15 And he shall live, and to him fshall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised. 16 There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like 91 Kings 4 Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth. 20. p Ps. 89. 36. Heb. shall be. 17 PHis name + shall endure for ever: this name shall be continued as long as + Heb. shall the sun: and men shall be blessed in continue his him: 'all nations shall call him blessed. be as a son to father's name for ever. q Gen. 12. 3. & 22. 18. Jer. 4. 2. r Luke 1.48. 29. 10. Ps. 18 'Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. 19 And "blessed be his glorious name 1 Chron. for ever: and let the whole earth be 41. 13. & 106. filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen. 20 The prayers of David the son of 11. Ps. 77. 14. Jesse are ended. 48. t Exod. 15. & 136. 4. u Neh. 9. 5 PSALM LXXIII. x Numb. 14. 1 The prophet, prevailing in a temptation, 2 sheweth the occasion thereof, the prosperity of the wicked. 13 The wound given thereby, diffidence. 15 The victory over it, knowledge of God's purpose, in destroying of the wicked, and sustaining the righteous. 1 Or, A Palm for Asaph. Ps.50, title. | Or, Yet. + Heb. clean of heart. a Job 21.7. Ps. 37. 1. Jer. 12. 1. || A Psalm of * Asaph. TRU 2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. 3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 4 For there are no bands in their + Heb. fat. death: but their strength is †firm. 5 They are not tin trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other b Job 21. 6. + Heb. in the trouble of other men. t Heb. with. men. c So Ps. 109. c 18. d Job 15. 27. Ps. 17. 10. & 6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment. 7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: 119. 70. Jer. they have more than heart could wish. concey are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak 5. 28. + Heb. they pass the thoughts of the heart. loftily. e Ps. 53. 1. f Hos. 7. 16. g 2 Pet. 2. 18. Jude 16. h Rev. 13.6. 9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth. 10 Therefore his people return hither: 1and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them. 11 And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most high? 504 17 Until I went into the sanctuary in miner tion, as in a moment! they are utterly O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt 21 Thus my heart was "grieved, and I 22 So foolish was I, and ignorant: 1 The prophet complaineth of the desolation Maschil of Asaph. P& Hebr & 119. St. b Ps. 16. S & 119.57 d Exel 215. Num is James Hebr. 44 22 f Ps 10 2 & 118 17 1 Or, A Psalm fim Asaph too tion. 10. &Jer. 31 b Deat c P 2 Remember thy congregation, which of thine inheritance, which thou hast rethou hast purchased of old; the rod 20. deemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou a Ero 15 hast dwelt. 16. De 29. e Deut. 3 desolations; even all that the enemy hath Jer h1 Kings 6. 18, 29, 32, 35 i 2 Kings 25. 5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees. God's majesty in the church. 9 He praiseth God, and promiseth to exe- To the chief Musician, ||* Al-taschith, A 6 But now they break down the UNTO thee, O God, do we give carved work thereof at once with axes 71+They have cast fire into thy sancHeb. They tuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the have sent thy sanctu ary into the ground. fire. k Ps. 89. 39. 8 They said in their hearts, Let us 1 P. 83++ destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land. + Heb. break. Or, Destroy not. • Ps. 57, title. Or, for thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: Asaph for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare. Or, When 2 | When I shall receive the congre- I shall take gation I will judge uprightly. 3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah. a set time. 4 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up 2? the horn: 5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck. 6 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the 10 O God, how long shall the adver- 11 "Why withdrawest thou thy hand, 12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. 13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. 7 But God is the judge: he putteth a Zech. 1, 7. Dan. 2.21 full P. 60.3. the Jer.25 15 the & 16. 19. 30. d Job 21. 20. 9 But I will declare for ever; I will 10 All the horns of the wicked also 14 Thou brakest the heads of levia-sing than in pieces, and gavest him 'to be meat 'to the people inhabiting the wilderness. 