am with him in tribulation, I will deliver him,|

PSALM XCIII.
'Deus ultionum.

and I will glorify him.

16 I will fill him with length of days; and I God shall judge and punish the oppressors of his people. will shew him my salvation. A psalm for David himself, on the fourth day of the week. THE Lord is the God to whom revenge belongeth: the God of revenge hath acted

4 For in his hand are all the ends of the earth: and the heights of the mountains are his. 5 For the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.

justice and judgment are the establishment of his throne.

3 A fire shall go before him, and shall burn his enemies round about.

6 Come let us adore and fall down: and weep before the Lord that made us.

7 For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. 8 To-day if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts:

9 As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my works. 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. .

PSALM XCV.
Cantate Domino.

An exhortation to praise God for the coming of Christ
and his kingdom.
1 A canticle for David himself, when the house
was built after the captivity.
SING ye to the Lord a new canticle: sing to

the all the earth.

4 For the Lord is great, and exceedingly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.

5 For all the gods of the Gentiles are devils but the Lord made the heavens.

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2 Sing ye to the Lord and bless his name: shew forth his salvation from day to day. 3 Declare his glory among the Gentiles: his All are again invited to praise the Lord, for the victo wonders among all people.

12 Rejoice, ye just, in the Lord: and give praise to the remembrance of his holiness. PSALM XCVII. Cantate Domino.

6 Praise and beauty are before him: holiness and majesty in his sanctuary.

7 Bring ye to the Lord, O ye kindreds of the Gentiles, bring ye to the Lord glory and honour: 8 bring to the Lord glory unto his name. Bring up sacrifices, and come into his courts: 9 adore ye the Lord in his holy court. Let all the earth be moved at his presence. 10 Say ye among the Gentiles, the Lord hath reigned. For he hath corrected the world, which shall not be moved: he will judge the people with justice. 11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad, let the sea be moved, and the fulness thereof: 12 the fields and all things that are in them shall be joyful.

Then shall all the trees of the woods rejoice 13 before the face of the Lord, because he cometh because he cometh to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with justice, and the people with his truth.

4 His lightnings have shone forth to the world: the earth saw and trembled.

5 The mountains melted like wax, at the presence of the Lord: at the presence of the Lord all the earth.

6 The heavens declared his justice: and all people saw his glory.

7 Let them be all confounded that adore graven things, and that glory in their idols.

Adore him, all you his Angels: 8 Sion heard, and was glad.

Heb. 3. 7. & 4. 7.-b Num. 14. 34.- Heb. 4. 3.- Exo. 20. 4. Lev. 26. 1. Deut. 5. 8.- Heb. 1. 6. Amo. 5. 15. Rom. 12. 9.-- Isa. 52. 10. & 63. 8. Luke, 3. 6. in commandment, that is, thou who obligest us to labour with all diligence to keep thy commandments.

Ps. 95. v. 1. When the house was built, &c. Alluding to that time, and then ordered to be sung: but principaily relating to the building of the church of

And the daughters of Juda rejoiced, because of thy judgments, O Lord.

9 For thou art the most high Lord over all the earth:thou art exalted exceedingly above all gods. 10 You that love the Lord, hate evil: the Lord preserveth the souls of his saints, he will deliver them out of the hand of the sinner.

11 Light is risen to the just, and joy to the right of heart.

ries of Christ.

1 A psalm for David himself.

SING ye to the Lord a new canticle: because he hath done wonderful things.

His right hand hath wrought for him salvation, and his arm is holy.

2 The Lord hath made known his salvation: he hath revealed his justice in the sight of the Gentiles.

3 He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel.

All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

4 Sing joyfully to God, all the earth; make melody, rejoice and sing.

5 Sing praise to the Lord on the harp, on the harp, and with the voice of a psalm: 6 with long trumpets, and sound of cornet.

Make a joyful noise before the Lord our king: 7 let the sea be moved and the fulness thereof: the world and they that dwell therein.

