1 Or, A Psalm of David, gir ing instruc tion.

⚫ 1 Sam. 22.

1. & 24.3.

a Ps. 102,

title. Isai. 26. 16.

b Ps. 143-4.

my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty P. 63. 1. 6 I stretch forth my hands unto thee: f Ps. 88. g. land. Selah.

lest

faileth: hide not thy face from me, 7 Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

k

8 Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness

Ps. 28. 1. am become

1 Or, for I like, &c. Pr. 88.4

5

in the morning; for in thee do I trust: i See Ps. 46. cause me to know the way wherein IP. 5. 8. should walk; for I lift up my soul unto 1 Ps. 25. 1. thee.

↑ Heb. hide me with thee.

enemies: I +flee unto thee to hide me. 9 Deliver me, O LORD, from mine art my God: "thy spirit is good: lead 10 Teach me to do thy will; for thou P. 254, me into the land of uprightness.

P

11 O for

u Neh. 9. 26. o Isai.

10.

p Ps. 113 25

d Ps. 69. 20. Or, Look

on the right

hand, and

B

& 73.26. & 119.57. Lam. 3. 24.

h Ps. 27. 13.

I P's. 13.6. & 119. 17.

a Ps. 31. 1.

b Job 14. 3c Exod. 34. & 9. 2. & 15.

his enemies.

A Psalm of David.

HEAR my prayer, O LORD, give ear to

my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness. 2 And benter not into judgment with 7. Job 4. 17. thy servant: for in thy sight shall no 14. & 25.4. man living be justified. Eccles. 7. 20. 3 For the enemy hath persecuted my Rom. 3.20. soul; he hath snitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

Ps. 130.3.

Gal. 2. 16.

d Ps. 77. 3. & 142.3.

e Ps. 77-5, 10, L.

4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

5 I remember the days of old; I me

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my high tower, and my deliverer; my war, | My goodness, and my fortress; shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.

3 LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him! 4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and they shall smoke. come down: touch the mountains, and

6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.

me, and deliver me out of great waters, 7 Send thine hand from above; rid iP from the hand of 'strange children;

8 Whose mouth "speaketh vanity, and hood. their right hand is a right hand of false- ML

O God: upon a psaltery and an instru9 I will "sing a new song unto thee, ment of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.

kings: who delivereth David his servant 10° It is he that giveth || salvation unto Oy from the hurtful sword.

11 Rid me, and deliver me from the P. 7, 8

David praiseth God.

q Ps. 128. 3.

kind to kind,

13 That our garners may be full, af+Heb. from fording tall manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:

God only worthy to be trusted.

1Or, merciful, or,

17 The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and || holy in all his works. 18 "The LORD is nigh unto all them bountiful. that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.

19 He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.

20 The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.

21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.

n Deut. 4.7. o John 4.24.

Ps. 31. 23.

Praise the b

Heb.

Hallelujah. a Ps. 103. 1.

2 b While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.

Ps. 104. 33.

9. Isai. 2. 22.

3 Put not your trust in princes, nor c Ps. 118. 8, in the son of man, in whom there is no || help.

Or, salva

tion.

12.

4 His breath goeth forth, he return- d Ps. 104. 29. eth to his earth; in that very day hisai. 2. 22. thoughts perish.

5 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:

e See 1 Cor. 2.6.

Ps. 144. 15. Jer. 17. 7.

g Gen. 1. 1.

6 Which made heaven, and earth, Rev. 14.7. the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:

7h Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the pri

soners:

Ps. 103. 6. Ps. 107.9. 107. 10, 14. John 97,

k Ps. 68. 6.

J Matt. 9.30.

32.

m Ps. 145.

14 & 147. 6.

Luke 13. 13. n Deut. 10.

18. Ps. 68.5. P. 147.6.

p Exod. 15.

10 The LORD shall reign for ever, even Ps. Ps. 10. thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. 16. & 145. 13. Praise ye the LORD.

PSALM CXLVII.

