2 Therefore, although the earth remove, we will not be afraid :

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Though hills amidst the seas be cast,
Though waters roaring make,

And troubled be; yea, though the hills,
by swelling seas do shake.

4 A river is, whose streams do glad
the city of our God;

The holy place wherein the Lord
most high hath his abode.

God in the midst of her doth dwell; nothing shall her remove : The Lord to her an helper will, and that right early, prove. The heathen rag'd tumultuously, the kingdoms moved were: The Lord God uttered his voice, the earth did melt for fear. 7 The Lord of Hosts upon our side doth constantly remain :

The God of Jacob's our refuge, us safely to maintain.

8 Come, and behold what wondrous works have by the Lord been wrought:

Come see what desolations

he on the earth hath brought.

9 Unto the ends of all the earth

wars into peace he turns:

The bow he breaks, the spear he cuts, in fire the chariot burns.

10 Be still, and know that I am God:
among the heathen I

Will be exalted, I on earth
will be exalted high.

11 Our God, who is the Lord of hosts,
is still upon our side :
The God of Jacob our refuge,
for ever will abide.

PSALM XLVII.

To the chief musician. A Psalm for the sons of KORAH.

This Psalm was probably composed on the same occasion as the 24th. Here is, (1) a revenue of praise demanded for God, from all people, Jews and Gentiles; ver. 1, 6. (2) A memorial of the grounds of praise, viz. the majesty of God's nature; ver. 2. The great things he had done or would do for his people, in subduing their foes, and providing portions for themselves; and in ascending to heaven, to receive gifts and prepare places for men; ver. 3-5. As also the high sovereignty and universal extent of his government; ver. 2.

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While my lips utter this song, let all my inward powers labour in viewing, in loving, in admiring, in extolling, my great, my glorious, my ascended, my all-governing, all-doing, and all-giving Lord, Jesus Christ.

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LL people clap your hands; to God
with voice of triumph shout,

2 For dreadful is the Lord most high,
great King the earth throughout.

3 The heathen people under us

he surely shall subdue ; And he shall make the nations under our feet to bow..

4 The lot of our inheritance

choose out for us shall he, Of Jacob whom he loved well, ey'n the excellency.

5 God is with shouts gone up, the Lord with trumpets sounding high.

6 Sing praise to God, sing praise, sing praise; praise to our King sing ye.

7 For God is king of all the earth; with knowledge praise express.

8 God rules the nations, God sits on his throne of holiness.

9 The princes of the people are
assembled willingly;

Ev'n of the God of Abraham
they who the people be.

For why? the shields that do defend
the earth, are only his
They to the Lord belong; yea, he
exalted greatly is.

PSALM XLVIII.

A Song and Psalm for the sons of KORAH. This Psalm was no doubt composed to celebrate some remarkable victory or deliverance, in the days of David, Jehoshaphat; 2 Chron. xx. or Hezekiah, 2 Kings xix. We have here (1) Jerusalem, the capital city of Israel, and type of the gospel church and heavenly state, cele. brated for her beauty and relation to God, as the resi dence of his temple and ordinances; ver. 1, 2. (2) JEHOVAH, the God of Israel, celebrated for his kind and powerful protection of Jerusalem, and for making her enemies flee off with much precipitation and terror; ver. 37. (3) The people of God, particularly in Jerusatem, meditating upon, and celebrating the gracious and mighty things, which God had, or would do for them; and for his discoveries of himself to them; and promising themselves sure and lasting happiness in his relation to them, and direction of them; ver. 8-14.

While I sing these verses, let me be deeply affected with the glory, with the privileges, and chiefly with the

God of the christian church, and of the new covenant state, and of the New Jerusalem, which is above, which is the mother, and the desired city of us all.

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REAT is the Lord, and greatly he
is to be praised still,

Within the city of our God,
upon his holy hill.

2 Mount Zion stands most beautiful
the joy of all the land ;
The city of the mighty King
on her north side doth stand.

8 The Lord within her palaces
is for a refuge known.

4 For, lo, the kings that gathered were
together, by have gone.

5 But, when they did behold the same,
they, wond'ring, would not stay t
But, being troubled at the sight,
they thence did haste away.

6 Great terror there took hold on them,
they were possess'd with fear;
Their grief came like a woman's pain
when she a child doth bear.

7 Thou Tarshish ships with east wind break'ste

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As we have heard it told,

So, in the city of the Lord,

our eyes did it behold:

In our God's city, which his hand

for ever 'stablish will,

9 We of thy loving kindness thought, Lord, in thy temple still.

10 O Lord, according to thy name,

through all the earth's thy praise:

And thy right hand, O Lord, is full
of righteousness always.

11 Because thy judgments are made known,
let Zion mount rejoice;
Of Judah let the daughters all

send forth a cheerful voice. 12 Walk about Zion, and go round; the high tow'rs thereof tell

13 Consider ye her palaces,

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and mark her bulwarks well:
That ye may tell posterity.
For this God doth abide
Our God for evermore; he will
ev'n unto death us guide.

PSALM XLIX.

To the chief musician.

A Psalm for the sons of KORAH. This Psalm is a mirror calculated to exhibit the emptiness of all wordly enjoyments. Observe, (1) David's earnest attempt to awaken all ranks of mankind to a serious consideration of this matter, as a point of great importance and universal concern; ver. 1-4. (2) His irrefragable proofs of the vanity of earthly enjoyments, viz. that they cannot save from death either a man's self or his friend; and that they cannot make men wise or happy in this world; and far less render them happy in the future state; ver. 6-14. (3) His attempt to comfort himself and other saints, under the sense of their daily infirmities and of the chastisements received on account of their sins; and against the slavish fears of death, and against temptations arising from the prosperity of the wicked; ver. 5, 15-18.

While I sing, let me bewail my sinful minding of, and idolatrous attachment to earthly things. Let me be henceforth as a weaned child, setting my affections on things above, where Christ is at the right hand of God. Let no uncertain riches or honours, but the LIVING God, be the object of all my trust and joy.