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Day xiii. from Bafan: mine own will I bring again, as I did fometime from the deep of the sea.

23 That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies: and that the tongue of thy dogs may be red through the same. 24 It is well feen, O God, how thou goeft: how thou, my God, and King, goest in the fanctuary.

25 The fingers go before, the minstrels follow after: in the midst are the damfels playing with the timbrels.

26 Give thanks, O Ifrael, unto God the Lord in the congregations: from the ground of the heart.

27 There is little Benjamin their ruler, and the princes of Juda their counsel: the princes of Zabulon, and the princes of Nephthali. 28 Thy God hath sent forth ftrength for thee: stablish the thing, O God, that thou haft wrought in us,

29 For thy temples fake at Jerufalem: so shall kings bring prefents unto thee.

30 When the company of the fpear-men, and multitude of the mighty are scattered abroad among the beafts of the people, fo that they humbly bring pieces of filver: and when he hath fcattered the people that delight in war;

31 Then shall the princes come out of Egypt: the Morians land fhall foon stretch out her hands unto God.

32 Sing unto God, O ye kingdoms of the earth: O fing praises unto the Lord,

33 Who fitteth in the heavens over all from the beginning: lo, he doth send out his voice, yea, and that a mighty voice.

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34 Afcribe ye the power to God over Ifrael: his worship and ftrength is in the clouds.

35 O God, wonderful art thou in thy holy places: even the God of Ifrael; he will give ftrength and power unto his people; bleffed be God.

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EVENING PRAYER.
Pfalm 69. Salvum me fac.

AVE me, O God: for the waters are come in even unto my
foul.

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2 1 flick faft in the deep mire, where no ground is: I am come into deep waters, fo that the floods run over me,

3 I am weary of crying, my throat is dry: my fight faileth me for waiting fo long upon my God.

4 They that hate me without a caufe, are more than the hairs my head: they that are mine enemies and would deftroy me uiltk fs, are mighty.

5 I paid them the things that I never took: God, thou knoweft my fimplencfs, and my faults are not hid from thee.

6 Let not them that truft in thee, O Lord God of hofts, be afhamed for my cause: let not thofe that feek thee, be confounded through me, O Lord God of Ifrael.

7 And why? for thy fake have I suffered reproof: fhame hath covered my face.

8 I am become a ftranger unto my brethren: even an alien unto my mothers children.

9 For the zeal of thine houfe hath even eaten me: and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee are fallen upon me.

10 I wept and chastened myself with fasting: and that was turned to my reproof.

II I put on fackcloth alfo: and they jefted upon me. 12 They that fit in the gate,

ards make fongs upon me.

fpeak against me: and the drunk

13 But, Lord, I make my prayer unto thee: in an acceptable time.

David in this Pfalm fpeaks as a Type of Jefus Chrift. Here we fee our Lord's zeal for the glory of Gcd v. 9.-the contempt to which he was expofed, v. 7, 8.12. &c.-the Gall and Vinegar that were offered to him on the Cross, v. 22.—the fatal end of Judas,

v. 25-and the obftinacy and rejection of the Jerus This appears from the application which the Apostles make, in the New Testament, of feveral paffages of this Pfalm.

14 Hear me, O God, in the multitude of thy mercy: even in

the truth of thy falvation.

15 Take me out of the mire, that I fink not: O let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

16 Let not the water-flood drown me, neither let the deep fwallow me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

17 Hear me, O Lord, for thy loving kindness is comfortable: turn thee unto me, according to the multitude of thy mercies. 18 And hide not thy face from thy fervant, for I am in trouble: O hafte thee, and hear me.

19 Draw nigh unto my foul, and fave it: O deliver me because of mine enemies.

20 Thou haft known my reproof, my fhame, and my dishonour: mine adverfaries are all in thy fight.

21 Thy rebuke hath broken my heart, I am full of heaviness: I looked for fome to have pity on me, but there was no man, neither found I any to comfort me.

