5 Thy way to God commit, him trust,
it bring to pass shall he.

6 And, like unto the light, he shall
thy right'ousness display ;
And he thy judgment shall bring forth,
like noon-tide of the day.
7 Rest in the Lord, and patiently
wait, for him: do not fret

For him who prospering in his way,
success in sin doth get.

8 Do thou from anger cease, and wrath
see thou forsake also:
Fret not thyself in any wise,
that evil thou should'st do.
9 For those that evil-doers are
shall be cut off and fall:

But those that wait upon the Lord
the earth inherit shall.

10 For yet a little while, and then
the wicked shall not be ;

His place thou shalt consider well, but it thou shalt not see. 11 But, by inheritance the earth the meek ones shall possess: They also shall delight themselves in an abundant peace.

12 The wicked plots against the just, and at him whets his teeth.

13 The Lord shall laugh at him because his day he coming seeth.

14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and bent their bow, to slay

The poor and needy, and to kill
men of an upright way.

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15 But their own sword, which they have shall enter their own heart: [drawn, Their bows which they have bent shall and into pieces part, [break,

16 A little that a just man hath

is more and better far,

Than is the wealth of many such
as lewd and wicked are.

17 For sinners' arms shall broken be;
but God the just sustains,

18 God knows the just man's days, and still their heritage remains.

19 They shall not be asham'd, when they
the evil time do see;

And when the days of famine are;
they satisfy'd shall be.

20 But wicked men, and foes of God,
as fat of lambs decay,

They shall consume; yea, into smoke
they shall consume away.

21 The wicked borrows, but the same
again he doth not pay;

Whereas the right'ous mercy shows,
and gives his own away.

22 For such as blessed be of him
the earth inherit shall;

And they that cursed are of him
shall be destroyed all.

23 A good man's footsteps by the Lord
are ordered aright:

And in the way wherein he walks,
he greatly doth delight.

24 Although he fall, yet shall he not
be cast down utterly :

Because the Lord with his own hand
upholds him mightily.

25 I have been young, and ow am old;
yet have I never seen

The just man left, nor that his seed
for bread have beggars been.

26 He's ever merciful, and lends :
his seed is blest therefore.
27 Depart from evil, and do good,
and dwell for evermore.

28 For God loves judgment, and his saints
leaves not in any case;
They are kept ever: but cut off
shall be the sinner's race.

29 The just inherit shall the land, and ever in it dwell.

30 The just man's mouth doth wisdom speak: his tongue doth judgment tell.

31 In's heart the law is of his God, his steps slide not away.

32 The wicked man doth watch the the just and seeketh him to slay:

33 Yet him the Lord will not forsake,
nor leave him in his hands:
The right'ous will he not condemn,
when he in judgment stands.

34 Wait on the Lord, and keep his way,
and thee exalt shall he

Th' earth to inherit, when cut off
the wicked thou shalt see.

35 I saw the wicked great in pow'r,
spread like a green bay-tree.

36 He past, yea, was not: him I sought,. but found he could not be..

37 Mark thou the perfect, and behold
the man of uprightness:
Because that surely of this man
the latter end is peace.

38 But those men that transgressors are,
shall be destroyed together.
The latter end of wicked men
shall be cut off forever.
39 But the salvation of the just
is from the Lord above,
He, in the time of their distress,
their stay and strength doth prove,

40 The Lord shall help and them deliver
he shall them free and save
From wicked men; because in him
their confidence they have.

PSALM XXXVIII.

A Psalm af DAVID, in bringing to remembrance.

This psalm appears to have been penned by David, under some remarkable distress, attended with a deep sense of sin as the procuring cause of it. Here are (1) David's sorrowful complaints of God's sore displeasure, and of the weight of his own sins; ver. 1-5. of the sickness of his body, and distress of his mind; ver. 6—10. of the unkindness of his friends; ver. 11. and of the unprovoked injuries he received from his enemies who were spiteful, cruel, subtile, unjust, ungrateful, impious, devilish, numerous and powerful, ver. 12, 20. (2) His remarkable patience and resignation under his troubles; ver. 13-15. (3) His fervent supplications to God for the mitigation of his troubles; ver. 1. and for comfort and support under, and speedy deliverance from them; ver. 16, 21, 22. attended with candid and ingenuous acknowledgment of the sinful causes thereof; ver. 3, 4, 5, 18.

In all my troubles, let me search out, and by faith con

fess and mourn over the sinful causes of them. take every distress out of God's hand; and call in the time thereof, that he may deliver me.

N thy great indignation,

O Lord rebuke me not:

Nor on me lay thy chast'ning hand, in thy displeasure hot.

For in me fast thine arrows stick, thine hand doth press me sore.

3 And in my flesh there is no health, nor soundness any more.

This grief I have, because thy wrath is forth against me gone; And in my bones there is no rest, for sin that I have done. 4 Because gone up above mine head my great transgressions be: And as a weighty burden they too heavy are for me.

Let me on him

5 My wounds do stink, and are corrupt; my folly makes it so.

6 I troubled am, and much bow'd down ; all day I mourning go.

7 For a disease that loathsome is,
so fills my loins with pain,

That in my weak and weary flesh-
no soundness doth remain.

8 So feeble and infirm am I,
and broken am so sore:

That, through disquiet of my heart,
I have been made to roar.

9 O Lord, all that I do desire
is still before thine eye: