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19 In vision to thy holy One,
thou saidst, I help upon

A strong one laid; out of the folk
I rais'd a chosen one.

20 Ev'n David, I have found him out
a servant unto me:

And, with my holy oil, my king
anointed him to be.

21 With whom my hand shall 'stablish'd be mine arm shall make him strong.

22 On him the foe shall not exact, nor son of mischief wrong,

23 I will beat down before his face
all his malicious foes;

I will them greatly plague, who do
with hatred him oppose.

24 My mercy and my faithfulness

with him yet still shall be ;

And in my name his horn and pow'r
men shall exalted see.

25 His hand and pow'r shall reach afar,
I'll set it in the sea;

And his right hand established
shall in the rivers be.

26 Thou art my Father, he shall cry,
thou art my God alone;

And he shall say, thou art the Rock
of my salvation.

27 I'll make him my first-born more high
than kings of any land.

28 My love I'll ever keep for him, my cov'nant fast shall stand."

29 His seed I by my pow'r will make for ever to endure;

And, as the days of heav'n, his throne shall stable be and sure.

30 But if his children shall forsake
my laws, and go astray,

And in my judgments shall not walk,
but wander from my way; :

31 If they my laws break, and do not
keep my commandements;

32 I'll visit then their faults with rods, their sins with chastisements.

33 Yet I'll not take my love from him, nor false my promise make. 34 My cov❜nant I'll not break, nor change, what with my mouth I spake.

35 Once by my holiness I sware, to David I'll not lie :

36 His seed and throne shall as the sun, before me last for aye.

37 It, like the moon, shall ever be
establish'd stedfastly;

And like to that which in the heav'n
doth witness faithfully.

38 But thou, displeased, hast cast off,
thou didst abhor and lothe;
With him that thine anointed is,
thou hast been very wroth.

39 Thou hast thy servant's covenant made void, and quite cast by ;

Thou hast profan'd his crown, while it cast on the ground doth lie.

40 Thou all his hedges hast broke down, his strong holds down hast torn.

41 He to all passers-by a spoil,

to neighbours is a scorn.

42 Thou hast set up his foes' right hand, mad'st all his en'mies glad :

43 Turn'd his sword's edge, and him to stand in battle hast not made.

44 His glory thou hast made to cease, his throne to ground down cast:

45 Shorten'd his days of youth, and him with shame thou cover'd hast,

46 How long, Lord, wilt thou hide thyself
for ever in thine ire?

And shall thine indignation
burn like unto a fire?

47 Remember, Lord, how short a time
I shall on earth remain:
O wherefore is it so that thou
hast made all men in vain ?
48 What man is he that liveth here,
and death shall never see?
Or from the power of the grave
what man his soul shall free?
49 Thy former loving-kindnesses,
O Lord, where be they now?
These which in truth and faithfulness
to David sworn hast thou.

50 Mind, Lord, thy servant's sad reproach; how I in bosom bear

The scornings of the people all,
who strong and mighty are.

51 Wherewith thy raging enemies
reproach'd, O Lord, think on;
Wherewith they have reproach'd the steps
of thine anointed One.

52 All blessings to the Lord our God let be ascribed then;

For evermore so let it be.

Amen, yea, and amen.

PSALM XC.

A prayer of MOSES, the man of God.

This Psalm was composed by Moses, the man of God, some time after God had sentenced the Hebrews to wandering and death in the wilderness; Num. xiv. In it, (1) Moses comforts himself, and his people, with the eternal and unchangeable duration of God himself, and their interest in him; ver. 1, 2. (2) He humbles himself and his people with the consideration of human frailty; ver. 3-6. (3) He submits himself and his people to the righteous sentence of God passed upon them; ver. 7-11. (4) By prayer he commits himself and his people to their gracious and merciful God: and requests the sanctified use of their awful chastisements; the averting of divine wrath, the bestowal of true comforts and joys; the returns of his favour, and the progress of his work of mercy among their children; ver. 12-17.

Let me sing this as the tenant of an hour, who hath none assurance of his present life: Sing it as resigned to my lot on earth, however afflicted; as active in preparation for death; and committing myself and family to the God of truth as our Redeemer, our God, and our everlasting ALL.

ORD thou hast been our dwelling-place in generations all.

2 Before thou ever hadst brought forth the mountains great or small:

Fre ever thou hadst form'd the earth, and all the world abroad,

Ev'n thou from everlasting art to everlasting God.

3 Thou dost unto destruction man that is mortal turn :

And unto them thou say'st again,
ye sons of men, return.

4 Because a thousand years appear
no more before thy sight
Than yesterday, when it is past,
or than a watch by night.
5 As with an overflowing flood
thou carriest them away:
They like a sleep are; like the grass
that grows at morn are they.

6 At morn it flourishes and grows,
cut down at ev'n doth fade.
7 For by thine anger we're consum'd,
thy wrath makes us afraid.

8 Our sins, thou, and iniquities,
dost in thy presence place,

And sett'st our secret faults before
the brightness of thy face,

9 For in thine anger all our days.
do pass on to an end;

And as a tale that hath been told, so we our years do spend. 10 Threescore and ten years do sum up our days and years, we see : Or, if by reason of more strength,. in some fourscore they be :

Yet doth the strength of such old men but grief and labour prove;

For it is soon cut off, and we

fly hence, and soon remove.

11 Who knows the power of thy wrath? according to thy fear,

12 So is thy wrath: Lord, teach thou us our end in mind to bear;