6 Set not up your horn on governable; Horned Beafts.] high and fpeak not with a ftiff neck.]

7 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the weft: nor yet from the fouth. 8 And why? God is the Judge: he putteth down one, and fetteth up another.

9 For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red: it is full mixt, and he poureth out of the fame.

10 As for the dregs thereof: all the ungodly of the earth fhall drink them, and fuck them

out.

11 But I will talk of the God of Jacob and praise him for

ever.

12 All the [horns] of the ungodly alfo will I break: and the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

9 God's Judgments are frequently reprefented by a Cup of Wine (I. li. 22. Jer. XXV. 15, c.) of itfelf very ftupifying, mixture of other Ingredients, which make it more fo

but filled here with

C

The fath Verfe feems to contain God's Anfwer to the foregoing

Refolution of his People, in whofe Perfon the Pfalmift fpeaks.

A Pfalm or Song of Afaph. See Title of the foregoing Pfalm; it feems to have been compofed on occafion of God's Fudgment on Senacherib's Army, 2 Kings xix. 35. Ham. Patr.

IN

Notus in Judaa. Pfal. LXXVI. N Jury is God known: his Name is great in Ifrael. 2 At [Salem] is his tabernacle and his dwelling in Sion.

3 There brake he the arrows of the bow: the fhield, the fword, and the battel,

2 [Jerufalem] called Salem, Gen. xiv. 18.

Thou

4 Thou, O Sion, by virtue of the Divine Prefence, wert

more

able to defend us, than

4 [Thou art of more honour and might than the hills of the robbers.]

thofe Hills, where our Ravenous Enemies had their Camp, were to fecure them.]

5 [Thefe infolent Affyrians, who threatned become a Booty to us; they lay down to fleep, and never wak'd again: The hands of thofe mighty Men have not carried away that plunder which they expected. See 2 Kings Xix.33.

all with ruine, are now

3.

S [The proud are robbed, they have flept their fleep: and all the men whofe hands were mighty, have found nothing.] 16 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob: both the chariot and horfe are fallen.

7 Thou, even thou art to be feared: and who may ftand in thy fight when thou art angry? 8*Thou didst eaufe thy judgment to be heard from heaven: the earth trembled and was ftill, my was accompanied with Thunder, which he takes to be the meaning of that Expreffion.

8 Dr. Hammond thinks it paft doubt, that the defcent of the Angel to deftroy Senacherib's Ar

* Thou didst cause thy Judgment to be heard.] He likewife underftands the trembling of the Earth in a literal fenfe; and obferves, that the defcent of the Angel, Matt. xxviii. 2. was attended with an Earthquake: And by means of this Thunder and Earthquake, and deftruction of the Affyrian Army, there was a great Calm, the Earth was ftill, the Land had reft, the Country was in quiet.

9 Not only in the Land of Juda, but in other places for by this great Slaughter, not only

9 When God arofe to judgment: and to help all the meek upon earth t.

the Jews, but other Nations were deliver'd from their fear, and

from that ruine which so

10 [Thus thou shalt get Praife and Glory to thy felf, by checking and difappointing the furious Wrath of info

numerous an Army might have effected.

rotThe fiercenefs of man the fierceness of them fhalt thou fhall turn to thy praise and refrain]

lent Men, as thou now haft, by reftraining this proud Assyrian : And thou shalt deal with him for the future, as thou haft already; chou shalt curb and fupprefs the violence of his Rage.]

II Promise unto the Lord your God, and keep it, all ye that are round about him: bring prefents unto him that ought to be feared.

12 [He fhall refrain the spirit of princes: and is wonderful among the kings of the earth.]

Prerogative, than when by extraordinary

12 [He fhall humble the proud Stomach of rants; and does never the moft oppreffive Ty

more truly exercise his Works of Providence,

he fhews himself to be King of Kings, and Lord of Lords.]

A Pfalm of Afaph, during the Captivity of the Jews under the Babylonians: So that 'tis wholly uncertain who this Asaph was.

I

Voce mea ad Dominum. Pfal. LXXVII,

Will cry unto God with my voice: even unto God will I cry with my voice, and he fhall hearken unto me.

2 In the time of my trouble I fought the Lord: [my fore ran] and ceafed not in the night-season.; my foul refused comfort.

3 When I am in heaviness, I will think upon God: when my heart is vexed, I will complain.

4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am fo feeble that I cannot speak t.

I have confidered the days of old: and the years that are paft.

6 I call to remembrance my fong and in the night I com

2 [The grief of my Mind vented itself.]

4t By reafon of the diforder and perturbation of my Mind.

mune

6 [And fearch'd my mune with mine own heart, Memory for fome and [search out my spirits.] Thoughts that might

relieve me in my prefent Anguifh, or ask'd thefe following Queftions in my own Thoughts.]

10 [And Fanfwered myfelf, No certainly. Tis an Affliction of my

own making, to fancy that God will never

7 Will the Lord abfent himfelf for ever: and will he be no more intreated?

8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever and is his promife come utterly to an end for evermore? 9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious and will he fhut up his loving-kindness in difpleafure?

10 [And I faid, It is mine own * infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the moft Higheft.] fhew us his favour again: I will therefore, to refresh myself, remember the time when God did great things for us, with his right hand.

Mem. [Infirmity] fignifies Affliction, not only here, but 2 Cor. xi. 30. xii. 5, &c. and probably in the laft Collect of the Litany. II I will remember the works of the Lord: and call to mind thy wonders of old time.

13 [Faithful, not in

12 I will think alfo of all thy works and my talking shall be of thy doings.

the leaft deviating from [holy]: who is fo great a God 13 Thy way, O God, is

thy Promifes.]

as our God?

14 Thou art the God that doeth wonders: and haft declared thy power among the people.

15 Thou haft mightily delivered thy people: even the fons of Jacob and Jofeph.

16 The waters † faw thee, O God, the waters faw thee, and were afraid: [the depths alfo were troubled.]

16 † Of the Red-Sea [The deep Waters felt thy Power to their very bottom, which fo

difturbed them, that affrighted at thy Prefence,

they retreated, as if they had been and left a plain way for thy People to march through upon dry Ground.]

17 The clouds poured out water, the air thundred and thine [arrows] went abroad. 18 The voice of thy thunder was heard round about: the lightnings fhone upon the ground, the earth was moved and fhook withal.

17 [Lightnings.] 17, 18. Whereas it is faid, that [God looked unto the Hoft of the

Egyptians, through the Pillar of the Fire, and of the Cloud, and troubled the Hoft of the Egyptians, Ex. xiv. 24.] the Pfalmift tells us

what the meaning of thofe words is, namely, that God fent a dreadful Storm of Thunder, Lightning, and Violent Rain, together with a difmal Earthquake; infomuch that the Egyptians were foon convinced, that the Lord fought for Ifrael, against the Egyptians, Exod. xiv. 25.

19 [Thy way is in the fea, and thy paths in the great waters and thy footsteps are not known.]

thee,

20 [Thou leddeft thy people like fheep: by the hand of Mofes and Aaron.

19 [As for thy felf, the Waters are as pervious to thee, as the dry Land: but here we Men cannot follow nor trace thy footsteps.]

20 [Therefore thou laid'ft bare the bottom of the Sea, for thy People to march upon,

and gaveft them fuch Guides as they were capable of following, viz. thy Servants Mofes and Aaron, who led thy People through the Sea, as the Shepherd does his Sheep over the Plain.]

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