David fleeth to God for fuccour:

Or, the weak, or, fick.

+ Heb. in ibe day of evil.

PS AL. XLI. I God's care of the poor. 4 David complaineth of his enemies treachery. 10 He fleeth to God for fuccour. To the chief musician, A pfalm of David. 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 shall be bleffed upon the earth: Or, do not and thou wilt not deliver him into the will of tbou deliver. his enemies.

3 The LORD will strengthen him upon the +Heb.turn. bed of languifhing; 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 Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

6 And if he come to fee me, he fpeaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself, when he goeth abroad, he telleth it."

7 All that hate me whisper together against Heb. evil me: against me do they devife + my hurt. 8+ An evil disease, fay they, cleaveth fast unto him and now that he lieth, he shall rise up

to me.

+ Heb. A thing of Belial

:

no more.

a

9 Yea, + mine own familiar friend in whom I trufted, which did eat of my bread, hath + lifted up his heel against me.

10 But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.

11 By this I know that thou favoureft me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.

12 And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and fetteft me before thy face for ever. 13 Bleffed be the LORD God of Ifrael, from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and amen. PSA L. XLII.

David's zeal to ferve God in the temple: 5 He encourageth his foul to trust in God. To the chief mufician, || Mafchil, for the fons of Korah.

S the hart+panteth after the water-brooks, fo panteth my foul after thee, O God.

2 My foul thirfteth for God, for the living God: when thall I come and appear before God?

3 My tears have been my meat day and Pfal. 80. night, while they continually fay unto me, Where is thy God?

+ Heb.
bowed
down.

Or, give thanks. Or, his prefence is falvation. Or, the little bill.

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 why art thou difquieted in me? hope thou in God; for I fhall yet || praise him || for the help of his countenance.

6 O 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.

7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy water-fpouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me,

His zeal to ferve him.

8 Yet the LORD will command his loving kindness in the day-time, and in the night his fong fhall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

9 I will fay unto God my rock, Why haft thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppreffion of the enemy?

10 As with a fword in my bones, mine ene- Or, killing. mies reproach me while they fay daily unto me, Where is thy God?

II Why art thou caft down, O my foul? and why art thou difquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I fhall yet praife him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. PSA L. XLIII.'

1 David praying to be restored to the temple, promifeth to ferve God joyfully. 5 He encourageth bis foul to trust in God.

1023.

| Or, unmerciful. + Heb.

UDGE me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; O deliver me + from the deceitful and unjuft man. 2 For thou art the God of my strength: why from a man doft thou caft me off? why go I mourning be- of deceit and cause of the oppreffion of the enemy?

3 O fend out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

iniquity.

4 Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God + my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp + Heb. the will I praife thee, O God, my God. gladness of

a

5 Why art thou caft down, O my foul? and my joy. a Pfal. 42. why art thou difquieted within me? hope in God: for I fhall yet praife him, who is the health 5, 11. of my countenance, and my God.

PSA L. XLIV.

1 The church, in memory of former favours, 7 complaineth of her prefent evils. 17 Profeffing her integrity, 24 fhe fervently prayeth for Juccour. To the chief musician for the fons of Korah, Mafchil.

WE have heard with our ears, O God, our

fathers have told us, what work thou didst

in their days, in the times of old.

2 How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedft them; how thou didst afflict the people, and caft them out.

3 For they got not the land in poffeffion by their own fword, neither did their own arm fave them but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because 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 will we tread them under that rife up against us.

6 For I will not truft in my bow, neither shall my fword fave me.

7 But thou haft faved us from our enemies, and haft put them to fhame that hated us.

8 In God we boaft all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.

9 But thou haft caft off, and put us to fhame; and goeft not forth with our armies.

10 Thou makeft us to turn back from the E e 2 enemy:

The church's complaint and prayer:

+ Heb. as fbeep of

meat.

+ Heb. without riches. a Pfal.7

1.79.4.

Jer. 24. 9.

enemy: and they which hate us fpoil for themfelves.

11 Thou haft given us + like fheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

12 Thou felleft thy people + for nought, and doft not increase thy wealth by their price.

13 a Thou makeft us a reproach to our neighbours, a fcorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

14 Thou makeft us a by-word among the heathen, a fhaking of the head among the people.

15 My confufion is continually before me, and the hame 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 falily in thy covenant.

