Lord, lo, thine enemies fhall perish and all the workers of wickedness fhall be destroyed.

9 But mine horn fhall be exalted like the horn of an *unicorn: for I am anointed with fresh*oyl.

10 Mine eye also fhall fee his luft of mine enemies: and mine ear fhall hear his defire of the wicked that arise up against me. II The righteous fhall flourifh like a palm-tree: and fhall fpread abroad like a cedar in Libanus.

12 Such as be planted in has the house of the Lord: fhall flourish in the courts of the houfe of our God.

9 * Horn] fignifies Power and Dignity. and Refreshment, Pfal. * Oyl] Abundance, xxiii. 5.

*Unicorn. See Pfal. xxii. 21.

12 See Pfal. lii. 9. *Such as be planted,] dars, or Trees: for that is, Palms, and Ce[planted is in the plural

13 [The Vertue and

Number in the Hebrew; but [righteous] in the fingular. 13 [They also fhall bring forth more fruit in their age: and fhall be fat and well-liking.]

14 That they may fhew how true the Lord my ftrength is: and that there is no unrighteoufnefs in him.

Evening Prayer.

Piety of thefe Men fhall not decay with Age, but like thofe Trees, the older they grow, the more happy Fruit they fhall produce, and the more profperous shall they be.]

A Pfalm which was used by the Jews on the Day before the Sabbath; and is allowed by Some of the Jews to have relation to the Times of the Meffias, and fhews the ftability of his Kingdom.

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Dominus regnavit. Pfal. XCIII.

[The Lord is King, and hath put on glorious apparel: the Lord hath put on O 2,

I [The Lord is our King, and has often

made his Greatnefs and Power appear as evi

his

his apparel, and girded himself with ftrength.]

dently on our behalf, as if we had feen him with our bodily Eyes, in his

2 [Unfettled, or put out of its courfe.]

3 [Throne on which thou fitteft to judge Mankind, and give Laws to the Univerfe.]

4, 5. The Floods

*

and Waves] denote the Seditions and Infurrections of wicked Men against the Church.

6 The Promifes which thou haft made. to thy People are always moft folemnly

Royal Robes, girting himfelf to Battle.]

2 He hath made the round world fo fure: that it cannot be [moved.]

3 Ever fince the world began hath thy [feat] been prepared: thou art from everlasting.

4 The flouds are rifen, O Lord, the flouds have lift up their voice: the flouds lift up their waves.

* The waves of the fea are mighty, and rage horribly: but yet the Lord who dwelleth on high is mightier.

6 [Thy teftimonies, O Lord, are very fure: holiness becometh thine houfe for ever.] kept and performed: It therefore becomes all that frequent thy Houfe, ftrictly to obferve thy Laws, and the Vows and Promifes which they make to thee.],

This Pfalm is an Appeal to God against the unjust and impicus Proceedings of Men in Authority.

Deus ultionum. Pfal. XCIV.

Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth: thou God, to whom vengeance belongeth, fhew thy felf.

2 Arife, thou Judge of the world: and reward the proud after their deferving.

3 Lord, how long fhall the ungodly: how long fhall the ungodly triumph?

4 How long fhall all wicked

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doers speak fo difdainfully: and make fuch proud boafting?

5 They fmite down thy people, Lord: and trouble thine heritage.

6 They murder the widow, and the ftranger: and put the fatherless to death.

7 And yet they fay, Tufh, the Lord fhall not fee: neither fhall the God of Jacob regard it.

8 Take heed, ye unwife among the people: O ye fools, when will ye understand?

9 He that planted the ear, fhall he not hear? or he that made the eye, fhall he not fee?

10 Or he that nurtureth the heathen it is he that teacheth man knowledge, fhall not he punish?

II The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man: that they are but vain.

12 Bleffed is the man whom thou chafteneft, O Lord: and teacheft him in thy law.

13 That thou mayeft give him patience in time of adverfity: until the pit be digged up for the ungodly.

14 [For the Lord will not fail his people: neither will he forfake his inheritance ;] unjust Judges.]

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14 [For God will ftand by his People, and plead the Cause of his Inheritance against

Mem. The fenfe of this Verfe is not perfett

you have read to the middle of the next. 15 [Until righteousness turn again unto judgment: ] [ all

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15 [Till Juftice,which has been long banish'd fuch

from our Courts of Ju- fuch as are true in heart fhall dicature, return thither follow it.]

again :] Here is a paufe or ftop, then the Pfalmift begins again. [All true-hearted Men will, by all honeft means, purfue this good end, namely, that Juftice may return to the Courts of Judicature.]

16 [I am ready to do my part, and fhew all reafonable Zeal in fo good a caufe, as to bring all Offenders to

16 Who will rife up with me against the wicked: or who will take my part against the evil-doers?

juft Punishment; but where almoft is the Man, who would join with me in fo glorious an Undertaking?]

17 If the Lord had not helped me it had not failed but my foul had been put to filence. 18 But when I faid, My foot hath flipped: thy mercy, O Lord, held me up.

19 In the multitude of the forrows that I had in my heart: thy comforts have refreshed my Soul.

20 Wilt thou have any thing to do with the [ftool] of Wickednefs: which imagineth mifchief as a Law?

21 They gather them together against the Soul of the righteous and condemn the innocent blood.

22 But the Lord is my refuge: and my God is the strength of my confidence.

23 Hefhall recompenfe them their Wickedness, and destroy them in their own malice: yea, the Lord our God shall destroy them.

The Nineteenth Day.

Morning Prayer.

This Pfalm is attributed to David, Heb. iv. 7. tho' it have no Title in the Hebrew; but relates to the Times of the Meffias. It looks, Says Bishop Patrick, (in his Argument to this Pfalm) as if it were intended to be a folemn Invitation to the People, when they were all AfSembled together to praise God, and hear Inftructions out of his Law.

Venite, exultemus. Pfal. XCV.' Come, let us fing unto the Lord: let us heartily rejoyce in [the ftrength of our falvation.]

2 Let us come before his prefence with thanksgiving: and fhew our felves glad in him with pfalms.

3 For the Lord is a great God and a great King above all gods.

4 In his hand are all the [corners] of the earth: and the ftrength of the hills is his alfo.

5 The fea is his, and he made it and his hands prepared the dry land.

6 Ocome, let us worship and fall down: and kneel before the Lord our Maker.

7 For he is the Lord our God:. and we are [the people of his pafture, and the fheep of his hand.]

8 To day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts: as in the provocation, and as

ftrength our fafety de I [Him on whose

pends.]

4 [Dark, remote unknown parts.]

7 [The Nation whom he feeds and guides in his own peculiar Country, and with his im mediate care.] Exod. xvii. 2, 7.

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