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prefents unto thee.

30 Rebuke the company of fpear-men, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one fubmit himself with pieces of filver: fcatter thou the people that delight in war.

31 Princes fhall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia fhall foon ftretch out her hands unto God.

32 Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth: O fing praises unto the Lord. Selah.

33 To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.

is in the clouds.

rows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.

4 Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.

5 The ftout-hearted are fpoiled, they have flept their fleep and none of the men of might have found their hands.

6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horfe are caft into a dead fleep.

7 Thou, even thou art to be feared, and who may stand in thy fight when once thou art angry?

8 Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,

34 Afcribe ye ftrength unto God: his excellency is over Ifrael, and his ftrength 9 When God arose to judgment, to fave all the 35 O God, thou art ter-meek of the earth. Selah. rible out of thy holy places, 10 Surely the wrath of the God of Ifrael is he that giveth ftrength and power unto his people: bleffed be God.

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man fhall praise thee: the remainder of wrath fhalt thou restrain.

II Vow, and pay unto the Lord your God; let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.

12 He fhall cut off the fpirit of princes: he is ter

2 In Salem alfo is his tabernacle, and his dwelling-rible to the kings of the place in Zion.

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2 My foul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

in the houfe of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

11 For the Lord God is a fun and fhield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

12 O Lord of hofts,

3 Yea, the fparrow hath bleffed is the man that trustfound an house, and the fwal-eth in thee.

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PSALM LXXXVI.

OW down thine ear,

thine altars, O Lord of hofts, BO Lord, hear me: for

my King, and my God. 4 Bleffed are they that dwell in thy house they will be ftill praifing thee.

Selah.

5 Bleffed is the man whofe ftrength is in thee: in whofe heart are the ways of them.

6 Who paffing through the valley of Baca, make it a well the rain alfo filleth the pools.

7 They go from strength to ftrength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.

8 O Lord God of hofts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.

9 Behold, O God our fhield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.

10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand I had rather be a door-keeper

I am poor and needy.

2 Preserve my foul, for I am holy: O thou my God, fave thy fervant that trusteth in thee.

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

4 Rejoice the foul of thy fervant for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my foul.

5 For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive: and 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 fupplications.

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, neither are there any

works

works like unto thy works.

9 All nations whom thou haft made fhall come and worship before thee, O Lord: and shall glorify thy name.

IO For thou art great, and doeft wondrous things: thou art God alone.

II Teach me thy way, O Lord, I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.

12 I will praife 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 haft delivered my foul from the lowest hell.

14 O God, the proud are rifen against me, and the affemblies of violent men have fought after my foul: and have not fet thee before them.

15 But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compaffion, and gracious: long-fuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

16 O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me, give thy ftrength unto thy fervant, and fave the fon of thine handmaid.

haft holpen me, and comforted me.

PSALM LXXXVIII.

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Lord God of my falvation, I have cried day and night before thee.

2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry.

3 For my foul is full of troubles and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no ftrength.

5 Free among the dead, like the flain that lie in the grave, whom thou remembereft no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

6 Thou haft laid me in the loweft pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

17 Shew me a token for good, that they which hate me may fee it, and be afhamn-I ed: because thou, Lord,

7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou haft afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

8 Thou haft put away mine acquaintance far from me: thou haft made me an abomination unto them: I am fhut up, and I cannot come forth.

9 Mine eye mourneth by reafon of affliction: Lord, I have called daily upon thee, have ftretched out my hands unto thee

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10 Wilt thou fhew won- | were brought forth, or ever ders to the dead? fhall the thou hadft formed the earth dead arife and praise thee? and the world: even from Selah. everlasting to everlasting thou art God.

II Shall thy loving kindnefs be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?

12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

13 But unto thee have I cried, O Lord, and in the morning fhall my prayer prevent thee.

14 Lord, why cafteth thou off my foul? why hideft thou thy face from me?

15 I am afflicted and ready to die, from my youth up: while I fuffer thy terrors, I am diftracted.

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16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me, thy terrors

have cut me off.

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3 Thou turnest man to deftruction: and sayeft, Return, ye children of men.

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For a thousand years in thy fight are but as yesterday when it is paft, and as a watch in the night.

5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood, they are as a fleep: in the morning they are like grafs which groweth up.

6 In the morning it flourifheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

8 Thou haft fet our iniquities before thee, our fe

17 They came round a-cret fins in the light of thy bout me daily like water, countenance.. they compaffed me about together.

18 Lover and friend haft thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darknefs.

PSALM XC. ORD, thou haft been our dwelling-place in all generations.

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9 For all our days are paffed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten;" and if by reason of strength they be fourfcore years, yet is their ftrength labour and forrow: for it is foon cut off, and we fly away.

II Who knoweth the power

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power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wifdom.

13 Return, O Lord; how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy fervants.

14 O fatisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou haft afflicted us, and the years wherein we have feen evil.

16 Let thy work appear unto thy fervants, and thy glory unto their children.

17 And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us and establish thou the work of our hands upon us, yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

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He fhall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings fhalt thou truft: his truth fhall be thy fhield and buckler.

5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night: nor for the arrow that flieth by day:

6 Nor for the peftilence that walketh in darkness: nor for the deftruction that wafteth at noon-day.

7 A thoufand fhall fall at thy fide, and ten thousand at thy right hand: but it fhall not come nigh thee.

8 Only with thine eyes fhalt thou behold, and fee the reward of the wicked.

9 Because thou haft made the Lord which is my refuge, even the moft High, thy habitation;

10 There fhall no evil befal thee, neither fhall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

II For he fhall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

12 They fhall bear thee up in their hands, left thou dafh thy foot against a stone.

13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion, and adder: the young lion and the dragon fhalt thou trample under feet. 14 Because

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