1 The prophet exhorteth to praise God for his care of the church, 4 his power, 6 and his mercy: 7 to praise him for his providence: 12 to praise him for his blessings upon the kingdom, 15 for his power over the meteors, 19 and for his ordinances in the church.

PRA

Rev. 11. 15.

c Ps. 33. 1.

RAISE ye the LORD: for it is good a Ps. 92. 1. to sing praises unto our God; for b Ps. 135. 3. it is pleasant; and praise is comely. d Ps. 102. 16. 2 The LORD doth build up Jerusa- e Deut. 30. lem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.

3 'He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

3.

P. 51. 17.

Isai. 57.15. & 61. 1.

Luke 4. 18.

+ Heb.

griefs.

5 Praise him upon the loud 'cymbals: 144 praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. 6 Let every thing that hath breath 15 16 praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD. 25

12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, 'as those that go down into the pit:

13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: 14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

15 My son, mwalk not thou in the way with them; "refrain thy foot from their path:

16 For their feet run to evil, and

make haste to shed blood.

17 Surely in vain the net is spread †in the sight of any bird.

18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:

21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,

22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight

in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

Before CHRIST cir. 1000.

23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will r Joel 2. 28. make known my words unto you.

s Isai. 65. 12.

24 ¶ Because I have called, and yer. refused; I have stretched out my hand, 7.13. Zech. and no man regarded;

7.11.

t Ps. 107. 11.

25 But ye have set at nought all my ver. 30. counsel, and would none of my reproof: Luke 7. 30. 26 "I also will laugh at your calamity; u Ps. 2. 4. I will mock when your fear cometh;

27 When your fear cometh as deso- xch. 10. 24lation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: 29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. 31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

Job 27.9.

& 35. 12. je 11.11.

Isai. 1. 15

& 14. 12. Ezek. 8. 18.

Mic. 3.4. James 4. 3.

Zech. 7. 13.

z Job 21. 14. ver. 22.

P. 119.173

b ver. 25. Ps. 81. 11.

&

Job 4.8.
22.8.

Isai. 3. 11.
Jer. 6. 19.

Or, ease of the simple.

13.

33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me d Ps. 25. 12, shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from è Ps. 112. 7. fear of evil.

An exhortation to obedience.

Before CHRIST

f ch. 6. 22.

20.

11 Discretion shall preserve thee, 'understanding shall keep thee:

12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, g John 3. 19, to walk in the ways of darkness; 14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; 15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

h ch. 10. 23. Jer. 11. 15

i Rom. 1. 32.

k Ps. 125-5

m

1 ch. 5. 20. 16 To deliver thee from the strange m ch.5.3.& woman, even from the stranger which 6. 24. & 7.5. flattereth with her words;

n See Mal. 2. 14, 15.

o ch.7. 27.

p Ps. 37. 29.

q Job 18. 17. Ps. 37. 28.

17 "Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

20 ¶ That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall 1 Or, pluck- be rooted out of it.

& 104-35

ed up.

Before CHRIST eir. 1000

12 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom a Deat & 5 he delighteth.

13 'Happy is the man that findeth rch. 8.3435 wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.

↑ Heb. the man that draweth out understand

i

14 'For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the Job 28. 13, gain thereof than fine gold.

15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.

16 "Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.

20 By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down Gen. 1.9 the dew.

21 My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

22 So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.

23 Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.

e

b Deut.

98. Job

e ch. 1.9. d Pr. 37.94.

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ch. 10 g

24 When thou liest down, thou shalt & Le not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

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2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

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3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them the table of thine heart:

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26 For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.

27 ¶ Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power † Heb the of thine hand to do it.

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29 Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely 107, Pre by thee.

30 'Strive not with a man without iRo 11Å cause, if he have done thee no harm.

31 Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

& 733 ch. 24. 1. men of vir lence.

32 For the froward is abomination to Heb the LORD: but his secret is with the

10, &c. Lake increase:

14. 13.

o Deut. 28.8.

10 So shall thy barns be filled with

33 The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but "he blesseth the habitation of the just.

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