8 The rivers shall clap their hands, the mountains shall rejoice together 9 at the presence of the Lord: because he cometh to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with justice, and the people with equity.

PSALM XCVI.
Dominus regnavit.

All are invited to rejoice at the glorious coming and
reign of Christ.

1 For the same David, when his land was restored again to him.

1 A psalm for David himself.

THE Lord hath reigned, let the earth rejoice: THE Lord hath reigned, let the people be many islands be glad. angry he that sitteth on the let the earth be moved.

2 Clouds and darkness are round about him:

PSALM XCVIII.
Dominus regnavit.

The reign of the Lord in Sion: that is, of Christ in

his church.

2 The Lord is great in Sion, and high above to sit with me: the man that walked in the all people. perfect way, he served me.

3 Let them give praise to thy great name: for it is terrible and holy: 4 and the king's honour loveth judgment.

7 He that worketh pride shall not dwell in the midst of my house: he that speaketh unjust things did not prosper before my eyes.

8 In the morning I put to death all the wicked of the land: that I might cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of the Lord. PSALM CI. Domine, exaudi.

Thou hast prepared directions: thou hast done judgment and justice in Jacob. 5 Exalt ye the Lord our God, and adore his foot-stool, for it is holy.

6 Moses and Aaron among his priests and Samuel among them that call upon his name. They called upon the Lord, and he heard them: 7 he spoke to them in the pillar of the cloud. They kept his testimonies, and the commandment which he gave them.

8 Thou didst hear them, O Lord our God:

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thou wast a merciful God to them, and taking vengeance on all their inventions.

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9 Exalt ye the Lord our God, and adore at his holy mountain for the Lord our God is holy. PSALM XCIX. Jubilate Deo.

All are invited to rejoice in God the creator of all. 1 A psalm of praise.

SING joyfully to God, all the earth: serve ye the Lord with Come in before his presence with exceeding great joy. 3 Know ye that the Lord he is God: he made

us, and not we ourselves.

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3 Turn not away thy face from me: in the day when I am in trouble, incline thy ear to me. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear me speedily.

4 For my days are vanished like smoke and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire. 5 I am smitten as grass, and my heart is wi

thered: because I forgot to eat my bread.

hath cleaved to my flesh.
6 Through the voice of my groaning, my bone

7 I am become like to a pelican of the wilder-
ness: I am like a night-raven in the house.
8 I have watched, and am become as a spar-
pas-row, all alone on the house top.

and they that praised me did swear against me. 9 All the day long my enemies reproached me: 10 For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.

11 Because of thy anger and indignation: for having lifted me up thou hast thrown me down. and

Misericordiam et judicium. The prophet exhorteth all by his example, to follow 12 My days have declined like a shadow, mercy and justice. I am withered like grass.

We are his people and the sheep of his ture. 4 Go ye into his gates with praise, into his courts with hymns: and give glory to him. Praise ye his name: 5 for the Lord is sweet, his mercy endureth for ever, and his truth to generation and generation.

PSALM C.

I will sing, 2 and I will understand in the unspotted way, when thou shalt come to me. I walked in the innocence of my heart, in the midst of my house.

A prayer for one in affliction: the fifth penitential psalm.

3 I did not set before my eyes any unjust thing: I hated the workers of iniquities. 4 The perverse heart did not cleave to me: and the malignant, that turned aside from me, I would not know.

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The prayer of the poor man, when he was anxious, and poured out his supplication before the Lord.

5 The man that in private detracted his neighbour, him did I persecute.

With him that had a proud eye, and an unsatiable heart, I would not eat.

6 My eyes were upon the faithful of the earth,

HEAR, O Lord, my prayer: and let my

cry come to

1 A psalm for David himself.

MERCY and judgment I will sing to thee, thy memorial to all generations.

