6i 
 
 In shelter of his tent me hide ; 
 High on a rock me raise. 
 
 6. And now my head is high above 
 
 My foes all round about ; 
 And at his tent I'll sacrifice 
 
 Offer with shouts devout ; 
 I'll sing, yea, to the Lord sing psalms. 
 
 7. Lord, hear, I will to thee 
 
 Call with my voice ; Oh ! mercy have 
 On me and answer me. 
 
 8. As thou hast said, seek ye my face ; 
 
 So my heart in reply, 
 Will say to thee, Thy gracious face, 
 Jehovah, seek will I. 
 
 9. From me, Oh ! hide not thou thy face 
 
 From thee turn not aside 
 Thy servant in thy wrath ; thou didst 
 
 Succor for me provide ; 
 Oh ! God of my salvation, me 
 
 Reject not, nor me leave. 
 
 10. Though father, mother, me forsake 
 
 The Lord will me receive. 
 
 11. Oh ! Lord, direct me in thy way, 
 
 And in a path that's straight, 
 Do thou me forward lead, from those 
 Who for me lie in wait. 
 
 12. To my foes' will, resign me not ; 
 
 For risen againt me 
 Have perjured witnesses, and such 
 As breathe out cruelty. 
 
 13. Alas ! unless I had believed 
 
 With clear insight to see, 
 Within the land of those alive, 
 The Lord's benignity. 
 
 14. Wait on the Lord with courage good, 
 
 Let not thy strength abate ; 
 So He encourage will thy heart, 
 And on Jehovah wait. 
 
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Hi T$QQm ©F T §lLMi 
 
 **HIS distinctive Title was divinely given to thi s 
 book as a collection, and is applicable, in its true 
 and full significancy, to all its distinct parts with- 
 out exception. 
 
 The first sentence, however, in the appendix to the 
 Commentary of Hengstenberg on this portion of the 
 word of God is, - ' there is no general name in Hebrew 
 f 07' the Psalms. Why does he give them, as a whole, that 
 name, which he does again and again, and yet, as a critic, 
 at last affirm that it is an unjustifiable misnomer ? What 
 he aimed to subvert, as he divulges subsequently, is, 
 "the current opinion which was common among the 
 Protestant Reformers." There are sufficient and per- 
 manent reasons for this opinion, too plain to be obscured, 
 and too valid to be undermined by criticisms as flimsy 
 as they are ostentatious. Every one who reads may 
 know without mental searching, that one prominent 
 portion of the Old Testament, in distinction from all 
 the rest, is in the New Testament designated the Psalms, 
 Luke 20 : 42. And David himself saith in the Book of 
 Psalms. Our Lord thus sanctioned what David did in 
 prefixing that name fnizmo?; not the other zimrah to 
 the 110th Psalm. But more than this, He gave that 
 name to all in the Book, that name expressive of the 
 divine authorship of every psalm in the Book, Luke 
 
20 : 4 2 - After his resurrection He reminded the eleven 
 Apostles, and others with them, " These are the words 
 which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, — 
 which were written in the Psalms, Luke 24 : 44, writ- 
 ten at first, as they were then, are now, in the Hebrew 
 language. Even if he did, in his reform, include the 
 twelve Books, of which this is the first, though there 
 is no evidence of it, that would not invalidate or change 
 the name of the first, or of any one connected 
 with it. On the contrary, it signalized that as the 
 distinct and proper name of the book, and of its 
 contents. That decision was recognized in that im- 
 portant meeting of the Apostles and others of the one 
 hundred and twenty. Peter, quoting " Scripture which 
 the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake," said, 
 1 ' For it is written in the book of Psalms, " Acts 1:16, 20. 
 It was written Ps. 109: 8, "His bishopric let another 
 take " as translated by Horn in his Introduction, vol. 2, 
 p. 406. Whether this was a command or prophesy, 
 whether it was done by vote or lot, Matthias became 
 one of the last Apostles, as Paul who became one of 
 them thought, " For I think that God set forth us the 
 last Apostle, 1 Cor. 4 : .9 The Greek for apostles has 
 the definite article before it, and the word that follows 
 it is not an adverb, but an adjective in the plural, ex- 
 pressing what pertains to the apostles, just as it does to 
 time before it in 1 Pet. 1 : 5, " the last time." 
 
 Readers may have a curiosity to know how this Ger- 
 man explains these passages relative to the name di- 
 vinely given to this sacred book. He turns, with a 
 shrug, his back upon them. He devotes about six pages 
 to what he calls " Designations," unveiling, near the 
 bottom of the fourth page, his aim, as follows : " having 
 
5 
 
 thus by the way," being thus a by-way M brought into 
 suspicion the view currently entertained regarding za- 
 mar and mizmar, if we examine more closely, we shall 
 find that it rests on no solid foundation." 
 
 Of these two important words, the latter is the name 
 prefixed to a psalm by its inspired author ; the former 
 is the verb from which the latter, the noun, is derived. 
 The true and solid foundation on which the opinion 
 assailed rests, the bold assailant keeps out of the view 
 of his readers ; for on this subject he does not bring 
 forward a single passage from the New Testament. 
 Under " Contents of the Psalms," he does refer to Luke 
 24 : 48. V The use which our Lord makes of .the 
 Psalms after the resurrection, rests on the supposition, 
 that they were composed under divine direction," page 
 7th. What is this but impious presumption, thus to 
 impeach the assured knowledge of Him who is "the 
 truth." 
 
 It is necessary, as an urgent duty, from the confess- 
 edly insidious and really reckless assault on the divinely 
 authorized name of this sacred book, and in defence of 
 very important truth relative to the worship of God and 
 maybe profitable to readers, who seek such profit, to ex- 
 pose the positive introductory statement in the Appendix, 
 inflated, as it is, into the outward form of an inference 
 without any premises, covered with a loose dress of 
 words, through which its meaning may be seen, though, 
 in the last clause, its application or purpose is pushed 
 away into an intended obscurity, perhaps from timidity, 
 or merely " to bring into suspicion," as the shrewd critic, 
 in his by-way in sight of its end, dropped a few words 
 with that hint in them. 
 
44 There is, therefore, no designation in Hebrew 
 which comprehends the whole, like psalmos, which has 
 been elevated by the LXX to the honor of a general 
 title — music on the string, and a song accompanied by 
 such music — properly, indeed, only the first, psallo, sig- 
 nifying only to play, not to sing, excepting in the LXX 
 and those who took their usage from it." Appendix, 
 page 2. 
 
 What he affirms summarily at first and here re-affirms 
 is simply his own arbitrary assumption, that the Hebrew 
 word, mizmar, was not applicable to them all. He 
 would not allow them to have any common descriptive 
 title in any language ; and those that have no name pre- 
 fixed to them, according to the pompous dogma or eph- 
 emeral whim of this professedly biblical critic, are left, 
 with the whole collection, without a name. The proper 
 and competent witness, and one of them more than a 
 witness, an infallible judge, are left wholly out of view, 
 yea, more than that, are excluded from the notice of 
 readers, with the stigma thrown after them that they 
 11 took their usuage from the Septuagint." 
 
 It may be here in truth briefly stated, after a patient 
 introspection of the foregoing summary statement in 
 the Appendix, 1st, That the fundamental error that un- 
 derlies that confessed statement is, that the Hebrew 
 verb, zamar, means, "to play, to make music," although 
 the covering over it in the last clause does not entirely 
 hide it. But we must bear in mind what he afterwards 
 honestly avers, that he is here, "by the way," doing 
 the best he could "to bring into suspicion the view cur- 
 rently entertained regarding zamar and mizmor" 2d, 
 He discards the meaning given to these two words in 
 the Septuagint, as erroneous, differing essentially from 
 
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 what he thinks their real genuine meaning is, and should 
 be in every translation. I now come with emotions of 
 sadness, which are not fresh, to what has appeared to 
 me to be the aim and drift of his staggering statement, 
 as it is to its cowardly last clause in the only import and 
 application it admits of. It is, 3d, An impeachment of 
 the testimony on this subject contained in the New Tes- 
 tament, imputing, to all who used those Greek words as- 
 recorded in it, an error in the meaning of those two 
 words in their use of them, and that they took their 
 usage from the Septuagint. 
 
 The Messiah himself, in his wisdom, as to time, need 
 and truth, was the first who called the complete collec- 
 tion of the Lord's Songs a book, and gave it the befit- 
 ting title it still has, and would have had, had there 
 been no Septuagint translation in the world. What our 
 Lord said, when He gave that name to all the "songs 
 of the Lord " contained in that Book, of which that 
 from which he quotes was one, he spake in the temple, 
 in the audience of all the people, learned and unlearned, 
 not only his disciples, but the chief priests, scribes, 
 elders and Sadducees were there. He spake then, and 
 after his resurrection, as he had always done in the 
 language common through all that region. That lan- 
 guage was not Greek or Hebrew. The latter ceased 
 after the captivity to be vernacular, as it had been. 
 The common language was the Syriac, with some mix- 
 ture of Chaldee. When Luke recorded in the Gospel, 
 in the Greek language, what Jesus spake in the temple 
 and after his resurrection, "to the eleven and those 
 with them ;" and when he wrote what is comprised in 
 the Acts of the Apostles, he was under the guidance 
 and enlightenment of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of 
 
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 truth ; and under that infallible and all-sufficient influ- 
 ence, he was separate from, and independent of all else 
 outside of himself. 
 
 The main, we may say the only argument, which the 
 German critic advances to prove, that " there is no gen- 
 eral name in Hebrew for the psalms," is his own assump- 
 tion, or invention, that "the Hebrew words, maskil y 
 mis?)io> and michtam^ marked three distinct classes of 
 the psalms ; and that every ode in the book belonged 
 solely to the class to which the same distinctive title 
 is prefixed." He limits the name, mizmor, to those 
 which have it in the prefix, that is, psalm : and this new 
 discovery, or loose device, is the close investigation by 
 which, after deliberately casting our Lord's timely 
 decision out of his own view, and, as far as he could, 
 out of the view of his readers, he flatters himself "that 
 the currently entertained opinion regarding zamor and 
 mizmor will be found to rest on no solid foundation." 
 We have already shown that our Lord gave that name, 
 which David affixed, to the noth psalm, and to all con- 
 tained in the book. 
 
 The Apostle Paul certainly understood the Hebrew 
 language, and the sacred Scriptures better than any 
 modern critic ; and he did not recognize or sanction a 
 limitation of mizmor in Hebrew or of psalmos in Greek, 
 to those which have it in the prefix. The first two in 
 the Book have no prefix, and are not called psalms in 
 the Hebrew Text, nor in the Septuagint translation. 
 Nevertheless Paul gives them that name, which the self- 
 wise, modern critic repudiates. "As it is written in 
 the second psalm" Acts, 13 : 33, 35, "He saith also in 
 another," quoting from Ps. 16 : 10, which has in its 
 prefix, micktam, Ps. 47, is designated a psalm, yet its 
 
inspired Author, repeatedly urging on all, its devout use 
 in praise, using the verb zamar five times, sing psalm, 
 calls it in Hebrew maskil, v. 8. Ps. 8 1 : 2, has not 
 in Hebrew riiizmor in the caption, yet it enjoins, "take a 
 psalm," zimrah, the "best, the first fruits ." The fore- 
 going is evidence enough to prove conclusively, that 
 there was no division of the contents of this Book into 
 three distinct classes, and no limitation of the title 
 mizmor or psalmos, in its true significance, to those 
 single psalms that have that name before them. There 
 is, therefore, decisive evidence in the New Testament, 
 that all the Apostles of the Messiah recognized the 
 propriety and validity of his decision, in giving to this 
 sacred book, a significant name applicable to all it con- 
 tains. 
 
 All the psalms were given by Jehovah, their Author, 
 with their inherent and perfect fitness, for use in the 
 service of praise, addressed directly to himself, and 
 audibly with the voice in the exercise of its capacities 
 and power of musical utterance, singly or in concert 
 with others. The Book of Psalms is, therefore, an im- 
 portant and inseparable part of the rule of faith and 
 practice ; and, as such, is a full and living fountain of 
 spiritual comfort and true holiness, in its direct tendency 
 and searching power, to secure a personal application, 
 almost unavoidable on the part of one who sings, whom 
 it searches and suits, for his reproof, his sorrow or solace- 
 according as need, or as the psalm may be. All con- 
 tained in the book are poems, composed by divinely 
 inspired human agency, in the style and form with all 
 the characteristics in the highest perfection and all the 
 essential and influential properties of true poetry, in 
 their designed adaptation to their end, — praise in the 
 
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 worship of God, and spiritual benefit to the worshipper, 
 in their being sung by individuals singly, or by assem- 
 blies publicly. 
 
 The single word, which commands and describes in 
 the book itself its use, and the act or service done in 
 its appropriate use, for its appointed and special purpose 
 in the worship of Jehovah is the verb zamar. From 
 this root came the noun mizmor. The noun occurs in 
 the prefix to a psalm fifty-three times and there only. 
 The verb itself is used in the book forty-five or six 
 times. It is in avowed hostility to the true sense of 
 hese two words, and especially of zamor, that Hengs- 
 tenberg arrays his superficial criticisms, to which, it is. 
 true, he gives partial credit in his translation of that 
 verb, though he never gives its true characteristic mean- 
 ing. 
 
 In justice to the psalms, as they came in the Hebrew- 
 language from their benign divine Author, it is dutiful 
 as it is requisite, to give some account, imperfect as it 
 may be, of that important and much-slighted word, 
 zamar, selected by consummate wisdom, and the most 
 refined taste for perpetual use, with suitable and suffi- 
 cient meaning in its place, and in its connection within 
 the reach of its figurative, though real, but sadly over- 
 looked signification. 
 
 The verb zamar, in its primitive and literal mean- 
 ing, was applied to the work done in the proper and 
 timely culture and care of grape-vines, with an eye not 
 only to the out-spread beauty of the vines, but mainly 
 to their good and pleasant fruits, to be looked for in 
 hope, to be realized in enjoyment. When the Israelites 
 were on the way, not far off, to the promised land, the 
 men sent to spy out what kind of land it was, brought 
 
II 
 
 back "a branch with one cluster of grapes," as a spec- 
 imen and foretaste of the fruits of the vines rightly- 
 pruned and trained in the promised land, Num. 13 : 20, 
 27. This word was selected, with a poetic and figura- 
 tive reference to the profitable and pleasant work done 
 in a vineyard, thus to supply the lack there was in the 
 Hebrew tongue of an oral term fully and solely applica- 
 ble to the act of a worshipper in singing directly and 
 consciously to the Lord a spiritual song, prepared 
 given to him by the Lord, fashioned and fit in form 
 and theme, for that use in praise, as an ordained part 
 of divine worship. By form we mean their conformity 
 to the principles of music, which are nothing but the 
 laws of aerial nature, the right movement of which pro- 
 duces harmony and melody, and those laws of sound 
 are invariably the same in all ages and places. 
 
 There is no word in the English language suitable or 
 sufficient to express the sacred meaning of zamar, which 
 never, in a single instance, is used by the Spirit of in- 
 spiration in that sense, except in what was thus given 
 to be sung with the voice directly to Jehovah, We 
 must, therefore, translate this word as it is in 1 Chron. 
 16: g, "Sing unto Him, sing psalms unto Him." The 
 verb in the first clause is an indefinite term, irrespective 
 of what was sung ; the verb in the latter clause limits 
 the singing to what was specially given by God for use 
 in His worship. The Septuagint translation for the 
 Hebrew verb here has humneo, from which came the 
 Greek noun humnos and eventually hymn in English. 
 Both these words had a religious affinity in their origin 
 among the Greeks ; and the verb expressed not only the 
 act of singing, but also the sacred character of what 
 was sung in their pagan worship. Those hymns were 
 
in early times deemed superhuman, according to the 
 poet Hesiod, who flourished about nine hundred years 
 before the Christian Era, as follows : "So the fluent 
 Maids of great Jubiter spake ; they breathed a voice di- 
 vine in me so that I know as well the future as the past, 
 and ordered me to sing a hymn to the endless order of 
 immortals," Theogonia, line 29-33. For the muses 
 taught me to sing divine hymns, Opera et Dies, line 
 660. 
 
 The first record we have of this significant word, 
 zamar, in its figurative and spiritual import, is in song of 
 Deborah, Judges, ch. 5:3. "I to the Lord, I will 
 sing, I will sing a psalm to the Lord God of Israel." 
 The music was all vocal, "Deborah and Barak sang 
 saying." This act of devotion was in obedience to the 
 command, "utter a song," v. 12. 
 
 The important word, of which, as to its true meaning, 
 we are now showing its self-evidence in its needed vin- 
 dication, has its place, and is in the Septuagint translated 
 psallo in 2 Sam. 22 : 50, as in the former passage. "I 
 will confess thee among the nations, I will sing psalms, 
 psalo. in thy name." David spake unto the Lord the 
 words of this song. v. 1. Samuel records in the first of 
 the next chapter, what David always avowed of his en- 
 tire dependance on God in writing a psalm. "Saith 
 David, the son of Jesse, and saith the man raised, up 
 and the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet 
 psalms of Israel the Spirit of Jehovah spake by me and 
 his word was on my tongue." There is no word for 
 "said" at the end of the first verse. Zimroth, zimraJi, 
 in the plural never means "psalmist" Zimroth always 
 means psalms, not songs. Its in Ps. 95 : 2, 119, 54 ; 
 Job 35 : 10 ; Isaiah ch. 24 : 16, "we heard psalms," and 
 
in ch. 51:3 and voice of psalm, The word for "sweet" 
 is in Ps. 135 : 3, "sing psalms to his name for it is 
 pleasant." Ps. 147 : 1, "it is good to sing psalms to 
 our God, for it is pleasant," translated sweet in 2 Sam. 
 23 : 1. 
 
 The only other place where the verb zamar is found 
 outside of the Book of Psalms, is in Isa. 12:6. The 
 chapter is part of a momentus prophecy, revealing, in 
 language strongly figurative and impressive, a change 
 and state, yet future, affecting the Israelites "from the 
 four corners of the earth," for their perpetual good. 
 "Sing psalms to the Lord," ver. 5. The Septuagint 
 here inserts for zamar, humneo. 
 
 These we believe are all the places, outside of the 
 Book of Psalms, in which the verb zamar is used in the 
 specific spiritual import, which it was divinely selected 
 to express. They proved that instrumental music formed 
 no part, and had no place intrinsically in its genuine 
 meaning in sacred poetry. Further, the connection in 
 which it stands in those passages and in others, shows 
 the only and whole meaning assigned to it, in its appro- 
 priate and exclusive application by divine wisdom to what 
 was sung, and to the act of singing, what was given 
 and worded by divine inspiration to be sung in divine 
 worship. Deprive it of that special sacred poetic mean- 
 ing, and none would be left to it, but its secular, hor- 
 ticultural meaning in the work of a vine-dresser. It 
 could not then mean even to sing. Its verbal offspring, 
 mizmor, shows on its face, and the only relationship it 
 has, its maternal origin, Hence, Hentgstenberg found 
 it necessary to break up that old close relationship of 
 these two words, in making way for his visionary theory, 
 and the consequence is, as he himself shows in his hob- 
 
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 bling criticism, that he has left no definite sense for 
 zamar or mizmor. One thing is certain that zamar, in 
 its primitive, secular sense and use, was never applied 
 to the act of a musician ; and there are no words from 
 it for musical instruments. Besides, to attach that new 
 additional meaning to zamar is wholly uncalled for, as 
 there are several Hebrew verbs of that meaning. One 
 of these is Sahah, meaning "to play, to make music," 
 is in 2 Samuel, chap. 6 : 5, 21, and in 1 Chron. 13 ; 8. 
 Another is Ha lal in I Kings; 1 : 40; Jeremiah, 48: 36. 
 But psallo is not in the Septuagint substituted for those 
 words. 
 
 There is, however, another Hebrew verb, Nagan, for 
 which, in several places, psallo is substituted in that 
 translation, showing that its authors knew when and 
 where in accordance with the Hebrew their own noun 
 signifies "only to play, not to sing," of which there are 
 several instances, in which nagan, not zamar is trans- 
 lated in 1 Sam. 16: 16, 23; 18: 10; 19: 9, and 
 "David played with his hand." It is used 2 Kings, 
 3: 15, applied to the minstrels. This verb, nagan, is 
 but a few times to be found in the Book of psalms : 
 once in Ps. 68 : 26, (25.) " Sharim singers went be- 
 fore." The Septuagint applies psallonton to singers. 
 So do the modern erroneous translations to which I have 
 referred. Here, however, they admit that psallo signi- 
 fies to sing, and that naganim (in the plural) means 
 players on instruments. All in that worshipful proces- 
 sion in the first and main part of it sang, and sang 
 psalms,, as they sang the command to do so, v. 5, (4) 
 and a command to the "kingdoms of the earth," ver. 33. 
 An other passage, in which the verb nagan is used in 
 the Book of Psalms, is Ps. 33 : 3, play well, that in 
 
the Septuagint ispsalate, the command is, "sing unto 
 Him a new song." In the verse beiore this, the last 
 verb is zamar, a command, "sing psalms unto him. 
 But in Alexander's translation, that significant word 
 zamar is made to be of the same import with nagan % 
 "make music to him." I have already given proof 
 from two passages in the Septuagint that this transla- 
 tion of zamar is erroneous. These two words are not 
 synonymous. 
 
 One reason which the German protestor advances to 
 nullify the claim of the Psalms to mizmor as a general 
 Title is, that it is never found in the plural number in 
 the Hebrew text. It is indeed always in the singular. 
 
 1st. Because it only relates to the single psalm to 
 which it is prefixed by its inspired author. But still 
 there was a plurality of them ; and there was no occas- 
 ion to refer to them collectively, until the collection of 
 them was complete. 
 
 2d. It is a peculiarity, indeed singular, that, where 
 zamar, the verb, appears so often, its honored deriva- 
 tive should not appear once in the contents of any 
 psalm, long or short, in the singular or plural. But 
 there is a good reason for this. For the verb zamar 
 expressed all the meaning which mizmor derived from 
 it. Xo classical writer after the verb humneo would 
 subjoin humnos, the noun. Mizmor was never used 
 except by the penmen inspired to write what that word 
 signifies as it came from God. Our Lord Jesus, there- 
 fore, gave that significant name to all that made up 
 that prominent part of the Old Testament, knowing, as 
 He did, in His assured knowledge, that mizmor was as 
 applicable to those portions of the Book which were de- 
 void of that title in a prefix, as to those which had it ; 
 
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 so that by his decision, every constituent part of that 
 Book is certified to be a constituent part of the Divine 
 rule of faith and practice obligatory universally to the 
 end of the world. The noun zimrah is used in the 
 Psalm-book a few times, but never after the verb zamar 
 or shier to sing, never. 
 
 This word zimrah psalm, in its strong figurative 
 poetic sense, was first used by the Israelites, in their 
 conscious assured deliverance, not only from bondage, 
 but from overwhelming destruction. " My strength 
 and psalm is Jah. and He is to me for salvation," Exod. 
 15:2. We have no word for it, adequately expressive 
 in English except psalm, in its genuine scriptural sense, 
 Moses and every one of that vast multitude, on a com- 
 mon level, sang under the impulse of personal emotions, 
 in the vivid realization of safety, saying I will sing unto 
 the Lord for He hath triumphed gloriously. Moses 
 and Miriam men and women singing in their excite- 
 ment, all under protection and light of the symbolical 
 cloud, bright to them, but dark to the overwhelmed 
 Egyptians. What a timely, hopeful, joyous meaning 
 there must have been in a right understanding, and 
 assured belief of all comprised in that one word zimrah. 
 The true strongly figurative and sublimely spiritual 
 meaning it had in sacred poetry may be seen in the 
 primitive and literal sense the word had in its com- 
 mon use in the land, from which their forefathers came 
 and for which they themselves were then starting on 
 their return. This word is first used in Genesis 43: 1 1 
 and translated "the best fruits," fruits the most prized 
 and praised in the land of promise. Gesenius in his 
 Hebrew Lexicon defines it, "the best and most cele- 
 brated fruits." Still like others before him and since, 
 
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 he gives to this significant and sacred word no other 
 meaning than that belongs to "song, music.' This 
 word, zimrah psalm, is far from being synonymous with 
 shier, song, in the first verse. Moses was the inspired 
 author of what was sung on that memorable and typical 
 occasion, and he did sing, and every one sang, " the 
 Lord is my strength and he will be tome for salvation," 
 but he did not sing, no one sang, the Lord is my best 
 fruits, my psalm. This sublime part of the ode of 
 Moses is quoted or repeated in psalm, 118: 14, " my 
 strength and psalm is.Jah. and He is to me for salva- 
 tion." There no personal pronoun is affixed to zimrah 
 psalm. The prophet Isaiah repeated it, Ch. 12: 2. 
 " The Lord Jehovah is my strength, and psalm, and 
 He. is to me for salvation.'* My song, in our English 
 Bible is an error, and obliterates the divine truth ex- 
 pressed in Hebrew. The verb from which this noun, 
 in its spiritual import sprung, was selected by4he spirit 
 of prophesy, and suggested to the prophet for the place 
 it has in this prophetic command, 5th ver. zimrou in 
 Hebrew umnesate in Septuagint, sing in our English 
 Bible Leaving the Septuagint out of view, the testi- 
 mony, of the prophet Samuel, and the prophet Isaiah, 
 certifies that zamar does not signify ''to play or to 
 make music " on any musical instrument. " Psalm sing 
 to Jehovah, for He hath done excellent things, this is 
 known in all the earth." There is no record, no evi- 
 dence, that this verb, so often used in the Book of 
 Psalms, ever meant to sing any other than " the songs 
 of Jehovah," made prominent in 1 Chron. 25: 7. Any 
 one may see, that zimrah, psalm, in what Isaiah wrote 
 in ver. 2d, and zamar, sing psalm, in what he wrote in 
 ver. 5th, is all in harmony with what the prophet Samuel 
 
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 revealed as to " the songs of Jehovah," in the passage 
 
 I have just cited, and also 2 Sam. 23: 2, 3, as I am 
 assured, Samuel wrote what David solemnly affirmed. 
 "And the sweet psalms of Israel the Spirit of the Lord 
 spake by me and his word was on my tongue." There 
 is in the Septuagint a period point between the two 
 verses, but the word itself is psalmoi in Greek, and 
 zimroth in Hebrew as it is in four other passages to 
 which I have before pointed. Of those "songs of the 
 Lord," those " sweet psalms spoken by the Spirit of 
 the Lord," not even of one, and that a very important 
 one, does Moses say, or those who sang it with him, it 
 is my psalm, but simply psalm, as it is here in Isaiah 
 and in the 118th Psalm. This chapter in Isaiah is 
 closely connected, in its import and design, with what 
 immediately precedes it, a momentous prophecy of what 
 is yet in the future, having a plain and pointed refer- 
 ence to* the Israelites, from the four corners of the 
 earth, when " the Lord shall set his hand again the 
 second time to recover the remnant of his people," and 
 
 II there shall be a highway" for them, " like as it was 
 to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of 
 Egypt. And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord I will 
 praise thee." John predicted of those who "had got- 
 ten the victory over the beast and over his image," 
 Rev. 15:3, "And they sing the ode of Moses the 
 servant of God, and the ode of the Lamb." That is 
 the Septuagint's translation of shier in the first verse of 
 Exod. 15 Ch. 
 
 Isaiah uses the noun zimrah in Ch. 51: 3, translated, 
 melody. Now this translation does not give to this 
 word the sense or prominence, which in its import it 
 really has in its evident relation to what precedes it, 
 
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 " voice of song," would not improve it. But those in 
 Zion, singing with understanding the psalms, the best 
 fruits, fruits from God, would realize with transport 
 and thankfulness, that instead of being in the wilder- 
 ness and desert, they were as in Eden and in the 
 garden of the Lord. 
 
 In Amos 5: 23 zimrath does not mean melody or 
 music, but psalm — psalming with the finest instrumen- 
 tal music, as that of the viol was when well played, but 
 even that the lord wonld not hear, as it was heartless 
 mere formal service, on their part in the sight of God, 
 as was their services on their appointed feastdays, and 
 in their offerings. 
 
 Hengstenbergh in defence of his modern criticism, 
 that the verb zamar signifies " to play to make music," 
 refers to the noun zimrah as rendering in our English 
 Bible in Daniel Ch. 3: 5, "and all sorts of music." 
 Now both these words are Chaldaic. "The Book of 
 Daniel was originally written in the Caldee language." 
 Prideuxs Connections, part 1st, book 3d, p. 260. It's 
 poor proof, an unseemly sample that is taken from that 
 foreign language, to determine the true sense of a 
 preeminently important word in pure Hebrew, and 
 quoted from a decree of the crafty Chaldee chiefs of 
 Babylon, contrived and worded, as it is artfully in 
 that clause, which is its Nucleus, for its special purpose 
 of consigning the three godly chiefs from their high 
 political position into the fiery furnace. Let it be 
 noticed, and any one may discern that the phrase, "all 
 sorts of music" has, by the conjunction, the same rela- 
 tion to "sound," which the preceding instruments 
 have. It would be a lack rather, if on such a grand 
 and extraordinary occasion as this was, there should be 
 
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 no singing, no vocal praise to the new God. The 
 Greeks had long before their * 'sacred hymns" as the 
 Poet Aristophanes calls them in his corned}', styled the 
 Birds. It is not likely that the Chaldees would be de- 
 void of odes of that kind in old Babylon, the center of 
 ancient idolatry. This word may have described that 
 part of their worship. It is, however, made as plain 
 and express as it could be, that all "kinds of zimra" 
 have, by the conjunction, the same relation to sound 
 which the preceding instruments have, as was reaffirmed 
 by the king, verse 15th. 
 
 This noun, zimrah, like the verb from which it sprung, 
 has always an inherent, sacred meaning which no other 
 Hebrew word has, and which shier song never does 
 have in itself, or unless it is expressed or indicated by 
 something in the connection in which it stands. It is 
 used in Job, ch, 35 : 10, "Where is God, my maker, 
 who giveth psalms in the night ;" also in Isaiah, 24 ; 16. 
 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard 
 psalms, "glory to the righteous" one, What they heard 
 was very different from what the harlots sang, as de- 
 scribed in ch. 23 : 16. How unseemly to translate 
 shier in the 23 ch., 16 v., as if what was sung was iden- 
 tically what is expressed by the word zimrath, psaln^ 
 ch. 24. The two words in the former chapter translated, 
 "make sweet melody" are the same words in Ps. 33 3 
 which are, in Alexander's Translation, rendered, "play 
 well with joyful noise," But who can perceive any dif- 
 ference in this, from his translation of the verb zamar 
 in the last clause of v. 2, "make music to Him." 
 
 The only and the invariable meaning of this divinely 
 selected word zitnraJi, psalm, and of the verb zamar, so 
 
often uesd in the Book of Psalms, has not been trans- 
 ferred, as it should have been, in any English Translation 
 that I have seen. I only refer to passages where the 
 former word is m the Hebrew Bible. "A psalm raise," 
 8l : 2. Let us in psalms unto Him shout, 95 : 2 The 
 word zimroth, in the plural, is the one translated psalm- 
 ist \x\ 2 Samuel 23 : I, "Sing to Jehovah a new song. 
 Shout to the Lord all the earth. Break forth and ex- 
 ult and sing psalms to Jehovah, v. 4. Sing psalms to 
 Jehovah, with harp, with harp and voiee of psalms." 
 Ps. 98 : r 4 , 3, 
 
 This word zimroth, so significant and important in 
 its true spiritual import, has a place assigned to it by 
 divine inspiration in Ps. 119 : 54, "Psalms are to me thy 
 Statutes in the house of my pereginations," as translated 
 by the learned Yenema in his comment on the Psalms', 
 published 1767. Conant's recent translation is, "Thy 
 statutes have been my songs." Alexander's is, "Songs 
 for me have been thy statutes." These latter transla- 
 lations differ a little, verbally, but not in their import. 
 "Thy statutes have been songs forme," and, "thy statutes 
 have been my songs" are verbally of the same import. 
 But they are not in harmony with the real meaning and 
 the verbal relationship of the Hebrew words, in this verse 
 "Psalms will be to me thy statutes in the house of my 
 sojourn." The old Hebrew word for psalms here, and 
 in our English Bible, translated songs, is the same word 
 translated psalmist in 2 Sam. 23 : 1. 
 
 Every one, Jew or Gentile, who knows anything, 
 knows that the noun song and the verb sing are univer- 
 sal and indiscriminate in relation to what is sung. But 
 this cannot be in truth affirmed of the divinely selected 
 Hebrew words, applied to the act of singing, and to 
 
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 what was divinely given to be sung in the worship of 
 God. The noun mizmor is never used except in the 
 prefix to a psalm. The noun zimrah in singular or plu- 
 ral, is never- applied to any other than "the Songs of 
 Jehovah" in their authorship, and the sweet psalms of 
 Israel in their appropriate appointed use, for their 
 spiritual benefit, and for His glory in His worship. 
 Was it not in accordance with their relations and obli- 
 gations to Him, the Lord of all, to sing "Psalms are to 
 me thy statutes in the house of my sojourn," How 
 much they would learn and realize of their relations, 
 duties and privileges, in singing with the spirit and the 
 understanding also those spiritual psalms so different 
 from the carnal songs of this world. All the psalms as 
 they came from the Spirit of the Lord were in a poetic 
 form, and were given to the chief musicians to adapt to 
 them a tune. The psalm first recorded in 2 Sam. 22, is 
 the 1 8th in the Book of Psalms, in which the 50th verse 
 is as follows : "Therefore will I praise thee, O Lord, 
 among the nations, and sing psalms to thy name." The 
 Hebrew verb in the last clause is zamar in the future 
 tense, translated psalo in the Septuagint. Can any one 
 affirm without real and detrimental error, that zamar 
 means "to play, to make music," here in Samuel, or 
 the 1 8th Psalm, or anywhere in the Old Testament ? 
 
 What Samuel, the prophet, recorded is of great im- 
 portance, as to the subsequent express avowal of David, 
 as to all his conscious divinely controlled agency, of 
 which, from their divine Author, psalms were the result. 
 "And the sweet psalms of Israel the Spirit of Jehovah 
 spake by me, and his word was on my tongue." That 
 verse in the 1 8th Psalm is a prophecy, and, as such, is 
 quoted by Paul, Rom. 15 : 9. Read what precedes 
 
2 3 
 
 from 4th v. to 9th. Does not this refer to the "psalms 
 of Israel ?" And that the Gentiles might glorify God 
 for his mercy, as it is written. "For this cause, I will 
 confess to thee among the Gentiles, and I will sing 
 psalms unto thy name." So Paul could in truth say, 
 after writing this, by the same Spirit of truth. His 
 word, psallo, I will sing psalms, was on my tongue, 
 This word is so translated in James 5 : 13 ; also in the 
 Epistle to Eph. 5 : 19, Be filled with the Spirit ; speak- 
 ing to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual 
 odes singing snd singing psalms in your heart to the 
 Lord, Col. 3: 16. "Let the word of Christ dwell in 
 you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing 
 each other in psalms and hymns and spiritual odes, 
 with grace singing in your heart unto the Lord." The 
 lack of the definite article before these conjoined words 
 is no evidence that these terms were indefinite in their 
 reference. This may be learned from Middleton's work 
 on the Greek article, Chap. Y., Sec. II. In the in- 
 stances before us, the absence of the definite article 
 rather intimates, that when the Apostle wrote this, it 
 was in his understanding that these words referred to a 
 distinct part of the word of the Christ, where the definite 
 article is in Greek. 
 
 There is another to which I will refer to show that 
 the psalms were sung, and sung as expressed by the 
 Greek verb psallo, without instrumental music in the 
 days of the Apostles. It is, 1 Cor. 14: 15, " I will 
 sing psalms with the spirit, and will sing psalms with 
 the understanding also." The word in Greek by which 
 he expressed that act of worship on his part, is the 
 same which he applied to the Hebrew word zamar in 
 his translation of what he quotes from the 1 8th psalm. 
 
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 What he subjoins in this chapter, v. 26, "Eaeh of you 
 hath a psalm," may denote one translated- in a form to 
 be sung. The passage in 2 Sam. 22 : 50 and in Ps. 18, 
 to which I have referred, the Apostle quotes in Hebrews, 
 chap. 2 : 12, ''Saying I will declare thy name unto my 
 brethren, in the midst of the church, will I sing praise 
 unto thee," but as Paul wrote it, "humneso se," I will 
 sing hymns. That is from one of the "sweet psalms of 
 Tsrael the Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word 
 was on my tongue." He received it word for word as 
 he wrote it. At midnight Paul and Silas prayed and 
 sang hymns, sang psalms unto the Lord, Acts 16 : 25. 
 Mark 14: 26, "sing a hymn." Math. 26: 30. We 
 have no single word in the English that expresses 
 the distinct specific meaning of the Hebrew verb 
 zamar. It is often elsewhere subjoined by the con- 
 junction to the verb shier, to sing, in the Book of 
 Psalms, as it is in Judges, 5 : 3, showing that it re- 
 quires vocal not instrumental music. In further self-ev- 
 ident proof of this, I will here only refer readers to Ps. 
 66 in the caption a Song, a Psalm, v. 2d and 4th, 
 where the verb zamar is thrice: 2d psalm " sing the 
 glory of his name. All the earth shall worship thee and 
 psalms sing to thee. They >hall in psalms thy name 
 sing." Alexander's translations of zamar in this psalm 
 is sing, the music, of course, is all from the voice of the 
 singers. To the same word (shier \ sing) zamar is often 
 in Hebrew subjoined, but mistranslated in Alexander's 
 translation, as in Ps. 21 : 14, "we will sing and cele- 
 brate thy power," to which he subjoins in a note, "cele- 
 brate by music, as the Hebrew always means." So his 
 translation of zamar after sing is, "and make music to 
 Jehovah," Ps. 17:6. In regard to this important word, 
 
xamar, in its spiritual import, I have aimed to make 
 manifest — . 
 
 1st. That this Hebrew word, zamar, to sing psalm, 
 was applied and limited in its Scriptural use and mean- 
 ing, to what was given by divine inspiration, and given 
 in a suitable form to be sung for praise in the worship 
 of God. 
 
 2d. That this word never signified "to play or make 
 music." 
 
 I have, therefore, no hesitation in asserting, though 
 with regret that there is occasion for it, that the 
 Alexander Translation, valuable as it is in many respects, 
 is detrimentally erroneous in treating the sacred divine- 
 ly selected and significant word zamar, as a mere syn- 
 onym of the common word, nagan, in accordance with 
 the superficial criticism of Hengstenberg, which he 
 deemed sufficient to evince, that "sallien signifies only 
 to play not to sing, excepting in the Septuagint and those 
 who took their usage from it," thus imputing an error 
 to the writers of the Xew Testament who used the 
 word psallo in the meaning they gave it, to sing and not 
 to play. The illiterate and arbitrary assumption has, 
 as the genu from which it sprung, another assumption, 
 that the verb psallo, did not have in classical literature 
 among the Greeks, the two distinct significations given 
 to it in its application to zamar in the Old Testament, 
 and consequently to psallo in the New Testament. 
 
 The Septuagint translation was made by learned 
 Israelites at Alexandria in Egypt under the reign of 
 Ptolemy Philadelphus, 270 years before the Christian 
 Era. It was by Jews outside of Judea, who spoke the 
 Greek language in their Synagogues, and were called 
 Helenists, Grecian Jews. Those who made the transla- 
 
tion had opportunity and means enough to know the 
 meaning of those two words, psallo and zamar, and 
 were under no conceivable liability to misapply the 
 former or mistranslate the latter. 
 
 As the aforesaid radical assumption, in regard 
 to these two words, in its import and special, 
 though it might be said, covert design, casts its 
 shadow, not only on the Hebrew word zama? 
 in the Book of psalms, but also on the New Testa- 
 ment wherever the verb psallo is used, some notice 
 of its fallacy, is in the path of duty unavoidable, espec- 
 ially as it has been sanctioned and circulated in Liddell 
 and Scott's Greek Lexicon as to the old verb psallo, 
 "later to sing to a harp, N. T.," and as to Psalms, 
 "later as song sung to a stringed instrument, a psalm 
 LXX and N. T." These extracts have evidently in 
 their place, on their face, the discouraging features of a 
 classical literature collasped into a denominational liter- 
 ature, autocratical, that cannot look outside of itself. 
 Still light has the power, when self reflected, of dispell- 
 ing darkness. As the Greek Lexicon aforesaid, and 
 others give the same meaning to that word with the 
 same restriction or exception as to its classical import, it 
 is no more than justice to the Septuagint, to the New Tes- 
 tament, and to "the learned Protestant Reformers," to 
 give some evidence, still extant, that this word psallo did 
 signify to sing in its use and meaning among the Greeks. 
 But as to success in the furtherance of this truth, even 
 with adequate proof of its truth, there is a special 
 difficulty in the way, as the error is in the standards, by 
 which a knowledge of the meaning of words is usually 
 gained, as it thus becomes traditional ; and the history 
 of human traditions, national, ecclesiastical, or philo- 
 
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 sophical, shows clearly and deplorably, that it is easier to 
 start than to stop a tradition on the downhill of error. 
 
 Let it be kept in mind, as I have shown, that the 
 Septuagint Translators used the Greek verb, umneo, as 
 of the same meaning with the Hebrew verb zamar. 
 
 As classical evidence that the verb psallo did mean 
 to sing among the Greeks, I will give an extract from 
 one of the comedies of Aristophanes, a celebrated Greek 
 poet who lived and died in the fifth century before the 
 Christian Era. The copy I have contains eleven of his 
 comedies, the only ones extant, though there were forty 
 more of which there is evidence in extracts and frag- 
 ments, that he had been their author. The copy I 
 have of his comedies was printed at Amsterdam, in A. 
 D. 1670. The first edition was issued in 1624. On 
 its Title page, and in it^ Preface is this statement as 
 follows : "With emendations of learned men, especially 
 of Joseph Scalliger. " 
 
 The following extract is taken from one of his Come- 
 dies, named the Birds, they being the most prominent ■ 
 representative speakers in it. One of them named 
 Epops called to another not named in the list of actors- 
 line 218 : 
 
 kk Corre, my fellow, now cease from sleep 
 And pour forth strains of sacred hymns 
 Which thou wilt sing with mouth divine 
 Thrilling my own and thy sad Ityn 
 With thy fresh plaintive songs, 
 Out of the nightingale's sonorous bill, 
 The dear echo goes through the green foliage 
 \ Of the trees, upward unto the seats of Jove, 
 
 Where Phoebus golden-haired, hearing singing 
 Responsive to your elegies 
 The ivory harp set up for choirs of gods ; 
 But through immortal mouths at once 
 In simultaneous symphony burst forth 
 A divine ololujah of the blessed. 
 Who sings ?" 
 
PSALMS. 
 
 Psalm I. 
 
 1. What blessings manifold must bless 
 
 The man who never hath 
 In counsel walked of wicked men, 
 
 Stood in the sinner's path, 
 Or in the seat of scoffers sat ; 
 
 2. But hath for his delight 
 Jehovah's law, and meditates 
 
 On His law day and night. 
 
 3. He's like a tree which planted near 
 
 Where streams of water flow, 
 Will in its season yield its fruit, 
 
 And no leaf withered grow ; 
 And all his doings prosper will. 
 
 4. Not such the wicked are, 
 For they are like the chaff 
 
 Which wind will scatter off afar. 
 
 5. Therefore the wicked shall not stand 
 
 When in the judgement tried, 
 Nor sinners in the assembly then 
 Of the just glorified, 
 
 6. Because Jehovah doth the way 
 
 Of all the righteous know ; 
 But end in ruin will the way 
 In which the wicked go, 
 
 Psalm II. 
 
 1. Why raged the nations, and what's vain 
 
 Will people meditate ? 
 
 2. Kings of the earth will set themselves, 
 
 And rulers sat in state 
 Joined in resolve, against the Lord, 
 
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 And his Christ, saying thus, 
 
 2. We will assunder break their bonds 
 
 And cast their cords from us. 
 
 4. He who in heaven sits shall laugh, 
 
 The Lord deride them shall ; 
 
 5. Then in his anger speak to them, 
 
 In his wrath them appall. 
 
 6. And I myself annointed him 
 
 According to my will 
 That he should be my king upon 
 Zion my holy hill. 
 
 7. I will promulgate the decree, 
 
 Jehovah thus did say 
 To me, My Son thou art, I have 
 Begotten thee this day, 
 
 8. Ask of me, and for heritage 
 
 I'll nations give to thee, 
 And, for thine own possession, all 
 Ends of the earth to be, 
 
 9. Thou with a rod of iron wilt 
 
 Them utterly break down ; 
 
 And, as a potter's vessel, thou 
 
 Wilt shiver them each one. 
 
 10. Now then, ye kings, be wise, be warned, 
 
 Judges the earth throughout ; 
 
 11. Jehovah serve with reverence, 
 
 For joy, with trembling, shout. 
 
 12. The Son kiss, lest he be incensed 
 
 And in the way ye die : 
 For soon his wrath will burn. How blest 
 All who on him rely. 
 
 Psalm III. 
 
 How many are my foes, O, Lord ! 
 
 Those who against me rise abound ; 
 Many say of my soul, For him 
 
 In God no succor will be found. 
 Yet thou my shield and glory art, 
 
 O Lord, and who my head uprears. 
 
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 4. I with my voice pray to the Lord, 
 
 Who from his holy hill me hears. 
 
 5. As for me, I have lain me down 
 
 And slept, and I awaked again ; 
 For me Jehovah will uphold. 
 
 6. I'll not fear people, thousands ten, 
 
 Whom they have round against me set. 
 
 7. Oh ! thou Jehovah, now arise, 
 
 Deliver me my God. For thou 
 Hast smitten all mine enemies 
 
 On the cheek-bone ; broken have been 
 The teeth of wicked men by thee. 
 
 8. wSalvation to the Lord belongs. 
 
 Thy blessings on thy people be. 
 
 Psalm IV. 
 
 1. God of my righteousness, when I 
 
 Call, unto me give ear. 
 Me when in straits, thou hast relieved ; 
 • My prayer in mercy hear. 
 
 2. Men's sons, how long shall turned to shame 
 
 My glory be with you ? 
 How long will ye love vanity, 
 And falsehood still pursue ? 
 
 3. Then know ye this, that for Himself 
 
 The Lord the godly all 
 Hath set apart. The Lord will hear 
 When I upon him call. 
 
 4. Fear and sin not : talk with your heart 
 
 In bed, and silent be. 
 
 5. Offer the righteous offerings 
 
 And in the Lord trust ye. 
 
 6. Oh ! who can show us any good ? 
 
 Many are saying thus ; 
 But of thy countenance, O Lord, 
 The brightness shed on us. 
 
 7. Thou hast to me within my heart 
 
 Diffused more gladness far 
 Than theirs in seasons, when their corn 
 
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 And wine abundant are. 
 I will in peace at once lie down. 
 
 And I will fall asleep ; 
 For in my dwelling thou alone, 
 
 Lord, will me safely keep. 
 
 Psalm V. 
 
 1. Jehovah, hearken to my words, 
 
 My fervent thoughts survey ; 
 
 2. Hear my loud cry, my King, my God, 
 
 For I to thee will pray. 
 
 3. Lord thou shalt hear my voice at dawn, 
 
 I will in order set 
 My prayer to thee at dawn, and watch. 
 That I may answer get. 
 
 4. For thou art not a God who doth 
 
 In wickedness delight ; 
 The evil shall not dwell with thee, 
 
 5. Nor proud stand in thy sight. 
 Ill doers all thou hated hast, 
 
 6. And cut off liars vile ; 
 Jehovah will abhor the man 
 
 Of cruelty and guile. 
 
 7. But I, through thy great favor, will 
 
 Into thy house come near 
 Before thy holy oracle, 
 To worship in thy fear. 
 
 8. By reason of my foes, O Lord, 
 
 Conduct me by thy grace 
 In thine own righteousness ; thy way 
 Make plain before my face. 
 
 9. For in their mouth there is no truth, 
 
 Their inside is all wrong, 
 Their throat an open sepulchre 
 
 Yet they make smooth their tongue. 
 10. Oh ! God, condemn them, let them fall 
 
 From their schemes, them expel 
 In fullness of their sins, for they 
 
 Against thee still rebel. 
 
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 11. But those who trust in thee shall joy, 
 
 They always glad shall be ; 
 And thou wilt overshadow them : 
 They glory will in thee, 
 
 12. Who love thy name. For thou wilt bless 
 
 The righteous man, O Lord ; 
 With favour, as a shield, thou wilt 
 Defense to him afford. 
 
 Psalm VI. 
 
 1. Lord, in thine anger chide me not, 
 
 Nor chasten in thy wrath severe ; 
 
 2. Lord, pity me, for I am faint, 
 
 Heal me for my bones aching are ; 
 
 3. And greatly anguished is my soul. 
 
 How long delay, Lord, wilt thou make ? 
 
 4. Return, O Lord, my soul set free, 
 
 O ! save me for thy mercy's sake. 
 
 5. Because among the dead there will 
 
 Of thee no more remembrance be ; 
 And who, within the silent grave, 
 Can render thanksgiving to thee ? 
 
 6. I wearied with my groaning am. 
 
 Still mourning I shall cause my bed 
 Night after night to swim, my couch 
 To flow, with tears that I shall shed. 
 
 7. From grief my eye has failed, it has 
 
 Grown old, in midst of all my foes. 
 
 8. Turn from me, ye who evil do ; 
 
 For God the moans heard of my woes. 
 
 9. The Lord heard my request, the Lord 
 
 My prayer now receives from me. 
 10. Shamed shall my foes be, and dismayed, 
 Repulsed, shamed in a moment be. 
 
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 Psalm VII. 
 
 1. In thee, Jehovah, O my God, 
 
 I my whole trust repose ; 
 
 Be with me then to rescue me 
 
 From my vindictive foes, 
 
 2. And me defend, lest he my soul 
 
 Should, like a lion tear, 
 In pieces rending it, and no 
 Deliverer be near. 
 
 3. Oh, thou who art the Lord, my God, 
 
 If now I have done this, 
 If it were so that in my hands 
 Iniquity there is, 
 
 4. If I had rendered ill to him 
 
 Who did me kindness show, 
 Or spoiled the man, who without cause 
 Has been to me a foe, 
 
 5. The foe may chase and seize my soul, ■ 
 
 Trample my life he may 
 Into the the ground, and in the dust 
 Thus all my glory lay. 
 
 6. Rise, Lord, in wrath ; against the rage 
 
 Of foes who me beset, 
 Lift up thyself, awake for me, 
 The Judgement thou hast set. 
 
 7. And then a crowd of nations will 
 
 Around thee gather nigh ; 
 And over it do thou return 
 Unto thy place on high. 
 
 8. Jehovah will the nations judge, 
 
 My judge, Jehovah, be 
 According to my righteousness 
 And uprightness o'er me. 
 
 9. Oh ! let the wicked's malice cease. 
 
 But thou a righteous man 
 Establish wilt ; and righteous God 
 Thou hearts and reins doest scan.- 
 
 10. On God, who saveth the upright 
 
 In heart, my shield will stay. 
 
 11. God is a righteous judge, and God 
 
 Doth punish every day, 
 
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 12. If therefore he will not turn back 
 
 Then God his sword will whet, 
 He trodden hath upon his bow, 
 And hath it ready set. 
 
 13. Also the instruments of death 
 
 Against him He hath aimed ; 
 For persecution violent 
 
 His arrows He hath framed. 
 
 14. Behold ! he with iniquity 
 
 Will travail as for birth 
 He also mishief hath conceived 
 And falsehood hath brought forth. 
 
 15. He did for others dig a pit 
 
 And deepen it with care ; 
 And he has fallen down within 
 The pit he did prepare. 
 
 16. Upon his own head shall return 
 
 His mischief in the end, 
 And all his violence shall then 
 On his own crown descend. 
 
 17. According to His righteousness 
 
 Jehovah praise will I, 
 And singing psalms will sing Hi:-, name, 
 Jehovah, the Most High. 
 
 Psalm VIII. 
 
 1. Oh ! Lord, our Lord, how splendid is 
 
 Thy name in all the earth, 
 Where higher than the heavens high 
 Thy glory give thou forth. 
 
 2. From mouth of babes and sucklings thou 
 
 Hast praise established well, 
 
 Those adverse unto thee, the foe 
 
 And vengeful one, to quell. 
 
 3. When I unto the heavens look, 
 
 The work thy fingers framed ; 
 
 And I the moon and stars survey, 
 
 Which were by thee ordained ; 
 
 4. Then say I, What is man, that Thou 
 
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 Of him hast mindful been ? 
 And what is any son of man, 
 That thou wilt visit him ? 
 
 5. And thou a little lower than 
 
 Angels wilt let him down ; 
 But then thou wilt with glory great 
 And majesty him crown. 
 
 6. Thou wilt give him o'er thy hands' works- 
 
 The rule. Under his foot 
 
 7. All sheep and oxen, the wild beasts, 
 
 And the birds, thou hast put 
 
 8. With fish of seas, the passers through 
 
 Paths in the seas' domain. 
 
 9. Oh Lord, our Lord, how splendid is 
 
 In all the earth thv name. 
 
 Psaim IX. 
 
 1. Lord, I'll thee praise with all my heart, 
 
 Thy wonders all proclaim 
 
 2. With joy exult in thee, and praise 
 
 In psalms Most High ; thy name 
 
 3. My foes in turning back shall quail, 
 
 And perish from thy sight ; 
 
 4. For thou, the Judge of right, hast wrought 
 
 My judgement and my right ; 
 Upon the throne thou hast sat down, 
 
 5. Rebukes on nations cast 
 Sinners destroyed, and blotted out 
 
 Their name forever hast 
 
 6. Those foes forever are consumed 
 
 In ruins utterly. 
 And thou cities hast razed, with them 
 Perished their memory, 
 
 7. The Lord will ever reign ; his throne 
 
 For judgement fixed hath He ; 
 
 8. With justice he will judge the world, 
 
 Try nations uprightly. 
 
 9. Thus will the Lord be a resort 
 
 For those who suffer wrong • 
 
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 He in the times of sore distress 
 Will prove a refuge strong. 
 
 10. And those who know thy name for this 
 
 Will all in thee confide ; 
 For from none of them who thee seek 
 Wilt thou, Lord, turn aside. 
 
 11. O sing ye psalms unto the Lord, 
 
 Who doth in Sion dwell ; 
 Among the nations round do ye 
 His great achievements tell. 
 
 12. For He, avenger of blood shed, 
 
 Hath them remembered all ; 
 Of the afflicted he hath not 
 Forgot the earnest call. 
 
 13. O Lord, be merciful to me ; 
 
 See my affliction sore 
 From those that hate me, thou who dost 
 From death's gates me restore, 
 
 14. That I in Sion's daughters gates 
 
 May thy due praise declare, 
 And may in thy salvation great 
 With gladness triumph there. 
 
 15. Nations are sunk down in the pit, 
 
 Which they themselves had made ; 
 Their foot is taken in the net 
 Which they in secret laid. 
 
 16. Jehovah hath become well known, 
 
 Just judgement he hath wrought ; 
 And in the works of his own hand 
 The wicked hath been caught. 
 
 17. Ill doers down into the grave 
 
 Shall turn away at last, 
 And all the nations who have God 
 From their remembrance cast. 
 
 18. So then the poor forevermore 
 
 Shall not forgotten be, 
 Nor shall the hope of humble men 
 Perish eternally. 
 
 19. Rise, Lord, let not frail man be strong, 
 
 With judgement nations face, 
 20. That they may know they are but men, 
 A dread on nations place. 
 
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 Psalm X. 
 
 1. Why, Oh Jehovah, is it so 
 
 Thou standest off afar ? 
 Why wilt thou hide thyself at times, 
 When we in trouble are ? 
 
 2. The wicked in his, pride, against 
 
 The lowly are inflamed : 
 They shall be taken in the plots 
 
 Which they in thought have framed. 
 
 3. For of his soul the wicked man 
 
 Will the desire applaud ; 
 Himself he blesseth, making gain, 
 And he despiseth God. 
 
 4. According to the pride he feels, 
 
 The wicked man will not 
 Seek God ; that there is not a God 
 Is in his every thought. 
 
 5. His ways at all times are perverse. 
 
 Thy judgements are a height 
 
 Far off from him ; as for his foes 
 
 He will of them make light. 
 
 6. And he within his heart has said, 
 
 I never moved shall be ; 
 From age to age no evil thing 
 Shall happen unto me. 
 
