9 For evi-doers fhall be cut off: but thole that wait upon the LORD they that inherit the earth. To For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be yea, thou fhalt diligently confider his place, and it shall not be. II But the meek thall nherit the earth; and thall delight themselves in the abun dance of peace. 12 The wicked plotteth against the juft, and gnatheth upon him with his teeth. 13 The LORD fhall laugh at him; for he feeth that his day is coming. 14 The wicked have drawn out the fword, and heve bent their bow, to catt down the poor and needy, and to flay fuch as be of upright converiation. 15 Their fword thall enter into their own heart, and their bows thall be broken. 16 A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked. 17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the Lonp upholdeth the right teous. 18 'The LORD knoweth the days of the np. right; and their inheritance thall be for ever. 19 They thall not be aulamed in the evil time; and in the days of famine they fhall be latished. 20 But the wicked thall perith, and the enemies of the LORD fhall be as the fat of lambs: they shall confume, into smoke fhall they confume away. 21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again, but the righteous theweth mercy, and giveth. 22 For fuch as be bleffed of him thall inherit the earth; and they that be curfed of him thall be cut off. 13 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD; and he delighteth in his way. 24 Though he fall, he thall not be utterly calt down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand. 25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not feen the righteous forlaken, nor histeed begging bread. 16 He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his feed is bleffed.. 27 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore. 28 For the Loap loveth judgment, and forfaketh not his faints; they are preferved for ever; but the feed of the wicked thall be cut off. 29 The righteous fhall Inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever. 30 The incuth of the righteous fpeaketh witdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment. 31 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his treps tall fide. 32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and feeketh to flay him. 33 The LoD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn his when he is judged. 34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he thall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou that fee it. 354 have icen the wicked in great power, and spreading hinseif like a green hay-tree: 36 Yet he paid away, and, lo, lie was not; yea, i fough him, but he could not be found. 37 Mark the perfect man, and belrold the upright: for the end of that man is peace. 38 But the tranfgreflors thall be dettroyed together; the end of the wicked thall be cut off. 39 But the falvation of the righteous is of the LORD; he is their ftrength in the time of trouble. 40 And the LORD fhall help them, and de liver then; he fhall deliver them from the wicked, and fave them, because they trutt in him. PSALM XXXVIII. David moveth God to take compaffion of his pitiful cafe, his fins being the caufe. A pfalin of David, to bring to remembrance. 0 fure. LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath; neither charten me in thy hot duplex 2. For thine arrows tick fait in me, and thy hand prefeth me fore. 3 There is no foundnefs in my flesh becaufe of thine anger; neither in there any reit in my bones because of my fin. 4 or mine iniquitics are gone over mine head; as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. 5 My wounds tink, and are corrupt, bccaufe of my foolishnets. 6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. 7 For my loins are filled with a loathfome difenfe; and there is no foundness in my Aeth. 81 am feeble and fore broken: I have roared by reafon of the difquietnefs of my heart. 9 LORD, all my defire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. 10 My heart panteth, my #trength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it alfo is gone from me. 11 My lovers and my friends ftand aloof from my fore, and my kinfnen ttand afar off. 12 They alfo that feek after my life lay fnares for me; and they that feck my hurt peak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long. 13 Bet I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not lis mouth. 14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whofe mouth are no reproofs. 15 For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O LORD my God. 16 For I faid, Hear me, left otherwife they fhould rejoice over me: when my foot p peth, they magnify themselves against me. 17 For I am ready to halt, and my lorrow is continually before me. 18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I wiH be forry for my fin. 19 But mine enemies are lively, and they are ftrong; and they that hate me wrongfully are inultiplied. 20 They alfo that render evil for good are mine adverfaries; becaufe I follow the thing that good is. 21 Forlake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me. 22 Make hate to help me, O LORD my salvation. my tongue, 4 LORD, niake me to know mine end, and the mealure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. 5 Behold, thou hatt made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his belt Hate is altogether vanity. Selah. 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain thew; furely they are difquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who fhall gather them. 7 And now, LORD, what wait 1 for? my hope is in thee. 8 Deliver me from all my tranfgreffions; make me not the reproach of the foolith. 