13 But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever and

14 Thou shalt arise and have mercy on Sion: for it is time to have mercy on it, for the time is come.

15 For the stones thereof have pleased thy servants: and they shall have pity on the earth thereof.

16 And the Gentiles shall fear thy name, O Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory. 17 For the Lord hath built up Sion: and he shall be seen in his glory.

18 He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble: and he hath not despised their petition. 19 Let these things be written unto another generation: and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord:

Ver. 6. Moses and Aaron among his priests. By this it is evident, that Moses also was a priest, and indeed the chief priest, inasmuch as he consecrated Aaron, an offered sacrifice for him. Leviticus, 8. So that his pre-emi nence over Aaron makes nothing for lay church headship Ver. 8. All their inventions. That is, all the enter prises of their enemies against them, as in the case o

Ver. 4. Loveth judgment. Requireth discretion.--Ib. Directions. Most right and just laws to direct men.

Ver. 5. Adore his foot-stool. The ark of the covenant was called, in the Old Testament, God's foot-stool: over which he was understood to sit, on his propitiatory, or mercy-seat, as on a throne, between the wings of the cherubims, in the sanctuary: to which the children of Israel paid a great veneration. But as this psalm evi-Core, Dathan, and Abiron. dently relates to Christ, and the New Testament, where Ps. 100. v. 2. I will understand, &c. That is, I wi the ark has no place, the holy fathers understand this apply my mind, I will do my endeavour, to know an text, of the worship paid by the church to the body and to follow the perfect way of thy commandments: n blood of Christ in the sacred mysteries: inasmuch as the trusting to my own strength, but relying on thy comin humanity of Christ is, as it were, the foot-stool of the to me by thy grace. divinity. So St. Ambrose, L. 3. De Spiritu Sancto, c. 12. And St. Augustine upon this psalm.

Ps. 101. v. 7. A pelican, &c. I am become, throug grief, like birds that affect solitude and darkness.

20 Because he hath looked forth from his high sanctuary from heaven the Lord hath looked upon the earth.

21 That he might hear the groans of them that are in fetters that he might release the children of the slain :

And as a vesture thou shalt change them, and

they shall be changed. 28 But thou art always

the self-same, and thy years shall not fail.
29 The children of thy servants shall continue:
and their seed shall be directed for ever.

PSALM CII.
Benedic, anima.

Thanksgiving to God for his mercies.
1 For David himself.

22 That they may declare the name of the Lord in Sion and his praise in Jerusalem. 23 When the people assemble together, and kings to serve the Lord.

21 Bless the Lord, all ye his hosts: you ministers of his, that do his will.

24 He answered him in the way of his strength: Declare unto me the fewness of my days. 25 Call me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are unto generation and generation. 26 In the beginning, O Lord, thou foundedst the earth: and the heavens are theworks of thy hands. 27 They shall perish but thou remainest: and God is to be praised for his mighty works, and wonderall of them shall grow old like a garment:

22 Bless the Lord, all his works: in every place of his dominion, O my soul, bless thou the Lord. PSALM CIII. Benedic, anima.

ful providence.

1 For David himself.

BLES

LESS the Lord, O my soul: O Lord my
God, thou art exceedingly great.

Thou hast put on praise and beauty: 2 and
art clothed with light as with a garment.
Who stretchest out the heaven like a pavilion: 3
whocoverest the higher rooms thereof with water.
Who makest the clouds thy chariot: who
walkest upon the wings of the winds.

4 Who makest thy Angels spirits: and thy

ministers a burning fire.

5 Who hast founded the earth upon its own bases: it shall not be moved for ever and ever. 6 The deep like a garment is its clothing: above the mountains shall the waters stand. 7 At thy rebuke they shall flee: at the voice of thy thunder they shall fear.

8, The mountains ascend, and the plains descend into the place which thou hast founded for them.

BLESS the Lord, O my soul: and let all

that is within me bless

holy name. 2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and never forget all he hath done for thee.

