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give thanks unto thee, O God, | us from our enemies, and my God. putteft them to confufion that hate us.

5 Why art thou fo heavy, O my foul, and why art thou fo difquieted within me?

9 We make our boast of God all day long, and will praise thy Name for ever.

10 But now thou art far

6 O put thy truft in God; for I will yet give him thanks, which is the help of my coun-off, and putteft us to confutenance, and my God.

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PSALM 44.

E have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what thou haft done in their time of old.

2 How thou haft driven out the heathen with thy hand, and planted them in; how thou haft destroyed the nations, and caft them out.

3 For they got not the land in poffeffion through their own fword, neither was it their own arm that helped them;

4 But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance; because thou hadft a favour unto them.

5 Thou art my King, O God; fend help unto Jacob. 6 Through thee will we overthrow our enemies, and in thy name will we tread them under that rife up against us. 7 For I will not truft in my bow; it is not my fword that fhall help me.

fion, and goeft not forth with our armies.

II Thou makeft us to turn our backs upon our enemies; fo that they which hate us, fpoil our goods.

12 Thou letteft us be eaten up like fheep, and haft scattered us among the heathen.

13 Thou felleft thy people for nought, and takeft no money for them.

14 Thou makest us to be rebuked of our neighbours, to be laughed to fcorn, and had in derifion of them that are round about us.

15 Thou makest us to be a by-word among the heathen, and that the people fhake their heads at us.

16 My confufion is daily before me, and the fhame of my face hath covered me;

17 For the voice of the flanderer and blafphemer, for the enemy and avenger.

18 And though all this be come upon us, yet do we not forget thee, nor behave ourfelves frowardly in thy cove

8 But it is thou that faveft nant.

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19 Our heart is not turned back; neither our fieps gone out of thy way;

20 No, not when thou haft fmitten us into the place of dragons, and covered us with the fhadow of death.

21 If we have forgotten the Name of our God, and holden up our hands to any ftrange god, fhall not God fearch it out? for he knoweth the very fecrets of the heart.

22 For thy fake alfo are we killed all the day long, and are counted as fheep appointed to be flain.

23 Up, Lord, why sleepest thou? awake, and be not abfent from us for ever.

24 Wherefore hideft thou thy face, and forgetteft our mifery and trouble?

25 For our foul is brought low, even unto the duft; our belly cleaveth unto the ground.

29 Arife, and help us, and deliver us for thy mercies fake.

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4 Gird thee with thy fword upon thy thigh, O thou most mighty; according to thy worship and renown.

5 Good luck have thou with thine honour; ride on, because of the word of truth, of meeknefs, and righteoufnefs, and thy right hand fhall teach thee terrible things.

6 Thy arrows are very sharp, and the people shall be subdued unto thee; even in the midst among the king's enemies.

7 Thy feat, O God, endureth for ever; the fcepter of thy kingdom is a right fcepter.

8 Thou haft loved righte oufnefs, and hated iniquity; wherefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

9 All thy garments smell of myrrh, aloes, and caffia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.

10 Kings daughters were among thy honourable women; upon thy right hand did ftand the queen in a vesture of gold, wrought about with divers colours.

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

12 So fhall the King have pleasure in thy beauty; for he is thy Lord God, and worship

thou him.

13 And the daughter of Tyrej of God; the holy place of the tabernacle of the moft Higheft. 5 God is in the midft of her, therefore fhall fhe not be removed; God fhall help her, and that right early.

fhall be there with a gift; like as the rich also among the people fhall make their fupplication before thee.

14 The King's daughter is all glorious within; her clothing is of wrought gold.

15 She fhall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework; the virgins that be her C fellows fhall bear her company, and fhall be brought unto thee. 16 With joy and gladnefs - fhall they be brought, and shall enter into the King's palace.

17 Inftead of thy fathers thou fhalt have children, whom thou mayeft make princes in all lands.

18 I will remember thy Name from one generation to another; therefore fhall the people give thanks unto thee, world without end.

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PSALM 46.

OD is our hope and ftrength; a very prefent help in trouble.