15 Thou didst cleave the fountain Ps 729 and the flood: "thou driedst up † mighty ¡Or, whales. r Numb. 14 6 t Exod. 17. 56 Namb. 20. 11. Ps. 195.41. Isai. $21. a Josh. 3. 13, &c. + Heb. rivers of strength. rivers. t 16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. 17 Thou hast set all the borders of x Gen. 1.14, the earth: thou hast +made summer y Acts 17.26 and winter. z Gen. 8. 22. them, a ver. 22. Hev. 16. 19. b Ps. 29. 8. 18 Remember this, that the enemy He made hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. 19 Ó deliver not the soul of thy ture Cant. 2. tledove unto the multitude of the wicked: Ps. 68. 10. forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever. PSALM LXXVI. Rev. 14. 10. e Prov. 23. f Ps. 73. 10. P. 101.8. Jer. 48. 25. P. 89. 17. & 148. 14. 8 Thou didst cause judgment to be h Ezek. 38. heard from heaven; the earth feared, i 2 Chron. and was still, 20. 29, 30. 9. & 72.4. 9 When God arose to judgment, to k P. 9. 7,8, save all the meek of the earth. Selah. 9. 16. & 18. 1 The prophet praiseth God. 2 He promiseth 10 Surely the wrath of man shall 1 See Exod. to judge uprightly. 4 He rebuketh the praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt 11. P. 65. proud by consideration of God's providence. ] thou restrain. 1 n2 Chron. God: "let all that be round about him Ps. 68. 29. & bring presents unto him that ought to be feared. 32. 22, 23. 89.7. + Heb. to fear. The law of God commended. 20 Thou leddest thy people like a Exod. 13. flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron. PSALM LXXVIII. 12 He shall cut off the spirit of princes: An exhortation both to learn and to preach Ps. 68. 35. he is terrible to the kings of the earth. PSALM LXXVII. 1 The psalmist sheweth what fierce combat he had with diffidence. 10 The victory which he had by consideration of God's great and gracious works. e Deut.32.7. P's. 143-5Isai. 51. 9. f Ps. 42, 8. g Ps. 4.4. h Ps. 74 1. i Ps. 85. 1. + Heb. to generation overwhelmed. Selah. 4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. 5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. 6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search. 7 h Will the LORD cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? 8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever? k Rom.9.6. doth his promise fail + for evermore? 9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mer1 Isai. 49. 15. cies? Selah. and genera tion. m Ps. 31. 22. n Ps. 143. 5 o Ps. 73. 17. 11. 10 And I said, This is "my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most high. 11 "I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old. 12 I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings. 13 Thy way, O God, is in the sancp Exod. 15 tuary: who is so great a God as our God! 14 Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people. the law of God. 9 The story of God's wrath against the incredulous and disobedient. 67 The Israelites being rejected, God chose Judah, Zion, and David. IVE ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: c 3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. 4 d We will not hide them from their Dent. 4. children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. Exod. 12. 2,27. & 13. 46,7. 13 He divided the sea, and caused Gen 2. I them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap. ver. 4. Iss. 19. 11, 13. Ezek. 30. 44 21. 14 In the daytime also he led them Exod. 14 with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. • Exod. 15 8. Ps. 33.7 21. & 14 24 15 He clave the rocks in the wilder-Exed. 13 ness, and gave them drink as out of the P10 great depths. 16 He brought "streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. 17 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most high in the wilderness. t Exod. 17 6. Namth 105. 41. 20.11. P. Cor. 194 u Deut. §. 21. Ps. 195 41. x Dent. 9. 2 Hebr. 3. 15. 18 And they tempted God in their Exod. 16 heart by asking meat for their lust. The story of God's wrath z Numb. 11. 4. PSALMS. b against the disobedient, 19 Yea, they spake against God; | ed God, and limited the Holy One of ver. 20. Heb order. they said, Can God+furnish a table in the wilderness? Israel. 42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from 10r, from the enemy. affliction. c ver. 12. P. 105. 27, &e. 43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of + Heb. set. Zoan: Ps. 105. 29. 44 And had turned their rivers into dExod. 7.20. blood; and their floods, that they could not drink. e Exod. 8. 