 7. Cursing, deceit and violence 
 
 Within his mouth abound : 
 Both mischief and iniquity 
 
 Under his tongue are found. 
 S. In haunts of villages he'll sit, 
 
 In secret places kill 
 The innocent ; in covert for 
 
 The hapless hide he will, 
 9. He'll, like a lion in his den, 
 
 In ambush lurking watch ; 
 To catch the wretched he will lurk, 
 
 The wretched he will catch, 
 By luring him within his net. 
 10. And shrinking, he'll crouch down; 
 And many sufferers will fall 
 
 By his strong ones o'erthrown. 
 
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 11. Within his heart he thus hath -aid, 
 
 God hath forgetful been, 
 His countenance he hidden hath, 
 He hath not ever seen. 
 
 12. Oh ! thou, Jehovah, now arise, 
 
 Oh ! God the mighty, let 
 Thy hand be lifted up ; do not 
 Those suffering forget. 
 
 13. Why is it that the wicked man 
 
 Doth the true God despise ? 
 And that thou wilt not search it out, 
 He in his heart replies ? 
 
 14. Thou hast seen ; for thou wrongs and spite 
 
 Behold dost to repay. 
 The poor will leave himself with thee : 
 Thou art the orphans' stay. 
 
 15. The arm break of the impious, 
 
 And the perverse in mind, 
 
 Thou wilt search out his wickedness 
 
 Till there is none to find. 
 
 16. The Lord's forever king; Destroyed 
 
 From his land nations are. 
 
 17. The poor's desire, Lord, thou hast heard, 
 
 Their heart thou wilt prepare : 
 And wilt to them incline thine ear, 
 
 18. To judge the fatherle-> 
 
 And wronged, that frail man of the earth 
 No longer may oppress. 
 
 Paslm XI. 
 
 1. I in Jehovah put my trust ; 
 
 Why is it then that ye will say 
 Unto my soul : Flee as a bird 
 Off to your mountain far away, 
 
 2. For lo ! bad men will bend the bow, 
 
 Their arrows on the string they put 
 That they, at man upright in heart 
 
 May from the midst of darkness shoot. 
 
 3. When the foundations are destroyed, 
 
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 What can by righteous men be done ? 
 
 4. The Lord is in his temple pure, 
 
 The Lord, in heaven is his throne, 
 His eyes inspect, His eyelids try 
 
 5. Men's sons. The just the Lord will prove ; 
 But his soul hates the wicked man, 
 
 And him that violence doth love. 
 
 6. Snares, fire and brimstone he will cause 
 
 Down upon wicked men to rain ; 
 And as a portion of their cup, 
 Blasts of a scorching hurricane, 
 
 7. Because Jehovah righteous is, 
 
 He doth in righteousness delight ; 
 His countenance behold shall they, 
 Who are with all their heart upright. 
 
 Psaim XII. 
 
 1. Oh ! thou, Jehovah, succour give, 
 
 For now the godly cease ; 
 And from among the son's of men 
 The faithful ones decrease, 
 
 2. They will in foolish falsehood speak, 
 
 Man to his neighbor each ; 
 The flattering lips and double heart 
 They show forth in their speech. 
 
 3. The Lord cuts off all Mattering lips, 
 
 Tongues proudly speaking thus, 
 
 4. We'll with our tongues prevail, our lips 
 Are ours ; who's lord o'er us ? 
 
 5. For hardships of the poor, and sighs 
 
 Of needy, I'll arise, 
 Jehovah saith, in safety him 
 To place, who for it sighs. 
 
 6. Jehovah's sayings, sayings are 
 
 All pure, like silver tried 
 
 Within a furnace for the dross, 
 
 And seven times purified. 
 
 7. Thou wilt, Jehovah, them preserve ; 
 
 From this age ever guard. 
 
 8. The wicked walk round, when vile men 
 
 To honor are preferred. 
 
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 Psalm XIII. 
 
 1. How long will thou forget me, Lord ? 
 
 Throughout eternity ? 
 Oh ! how long shall it be that thou 
 Wilt hide thy face from me ? 
 
 2. How long shall I in thought lay plans, 
 
 Grieved in my heart each day ? 
 How long shall be mine enemy 
 Above me in his sway ? 
 
 3. Upon me look, O Lord, my God, 
 
 And answer thou my cries ; 
 And, lest I sleep the sleep of death, 
 Shed thy light on mine eyes. 
 
 4. Lest then my enemy should say, 
 
 Him I have overcome, 
 And adversaries should exult 
 When I would be undone. 
 
 5. I trust in thy grace, my heart joys 
 
 In thy salvation free. 
 
 6. I'll to the Lord sing, for He hath 
 
 Been bountiful to me, 
 
 Psalm XIV. 
 
 1. In heart the fool saith, There's no God. 
 
 They are corrupt, have corruptly done each one 
 Have done abominable deeds ; 
 To do good there is none. 
 
 2. The Lord upon the sons of men 
 
 From heaven looked abroad, 
 To see if any one there was 
 Instructed, seeking God. 
 
 3. They all degenerate are, they have 
 
 Together vile become ; 
 And there is none that doeth good, 
 There is not even one. 
 
 4. Have they been ignorant, all these 
 
 Who wickedness have wrought, 
 Eating my people as their bread, 
 
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 And on the Lord call not ? 
 There feared they much, for God is with 
 
 The generation just, 
 Ye'll shame the counsel of the poor 
 
 For the Lord is his trust. 
 Let Israel's help from Sion come ! 
 
 When back the Lord shall bring 
 His captives, Jacob will exult, 
 
 And Israel will sing. 
 
 Psalm XV. 
 
 1. Who, Lord, may in the tent sojourn ? 
 
 Dwell in thy holy hill ? 
 
 2. He blameless walks, does right, and truth 
 
 In his heart speak he will. 
 
 3. He hath not slandered with his tongue, 
 
 Nor done his fellow hurt ; 
 Nor hath against his neighbor raised 
 A scandalous report. 
 
 4. Vile men are in his sight despised ; 
 
 But those, the Lord who fear, 
 He honor will. He will not change 
 If to his harm he swear. 
 
 5. With usury lent not his coin, 
 
 Nor taken bribes hath he 
 Against the guiltless. Doing thus, 
 He never moved shall be, 
 
 Psalm XVI. 
 
 1. God help me, for in thee I trust. 
 
 2. Thou to the Lord hast said, 
 
 My soul, Thou art the Lord, my God, 
 There is none thee beside, 
 
 3. To saints on earth and the choice ones, 
 
 All my delight who are. 
 
 4. Their sorrows shall abound, who to 
 
 Another do repair. 
 
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 Their offerings of blood shall be 
 
 No offerings of mine, 
 And I their names upon my lips 
 
 To take up will decline. 
 
 5. The Lord's my portion and my cup, 
 
 Thou wilt my lot uphold. 
 
 6. For me the lines in places fell 
 
 All pleasant to behold ; 
 Yea, brilliant is my heritage. 
 
 7. Jehovah I'll extol 
 
 Who counselled me : the very nights 
 Have taught me in my soul. 
 
 8. Jehovah I continually 
 
 Have set before mine eyes ; 
 Moved I shall never be, because 
 At my right hand He is. 
 
 9. Therefore my heart has gladdened been, 
 
 My glory too in me 
 Exulted has ; yea, my flesh shall 
 Rest in security. 
 
 10. Because I know, that for the grave 
 
 My soul thou wilt not leave ; 
 •Neither thy Holy One to see 
 Corruption wilt thou give. 
 
 11. Thou wilt show me the way of life, 
 
 Fullness of joy before 
 Thy face there is, at thy right hand 
 Are pleasures evermore. 
 
 Psalm XVII. 
 
 1. Jehovah, hearken to the right, 
 
 Unto my cry attend ; 
 Give thou an ear unto my prayer 
 Flowing from lips unfeigned. 
 
 2. My judgment shall from thee come forth, 
 
 Thine eyes uprightness see. 
 
 3. Thou hast my heart proved, me at night 
 
 Hast visited, tried me ; 
 And thou wilt nothing find ; my mouth 
 
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 Shall not my thoughts exceed. 
 
 4. As for men's works, I by thy word 
 
 Assailant's ways will heed. 
 
 5. My steps have to thy paths adhered, 
 
 My feet slid not aside. 
 
 6. As thou, O God, wilt answer me, 
 
 I unto thee have cried. 
 Incline thine ear, my pleadings hear, 
 
 7. Thy mercies signalize. 
 
 Thou whose right hand the faithful guard 
 From those who gainst them rise. 
 
 8. Me guard as pupil of the eye, 
 
 Under thy wings me hide, 
 
 9. From rude oppressors, my soul's foes 
 
 Round me on every side. 
 
 10. Covered with fat, they spoken have 
 
 11. In pride. They us surround 
 
 In our footsteps. Their eyes they set 
 Crouching low on the ground. 
 
 12. Thus they are, like a lion fierce, 
 
 Craving to tear the prey, 
 And like a lion young that lies 
 In covert by the way. 
 
 13. Arise thou, come before his face, 
 
 And cast him down, O Lord. 
 My soul from those that wicked are 
 Deliver by thy sword ; 
 
 14. From those men by thy hand, O Lord, 
 
 From worldly men me save. 
 They in the present life obtain 
 
 The portion which they crave. 
 And thou their belly from thy stores 
 
 Wilt fill. Their sons receive 
 Enough, and then the residue 
 
 They to their babes will leave. 
 
 15. As for myself, through righteousness 
 
 Thy face I yet shall see ; 
 Awaking in thy likeness, I 
 Well satisfied shall be. 
 
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 Psalm XVIII. 
 
 1. I will thee love, O Lord, my strength. 
 
 2. The Lord's the rock I have 
 Of refuge sure, my citadel, 
 
 And He who doth me save ; 
 God's my stronghold ; in him I'll trust ; 
 
 A shield He is to me, 
 The horn of my salvation strong, 
 
 And my high tower is He. 
 
 3. I will upon Jehovah call, 
 
 To whom all praise is due ; 
 And I shall yet be saved from all 
 The foes who me pursue. 
 
 4. Death's bands did me enclose, and floods 
 
 Of ruin me appall. 
 
 5. Bands of the grave environed me, 
 
 Death's snares did on me fall. 
 
 6. I'll in distress invoke the Lord, 
 
 My God will I beseech ; 
 He'll from his palace hear my voice, 
 My cry his ears will reach. 
 
 7. Earth shook and quaked, and mountains high, 
 
 To their foundations firm, 
 Did tremble ; and they shaken were. 
 Because His wrath did burn. 
 
 8. Smoke from His nostrils rose, and fire 
 
 From His mouth would devour ; 
 Coals from it glowed. The heavens then 
 
 9. He in his might did lower: 
 
 ■And He came down. Under his feet 
 Were clouds of darkest hue. 
 
 10. He on a cherub rode and sped, 
 
 On wings of wind he flew. 
 
 11. Darkness He, as a curtain, set 
 
 Around Him ; as a tent, 
 Darkness of waters, and dense clouds 
 Of the whole firmament. 
 
 12. From the effulgence bright, that shone 
 
 Forth from his presence there, 
 His stormy clouds outspreading past, 
 Hailstones and coals of fire. 
 
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 13- Jehovah through the heavens deep 
 Then thundered in his ire, 
 And the Most High uttered his voice — 
 Hailstone and coals of fire. 
 
 14. And he his arrows swiftly sent, 
 
 And drove them to and fro ; 
 His fiery lightnings he shot out, 
 And did them prostrate throw, 
 
 15. The water channels deep were seen, 
 
 The earth's foundations vast 
 Were, Lord, laid bare at thy rebuke, 
 At thy breath's wrathful blast. 
 
 16. He reacheth from on high, me grasps, 
 
 From waters deep draws me ; 
 17.* From my strong foes, haters too strong 
 For me, he sets me free. 
 
 18. They ready were on me to rush, 
 
 In a disastrous day, 
 But still Jehovah ever hath 
 To me been for a stay. 
 
 19. And me into a spacious place 
 
 To go forth he will make ; 
 
 And will deliver me, since he 
 
 Delight in me doth take. 
 
 20. According to my righteousness, 
 
 Deal with me will the Lord ; 
 After the cleanness of my hands 
 So he will me reward. 
 
 21. For I Jehovah's ways have kept, 
 
 Nor did apostatize 
 
 22. From my God. But his judgments all 
 
 I have before mine eyes. 
 His statutes I do not discard, 
 
 23. And with him honest I 
 
 Have been ; and I have kept myself 
 From my iniquity. 
 
 24. And me after my rectitude 
 
 Jehovah did requite 
 According to the purity 
 Of my hands in his sight. 
 
 25. Kind thou wilt show thee to the kind, 
 
 Upright to the upright, 
 
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 26. Pure to the pure, and with perverse 
 
 Wilt wrestle in thy might. 
 
 27. For thou wilt needy people aid, 
 
 And lofty eyes bring low. 
 
 28. Lord thou wilt light my lamp ; God will 
 
 My darkness lighten so. 
 
 29. Because, by thee assisting me 
 
 I through a troop shall run 
 And by my God leap o'er a wall. 
 
 30. As to the Mighty one, 
 
 Each way of His most perfect is ; 
 
 Jehovah's word is tried. 
 He is a buckler to all those 
 
 Who do in him confide. 
 
 31. Who, save the Lord, is God? and who 
 
 A rock, our God besides ? 
 
 32. For me with strength the Mighty girds, 
 
 He my plain way provides. 
 
 33. Like hinds feet he makes mine, and me 
 
 On places high to stand. 
 
 34. My hands he trains for war, my arms 
 
 A bow of brass can bend. 
 
 35. And thy salvation, as a shield, 
 
 Unto me thou dost give, 
 And thy right hand will me sustain, 
 Thy kindness make me thrive. 
 
 36. Thou for my movement room wilt make r 
 
 And my feet will not slide. 
 
 37. My foes I'll chase and overtake, 
 
 Nor turn till they're distroyed. 
 
 38. I'll smite them, that they cannot rise ; 
 
 Under my feet they fall. 
 
 39. Thou wilt with strength for war me gird,. 
 
 And my foes prostrate all. 
 
 40. Thou gavest me their neck and I 
 
 Cut off those hating me. 
 
 41. They cry, but none can help against 
 
 The Lord, nor hear will he. 
 
 42. And them, as dust before the wind,, 
 
 I will in pieces beat ; 
 And I will empty them without, 
 As dirt along the street. 
 
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 43. Thou wilt me free from people's strife, 
 
 Me head of nations set ; 
 
 A people will obey me, whom, 
 
 I have not known, as yet. 
 
 44. Hearing, they'll serve me, strangers will 
 
 Deny themselves for me. 
 
 45. Aliens shall quail, and terrified 
 
 From their enclosures be. 
 
 46. Jehovah lives ; praised be my rock, 
 
 And high my Saviour, God, 
 
 47. The Mighty, hath avenged for me, 
 
 Nations to me subdued. 
 
 48. He freed me from my enemies, 
 
 Yea, thou wilt me advance 
 O'er my opposers, and me save 
 From men of violence. 
 
 49. Therefore, among the nations I'll, 
 
 Jehovah, thee confess, 
 [And praises to thy name I will 
 In singing psalms express. 
 
 50. Salvations of his king make great, 
 
 And kindness show will He 
 To his Messiah, David, and 
 His seed eternally. 
 
 Psalm XIX. 
 
 1. The heavens God's glory do declare 
 
 And firmament his hands work show ; 
 
 2. It day by day will pour forth speech, 
 
 And nightly show what men may know. 
 
 3. There is no speech, there are no words, 
 
 Yet without these their voice is heard. 
 
 4. Their line goes forth through all the world 
 
 And far to the world's end their word. 
 
 5. There he a tent made for the sun, 
 
 That, as a bridegroom forth doth come 
 Out of his chamber, and rejoice, 
 As a strong man his race to run. 
 
 6. From heaven's end his egress is, 
 
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 And to their end his circuit wide ; 
 And there is nothing anywhere, 
 That from his searching heat can hide. 
 
 7. Jehovah's law all perfect is, 
 
 And it the drooping soul revives. 
 His testimony is most sure, 
 
 And to the simple wisdom gives. 
 
 8. The statutes of the Lord are just, 
 
 And gladdening are to the heart. 
 The Lord's commandment holy is, 
 And to the eyes doth light impart. 
 
 9. The fear of God is undefiled, 
 
 And stable will forever stay. 
 The judgments of the Lord are truth, 
 And altogether just are they. 
 
 10. Than gold, abundance of fine gold, 
 
 More worthy of desire they are ; 
 And they, than honey and the drops 
 Fresh from the comb, are sweeter far. 
 
 11. Thy servant too is taught by them, 
 
 There is in keeping them much gain. 
 
 12. Who can his errors comprehend ? 
 
 Of secret sins cleanse from the stain, 
 
 13. And from presumptious ones with hold 
 
 Thy servant : let them not rule me, 
 I thereupon would be upright, 
 
 And clear of much transgression be. 
 
 14. Oh may the sayings of my mouth, 
 
 And meditations of my heart 
 Before thee find acceptance, Lord, 
 Who my rock and redeemer art. 
 
 Psalm XX. 
 
 Oh! may Jehovah answer give 
 To thee in troublous days, 
 
 And may the name of Jacob's God 
 To a safe place thee raise. 
 
 May He out of his sanctuary 
 Assistance to thee send, 
 
And from his Sion mount let him 
 
 Support to thee extend. 
 May he remember all thy gifts, 
 
 Thine offerings accept. 
 Give thee according to thy heart, 
 
 Thy counsels all effect. 
 In thy salvation we rejoice 
 
 In our God's name we will 
 Display a banner, and the Lord 
 
 Thy prayers all fulfill. 
 I know God his anointed one 
 
 Hath saved, whom he will hear 
 From heaven pure, with the strong aid 
 
 Of his own right hand near. 
 Some for success will chariots, 
 
 And others horses laud; 
 But we will glory in the name 
 
 Of Jehovah our God. 
 They have crouched down and stumbled low; 
 
 We rose and stood erect. 
 Lord, save, the King us hears, when we 
 
 Our calls to Him direct. 
 
 Psalm XXI. 
 
 Oh Lord, in thy omnipotence 
 * The king shall joyful be, 
 In thy salvation now exult 
 
 Exceedingly will he. 
 All the desire within his heart 
 
 Given to him thou hast; 
 And thou hast not to him denied 
 
 Of his lips the request. 
 With blessings rich of goodness thou 
 
 Wilt come before his face; 
 And thou upon his head a crown 
 
 Of purest gold wilt place. 
 To him thou given hast the life 
 
 Which he did ask of thee, 
 A length of days perpetual, 
 
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 Yea, an eternity. 
 
 5. Through thy salvation wrought for him 
 
 His glory great is made; 
 
 Honor and splendid majesty 
 
 Thou hast upon him laid. 
 
 6. For thou wilt to eternity 
 
 Him for a blessing set, 
 And from thy countenance bright joys 
 Unlooked for he will get. 
 
 7. For on Jehovah doth the king 
 
 With confidence rely, 
 And he shall not be shaken, through 
 The grace of the Most High. 
 
 8. Thy hand shall yet find out all those 
 
 Thine enemies who are, 
 And them thy right hand shall detect 
 
 Who hatred to thee bear. 
 9. And set them as a furnace fired, 
 
 In presence of thy power. 
 The Lord in wrath will them consume, 
 
 And fire will them devour. 
 
 10. Their fruit thou from the earth wilt make 
 
 To perish utterly, 
 And from among the sons of man 
 All their posterity. 
 
 11. For they streched out evil at thee, 
 
 And they devised a plot ; 
 But they shall not prevail, for thou 
 
 12. Wilt put them all to rout. 
 
 Thy shafts thou wilt, against their face 
 • Make ready on the string. 
 
 13. Lord, in thy strength be high ; we'll sing 
 
 And of thy might psalms sing. 
 
 Psalm XXII. 
 
 My God, my God, Oh! why hast thou 
 
 Forsaken me ? Oh! why 
 So far from my deliverance, 
 
 The words of my sad cry ? 
 
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 2. My God, I daily call, and still 
 
 No answer comes from thee ; 
 Also at night, and yet there is 
 No quietude for me. 
 
 3. But thou art holy, thou who dost 
 
 In Israel's praise reside. 
 
 4. Our fathers did on thee rely, 
 
 Yea, they on thee relied, 
 
 5. Who didst them save. To thee they cried, 
 
 And rescue to them came ; 
 They did in thee their trust repose, 
 And were not put to shame. 
 
 6. But as for me, like to a worm 
 
 I am, and not a man ; 
 Reproach of men, and the despised 
 Of people all I am. 
 
 7. All seeing me will me deride, 
 
 Thrust out the lips will they, 
 And they at me will shake the head, 
 As they in scorn thus say, 
 
 8. He in Jehovah puts his trust, 
 
 He will deliver him, 
 He will him save, seeing that he 
 With him well pleased hath been. 
 
 9. Though thou alone art He who didst, 
 
 Out of the womb me take, 
 
 And me to trust upon the breast 
 
 Didst of my mother make. 
 
 10. On thee I from. the womb was cast, 
 
 From birth my God art thou. 
 
 11. Be not far off, for grief is near ; 
 
 For none will help me now. 
 
 12. Bulls many me beset, strong bulls 
 
 Of Bashan round me crowd. 
 
 13. Their mouth they open, lion-like, 
 
 Tearing and roaring loud. 
 
 14. As water I'm poured out, and all 
 
 My bones are drawn apart ; 
 And melted now, like wax, within 
 My breast is my sad heart. 
 
 15. My strength is like a potsherd dried, 
 
 My tongue is made to cling 
 
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 Fast to my jaws ; down to the dust 
 Of death thou wilt me bring. 
 
 16. For me the dogs surrounded have, 
 
 111 doers who did meet 
 In crowds, encompassed me about, 
 Piercing my hands and feet. 
 
 17. I all my bones can count, while they 
 
 Gaze having me in view. 
 
 18. My clothes among them they divide, 
 
 For my robe lots they drew. 
 
 19. Be not far off, O Lord, my strength. 
 
 To my aid quickly come. 
 
 20. Save from the sword my life, from power 
 
 Of dogs my lonely one. 
 
 21. Me rescue from the lion's mouth, 
 
 That's ready me to tear, 
 And from the horns of unicorns, 
 Thou answered hast my prayer. 
 
 22. Unto those who my bretheren are, 
 
 I will reveal thy name, 
 In midst of the assembly I 
 Thy praises will proclaim. 
 
 23. All ye who fear the Lord, him praise, 
 
 Do ye him glorify 
 All Jacob's seed, and fear him all 
 Israel's posterity. 
 
 24. For he the sorrows of the sad 
 
 Despised not nor abhored ; 
 Nor hid his face from him, and when 
 He cried to him, he heard. 
 
 25. Within the congregation great 
 
 My praise shall be from thee, 
 Before his fearers I will pay 
 The vows that are on me. 
 
 26. The meek shall eat, and have enough ; 
 
 Then they shall praises give 
 Unto the Lord, who do him seek ; 
 May your heart ever live ! 
 
 27. All the earth's ends remember shall, 
 
 And turn back to the lord : 
 By kindreds of the nations all 
 Thou wilt then be adored. 
 
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 28. Because unto Jehovah doth 
 
 The kingdom all belong, 
 And He the rightful Governor 
 The nations is among. 
 
 29. Earth's fat ones eat and worship will. 
 
 Descending to the grave, 
 They all must bend to Him : and none 
 His life from death can save. 
 
 30. Yet a posterity shall be 
 
 Servants to do his will ; 
 And to the Lord in every age 
 It shall be numbered still. 
 
 31. They will come, and His righteousness 
 
 They will confess each one 
 Unto a people to be born, 
 
 That He the work hath done. 
 
 Psalm XXIII. 
 
 1. The Lord's my shepherd, I'll not want, 
 
 He'll make me down to lie 
 
 2. In pastures green ; He will me lead 
 
 The quiet waters by. 
 
 3. My needy soul he will relieve ; 
 
 And me to walk will make 
 Within the paths of righteousness 
 All for his own name's sake. 
 
 4. So when I'll walk in deaths dark vale> 
 
 There I will fear no ill ; 
 For with me thou wilt be, thy rod 
 And staff me comfort will. 
 
 5. Thou wilt for me a table spread 
 
 In presence of my foes ; 
 My head thou didst with oil anoint, 
 And my cup overflows. 
 
 6. Goodness and mercy only shall 
 
 All my life follow me, 
 And in Jehovah's house I shall 
 Dwell through eternity. 
 
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 Psalm XXIV. 
 
 The earth belongs unto the Lord, 
 
 Its fullness unto him, 
 And all the habitable world 
 
 With them who dwell therein. 
 For He the earth higher than seas 
 
 Hath on foundations laid, 
 And higher than the water floods 
 
 He hath it stable made. 
 Who is the man who shall into 
 
 Jehovah's mount ascend ? 
 And in his place of holiness, 
 
 Who will before Him stand ? 
 The man whose hands and heart are clean, 
 
 And unto vanity 
 Who hath not lifted up his soul, 
 
 Nor hath sworn to a lie. 
 A benediction from the Lord 
 
 Carry away shall he, 
 And a full righteousness from God, 
 
 Who will his Saviour be. 
 Of those who after Him inquire 
 
 This is the godly race, 
 The Jacob true, who always are 
 
 The seekers of thy face. 
 Ye gates, lift up your heads on high, 
 
 Ye doors perpetual, 
 Be lifted up, and then the King 
 
 Of glory enter shall. 
 The king of glory ! who is he ? 
 
 Jehovah strong is this, 
 The Mighty one, Jehovah, who 
 
 Mighty in battle is. 
 Ye gates lift up your heads on high, 
 
 Ye doors perpetual, 
 Be lifted up, and then the King 
 
 Of glory enter shall. 
 But who is he that is the king 
 
 Of glory ? Who is this ? 
 Jehovah, He, the God of hosts, 
 
 The King of glory is. 
 
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 Paslm XXV. 
 
 1. Lord I to thee will lift my soul. 
 
 2. My God, I trust in thee ; 
 Let me not be ashamed, let not 
 
 My foes triumph o'er me. 
 
 3. Likewise let none be put to shame 
 
 Of those who for thee wait ; 
 But they shall be ashamed, who are 
 Spoilers from causeless hate. 
 
 4. Thy ways, O Lord, to me make known : 
 
 Teach me thy paths each one. 
 
 5. In thy truth make me walk, teach me, 
 
 For thou art God alone 
 
 Of my salvation ; I for thee 
 
 Have waited all the day. 
 
 6. Thy mercies, Lord, and favours mind, 
 
 For from of old are they. 
 
 7. Let not my sins and faults of youth, 
 
 In thy remembrance be ; 
 In thy grace, for thy mercies sake, 
 Oh Lord, remember me. 
 
 8. God good and upright is ; the way 
 
 He will to sinners show, 
 9. And cause the meek to walk aright, 
 The meek his way to know. 
 
 10. All the paths of Jehovah are 
 
 Mercy and truth most pure, 
 To those who keep his covenant 
 And testimonies sure. 
 
 11. Now for the glory of thy name 
 
 Oh, Lord thou wilt do this ; 
 And pardon mine iniquity, 
 Since very great it is. 
 
 12. Who fears the Lord ? He will teach him 
 
 The way that he should choose. 
 
 13. His soul shall lodge in good ; his seed 
 
 As heirs the land shall use. 
 
 14. Jehovah's fellowship's with them, 
 
 Who in His fear do live, 
 And of His covenant He will 
 To them his knowledge give. 
 
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 15. Mine eyes towards Jehovah have 
 
 Continually been set, 
 For He it is who will bring forth 
 My feet out of the net. 
 
 1 6. Oh ! turn thou toward me thy face 
 
 And to me pity show, 
 
 Because in loneliness I am 
 
 And in affliction low ; 
 
 17. My heart's distresses are enlarged 
 
 From troubles me relieve. 
 
 18. See my affliction and my grief 
 
 And all my sins forgive. 
 
 19. Look thou upon mine enemies, 
 
 For numerous they are ; 
 And violent the hatred is 
 
 Which they against me bear. 
 
 20. Therefore do thou defend my soul, 
 
 And, Oh ! deliver me : 
 Let me not be ashamed, for I 
 To thee for refuge flee. 
 
 21. Justice and right will me preserve 
 
 For on thee wait I still. 
 
 22. Oh, God, out of his troubles all 
 
 Redeem thou Israel. 
 
 Psalm XXVI. 
 
 1. Judge me, O Lord, for I have walked 
 
 In my integrity ; 
 And in the Lord I trusted have, 
 I'll not unstable be. 
 
 2. Examine me, Lord, and me prove, 
 
 My reins and my heart try ; 
 
 3. For thy love is before my eyes, 
 
 In thy truth walked have I. 
 
 4. With liars I sat not, nor will 
 
 Go in with hidden men. 
 
 5. I bad men's company have loathed, 
 
 I will not sit with them. 
 
 6. I'll wash my hands in innocence, 
 
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 And round thy altar go, 
 
 7. Oh Lord to raise the voice of praise 
 
 Aud all thy wonders show. 
 
 8. The habitation of thy house, 
 
 Lord, I have loved it well, 
 And all that place of sanctity 
 Where doth thy glory dwell. 
 
 9. With sinners gather not my soul, 
 
 Nor life with men blood-stained, 
 
 10. In whose hand there is crime, and filled 
 
 With bribes is there right hand. 
 
 11. I will in my uprightness walk ; 
 
 Redeem me in thy grace. 
 
 12. My foot stands firm, I will the Lord 
 
 In the assemblies bless. 
 
 Psalm XXVII. 
 
 1. The Lord my light and safety is ; 
 
 Who can make me dismayed ? 
 The Lord's the stronghold of my life ; 
 Of whom am I afraid ? 
 
 2. When bad men near against me drew, 
 
 My foes, and en'mies all, 
 To eat my flesh, it was that they 
 Should stumble then and fall. 
 
 3. Against me though an host encamp, 
 
 My heart shall feel no fear ; 
 Should war against me rise, I will 
 Feel safe mid dangers near. 
 
 4. One thing I from the Lord have asked, 
 
 This still I long to gain, 
 That I through all days of my life 
 
 May in God's house remain ; 
 The beauty of Jehovah there 
 
 In seeing to admire, 
 And in his holy temple still 
 
 Devoutly to inquire. 
 
 5. For He in his pavilion will 
 
 Me hide in evil days ; 
 
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 In shelter of his tent me hide ; 
 High on a rock me raise. 
 
 6. And now my head is high above 
 
 My foes all round about ; 
 And at his tent I'll sacrifice 
 
 Offer with shouts devout ; 
 I'll sing, yea, to the Lord sing psalms, 
 
 7. Lord, hear, I will to thee 
 
 Call with my voice ; Oh ! mercy have 
 On me and answer me. 
 
 8. As thou hast said, seek ye my face ; 
 
 So my heart in reply, 
 Will say to thee, Thy gracious face, 
 Jehovah, seek will I. 
 
 9. From me, Oh ! hide not thou thy face 
 
 From thee turn not aside 
 Thy servant in thy wrath ; thou didst 
 
 Succor for me provide ; 
 Oh ! God of my salvation, me 
 
 Reject not, nor me leave. 
 
 10. Though father, mother, me forsake 
 
 The Lord will me receive. 
 
 11. Oh ! Lord, direct me in thy way, 
 
 And in a path that's straight, 
 Do thou me forward lead, from those 
 Who for me lie in wait. 
 
 12. To my foes' will, resign me not ; 
 
 For risen againt me 
 Have perjured witnesses, and such 
 As breathe out cruelty. 
 
 13. Alas ! unless I had believed 
 
 With clear insight to see, 
 Within the land of those alive, 
 The Lord's benignity. 
 
 14. Wait on the Lord with courage good, 
 
 Let not thy strength abate ; 
 So He encourage will thy heart, 
 And on Jehovah wait. 
 
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 Psalm XXVIII. 
 
 1. Oh ! Lord, to thee I call, my Rock 
 
 Oh ! let thy silence end ; 
 Lest, silent thou, I be like those, 
 Who to the grave descend. 
 
 2. The voice of my entreaty hear 
 
 When unto thee I cry, 
 When to thy holy oracle 
 I lift my hands on high. 
 
 3. Draw me not off with evil men, 
 
 Workers of wickedness, 
 Who do, with mischief in their hearts, 
 Speak to their neighbours peace. 
 
 4. Give them according to their works, 
 
 And all the wrongs they do ; 
 Give them for what their hands have done, 
 The recompense that's due. 
 
 5. Because God's acts, and his hand's works 
 
 Not heeded are by them. 
 He will them utterly break down, 
 And not build up again. 
 
 6. Blest be the Lord, who heard my prayer. 
 
 7. My strength and shield has been ; 
 Trusting in him, I aid received, 
 
 My heart exults in Him, 
 And with my song I will him praise. 
 
 8. The Lord's their strength alone ; 
 And stronghold of salvation is 
 
 To his anointed one. 
 
 9. Oh ! thine own people do thou save, 
 
 Bless thine inheritance ; 
 Them also do thou feed, and them 
 Forevermore advance. 
 
 Psalm XXIX. 
 
 Unto Jehovah, come, give ye, 
 Sons of the Mighty One, 
 
 The glory and the power ascribe 
 Unto the Lord alone. 
 
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 2. The glory of his name give ye 
 
 Unto Jehovah now, 
 
 In comeliness of holiness 
 
 Before Jehovah bow. 
 
 3. The lords voice on the waters is, 
 
 The God of glory cast 
 The thunders forth, Jehovah is 
 Above the waters vast. 
 
 4. The Lord's voice is with power ; his voice 
 
 With awful majesty. 
 
 5. The Lord's voice breaks down cedar trees, 
 
 The Lord broke cedar high 
 'O. On Lebanon, and made them leap 
 Like calves ; both Lebanon 
 Itself and lofty Sirion 
 Like a young unicorn. 
 7. The Lord's voice hews off flames of fire. 
 S. The wilderness it shakes. 
 The Kadish wilderness afar 
 To shake Jehovah makes. 
 9. Jehovah's voice makes hinds bring forth, 
 It strips the forests bare ; 
 And in his palace, all his own 
 Are saying, Glory ! there. 
 10. The Lord reigned at the Flood, and sits 
 
 King to eternity. 
 11. The Lord will give his people strength, 
 Them bless with peace will He. 
 
 Psalm XXX. 
 
 1. Lord, I will thee exalt, for I 
 
 Have been raised up by thee ; 
 And thou hast not allowed my foes, 
 To triumph over me. 
 
 2. O Lord, my god, to thee I cried, 
 
 To me thou health didst give. 
 
 3. Thou from the grave hast raised my soul, 
 
 O Lord, and made me live 
 Mid those descending to the pit. 
 
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 4- Psalms to the Lord sing ye, 
 
 His saints, Him thank, His holiness 
 Having in memory. 
 
 5. For his wrath for a moment lasts, 
 
 Life in his favour lies. 
 Sorrow at eve may lod^e, where joy 
 Will in the morning rise. 
 
 6. I at my ease had said, that me 
 
 Nothing shall ever move. 
 
 7. Thou to my mountain, Lord, hadst strength 
 
 Imparted from above ; 
 Thou didst thy face hide, then I was 
 Thrown into troubles sore. 
 
 8. I would, O Lord, unto thee call, 
 
 And thus the Lord implore. 
 
 9. What gain is in my blood, when I 
 
 Down to corruption go ? 
 Will then the dust give praise to thee ? 
 Or thy truth will it show ? 
 
 10. Hear, Lord, me pity, help me, Lord. 
 
 11. Thou my lament hast turned 
 Into a dance ; my sackcloth loosed 
 
 And me with joy adorned. 
 
 12. Therefore my glory shall to thee 
 
 Sing psalms, not silent be : 
 
 O Lord, my God, forever more 
 
 I will give thanks to thee. 
 
 Psalm XXXI. 
 
 1. I trusted have in thee, Oh Lord ; 
 
 Shamed let me never be ; 
 According to thy righteiousness 
 O, do thou rescue me. 
 
 2. Incline to me thine car ; send me 
 
 Speedy deliverance ; 
 To save me, be my rock of strength, 
 And my house of defence. 
 
 3. For thou art as a rock and fort, 
 
 In whom I refuge take ; 
 
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 And thou wilt guide, and wilt conduct 
 Me for thine own name's sake. 
 
 4. Thou wilt direct me from the net 
 
 Which they for me do hide, 
 Because thou ever art to me, 
 As a place fortified. 
 
 5. Into thine hand I will commit 
 
 My spirit : thou art he, 
 Oh ! thou, Jehovah, God of truth, 
 Who hast redeemed me. 
 
 6. I've hated those who vanities 
 
 Of falsehood do regard ; 
 But as for me, my confidence 
 I have placed in the Lord. 
 
 7. I in thy mercy triumph will 
 
 And joy, as thou hast seen 
 My griefs ; the anguish of my soul 
 To thee well known has been ; 
 
 8. And thou hast not enclosed me in 
 
 My adversaries hand ; 
 But in a spacious place thou hast 
 Made my feet firmly stand. 
 
 9. Have mercy upon me, O Lord, 
 
 For troubles on me press ; 
 Mine eyes, my soul, and bowels now 
 Languish through my distress, 
 
 10. Because my life with grief, my years 
 
 With sighing, waste away ; 
 My strength is broken by my guilt, 
 And all my bones decay. 
 
 11. Because of all my foes, I was, 
 
 Yea, to my neighbours near, 
 A great reproach, and unto my 
 
 Acquaintances a fear. 
 Those in the streets, who saw me, fled 
 
 12. Away. As the dead are, 
 
 I was forgotten, out of mind, 
 I was as broken ware. 
 
 13. For I slanders of many heard ; 
 
 Fear was all round, while they 
 Together counselling, did plot 
 To take my life away. 
 
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 14- In thee, Lord, I did trust : I said 
 Thou still art God to me ; 
 
 15. My times are in thy hand ; do thou 
 
 Me from the hands set free 
 Of foes and persecutors all. 
 
 16. Oh ! do thou cause thy face 
 Upon thy servant's soul to shine, 
 
 And save me in thy grace. 
 
 17. O Lord, let me not be ashamed. 
 
 For on thee called I have ; 
 Let wicked men be put to shame, 
 Be silenced in the grave, 
 
 18. And let the lips of falsehood be 
 
 In dumbness closely tied, 
 Which, insolent, against the just, 
 Speak in their scorn and pride. 
 
 19. How great the goodness thou hast stored 
 
 For them who do thee fear, 
 And wrought for them, whose trust in thee 
 Doth to men's sons appear ! 
 
 20. Within thy secret presence thou 
 
 From men's wiles them wilt hide ; 
 And from the strife of tongues, for them 
 A covert wilt provide. 
 
 21. Jehovah blessed be, for He 
 
 Hath his benignity 
 Within a city fortified 
 Made marvelous to me. 
 
 22. And yet in my alarm, I said, 
 
 I'm cut off from thine eyes. 
 Still thou didst hear my voice of prayers, 
 Raising, for help, my cries. 
 
 23. Love ye the Lord, his favoured ones, 
 
 The Lord the faithful guards ; 
 And all those acting proudly, he 
 Abundantly rewards. 
 
 24. Be ye undaunted, and may He 
 
 Your heart invigorate, 
 All ye who for Jehovah do 
 With patient hope await. 
 
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 Psalm XXXII. 
 
 1. How surely happy is the man, 
 
 To whom has pardoned been 
 All the transgressions he hath done, 
 And covered is his sin. 
 
 2. How happy is that man ! The Lord 
 
 Will no iniquity 
 Impute to him ; and he from guile 
 Is in his spirit free. 
 
 3. For I kept silent, and my bones 
 
 Decayed ; while all the day 
 I still did groan, as day and night 
 
 4. Thy hand did on me weigh ; 
 
 So that my moisture thereby changed 
 To summer's drought had been. 
 
 5. My faults I will to thee confess, 
 
 I did not hide my sin. 
 I said, I will unto the Lord, 
 
 Of my transgressions make 
 Confession, and thou of my sin 
 
 The guilt away didst take. 
 
 6. So shall the godly pray to thee 
 
 When thou art to be found ; 
 Surely to him no floods shall reach, 
 Though waters should abound. 
 
 7. Thou art my hiding place, thou wilt 
 
 From trouble keep me free ; 
 And with songs of deliverance 
 Thou wilt encompass me. 
 
 8. I will instruct thee, and thee guide 
 
 Along the way will I, 
 Which thou shalt go ; I'll counsel thee, 
 And fix on thee mine eye. 
 
 9. Be not ye, as a horse or mule 
 
 Of understanding void, 
 Which bit and bridle strong must curb, 
 
 When it would thee avoid. 
 10. Unto the man that wicked is, 
 
 Plagues shall be multiplied ; 
 But mercy shall encompass them 
 
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 Who in the lord confide. 
 Ye righteous, in the Lord rejoice, 
 
 Exult ye with delight ; 
 And raise triumphant shouts all ye, 
 
 Who are in heart upright. 
 
 Psalm XXXIII. 
 
 i. Joy in the Lord ye just ; seemly 
 To upright men is praise. 
 
 2. Praise God with harp, on tenstringed lyre, 
 
 With psalms your voices raise. 
 
 3. A new song to him sing, with skill 
 
 Send forth melodious sounds. 
 
 4. For right is God's word ; all his work 
 
 With faithfulness abounds. 
 
 5. He equity and judgment doth 
 
 Complacently reward ; 
 And with the goodness of the Lord, 
 The earth is richly stored. 
 
 6. The heavens by Jehovah's word 
 
 Of power created were, 
 And by the spirit of his mouth 
 The hosts residing there. 
 
 7. The ocean's waters he collects 
 
 Together as an heap ; 
 And in a storehouse, as it were, 
 He treasures up the deep. 
 
 8. Let all throughout the earth before . 
 
 Jehovah be afraid, 
 And let them dread him all, who dwell 
 Upon the earth he made. 
 
 9. For He said, and it was ; he gave 
 
 Command, and it stood firm. 
 
 10. The Lord makes nation's counsel void, 
 
 Their schemes to naught doth turn, 
 
 11. Jehovah's counsel ever lasts, 
 
 His thoughts from age to age. 
 
 12. Nations are blest, whose God's the Lord 
 
 His chosen heritage. 
 
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 13. Jehovah from the heavens beholds, 
 
 On all mankind looks forth ; 
 
 14. He from his dwelling place surveys, 
 
 All dwelling on the earth, 
 
 15. Observes their hearts alike ; to all 
 
 Their doings he gives heed. 
 
 16. Great hosts save not a king ; the strong 
 
 By great strength is not freed. 
 
 17. The horse for safety vain, saves none, 
 
 Although his strength be great. 
 
 18. Lo ! God's eye sees those, who him fear 
 
 And for his mercy w r ait, 
 
 19. From death to free their soul, their life 
 
 In famine to sustain. 
 
 20. Our soul hoped for the lord ; he will 
 
 Our aid and shield remain. 
 
 21. Since in the holy name we trust, 
 
 Our heart shall joyful be. 
 
 22. Lord, let thy mercy be on us, 
 
 As we do hope in thee. 
 
 Psalm XXXIV. 
 
 1. I will at all times bless the Lord ! 
 
 In his praise ever raise my voice. 
 
 2. My soul shall glory in the Lord, 
 
 The humble hear will and rejoice. 
 
 3. Come ! magnify the Lord with me, 
 
 Let us alike his name extol. 
 
 4. I sought the Lord, he answered me, 
 
 And freed me from my terrors all. 
 
 5. They looked to him and brightened were ; 
 
 Shame on their faces has now ceased. 
 
 6. This poor man cried, the Lord him heard, 
 
 And from his troubles all, released. 
 
 7. The angel of Jehovah doth 
 
 Encamp around on every side, 
 Of those who do him fear, that he 
 For them protection may provide. 
 
 8. Taste ye, and see the Lord is good ; 
 
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 The man who trusts In him, is blessed. 
 9. The Lord fear, ye his saints, for them 
 Who fear him shall no want arrest. 
 
 10. Young lions lacked and hungered have : 
 
 But they shall not lack good at all 
 
 11. Who seek the Lord. Come, sons, me hear. 
 
 The fear of God I teach you shall. 
 
 12. Who is the man that's fond of life, 
 
 Loves days that he may good behold ? 
 
 13. Thy tongue from all that sinful is, 
 
 Thy lips from speaking guile withhold. 
 
 14. Turn thou from evil, and do good ; 
 
 Seek peace, pursue it earnestly. 
 
 15. Jehovah's eyes are on the just, 
 
 His ears attentive to their cry. 
 16. " The Lord's face against sinners is, 
 
 From earth to make their memory cease. 
 
 17. Those cried, Jehovah heard, and them 
 
 From their distresses did release. 
 
 18. To those who broken are in heart, 
 
 The Lord unseen is always near ; 
 And he in safety them will keep, 
 W T ho in their spirit contrite are, 
 
 19. Ills may on the upright come, 
 
 Yet from them all God will hirn free ; 
 
 20. He keepeth all his bones, so that 
 
 Not one of them shall broken be. 
 2r. Ill shall the wicked slay ; and they 
 
 Shall guilty be, who hate the just. 
 22. The Lord redeems his servant's soul ; 
 
 None shall be guilty who Him trust. 
 
 Psalm XXXV. 
 
 1. Chide those, Lord, who me chide and war 
 
 'Gainst those who war on me. 
 
 2. Of shield and buckler take thou hold, 
 
 Stand forth mine aid to be. 
 
 3. And stretch thou forth the spear, and thus 
 
 Close up the way of them 
 
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 Who me pursue. Say to my soul, 
 I thy salvation am. 
 
 4. Shamed and confounded let them be 
 
 Who for my soul have sought ; 
 Turned back by thee disgraced be those, 
 Who my harm have in thought. 
 
 5. Let them like chaff be, which before 
 
 The wind away is blown : 
 
 And by the angel of the Lord 
 
 Let them be overthrown. 
 
 6. Let all their way in darkness be, 
 
 And in a slippery place ; 
 And may the angel of the Lord 
 Away far off them chase. 
 
 7. For without cause their snare for me 
 
 Within a pit they hid ! 
 And without cause for me a pit 
 Dig for my soul they did. 
 
 8. On him shall unfeared ruin come, 
 
 And his net seize him shall, 
 Which he did hide ' down into it 
 In ruin he shall fall. 
 
 9. My soul shall boast in God, and glad 
 
 In his salvation be. 
 
 10. All my bones shall exclaim, Oh .who, 
 
 Jehovah, is like thee l 
 Saving the sufferer from one 
 
 Who is too strong for him, 
 The sufferer and poor from those 
 
 Who had his spoiler been ? 
 
 11. Rude witnesses rise up, on me 
 
 What I knew not they lay. 
 
 12. They to my soul's bereavement me 
 
 Evil for good repay. 
 
 13. Though in their sickness, sack cloth I 
 
 Have for my clothing worn ; 
 Humbled my soul in fasts ; my prayer 
 Would in my heart return. 
 
 14. As for a friend or brother dear, 
 
 Mourning about I went, 
 As one who for a mother mourns 
 With grief I down was bent. 
 
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 15. But in my halting, they rejoiced, 
 
 And did together get ; 
 The infamous against me thus 
 
 Where there together met, 
 And me when innocent did tear, 
 
 And would not silent be. 
 
 1 6. With worthless men, mockers for bread, 
 
 They gnashed their teeth at me. 
 
 17. How long, O Lord, wilt thou look on? 
 
 From their outrages sore, 
 My soul, and from the lions young, 
 My precious one, restore. 
 
 18. I will give thanks to thee within 
 
 The congregation great ; 
 Among a mighty people I 
 Thy praise will celebrate. 
 
 19. Against me let them not rejoice 
 
 My enemies that lie, 
 And let them not who do me hate 
 Without cause wink the eye. 
 
 20. For they will not speak peaceful things, 
 
 But guileful words invent, 
 Against all those within the land 
 On quietness intent. 
 
 21. With widened mouth 'gainst me they said 
 
 Ha ! Ha ! our eyes now see. 
 
 22. Thou, Lord, hast seen ; not silent be, 
 
 Lord, be not far from me. 
 
 23. Concerning my just judgment now 
 
 Arouse thee, and awake ; 
 Oh ! thou, my God and sovereign Lord 
 Of my cause notice take. 
 
 24. According to thy righteousness, 
 
 Do thou for me decide. 
 Oh Lord, my God, let them not be, 
 As to me, gratified. 
 
 25. Let them not say within their heart. 
 
 Ha ! this our soul did crave ; 
 And, let them have no cause to say, 
 Him swallowed up we have. 
 
 26. Let them with shame together blush, 
 
 Who in my hurt were glad ; 
 
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 Let them. against me magnified 
 With shame and scorn be clad. 
 -27. But let them shout with thankfulness 
 And joy triumphantly 
 Who do my righteousness desire ; 
 
 And great Jehovah be, 
 Who hath aimed at his servant's peace, 
 Let them thus always say. 
 28. My tongue thy justice publish shall, 
 And thy praise every day, 
 
 Psalm XXXVI. 
 
 1. Sin saith, for the ungodly man, 
 
 In my heart's inmost thought 
 The fear ®f God before His eyes 
 Is but a thing of naught. 
 
 2. So that he falsely flattered hath, 
 
 Himself in his own eyes 
 As to the finding out his sin, 
 The hating it likewise. 
 
 3. The words that come forth from his mouth 
 
 Are falsehood and deceit. 
 He thus, as to his being taught 
 And doing good has ceased. 
 
 4. lie evil on his bed contrives, 
 
 And does himself confirm 
 Within away that is not good, 
 And wrong he will not spurn. 
 
 5. Thy mercy, Lord, is in the heavens, 
 
 Thy truth the clouds doth reach. 
 
 6. Thy justice is like mountains great, 
 
 A deep thy judgments each. 
 Lord, thou preserveth man and beast. 
 
 7. How precious is thy graee ! 
 And in the shadow of thy wings 
 
 Men's sons their trust may place. 
 S. They from abundance in thy house 
 Should be well satisfied ; 
 And from thy stream of pleasures thou 
 
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 Dost drink for them provide. 
 9. Because of life the fountain full 
 And flowing is with thee ; 
 And, in the light that shineth down 
 From thee, we light may see. 
 
 10. Thy kindness to those knowing thee 
 
 Continue to impart ; 
 And thy own righteousness to them 
 Who upright are in heart. 
 
 11. Me let no foot of pride invade, 
 
 Nor let the wicked's hand 
 
 12. Move me. There evil doers fell ; 
 
 Struck down, no more to stand. 
 
 Psalm XXXVII. 
 
 1. Never incense thyself at them 
 
 Who evil doers are ; 
 To those who work iniquity 
 Thou shalt no envy bear. 
 
 2. For even as the summer grass 
 
 Quickly cut down are they ; 
 And like the greenness of an herb, 
 They soon will fade away. 
 
 3. See that thou in Jehovah trust, 
 
 And let thy works be good ; 
 Within the land thy dwelling have, 
 And the truth be thy food. 
 
 4. Delight thee in the Lord ; He'll give 
 
 Thine heart's request to thee. 
 
 5. Roll on the Lord thy way ; him trust, 
 
 And for thee act will He. 
 
 6. Then He thy righteousness will make 
 
 To go forth as the light, 
 And in a judgement clear, thy cause 
 Like to the mid-day bright. 
 
 7. Be quiet for the Lord ; for him 
 
 Await. Shun vexing thoughts. 
 About him, prospering in his way, 
 
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 Who executes his plots. 
 
 8. Do thou from anger wholly cease ; 
 
 And indignation quell, 
 Fire not your hearts into a fret. 
 Only to thus do ill. 
 
 9. For those who evil doers are, 
 
 Shall be made desolate : 
 But those inherit shall the land, 
 Who on Jehovah wait. 
 
 10. For yet a little while, and then 
 
 The wicked man is gone : 
 And thou wilt ponder o'er his place, 
 But as his there is none. 
 
 11. W^hile those, that humble are, the land 
 
 Inherit shall by right, 
 And in a plenitude of peace, 
 They shall take great delight. 
 
 12. The wicked plots against the just 
 
 And at him grates his teeth. 
 
 13. The Lord will laugh at him, for, that 
 
 His day shall come. He seeth. 
 
 14. The wicked have unsheathed the sword, 
 
 And bent the bow, that they 
 Might make the poor and needy fall, 
 And upright men may slay. 
 
 15. Their sword shall enter their own heart, 
 
 And their bow shall be crushed. 
 
 16. Better than great wealth of bad men, 
 
 Is little to the just. 
 
 17. For sinners' arms shall broken be ; 
 
 But God the just sustains. 
 
 18. He knows their days, and evermore 
 
 Their heritage remains. 
 
 19. They will not be abashed, when they 
 
 An evil time may see ; 
 And when the days of famine are, 
 They satisfied shall be. 
 
 20. Ungodly men, Jehovah's foes, 
 
 Like lamb's fat, shall decay, 
 And into smoke they are consumed, 
 And vanish soon away. 
 
 21. The wicked man is borrowing 
 
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 And he will not repay : 
 The righteous man will mercy show, 
 
 Ready to give away. 
 •22. For all the blessed ones of God 
 
 Inherit shall the land ; 
 But those accursed by Him shall all 
 
 Be cut off by his hand. 
 
 23. Forth from the Lord have the foot teps 
 
 Of man been set aright. 
 And in his way, in which he goes, 
 He always will delight. 
 
 24. For he indeed may fall, yet he 
 
 Shall not be prostrate laid, 
 
 Because Jehovah will sustain 
 
 His hand with needed aid. 
 
 25. I once was young, but have grown old, 
 
 But have not seen as yet 
 The just forsaken, nor his seed 
 Begging their bread to get. 
 
 26. All the day long he mercy shows, 
 
 And lends with a free heart, 
 And his seed for a blessing is. 
 
 27. From wickedness depart, 
 
 And do thou good ; and permanent 
 Your dwelling places make, 
 
 28. Because Jehovah judgement loves, 
 
 And he will not forsake 
 His gracious ones. They shall be kept 
 
 Throughout eternity. 
 But of the wicked shall the seed 
 
 Be cut off utterly. 
 
 29. The just inherit shall the land, 
 
 And ever on it dwell. 
 
 30. The just man's mouth shall wisdom show. 
 
 His tongue of judgement tell. 
 
 31. The law of his God is within 
 
 His heart. His steps swerve not. 
 
 32. The wicked for the righteous watch, 
 
 And him to slay has sought. 
 
 33. Jehovah, faithful, never will 
 
 Leave him within his hands 
 And will not hold him guilty, when 
 
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 In judgment he shall stand. 
 
 34. Wait for the Lord and keep his way, 
 
 And then he will thee raise 
 The land to hold : on wicked men 
 Cut off then thou shalt-gaze. 
 
 35. I saw a bad man, stern, and like 
 
 A green tree spreading round, 
 
 36. He passed, and, lo ! was not ; and him 
 
 I sought ; he was not found. 
 
 37. Observe thou now the perfect man, 
 
 Also the upright see. 
 Because that surely to that man 
 The end true peace will be. 
 
 38. But rebels all alike shall be 
 
 Into destruction cast ;j 
 It is the end of wicked men 
 To be cut off at last. 
 
 39. But the salvation of the just 
 
 Is wholly from the Lord ; 
 In time of trouble He will them 
 A refuge strong afford. 
 
 40. Jehovah helped and rescued them, 
 
 And will rescue and save 
 From wicked men, because to Him 
 Themselves in trust they gave. 
 
 Psalm XXXVIII. 
 
 1. In thy great indignation just, 
 
 Oh ! Lord, rebuke me not, 
 Nor on me lay thy chastisement 
 In thy displeasure hot. 
 
 2. For in me are thine arrows sunk, 
 
 Thy hand has pressed me down ; 
 
 3. And in my flesh no soundness is 
 
 Under thy wrathful frown, 
 Nor ease in my bones through my sin. 
 
 4. For my sins passing are 
 Over my head — a heavy load, 
 
 Far more than I can bear. 
 
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 5. My wounds are fetid and corrupt 
 
 From foolishness my own. 
 
 6. Anguished I am, and much depressed ; 
 
 Each day I've mourning gone : 
 
 7. For filled with burnings are my loins , 
 
 And all my flesh is sore. 
 
 8. I faint, am greatly bruised, and from 
 
 My heart's distress I roar, 
 
 9. Lord, my desire before thee is, 
 
 Not hid from thee my sighs. 
 
 10. My heart throbs ; me my strength has left ; 
 
 No light is in mine eyes. 
 
 11. From my stroke will my lovers all 
 
 And friends stand off afar ; 
 And they have stood aloof from me, 
 My kinsman dear who are. 
 
