his hands were delivered from the pots. and prayer PSALM LXXXII1. A song or Psalm of Asaph. : 7 Thou calledat in trouble, and I de- KEEP not thou silence, O God. livered thee: I answered thee in the not thy peace, and be not secret place of thunder: I proved thee still, O God. at the waters of Meribab. Selah. 2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tu8 Hear, O my people, and I will tes-mult: and they that hate thee bave tify unto thee: 0 Israel, if thou wilt lifted up the bead. hearken unto nie; 9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consultea against thy hidden ones. 4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in 101 am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will remembrance. 11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. 12 So I gave them up unto their own heart's lust; and they walked in their own counsels. 13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in iny ways! 14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. 6 For they have consulted together with one consent; they are confederate against thee: 6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites ; of Moab, and the Hagarenes; 7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre; 8 Ashur also is joined with them · they have holden the children of Lot. Selah. 9 Do unto them as unto the Midian 15 The haters of the LORD should fites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the have submitted themselves unto him: brook of Kison; but their time should have endured for] ever Jo He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat and with honey out of the rock should 1 have satisfied thee. PSALM LXXXII. TA Psalm of Asaph. 10 Which perished at En-dor: they became as dung for the earth. 11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna : 12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession. 13 0 my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. OD standeth in the congregation 14 As the fire burneth a wood, and the gods. 2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. 3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. 4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked. 5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkuess: all the foundations of the earth are out of course. 6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the Most High. 7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. 8 Arise, O God, judge the earth; for Chou shalt inherit all nations. us the the moun 2 My soul longeth_yea, even fainteth The goodness and PSALMS. power of God. for the courts of the LORD: my heartfunto his people, and to his saints : and my flesh crieth out for the living but let them not turn again to folly. God. 9 Surely lus salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land. 3 Yea, the sparrow hath found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God. 4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house they will be still praising thee. Selah. 10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. 11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look. down from heaven. 5 Blessed is the man whose strength 12 Yea, the LORD shall give that is in thee; in whose heart are the|which is good; and our land shall ways of them, yield her increase. 6 Who passing through the valley of Baca made it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. 7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth God. 30 Lord God of hosts,bear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah. 9 Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thing anointed. 10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wicked ness. 11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. 120 LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee. 13 Righteousness shall go before him, and shall set us in the way of his steps. PSALM LXXXVI. TA Prayer of David. OW Bow down thine ear, O LORD,hear me: for 1 am poor and needy. 2 Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusleth in thee. 3 Be merciful unto me, O Lond: for cry unto thee daily. 4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O LORD,do Ulift up my soul. 5 For thou, Lono,art good,and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy thee. unto all them that call upon 6 Give ear, Lond, unto my prayer, and attend to the voice of my supplications. 7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me. 8 Among the gods there is none like TTo the chief Musician, A Psalm for unto thee, O LORD: neither are there PSALM LXXXV. the sons of Korah. LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob. 2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people; thou hast covered all their sin. Selah. 3 Thou hast taken away all thy wrath thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger. 4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease. 5 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations ? 6 Wilt thou not revive us again, that thy people may rejoice in thee? 7 Show us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation. any works like unto thy works. & All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Loan; and shall glorify thy name. 10 For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone; 11 Teach me thy way, O Lond; I unite my will walk in thy truth : heart to fear thy name. 12 I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart; and I will glorify thy name for evermore. 13 For great is thy mercy toward me; and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell. 14 O God, the proud are risen against me, andthe assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul, and have not set thee before them. 15 But thou,O LORD,art a God full of 8 I will hear what God the LORD compassion,and gracious; long-sufler will speak; for he will speak peaceling, and plenteous in mercy and truth. God's care of PSALMS. Ins cla rel. 16 O turn unto me, and have mercy, affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon me: give thy strength unto thy upon thee; I have stretched out my servant, and save the son of thy hand-bands unto thee. 10 Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah. maid. 17 Show me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me. PSALM LXXXVII. 11 Shall thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction ? TA Psalin or Song for the sons of 12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the Korah. TTIS foundation is in the holy moun-land of forgetfulness? H' tains. 2 The Lond loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. 3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah. 4 1 will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there. 5 And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her; and the Highest himself shall establish her. 6 The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah. 7 As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee. PSALM LXXXVIII. 13 But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee. 14 LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from ine? 15 1am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. 16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me ofl. 17 They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together. 18 Lover and friend bast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness. PSALM LXXXIX. T Maschil of Etban the Ezrahite. WILL sing of the mercies of the TA Song or Psalm for the sons of Koral, to the chief Musician upor Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of He-will I make known thy faithfulness to man the Ezrabite. all generations. thee. LORD God of my salvation, 1 have cried day and night before 2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; 3 For my soul is full of troubles; and iny life draweth nigh unto the grave. 