thou haft and destroyed it 12 The heavens are thine, the earth alfo is thine: thou haft laid the foundation of the round world, and all that therein is. 13 [Thou haft made the north and the fouth: * Tabor and *Hermon fhall rejoyce in thy Name.]. 14 Thou haft a mighty arm: ftrong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. 15 Righteousness and equity [are the habitation of thy feat]: mercy and truth fhall go before thy face t. 16 Bleffed is the people, O +To direct thee in all thy Proceedings. 16 They fhall al Lord, that can rejoyce in thee: ways be in thy Favour.] [they fhall walk in the light of thy countenance.] 17 Their delight fhall be daily in thy Name: and in thy [righteoufnefs] fhall they make their boast. 18 For thou art the glory of their ftrength and in thy loving-kindness thou shalt [lift up our horns.] 19 For the Lord is our defence: the holy One of Ifrael is our King. 20 Thou spakest sometime in vifions unto thy faints t, and faidft: [I have laid help upon one that is mighty, I have exalted one chofen out of the : people.] 17 [Mercy and Goodnefs. See Pfal. xxiv.5. 18 [Reftore our Power and Dignity.] 20 † Samuel, Sa.xvi. and Nathan,2 Sa.vii.4,5. felt a valiant Champion [I have provided my I Sa. xvi. 18. to be your deliverer,2 Sam.iii.1 8.] 21 Į 26 [On the one fide of Judea he shall conquer the Philiftines,that live on the Coaft of the 21 I have found David my servant: with my holy oyl have I anointed him. 22 My hand fhall hold him faft and my arm fhall ftrengthen him. 23. The enemy shall not be able to do him violence: the fon of wickedness shall not hurt him. 24 I will fmite down his foes before his face and plague them that hate him. 25 My truth alfo and my mercy fhall be with him: and in my Name fhall his horn be exalted. 26 [I will fet his dominion alfo in the fea: and his righthand in the floods.] Mediterranean Sea; on the other fide the Syrians, as far as Tygris, and Euphrates.] See Flood in Vocab... 27 He fhall call me, Thou art my Father: my God, and [my ftrong falvation.] 28 And I will make him my firft-born higher than the kings of the earth. 29 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore: and my covenant shall stand faft with him. 30 His feed alfo will I make to endure for ever: and his throne as the days of heaven. 21 But if his children forfake my law and walk not in my judgments. 32 If they break my ftatutes, and keep not my command ments: ments: I will vifit their offences with the rod, and their fin with fcourges. 33 Nevertheless, my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him: nor fuffer my truth to fail. деб 34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that gone out of my lips: I have fworn once by my holiness, Vishno that I will not fail David. is 35 His feed fhall endure for ever: and his [feat] is like as the fun before me. 36 He fhall ftand faft for evermore as the moon: and as the faithful witness in heaven. 37 But thou haft abhorred and forfaken thine anointed: and art displeased at him. 38 Thou haft broken the covenant of thy fervant + and caft his crown to the ground. 39 Thou haft overthrown all his [hedges]: and broken down his ftrong-holds. 40 All they that go by, fpoil him and he is become a reproach to his neighbours. 41 Thou haft fet up the right-hand of his enemies: and made all his adverfaries to rejoyce. 42 Thou haft taken away the edge of his fword: and giveft him not victory in the battel. 44 [Thou haft fhortned his youthful Reign, by a dishonourable Captivity, and all the Miferies that attend it.] 43 Thou haft put out his glory 44 [The days of his youth haft thou fhortned: and covered him with dishonour.] Jehoiachin began to Reign at eighteen Years old, and reigned but three Months, before he was carried Captive to Babylon, 2 King.xxiv. 8,&c. and the Line of David was never reftored to the Kingdom of Judea after his and Zedekiah's Captivity, till Chrift came to fit on the Throne of David, of whofe Kingdom there fhall be no end; and to whom all the Promifes made to David's Seed have been, and shall be eminently fulfilled. 45 Lord, how long wilt thou hide thy felf, for ever: and fhall thy wrath burn like fire? 46 O remember how fhort my time is: wherefore haft thou ·46 + But Mifery and made all men for nought †? Death. 47 [Death.] See Vocab. 48 [Lord, fince our Mifery is fo great, and our Lives fo fhort, let thefe Confiderations prevail with thee to a 47 What man is he that liveth, and fhall not fee death: and fhall he deliver his foul from the hand of [hell]? 48 [Lord, where are thy old loving-kindneffes: which thou fwareft unto David in thy truth?1 bate the Severity of our Sufferings, and to think of the Promifes which thou haft made to David and his Pofterity.] for evermore. Amen. Amen, and nexxar might exafpe- licious Suggestions, thereby to haften his ruine: But however, The Eighteenth Day. Morning Prayer. A Prayer of Mofes, the Man of God, occafioned by a great Mortality, and the shortening Mens Lives from what they were before, to 70 or 80 Years; all which was the effect of that Sentence pafs'd on them, Numb. xiv. 26, &c. that none of them should come to the Promifed Land, but Caleb and Jofhua, by reafon of their Murmuring. Domine, refugium. Pfal. XC. Ord, thou hast been our ration to another. 2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made: thou art God from everlasting, and world without end. 3 [Thou turneft man to deftruction again thou fayeft, Come again, ye children of men.] 3 Mem. 'Tis not un ufual to fpeak of things do in this place: Our Tranflators, I fay, for in the Hebrew the fame Tenfe is both prefent and preter perfect.. [Thou paffeft Sentence of immediate Death on Adam, in cafe he eat the forbidden Fruit: But then again thon reprieveft him and his Pofterity from that Sentence, thow calleft on them, and bidft them repent and live.} |