3 Who forgiveth all thy iniquities: who heal eth all thy diseases.

4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction: who crowneth thee with mercy and compassion. 5 Who satisfieth thy desire with good things: thy youth shall be renewed like the eagle's. 6 The Lord doth mercies, and judgment for all that suffer wrong.

7 He hath made his ways known to Moses: his wills to the children of Israel. 8 The Lord is compassionate and merciful: long suffering and plenteous in mercy. 9 He will not always be angry: nor will he

threaten for ever.

10 He hath not dealt with us according to our sins: nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. 11 For according to the height of the heaven above the earth: he hath strengthened his mercy towards them that fear him.

12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our iniquities from us. 13 As a father hath compassion on his children, so hath the Lord compassion on them that fear him: 14 for he knoweth our frame.

and unto eternity upon them that fear him : And his justice unto children's children, 18 te such as keep his covenant,

And are mindful of his commandments to do them.

He remembereth that we are dust: 15 man's days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he flourish.

16 For the spirit shall pass in him, and he shall not be and he shall know his place no more. 17 But the mercy of the Lord is from eternity

** Exo. 34. 6. Num. 14. 8.b Heb. 1. 7.

Ver. 24. He answered him in the way of his strength. That is, the people, mentioned in the foregoing verse, or the penitent, in whose person this psalm is delivered, answered the Lord in the way of his strength: that is, according to the best of his power and strength; or when

he was in the flower of his age and strength: inquiring after the fewness of his days: to know if he should live long enough to see the happy restoration of Sion, fc.

19 The Lord hath prepared his throne in heaven and his kingdom shall rule over all. 20 Bless the Lord, all ye his angels: you that are mighty in strength, and execute his word. hearkening to the voice of his orders.

over: neither shall they return to cover the earth. 9 Thou hast set abound which they shall not pass

tween the midst of the hills the waters shall pass. 10 Thou sendest forth springs in the vales: be

11 All the beasts of the field shall drink: the

wild asses shall expect in their thirst.

12 Over them the birds of the air shall dwell: from the midst of the rocks they shall give forth their voices.

13 Thou waterest the hills from thy upper rooms: the earth shall be filled with the fruit of thy works:

14 Bringing forth grass for cattle, and herb for the service of men.

That thou mayest bring bread out of the earth. 15 and that wine may cheer the heart of man. That he may make the face cheerful with oil: and that bread may strengthen man's heart.

16 The trees of the field shall be filled, and the cedars of Libanus which he hath planted: 17 there the sparrows shall make their nests. The highest of them is the house of the heron. 18 The high hills are a refuge for the harts, the rock for the irchins.

19 He hath made the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.

20 Thou hast appointed darkness, and it is night: in it shall all the beasts of the woods go about.

21 The young lions roaring after their prey, and seeking their meat from God.

22 The sun ariseth, and they are gathered together: and they shall lie down in their dens. 23 Man shall go forth to his work, and to his labour until the evening.

24 How great are thy works, O Lord! thou hast made all things in wisdom; the earth is filled with thy riches.

25 So is this great sea, which stretcheth wide its arms: there are creeping things without number. Creatures little and great. 26 There the ships shall go.

This sea-dragon which thou hast formed to play therein. 27 All expect of thee that thou give them food in season.

28 What thou givest to them they shall gather up: when thou openest thy hand, they shall all De filled with good.

29 But if thou turnest away thy face, they shall be troubled thou shalt take away their breath, and they shall fail, and shall return to their dust. 30 Thou shalt send forth thy spirit, and they shall be created: and thou shalt renew the face of the earth.

31 May the glory of the Lord endure for ever: the Lord shall rejoice in his works.

32 He looketh upon the earth, and maketh it tremble: he toucheth the mountains, and they smoke.

33 I will sing to the Lord as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. 34 Let my speech be acceptable to him: but I will take delight in the Lord.