9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didit it. 10 Remove thy stroke away from me: 1 am confumed by the blow of thine hand. 11 When thou with rebukes dott correct man for iniquity, thou makeit his beauty to confume away like a moth: furely every man is vanity. Selah. 12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give car unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a fojourner, as all my fathers quere. 130 fpare me, that I may recover itrength, before I go hence, and be no more. PSALM XL. The benefit of confidence in God. 6 Obe-. dience is the best facrifice, &c. To the chief mufician. A pfalm of David. Waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. 2 He brought me up alfo out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and fet my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. 3 And he hath put a new fong in my month, even praife unto our God: many fhall fee it, and fear, and thall truit in the LORD. 4 Bluffed is that man that maketh the LORD his trutt, and refpecleth not the proud, nor fuch as turn afide to lies. 5 Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou haft done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckon ed up in order unto thee: if I would declare and peak of them, they are more than can by numbered. 6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not deBre; mine ears haft thou opened: burnt-offering and fin-offering halt thou not required. 7 Then faid I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me; 81 delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart, 9 I have preached righteoufnefs in the great congregation: 10, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowett. 10 I have not hid thy righteoufnels withIn my heart; I have declared thy faithfulnefs and thy falvation: I have not concealed thy loving kindncis and thy truth from the great congregation. 4 11 With-hold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy loving-kindness and thy truth continually preferve me. 12 For innumerable evils have compaffed me about; mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, fo that I am not able to look up: they are more than the hairs of mine head; therefore my heart faileth me. 13 Be pleated, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, inake hatte to help me.. 14 Let them be afhamed and confounded together, that feek after my foul to destroy it; let them be driven backward, and put to thane, that with me evil. 15 Let them be defolate for a reward of their thame, that fay unto me, Aha, aha! 16 Let all thote that feck thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let fuch as love thy falvation fay continually, The LORD be magnified. 17 But I am poor and needy; yet the LORD thinketh upon me; thou art my help and my deliverer: make no tarrying, O my God. PSALM XLI. 1 Gods care of the poor. 4 David complaineth of his enemies treachery. To the chief mufician. A pfalm of David. Leifed is he that confidereth the poor; D the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. 2 The LORD will preferve him, and keep him alive; and he thall be bletted upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies. 3 The LORD will ttrengthen him upon the hed of languifhing: thou wilt make all hi bed in his fickness. 41 faid, LORD, be merciful unto me; heal my foul; for I have finned against thee. s Mine enemies fpeak evil of me; When thall he die, and his name perith? 6 And if lie come to fee me, he speaketh va nity; his heart gathereth iniquity to itfelf; when he goeth abroad he telleth it. 7 All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devife my hurt. 8 An evil difeafe, Jay they, cleaveth fait un to him: and note that he lieth, he mail rile up ho more. 9 Yea, mine own familiar friend in whom I trutted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel againit me. JO But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raife me up, that I may requite them. 11 By this I know that thou favoureft me, becaule mine enemy doth not triumph over me. 12 And as for me, thou upholdet me in mine integrity, and fettelt me before thy face forever. 13 Bleffed be the LORD God of fel from everlasting, and to evertiting Amen and Amen. O God. 2 My foul thirfteth for God, for the living God; when thail I come and appear before God? 3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually fay unto me, Where is thy God? 4 When I remember thefe things, I pour out my foul in me: for 1 had gone with the multitude; I went with them to the houfe of God, with the voice of joy and praile, with a multitude that kept boly-day. 5 Why art thou catt down, Omy foul and why art thou difquieted in me? Hope thon in God: for I shall yet praife him for the help of his countenance. 60 my God, ny 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 noife of thy water-ipouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over nie. 8 Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day-time, and in the night his fong fhall be with me, and my prayer un to the God of my life. 9 I will fay unto God my rock, Why haft thou forgotten me? why go I mourning becanfe of the oppreffion of the enemy? 10 As with a fword in my bones mine enemics reproach me, while they fay daily unto me, Where is thy God? 11 Why art thou catt down. O my foul and why art thou difquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I thall yet praife him, he is the health of my countenance, and my God. PSALM XLII David, praying to be replored to the temple, promifeth to ferve God joyfully. gainst an ungodly nation: O deilver nic from the deceitful and unjuft man. 2 For thou art the God of my ftrength: why doit thou caft me off? why go I mourning. because of the oppreffion of the enemy? 