II Come, ye [children,] and hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord. 12 What man is he that [lufteth] to live and would fain Tee good days?ng cod ' 13 Keep thy tongue, from evil and thy lips, that they fpeak no guile.bs Deni I 14 [Efchew] evil, and do good feek peace, and enfuerit. 15 The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous: and his ears are open unto their prayers.ban 16 The countenance of the Lord is against them that do evil: to root out the remem brance of them from the earth; 17 The righteous cry, rand the Lord heareth them and delivereth them out of all their troubles, met lust yet 18. The Lord is high unto them that are of a contrite heart! and will fave fuch as be of an humble fpirit. 'n bhiw oilt 19 Great are the troubles of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of all. vongi? 20 He keepeth all his bones: fo that not one of them is brokentor 21 But misfortune fhall flay the ungodly: and they that hate the righteous, fhall be defolate. 22 The Lord delivereth the fouls of his fervants: and all they that put their trust in him, fhall not be deftitute. The Seventh Day. Morning Prayer. A Pfalm of David, when he was perfecuted by Saul, and fally accufed by Doeg, &c. As to the Imprecations used in this Pfalm, See Preface. Judica me, Domine. Pfal. XXXV. catch himfelf: that he may fall into his own mischief. 9 And, my foul, be joyful in the Lord it fhall rejcyce in his faivation. 10 [All my bones fhall fay,] Lord, who is like unto thee, who delivereft the poor from him that is too ftrong for him: yea, the poor and him that is in mifery, from him that spoileth him? II Falfe witneffes did rife up: they laid to my charge things that I knew not. 12 They rewarded me evil for good: to the great difcomfort of my foul. 13 Nevertheless, when they were fick, I put on fackcloth, and humbled my foul with fafting and my prayer fhall turn into mine own bofom. 14 I behaved my felf, as though it had been my friend or my brother: I went heavily as one that mourneth for his mother. 15 But in mine adverfity they rejoyced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the very [abjects came together against me unawares, making mows at me, and ceased not. 16 With the flatterers were bufie mockers: who gnashed upon me with their teeth. 17 Lord, how long wilt thou F Soul.] See Pfal. vi. 3. li. 1o. 10 [My Heart, or 15 [Vileft of Men.] look 1 look upon this: O deliver my foul from the calamities which they bring on me, and my [darling] from the lions. 17 [Dear Life.] 19 [In their wicked and infulting manner.] + Making Signs to one another, as if they had done their bufinefs. 21 It;] that is, fome foul Fact of which they falfly accufed David, for they were falfe Witneffes, ver. 11. of whom David here speaks. 18 So will I give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people. 19 O let not them that are mine enemies, triumph over me [ungodly]: neither let them wink with their eyes t, that hate me without a caufe. 20 And why? their communing is not for peace but they imagine deceitful words, against them that are quiet in the land. 21 They gaped upon me with their mouths, and faid: Fie on thee, fie on thee, we faw *it with our eyes. 22 This thou haft feen, O Lord: hold not thy tongue then, go not far from me, O Lord. 23 Awake and stand up to judge my quarrel: avenge thou my caufe, my God, and my Lord. 24 Judge me, O Lord, my God, according to thy righte oufness and let them not triumph over me. 25 Let them not fay in their hearts, There, there, fo would we have it: neither let them fay, We have devoured him. 26 Let them be put to confufion and fhame together, that rejoyce at my trouble let them be clothed with rebuke and difhonour, that boast themfelves against me. 27 Let them be glad and rejoyce that favour my righteous dealing: yea, let them fay alway, Bleffed be the Lord who hath pleasure in the profperity of his fervant. 28 And as for my tongue, it fhall be talking of thy righte oufnefs and of thy praise all the day long. A Pfalm of David, a Servant of the Lord, during the time of his being perfecuted by Saul. MY Dixit injuftus. Pfal. XXXVI. Y heart fheweth me the wickednefs of the ungodly that there is no fear of God before his eyes. 2 For he flattereth himself in his own fight: until his abominable fin be found out. 3 The words of his mouth are unrighteous, and full of deceit he hath left off to behave himself wifely, and to do. good. 4 He [imagineth] mischief upon his bed, and hath fet himfelf in no good way: neither doth he abhor any thing that is evil. 4 [Contriveth.] See Vocabulary. |