Mine enemies daily revile me :
and those, who madly infult me,
make me a fubject of malediction:
Because I eat duft with my bread,
and with tears mingle my drink :
fince thou, in thine ire and indignation,
haft raised me, only to caft me down.
My days are like a declining fhadow:
and I am become like a withered herb.

But thou, JEHOVAH, remaineft for ever:

and thy remembrance from generation to generation.
Thou wilt yet arise, and have pity on Zion:
for the appointed time, to pity it, is come!
In its ruins even thy fervants delight:

and its duft they behold with complacency.

Then shall the nations revere JEHOVAH's name, and all the kings of the earth thy glory :

when JEHOVAH fhall have rebuilded Zion,
in his glory he shall be confpicuous !

when he shall have regard to the prayer of the poor,
and no more despise their fupplications.

Let this be recorded for the future generation,
that a people to be born may praise JEHOVAH:
because he hath looked down from his high fanc-
tuary;

JEHOVAH, from the heavens, hath looked down upon
the earth!

to liften to the fighs of the bound;

to release thofe doomed to death:

that the name of JEHOVAH may be celebrated in

Zion,

and his praise be refounded in Jerufalem :

when the people shall be affembled together,

23

and return from other kingdoms, to ferve JEHOVAH.

Should my strength be exhaufted by the way,

24

and my days likely to be fhortened;

I would fay: "O my God!

"Take me not off in the midst of my days:

25

"thou, whofe years are from generation to generation. "Long ago, thou foundedft the earth;

26

" and the heavens are the work of thine hands:

"Both these may perish-yet thou wilt remain : "they may all be worn out like a garment :

27

"If thou please to change them,

"changed they shall be :

"but thou art ever the fame :

"thy years fhall never have an end.

"May the children of thy fervants be preserved, ❝ and their feed be established under thy fight!"

NOTES.

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29

Ver. 7. a pelican—a cormorant. It is uncertain, whether these be the proper names of the animals here mentioned. I have given what I deemed the most probable. See C. R.-Ver. 8. a birdling. The Heb. word is commonly rendered a sparrow: but a fparrow is not a lonely bird; and the original term denotes any fmall bird.-Ver. 9. The meaning which I have given to the second line of this verse, is warranted by two fimilar paffages: Ifa. 65. 15. and Jerem. 29. 22.Ver. 18. the prayer of the poor. So equivalently all the antients: is there any need, with fome new interpreters, to look for another meaning. See C. R.-Ver. 24. This is a difficult paffage, and has been variously rendered. For the juftness of my translation, I must refer to C. R.

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PSALM CIII.-al. CII.

That this psalm, according to its title, may have been composed by David, I see no reason to disbelieve.

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6

who crowneth thee with bounty and kindneffes:
who filleth thee with the best of aliments;

so that thy youth is renewed, like an eagle's.
JEHOVAH executeth acts of justice,

and righteous judgment to all the oppreffed.
To Mofes he made known his ways,

7

to the children of Ifrael his exploits.

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9

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II

12

13

Kind and compaffionate is JEHOVAH;
flow to wrath, but abundant in mercy.

His chidings are not endless,

nor his wrath everlasting.

He hath not treated us according to our fins,
nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
For, high as are the heavens above the earth,
fo great is his bounty to those who revere him:
far as is the east from the west,

fo far hath he removed from us our iniquities.
Like the affection of a father to his children,

is the affection of JEHOVAH to those who revere him.

For he knoweth well our frame :

14

he remembereth that we are but duft:

that the days of man are like grafs ;

15

that he flourisheth like a flower of the field;

which, when the blast hath passed over it, is no more, 16 and its place is not diftinguishable!

But the goodness of JEHOVAH is from age to age,

17

to all those who revere him :

and to their children's children his justice extends : to those who obferve his covenant,

18

and are mindful to practise his precepts.

JEHOVAH in the heavens hath placed his throne, 19

but to his empire all ftates are fubject.

Blefs JEHOVAH, ye his angels!

20

who, excelling in power, fulfil his orders;
obedient to the voice of his word.
Blefs JEHOVAH, all ye his hofts;
his minifters, who execute his will.
Blefs JEHOVAH, all ye his works,
in every place of his dominion :
O my foul! blefs JEHOVAH.

NOTE.

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22

Ver. 5. Who filleth thee with the best of aliments. For this I take to be the true meaning of a sentence that has much puzzled interpreters; as one of the words, which I render aliments, occurs only here: but its meaning is, I think, readily afcertained from the Arabic. See C. R.

PSALM CIV.-al. CIII.

This psalm is also a bymn of praise, similar to the preceding one. It has no title in the Hebrew: but by Sep. is ascribed" to David."

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3

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7

8

9

10

II

12

BLESS JEHOVAH, 0 my foul!

JEHOVAH, my GOD! very great art thou!
with glory and majesty thou art clothed !

enwrapped in light, as in a garment !
expanding the heavens, like a curtain !
flooring thy chambers with waters!

ufing the clouds as thy chariot!

walking on the wings of the wind!

making the winds themselves thy meffengers!
and the lightnings thy minifters!

The earth thou fixedft on its bafis,

fo as not to be moved from its place.
With the deep thou hadft covered it,
as with a garment :

the waters ftood above the mountains!

At thy rebuke, they inftantly flee :

at the voice of thy thunder, away they haste! They afcend the hills,-they defcend the valleys unto the places, which thou preparedst for them. A boundary thou fixedst,

which they were not to repass,

nor return to cover the earth.

Springs thou emittedst into brooks,
running along between the mountains:
where drink all the beafts of the fields;
where the wild-affes quench their thirst.
By them neftle the birds of the heavens,