This which is the Tenth, according to the Hebrew, is joined to the Ninth by the Greeks, and made a part of it, and has no Title in the Hebrew. WH Ut quid, Domine? Pfal. X. Hy ftandeft thou so far off, O Lord: and hideft thy face in the needful time of trouble? 2 The ungodly [for his own luft] doth perfecute the poor: let them be taken in the crafty * wiliness that they have imagined. 3 [The ungodly hath made boaft of his own hearts defire: and fpeaketh good of the covetous whom God abhorreth.] 4 The ungodly is fo proud, that he careth not for God: neither is God in all his thoughts. those who are his Companions in Iniquity, py, though the Lord abhor them.] 5 His ways are alway grievoust thy judgments are far above out of his fight, and therefore defieth he all his enemies. 6 For he hath faid in his heart, Tufh, I shall never be caft down: There fhall no harm happen unto me. 7 His mouth is full of curfing, deceit, and fraud: under his tongue is ungodliness and vanity. 8 He fitteth lurking in the thievish corners of the streets: and privily in his lurking dens doth he murther the innocent; his eyes are fet against the poor. 2 [Out of a greedy defire of enriching him Vocabulary. felf. See [Luft] in the Wiliness:] Policy. See the Vocabulary. 3 [The wicked prides himfelf in this, that he can, without controul, do what he lift; nay, he is not fatisfied to do mifchief himself, but he juftifies and commends the unjust Dealings and Oppreffions of whom he accounts hap + To his Neighbours, and especially to thofe who are under his power. 9, 10* Ravish.] We now commonly write, and pronounce this word a little otherwise, viz. Ravage; which exactly anfwers the Hebrew, Hataph; the Greek, Agra; the Latin, Diripere. II [He can crouch, and fawn, and put on humble and demure Looks, thereby to enfnare great numbers of innocent, helpless People, and betray them into the hands of his Confederates.] 17 [The ungodly and malicious] here fignifies fome Perfon in great Authority, who was a 9 For he lieth waiting fecretly, even as a lion lurketh he in his den: that he may * ravish the poor. 10 He doth *ravish the poor: when he getteth him into his net. II [He falleth down and humbleth himfelf: that the congregation of the poor may fall into the hands of his captains.] 12 He hath faid in his heart, Tufh, God hath forgotten: he hideth away his face, and he will never fee it. 13 Arife, O Lord God, and lift up thine hand: forget not the poor. 14 Wherefore fhould the wicked blafpheme God: while he doth fay in his heart, Tufh, thou God cafeft not for it. 15 Surely thou haft feen it: for thou beholdest ungodliness. and wrong. 16 That thou mayft take the matter into thy hand: the poor committeth himfelf unto thee; for thou art the helper of the friendless. 17 Break thou the power of the ungodly and malicious: [take away his ungodliness, Patron and Advocate and thou fhalt find none.] for Vice; as may appear by the foregoing words, viz. Break thou the Power or Arm; for it may be obferved, that this Hebrew word, when it fignifies Power, as here no doubt it does, imports a very great and extraordinary degree of it, fuch as is in Princes and Generals. See Dan. xi. 6, 22. Job xxxv. 9. where the fame word [Zeroang] is used. [Do [Do thou deal with this overgrown Sinner, as he has deferved, remove out of the way him that is the example and fupport of Vice; then Wickedness will want encouragement, which will be an effectual means wholly to fupprefs it.] 18 The Lord is King for ever and ever and the heathen are perished out of the land. 19 Lord, thou haft heard the [defire] of the poor: thou preparest their heart, and thine ear hearkeneth thereto. 20 To help the fatherless and poor unto their right: that [the man of the earth] be no more exalted against them. 19. [Prayer.] 20 [The Atheistical Tyrannizing Oppref for.] A Pfalm of David, compofed by him, when Saul began to have evil Defigns against him; and when he was advised by fome to feek for Safety in the Mountainous parts of Judæa. N In Domino confide. Pfal. XI. In the Lord put I my truft [how fay ye th then to my foul, that fhe fhould flee as a bird unto the hill?] 2 For lo the ungodly bend their bow, and make ready their arrows within the quiver: that they may privily fhoot at them which are true of heart. 3 [For the foundations will be caft down: and what bath the righteous done?] [And therefore why and bid me fly away do ye put me in a fright, like a Bird before the Fowler to the tops of the Mountains ?] 3 The Foundations here may properly be taken in the fame fenfe as they are, Pflxxxii.5. keeping Oaths and Pro where they fignify Juftice, Order, the mifes, which are the Bonds of humane Society; all which Saul had broken: So the fenfe of the whole Verfe is this, viz. [My Enemies break through all the ftanding Rules of Justice, and common Honefty; And what have I, who have punctually cbferv'd thefe Rules, done to deferve fo ill Treatment?] ༡ Snares may fig. nify all manner of fudden and terrible evils as Fob xxii. 10. Ifai. xxiv. 17, 18. 4 The Lord is in his holy témple: the Lord's feat is in heaven. 5 His eyes confider the poor: and his eye-lids try the children of men. 6 The Lord alloweth the righteous but the ungodly, and him that delighteth in wickedness doth his foul abhor. 7 Upon the ungodly he shall rain* fnares, fire and brimstone, ftorm and tempeft: [this fhall be their portion to drink]. [This is the portion which the wife Difpofer of all things fhall measure out to them.] 8 For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness: his coun 8 † With Approbation tenance will behold † the thing and Favour. that is juft. Evening Prayer. A Pfalm of David, complaining of the Malice and Wickednefs of Men; and of the Relief which is to be expected from God only. Salvum me fac. Pfal. XII. " HELP Elp me, Lord, for there is not one godly man left: for the faithful are minished from among the children of men. 2 They talk of vanity every one with his neighbour: they do but flatter with their lips, and diffemble in their double heart. 3 The Lord fhall root out all deceitful lips and the tongue that speaketh proud things. 4 Which have faid, With our tongue tongue will we prevail: we are they that ought to fpeak, who is Lord over us? 5 Now for the comfortless troubles fake of the needy: and because of the deep fighing of the poor; 6 I will up, faith the Lord: and will help every one from him that fwelleth against him, and will fet him at reft. 7 [The words of the Lord are pure words]: even as the filver, which † from the earth is tried, and purified seven times in the fire. 8 Thou shalt keep [them,] O Lord: thou fhalt preferve * him from this generation for ever. 9 [The ungodly walk on every fide: when they are exalted, the children of men are put to rebuke.] A Pfalm of David when he was in fome great Diftrefs, foretelling his Deliverance. |