22 They gave me gall to eat: and when I was thirsty, they gave me vinegar to drink.

23 * Let their table be made a fnare to take themselves withal: and let the things that should have been for their wealth, be unto them an occafion of falling.

24 Let their eyes be blinded, that they fee not: and ever bow thou down their backs.

25 Pour out thine indignation upon them: and let thy wrathful displeasure take hold of them.

26 Let their habitation be void: and no man to dwell in their tents.

27 For they perfecute him whom thou haft fmitten: and they talk how they may vex them whom theu haft wounded.

Let their Table be made a snare to take, &c. This and the like expreffions following are not to be looked upon as imprecations, but as prophecies; and will there

fore by no means juttify Chriftians, in withing il tơ those that have injured them.

28 Let them fall from one wickednefs to another: and not come

into thy righteousness.

29 Let them be wiped out of the book of the living: and not be written among the righteous.

30 As for me, when I am poor and in heaviness: thy help, O God, fhall lift me up.

31 I will praise the name of God with a fong: and magnify it with thanksgiving.

32 This alfo fhall pleafe the Lord: better than a bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

33 The humble fhall confider this, and be glad: feek ye God, and your foul fhall live.

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34 For the Lord heareth the poor: and despiseth not his prisoners. 35 Let heaven and earth praise him :the fea and all that moveth therein.

36 For God will fave Sion, and build the cities of Juda: that men may dwell there, and have it in poffeffion.

37 The pofterity alfo of his fervants fhall inherit it: and they that love his Name fhall dwell therein.

|| Pfalm 70. Deus in adjutorium.

[ASTE thee, O God, to deliver me: make hafte to help me, O Lord.

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2 Let them be ashamed and confounded, that seek after my foul: let them be turned backward and put to confufion, that wish me evil. 3 Let them for their reward be foon brought to shame: that cry over me, There, there.

4 But let all those that seek thee be joyful and glad in thee: and let all fuch as delight in thy falvation, fay alway, The Lord be praised.

5 As for me I am poor and in mifery: hafte thee unto me, O God.

David being obliged by his Son Abfalom to flee from Jerufalem, here implores the divine aid against is Enemies..

As for me I am poor and in mifery. This is the language of one, who, perhaps, a few Days before, was one of the happiest and most potent Princes of the

6 Thou art my helper, and my Redeemer: O Lord, make no long tarrying.

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MORNING

PRAYER.

|| Pfalm 71. In te, Domine.

N thee, O Lord, have I put my trust, let me never be put to confufion: but rid me, and deliver me in thy righteousness; incline thine ear unto me, and fave me.

2 Be thou my ftrong hold whereunto I may alway refort: thou haft promised to help me, for thou art my houfe of defence and my

caftle.

3 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the ungodly: out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

4 For thou, O Lord God, art the thing that I long for: thou art my hope even from my youth.

5 Through thee have I been holden up ever fince I was borne thou art he that took me out of my mothers womb, my praise fhall be always of thee.

6 I am become as it were a monster unto many: but my fure truft is in thee.

7 O let my mouth be filled with thy praise: that I may sing of thy glory and honour all the day long.

8 Caft me not away in the time of age: forfake me not when my strength faileth me.

9. For mine enemies fpeak against me, and they that lay wait for my foul, take their counfel together,, faying: God hath forfaken him, perfecute him, and take him; for there is none to deliver him. 10 Go not far from me, O God: my God, hafte thee to help me. II Let them be confounded and perish, that are againft my foul:

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Eat. So uncertain is human greatness! fo frail is our dependence upon worldly enjoyments !-How. ftrongly aught this to infpire thofe that are rich in this World "With Humility and Moderation!

This Pfalm feems to have a connection with the preceding, as it was probably wrote on the fame occas

fion in which, David befeeches God to deliver him, and to let him again experience the fame goodness, which he had felt the effects of from his Youth. He complains of the infults and cruelties of his Enemies; and, in full affurance that God will protect him, is filled with an holy joy, and vows to praise him for ever.

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