2 Therefore will we not fear though the earth be moved, and though the hills be carried into the midst of the fea.

3 Though the waters thereof rage and fwell, and though the mountains fhake at the tempeft of the fame.

6 The heathen make much ado, and the kingdoms are moved; but God hath fhewed his voice, and the earth fhall melt away.

7 The Lord of hofts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.

8 O come hither, and be. hold the works of the Lord, what deftruction he hath brought upon the earth.

9 He maketh wars to cease in all the world; he breaketh the bow, and knappeth the fpear in funder, and burneth the chariots in the fire.

10 Be ftill then, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the heathen, and I will be exalted in the earth. II The Lord of hofts is

with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.

PSALM 47.

Clap your hands together, all ye people; O fing unto God with the voice of melody.

2 For the Lord is high, and 4 The rivers of the flood to be feared; he is the great thereof shall make glad the city | King upon all the earth. D 3

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3 He fhall fubdue the peo-things; they were aftonished, ple under us, and the nations and fuddenly caft down. under our feet.

5 Fear came there upon them, and forrow; as upon a

4 He fhall choofe out an heritage for us; even the wor-woman in her travail. fhip of Jacob, whom he loved. 5 God is gone up with a merry noife, and the Lord with the found of the trump.

60 ling praises, fing praifes unto our God; O fing praifes, fing praifes unto our King.

7 For God is the King of all the earth; fing ye praifes with understanding.

8 God reigneth over the heathen; God fitteth upon his holy feat.

6 Thou shalt break the hips of the fea, through the eaft-wind.

7 Like as we have heard, fo have we seen in the city of the Lord of hofts, in the city of our God; God upholdeth the fame for ever.

8 We wait for thy lovingkindnefs, O God, in the midft of thy temple.

9 O God, according to thy Name, fo is thy praise unto the world's end; thy right hand is full of righteoufnefs.

9 The princes of the people are joined unto the people of the God of Abraham; for 10 Let the mount Sion reGod, which is very high exalt-joice, and the daughter of Ju. ed, doth defend the earth, as dah be glad, because of thy it were with a fhield.

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judgments.

11 Walk about Sion, and go round about her, and tell the towers thereof.

12 Mark well her bulwarks, fet up her houses, that ye may tell them that come after.

13 For this God is our God for ever and ever, he shall be our guide unto death.

2 The hill of Sion is a fair place, and the joy of the whole earth; upon the north-fide lieth the city of the great King; God is well known in her pa-ple, ponder it with your

laces as a fure refuge.

3 For lo, the kings of the earth are gathered, and gone by together.

4 They marvelled to fee fuch

PSALM 49.
Hear ye this, all ye peo-

ears, all ye that dwell in the world.

2 High and low, rich and poor, one with another.

My mouth fhall fpeak of| wifdom, and my heart fhall mufe of understanding.

4 I will incline mine ear to the parable, and fhew my dark fpeech upon the harp.

5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of wickedness, and when the wickedness of my heels compaffeth me round about?

6 There be fome that put their trust in their goods, and boaft themselves in the multitude of their riches.

7 But no man may deliver his brother, nor make agreement unto God for him;

8 For it coft more to redeem their fouls; fo that he muft let that alone for ever;

9 Yea, though he live long, and fee not the grave.

10 For he feeth that wife men also die, and perish together; as well as the ignorant and foolish, and leave their riches for other.

II And yet they think that their houses fhall continue for ever, and that their dwellingplaces fhall endure from one generation to another, and call the lands after their own

names.

12 Nevertheless, man will not abide in honour, seeing he may be compared unto the beafts that perish; this is the way of them.

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This is their foolishness, and their pofterity praife their faying.

14 They lie in the hell like sheep, death gnaweth upon them, and the righteous fhall have dominion over them in the morning; their beauty fhall confume in the fepulchre out of their dwelling.

15 But God hath delivered my foul from the place of hell; for he fhall receive me.

16 Be not thou afraid, though one be made rich; or if the glory of his houfe be increased;

17 For he fhall carry nothing away with him, when he dieth; neither fhall his pomp follow him.

18 For while he lived, he counted himself an happy man, and fo long as thou doeft well unto thyself, men will speak good of thee.

19 He fhall follow the generation of his fathers, and fhall never fee light.

20 Man being in honour hath no understanding; but is compared unto the beafts that perish.

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