18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have Or, goings, our fteps declined from thy way;

< Rom. 8. 36.

+ Heb. a help for us.

Or, of inAruction. + Heb.

19 Though thou haft fore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the fhadow of death.

20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or ftretched out our hands to a strange 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 long: we are counted as sheep for the flaughter.

23 Awake, why fleepest thou, O LORD? arise, caft us not off for ever.

24 Wherefore hideft thou thy face? and forgetteft our affliction, and our oppreffion?

25 For our foul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

26 Arife + for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies fake.

PSAL. XLV.

1 The majesty and grace of Christ's kingdom. 10 The
duty of the church, and the benefits thereof.
To the chief musician upon Shoshanním, for
the fons of Korah, Mafchil, A fong of loves.

Mfpeak of the things which I have made

Y heart is inditing a good matter: I

Loileth, or, touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a bubbleth up. 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 most mighty, with thy glory and thy majefty.

+ Heb. 4 And in thy majesty + ride profperously, beprofper thou, caufe of truth, and meeknefs, and righteoufride thou. nefs; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.

• Hebr. 1. 8.

5 Thine arrows are fharp 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.

a

7 Thou loveft righteoufnefs, and hateft wickednefs; therefore God, thy God hath anointed thee with the oil of gladnefs above thy fellows. 8 All thy garments Smell of myrrh, and aloes,

8

Her confidence in God. 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 stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

10 Hearken, O daughter, and confider, and incline thine ear; forget alfo thine own people, and thy father's house.

11 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 intreat+thy favour.

+ Heb. thy

13 The king's daughter is all glorious within: face. her clothing is of wrought gold.

14 She thall be brought unto the king in raiment of needle-work: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.

15 With gladnefs and rejoicing ball they be brought they fhall enter into the king's palace.

16 Inftead of thy fathers (hall 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 praise thee for ever and ever.

1 The confidence which the church hath in God. 8 An exhortation to behold it.

To the chief musician | for the fons of Korah, || Or, of.

G

A fong upon Alamoth.

OD is our refuge and strength, a very pre-
fent help in trouble.

2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea.

+ Heb. the 3 Though the waters thereof rore, and be trou- beart of the bled, though the mountains thake with the fwel- Jeas. ling 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 most High.

5 God is in the midst of her; fhe shall not be moved: God fhall help her, + and that right early. + Heb. 6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were when the moved: he utterred his voice, the earth melted. morning ap 7 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of speareth. Jacob is + our refuge. Selah. + Heb. an

8 Come, behold the works of the LORD, what bigh place defolations he hath made in the earth. for us.

9 He maketh wars to ceafe unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in funder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.

10 Be ftill, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. PŠA L. XLVII.

The nations are exhorted cheerfully to entertain the kingdom of Chrift.

¶ To the chief musician, A pfalm for the || Or, of

fons of Korah.

unto the

God of Abraham. Or, of.

+ Heb. Set

PSAL. XLVIII.

The ornaments and privileges of the church. A fong, and pfalm || for the fons of Korah. REAT is the LORD, and greatly to be praifed, in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

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 aflembled: they paffed 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 fhips of Tarfhish with an east wind.

8 As we have heard, fo have we feen in the city of the LORD of hofts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.

9 We have thought of thy loving kindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

10 According to thy name, O God, fo is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.

11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgements.

12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.

Worldly profperity is not to be admired.

4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will a Pfal. 78. open my dark faying upon the harp.

2.

5 Wherefore thould I fear in the days of evil, Matth. 13. when the iniquity of my heels fhall compafs me 35. about?

6 They that truft in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches ;

7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:

8 (For the redemption of their foul is precious, and it ceafeth for ever)

9 That he fhould ftill live for ever, and not fee corruption.

10 For he feeth that wife men die, likewise the fool and the brutish perfon perish, and leave their wealth to others.

11 Their inward thought is that their houfes fhall continue for ever, and their dwelling-places

+ to all generations: they call their lands after + Heb. to their own names. generation

12 Nevertheless, man bring in honour, abideth and genera not: he is like the beafts that perifh.

13 This their way is their folly yet their posterity + approve their fayings. Selah.

tion.

