all the earth. 17 I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever. G PSALM XLVI. 321 tions he hath made in the earth. to. 9 He maketh wars ceafe unto the end of the earth, he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the fpear in funder, he burneth the chariot in the fire. 10 Be ftill, and know that OD is our refuge and I am God: I will be exalted strength, a very pre-among the heathen, I will fent help in trouble. be exalted in the earth. 2 Therefore will not we II The Lord of hofts is fear, though the earth be re-with us, the God of Jacob moved, and though the is our refuge. Selah. mountains be carried into the midst of the sea. 3 Though the waters there PSALM XLVII. of roar, and be troubled,Clap your hands, all though the mountains fhake with the fwelling thereof. Selah. 4 There is a river, the ftreams whereof fhall make glad the city of God: the holy place of the tabernacles of the moft High. 5 God is in the midst of her; fhe fhall not be moved: God fhall help her, and that right early. 6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted. 7 The Lord of hofts is with us, the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. 8 Come, behold the works of the Lord, what defola ye people, fhout unto God with the voice of triumph: 2 For the Lord most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth. 3 He fhall fubdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet. 4 He fhall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah. 5 God is gone up with a fhout, the Lord with the found of a trumpet. 6 Sing praises to God, fing praises: fing praises unto our King, fing praises. 7 For God is the King of all the earth, fing ye praifes with understanding. Y 8 God tion. 10 For he feeth that wife men die, likewife the fool and the brutish person perifh, and leave their wealth to others. 8 God reigneth over the for ever, and not see corrupheathen: God fitteth upon the throne of his holiness. 9 The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the fhields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted. H PSALM XLIX. EAR this, all ye people, give ear all ye inhabitants of the world: 2 Both low and high, rich and poor together. 3 My mouth fhall speak of wisdom: and the meditation of my heart fhall be of understanding. 4 I will incline mine ear to a parable; I will open my dark faying upon the harp. 5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels fhall compafs me about? 6 They that truft in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches: 7 None of them can by any means redeeem his brother, nor give to God a ranfom for him:. 8 (For the redemption of their foul is precious, and it ceafeth for ever.) II Their inward thought is, that their houses fhall continue for ever, and their dwelling-places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names. 12 Nevertheless, man being in honour, abideth not: he is like the beafts that perifh. 13 This their way is their folly; yet their pofterity approve their fayings. Selah. 14 Like fheep they are laid in the grave, death fhall feed on them; and the upright fhall have dominion over them in the morning, and their beauty fhall confume in the grave, from their dwelling. 15 But God will redeem my foul from the power of the grave; for he fhall receive me. Selah. 16 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased. 17 For when he dieth, he fhall carry nothing away: 9 That he should still live his glory fhall not defcend after after him. 18 Though while he lived, he bleffed his foul: and men will praise thee, when thou doeft well to thyself. I will teftify against thee: I am God, even thy God. 8 I will not reprove thee for thy facrifices, or thy burntofferings to have been contige-nually before me. 19 He fhall go to the neration of his fathers, they fhall never fee light. 20 Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beafts that perish. PSALM L. HE mighty God, even the Lord hath fpoken, and called the earth, from the rifing of the fun unto the going down thereof. 2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath fhined. 3 Our God fhall come, and fhall not keep filence: a fire fhall devour before him, and it fhall be very tempeftuous round about him. 9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds. beast of the IO For every foreft is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. II I know all the fowls of the mountains and the wild beafts of the field are mine, : 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee, for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. 13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? 14 Offer unto God thanksgiving, and pay thy vows unto the most High. 15 And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will de4 He fhall call to the hea-liver thee, and thou shalt vens from above, and to the glorify me. earth, that he may judge his people. 5 Gather my faints together unto me: those that have made a covenant with me by facrifice. 6 And the heavens fhall declare his righteoufnefs: for God is judge himself. Selah. 7 Hear, O my people, and I will fpeak; O Ifrael, and 16 But unto the wicked God faith, What haft thou to do to declare my ftatutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? 17 Seeing thou hateft inftruction, and cafteft my words behind thee. 18 When thou faweft a thief, then thou confentedft with him, and haft been par Y 2 taker evil in thy fight that thou mightest be juftified when thou fpeakeft, and be clear when thou judgeft. 5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in fin did my mother conceive me. 6 Behold, thou defireft dom. 21 These things haft thou truth in the inward parts: done, and I kept filence: thou and in the hidden part thou thoughteft that I was altoge-fhalt make me to know wifther fuch an one as thyfelf: but I will reprove thee, and fet them in order before thine eyes. 22 Now confider this, ye that forget God, left I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver. 23 Whofo offereth praise, glorifieth me and to him that ordereth his converfation aright, will I fhew the falvation of God. H PSALM LI. AVE mercy upon me, 7 Purge me with hyffop, and I fhall be clean: wath me, and I shall be whiter than fnow. 8 Make me to hear joy and gladness: that the bones which thou haft broken may rejoice. 9 Hide thy face from my fins; and blot out all mine iniquities. 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right fpirit within me. 11 Caft me not away from thy prefence; and take not O God, according to thy loving kindness: accord-thy holy fpirit from me. ing unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my tranfgreffions. 2 Wafh me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my fin. 12 Reftore unto me the joy of thy falvation: and uphold me with thy free fpirit. 3 For I acknowledge my tranfgreffions and my fin is ever before me. 4 Against thee, thee only have I finned, and done this 13 Then will I teach transgreffors thy ways, and finners fhall be converted unto thee. 14 Deliver me from bloodguiltinefs, O God, thou God of my falvation: and my tongue fhall fing aloud of thy righteoufnefs. 15 O Lord, 15 O Lord, open thou my lips, and my mouth fhall fhew forth thy praise. 16 For thou defireft not facrifice, elfe would I give it: thou delightest not in burntoffering. 17 The facrifices of God are a broken fpirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not defpife. iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread; they have not called upon God. 5 There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee, thou haft put them to fhame, because God hath defpifed them. 6 O that the falvation of Ifrael were come out of Zion! when God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob 18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerufalem. 19 Then fhalt thou be pleased with the facrifices of fhall rejoice, and Ifrael fhall righteousness, with burnt-be glad. offering, and whole burnt offering then shall they offer bullocks altar. T upon thine PSALM LIII. HE fool hath faid in his heart, There is no God; corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good. 2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did feek God. 3 Every one of them is gone back, they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no not one, 4 Have the workers of B PSALM LVII. E merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me, for my foul trufteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpaft. 2 I will cry unto God moft high: unto God that performeth all things for me. 3 He fhall fend from hea ven, and fave me from the reproach of him that would fwallow me up; Selah. God fhall fend forth his mercy and his truth. 4 My foul is among lions, and I lie even among them that are fet on fire, even the fons of men, whose teeth are fpears and arrows, and their Y 3 tongue |