 12. And they, who seek my life, laid snares ; 
 
 And those who would me wrong, 
 Have spoken mischiefs, and deceits 
 They utter all day long. 
 
 13. But as the deaf, I did not hear, 
 
 And I was like the dumb ; 
 
 14. Like one who hears not, from whose mouth 
 
 Can no responses come. 
 
 15. As thou wilt answer, Lord, my God, 
 
 So wait for thee I did ; 
 
 16. For I said, Lest they vaunt o'er me, 
 
 Who were, when my foot slid 
 
 17. Elated. For I'm prone to halt 
 
 And my griefs always see. 
 
 18. For I my sinfulness will own, 
 
 And for it troubled be. 
 
 19. The adversaries of my life 
 
 Are strong on every side ; 
 And they, who do without a cause 
 Me hate, are multiplied. 
 
 20. They too, who unto me requite 
 
 111 for the good I do, 
 Will thus oppose themselves to me, 
 Because I good pursue. 
 
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 21. Lord, leave me not, my God, from me 
 
 Be not thou far away : 
 
 22. Oh Lord, who my salvation art, 
 
 Help me without delay. 
 
 Psalm XXXIX. 
 
 1. I said ; lest with my tongue I sin, 
 
 I'll of my ways beware, 
 My mouth I'll with a muzzle guard, 
 When bad men near me are. 
 
 2. I, as from dumbness silent was, 
 
 So mute, that I forebore 
 Even from good ; my sorrows were 
 But this stirred up the more. 
 
 3. My heart in midst of me was hot. 
 
 The fires within would break 
 Forth into flames, while I mused on. 
 Then with my tongue I spake, 
 
 4. My end and measure of my days ; 
 
 Oh Lord, unto me show, 
 What it may truly be, for I 
 How frail I am would know. 
 
 5. Lo ! thou dost give me days as spans, 
 
 Mine age as nothing rate. 
 Each man is only vanity 
 In his best outward state. 
 
 6. Man only as a shadow mores, 
 
 They make a din in vain. 
 He makes the stooks, but may not know 
 Who gathered in the same. 
 
 7. And now what have I waited for ? 
 
 My hope, Lord, is in thee. 
 
 8. Free me from all my trespasses, 
 
 The fool's scorn make not me. 
 
 9. I'm dumb, I open not my mouth, 
 
 Because this work is thine. 
 10. Thy stroke take from me, by the blow 
 Of thy hand I do pine. 
 
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 11. Thou with rebukes dos't chasten man 
 
 For his iniquity ; 
 And spoil as moth his precious things. 
 Man's only vanity. 
 
 12. Lord, hear my prayer, regard my cry, 
 
 Not to my tears mute be 
 For like my fathers, pilgrim I 
 And stranger am with thee. 
 
 13. Turn from me thy look of reproof, 
 
 And make me of good cheer, 
 Before that I shall go away, 
 And be no longer here. 
 
 Psalm XL. 
 
 1. I for Jehovah waited have, 
 
 Await for him did I ; 
 And he in condescension did 
 Hearken unto my cry. 
 
 2. He raised me from a noisome pit, 
 
 And from the miry clay ; 
 Made my feet on a rock to stand, 
 
 Set my steps in the way. 
 3. He put a new song in my mouth 
 
 To our God be the praise. 
 Many shall see this, and shall fear ; 
 
 And trust the Lord always. 
 
 4. How blessed that man, who hath in hope 
 
 Upon the Lord relied, 
 Not looking to the proud, nor those 
 Who to lies turn aside. 
 
 5. O Lord, my God, how many are 
 
 The things which thou hast done ; 
 Thy wonders; and thy purposes 
 
 To us, in order none. 
 Can unto thee them estimate, 
 
 I would them now declare 
 And speak, but to be numbered all 
 
 They far too many are. 
 
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 6. Not sacrifice nor offering 
 
 Hast thou from me desired ; 
 Mine ears hast pierced, sin offering thou 
 And burnt hast not required. 
 
 7. And then I did these words announce, 
 
 Behold ! I come for thee ; 
 Within the volume of the Book, 
 It written is of me : 
 8. To do thy will is my delight 
 O ! thou my God that art, 
 And thy most holy law hath been 
 Within me in my heart. 
 9. I in the congregation great 
 
 Did righteousness proclaim ; 
 Lo ! thou dost know, Oh Lord, that I 
 My lips did not restrain. 
 
 10. T never have within my heart, 
 
 Thy righteousness concealed, 
 T thy salvation clearly have, 
 
 And faithfulness revealed. 
 Thy tender loving kindness 
 
 Conceal I never did, 
 Nor from the congregation gre'at 
 
 Thy verity have hid. 
 
 11. Jehovah thy compassions thou 
 
 Wilt not from me withhold ; 
 Thy tender mercies and thy truth 
 Will always me uphold. 
 
 12. For on me evils gathered have, 
 
 More than can numbered be ; 
 My sins me overtaken have, 
 
 And I've no power to see : 
 These more than hairs are on my head, 
 
 And failed me has my heart. 
 
 13. Be pleased, Lord, to deliver me ; 
 
 Thy help, Lord, soon impart. 
 
 14. Shamed and abashed alike be they 
 
 Who would my soul subvert 
 They shall repulsed be and disgraced 
 Who do devise my hurt. 
 
 15. They, in their shame, as their reward,, 
 
 Then desolate shall be, 
 
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 Who in their enmity have said, 
 Aha ! Aha ! to me. 
 
 16. In thee shall all joy and exult, 
 
 Who do thee seek ; and they 
 
 Who thy salvation love, always, 
 
 Great is the Lord, will say. 
 
 17, I'm poor and needy, yet the Lord 
 
 Regard to me will pay ; 
 My help and my defence thou art, 
 My God, make no delay. 
 
 Psalm XLI. 
 
 1. How blest the man who prudently 
 
 Doth to the poor attend. 
 The Lord to him in evil days 
 Protection will extend. 
 
 2. God will him guard and keep alive ; 
 
 He blessed on earth shall live ; 
 And to the will of enemies 
 Thou wilt him not upgive. 
 
 3. Him on the bed of languishing 
 
 Jehovah will sustain, 
 Thou in his sickness sore, his bed 
 Hast turned to ease his pain. 
 
 4. Oh ! thou, Jehovah, I then said, 
 
 Have mercy upon me ; 
 Restore my soul to health, although 
 I have sinned against thee. 
 
 5. They who my adversaries are 
 
 Will always evil say 
 Concerning me ; When will he die ? 
 
 That his name perish may. 
 •6. If he to see me come, he'll speak 
 
 Falsehoods ; mischief his heart 
 To it collects, which he will tell 
 
 Without, when he'll depart. 
 7. They will together whisper all 
 
 Against me, who me hate ; 
 And injury to me, will they 
 
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 Against me meditate. 
 
 8. Base crime presses on him, and he 
 
 Lies down to rise no more. 
 
 9. Even the man at peace with me, 
 
 Whom I did trust before, 
 Who ate my bread, against me now 
 Has raised the heel in spite. 
 10.. Lord, pity me, cause me to rise, 
 And I will them requite. 
 
 11. By this too I have known, that thou 
 
 Dost pleasure in me take, 
 Because my enemy o'er me 
 Shall no glad shouting make. 
 
 12. In my uprightness me thou hast 
 
 Supported by thy grace i 
 And thou hast made me evermore 
 To stand before thy face. 
 
 13. The Lord, the God of Israel, 
 
 lie praised and praised again, 
 Forever and forever more ; 
 Amen ? yea and amen. 
 
 Psalm XLII. 
 
 As for the brooks of water pure, 
 
 Panteth the thirsty hait, 
 So doth my soul for thee now pant, 
 
 Oh thou my Clod, who art. 
 For God, yea, for the living God, 
 
 My soul has thirsty been ; 
 When shall I enter and before 
 
 The face of God be seen ? 
 Throughout the day and night my tears 
 
 Have been to me for bread, 
 While unto me they every day, 
 
 Where is thy God? have said. 
 These things I will remember all, 
 
 And will my soul out-pour 
 On myself, when I in a crowd 
 
 Shall pass, as heretofore, 
 
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 When I with them up to God's house 
 
 Went with the voice of praise, 
 And gladness of a multitude, 
 
 Reaping the festive days. 
 Why art thou now cast down, my soul ? 
 
 Why in disquiet moan ? 
 In God hope, for I'll praise him yet, 
 
 For his salvation shown. 
 My God, my soul's cast down in me. 
 
 Thee therefore, mind I will, 
 From Jordan's banks, from Hermon's heights, 
 
 And from the Mizar hill. 
 At the noise of thy water-spouts 
 
 Deep unto deep did call ; 
 Thy billows have pased over me, 
 
 And thy strong surges all. 
 God will his grace command by day, 
 
 At night his songs I'll sing, 
 And to him, who is of my life 
 
 The God, a prayer I bring. 
 I'll say to God, my Rock, why hast 
 
 Thou me forgotten so ? 
 Why in oppression from my foes, 
 
 Must I thus mourning go ? 
 It's like a fracture in my bones, 
 
 That me my foes upbraid, 
 As all day long it has by them, 
 
 "Where is thy God"! been said. 
 Why, Oh ! my soul -art thou cast down ? 
 
 And in disquietude ? # 
 
 In God hope ; for I will him praise, 
 
 My Saviour known, my God. 
 
 Psalm XLIII. 
 
 God, judge me, plead my cause against 
 
 A nation impious ; 
 And me deliver from the man 
 
 Of fraud and wickedness. 
 For thou the God art of my strength. 
 
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 Why hast thou spurned me so 
 That in oppression from my foes 
 
 I should now mourning go ? 
 Oh ! send thy light forth and thy truth 
 
 Then they conduct me will, 
 And bring rne to thy duelling place 
 
 Upon thy holy hill. 
 There to God's altar, yea to God, 
 
 My chief joy, I will go ; 
 And unto God, my God, my thanks 
 
 I on the harp will show. 
 Why, O my soul, art thou cast down ? 
 
 Why in me now so sad ? 
 In God hope ; for I'll praise Him yet 
 
 My Saviour ^een, my God. 
 
 Psalm XLIV. 
 
 Oh God we with our ears have heard, 
 
 To us our fathers told, 
 The work thou in their days didst work, 
 
 During the days of old. 
 Thou didst by might nations uproot, 
 
 And plant them in their stead ; 
 And thou the people didst break down, 
 But them thou didst outspread. 
 , For their sword gained them not the land, 
 Their arms them saved not then ; 
 But thy hand, arm and shining face, 
 For thou didst favor them. 
 . Thou art my King ; for Jacob, Lord, 
 Salvation now command. 
 Then we in thee will push down those 
 
 Who adverse to us stand ; 
 In thy name we will tread them down, 
 Who us assaulted have. 
 , For in my bow I will not trust, 
 
 Nor can my sword me save. 
 . For thou hast saved us from our foes, 
 Our haters put to shame. 
 
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 8. In God we've daily praised, and will 
 
 Ever confess thy name. 
 
 9. Although thou hast rejected us, 
 
 And us dishonored hast, 
 And with our armies thou wilt not 
 Go forth, as in times past. 
 
 10. Before our adversaries us 
 
 To turn back thou wilt make ; 
 And those who hate us for themselves^ 
 From us now plunder take. 
 
 11. Thou wilt give us sheep for food, 
 
 'Mong nations us disperse ; 
 
 12. Wilt sell thy people without gain, 
 
 Not richer by their price. 
 
 13. Us thou'wilt put for a reproach 
 
 Among our neighbors near, 
 Derision and a jest to those 
 Who round about us are. 
 
 14. Us, for a shaking of the head 
 
 And by-word, thou wilt place, 
 
 15. For nations round ; and. daily is 
 
 Before me my disgrace ; 
 And my face covered is with shame, 
 
 16. From him who slander speaks 
 And scoffs ; from presence of a foe, 
 
 And one who vengeance seeks. 
 
 17. All this has come on us, yet we 
 
 Have not forgotten thee ; 
 Nor to thy holy covenant 
 Perfidious been have we. 
 
 18. Our heart has not turned back, our steps 
 
 From thy path have not strayed ; 
 
 19. Whom thon hast crushed where dragons are, 
 
 And covered with death's shade. 
 
 20. Had we forgotten our God's name, 
 
 Spread to strange gods our hands ; 
 
 21. Would God not search this out ? for He 
 
 Heart secrets understands. 
 
 22. For we are daily slain for thee, 
 
 As sheep for slaughter sought. 
 
 23. Arouse thee, Lord, why sleep ? Awake. 
 
 Forever loathe us not. 
 
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 24. Why wilt thou hide thy countenance ? 
 
 Forget why wilt thou so 
 Our troubles and oppression sore ? 
 
 25. For our soul is brought low 
 Into the dust, and to the earth 
 
 Our body fast doth cling. 
 
 26. Rise for our help, and in thy grace 
 
 To us redemption bring, 
 
 Psalm XLV. 
 
 My heart o'erflows with matter good. 
 
 My works wnich I recite, 
 Are of the King. My tongue's the pen 
 
 Of one in haste to write. 
 Thou fairer art than Adam's sons ; 
 
 Grace has been copiously 
 Through thy lips poured forth. Therefore, God 
 
 Hath evermore blessed thee. 
 Oh, Thou the mighty One ! thy sword 
 
 Gird thou upon thy thigh. 
 Thy glory and thy majesty. 
 
 And in thy majesty, 
 For truth, meekness and righteousness 
 
 Prosper, and onward ride ; 
 And to achievements marvelous 
 
 Thy right hand will thee guide. 
 Sharp are thine arrows — nations then 
 
 Shall fall down under thee 
 In the heart of the enemies 
 
 Of the King sharp shall be. 
 Forever and forever is 
 
 Thy throne supreme, O God ; 
 The sceptre of thy kingdom is 
 
 Of righteousness the rod. 
 Thou hast loved justice and loathed sin ; 
 
 Thee, therefore, God, Most High, 
 Thy God, above thy fellows did 
 
 Anoint with oil of joy. 
 Myrrh, aloes, cassia perfume, 
 
All garments which thee clad, 
 Forth from the ivory palaces 
 
 From me they made thee glad. 
 9. The daughters of the kings were there, 
 
 In precious things of thine ; 
 And at thy right hand stood the queen 
 
 In gold from Ophir's mine. 
 
 10. O ! daughter, hearken ; and behold, 
 
 And still incline thine ear. 
 Thy people and thy father's house 
 Elsewhere forget thou here. 
 
 11. And then the King thy beauty shall 
 
 For this desire the more ; 
 Seeing he is thy sovereign Lord, 
 With reverence him adore. 
 
 12. The daughter too, of wealthy Tyre, 
 
 Shall with a present great, 
 The rich ones of the people too, 
 Shall thy face supplicate. 
 
 13. The daughter of the King is now 
 
 All glorious within ; 
 And of embroideries of gold 
 Her garments made have been. 
 
 14. She shall be led forth to the King 
 
 In robes with needle wrought. 
 Virgins, her friends, that follow her, 
 Shall unto thee be brought. 
 
 15. Conducted onward they shall be 
 
 As they rejoicing sing, 
 And thus with gladness enter shall 
 The palace of the King. 
 
 16. In their place, who thy fathers were, 
 
 Thy sons shall still remain. 
 And thou wilt them for princes true 
 In all the earth ordain. 
 
 17. Thy name to be remembered, I 
 
 Will cause in ages all. 
 Forevermore the nations shall. 
 Therefore, thy praise extol. 
 
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 Psalm XLVI. 
 
 1. God is our refuge strong 
 
 Fullness in straits has proved ; 
 
 2. So we'll not fear, though earth be changed, 
 
 And mountains be removed 
 Into the heart of seas. 
 
 3. Its waters loudly roar 
 
 And foam, though mountains high should quake 
 Where the proud billows pour. 
 
 4. A river is whose streams, 
 
 Will gladden with true joy, 
 (iod's city all, the holy place 
 Where dwelleth the Most High. 
 
 5. ( rod is in midst of her. 
 
 And nothing shall her move ; 
 
 ( rod at the turning of the morn 
 
 Shall guard her from above. 
 
 6. Nations a roaring raised, 
 
 And kingdoms moving were ; 
 He makes his voice then to resound. 
 The earth will melt with fear. 
 
 7. Jehovah, God of hosts 
 
 Is with us on our side, 
 
 For us the God of Jacob is 
 
 A refuge where to hide. 
 
 8. Come ye, behold the works, 
 
 These by Jehovah wrought, 
 Who all the desolations sore 
 Into the earth hath brought. 
 
 9. To all ends of the earth 
 
 Wars into peace he turns, 
 The bow he breaks, the spear he cuts, 
 In fire the chariot burns. 
 
 10. Be calm, know that I'm God ; 
 
 Among the nations I 
 Will be exalted on the earth, 
 W 7 ill be exalted high. 
 
 11. Jehovah, Lord of hosts, 
 
 Is with us on our side. 
 For us the God of Jacob is 
 Our refuge where to hide. 
 
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 Psalm XLVII. 
 
 O ! all ye nations clap the hand, 
 
 To God with voice of triumph shout ; 
 For dreadful is the Lord Most High, 
 
 And a great king the earth throughout. 
 lie will the people under us, 
 
 Under our feet nations reduce. 
 He Jacob's splendor, whom he loved, 
 
 Our heritage for us will choose. 
 God hath with shouts, with trumpets' sound, 
 
 Jehovah hath gone up on high. 
 Praise God in psalm, sing psalm, thus praise 
 
 Our King, with psalms him magnify. 
 For God is King of all the earth : 
 
 In praise a psalm instructive sing. 
 God hath o'er nations reigned. God hath 
 
 vSat on his holy throne a King. 
 Princes of nations, people too 
 
 Of Abram's God, assembled are. 
 For His the shields are of the earth. 
 
 He is exalted very far. 
 
 Psalm XLVIII. 
 
 Great is the Lord, and to be praised 
 
 Exceedingly He is ; 
 Within the city of our God, 
 
 Flis mount of holiness, 
 For situation beautiful, 
 
 The joy of all the earth. 
 The great King's city ! Sion Mount, 
 
 On the sides of the north. 
 God is, within her palaces, 
 
 Known for a refuge strong. 
 For 16 ! the kings, by concert met ; 
 
 Together passed along. 
 Soon as they saw, they were amazed ; 
 
 With terror struck they were ; 
 They into hasty flight were thrown ; 
 
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 6. Trembling seized on them there ; 
 And anguish, like to child-birth pangs 
 
 Did there them overtake. 
 
 7. The noble ships of Tarshish thou 
 
 With an East wind didst wreck 
 
 8. According to what we before 
 
 Had heard, so we within 
 The city of the Lord of hosts, 
 
 Of our own God, have seen. 
 God firmly will establish it 
 
 Unto eternity. 
 
 9. Within thy temple oft, O God, 
 
 Thy mercy pondered we. 
 
 10. As is thy name, so is, O God, 
 
 To the earth's end thy praise ; 
 And thy right hand of power is full 
 Of righteousness always. 
 
 11. In view of all thy judgments just, 
 
 Mount Sion shall rejoice ; 
 Of Judah, too, the daughters shall 
 With joy lift up the voice. 
 
 12. Walk about Sion, go all round, 
 
 Her towers all count o'er ; 
 
 13. Consider well her battlements ; 
 
 Her palaces explore ; 
 That ye may tell posterity. 
 
 14. For this God doth abide 
 
 Our God for evermore. He will 
 Henceforth to death us guide. 
 
 Psalm XLIX. 
 
 1. Hear this, ye nations all ; give ear, 
 
 All in the world that dwell, 
 
 2. Low and high, rich and poor alike. 
 
 3. My mouth of wisdoms tell, 
 
 With understandings in my thoughts, 
 
 4. Mine ear I'll bow to hear 
 A parable, and with the harp 
 
 Make my own riddle clear. 
 
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 5- For what, in evil days to come, 
 Should I now be in fear ? 
 Of my heels the iniquity 
 Will round me gather near. 
 
 6. They do for their security 
 
 On their bulwarks rely 
 And in abundance of their wealth 
 Will themselves glorify. 
 
 7. A brother by no means of his 
 
 Redeem another can, 
 Nor for himself a ransom give 
 
 To God can any man. 
 3. And their souls' ransom costly is 
 
 And fails eternally ; 
 9. And he will still for glory live ; 
 
 Will not corruption see. 
 
 10. Though he'll see the wise die alike. 
 
 As fools and brutish men 
 Will perish, and to others leave 
 All their own bulwarks then. 
 
 11. It's in their mind, that their abodes 
 
 Forever will remain, 
 Their dwellings long shall last ; their lands 
 With their own names they name ; 
 
 12. And a man, who, where he at last 
 
 Will lodge, honor has not. 
 
 May likened be unto the beasts 
 
 Unto destruction brought. 
 
 13. This is their chosen way of life, 
 
 Such is their foolishness. 
 And others after them, in what 
 They say, will acquiesce. 
 
 14. Like sheep they lay within the grave ; 
 
 Death's shepherd of them all. 
 But all the righteous among them 
 
 Rule in the morning shall. 
 And yet their form from home the grave 
 
 For itself old will make. 
 
 15. Sure from grave's hand God will my soul 
 
 Redeem. For He'll me take. 
 
 16. Then be not thou disturbed because 
 
 A man may riches own ; 
 
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 Because the glory of his house 
 Hath into splendor grown. 
 
 17. For nothing shall he take away 
 
 When death his days shall end ; 
 Nor shall the glory he may have 
 Down after him descend. 
 
 18. Although he his own soul would bless 
 
 In this life all his days ; 
 And others, when thou doest well, 
 To thyself will thee praise. 
 
 19. Thou to the habitation shalt 
 
 Go of his fathers all, 
 Where they to perpetuity 
 Shall see no light at all. 
 
 20. Man who in midst of honor is, 
 
 And understand will not, 
 May likened be unto the beasts 
 Into destruction brought. 
 
 Psalm L. 
 
 Almighty God, the Lord 
 
 Hath spoken, and did cite 
 The earth from rising of the sun 
 
 To where it sets at night. 
 From out of Sion Mount, 
 
 Which the perfection bright 
 Of beauty is, God hath at times 
 
 Shone forth in lustrous light. 
 Our God will come again 
 
 He silent will not keep ; 
 Before him fire shall waste, and storms 
 
 Tempestuous round him sweep. 
 Unto the heavens He 
 
 Out from above will call. 
 Also unto the earth that He 
 
 May judge his people all. 
 Together, oh my saints 
 
 To me yourselves betake, 
 Ye who a holy covenant 
 
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 With me do jointly make 
 Over a sacrifice. 
 
 6. The heavens now have shown 
 His spotless righteousness, for God 
 
 Is Judge himself alone. 
 
 7. My people hear, for now 
 
 Oh ! Israel speak will I, 
 And I will, God, yea, thine own God, 
 Against thee testify. 
 
 8. For sacrifice of thine 
 
 Thee I reprove will not. 
 And before me there always are 
 Burnt offerings thou hast brought. 
 
 9. I'll take no ox, nor goat 
 
 From stall or fold of thine. 
 10, For wild beasts all and cattle on 
 
 A thousand hills are mine, 
 ir. All the birds of the hills 
 
 Are unto me well known ; 
 All in the fields that live and move 
 
 Are with me all my own. 
 
 12. If I were hungry, I 
 
 Would not say so to thee ; 
 For, with its fullness, the whole world 
 Belongs alone to me. 
 
 13. Will I eat bullocks' flesh 
 
 Or goats' blood drink will I ? 
 
 14. Thanks sacrifice to God, and pay 
 
 Thy vows to the Most High. 
 
 15. And in times of distress, 
 
 Do thou upon me call ; 
 
 And then I will deliver thee, 
 
 And thou wilt me extol. 
 
 16. God to the wicked saith, 
 
 What hast thou, to declare 
 My statutes, and upon thy mouth 
 My covenant to bear ? 
 
 17. Also instruction good 
 
 Thou always hated hast ; 
 And my words, spoken unto thee, 
 Behind thee thou hast cast. 
 
 18. If thou sawest a thief, 
 
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 Thou didst consent with him ; 
 And thou with vile adulterers 
 Hast a partaker been. 
 
 19. Thou wilt thy mouth unloose 
 
 To wrong, and thy tongue bind 
 
 20. To fraud. Thou wilt sit down, and speak 
 
 Against thy brother kind, 
 Against thy mother's son 
 Thou wilt a thrust direct. 
 
 21. Thou all these evil things hast done, 
 
 And I have silent kept. 
 That I am like thyself, 
 
 Thou hast imagined still. 
 I'll thee reprove, and in thy sight 
 
 These things array I will. 
 
 22. Oh ye, who God forget, 
 
 These things now understand, 
 Lest I in pieces tear you all 
 When none can you defend. 
 
 23. That man doth honor me 
 
 Whose sacrifice is praise, 
 I God's salvation him will show, 
 Who orders well his ways. 
 
 Psalm LI. 
 
 In thy benignity, O God, 
 
 Deal with me in thy sovereign grace ; 
 In thy compassion manifold, 
 
 Transgressions all of mine erase. 
 From my guilt wash me thoroughly, 
 
 And from my sin, Oh ! make me clean. 
 For my transgressions I discern, 
 
 My sin by me is always seen. 
 To thee, thee only have I sinned, 
 • And done this evil in thy sight, 
 So that in speaking thou art just, 
 
 And in thy judgement wholly right. 
 Lo ! I in guiltiness was born, 
 
 My mother me conceived in sin. 
 
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 6. Lo ! thou hast loved truth in the heart ; 
 
 Thou'lt wisdom teach my soul unseen. 
 
 7. Thou with the hysop wilt me cleanse ; 
 
 Then I true purity will know ; 
 Thou wilt me wash, and then I shall 
 Be whitened whiter than the snow. 
 
 8. And thou of joy and gladness wilt 
 
 Cause me again to hear the voice, 
 So that these bones of mine, which thou 
 Hast sorely broken, may rejoice. 
 
 9. Thy face vail from my sins, and all 
 
 My trespasses blot from thy view. 
 
 10. Create for me God, a pure heart, 
 
 A spirit right in me renew. 
 
 11. Cast me not from thee, nor from me 
 
 Thy Holy Spirit take away. 
 
 12. Restore me thy salvation's joy, 
 
 And by the Spirit free, me stay. 
 
 13. Then I'll transgressors teach thy ways, 
 
 And sinners shall be turned to thee. 
 
 14. Oh God, of my salvation God, 
 
 Me from blood-guiltiness set free ; 
 And to exalt thy righteousness, 
 
 My tongue shall joyful shoutings raise. 
 
 15. Jehovah open thou my lips ; 
 
 So shall my mouth show forth thy praise. 
 
 16. For sacrifice will not thee please, 
 
 Else I would that unto thee give ; 
 Nor is it the burnt offering 
 
 That thou with favor wilt receive. 
 
 17. A spirit truly broken is 
 
 To God a pleasing sacrifice : 
 A broken and a contrite heart, 
 Jehovah, thou wilt not despise. 
 
 18. To Sion in thy grace do good ; 
 
 Thou wilt build up in strength and height 
 The walls of thy Jerusalem. 
 
 19. When thou regard with delight 
 The sacrifice of righteousness, 
 
 The burnt and whole-burnt offering 
 Then they, to sacrifice them on 
 
 Thine altars, bullocks choice will bring. 
 
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 Psalm LII. 
 
 1. Wherefore, mighty man, wilt thou 
 
 Thyself in evil pride ? 
 The mercy of Almighty God 
 
 Through all times doth abide. 
 
 2. Things that injurious mischiefs are, 
 
 Thy false tongue will invent ; 
 
 Like to a razor with keen edge, 
 
 Works thy tongue fraudulent. 
 
 3. I'll, more than good, than to speak right, 
 
 Falsehood thou hast loved long : 
 
 4. Thou hast loved all-devouring words, 
 
 O thou deceitful tongue. 
 
 5. So God will thee wholly destroy, 
 
 Seize on thee, pluck thee out 
 Quite from thy tent, and from the land 
 Of life will thee uproot. 
 
 6. The righteous will this see and fear, 
 
 And him will they deride ; 
 
 7. Lo ! this the man is who would not 
 
 For strength in God confide, 
 But in the increase of his wealth. 
 
 Will trust with confidence. 
 And by his wickedness become 
 
 Strong in his influence. 
 
 8. I am, within the house of God, 
 
 Like a green olive tree ; 
 I in God's mercy trusted have 
 For all eternity. 
 
 9. I will forever give thee praise, 
 
 Because thou hast done this ; 
 In thy name I will hope, for good 
 Before thy saints it is. 
 
 Psalm LIII. 
 
 Fools in their heart, say, there is no God. 
 
 They have corruptly done ; 
 Have done abhorrent wickedness ; 
 
 To do good there is none. 
 
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 2. God hath upon the sons of men 
 
 From heaven looked abroad, 
 To see if any one there was 
 Instructed, seeking God. 
 
 3. They all degenerate are ; they have 
 
 Together vile become ; 
 There is not one that doeth good, 
 There is not even one. 
 
 4. Have they been ignorant, all these 
 
 Who wickedness have wrought ; 
 Eating my people, as their bread, 
 And on God called they not ? 
 
 5. There feared they much, where no fear was ; 
 
 For their besiegers bones 
 God scattered hath. Thou hast them shamed, 
 Because God them disowns. 
 
 6. Let Israel's help from Sion come ! 
 
 When back the Lord shall bring 
 His captives, Jacob shall exult, 
 And Israel shall sing. 
 
 Psalm LIV. 
 
 1. God save me by thy name, do thou 
 
 Now judge me in thy might. 
 
 2. My prayer hear, O God ; give ear 
 
 To what I say aright. 
 
 3. For in hostility to me 
 
 Aliens against me rise ; 
 And tyrants seek my life, and God 
 Set not before their eyes. 
 
 4. Lo ! God me aid ; the Lord's among 
 
 Those who my soul support. 
 
 5. The ill shall to my foes return ; 
 
 Them in thy truth subvert, 
 
 6. To thee I'll offer of free will 
 
 Offerings of gratitude ; 
 And I, O Lord, will celebrate 
 Thy name, for it is good. 
 
 7. For he hath me delivered out 
 
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 Of all adversities, 
 And with composure hath mine eye 
 Looked on mine enemies. 
 
 Paslm LV. 
 
 1. O God, my prayer hear, hide not 
 
 Thyself from my request. 
 
 2. Heed, and me hear. I roam in thought 
 
 And in turmoil am tost, 
 
 3. From my foes' voice, and from before 
 
 Bad men's oppression great. 
 For they shove wickedness on me, 
 And do in wrath me hate. 
 
 4. My heart within me writhes, on me 
 
 The terrors fall of death ; 
 
 5. Dread into me and trembling came. 
 
 Horror me covered hath. 
 
 6. And I have said, O that I had 
 
 The swift wings of a dove, 
 
 Then I at once would fly away, 
 
 Some resting place to have. 
 
 7. Lo ! I would wander far, I would 
 
 Lodge in a desert waste. 
 
 8. Then from the rushing wind and storm, 
 
 Escaping I would haste. 
 
 9. O Lord, let them be swallowed up ; 
 
 Do thou their tongues divide, 
 For in the city violence 
 And strife I have espied. 
 
 10. Through all the day and night they will 
 
 Upon her walls go round ; 
 And in her midst iniquity 
 And trouble do abound. 
 
 11. Calamities in midst of her 
 
 Prevail in every part ; 
 Oppression and deceit will not 
 Out of her streets depart. 
 
 12. It's not a foe that me reviles, 
 
 For that I would abide ; 
 No hater vaunts himself to me, 
 
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 From such I could me hide. 
 
 13. But thou a man equal to me, 
 
 Associate and friend, 
 
 14. Joined in sweet counsel, to God's house 
 
 In a glad crowd, we wend. 
 
 15. Death will surprise them ; they'll alive 
 
 Down to the grave depart. 
 For they within their dwelling have 
 Evils within their heart. 
 
 16. I'll call on God ; the Lord me saves. 
 
 17. I'll muse, and make lond noise, 
 At evening, morning, and at noon, 
 
 And He will hear my voice. 
 
 18. He surely hath redeemed my soul, 
 
 That I in peace may be 
 From warfare that against me was ; 
 For many fought with me. 
 
 19. The Lord who reigns of old, with whom 
 
 No changes are, will hear, 
 And humble them he will, yea, them. 
 And they God did not fear. 
 
 20. Of them each raised his hand against 
 
 Alliances he framed ; 
 The covenant, which he had made, 
 By breaking he profaned. 
 
 21. More smooth than butter was his speech. 
 
 While in his heart was war ; 
 His words were soft, more so than oil, 
 But as drawn swords they are. 
 
 22. Cast on the Lord what he gives thee, 
 
 And he will thee sustain, 
 He will not let the righteous man 
 Be ever moved again. 
 
 23. Thou, God, wilt to the putrid pit 
 
 Them sink ; nor half live out 
 Their days shall men of blood and fraud. 
 In thee my trust I put. 
 
Psalm LVI. 
 
 1. Be merciful to me, God, 
 
 For man would me devour ; 
 And fighting with me all day long, 
 He me oppresses sore. 
 
 2. My adversaries ever}' day 
 
 Have gaped on me in rage ; 
 For, Oh ! Most High, many there are 
 Who war against me wage. 
 
 3. I'll, when alarmed, on thee rely. 
 
 4. I'll praise his word most true, 
 In God I trust, I will not fear ; 
 
 What can flesh to me do ? 
 
 5. They daily wrest my words ; their thoughts 
 
 Of me are all for wrong. 
 
 6. They meet, they lurk, they watch my steps, 
 
 As for my life they long. 
 
 7. Escape for them will surely be 
 
 A thing of naught at last. 
 Oh ! God do thou the people down 
 In thy displeasure cast. 
 
 8. My wanderings thou numbered hast ; 
 
 Put in thy bottle all 
 My tears ; are they not in thy book ? 
 
 9. In the same day I call, 
 
 Back shall my foes turn ; this I know. 
 That God is for me still. 
 
 10. In God the word I'll praise ; the word 
 
 Praise in the Lord I will. 
 
 11. In God I've trusted ; I'll not fear : 
 
 What can man do to me ? 
 
 12. Upon me are thy vows, O God ; 
 
 Thanks I will pay to thee. 
 
 13. Wilt thou not, who from death hast saved 
 
 My soul, from falling stay 
 My feet, that in the light of life 
 Walk before God I may ? 
 
Psalm LVII. 
 
 i. Be merciful to me, God. 
 
 Be merciful to me. 
 Because my soul hath hitherto 
 
 A refuge found in thee. 
 Under the shadow of thy wings 
 
 For refuge I will stay, 
 Until these sad calamities 
 
 Shall all have passed away. 
 
 2. I will eall unto God, Most High, 
 
 Unto the mighty one, 
 Who finisheth in my behalf 
 What he hath once begun. 
 
 3. From Heaven he will send, and me 
 
 Preserve. He hath contemned 
 Him who pants after me ; God will 
 His truth and mercy send. 
 
 4. My soul mid lions is ; I lie 
 
 Down among burning ones, 
 Men's sons, whose teeth are spears and darts, 
 And like sharp swords their tongues. 
 
 5. Be thou exalted very far 
 
 Above the heavens, Oh ! God. 
 Thy glory be advanced above 
 All of the earth abroad. 
 
 6. A net they for my steps had set ; 
 
 Bow'd down my soul would be. 
 They fell themselves into the pit, 
 Which they had dug for me. 
 
 7. My heart is fixed, is fixed, O God, 
 
 Fll sing, and sing a psalm. 
 
 8. My glory wake ! wake lute and harp ! 
 
 I will awake at dawn. 
 
 9. Thee, Lord, Fll praise abroad, among 
 
 Nations sing psalms will I. 
 
 10. For great to heaven thy mercy is, 
 
 Thy truth through space on high. 
 
 11. Be thou exalted very far 
 
 Above the heavens, O God ; 
 Thy glory be advanced above 
 All of the earth abroad. 
 
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 Psalm LVIII. 
 
 i. Are ye then dumb indeed, when ye 
 Should righteousness decree, 
 And ye, the sons of men, should give 
 Judgment in equity ? 
 
 2. Moreover, ye will in your heart 
 
 Practice iniquity : 
 And in the land the violence 
 Of your hands weigh will ye. 
 
 3. They wholly alienated are, 
 
 Bad from the womb are they. 
 And speaking falsehood, from their birth 
 They all have gone astray. 
 
 4. Their poison like a serpent's is ; 
 
 As a deaf asp, his ears 
 
 5. He stops, and no enchanter's voice, 
 
 Charming with skill, lie hears. 
 
 6. Do thou their teeth within their mouth, 
 
 Oh God, at once break out ; 
 And shatter the great teeth, O Lord, 
 Of the young lions stout. 
 
 7. Like waters they will disappear, 
 
 They soon will glide away. 
 'Hie bow for arrows he will bend, 
 And as cut off are they. 
 
 8. He, like the snail melting to slime, 
 
 Will to his end soon run ; 
 And, like one in abortion born, 
 They never saw the sun. 
 
 9. He will, before that your flesh-pots 
 
 Have felt the kindled thorn, 
 The live and burning all alike. 
 Sweep off us with a storm, 
 
 10. The righteous man will then rejoice 
 
 When he hath vengeance seen ; 
 And he, his footsteps in the blood 
 Will bathe of wicked men. 
 
 11. And men will say, Yea, fruit there is 
 
 To righteous men brought forth ; 
 Assuredly there is a God 
 Who is Judge on the earth. 
 
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 Psalm LIX. 
 
 1. My God, me rescue from my foes ; 
 
 From those, who hostile are to me, 
 Thou wilt to safety me exalt. 
 
 2. From evil doers set me free, 
 And save me from the man of blood. 
 
 3. For, lo ! an ambush they have set 
 To take my soul ; and against me 
 
 The strong ones have together met ; 
 Not for my fault or sin, Lord. 
 
 4. Without iniquity in me, 
 
 They rush forth, and themselves array. 
 Arise to meet me, and, Oh ! see. 
 
 5. Now thou Jehovah, God of hosts, 
 
 Awake, O God of Israel, 
 Visit those nations all ; spare none 
 In wicked treachery who deal. 
 
 6. They in the evening will return, 
 
 And like the dogs will howl without, 
 And round about the city go. 
 
 7. Behold ! they with their mouths belch out ; 
 Swords in their lips are ; who them hears? 
 
 8. And thou, the Lord, wilt laugh at them ; 
 Thou wilt the nations all deride. 
 
 9. For thee, my Strength, watch will I then; 
 For God is my stronghold on high. 
 
 10. My God will, in his watchful grace, 
 Before me come. Me God will make 
 
 Upon my enemies to gaze. 
 
 11. Them stay not, lest my people should 
 
 Forgetful be. Make them abroad 
 To wander by thy power, and them 
 
 Bring down wilt thon, our Shield, O Lord. 
 
 12. Sin of their mouth is their lips' word; 
 
 And they shall caught be in the snare 
 Of their own pride, for cursing too 
 And lies they openly declare. 
 
 13. Consume in anger, them consume, 
 
 And let them here no more remain, 
 
 That all to the earth's ends may know, 
 
 That still in Jacob God doth reign. 
 
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 14. But when the evening shades descend, 
 
 They will return where they shall howl, 
 As doth a famished dog, and will 
 Again around the city prowl. 
 
 15. And they, yea, they shall wander now 
 
 About in quest of food to eat ; 
 And, though unsatisfied, they must 
 Remain all night out in the street. 
 
 16. And I will then sing of thy strength, 
 
 And at day-break thy mercy praise ; 
 For thou hast been my lofty tower, 
 
 My refuge in distressful days. 
 ,17. Oh thou, in whom is all my strength, 
 
 I unto thee the psalms will sing; 
 For God is my tower of defence 
 
 And from God all my mercies spring. 
 
 Psalm LX. 
 
 1. Oh ! God, thou hast rejected us, 
 
 And down thou hast us torn; 
 Thine anger hath enkindled been; 
 Now unto us return. 
 
 2. The land to tremble thou hast made, 
 
 And thou hast rent it all ; 
 Do thou its branches heal, for now 
 It ready is to fall. 
 
 3. Thou, those, who thine own people are, 
 
 Hast made hard things to feel ; 
 And thou hast given us to drink 
 The wine that makes us reel. 
 
 4. A banner thou hast given for them 
 
 To raise, who do thee fear, 
 That from before the face of truth 
 Aloft it may appear. 
 
 5. That all thine own beloved ones 
 
 May be delivered thus. 
 Oh ! do thou save by thy right hand 
 And answer give to us. 
 
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 6. In his own holiness God spake. 
 
 So then I triumph shall : 
 Shekem I will divide, and I 
 Will measure Succoth's vale. 
 
 7. All Gilliad, Manasseh too. 
 
 My own now rightly are ; 
 Ephraim is of my head the strength, 
 Judah my law-giver, 
 
 8. Moab my washpot is. I will 
 
 At Edom throw my shoe. 
 Philistia, shout forth at me 
 Triumphing over you. 
 
 9. Who can conduct me forward to 
 
 The city fortified ? 
 Who even up to Edom has 
 Been unto me a guide ? 
 
 10. Is it not thou, O God, who us 
 
 Away from thee didst throw ? 
 And, Oh! God, thou who wouldest not 
 Forth with our armies go ? 
 
 11. From trouble give us help, for vain 
 
 Is help which man bestows. 
 
 12. In God we strength exert ; and he 
 
 Will trample on our foes. 
 
 Psalm LXI. 
 
 Hear thou, O God, my mournful cry, 
 
 Unto my prayer attend ; 
 I, from the outskirts of the land, 
 
 My <-ry to thee will send. 
 When my poor fainting heart may be 
 
 With darkness overspread. 
 Unto a rock too high for me 
 
 To reach, thou wilt me lead. 
 For thou hast ever been to me 
 
 A refuge in thy power ; 
 In presence of the enemy 
 
 Thou hast been a strong tower. 
 I in thy tabernacle will 
 
 Forevermore abide ; 
 
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 And in the shadow of thy wings 
 For safety will confide. 
 
 5. For thou, O God, hast heard the vows 
 
 Out of my heart that came, 
 And given me the heritage 
 Of those who fear thy name. 
 
 6. A life prolonged for many days, 
 
 Thou to the King wilt give ; 
 As many generations are 
 
 The years which he shall live. 
 
 7. i3efore God to eternity 
 
 Enthroned he shall abide, 
 That they may him preserve, do thou 
 Mercy and truth provide. 
 
 8. Therefore I will forevermore 
 
 Sing psalms unto thy name ; 
 That having made my vows, T may 
 Daily perform the same. 
 
 Psalm LXII. 
 
 Only in quietude my soul 
 
 Upon my God has been, 
 For the salvation I enjoy 
 
 Doth all proceed from him. 
 He only is my hiding rock, 
 
 And my salvation free, 
 My high place of defence ; so moved 
 
 I shall not greatly be. 
 How long will ye rush on a man. 
 
 All ye with violence ? 
 Him break down, as a crumbling wall, 
 
 Or a frail shattered fence. 
 They only from his height consult 
 
 To thrust him down by force. . 
 Falsehood they like ; bless with their mouth, 
 
 But in their heart will curse. 
 Only be calm to God, my soul, 
 
 For hope from him have I, 
 My only rock, my safety, He 
 
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 Will be, and refuge high ; 
 7. I shall not shaken be. In God 
 Is my salvation sure, 
 My glory, my strong rock ; He is 
 My hiding place secure. 
 S. In every time of need, do ye 
 Oh people, trust in him ; 
 Before him pour ye out your heart ; 
 God has our refuge been. 
 9. Low men are, only vanity, 
 
 And falsehood are great men ; 
 They, less than vanity alike 
 Are found, on weighing them. 
 
 10. Trust ye not in oppression's fruits, 
 
 In rapin be not vain ; 
 Set your affections not on wealth 
 When riches you may gain. 
 
 11. Once God did speak, twice heard I thus, 
 
 That with God there is might ; 
 12. Mercy is thine, Lord, and thou wilt 
 Man for his work requite. 
 
 Psalm LXIII. 
 
 Thou, God, art my God ; Thee I'll seek 
 
 Before the day-break shines ; 
 For thee my soul thirsts ; yea, my flesh, 
 
 As in a dry land pines, 
 Wearied, and where no water is. 
 
 That I thy strength may see, 
 Thy glory, in the holy place, 
 
 As I have gazed on thee : 
 For better is thy love than life ; 
 
 My lips shall sound thy praise. 
 So in my life I will thee bless ; 
 
 My hands in thy name raise. 
 My soul, as with marrow and fat, 
 
 Well satisfied shall be ; 
 And with the lips of joyfulness 
 
 My mouth will then praise thee ; 
 
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 6. When I of thee remembered have, 
 
 As on my bed I wake ; 
 And thee my meditation sweet 
 In thy nisjht watches make. 
 
 7. For thou hast been my help ; and I'll 
 
 Be glad beneath thy wings. 
 
 8. As thy righthand doth hold me up, 
 
 My soul close to thee clings. 
 
 9. Some to their ruin seek my soul : 
 
 Into earth's depth's shall they 
 
 10. Go down, consigned be, to the sword, 
 
 To wild beasts for a prey. 
 
 11. The king shall joy in God ; in Him 
 
 Glory shall every one 
 Who swears by Him, while mouths that speak 
 Falsehood, shall closed become. 
 
 Psalm LXIV. 
 
 Unto my voice in my complaint 
 
 Do thou, O God, give ear ; 
 Thou wilt my life guard from the foe, 
 
 Of whom I am in fear. 
 Thou wilt me hide from secret schemes 
 
 Which evil doers plot, 
 And from the tumult of all those 
 
 Who wickedness have wrought. 
 As men with care their swords make sharp, 
 
 They sharpened have their tongue ; 
 As for their arrows, they the bow 
 
 For bitter speech have strung ; 
 That they in secrecy may shoot 
 
 At the upright man near ; 
 They suddenly will shoot at him, 
 
 And do it without fear. 
 An evil matter for themselves 
 
 They will confirm ; and they 
 Will tell of hiding snares. Who will 
 
 Discover them ? they say. 
 
6. Iniquities shall be searched out, 
 
 Which they would hidden keep, 
 With thorough search ; and the inside 
 And heart of man is deep. 
 
 7. And God them shoots ; they unaware 
 
 Pierced by a dart shall be. 
 
 8. He casts them down, their tongue's on them, 
 
 All seeing them shall flee. 
 
 9. And on all men a dread shall fall, 
 
 God's doings they shall tell, 
 And then the work which He hath done 
 
 They will consider well. 
 10. The just will in the Lord rejoice, 
 
 And trust in him they shall, 
 And those who upright are in heart 
 
 Shall glory in him all. 
 
 Psalm LXV. 
 
 i. Calm praise in Sion thee awaits, 
 
 O ! God ; to thee vows paid shall be. 
 
 2. Oh thou that hearer art of prayer, 
 
 Mankind should all draw near to thee. 
 
 3. Iniquities, in judgment charged, 
 
 O'er me prevailed have in their guilt ; 
 But these transgressions all of ours, 
 In mercy expiate, thou wilt. 
 
 4. How blest is he whom thou wilt choose, 
 
 And bring in thy courts to abide ; 
 In thy house, in thy holy place, 
 We with its good are satisfied. 
 
 5. Things fearful thou in righteousness 
 
 Will answer us, our Saviour, God, 
 The confidence of all the ends, 
 Of land remote, and ocean broad. 
 
 6. Girded with power, He by his strength 
 
 Settles the mountains and the hills ; 
 
 7. The roar of seas, roar of their waves, 
 
 The tumult he of nations, stills. 
 
 8. Those too who dwell in parts far off, 
 
Are at thy mighty sights afraid ; 
 And the out goings of the morn 
 
 And eve, by thee are joyful made. 
 9. Thou dost the earth visit, and drench ; 
 
 And it enrich much with the flow 
 Of God's full stream ; their corn provide, 
 
 Because thou dost prepare it so. 
 
 10. Its furrows thou dost water well ; 
 
 Its ridges rough thou dost depress ; 
 With showers thou wilt it molify, 
 And all its vegetation bless. 
 
 11. Thou with thy good hast crowned the year, 
 
 Thy paths drop fatness everywhere ; 
 
 12. They drop on pastures in the wilds ; 
 
 The hill with gladness girded are. 
 
 13. The pastures green are clothed with flocks, 
 
 And robed shall be the vales in grain, 
 They all shall shout aloud for joy, 
 Yea, sing shall they a grateful strain. 
 
 Psalm LXVI. 
 
 1. Let all the earth to God with joy 
 
 In shouts your voices raise. 
 
 2. And his name's glory sing in psalms, 
 
 Put glory on his praise. 
 
 3. Say ye to God, how terrible 
 
 These doings are of thine ! 
 And through the vastness of thy power 
 Thy foes to thee shall feign. 
 
 4. The whole earth bowing psalms shall s 
 
 Thy name praise in the psalm. 
 
 5. Come see God's works, fearful in acts 
 
 Towards the sons of man. 
 
 6. Into dry land the sea he turned, 
 
 So that they could dry shod, 
 On foot pass over through the Hood ; 
 There we rejoiced in God. 
 
 7. He rules forever in his might, 
 
 Nations his eye surveys ; 
 
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 Let not those who rebellious are 
 Themselves in boasting raise. 
 
 8. Extol, ye nations all, our God, 
 
 Sound ye his praise aloud, 
 
 9. Who sets our soul in life, nor hath 
 
 Our foot to slip allowed. 
 
 10. For thou, God, hast us tried and proved, 
 
 As silver is assayed ; 
 
 11. Brought us into a net, and hast 
 
 On our loins pressure laid. 
 
 12. Thou hast let men ride o'er our heads ; 
 
 Into the fire we came, 
 And waters, and thou hast us brought 
 Where we abundance gain. 
 
 13. I'll to thine house burnt offerings bring 
 
 And pay my vows to thee, 
 
 14. Which my lips uttered, my mouth spake, 
 
 When troubles pressed on me. 
 
 15. Burnt offerings of fatlings I 
 
 With fat of rams will bring ; 
 Of cattle with he-goats I will 
 Present an offering. 
 
 16. Come, hear, all who fear God, I'll tell 
 
 What he did for my soul. 
 
 17. I with my mouth unto him called. 
 
 My tongue did him extol. 
 18. If in my heart I favoured sin, 
 The Lord me would not hear. 
 
 19. God did me hear, and did attend 
 
 To the voice of my prayer. 
 
 20. Oh ! let the Lord, our gracious God 
 
 In praises blessed be. - T ~™ 
 
 Who turned not off my prayer from him, 
 Nor his mercy from me. 
 
 Psalm LXVII. 
 
 1. May God be merciful to us, 
 And bless us in his grace. 
 And may he cause to shine on us 
 
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 The brightness of his face ; 
 That so thy way may unto men 
 
 Throughout the earth be known. 
 And thy salvation merciful 
 
 Among all nations shown. 
 Nations shall thee confess, O God, 
 
 All nations thee confess ; 
 The nations shall rejoice in thee, 
 
 And shout in joyfulness ; ' 
 When people thou wilt justly judge 
 
 Nations on earth control. 
 Nations, O God shall thee confess, 
 
 Confess shall nations all. 
 The earth its produce yielded hath ; 
 
 Us bless will God, our God ; 
 God will us help, and fear him shall 
 
 All on the earth abroad. 
 
 Psalm LXVIII. 
 
 God will arise ; and scattered then 
 
 His enemies shall be ; 
 And those who haters are of him, 
 
 Before his face shall flee. 
 As wind drives smoke, thou wilt them drive 
 
 As fire melts wax away, 
 So wicked men before God's face, 
 
 Shall perish in dismay. 
 But glad shall be the righteous ones : 
 
 They will before God's sight 
 Triumph with joy, yea, they shall be 
 
 Transported with delight. 
 To God sing, praise his name in psalms. 
 
 Prepare for him that rides 
 The deserts through by his name, Jah ; 
 
 Him welcome on all sides. 
 Of all those that are fatherless, 
 
 A father near is God ; 
 And he of widows is the Judge, 
 
 In his holy abode. 
 
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 6. The lonely, God settles in homes : 
 
 The captives he brings out 
 To comforts ; only rebels still 
 Dwell in a land of drought. 
 
 7. Oh ! God, when thou didst forth advance 
 
 Before thy people's face, 
 And when thy stately steppings were 
 Within the desert waste, 
 
 8. The earth itself did quake, the heavens 
 „ Did then its stores distill. 
 
 This was at Sinai, before God 
 The God of Israel. 
 
 9. Thou, God, down on thy heritage 
 
 A rain of gifts didst pour ; 
 And when fatigued it did become, 
 Its strength thou didst restore. 
 
 10. Thy flock dwelt there ; in goodness thou 
 
 Wilt for the poor provide. 
 
 11. The Lord gave word ; women in crowds 
 
 Spread the glad tidings wide. 
 
 12. Kings shall with their whole armies flee, 
 
 Yea, they shall flee away ; 
 And she shall then divide the spoil, 
 Who in her house did stay. 
 
 13. Ye, like a dove appear, when ye 
 
 Lie down within the fold. 
 Whose wings with silver covered are, 
 Her feathers with fine gold. 
 
 14. When God, the Strong, routs kings therein, 
 
 Salmon with snow is white. 
 
 15. A mountain vast, Mount Bashan is, 
 
 Mount Bashan, great in height. 
 
 16. Ye mounts, ye heights, why will ye watch 
 
 That mount, where to abide 
 God hath desired, yea, Jehovah 
 Forever will reside. 
 
 17. God's chariots twenty thousand are, 
 
 Yea, thousands numberless ; 
 The Lord among them is, — Sinai 
 Within the holy place. 
 
 18. Lord God, thou hast ascended high ; 
 
 Captured captivity, 
 
Hast gifts received for men, yea more ; 
 Made rebels down to lie. 
 
 19. The Lord is to be praised each day ; 
 
 He will carry a load 
 For us ; our whole salvation is 
 From the Almighty God. 
 
 20. God, the Almighty ever is 
 
 For our salvation strong ; 
 And to Jehovah, Lord, from death 
 The out-goings belong. 
 
 21. God certainly will crush the head 
 
 Of those who are his foes. 
 The hairy crown of him who stil! 
 On in his trespass goes. 
 
 22. Jehovah hath said, I will back 
 
 From Bashan Mount bring thee 
 And I will bring thee up again 
 From the depths of the sea. 
 
 23. Therefore it will be yet, that thou 
 
 Thy foot in blood wilt shake ; 
 And of thine enemies the tongue 
 Of thy dogs shall partake. 
 
 24. O God, they thy processions saw, 
 
 Of my God, and my King ; 
 Processions, in the holy place ; 
 
 25. Before went those that sing, 
 Players behind, damsels in midst, 
 
 Drumming on timbrels go. 
 
 26. Bless in assemblies God, ye who 
 
 From Israel's fountains flow. 
 
 27. There is small Benjamin, their chief ; 
 
 Judah's lords with their throng ; 
 And chieftains, who to Zebulon 
 And Napthali, belong. 
 
 28. Thy God ordains thy strength. Confirm 
 
 What thou for us hast done, 
 
 29. For thy house at Jerusalem 
 
 Where kings with gifts shall come. 
 
 30. Beasts from the reeds, bullock.- in herds, 
 
 The nation's calves, reproves, 
 Though they with silver pieces crouch ; 
 Nations to blight he drove, 
 
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 31. That did in wars delight. Princes 
 
 Shall out of Egypt come ; 
 And Ethiopia to God 
 
 With hands out-stretched shall run. 
 
 32. To God sing, to the Lord sing psalms 
 
 Ye kingdoms of the earth. 
 
 33. He rides in heavens of heavens old. 
 
 Behold ! he giveth forth 
 With his own voice, a voice of power. 
 
 34. Strength unto God ascribe. 
 His splendor over Israel 
 
 And strength mid clouds abide. 
 
 35. God, fearful fjom thy sanctuaries, 
 
 Strong God of Israel, he 
 Gives to the people strength and powers, 
 Oh ! let God honored be. 
 
 Psalm LXIX. 
 
 . God, save me, for the waters now 
 
 Into my soul have come ; 
 , I in a miry deep have sunk, 
 
 Where standing there is none : 
 The water's depths I entered have ; 
 Floods over me have flown. 
 . In my long crying unto thee 
 I now have weary grown. 
 My throat is parching ; my eyes do fail, 
 While for my God I wait. 
 . More than hairs of my head, are they 
 Who without cause me hate ; 
 Those who would me destroy, my foes, 
 
 In falsehood all combine ; 
 What I gained not by robbery, 
 That I must then resign. 
 . Thou of my folly knowest, O God, 
 My faults have not from thee 
 Been hid. Let none who on thee wait 
 
 Be put to shame for me, 
 Oh! Lord, Jehovah, God of hosts ; 
 
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 Let none who have thee sought, 
 
 Israel's God, on my account 
 Into disgrace be brought. 
 
