1 Unto the end, for the sons of Core, a psalm.
2LORD, thou hast blessed thy land: thou hast
turned away the captivity of Jacob.
3 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy peo-
ple: thou hast covered all their sins.

4 Thou hast mitigated all thy anger: thou hast turned away from the wrath of thy indignation. 5 Convert us, O God our saviour: and turn off thy anger from us.

1 A prayer for David himself. INCLINE thy ear, O Lord, and hear me : for I am needy and poor.

2 Preserve my soul, for I am holy save thy servant, O my God, that trusteth in thee. 3 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I have cried to thee all the day. 4 Give joy to the soul of thy servant, for to thee, O Lord, I have lifted up my soul. 5 For thou, O Lord, art sweet and mild: and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon thee. 6 Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer: and attend to the voice of my petition.

7 I have called upon thee in the day of my trouble: because thou hast heard me.

8 There is none among the gods like unto thee: OLord: and there is none according to thy works. 9 All the nations thou hast made shall come and adore before thee, O Lord: and they shall glorify thy name.

things: thou art God alone.
10 For thou art great and dost wonderful

11 Conduct me, O Lord, in thy way, and I will
may fear thy name.
walk in thy truth: let my heart rejoice that it

whole heart, and I will glorify thy name for ever: 12 I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with my 13 For thy mercy is great towards me: and thou hast delivered my soul out of the lower hell. 14 O God, the wicked are risen up against me, 6 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever: or wilt thou extend thy wrath from generation to gene-soul: and they have not set thee before their eyes. and the assembly of the mighty have sought my

ration?

7 Thou wilt turn, O God, and bring us to life and thy people shall rejoice in thee.

8 Shew us, O Lord, thy mercy; and grant us thy salvation.

9 I will hear what the Lord God will speak in me: for he will speak peace unto his people: And unto his saints: and unto them that are

converted to the heart.

10 Surely his salvation is near to them that fear him that glory may dwell in our land. 11 Mercy and truth have met each other: justice and peace have kissed.

12 Truth is sprung out of the earth: and jus

tice hath looked down from heaven.

13 For the Lord will give goodness: and our earth shall yield her fruit.

14 Justice shall walk before him: and shall set his steps in the way.

PSALM LXXXV.
Inclina, Domine.

A prayer for God's grace to assist us to the end.
Joel, 2. 13.

set: that is, which he hath brought himself to: being
cast out of paradise for his sin.

Ps. 85. v. 2. I am holy. I am by my office and profession dedicated to thy service.

Ps. 86. v. 1. The holy mountains. The apostles and prophets. Eph. ch. 2. v. 20.

and merciful, patient, and of much mercy, and 15 And thou, O Lord, art a God of compassion,

true.

16 O look upon me, and have mercy on me: give thy command to thy servant, and save the son of thy handmaid.

hate me may see, and be confounded, because thou 17 Shew me a token for good: that they who O Lord, hast helped me and hast comforted me. PSALM LXXXVI.

Fundamenta ejus.

The glory of the church of Christ. 1 For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. THE foundations thereof are in the holy

mountains:

2 The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.

3 Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God. 4 I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me.

Behold the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians, these were there.

5 Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the highest himself hath founded her.

6 The Lord shall tell in his writings of peoples and of princes, of them that have been in her. 7 The dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing.

Ver. 4. Rahab. Egypt, &c. To this Sion, which is the church of God, many shall resort from all nations. Ver. 5. Shall not Sion say, &c. The meaning is, that Son, viz., the church, shall not only be able to commemorate this or that particular person of renown born A prayer of one under grievous affliction: it agrees

in her, but also to glory in great multitudes of people and princes, of her communion; who have been foretold, in the writings of the prophets, and registered in the writings of the apostles.

Ps. 87. v. 1. Maheleth. A musical instrument, or chorus of musicians, to answer one another.-Ibid. Un

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PSALM LXXXVII.
Domine, Deus salutis.

to Christ in his passion, and alludes to his death
and burial.

A canticle of a psalm for the sons of Core: unto the end, for Maheleth, to answer, understanding of Eman the Ezrahite.

LORD, the God of my salvation: I have

Chestanding. Or a psalm of instruction, composed by 20 Lied in the day and inthe night before thee

Eman the Ezruhite, or by David, in his name.

3 Let my prayer come in before thee: incline] thy ear to my petition.

4 For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to hell.

5 I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help, 6 free among the dead.

Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cast off from thy hand.

7 They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death. 8 Thy wrath is strong over me: and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me.

9 Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they have set me an abomination to themselves.

I was delivered up, and came not forth: 10 my eyes languished through poverty.