30 fend out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me, let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. 4 Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praife thee, O God, my God. 5 Why art thou caft down, O my foul? and why art thou difqueted within me? Hope in God; for I fhall yet praise him, tehe is the health of my countenance, and my God. PSALM XLIV. The church, in memory of former favours, To the clef musician for the sons of W have heard with our ears, O God, 2 How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedit them; hot thou didit afflict the people and call them out. 3. For they got not the land in poffeffion by on arm fave them; but thy right hand, and thine arin, and the light of thy countenance, becaute thou hadit a favour unto them. 4 Thou art my king, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. 3 Through thee will we push down our encmies; through thy name will we tread them under, that rife up against us. 6 For I will not truft in my bow, neither thall my fword fave me. 7 But thou hatt faved us from our enemies, and hatt put them to fhame that hated us. 8 In God we boaft all the day long, and praifc thy name for ever. Selah. 9. But thou haft caft off and put us to thame; and goeit not forth with our armies. 10 Thou makett us to turn back from the enemy; and they which hate us fpoil for themiclves. 11 Thou haft given us like theep appointed for meat; and hast feattered us among the heathen." 12 Thou felleft thy people for nought, and doft not increate thy toealth by their price. 13 Thou makett as a reproach to our neighbours, a icorn and a derition to them that are round about us. 14 'Thou makeft us a by-word among the heathen, a thaking of the head among the people. 15 My confufion is continually before me, and the thame of my face hath covered me. 16 For the voice of him that reproachoth 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 fallely in thy covenant. 18 Our heart is not turned hack, neither have car Reps declined from thy way. 19 Though thou haft fore broken us in the place of diagons, and covered us with the 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or firetched out our hands to a firange 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 theep for the flaughter. 23 Awake, why fleepelt thou, O LORD? arife, caft we not off for ever. 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgetteft our affiction and our oppreffion! 25 For our foul is bowed down to the dun: our belly cleaveth unto the earth. 26 Arife for our help, and redeem us, for thy mercies fake. PSALM XIV. The majesty and grace of Chris kingdom.. 10 The duty of the church. To the elief mutician upon Shefhannim, for the fons of Koral, Maichil. A tong of Joves. TY My heart is inditing a good matter: I fpeak of the things which I have made touching the King, my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. thy fellows. 8 All thy garments Smell of myrrh, and alves, and cailia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad. 9 Kings daughters were among thy hoAcurable women: upon thy right hand did and the queen in gold of Ophir. 10 Hearken, O daughter, and confider, and incline thine ear; forget alfo thine own people, and thy fathers houft;. 11 So fhall the king greatly defire thy beauty: for he is thy LoAD, and worship thou film. 12 And the daughter of Tyre fhall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people thall intreat thy favour, 13 The Kings daughter is all glorious with in: her clothing is of wrought gold. 14 She fhall be brought unto the King in raiment of needle-work: the virgins her companions that follow her fhall be brought unto thee. With gladnefs and rejoicing all they be brought they fhall enter into the King's palace. 16 Inftead of thy fathers thall be thy chil dren, whom thou mayett make princes in all the earth. 17 I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations; therefore fhall the people praife thee for ever and ever. PSALM XLVI. 1 The confidence which the church hath in God: 8 an exhortation to contemplate the works of Providence. To the chief mutician for the fons of Korah. A fong apon Alamoth. NOD is our refuge and ftrength, a very Gprefent help in trouble: 2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midft of the fear;" 3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains fake with the fwelling 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 mott High. 5 God is in the midft of her; the thall not he moved: God thall help her, and that right early. 6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved, he uttered his voice; the earth melted. 7 The LORD of hotts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. 8 Come, behold the works of the Long, what defolations he hath made in the earth. 9 He maketh wars to ceafe unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the fpear in funder: he burneth the charlot in the tire. 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 hofts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. PSALM XLVII. The nations are exhorted cheerfully to entertain the kingdom of Christ. To the chief musician. A pfalı for the fons of Korah. Clap your hands, all ye people; thout unto God with the voice of triumph: 2 For the LORD moft high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth. 3 He shall fubdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet. 4 He fhall choofe our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob, whom he loved. Selah. 