 7. Since for thy sake I've borne reproach, 
 
 My face has suffered shame. 
 
 8. To those who are my brethren near 
 
 A stranger I became, 
 An alien to my mother's sons. 
 
 9. For of thy house the zeal 
 Hath me consumed — revilings casf 
 
 At thee, upon me fell. 
 
 10. When I in fasts bewailed my soul, 
 
 Reproach was on me laid ; 
 
 11. When I for clothing sackcloth wore, 
 
 That they a by-word made. 
 
 12. They, who sit down within the gates. 
 
 In their minds of me think ; 
 
 1 am the song of those who are 
 
 The drinkers of strong drink. 
 
 13. But in a time acceptable 
 
 To the Lord is my prayer ; 
 Me in thy mercy great, and truth 
 Of thy salvation, hear. 
 
 14. Deliver me out of the mire, 
 
 And me from sinking keep. 
 
 Let me be from my haters saved, 
 
 And from the waters deep. 
 
 15. Let not the flood me overwhelm, 
 
 Engulphed let me not be 
 Within the deep, nor let the pit 
 Its mouth close upon me. 
 
 16. To me an answer give, O Lord, 
 
 For precious is thy grace : 
 In thy compassions plenteous, 
 Turn towards me thy face ; 
 
 17. Nor from thy servent hide thy face, 
 
 For in distress am I. 
 Oh! make thou haste to answer me. 
 iS. Unto my soul draw nigh, 
 
 Ransom thou it, and on account 
 Of my foes me rescue, 
 19. Thou knowest my shame, reproach, disgrace 
 
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 My foes are in thy view. 
 
 20. Reproaches broken have my heart, 
 
 And I am sick become ; 
 T for some pity waited have, 
 
 Yet for me there is none, 
 For comforters, yet found them not. 
 
 21. But gall to me they gave 
 For food, and vinegar to drink 
 
 When I did water crave. 
 
 22. Their 'table shall before their face 
 
 Be turned into a snare ; 
 And, seeking worldly peace, a trap 
 They for themselves prepare. 
 
 23. From seeing, darkened be their eyes, 
 
 And cause their loins to shake. 
 
 24. Thine anger pour on them, and let 
 
 Thy hot wrath them o'ertake ; 
 
 25. Their home be desolate, and in 
 
 Their tents let no one dwell. 
 
 26. For whom thou smitten hast, they chase, 
 
 Grief of thy slain they tell. 
 
 27. Iniquity thou wilt on their 
 
 Iniquity permit ; 
 And into thine own righteousness 
 
 Them thou wilt not admit. 
 2S. Let them all from the Book of Life 
 
 Be blotted out by thee ; 
 And with the righteous ones, let not 
 
 Their names recorded be. 
 
 29. As for myself afflicted sore, 
 
 And sorrowful am I; 
 Yet thy deliverance O God, 
 Shall set me safe on high. 
 
 30. Then I will praise the name of God 
 
 In songs that T will sing, 
 And ever will him magnify 
 In earnest thanksgiving. 
 
 31. And this unto Jehovah will 
 
 A better offering form 
 Than ox or bullock, beasts that have 
 The cloven foot and horn. 
 
 32. The humble men shall all behold, 
 
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 It joy to them shall give, 
 To them that seekers are of God; 
 
 And may your soul still live! 
 33. For God the poor hears, and does not 
 
 His prisoners contemn. 
 84, Let heaven him praise, the earth, the seas, 
 
 And all that moves in them. 
 
 35, For God will Sion save, and will 
 
 Cities of Judah raise; 
 And there shall they their dwelling nx v 
 And them possess always. 
 
 36. And it his servants' seed shall for 
 
 A heritage retain, 
 And in it quietly shall duel! 
 The lovers of his name, 
 
 Psalm LXX. 
 
 1. Oh my God, to deliver me, 
 
 To help me, Lord, make haste. 
 
 2. Those who now >,eek my soul, shall be 
 
 Confounded and disgraced; 
 ;Turned back shall they be and reproached, 
 Who in my heart delight; 
 
 3. Turned back with shame shall they yet be, 
 
 Who say, ha! ha! in spite. 
 
 4. In thee shall all joy and be glad, 
 
 W r ho do thee >eek; and they 
 Who thy salvation love, always, 
 The Lord be great, will say. 
 
 5. Since I afflicted am and poor, 
 
 O God, haste to me now. 
 My helper, my deliverer, 
 O Lord, delay not thou, 
 
 Psalm LXXI. 
 
 I trusted have in thee, O Lord, 
 Shamed let me never be. 
 
2. Thou wilt in thine own righteousness 
 
 Release and rescue me; 
 To me incline thine ear, me save. 
 
 3. Be as a house of stone, 
 Where I continually may have 
 
 Entrance, as to my home; 
 That I should be delivered, thou 
 Hast issued thy command, 
 
 4. For thou my rock and fortress art.- 
 
 Free me, God, from the hand 
 Of the ungodly, from the grasp 
 Of the perverse and rude. 
 
 5. For thou, O Lord, hast been my hope, 
 
 My trust from my childhood. 
 
 6. I from the womb have leaned on thee; 
 
 From birth through all my days 
 Thou hast me fostered, and with thee 
 Has always been my praise. 
 
 7. To many I've a wonder been; 
 
 Thou art my refuge strong. 
 
 8. My mouth shall fdled be with thy praise 
 
 And beauty, all day long. 
 
 9. In my old age cast be not off; 
 
 When strength fails, leave me not. 
 
 10. For about me my foes have said, 
 
 As they, consulting plot 
 Together, watching for my soul, 
 
 11. Saying, with me in view, 
 God hath, indeed forsaken him; 
 
 So let us him pursue, 
 And seize on him, for there is none 
 Him to deliver now. 
 
 12. God, be not far from me, my God, 
 
 For my help hasten thou. 
 
 13. They shall be shamed, consumed, who do 
 
 Against my soul conspire; 
 Reproach and shame shall cover them 
 . Who do my hurt desire. 
 
 14. But as for me, with confidence 
 
 I still will hope always; 
 And I will yet add more and more 
 To the sum of thy praise. 
 
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 15. My mouth thy righteousness and thy 
 
 Salvation will recount 
 All the day long, though I know not 
 How great is their amount. 
 
 1 6. In the great power of the Lord 
 
 Jehovah, I will come; 
 Thy righteousness make mention of 
 I will, of thine alone. 
 
 17. Oh God, me from my early youth 
 
 To praise thee thou hast taught. 
 And hitherto I would declare 
 
 The wonders thou hast wrought. 
 1 3. God leave me not, as I unto 
 
 Old age and gray hairs go. 
 Till to this age thine arm, thy strength 
 
 To all to come, I show. 
 
 19. Thy righteousnes> extend, O God, 
 
 Unto the utmost height; 
 O God, who hast done mighty deeds, 
 Who is like thee in might? 
 
 20. Thou, who disasters many hast . 
 
 Us shown, and ills severe; 
 Wilt turn and give unto us life, 
 Wilt turn and us uprear 
 
 21. From the depths of the earth. Thou wilt 
 
 Augment my greatness still. 
 Thou wilt me compass round, and me 
 With consolations fill. 
 
 22. Hence with the harp, my God, I'll thanks 
 
 For thy truth to thee pay, 
 And will sing psalms to thee in praise 
 
 As on the harp I'll play, 
 Thou holy one of Israel. 
 
 23. My lips shall joyful be, 
 
 For psalms will I sing, and my soul 
 Which was redeemed by thee. 
 
 24. My tongue shall of thy righteousness 
 
 With much thought daily speak 
 As they are put to shame, and blush 
 Who do my damage seek. 
 
Psalm LXXII. 
 
 1. Oh! God, thy judgments give the king. 
 
 His son, thy righteousness. 
 
 2. Thy people he will justly judge, 
 
 Thy poor with uprightness. 
 
 3. The mountains lofty and the hills, 
 
 A happy quietness 
 Shall bring forth for the people all, 
 By means of righteousness. 
 
 4. The people's poor ones he shall judge, 
 
 The need'y's children save; 
 And will at last in pieces break 
 Those who opposed them have; 
 
 5. While sun and moon last, they'll thee fear, 
 
 From age to age henceforth. 
 
 6. Like rain on meadows he will drop, 
 
 As showers watering the earth. 
 
 7. The righteous therefore in his days 
 
 Shall flourish, and of peace 
 
 A great abundance there shall be 
 
 Until the moon shall cease/ 
 
 8. He'll ride from sea to sea, and from 
 
 The river to earth's Gm\. 
 
 9. To him rude men shall bow, his foes 
 
 To lick the dust shall bend. 
 
 10. The kings of Tarshish, and the isles, 
 
 Shall send an offering, 
 Of Sheba and Seba the kings 
 Shall grateful presents bring. 
 
 11. And to him all kings shall bow down; 
 
 Serve him shall nations all. 
 
 12. For he the needy will relieve, 
 
 When they will to him call, 
 And wretched, destitute of help. 
 
 13. The worthless he will spare, 
 
 The poor,- and he will save the souls 
 Of those, distressed that are. 
 
 14. From outrage and oppressive wrongs 
 
 He will their souls redeem; 
 And very precious too, their blood 
 Shall be in his esteem. 
 
15. And he shall live; and give to him 
 
 Of Sheba's golden store. 
 And for him he shall always pray, 
 Him all day long adore. 
 
 1 6. Of corn an handful on the ground 
 
 On tops of mountains sow; 
 Its first fruit shall wave like Lebanon 
 
 When winds upon it blow. 
 They from the city flourish shall, 
 
 And they shall much abound 
 In number, even as the grass 
 
 That springs forth from the ground* 
 
 17. His name shall ever last; and spread 
 
 Far as the sun its rays; 
 All nations shall be blest in him, 
 And call him blest in praise. 
 
 18. Oh! blessed be Jehovah, God, 
 
 The God of Israel, 
 The worker of the wondrous works 
 In glory that excel. 
 
 19. And blessed be his glorious name 
 
 To all eternity; 
 The whole earth let his glory fill. 
 Amen! so let it be. 
 
 Psalm LXXIII. 
 
 1. God only good to Israel is, 
 
 Those in heart purified; 
 
 2. And my own feet were almost gone, 
 
 My steps nigh slipped aside. 
 
 3. For I envied the proud; the peace 
 
 Of wicked men would see; 
 
 4. For in their death there are no pangs, 
 
 And their strength firm will be. 
 
 5. They're not in toil like mortal men, 
 
 Nor like man are they plagued. 
 
 6. Therefore, as with a chain of gold, 
 
 They are with pride arrayed, 
 And clothed in robes of violence. 
 
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 7. Their eyes their fatness shows, 
 And the imaginations vain 
 
 Of their heart overflow. 
 
 8. They mock, speak wickedness, and will 
 
 Oppression loudly talk. 
 
 9. They set their mouth in heavens, their tongue 
 
 On earth at large will walk. 
 
 10. Therefore His people in their thoughts 
 
 To this will turn about, 
 When waters, overflowing, have 
 Been unto them wrung out. 
 
 11. And they have said in view of this, 
 
 How is it God hath kuown? 
 And can their knowledge be with Him 
 Who is the Highest one? 
 
 12. Lo! there are bad men; still they are 
 
 Prospered and riches gain. 
 
 13. Then Iv'e my heart cleansed, my hand washed 
 
 For innocence in vain; 
 
 14. For every day throughout I have 
 
 With sore stripes smitten been, 
 And every morning I received 
 My chastisement from Him. 
 
 15. If I had said within myself, 
 
 Thus I will speak, lo! I, 
 The generation of thy sons, 
 Would treat with perfidy. 
 
 16. I studied this to know; it w r as 
 
 A trouble unto me; 
 
 17. Till to God's holy place I came, 
 
 Then I their end could see. 
 1 3. In places slippery everywhere, 
 
 There thou didst set them all; 
 And thou into destruction deep 
 Hast left them down to fall. 
 
 19. How in a moment thus are they 
 
 To desolation sent; 
 Thus hurled are they away, consumed 
 With terrors violent. 
 
 20. As one awake regards a dream, 
 
 His thoughts in sleep may form, 
 So in thy rising up, O Lord, 
 
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 Thou their vain show wilt scorn. 
 
 21. My heart embittered has become, 
 
 My reins are pierced in me. 
 
 22. I stupid was, and would not know; 
 
 A beast I've been to thee. 
 
 23. Yet I am with thee; thou hast me 
 
 By my right hand held fast. 
 
 24. Thou by thy counsel wilt me guide 
 
 'And thus thou wilt at last 
 Into thy glory me receive. 
 
 25. ' Who is in heaven for me? 
 And of those on the earth I have 
 
 Envied, there's none with thee. 
 
 26. My flesh and heart may waste away; 
 
 But the strength of my heart, 
 And to eternity, Oh! God, 
 My portion prized, thou art. 
 
 27. For lo! they, who are far from thee, 
 
 Shall into ruin fall; 
 And them, who from thee lusting go, 
 Thou soon destroyest all. 
 
 28. But as for me, its for my good, 
 
 That I to God draw near; 
 I in the Lord Jehovah trust, 
 All thy works to declare. 
 
 Psalm LXXIV. 
 
 For what, O God, hast thou cast off? 
 
 For perpetuity? 
 Shall thy wrath, smoke against the sheep 
 
 Of pastures owned by thee? 
 The congregation which is thine, 
 
 In thy remembrance hold, 
 Thy people who were formed by thee 
 
 Once in the days of old, 
 And who thou didst redeem, the rod 
 
 Of thine inheritance, 
 The mount of Sion, this, where thou 
 
 Hast had thy residence. 
 
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 3- Do thou thy footsteps raise against 
 Ruins perpetual. 
 What to thy sanctuary this foe 
 Hath done was evil all. 
 
 4. Thine enemies their roaring have 
 
 Through thy assemblies sent. 
 They theirown signs portentous have 
 For signs made prominent: 
 
 5. It too shall yet be known abroad, 
 
 That as the woodmen go 
 To work, with axes upwards raised, 
 To lay a thicket low. 
 
 6. So will they altogether yet 
 
 The ax and hammer take; 
 And they the sculptures all thereof 
 Will into pieces brake. 
 
 7. They have thy sanctuary cast 
 
 Into the fiery flame. 
 And down into the earth profaned 
 The dwelling of thy mame. 
 
 8. They have said in their hearts, We will 
 
 Them wholly overturn, 
 As they the temples all of El 
 Within the land did burn; 
 
 9. We our own tokens have not seen, 
 
 There is no prophet now; 
 Nor is there with us any, who 
 The time, how long? do know. 
 
 10. How long, God, shall the enemy 
 
 Revilings thus outpour? 
 Oh! how long shall the foe thy name 
 Blaspheme? forevermore? 
 
 11. Wherefore thy hand and thy righthand 
 
 Back from us wilt thou take? 
 Out from thy bosom draw thou it, 
 And them to perish make. 
 
 12. And from of old God is my King, 
 
 Salvations worketh .he 
 
 13. In midst of all the earth. Thou didst 
 
 By thy strength cleave the sea. 
 Thou broken on the waters hast 
 The heads of dragons rude ; 
 
14. Heads of leviathans hast crushed, 
 
 Which thou dost give for food 
 To people in the wilderness. 
 
 15. The earth thou didst divide 
 
 For fountains and for streams. Thou hast 
 The ancient rivers dried. 
 
 16. Thine is the day and night; thou dost 
 
 The light and sun prepare, 
 
 17. S^t all earth's hounds, and formed by thee 
 
 Summer and winter are. 
 
 18. Remember this; a foe the Lord 
 
 Hath treated with disdain; 
 
 And that a foolish people have 
 
 Contemned thy holy name. 
 
 19. To the voracious here do not 
 
 Thy turtle dove give o'er. 
 The flock of thy afflicted one> 
 Forget not evermore. 
 
 20. Look to the covenant. For in 
 
 The darknesses profound 
 That cover all the earth, the homes 
 Of violence abound. 
 
 21. Let none of those, who are oppressed, 
 
 Be driven back with shame; 
 But let the humble and the poor 
 Give praises to thy name. 
 
 22. Oh! God do thou arise, and plead 
 
 The cause that is thine own, 
 Remember the reproach by fools 
 Upon thee daily thrown. 
 
 23. Be not forgetful of the voice 
 
 Of those who are thy foes, 
 The noise of thy assailants proud 
 Which always upward goes. 
 
 Psalm LXXV. 
 
 I. We do give thanks to thee, O God, 
 We do give thanks sincere; 
 
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 And all thy wondrous works decl arc- 
 That thy dread name is near. 
 
 2. Because the congregation I 
 
 Shall have received from thee. 
 I judgment will administer 
 In perfect equity. 
 
 3. The land and its inhabitants 
 
 Are in a state decayed; 
 And I the pillars all thereof 
 
 With carefulness have weighed. 
 
 4. I to the boastful said, Do not 
 
 Yourselves with praise adorn, 
 And unto them that wicked are, 
 Lift ye not up the horn; 
 
 5. Lift not your horn on high, nor speak 
 
 With stubborn neck in pride. 
 
 6. For not from east or west or south 
 
 Is eminence derived. 
 
 7. But God is Judge; he humbles one, 
 
 Another he lifts up. 
 
 8. Because there is now in the hand 
 
 Of the just Lord a cup, 
 With turbid wine, and mixtures tilled, 
 
 And from this he pours forth; 
 Its dregs wring out, yea, drink must all 
 
 The wicked of the earth. 
 
 9. But I will ever tell, in psalms 
 
 I Jacob's God will praise. 
 
 to. All horns, of bad men I'll cut off, 
 
 Of just men, I will raise. 
 
 Psalm LXXVI. 
 
 God is in Judah known; his name 
 
 Is great in Israel. 
 Aud he in Salem has his tent, 
 
 His home on Sion hill. 
 There he hath broken arrows, bow, 
 
 Shield, sword, and war's array. 
 Oh glorious one! splendid art thou 
 
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 Forth from the hills of prey. 
 The stout of heart succumbed to spoil: 
 
 They slept their sleep profound; 
 And though they were all men of might. 
 
 Vet none their hands had found. 
 Oh Jacob's God, before the force 
 
 Of thy rebuke alone, 
 Roth the war-chariot and horse 
 
 Into deep sleep were thrown. 
 Thou art the one most to be feared, 
 
 Even thou; and, who is he 
 That can stand up before thy face 
 
 If thou shouldest angry be? 
 From heaven thou judgment didst pronounce, 
 
 The earth feared and was still, 
 When, to save all the meek on earth, 
 
 God rise to judgment will. 
 Because the wrath of mortal man 
 
 Shall to thy praise redound, 
 And thou the residue of wrath 
 
 Wilt closely gird around. 
 Vow to the Lord your God, and pray, 
 
 All ye who round him come. 
 And let your presents flow to him, 
 
 The venerable One. 
 The spirit of the princes high 
 
 On earth break down will He; 
 And to the monarchs of the earth 
 
 Most terrible will be. 
 
 Paslm LXXVII. 
 
 I unto God will raise my voice, 
 
 And forth my cries will send; 
 I unto God will raise my voice, 
 
 He will to me attend. 
 In my distre.-s I .>ought the Lord, 
 
 My hands, outstretched, did hold 
 By night unceasingly; my soul 
 
 Refused to be consoled. 
 I will remember God, still I 
 
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 Disquieted complain. 
 I muse in mind, but overwhelmed 
 In spirit I remain. 
 
 4. Thou hast my eyelids closed; smitten 
 
 I am, and speak can not. 
 
 5. On days of old, and on the years 
 
 Of ancient times I thought. 
 
 6. I will my music in the night 
 
 Remember with desire; 
 
 I in my heart will meditate, 
 
 My spirit will inquire, 
 
 7. Forever will the Lord cast off? ■ 
 
 And favour show no more? 
 
 8. Forever has his mercy ceased? 
 
 His word failed evermore? 
 
 9. Forgotten to be gracious hath 
 
 The mighty One above? 
 Or is it so, that he in wrath 
 I lath shut up all his love? 
 
 10. And I said, This my sickness is, 
 
 Which hath upon me come 
 In years of the righthand of him 
 Who is the Highest One. 
 
 11. I will commemorate with praise 
 
 Jehovah's doings all, 
 For I thy wondrous works of old 
 W 7 ill to remembrance call; 
 
 12. And I will ponder well thy work, 
 
 And thy deeds contemplate. 
 
 13. Most holy is thy way. Like God 
 
 WHhat mighty one is great? 
 
 14. Thou, the Almighty, wondrous deeds 
 
 Hast done; thou hast made known 
 Among the nations thy great power. 
 
 15. Thou by thine arm alone, 
 Jacob's and Joseph's offspring all, 
 
 Thy people, didst redeem. 
 
 16. The waters have thee seen, O God, 
 
 The waters have thee seen, 
 They trembled; yea, deep places quaked. 
 
 17. The clonds poured waters out; 
 The highest skies uttered their voice; 
 
Thine arrows flew about. 
 iS. Thy thunder's voice sounded along 
 The track the whirlwind took. 
 Thy lightnings lightened up the world, 
 The earth trembled and shook. 
 
 19. Within the deep sea is thy way, 
 
 Where mighty waters flow, 
 Thy paths are hid, and there is none 
 Who do thy footsteps know. 
 
 20. Thy people like a flock of sheep, 
 
 Thou didst, under the hand 
 ( )f Moses and of Aaron, guide 
 Out of the bondage land. 
 
 Psalm LXXVIII. 
 
 Hearken, my people, to my law; 
 
 Your ear incline ye all 
 Unto the sayings of my mouth. 
 
 I'll in a parable 
 Open my mouth; and utter will 
 
 Some riddles of times old, 
 Which we nave heard, and have them known, 
 
 And as our fathers told. 
 We will not hide them from their sons, 
 
 But tell the age to come 
 The praises of the Lord, his strength, 
 
 And wonders he hath done; 
 And he a testimony did 
 
 In Jacob set, and laid 
 On Israel a law; all which 
 
 He then our fathers bade 
 To make them to their sons well known; 
 
 That the next age that comes 
 Might know them, sons be born, stand up, 
 
 And tell them to their sons; 
 That they may place in God their hope, 
 
 And they remember may, 
 The deeds of the Almighty One. 
 
 And his command obev. 
 
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 8. And not be, as their fathers were, 
 
 Race stubborn and austere, 
 A race not right in heart, with God 
 In spirit not sincere. 
 
 9. The sons of Ephraim were like 
 
 The archers armed with bows, 
 Who in the day of battle turn 
 Their back before their foes. 
 
 10. God's covenant they would not keep, 
 
 Nor in his law would go; 
 
 11. His deeds and wonders they forgot 
 
 Which he to them did show. 
 
 12. In presence of their fathers, he 
 
 Wonders, before unknown, 
 
 Within the land of Egypt did, 
 
 And in the plain of Zoan. 
 
 13. Asunder he did cleave the sea; 
 
 And them to pass through cause; 
 And he the water made to stand 
 As though a heap it was. 
 
 14. Beneath a cloud by day, at night 
 
 By firelight he them guides; 
 
 15. Splits in the desert rocks, and drink 
 
 Asa great deep provides; 
 iC. Drew streams from rock, and waters made 
 
 A.^ rivers to descend. 
 17. Yet they continued more and more 
 
 Against him to offend; 
 Against the Highest to rebel, 
 
 Even in the desert waste. 
 iS. There in their heart they tempted God, 
 
 To claim food for their taste. 
 
 19. They too concerning God did speak, 
 
 And in their murmurs said, 
 Can God within the wilderness 
 For us a table spread? 
 
 20. True! he smote rock, and waters flow, 
 
 And all the torrents gush. 
 But can he give his people bread? 
 And furnish them with flesh? 
 
 21. Therefore the Lord heard and was wroth, 
 
 And fire rose into flame, 
 
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 On Jacob, and in Israel 
 Up indignation came. 
 
 22. For they did not trust God, nor in 
 
 His saving strength confide; 
 
 23. Though he the clouds bade from above, 
 
 And heaven's doors opened wide; 
 
 24. And rained on them manna for food, 
 
 And corn of heaven them gave. 
 
 25. Man ate of angels' bread; he sent 
 
 Food more than they could crave. 
 
 26. He did then in the heavens cause 
 
 An east wind forth to go, 
 
 And by his power he drove out 
 
 A southern wind to blow; 
 
 27. And rained down on them flesh like dust, 
 
 Like sea shore sands, winged fowl; 
 2S. And let it fall within his camp, 
 Around his dwellings all. 
 
 29. They ate, and glutted were. Thus he 
 
 Did their desire fulfill; 
 
 30. From which they had not turned, their food 
 
 Within their mouth was still, 
 
 31. When God's wrath up among them came. 
 
 And of their fat ones slew; 
 And the choice youth of Israel 
 Down very low it threw. 
 
 32. For all this still they sinned, nor faith 
 
 In his great wonders placed. 
 
 33. So he, their days in vanity, 
 
 Their years in dread, did wa>te. 
 
 34. If he them slew, then they him sought, 
 
 Early inquired again. 
 
 35. For God, and that God was their rock 
 
 They would remember then; 
 And, that the Mighty, the Most High, 
 Had their Redeemer been. 
 
 36. Vet with their mouth they him deceived, 
 
 With their tongue lied to him. 
 
 37. Their heart with him not constant was, 
 
 Nor to his covenant true. 
 33. Yet he, gracious, forgave their sin, 
 Nor whollv them o'erthrew. 
 
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 And he his anger oft recalled, 
 Aroused not all his wrath; 
 
 39. Remembered that they were but flesh, 
 
 A fleeting, failing breath. 
 
 40. How often in the wilderness 
 
 Would they him there resist. 
 
 41. And in the desert grieve; they would 
 
 In tempting God persist. 
 And Israel's Holy One repulse. 
 
 42. Thus they remembered not 
 
 His hand, the day when them from all 
 Their enemies he brought. 
 
 43. His signs in Egypt, wonders great 
 
 In Zoan's fields he set. 
 
 44. And rivers turned to blood, that none 
 
 Drink from their streams could get. 
 
 45. He sends on them flies to devour, 
 
 And frogs them to despoil. 
 
 46. Gave caterpillars, their increase, 
 
 Locusts fruits of their toil. 
 
 47. With hail he kills their vines, with frost 
 
 Their sycamores he blasts; 
 4S. Their cattle to the hail, their flocks 
 Into the flames he casts. 
 
 49. He burning anger sends on them, 
 
 Wrath, vengeance and despair, 
 A mission of the messengers 
 That dire disasters bear. 
 
 50. He for his anger made a path; 
 
 And he did not their soul 
 Withhold from death, and of their life 
 He gave the plague control. 
 
 51. He smote in Egypt the first-born 
 
 Of all, both beast and man, 
 Yea, the first fruits of all their strength 
 Within the tents of Ham. 
 
 52. Then his own people as a flock 
 
 Of sheep he did remove, 
 And them into the wilderness 
 Directed as a drove. 
 
 53. And them in safety he did guide, 
 
 And they from fear were free; 
 
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 When all their adversaries were 
 Covered beneath the sea. 
 
 54. He caused, that they should onward to 
 
 His holy border come, 
 Unto this mountain, which he had 
 With his own right hand won. 
 
 55. For them he drove the nations out. 
 
 Their lands he did divide 
 
 For heritage, and in their tents 
 
 Made Israel's tribes reside. 
 
 56. Yet they did tempt God, the Most High, 
 
 And him they more opposed: 
 His holy testimonies they 
 To keep were not disposed. 
 
 57. And they revolted still from him; 
 
 And as their fathers, so 
 They falsely dealt, and they were turned 
 Like a deceitful bow. 
 5S. They with their heights him grieved, and made 
 His jealousy to burn 
 
 59. With idols dumb. God heard, was wroth, 
 
 And Israel did spurn. 
 
 60. He Shiloh's house forsook, the tent 
 
 He pitched for men below; 
 •61. Gave to captivity his strength, 
 His beauty to the foe. 
 
 62. He also his own people then 
 
 Abandoned to the sword, 
 And he on his inheritance 
 His indignation poured. 
 
 63. His chosen youths the fire devoured, 
 
 His maidens were not praised, 
 
 64. His priests fell by the sword of war, 
 
 No wail his widows raised, 
 
 65. God then awoke as one from sleep, 
 
 As hero glad from wine. 
 
 66. He did his foes strike back, and them 
 
 To endless shame consign. 
 
 67. And he did Joseph's tent reject, 
 
 And Ephraim's tribe refuse; 
 
 68. But Judah's tribe, the Sion Mount 
 
 Which he loved, he did choose; 
 
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 69. And built so high his sanctuary, 
 
 It fixed as earth did lpake. 
 
 70. And David, as his servant, chose 
 
 And from the sheepfold take, 
 
 71. Whom from the care of ewes he brought, 
 
 As shepherd to engage 
 To feed Jacob, his people now, 
 Israel his heritage; 
 
 72. And after his integrity 
 
 Of heart, he did them feed, 
 And by the prudence of his hands 
 He will them onward lead. 
 
 Psalm LXXIX. 
 
 1. Nations, O God, thy heritage 
 
 Have entered, and defiled 
 Thy holy house; in ruins they 
 Jerusalem have piled. 
 
 2. The corpse of thy servants for food 
 
 Unto the birds of heaven, 
 And of thy gracious ones the flesh, 
 To wild beasts they have given. 
 
 3. Their precious blood, like. water round 
 
 About Jerusalem 
 They have poured out, where there is now 
 None left to bury them. 
 
 4. We have been a contempt among 
 
 Our neighbors everywhere, 
 
 Derision and a scorn to them 
 
 That round about us were. 
 
 5. How long, Jehovah, wilt thou thus 
 
 Be angry? evermore? 
 As fire burns shall thy jealousy? 
 
 6. Thy wrath on nations pour, 
 
 That know thee not, on kingdoms which 
 On thy name have not called. 
 
 7. Because they Jacob have devoured. 
 
 His dwelling places spoiled. 
 
 8. Against us sins of former times 
 
 Do not remember now. 
 
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 Haste, let thy mercy meet with us, 
 Who are brought very low. 
 9, For thy name's praise, help to us, God 
 Of our salvation, give; 
 And for thy name's sake set us free, 
 And all our sins forgive. 
 10. Why say the nations, Where's their God? 
 In our sight he'll be known 
 To them, who shed his servants' blood, 
 When he hath vengeance shown. 
 ii. Before thy face suffer to come, 
 The sighs the captives heave; 
 After the greatness of thine arm 
 The sons of death relieve. 
 12. And to our neighbors sevenfold 
 Into their bosom be 
 Requited the reproach, with which 
 They have, Lord, contemned thee. 
 T3. And thee forever thank will we. 
 Who thine own people are 
 Sheep of thy pasture, and thy praise 
 From age to age declare. 
 
 Psalm LXXX. 
 
 i. Shepherd of Israel, who dost lead 
 Joseph as sheep, thine ear incline. 
 Reigning above the cherubim, 
 
 Forth in thy glorious brightness shine. 
 
 2. For Ephraim, and Benjamin, 
 
 And for Manasseh, now so low, 
 
 Exert the greatness of thy strength, 
 
 And forth for our salvation go. 
 
 3. Restore us, God, let thy face shine; 
 
 And we shall then delivered be. 
 
 4. Lord, God of hosts, how long be wroth 
 
 Against thy people's prayer to thee? 
 
 5. Tears thou hast made them eat for bread, 
 
 And drink abundantly of tears. 
 
 6. Thou to our neighbors hast set us 
 
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 For strife; our foes cast on us sneers. 
 Restore us; brighten, God of hosts 
 
 Thy face, to us salvation grant. 
 A vine from Egypt thou didst pluck, 
 
 Drive nations out, and it replant. 
 Thou didst the ground before it clear; 
 
 And it took root and filled the land. 
 Mountains were covered with its shade, 
 
 .And with its boughs the cedars grand. 
 Its branches stretch out to the sea, 
 
 And to the river its young shoots. 
 Why hast thou torn its fences down. 
 
 That passers-by pluck off its fruits? 
 The wild boar from the wood it wastes. 
 
 Beasts of the field feed on it now. 
 14. Turn, God of hosts, look down from heaven, 
 
 And see, and tin's vine visit thou; 
 And now protect, what thy right hand 
 
 Did plant; and is upon the Son, 
 Whom for thyself thou hast made strong. 
 [6. With fire it's burnt; it is cut down; 
 
 They perish when thy face rebukes. 
 17. Let thy hand on the man be laid 
 < >f thy right hand, the son of man 
 
 Whom for thyself strong thou hast made, 
 is. Then we will not backslide from thee; 
 
 Give life, we on thy name will call, 
 19. Restore us, God of hosts; brighten 
 
 Thy face, then saved shall we be all. 
 
 Psalm LXXXI. 
 
 To God, our strength, sing; Jacob's God 
 Extol; a psalm raise ye; 
 
 And timbrel sound forth with the lyre, 
 The harp of melody. 
 
 ( )n our feast day, at full moon blow- 
 Monthly the trumpet loud. 
 
 For this a law to Israel is, 
 A right of Jacob's God. 
 
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 5. A witness he in Joseph set, 
 
 When he out of the land 
 Of Kgypt came, where speech I heard 
 I did not understand. 
 
 6. From burdens I his shoulder turned; 
 
 His hands the hod eschewed. 
 
 7. In tribulation thou didst call, 
 
 And I have thee rescued; 
 I will thee in the secret place 
 
 Of thunder answer still; 
 Beside the waters too of strife 
 
 Make proof of thee I will. 
 S. Oh! ye my people, hearken now. 
 
 And I will witness bear 
 Unto thee, Israel, if thou wilt 
 
 But unto me give ear 
 9. There shall not in the midst of you 
 
 Be any foreign God. 
 And thou shalt not thyself bow dow n 
 
 To dumb gods from abroad. 
 
 10. I am the Lord, thy God, who did 
 
 Thee up from Egypt guide. 
 I now will freely fill thy mouth. 
 1 )o thou it open wide. 
 
 11. But my own people would not be 
 
 Attentive to my voice, 
 And even Israel in heart 
 
 Would not of me make choice. 
 
 12. And them in the depravities 
 
 Of their hearts forth I sent; 
 And in vain counsels of their own 
 Perversely on they went. 
 
 13. l\ me my people would but hear, 
 
 Israel in my ways go; 
 
 14. Soon I their enemies would bow; 
 
 My hand turn on their foe. 
 
 15. The haters of Jehovah would 
 
 Deny themselves to him, 
 And their own favoured time would then 
 Forevermore have been. 
 
 16. And he would make their daily bread 
 
 The finest of the wheat; 
 
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 And I of honey from the rock 
 Would let thee freelv eat. 
 
 Psalm LXXXII. 
 
 In the god's court God standing is 
 
 Among gods judge will he, 
 How long judge wrong and partial be 
 
 To wicked men will ye? 
 The weak and orphans judge; acquit 
 
 Injured and humble men. 
 The weak and destitute discharge; 
 
 From bad men's hand free them. 
 These know not nor consider will. 
 
 And they will walk about 
 In darkness. The foundations all 
 
 Are moved the land throughout. 
 I said: gods are ye, and sons of 
 
 The Highest are ye all. 
 Vet, ye as men shall die, and like 
 
 One of the princes fall. 
 Oh God, do thou exalt thyself, 
 
 And judge thou on the earth; 
 For thou art he who wilt possess 
 
 The nations all henceforth. 
 
 Psalm LXXXIII. 
 
 Be not, O God, silent or mute, 
 
 Nor, Mighty One, be still. 
 For, lo! thy foes rage, and the head 
 
 Lift up thy haters will. 
 Against thy people they their plans 
 
 In craftiness do make, 
 And they against thy hidden ones, 
 
 In secret, counsel take. 
 They said, Come, let us cut them off, 
 
 The nation utterly; 
 So that the name of Israel 
 
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 May not remembered be. 
 
 5. For they in heart have all combined, 
 
 Against thee, leagued in schemes; 
 
 6. The tents of Edom, Ishmaelites, 
 
 Moab and Hagarenes. 
 
 7. Gebal, Amnion, and Amelek. 
 
 Philistia with Tyre. 
 S. Yea, Assur joined with them, these all 
 
 The arm of Lot's sons were. 
 9. Treat them, as Midian, Sisera, 
 
 Jabin, at Kishon's stream, 
 
 10. At Endor they destroyed, as dung 
 
 Upon the ground now seen. 
 
 11. Like Oreb and like Zeeb make 
 
 Them, ev'n their leading men; 
 Like Zebah and Zalmunah, 
 All princes over them. 
 
 12. Who said: God's dwellings for ourselves 
 
 As heritage we'll get. 
 
 13. My God, as whirlwind, as the chart 
 
 Before the wind them set. 
 
 14. As fire the forest will consume, 
 
 As flame burns mountains bare; 
 
 15. Thou wilt pursue them with thy storm. 
 
 And with thy tempest scare. 
 
 16. Their faces fill with shame, and, Lord, 
 
 Then seek thy name will men. 
 
 17. They shall be shamed, ever appalled. 
 
 Confused and perish then. 
 iS. And men shall know, that thou, whose n 
 Jehovah is, alone 
 Art over all in the whole world, 
 Tver the Highest One. 
 
 Psalm LXXXIV. 
 
 How lovely is thy dwelling place, 
 
 Lord God of hosts, to me! 
 My soul has longed, yea, pined, O Lord, 
 
 Within thy courts to be. 
 
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 Praise to the living God, my heart 
 
 And flesh in shouts will sound. 
 Truly the lonely sparrow now 
 
 A quiet home has found, 
 And swallow for herself a nest 
 
 Where she may put her brood, 
 Even thine altars, Lord of hosts. 
 
 Oh! my King, and my God. 
 How blest they in thy house who dwell! 
 
 They ever give thee praise. 
 How blest the man whose strength thou art, 
 
 In whose heart are highways. 
 They passing through the vale of tears, 
 
 Him as a fountain choose; 
 Also the early rain will there, 
 
 Its blessings free diffuse. 
 They go from strength to strength, to God 
 
 In Sion they appear. 
 My prayer hear, Lord God of hosts, 
 
 O Jacob's God give ear. 
 O God, our Shield, see and behold 
 
 Thine own anointed face. 
 For better, tban a thousand days 
 
 In any other place, 
 A day is in thy courts to me; 
 
 The threshold low have 1, 
 Within the temple of my God, 
 
 Chosen to occupy, 
 Rather than in the richest tents 
 
 Of wickedness to live. 
 For God the Lord's a sun and shield, 
 
 He'll grace and glory give. 
 To walkers in an upright way 
 
 He will no good deny. 
 How blest the man, Oh! Lord of hosts; 
 
 Who doth on thee rely. 
 
 Psalm LXXXV. 
 
 Thou didst, O Lord, befriend thy land. 
 Jacob's captivity relieve; 
 
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 2. Thy people'- guilt didst take away, 
 
 And all their sin freely forgive. 
 
 3. Thou all thine anger didst withdraw, 
 
 And thy displeasure just restrain. 
 
 4. O God of our salvation now 
 
 Do thou to us return again; 
 And thy wrath toward us annul. 
 
 5. Wilt thou be wroth forevermore? 
 From age to age thy wrath prolong? 
 
 ■6. Thy presence wilt thou not restore? 
 To make thy people glad in thee, 
 
 Wilt thou not cause that we should live? 
 
 7. O Lord, let us thy mercy see; 
 
 And unto us salvation give. 
 
 8. I'll hear what God the Lord will speak; 
 
 He'll to his people peace proclaim, 
 And to his saints; but let them not 
 Return to foolishness again. 
 
 9. Only to those who do him fear. 
 
 Is his salvation near at hand; 
 That glory thus may ever have 
 Its habitation in our land. 
 
 10. Mercy and truth met; righteousness 
 
 And peace each other kissed in love. 
 
 11. Truth from the earth springs, righteousness 
 
 Looks down well pleased from heaven above. 
 
 12. Also the Lord the good will give; 
 
 And our land shall produce its fruit. 
 
 13. Before him righteousness shall walk, 
 
 And for our way its footstep- put. 
 
 Psalm LXXXVI. 
 
 Incline, O Lord, thine ear, 
 
 And answer give to me; 
 For sorely I afflicted am, 
 
 And am in poverty. 
 Do thou my soul preserve, 
 
 A favoured one am I; 
 My God, ev'n thou, thy servant save 
 
 Who doth on thee rely. 
 
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 3. Me pity, for I, Lord, 
 
 Will cry to thee always. 
 
 4. Rejoice thy servant's soul, for, Lord, 
 
 My soul to thee I raise. 
 
 5. For thou, Jehovah, good, 
 
 And thou forgiving art; 
 And dost, to all who on thee call, 
 Thy mercy rich impart. 
 
 6. Hear, Lord, my prayer, to my 
 
 Imploring voice attend. 
 
 7. In troublous days I'll thee invoke, 
 
 For thou wilt answer send. 
 
 8. Like thee among the gods, 
 
 Jehovah, there is none; 
 
 9. Nor works like thine. The nations all 
 
 Whom thou hast made, shall come, 
 And thy name to exalt 
 
 They, Lord, to thee will bow; 
 10. For thon art great and wonders dost; 
 
 The only God art thou, 
 li. Guide me, Lord, in thy way, 
 Then I shall walk aright 
 Within thy truth. To fear thy name 
 Do thou my heart unite. 
 
 12. I will, O Lord; my God, 
 
 Thanks unto thee proclaim 
 With all my heart, and evermore 
 Will glorify thy name. 
 
 13. For thy compassions have 
 
 Been very great to me; 
 And even from the deepest pit 
 My soul was snatched by thee. 
 
 14. Proud men against me rose, 
 
 And an assembly hard 
 Of lawless men sought for my soul, 
 And thee did not regard. 
 
 15. But thou, Lord, art a God, 
 
 Benign and merciful, 
 Longsuffering, and in thy truth 
 And mercy plentiful. 
 
 16. Turn to me, pity me, 
 
 Thy servant give for aid 
 
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 Thy strength; "and thy salvation grant 
 The son of thine handmaid. 
 17. Show me a sign for good; 
 My haters then will see, 
 
 And be ashamed, because thou, Lord, 
 Didst keep and comfort me. 
 
 Psalm LXXXVII. 
 
 1. Upon the hills of holiness 
 
 He his foundation makes; 
 
 2. More than the homes of Jacob all 
 
 The Lord loves Sion's gates. 
 
 3. Things glorious, city of God, 
 
 Have spoken been in thee. 
 
 4. I, Egypt will, and Babylon, 
 
 Mention, as knowing me. 
 Behold! it shall be said of these 
 
 Philistia and Tyre 
 And, likewise, Ethiopia, 
 
 This one was brought forth there. 
 
 5. And, it of Sion shall be said, 
 
 This man and that was born 
 In her, and he, the Highest One, 
 Himself shall her confirm. 
 
 6. The Lord, enrolling nations, shall 
 
 Count, This man was born there. 
 
 7. And singers shall as players; sound, 
 
 All my springs in thee are. 
 
 Psaim LXXXVIII. 
 
 1. By day and night to thee, Lord, God, 
 
 Of my salvation cried have I; 
 
 2. Oh! let my prayer before thee come, 
 
 Incline thine ear unto my cry. 
 
 3. For my soul's filled with grief, my life 
 
 Draws near the grave; with those that go 
 
 4. Down to the pit I reckoned am; 
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 Am as a mighty man brought low, 
 
 5. Among the dead, free, like the slain; 
 
 Lying within the sepulchre. 
 Whom thou rememberest no more; 
 And by thy hand cut off they are. 
 
 6. Thou hast me placed in a deep pit, 
 
 In places dark, in depths profound; 
 
 7. Upon me weighs thy wrath, thou hast 
 
 Made all thy billows to resound. 
 
 8. Me thou hast put far from my friends, 
 
 Me their abomination made. 
 Shut up I am, nor forth can go. 
 
 9. Mine eyes from sorrows are decayed. 
 I thee implore Lord, every day, 
 
 And unto thee my hands I raise; 
 
 10. Wilt thou do wonders to the dead? 
 
 Will the deceased rise and thee praise? 
 
 11. Shall thy love in the grave, thy truth 
 
 In death be told? Thy wonders known 
 
 12. In darkness? Or thy righteousness 
 
 In regions of oblivion shown? 
 
 13. But I to thee have cried, O Lord, 
 
 My prayer at morn shall meet with thee, 
 
 14. Why, Lord, shouldst thou cast off my soul? 
 
 And! why conceal thy face from me? 
 
 15. I'm wretched — dying from my youth — 
 
 I've borne thy terrors — I despair. 
 
 16. Thine indignations o'er me passed; 
 
 Thy terrors my destroyers are. 
 
 17. They daily me as floods beset, 
 
 They me at once compass round. 
 
 18. Thou hast put from me lover, friend, 
 
 Acquaintances are darkness found. 
 
 Psalm LXXXIX. 
 
 The tender mercies of the Lord 
 
 Forever sing I shall, 
 And with my mouth thy faithfulness 
 
 Make known to ages all. 
 
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 2. For I have said, Forevermore 
 
 Mercy shall be up built. 
 \ - to the heavens, fix in thera 
 Thy faithfulness thou wilt. 
 
 3. With my own chosen one I did 
 
 A covenant ratify; 
 And to my servant David sworn 
 In faithfulness have I. 
 
 4. Establish I forever will 
 
 The seed which is thine own, 
 And through successive ages all 
 I will build up thy throne. 
 
 5. And then thy wondrous work, O Lord, 
 
 The heavens shall confess, 
 
 In the assembly of thy saints, 
 
 Likewise thy faithfulness. 
 
 6. For who above within the sky 
 
 May to the Lord compare? 
 Who like the Lord, of those who sons 
 Of the Almighty are? 
 
 7. In secret counsel of his saints 
 
 God worthy is of fear; 
 Great, terrible, above all those 
 Who do round him draw near. 
 
 8. Oh! thou, Jehovah, God of hosts, 
 
 Who equal is to thee, 
 Almighty, Jab? Thy faithfulness 
 Shall ever round thee be. 
 
 9. Over the swellings of the sea 
 
 Thy power holds the sway; 
 And when its billows rise, thou dost 
 Them to a calm allay. 
 
 10. Rahab, like to the slain thou hast 
 
 Crushed into pieces small: 
 Thou with the arm hast of thy strength 
 Scattered thy haters all. 
 
 11. The heavens are thine, earth too, the world 
 
 And all it doth contain; 
 
 12. Them thou didst found, north, south are thine; 
 
 Thon didst create the same. 
 Tabor and Hermon in thy name 
 
 13. Resound. There is to thee 
 
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 An arm with strength. Strong is thy hand. 
 High shall thy right hand be. 
 
 14. Justice and judgment, of thy throne 
 
 Are the fixed dwelling place; 
 Mercy, associate with truth, 
 Shall go before thy face; 
 
 15. How happy then the people arc, 
 
 The joyful sound who know; 
 They, in the brightness of thy face, 
 
 Lord, shall onward go. 
 
 16. They in thy name shall joyfully 
 
 Exult from day to day, 
 And in thy righteousness on high 
 Exalted be shall they, 
 
 17. Because the beauty of the strength 
 
 They have, thou art alone; 
 
 And thou our horn wilt elevate, 
 
 By thy grace to us shown. 
 
 18. For to Jehovah doth belong 
 
 Our shield for covering. 
 And to the High and Holy One 
 Of Israel our King, 
 
 19. In vision, of thy one beloved, 
 
 Then thou didst speak and say, 
 On a strong man, whom I raised up, 
 My choice, I help did lay. 
 
 20. One from the people. I, David, 
 
 Who has my servant been, 
 Have found; and with my holy oil 
 
 1 have anointed him. 
 
 21. With whom my hand shall constant be; 
 
 Him strengthen shall my arm. 
 
 22. The enemy shall not him vex, 
 
 Nor son of mischief harm. 
 
 23. Before him I will crush his foes, 
 
 His haters smite will I. 
 24.. My truth and grace with him shall be, 
 His horn in my name high. 
 
 25. His hand I in the sea will set, 
 
 His right hand in the flood. 
 
 26. And he shall call out unto me, 
 
 My Father thou, My God, 
 
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 And rock of my salvation, art; 
 
 27. Him all earth's kings above 
 I'll also give, as my first-born; 
 
 28. For him will keep my love 
 Forever, and my covenant 
 
 Is sure to him always. 
 
 29. I will forever set his seed 
 
 And throne as heaven's days. 
 
 30. If his sons shall my law forsake, 
 
 And from my judgments stray; 
 
 31. If they my statutes shall profane, 
 
 And precepts disobey; 
 
 32. Then I will visit with a rod 
 
 Their breaches of my law; 
 
 33. Their guilt with stripes; but I from him 
 
 My love will not withdraw; 
 Nor to my truth will I prove false; 
 
 34. Neither will I profane 
 
 My covenant, nor will I change 
 What my lips did proclaim. 
 
 35. For once in my own holiness, 
 
 An oath in truth I swore, 
 
 36. If I to David lie, his seed 
 
 Shall be forevermore; 
 His throne before me, as the sun, 
 
 37. As the moon fixed on high 
 Eternally, as sure as is 
 
 A witness in the sky. 
 
 38. Yet thou hast loathed and spumed, thou art 
 
 With thine anointed wroth, 
 
 39. Thy servant's covenant abhorred. 
 
 His crown soiled in the earth; 
 
 40. Thou all his walls hast broken down, 
 
 And forts a ruin formed. 
 
 41. All passers by him spoil; and he 
 
 By neighbors all is scorned. 
 
 42. His foes' right hand thou hast raised up, 
 
 His haters glad hast made, 
 
 43. Turned his sword's edge, and him to stand 
 
 In battle didst not aid. 
 
 44. His brightness thou hast quenched, his throne 
 
 Pown to the earth hast cast; 
 
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 45. Shortened his days of youth, and him 
 
 With shame thou covered hast. 
 
 46. How long, Jehovah, wilt thou hide 
 
 Thyself? forevermore? 
 Oh how long shall thine anger thus 
 Like to a fire devour? 
 
 47. Do thou remember, as to me, 
 
 How brief my present state. 
 Why didst thou all the sons of man 
 For vanity create ? 
 
 48. What man is there who shall live on, 
 
 And death shall never see? 
 Or, from the power of the grave 
 Release his soul can he? 
 
 49. Where are thy mercies now, O Lord, 
 
 In former times that were; 
 Which thou in thy veracity 
 Didst unto David swear? 
 
 50. Mind the reproach, Lord, cast on those 
 
 Who thine own servants are; 
 What I, from many nations, do 
 Within my bosom bear: 
 
 51. With which they have reproached, O Lord, 
 
 Who are thine enemies, 
 Yea, have reproached the steps of him 
 Who thine anointed is. 
 
 52. Let thankful praises be ascribed 
 
 Unto Jehovah then, 
 
 Through ages of eternity; 
 
 So let it be! Amen. • 
 
 Psalm XC. 
 
 O Lord, from generation thou 
 
 To generation ever hast 
 Our habitation been. Before 
 
 The birth of mountains in time past, 
 Before thou hadst brought forth the earth, 
 
 Or world, its habitable part; 
 God, even from eternity 
 
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 Unto eternity thou art. 
 
 3. Man thou wilt turn to dust; and thou, 
 
 Return ye sons of men, wilt say: 
 
 4. For in thy sight, a thousand years 
 
 Are only as an yesterday 
 When past, and as a watch at night. 
 
 5. Thou makest them away to rush, 
 They like a sleep are — like the grass. 
 
 At morn it flourisheth afresh, 
 
 6. At morn it thrives and flourishes; 
 
 At eve, it lies cut down and dried. 
 
 7. For in thine anger we are checked, 
 
 At thy wrath we are terrified. 
 
 8. All the iniquities we do, 
 
 Near by before thee thon dost place, 
 And our sins done in secrecy, 
 
 Before the brightness of thy face. 
 
 9. For our days in thy wrath decline, 
 
 And our years, as a thought, we spend. 
 
 10. As for the days of all our years, 
 
 They may to seventy years extend; 
 And if from vigor they should reach 
 
 Up to four-score, yet is their dread 
 Toil and decline, for it is soon 
 
 Cut off, and we away have fled. 
 
 11. Who of thine anger knows the power? 
 
 Thy wrath is, as of thee, the fear. 
 
 12. Teach us to number thus our days, 
 
 So that wise hearts we may acquire. 
 
 13. Oh! thou, Jehovah now return; 
 
 How long wilt thou now absent be? 
 And to all those, compassion show, 
 Who truly servants are to thee. 
 
 14. Oh! in the morning satisfy 
 
 Our souls, with thy abundant grace. 
 That we may then in thee rejoice, 
 
 And gladdened be through all our days. 
 
 15. And make us in thee to rejoice, 
 
 According as the days have been 
 In which thou hast afflicted us, 
 
 And years in which we ills have seen. 
 
 16. Make thou the work which thou hast done, 
 
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 Unto thy servants to appear; 
 And let thy glory ever be 
 
 Apparent on thy children dear. 
 17. And may the beauty of our God, 
 Jehovah, be upon us now. 
 On us establish our hands' work, 
 
 Yea, our hands' work establish them. 
 
 Psalm XCI. 
 
 1. He, who hath in the secret place 
 
 Of the Most High his home, 
 Under the shadow will be lodged 
 Of the Almighty One. 
 
 2. I will unto Jehovah say, 
 
 My refuge lie hath been, 
 And my strong fortress and my God; 
 I will then trust in him. 
 
 3. For lo! he from the fowler's snare 
 
 Will keep thee safely free, 
 And from the direful plague. He'll with 
 
 4. His feathers cover thee. 
 
 And thou under his wings shalt trust; 
 Thy shield and buckler near, 
 
 5. His truth will be. The terror thou 
 
 Of night need not to fear, 
 Nor arrow that flies forth by day, 
 
 6. Nor plague that in the gloom 
 Of darkness stalks, nor pestilence 
 
 That desolates at noon. 
 
 7. Although a thousand at thy side, 
 
 And thousands ten may die 
 At thy right hand, yet it shall not 
 For ill to thee come nigh. 
 
 8. Aud so thou only with thine eyes 
 
 Shall an observer be; 
 And thon the fearful recompense 
 Of wicked men shalt see. 
 
 9. Thou, Lord, my refuge art. Thou hast 
 
 Made the Most High thy home; 
 JO, No ill shall thee befall, no stroke 
 
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 Shall near thy dwelling come. 
 ii. For, thee to keep' in all thy ways 
 His angels he commands; 
 
 12. Lest thou thy foot strike on a stone 
 
 They bear thee on their hands. 
 
 13. Thou shalt upon the lion then, 
 
 And on the adder, tread; 
 Shalt trample on the lion young 
 And on the dragon dread. 
 
 14. For he has set his love on me, 
 
 So rescue him will I; 
 Seeing that he my name hath known, 
 I will him set on high.. 
 
 15. He unto me will call, and I 
 
 Will his request fulfill; 
 With him in trouble I will be, 
 And him relieve I will, 
 
 16. And honor him. With length of days 
 
 I will him satisfy; 
 And my salvation, unto him 
 Make manifest will I. 
 
 Psalm XCII. 
 
 To render thanks unto the Lord 
 
 Is a good act always, 
 And to thy name, O thou Most High, 
 
 To sing the psalms in praise. 
 At morn thy mercy to show forth, 
 
 At eve thy faithfulness 
 On ten-stringed instrument and Lyre 
 
 With harp in thoughtfujness. 
 For thou, Jehovah, by thy work 
 
 Hast caused me to rejoice; 
 Amid the doings of thy hand, 
 
 In shouts I'll raise my voice. 
 How great thy doings Lord! Thy thoughts 
 
 In depth all thought exceed. 
 A carnal man this will not know 
 
 Nor fool to this give heed. 
 When wicked men spring up like grass. 
 
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 And all ill doers bloom; 
 It is that they in ruin may 
 Have their eternal doom. 
 
 8. And thou, Jehovah, the Most High, 
 
 Art to eternity. 
 
 9. For lo! my foes, Lord, lo! thy foes 
 
 Will perish utterly; 
 Til doers all shall be dispersed, 
 
 10. My horn thou hast raised high 
 As unicorns; and with fresh oil 
 
 Anointed now am I. 
 
 11. And now mine eyes have looked upon 
 
 Mine enemies; mine ear, 
 Of those who do against me rise, 
 Workers of sin, shall hear. 
 
 12. A righteous man is flourishing, 
 
 Like the palm-tree in bloom; 
 And he shall like a cedar grow 
 That is on Lebanon. 
 
 13. Those planted in the Lord's honse, shall 
 
 In God's courts bloom retain. 
 
 14. They in old age shall fruit still bear, 
 
 Thrifty and green remain. 
 
 15. To show, that righteous is the Lord. 
 
 That he has ever been 
 My rock, and that there cannot be 
 Unrighteousness with him. 
 
 Psalm XCIII. 
 
 Jehovah ever reigns, 
 
 And is in splendor bright 
 Enrobed. The Lord himself enrobed 
 
 And girds himself with might. 
 Therefore the world stands firm, 
 
 And moved it cannot be. 
 Thy throne is fixed of old, and thou 
 
 Art from eternity. 
 The floods have lifted up, 
 
 O Lord, the floods their voice 
 Have lifted up, the floods will raise 
 
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 On high their confused noise. 
 
 4. Jehovah in the heights 
 
 Has more of might by far, 
 Than voices of the waters vast, 
 Or huge sea-billows are. 
 
 5. Thy testimonials all 
 
 Are sure, yea, very sure. 
 Jehovah, holiness becomes 
 
 Thy house, while clays endure. 
 
 Psalm XCIV. 
 
 1. Oh! thou avenging God, the Lord, 
 
 Avenging God, shine forth; 
 
 2. Arise, requital to the proud 
 
 Award, Judge of the earth. 
 
 3. How long shall bad men, Lord, how long 
 
 Shall they exult? How long 
 
 4. Prate, proudly speak, and vaunt themselves? 
 
 Shall they who practice wrong? 
 
 5. Lord, they thy people beat, and vex 
 
 Thy heritage will they; 
 
 6. The widow and the stranger kill 
 
 And fatherless will slay. 
 
 7. And they say, Jah will not behold, 
 
 Nor Jacob's God discern. 
 
 8. Ye brutish people, understand: 
 
 Ye fools, when wisdom learn? 
 
 9. He is the Planter of the ear, 
 
 And hearken shall not he? 
 Or, he the Maker of the eye, 
 Shall he not also see? 
 
 10. Of nations he reprover is, 
 
 And will he not chastise? 
 He teacheth knowledge to mankind. 
 And must he not be wise? 
 
 11. Jehovah knows the thoughts of men, 
 
 That they are vain within. 
 
 12. Lord, blest is man, when thou dost warn, 
 
 And from thy law teach him; 
 
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 While days of evil last, 
 Until a pit be dug wherein 
 The wicked shall be east. 
 
 14. For God will not his people leave, 
 
 His heritage desert. 
 
 15. For judgment shall to justice turn, 
 
 And all upright in heart 
 
 16. Shall follow it. 'Gainst wicked men 
 
 Who will rise up for me? 
 Who will for me stand against those 
 That work iniquity? 
 
 17. Unless the Lord himself had been 
 
 To me a present aid, 
 Then soon my soul in silence would 
 Its dwelling place have made. 
 
 18. If I say, My foot slips. O Lord, 
 
 Thy mercy me upbears; 
 
 19. Thy comforts cheer my soul, amid 
 
 My many troublous cares. 
 . 20. Shall of iniquity the throne 
 
 Have fellowship with thee, 
 Which mischief, artfully contrived, 
 Sustains by a decree? 
 21. They on the just man's soul will rush, 
 And guiltless blood condemn. 
 22. But my fort is the Lord, my God, 
 
 My refuge sure from them. 
 23 Their crimes he will on them requite; 
 Amid their doings ill, 
 He will destroy them, them destroy, 
 Our God, Jehovah, will. 
 
 Psalm XCV. 
 
 Come, let us to Jehovah sing, 
 Let us the voice of praise 
 
 In joyful accents to the Rock 
 Of our salvation raise. 
 
 Let us approach before his face 
 With thanksgiving devout; 
 
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 And let us singing unto him 
 In psalms with gladness shout. 
 
 3. For a great God and King, above 
 
 All gods, Jehovah is, 
 
 4. In whose hands are all depths on earth. 
 
 The mountain's strength is his. 
 
 5. To him the ocean great belongs, 
 
 For He did make the same; 
 
 The dry land also every where 
 
 His hands at first did frame. 
 
 6. O come then, let us humbly bow, 
 
 And let us worship all, 
 And on our knees before the Lord, 
 Our maker, let us fall. 
 
 7. For he our God is; people we 
 
 Of his own pasture are, 
 And of his hand the sheep. To day, 
 If ye his voice will hear, 
 3. Harden ye not your hearts, as once 
 At Meribah did they, 
 As in the wilderness was done 
 On Massah's trying day; 
 9. Where your forefathers did me tempt, 
 Prove, and my doings see. 
 
 10. During the space of forty years 
 
 This race has grieved ine. 
 I said, this people strays in heart, 
 And my ways do not know; 
 
 11. To whom I in my wrath did swear, 
 
 If to my rest they go. 
 
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 1. A new song to Jehovah sing: 
 
 Sing all the earth to God. 
 
 2. Sing to Jehovah, bless his name, 
 
 And publish ye abroad 
 His great salvation day by day. 
 
 3. To nations now declare 
 His glory: and to people all 
 
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 What his great wonders are. 
 
 4. For infinite Jehovah is, 
 
 And he exceedingly 
 Js to be praised; above all gods 
 Most terrible is He. 
 
 5. For all the gods are nulities, 
 
 Which nations to them take. 
 Jehovah by his power alone 
 
 The heavens immense did make. 
 
 6. Honor and awful majesty 
 
 Abide before his faee; 
 And power and beauteous splendor arc 
 Within his holy place. 
 
 7. Ye families of nations all, 
 
 Give ye unto the Lord, 
 Uuto Jehovah, glory give 
 
 And strength with one accord; 
 
 8. Yea, to Jehovah now give ye 
 
 The glory of his name; 
 Take ye an offering, and come 
 To his courts with the same; 
 
 9. In beauty of true holiness 
 
 Down to Jehovah bow. 
 Before his presence tremble ye, 
 All on the earth below. 
 
 10. To nations say, Jehovah reigns, 
 
 The world is fixed likewise, 
 Nor moved shall be. The people He 
 Will judge in equities. 
 
 11. Let then the heavens gladdened be, 
 
 And let the earth rejoice; 
 Let ocean, with its fullness all, 
 Sing forth its roaring voice; 
 
 12. In gladness let the field exult. 
 
 And all it doth contain; 
 Then all trees of the woods shall join 
 For joy in loud acclaim. 
 
 13. Before Jehovah; for He comes, 
 
 He comes to judge the earth; 
 The world he will with justice judge, 
 And nations in his truth, 
 
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 Psalm XCVII. 
 
 1. The Lord reigns; let the earth exult; 
 
 The many isles afar 
 
 2. All joyful be. About Him round 
 
 Clouds and thick darkness are. 
 Justice and judgment of his throne 
 Are the foundation firm. 
 
 3. Fire goes before him, all his foes 
 
 On every side to burn. 
 
 4. His lightnings light the world. Earth saw 
 
 And trembles in dismay; 
 
 5. Mountains are, from before the Lord, 
 
 Melted like wax away, 
 Before the Lord of all the earth. 
 
 6. The heavens clear nnfold 
 
 His righteousness. The nations all 
 His glory thus behold. 
 
 7. All, who a graven image serve, 
 
 And boast of idols dumb, 
 Shall be confounded. All ye gods 
 Lowly to Him bow down. 
 
 8. Sion hath heard, and shall rejoice, 
 
 The daughters glad become 
 Of Judah's tribe, because. O Lord, 
 Of judgments by thee done. 
 
 9. For above all the earth thou art, 
 
 Jehovah the Most High; 
 Above all gods thou infinite 
 Art in supremacy. 
 
 10. Hate evil, ye who love the Lord, 
 
 His saint's souls keep will he; 
 And from the power of wicked men 
 He will them all set free. 
 
 11. Light for the just is sown; for him 
 
 Upright in heart, gladness. 
 
 12. Joy in the Lord, ye just, give thanks 
 
 Minding his holiness. 
 
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 Psalm XCVIII. 
 
 A new song to Jehovah sing, 
 
 For he hath wonders wrought; 
 His right hand and his holy arm 
 
 For him salvation brought. 
 Jehovah his salvation hath 
 
 Thus openly made known; 
 Before the eyes of nations he 
 
 His righteousness hath shown. 
 His grace and truth to Israel's house 
 
 He hath in memory held; 
 And the salvation of our God 
 
 All the earth's ends beheld. 
 Unto Jehovah all the earth 
 
 In shouts your voices raise; 
 Break forth and sing aloud to him, 
 
 And psalms sing ye in praise. 
 With harp, with harp and voice of psalm, 
 
 Psalms to Jehovah sing; 
 With trump and cornet's sound shout ye, 
 
 Before the Lord the King. 
 The sea shall and its fulness roar, 
 
 Earth and its dwellers all; 
 Rivers clap hand, together shout 
 
 For joy the mountains shall. 
 Before Jehovah's face, for come 
 
 To judge the earth hath he. 
 The world he'll judge in righteousness; 
 
 Nations in equity. 
 
 Psalm XCIX. 
 
 Jehovah is the Governor, 
 
 With fear shall nations shake; 
 
 He reigns above the cherubim, 
 And all the earth shall quake. 
 
 Jehovah is in Sion great; 
 Above all nations high. 
 
 Thy name, fearful and great, they shall 
 
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 Confess, Holy is he. 
 The King's strength judgment loves; and thou 
 
 Dost equities adjust; 
 In Jacob thou dost execute 
 
 Justice and judgment just. 
 Exalt Jehovah, our own God, 
 
 And reverently do ye 
 Low at his footstool worship him; 
 
 The Holy One is he. 
 Moses and Aaron, of his priests, 
 
 And, of those on his name 
 That call, Samuel, called on the Lord, 
 
 And from him answer came. 
 Out of the column of the cloud 
 
 He unto them did speak; 
 The testimonies and commands 
 
 He gave them, they did keep. 
 Thou, Lord our God, didst answer them, 
 
 Thou unto them hast been 
 A pardoning God, and on their deeds 
 
 A God avenging sin. 
 Jehovah, our own God exalt; 
 
 And at his holy hill 
 Bow down to him, because the Lord 
 
 Our God is holy still. 
 
 Psalm C. 
 
 1. Glad shouts unto Jehovah raise, 
 
 All on the earth in every place; 
 
 2. With joy fulness Jehovah serve, 
 
 With singing come before his face. 
 
 3. Know, that Jehovah, he is God; 
 
 He too, who made us, and not we 
 Ourselves, his people, and the sheep 
 Of his own pasture- fields to be. 
 
 4. Come ye within his gates with thanks, 
 
 Within his courts praise to proclaim; 
 Confess to him your gratitude, 
 And celebrate his glorious name. 
 
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 Because Jehovah gracious is; 
 
 His mercy is forever sure, 
 And through successive ages all 
 
 Shall his fidelity endure. 
 
 Psalm C. 
 
 1. Unto Jehovah shout, 
 
 All on the earth each one. 
 
 2. Jehovah serve with joy, 
 
 To him with gladness come. 
 
 3. Know that the Lord is God; 
 
 He made us, and not we, 
 His people and the sheep 
 Of his pasture to be. 
 
 4. Enter his gates with thanks, 
 
 His courts, praise to proclaim; 
 Show him your gratitude 
 And glorify his name. 
 
 5. For good Jehovah is; 
 
 His mercy has no end; 
 And to all ages shall 
 His faithfulness extend. 
 
 Psalm CI. 
 
 1. I'll sing of mercy and judgment 
 
 I'll sing, Lord, psalms to thee. 
 
 2. And wisely act in a right way; 
 
 When wilt thou come to me? 
 I will about within my house 
 Walk with an heart upright. 
 
 3. And I no vicious practice will 
 
 Set up before my sight; 
 
 To work apostacies I hate; 
 
 To me it shall not cling. 
 
 4. The perverse heart shall turn from me; 
 
 I'll know no evil thing. 
 
 5. Him, who his neighbor privily 
 
 Defames, I will not spare; 
 
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 The haughty eyes and outspread heart 
 
 Of man I will not bear. 
 Mine eyes after the faithful look, 
 
 That with me dwell they may; 
 And I will him employ, who doth 
 
 Walk in the perfect way. 
 Within my house, one practising 
 
 Deception, telling lies, 
 p Shall not abide; nor favored shall 
 
 He be before my eyes. 
 The wicked of the land destroy 
 
 I in the morning shall, 
 Off from the city of the Lord 
 
 To cut illdoers all. 
 
 Psalm CII. 
 
 1. My supplication hear, O Lord, 
 
 And let my cry to thee come near. 
 
 2. From me hide not thy face; in time 
 
 Of my distress, incline thine ear; 
 Now in the day I thee implore, 
 Answer at once to me return. 
 
 3. For my days are consumed in smoke, 
 
 And my bones, as dry fuel, burn. 
 
 4. My heart is scorched and dried like grass, 
 
 For I my bread untasted leave. 
 
 5. By reason of my groaning voice, 
 
 Unto my flesh my bones do cleave. 
 
 6. I am now like a pelican 
 
 Within a dreary wilderness; 
 And feel that I am like an owl 
 Alone in ruins' loneliness. 
 
 7. I've watched, and like a sparrow been 
 
 That on a house-top sits alone. 
 S. My foes have daily me reproached; 
 
 Their rage in oaths against me shown. 
 9. For I do ashes eat as bread, 
 
 And all my drink is mixed with tears; 
 IO. Because thine indignation sore, 
 
 And thy dark wrath on me appears; 
 
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 For thou hast upward taken me, 
 And then thou hast me cast away. 
 
 11. My days like fading shadows are, 
 
 And I like withered grass decay. 
 
 12. Since thou, Lord, dost forever reign, 
 
 Eternal thy memorial prove, 
 
 13. Thou wilt arise, on Sion then 
 
 Thou wilt show forth thy yearning love. 
 For it's the time to favor her, , 
 
 The time is come, before defined, 
 
 14. For now her stones thy servants prize, 
 
 And to her very dust are kind. 
 
 15. The nations shall Jehovah's name 
 
 The kings on earth thy glory, fear; 
 
 16. Because the Lord shall Sion build, 
 
 And in his glory shall appear. 
 
 17. He to the needy's prayer will turn, 
 
 And he their prayer will not despise, 
 
 18. This shall be written for an age 
 
 In after-time, and people wise 
 To be created, shall praise Jah. 
 
 19. For he viewed from his place on high, 
 From heaven to earth the Lord looked down; 
 
 20. To hear the captives' mournful cry, 
 
 To loose those who were doomed to death; 
 
 21. His name in Sion to declare 
 And his praise in Jerusalem; 
 
 22. When people met together are, 
 And kingdoms all to serve the Lord. • 
 
 23. My strength he weakened in the way; 
 My days of life he shortened hath. 
 
 24. I'll say, Oh! take me not away, 
 My God, in mid-time of my days; 
 
 Thy years through ages all run on. 
 
 25. Thou didst in old time found the earth, 
 
 And heaven is work thy hands have done. 
 
 26. They perish shall, but thou shalt stand; 
 
 And all of them at last decay 
 Shall, as a robe and as attire. 
 
 Thou wilt them change and change shall they. 
 
 27. But thou the same art without change; 
 
 Thy years shall never ended be. 
 
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 28. Thy servants' sons shall dwell, their seed 
 Shall be confirmed in life with thee. 
 
 Psalm CIII. 
 
 1. O my soul! praise the Lord, and all 
 
 In me, his holy name. 
 
 2. My soul, the Lord praise; all his deeds 
 
 In memory retain. 
 
 3. "Who doth forgive thee all thy guilt, 
 
 All thy diseases cure, 
 
 4. Redeem thy life from death, crown thee 
 
 With love and blessings sure, 
 
 5. Thy soul with good fill, and to thee 
 
 Youth, eagle-like, renew. 
 
 6. Jehovah will for all oppressed 
 
 Justice and judgment do. 
 
 7. His ways to Moses he made known, 
 
 His deeds to Israel. 
 
 8. Kind, gracious, patient is the Lord, 
 
 In mercy liberal. 
 
 9. He'll not chide utterly, nor will 
 
 Forever wrath reserve. 
 
 10. With us he deals not for our sins, 
 
 Nor done as we deserve. 
 
 11. For as afar above the earth 
 
 The heavens are in height, 
 So above those who fear him is 
 His mercy in its might. 
 
 12. As east is far from west, our sins 
 
 From us he puts afar. 
 
 13. As father pities child, God doe> 
 
 All who his fearers are. 
 
 14. He knows our frame, minds we are dust, 
 
 15. Man'- in this life like grass; 
 
 He blossoms as a field-flower does: 
 
 16. For soon a wind will pass 
 
 In its course o'er the blooming flower, 
 
 And it away is blown; 
 And in the place where once it was, 
 
 It shall no more be known ; 
 
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 17. But to those who Jehovah fear 
 
 His mercy never ends; 
 And to their children's children still, 
 His righteousness extends; 
 
 18. To covenant-keepers, mindful of 
 
 His laws them to obey. 
 
 19. In heaven Jehovah fixed his throne: 
 
 His reign o'er all has sway. 
 
 20. Angels! mighty in strength, praise ye 
 
 The Lord, doing his word, 
 And to his words voice, listening. 
 
 21. Praise ye his hosts, the Lord, 
 Ye ministers that do his will. 
 
 22. Praise, ye his works abroad, 
 The Lord, in all parts of his realm. 
 
 Praise, O my soul, the Lord. 
 
 Psalm CIV. 
 
 1. Praise, my soul, the Lord! Lord my God 
 
 Thy greatness is immense! 
 With majesty thou art arrayed, 
 Amid magnificence! 
 
 2. With light, as with a robe, thou dost 
 
 Cover thyself about; 
 And as a curtain round thee, thou 
 The heavens hast spread out. 
 
 3. The beams he of his chambers high 
 
 Hath amid waters joined; 
 Makes clouds his chariot, and goes 
 Forth on the wings of wind. 
 
 4. He makes his angels, as the winds 
 
 His servants, fiery flame. 
 
 5. The earth he on its basis placed; 
 
 It ever fixed became. 
 
 6. As with a garment, over it 
 
 A deep flood thou didst spread. 
 Above the mountains waters stood. 
 
 7. At thy rebuke, they fled; 
 
 And at thy thunders' voice made haste — 
 
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 8. As mountains rise again, 
 
 And vales descend — into this place, 
 Thou didst for them ordain. 
 
 9. To them a limit thou didst set, 
 
 Which they should not pass o'er, 
 And, thus to deluge all the earth. 
 They should return no more. 
 
 10. Springs he sends into stream.^; their course 
 
 Between the hills they take: 
 
 11. These to beasts of the field give drink, 
 
 Wild asses' thirst they break. 
 
 12. The birds of heaven over them 
 
 Their dwellings have from choice; 
 And from among the out-spread boughs 
 Give forth their pleasant voice. 
 
 13. He from his chamber.^ watereth 
 
 The hills on every side: 
 And from the good fruit of thy works 
 The earth is well supplied. 
 
 14. He makes the grass for cattle grow, 
 
 And various herbs of use 
 To man, that he through culture may 
 Bread from the ground produce. 
 
 15. With wine he gladdens frail man's heart, 
 
 Making his countenance 
 To shine with oil, and to man's heart 
 By bread gives sustenance. 
 
 16. The trees which to the Lord belong 
 
 Are all luxuriant. 
 The cedars old in Lebanon, 
 Which he himself did plant. 
 
 17. There birds build nests; the stork her house 
 
 Has in the cypress tree; 
 
 18. High hill.-> are for wild goats; to rocks 
 
 Conies for refuge flee. 
 
 19. The moon for stated times he made; 
 
 The sun its sunset knows. 
 
 20. Thou dost the nightly darkness cause, 
 
 The day in night to close; 
 When of the forests all the beasts 
 Begin to roam abroad, 
 
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 21. The lions young roaring for prey, 
 
 vSeeking their food from God. 
 
 22. The sun dawns, they collected are, 
 
 And in their dens recline. 
 
 23. Man goes forth to his work, and toils 
 
 Till day to eve decline. 
 
 24. How manifold thy works, O Lord ! 
 
 In wisdom thou hast wrought 
 Them all: and the earth everywhere 
 Is with thy treasures fraught. 
 
 25. Here is the great and spacious sea! 
 
 The gliding beasts are there, 
 And without number, animals 
 Both small and great that are, 
 
 26. There ships go; leviathan, this, 
 
 Thou mad'st therein to sport. 
 
 27. All these wait for thee to give food 
 
 In time for their support. 
 
 28. That which thou dost provide for them, 
 
 They gather as their food. 
 Thou openest thy hand to them, 
 And they are filled with good. 
 
 29. Thou dost thy face hide — they are shocked. 
 
 Thou dost withdraw their breath. 
 So they expire, and to their dust 
 They turn back at their death. 
 
 30. Thou sendeth forth thy breath of life, 
 
 And such created are. 
 And the broad surface of the earth 
 Throughout thou dost repair. 
 
 31. The glory of Jehovah will 
 
 Last through eternity. 
 In all the works Jehovah docs, 
 He hath complacency. 
 
 32. If he but look upon the earth, 
 
 It will with terror quake; 
 If he the lofty mountain touch, 
 Forth from it smoke will break, 
 
 33. Unto Jehovah I will sing. 
 
 As long as I shall live; 
 While I exist I will in psalms 
 To my God praises give, 
 
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 34- Of him my meditations shall 
 Delight to me afford; 
 And as for me, I ever shall 
 Be joyful in the Lord. 
 35. Consumed are sinners from the eart 
 And bad men are no more. 
 Oh thou my soul! Jehovah bless; 
 Tehovah! all adore. 
 
 Psalm CV. 
 
 1. Confess the Lord, proclaim his name, 
 
 His deeds to nations tell. 
 
 2. Sing ye to him, sing psalms to him. 
 
 His wonders ponder well. 
 
 3. Applaud his holy name; their heart 
 
 Who seek him, glad shall be. 
 
 4. The Lord seek and his strength, his face 
 
 Forevermore seek ye. 
 
 5. His wonders done, signs of his mouth, 
 
 And judgments recollect. 
 
 6. His servant Abram's seed, ye sons 
 
 Of Jacob his elect, 
 
 7. Jehovah is our God. In all 
 
 The earth his judgments are. 
 S. He ever doth his covenant 
 
 In his remembrance bear, 
 For thousand generations too 
 
 The word he did command, 
 9. Who covenant made with Abraham, 
 
 And made his oath to stand 
 
 10. To Isaac, and to Jacob then 
 
 For a confirmed decree; 
 An everlasting covenant 
 With Israel to be; 
 
 11. Saying, I'll give thee Canaan's land, 
 
 For heritage to you; 
 
 12. While they could numbered be, were few; 
 
 And strangers in it too; 
 
 13. And when from nation to and fro 
 
 To nation they did roam, 
 
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 From kingdom to a people, who 
 Were diverse from their own. 
 
 14. He let none them oppress, for them 
 
 Rebukes on kings he brought; 
 
 15. Touch ye not mine anointed ones, 
 
 My prophets injure not. 
 
 16. And he upon the land called forth 
 
 Famine in every place; 
 And every staff of bread he broke. 
 
 17. He had before their face 
 Sent out a man in their behalf; 
 
 For Joseph they had sold 
 A bond slave to become; his feet 
 
 18. With fetters rough they galled, 
 And into iron came his soul. 
 
 19. Till the fit time arrived, 
 
 When his own ward, what the Lord said, 
 Him with approval tried. 
 
 20. A king sent and him loosed, a prince 
 
 Of nations set him free; 
 
 21. Made him lord of his house, and all 
 
 His wealth to oversee. 
 
 22. To bind his chief at will, and make 
 v His elders wisdom learn. 
 
 23. And Israel thus to Egypt came, 
 
 And Jacob did sojourn 
 A time within the land of Ham. 
 
 24. And he his people there 
 
 Greatly increased, and stronger made 
 Than their oppressors were. 
 
 25. To hate his people them it turned, 
 
 And them with craft to use. 
 
 26. Moses his servant he sent then, 
 
 Aaron, whom he did choose. 
 
 27. The words of his dread signs they did 
 
 Propound in midst of them, 
 Of the great miracles he did, 
 Within the land of Ham. 
 
 28. He darkness sent, and it was dark. 
 
 And they could not repel 
 
 29. His words. Their water streams he changed 
 
 To blood, their fish to kill, 
 
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 30. Their land did, to the chamber of 
 
 Their kings, with frogs abound. 
 
 31. He spake, and then came flies and gnats 
 
 In all their borders round. 
 
 32. For rain, he gave them storms of hail, 
 
 And fire-flames in their land. 
 
 33. He vines and fig-trees smote, and broke 
 
 Down trees on every hand. 
 
 34. Locusts and caterpillars came 
 
 In number very great, 
 
 35. And all herbs of their land, and fruits 
 
 All of the ground they ate. 
 
 36. He smote each first-born in their land, 
 
 First fruits of all their strength. 
 
 37. And with much silver, and with gold 
 
 He brought them out at length, 
 Without a stumbler in his tribes. 
 
 38. Egypt was joyful then 
 
 At their out-going, for their fear 
 Had fallen upon them. 
 
 39. He spreads a cloud for covering, 
 
 At night a fire-light shed. 
 
 40. They asked, he sent them quails, with bread 
 
 Of heaven he them fed. 
 
 41. He opened rocks, and waters flowed, 
 
 As streams in wastes they ran. 
 
 42. For he remembered words he gave 
 
 His servant Abraham. 
 
 43. He lead his people out with joy, 
 
 His chosen with a shout. 
 
 44. Gave them the nations' land, and they 
 
 Works of the people got. 
 
 45. So that they might, on this account, 
 
 His statutes keep always; 
 And that they might his laws observe. 
 Give ye Jehovah praise. 
 
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 Psalm CVI. 
 
 1. Jehovah praise, and thanks give ye 
 
 Unto the Lord, for he is good, 
 For his benignity endures 
 Forever in its plenitude. 
 
 2. Who can Jehovah's mighty deeds 
 
 Describe, or show forth all his praise? 
 
 3. How blest are they who judgment keep, 
 
 And practise righteousness always. 
 
 4. Remember me with favor, Lord, 
 
 Which to thy people thou dost show; 
 In thy good will now visit me, 
 That I may thy salvation know; 
 
 5. The good of thine elect may see, 
 
 In thy own people's good rejoice, 
 And may, with thine inheritance, 
 Lift up with thankful joy my voice. 
 
 6. W T e, with our fathers, all have sinned, 
 
 Transgressed, iniquity have wrought. 
 
 7. Thy works in Egypt they o'erlooked, 
 
 And mercies manifold forgot. 
 They at the sea, Red vSea, rebelled; 
 
 8. Yet he did, for his own name's sake, 
 Deliver them, that he thereby 
 
 His own strength to be known might make. 
 
 9. So he the Red Sea did rebuke, 
 
 And it dried up from side to side; 
 And them, as through a wilderness, 
 
 He did between the floods them guide. 
 
 10. Them from their haters' hands he saved, 
 
 x\nd ransomed from the power of foes. 
 
 11. Their foes the waters covered up, 
 
 So that not one of them arose. 
 
 12. Then they did in his words believe. 
 
 His praise they sang; but from that state 
 
 13. Of mind they haste, his works forgot, 
 
 And for his counsel did not wait. 
 
 14. They in the wilderness did lust, 
 
 And the Lord in the desert tempt. 
 
 15. He granted to them their request; 
 
 But leanness in their soul he sent, 
 
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 1 6. They envied Moses in the camp, 
 
 Aaron, sacred one of God: 
 
 17. The yawning earth Dathan engulphed, 
 
 And covered up Abiram's crowd. 
 
 18. A fire their guilty crowd devours, 
 
 And flame consumes those sinners bold. 
 
 19. Making a calf in Horeb, they 
 
 Worshipped that image from a mold. 
 
 20. Their glory they exchanged for what 
 
 Was like an ox on grass that feeds. 
 
 21. They God forgot, who had them saved; 
 
 Who had in Egypt done great deeds, 
 
 22. Deeds wonderous in the land of Ham, 
 
 At the Red Sea things to be feared. 
 
 23. He said, that he would them destroy; 
 
 But Moses, his elect, appeared, 
 Standing before Him in the breach 
 To stay his wrath and them not slay. 
 
 24. And they the beauteous land despised, 
 
 And disbelieved what he did say. 
 
 25. They murmered in their tents, and from 
 
 Jehovah's voice their ear withdrew. 
 
 26. He raised his hand to them, so he 
 
 Them in the desert overthrew. 
 
 27. Their seed 'mong nations overthrew, 
 
 And them in lands abroad he spread. 
 
 28. They joined themselves to Baal Peor, 
 
 And ate of offerings to the dead. 
 
 29. They thus provoked him by their crimes; 
 
 And in their midst broke out the plague. 
 
 30. Then Phineas stood forth, and he judged, 
 
 And so throngh him the plague was stayed. 
 
 31. And that was reckoned unto him 
 
 For righteousness through ages all. 
 
 32. At Meribah they Him provoked: 
 
 And so ill Moses did befall; 
 
 33. For they his spirit did provoke, 
 
 And his lips spake without due thought. 
 
 34. The nations they did not destroy, 
 
 As the Lord's word told them they ought, 
 
 35. They with the nations intermixed, 
 
 And thus their practices they learned; 
 
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 36. And to their idols service gave-, 
 
 Which to a snare, set for them, turned. 
 
 37. And they their sons and daughters young 
 
 For sacrifice to demons led; 
 
 38. The blood of innocence, the blood 
 
 They of their sons and daughters shed, 
 Whom they to Canaan's idols gave. 
 They did the land with blood pollute, 
 
 39. And by their works corrupt became. 
 
 In whoredom's deeds all dissolute. 
 
 40. The Lord was at his people wroth, 
 
 And did his heritage abhor. 
 
 41. Them to the hands of nations gave; 
 
 To them their rulers hatred bore. 
 
 42. Their enemies did them oppress, 
 
 And unto base subjection brought. 
 
 43. He many times delivered them: 
 
 But in the counsel of their thought, 
 They still against him did rebel, 
 And sunk through their iniquity. 
 
 44. But he, on their distress looked down, 
 
 And their complaints all hear did he. 
 
 45. His covenant he recalled to mind, 
 
 And them he did console again 
 
 46. In pity great. He did for them 
 
 Favor from all their captors gain. 
 
 47. O Lord our God, us save and bring 
 
 Back from the nations, and their ways 
 To thee, that we thy holy name 
 
 May praise, and glory in thy praise. 
 
 48. Praised be the Lord, Israel's own God, 
 
 Even throughout eternity. 
 And, let all people say, Amen, 
 Unto Jehovah praise give ye. 
 
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 Psalm CVII. 
 
 1. Jehovah praise, for he is good, 
 
 His grace lasts evermore; 
 
 2. The Lord's redeemed say this, whom he 
 
 Redeemed from trouble sore; 
 
 3. And gathered from lands east and west, 
 
 From north and south, where they 
 
 4. Had wandered in the wilderness, 
 
 And in a desert way. 
 And still a city no where had 
 Of habitation found. 
 
 5. Hungry they were, and long athirst. 
 
 Their souls in them despond: 
 
 6. Distressed they cried to God. From straits 
 
 He did them free, and guide 
 
 7. In a straight course onward into 
 
 A city to abide. 
 
 8. Let such unto Jehovah give 
 
 Thanks for his mercy then, 
 And for his works of wonder done 
 Unto the sons of men. 
 
 9. Because he has now satisfied 
 
 The soul craving its food, 
 And he the famished soul has filled 
 Abundantly with good. 
 
 10. They dwell in darkness, and death's shade 
 
 In pangs and iron held; 
 
 11. As against the Almighty's word; 
 
 They sternly had rebelled, 
 And they the counsel had contemned 
 Even of the highest one. 
 
 12. He bowed their hearts with grief, they fell, 
 
 And to help there was none. 
 
 13. They in distress besought the Lord, 
 
 And he from straits them takes, 
 
 14. Brings them from darkness and death's shade, 
 
 And all their bonds he breaks. 
 
 15. Let such unto Jehovah give 
 
 Thanks for his mercy then, 
 And for his works of wonder done 
 Unto the sons of men. 
 
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 1 6. Because the doors of brass he broke, 
 
 And bars of iron cut. 
 
 17. Fools, by their sinful course and crimes, 
 
 Themselves in trouble put. 
 
 18. All food their soul doth loathe, and they 
 
 Draw near unto the gates 
 
 19. Of death. And then unto the Lord 
 
 They cry out in their straits; 
 Them from their miseries he saves. 
 
 20. He sends his word — them cures, 
 And from their self-destruction, He 
 
 Escape for them secures. 
 
 21. Let such unto Jehovah give 
 
 Thanks for his mercy then, 
 And for his works of wonder done 
 Unto the sons of men. 
 
 22. And sacrifices sacrifice 
 
 Let them of gratitude, 
 And let them all his deeds recount, 
 Singing in joyful mood. 
 
 23. Some go to sea in ships, and on 
 
 The ocean business do. 
 
 24. The works and wonders of the Lord 
 
 On the great deep they view. 
 
 25. He spake, and stormy winds arise, 
 
 And high his billows roll. 
 
 26. Heavenward they mount; they sink to depths; 
 
 In peril melts their soul. 
 
 27. They reel and stagger like one drunk; 
 
 And all their skill is spent. 
 
 28. They in distress call on the Lord; 
 
 Them from their straits he sent. 
 
 29. He soothes the storm into a calm, 
 
 And hushed the billows are. 
 
 30. They joy that they have rest; whom he 
 
 Guides to their haven dear. 
 Let such unto Jehovah give 
 
 31. Thanks for his mercy then, 
 And for his works of wonder done 
 
 Unto the sons of men. 
 
 32. Let them in the assembly full 
 
 Of people him extol, 
 
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 And let them in the meeting great 
 Of elders praise him all. 
 
 33. He doth the flowing stream transform 
 
 To a dry wilderness. 
 Fountains to thirsty ground, and lands 
 
 34. Fruitful, to barrenness, 
 
 For sins of those who dwell therein. 
 
 35. He to a water-pool 
 
 A desert turns, and a parched land 
 To springs of water full. 
 
 36. And he has caused therein to dwell 
 
 Those men who famished were; 
 And they a city founded have 
 Of habitation there. 
 
 37. There they sow fields and vineyards plant, 
 
 And fruits of increase gain. 
 
 38. And he them largely blest, so that 
 
 They very great became. 
 And he their cattle lessened not; 
 
 39. Though they were poor before, 
 And brought low, by oppression great 
 
 Distress, and sorrows sore. 
 
 40. On princes he pours out contempt, 
 
 And makes them roam astray, 
 As vagrants in a desert waste, 
 Wherein there is no way. 
 
 41. Hut he from trouble lifts the poor, 
 
 Makes families like a flock, 
 
 42. The just shall see and joy; her mouth 
 
 Iniquity shall stop. 
 
 43. Whoso is wise, he will these things 
 
 With thoughtfulnsss regard, 
 And show himself attentive to 
 The mercies of the Lord. 
 
 Psalm CVIII. 
 
 My heart is fixed, O God; Til sing 
 
 And I will sing a psalm, 
 My glory too. Wake harp and lute, 
 
 I will awake the dawn. 
 
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 3. Praise thee 'mong people, Lord, the psalms 
 
 'Mong nations sing will I. 
 
 4. For great from heaven thy mercy is, 
 
 Thy truth to clouds on high. 
 
 5. Be thou exalted very far 
 
 Above the heavens, O God; 
 And let thy glory be above 
 All on the earth abroad. 
 
 6. To the intent that my beloved 
 
 May be delivered thus, 
 O do thou save with thy right hand, 
 And answer give to us. 
 
 7. In his own holiness God spake; 
 
 So then I triumph shall; 
 Shekem I shall divide, and I 
 Shall measure Succoth's vale. 
 
 8. All Gilead, Manasseh too, 
 
 My own now rightly are. 
 Ephraim is of my head the strength; 
 Judah my law-giver. 
 
 9. Moab my washpot is, I will 
 
 My shoe at Edom cast. 
 And o'er Philistia I will shout 
 In triumph that will last. 
 
 10. Who can conduct me onward to 
 
 The city fortified? 
 Who even up to Edom has 
 Been unto me a guide? 
 
 11. Is it not thou, O God, who us 
 
 Away from thee dost throw? 
 Yea, even thou, who now dost not 
 Forth with our armies go? 
 
 12. From trouble give us help, for vain's 
 
 The help which man bestows. 
 
 13. In God we strength exert; and he 
 
 Will tread down all our foes. 
 
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 Psalm CIX. 
 
 1. Oh, thou, who art God of my praise, 
 
 No longer silent be; 
 
 2. For they a wicked guileful mouth 
 
 Have opened against me, 
 With a false tongue they spoken have, 
 
 3. And compassed me about 
 
 With spiteful words, and without cause 
 They have against me fought. 
 
 4. They for my love, are my fierce foes; 
 
 And I am still to pray. 
 
 5. Evil for good, hatred for love, 
 
 They do upon me lay. 
 
 6. Let over him a wicked one, 
 
 Let Satan as his foe, 
 Stand at his right hand. And when judged, 
 
 7. He condemned forth will go. 
 Also his prayer will be for sin. 
 
 8. Let all his days be few, 
 His office let another take, 
 
 9. His offspring orphans too; 
 And wife a widow left, and let 
 
 10. His sons be vagrants long, 
 And beg, and seek for sustenance 
 
 Their ruins from among. 
 
 11. Let creditors seize all he has. 
 
 His gains a stranger steal. 
 
 12. Let none for him mercy prolong, 
 
 Let there be none to feel 
 Compassion for his orphan ones, 
 
 13. Let his posterity 
 
 In the next generation end; 
 Their name extinguished be. 
 
 14. And of his father's guilt let all 
 
 By the Lord against him 
 Remembered be; not blotted out 
 Be his own mother's sin. 
 
 15. Let them before Jehovah be 
 
 Always, and let him blot 
 Out of the earth their memory. 
 
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 16. Because that he did not 
 
 Mind to show mercy, when he should; 
 
 But persecuted still, 
 A man troubled and poor, and one 
 
 Smitten in heart, to kill. 
 
 17. As he himself had cursing loved, 
 
 It now on him has come; 
 
 In blessing he delighted not, 
 
 It far from him has gone. 
 
 18. And, as he cursing had put on 
 
 Like raiment, unto him 
 Like water it had come, and like 
 The oil his bones within. 
 
 19. Let it to him be as a robe, 
 
 Which he doth round him wrap; 
 And let him always gird it on 
 As a fit girdle strap. 
 
 20. To those, who adversaries are 
 
 To me, as their reward, 
 And theirs, who speak ill to my soul, 
 Let this be from the Lord. 
 
 21. And for the sake, Jehovah, Lord, 
 
 Of thy name for me do; 
 Since tender thy compassion is, 
 Oh! do thou me rescue. 
 
 22. Because I in affliction am, 
 
 And am in poverty; 
 Also my heart is sorely now 
 Pierced in the midst of me. 
 
 23. I'm, like a fleeting shadow, gone; 
 
 Off like a locust chased. 
 
 24. My knees through fasting fail, my flesh 
 
 Doth unto leanness waste. 
 
 25. I am to them a scorn: their head 
 
 They shake, when they me see. 
 
 26. According to thy mercy, Lord, 
 
 My God, help, rescue me. 
 
 27. Then they may know, this is thy hand; 
 
 Thou Lord, as I confess, 
 
 28. All this hath done. As they will curse, 
 
 So thou thyself wilt bless; 
 
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 They've risen up, and shall be shamed; 
 Thy sen-ant shall be glad. 
 
 29. My foes confusion shall put on, 
 
 With shame, as clothes, be clad. 
 
 30. I with my mouth in measure great 
 
 With thanks the Lord will bless; 
 And in the midst of many, I'll 
 To him my praise express. 
 
 31. Because he will at the right hand 
 
 Stand of a man that's poor, 
 From those that would his soul condemn. 
 His safety to secure. 
 
 Psalm CX. 
 
 1. Jehovah saith thus to my Lord: 
 
 Take thou at my right hand thy seat, 
 Lentil I all thine enemies 
 Shall, as a stool, place for thy feet. 
 
 2. Jehovah forth from Sion mount 
 
 The rod of thy great strength will send 
 In the midst of thine enemies 
 Thou thy dominion shall extend. 
 
 3. In thy strength's day, thy people are 
 
 With holiness comely and true, 
 Free offerings, from morning's womb 
 Thy youth are to thee as the dew. 
 
 4. The Lord swore, and will not repent, 
 
 That thou unto eternity, 
 According to the order of 
 
 Melchizedek, a priest shalt be. 
 
 5. Jehovah hath, on thy right hand, 
 
 Kings smitten in his day of wrath. 
 
 6. Among the nations he will judge; 
 
 With bodies slain filled them he hath; 
 As he has smitten in his might, 
 
 The heads over the earth widespread. 
 
 7. He'll from a brook drink in the way; 
 
 Therefore shall he exalt the head. 
 
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 Psalm CXI. 
 
 1. Praise ye the Lord. With all my heart 
 
 Jehovah's praise I'll celebrate, 
 In the assembly of the just, 
 
 Wherever they may congregate. 
 
 2. Jehovah's works are great; they reach 
 
 All their desires who them explore. 
 
 3. Honor and glory is his work, 
 
 His justice stands forevermore; 
 
 4. Of his achievements wonderful 
 
 He a memorial doth raise; 
 Jehovah ever gracious is, 
 
 And is compassionate always. 
 
 5. Unto all those who do him fear, 
 
 He nourishment doth freely grant; 
 And he throughout eternity 
 Remember will his covenant. 
 
 6. The power of his doings all 
 
 He hath unto his people shown, 
 By giving the inheritance 
 
 Of nations to them as their own. 
 
 7. His hands' works truth and justice are, 
 
 All his commands are sure, each one; 
 
 8. These are confirmed forevermore, 
 
 Those are in truth and justice done. 
 
 9. He unto his own people did 
 
 Redemption send; and did ordain 
 His covenant for eternity. 
 
 Holy and dreadful is his name. 
 10. Wisdom's beginning is the fear 
 
 Of God, and they, who his commands 
 Obey, good understanding have. 
 
 His praise forever stable stands. 
 
 Psalm CXII. 
 
 Blest is the man who fears the Lord, 
 In his commands has much delight. 
 
 Mighty on earth shall be his seed, 
 And blest the race of the upright. 
 
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 3. In his house gain and riches are; 
 
 His righteousness endures always. 
 
 4. A bright light for an upright man 
 
 Shall on his darkness shed its rays; 
 He's kind, compassionate, and just. 
 
 5. Happy the man who kindly cares 
 For others, and them lends; while he 
 
 Sustains with judgment his affairs. 
 
 6. For he moved never more shall be; 
 
 Ever remembered are the just. 
 
 7. He evil tidings shall not fear; 
 
 Fixed is his heart, the Lord, his trust. 
 
 8. His heart is staid, he shall not fear, 
 
 Till he his foes in triumph face. 
 
 9. He distributes, gives to the poor; 
 
 Forever stands his righteousness. 
 His horn in honor shall be high, 
 10. The wicked shall this see, and fret; 
 Shall gnash his teeth, and melt away. 
 The bad man's wish shall perish yet. 
 
 Psalm CXIII. 
 
 1. Praise ye the Lord. Praise, ye that serve 
 
 The Lord; Jehovah's name praise ye. 
 
 2. May of the Lord the name be blest, 
 
 Now, and throughout eternity. 
 
 3. Praised be the Lord's name from sun\ rise, 
 
 To where at evening it declines. 
 
 4. The Lord's, above all nations, high; 
 
 Above the heavens his glory shines. 
 
 5. Who is there like the Lord, our God, 
 
 Dwelling above in heights afar; 
 
 6. Humbling himself when he looks down, 
 
 On things in heaven and earth that are! 
 
 7. He'll raise the abject from the dust; 
 
 The poor from dung-hills elevate; 
 
 8. That he may such with princes seat, 
 
 The princes of his people great. 
 
He causeth too the childless one, 
 To be within a family, 
 
 A mother glad of children dear. 
 Unto Jehovah praise give ye. 
 
 Psalm CXIV. 
 
 When forth the tribes of Israel 
 
 Issued from Egypt's land; 
 And Jacob's house from those whose speech 
 
 They did not understand ; 
 Judah his sanctuary, Israel 
 
 His kingdom then became. 
 The sea beheld and fled at once; 
 
 Jordan turned back again. 
 The mountains like to rams did leap, 
 
 The hills like lambs at play. 
 What aileth thee now, O thou sea, 
 
 That thou dost flee away? 
 O Jordan! that thou turnest back? 
 
 Mountains why leap apace 
 Like rams? Ye hills like lambs? O earth, 
 
 Quake thou before God's face, 
 Before the face of Jacob's God. 
 
 Who did into a pool 
 Of water turn the rock, and flint 
 
 Into a fountain full. 
 
 Psalm CXV. 
 
 Not unto us, Lord, not to us, 
 
 But to thy name as due, 
 Both for thy mercy and thy truth, 
 
 The glory all give thou. 
 Oh! wherefore should the nations say: 
 
 Where is the God they own? 
 Our God in heaven is: all that 
 
 He pleaseth he hath done. 
 Their idols, work of human hands, 
 
 Of silver are and gold. 
 
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 5. Mouth have they, but speak not; have eyes 
 
 Yet naught can they behold; 
 
 6. Ears have they, but they cannot hear; 
 
 A nose, but smell can none; 
 
 7. Hands and feel not; feet and walk not; 
 
 Nor through their throat can moan. 
 
 8. Like them their makers are, and all 
 
 To them their trust who yield. 
 
 9. O Israel, trust thou in the Lord; 
 
 He is their help and shield. 
 
 10. Trust in the Lord, O Aaron's house; 
 
 Their help and shield is he. 
 
 11. Ye who the Lord fear, trust the Lord; 
 
 Their help and shield he'll be. 
 
 12. Jehovah hath remembered us; 
 
 And he will bless us still. 
 He will the house of Israel bless, 
 Bless Aaron's house he will. 
 
 13. He will the small bless with the great, 
 
 All who Jehovah fear. 
 
 14. May the Lord add to you, to you 
 
 And to your children dear! 
 
 15. Ye blessed of Jehovah are, 
 
 Maker of earth and heaven. 
 
 16. The heavens are the Lord's; the earth 
 
 He to mankind hath given. 
 
 17. None dead, or sunk in silence, will 
 
 Praise to the Lord accord. 
 
 18. But we'll bless, now and evermore, 
 
 The Lord. Praise ye the Lord. 
 
 Psalm CXVI. 
 
 I love — as the Lord hears my voice, 
 
 My supplications all; 
 For he inclines his ear to me, 
 
 And every day I'll call. 
 The throes of death had me enclosed, 
 
 Grave's pangs upon me came; 
 Anguish and grief I found. Then I 
 
 Called on Jehovah's name; 
 
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 5. Lord, save my soul. God's kind and just, 
 
 Our God will mercy show. 
 
 6. The Lord the simple will protect; 
 
 I was myself brought low, 
 And he to me salvation brought. 
 
 7. Return unto thy rest, 
 
 Oh! thou my soul, for thee the Lord 
 Hath bountifully blest. 
 
 8. My soul from death, mine eyes from tears, 
 
 And feet from overthrow, 
 
 9. Thou dost withdraw. 'Mong those that live, 
 
 Before God forth I'll go. 
 
 10. I have believed, therefore I spake. 
 
 Extremely plagued was I. 
 
 11. In the alarm which I thus felt, 
 * I said, all mankind lie. 
 
 12. How can I to the Lord, for all 
 
 His gifts acquital make? 
 
 13. I'll on the Lord's name call, as I 
 
 Salvation's cup uptake. 
 
 14. Before his people all, I'll pay 
 
 Vows I to him did plight. 
 
 15. The death of his saints precious is 
 
 Before Jehovah's sight, 
 
 16. Now, Lord, since I thy servant am, 
 
 Yea, am thy servant true, 
 And am of thy handmaid the son; 
 My bonds thou didst undo. 
 
 17. I'll offer thee the sacrifice 
 
 Of thanks, and I will call 
 Upon Jehovah's name. My vows 
 
 18. Before his people all, 
 
 I'll pay the Lord; Jerusalem! 
 
 19. Within the midst of thee, 
 
 Within the courts of the Lord's house, 
 Praise to the Lord give ye. 
 
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 Psalm CXVII. 
 
 Praises unto Jehovah give 
 
 On earth ye nations all; 
 And him ye people everywhere 
 
 With fervent thanks extol; 
 Since over us his mercy has 
 
 Been mighty heretofore, 
 And endlesss is Jehovah's truth. 
 
 Jehovah now adore. 
 
 Psalm CXVIII. 
 
 1. Praise ye the Lord, for he is good, 
 
 For his grace never ends; 
 
 2. Now let the house of Israel say, 
 
 For his grace never ends. 
 
 3. Of Aaron let the house still say, 
 
 For his grace ever lasts. 
 
 4. Let them, who fear Jehovah, say, 
 
 For his grace ever lasts. 
 
 5. In straits I Jah besought, Jah heard 
 
 Me in a wide place free. 
 
 6. The Lord's for me; I will not fear, 
 
 What can man do for me? 
 
 7. Jehovah is upon my side, 
 
 Part with my keepers took. 
 And upon those who do me hate, 
 In triumph I shall look. 
 
 8. It's better in the Lord to trust, 
 
 Than on man to rely; 
 
 9. It's better in the Lord to trust, 
 
 Than trust in princes high. 
 
 10. The nations in hostility 
 
 All round about me came; 
 That I shall wholly them cut off 
 Is in Jehovah's name. 
 
 11. They me surround on every side, 
 
 Yea, me surround again; 
 That I will wholly them cut off, 
 Is in Jehovah's name. 
 
12. Like bees they me beset; soon are 
 
 Extinct like thorns in flame; 
 That I will cut them off, I say, 
 It's in Jehovah's name. 
 
 13. Thrust, thrust thou didst to make me fall. 
 
 The Lord me succor gave. 
 
 14. J ah is my strength and psalm. I him 
 
 For my salvation have. 
 
 15. The glad voice of salvation fill; 
 
 The tents of men upright; 
 The right hand of Jehovah doth 
 Exert resistless might. 
 
 16. The right hand of Jehovah is 
 
 Uplifted in our sight. 
 The right hand of Jehovah doth 
 Exert resistless might. 
 
 17. That I Jah's doings may recount, 
 
 I shall not die, but live. 
 
 18. The Lord did me sorely chastise, 
 
 But not to death me give. 
 
 19. Oh! set ye open unto me 
 
 The gates of righteousness. 
 
 And I will enter in by them. 
 
 And I the Lord will bless. 
 
 20. This is Jehovah's gate, by it 
 
 The righteous enter in. 
 
 21. I'll praise thee, for thou hast me heard, 
 
 And my salvation been. 
 
 22. The Stone, the builders slighted, has 
 
 Head-corner-stone become ; 
 
 23. This of the Lord is; in our eyes 
 
 It's wonderfully done. 
 
 24. This day the Lord hath made; in it 
 
 Shout and rejoice will we. 
 
 25. Lord, help, we pray; now prosper us, 
 
 O Lord, we plead with thee. 
 
 26. Blessed be he who comes to us 
 
 Forth in Jehovah's name. 
 We bless you from the house, in which 
 To dwell the Lord doth deign. 
 
 27. The Lord, the Mighty, hath on us 
 
 Made the light to arise; 
 
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 Bind ye unto the altar's horns 
 With cords the sacrifice. 
 
 28. Thou art my God, and thee I thank. 
 
 My God, I will thee praise. 
 
 29. Give thanks to God, for he is good, 
 
 For his "race lasts always. 
 
 Psalm CXIX. 
 Aleph. Part 1st. 
 
 How blest those upright in their way, 
 
 Who in the Lord's law walk with care, 
 Blest who his testimonies keep, 
 
 And seek him heartily in prayer; 
 Who likewise do not practice wrong, 
 
 But in his ways do walk aright. 
 Thy precepts thou commanded hast 
 
 To be observed with all our might. 
 Oh! that thy statutes to observe 
 
 All ways of mine might fitly tend! 
 Then I shall not be shamed, while I 
 
 To thy commandments all attend. 
 Learning thy judgments just, I will 
 
 With heart upright give thanks to thee: 
 And I thy statutes will observe; 
 
 Oh! me forsake not utterly. 
 
 Beth. Part 2d. 
 
 9. How can a youth make his path clean? 
 Let him thy word obey. 
 
 10. I've in my heart thee sought; let me 
 
 From thy commands not stray. 
 
 11. I've hid thy sayings in my heart, 
 
 That I offend not thee. 
 
 12. Oh! thou, Jehovah, blessed art, 
 
 Thy statute teach thou me. 
 
 13. I all the judgments of thy mouth 
 
 Do with my lips recount. 
 
 14. Thy testimonies give more joy, 
 
 Than wealth of vast amount. 
 
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 15. I'll on thy precepts meditate, 
 
 And will thy path regard; 
 
 16. In thy statutes delight myself; 
 
 And ne'er forget thy word. 
 
 Gimel. Part 3d. 
 
 17. Give to thy servant life, that I 
 
 May thy good word obey. 
 
 18. Open mine eyes, that wonders I 
 
 May in thy law survey. 
 
 19. From me a stranger on the earth, 
 
 Hide no commands of thine. 
 
 20. My soul breaks in its longings for 
 
 Thy judgments all the time. 
 
 21. Thou hast rebuked the proud, accursed, 
 
 Who from thy laws have strayed. 
 
 22. Turn from me scoffs and scorn, for I 
 
 Thy precepts have obeyed. 
 
 23. As princes sat and talked 'gainst me, 
 
 I on thy precepts muse. 
 
 24. Thy testimonies are my joys, 
 
 The counselors I choose. 
 
 Daleth. Part 4th. 
 
 25. My soul cleaves to the dust; my life, 
 
 As thy word is, uphold, 
 
 26. My ways I've shown, thou answered me; 
 
 To me thy laws unfold. 
 
 27. Thy precept's way me teach; I will 
 
 Muse on thy wonderous ways. 
 
 28. My soul from sorrow droops; do thou 
 
 As thy word is, me raise. 
 
 29. The way of lies turn off from me, 
 
 Thy laws grant me in grace. 
 
 30. The way of truth I choose; and thy 
 
 Judgments before me place. 
 
 31. To thy instructions, Lord, I cling, 
 
 Let me to shame not come. 
 
 32. Because thou dost enlarge my heart, 
 
 Thy precept's way I'll run. 
 
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 He. Part 5th. 
 
 33. Lord, to me show thy statutes' way, 
 
 Which I'll keep to the end. 
 
 34. Teach me, I'll keep thy law; to it 
 
 With my whole heart attend. 
 
 35. In thy law's path me guide, for I 
 
 Delight in it obtain. 
 
 36. My heart to thy instructions pure 
 
 Incline, and not to gain. 
 
 37. From seeing falsehood turn mine eyes, 
 
 In thy way quicken me. 
 
 38. To thy servant, fulfil thy word 
 
 To all those who fear thee. 
 
 39. Avert from me disgrace I dread, 
 
 For thy judgments are good. 
 
 40. Lo! for thy laws I long; quicken 
 
 Me in thy rectitude. 
 
 Yaw. Part 6th. 
 
 41. Let thy grace come, as thy word is 
 
 With thy salvation, Lord; 
 
 42. Then I'll upbraiders answer give; 
 
 For I trust in thy word. 
 
 43. Leave thy true word with me; my hope 
 
 I in thy judgment place; 
 
 44. And will thy law keep evermore. 
 
 45. And walk in a wide space. 
 For I thy statutes do consult; 
 
 46. And will to kings recite 
 Thy testimonies, unabashed. 
 
 47. I will myself delight 
 
 In thy commandments which I love. 
 
 48. And will my hands upraise 
 O'er thy commands I love; musing 
 
 On thy statutes with praise. 
 
 Zain. Part 7th. 
 
 49. Thy word to me thy servant min , 
 
 For thou me hope dost give. 
 
 50. This, in my grief, my comfort is; 
 
 And by thy word I live. 
 
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 51. The proud have me derided much; 
 
 I've not from thy law swerved. 
 
 52. I reviewed thy old judgments, Lord; 
 
 This for my comfort served, 
 
 53. Me a fierce storm seized from bad men, 
 
 Who thy laws from them spurn. 
 
 54. Psalms were to me thy statutes then, 
 
 In my house of sojourn. 
 