All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee.

11 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? or shall physicians raise to life and give praise to thee?

12 Shall any one in the sepulchre declare thy mercy and thy truth in destruction?

13 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark; and thy justice in the land of forgetfulness? 14 But I, O Lord, have cried to thee: and in the morning my prayer shall prevent thee. 15 Lord, why castest thou off my prayer: why turnest thou away thy face from me?

161 am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted have been humbled and troubled. 17 Thy wrath hath come upon me: and thy terrors have troubled me.

9 O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round about thee."

10 Thou rulest the power of the sea and ap peasest the motion of the waves thereof. 11 Thou hast humbled the proud one, as one that is slain: with the arm of thy strength thou hast scattered thy enemies.

12 Thine are the heavens, and thine is the earth: the world and the fulness thereof thou hast founded: 13 the north and the sea thou hast created.

Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name: 14 thy arm is with might.

Let thy hand be strengthened, and thy right hand exalted: 15 justice and judgment are the preparation of thy throne.

Mercy and truth shall go before thy face: 16 blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation. They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance: 17 and in thy name they shall rejoice all the day, and in thy justice they shall be exalted.

18 For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy good pleasure shall our horn be exalted. 19 For our protection is of the Lord, and of our king the Holy One of Israel.

20 Then thou spokest in a vision to thy saints, and saidst: I have laid help upon one that is mighty, and have exalted one chosen out of my people.

21 I have found David my servant: with my holy oil I have anointed him.

22 For my hand shall help him: and my arm shall strengthen him.

23 The enemy shall have no advantage over him nor the son of iniquity have power to

18 They have come round about me like water all the day they have compassed me about to-hurt him. gether.

19 Friend and neighbour thou hast put far from me and my acquaintance, because of misery. PSALM LXXXVIII. Misericordias Domini.

The perpetuity of the church of Christ, in consequence of the promises of God: ich, notwithstanding, God permits her to suffer sometimes most grievous afflictions.

1 Of understanding, for Ethan, the Ezrahite. 2 THE HE mercies of the Lord I will sing for

ever.

I will shew forth thy truth with my mouth to generation and generation.

3 For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens: thy truth shall be prepared in them.

41 have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my servant: 5 Thy seed I will I settle for ever.

And I will build up thy throne unto generation and generation.

6 The heavens shall confess thy wonders, O Lord and thy truth in the church of the saints. 7 For who in the clouds can be compared to the Lord: or who among the sons of God shall be like to God?

8 God, who is glorified in the assembly of the saints: great and terrible above all them that are about him.

2 Kin. 7. 12. Gen. 1. 2.— 1 Kin. 16. 1. & 12. Acts, 13.

22-4 2 Kin. 7. 16.

24 And I will cut down his enemies before his face; and them that hate him I will put to flight 25 And my truth and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted. 26 And I will set his hand in the sea; and his right hand in the rivers.

ther: my God, and the support of my salvation. 27 He shall cry out to me: Thou art my fa28 And I will make him my first-born, high above the kings of the earth.

29 I will keep my mercy for him for ever: and my covenant faithful to him.

30 And I will make his seed to endure for evermore: and his throne as the days of heaven. 31 And if his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments:

32 If they profane my justices; and keep not my commandments:

33 I will visit their iniquities with a rod : and their sins with stripes.

34 But my mercy I will not take away from him: nor will I suffer my truth to fail. 35 Neither will I profane my covenant: and the words that proceed from my mouth I will not make void."

36 Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David: 37 his seed shall endure for ever.

38 And his throne as the sun before me: and

as the moon perfect for ever, and a faithful witness in heaven.

39 But thou hast rejected and despised: thou hast been angry with thy anointed. 40 Thou hast overthrown the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his sanctuary on the earth.

41 Thou hast broken down all his hedges: thou hast made his strength fear.

42 All that pass by the way have robbed him: he is become a reproach to his neighbours. 43 Thou hast set up the right hand of them that oppress him: thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.

7 For in thy wrath we have fainted away: and are troubled in thy indignation.

8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes. our life in the light of thy countenance. 9 For all our days are spent ; and in thy wrath we have fainted away.

Our years shall be considered as a spider: 10 the days of our years in them are three-score and ten years.

But if in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is labour and sorrow. For mildness is come upon us and we shall be corrected.

44 Thou hast turned away the help of his
sword and hast not assisted him in battle.
45 Thou hast made his purification to cease:
and thou hast cast his throne down to the ground.
46 Thou hast shortened the days of his time:
thou hast covered him with confusion.
47 How long, O Lord, turnest thou away un-ed in favour of thy servants.
to the end? shall thy anger burn like fire?
48 Remember what my substance is: for hast
thou made all the children of men in vain?
49 Who is the man that shall live, and not
see death: that shall deliver his soul from the
hand of hell?

