Petitions.

PSALM VI.

To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon
B Sheminith, A Psalm of David.

O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hote displeasure." 2 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.

3 My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?

4 Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: Oh save me for thy mercies' sake.

5 Fork in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave' who shall give thee

thanks ?

6 I am weary with my groaning; the night" make I my bed to swim; water my couch with my tears.

7 Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies. 8 Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity: for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.

9 The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.

10 Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.

all

Ep. 2.7, 8. Ik Is. 33. 18.

1 Ps. 88. 11. m Ps. 144. 3. He. 2.6..9.

8 or, every.

n Job 7. 3.

• Ps. 119.115.

6 Arise, O LORD, in thine anger;" lift up thyself, because of the rage of mine enemies; and awake" for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.

Bor, the eighth. 61 Ch. 15.21. Ps. 12, title.

c Je. 10. 21.

7 So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes, therefore, return thou on high.

8 The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.

9 Ohlet the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins. 10 My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.

11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

d Ps. 148. 13. Ps. 2. 5. Mat. 11.25. 1 Co. 1. 27. Ps. 51. 8, founded.

21.16.

h Ps. 44. 16.

13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

PSALM VII.
Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto the
LORD, concerning the 7 words of & Cush
the Benjamite.

O LORD my God, in thee do I put my

trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me;

2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver. 3 O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands; 4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have deliver-μ ed him that without cause is mine enemy ;)

5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

139. 19.

P1 Co. 15. 27.

q Ps. 145. 18. $flocks and oxen, all of them. r Hab. 3. 1. business.

32 Sa. XVI. t Ps. 139. 14.

u Ps. 83. 18.

O not a deliverer.

κ made my judgment. λin right

eousness.

v Pr. 10. 7.

or, The

destruc

tions of the

enemy are come to a

perpetual
end; and
their cities

hast thou destroyed. w Ps. 91.1, 2. 2 Ki. 19. 25,

&c.

y Ps. 44. 23. 73.20. Is. 51. 9.

Ps. 102. 26. a Re.20.12,13. v an high place. Ps. 18. 20.

c Pr. 18. 10.

dRe. 2. 23.

π buckler is

Ps. 89. 18.

por, is a

righteous judge. afflicted. Mat. 3. 10.

g De. 32. 23. Ps. 45. 5. Thath digged a pit.

h Es. 9. 25. Ec. 10. 8.

15 He made a pit, and digged it, and ish fallen into the ditch which he made. 16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

pi. e. meditation.

i Ps. 19. 14.

92.3.

17 I will praise the LORD according to Ps. 50. 22. his righteousness; and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.

364

Adoration.

PSALM VIII.

To the chief Musician upon a Gittith,
A Psalm of David.

O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou 7 ordained strength, because of thine enemies; that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers; the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

4 Whatm is man, that thou art mindful of him? andtheson ofman,thatthou visitest him? 5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands: thou hast put all things under his feet:

7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

9 O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

PSALM IX.

To the chief Musician upon Muth-labben,
A Psalm of David.

I WILL praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.

2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, Ŏ thou" most High.

3 When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.

4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.

5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name" for ever and ever.

6 O thou enemy! destructions are come to a perpetual end; and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.

7 But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment: 8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.

9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. 10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, RD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

11 Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.

12 When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.

13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

14 That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.

15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

16 The LORD is known by the judg Iment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

Character of the wicked.

18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail; let the heathen be judged in thy sight.

C

20 Put them in fear, O LORD; that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

PSALM X.

WHY standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble? 2 The Y wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.

the covetous blesseth himself, he abhorreth the LORD.

4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: x with us. A God is not in all his thoughts.

17 LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear;

18 To judge? the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may

λ more oppress.

5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.

6 He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved; for I shall never be in adversity. 7 His mouth is full of cursing and ceit and fraud; under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

unto gene

8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages; in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

ration and generation. π deceits.

9 He lieth in wait secretly, as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the phim: i. e.

poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

10 Hey croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones. 11 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.

every one of them. oor, iniquity. T of the sons of men. hide them

selves.

12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the Shumble.

13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemnh Ps. 88. 14. God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.

14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

15 Break thou the arm of the wicked

and the evil man: seek out his wickedness tillm thou find none.

16 The LORD is King" for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.

soul's. n great. el Sa. Da. 7.8, 25.

Ep. 2. 12. de-Mor, would

PSALM XI.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

IN the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may "privily shoot at the upright in heart.

3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

4 The LORD is in his holy temple," the LORD's throne is in heaven: his eyes bchold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

5 The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked, and him that loveth violence, his soul hateth.

λor, all his thoughts are, There is no God, Ps. 14. 1.