4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength : 6 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no inore: and they are cut off from thy hand. 6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. 7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Sclah. 2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very hearens. 3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, 4 Thy seed will I establish for ever. and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah. 5 And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Lond: tby faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints. 6 For who in the heaven can be com pared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD ? 7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had 8 Thou hast put away mine acquaint-in reverence of all them that are about ance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them; I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. him. 8 0 LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LoRD like unto thee? or to thy Mine eye mourneth by reason of' faithfulness round about thee ? David's complaint PSALMS. and prayer 9 Thou rulest the raging of the sea:dure for ever, and his throne as the when the waves thereof arise, thou days of heaven. stillest them. 10 Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm. 11 The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them. 12 The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name. 13 Thou hast a mighty arm; strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. 14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face. 15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, 0 LORD, in the light of thy countenance. 16 In thy name shall they rejoice all the day and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted. : 17 For thou art the glory of their strength and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted. : 18 For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our King. 19 Then thou spakest in vision to thy Holy One, and saidst, 1 have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. 20 I bave found David my servant; with my noly oĤ have I anomted nim: 21 With whom my hand shall be established: : . mine arm also shall strengthen him. 22 The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict hin. 23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him. 24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him; and in my name sball bis horn be exalted. 25 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. 26 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation. 30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; 3 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; 32 Then will 1 visit their transgres sion with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. 33 Nevertheless my loving-kindness will 1 not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. 34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that has gone out of my lips. 35 Once I have sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David, 36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. 37 It shall be established for ever, as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selab. 33 But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed. 39 Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground. 40 Thou hast broken down all bis hedges; thou hast brought his strong bolds to ruin. 41 All that pass by the way spoil him : he is a reproach to his neighbours. 49 Thou hast set up the right hand of 018 adversaries thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice. 43 Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle. 44 Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down totheground. 45 The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah. 46 How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath buru like fire ? 47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore last thou made all men in vain ? 48 What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall be deliver 27 Also I will make him my first-his soul from the hand of the grave? born, higher than the kings of the Selah. earth. 49 Lond, where are thy former lov28 My mercy will I keep for him ing-kindnesses, which thou swarest for evermore, and my covenant shall unto David in thy truth? 60 Remember, LORD, the reproach stand fast with him. 29 His sced also wil I make to on [of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people; 61 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Lono, wherewith they Ive reproached the footsteps of thine anointed. 62 Blessed be the Lond for evermore. Amen, and Amen. PSALM XC. safety of the godly 17 And let the beauty of the Lond our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. PSALM XCI. HE that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High, shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. ¶ A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. 2 I will say of the LORD, He is my LORD, thou hast been our dwelling refuge and my fortress: my God; in place in all generations. him will I 2 Before the mountains were brought 3 Surely be sball deliver thee from forth, or ever thou hadst formed the the snare of the fowler, and from the earth and the world, even from ever-noisome pestilence. Jasting to everlasting, thou art God. 4 He shall cover thee with his feath3 Thou turnest man to destruction;ers, and under his wings shalt thou and sayest,Return,ye childreu of men. trust; his truth shall be thy shield and 4 For a thousand years in thy sight|buckler. are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. 5 Thou carriest them away as with a food; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass_which groweth up. 6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth. 7 For we are consumed by thine an ger, and by thy wrath are we troubled, 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 9 For all our days are passed away m thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told, 10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. 12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. 13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy ser vants. 14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. 15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us,and the years wherein we have seen evil, 16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their chil dien. 5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the ter For by night; nor for the arrow that dieth by day; 6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness: or for the destruction that wasteth at noon-day. 7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand, buy it shall not come nigh thee. 8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked, 9 Because thon hast made the LORD |which is my refuge, even the Most High, thy habitatión; 10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. 11 For be shall give his angels charge over thee,to keep thee in all thy ways. 12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. 13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. 14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver hun: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. 16 He shall call upon me, and I wili auswer him; 1 will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and ho our him. 16 With long life will I sati IT is T is a good thing to the LORD, an to thy name, ON |