 55. At night I ponder, Lord, thy name, 
 
 And do thy laws observe. 
 
 56. This has been to me, for with care 
 
 Thy precepts I preserve. 
 
 Cheth. Part 8th. 
 
 57. Its my part, Lord, 1 own, to keep 
 
 58. Thy words. Thy face I've sought, 
 Be gracious, as thy promise is. 
 
 59. On my own ways I've thought, 
 And to thy testimonies turned; 
 
 60. Neither did I delay, 
 
 But I with zeal made haste, that I 
 Might thy commands obey. 
 
 61. Bad men beset me; but thy law 
 
 I kept in mind always. 
 
 62. I, for thy judgments just, will rise 
 
 At midnight thee to praise. 
 
 63. I'm fellow to all who thee fear, 
 
 And who thy precepts do. 
 
 64. Thy mercy, Lord, on earth abounds; 
 
 Teach me thy precepts true. 
 
 Teth. Part 9th. 
 
 65. As thou hast said, Lord, thou hast done 
 
 Thy servant good, him to relieve. 
 
 66. To me good sense and knowledge teach, 
 
 For I in thy commands believe. 
 
 67. I, ere afflicted went astray, 
 
 But I observe thy sayings now. 
 
 68. Good art thou, and art doing good; 
 
 Thy statutes unto me teach thou. 
 
 69. Falsehood the proud against me forged; 
 
 Thy laws I'll keep with all my heart. 
 
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 70. Their heart is wholly gross as grease; 
 
 Thy laws to me delights impart. 
 
 71. Trials were for my good, that I 
 
 Might of thy statutes learn the more. 
 
 72. Thy law to me is better far 
 
 Than gold and silver in great store. 
 
 Jod. Part 10th. 
 
 73. Thy hands did form and fashion me: 
 
 Teach me, that I thy laws may learn. 
 
 74. That on thy word I rest my hope, 
 
 Thy fearers shall with joy discern. 
 
 75. I know thy judgments, Lord, are right. 
 
 Faithful, in troubles on me laid. 
 
 76. Oh! let thy mercy comfort me. 
 
 As thou hast to thy servant said. 
 
 77. Let thy grace come, that I may live. 
 
 For thy law is the joy I choose. 
 
 78. Shamed be the proud, for they by lies 
 
 Me wronged. Til on thy precepts muse. 
 
 79. They'll turn to me who do thee fear, 
 
 Those who thy testimonies know. 
 
 80. May my heart in thy statutes be 
 
 Sincere, and not to shame brought low. 
 
 Caph. Part nth. 
 
 81. My soul for thy salvation pines; 
 
 For thy word wait I do. 
 
 82. Mine eyes fail for thy word; I say, 
 
 When me console wilt thou? 
 
 83. Though, as a bottle in the smoke, 
 
 Thy laws Til not forget. 
 
 84. How many are my days? When judge 
 
 Thou foes who me beset? 
 
 85. Proud, lawless men dig pits for me. 
 
 86. All faithful are thy laws; 
 
 Oh! help thou me; they persecute 
 Me without any cause. 
 
 87. They nigh consumed me from the earth 
 
 In thy laws I did stay. 
 
 88. Me kindly keep in life, and I'll 
 
 Thy tes'mony obey. 
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 Lamed. Part 12th. 
 
 89. Jehovah through eternity 
 
 Within the heavens thy word will last; 
 
 90. Eternal is thy faithfulness. 
 
 Earth thou didst found, and it stands fast. 
 
 91. These by thine orders stand to-day, 
 
 For all of them thy servants are. 
 
 92. Had not thy law my solace been 
 
 I. would have perished in despair. 
 
 93. Thy precepts I will ne'er forget; 
 
 By them thou life in me hast wrought. 
 
 94. I am all thine, Oh! save thou me, 
 
 For I've thy testimonies sought. 
 
 95. The wicked watch me to destroy; 
 
 Thy testimonies I will heed. 
 
 96. To all perfection bounds Eve seen 
 
 Thy law doth bounds immense exceed. 
 
 Mem. Part 13th. 
 
 97. Thy law I love; I muse on it 
 
 All day. Commands of thine 
 
 98. Make me more wise than my foes are, 
 
 For its forever mine. 
 
 99. I, wiser than my teachers, on 
 
 Thy testimonies muse. 
 
 100. More than old men I know, for I 
 
 Thy laws in practice use. 
 
 101. That 1 may keep thy word, I do 
 
 All sinful paths avoid. 
 
 102. Eve from thy judgments not declined, 
 
 Because thou art my guide. 
 
 103. How sweet thy words, yea, sweeter far 
 
 Than honey to my taste. 
 
 104. I from thy precepts wisdom learn, 
 
 And all false ways detest. 
 
 Nun. Part 14th. 
 
 105. Thy word is to my feet a lamp, 
 
 And a clear light upon my way. 
 
 106. I sworn have, and I will perform, 
 
 Thy righteous judgments to obey. 
 
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 107- I'm sorely troubled, me relieve, 
 
 O Lord, according to thy word. 
 
 108. The free-will offerings of my mouth 
 
 Accept: teach me thy judgments, Lord. 
 
 109. My life is always in my palm, 
 
 Yet thy law I do not forget, 
 no. I from thy precepts have not strayed, 
 
 Though bad men for me snares have set. 
 in, Forever of thy promises 
 
 I'm heir, for my heart's joys are they. 
 
 112. I to eternity stretch out 
 
 My heart, thy statutes to obey. 
 
 Samech. Part 15 th. 
 
 113. Skeptics I loathe, and love thy law — 
 
 114. My hiding place and shield thou art; 
 I for thy word of promise wait. 
 
 115. Ill-doers all from me depart. 
 
 And I'll my God's commandments keep. 
 
 116. Me, as thy promise is, upraise, 
 And I shall live, and I will be 
 
 In my hope confident alway. 
 
 117. Sustain me, and I shall be safe, 
 
 And ever will thy statutes mind. 
 
 118. Contemn those wandering from thy law, 
 
 For lies as self deceit they'll find. 
 
 119. Sinners as dross, thou wilt cast off. 
 
 Thy testimonies I've admired. 
 
 120. My flesh shudders in dread of thee: 
 
 Thy judgments have me terrified. 
 
 Ain. Part 16th. 
 
 121. I right and good do; leave me not 
 
 To the injurious. 
 
 122. Thy servant's surety be; let not 
 
 The haughty me oppress. 
 
 123. For thy salvation and just word 
 
 Mine eyes in looking fail; 
 
 124. Deal with thy servant in thy grace; 
 
 Thy laws to me unveil. 
 
 125. Me well to understand and know 
 
 Thy testimonies make. 
 
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 126. It's for Jehovah time to act, 
 
 For they thy law do break. 
 
 127. I thy commands love more than gold, 
 
 Than finest gold far more. 
 
 128. Thy precepts all, I think are right, 
 
 All false ways I abhor. 
 
 Pe. Part 17th. 
 
 129. Thy testimonies wondrous are; 
 
 Therefore my soul them keeps with care. 
 
 130. The opening of thy word sheds light, 
 
 Instructing those who simple are. 
 
 131. My mouth I stretch, I pant, as I 
 
 At tliy commands with longings aim, 
 
 132. Turn unto me and gracious be, 
 
 As meet for those who love thy name. 
 
 133. My steps by thy word fix, let no 
 
 Iniquity o'er me have sway. 
 
 134. From man's oppression me redeem; 
 
 And I thy precepts will obey. 
 
 135. Let thy face on thy servant shine; 
 
 And all thy statutes make me know. 
 
 136. Because they do not keep thy law. 
 
 From mine eyes streams of water flow. 
 
 Tzaddi. Part 18th. 
 
 137. Righteous art thou, O Lord, and just 
 
 Thy judgments. Thou in righteousness 
 
 138. Thy testimonies hast ordained, 
 
 And in the utmost faithfulness. 
 
 139. My zeal hath me consumed, because 
 
 Thy word's forgotten by my foes. 
 
 140. Pure to perfection is thy word, 
 
 And love it well thy servant does. 
 
 141. I small am, and I am despised; 
 
 But I've thy precepts not forgot. 
 
 142. Thy righteousness eternally 
 
 Is right, and thy law truth throughout. 
 
 143. Distress and anguish seized on me; 
 
 Delight to me thy precepts give. 
 
 144. Thy testimonies are always right; 
 
 Enlighten me, and I shall live. 
 
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 Koph, Part 19th. 
 
 145. I call with all my heart; O Lord, 
 
 Hear me, thy will I do. 
 
 146. I've called on thee, me save; I'll keep 
 
 Thy testimonies true. 
 
 147. To thee, before dawn come, I cry; 
 
 For thy words do I wait. 
 
 148. Before the night-watches, I on 
 
 Thy promise meditate. 
 
 149. In thy grace hear, in thy judgments, 
 
 Lord, quicken me again. 
 
 150. Near they are, from thy law far off, 
 
 Who do at mischief aim. 
 
 151. Near thou, Jehovah art, and truth 
 
 In thy laws does abound. 
 
 152. I've known, thou didst for endless time 
 
 Thy testimonies found. 
 
 Resh. Part 20th. 
 
 153. My sufferings see, and rescue me; 
 
 For I thy law keep in my view. 
 
 154. Manage my cause and me redeem; 
 
 The promised life in me renew. 
 
 155. Salvation is from sinners far; 
 
 For they thy statutes will not seek. 
 
 156. In thy great mercy, Lord, in life, 
 
 Through thy own righteousness me keep. 
 
 157. Foes many do me persecute; 
 
 But from thy precepts I've not swerved. 
 
 158. Traitors I saw and have them loathed, 
 
 Those who thy law have not observed. 
 
 159. See how I love thy precepts, Lord; 
 
 Oh! in thy mercy quicken me. 
 
 160. Thy word's all truth; thy judgments all 
 
 Righteous are, for eternity. 
 
 Schin. Part 21st. 
 
 161. Princes without cause me assail; 
 
 Thy words my heart with awe inspire. 
 
 162. Over thy sayings I rejoice. 
 
 As one who doth much spoil acquire. 
 
163. Falsehood I hate and I abhor; 
 
 I love thy law. Thee will I bless 
 
 164. Seven times a day in view of all 
 
 The judgments of thy righteousness. 
 
 165. Much peace have they who love thy law; 
 
 No stumbling-block is in their way. 
 
 166. I hope for thy salvation, Lord, 
 
 And thy commandments I obey. 
 
 167. Thy testimonies my soul keeps, 
 
 And them I love exceedingly. 
 
 168. Thy laws and testimonies I 
 
 Keep, for my ways all thou dost see. 
 
 Tau. Part 22d. 
 
 169. Lord, let my prayer before thee come; 
 
 That I may know thy word, teach me. 
 
 170. My cry hear; in thy truth and save. 
 
 171. My lips shall utter praise to thee: 
 For thou wilt me thy statutes teach. 
 
 172. My tongue shall to thy word reply, 
 That thy commandments all are right. 
 
 173. To help me let thy hand be^nigh; 
 For I thy precepts chosen have; 
 
 174. And thy salvation, Lord, always 
 Desire, and in thy laws delight. 
 
 175. May my soul live, and give thee praise; 
 And let thy judgment succor me. 
 
 176. I roam about like a lost sheep; 
 Thy servant seek; for thy commands 
 
 I do in my remembrance keep. 
 
 Psalm CXX. 
 
 1. In trouble I besought the Lord, 
 
 And he hath answered me. 
 
 2. From lip of falsehood, Lord, from tongue 
 
 Of fraud, my soul set free. 
 
 3. What will he give thee, tongue of fraud, 
 
 And what add to thee more? 
 
 4. Sharp arrows of a warrior strong, 
 
 With coals of juniper. 
 
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 5. Alas! that I by Mesech still 
 
 A sojourner abide! 
 And that I do near by the tents 
 Of Kedar drear reside. 
 
 6. With him that hateth peace, my soul 
 
 Hath dwelt too long for her. 
 
 7. I am myself for peace, but they 
 
 When I speak, are for war. 
 
 Psalm CXXI. 
 
 1. Shall I unto the mountain look? 
 
 Whence shall my help come forth? 
 
 2. My help shall from Jehovah come, 
 
 Maker of heaven and earth, 
 
 3. Thy foot to slip he'll not permit; 
 
 Nor slumber who thee keeps. 
 
 4. Lo! Keeper of all Israel! 
 
 He slumbers not, nor sleeps. 
 
 5. The Lord thee keeps; the Lord thy shade 
 
 At thy right hand is nigh. 
 
 6. Ne'er sun by day nor moon by night 
 
 Shall smite thee from the sky. 
 
 7. Thee from all ill the Lord will keep, 
 
 8. Thy soul keep; keep will he 
 Thy going out and coming in, 
 
 Henceforth eternallv. 
 
 Psalm CXXII. 
 
 1. Glad was I, when they said to me, 
 
 We to God's house repair. 
 
 2. In thy gates, O Jerusalem! 
 
 Our feet now standing are. 
 
 3. Jerusalem! so well built up, 
 
 A city that is joined 
 
 4. Closely together. Thither tribes, 
 
 The tribes of Jah, ascend, § 
 An ordinance for Israel, 
 To praise Jehovah's name. 
 
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 5. For Judgment seats, of David's house 
 
 The thrones, shall there remain. 
 
 6. Pray for Jerusalem's peace. With peace 
 
 Thy lovers all be blest! 
 
 7. Peace be within thy walls; within 
 
 Thy palaces a rest. 
 
 8. Now for my brethren and friends' sake, 
 
 Peace to thee, let me speak. 
 
 9. For the sake of Jehovah's house, 
 
 Our God's, thy good I'll seek. 
 
 Psalm CXXIII. 
 
 1. I raise my eyes to thee, who dost 
 
 Sit in the heavens high. 
 
 2. Behold! as to his master's hand 
 
 A servant turns his eye, 
 Or maid her's to her mistress' hand, 
 
 Our eyes are lifted thus, 
 Unto the Lord, our God, till he 
 * . Have mercy upon us. 
 
 3. Pity, Lord, pity us, for we 
 
 Are filled with much contempt; 
 
 4. Our soul is filled with proud men's scorn, 
 
 And scoffs of insolent. 
 
 Psalrn CXXIV. 
 
 1. Unless the Lord had been for us, 
 
 May Israel now exclaim, 
 
 2. Unless for us the Lord had been, 
 
 When man against us came; 
 
 3. They would have swallowed us alive, 
 
 Their wrath at us so glowed; 
 
 4. The waters would have us o'erwhelmed, 
 
 Floods o'er our soul have flowed; 
 
 5. Then would the waters in proud waves, 
 
 Over our soul have rushed. 
 
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 6. Blest be the Lord, who gave us not 
 
 To their teeth to be crushed. 
 
 7. Our soul has, like a bird, escaped 
 
 Out of the fowler's snare; 
 The snare itself has broken been, 
 And now escaped we are. 
 
 8. At all times in Jehovah's name 
 
 Has been our present aid, 
 In his name who the heavens vast. 
 And all the earth hath made. 
 
 Psaim CXXV. 
 
 Those who do in Jehovah trust 
 
 Are all like Sion hill, 
 Which cannot shaken be, but stand 
 
 Firmly it ever will. 
 Hills are about Jerusalem; 
 
 And so the Lord will be 
 Around his people all henceforth 
 
 Throughout eternity. 
 For on the lot of just men shall 
 
 No evil sceptre lie. 
 That righteous men to wickedness 
 
 May not their hands apply. 
 Unto those that are good, do thou 
 
 Thy goodness, Lord, display, 
 And unto those upright in heart; 
 
 But as to those that stray 
 Aside into their crooked paths, 
 
 The Lord will them expel, 
 With doers of iniquity. 
 
 Peace be on Israel. 
 
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 Psalm CXXVI. 
 
 1. When Sion's bondage God recalled, 
 
 We were as men that dreamed; 
 
 2. Our mouth with laughter, and our tongue 
 
 With shouts of gladness teemed. 
 Among the nations then they said, 
 The Lord great things hath done 
 
 3. For them. The Lord hath done great things 
 
 For us: glad we become. 
 
 4. Reverse, Lord, our captivity, 
 
 As streams do southern droughts. 
 
 5. Those who are weeping when they sow, 
 
 Shall reap with joyful shouts. 
 
 6. Bearing a load of seed one goes, 
 
 He goes forth, and he grieves; 
 But he shall come, he shall come back 
 With singing, bearing sheaves. 
 
 Psalm CXXVII. 
 
 1. Unless Jehovah build the house, 
 
 Builders in vain have toiled; 
 Unless the Lord the city keep, 
 The guard on watch are foiled. 
 
 2. It's vain for you early to rise, 
 
 And late from rest to keep, 
 Eating the bread of cares — so he 
 Gives his beloved in sleep. 
 
 3. Sons are a heritage from God, 
 
 The womb's fruit his reward. 
 
 4. As arrows in a warrior, s hand, 
 
 The sons of youth regard. 
 
 5. How happy is the man who doth 
 
 With them his quiver fill. 
 They'll not be shamed, for in the gate 
 Speak to their foes they will. 
 
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 Psalm CXXVIII. 
 
 1. How blest are all who fear the Lord, 
 
 And walk on in his ways. 
 
 2. Eating of thy hands' work, be blest, 
 
 And good be thine always. 
 
 3. Thy wife shall, as a fruitful vine, 
 
 Within thy dwelling be; 
 Thy children round thy table like 
 Plants of the olive tree. 
 
 4. Behold the man shall thus be blest, 
 
 Who fears the Lord aright. 
 
 5. The Lord thee out of Sion bless; 
 
 And see thou with delight 
 The welfare of Jerusalem, 
 Till thy days here shall cease, 
 
 6. And see thou sons of thy own sons, 
 
 On Israel be peace! 
 
 Psalm CXXIX. 
 
 1. They oft oppressed me from my youth, 
 
 Say thus may Israel, 
 
 2. They oft oppressed me from my youth; 
 
 Yet they could not prevail. 
 
 3. The ploughmen ploughed upon my back; 
 
 They made their furrows long. 
 
 4. Jehovah righteous is; he cut 
 
 Of wicked men the thong. 
 
 5. All Sion's haters shall be shamed, 
 
 And to turn back be made. 
 
 6. Like grass on housetops they shall be, 
 
 Which, ere its pulled, doth fade. 
 
 7. Of which enough to fill his hand 
 
 The reaper cannot find, 
 Nor in his bosom gather up 
 Into a sheaf to bind. 
 
 8. And of the passers-by, none say, 
 
 May blessings upon you 
 Come from the Lord — you in the name 
 Of the Lord bless we do. 
 
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 Psalm CXXX. 
 
 Out of the deeps I thee implore, 
 
 O Lord; my voice, Jehovah hear, 
 Unto my supplications' voice, 
 
 Oh! give thou an attentive ear. 
 If thou iniquities should'st mark, 
 
 Lord, who could then stand before thee? 
 Since with thee there forgivness is, 
 
 That reverenced thou mayest be. 
 I for the Lord wait, my soul waits; 
 
 And all my hope is in his word. 
 More than some watch for dawn, watch for 
 
 The dawn, my soul does for the Lord. 
 O Israel, in Jehovah hope 
 
 For there is mercy now with Him, 
 And full redemption, and He will 
 
 Israel redeem from all his sin. 
 
 Psalm CXXXI. 
 
 O Lord, not haughty is my heart, 
 
 Mine eyes not lofty are; 
 Nor meddle I with things too vast, 
 
 Too wondrous for me far. 
 Assuredly I have my soul 
 
 Composed and hushed to rest. 
 As a young child, when it is weaned, 
 
 Upon the mothers breast. 
 My soul is, as the weaned, on me. 
 
 O Israel rely 
 Upon Jehovah, from this time 
 
 Ev'n through eternity. 
 
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 Psalm CXXXII. 
 
 1. For David, his afflictions all 
 
 Remember, O Jehovah now. 
 
 2. How to Jehovah he did swear. 
 
 To Jacob's Mighty one did vow. 
 
 3. The tent, my home, I'll enter not, 
 
 Nor on the bed, my couch, repose; 
 
 4. I will not give sleep to mine eyes, 
 
 Nor eyelids will in slumber close, 
 
 5. Till for the Lord a place I find, 
 
 For Jacob's strong one, dwellings fit. 
 
 6. Lo! we of it in Eprath heard; 
 
 We in fields of the wood found it: 
 Let us unto his dwellings come, 
 Let us before his footstool bow. 
 
 8. Arise, O Lord, into thy rest, 
 
 Both the ark of thy strength and thou. 
 
 9. Let thy priests righteousness put on; 
 
 And thy saints joyful shouting make. 
 
 10. Avert not thine anointed's face, 
 
 For thy own servant David's sake. 
 
 11. To David hath Jehovah sworn 
 
 In truth, turn from it will not He, 
 Of the fruit of thy body, I 
 
 Upon the throne will place for thee. 
 
 12. If thy sons keep my covenant, 
 
 And testimonies I make known 
 To them; then too shall their sons sit 
 From age to age upon thy throne. 
 
 13. Because the Lord did Sion choose; 
 
 He hath desired a dwelling there. 
 
 14. This ever is my rest; here dwell 
 
 Will I, for I do it desire. 
 
 15. I'll her provision bless, yea, bless; 
 
 Fler poor with bread will satisfy, 
 
 16. Her priests I'll with salvation clothe, 
 
 Her saints shall shout, shall shout from joy. 
 
 17. There I'll cause David's horn to grow, 
 
 A lamp for mine Anointed trim; 
 
 18. His adversaries clothe with shame, 
 
 But flourish shall his crown on him. 
 
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 Psalm CXXXIII. 
 
 Behold! how good it is itself. 
 
 How it will please them well, 
 For those that brethren are also 
 
 In fellowship to dwell. 
 Like oil, the good oil, on the head, 
 
 That down the beard did flow, 
 On Aaron's beard, which to the skirts 
 
 Did of his garments go. 
 As dew of Hermon, which upon 
 
 All Sion's hills descends; 
 For blessing there the Lord commands 
 
 The life that never ends. 
 
 Psalm CXXXIV. 
 
 1. Behold! Jehovah bless all ye, 
 
 His ministers that are, 
 Ye who, within Jehovah's house, 
 Are standing nightly there. 
 
 2. Your hands raised to the holy place, 
 
 And bless Jehovah still, 
 
 3. Jehovah, who made heavens and earth, 
 
 From Sion bless thee will. 
 
 Psalm CXXXV. 
 
 1. The Lord praise ye, The Lord's name praise; 
 
 Him, ye his servants, laud, 
 
 2. "Who in the Lord's house stand, in courts 
 
 Of the house of our God. 
 
 3. Give ye unto Jehovah praise, 
 
 For good Jehovah is; 
 And sing ye psalms unto his name, 
 For amiable is this. 
 4.. For Jah chose Jacob for himself, 
 Israel to be his own. 
 
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 5. For that the Lord is great, our Lord 
 
 O'er all gods, I have known. 
 
 6. Jehovah all that pleaseth him, 
 
 Can in the heavens do, 
 And in the earth, and in the seas, 
 And all deep places through. 
 
 7. Vapours from all ends of the earth 
 
 To ascend he doth cause; 
 Makes lightnings for the rain, and winds 
 Out of his store-house draws. 
 
 8. Of Egypt the first-born, from man 
 
 To all the beasts, smote he. 
 
 9. On Pharaoh and his servants all, 
 
 He sent in midst of thee, 
 O Egypt, signs and wonders great. 
 
 10. Smote many nations strong, 
 And mighty kings; Sihon the king 
 
 11. The Arnontes among; 
 
 Og, king of Bashan, and the kings 
 With Canaan's kingdoms all, 
 
 12. Whose land he gave, for heritage, 
 
 His people Israel. 
 
 13. Thy name's eternal, Lord, endless 
 
 Is thy memorial; 
 
 14. For Judge his people, and repent 
 
 For his servants he will. 
 
 15. The heathen's idols, made by man, 
 
 Of silver are, and gold. 
 
 16. Mouths have they, but they cannot speak; 
 
 Eyes, but cannot behold; 
 
 17. Have ears, but hear not; in their mouth, 
 
 Likewise, there is no breath. 
 
 18. Like them their makers are, and those 
 
 All who in them have faith. 
 
 19. O house of Israel bless the Lord! 
 
 Jehovah bless all ye 
 
 20. Of Aaron's house. Jehovah bless 
 
 All Levi's family. 
 Ye, who the Lord fear, bless the Lord. 
 
 21. From Sion blessed be 
 The Lord, who in Jerusalem 
 
 Doth dwell. The Lord praise ye. 
 
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 Psalm CXXXVI. 
 
 1. Thank ye the Lord, for good is he; 
 
 Forever is his mercy sure, 
 
 2. Thanks to the God of gods give ye, 
 
 For his grace ever will endure. 
 
 3. Thank ye the Lord of lords alone; 
 
 For ever is his mercy sure. 
 
 4. Who alone wonders great hath done; 
 
 For his grace ever will endure. 
 
 5. Him who the heavens in wisdom made; 
 
 For ever is his mercy sure. 
 
 6. The land above the waters spread; 
 
 For his grace ever will endure. 
 
 7. Who formed great lights within the sky; 
 
 For ever is his mercy sure. 
 
 8. The sun to rule by day on high, 
 
 P'or his grace ever will endure. 
 
 9. The moon and stars to rule at night, 
 
 For ever is his mercy sure. 
 
 10. W 7 ho Egypt's first born all did smite; 
 
 For his grace ever will endure. 
 
 11. And from among them Israel fetched, 
 
 For ever is his mercy sure; 
 
 12. With a strong hand, and arm outstretched, 
 
 For his grace ever will endure. 
 
 13. The sea of reeds he did divide, 
 
 For ever is his mercy sure; 
 
 14. And through the chasm did Israel guide, 
 
 For his grace ever will endure. 
 
 15. Pharaoh and hosts there off he shook, 
 
 For ever is his mercy sure; 
 
 16. And through the desert Israel took, 
 
 For his grace ever will endure. 
 
 17. Kings of renown he overthrew, 
 
 For ever is his mercy sure ; 
 
 18. And mighty kings in battle slew, 
 
 For his grace ever wiil endure. 
 
 19. Sihon the Amorite king was slain, 
 
 For ever is his mercy sure, 
 
 20. And Og, who did in Bashan reign, 
 
 For his grace ever will endure. 
 
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 21. Their land for heritage he gave, 
 
 For ever is his mercy sure. 
 
 22. His servant Israel to have, 
 
 For his grace ever will endure. 
 
 23. Remembered us when we were low, 
 
 For ever is his mercy sure; 
 
 24. And rescued us from every foe, 
 
 For his grace ever will endure. 
 
 25. Unto all flesh he bread hath given, 
 
 For ever is his mercy sure; 
 
 26. Give thanks unto the God of heaven, 
 
 For his grace ever will endure. 
 
 Psalm CXXXVII. 
 
 1. Near Babel's streams, there we sat down; 
 
 And we, remembering Sion, wept. 
 
 2. In midst of it, our harps hung up, 
 
 We on the weeping willows kept. 
 
 3. Still, there words of a song from us, 
 
 ' They asked, who had us captive led; 
 And our oppressors, for their mirth, 
 "Sing to us songs of Sion " said. 
 
 4. Oh! how could we Jehovah's songs, 
 
 Sing here within a foreign land! 
 
 5. If I, Jerusalem, thee forget, 
 
 Forgetful be my own right hand. 
 
 6. My tongue may to my palate cleave, 
 
 If I shall not remember thee, 
 If I raise not Jerusalem 
 
 The highest joy of mine to be. 
 
 7. That sad day of Jerusalem, 
 
 In thy remembrance, Lord, retain, 
 Against the impious Edomites, 
 
 Against those, who did thus exclaim, 
 11 Lay bare, lay bare, in every part, 
 Even to its foundation quite." 
 
 8. Daughter of Babylon! laid waste! 
 
 How happy he who shall requite, 
 
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 To thee in retribution just, 
 
 The treatment thou to us hast shown. 
 How happy he be who shall seize 
 
 And dash thy babes upon a stone. 
 
 Psalm CXXXVIII. 
 
 1. I will thee praise with all my heart: 
 
 I'll sing psalms publicly 
 
 2. To thee O God, I'll bow towards 
 
 Thy holy sanctuary. 
 And for thy mercy and thy truth, 
 
 Thy name will celebrate; 
 Since thou, for sake of all thy name, 
 
 Thy promise ha^t made great. 
 
 3. I have unto thee daily called, 
 
 And thou hast answered me. 
 To me thou fortitude wilt give; 
 In my soul strength shall be. 
 
 4. All the kings of the earth, O Lord, 
 
 With praise shall thee confess, 
 When of thy mouth they shall have heard 
 Thy precious promises. 
 
 5. And they will in Jehovah's ways, 
 
 Sing to his praise each one, 
 That the I ord's glory on the earth 
 Had very great become. 
 
 6. Though the Lord is exalted high, 
 
 Yet He looks to the low; 
 But those self-raised in haughtiness, 
 He from afar doth know. 
 
 7. Though I in midst of trouble walk, 
 
 My life thou wilt defend,. 
 And lay thy hand on my foes' wrath, 
 Me save with thy right hand. 
 
 8. W'hat there is for me with the Lord, 
 
 The Lord complete will make. 
 His mercy lasting is. Do not 
 W T orks of thy hand forsake. 
 
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 Psalm CXXXIX. 
 
 1. O Lord, thou hast me searched and known*; 
 
 2. My sitting down hast scanned 
 And rising up, Thou, all my thoughts 
 
 Far off, dost understand. 
 
 3. My path and lodging thou dost sift, 
 
 Frequent all ways I go; 
 
 4. For no word's on my tongue, but lo! 
 
 The whole, Lord, thou dost know. 
 
 5. Behind, before, thou dost me press, 
 
 And thy hand on me set. 
 
 6. Such knowledge wonderous is to me, 
 
 Too high for me to get. 
 
 7. Where from thy spirit can I go? 
 
 Or from thy presence fly? 
 
 8. Scale Heaven? There thou art, lo! there, 
 
 If in a grave I lie. 
 
 9. Take I the wings of dawn, to dwell 
 
 Far off beyond the sea; 
 
 10. Me even there thy hand would lead, 
 
 And thy right hand hold me. 
 
 11. If I say; Darkness me involves. 
 
 The night round me is light. 
 
 12. The darkness darkens not from thee; 
 
 But as day, shines the night, 
 As darkness is thus as the light. 
 
 13. For maker thou hast been 
 
 Of my veins; me thou woven hast 
 My mother's womb within. 
 
 14. I give thee thanks, that signalized 
 
 I have been wondrously. 
 Thy works are marvelous; and that 
 My soul knows thoroughly, 
 
 15. My person's not been hid from thee, 
 
 As I was formed for birth, 
 In secrecy embroidered was 
 As in depth of the earth. 
 
 16. Thine eyes have seen my sphere of life; 
 
 And in thy book wrote down. 
 
 Are all of them, the days observed; 
 
 And beside them there's none. 
 
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 iy. And to me, God, how dear thy thoughts, 
 How great the sum of them! 
 
 1 8. I count them! They outnumber sand, 
 
 I wake, still with thee am. 
 
 19. If thou God slayest bad blood-stained men, 
 
 Far from me be all those, 
 
 20. Who speak of thee for wickedness, 
 
 And are profane, thy foes. 
 
 21. Thy haters, Lord, should I not hate? 
 
 Them loathe who thee oppose? 
 
 22. With utter hatred them I hate; 
 
 They are to me, as foes. 
 
 23. Search me, Lord, know my heart; try me, 
 
 And know my thought; and see, 
 
 24. If I'm in a wrong way, and in 
 
 The endless way lead me. 
 
 Psalm CXL. 
 
 1. From wicked man, Lord, rescue me; 
 
 Thou wilt me from the man 
 Of violence preserve, who do 
 
 2. In their hearts mischiefs plan; 
 They every day gather for war, 
 
 3. Like serpents they make sharp 
 Their tongues; under their lips there is 
 
 The venom of an asp. 
 
 4. Lord keep me from the bad man's hands, 
 
 From the outrageous man 
 Thou wilt me save, who to subvert 
 My steps have formed a plan. 
 
 5. Proud men have hid for me a snare 
 
 And cords, they have a net 
 Spread out for me by the roadside, 
 Trapsfor me they have set. 
 
 6. I have unto Jehovah said, 
 
 Thou art my God from choice; 
 O thou, Jehovah, hearken to 
 My supplications' voice. 
 
 7. Jehovah, Lord, the strength thou hast 
 
 Of my salvation been; 
 
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 Thou strongly covered hast my head 
 Amid the battle's din. 
 
 8. The wishes of the wicked men, 
 
 O Lord, do not concede; 
 That he may not elated be, 
 Let not his plots succeed. 
 
 9. As for the head of those my foes, 
 
 Who so environ me, 
 The injuries of their own lips 
 Their covering shall be. 
 
 10. Live coals upon them shall be thrown: 
 
 Them He will cause to fall 
 Into the fire, and water floods, 
 Whence rise they never shall. 
 
 11. The man of slanderous tongues shall not 
 
 On earth established be: 
 Evil the man of violence 
 Shall hunt distructively. 
 
 12. I know God to the meek does right, 
 
 And judgment for the poor. 
 
 13. Only the just will praise thy name, 
 
 The just dwell thee before. 
 
 Psalm CXLI. 
 
 1. Jehovah, I do thee implore, 
 
 With haste to me draw nigh; 
 And listen thou unto my voice, 
 When I unto thee cry. 
 
 2. Oh, let my prayer accepted be, 
 
 As incense in thine eyes; 
 And the uplifting of my hands, 
 As evening sacrifice. 
 
 3. Set at my mouth a guard; the door 
 
 Of my lips watch, O Lord. 
 
 4. And let thou not my heart incline 
 
 In thought to an ill word, 
 To practice any practices 
 
 For wickedness with men 
 Who work iniquity, nor let 
 
 Me dainties eat with them. 
 
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 5. Then would a righteous one me smite; 
 
 Love also would me chide. 
 Anointment of the head with oil 
 
 My head will not make void. 
 For oft and still I pray against 
 
 The evils they have done. 
 
 6. They by the strong hand of their Judge 
 
 Will be at last thrown down. 
 And then my kind word they will hear. 
 
 7. As one ploughs the ground 
 
 And breaks it up, at the grave's mouth 
 Our bones are scattered round. 
 
 8. Because Jehovah, Lord of all, 
 
 Mine eyes unto thee are, 
 Thee trusting, pour not out my soul. 
 
 9. Keep me from the strong snare 
 They set for me, from nets of those 
 
 Who work iniquity. 
 10. In their own traps let bad men fall, 
 While safely I pass by. 
 
 Psalm CXLII. 
 
 1. I'll with my voice cry to the Lord; 
 
 With my voice supplicate 
 
 2. The Lord; to him pour out my plaint, 
 
 And my distress relate. 
 
 3. My spirit in me is perplexed, 
 
 But thou my way dost know. 
 They hidden have a snare for me. 
 In the path I should go. 
 
 4. Look thou to the right hand and see; 
 
 To know me none there are; 
 Refuge has failed me, for my soul 
 Not any one doth care. 
 
 5. To thee, Jehovah I have cried; 
 
 I have said unto thee, 
 Thou art my refuge, in this life 
 My portion dear to me. 
 
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 Since I am now brought very low, 
 
 Hearken unto my cry; 
 Me rescue from my foes, for they 
 
 Are mightier than I. 
 From prison bring my soul, that praise 
 
 May to thy name redound. 
 When thou wilt favour to me show, 
 
 The just will me surround. 
 
 Psalm CXLIII. 
 
 1. Lord hear my prayer, unto my cries 
 
 For mercy, Oh! attend; 
 In thy truth, in thy righteousness, 
 To me an answer send. 
 
 2. With me, thy servant, enter not 
 
 In judgment him to try; 
 For in thy sight no living man 
 Himself can justify. 
 
 3. For foes pursue my soul, my life 
 
 Into the ground they tread; 
 And make me dwell in places dark, 
 Like those a long time dead. 
 
 4. My spirit in me harrassed is, 
 
 My heart made desolate. 
 
 5. I view in memory the days 
 
 Of old, I meditate 
 On all thy doings past; I'll speak 
 Of the works of thy hand. 
 
 6. To thee my hands I stretch, for thee 
 
 My soul's like a parched land. 
 
 7. Hasten, O Lord, and answer me; 
 
 My spirit is downcast. 
 From me hide not thy gracious face, 
 
 Lest I become at last, 
 Like those that go down to the pit. 
 
 8. Cause me to hear at dawn 
 Thy mercy, for in thee I trust. 
 
 Do thou to me make known 
 The way, that I should go, for I 
 Carry my soul to thee. 
 
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 9. Now from my adversaries all 
 O Lord! deliver me. 
 With thee I hidden have myself, 
 
 10. Because thou art my God. 
 Teach me to do thy holy will; 
 
 Thy Spirit is the good. 
 Let Him guide me on level ground 
 
 11. O Lord! for thy name's sake, 
 Me quicken; in thy righteousness 
 
 My soul from trouble take. 
 
 12. Seeing I am thy servant, thou 
 
 In mercy wilt destroy 
 My foes, and to perdition bring 
 All who my soul annoy. 
 
 Psalm CXLIV. 
 
 1. Praised be the Lord, my rock, who taught 
 
 My hands for war their power, 
 My fingers skill; kindness to me, 
 
 2. My fortress, my strong tower, 
 My prompt deliverer, my shield, 
 
 Whom for my trust I choose; 
 Who in subjection unto me 
 My people all subdues. 
 
 3. Jehovah what is any man 
 
 That thou of him shouldst know 
 And what a son of man, that thou 
 Dost thought on him bestow? 
 
 4. Man is but vanity, his days 
 
 As shadows pass away. 
 
 5. Lord, bow the heavens come down, touch thou 
 
 Mountains, that smoke they may. 
 
 6. Flash lightnings, them disperse, send out 
 
 Thy shafts, them to confound. 
 
 7. Stretch thy hand down, rid and me free 
 
 From water floods profound, 
 And from the hands of aliens strange, 
 
 8. Whose mouth speaks fallacies, 
 And their right hand is shown to be 
 
 A right hand full of lies. 
 
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 g. I will to thee, C God, now sing 
 A song that's new to me; 
 As I play on the ten-stringed lyre 
 I'll sing the psalm to thee. 
 
 10. Thou unto kings that rightly rule 
 
 Deliverance dost afford; 
 Thou dost thy servant, David free 
 From the destructive sword. 
 
 11. Rid and me save from alien's hands, 
 
 Whose mouth speaks fallacies, 
 And their right hand is shown to be 
 A right hand full of lies. 
 
 12. So that our sons, as plants may be 
 
 Trained in their youth with care; 
 Our daughter's like choice polished stones 
 Which in a palace are. 
 
 13. Our garners with provisions good 
 
 Of every kind supplied; 
 Our flocks in pastures, bringing forth 
 To thousands multiplied; 
 
 14. Our oxen strong burdens to bear; 
 
 No breaking in occur, 
 Nor marching out, and in our streets 
 There may be no murmurs. 
 
 15. What happiness a people have, 
 
 In such a state as this! 
 What happiness do they enjoy, 
 Whose God Jehovah is. 
 
 Psalm CXLV. 
 
 1. I'll thee extol, my God, the King, 
 
 Thy name forever bless; 
 
 2. Thee daily bless, and evermore 
 
 Thy name with praise confess. 
 
 3. Great is the Lord, much to be praised, 
 
 His greatness search exceeds. 
 
 4. Age lauds to age thy work, and they 
 
 Publish thy mighty deeds, 
 
 5. On the majestic comeliness, 
 
 Of all thy glory great, 
 
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 And the words of thy wonders, I 
 Myself will meditate. 
 
 6. And of thy formidable deeds 
 
 Men notice will the force; 
 
 And of thy vast magnificence 
 
 I will with awe discourse. 
 
 7. Remembrance of thy goodness great, 
 
 They fluently express; 
 And they expatiate with joy 
 On thy strict righteousness. 
 
 8. The Lord is kind and pitiful, 
 
 And is to anger slow; 
 
 9. He great in mercy is. The Lord 
 
 To all doth goodness show, 
 His mercy is o'er all his works. 
 
 10. Thy works thy praise display; 
 
 11. Thy saints thee bless, speak of the might 
 
 And glory of thy sway, 
 
 12. To make known to the sons of men 
 
 His deeds of energy, 
 And of his boundless government 
 The glorious majesty. 
 
 13. Thy reign's an endless reign, and thy 
 
 Kingdom will ever last. 
 
 14. Those near a fall the Lord upholds, 
 
 And lifts up the downcast. 
 
 15. All eyes wait on thee, who to them 
 
 Their food in time dost give; 
 
 16. With opened hand thou dost supply, 
 
 The wants of all that live. 
 
 17. In all his ways the Lord is just, 
 
 And good in his works all. 
 
 18. The Lord's near all who call on him, 
 
 And in truth on him call. 
 
 19. His fearer's wish He'll do; and save 
 
 Them when to him they cry. 
 
 20. All loving him, He keeps; but all 
 
 The vile he will destroy. 
 
 21. My mouth shall still utter the praise, 
 
 The Lord from us doth claim. 
 Let all mankind forevermore 
 Adore his holv name. 
 
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 Psalm CXLVI. 
 
 1. The Lord praise! praise, my soul, the Lord! 
 
 I'll praise him while I live! 
 
 2. While I exist, I will in psalms 
 
 To my God praise give. 
 
 3. Trust not in princes, in man's sons, 
 
 In whom no safety is. 
 
 4. His soul goes forth, he turns to dust, 
 
 Then fails all thoughts of his. 
 
 5. How blest the man, to whom the God 
 
 Of Jacob is an aid; 
 Whose hope is in the Lord, his God, 
 6.* Who heaven and earth hath made, 
 The sea, and all that is therein; 
 Who truth forever heeds, 
 
 7. Justice for the oppressed maintains, 
 
 With bread the hungry feeds. 
 The Lord sets free the bound. The Lord 
 
 8. Opens blind eyes to sight. 
 
 The Lord lifts up the bowed down. 
 The Lord loves the upright: 
 
 9. Strangers Jehovah oversees, 
 
 The orphan he supports 
 And widow lone; and he the way 
 Of wicked men subverts. 
 10. Jehovah over all maintains 
 Eternally the sway; 
 O Sibn, He forever is 
 Thy God. Hallelujah! 
 
 Psalm CXLVII. 
 
 1. Jehovah praise; for it is good 
 
 Psalms to our God to sing; 
 For sweet and decorous it is, 
 Unto him praise to bring. 
 
 2. The structure of Jerusalem 
 
 Is what the Lord hath done; 
 
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 And the dispersed of Israel were 
 Gathered by him alone, 
 
 3. Him, who the broken-hearted heals, 
 
 And allays all their pains. 
 
 4. He counts the number of the stars; 
 
 He calls them all by names. 
 
 5. Greatness belongs unto the Lord, 
 
 His power of vast amount; 
 And as to his intelligence, 
 None can give full account. 
 
 6. The Lord lifts up the meek; the bad 
 
 Down to the ground He'll bring! 
 
 7. Answer the Lord with thanks, with harp 
 
 The psalms to our God sing. 
 
 8. Him, who the heavens veils with clouds, 
 
 Provides rain for the earth, 
 Makes grass upon the mountains grow, 
 
 9. Food to the beasts gives forth, 
 And to the ravens' young that cry. 
 
 10. He in the horse's might 
 
 No pleasure has, nor in the legs 
 Of man takes he delight. 
 
 11. Jehovah is well pleased with those 
 
 Who do him truly fear, 
 And in their time of need wait for 
 His mercy to appear. 
 
 12. Laud! O Jerusalem, the Lord! 
 
 Zion thy God extol! 
 
 13. For he thy gates' bars hath made strong; 
 
 And blest thy children all. 
 14. He makes peace in thy bounds, and doth 
 Choice wheat to thee afford. 
 
 15. He his command sends on the earth; 
 
 And swiftly runs his word. 
 
 16. He gives out snow like wool; hoar frost 
 
 Like ashes scattereth wide. 
 
 17. Casts out like crumbs his ice; who can 
 
 Before his cold abide? 
 
 18. He sends his word, melts them; his wind 
 
 He blows, then waters flow. 
 
 19. His word to Jacob, his statutes 
 
 And judgments he doth show 
 
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 20. To Israel. To nations all 
 Never done thus hath he; 
 And, as fcr judgments, they knew not 
 Of them. The Lord praise ye. 
 
 Psalm CXLVIII. 
 
 1. Praise Jah! Praise from the heavens the Lord; 
 
 Him in the heights extol. 
 
 2. All ye his angels, give him praise; 
 
 Praise him, his armies all. 
 
 3. Oh! praise ye him, the sun and moon; 
 
 Praise him, each shining star, 
 
 4. Praise him, ye heavens of heavens; praise him 
 
 Waters that o'er skies that are. 
 
 5. Let them the name praise of the Lord; 
 
 For he gave a command, 
 And they were formed; and he caused them 
 
 6. P'orever firm to stand. 
 
 And gave to them an ordinance, 
 Which they cannot transgress. 
 
 7. The Lord praise from the earth; ye whales 
 
 And every deep abyss; 
 
 8. Fire, hail, snow, clouds; and stormy winds 
 
 Ready his word to do; 
 
 9. The mountains and all hills, fruit trees, 
 
 And all the cedars too; 
 
 10. The wild beasts, and all cattle tame; 
 
 The reptiles large and small, 
 
 11. And feathered fowls; kings of the earth 
 
 Also the nations all, 
 Chieftains and judges all on earth; 
 
 12. Young men, and maidens young, 
 Old men and children; let ail these 
 
 13. The Lord's name praise, each one; 
 Because his name above all else 
 
 Is in itself sublime, 
 His splendsr doth above the earth 
 And the whole heavens shine. 
 
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 14. Power for his people, and renown 
 For all his saints he's raised, 
 P"or Israel's sons, a people near 
 To him. The Lord be praised. 
 
 Psalm CXLIX. 
 
 1. Praise ye Jehovah. A new song- 
 
 Sing ye unto the Lord; 
 
 In the assembly of the saints 
 
 Renown to him accord. 
 
 2. Let Israel in his Maker joy, 
 
 And to him praises sing; 
 Let all that Sion's children are 
 Be joyful in their King. 
 
 3. Let them be moved with fervency 
 
 To celebrate his name; 
 Dancing with timbrel and the harp. 
 In psalms his praise proclaim. 
 
 4. For in them, who his people are, 
 
 The Lord doth pleasure take; 
 And with salvation he the meek 
 All beautiful will make. 
 
 5. In glory let the godly, then, 
 
 Exultingly rejoice; 
 Low ou their beds let them in praise 
 With joy lift up their voice. 
 
 6. Within their mouth shall ever be 
 
 The praises of the Lord; 
 Also in their right hand there shall 
 Be a sharp two-edged sword; 
 
 7. Vengeance 'mong nations to inflict 
 
 Rebukes people among. 
 
 8. To bind their kings with chains, their chiefs 
 
 W T ith iron fetters strong. 
 
 9. To execute the judgment thus 
 
 Which is upon record; 
 An honor this for all the saints. 
 Give ye praise to the Lord. 
 
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 Psalm CL. 
 
 1. Jehovah praise! The mighty God, 
 
 Praise in his sanctuary; 
 Within the spacious firmanent 
 Of his power praise him ye. 
 
 2. Praise him in view of his great works 
 
 With praise him magnify, 
 According to the amplitude 
 Of his own majesty. 
 
 3. Praise him with trumpets' sound, him praise 
 
 With harp aud psaltery. 
 
 4. With timbrel, dance, stringed instruments 
 
 And organ, praise him ye. 
 
 5. Praise him with cymbals sounding loud, 
 
 Praise him with sounds of joy. 
 From cymbals loud, let all who breathe 
 Him praise! Hallelujah! 
 
^FLiLHATOI^T NoTEi, 
 
 Psalm 139 : 15, 16. 
 
 The word, in verse 15th, in our English Bible, translated 
 "substance," is the word for bone, as translated in Gen. 
 2 : 23. This word is used in the Hebrew Bible, not 
 unfrequently in a borrowed or secondary sense, to desig- 
 nate with emphasis the identity of that to which it 
 relates. It is so used in regard to things, and translated 
 self-same. Gen. 7: 13, 17: 23; Exod. 12: 17. So 
 "Its (the bone) as the heavens itself for brightness." 
 
 This word, bone, in its ancient Scriptural sense and 
 use, expressed, also, personal identity in its relative im- 
 port. "And bone of my own hand hath made for me 
 this wealth." Deut. S : 17. I myself have made it. 
 For the next verse shows, that by that plea in his heart, 
 he claimed for himself personally what did not belong 
 to him "By the bone of thy hand" that is, "thou wilt 
 thyself entrap me," Job 30 : 27. "Her Nazarites were 
 more ruddy in bone than rubies," Lamentations 4: 7, 
 translated "body," but it signifies what they were per- 
 sonally, in contrast with those described in the next 
 verse. This word in the piural has the same special, 
 personal reference, in some places, to the individual of 
 whom any thing is affirmed. "His bones are full of 
 his youth, and with him it shall lie down on the dust," 
 Job 20 : 11. He did not personally feel old, and would 
 15 
 
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 not, till at that untimely youthfulness in old age, that 
 made him regardless of sin and death, "Shall lie down 
 with him in the dust." The first use and significance 
 of this word, bone, by Adam may have been the prima- 
 tive suggestive occasion of the application of it to per- 
 sons. Our own word, person, may be its near lingual 
 kin by descent. The early Latins in forming that word 
 ages ago, in providing themselves with a language of 
 their own, according to the learned Joseph Scaliger, 
 borrowed the verbal material of which it is composed, 
 from the Greeks, as follows : peri (about) and soma 
 (body) making persona. See Ainsworth's Latin Diction- 
 ary, London, A. D., 1823. The Greeks had a word of 
 the same import, prosopon, person, so translated, 2 Cor. 
 10 ch. 10. See more Scriptural proof of this in Schleus- 
 ner's Lexicon on the Greek N. T. Each of these 
 words, in the ancient language to which it belongs, 
 must have been in common use in its personal import 
 long anterior to any dramatical exhibitions, for the 
 actors were called persons, because they represented 
 persons, characterised in a drama. Persona is the 
 meaning given to this word in the Arabic version, 
 Pool's Synopsis. The Septuagint translation gives, in 
 an explanatory way, the same meaning to it : "not hid 
 from thee was my bone which thou didst make in secret, 
 and my upostasis, in the depths of the earth." That 
 word is translated "person" where Paul wrote it in the 
 New Testament, Heb. 1 : 3. 
 
 Jehovah's universal and^constant omniscience is the 
 sublime and impressive truth unfolded in this psalm ; 
 and a personal truth to be recognized by every one who 
 reads or sings the psalm. His creation, the divine 
 origin of his nature, with all that makes him an intel- 
 
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 lectual, moral and accountable being, susceptible of 
 perfect happiness or of utter misery, with an inherent 
 law, inseparable from his nature, and diverse from all 
 natural laws in nature around, is confessed, in verses 13 
 and 14. k is not restricted or peculiar to king David. 
 It is truly and equally applicable to every one, capable 
 in thoughtful self-communion of knowing, in his intel- 
 ligent consciousness, what his nature is, fearfully and 
 wondrously constituted, as it is by God in its formation. 
 
 In verse 15th, the main subject of this psalm, the 
 omniscience of God, is made prominent in a personal 
 recognition and acknowledgement of it as follows : 
 - "My person has not been hid from thee, as I was 
 made in secret, embroidered was in the depths of the 
 earth." 
 
 The verbs in this verse are in the past tense and pas- 
 sive voice. I insert as instead of when for the relative 
 pronoun in Hebrew. The pronoun with the letter 
 chaph often hath that sense and sometimes without it, 
 as in Ps. 10 : 6, Jer. 33 : 22 ; 2 Chron. 6 : 8, and 
 should be v. 29. The negative statement in the first 
 clause of this 15th verse, "my person has not been hid- 
 den from thee," is a strong affirmation, a personal avowal 
 to God. I have been in my life always thoroughly 
 known to thee. Every one who said or sung this psalm 
 would realize, in his understanding and self-applica- 
 tion of its truth, that all which constituted his being in 
 his own consciousness of existence, all that pertained 
 or affected him in any way personally, his faculties, ca- 
 pacities, his thoughts, his motives, his acts, his sins, his 
 habits, his hopes, his fears, his sorrows, his comforts, 
 had been fully known to God. 
 
 He subjoins, as a sufficient and valid reason for his 
 assured belief and understanding of the omniscience of 
 
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 God, "as I was made by thee," instead of as, it might 
 be translated for, as the relative pronoun is, Gen. 32 : 
 49 ; Deut. 3 : 24. He was, as the verse before this 
 shows, fully sensible with overwhelming emotions in 
 his soul, that he had been formed by the -Lord. But 
 here he adds, not only in accordance with the import 
 of the first clause in this verse, but as convincing evi- 
 dence to him of the truth and certainty of his being 
 wholly and always within the omniscience of God. ' 4 As 
 I was made in secret, embroidered was in the depths of 
 the earth." Literally in secret-figuratively to me, like 
 that in the deep interior of the earth. This last clause 
 lays bare the fact, the argument, that shows clearly the 
 fact, the truth, affirmed in the first clause. This sec- 
 recy was not, of course, with God the creator. It 
 belongs and cleaves to the created, as to the whole 
 progressive, intricate, mysterious process of his forma- 
 tion into a human, rational being, a process of which, 
 the created can have no memory, or intuitive conception 
 or knowledge in his mind. But all was perfectly 
 known to God. As God has known in the cloudless 
 light of his knowledge all about me in that period of 
 my existence, which is entire darkness to me, I am sure 
 that my person at no time since, in no place, in no con- 
 dition or relation has been hidden from Him. "God 
 is light and in Him is no darkness at all." If I say, 
 "surely the darkness shall cover me ; even the night 
 shall be light about ; yea, the darkness hideth not from 
 thee : but the dark night shineth as the day ; the dark- 
 ness and the light are both alike to thee." The word, 
 for, here is an important and significant word, as it 
 refers to and refutes, what is in this apostate world uni- 
 versally said, as it was at first by Adam in Eden, 
 
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 "And I hid myself." This for^ in its reference to what 
 just precedes it, points, for evidence or illustration, of 
 its truth, mainly to what is contained in verse 15th and 
 16th, but also to the devout appreciation of the thought- 
 ful, searching, infallible omniscience of Jehovah, in the 
 residue to the end of this Psalm, 16th v. Thine eyes 
 have seen my sphere of life, and on thy book they all 
 will be written ; days will be noted, and besides them 
 there is none." 
 
 The leading word in this verse, for which is substi- 
 tuted "substance" in our English Bible, is a different 
 word from that so translated in the former verse. This 
 noun is derived from a verb which is found only in 2 
 Kings, 2: 8. "And Elijah took his mantle, and en- 
 wrapped himself and smote the waters." There are 
 no words in the Hebrew for "it together :" His man- 
 tle was a sign mysteriously connected with the prophet- 
 ical and miraculous powers given to him by Jehovah. 
 "He wrapped his face in his mantle," 1 Kings 19 : 63. 
 "He cast his mantle upon Elisha," v. 19th. This act 
 doubtless betokened the final bestowment of the super- 
 natural power, that made Elisha what Elijah had been. 
 By this mantle around them, they were discriminated 
 and known in distinction from other men. There is 
 good ground for more than doubting the correctness of 
 the above interpretation of the act of Elijah in regard 
 to what he did after taking his mantle. He might have 
 wrapped it around him. Had it been requisite to smite 
 the waters with the mantle, there would have been some 
 word to indicate it in connection with the act of Elijah, 
 and afterwards of Elisha in smiting the waters, that the 
 mantle was used for that purpose. But there is nothing 
 of that kind on record. It must have been around 
 
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 Elijah when he crossed the river, and till in his ascent 
 it felL Then Elisha took the mantle and smote the 
 waters. There is not a word to intimate that it was 
 wrapped together. But even if it was rolled up and 
 used in smiting the waters, it was still a mantle fitted 
 for the purpose for which it was made, in its use, closely 
 around and outside the person to whom it belonged 
 and to whom it was attached. But even if the mantle 
 had been wrapped together or rolled up, neither the act 
 of rolling it, nor its appearance when enwrapped would 
 suggest the idea "an unformed mass, substance not yet 
 wrought," is the true meaning of a Hebrew substantive 
 which has the only root of its form and sense in the verb 
 applied to what Elijah did after he took his mantle. Vet 
 this important word, on which the divinely intended 
 and expressed import of the whole verse hinges, has, 
 under the sanction of Gesenius, has been adopted by 
 Hengstenbergh, as follows : "Thine eyes saw me when 
 I was unprepared," and by others since, in this country, 
 with a little change in mere terms. These interpreta- 
 tions have their origin in the old Septuagint in an ad- 
 jective as follows: "My incomplete thine eyes have 
 seen." The plea of antiquity with some interpreters of 
 the Old Testament, in modern times, as among geolo- 
 gists, the superficial interpreters of the material earth, 
 has done more for the furtherance of error than of 
 truth. 
 