+ Heb.

14 Like fheep they are laid in the grave; death delight in fhall feed on them; and the upright fhall have their mouth. dominion over them in the morning; and their

|| beauty shall confume in the grave, from their dwelling.

Or, I

Arength. 15 But God will redeem my foul + from the Or, the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. an babita Selah.

grave being tion to every

one of them.

+ Heb.

16 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his houfe is increased." 17 b For when he dieth, he thall carry nothing from the away: his glory fhall not defcend after him. 18 Though + whiles he lived, he bleffed his foul and men will praife thee, when thou doest well to thyself.

19 + He fhall go to the generation of his fathers, they fhall never fee light.

20 Man that is in honour and underftandeth
not, is like the beafts that perish.
PSAL. L.

1 The majesty of God in the church. 5 His order to
gather faints. 7 The pleasure of God is not in
ceremonies, 14 but in fincerity of obedience.
A pfalm of Afaph.

band of the grave. Or, bell Job 27. !C

19.

+ Heb. in bis life. Heb. The foul fhall go.

Or, for

ber bul

warks.

up.

following.

14 For this God is our God for ever and ever: Or, raife he will be our guide even unto death. PSA L. XLIX.

An earnest perfuafion to build the faith of the refurrection, not on worldly power, but on God. 16 Worldly profperity is not to be admired. Or, of. To the chief mufician, A pfalm for the fons of Korah.

H

EAR this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:

2 Both low and high, rich and poor together. 3 My mouth fhall fpeak of wifdom; and the meditation of my heart ball be of understand. ing.

fpoken, the earth from the rifing of the fun unto the going down thereof. 2 Out of Zion the perfection of beauty, God hath thined.

3 Our God fhall come and fhall not keep filence: a fire fhall devour before him, and it (hall be very tempeftuous round about him.

4 He fhall 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. 6 And the heavens fhall declare his righteoufnefs: for God is judge himself. Selah.

7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Ifrael, and I will teftify against thee: I am God, even thy God. Ee 3 8 I will

David prayeth for remission of fins,

+ Heb.

with me.

8 I will not reprove thee for thy facrifices, or thy burnt-offerings, to have been continually before me.

9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds.

10 For every 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 beasts of the field are + mine.

12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: a Exod. 19. a for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. 13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

5.

Deut. 10.

14.

Job 41. 11. Pfal. 24. 1.

1 Cor. 10. 26, 28.

Rom. 2. 21, 22.

+ Heb. thy portion was with adul

terers.

+ Heb.. Thou fendeft.

14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy Vows unto the most High:

15 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 statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?

17 Seeing thou hateft inftruction, and castest my words behind thee.

18 When thou saweft a thief, then thou confentedft with him, and + haft been partaker with adulterers.

19+ Thou giveft thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

20 Thou fitteft and speakest against thy brother; thou flanderest thine own mother's fon.

21 These things haft thou done, and I kept filence: thou thoughtest that I was altogether fuch a one as thyfelf: 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 pieces, and there be none to deliver. 23 Whofo offereth praise, glorifieth me: and + Heb. that to him + that ordereth his converfation aright, difpofeth his will I fhew the falvation of God.

way.

PSAL. LI.

and prophefieth Doeg's deftruation.

8 Make me to hear joy and gladness, that the bones which thou haft broken may rejoice. 9 Hide thy face from my fins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. | Or, a con

11 Caft me not away from thy prefence; and sant spirit, take not thy holy spirit from me.

12 Reftore unto me the joy of thy falvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

13 Then will I teach tranfgreflors thy ways; and finners shall be converted unto thee.

14 Deliver me from + blood-guiltinefs, O God, † Heb. thou God of my falvation, and my tongue thall bloods. fing aloud of thy righteoufnefs..

15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth fhall thew forth thy praife.

16 For thou defireft not facrifice; elfer, that would I give it: thou delighteft not in burntI should offering. give it.

d Ifai. 57.

17 The facrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt 15. & 66not defpife..

18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerufalem.

19 Then fhalt thou be pleafed with the facrifices of righteousness, with burnt-offering and whole burnt-offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.

