transgressors effectually admonish me to stand in awe of God, and at the furthest distance from sin.

ORD, thee I'll praise with all my heart, thy wonders all proclaim.

2 In thee, most High, I'll greatly joy and sing unto thy name.

3 When back my foes were turn'd, they fell, and perish'd at thy sight;

4 For thou maintain'dst my right and cause, on throne satt'st, judging right.

5 The heathen thou rebuked hast, the wicked overthrown;

Thou hast put out their names, that they may never more be known.

60 en'my! now destructions have an end perpetual :

Thou cities raz'd; perish'd with them

is their memorial.

7 God shall endure for ay; he doth for judgment set his throne:

8 In righteousness to judge the world, justice to give each one.

9 God also will a refuge be

for those that are oppress'd; A refuge will he be, in times of trouble, to distrest.

10 And they that know thy name, in thee
their confidence will place ;

For thou hast not forsaken them
that truly seek thy face.

11 O sing ye praises to the Lord,
that dwells on Sion hill :

And all the nations among,
his deeds record ye still.

12 When he enquireth after blood, he then remembreth them: The humble folk he not forgets, that call upon his name.

13 Lord, pity me; behold the grief which I from foes sustain;

Ev'n thou who from the gates of death
dost raise me up again :

14 That I, in Sion's daughters' gates,
may all thy praise advance :
And that I may rejoice always
in thy deliverance.

15 The heathen are sunk in the pit,
which they themselves prepar'd;
And in the net which they have hid
their own feet fast are snar’d.

16 The Lord is by the judgment known,
which he himself hath wrought:
The sinners' hands do make the snares
wherewith themselves are caught.

17 They who are wicked, into hell,
each one shall turned be:

And all the nations that forget
to seek the Lord most high.

18 For they that needy are, shall not
forgotten be alway;

The expectation of the poor

shall not be lost for ay.

19 Arise, Lord, let not man prevail ; judge heathens in thy sight:

20 That they may know themselves but men, the nations, Lord, affright.

PSALM X.

In this Psalm of lamentation and woe, we have (1) David's mournful complaints of God's withdrawment of his gracious and comfortable presence, ver. 1. [2] His mournful and shocking representation of the wicked men who persecuted him during God's absence: They proudly gloried in themselves; they counteracted the laws, and contemned the judgments of God; they contradicted and defied their opposers; they were malicious, treacherous, crafty, hypocrital, and atheistical persecutors, ver, 2-11. [3] His earnest supplications for relief to the people of God, attended with the firm faith of obtaining it, ver. 12-18.

While I sing these, ponder, O my soul, what a privilege it is to enjoy familiar fellowship with God! What abominations lie hid in an evil heart of unbelief! What a mercy, that the Lord hath withheld me from that outrage in wickedness, of which my corrupt nature is capabie! Let all my views of sins and of judgments cause me to flee to Jesus for relief. If he prepare my heart to pray, he will surely grant my requests.

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HEREFORE is it, that thou, O Lord,
dost stand from us afar?

And wherefore hidest thcu thy self,

when times so troublous are?

2 The wicked in his loftiness,

doth persecute the poor:

In these devices they have fram'd let them be taken sure.

The wicked of his heart's desire doth talk with boasting great; He blesseth him that's covetous, whom yet the Lord doth hate. 4 The wicked, through his pride of face, on God he doth not call:

And in the councils of his heart the Lord is not at all.

His ways they always grevious are;
thy judgments from his sight
Removed are: at all his foes
he puffeth with despite.

6 Within his heart he thus hath said,
I shall not moved be;
And no adversity at all
shall ever come to me.

7 His mouth with cursing, fraud, deceit,
is fill'd abundantly :
And underneath his tongue there is
mischief and vanity.

8 He closely sits in villages:
he slays the innocent:

Against the poor, that pass him by,
his cruel eyes are bent. ·

9 He, lion-like, lurks in his den:
he waits the poor to take :
And when he draws him in his net,
his prey he doth him make.
10 Himself he humbleth very low,
he croucheth down withal,
That so a multitude of poor,
may by his strong ones fall.
11 He thus hath said within his heart,
the Lord hath quite forgot:

He hides his countenance, and he
forever sees it not.

12 O Lord, do thou arise; O God,
lift up thine hand on high:
Put not the meek afflicted ones

out of thy memory.

13 Why is it that the wicked man thus doth the Lord despise

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Because, that God will it require,
he in his heart denies.

14 Thou hast it seen, for their mischief,
and spight thou wilt repay:

The poor commits himself to thee,
thou art the orphans' stay.

15 The arm break of the wicked man,
and of the evil one :

Do thou seek out his wickedness,
until thou findest none.

16 The Lord is king through ages all,
ev'n to eternity:

The heathen people from his land
are perish'd utterly.

47 O Lord, of those that humble are
thou the desire did'st hear:

Thou wilt prepare their heart, and thou
to hear wilt bend thine ear.

48 To judge the fatherless, and those
that are oppressed sore;

That man, that is but sprung of earth,
may them oppress no more.

PSALM XI.

To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

Behold here (1) David, tempted by his timerous friends to escape to some mountain, and hide himself from the fury of Saul, or of Absalom, as if that were his only safe course now, when his enemies were exerting themselves to the uttermost, and all things were in disorder and confusion, ver. 1-3. (2) David baffling the temptation by a resolute profession of his trust in God, as the observer of all men; as the holy and righteous punisher of the wicked, and friend of the godly, ver. 4-7.

Let no temptation decoy me from my duty. Let no