 The noun derived from the verb, to enwrap, to en- 
 velop, may be seen in Ezek. 27 : 24, in blue cloths, in 
 embroidered work, and in chests of rich apparel. It is 
 the word for clothes. It means an outer garment, a 
 cloak, a mantle in which a person was clothed, "was 
 wrapped," as Gesenius, in his Lexicon, admits. I cite 
 this passage to show the self-evident congruity of the 
 
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 primative, literal meaning of that noun to that of the 
 verb from which it sprung. The mantle was so called 
 in view of what it was to him, whose it was, attached 
 to, and around his person. It was not so called be- 
 cause it was rolled together or folded up, for that was 
 common to the rich apparel of all sorts in the chests of 
 cedar. In this verse there is another word to which I 
 will refer, as a signal and illustrative instance and proof 
 of the light and profit we may gain in understanding 
 the Sacred Scriptures, by keeping in mind, as means 
 within our reach, the common and literal meaning of 
 words, which the Spirit of inspiration, in his infinite 
 and gracious wisdom, selected and applied, in a bor- 
 rowed or figurative sense, so as to suggest or illustrate 
 to a reading mind, some illustrative analogy, without 
 identity. The word in this verse, to which I now refer, 
 as a sample, is the same word that is in verse 15th in 
 this psalm : but here it is literal in its primitive mean- 
 ing ; but in the psalm it is metaphorical, descriptive of 
 what pre-eminently pertains to the nature of man, in 
 distinction from all nature around him. Metaphors and 
 parables, unfolding spiritual and moral truth, and eter- 
 nal truth, the most important and sublime, are taken 
 from temporal things, scenes and events, common in 
 the world everywhere, and for which there are words in 
 every language, more or less, on the face of the earth. 
 
 As this word in Ezekiel signifies "mantles blue and 
 embroidered in chests of apparel," we may certainly infer 
 from it, that the Hebrew word in this 1 6th verse of the 
 psalm cannot differ from it in its import. They both 
 have the same consonants, and the same that form the 
 verb. That in Ezek. is in the plural, this in the singu- 
 lar. It is evident, however, from the personal pronoun, 
 in the plural, that follows and refers to it, that it is here 
 
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 a noun of multitude, comprehending all that enwrapped 
 and encompassed his person individually in his relations 
 to his fellow beings and to God. But whatever may 
 have been the literal meaning of that word, its fig- 
 urative import, in regard to every man who sang this 
 psalm, comprehended, all that concerned and affected 
 him, under all circumstances in every position his person 
 had occupied through life, actively or passively, in tem- 
 poral or spiritual interests, in his relations to his fellow 
 beings, or in his relations and obligations to God. The 
 same reason that assured him that his person had not 
 been hidden from God, was in itself, and certainly, 
 enough to assure him that all around him in the 
 whole course of his life, at all times, in all places, 
 and in all his relations within the compass of his 
 moral accountability to God, the eyes of the Lord 
 had seen. Other words for apparel are used in a 
 figurative sense and application. They are like small 
 parrables, plain and easily understood, and in their 
 evidenced meaning, are often very important in their 
 truth. I refer merely to a few, Job 29 ; 14 ; Isa. 61 : 
 10; Rev. 3: 18, 7; 14. I may here, also, direct the 
 attention of readers to a remarkable promise or prophecy 
 given ages ago, to Zion, to the Israelites, and worthy 
 of their attention now in the latter ages. "As I live," 
 saith Jehovah, "thou shalt surely clothe thee with them 
 all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee as a 
 bride," Isa. 49 : 18. What I particularly have in view, 
 as to phraseology, is in verse 21 as to the word transla- 
 ted in the English Bible desolate, and I am bereaved, and 
 solitary a captive, and removing to and fro. This Sion 
 said. The first three consonants in the word for solitary 
 are the same that form the noun, the first and main 
 word in verse 16 : and also of the verb from which it 
 
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 sprung. That word in Isaiah has a consonant with a 
 vowel added to it, giving it a negative meaning in con- 
 trast with that of the word in this psalm. This word is 
 solitary in special contrast with what the solitary had 
 been and others were as to outward circumstances. That 
 word is rightly translated in Job 3 : 7 as it should have 
 been in ch. 15 : 34. 
 
 Whoever sang this psalm with understanding would 
 confess to God in singing this verse — 
 
 1. Thine eyes have seen all about me, all that con- 
 cerned me at all times in the whole course andsphe^of 
 my life. The word eyes is in the dual number, The 
 Lord sees purposely and intently. There is nothing in 
 my mind or body, in my experience, in my conduct, in 
 my self-communion, in my intercourse with others, in 
 my conversation in the world, secret or invisible to 
 God. 
 
 2. In thy book all of them will be written to remain 
 on record. The perpetual remembrance of what the 
 eyes of the Lord saw, allied to his person, in the course 
 of his life, is here ackowledged in terms which were 
 applied to what was done by kings in regard to past 
 events affairs and deeds under their reign, Esther 6 : 10, 
 2 ; Mat. 3 : 10. All were written in the indellible, in- 
 visible book of God's remembrance of every human 
 being, and of his mental, actual, personal realities. 
 That infinite volume of Jehovah's omniscience will com- 
 prise a full, complete, infallible biography of every 
 human being that ever lived on the earth — flis footstool. 
 Its true that there are multitudes hardened into indiffer- 
 ence to this book of God ; and besides these there are 
 adepts in the wisdom of this world, even clerical offi- 
 cials, who treat it as a fictitious novel in their funeral 
 services, at the burial of the Christless dead from the 
 
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 Christless domicile of secrecy, as if their glory would 
 descend after them and crown them on the day of judg- 
 ment. But every man will have a complete and true 
 biography in the book of God. God is Judge. The 
 book of record in His omniscience will contain far more 
 than any man himself can retain or have in thoughts or 
 memory, in this world, or after he may leave it. For 
 when the dead, small and great, shall stand before the 
 great white throne, and the books be opened, and the 
 dead be judged for those things written in the books 
 according to their works, it is foreshown by Him who 
 will sit on the throne of his glory in the last of days, 
 that of those at his right hand the Lord sees more than 
 they will see of themselves : and the Judge shall answer 
 those at his right hand, "Inasmuch as ye have done 
 it to the least of these my brethren, ye have done it 
 unto me." All that they had done to the least thing 
 was written in His book. To the general and vague 
 plea of those on his left hand, He will answer: "Verily 
 I say unto you, inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the 
 least of these ye did it not to me." As proven from the 
 book of his own omniscience, they had done nothing, 
 not the least, for his sake, much as they may have done, 
 each one for his own sake, pleasure or honor, in this evil 
 world. Therefore 
 
 3. There all that was written was connected with 
 dates. "Days were noted" or observed. The Hebrew 
 word here is natzar not jatzar, to form. These two 
 verbs are so much alike in the future tense that one is 
 liable to be mistaken for the other. Gesenius, in his 
 Lexicon, confesses this error as follows : "Where is my 
 commentary ? I have, with others, wrongfully derived 
 atza?- from natzar." It is stated by Venema, in his com- 
 ment on this psalm, that the same mistake which ob- 
 
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 scures this psalm, was made in the translation of Ps. 33 : 
 15, for which he substituted, "observe their hearts alike." 
 So, also in Prov. 24 : 12, for which, in the place of what 
 is in our common Bible, he would make it, "He who 
 observeth thy soul, doth He not know ? Job 7 : 20. Oh ! 
 thou observer of men." This word is translated wafc/i, 
 Ps. 141 : 3 ; Jer. 4 : 16 and observe Ps. 119 : 34. 
 
 Any reader may see that this word is connected with 
 what was written, the days, the times, when the Lord 
 saw all that was written in the book. 
 
 4. And, out of, besides them, there is not one. This 
 is brief, but a very comprehensive and emphatic con- 
 firmation of what precedes it in this verse. The im- 
 portant copulative, and, embraces, within the compass 
 of its connective sense, all that to which the pronoun 
 them directly refers. Every one who sang these words, 
 with the enlarged views and devout appreciation of the 
 thoughts of God, expressed in the next verse, would 
 connect them in the last clause of this 16th verse, not 
 only with days, but also and mainly with what would be 
 in his mind when all them would be on his lips. On 
 the true and plain meaning of these two central words, 
 as words, hinges, inseparably, the real and true meaning 
 of those two words conjoined in Hebrew. Thine eyes 
 have seen all about me, all with which I am enrapt, and 
 arrayed, all connected with my activity, mental or bod- 
 ily, with my experience, pleasant or painful, in my re- 
 lations and sphere of accountability to thee, in public 
 or private. All thine eyes have seen of me, will have 
 been written in thy book with particular accurate dates. 
 It is evident that the words all, them, are words that 
 comprise in their reference all that comprehended in the 
 one word gatam t and was all which the eyes of the Lord 
 had seen. Any one in the discernment and conscious- 
 
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 ness of all this, might, in the full assurance of its truth, 
 add, "And besides them there is not another, not one." 
 The simple conjunction joins this last clause in the verse 
 with the clause just before this, in which both the verbs 
 are in the passive voice and future tense. The first is 
 so translated in 69 : 29 and 102 : 18. The emphatic 
 pronoun is the last noun in the 16th v. 
 
 The sublime, eternal, and influential truth unfolded 
 in this psalm is the omniscience of Jehovah. That is 
 a truth, a divine truth recognized by every rational 
 human being that ever lived on the earth, and by every 
 one now living ; and it is realized, more or less, inde- 
 pendently of his own will, in his mental intuitive con- 
 sciousness. It is what is implied in what the ancient 
 Latins expressed by the word conscientia from which 
 was derived our word, conscience, "the testimony 
 and witness of his own mind," as defined in Ainsworth's 
 Latin Dictionary. The word, suneidesis, used by the 
 Greeks, is of the same import, John 8:9; Rom 2 : 15. 
 Every one under the reign of grace, in his belief and 
 knowledge of the omniscience and omnipotence of 
 "Emanual, God with us," will have cause in his experi- 
 ence to sing what is contained in the next two verses, 
 and in his need the last two. 
 
 Psalm 141 : 5, 6. 
 
 Any one who reads this psalm with due thought, may 
 discern that it is an earnest prayer to God, watchfully 
 to guard and withhold the person who reads or sings it, 
 from every wicked way and fellowship, in which, by 
 connivance or co-operation, he would or might become 
 associated with the workers of iniquity, even though it 
 might be successful, and he himself be a participant of 
 
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 its coveted results, its dainties. In the last of this 
 psalm, he makes prominent the artful and mischievous 
 schemes of those workers of iniquity to ensnare him. 
 
 The common interpretation makes a break in the 
 tenor of this psalm. Besides it is not consistent with 
 the rule or actuating principles of a strictly righteous 
 man, in contrast with the good, to suppose that he 
 would smite another without cause assigned. The verbs 
 in the fifth verse are in the future tense and singular 
 number. Anointment with holy oil is here meant, Ps. 
 23 : 5 ; So, : 20 ; 133 : 2 ; Cant. 1 , 3, 4, 10. "Break" 
 here means just what is meant, when it is now said, that 
 a man will not break his word or his vow ; that is make 
 it of no worth or validity. That is the true meaning of 
 the Hebrew word here in the future hiphil. See Ps. 33: 
 10, last clause, Num. 30 : 6, disallow in Eng. 5, 8, II. 
 His prayers had been and were still not for a righteous 
 or benign man, but for a plurality against their sins, or 
 for them in their consequent and merited disasters — 
 the same who practiced wicked practices. In verse 6th 
 Judges is the plural number in Hebrew, as it is in Ps. 
 58: 12. "Surely there is a God, who is Judge in the 
 earth." Here it is literally by the hands of rock," that 
 is, by the strong hands, by the power of their Judge, 
 they shall be cast down. The same word, rock, means 
 strength in Isa. 31 : 9. "And his strength from terror 
 shall pass away." That is a prominent part of the 
 prophetic history of the Assyrian power, as adverse and 
 as zealous in modern as in ancient times against the 
 King, who reigns in righteousness. As to the word 
 "bones," in verse 7th, it may here signify persons in 
 their conscious peril, as expressed in what follows. 
 
2 3 8 
 
 Note on Psalm VIII. 
 
 The sublime subject of the devout prospective excla- 
 mation, with which this psalm begins and ends, is the 
 glorious name of Jehovah in all this Earth. It was not 
 merely His essential glory, but also the emphatically 
 specified locality of its manifestation, that called forth 
 this devout exclamation put into the lips, that its truth 
 might be in the heart, the faith and hope of all who 
 sang this psalm in private or public worship, under the 
 Old Testament dispensation, or under the New. 
 
 The immensely important subject of this psalm, 
 given by the Holy Spirit as a part of the rule of faith, 
 and for use in divine worship, as summarily but defi- 
 nitely stated, in the latter clause of this verse, is the 
 glory of the glorious name of Jehovah. The name, His 
 name, is not created nature : but His own eternal, es- 
 sential nature, uncreated, self -existent, with all His 
 infinite perfections, dwelling in light that is inaccessible 
 and full of glory, "For His name alone is excellent; His 
 glory above the earth and heavens." Ps. 148 : 13. 
 
 The two clauses that form this verse are connected 
 by two words in Hebrew in as evident relationship and 
 local proximity, the one to the other, as they could be ; 
 the last word in the former verse being the "earth," and 
 the first in the latter the relative pronoun which. It is 
 thus clearly evident that this Earth was to be the scene 
 or locality of this predicted signal manifestation of Je- 
 hovah's glorious name. The relative pronoun here has 
 the same adverbial sense, which it often has in other 
 places where there is a like need of it. "Get you straw 
 where you can find it," Exod. 5 : 11 ; 20 : 24, "in 
 places where I record my name ;" also in ch. 30 : 6 , 
 Ps. 84 : 3, where she may lay her young," 95 : 9, There 
 
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 is no other word than earth in the first clause that can 
 be made the antecedent of this relative ; and there is 
 no other word with which it can be connected, or has 
 been in a translation without materially impairing, I 
 might add, obliterating the true import of the whole in- 
 troductory verse of this Psalm. There is in the latter 
 clause of this verse, taken in its close direct relation to 
 the former, a prophetic petition for a full manifestation 
 of the essential and inseparable glory of Jehovah's name 
 on the Earth, which would in its splendor extend 
 above the heavens, and thus transcend the glory of God 
 which the heavens declare. 
 
 It must be in mind, and kept in mind, for a right un- 
 derstanding of this psalm in harmony with its true di- 
 vine import, that the word "give' in the Hebrew text 
 of this verse, is in the imperative mood, the usual gram- 
 matical form of earnest prayer addressed to God. The 
 same word is used in Psalm 86: 16, in Gen. 30: 26, 
 give me, Num. 11 : 13, Give us flesh." Gesenius in 
 his Lexicon affirms in regard to this word, that it occurs 
 elsewhere twenty-three times in the imperative. It 
 should thus be taken here. But I cannot assent to 
 what he adds, "then there arises an apt and elegant 
 sense which glory of thine places also above the heavens;" 
 for the relative pronoun is, by that application of it, 
 wrested from its *direct and close relation to the earth, 
 and attached erroneously to the noun glory, which the 
 verb give does govern. He sanctions, in his Lexicon 
 the meaning I have given to the pronoun, and I cling 
 to the word give in its true and immense meaning, with 
 respect to the divine glory so manifest, and on this earth, 
 in the fullness of time. Then at first was fulfilled what 
 was spoken of the Lord by the prophet Isaiah, "Behold ! 
 
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 a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, 
 and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which, being 
 interpreted, is God with us, Math. 1 : 22, 23 ; Isa. 7 : 
 14. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word 
 was with God, and the Word was God," John 1 : 1,8, 
 to 14. "And the Word was made flesh and dwelt 
 among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the 
 only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth," 
 v. 1 8th. No man hath seen God at any time, the only 
 begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father. He 
 hath declared, "When the chief priests and scribes 
 heard the children crying in the temple, and saying 
 Hosanna to Son of David, they were sore displeased, 
 and said unto Him, Hearest thou what they say ? and 
 Jesus said to them, Yea ; have ye never read, Out of 
 the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected 
 praise," Math. 21 : 16. Read also what is recorded in 
 Luke 10: 21. "In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit 
 and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and 
 earth, that thou hast hid those things from the wise and 
 prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes : even so, 
 Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight," 22 v. All 
 things are delivered to me of my Father, and no man 
 knoweth who the Son is but the Father ; and who the 
 Father is but the Son, and to whom the Son will reveal ;" 
 also in Math. 11 : 25, 26, 27. When Nicodemus came 
 to Jesus by night, "Jesus answered anfi said unto him, 
 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born 
 again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." To the 
 two questions of the Pharisee, "Jesus answered, Verily, 
 verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water 
 and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of 
 God." Those born again, as new-born babes desire 
 the sincere milk of the word, that they may grow there- 
 
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 by : if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious," 
 
 1 Pet. 2 : 2. Do not these passages and others that 
 might be cited, in the N. T., prove that what was pre- 
 dicted in the eight psalm was fulfilled and verified by 
 Jesus of Nazarath in the fullness of time. He himself 
 said, "Father the hour is come," I have glorified thee 
 on the earth ; I have finished the work which thou gavest 
 me to do and now, O Father, glorify me with thine own 
 self, with the glory which I had with thee before the 
 world was," John 17 : 4, 5. The word name is applied 
 four times to the Father in this chapter. 
 
 The faithful and true Witness, in his humiliation for 
 a time on this earth, "a little lower than the angels," 
 made known, as He did to Nicodemus, why it was 
 that there is eternal life in its beginning for any man in 
 this world. "For God so loved the world that he gave 
 his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him 
 should not perish, but have eternal life," John 3 : 15 : 
 
 2 Cor. 4 : 6. This is full proof of which there is vastly 
 more, that the glory of the name of Jehovah, that is, 
 His essential glory upon this earth, anticipated and pre- 
 dicted in this psalm, was and is and will be the supreme 
 personal glory of Him who, in His voluntary humillia- 
 tion, said of his "sheep," I give unto them eternal life, 
 and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck 
 them out of my hand," John 10: 28, 29. Read 
 Phil. 1 : 6, 11; 1 Pet. 2 : 2. Read what the Apostle 
 Paul wrote in his Epistle to the Hebrews, of which the 
 learned and devout John Owen published a Comment. 
 I only refer to two divinely selected and divinely sig- 
 nificant Greek words in ver. 3, with respect to Son of 
 God, "whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by 
 whom also he made the world." 
 
 16 
 
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 "Who, being brightness of the glory, and express 
 image of the person of Him, and upholding all things 
 by the word of his power, by himself making expiation 
 of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty 
 on high." I insert the definite article as it is in the 
 original. Any one may discern that the Greek word 
 character, translated "express image," is preceded by 
 what proves and illustrates it. The Son of God, whom 
 He appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made 
 worlds, being brightness of the glory (and character) of 
 the person of himself," that is, of God the Father — the 
 Son upholding all things by the word of his power, by 
 himself having purged our sins, sat down at the right 
 hand of the Majesty on high. This Greek word 
 character, is not used elsewhere in the New Testament. 
 
 How happy are they, new creatures, born again babes 
 in Christ, who will sing with the spirit and with the un- 
 derstanding also, O Jehovah ! our Lord, our ruler, 
 "how glorious thy name in all the earth," Every crea- 
 ture that lives or moves or has its being on the face of 
 the earth, has a law in its nature, an inherent law 
 suited to and inseparable from its nature. Man is not 
 an exception to this universal recognized truth. Every 
 man, like all that ever was or will be, has an irrepeal- 
 able constitutional moral law, suited and really congen- 
 ial to his nature in its tendency to his well being. There 
 is an other truth as self-evident and universal as the 
 former, that every man has a nature essentially differ- 
 ent from, and eminent above all nature around him in 
 his attributes, faculties and capacities. Who will deny 
 or doubt this ? Even in extreme insanity it is shown. 
 Yes, human nature is the. highest portion of nature 
 beneath the heavens, only a little below that of the 
 angles. It would be strange indeed, if human nature 
 
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 had no inherent law correspondent to its pre-eminence 
 in a universally recognized distinction from all else, ani- 
 mate or inanimate, on the face of the earth, or in the 
 skies around it, There is no unnatural and unseemly 
 vacuity of that kind in human beings and never will be. 
 All there is in the Sacred Scriptures is only a record or 
 history. To a certatn lawyer Jesus said, "What is writ- 
 ten in the law?" And he answering, said, "Thou shalt 
 love the Lord thy God," &c, Luke 10 : 25, 28. The Is- 
 raelites at Mount Sinai, showed and were assured injtheir 
 appalled consciousness, that the law was the benign and 
 equitable law of their own nature, for "they entreated 
 that the word should not be spoken to them any more :" 
 and said unto Moses, let not God speak with us lest we 
 die, Exod. 20: 19. The law, of which it was predicted 
 by Isaiah, 42': 21, "The Lord is well pleased for his 
 righteousness' sake: he will magnify the law and make it 
 honorable ;" the same law sumed up by the Lord Jesus, 
 as recorded in Mark 12 : 30, 31, is in its requirements, 
 obligations, holiness, equity and goodness, the natural 
 inherent eternal law in every angelic nature there is in 
 heaven ; and it is the entire spontaneous conformity to 
 that law that makes heaven what it is in blessedness to 
 the hosts of heaven, wherever it is located within the 
 boundless immensity of heaven. John, in his first epis- 
 tle, 4: 8, 16, twice affirms by divine inspiration, "For 
 God is love," "and God is love." In harmony with 
 what God essentially and eternally is, His law is love, 
 as God the Son, Jesus the Saviour affirmed, "The Lord 
 our God is one Lord ; and thou shalt love the Lord thy 
 God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with 
 all thy mind, and with all thy strength. This is the 
 first commandment, and the second like this : Thou 
 shalt love thv neighbor as thyself." That is the law, 
 
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 in the violation of which by one man, sin entered into 
 the world, and death by sin ; and so death passed upon 
 all men, for that all have sinned, Rom. 5:12. That 
 divine law, summed up by Jesus, is unalterably inherent, 
 and inseparably connected with its penalty incurred, as 
 recognized more or less in the intellect and conscious- 
 ness, in the immortal soul of every human being on the 
 face of the earth. It is a law of human nature, and a 
 law holy, just, and good in itself. It is my aim to show 
 that it is a natural law of divine origin, and distinctly 
 characteristic of human nature as it has been and ever 
 will be. The violation of no natural law changes, an- 
 nuls or obliterates the law violated. This is as true of 
 the natural moral law, as of any physical law in nature. 
 It has nothing for a violater of any one of its ten specific 
 precepts but its penalty, the soul that sinneth it shall 
 die: for the penalty enforces and honors the law broken. 
 The violation of this natural moral law at the entrance 
 of sin into this world, and since, has carried along with 
 it its penalty, from the nature of the law itself, as well 
 as of those subject to it. A man's aversion to this law of 
 God does not release him from his obligation under this 
 nor will his aversion to its penalty release from its grasp 
 and power. The law has nothing but death for him 
 that breaks it; just as it is with other natural laws, com- 
 mon to man and other creatures, in nature far beneath 
 him, that have the breath of life. Let him hang him- 
 self or cut his throat; and by thus breaking the law by 
 which his body has life, he dies. So if a man on an 
 eminent locality walk to the brink of a steep and deep 
 precipice, and steps or slips off from it, by the very law 
 he breaks, death to him is the inevitable result of its 
 violation. This law of gravitation over every thing that 
 has gravity is essential to keep matter in the form and 
 
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 place for the use and end for which it was made. The 
 suspension of it would instantly ruin the whole earth. 
 There is no conceivable substitute for it. So there 
 is no substitute for the moral law, the natural law of hu- 
 man nature, — a law and nature wholly and essentially 
 diverse from every other law and nature on the face of 
 the earth, and a law holy and just and good in itself, 
 the transgression of which involves the transgressor in a 
 loss great and irretrievable by any thing he may do or 
 suffer, or may gain from this world. This law, in its 
 origin, perfection and authority, was not of Moses. It 
 came from Jehovah to him as he wrote it, and as he 
 heard it, he realized personally in his consciousness that 
 he was in his nature under that law, as all the Israelites 
 did, who standing afar off said to Moses* '1 Speak thou 
 with us, but let not God speak with us, lest we die," 
 Exod. 2: 14, and "Moses himself said, I exceedingly fear 
 and quake," Heb. 12: 21. 
 
 All mankind " Show the work of the law written in 
 their hearts, their conscience bearing witness, and their 
 own thoughts accusing or excusing one another," Rom. 
 2:15. " Knowing the judgment of God, that they who 
 do such things are worthy of death," Ch. 1: 32. They 
 are by nature, in their apostacy from God, and by the 
 inherent, and (as to any thing that they can do or may 
 suffer), the irrevocable law of their nature, the children 
 of wrath. Hence such dispair and 'dread on death- 
 beds. The salvation of sinners must be supernatural. 
 It must be from the God of nature, Jehovah, the only 
 true and living God. It became Him, for whom are all 
 things and by whom are all things in bringing many 
 sons unto glory to make the captain of their salvation 
 perfect through sufferings, Heb. 2: 10. 
 
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 That Saviour was born of a woman: " When the full- 
 ness of time was come. God sent forth his Son, made of 
 a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that 
 were under the law," Gal. 4: 4. For such an high priest 
 became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate 
 from sinners, and made higher than the heavens," the 
 son who is consecrated for evermore, Heb. 7: 26. 
 
 The proper and true import of the first and last verse 
 of this sublime evangelical psalm is in entire harmony 
 with its intervening contents as applied and axplained 
 in the New Testament. We may know from the mani- 
 fested glorious reality in the fullness of time, that there 
 was in futurity, when this psalm was first sung, a greater 
 predicted and anticipated manifestation of the glory of 
 Jehovah, than there was or is upon the natural heavens. 
 Isaiah said: " I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne 
 high and lifted up, and the seraphin cried one to another 
 and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the 
 whole earth is full of his glory, mine eyes have seen the 
 king the Lord of hosts," Isa. 6: 1-5, "These 
 things said Isaiah, when he saw His- glory and spake of 
 Him," John, 12: 41. Jesus had also the unanimous and 
 free testimony of a multitude of the heavenly host, who 
 doubtless had seen a great deal of glory in the heavens, 
 but in the glory that shone around them, they said, 
 " Glory to God in the highest." They all knew what 
 brought them down from heaven, what one of them told 
 the overawed shepherds about the babe, the babe in the 
 manger, who is Christ the Lord. See Luke 2: 8-14: 
 " To those who prophesied of the grace unto you, the 
 Spirit of Christ testified beforehand the sufferings and 
 the glory that should follow, — which things the angels 
 desire to look into," 1 Pet. 1: 11, 12. Jesus himself 
 sard: " Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? 
 
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 Father, save me from this hour? but for this cause came 
 I to this hour, Father glorify thy name," John 12: 27. 
 He said in his glad tidings: " Marvel not, that I say 
 unto you, ye must be born again." " Suffer little chil- 
 dren to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of 
 God." " Whosoever will not receive the kingdom of 
 God as a little child shall in nowise enter therein," 
 Luke 18: J 6. The apostle wrote, using the Greek word 
 psalo, " I will sing psalms with the spirit, and with the 
 understanding also," 1 Conn., ch. 14: 15. But what 
 is not translated with a right understanding, cannot be 
 sung with a true understanding of this psalm. Read 
 what Paul wrote. Hebrews 2: 8-1 o. 
 
 Psalm 36: 12. 
 
 The incipient divergence of some translations from the 
 true and full meaning of the first part of this psalm, 
 is a mistranslation of the preposition prefixed to the word 
 which specifies and makes prominent the ungodly, who, 
 in his utter ungodliness, is described in the first four 
 verses. The true meaning of the preposition, with 
 respect to the ungodly here delineated, instead of to, as 
 it is in our English Bible, is expressed by for, as it 
 means often elsewhere. " The Lord is for us," Ps. 118: 
 6. " Had not the Lord been for us," Ps. 124: 1. "For 
 a son or for a daughter," Lev. 12: 9; Num. 6: 7. 
 Will ye speak wickedly for God, and talk deceitfully 
 for him." Job 13: 7, 8. " Sin saith for the ungodly." 
 The descriptive term applied to him, for whom sin 
 speaks, is the same applied to those in Sodom and Go- 
 morrah, "The wicked," Genesis 18:25, of whom the 
 Lord said: " Their sin is very grievous," v. 20. 
 
 The sin that saith truly for the impious man what im- 
 mediately follows, is, as expressed by the word here 
 
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 used, sin of great heinousness. In showing the blessed- 
 ness of a man pardoned by God, this is the first word 
 used in Ps. 32: 1. It is called rebellion. " For he ad- 
 deth rebellion unto his son," Job 34: 37, " and multi- 
 plied his words against God." " They are of those 
 that rebel against the light," etc., ch. 24: 13. n They 
 are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought 
 low," v. 24. All sin, every sin is accurately defined by 
 the Apostle: " for sin is the transgression of the law," 
 anomia, lawlessness, 1 John, ch. 3: 4. But some sins 
 in themselves are more heinous in the sight of God than 
 others. Those are sins committed directly against God 
 himself, in violation of either of the first four command- 
 ments. The sacred duties comprised and enjoined in 
 the first table of the law are in equitable harmony with, 
 as they are founded on. the immutable relations of man's 
 entire dependance on God, and of his supreme account- 
 ability to God in whom he lives and moves and has 
 his being. These four commands constitute the first 
 and great command, " Thou shalt love the Lord thy 
 God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with 
 all thy mind." 
 
 11 Sin saith:" The word for saith in the original here 
 is not the same word that is in Ps. 14: I, and in Ps. 53: 
 " The fool hath said." But if the word so often used 
 by the prophets in avowing to those to whom they were 
 sent with a divine revelation, that as to its language 
 and what it revealed, it was what the Lord himself said 
 to them and by them as subordinate inspired agents. 
 Even Balaam recognized this. " And the Spirit of God 
 came upon him." And he took up this parable and 
 said, "And the man whose eyes are opened hath said; 
 he hath said, who heard the words of God," Num. 24: 
 34. This was fully and very expressly affirmed by 
 
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 David in his last words with respect to ever} 7 psalm he 
 wrote; and "the sweet psalms of Israel, the Spirit of 
 Jehovah spake by me and His word was on my tongue." 
 This was assumed by the false prophets. " Therefore, 
 behold I am against the prophets, saith the Lord, that 
 steal my word every one from his neighbour. Behold, I 
 am against the prophets, saith the Lord, that use their 
 tongues, and they will say, the Lord saith," Jer. 23: 30. 
 They had on their tongues seperately and stealthily, the 
 same word which Jeremiah had used. The false 
 prophets regarded it as a peculiar and rather sacred 
 word. It is a verb and not a noun, a verb avering the 
 truth of that with which it was connected, as such it is 
 used seventeen times by Jeremiah in that chapter, 
 although from the abuse of it, he used another word in 
 the next chap. v. 5 and 8. I have no hesitation in 
 affirming, that the meaning given to this word by Gese- 
 nius in his Lexicon, viz., " a song " is grossly incorrect. 
 There is nothing in the word itself, or in its connection 
 anywhere, to warrant or suggest such a definition. 
 
 The selection of this significant word, for the place 
 and purpose it has here, was designed to evince or to 
 develop the inherent truth of what sin is in itself and 
 of itself sayeth : 
 
 V. 1. " Sin saith for the ungodly man, In my heart's 
 inmost thought, the fear of God is not before His eyes." 
 As man thinketh in his heart, so is he. He, for and in 
 whom, sin saith what it does of God, was for that self- 
 pleased as. shown in the next verse. 
 
 V. 2. "So that he flattered hath himself in his own 
 eyes, as to the finding out his iniquity, and his hating 
 it." He is further described in the next two verses, 
 and his doom in the last verse of this psalm. 
 
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 Psalm 64: 6. 
 
 We have adopted the translation given by Venema in 
 his valuable commentary on the book, being satisfied, 
 that it is in condemnation of what immediately precedes 
 this verse in regard to the wicked, as to their hiding 
 snares, and especially their deceptive fearless question 
 in their wicked security. Who will see them? The 
 question itself avows a heedless presumption in their ' 
 minds. In what immediately follows in this verse, there 
 is nothing that indicates or implies what these were the 
 reflections of those who would in secret shoot the up- 
 right, and do it without fear. 
 
 The first verb in the 7th (6th) verse is in the Passive 
 voice and future tense. " Iniquities shall be searched 
 out." The next word in this verse as it is now in most 
 of the Hebrew Bibles, is tamnu. This verb tamnu 
 signifies " to complete, to perfect, to finish," as it is de- 
 fined by Gesenius. Venema in his translation, has sub- 
 stituted for this word in the Hebrew text the same verb 
 that is used in the preceding verse in the infin. constr. 
 and translated hiding. This word is the same in sound 
 with that which he discards. It is used in Ps. 140: 6; 
 142: 4; tamua, " they have hid," in Alexander's trans- 
 lation. The first letter in this word is Teth, the first in 
 the former is Thau with dagish. Venema adds as war- 
 rent for his translation. Which reading is confirmed 
 from the first Venetian editions of Bibles in folio and 
 quarto, where it is noted in the margin, that some books 
 have nuuiv} with Tcth, which Buxtorf also has observed. 
 Which reading Luther also followed, and Cappellus 
 mentions." 
 
 " Iniquities will be searched out, which they have hid 
 with searching scrutiny, and the inside of man and heart 
 is deep, and God will shoot an arrow at them suddenly," 
 
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 Psalm 74: 4-8 vs. 
 
 The prefix to this psalm is applicable, in the same 
 sense and reference in which it is applied to others com- 
 posed in the days of King David. According to the 
 foregoing translation it is not a prophecy, or history of 
 deplorable times and events, in regard to the Israelites 
 after the death of David. It is an earnest argumenta- 
 tive appeal to Jehovah in prayer, indicating an appre- 
 hension, and a seemingly near approach of a general 
 and perilous confliet with adjacent nations as supersti- 
 tious and inveterate in their idolatry, especially the 
 Philistines, as the Chaldeans were. 
 
 All left on record of this eventful and critical period 
 and conflict as to the Israelites, is summed up briefly in 
 2 Sam. 8: 1. The Philistines, first mentioned hy Sam- 
 uel, were prominent zealous actors, and doubtless the 
 primary instigators of that war, to which other adjacent 
 nations would be naturally inclined, and ready to con- 
 join in their intense hereditary hatred and hostility to 
 the Israelites, and to their religion. It was a kind of 
 religious war. This should be noticed. There may be 
 another of like kind, but far more widely spread, and 
 far more formidable from the same origin. 
 
 We have no record of preparations, movements or re- 
 verses, incident to such a state of things, on the part of 
 the Israelites. But the state of national affairs and in- 
 terests must have been alarming and unlooked for, when 
 viewed in contrast with the contents of the 7th chapter. 
 There is nothing in that message from the Lord to 
 David, to intimate what "after this came to pass." All 
 was tranquil and hopeful in the mind and view of King 
 David, "The Lord had given him rest round about 
 from all his enemies." As he sat in his house of cedar, 
 
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 in his interview with Nathen, his regret was, that "the 
 ark of God clwelleth in curtains." Nathen in his pri- 
 vate personal judgment saw nothing in public affairs to 
 keep him from giving his sanction to the King's 
 thoughts or purpose about the erection of a temple. 
 That advice he had to revoke that night, when he was 
 sent with a message from God to David, There is 
 nothing, however, in the message to apprise him of the 
 perils and hostilities that must have preceded the results 
 briefly recorded in the next chapter. Indeed, there are 
 some parts of the message that might have led him and 
 the people to anticipate or look for exemption from the 
 intrigues and invasions to which they had always been 
 more or less exposed; as "neither shall the children of 
 iniquity afflict them any more, as heretofore," v io. In 
 what he said devoutly before the Lord, he indicated no 
 forethought or apprehension of scenes, events, uncer- 
 tainties or perplexities which he must have met with 
 subsequently, until he subjugated the Philistines and 
 their confederates. God's message too, had its effect in 
 leading his hopeful thoughts to "a good while to come." 
 The design of this introductory statement of facts, is, 
 to show for proof, that there was a very critical period, 
 and unlooked for, in the reign of David, to which this 
 psalm has reference; and was appropriate, indicating 
 great anxiety mingled with perplexity and alarm in the 
 minds of the godly Israelites. It evinces the affinity 
 which this psalm has to the period, ^to which I have 
 assigned it, that the Hebrew word natsah, usually ren- 
 dered "forever" is in this 74th psalm used four times; 
 and that olam forever is in God's message by Nathen, 
 used three times; and by David in his communion with 
 God five times. The former word is in verses I, 3, 10 
 and 18. The word forever in 2 Sam. 7th chapter, sig- 
 
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 nifies future duration without terminus, a great while to 
 come, as David regarded it. But the word in this 
 psalm signifies completely, totally. That is what gives 
 that first verse its emphasis, earnestness and prominence 
 in this psalm. That verse, I might add, the whole 
 psalm, rather deprecates what was feared, than deplores 
 what had transpired; fearing what was boastfully 
 threatened, but not executed. 
 
 The Lord's "inheritance" v 2, was not a tribe. It 
 was the Land of Canaan, where he pastured "the 
 sheep." The same word "rod" in the plural is trans- 
 lated tribes in Isa. 63; 17: but inheritance there means 
 the Promised Land, as is evident from the next verse, 
 18: "the people of thy holiness have possessed it but a 
 little while." But of what had the Lord's servants, the 
 Lord's sheep, been ejected? From the land, the territory 
 measured out, with known and recorded limits or 
 bounds of what was assigned by lot to each tribe and 
 family. That land, with boundaries that separated and 
 distinguished it from other adjacent territories, was the 
 Lord's inheritance, including Mount Sion, to which the 
 inspired author of this psalm, as it were, points with the 
 Mount in view, "this," where thou hast thy dwelling 
 place, and the land was then for pasture to his sheep, 
 No one owned the land or any part of it as to the fee- 
 simple. "The land shall not be sold forever; for the 
 land is mine." Lev. 25: 23, All the Israelites had 
 was possession. 
 
 We should keep in mind intently, what is too much 
 lost sight of, that the inspired writer of a psalm was as 
 much under the irresistable and infallible control of 
 God, as Balaam avowed to Balak he was: "Must I not 
 take heed to speak that which the Lord hath put in my 
 
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 mouth." Num. 23: 12. "What the Lord saith that 
 will I speak." 24: 13. 
 
 When the people read or sang this psalm, as it 
 came for that use and end from Asaph, there was no 
 special movement or interposition, in the providence of 
 the Lord, to give them hope of escape from utter 
 destruction. Therefore they prayed, as there was 
 alarming occasion for it, as shown in verses 3, II, 22, 
 23. It was an anti-religious persecution to which they 
 were exposed and for success in their efforts to with- 
 stand it in self-defence, they realized their own insuf- 
 ficiency. The wbole psalm, in what relates to them, 
 betokens this. On the other hand their combined and 
 powerful adversaries were publicly confident of success 
 in a complete triumph. The Israelites had no reason, 
 from past experience, to look for any lenity or forbear- 
 ance on the part of their foes; for all their foes, espe- 
 cially the Philipians, had done to the sanctuary had 
 been evil. Their roaring was heard in the land of 
 Israel in public assemblies, religious or military. The 
 lions roared when sure of seizing and devouring the 
 prey. The roar was not only audible but intelligible. 
 
 They published and interpreted their own signs, as 
 real signs, their prognostics, as the only sure criterion by 
 which to judge or learn of future events. Those as 
 given and published by themselves with great confi- 
 dence, are with accuracy stated in four verses, 5, 6, 7, 8. 
 This was a common and popular custom among all 
 those idolatrous nations referred to in 2 Sam. 8 ch. 
 They were as described, Deut. 18: 14, " For those 
 nations which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto ob- 
 servers of times and unto diviners," so to v. 9. "And 
 soothsayers like the Philistines," Isaiah 2: 6; "Who. 
 frustrated! the tokens (signs) of liars, and maketh divi- 
 
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 ners mad," 44: 25. The Lord did so signally in this 
 case; he revealed the high-toned revengeful prognostics 
 in this psalm as follows: — 
 
 Fifth Verse — "It shall be known." This Hebrew- 
 verb is in the passive voice, future tense and singular 
 number; "shall be known" as in Ps. 79: 10, 88: 12; 
 Prov. 10: 9. It shall be known that as they go into a 
 thicket of wood with axes upraised, y. 6, so they to- 
 gether will w r ith sledge and hammers break in pieces 
 the carvings. 
 
 Seventh — They have cast thy sanctuary into the fire 
 and thrown to the ground where dwells thy name. 
 The preposition for, into, is prefixed next before the 
 word for fire, and there is none to the word for sanctu- 
 ary, of which David in his interview with Nathan said, 
 " the Ark of God dwelleth within curtains." 
 
 Eighth — "They have said in their heart, We will 
 destroy them all together; they burnt all the temples of 
 El in the land." It is elearly manifest, that they who 
 said this were the combined inveterate vindictive adver- 
 saries of the Israelites, whom it was the design of this ex- 
 tensive popular war to exterminate. What " they said 
 in their heart " includes the last clause as well as the 
 first. They are inseperably connected in their origin 
 and distinct meaning. 
 
 1. The purpose of this extensive and comprehensive 
 confederacy, that originated and prosecuted this war 
 against the Israelites was their total distruction. The 
 verb in this clause is in the future tense. 
 
 2. The reason or cause they assigned and published 
 for prosecuting this war, in wdiich they were animated 
 by favourable omens, was that those whom they meant 
 to destroy had burnt all the temples of El in the land. 
 The verb in this clause is in the past tense. We will 
 
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 destroy them wholly. El was the name given by the 
 primative inhabitants of Canaan to the deity they 
 worshipped, and from whom the omens came. This 
 word El, is, in its primative true meaning, applied to 
 Jehovah, the living and true God. It was also the name 
 given to the false gods among idolaters in the land 
 given to the twelve tribes of Israel. Read what He 
 commanded them, as recorded in Exodus 34: 10 to 18. 
 Read what Balaam said to Balak, and all the princes of 
 Moab, Numbers, chap. 23. The name El is in ver. 8, 19 
 and 23. In the next chap, from verse 15, there is a 
 prediction by Balaam of what was done by David in the 
 repulse and overthrow of the Moabites and other idola- 
 trous nations, as recorded in 2 Samuel, chap. 8. There is 
 self-evidence in the 8th verse of this psalm that it forms 
 an important and the most influential part of the idola- 
 trous omens, that animated those who commenced and 
 prosecuted this war against the Israelites. There is self- 
 evidence in this 8th verse, that it records what was an 
 important, and the most influential part of the idolatrous 
 omens that animated those nations, who commenced, 
 and persisted in this revengeful war against the Israel- 
 ites; whom its gainful and triumphant results aided in 
 building afterwards their splendid temple. 
 
 Chandler in his Life of David did great injustice to 
 David in attributing to him the rise of that war, as fol- 
 lows: " We are left utterly in the dark, with respect to 
 time, manner and occasion, of David's commencing this 
 War," Vol. 11, page 17. He did not commence it. 
 
 These signs, the Israelites did not regard as signs to 
 be heeded by them. Nathan was then alive; but dur- 
 ing this perilous period he was as other men. He went 
 beyond his sphere and warrant in saying to King David, 
 "Do all that is in thine heart;" and he was sent back 
 
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 that very night to withdraw that untimely counsel with 
 what seem as an admonity intimation to the prophet 
 and to the king, that they were but servants. He him- 
 self being the Lord of hosts, Jehovah their God, 2d 
 Sam. ch. 7. 
 
 There is nothing special from the Lord to certify or 
 betoken when or how that perilous conflict was to end. 
 This psalm is descriptive of, and suited to the state of 
 the godly Israelites in that trying crisis in regard to their 
 national and personal religious interests as long as it 
 lasted. Those who sang this psalm each one would say 
 lift thy feet, withdraw thy hand, thy right hand, from 
 the midst of thy bosom; God is my being of old, work- 
 ing salvation in the midst of the land — how long shall 
 the foe revile? contemn thy name, and this too deplored 
 again and again, back to the covenant — arise O God, 
 plead thine own covenant. The voice of thy foes, the 
 noise of thy antagonists alway loud and boisterous has 
 evident reference to waring of God's adversaries, and 
 the defiant auguries in the first part of the psalm. 
 There was real and appalling peril from the wide-spread 
 and desperate hostility, that aimed at the destruction of 
 the Israelites, as a nation and mainly at the suppression 
 of their religion. There is nothing, however, to indi- 
 cate that the Israelites had suffered, any loss or under 
 any actual injury. They had no synagogues then; there 
 were no " synagogues among the Jews till after the 
 Babylonish captivity." So H. Pridaux records and 
 shows in his work on the Old and New Testament, Vol.. 
 II, page 13. 
 
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 Psalm 49. 
 
 There are two prominent and comprehensive sayings, 
 of directly opposite import and of great personal im- 
 portance, on the general subject of wisdom in this 
 psalm, which the Lord, through its inspired author, 
 urgently enjoins all inhabitants of this world, of every 
 grade and condition not only to hear, but intently to 
 heed, so that they might thoroughly understand and 
 realize, what concerned them all alike in the relations 
 in which they were equally indissolubly, though singly 
 bound in moral accountability to God, the Judge of all. 
 
 They are summoned, as it were into one general 
 assembly, upon one common level every one of them 
 from the lowest to the highest, from the richest in robes 
 of royalty to the beggar at his right hand, without rags 
 to cover his filthy nakedness, all to hear personally, 
 from the Lord of hosts the supreme omniscient Judge 
 of all, the pointed piercing injunction," " Hear this all 
 people; give ear all inhabitants of the earth." 
 
 Verse 3. ** INIy mouth shall speak of wisdoms, and 
 the meditations of my heart be of understandings;" 
 wisdoms and understandings of all the inhabitants of 
 the earth. In the Hebrew Bible both those words are 
 in the plural number, though in our English Bible, as in 
 the Septuagint they are erroneously in the singular. The 
 last of the introductory part of this psalm is as follows: 
 
 Verse 4. "I will incline mine ear to a parable, and 
 will explain my riddle on the harp." 
 
 As to the last clause in this verse, let it be kept in 
 mind, though it has been much overlooked, that nothing 
 could issue from the harp but inarticulate musical sounds; 
 so that it must have been the musical utterance of the 
 voice in singing this psalm from its beginning, that 
 
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 opened the riddle in the last verse, so that what the 
 Lord inclined his ear to hear forms a part of his expo- 
 sition of it. 
 
 "I will incline mine ear." Ear is in the singular 
 number, to reveal as to every one of that vast multitude, 
 to whom he said: " Hear this," that He would intently 
 listen to all that led them in their thoughts, in their 
 consciousness and their worldly mindedness, to approve 
 of the parable, which is connected by the simple cdn- 
 junction with what precedes it to verse 12 (13). 
 
 It should be kept in mind, that from the uniform and 
 unchangeable law of spiritual inspiration, the instru- 
 mental agent of divine revelation was only an amanu- 
 ensis; not a word was left to his discretion or option. 
 The testimony of David in proof of this is very express: 
 4i And the sweet psalms of Israel the Spirit of the Lord 
 spake by me, and his word was on my tongue," 2 Sam. 
 23: 1. Hence the Psalms were called " The Songs ot 
 Jehovah," 1 Chron. 25. Whoever was the instrumental 
 author of this psalm, even if it had been David, he was 
 one of the inhabitants of the world. All the Israelites 
 formed one of the nations. 
 
 The Lord himself, who bade all nations to " hear 
 this," said also in the hearing of that immense audience, 
 14 I will incline mine ear to hear." Both these state- 
 ments, the command and the notification were then 
 divine realities in relation to mankind universally on a 
 common level, as the children of Adam in their 
 apostacy, and by nature the children of wrath, one as 
 really as another; low and high, rich and poor alike. 
 What was then true of all human beings on the earth 
 in their alienation from God, has been since, and will 
 be true to the end of the world, as shown in a subse- 
 quent verse, in what the Lord said of " those after 
 
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 them," verse 12. The evidences, self-evidences of 
 these two theistical realities or verities, distinct yet in- 
 separable in the human conscience may, by those in 
 whose souls they are implanted, be slighted, obscured, 
 disliked and spurned, but cannot be eradicated; and the 
 conviction of sin produced by them in the understand- 
 ing, the secret home of conscience, independently of 
 the human will, is to every sinner under guilt, even amid 
 the pleasures of sin for a season, a just sentence of death, 
 for knowing the judgment of God, that they who do 
 such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, 
 but have pleasure in them that do them," Rom. i: 32. 
 
 This psalm delineates plainly and impressively human 
 nature, in its distinctive intuitive recognition of moral 
 responsibility to a cognizant punitive Power higher than 
 any civil government, an accountability, too, with per- 
 sonal liabilities and results, as to which, the wisdom of 
 this world, human reason, can furnish no exemption or 
 relief. The startled, reflective and prospective person- 
 al question that follows is connected with what pre- 
 cedes it. 
 
 Verse 5. "For what shall I fear in the days of evil ? 
 The iniquity of my heels will environ me." ' 
 
 There is not in the Hebrew any word between the 
 first and the last clause of this verse, nor is there in the 
 old Septuagint. The personal intuitive question and 
 answer, this spontaneous and appalling confession, 
 which the Spirit of the Lord here recorded, the Lord 
 heard from every one of the inhabitants of the earth, 
 "the low and high, the rich and poor alike," "for there 
 is no difference, for all have sinned and come short of 
 the glory of God," Rom. 3 : 23. 
 
 The primary and prealific error in the misinterpretation 
 of this psalm is, in not recognizing that the Lord is the 
 
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 speaker in the introductory part of it, and the hearer in 
 what follows, including the parable. When Asaph 
 wrote by inspiration the 78th psalm, he could not have 
 reference to himself in the first two verses : "Listen, 
 my people to my law, incline your ear to the words of 
 my mouth. I will open my mouth in a parable. I will 
 utter my riddles of old times ;" for it was only the 
 Lord who could in truth call the Israelites "my people" 
 or say of law it is ''my law." And He is the one made 
 so plainly prominent to the end of that psalm. 
 
 The foregoing translation of what the Lord heard as 
 recorded in verse 6 (5) is in entire harmony, word for 
 word, with the Hebrew text. The first clause is a dis- 
 tinct question, and the second a direct answer to it, by 
 every one who asked it in the omniscient hearing of 
 Him who gave a record of what He heard from every 
 one of the inhabitants of the earth, tending to, and end- 
 ing in the parable. A correct literal translation of this 
 verse in its import and relation to what precedes it, is 
 essential to a right understanding of the rest of this 
 psalm. Expunge the adverb when in our common Eng- 
 lish Bible, and the verse then would be in entire accord- 
 ance literally with the Hebrew. Any one may see that 
 the intrusion of the adverb when, between the definite 
 question and the express answer to it, makes the whole 
 of this verse an indefinite question and convertible into 
 a negative. This has been done by biblical critics in 
 various ways. 
 
 In the Latin translation by Junius and Tremmelius 
 first published in 1575, this verse "Why should I fear in 
 times of evil, that the iniquity of my footsteps will sur- 
 round me?" Herman Venema in his Comment on the 
 Psalms translates it as follows; "Wherefore should I 
 fear in days of evil, in which the contorsion of my heels 
 
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 will surround me?" and subjoins as to the contorsion 
 "which is an enigmatic description of death." i have 
 seen four of the recent English translations of the 
 psalms. I will give as s specimen, Alexander's transla- 
 tion of this verse: "Why should I fear in days of evil, 
 when the iniquity of my oppressors (or supplanters) shall 
 surround me?" This translation, except as to heels, is 
 the same, with those before it to which we have refer- 
 red; and this is made plain and prominent in the note 
 subjoined, as follows: "The theme of the whole psalm 
 is the negative proposition, involved in this interroga- 
 tion, that the righteous has no cause to fear." In the 
 Hebrew text, the first clause is a distinct question, to 
 which without an intervening word, there is given in 
 the rest of the verse, a positive, explicit answer from 
 the one asking the question. It is not, therefore, a neg- 
 ative question or proposition, nor is it the theme of all 
 this psalm; far from it. 
 
 The translations, of which I have* given these speci- 
 mens, change by the arbitrary intrusion of one word the 
 literal meaning of this verse into an assumed nega- 
 tive meaning in harmony with the arbitrary assumption 
 that it was the instrumental author of this psalm who 
 spake in this verse and the verse before it. This misin- 
 terpretation obliterates to a reader of these translations 
 the real and true meaning of these two verses, and con- 
 sequently blurs, I may say obliterates the true meaning 
 of this psalm, making the parable and the riddle about 
 of the same import, as they are in the old Greek Septu- 
 agint. It is far from being an improvement of our 
 English Bible to substitute "iniquity of my supplanters" 
 for "iniquity of my heels." Iniquity is guilt ; and 
 guilt is personal liability to the penalty incurred and de- 
 served by every one who, subject to a law, violates it. 
 
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 "Iniquity of my sin," Ps. 32: 5. It is used twice in 
 that verse, and translated guilt by Alexander. Now 
 the guilt of an oppressor would never surround and cen- 
 ter in the oppressed, for that wholly and inseperably ad- 
 hered to the oppressor himself, for aught that he could 
 do for himself or a brother do for him. This erroneous 
 meaning supplants, in a translation of this verse, the 
 true, literal meaning of the Hebrew word for heels. 
 See Gen. 3 : 15, 25 : 26; Job 18 : 9; [er. 13 : 22; Ps. 
 41 : 9, 77 : 19, footsteps, 89 : 52. The substitution 
 of "supplanters" for heels in psalm 56 : 6 is not in har- 
 mony with what precedes and follows the word for 
 heels. "They will gather themselves together, they will 
 watch my heels," my steps, "as though they lay in wait 
 for my life," "hide, lurk in ambush." Gesenius Lex- 
 icon. 
 
 The startled, reflective and prospective personal ques- 
 tion and answer come from every one of the inhab- 
 itants on the face of the earth. Does not this unvail the 
 common moral condition of all mankind, the natural 
 rational susceptibility of every one, and his realized 
 state of mind in the secrecy of spontaneous or self-con- 
 strained self-communion, even in occasional temporary 
 impartial review of the unalterable past, and consequent 
 troublous forethought, glancing into the endless, inevi- 
 table future, each one being in his own case and con- 
 sciousness a witness to himself, and audible to his God, 
 silent as he may be to his most intimate fellow-being, 
 and mute as he may become to himself at times. What 
 was true and characteristic of the redeemed, the righ- 
 teous, in regard to iniquity is revealed in Ps. 51. The 
 truth and wisdom referred to in verse 6 of that psalm 
 is what God would make them in their souls, in their 
 hidden part, to know. What the Lord heard, tending 
 
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 to and ending in the parable, as recorded in this psalm, 
 was true and is true of all mankind, as they are by na- 
 ture, in their apostacy from God, the children of wrath. 
 
 Verse 6 : "Those confiding in their bulwarks and in 
 abundance of their wealth, will in themselves glory." 
 
 The fear, of which the Lord heard, in the under- 
 standing and emotions of every one of them, as record- 
 ed in the former verse, muet have been predominant 
 and appalling. But there was some escape, suspension 
 or relief from that fear for them in a resort to what is 
 here figuratively called bulwarks. The Hebrew word 
 in this verse is so translated in the last psalm before 
 this, verse 13, also in Ps. 122 : 7, rampart, walls of de- 
 fence; Isa. 26 : 1, bulwarks: Nath. 3 : 8, 2 Sam. 20: 15 
 trench. 
 
 It is evident that of those from whom the Lord heard 
 what is in this verse, he heard from every one singly 
 and personally, as recorded in the verse next before this, 
 what every one in his mental conviction and foresight 
 feared he would suffer at last for his iniquity. As fear 
 hath torment, all those from whom the Lord heard 
 what is contained in this verse, would be earnestly in- 
 clined to whatever would avert or withdraw from their 
 troubled minds that appalling conscientious fear. They 
 all resorted for their defence and security to their sub- 
 terfuges, their bulwarks. 
 