11 Who knoweth the power of thy anger? and
for thy fear 12 can number thy wrath?
So make thy right hand known: and men learn-
ed in heart, in wisdom.

13 Return, O Lord, how long? and be entreat

50 Lord, where are thy ancient mercies, according to what thou didst swear to David in thy truth?

51 Be mindful, O Lord, of the reproach of thy servants (which I have held in my bosom) of

A prayer for the mercy of God; recounting the short-
ness and miseries of the days of man.
1 A prayer of Moses, the man of God.
LORD, thou hast been our refuge from gen-
2 Before the mountains were made, or the
earth and the world were formed; from eternity
and to eternity thou art God.

eration to generation.

14 We are filled in the morning with thy mercy: and we have rejoiced, and are delighted all our days.

15 We have rejoiced for the days in which thou hast humbled us: for the years in which we have seen evils.

16 Look upon thy servants and upon their works: and direct their children.

17 And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and direct thou the works of our hands over us; yea, the work of our hands do thou direct.

2 He shall say to the Lord: Thou art my protector,and my refuge: my God, in him will I trust. 3 For he hath delivered me from the snare of

the hunters: and from the sharp word. 4 He will overshadow thee with his shoulders: 5 His truth shall compass thee with a shield: and under his wings thou shalt trust. 3 Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou shalt not be afraid of the terror of the night. thou hast said: Be converted, Oye sors of men.siness that walketh about in the dark: of inva 6 Of the arrow that flieth in the day, of the bu4 For a thousand years in thy sight are as yes- sion, or of the noon-day devil. terday, which is past.

And as a watch in the night, 5 things that are counted nothing, shall their years be. 6 In the morning man shall grow up like grass, in the morning he shall flourish and pass away: in the evening he shall fall, grow dry and wither. 2 Kin. 7. 11.-b Eccli. 18. 8.- Mat. 4. 6. Luke, 4. 10. Ps. 88. v. 40. Overthrown the covenant, &c. All this

seems to relate to the time of the captivity of Babylon, in which, for the sins of the people and their princes, God seemed to have set aside for awhile the covenant he made with David.

Ps. 89. v. 3. Turn not man away, &c. Suffer him not quite to perish from thee, since thou art pleased to call upon him to be converted to thee.

Ver. 9. As a spider. As frail and weak as a spider's web; and miserable withal, whilst, like a spider, we spend our bowels in weaving webs to catch flies.

Ver. 10. Mildness is come upon us, &c. God's mild

ness corrects us; inasmuch as he deals kindly with us, in shortening the days of this miserable life; and so weaning our affections from all its transitory enjoyments, and teaching us true wisdom.

7 Á thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand: but it shall not come nigh thee.

shalt see the reward of the wicked.
8 But thou shalt consider with thy eyes: and

9 Because thou, O Lord, art my hope: thou
hast made the most High thy refuge.
10 There shall no evil come to thee: nor shall

the scourge come near thy dwelling,

11 For he hath given his Angels charge over thee: to keep thee in all thy ways. 12 In their hands they shall bear thee up: lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. 13 Thou shalt walk upon the asp and the basilisk: and thou shalt trample under foot the lion and the dragon.

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14 Because he hoped in me I will deliver him: will protect him because he hath known my

name.

15 He shall cry to me and I will hear him: l

The floods have lifted up their waves, 4 with 1 the noise of many waters. Wonderful are the surges of the sea: wonderful is the Lord on high. 5 Thy testimonies are become exceedingly credible holiness becometh thy house, O Lord, unto length of days.

Ps. 93. v. 13. Rest from the evil days. That thou mayest mitigate the sorrows, to which he is exposed, during the short and evil days of his mortality.

to all the upright in heart.- -Ver. 20. Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, &c. That is, wilt thou, O God, who art always just, admit of the seat of iniquity; that Ver. 15. Until justice be turned into judgment, &c. is, of injustice, or unjust judges, to have any partnerBy being put in execution: which will be agreeable! ship with thee? Thou who framest, or makest, labout

9 As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness: where your fathers 7 Let them be all confounded that adore gratempted me, they proved me, and saw my works.ven things, and that glory in their idols. 10 Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said: These always err in heart. 11 And these men have not known my ways: so I swore in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest..

3 Declare his glory among the Gentiles: his All are again invited to praise the Lord, for the victo wonders among all people.