I caused for to swim with tears my couch I watered. 7 By reason of my vexing grief, mine eye consumed is: It waxeth old, because of all that be mine enemies. 8 But now depart from me, all ye that work iniquity; For why, the Lord hath heard my voice, when I did mourn and cry. 9 Unto my supplication the Lord did hearing give : When I to him my prayer make, the Lord will it receive. 10 Let all be sham'd and troubled sore, Let them turn back, and suddenly PSALM VII. Shiggaion of David which he sang unto the Lord, coff cerning the words of Cush the Benjamite. Here, accused of traitorous conspiracy against his sovereign by king Saul, or by Cush one of his courtiers, David [1] appeals to God, concerning his innocency of that crime, ver. 3-5. [2] He supplicates, that God, as governor of the world, and king of Israel, would protect him from danger, plead his cause, and give judgment for him, ver. 1, 2, 6, 9. [3] In the exercise of faith, he depends on God, to protect and deliver him, and to avenge the injuries he had sustained, upon his implacable adversaries, ver. 10, 16. [4] He resolves to ascribe the glory of all his deliverances to God alone, ver. 17. While I sing, let me contemplate the spotless innocency, the finished righteousness of my Redeemer, to С с gether with the injurious usage he received from his brethren of mankind; and the fearful ruin which hath befallen or awaits his incorrigible foes. Let me carefully approve myself in his sight, who searcheth my heart, and trieth my reins, and who must quickly be my final judge. Let me implore the just vengeance of heaven, against my spiritual enemies. And not unto me but to his name be the glory and praise of all my pretection and deliverance. Lord my God, in thee do I my confidence repose: Save and deliver me from all my persecuting foes. 2 Lest that the enemy my soul should like a lion tear, In pieces rending it, while there is no deliverer. 3 0 Lord my God, if it be so, that I committed this; If it be so, that in my hands iniquity there is; 4 If I rewarded ill to him that was at peace with me; (Yea, ev'n the man that without cause my foe was, I did free :) 5 Then let the foe pursue, and take my soul, and my life thrust Down to the earth, and let him lay mine honour in the dust. 6 Rise in thy wrath, Lord, raise thyself, for my foes raging be: And to the judgment which thou hast commanded, wake for me. 7 So shall th' assembly of thy folk about encompass thee: Thou therefore, for their sakes, return unto thy place on high. 8. The Lord he shall the people judge: my judge, JEHOVAH, be, After my righteousness, and mine integrity in me. 9 0 let the wicked's malice end, but 'stablish steadfastly The righteous: for the righteous God The hearts and reigns doth try. 10 In God, who saves th' upright in heart, is my defence and stay... 11 God just men judgeth, God is wroth with ill men every day. 12 If he do not return again, then he his sword will whet His bow he hath already bent, And hath it ready set. 13 He also hath for him prepar'd Against the persecutors he 14 Behold, he with iniquity $ A mischief he conceived hath 15 He made a pit and digg'd it deep, But he is fall'n into the ditch 16 Upon his own head his mischief His vi'lent dealing also down on his own pate shall comes 17 According to his righteousness And will sing praise unto the name. PSALM VIII. To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David, This Psalm contains a pleasant but solemn meditation upon the glory, the greatness, and the grace of God, Let me here observe [1] how ilustrious and wide spread are all his glory and renown, ver. 1, 3, 9. [2] By how weak and insignificant instruments, he manifests and spreads his superlative fame, ver. 2. [3] Behold his marvellous condescension and bounty to mankind, but chiefly to the man Christ, in uniting his human nature to his divine person, and in giving him ail power in heaven and earth, for the benefit of his chosen people, ver. 4—8. May this Jesus, this name of God in him, be the enthroned inhabitant, the everlasting wonder, and the superlative darling of my heart. Let me with the babes of Jerusalem, Matt. 21. pour forth my HOSANNAS to him that cometh in the name of the Lord to save me. HOSANNAS in the highest. Let all the works of nature lead, and excite me to admire their Creator's kindness towards men,-towards sinful and insignificant ME. WOW excellent in all the earth, HE Lord, our Lord, is thy name! Who hast thy glory far advanc'd above the starry frame. 2 From infants and from sucklings' mouth For thy foes cause, that so thou might'st 3 When I look up unto the heavens, 4 Then say I, what is man, that hé Or what the son of man, that thou 5 For thou a little lower hast thou crowned hast his head. 6 Of thy hands' works thou mad'st him lord ş all under's feet did'st lay : All sheep and oxen, yea, and beasts that in the field do stray: 8 Fowls of the air, fish of the sea, all that pass through the same. 9 How excellent in all the earth, Lord, our Lord, is thy name! PSALM IX. To the chief Musician upon Mu'h-Labbens This Psalm was perhaps composed on the occasion of his son Absalom's death. 2 Sam. 18. or on the occasion of the death of Goliath the champion and duellist of Gath, 1 Sam. 17. We have in it, [1] David's hearty thanksgiv ings to God, for his pleading of his cause against his and his country's enemies, and for giving him a complete victory over them, ver. 1-6. and his excitement of others to join with him therein, ver. 11, 12. [2] His triumph in God as the righteous judge of the world, protector of his people, and the destroyer of his implacable enemies, ver. 7-10. 15-18. [3] His requests for further grounds of praising God as his own deliverer; and the confounder of his enemies, ver. 13, 14, 19, 20. While I sing these subjects, let me chiefly consider the blessings of redemption, the victories of my redeemer over sin, death, and hell; and believe that I, through him, shall be more than a conqueror. Let the ruin of |