12 and mifchievousness. 20 The blongs of obedience. 25 The mischiefs of wharedom. 22 For they are life unto those that find MYfon, if thou be kurety for thy friend, them, and health to all their fleth. 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the fues of life. 24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverie lips put far from thee. 25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look itraight before thee. 26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. 27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil. CHAP. V. 1 Solomon exhorteto to the fudy of avisdom: 3 he beweth the mischief of boredom and vist: 15 be exhorteth to contentedness, li berality, and chaffity. 22 The wicked are vertaken soith their own fins. if thou hart ftrickes thy hand with a ftranger, 2 Thou art fnared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth. 3 Do this now, my fon, and deliver thy felf, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyfelt, and make fure thy friend. 4 Give not fleep to thine eyes, nor flum. ber to thine eyelids. 5 Deliver thyfelt as a roe from the hand of the bunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. 6 Go to the ant, thou fluggard; coalider her ways, and be wife: 7 Which having no guide, overfeer, or MY fon, attend unto my wisdom, and ruler, bow thine ear to my understanding: 2 That thou mayett regard difcretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. 3 For the lips of a trange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is fmoother than oil: 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. 6 Left thou houldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canft not know them. 7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. 8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: 9 Left thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: 10 Left firangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the houfe of a stranger; 11 And thou mourn at the laft, when thy flesh and thy body are confumed, 12 And fay, How have I hated inftruction, and my heart defpifed reproot; 13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that intracted me! 14 i was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and affembly. 15Drink waters out of thine own ciftern, and running waters out of thine own well. 16 Let thy fountains be difperied abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. 17 Let them be only thine own, and not frangers, with thee. 18 Let thy fountain be bleffed: and rejoice with the wie of thy youth. 19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breafts fausfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with ber love. 20 And why wilt thou, my fon, be ravished with a ftrange woman, and embrace the bofom of a ftranger? 21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings. 8 Provideth her meat in the fummer, and gathereth her food in the harveft. 9 How long wilt thou fleep, O fluggard? when wilt thou arife out of thy fleep? 10 let a little fleep, a little lamber, a little folding of the hands to fleep: So that thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. 12A naughty perion, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. 13 He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his reet, he teacheth with his fingers; 14 Frowardnefs is in his heart, he devifeth mifchief continually; he foweth difcord. 15 Therefore than his calamity come fuddenly; fuddenly thall he be broken without remedy. 16 These fix things doth the LORD hate; yea, feven are an abomination unto him: 17 A proud look, alying tongue, and hands that thed innocent blood, 18 An heart that devifeth wicked imagi. nations, feet that be fwift in running to mischief, 19 A talfe witnefs that fpeakethies, and him that foweth discord among brethren. 20 My fon, keep thy tacher's command ment, and forlake not the law of thy mother: 21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. 22 When thou goeft, it thall lead thee; when thou sleepeft, it shall keep thee; and suben thou awakeft, it shall talk with thee. 23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproots of instruction are the way of life: 24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the nattery of the tongue or a ftrange worian. 25 Luft not after her beauty in thine heart: neither let her take thee with her eyelids. 26 For by means of a whoruh woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulterefs will hunt for the precious life. 27 Can a man take fire in his bofom, and his clothes not be burned? 28 Can one go upon hor coals, and his feet not be burned? 20 So |