23 They who go down upon the fea

In thips, tranfacting bus'nefs there, Where waters great and roaring be, Cry, Lord, how great thy wonders are! 24 Thefe fee the doings of the Lord, And all his marvels in the deep: 25 For he commands, and at his word. The ftormy winds the furges fweep: 26 Lifted aloft, the billowy waves,

Like mountains heaving to the sky,
Defcend again to see the graves

Where thoufands dead below them ly:
They mount to heav'n, they fink to hell
Their foul is melted like the wave,
The howling winds around them yell,

And feem to knell them to their grave:

27 They fink, they cry, they roar, they ravey In trouble to and fro they reel;

Like drunkards, whom their fenfes leave,
What dire confusions do they feel!
28 Their wisdom's fwallow'd up by fear,
Until they cry unto the Lord;
The Lord anon their cry will hear,
And hush the tempeft with a word:
29 He makes the ftorm obey his nod;
And ev'ry boift'rous wave is ftill;
The fea is bufh'd, and, hearing God,
Stands chic den for her wayward will.
30 Then, then the mariners refpire,
Because they feel themfelves alive,
And gladly at their port afpire,
Until he makes them fafe arrive,-

31 O men, if ye your duty knew,
And obligations to your God,
To render him the glory dut,
For all his love on you befow'd!

32 In your affemblies him extol,

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And praife him where the people be,
Among the elders lift your foul,
And, all ye elders, praife him ye.

He makes the wilderness to flow
With floods of water ev'ry-where.
And water-fprings again to grow

Dry ground, with fand and channels bare.
34 The fruitful land he fows with falt,
And turns it into barrennefs,
Because the dwellers are in fault,
And grieve him with their wickedness.

35 He turns the rock into a flood,
And dry ground into water-fprings,
Exchanging often ill and good,

By ftrange viciffitude of things.
36 He makes the hungry with him dwell,
Where he their city hath prepar❜d;
They fow the fields, and plant them well;
Much increase fhall their toil reward.

37 He alfo greatly will them blefs,

And pour them all abroad like floods;
Their cattle fhall not feel decrease,

Nor wolf, nor murrain, feize their goods.

38 Again they are diminished,

When waves and winds adverfely blow: Then ftrong affliction bows their head, And lays them down in forrow low.

39 He on great princes contempt pours, And caufes them in deferts ftray; To spend their folitary hours

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From human footfteps far away.
Yet fetteth he the Poor on high,
And after much affliction frees;

And builds him tow'ring to the fky,
While all the world with wonder fees:

41 The righteous fhall behold, and fing;
Iniquity fhall ftop her mouth;
And all the earth shall hail her King,
Who comes with glory, grace, and truth.
42 Whofo is wife, and will thefe things
Obferve with judgment, and record,
Er'n he shall lurk beneath the wings
Of love, with Jefus Chrift the LORD.

SPOKEN by the Holy Ghost in the person of the Meffiah. Parallel to Pfal. xviii. 49. is the 3d verse of this, explained by the apostle, of the Lord Jefus Christ, Rom. xv. 9. That the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy, as it is written, For ⚫ this cause I will confefs to thee among the Gentiles, (or nations), and fing unto thy name.' See Pfalm lx. and margin.

Chrift's praife let all the nations found,
Till heav'n and earth his praife rebound!
He comes from heav'n to claim his own,
And raife on earth bis glorious throne!

Y heart is fix'd; I'll rife and fing;
I'll early rife to praife my King:
The earth shall echo with his praise,
And all the heav'ns adopt my lays :
My tongue, my glory, thall excel,
Where thousand tongues his glory tell :
I will prefide in all their praise,
And fing the grandeur of his ways.

a Awake, my fong, awake, my lyre;
Diffuse thy pure celestial fire;
I will myself awake, and fing
My early praises to my King.

3 Among

3 Among the people I'll proclaim, And to the nations found thy fame: 4 Thy mercy's great above the fky; Thy truth doth reach the heav'ns fo high! 5 Be thou exalted, Lord, alone; 'Bove heav'n' and earth thy glory's gone. 6 That thy beloved ones may Exalted, O my God, with me, Give me an answer in thy love, Salvation never to remove, Let all my faints with me arife; Lo, 'tis thine own Meffiah cries.

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7 God in his holinefs hath fpoke,,
(Nor fhall his word be ever broke),
I'll glory in my noble line;

I'll feize my heritage divine:

Thee, Shechem, I'll divide with pleasure, * And Succoth's valley I will measure: 8: All Gilead I claim as mine;

Manaffeh falls to me by line;

And Ephraim fhall be my life-guard;
Judah, hall have a high reward;
He fhall for me announce my laws,
And fand defenfive in my cause:
9 I'll Moab's menial office ufe,
To do the fervice of my houfe;'
And Edom, though a hoftile land,
On thee my friendly foot fhall ftand;
Philiftia, I'll tread thee down,

And firm attach thee to my crown10. Who, now, will lead me to the war, And bring me my triumphal car, That I to Edom's tow'rs may fly? 1. O, wilt not thou, my God Moft High, Who haft not with our armies gone, But left us to be overthrown?

12 In vain to man we should apply:
13 Through God we fhall do valiantly;
'Tis he who treads down all our foes;
'Tis he before our banners goes;

His trumpet founds the grand alarm,
Which all the heathens fhall difarm :
Sound, found the trumpet; found abroad
The gofpel of the pow'r of God.

PSALM CIX.

THAT the speaker in this Pfalm is one, and that the Lord Jefus Christ is he, is evident not only from the bare reading thereof, and from all the parallels, but also from the exprefs application of the curfes, uttered therein, to Judas, the betrayer of Jefus. See Acts i. Men and brethren,' fays Peter, this Scripture must needs have been ful• filled, which the Holy Ghoft, by the mouth of • David, spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jefus-For it is • written in the book of Pfalms,' (Pfal Ixix. 25.), Let his habitation be defolate, and let no man ⚫ dwell therein; and' (Pal. cix. 8.) his office let • another take.'-Such being the Holy Ghoft's interpretation of this Pfalm, let men beware of ufurping the words of Jesus, and wresting them to the mott diabolical of purposes, namely, the breathing out the private malice and revenge of their own wicked hearts; as once a certain mutineer, condemned to be thot, thought proper to venture into eternity, finging this Palm, and applying all the imprecations therein to his GENERAL-It ought, however, to be observed, that, from ver. 6. Judas feems to be confidered as a father, according to the Hebrew idiom; that is, an example, or fign, to all the following unbelieving Jews, and others of the fame fpirit, who are faid to be his children.

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