God reigneth over the heathen: God fitteth upon his holy feat. The princes of the people are joined unto the people of the God of Abraham: for the fhields of the earth belong unto God; he is great ly exalted. 22. mercy me, O Then will I teach tranfgreffors thy ways and finners shall be convert. ed unto thee. Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou that art the God of my health and my tongue fhall fing of thy righteousness. O Lord, open thou my lips: and my mouth fhall fhew forth thy praise. For thou defireft not facrifice, elfe (51) Hved, after thy great would I give it: but thou delightest goodnets according to the multitude of thy mercies, do away mine offences. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity and cleanfe me from my fin. : For I acknowledge my tranfgreffions and my fin is ever before me. Against thee only have I finned, and done this evil in thy fight: that not in burnt-offerings. The facrifices of God are a broken fpirit: a broken and contrite heart, ÒO God, thou wilt not despise. Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion, build thou the walls of Je- | rufalem: then fhalt thou be pleafed with the facrifices of righteousness. thou might be juftified in thy fay (76) IN 23. thou mightest be juftified in thy fay- (76) TN Judah is God known: ing, and clear when thou art judged. Behold, I was fhapen in iniquity: and in fin did my mother conceive me. But lo, thou requireft truth in the inward parts and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyffop, and I fhall be clean: wash me, and I fhall be whiter than fnow. Make me to hear joy and gladnefs that the bones which thou haft broken, may rejoice. Hide thy face from my fins blot out all my mifdeeds. his name is great in Ifrael. At Salem is his tabernacle: and his dwelling-place in Zion. There brake he the arrows of the bow: the fhield, the sword and the battle. Selah. Thou art of more honour and might than their hills: the proud are robbed, they have flept their fleep, and none of the men of might have found their hands. At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are caft into a dead fleep: thou, even thou. and art to be feared, and who may ftand in thy fight when thou art angry? Create in me a clean heart, O God and renew a right spirit with in me. Caft me not away from thy prefence and take not thy holy Spirit from me. O give me the comfort of thy help again and stablish me with thy free fpirit. Thou didst caufe judgment to be heard from heaven, the earth feared and was ftill: when God arose to judgment, and to help all the meek upon earth. Selah. Surely the fiercenefs of man fhall turn to thy praife: the remainder of wrath fhalt thou restrain. Vow, J Vow, and pay unto the LORD Turn us again, O God of hofts: your God: let all that be round caufe thy face to fhine, and we shall about him, bring prefents unto him be faved. that ought to be feared. J He hall refrain the spirit of 25. OD ftandeth in the con princes: and is wonderful among (82) G gregation of the mighty the kings of the earth. 24. (80) GIfrael, thou that leadeft Ive ear, O fhepherd of Jofeph like a flock: thou that dwelleft between the cherubims, 'fhine forth. Before Ephraim, Benjamin and Manafeh ftir up thy ftrength, and come and help us. Turn us again, O God: fhew the light of thy countenance, and we fhall be whole. Thou haft brought a vine out of Egypt: thou haft caft out the heathen, and planted it Thou preparedit room before it: e and didft cause it to take deep root, e and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the Efhadow of it: and the boughs thereof were like the cedars of God. : She fent out her boughs unto the fea and her branches unto the river. Return, we beseech thee, O God of hofts look down from heaven, behold and visit this vine, : And the vineyard which thy right I hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madeft ftrong for thyself: it is burnt with fire, it is cut down. Let thy hand be upon the man of Othy right hand upon the fon of man whom thou madeft ftrong for thine own self. So will not we go back from thee: O let us live, and we shall call upon thy name. he judgeth among the gods. I have faid, ye are gods, and all of you are children of the most high: but ye fhall die like men. Arife, O God, and judge thou the earth: for thou shalt take all nations to thine inheritance. (85) 26. ORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou haft brought back the captivity of Jacob. Thou haft forgiven the iniquity of thy people: thou haft covered all their fin. Selah. Wilt thou not revive us again; that thy people may rejoice in thee? Shew us thy mercy, O Lord; and grant us thy falvation. I will hear what God the Lord will speak; for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his faints, that they turn not again unto folly. Surely his falvation is nigh them: that fear him. That glory may dwell in our land: : mercy and truth are met together, righteoufnefs and peace have Kified each other. Truth fhall flourish out of the earth and righteoufnefs fhall look down from heaven. Yea, the Lord fhall fhew lovingkindness: and our land fhall give her increase. Righteoufnefs fhall go before him: and fhall fet us in the way of his steps. (91) H 28. E that dwelleth in the fecret place of the moft High, fhall abide under the fhadow of the Almighty: I will fay of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortrefs, my God, in him will I trust. Surely he fhall deliver thee from the fnare of the hunter and from the noisom peftilence. He fhall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings fhalt thou trust his faithfulness and truth fhall be thy fhield and buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night: nor for the arrow that flieth by day; For the peftilence that walketh in darkness nor for the fickness that destroyeth in the noon day. : A thousand shall