Before God's face let wicked men

so perish and decay.

3 But let the righteous be glad,
let them before God's sight
Be very joyful; yea, let them
rejoice with all their might.
4 To God sing, to his name sing praise:
extol him with your voice,

That rides on heav'n by his name JAH,
before his face rejoice.

5 Because the Lord a father is
unto the fatherless :

God is the widow's judge within
his place of holiness.

6 God doth the solitary set

in fam'lies and from bands

The chain'd doth free; but rebels do
inhabit parched lands.

O God, what time thou didst

before thy people's face;

go forth

And when through the great wilderness thy glorious marching was;

8 Then at God's presence shook the earth, then drops from heaven fell; This Sinai shook before the Lord,. the God of Israel.

9 O God, thou to thine heritage
didst send a plenteous rain;

Whereby thou, when it weary was,
didst it refresh again.

10 Thy congregation then did make
their habitation there :

Of thine own goodness for the poor,
O God, thou didst prepare.

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11 The Lord himself did give the word,
the word abroad did spread;
Great was the company of them
the same who published.

12 Kings of great armies foiled were,
and fore'd to flee away;

And women, who remain'd at home,
did distribute the prey.

13 Though ye have lain among the pots,
like doves ye shall appear,

Whose wings with silver, and with gold whose feathers cover'd are.

14 When there the Almighty scatter'd kings, like Salmon's snow 'twas white.

15 God's hill is like to Bashan hill, like Bashan hill for height.

16 Why do ye leap, ye mountains high?
this is the hill where God

Desires to dwell; yea, God in it
for aye will make abode.

17 God's chariots twenty thousand are,,
thousands of angels strong;

In's holy place God is, as in
mount Sinai, them among.

18 Thou hast, O Lord, most glorious
ascended up on high;

And, in triumph victorious, led
captive captivity :

Thou hast received gifts for men,

for such as did rebel;

Yea, ev'n for them that God the Lord

in midst of them might dwell.

19 Blest be the Lord, who is to us of our salvation God,

Who daily with his benefits

us plenteously doth load.

20 He of salvation is the God,

who is our God most strong;

And unto God the Lord from death
the issues do belong.

21 But surely God shall wound the head of those that are his foes;

The hairy scalp of him that still
on in his trespass goes.

22 God said, my people I will bring
again from Bashan hill;

Yea, from the sea's devouring depths them bring again I will;

23 That in the blood of enemies
thy foot imbru'd may be;

And of thy dogs dipt in the same
the tongues thou mayest see.

21 Thy goings they have seen, O God, the steps of majesty,

Of my God, and my mighty King,
within the sanctuary.

25 Before went singers, players next
on instruments took way;

And them among the damsels were
that did on timbrels play.

26 Within the congregations

bless God with one accord; From Isr'el's fountain do ye bless and praise the mighty Lord.

27 With their prince little Benjamin,
princes and counsel there

Of Judah were, there Zebulon's
and Napht'li's princes were.

28 Thy God commands thy strength: make what thou wrought'st for us, Lord. [strong 29 For thy house at Jerusalem,

kings shall thee gifts afford.

30 The spearmen's host, the multitude
of bulls, which fiercely look,

Those calves which people hath forth sent,
O Lord our God, rebuke,
Till ev'ry one submit himself,
and silver pieces bring:
The people that delight in war
disperse, O God and King.

31 Those that be princes great, shall ther
come out of Egypt lands,

And Ethiopia to God

shall soon stretch out her hands. 32 O all ye kingdoms of the earth, sing praises to this King,

For he is Lord that ruleth all,
unto him praises sing.

33 To him that rides on heav'ns of heav'ns,
which he of old did found;

Lo, he sends forth his voice, a voice
in might that doth abound.

34 Strength unto God do ye ascribe ;
for his excellency

Is over Israel, his strength
is in the clouds most high.

35 Thou'rt from thy temple dreadful, Lord, Isr'el's own God is he,

Who gives his people strength and pow'r
O let God blessed be.

PSALM LXIX.

To the chief Musician upon SHOSHANNIM. A Psalm of

DAVID.

This Psalm is much like the 22nd, representing at once the troubles of David and of David's Lord, and the glories which followed. We have in it, (1) Bitter complaints of long and sore troubles; of the malice and multitude of enemies; of the unkindness of friends; of general contempt; and these mingled with candid acknowledgments of guilt, and with supplications for God's gracious audience and merciful deliverance; ver. 1-13. (2) Pleas insisted on, in these supplications, viz. the mercy and truth of God; the Psalmist's own great distress; the insolence and cruelty of his enemies; and the unkindness of his friends; ver. 14-21. (3) Predictions of the ruin of David's, and especially of Christ's Jewish enemies; importing that their sacrifices and their common food should be cursed to them; that they should be plagued with judicial blindness and wrathful disquiet; that they should be rendered public monuments of the vengeance of God, having their church and state quite unhinged and their land desolated; and, in fine, that their ruin should be increasing, and their recovery almost impossible; ver. 22-28. (4) Under a deep sense of his poverty and distress, David and his divine Son celebrate the high praises of God, and call others to praise him for the deliverances of Israel; but chiefly for the erection of the gospel church, and for the certain, though still future recalling of the Jews into the same; ver. 29-36.

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While I sing, let me behold my Redeemer, charged in law with my sins, and bearing the punishment thereof. Let me learn, with patience to run the race of holy obedience and of necessary trials set before me, looking to Jesus as my pattern, and as the author and finisher of my faith. While I behold the tremendous severity of God's judgments, against his ancient people, for rejecting and murdering his Son, let me not be high minded, but fear. Let me behold the grace of our Lord Jesus, who, tho' he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor; that we through his poverty might be made rich. And