6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an Thorrible tem

ensnare

him. g Ps. 119.140.

Xor, overseer. Bin the secret places.

y breaketh himself. &or, into his strong parts i Ec. 8. 11. k Je. 51. 39.

or, afflicted.

leaveth.

p Is. 11. 4. noλor, terrify. K stinking. μ they feared a fear.

q Ps. 53. 5.
r Ps. 64. 2..4.

vin darkness.
Who will
give.

& Ro. 11. 26.
t2 Ti. 2. 19.

u Hab. 2. 20.
p sojourn.
σor, quick
burning
coals.

Ge. 19. 24. Tor, burning. por, receiveth, or, endureth.

Ps. 37. 17. m 2 Ki. 21.12.. 15. n 1 Ti. 6.15,16. Is. 65. 24. or, esta

blish.

Human confidence.

pest: this shall be the portion of their cup. 7 For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.

2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour with flattering lips, and with a double heart, do they speak.

3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh 7 proud things; 4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that "puffeth at him. 6 The words of the LORD are pure words; as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve Pthem from this generation for ever.

8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

PSALM XIII.

To the x chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God; lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

5 But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.

6 I will sing unto the LORD, because

he hath dealt bountifully with me.

PSALM XIV.

the chief A Psalm of David.

THE fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt; they have done abominable works; there is none that doeth good.

2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

K

3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

5 There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.

6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor; because the LORD is his refuge.

7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were eth back the captivity of his people, Jacomes out of Zion! when the LORD bringcob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. PSALM XV. A Psalm of David.

LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?

2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.

3 He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor tak

Confidence in God.

eth up a reproach against his neighbour. 4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.

5 He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall nevere be moved.

9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. 10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy;" at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

PSALM XVI. $Michtam of David. PRESERVE me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.

f Ps. 36, title.

2 Sa. XXII.

2 O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my good-h Job 35. 7, 8. ness extendeth not to thee; i Mal. 3. 17.

3 But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.

4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names' into my lips.

5 The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.

6 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. 7 I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel; my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.

8 I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

Р

PSALM XVII. A Prayer of David. HEAR P the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry; give ear unto my prayer, that goethnot out of feigned lips.

2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.

3 Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing: I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

4 Concerning the works of men, by thed word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.

by thine. Lu. 16. 25. 8 or, their

children are full. c Eze.18.8,17 22.12.

d1 John 3. 2. e2 Pe. 1. 10. Cor, 4 golden Psalm, Ps. LVI.. LX.

10 They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

11 They have now compassed us in our steps; they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

12 Y Like as a líon that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion ing in secret places.

lurk

13 Arise, O LORD, 7 disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy' sword:

1 John 4.19. rock. or, give gifts to another.

Hos. 2. 17.

m La. 3. 24.

my part.

n Re.5.11..13.

o Ps. 50. 15.

Belial.

μ or, cords. P Ac. 2.25, &c.

Ps.73.23..26

r2 Ch.30.27. v dwell con

fidently.
Ac. 3. 15.

π by.

Mat. 7. 14. u Ps.144.5, &c

v Jude 24. w Mat. 25. 33.

Ps. 36. 8.
pjustice.
Ps. 27. 5.
without

lips of
deceit.

z Ps. 97. 2. a Ps. 139. 23. b1 Sa. 7. 10. c Ps. 39. 1, 2. Pr. 13. 3.

d Pr.2.10..15.

e Ps. 106. 9.

be not

moved.

or, great. x or, them

5 Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

which trust in thee from those that rise up against thy right hand. 1 Sa. 30. 6.

6 I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.

Ps. 3. 1..5. waste.

7 Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, B enemies O thou that savest xby thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.

8 Keep me as the apple of the eye; hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

against the soul. g1Sa.24.17,20 y The likeness of him (that is, of of them) is, as a lion that desir

9 From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies who compass me about.

every one

eth to ravin. sitting. with.

Thanksgiving for mercies.

14 From men Y which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

n prevent his face. Ps. 37. 27. e or, by thy. Is. 10. 5.

366

15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

PSALM XVIII.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words g of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said,

I

WILL love thee, O LORD, my strength. 2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so° shall I be saved from mine enemies.

4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. about; the snares of death prevented me. 5 The sorrows of hell compassed me

6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.

8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

9 He bowed" the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.

10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly; yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.

11 He made darkness his secret place: his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.

13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.

14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.

15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.

18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.

19 He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

22 For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me. 23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity."

24 Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, ac