x Deut. x. 14. Job. xli. 11.

Ps. 1. 12.

1 Cor. x. 26,

28.

PSALM XXIV.

1 God's lordship in the world. 3 The citizens of his spiritual kingdom. 7 An exhortation to receive him.

A Psalm of David.

1 The earth is the LORD's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established y Job xxxviii. it upon the floods.

6. Ps. civ. 5. & cxxxvi. 6.

z Ps. xv. 1.

a Is. xxxiii. 15, 16.

* Heb. the clean of hands.

32 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?

4* He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

5 He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

6 This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek

+ Or, O God thy face, † O Jacob. Selah.

of Jacob.

7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.

8 Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.

9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. 10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.

1 Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.

5 Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.

6 Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.

7 The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

*

8 The LORD is their strength, and he is the † saving Or, his strength of his anointed.

9 Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: them also, and lift them

up

for ever.

PSALM XXIX.

strength. + Heb.

feed stations.

1 David exhorteth princes to give glory to God, 3 by reason of his power, 11 and

protection of his people.

A Psalm of David.

1 Give unto the LORD, O §ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength. 2 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.

3 The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon † many waters. 4 The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.

5 The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.

6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and d Sirion like a young unicorn.

7 The voice of the LORD || divideth the flames of fire. 8 The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.

9 The voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple + doth every one speak of his glory.

10 The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD

sitteth King for ever.

11 The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.

PSALM XXXVIII.

David moveth God to take compassion of his pitiful case.

¶ A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.

1 O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth

me sore.

Or, rule.

3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of Heb. peace, my sin.

4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

or, health.

* Heb. wried.

5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

9 LORD, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the + Heb. is not light of mine eyes, it also † is gone from me.

with me.

Heb. stroke.

Or, my neighbours.

Or, thee do I wait for.

11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my ‡ sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

:

15 For || in thee, O LORD, do I hope thou wilt hear, *Or, answer. O LORD my God.

+ Heb. for halting.

+ Heb. being living are strong.

*Heb. for my help.

16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

19 But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong : and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

20 They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.

21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.

22 Make haste to help me, O LORD my salvation.

PSALM XXXIX.

1 David's care of his thoughts. 4 The consideration of the brevity and vanity of life. 7 The reverence of God's judgments, 10 and prayer, are his bridles of impatiency.

To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.

1 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep + my mouth with a bridle, while the for my mouth. Wicked is before me.

+Heb. a bri

dle, or, muzzle

2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from Heb. trou good; and my sorrow was stirred.

bled.

3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,

4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man + at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

7 And now, LORD, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.

10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest || his beauty to consume away like a Heb. that moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all

my

fathers were.

13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

PSALM LXXXVI.

14

1 David strengtheneth his prayer by the conscience of his religion, 5 by the goodness and power of God. 11 He desireth the continuance of former grace. Complaining of the proud he craveth some token of God's goodness.

f

which is to be desired in him to melt away.

Lev. xxv. 23.

1 Chr. xxix. 15. Ps. cxix. 19 2 Cor. v. 5.

1

Pet. i. 17.

* Or, A Prayer, being a Psalm of

1 Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor vid

and needy.

2 Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant + that trusteth in thee.

+ Or, one whom thou

3 Be merciful unto me, O LORD: for I cry unto thee favourest. daily.

4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.

Or, all the

day.

5 For thou, LORD, art good, and ready to forgive; and & Joel ii. 13. plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.

6 Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the

voice of my supplications.

7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.

8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O LORD; hneither are there any works like unto thy works.

h Deut. iii. 24.

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i Deut. vi. 3.

& xxxii. 39.

'9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O LORD; and shall glorify thy name.

10 For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou

Is. xxxvii. 16. art God alone.

& xliv. 6. Mark xii. 29.

1 Cor. viii, 4. Eph. iv. 6.

k Ps. xxv. 4. & cxix. 33.

* Or, grave.

11 Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.

12 I will praise thee, O LORD my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.

13 For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest *hell.

14 O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assem+Heb.terrible. blies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.

Ex. xxxiv.

6. Num. xiv.

15 1 But thou, O LORD, art a God full of compassion, 18. Ps. ciii. 8. and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and

& cxxx. 4. &

cxlv. 8.

Heb. pre

truth.

16 O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.

17 Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me.

PSALM XCV.

1 An exhortation to praise God, 3 for his greatness, 6 and for his goodness, 8 and not to tempt him.

10 come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.

2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, vent his face, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.

Heb. In whose. Or, the heights of the hills are his. Heb. Whose the sea is.

3 For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.

5* The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.

6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.

7 For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasm Heb. iii. 7. ture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear

& iv. 7.

n Ex. xvii. 2. 7. Num. xiv. 22, &c.

+ Heb. contention.

his voice,

8 Harden not your heart, "as in the + provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation,