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young Creatures that feed upon them: nay, it breaks and tears. in pieces thofe Trees, as the Power of God has enabled me to deftroy the Princes of that Country to which these Mountains belong.]

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7 [The Thunder cuts way into all Quarters for the Lightning.] dernefs fometimes called Zin, in the Borders

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7 [The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of fire,] the voice of the Lord shaketh the wilderness: yea, the Lord fhaketh the wilderness of * Cades. of the Edomites and Moabites, Numb. xxvii. I, 14. Numb. xxxiii; 36. As the Thunder fhakes the Wildernefs, fo did David thofe People, 2 Sam. viii. 2, 14.

8 The voice of the Lord maketh the Hinds to bring forth young,t and *discovereth the thick bushes: in his temple doth every man fpeak of his honour.

8 + By affrighting them: For fear haftens the Delivery, Sa.iv.19. *Discovereth the thick Bufbes, or Coverts wherein the Hinds expect shelter. To difco

ver is here taken in a very particular fenfe, juft as 'tis by our New Tranflators, Jer. xiii. 22. viz. to make any thing ceafe to be a covering. [The thickeft Bufhes fhall not cover or protect the Hinds from the violence of the Thunder.]

9 The Lord fitteth above the * water-floud: and the Lord remaineth a King for ever.

10 The Lord fhall give ftrength to his people: the Lord fhall give his people the bleffing of Peace.

The Sixth Day.

9 Water-flood: The Clouds, the Treafures of Rain, c, hereby are figuratively meant the great number David's Enemies.

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See Ifa. xxyiii.2. lix. 19,

Morning Prayer.

A Pfalm of David at the Dedication of David's Houfe, after it bad been polluted by Abfalom, 2 Sam. xvi, 21, 25. Ham. Patr.

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Exaltabo te, Domine. Pfal. XXX,
Will magnifie thee, O Lord,
for thou haft fet me up:
and not made my foes to tri-
umph over me,

*Thou haft bealed me.] To be healed in Scripture Language fignifies to be deliver'd from any Evil, 2 Chron. viii.

3 [The ftate of the dead.] See Vocabulary.

4 [That his Mercy and faithfulness may be duly remembred.]

5 The effect of his Favour, and good pleasure, is Life and Safety.]

† Zion, which was a Strong-Hold, 2 Sam.v.7.

9 [What Service can I do thee when I am dead?

10 [Shall my Ashes be able to declare thy Goodnefs? nay, will not thy Promifes rather feem to fail, and lofe their Credit, if I should be defeated by my Enemies, and fall by their hands, contrary to thy own exprefs word? 1 Pfal. Ixxxix. 21,22,23.

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3 Thou, Lord, haft brought my foul out of [hell]: thou haft kept my life from them that go down to the pit.

4 Sing praises unto the Lord, Oye faints of his: and give thanks unto him [for a remembrance of his holiness.]

5 For his wrath endureth but the twinkling of an eye, and [in his *pleafure is life]: heaviness may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

6 And in my profperity I faid, I fhall never be removed: thou, Lord, of thy goodnefs hadft made my hill † fo ftrong.

7 Thou didst turn thy face from me and I was troubled.

8 Then cried I unto thee, O Lord and gat me to my Lord right humbly.

9 [What profit is there in my blood; when I go down to the pit?]

10 [Shall the duft give thanks unto thee or fhall it declare thy truth?]

11 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me: Lord, be thou my helper.

12 Thou haft turned my heaviness into joy: thou haft

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put off my fackcloth, and girded me with gladness:

13 Therefore fhall every good man fing of thy praife without ceafing: O my God, I will give thanks unto thee for

ever.

A Pfalm of David, compofed on occafion of bis efcape from Keilah, and flight through the Wilderness of Maon, 1 Sam. xxiii. as Bishop Patrick.

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In te, Domine, fperavi. Pfal. XXXI.
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N thee, O Lord, have I
my truft let me never be
put to confufion, deliver me in
thy [righteousness.]

2 Bow down thine ear to me: make hafte to deliver me.

3 And be thou my ftrong rock, and houfe of defence: that thou mayeft fave me.

4 For thou art my ftrong rock and my caftle: be thou alfo my guide, and lead me for thy Names fake.

5 Draw me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my ftrength.

6 Into thy hands I commend my fpirit: for thou haft redeemed me, O Lord, thou God of truth.

7 I have hated them, [that hold of fuperftitious vanities:] and my truft hath been in the Lord.

8 I will be glad, and rejoyce in thy mercy for thou haft

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[Mercy.] See Pfal. xxiv. 5.

7 [Who have any

regard to the Idols of

the Heathen, to Aftrologers, Southfayers, &c.] Ham, Patr. Ainfw,

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8 [Taken notice of, or own'd,] See Pf. i. 7.

confidered my trouble, and haft [known] my foul in adverfities. 9 Thou haft not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: but haft fet my feet in a large room t

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10 Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: and mine eye is confumed for very heaviness; yea, my foul and my body.

11 For my life is waxen old with heavinefs: and my years with mourning.

12 My ftrength faileth me, becaufe of mine iniquity: and my bones are confumed.

13 I became [a reproof] a mong mine enemies, but efpecially among my neighbours; and they of mine acquaintance were afraid of me, and they that did fee me without, conveyed themselves from me.

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14 I am clean forgotten, as a dead man out of mind: I am become like a broken veffel t.

15 For I have heard the [blafphemy] of the multitude: and fear is on every fide, while they confpire together against me, and take their counfel to take away my life.

16 But my hope hath been in thee, O Lord; I have faid, Thou art my God.

17 [My time is in thy hand,] deliver me from the hand of

mine enemies: and from them

that perfecute me.

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18 Shew thy fervant the light of thy countenance and fave me for thy mercies fake.

19 Let me not be confounded, O Lord, for I have called upon thee: let the ungodly be put to confufion, and be put to filence in the

grave.

20 Let the lying lips be put to filence: which cruelly, difdainfully, and defpitefully speak against the righteous.

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21 O how plentiful is thy goodness, which thou haft laid up for them that fear thee: and that thou haft prepared for them that put their truft in thee, even before the fons of men!

22 [Thou shalt hide them privily by thine own prefence, from the provoking of all men: thou fhalt keep them fecretly in thy tabernacle from the ftrife of tongues.]

from the Challenges and Infults of wicked

23 Thanks be to the Lord; for he hath fhewed me marvellous great kindness [in a strong city.]

24 And when I made haftet, I said: I am caft out of the fight

of thine eyes.

25 Nevertheless thou heardeft the voice of my prayer: when I cried unto thee.

26 Olove the Lord, all ye

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