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the way of thy ftatutes, and I fhall keep it unto the end. 34 Give me understanding, and I fhall keep thy law; yea, I fhall obferve it with my whole heart.

35 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments: for therein do I delight.

36 Incline my heart unto thy teftimonies, and not to covetoufnefs.

37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way. 38 Stablish thy word unto thy fervant, who is devoted to thy fear.

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39 Turn away my re-lem. proach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.

40 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.

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PSALM CXXI.

3 Jerufalem is builded as a city that is compact together;

4. Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, unto the teftimony of Ifrael, to give thanks unto the name

WILL lift up mine eyes of the Lord.

unto the hills from whence cometh my help.

2 My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.

3 He will not fuffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not flumber.

4 Behold, he that keepeth Ifrael, fhall neither flumber por fleep.

5 The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy fhade upon

5 For there are fet thrones of judgment, the thrones of the houfe of David.

6 Pray for the peace of Jerufalem: they fhall profper that love thee.

7 Peace be within thy walls, and profperity within thy palaces.

8 For my brethren and companions fakes, I will now fay, Peace be within thee.

9 Because of the house of the

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5 Then the proud waters had gone over our foul.

6 Bleffed be the Lord, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.

7 Our foul is escaped as a bird out of the fnare of the fowlers; the fnare is broken,' and we are efcaped.

8 Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

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PSALM CXXV.

HEY that truft in the Lord fhall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.

2 As the mountains are round about Jerufalem, fo the Lord is round about his people, from henceforth even for

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3 For the rod of the wicked fhall not reft upon the lot of the righteous: left the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.

4 Do good, O Lord, unta. thofe that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts.

5 As for fuch as turn afde unto their crooked ways, the Lord fhall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: If but peace shall be upon rael.

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PSALM CXXVI.

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THEN the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.

2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with finging: then faid they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them.

3 The Lord hath done great things for us: whereof we are glad.

4 Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as the ftreams in the south.

5 They that fow in tears, fhall reap in joy.

6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious feed, fhall doubtlefs come again with rejoicing, bringing his fheaves with him.

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PSALM CXXVII.

XCEPT the Lord build

the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

2 It is vain for you to rife up early, to fit up late, to eat the bread of forrows : for fo he giveth his beloved fleep.

3 Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord, and the

fruit of the womb is his reward.

4 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; fo are children of the youth.

5 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they fhall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

PSALM CXXVIII.
LESSED is every one

BLESS

that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways.

2 For thou fhalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy fhalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

3 Thy wife fhall be as a fruitful vine by the fides of thine houfe; thy children like olive-plants round about thy table.

4 Behold, that thus fhall the man be bleffed that feareth the Lord.

5 The Lord fhall blefs thee out of Zion: and thou fhalt fee the good of Jeru falem all the days of thy life.

6 Yea, thou shalt fee thy children's children, and peace upon Ifrael.

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2 Lord, hear my voice:1 let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my fupplications.

3 If thou, Lord, fhouldeft mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

4 But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayeft be feared.

5 I wait for the Lord, my foul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.

6 My foul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning:

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fay, more than they that watched the bleffing, even life for

for the morning.

7 Let Ifrael hope in the Lord for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him. is plenteous redemption.

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PSALM CXXXVII.

Y the rivers of Babylon there we fat down, 8 And he shall redeem yea, we wept, when we reIfrael from all his iniqui-membered Zion.

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2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a fong: and they that wafted us required of us mirth, faying, Sing us one of the fongs of Zion.

4 How fhall we fing the Lord's fong in a strange land?

5 If I forget thee, O Jerufalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

6. If I do not remember thee,

thee, let my tongue cleave | Lord. to the roof of my mouth: if I prefer not Jerufalem above my chief joy.

7 Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerufalem; who faid, Rafe it, rafe it, even to the foundation thereof.

6 Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly but the proud he knoweth afar off.

7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou fhalt ftretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand fhall fave

& O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed happy fhall he be that re-me. warded thee as thou haft ferved us.

9 Happy fhall he be that taketh and dafheth thy little ones against the stones.

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PSALM CXXXVIII. Will praife thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I fing praise unto thee.

2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praife thy name, for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou haft magnified thy word above all thy name.

3 In the day when I cried thou answeredft me, and ftrengthenedft me with ftrength in my foul.

4 All the kings of the earth fhall praife thee, O Lord, when they hear the words of thy mouth.

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5 Yea, they fhall fing in ways of the Lord: for great is the glory of the

8 The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: forfake not the works of thine own hands.

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