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16 And the Channels of the Sea appeared, the Foundations of the World were difcovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the Blaft of the Breath of his Noftrils.

17 He fent from above, he took me he drew me out of many Waters.

18 He delivered me from my ftrong Enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too ftrong for me.

19 They PREVENTED me in the Day of my Calamity: but the LORD was my Stay.

20 He brought me forth alfo into a large Place: he DELIVERED me, because he delighted in me.

21 And the LORD rewarded me according to my Righteoufness according to the Cleannefs of my Hands hath he recompenfed me.

22 For I have KEPT the Ways of the LORD, and have not WICKEDLY departed from my God.

23 For all his JUDGEMENTS were before me and as for his Statutes, I did not depart from them.

24 I was alfo upright before him, and have KEPT myself from my INIQUITY.

25 Therefore the LORD hath recompenfed me according to my Righteousness: according to my Cleanness in his Eye-fight.

26 With the Merciful thou wilt fhew thyfelf merciful, and with the upright Man thou wilt fhew thy felf upright. 27 With the Pure thou wilt fhew thy felf pure: and with the Froward thou wilt fhew thyfelf unfavoury.

28 And the afflicted People thou wilt fave: but thine Eyes are upon the Haughty, that thou mayeft bring them down.

29 For thou art my LAMP, O LORD: and the LORD will LIGHTEN my DARKNESS.

30 For by thee I have run through a Troop by my GOD have I leaped over a Wall.

31 As for GOD, his Way is perfect; the Word of the LORD is tried: he is a Buckler to all them that truft in him.

32 For who is GOD, fave the LORD? and who is a Rock, fave our GOD?

33 GOD is my STRENGTH and POWER: and he maketh my Way perfect.

34 He maketh my Feet like Hinds Feet: and fetteth me upon my high Places.

35 He teacheth my Hands to war: fo that a Bow of Steel is broken by mine Arms.

36 Thou haft alfo given me the Shield of thy SALVATION: and thy Gentleness hath made me great.

37 Thou hast enlarged my Steps under me: fo that my Feet did not flip.

38 I have pursued mine Enemies, and deftroyed them: and turned not again until I had confumed them.

39 And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arife: yea, they are fallen under my Feet.

40 For thou haft GIRDED me with STRENGTH to Battle them that rofe up against me, haft thou fubdued under

me.

41 Thou haft alfo given me the Necks of mine Enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.

42 They looked, but there was none to fave: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

43 Then did I beat them as fmall as the Dust of the Earth, I did ftamp them as the Mire of the Street, and did fpread them abroad.

44 Thou alfo haft delivered me from the STRIVINGS of my People, thou haft kept me to be HEAD of the HEATHEN a People which I knew not, fhall ferve me.

45 Strangers fhall fubmit themselves unto me: affoon as they hear, they fhall be obedient unto me.

46 Strangers fhall fade away, and they fhall be afraid out of their clofe Places.

47 The LORD liveth, and bleffed be my Rock: and exalted be the GOD of the Rock of my SALVATION.

48 It is GOD that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the People under me,

49 And that bringeth me forth from mine Enemies: thou alfo haft lifted me up on high above them that rofe up against me thou haft delivered me from the violent Man.

50 Therefore I will give Thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the Heathen, and I will fing Praifes unto thy

Name.

51 He is the TOWER of SALVATION for his King and fheweth Mercy to his Anointed, unto David, and to his Seed for evermore.

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CHAP. XXIII.

1 David profeffeth his Faith in God's Promifes: 8 A Catalogue of his mighty Men.

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vid David the Son of Jeffe faid, and the Man who was raifed up on high, the ANOINTED of the GOD of Jacob, and the SWEET PSALMIST of Ifrael said,

2 The SPIRIT of the LORD SPAKE by ME, and his WORD was in my Tongue.

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my Mouth will I make known thy FAITHFULNESS to all Generations.

2 For I have faid, MERCY fhall be halt thou ESTABLISH in the very HEAbuilt up for ever: thy FAITHFULNESS VENS.

19 Then thou fpakeft in Vifion to thy HOLY ONE, and faidft, I have LAID HELP upon one that is MIGHTY, I have EXALTED one CHOSEN Out of the People.

20 I have found DAVID my Servant with my holy Oil have I ANOINTED him.

3 The GoD of Ifrael faid, the Rock of Ifrael fpake to me, He that RULETH Over Men must be JUST, RULING in the FEAR of GOD.

