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God's glory magnified by his works. PSALMS.

David praises God's judgment.

3 O LORD my God, If I have done this; over the works of thy hands; thou hast if there be iniquity in my hands ; put all things under his feet:

4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that 7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the was at peace with me; (yea, I have deliver-beasts of the field;

ed him that without cause is mine enemy:) 8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the 5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and sea, and whatsoever passeth through the take it; yea, let him tread down my life paths of the seas. upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

6 Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up

9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

PSALM IX.

thyself because of the rage of mine ene-T To the chief Musician upon Muth-labmies and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.

7 Soshall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.

8 The LORD shall judge the people judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.

90 let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and

reins.

10 My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.

11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

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ben, A Psalm of David. WILL praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.

2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou Most High.

3 When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.

4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.

5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.

60 thou enemy! destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroy12 If he turn not, he will whet his ed cities; their memorial is perished with sword; he hath bent his bow, and made them. it ready.

7 But the LORD shall endure for ever: 13 He hath also prepared for him the he hath prepared his throne for judgment. instruments of death; he ordaineth his 8 And he shall judge the world in arrows against the persecutors. righteousness, he shall minister judgment 14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, to the people in uprightness. and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

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To the chief Musician upon Gittith,
A Psalm of David.

LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy
name in all the earth! who hast set

thy glory above the heavens.

9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

11 Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.

12 When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.

13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD: consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

14 That I may shew forth all thy praise 2 Out of the mouth of babes and suck-in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will lings hast thou ordained strength because rejoice in thy salvation. of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they

3 When I consider thy heavens, the hid is their own foot taken. work of thy fingers; the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared 4 What is man, that thou art mindful of in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

Selah.

17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, 5 For thou hast made him a little lower and all the nations that forget God. than the angels, and hast crowned him

with glory and honour.

18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor

6 Thou madest him to have dominion shall not perish for ever.

David prays against the wicked.

PSALMS. Providence and justice of God.

19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight. 20 Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah. PSALM X.

they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

4 The LORD is in his holy temple, the

WHY standest thou afar off, O LORD? LORD's throne is in heaven: his eyes be

why hidest thou thyself in times of hold, his eyelids try the children of men. trouble? 5 The LORD trieth the righteous: but 2 The wicked in his pride doth perse- the wicked and him that loveth violence cute the poor: let them be taken in the his soul hateth. devices that they have imagined.

6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, 3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's fire and brimstone, and a horrible temdesire, and blesseth the covetous, whom pest: this shall be the portion of their cup. the LORD abhorreth. 7 For the righteous LORD loveth right

4 The wicked, through the pride of his eousness; his countenance doth behold countenance, will not seek after God: God the upright.

is not in all his thoughts.

PSALM XII.

5 His ways are always grievous; thy T To the chief Musician upon Sheminith, judgments are far above out of his sight: A Psalm of David.

as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them. HELP, LORD; for the godly man He hath said in his heart, I shall not

ceaseth; for the faithful fail from

be moved: for I shall never be in adversity. among the children of men. 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit 2 They speak vanity every one with and fraud: under his tongue is mischief his neighbour: with flattering lips and and vanity. with a double heart do they speak.

8 He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

10 He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones. 11 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.

12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thy hand forget not the humble.

3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn 8 The wicked walk on every side, when God? he hath said in his heart, thou wilt the vilest men are exalted. not require it.

PSALM XIII.

14 Thou hast seen it; for thou behold-T To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

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est mischief and spite, to requite it with How long wilt thou forget me, O

thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto

LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou

thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless. hide thy face from me?

15 Break thou the arm of the wicked 2 How long shall I take counsel in my and the evil man: seek out his wicked-soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how ness till thou find none. long shall mine enemy be exalted over me? 16 The LORD is King for ever and ever: 3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my the heathen are perished out of his land. God: lighten mine eyes, rest I sleep the 17 LORD, thou hast heard the desire of sleep of death; the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:

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4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

5 But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.

6 I will sing unto the LORD, because be hath dealt bountifully with me. PSALM XIV.

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David describes a citizen of Zion: PSALMS. His hope and integrity. have done abominable works, there is none 10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in that doeth good. hell; neither wilt thou suffer thy Holy

2 The LORD looked down from heaven One to see corruption. upon the children of men, to see if there 11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: were any that did understand, and seek God. in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy 3 They are all gone aside, they are all right hand there are pleasures for evertogether become filthy: there is none that more.

doeth good, no, not one.

