by mine affliction mourns; Lord, I have daily call'd on thee;
Yet ftill my out-ftretch'd hand returns,
Without a wave of love, to me. 10 Wilt thou fhew wonders to the dead? Or fhall the dead arife and praife? Yea, verily, thou wilt indeed: My body dead thou yet wilt raife. 11 Thy loving-kindness in the grave Shall be difplay'd in its full ftrength; Thy faithfulness I trufted have; Nor fhall I be afham'd at length. 12 Deftruction fhall, indeed, afham'd, Into eternal darkness fly,
When all thy wonders have proclaim'd Thy righteoufnefs for ever nigh.
13 For unto thee I' cry'd, O Lord; And unto thee I'll ever cry, 14 Until thou shalt me help afford, And bring thy mercy to me nigh. 15 I am afflicted very fore,
Doom'd from my very birth to die; Thy terrors, Lord, do make me roar, While all afunder torn am I!
16 The dreadful fiercenefs of thy wrath. Quite over me doth daily go; Thy terrors prefs me unto death, They fearfully pursue me fo: 17 For round about me ev'ry day,
Like roaring waters they do roll; And, gathering together, they
Have compaffed around my foul. 18 My friends thou doft put far from me, And him that doth me dearly love; And those that mine acquaintance be To darkness thou doft far remove:
But thou art ever near, O Lord,
And draw'ft thy Servant near to thee; For, lo, according to thy word,
From death, by death, I fhall be free.
PSALM LXXXIX.
PRECISELY parallel to Pfal. ii. See ver. 27. I will make him, my Firft-born, higher than the kings of the earth,' &c.
Defcriptive of THE SON OF GOD, Whofe empire's all the world abroad, And of the glory of his reign, Which lafts for evermore: amen This fong of high triumphant praife, Let faith and love for ever raife! Come, all ye faints, adore and fing! Our covenant is Chrift our King!
OD's mercies I will ever fing; From God alone fweet mercies fpring;
Thy faithfulness declar'd shall be
To generations all by me.
2 For mercy fhall be built, faid I,
From age to age, eternally:
Thy faithfulnefs, ev'n in the heav'n, Thou shalt build up; thy word is giv'n, 3 I with my Chofen, my FIRST-BORN, A covenant of love have sworn; 4 That I thy feed establish fhall,
And build thy throne to ages all.
5 The heav'ns fhall praise thy wonders, Lord, Thy faithfulness thy faints record; In all their congregations, they
Thy pow'r and wisdom fhall display.
6 For, whoni in heav'n fhall I compare. Unto the Lord? and who is there Among the mighty ones to be, O JESUS, liken'd unto thee?
7 Thou, God, art great; and greatly thou Art to be fear'd-to thee fhall bow, With reverence and awe profound, Thy faints, on év'ry fide around. 8 O Lord, the God of armies, who Doth reign fo great a God as thou? Encircled in thine holiness
With pure and perfect faithfulness? 9 Ev'n in the raging of the fea, When high fea-billows roaring be, Thou over it and them doft reign; And fill'ft them with thy word again. 10 Lo, Rahab thou haft overthrown, And from thee flung her like a stone; And all her Pharaohs laid at length, Subdu'd by thine high arm of ftrength I The heav'ns are thine, and thine the earth, With ev'ry creature breathing breath; The world is thine, her fulnefs thine, All founded by thy hand divine.
12 The north, the fouth, were made by thee; And both in thee fhall joyful be: Tabor and Hermon both fhall fing, And bound for joy to hail their King. 13 Thou haft an arm of mighty pow'r,. The proud oppreffors to devour; Strong is thy hand, thy right-hand high, To fave the lowly when they cry.
14 Justice and judgment are thy throne, Thy habitation, Lord, alone:
Mercy and truth before thee thine, The brightnefs of thy face divine.
15 O greatly bleft the people be,
Who know the joyful found from thee! They ftill fhall walk before thy face, O Lord, in glory of thy grace:
16 They, in thy name, fhall all the day Their banners joyfully difplay;
And, in thy righteoufnefs, they fhall For ever be exalted all:
17 Because the glory of their might Doth only ftand in thy delight; And by thy favour shall our horn, And profp'rous pow'r, be ftill upborn. 18 The Lord is our Defence and Shield, Who fhall to us protection yield: The Holy One of Ifra'l fing:
The Chrift of God is Chrift our King.
19 In vifion to thy Holy One,
Thou fpakeft then, and faidft, Upon A mighty Saviour I have laid My people's everlasting aid;
A chofen One, whom I have found, Out of the people call'd, and crown'd; 20 Ev'n David's Son, whom I have lov'd, And with mine holy oil approv'd. 21 With him my hand shall stablish'd be ; Mine arm and strength shall set him free: 22 On him no foe fhall e'er exact,
Nor fon of malice turn him back:
I'll beat down his malicious foes, Before his face, with plagues and blows: 24 But I from him will ne'er remove My pledged faithfulnefs and love; And, in my name exalted high, His horn fhall flourish glorioufly. - 25 His hand and pow'r fhall reach afar, And turn-again the tide of war;
His right-hand fhall controul the fea; The rivers thall his, vaffals be.
26 Thou art my Father, he shall cry, My Rock, my God, my Saviour high; And I to him will bow mine ear, And, ere he cry, will bend to hear. 27 I'll make him, my FIRST-BORN, more high Than all the kings, afar or nigh.
28 I'll ever keep my love for him: My covenant remaineth firm. 29 His feed I will establish sure,
And make them by my pow'r endure; And, as the days of heav'n, the throne I will establish of my Son.
30 But if his children go aftray,
And from my precepts burst away;
And in my judgments shall not walk, But, wand'ring from my ways, go back; 31 If they my ftatutes fhall profane,
And count my high commandments vain: Then will I vifit with my rod,
And mark their fin with ftripes and blood: 33 Yet I'll not take my love from him, Nor will I make his glory dim.
My faithfulness shall never fail : And who my purpose shall repeal? 34 My covenant I will not break,
Nor will I void my promife make; 35 Once by my holinefs I fwore
To David-I'll repent no more: 36 His Seed for ever thall endure, And his dominion firm and fure : Like yonder fun, for evermore, In brightest glory me before, The Sun of Righteousness shall shine, In light and glory all divine:
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