8 Let floods clap hands, and let the hills together joy declare.

9 Before the Lord; because he comes, to judge the earth comes he :

He'll judge the world with righteousness, his folk with equity.

PSALM XCIX.

This Psalm is of the same general nature with the three preceding, and calls men to revere, worship, and praise the Messiah, and his Father, (1) For the glory, greatness, mercy, and equity of his government; ver. 1-5. (2) For the instances of his kindness to Israel, in remarkably regarding and honouring their noted deliverers, and reformers; ver. 6-9.

While I sing this, let my soul stand in awe of JEHOVAH's greatness and excellency. Let me call on God in every time of need, that he may answer and save me. Let me hope that he will forgive and subdue, but never that he will indulge my transgressions. For the Lord my God is holy.

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H' eternal Lord doth reign as King; let all the people quake: He sits between the cherubims,

- let th' earth be mov'd and shake. 2 The Lord in Zion great and high, above all people is.

3 Thy great and dreadful name (for it is holy) let them bless.

4 The King's strength also judgment loves; thou settlest equity:

Just judgment thou dost execute

in Jacob righteously.

5 The Lord our God exalt on high; and rev'rently do ye

Before his footstool worship him:
the holy One is he.

6 Moses and Aaron 'mong his priests,
Samuel, with them that call
Upon his name: these call'd on God,
and he them answer'd all.

7 Within the pillar of the cloud
he unto them did speak :
The testimonies he them taught,
and laws, they did not break.

8 Thou answerd'st them, O Lord our God,
thou wast a God that gave
Pardon to them, though on their deeds
thou wouldest vengeance have.

9 Do ye exalt the Lord our God,
and at his holy hill

Do ye him worship: for the Lord
our God is holy still.

PSALM C.

A Psalm of Praise.

This Psalm, (1) Contains a solemn call to the Gentiles to praise God and rejoice in him; ver. 1-4. (2) Furnisheth us with matter of praise, viz. that he is God, and stands nearly related to us, and that his mercy and truth are everlasting; ver. 3, 5.

Knowing the Lord to be my God, let me approach his ordinances, and enter his heavenly palaces, with an heart ravished with his excellencies and kindness, and a mouth filled with his praise.

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LL people, that on earth do dwell,

sing to the Lord with cheerful voice; 2 Him serve with mirth, his praise forth tell, Come ye before him and rejoice.

3 Know that the Lord is God indeed;
Without our aid he did us make :
We are his flock, he doth us feed,
And for his sheep he doth us take.
40 enter then his gates with praise,
Approach with joy his courts unto :
Praise, laud, and bless his name always,
For it is seemly so to do.

5 For why? the Lord our God is good,
His mercy is for ever sure:

His truth at all times firmly stood,
And shall from age to age endure.

SECOND VERSION.

ALL ye lands, unto the Lord
make ye a joyful noise.

2 Serve God with gladness: him before
come with a singing voice.

3 Know ye the Lord, that he is God;
not we, but he us made:

We are his people, and the sheep
within his pasture fed.

4 Enter his gates and courts with praise,
to thank him go ye thither :
To him express your thankfulness,
and bless his name together.

5 Because the Lord our God is good,
his mercy faileth never;

And to all generations

his truth endureth ever.

PSALM CI.

A Psalm of DAVID.

This Psalm was probably composed when David

sumed the government of his kingdom, and contains his holy resolutions, (1) To make God's mercies and judgments the connected matter of his song; and to walk circumspectly before his family, through the assisting presence of God; ver. 1, 2. (2) To purge his family and kingdom; discouraging and punishing persons mischievous, wicked slanderers, liars, and deceitful workers; and encouraging the pious; ver. 3—8.

While I sing, let me remember my faults, and in the strength of the grace that is in Christ Jesus, form the like holy resolutions.

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MERCY will and judgment sing,
Lord, I will sing to thee.

2 With wisdom in a perfect way,
shall my be behaviour be:
O when, in kindness unto me,
wilt thou be pleas'd to come?
I with a perfect heart will walk
within my house at home.

3 I will endure no wicked thing
before mine eyes to be:

I hate their work that turn aside,
it shall not cleave to me.

4 A stubborn and a froward heart
depart quite from me shall:
A person giv'n to wickedness
I will not know at all.

5 I'll cut him off that slandereth
his neighbour privily :
The haughty heart I will not bear
nor him that looketh high.

6 Upon the faithful of the land

mine eyes shall be, that they

May dwell with me: he shall me serve
that walks in perfect way.

Who of deceit a worker is,
in my house shall not dwell:
And in my presence shall he not
remain, that lies doth tell.

8 Yea, all the wicked of the land
early destroy will I :

All from God's city to cut off that work iniquity.

PSÁLM CII.

A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the Lord.

This Psalm relates to some grievous distress; wherein are observable, (1) Bitter complaints of divine hidings and wrath; of sore bodily troubles; of inward griefs and perplexities; of calumnious reproaches; of sudden changes of condition, and of apparent nearness to death; ver. 1-11. (2) Seasonable comforts against these grievances, fetched in from the eternity and unchangeableness of God; ver. 12, 24, 27. from the deliverances, spread, and establishment he will grant to his church, in answer to the prayers, and for the comfort of his afflic ted people; ver. 13-28.

While I sing, think, my soul, if I am exercised by my troubles; if these of the inner man bear heaviest on my heart, and if I am a cordial partaker with Zion in her joys and griefs.

LORD, unto my pray'r give ear,
my cry let come to thee:

2 And in the day of my distress,
hide not thy face from me.

Give ear to me: what time I call,

to answer me make haste.

For as an hearth my bones are burnt; my days like smoke do waste.

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