4 And he shall be as the LIGHT of the Morning, when the Sun rifeth, even a Morning without Clouds as the tender Grafs fpringing out of the Earth by clear fhining after Rain.

5 * Although my House be not fo with God; yet he hath made with me an EVERLASTING COVENANT, ORDERED in all Things and SURE: for this is all my SALVATION, and all my DESIRE, although he make it not to

GROW.

6 But the Sons of Belial fhall be all of them as Thorns thruft away, because they cannot be taken with Hands.

7 But the Man that fhall touch them, must be fenced with Iron, and the Staff of a Spear, and they fhall be utterly burnt with Fire in the fame Place.

CHA P. XXIV.

David numbreth the People: 10 He having three Plagues propounded by GOD, repenteth and chufeth the three Days Peftilence. 18 The Plague flayed.

* David was in many Instances a Type of the MESSIAH, from whom, according to the Flefb, he was to descend,

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against ISRAEL, and he moved David against them, to fay, Go number Ifrael and Judah.

2 For the King faid to Joab the Captain of the Hoft, which was with him, Go now through all the Tribes of Ifrael, from Dan even to Beer-fheba, and number ye the People, that I may know the Number of the People.

3 And Joab faid unto the King, Now the LORD thy GOD add unto the People (how many foever they be) an hundred-fold, and that the Eyes of my Lord the King may fee it, but why doth my LORD the King delight in this Thing?

4 Notwithstanding, the King's Word prevailed against Joab, and against the Captains of the Hoft: and Joab and the Captains of the Hoft went out from the Prefence of the King, to number the People of Ifrael.

5 And they paffed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the Right fide of the City that lieth in the midst of the River of Gad, and toward Jazer.

6 Then they came to Gilead, and to the Land of Tahtim-hodfhi; and they came to Dan-jaan, and about to Zidon,

7 And came to the ftrong Hold of Tyre, and to all the Cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the South of Judah, even to Beer-fheba.

8 So when they had gone through all the Land, they came to Jerufalem at the End of nine Months and twenty Days.

9 And Joab gave up the Sum of the Number of the People unto the King: and there were in Ifrael eight hundred thoufand valiant Men that drew the Sword; and the Men of Judah were five hundred thousand Men.

10 And David's HEART SMOTE him, after that he had numbred the People: and David faid unto the LORD, I have finned greatly in that I have done: and now I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the Iniquity of thy Servant; for I have done very foolishly.

II For when David was up in the Morning, the Word of the LORD came unto the Prophet Gad, David's Seer, faying,

12 Go and fay unto David, Thus faith the LORD, I offer thee three Things; chufe thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.

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13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and faid unto him, Shall feven Years of Famine come unto thee in thy Land? or wilt thou flee three Months before thine Enemies, while they purfue thee? or that there be three Days Peftilence in thy Land? now advife, and fee what Anfwer I fhall return to him that fent me.

14 And David faid unto Gad, I am in a GREAT STRAIT: let us FALL now into the the HAND of the LORD (for his MERCIES are great) and let me not FALL into the HAND of Man.

15 So the LORD fent a PESTILENCE upon Ifrael, from the Morning even to the time appointed; and there died of the People from Dan even to Beer-fheba, feventy thousand Men.

16 And when the ANGEL ftretched out his Hand upon Jerufalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the Evil, and faid to the Angel that deftroyed the People, It is enough ftay now thine Hand. And the ANGEL of the LORD was by the Threfhing-place of Araunah the Jebufite.

17 And David fpake unto the LORD when he faw the ANGEL that fmote the People, and faid, Lo, I have SINNED, and I have DONE WICKEDLY: but thefe Sheep, what have they done? let thine Hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my Father's Houfe.

18 And Gad came that Day to David, and faid unto him, Go up, rear an Altar unto the LORD in the Threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebufitc.

19 And David, according to the Saying of Gad, went up as the LORD commanded.

20 And Araunah looked, and faw the King and his Servants coming on toward him and Araunah went out and bowed himfelf before the King on his Face upon the Ground.

21 And Araunah faid, Wherefore is my Lord the King come to his Servant? And David faid, To buy the Threshing-floor of thee, to build an Altar unto the LORD, that the Plague may be ftayed from the People.

22 And Araunah faid unto David, Let my Lord the King take and offer up what feemeth good unto him: behold, here be Oxen for Burnt-facrifice, and Threfhing-inftruments, and other Inftruments of the Oxen for Wood.

23 All these Things did Araunah, as a King, give unto

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