 What the Lord heard from all those trusting in their 
 bulwarks and in abundance of their wealth is accurately 
 stated in the last word of this verse, a verb. This verb 
 is not in the present tense, as some have translated it, 
 
 It is in the future. "Those trusting" "will 
 
 of themselves glory." This was in their will, in their 
 selfishness, in their worldly-mindedness. There is 
 nothing to limit this anticipated self-glorification to the 
 
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 wealthy, though they made themselves prominent in the 
 hearing of God. See Mark 10 : 24. "How hard it is 
 for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom 
 of God." 
 
 The verb so prominent in this verse and in its gram- 
 matical' form so personally significant, is used four 
 times, and once as a participle, in what the Lord said by 
 the prophet, Jeremiah, and is illustrative of this verse : 
 "Thus saith the Lord : Let not the wise man glory in 
 his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his 
 might. Let not the rich man glory in his riches; but let 
 him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth 
 and knoweth that I am the Lord, who e-xerciseth lov- 
 ing kindness, judgment and righteousness in the earth , 
 for in these I delight, saith Jehovah." Chap IX, 23-24. 
 
 What the Lord heard from them individually, as to 
 the subsidence or suspension of their fear of what in the 
 evil days to come would encompass them, he expressed 
 by the figurative and significant word, bulwark. The 
 personal pronoun in the plural number is in the Hebrew 
 affixed to the word bulwark as it is to the word for soul 
 in the singular number in verse 9, and as every one of 
 them had a soul, so every one of them had something 
 in which he trusted, as in a bulwark, against what he 
 feared in the evil day to come. 
 
 These bulwarks are diverse, of great variety and num- 
 berless. They are about the same as to their origin in 
 the wisdom of his world, as to their baleful influence, 
 their deceitfulness and vanity in all ages and among all 
 nations. "The broad way that leadeth to destruction" 
 is full of these bulwarks, for they are anything and every- 
 thing which may avail or tend to keep out of a man's 
 mind and fear, in his love and practice of sin, the wrath 
 to come. "Knowing the judgment of God that they 
 
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 who commit such things are worthy of death, they not 
 only do the same, but have pleasure in them who do 
 them." Rom. I : 32. ''These pleasures of sin for a 
 season" are a very common, attractive and delusive re- 
 sort, from which nothing results to those who enjoy them 
 but a foretaste and earnest of what awaits them in the 
 endless future. Infidel opinions are mere negative en- 
 trenchments, which men gather around them for their 
 self-defence against what their own fear in their fore- 
 thoughts of the endless future makes self-evident ; so 
 that they are not wise in their minds in believing what 
 they contradict. Ps. 14: 1-5. 
 
 From every one of those, from whom the Lord heard 
 what is contained in this verse, he heard what is in the 
 verse next before it, and in the following verses. 
 
 Verse 7. A brother to redeem will not redeem; a man 
 will not give to God his own ransom. 
 
 This is word for word, and in their relation one to an- 
 other as this verse is in the Hebrew. Among those from 
 whom the Lord heard this, there were brothers and 
 other relatives, but not one of the brothers, doing his 
 utmost, could, in his own thoughts or hope, redeem even 
 a brother. A man, a brother, low or high, rich or poor, 
 could not give to God his own ransom, to free him from 
 what he feared in the evil days to come ; he would suf- 
 fer for his own iniquity. Though there "is no reflexive 
 pronoun in the Hebrew language," yet the personal pro- 
 noun affixed to the Hebrew word for ransom often has 
 the definite restrictive personality we have given to it in 
 its connection with ransom. I will quote only one pass- 
 age, in which this pronoun is used three times, but I do so 
 mainly to show why it was, and why it is that of those 
 to whom the Lord then inclined and now inclines his 
 ear, a brother could not redeem a brother, nor a man, 
 
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 any man, could give to God a ransom for himself. "His 
 own iniquities shall seize the wicked himself, and he 
 shall be holden by the cords of his own sins." Prov. 
 5 : 22. The same word for iniquity in verse 5 is here 
 in the plural number. As for the pronoun, see also Ps. 
 
 4 : 3, 135 : 3 (4). 
 
 Verse 8 (9). ''And the redemption of their soul will" 
 be precious ; and has ceased for eternity." 
 
 This is an important and critical part of what the 
 Lord heard from every one of those to whom He in- 
 clined His ear ; and still hears from every one on the 
 face or the earth in the same predicament. The sym- 
 bolical brackets which have so often for three hundred 
 years past enclosed this verse in translations, are a human 
 device; for there is, in its plain import, positive evidence 
 of its close connection with what precedes it; and of its 
 avowed, decisive, practical result, recorded in the next 
 verse, and tending directly into the parable. A brother- 
 would redeem, a man would give to God a ransom for 
 himself, as in his thoughts and estimate the redemption 
 of his soul from what in his soul he feared in his intel- 
 ligent foresight of the final close connection of his soul 
 with his iniquity, was desired and prized. But he could 
 not give to God a ransom for himself, or whatever he 
 did, as there is a great deal done in this world for that 
 end, would be, in his own understanding and assurance, 
 unavailing. For the redemption of their souls, the soul 
 of every one of them, has ceased for eternity. The 
 word for redemption here is not the word for ransom in 
 the verse before ; here it is a noun derived from the 
 verb redeem The word for soul is the same so translated 
 Ez. 18 : 20. "The soul that sinneth it shall die." 
 The same is used in this Ps., verse 15, "God will re- 
 deem my soul," also in Ps. 34 : 23, 97 : 10, 119 : 75. 
 
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 There is self-evidence enough in the meaning and origin 
 of the thoughts which the Lord heard, and with plain- 
 ness and accuracy reveals in verse 8, to show that the 
 man's thoughts who realized that he could not give to 
 God a ransom for himself, extended forward beyond 
 time into eternity. In the redemption he prized, and re- 
 alized to be an entire perpetual failure, there was noth- 
 ing in his thoughts to connect it with eternity but his im- 
 mortal soul in its conscious moral accountability to God 
 for his iniquity. All the redemption any of them want- 
 ed was exemption from future punishment. 
 
 What is here revealed, of what the Lord heard from 
 those to whom He said "Hear this : I will incline mine 
 ear" to hear, is the actual widespread reality of a con- 
 scious incapacity in human nature, alienated from God, 
 for any person low or high, rich or poor, literate or illit- 
 erate to liberate himself or another from penal bondage 
 for violations of the indelible, inherent moral law of 
 his own immortal nature — a bondage which holds him 
 in his personal demerit and accountability, subject and 
 bound in his own understanding, in his conscience, to 
 God, a recognized judicial supreme Power far above him- 
 self, from which there is for him no release, no redemp- 
 tion in virtue of anything he may do or suffer in time or 
 eternity. Though in time a man may still turn his back 
 on what concerns and awaits him in the future, making, 
 in the "wisdom earthly, sensual; devilish," his own 
 glory his chief end, yet with a conscious liability to fear 
 with trembling, the judgment to come after death. 
 Even the governor Felix trembled. Acts 24 : 25. 
 
 The 9th verse, in its true and plain import, has a 
 prominent place in what the Lord heard, in close con- 
 nection with what precedes it and with what follows it, 
 ending in the parable. 
 
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 Verse 9. "And he will still live for glory ; will not 
 see death." 
 
 This verse could not be verbally in Hebrew more 
 closely allied than it is by the simple conjunction to the 
 verse next before it. Forever, duration without end, is 
 the real meaning of the word so translated in the for- 
 mer verse. But in this verse, the word generally so 
 translated is a different word from that. How could 
 any one of them say to himself in his thoughts, the re- 
 demption of my soul has ceased or FAILED for ETERNITY, 
 and I will live forever^ be his next thought ? How 
 could he say, I will still live forever, when he had not 
 before so lived ? No reason can be given why a differ- 
 ent word was selected for this verse from that in the 
 former, than the valid reason, that the latter often has a 
 meaning which does not belong to the former. Geseni- 
 us, in his Lexicon, gives to this word glory as its mean- 
 ing in 1st Sam. 15 :2o. instead of strength ; also in 1st 
 Chron. 29, 11 splendour instead of "victory." This is 
 probably the true meaning of the Hebrew word, natsah 
 in Isai., 63 : 3, instead of "blood," and in verse 
 6 instead of "strength." In both verses the Septuagint 
 translation is "their blood." This is what he did, 
 "glorious in his apparel, traveling in the greatness of 
 his strength." This w r ord is in Lam. 3:18. It might 
 be translated, "My glory and my hope is perished from 
 the Lord." 
 
 The result of all those thoughts about exemption of their 
 souls by God from what they feared in their forethought 
 of eternity, was to every one of them, and what the 
 Lord heard, "And he will still live for glory" as he had 
 lived, making his own glory in his sinful selfishness his 
 chief end. There are many and diverse ways to it, and 
 what may be ardently prized by one may be deemed 
 
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 worthless by another, but "many walk whose glory is 
 in their shame, who mind earthly things." 
 
 The foregoing inherent characteristic of human na- 
 ture in its moral alienation from God, as to conscious 
 guilt and consequent apprehended penal evils in the fu- 
 ture, from which all that any man might do for himself 
 or another to gain release or escape was for eternity un- 
 availing, was recognized by the wisdom of this world, 
 with abundant evidence of its prevalence and power for 
 ages throughout the world. It was by the perversion 
 and abuse of what God heard in the understanding of 
 every one of the inhabitants of the world, and in his 
 deliberate thoughts, the wisdom of this world, earthly, 
 sensual, devilish, originated and patronized idolatry 
 everywhere, and created gods many and lords many, 
 each as a substitute for the true and living God". Some 
 learned modern naturalists and professional metaphysi- 
 cians in the utmost self-denial, which they think it 
 worth while in their bulwarks to reach, deny that the 
 moral law is an essential constituent in human nature, 
 in the very constitution itself of the immortal soul. 
 Many aside from science, in the stubbornness or dis- 
 turbance of their self-security, may deny that there is 
 any conscience in man, except what is fanciful or super- 
 stitious from education. In that they belie themselves 
 and contradict the testimony of their own accusing con- 
 science. A man in the broad way, even in one of its 
 darkest hiding places, might as well deny that there is 
 any police-court in New York when he is doing all he 
 can to keep out of the way and sight of a policeman. 
 The wisdom of this world for ages before the Christian 
 era among the Greeks and Romans, where there was as 
 much intellectual capacity and culture as there is now, 
 recognized conscience and personal accountability to a 
 
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 supreme judicial Power, and based its whole system of 
 idolatrous worship, expiatory sacrifices, and costly offer- 
 ings on those inherent, innate and influential attributes 
 of human nature which it always will retain ; and man- 
 ifest their power, susceptibilities and effects more or less 
 for good or for evil. Our common word conscience came 
 from the good sense and intuitive understanding of the 
 ancient Latins to express what they felt. In those early 
 ages no man could free himself from what he dreaded, 
 and had reason in his own consciousness to dread, from 
 an invisible government higher than any temporal civil 
 government. Every god had his priests to represent 
 him, authorized to dispense pardons in return for offer- 
 ings, as there are now priests, without number, within 
 the extensive and variegated pale of nominal Christian- 
 ity, who dispense pardons freely or for pay. But as it 
 was of old, the Lord being witness in his omniscient 
 and undeceivable and as it is now, those pardons may 
 quiet fears and allay or suspend remorse by their decep- 
 tive influence on the minds of those who trust in them, 
 but as they were anciently under idolatry, they are now, 
 under what is tantamount to it, mere temporary fragile 
 bulwarks. 
 
 In order to live still for glory, as he had lived, "he 
 will not see death ;" he will not trouble his mind about 
 it. The word see here means consider, as translated in 
 the English Bible, in Ps. 9 : 13 25 : 19 31 : 7. He will 
 not trouble himself about it. He would not see death, 
 but he would live for honor. Something like this was 
 heard not long since by quite a number of Honorables 
 at the funeral of the Honorable Oakes Ames, from 
 the ministerial conductor of the services in the text he 
 took from one of Whittier's poems, "There is no death; 
 what seems so is transition." The two savings differ a 
 
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 little in terms, the one from the other, But death un- 
 seen, and death only as it seems in the vague future, as 
 it generally is to mortals in the safe enjoyment of life, 
 even at funerals, is very different from death in its near- 
 ness and reality, with its frightful self-evidences of 
 what it is, from scenes seen and screams heard on occa- 
 sions of fatal peril, showing that it is universally and al- 
 ways, on sea or land, "the king of terrors." Therefore 
 it was very natural for him who said in his thoughts he 
 would still live for self-glory, to add that he would not 
 see death as to himself. This was in the thoughts of 
 every one of them. 
 
 Verse 10. "Though he will see, the wise will die 
 alike ; the fool and brutish will perish and leave to those 
 after them their bulwarks," that in which they trusted. 
 
 The last word is the same which I have so translated 
 in verse 6. I substitute though in the place of "for,"* 
 as the sense requires it and is given to it in the common 
 Bible. Ps. 138 : 6, Job 27 : 8, Joshua 17 : 18, Deut. 
 29 : 19 (18). It is a special and consequently an impres- 
 sive characteristic of this psalm, that it is in its style, 
 and of course in its verity and intent, very personal. 
 The Lord heard ^rom every one of those inhabitants of 
 the world in their way to the parable, what is here re- 
 corded. "And he will still live for glory and not see 
 death," "though he will see" those die whom he may 
 deem wise. They would of course have the same fore- 
 thought of death, as their resolve not to see death im- 
 plied. But they will not see death with any thought or 
 emotions correspondent to what every one was liable to 
 at last in his sensible realization of death and of his 
 final separation from all he cared for in this world. 
 
 Verse 11. "Their mind is that their houses will last 
 forever, their dwellings from age to age. They name 
 their lands with their own names." 
 
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 The first word in this verse signifies mind, the birth- 
 place of thoughts. "Their mind is very wickedness." 
 Ps. 5 : 9. "The mind of man and the heart is deep," 
 Ps. 64 : 6. "Deceit in his mind," Prov, 26 : 24. "Vain 
 thoughts lodge in the mind," Jer. 4 : 14. There is noth- 
 ing in the mere thoughts which the Lord heard in the 
 minds of those who summed up in the parable their 
 chief end and rule of life, to certify or show that they 
 then had all of them in their ownership or actual pos- 
 session, what would, in their estimate, secure to them a 
 lodge of honor at last, which is the utmost that the wis- 
 dom of this world promises, or the spirit of this world 
 covets, leading multitudes, in their course of life, to 
 bitter disappointment, and all of them at its end. 
 
 Verse 12. "And a man who will not lodge in honor 
 may be likened to the beasts that are to be destroyed." 
 
 It is the Lord who called this a parable, the Hebrew 
 word for which is taken from that here translated likened. 
 It is connected by the conjunction with what precedes 
 it. The common, and here the proper meaning of the 
 verb so prominent in the parable is, to lodge at night, Ps. 
 3:5, Gen. 24 : 23-25, Judges 19:4. The noun derived 
 from this verb means an inn, Exodus 4 : 24 ; a lodge > 
 Isa. 1 : 8. 
 
 Verse 13. "This is their way, foolishness for them ; 
 and those after them will approve what those say." 
 
 This, too, was their way of life wheir the sharp echo 
 of what the Lord said, "I will incline mine ear to hear" 
 penetrated through the understanding of every one of 
 them, into the indestructible court of his conscience,, 
 the troublous inquiry and the appalling answer to it, re- 
 corded in verse 5. This record of what the Lord heard 
 from those inhabitants of the world is a brief but very 
 comprehensive biography of every one of them as given 
 
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 by himself. "And those after them will acquiesce in 
 what they say. Selah." As it was with all the inhab- 
 itants of the world then, it has been since, and will be 
 to the end of time. "Now we know that whatsoever 
 the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law, that 
 every mouth may be stopped and all the world become 
 guilty before God," Rom. 3 : 19-23 ; "for all have 
 sinned and come short of the glory of God." "Let no 
 man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth 
 to be wise in this world, let him become a fool that he 
 may be wise, for the wisdom of this world is foolishness 
 with God," 1 Cor. 3 : 18. 
 
 The parable, in the compass of its import and appli- 
 cation, comprises and characterizes all who follow the 
 wisdom of this world in its way and sway. It is not re- 
 stricted nor peculiar to the wealthy or those who covet 
 wealth. It reaches to all, as they naturally are, low or 
 high, rich or poor, alike walking in the course of this 
 world. The old, the very old parable, amid all the 
 modern love and pride of novelty, comprehends and 
 shows forth all the wisdom of the worldly-minded, 
 young or old, male or female, learned or unlearned, 
 walking in the course of this world. That wisdom sen- 
 sual, so attractive in its various forms, is now as allur- 
 ing, as fashionable, as influential, yea, impulsive, and 
 as delusive in its practical tendency, and fatal in its final 
 results, as it ever was. How many follies, vices, crimes 
 .and outrages prevail where the wisdom of this world 
 has sovereign sway, unchecked by religion pure and un- 
 defined? How many bitter and hopeless miseries, often 
 concealed, flow from conscious guilt and pungent dis- 
 appointment, in well-laid schemes and confident hopes, 
 on the part of the worldly wise, well qualified by their 
 knowledge to secure success? But they who will be 
 
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 wise that they may glory in their wisdom, or will be 
 mighty that they might glory in their influence, or rich 
 that they might have honor in wealth, or will be honor- 
 able in any other way for self -glory, in private or public, 
 in politics, on the platform, or in the pulpit, on thrones 
 or on judgment seats, fall into temptation and a snare, 
 and many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men 
 in destruction and perdition. "Vanity of vanities ! 
 saith the preacher ; vanity of vanities ! all is vanity '. 
 For in much wisdom is much grief, and he that increas- 
 eth knowledge increaseth sorrow," Eccl. I : 16, And 
 how dieth the wise ? As the fool. 2 : 16. 
 
 This parable, this baleful creed of the wisdom of this 
 world, which the Lord, the God of truth, in mercy here 
 exposes, with his decisive reprobation, in its deceptive, 
 and in many cases blasphemous, and in such cases stu- 
 pifying fallacy and folly, is applicable, as it is acceptale, 
 to every one who will still live for honor in the sunlit re- 
 gions of publicity or in the dark and cavernous regions 
 of secrecy, where the artful, ambitious deceiver, who 
 first said, "Ye shall not surely die, ye shall be as gods," 
 is most at home on the face of the earth within the 
 broad way that leadeth to destruction, 
 
 The word which I translate, after, is a preposition to 
 which the pronoun is attached. Xow, who were they 
 to whose mouth, or to what came directly from them, 
 those after them will assent ? They were those of whom 
 the omniscient Witness and infallible Judge afrirms, 
 "This is their way, foolishness for them." Those after 
 them on the earth, Jews or Gentiles, from generation to 
 generation to the end of time will be of the same heart 
 and mind and in the same degenerate alienation of their 
 nature with that of those of whom the Lord heard what 
 he records in this psalm and in the parable. This re- 
 
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 cord, this self-revelation, as it was before this record was 
 written, is self-evidence enough of what human nature 
 has been in its degeneracy since the first sin committed 
 in Eden, and will be in this world to its end. 
 
 Verse 14. "Like sheep they lay in the grave ; death 
 will be their shepherd, and the righteous among them 
 shall rule in the morning, and their form from home the 
 grave is making old for itself." 
 
 "Like sheep they lay in the grave ; death will be 
 their shepherd. " There is nothing in this statement in 
 its application or import, to any particular class of 
 mankind or period of the world before the end of time. 
 What is assigned to death, in its relation to all the dead, 
 is in the Hebrew summed up in a word, a verb, for 
 which we have no equivalent in English. The parti- 
 ciple of the verb is translated shepherd in the 23d 
 psalm and elsewhere. The participle of the verb is in 
 Psalm 78 : 71, and means to have care of the sheep. 
 In v. 62 it is the same that it is here, with the pronoun 
 affixed to it, "He will rule them" — not feed on them. 
 There is a good deal about shepherds in Ezek. 34 : 3, 
 Jer. 23 : 1. The figurative or comparative phrase, "at 
 sheep," indicates that all the dead lay in the grave like 
 sheep in the sheep-fold asleep at night, under the over- 
 sight and ruling power of death as the shepherd of 
 them all — Adam and Eve, with all their posterity, asleep 
 in the dust of the earth. 
 
 ' 'And the righteous among them will rule in the morn- 
 ing." 
 
 The preposition among, which I have substituted for 
 over, is a very important word in its illustrative connec- 
 tion with the momentous and eternal truth contained in 
 what precedes and follows it in this verse. I will refer 
 to passages in our English Bible where the Hebrew 
 
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 preposition is so translated, as it ought to have been 
 here. Job 36 : 14, Eccl. 7 : 28, Cant. 1:8, 2:3, 
 4 : 25, 5:9, Jer. 5 : 26, 6 : 18, Nehem. 13 : 26, 
 Prov, 30 130, and in many others. 
 
 The erroneous translation of this significant verse, so 
 long and so extensively prevalent, had its origin in the 
 old Septuagint translation, as I will show. There was 
 evidence in the inextinguishable consciousness, to the 
 opened eye of the understanding of all whom the Lord 
 heard in what precedes, especially in what is summed up 
 of their thoughts in verse 8, that not one of the human 
 race pass from this life at its end into extinction of be- 
 ing as to the soul or body. All the dead lay, as sheep 
 gathered into a common fold, asleep, at night, under 
 death as their ruling shepherd, In the morning, in dis- 
 tinction from all the rest of the dead, the righteous will 
 rule. Now, they could not rule over the rest of the dead 
 who were under the power of death, and over whom 
 sin reigned unto death. There will be no morning for 
 them. There will be nothing for the dead in Christ, 
 the righteous, the redeemed, to rule but death itself in 
 the resurrection of their bodies on the morning of the 
 last day. "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is 
 death." 1 Cor. 15 : 26. 
 
 "And their form from home the grave is making old 
 for itself." 
 
 This is word for word as it is in the Hebrew text. 
 The connection shows plainly that what the Lord here 
 reveals has sole respect to the righteous in the grave. 
 Their form, their make, their fashion, but not the per- 
 sonal identity of what constituted the body of every 
 one of them, when it came under the power of death, 
 the grave is making old, wasting away for itself. From 
 home on the earth, if he, a stranger and a pilgrim, had 
 
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 any. But what I think is here meant is, from home in 
 heaven where "the spirits of the righteous made per- 
 fect" will be, to be reunited each to his own glorified 
 body in the morning. See Phil. 3.21, 1st John 3 : 2. 
 
 Let it be thoughtfully noticed, that in this verse it is 
 said only of the righteous that they will rule in the 
 morning, and nothing is said by the Lord of the resur- 
 rection of the rest of the dead. This was revealed bv 
 the prophet Daniel, ch. 12 : 2, "And the multitude 
 sleeping in the dust of the earth shall awake, those to 
 everlasting life, and those to shame and everlasting con- 
 tempt." 3d v., "and they that be wise shall shine as the 
 brightness of the firmament, and they that turn many 
 to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever." Let it 
 be kept in mind: 
 
 1st. That the ancient predictions to which I have re- 
 ferred do not reveal anything with respect to the righ- 
 teous who shall be alive on the earth at the last day, 
 
 2d. That the resurrection of the righteous who "will 
 awake and rule in the morning," is the first resurrection 
 and the only resurrection of life there will be. "Mar- 
 vel not at this, for the hour is coming in the which all 
 who are in the graves shall hear his voice and shall come 
 forth ; they who have done good unto the resurrection 
 of life, and they who have done evil unto the resurrec- 
 tion of damnation." John 5 : 28-29. Until that hour 
 comes all will be under death as their shepherd, as I 
 shall further show, after a brief review of the rest of 
 this psalm. 
 
 Verse 15. "Surely God will redeem my soul from 
 the hand (from the grasp) of the grave, for he will take 
 me. Selah !" 
 
 This is what the Lord put into the mouth of every 
 one who sang this psalm. It is, in its terms and im- 
 
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 port, what he promised by the prophet Hosea, ch. 13: 14 
 "I will ransom them from the power, the hand of the 
 grave. I will redeem them from death." What Jesus 
 said on the cross to the thief on the cross, "Verilv I 
 say unto thee, to-day shalt thou be with me in Para- 
 dise," He saith to the spirits of the just made perfect. 
 Heb. 12 : 23, and to all who know Him and the power 
 of His resurrection," Ph. 3 : 10, ''having a desire to 
 depart and be with Christ, which is far better," ch. 1:23. 
 The redemption of their souls by God, and to be taken 
 to God, is essentially diverse from that of which the 
 Lord heard from those, whose only aim or desire was to 
 redeem themselves from God and from the wrath to 
 come, and to come in their personal, intellectual fore- 
 sight of eternity, and who in their bulwarks make the 
 parable their creed and rule of life, and their own glory 
 on the earth their chief end. 
 
 Verse 16. "Fear thou not when a man may become 
 rich, when the glory of his house will be increased." 
 
 Verse 17. "For in his death he will take nothing 
 away, his glory will not go down after him." 
 
 Verse 18. Though in his life he will bless his soul, 
 and others will praise thee when thou doest good to thy- 
 self." 
 
 There is nothing in this, or in any other part of this 
 psalm, when rightly translated in its true import and 
 connection, to require or allow in its main design, its ap- 
 plication exclusively or mainly to the wealthy. The no- 
 tification in the first part of this psalm shows this. They 
 are not made more prominent than others were of whom 
 he said, "This is their way, foolishness for them." 
 
 Verse 19. "Thou shalt go to the habitation of his 
 fathers ; to perpetuity they shall not see light." 
 
 Habitation is the meaning given to the Hebrew word 
 
by Gesenius in his Lexicon, and before him by Simonis 
 in his. For every one of them to whom and of whom 
 the Lord said this, "is reserved the blackness of dark- 
 ness forever." Jude 13. This verse is the last of what 
 the Lord said in the first part of the psalm He would 
 do, "I will open my riddle on the harp." 
 
 Verse 20. "A man in honor and will not understand 
 may be likened to the beasts that are destroyed." 
 
 It is only one letter in the Hebrew word for under- 
 stand in this verse, and one letter in the word for lodge 
 in the 12th verse that makes the great difference there 
 is in the meaning of these two prominent verses in this 
 psalm. In the Greek translation of these two verses by 
 the Septuagint translators, the word for lodge was trans, 
 lated as if it had been the word for understand, thus 
 making the parable of the same import with the riddle. 
 That old translation was made two hundred and seventy- 
 seven years before the Christian era, according to the 
 learned Dr. Prideaux, Dean of Norwich, in his Con- 
 nexions, page 263, vol. 2d. It was renewed and sanc- 
 tioned in this particular in A. D. 1870, by Four Friends 
 in a Psalter which was published in London. All these 
 translations I have seen, with explanatory notes appen- 
 ded, show in their purport that they are more in harmony 
 with the Septuagint than with the Hebrew, especially 
 with respect to the parable to which He inclined His 
 ear, and the riddle of which He said, "I will open my 
 riddle on the harp." It is the same w r ord used by Sam- 
 son, Judges, ch. 14 : 12. It is not a parable, and far 
 from being a repetition of that of which God said, it 
 is foolishness for them in whom it originates. It is, in 
 its form, a real riddle, divine in its origin, and very sig- 
 nificant in its true inherent import, as opened and ex- 
 plained in this psalm. Every riddle has an internal 
 
meaning, which it does not in its verbal envelope dis- 
 close, but will imply or express enough to attract inves- 
 tigation. Let the reader notice, that the negative in the 
 parable relates to honor in a lodge, at night ; but the 
 negative in the riddle relates to understand. The Lord, 
 He who said to all peoples and to all inhabitants of the 
 world, low and high, rich and poor alike, "hear this ; 
 give ear," then said to them and of them all: "My 
 mouth shall speak of wisdoms, and the meditations of 
 my heart be of understandings." Wisdoms and under- 
 standings of those to whom He said, "Hear this," He 
 did incline his ear to their parable and to what precedes, 
 and led them, in their wisdoms, to it ; then He spake, 
 "this is their way, foolishness for them ; and their pos- 
 terity will acquiesce in what they say." See I Cor. 3: 
 18, 19. The Lord in his omniscient and infallible 
 "meditations" knew from what He heard from all those 
 to whom He inclined His ear that every one of them 
 had understanding. Every one showed it in what He 
 heard from them, as recorded, ending in the parable. 
 Every one of them saw by "the eyes of his understand- 
 ing" his iniquity, his soul and eternity. What the 
 Lord heard, ending in the parable, and what He spake, 
 ending in the riddle, opens or explains the riddle, show- 
 ing that every human being, every man, has an under- 
 standing and will understand, and is not to be likened 
 to the beasts that are destroyed, and that the last of 
 them. 
 
 "Comparing spiritual things with spiritual, not in the 
 words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the 
 Holy Ghost teacheth," is a mode of investigating spiri- 
 tual scriptural truth commended by the Apostle (1 Cor. 
 2:13, 14), and he signally exemplified it in his eluci- 
 dation of the blissful supernatural truth to be realized 
 
in the resurrection of life, as follows: "then shall be 
 brought to pass the saying that is written, 'Death is 
 swallowed up in victory.' " I Cor. 15 : 54. It was 
 written by the prophet Isaiah, 25 : 8, "He will swallow 
 up death in victory." The reason why the Apostle 
 styles this "the word written," with the definite article 
 before it, is evidently the reason which Isaiah himself 
 gave at the end of the verse for his writing it, "For 
 Jehovah hath spoken." This was then true, the prophet 
 himself being witness. What the Lord had spoken,, 
 evidently as it is in this psalm, and was written by the 
 prophet in his own inspired understanding of it, the in- 
 spired Apostle, applying it to all the righteous asleep in 
 the dust of the earth, and those alive in their mortal 
 bodies, on the last day, at the last trump, reaffirms for- 
 cibly, "Then shall be brought to pass the saying writ- 
 ten." Then, and not before. Read what the Lord 
 said by Hosea, ch. 13 : 14. 
 
 What the Apostle affirmed, "Behold ! I show you a 
 mystery," 1 Cor. 15 : 51, implies that there was then no 
 mystery with respect to the resurrection of the righteous 
 dead. How he knew and what he knew, and others 
 may know of the resurrection of life, the Apostle 
 shows in 1 Thess. 4th ch. 
 
 Verse 14. "For if we believe that Jesus died and 
 rose again, them also sleeping in Jesus will God bring 
 with Him." 
 
 Verse 15. "This, therefore, we say unto you by the 
 word of the Lord." This, he said by the word of the 
 Lord in the last of the former verse. What follows has 
 respect to those in Christ alive, about whom there was 
 then no mystery, for we, the living, the remaining, at 
 the coming of Christ will not precede them which are 
 asleep. 
 
 Verse 16. "For the Lord himself, with a shout. 
 
with the voice of an archangel, and with the trump of 
 God, shall descend, and the dead in Christ shall rise 
 first." 
 
 Verse 17. "Then we. the living, the remaining, 
 shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to 
 meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with 
 the Lord." Then, and not before. 
 
 What the Lord spake in this psalm is, "and the 
 righteous among them shall rule in the morning." 
 What the Apostle said by the word of the Lord is, 
 "and the dead in Christ shall rise first." This really 
 and evidently is the first resurrection ; and here we 
 ]"fave the positive testimony of the Apostle that it was 
 revealed in the word of the Lord, and was no mystery 
 when he wrote this epistle, in which he makes promi- 
 nent the consolatory truth contained in the next verse of 
 this psalm, inseperably connected with what the Lord 
 heard from every one of the righteous in their faith and 
 hope. As to their souls in this life, before their mortal, 
 corruptible bodies fell asleep in death, "Surely God 
 will redeem my soul from the hand, the grasp of death, 
 for he will take me." The same words are used in 
 what the Lord said by Hosea, "I will redeem them 
 from the power of death." Chap. 13 : 14 What the 
 Lord Jesus said on the cross to the thief on the cross, 
 "To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise," he saith 
 on their death to "all who know Him and the power of 
 his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, be- 
 ing made conformable to his death." Phil. 3 : 10. That 
 redemption of their souls to God and by God, is vastly 
 more than there was or is, as the Lord heard and hears, 
 in the thoughts of those who, with their understandings 
 darkened, in their conscious guilt, fearless or forlorn, 
 make the parable their chosen creed, the fountain of 
 
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 their comfort and ground of their hope. What Paul 
 expressly affirmed was in the word of God, is, that "the 
 dead in Christ shall rise first on the last day." This 
 was well known to the Apostle John when he wrote the 
 Revelation. In his evangelical record he recorded 
 what our Lord Jesus expressly affirmed, ch. 5 : 28, 29. 
 "An hour is coming in which all that are in the graves 
 shall hear His voice and shall come forth ; they that 
 have done good, unto the resurrection of life, and they 
 that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation." 
 The inspired Apostle recorded in the next chapter what 
 he averred four times, of the resurrection of life on the 
 last day. Read verses 39, 40, 44, 54. 
 
 There is, therefore no truth in the assumption or tra- 
 dition, that John, in the Book of Revelation, refers to 
 -a resurrection of the dead in Christ to take place hun- 
 dreds of years before the last day. 
 
 What is predicted of the beast in the last part of the 
 19th chap, shows the end of the 1260 days or years. 
 That was evidently the end and not the beginning of 
 the thousand years. There was the beast, there was 
 with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before 
 liim, with which he deceived those that had received the 
 mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. 
 These both were cast alive into a lake of fire. There 
 is nothing in that record to intimate or imply that Satan 
 was anywhere then on the face of the earth. It is im- 
 portant, I might say essential, to a right understanding 
 of the thousand years, to take and keep in mind what 
 "the Amen, the faithful and true Witness (Rev. 3 : 4) 
 said to his disciples when he rebuked Peter, as recorded 
 in Math. 16 : 21, 23, Mark 8 : 31, 33, "looking on his 
 disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, 'Get thee behind 
 me, Satan ; for thou savourest not the things that be of 
 
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 God, but the things that be of men." Satan's impris- 
 onment in the abyss did not take away or change "the 
 things that be of men." The first part of 20th ch. Rev. is 
 connected by the conjunction with the last of that next 
 before it. What is recorded in the first part of the 20th 
 ch. is all retrospective, as 
 
 Verse 1. He saw an angel come down from heaven, 
 having the key of the bottomless pit. I will yet briefly,, 
 as John records, refer to what the old dragon felt and 
 did in his foresight of what the angel did with him. 
 
 Verse 4. He saw thrones and they sat upon them, 
 and judgment was given unto them. It was in the ex- 
 ecution of their judgment in public or in secrecy that 
 John saw what he here records. 
 
 "And I saw the souls of them having been beheaded 
 for the witness of Jesus and for the word of God, and 
 who had not worshipped the beast nor his image," The 
 word translated "were beheaded," in our English 
 Bible is a passive participle of perfect tense. 
 
 Verse 5. "And the rest of the dead lived not again 
 until the thousand years were finished. Instead of but, 
 I translate the Greek conjunction, as it is in our English 
 Bible in Mark 4 : 37, "And the waves beat against the 
 ship." Heb. 3: 10, "And they have not known my 
 ways." I Cor. 14: 1, "And desire spiritual gifts." 
 An error in one word may obscure the truth in 
 those with which it is connected. 
 
 "Those beheaded, whose souls lived and reigned with 
 Christ a thousand years ; and the rest of the dead in 
 Christ lived not again till the thousand years be ended. 
 This is the first resurrection." The definite article is- 
 used five times in this verse. 
 
 Verse 6. "Blessed and holy is he that hath part in 
 the first resurrection ; on such the second death hath no 
 
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 power, but shall be priests of Gocl and of Christ, and 
 shall reign with Him a thousand years." 
 
 Verse 7. "And when the thousand years are ex- 
 pired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison." The 
 Greek verb here translated expired, is in verse 5th trans- 
 lated finished 1 and in verse 3d, fulfilled. The word 
 translated "I saw" is in the past tense. Nothing in this 
 chapter is said of the things that be of men, for which 
 Jesus rebuked Peter. "The devil was cast into the lake 
 of fire, where the beast and the false prophet are, and 
 shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever." 
 verse 10. 
 
 In reading in chapter 12th what is introductory to 
 what John records of Satan's great anger, take and 
 keep in mind what He, born of a woman, made under 
 the law to redeem them under the law, said to the sev- 
 enty who said, "Lord, even the devils are subject unto 
 us through thy name." And He said to them, "And I 
 beheld Satan as lightning fall from Heaven," Luke 10 : 
 
 17. 
 
 Verse 12. "Rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell 
 in them. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, for the 
 devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, know- 
 ing that he had but a short time." 
 
 Neither of the last two words are used in the 20th 
 ch. The word for time in this verse means a definite, 
 limited time, long or short. The end of that short time 
 was near, and to Satan, as he assuredly and wrathfully 
 knew, it was inevitable. Take and keep in mind what 
 is revealed in the 14th verse, of the woman, the invisi- 
 ble church in the wilderness, in her place, "where she 
 is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from 
 the face of the serpent," the old serpent. This word 
 time is in the 12th verse. Here times is in the dual 
 
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 number, three years and a half, forty-two months, twelve 
 hundred and sixty days, symbolical of years. 
 
 Verse 17. "And the dragon was enraged against the 
 woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her 
 seed." 
 
 Now read what the great red dragon did at the end 
 of his foreseen short time, in making the beast a substi- 
 tute for himself on the earth during his imprisonment 
 with the rest of the devils in the bottomless pit. 
 
 "And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a 
 beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten 
 horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his 
 heads the name of 'blasphemy.' And the beast which 
 I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as of a 
 bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion ; and the 
 dragon gave his power and his throne and great author- 
 ity to him." ch. 13 : 1-3. The significant and prom- 
 inent resemblance of the dragon he imparted to the 
 beast, "and power was allowed to the beast to continue 
 forty and two months," verse 5. Now read what is 
 on record in ch. 11 : 2 "But the court which is without 
 the temple, leave out, and measure it not, for it is given 
 unto the gentiles ; and the holy city shall they tread un- 
 der foot forty and two months." The beast then came 
 up "out of the bottomless pit, and made war against 
 the two witnesses, and shall overcome and kill them," 
 8th verse. "And their dead bodies be in the street of 
 the great city, which is spiritually called Sodom and 
 Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified." "To the 
 fifth angel was given the key of the bottomless pit, and 
 he opened it." ch. 9, 1-2 v. But the beast did not 
 then come out of it. 
 
 Now read what the Lord said to the seventy disciples 
 in reply to what they said in their report to Him. "I 
 
beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven," Luke io: 8. 
 The word for throne, as I translate it here and else- 
 where, is so translated in ch. 20. In Pergamos was 
 Satan's throne then, and in those days wherein Antipas 
 was a "faithful martyr, who was slain among you where 
 Satan dwelleth." ch. 2 : 13. By the angel of the 
 church in Philadelphia it was written, "I will make 
 them of the synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews 
 and are not, but do lie." ch. 3: 2. "And I know the 
 blasphemy of them which say they are Jews and are 
 not, but are the synagogue of wSatan." ch. 2: 9. 
 
 Now read what Luke, in Acts of the Apostles, in A. 
 D. 63, recorded of the Apostle Paul, chapter 22 to the 
 end of the Book. I will only quote from the next 
 chapter. 
 
 Verse 16. "And when Paul's sister's son heard of 
 their lying in wait, he went and entered into the castle 
 and told Paul." 
 
 Verse 19. "Then the chief captain took him by the 
 hand and went with him aside, privately, and asked, 
 'What is it that thou hast to tell me ?' And he said : 
 
 Verse 20. "The Jews have agreed to desire thee that 
 thou wouldest bring down Paul to-morrow into the coun- 
 cil, as though they would enquire somewhat more per- 
 fectly. 
 
 Verse 21. "Bu f do thou not yield unto them, for 
 there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, 
 who have bound themselves with an oath, that they will 
 neither eat nor drink till they have killed him; and now 
 are they ready, looking for a promise from thee.' " 
 
 The forty and more were only a part "of them," 
 the Jews, who agreed by an oath to bring down Paul 
 to slay him. "So the chief captain then let the young 
 
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 man depart, and charged him, 'Tell no man that thou 
 hast showed these things to me.' " 
 
 Those Jews, of whom the chief captain then heard, 
 were then a secret, self-organized combination of men, 
 binding themselves, every one, by an oath, to kill Paul. 
 Killing him or any other man would be a violation of 
 the sixth commandment. All who took that oath, who 
 were there or elsewhere, violated the third command in 
 taking it. Exodus 20 : 7. Nothing more is here re- 
 vealed of those so conjoined and zealous in their hostil- 
 ity to Christ. Paul, under the protection of the Roman 
 government, was conveyed to Rome, where he "dwelt 
 two whole years in his own hired house." ch. 28: 30-32. 
 
 Now read, as given by inspiration of God. Paul wrote 
 in 2d Epistle to the Thessalonians, chap. 2d, verse 3: 
 "There shall come the apostacy first, and the man of 
 sin be revealed, the son of perdition ; 
 
 Verse 4. Who opposeth and exalteth himself above 
 all that is called god or that is worshipped, so that he 
 as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself 
 that he is God, 
 
 Verse 5. Remember ye not, that when I was yet 
 with you I told you these things ? 
 
 Verse 6, And now ye know what withholdeth that 
 he might be revealed in his time. 
 
 Verse 7. For the mystery of iniquity doth already 
 work, only he who now letteth will let until he be 
 taken out of the way. 
 
 Verse 8. And then shall that Wicked be revealed 
 whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His 
 mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His 
 coming. 
 
 Verse 9. Even him whose coming is after the work- 
 
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 ing of Satan, with all power and signs and lying won- 
 ders. 
 
 Verse 10. And with all deceivableness of unrighteous- 
 ness in them that perish ; because they received not 
 the love of the truth that they might be saved. 
 
 Verse 1 1. For this cause God shall send them strong 
 delusion, that they should believe a lie." 
 
 The last three verses show, as any reader may, with 
 the eyes of his understanding, discern, that "the man 
 of sin, the son of perdition," was a plurality of men, 
 a self -organized, self-ruled, oath-bound combination of 
 men, "whose coming is after the working of Satan; 
 with all power and signs and lying wonders." " their 
 signs," "their marks on their foreheads or in their 
 hands," "and lying wonders." "And all the world 
 wondered after the beast," except those whose names 
 were written in the Book of Life. One of the heads 
 of Satan had been broken and was then healed. It is 
 evident that the beast was not an organized, recognized, 
 civil public government. 
 
 The appropriate word, beast, given to Satan's obedient 
 servants, and their subsequent prominent "image" 
 among those subject to its sway, as recorded in chapter 
 13, is a different word from that given to the four so 
 named erroneously in our English translation in chapter 
 4: 67, and 15: 7, where the word is zoos in Greek. 
 That word is applied in the Septuagint to what in He- 
 brew is translated in our English Bible, ' ' living crea- 
 ture," as may be seen in Ezekiel, chapters 1: 5, and in 
 other verses after it. Read chapter 10, from which I 
 will quote only two verses; 15th: "And the cherubim 
 were lifted up. This is the living creature I saw by the 
 river of Chebar." 20th: "This is the living creature 
 
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 that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Che- 
 bar; and I knew, that they were the cherubim." 
 
 Hebrews 9: 5: "And over it the cherubim of glory- 
 shadowing the mercy seat; of which we cannot now 
 speak particularly." It should be the four cherubim, 
 in Rev. 14: 4. 
 
 One of the four cherubim gave unto the seven angels 
 seven golden vials full of the wrath of God. Rev. 15: 7. 
 
 When the first poured out his vial upon the earth, 
 there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men 
 who had the mark of the beast, and on them," the men 
 who worshipped its images as described, in chapter 13: 
 II, to its end. 
 
 "The fifth angel poured out his vial upon the throne 
 of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and 
 they gnawed their tongues for pain, and blasphemed 
 the God of heaven, because of their pains and their 
 sores, and repented not of their deeds." 
 
 "When the sixth angel poured out his vial of wrath 
 on the great river Euphrates; and its waters dried up, 
 that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared." 
 He adds, verse 13, "I saw three unclean spirits like 
 frogs out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the 
 mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false 
 prophet;" 
 
 Verse 14. "For they are the spirits of devils, working 
 miracles, going forth unto the kings of the earth, and 
 of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that 
 great day of God Almighty, as predicted in its result." 
 Chapter 19: 15. 
 
 As recorded in chapter 17: 1, "There came one of 
 the seven angels, those having the seven vials and 
 talked, saying unto me, Come hither; I will show unto 
 you the judgment of the great whore sitting on many 
 
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 waters," Verse 2, "With whom the kings of the earth 
 have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the 
 earth have been made drunk by the wine of her fornica- 
 tion." Verse 3: "And he carried me away in spirit, (in 
 mind) into a wilderness and I saw a woman sitting on a 
 scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, hav- 
 ing seven heads and ten horns." Verse 4: "And the 
 woman was, having been arrayed in purple scarlet colour, 
 and having been decked with gold and precious stones and 
 pearls, having a golden cup in her hand, full of abomi- 
 nations and filthiness of her fornication. And upon her 
 forehead a name having been written MYSTERY, 
 Babylon the great, the mother of harlots, and of the 
 abominations of the earth." Any one who has learned 
 the Greek grammar may discern, that I have translated 
 those words as they should have been in our English 
 Bible, being passive participles in the perfect tense. 
 With respect to the great whore under the judgment 
 that made her desolate and naked, Babylon the mother 
 of harlots, was a part of her mystery of iniquity, so was 
 her sitting, ruling, on the beast full of names of blas- 
 phemy. 
 
 Verse 6. "And I saw the woman drunken with the 
 blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of 
 Jesus: and when I saw her I wondered with great won- 
 der." Not "admiration." The noun is derived from 
 the verb. 
 
 John had seen the beast, but he had not seen the 
 woman, till in the desert in mind he saw her with the 
 appropriate, significant, characteristic name, Mystery, 
 having been written on her forehead. Read what' John 
 heard in the second "voice from heaven," showing the- 
 ecclesiastical apostacy of the woman made desolate 
 
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 2. And how she glorified herself before she was made 
 •desolate. Chapter 18: 4, 7. 
 
 Verse 7. "And the angel said to me, wherefore didst 
 thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman 
 and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven 
 heads and ten horns." This mystery of the woman and 
 the beast, he told unto John in what he wrote to the 
 end of this chapter. 
 
 Verse 8. "And the beast thou sawest was and is not, 
 and as had been before predicted, shall ascend out of 
 the bottomless pit, and go into perdition," "who opened 
 his mouth in blasphemy against God to blaspheme his 
 name." Chapter 13: 6. The day of Christ will not 
 •come before "there come a falling away first and that 
 man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition " whose 
 coming in "the mystery of iniquity " is after the work- 
 ing of Satan with all power and signs and lying won- 
 ders. Read more in 2 Thess. chapter 2. 
 
 Verse 9. "And here is the mind having wisdom. The 
 seven heads are seven mountains, where the whore sit- 
 teth upon them." The Greek verb translated, sitteth 
 here. 
 
 Schleusner in his Lexicon, translates in Latin to be 
 "imperare, dominark," also in verses 1 and 15, and 
 chapter 15: 7. 
 
 Verse 10. "And there are seven kings; the five have 
 fallen when the fifth angel poured out his vial on the 
 throne of the beast, when his kingdom was full of dark- 
 ness. And one is; the other hath not yet come, and 
 when he comes he will remain a little time. 
 
 Verse II. And the beast that was, and is not, even he 
 is the eighth, and is of the seven, aud goeth into perdi- 
 tion. The beast had then become his own head; and 
 ^vvas so till with the false prophet cast into the lake of fire. 
 
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 Verse 12. "And the ten horns are ten kings, which 
 have received no kingdoms as yet: but receive as kings* 
 one hour with the beast." 
 
 Verse 13. "These have one mind, and will give their 
 power and strength to the beast." 
 
 The angel, one of the seven, having a vial of the 
 wrath of God to pour out on the earth, in telling John 
 the mystery of the woman and of the beast carrying 
 her, refers twice to what John in the wilderness saw of 
 the beast's horns, once in the 12th verse, and again in 
 the 16th. "And the ten horns which thou sawest upon 
 the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make 
 her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh and burn 
 her with fire." For God hath put it in their hearts to 
 fulfil his will, and to agree and give their kingdom unto 
 the beast until the words of God shall be fulfilled." 
 This is the judgment to be inflicted at last on the great 
 whore, in the Providence of God by the agency of the 
 beast itself with its ten horns. The ten kings of whom 
 one was the sixth head of the beast, to continue but a little 
 time, as the beast was of the seventh and became the 
 eighth, its own and only head at last. The beast came 
 up out of the bottomless pit two hundred and sixty 
 years, before it became the chosen subordinate repre- 
 sentative agent on the earth, of the old dragon having 
 great anger imprisoned in the bottomless pit. Now it 
 is evident, and as evident as it could be, in this com- 
 plete, and only true and symbolical biography of the 
 beast, that the beast was not a civil public national 
 government. It was and is a self-organized, self-pro- 
 longed, self -governed combination of men; and their 
 characteristic, or bond of union, was blasphemy. 
 
 The beast was not a constituent part of those symbol- 
 ized by the word woman: the subsequent image of the 
 
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 beast was. Hence there is in this seventeenth chapter 
 no reference to the image, as they were of those burnt. 
 
 The beast as well as its image had a sign, and a mark 
 by which they knew and recognized one another in 
 their fraternity, when and where they could not speak 
 the same language. There were divers nations and 
 "tongues," languages, where the woman sits on the 
 beast that carrieth her. Read what is recorded, chap- 
 ter 20: 4, of those beheaded, who had not worshipped 
 the beast, nor received his mark, his insignia, upon 
 their foreheads or in their hands. A right understand- 
 ing of this significant Greek word, charagma, rendered 
 mark in our English Bible, will show, that the mark or 
 sign shown, on their foreheads and by their hands, to 
 one another, was the universal, internal, requisite secret 
 characteristic of that combined anti-Christian associa- 
 tion of men of many nations speaking diverse languag- 
 es, symbolized by the name, Beast. That man of sin 
 revealed, the son of perdition, whose coming is after 
 the working of Satan with all power and signs, and ly- 
 ing wonders. 2 Thess. 2: 9. Those were the lying 
 wonders, about which "all the world wondered as to 
 the beast." The prominent Greek word to which I 
 have referred is in chapter 13: 16, 17; chapter 14: 9, 
 II, 15, 16, 19, 20. Those receiving the charagma, the 
 insignia of the beast. 
 
 Now take and keep in mind what, as John recorded, 
 he had seen before the beast was cast into the lake of 
 fire. "And I saw, thrones, and they sat upon them, 
 and judgment was given unto them, and the souls of 
 them having been beheaded for the witness of Jesus and 
 for the word of God, and who had not worshipped the 
 beast or his image, and not accepted the charagma, "the 
 characteristic on the forehead and on the hand of 
 
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 them." Chapter 20: 4. What John recorded in the 
 first part of this chapter, with respect to the beast, and 
 Satan's imprisonment for a thousand years, must be, as 
 to time, before the beast "was cast alive into the lake 
 of fire with the false prophet; and after, at the end of 
 the short time of Satan's great wrath on the face of the 
 earth as recorded in chapter 12: 12. "And power was 
 given unto him to continue the forty-two months." ch. 
 13: 5. This beast came up out of the abyss of his own 
 accord, two hundred and sixty years before the old 
 dragon gave his power and throne and great authority 
 to the beast, his chosen subordinate substitute from the 
 first to the last of the thousand years, when he shall be 
 loosed out of his prison a little season, and "go out to 
 deceive the nations." 
 
 The beast was or is no constituent part of the woman, 
 but the image of the beast was, and hence will be 
 among those made desolate. The beast, as it was 
 coming out of the abyss, or as it had been before, or as 
 it became when patronized and enthroned by the old 
 dragon or as it was at last being its own, its eighth 
 head, making the great whore, it had carried for centu- 
 ries, at last desolate, was not the Roman government 
 nor any civil government on the face of the earth. 
 
 It is not proper to give to or abstract from a symbolical 
 term any other meaning than what is expressed or shown 
 by it where it is used. Nothing is verbally revealed of 
 the woman and the beast in the record of what will be 
 done by the seventh angel. One of the seven angels, 
 after showing the judgment of the great whore, said to 
 John, verse 18, ch. 17, "And the woman, whom thou 
 sawest, is that great city which reigneth over the kings 
 of the earth." That was a part of the mystery of the 
 great whore, with that characteristic name, Mysteiy, 
 
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 having been written on her forehead, as John first saw 
 her portrayed to his view in the wilderness by an angel 
 knowing all about her. Babylon is a symbolical term. 
 "Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give 
 unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his 
 wrath." The three parts into which the city was di- 
 vided may be, 1st — The woman, the mother of harlots. 
 2d — The image of the beast. 3d — The beast itself, 
 the men who blasphemed God. 
 
 "After these things I saw another angel come down 
 from heaven, having great power ; and the earth was 
 lightened with his glory." 2. "And he cried mightily 
 with a strong voice, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, 
 and is become the habitation of devils; and the prison 
 of every foul spirit, and the prison of every unclean and 
 hateful bird." The Greek word translated hold and 
 cage in our English Bible, is the same word translated 
 prison in chapter 20: 7, from which Satan will be re- 
 leased. That word is so translated in Math. 5: 25; 
 14: 3, 10; 18: 30; 25: 36; Rev. 2: 10; Mark 3: 19, 
 and in other passages. Those at last in prison, as I 
 think, any one may discern, were the three unclean 
 spirits, that came out of the mouth of the dragon, and 
 out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of 
 the false prophet," as revealed in chapter 16: 13, 14. 
 "For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles," 
 (in their own estimate) going forth unto the kings of the 
 earth, and of the whole world, to gather them to the 
 battle of that great day of God Almighty." The de- 
 cisive and triumphant battle, by Him called Faithful 
 and True, and in righteousness doth judge and make 
 war." ch. 19: 11. "And He shall rule them with a 
 Tod of iron ; and he treadeth the winepress of the 
 fierceness and wrath of Almighty God, and hath on his 
 
vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of 
 kings and Lord of lords." verse 15-16. 
 
 Verse 19. "And I saw the beast, and the kings of 
 the earth and their armies, gathered together to make 
 war against Him who sat on the horse, and against his 
 army." 
 
 Verse 20. "And the beast was taken, and with him 
 the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, by 
 which he deceived them that had received the mark of 
 the beast, and them that had worshipped his image. 
 These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning 
 with brimstone." Besides those, and prophetically in 
 distinction from those symbolized by the beast and the 
 false prophet, there had been, and then were, on that 
 great day of God Almighty, men inspirited and actua- 
 ted by the unclean spirits — "the spirits of devils which 
 were imprisoned, every foul spirit, and every unclean 
 and hateful bird, as the angel, who, coming down from 
 heaven, lightened the earth with his glory, cried might- 
 ily with a strong voice." ch. 18: 1-2. Babylon then 
 became the habitation of devils. 
 
 4 'When the thousand years are expired Satan shall be 
 loosed out of his prison for a little season," ch. 20 : 7. 
 
 What John heard by another voice from heaven „ 
 shows that the woman made desolate is an apostate 
 church, ch. 18 : 4. "Come out of her, my people,, 
 and be not partakers of her sins," &c, shows also in 
 her self-estimate the mystery of her iniquity, verse 7. 
 
 At the end of the thousand, or 1260 years, will be 
 completed what in the 15th chapter is predicted of 
 "them who had gotten the victory over the beast, and 
 over its image, and over his mark, his charagmates, and 
 over the number of his name, and they sang the ode of 
 Moses, the servant of God, and the ode of the Lamb. 
 
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 (Exodus, 15th chapter) for thy judgments are manifest." 
 verse 4th. Now read what in chap. 19th, in the first 
 part of it, is recorded of the victory over the beast and 
 its image, over the false prophet and those imprisoned. 
 I'll quote only the 4th verse as it ought to have been 
 translated : "And the four and twenty presbyters and 
 the four cherubim fell down and worshipped God who 
 sat on the throne, saying, 'Amen, Allelujah.'" It has 
 not been my purpose to comment, but to show in Eng- 
 lish what John by divine inspiration wrote in the Greek 
 language, with respect to what would take place during 
 the twelve hundred and sixty years. 
 
 The true invisible church, of Him born of a woman 
 and "caught up to God and His throne," was in the 
 wilderness, her place, where she is nourished for a thou- 
 sand two hundred and sixty years "from the face of 
 the serpent." chap. 12th. In "a little season," a short 
 time after Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, "he 
 shall be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where 
 the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tor- 
 mented day and night for ever and ever," ch. 20 : 10.