PSAL. LII.

1 David, condemning the fpitefulness of Doeg, prophefieth his deftruction. 6 The righteous ball rejoice at it. 8 David, upon his confidence in God's mercy, giveth thanks.

2.

maketh a deep confeffion. 6 He prayeth for fanctification. 16 God delighteth not in facrifice, but in fincerity. 18 He prayeth for the church.

cir. 1034. To the chief mufician, A pfalm of David, a when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-fheba.

a 2 Sam. 12. 1. & 11. 2.

4.

TAVE mercy upon me, O God, according

to thy loving kindnefs: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my tranfgreffions.

2 Wath me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my fin.

3 For I acknowledge my tranfgreffions: and fin is ever before me.

my

b

4 Against thee, thee only have I finned, and Rom. 3. done this evil in thy fight: that thou mightest be juftified when thou fpeakeft, and be clear when thou judgeft.

5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in fin my mother + conceive me.

6 Behold, thou defireft truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

•Lev. 14.6. 7 Purge me with hyffop, and I fhall be clean : Numb. 19. wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

18.

5 God fhall likewife + deftroy thee for ever: he fhall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thee down thy dwelling-place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

6 The righteous also shall fee, and fear, and fhall laugh at him:

7 Lo, this is the man that made not God his ftrength; but trufted in the abundance of his riches, and ftrengthened himself in hiswick- Or, fubfrance. edness.

8 But I am like a green olive-tree in the houfe of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and

David glorieth in the falvation of God,

■ Pfal 10. 4. & 14. I,

HE fool hath iaid in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth Rom. 3. good.

&c.

10.

+ Heb.

they feared a fear.

+ Heb. Who will

2. God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to fee if there were any that did understand, that did feek God.

3 Every one of them is gone back; they are altogether become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no not one.

4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread; they have not called upon God.

5 There were they in great fear where no fear was: for God hath fcattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee; thou haft put them to thame, becaufe God hath defpifed them.

6 Oh that the falvation of Ifrael were come out of Zion! when God bringeth back the capgive falva- tivity of his people, Jacob fhall rejoice, and IfÎfrael thall be glad.

tions, &c.

PSA L.

LIV.

David complaining of the Ziphims, prayeth for falvation 4 Upon his confidence in God's help, be promifeth facrifice.

To the chief musician on Neginoth, Mafchil, A pfalm of David, when the Ziphims came and faid to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us?

AVE me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy ftrength.

2 Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.

3 For ftrangers are rifen up against me, and oppreffors feek, after my foul; they have not fet God before them. Selah.

Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my foul.

5 He fhall reward evil unto † mine enemies; cut them off in thy truth.

6 I will freely fácrifice unto thee; I will praise thy name, O LORD, for it is good.

7 For he hath delivered me out of all trouble and mine eye hath feen his defire upon mine enemies.

PSAL. LV.

1. David in his prayer complaineth of his fearful cafe: 9 He prayeth against his enemies, of whofe wickedness and treachery he complaineth: 16 He comforteth himself in God's prefervation of him, and confufion of his enemies.

To the chief mufician on Neginoth, Mafchil, A pfalm of David..

and prayeth against his enemies.

5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath + overwhelmed me.

+ Heb. 6 And I faid, Oh that I had wings like a dove! covered me. for then would I fly away, and be at reft.

7 Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.

8 I would haften my efcape from the windy ftorm and tempest.

9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have feen violence and ftrife in the city.

10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mifchief alfo and forrow are in the midst of it.

II Wickedness is in the midft thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

12 For it was not an enemy that reproached me, then I could have borne it; neither was it he that hated me, that did magnify himself againft me, then I would have hid myself from him:

13 But it was thou, † a man, mine cqual, my + Heb. guide, and mine acquaintance.

a man ac

not thyfelf from my fupplication.

2 Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in

my complaint, and make a noise;

3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppreffion of the wicked: for they caft. inquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

4 My heart is fore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

eth me.

a 1 Sam. 21. II.

2 + Mine enemies would daily fwallow me up: + Heb. for they be many that fight against me, O thou Mine obmoft High. fervers.

3 What time I am afraid, I will truft in'

thee.