35 Let sinners be consumed out of the earth, and the unjust, so that they be no more: O my soul, bless thou the Lord.

GIV

IVE glory to the Lord, and call upon his name: declare his deeds among the Gentiles. 2 Sing to him, yea sing praises to him: relate all his wondrous works.

3 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.

4 Seek ye the Lord, and be strengthened: seek his face evermore.

PSALM CIV.

Confitemini Domino.

A thanksgiving to God for his benefits to his people 29 "He turned their waters into blood, and destroyed their fish.

Israel.
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30 Their land brought forth frogs, in the inner chambers of their kings.

31 P He spoke, and there came divers sorts of flies and cinifes in all their coasts.

32 He gave them hail for rain, a burning fire in their land.

33 And he destroyed their vineyards and their fig-trees: and he broke in pieces the trees of their coasts.

34 He spoke, and the locust came, and the bruchus, of which there was no number:

35 And they devoured all the grass in their land, and consumed all the fruit of their ground. 36And he slew all the first-born in their land: the first fruits of all their labour.

37 And he brought them out with silver and gold: and there was not among their tribes one that was feeble.

38 Egypt was glad when they departed: for

5 Remember his marvellous works which he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth.

60 ye seed of Abraham his servant; ye sons of Jacob his chosen.

10 And he appointed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting testament: 11 Saying: To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the lot of your inheritance.

12 When they were but a small number: yea very few, and sojourners therein:

13 And they passed from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people.

He suffered no man to hurt them: and he reproved kings for their sakes.

15 Touch ye not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets.

16 And he called a famine upon the land: and he broke in pieces all the support of bread. 17 He sent a man before them Joseph, who was sold for a slave.

Intra, 145. 2-b 1 Par. 16. 8. Isa. 12. 4. Gen. 22. 16.d 2 Kin. 1. 14. 1 Par. 16. 22. Gen. 37. 36. Gen. 39. 20. Gen. 41. 14. Gen. 46. 6.- Exo. 1. 7. Acts, 7. 17. Exo. 3. 10. & 4. 29.- Exo. 7. 10.- Exo. 10. 21.- Exo. 7. 20.- Exo. 8. 6.

Exo. 8. 16. & 24.

Exo. 10. 12.-Exo. 12. 29.- Exo. 12

35.- Exo. 13. 21. Ps. 77. 14. 1 Cor. 10. 1.

Ps. 104. v. 25. He turned their heart, &c. Not that God (who is never the author of sin) moved the Egyptians to hate and persecute his people; but that the Egyptians took occasion of hating and envying them,

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18 'They humbled his feet in fetters: the iron pierced his soul, 19 until his word came. The word of the Lord inflamed him. 20 & The king sent, and he released him: the ruler of the people, and he set him at liberty.

21 He made him master of his house, and ruler of all his possession.

22 That he might instruct his princes as himself, and teach his ancients wisdom,

23 And Israel went into Egypt: and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Cham. 24 And he increased his people exceedingly: and strengthened them over their enemies. 25 He turned their heart to hate his people : and to deal deceitfully with his servants.

26 He sent Moses his servant: Aaron the man whom he had chosen.

27 He gave them power to shew his signs, and his wonders in the land of Cham.

7 He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth.

8 He hath remembered his covenant for ever: the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.

9 Which he made to Abraham; and his oath the fear of them lay upon them.

to Isaac :

28 m He sent darkness, and made it obscure: and grieved not his words.

39 He spread a cloud for their protection,

from the sight of the benefits which God bestowed upon them.

Ver. 28. Griered not his words: That is, he was not wanting to fulfil his words: or he did not grieve Moses and Aaron, the carriers of his words: or he did not grieve his words, that is, his sons, the children of Israel, who enjoyed light whilst the Egyptians were oppressed with darkness.

Ver. 31. Cinifes. See the annotation, Exod. ch. 8. v. 16.
Ver. 34. Bruchus, an insect of the locust kind.