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. T 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: 6 Moses and Aaron 'mong his priests, 7 Within the pillar of the cloud 8 Thou answerd'st them, O Lord our God, 9 Do ye exalt the Lord our God, Do ye him worship: for the Lord 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. A 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; 5 For why? the Lord our God is good, His truth at all times firmly stood, SECOND VERSION. ALL ye lands, unto the Lord 2 Serve God with gladness: him before 3 Know ye the Lord, that he is God; We are his people, and the sheep 4 Enter his gates and courts with praise, 5 Because the Lord our God is good, 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. I MERCY will and judgment sing, 2 With wisdom in a perfect way, 3 I will endure no wicked thing I hate their work that turn aside, 4 A stubborn and a froward heart 5 I'll cut him off that slandereth 6 Upon the faithful of the land mine eyes shall be, that they May dwell with me: he shall me serve Who of deceit a worker is, 8 Yea, all the wicked of the land 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, 2 And in the day of my distress, 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. Y |