David praiseth God for his grace 4 The blessedness of Gods chosen by reason of benefits ¶ To the chief musician A psalm and song of David PRaise †Heb. is silent waiteth for thee O God in Sion and unto thee shall the vow be performed 2 O thou that hearest prayer unto thee shall all flesh come 3 †Heb. words or matters of iniquities Iniquities prevail against me as for our transgressions thou shalt purge them away 4 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest and causest to approach unto thee that he may dwell in thy courts we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house even of thy holy temple 5 By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us O God of our salvation who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth and of them that are afar off upon the sea 6 Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains being girded with power 7 Which stilleth the noise of the seas the noise of their waves and the tumult of the people 8 They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening ‖ Or to sing to rejoyce 9 Thou visitest the earth and ‖ Or after thou hadst nude it to desire rain waterest it thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God which is full of water thou preparest them corn when thou hast so provided for it 10 Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly ‖ Or thou caustâ— rain to destend into the furrows thereof thou settlest the furrows thereof †Heb. thou dissolvest it thou makest it soft with showres thou blessest the springing thereof 11 Thou crownest †Heb. the year of thy goodness the year with thy goodness and thy paths drop fatness 12 They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness and the little hills †Heb. are girded with joy rejoyce on every side 13 The pastures are clothed with flocks the valleys also are covered over with corn they shout for joy they also sing PSAL. LXVI 1. David exhorteth to praise God 5 to observe his great words 8 to bless him for his gracious benefits 12 He voweth for himself religious service to God 16 He declareth Gods special goodness to himself ¶ To the chief musician A song or psalm MAke a joyful noise unto God †Heb. all the earth all ye lands 2 Sing forth the honour of his name make his praise glorious 3 Say unto God How terrible art thou in thy works through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies ‖ Or yeeld sâ—â—â—â—ed obedience †Heb. lie submit themselves unto thee 4 All the earth shall worship thee and shall sing unto thee they shall sing to thy name Selah 5 Come and see the works of God be is terrible in his doing toward the children of men 6 He turned the sea into dry land they went through the flood on foot there did we rejoyce in him 7 He ruleth by his power for ever his eyes behold the nations let not the rebellious exalt themselves Selah 8 O bless our God ye people and make the voice of his Praise to be heard 9 Which †Heb. putteth holdeth our soul in life and suffereth not our feet to be moved 10 For thou O God hast proved us thou hast tried us as silver is tried 11 Thou broughtest us into the net thou laidst affliction upon our loyns 12 Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads we went through fire and through water but thou broughtest us out into a †Heb. waist wealthy place 13 I will go into thy house with burnt-offerings I will pay thee my vows 14 Which my lips have †Heb. opened uttered and my mouth hath spoken when I was in trouble 15 I will offer unto thee burnt-sacrifices of †Heb. morrow fatlings with the incense of rams I will offer bullocks with goats Selah 16 Come and hear all ye that fear God and I will declare what he hath done for my soul 17 I cryed unto him with my mouth and he was extolled with my tongue 18 If I regard iniquity in my heart the Lord will not hear me 19 But verily God hath heard me he hath attended to the voice of my prayer 20 Blessed he God which hath not turned away my prayer nor his mercy from me PSAL. LXVII 1 A prayer for the enlargement of Gods kingdom 3 to the joy of the people 6 and the increase of Gods blessings ¶ To the chief musician on Neginoth A psalm or song GOd be merciful unto us and bless us and cause his face to shine †Heb. with us upon us Selah 2 That thy way may be known upon earth thy saving health among all nations 3 Let the people praise thee O God let all the people praise thee 4 O let the nations be glad and sing for joy for thou shalt judge the people righteously and †Heb. lead govern the nations upon earth Selah 5 Let the people praise thee O God let all the people praise thee 6 Then shall the earth yeeld her increase and God even our own God shall bless us 7 God shall bless us and all the ends of the earth shall fear him PSAL. LXVIII 1 A prayer at the removing of the ark 4 An exhortation to praise God for his mercies 7 for his care of the church 19 for his great works ¶ To the chief musician A psalm or song of David LEt * Numb 10.35 God arise let his enemies be scattered let them also that hate him flee †Heb. from his fait before him 2 As smoke is driven away so drive them away as wax melteth before the fire so let the wicked perish at the presence of God 3 But let the righteous be glad let them rejoyce before God yea let them †Heb. rejoyce with gladness exceedingly rejoyce 4 Sing unto God sing praises to his name extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH and rejoyce before him 5 A father of the fatherless and a judge of the widows is God in his holy habitation 6 God setteth the solitary †Heb. in a house in families he bringeth out those which are bound with chains but the rebellious dwell in a dry land 7 O God when thou wentest forth before thy people when thou didst march through the wilderness Selah 8 The earth shook the heavens also dropped at the presence of God even Sinai it self was moved at the presence of God the God of Israel 9 Thou O God didst †Heb. stake out send a plentiful rain whereby thou didst †Heb. confirm it confirm thine inheritance when it was weary 10 Thy congregation hath dwelt therein thou O God hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor 11 The Lord gave the word great was the †Heb. army company of those that published it 12 Kings of armies
4 for his greatness 8 for his kingdom 11 for his general judgement O * 1 Chron. 16.23 Sing unto the LORD a new song sing unto the LORD all the earth 2 Sing unto the LORD bless his name shew forth his salvation from day to day 3 Declare his glory among the heathen his wonders among all people 4 For the LORD is great and greatly to be praised he is to be feared above all gods 5 For all the gods of the nations are idols but the LORD made the heavens 6 Honour and majesty are before him strength and beauty are in his sanctuary 7 Give unto the LORD O ye kindreds of the people give unto the LORD glory and strength 8 Give unto the LORD the glory †Heb. of his name due unto his name bring an offering and come into his courts 9 O worship the LORD ‖ Or in the glorious sanctuary in the beauty of holiness fear before him all the earth 10 Say among the heathen that * Psal 93.1 and 97.1 the LORD reigneth the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved he shall judge the people righteously 11 Let the heavens rejoyce and let the earth be glad let the sea roar and the fulness thereof 12 Let the field be joyful and all that is therein then shall all the trees of the wood rejoyce 13 Before the LORD for he cometh for he cometh to judge the earth he shall judge the world with righteousness and the people with his truth PSAL. XCVII 1 The majesty of Gods kingdom 7 The church rejoyceth at Gods judgements upon idolateri 10 An exhortation to godliness and gladness THe LORD reigneth let the earth rejoyce let the †Heb. many or great isles multitude of isles be glad thereof 2 Clouds and darkness are round about him * Psal 89.14 righteousness and judgement are the ‖ Or establishment habitation of his throne 3 A fire goeth before him and burneth up his enemies round about 4 His lightnings enlightned the world the earth saw trembled 5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth 6 The heavens declare his righteousness and all the people see his glory 7 * Ex. 20.4 Levit. 26.1 Deut. 5.8 Confounded be all they that serve graven images that boast themselves of idols * Heb. 1.6 worship him all ye gods 8 Zion heard and was glad and the daughters of Judah rejoyced because of thy judgements O LORD 9 For thou LORD art high above all the earth thou art exalted far above all gods 10 Ye that love the LORD * Ps 34.14 Amos 5.15 Rom. 12.9 hate evil he preserveth the souls of his saints he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked 11 Light is sown for the righteous and gladness for the upright in heart 12 Rejoyce in the LORD ye righteous and give thanks ‖ Or to the memorial at the remembrance of his holiness PSAL. XCVIII 1 The psalmist exhorteth the Jews 4 the Gentiles 7 and all the creatures to praise God ¶ A psalm O Sing unto the LORD a new song for he hath done marvellous things his right hand and his holy arm hath gotten him the victory 2 * Isa 52.10 The LORD hath made known his salvation his righteousness hath he ‖ Or revealed openly shewed in the sight of the heathen 3 He hath remembred his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God 4 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD all the earth make a loud noise and rejoyce and ring praise 5 Sing unto the LORD with the harp with the harp and the voice of a psalm 6 With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD the King 7 Let the sea roar and the fulness thereof the world and they that dwell therein 8 Let the flouds clap their hands let the hills be joyful together 9 Before the LORD * Ps 96.13 for he cometh to judge the earth with righteousness shall he judge the world and the people with equity PSAL. XCIX 1 The prophet setting forth the kingdom of God in Zion 5 exhorteth all by the example of forefathers to worship God at his holy hill THe LORD reigneth let the people tremble he sitteth between the cherubims let the earth †Heb. stagger be moved 2 The LORD is great in Zion and he is high above all people 3 Let them praise thy great and terrible name for it is holy 4 The kings strength also loveth judgement thou dost establish equity thou executest judgement and righteousness in Jacob. 