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

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

3 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 destroy me quilt.fs, are mighty.

5 I paid them the things that I never took: God, thou knowest my fimplenefs, 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 fuffered 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 chaftened myself with fafting: 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.

speak 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 see 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 zo him on the Crofs, v. 22.-the fatal end of Judas,

v. 25-and the obftinacy and rejection of the Jew This appears from the application which the Apostles make, in the New Teftament, of several 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 swallow 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 hast known my reproof, my fhame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all in thy fight.

21 Thy rebuke hath broken my heart, I am full of heavinefs: 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.

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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 smitten: 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 justify Christians, in wilhing il tʊ thofe that have injured them.

28 Let them fall from one wickedness 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: feck ye after God, and your foul fhall live.

34 For the Lord heareth the poor: and despiseth not his prifoners. 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.

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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 with me evil. 3 Let them for their reward be foon brought to fhame: that cry over me, There, there.

4 But let all thofe 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 againft his 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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thee, O Lord, have I put my truft, 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 strong hold whereunto I may alway resort: thou haft promised to help me, for thou art my houfe of defence and my

castle.

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 praife: that I may fing of thy glory and honour all the day long.

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

9 For mine enemies fpeak against me, and they that lay wait for my foul, take their counsel together, faying: God hath forsaken 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. 11 Let them be confounded and perish, that are againft my foul:

Eat. So uncertain is human greatnefs! fo frail is our dependence upon worldly enjoyments !--How. ftrongly Qught 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 occa

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 jay, and vows to praise him for ever.

let them be covered with fhame and dishonour, that feek to do me evil.

12 As for me, I will patiently abide alway: and will praise thee more and more.

13 My mouth fhall daily speak of thy righteousness and salvation: for I know no end thereof.

14 I will go forth in the ftrength of the Lord God: * and will make mention of thy righteousness only.

15 Thou, O God, haft taught me from my youth up until now: therefore will I tell of thy wondrous works.

16 Forfake me not, O God, in mine old age, when I am grayheaded: until I have fhewed thy ftrength unto this generation, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come.

17 Thy righteoufnefs, O God, is very high: and great things are they that thou haft done; O God, who is like unto thee?

18 O what great troubles and adverfities haft thou fhewed me! and yet didft thou turn and refresh me: yea, and broughteft me from the deep of the earth again,

19 Thou haft brought me to great honour: and comforted me on every fide.

20 Therefore will I praise thee and thy faithfulness, O God, playing upon an inftrument of mufick: unto thee will I fing upon the harp, O thou holy One of Israel.

21 My lips will be fain when I fing unto thee: and fo will whom thou haft delivered.

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22 My tongue alfo fhall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, and brought unto fhame, that seek to do me evil.

Pfalm 72. Deus, judicium.

IVE the king thy judgments, O God: and thy righteousness unto the kings fon.

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And will make mention of thy Righteoufnefs only. places of Scripture (when it relates to Ged) fignifies, The word Kighteousness here as well as in many other faving Mercy, or preferving goodness: And this paffage

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