fall at thy fide, and ten thousand at thy right hand: but it shall not come nigh thee. Because thou haft made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the mot High: thy habitation; There shall no evil befall thee: neither fhall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways: : they fhall bear thee up in their hands, left thou dafh thy foot again a stone. Thou fhalt go upon the lion and · adder: the young lion and the dragon fhalt thou tread under thy feet. Because he hath fet his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will fet him on high, because he hath known my name. He fhall call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble I will deliver him, and bring him to honour. With long life will I fatisfy him: and fhew him my falvation. (92) I 29. (92) T is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to fing praifes unto thy name, O moft High To fhew forth thy loving-kindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night. For thou, Lord, haft made me glad through thy works: I will triumph in the operations of thy hands. O Lord, how great are thy works! thy thoughts are very deep. An unwife man doth not well confider this and a fool doth not understand it. But thou, LORD: art the molt High for evermore. For lo, thine enemies, O Lord, lo, 1 lo, thine enemies fhall perish and all the workers of iniquity fhall be fcattered. But my horn fhalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil. The righteous fhall flourish like the palm-tree: he shall grow like a i cedar in Lebanon. Those that be planted in the house of the Lord fhall flourish in the d courts of our God. I They fhall ftill bring forth fruit in old age; they fhall be fat, and green: To fhew that the Lord is faithful; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him. 1(93) T 30. HE LORD reigneth, he is cloathed with majefty: The Lord is cloathed with ftrength wherewith he hath girded himself; the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved. Thy throne is established of old: Thou art from everlasting. Thy teftimonies are very fure: Holinefs becometh thine houfe, O Lord, for ever. 31. come, let us fing unto the (97) JEHOVAH reigneth, let the earth rejoice, let the multititude of the ifles be glad thereof: righteoufnefs and judgment are the habitation of his throne. The heavens declare his righteoufnefs, and all the people fee his glory: Worship Him, all ye gods. Zion heard, and was glad and the daughters of Judah rejoiced, becaufe of thy judgments, O Lord. For thou, Lord, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods. Ye that love the Lord, fee that ye hate the thing which is evil: He preferveth the fouls of his faints, he fhall deliver them from the hand of the ungodly. Light is fown for the righteous: and gladness for the upright in heart. Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous and give thanks for a remem (95) LORD: let us heartily re- brance of his holiness. joice in the ftrength of our falvazion. : Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving and fhew ourfelves glad in him with pfalms. For the LORD is a great God: and a great king above all gods. In his hand are all the corners of the earth and the strength of the hills is his alfo. 33. HE LORD is king, be the people never fo impatient: he fitteth between the cherubims, be the earth never fo unquiet. The Lord is great in Zion: and high above all people. Let Let them praise thy name, which is great, wonderful, and holy the king's power loveth judgment, thou haft prepared equity. O magnify the Lord our God, and worship at his footstool: for he is holy. Mofes and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among fuch as call upon his name: these called upon the Lord, and he heard them. Thou answeredft them, O Lord our God thou waft a God that forgaveft them, though thou tookeft vengeance. Exalt the Lord our God, and worship him upon his holy hill: the Lord our God is holy. (100) O 34. for be joyful in the Lord, all ye Lands: ferve the Lord with gladness, come before his prefence with finging. Know ye, that the Lord he is God it is He that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pafture. Enter into his gates with thank giving, and into his courts with praife: be thankful unto him, and fpeak good of his name. For the LORD is gracious, his mercy is everlasting and his truth endureth from generation to gene ration. (102) T 35. HOU fhalt arife, and So the heathen fhall fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy majefty: when the Lord fhall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory. He will regard the prayer of the deftitute and not defpife their defire. This fhall be written for the ge neration to come and the people' which fhall be created, fhall praife, the Lord. For he hath looked down from the height of his fanctuary, from heaven did the Lord behold the earth to hear the groaning of fuch as are in captivity, to loofe those that are appointed to death; That they may declare the name, of the Lord in Zion, and his praife in Jerufalem when the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to ferve the Lord. Thou, Lord, in the beginning haft laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They fhall perish, but Thou shalt endure They all fhall wax old like a garment; as a vefture fhalt thou change them, and they fhall be changed. But Thou art the fame and thy years fhall have o end. no The children of thy fervants fhall continue and their feed fhall be eltablished before thee. 36. have mercy upon Zion: (107) Lord, for he is good : give thanks unto the for the time to favour her, yea, the fet time is come. And why? thy fervants think upon her ftones and it pitieth them to fee her in the duft. : for his mercy endureth for ever." Let them give thanks, whom the Lord hath redeemed and gathered them out of the lands, from the : caft, |