5 Exalt ye the LORD our God and worship at his footstool for ‖ Or it is holy he is holy 6 Moses and Aaron among his priests and Samuel among them that call upon his name they called upon the LORD he answered them 7 He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar they kept his testimomes and the ordinance that he gave them 8 Thou answeredst them O LORD our God thou wast a God that forgavest them though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions 9 Exalt the LORD our God and worship at his holy hill for the LORD our God is holy PSAL. C. 1 An exhortation to praise God cheerfully 3 for his greatness 4 and for his power ¶ A psalm of ‖ Or thankâ—giving praise MAke a joyful noise unto the LORD †Heb. all the earth all ye lands 2 Serve the LORD with gladness come before his presence with singing 3 Know ye that the LORD he is God it is he that hath made us ‖ Or and his we are and not we our selves we are his people the sheep of his pasture 4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise be thankful unto him and bless his name 5 Fort the LORD is good his mercy is everlasting and his truth endureth †Heb. to generation and generation to all generations PSAL. CI. David maketh a vow and profession of godliness ¶ A psalm of David I Will sing of mercy and judgement unto thee O LORD will I sing 2 I will behave my self wisely in a perfect way O when wilt thou come unto me I will walk within my house with a perfect heart 3 I will set no †Heb. thing of Belial wicked thing before mine eyes I hate the work of them that turn aside it shall not cleave to me 4 A froward heart shall depart from me I will not know a wicked person 5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour him will I cut off him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer 6 Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land that they may dwell with me he that walketh ‖ Or perfect in the way in a perfect way he shall serve me 7 He that worketh
4 How shall we sing the LORDs song in a †Heb. land of a stranger strange land 5 If I forget thee O Jerusalem let my right hand forget her cunning 6 If I do not remember thee set my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I prefer not Jerusalem above †Heb. the head of my Joy my chief joy 7 Remember O LORD * Obad. 10 c. the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem who said †Heb. make bare Rase it rase it even to the foundation thereof 8 O daughter of Babylon who art to be †Heb. wasted destroyed happy shall he be †Heb. that recompenseth unto thee thy deed which thou didst to us that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us 9 Happy shall he be that taketh and * Isa 13.16 dasheth thy little ones agains †Heb. the rock the stones PSAL. CXXXVIII 1 David praiseth God for the truth of his word 4 He propesieth that the kings of the earth shall praise God 7 He professeth his confidence in God ¶ A psalm of David I Will praise thee with my whose heart * Ps â—19 46 before the gods will I sing praise unto thee 2 I will worship towards thy holy temple and praise thy name for thy loving kindness and for thy truth for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name 3 In the day when I cried thou answeredst me and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul 4 All the kings of the earth shall praise thee O LORD when they hear the words of thy mouth 5 Yea they shall sing in the ways of the LORD for great is the glory of the LORD 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 shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies and thy right hand shall save me 8 The LORD will perfect that which concemeth me thy mercy O LORD endureth for ever forsake not the works of thine own hands PSAL. CXXXIX 1 David praiseth God for his all-seeing providence 17 and for his infinite mercies 19 He defieth the wicked 23 He prayeth for sincerity ¶ To the chief musician A psalm of David O LORD thou hast searched me and known me 2 Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising thou understandest my thought afar off 3 Thou ‖ Or winnoweâ—t compassest my path and my lying down and art acquinted with all my ways 4 For there is not a word in my tongue but so O LORD thou knowest it altogether 5 Thou hast beset me behinde and before laid thine hand upon me 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me it is high I cannot attain unto it 7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit or whither shall I flee from thy presence 8 * Amos 9.2 3 4. If I ascend up into heaven thou art there if I make my bed in hell behold thou art there 9 If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea 10 Even there shall thy hand lead me thy right hand shall hold me 11 It I say Surely the darkness shall cover me even the night shall be sight about me 12 Yea * Job 26.6 Heb. 4.13 the darkness †Heb. darkneth not hideth not from thee but the night shineth as the day †Heb. at is the darkness so is the light the darkness and the light