5 God is gone up with a fhout, the LORD with the found of a trumpet. 6 Sing praies to God, fing praifes: fing praifes unto our King, fing prailes. 7 For God is the king of all the earth: fing ye praifes with understanding, 8 God reigneth over the heathen: God fitteth upon the throne of his holiness, 9 The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham; for the thields of the earth belong unto God; he is greatly exalted. PSALM XLVIII. mountain of his holines. 2 Beautiful for fituation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion; on the sides 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 halted away. 6 Fear took hold upon thein there, and pain, as of a woman in travail. 7 Thou breakeft the fhips of Tarthith with an caft wind. 8 As we have heard, fo have we feen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will eftablish it for ever. Selah. 9 We have thought of thy loving-kindnels, O God, in the midft of thy temple. 10 According to thy name, O God, fo is thy praife unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteoufnels. 11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad because of thy judgments. 12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. 13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, confider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the gene. ration following. 14 For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide even unto death, PSALM XEIX. An earnest perfuafion to build the faith of the refurredion, not on zorldly poster, but on God. 10 Worldly profperity is not to be admired. To the chief mufician. A pfalm for the fons of Korah. [Ear this, all ye people; give car all ye inhabitants of the world: HEar Both low and high, rich and poor together. 3 My mouth thall (peak of wifdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding. 41 will incline mine ear to a parable; I will open my dark faying upon the harp. 5 Wherefore thould I fear in the days of evil, then the iniquity of my heels thall compafs me about? 6 They that trust in their wealth, and boaft themselves in the multitude of their riches; 7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ranfom for him; 8 (For the redemption of their foul is precious, and it ceateth forever;) 9 That he fhould still live for ever, and not fee corruption. 10 For he feeth that wife men die, likewife the fool and the brutith perfon perith, and leave their wealth to others. II Their inward thought is, that their houfes hall continue for ever, and their dwelling-places to all generations: they call their lands after their own names. 12 Nevertheless, man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beats that perith. 13 This their way is their folly; yet their posterity approve their fayings. Selah. 14 Like theep they are laid in the grave; death thall feed on them; and the upright thall have doniinion over them in the inorning; and their beauty fhall contine in the grave from their dwelling. 15 But God will redeem my foul from the power of the grave; for he thall receive me. Selah. 16 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his houfe is increated: 17 For, when he dieth, he thall carry nothing away; his glory thall not defcend af ter him: 18 Though, while he lived, he bleffed his foul: (and men will praife thee when thou doeft well to thyfelf:) 19 He thall go to the generation of his fathers; they thall never fee light. 20 Man that is in honour, and underftandeth not, is like the beatts that perish. PSALM L. The majefly 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. Tipoken, and called the earth, from the He inighty God, even the LORD, hath riting of the fun unto the going down thereof. 1 Out of Zion the perfection of beauty, God 4 He shall call to the heavens fron: 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 rightcoufnes: for God is judge himself. Selah. 7 Hear, O my people, and I will fpeak; O Ifracl, and I will teilify againit thee: I am God, even thy God. 8 I will not reprove thee for thy facrifices, or thy burnt-offerings, to have been continu ally before me, 9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds: 10 For every beat of the forett is mine, and the cattle upon a thouland 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: for the world is nine, and the fulness thereof. 13 Will I eat the fleth of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? 14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the moft High: is And call upon me in the day of trou ble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. ió But unto the wicked God faith, What hatt thou to do to deciare my ftatutes, or that thou fhouldeft take my covenant in thy mouth? 17 Seeing thou hatet inftruction, and cafteft my words behind thee. 18 When thou fawelt a thief, then thou confented with him, and halt beer partaker with adulterers. 19 Thou givet thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frimeth deceit, zo Thou fittert and fpeakelt against thy brother; thou anderest thine own mothers fon.. 1 David prayeth for remifion of fins, whereef he mekith a deep confeffion: 6 he prayern for fandification. To the chief musician. A pfalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-theba.. Ave mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness; according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my tranfgreftions. and cleanfe ine from my fin. a Wath me thoroughly from mine iniquity, 3 For I acknowledge my tranfgreffions; and my fin is ever before me. 4 Againit thee, thee only have finned, and done evil in thy 6ght; that thou mightest be justified when thou speakett, and be clear when thou judget. |