45 He sent divers sorts of flies among 185. them, which devoured them; and 'frogs, which destroyed them. 46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust. i 31. f Exod. 8. 6. Ps. 105. 30. g Exod. 10. 105, 34, 35 13, 15. Ps. 25. Ps. 105. + Heb. 47 He destroyed their vines with Exod.9.23, hail, and their sycomore trees with frost. 33. 48 + He gave up their cattle also to killed. the hail, and their flocks to || hot thun-Or, great derbolts. hailstones. iExod. 9.23, 105. 32. 49 He cast upon them the fierceness 24, 25. P. of his anger, wrath, and indignation, + Heb. He and trouble, by sending evil angels among or, lightthem. shut up. nags. weighed a path. Or, their beasts to the 50 +He made a way to his anger; het Heb. He spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; 51 And smote all the firstborn Egypt; the chief of their strength in tabernacles of Ham: rrein, in the Exod. 9.3, 6. 52 But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. k Exod. 12. 29. Ps. 105. 36. & 136. 10. 1Ps. 106. 22. m Ps. 77. 20. 19, 20. 53 And he "led them on safely, so that "Exod. 14. they feared not: but the sea over- o Exod. 14. whelmed their enemies. q 27, 28. & 15. 10. vered. 17. q Ps. 44.3. 54 And he brought them to the bor- + Heb.co der of his sanctuary, even to this moun- p Exod. 15. tain, which his right hand had purchased, 55 He cast out the heathen also before them, and 'divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. 56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies: r Ps-44. 2. 0951. P. 136. 21, 22. s Josh. 13.7 12. Judg. 2. 11, Ezek. 20.27, 57 But "turned back, and dealt un- ver. 41. faithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow. 3 28. x Hos. 7. 16. y Deut. 32. 16, 21. Judg. 213 20. Ezek. 20. 28. z Deut. 12. 2, 4. 1 Kings 11. 7.& 12.31. 58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. 59 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: 60 So that he forsook the tabernacle 1 Sam. 4. of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among 12, 14. & 26. men; 61 And delivered his strength into b Judg. 18. captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand. b 11. Jer. 7. 6, 9. 30. 10. 62 He gave his people over also unto 1 Sam. 4. the sword; and was wroth with his in 41 Yea, they turned back and tempt-heritance. Jerusalem's destruction, and PSALMS. the miseries of the church bewailed. 63 The fire consumed their young men; | known among the heathen in our sight d Jer. 7.34 and their maidens were not given to & 16. 9. & 25. 10. + Heb. marriage. 64 Their priests fell by the sword; e1 Sam. 4. and their widows made no lamentation. praised. 11. & 22. 18. f Job 27. 15. Ezek. 24. 23. h Isai. 42. 13. i 1 Sam. 5, 6, 12. & 6. 4. k Ps. 87. 2. 11 Kings 6. + Heb. founded. m 1 Sam. 16. 11, 12. + Heb. From after. u Gen. 33. awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. 66 And he smote his enemies in the hinder part: he put them to a perpetual reproach. 67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim: 68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved. 69 And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath + established for ever. r geance. Ps. 102. 20. 11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power + preserve thou those + Heb. thine that are appointed to die; arm. + Heb. reserve the children of 12 And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their re- death. proach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O LORD. 13 So "we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations. s Gen. 4. 15 Jer. 32. 18. Luke 6. 38. P. 74 18, 22. & 957. u Ps. 74 1. & 100 3 x Isai. 43. 21. + Heb. to neration and generation. 69, title. Or, for 70 m He chose David also his servant, 2 Sam. 7.8. and took him from the sheepfolds: To the chief Musician *upon Shoshan- P& 71 +From following the " ewes great nim-Eduth, A Psalm || of Asaph. with young he brought him to feed Ja-Gatadest Joseph like a flock; a P. 77. 23. IVE ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thousa 13. Isai. 40. cob his people, and Israel his inheritance. 72 So he fed them according to the Pintegrity of his heart; and guided them p1 Kings 9. by the skilfulness of his hands. 9 Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and Exed 5 it filled the land. 10 The hills were covered with the 11 She sent out her boughs unto the 13 The boar out of the wood doth 28. Josh. 2412. + Heb. the cedars of God. PA Nah. L 41. Tani 5.5 14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: Plook down from heaven, and be- P Isai. 63.-15 hold, and visit this vine; 15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch |