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wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

Num. xvi. into the ftate
or place of the dead.]
See [Quick] in Vocab.

18 [With the great

eft Zeal and Importu-
nity.] See Vocabulary.
19 [Safety.]
Even God and his
Holy Angels, all the
Powers of Heaven,
2 Kings vi. 16. Ham.
Patr. Ainfw.

21 [He committed violence.]

23 [Support.]

17 As for me, I will call upon God and the Lord fhall fave me.

18 In the evening, and morning, and at noon-day will I pray, and that [inftantly]: and he shall hear my voice.

19 It is he that hath delivered my foul in [peace] from the battel that was against me: for there were many with me †.

20 Yea, even God that endureth for ever, fhall hear me, and bring them down: for they will not turn, nor fear God.

21 [He laid his hands] upon fuch as be at peace with him and he brake his cove

nant.

22 The words of his mouth were fofter than butter, having war in his heart his words were smoother than oyl, and yet be they very fwords.

23 O caft thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall [nourish] thee and fhall not fuffer the righteous to fall for ever.

24 And as for them: thou, O God, fhalt bring them into the pit of deftruction.

25 The blood-thirsty and deceitful men fhall not live

25 † But if they live out half their days †: neverthe

ne'er fo long.

lefs, my truft fhall be in thee,

O Lord,

The Eleventh Day.

Morning Prayer.

Michtam: that is, A Jewel, or Golden Verfe of David, when the Philiftines took him at Gath. Dr. Ham. rather chooses to tranflate these last words thus: [When the Philistines had him in their power at Gath.] Miferere mei, Deus. Pfal. LVI. O

E merciful unto me, O

BGod, for man goeth about

to devour me: he is daily fighting, and troubling me.

2 Mine enemies are daily in hand to fwallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou moft Highest.

3 Nevertheless, though I am fometime afraid: yet put 1 my I truft in thee.

4 I will praise God, becaufe of his [word]: I have put my truft in God, and will not fear what flesh can do unto mie.

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They daily [miftake] my words: all that they *imagine, is to do me evil.

6 [They hold all together, and keep themselves clofe and mark my fteps, when they lay wait for my foul.]:

7 Shall they escape for their wickedness: thou, O God, in thy difpleafure fhalt caft them down.

4 [Promises.]

ftruction upon]
5 [Put a falfe con-

*Imagine; that is,
Contrive. See Vocab.
6 They lay their
Heads together, and
confult with the great-

eft Secrecy, they have an ill eye on every thing I do, and fain would find occafion to deprive me of my Life.]

8 Thou telleft my [flittings,] - 8 [Flights, or hafty 'put my tears into thy bottle: removes, first to Naioth, 1 Sam. xix. 18. then back to the Court, 1 Sam. xx. 1. then to. Nob, xxi. 1. now to Gath.] See Vocabulary, Flittings.

Put my tears into thy bottle;] that is, Let not my Tears fall to

the

the Ground, without

are not these things noted in

thy nocice, preferve the thy book?

remembrance of them, as we do any precious Liquor.].

Are not these things noted in thy book?] Art thou not as mindful of my Sufferings, and takeft as particular account of them, as we Men do of what we record, or register in a Book?

10 [Promifes.]

9 Whenfoever I call upon thee, then shall mine enemies be put to flight: this I know; for God is on my fide.

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Io In Gods [word] will I rejoyce in the Lords [word] will I comfort me.

II Yea, in God have I put my truft: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.

12. Unto thee, O God, will I pay my vows: unto thee will I give thanks.

13. For thou haft delivered my foul from death, and my feet from falling: that I may walk before God in the light of the livingju

Michtam of David, (See Title of Pfal. LVI.) when be fled from Saul in the Cave, 1 Sam. xxiv.

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Miferere mei, Deus. Pfal. LVII.

E merciful unto me, O

BGod, be merciful unto me,

for my foul trufteth in thee: and under the fhadow of thy wings fhall be my refuge, until this tyranny be over-paft.

2 I will call upon the most high God: even unto the God that fhall perform the caufe which I have in hand.

He fhall fend from heaven: and fave me from the [reproof] of him that would eat me up. 4 God fhall fend forth his mercy and truth: my foul is among lions.

5. And I lie even among the children of men, that are fet on firet: whofe teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a fharp fword.

6 [Set up thy felf, O God, above the heavens and thy glory above all the earth.]

7 They have laid a net for my feet, and preffed down my foul they have digged a pit before me, and are fallen into the midst of it themfelves.

8 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will fing, and give praise.

9 Awake up, my [glory]; awake, lute and harp: I my felf will awake right early.

10 I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the people: and I will fing unto thee among the nations.

11 [For the greatness of thy mercy reacheth unto the heavens and thy truth unto the clouds.]

12 Set up thy felf, O God, above the heavens and thy glory above all the earth.

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Michtam of David, (See Title of Pfalm LVI.) against Saul's Evil Counsellors.

Si vere utique. ¡Pfal. LVIII.

I [O ye Great Men met together in Coun cil.]

2 [Contrive, Plot.] See Vocabulary.

3 Thefe words (fays Dr. Ham.) are not to be taken ft, ictly, but with fome Latitude, viz. that as foon as they are by Age and Understanding is not very many Months 4, 5 This which is here intimated concern

ing the Adder, is deliver'd by feveral very ancient Writers, and was a thing much fpoken of in thofe Coun-.

tries.

6 [Difarm, O God, my fierce Enemies, deprive them of all their Inftruments of Mif chief; let their Perfons pine away, their Parties leffen, and fall off from

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Re your minds fet upon righteousness, [Oye congregation:] and do ye judge the thing that is right, O ye fons of men?

2 Yea, ye [imagine] mifchief in your heart upon the earth and your hands deal with wickedness.

3 The ungodly are froward, even from their mothers womb: as foon as they are born, they go aftray and speak lies. qualify'd, they do commit Sin, which after they are born.

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4 They are as venomous as the poifon of a ferpent: even like the deaf adder, that ftoppeth her ears;

5 voice of the charmer: charm Which refufeth to hear the he never fo wifely.

6 [Break their teeth, O God, in their mouths, finite the jawbones of the lions, O Lord,: let them fall away like water that runneth apace, and when they fhoot their arrows let them be rooted out.]

one another, and all their Designs vanith, and be unfuccefsful: Let them be in all refpects like Water poured out of a large Veffel, which tho' at first ic make a great Stream, yet by degrees it flides away, one part falls off from the other, till at laft it all finks and difappears: and when they are just going to execute their wicked Plots, in that moment cut them off.]

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