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PSALM XVII.
TA Prayer of David.

my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as TEAR the right, O LORD, attend unto they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD. 5 There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous. 6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.

7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. PSALM XV.

TA Psalm of David.

2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.

3 Thou hast proved my heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing: I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the

ORD, who shall abide in thy taberna-paths of the destroyer. cle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? 2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.

5 Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

3 He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.

4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.

5 He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

PSALM XVI.

¶ Mitchtam of David.

PRESERVE me, O God: for in thee

do I put my trust.

2 O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;

3 But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.

4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.

6 I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.

7 Shew thy marvellous loving-kindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.

8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

9 From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.

10 They are enclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

11 They have now compassed us in our

steps: they have set their eyes bowing

down to the earth;

12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

13 Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:

14 From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they 5 The LORD is the portion of mine in-are full of children, and leave the rest of heritance and of my cup: thou maintain- their substance to their babes. 15 As for me, I will behold thy face in 6 The lines are fallen unto me in plea-righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I sant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. awake, with thy likeness, 71 will bless the LORD, who bath giv

est my lot.

PSALM XVIII.

en me counsel: my reins also instruct me T To the chief Musician, A Psalm of Da

in the night seasons.

8 I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.

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vid, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said, WILL love thee, O LORD, my strength. 2 The LORD is my rock, and my for

David praises God

PSALMS. for his manifold blessings.. tress, and my deliverer; my God, my 24 Therefore hath the LORD recomstrength, in whom I will trust; my buck-pensed me according to my righteousness, ler, and the horn of my salvation, and my according to the cleanness of my hands in high tower. his eyesight.

3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me. 6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

7 Then the earth shook and trembled ; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.

8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.

10 And he rode upon a cherub and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.

11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail-stones and coals of fire.

13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail-stones and coals of fire.

14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.

15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.

18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity but the LORD was my stay. 19 He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

22 For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.

23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.

25 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;

26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.

27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks." 28 For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness. 29 For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall. 30 As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.

31 For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?

32 It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect. 33 He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places.

34 He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

35 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.

36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.

37 I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed. they

38 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.

39 For thou hast girded me with strength unto battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.

40 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.

41 They cried, but there was none to save them even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

43 Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.

44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.

45 The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.

46 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my Rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.

47 It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.

The excellency of God's laws.

PSALMS.

A thanksgiving for victory.

48 He delivereth me from mine ene- 4 Grant thee according to thine own mies: yea, thou liftest me up above those heart, and fulfil all thy counsel. that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.

5 We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our 49 Therefore will I give thanks unto banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions. thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and 6 Now know I that the LORD saveth his sing praises unto thy name. anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.

50 Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore. PSALM XIX.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
HE declare the glory of God;

7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.

The heavens decat cheveth his handy but

work.

we are risen, und stand upright.

8 They are brought down and fallen:

9 Save, LORD: let the king hear us

2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and when we call. night unto night sheweth knowledge.

PSALM XXI.

3 There is no speech nor language, T To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. where their voice is not heard.

4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,

5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong

man to run a race.

6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

HE king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!

2 Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.

3 For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.

4 He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and

ever.

5 His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him. 6 For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.

8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. 7 For the king trusteth in the LORD, 9 The fear of the LORD is clean, endur- and through the mercy of the Most High ing for ever: the judgments of the LORD he shall not be moved.

are true and righteous altogether.

8 Thy hand shall find out all thine 10 More to be desired are they than enemies: thy right hand shall find out gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter those that hate thee.

also than honey and the honey-comb.

9 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven

11 Moreover, by them is thy servant in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall warned: and in keeping of them there is swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire great reward. shall devour them.

12 Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.

10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have do- 11 For they intended evil against thee: minion over me: then shall I be upright, they imagined a mischievous device, which and I shall be innocent from the great they are not able to perform. transgression.

12 Therefore shalt thou make them turn

14 Let the words of my mouth, and the their back, when thou shalt make ready meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thine arrows upon thy strings against the thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my face of them.

redeemer. XPSALM XX.

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13 Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy

PSALM XXII.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. power. HE LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Ja-T To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth cob defend thee.

Shahar, A Psalm of David. 2 Send thee help from the sanctuary, MY Gom me! why art thou so far from God, my God, why hast thou for

and strengthen thee out of Zion.

3 Remember all thy offerings, and ac- helping me, and from the words of my

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