are both alike to thee 13 For thou hast possessed my reins thou hast covered me in my mothers womb 14 I will praise thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made marvellous are thy works and that my soul knoweth †Heb. greatly right well 15 My ‖ Or strength or body substance was not hid from thee when I was made in secret and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth 16 Thine eyes did see my substance yet being unperfect and in thy book †Heb. all of them all my members were written ‖ Or what days they should be fashioned which in continuance were fashioned when as yet there was none of them 17 * Psa 40.5 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me O God how great is the sum of them 18 If I should count them they are mo in number then the sand when I wake I am still with thee 19 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked O God depart from me therefore ye bloudy men 20 For they speak against thee wickedly and thine enemies take thy name in vain 21 Do not I hate them O LORD that hate thee and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee 22 I hate them with perfect hatred I count them mine enemies 23 Search me O God and know my heart try me and know my thoughts 24 And see if there be any †Heb. way of pain or grief wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting PSAL. CXL 1 David prayeth to be delivered from Saul and Doeg 8 He prayeth against them 12 He comforteth himself by confidence in God ¶ To the chief musician A psalm of David DEliver me O LORD from the evil man preserve me from the †Heb. man of violence violent man 2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart continually are they gathered together for war 3 They have sharpned their tongues like a serpent * Psa 58.4 Rom. 3.13 adders poyson is under their lips Selah 4 Keep me O LORD from the hands of the wicked preserve me from the violent man who have purposed to overthrow my goings 5 The proud have hid a snare for me and cords they have spread a net by the way-side they have set grins for me Selah 6 I said unto the LORD Thou art my God hear the voice of my supplications O LORD 7 O GOD the Lord the strength of my salvation thou hast covered my head in the day of battel 8 Grant not O LORD the desires of the wicked further not his wicked device ‖ Or let them not be exalted left they exalt themselves Seiah 9 As for the head of those that compass me about let the mischief of their own lips cover them 10 Let burning coals fall upon them let them be cast into the fire into deep pits that they rise not up again 11 Let not †Heb. a man of tongue ‖ Or an evil speaker a wicked man of violence be established in the earth let him be hunted to his oâ—â—r-throw an evil speaker be established in the earth evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrew him 12 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted and the right of the poor 13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name the upright shall dwell in thy presence PSAL. CXLI 1 David prayeth that his suit may be acceptable 3 his conscience
temple 3 In his days the * 1 King 7.23 cistern to receive water being in compass as the sea was covered with plates of brass 4 He took care of the temple that it should not fall and fortified the city against besieging 5 How was he honoured in the midst of the people in his coming out of †Gr. the house of the â—â—il the sanctuary 6 He was as the morning star in the midst of a cloud and as the moon at the full 7 As the sun shining upon the temple of the most High and as the rainbowe giving light in the bright clouds 8 And as the flower of roses in the spring of the year as lilies by the rivers of waters and as the branches of the frankincense tree in the time of summer 9 As fire and incense in the censer and as a vessel of beaten gold set with all manner of precious stones 10 And as a fair olive-tree budding forth fruit and as a cypress tree which groweth up to the clouds 11 When he put on the robe of honour and was clothed with the perfection of glory when he went up to the holy altar he made the garment of holiness honourable 12 When he took the portions out of the priests hands he himself stood by the hearth of the altar compassed with his brethren round about as a young cedar in Libanus and as palm-trees compassed they him round about 13 So were all the sons of Aaron in their glory and the oblations of the Lord in their hands before all the congregation of Israel 14 And finishing the service at the altar that he might adorn the offering of the most high Almighty 15 He stretched out his hand to the cup and poured of the bloud of the grape he poured out at the foot of the altar a sweet-smelling savour unto the most high King of all 16 Then shouted the sons of Aaron and sounded the ‖ Or trumpets beacon forth with the 〈◊〉 silver trumpets and made a great noise to be heard for a remembrance before the most High 17 Then all the people together hasted and fell down to the earth upon their faces to worship their Lord God almighty the most High 18 The singers also sang praises with their voices with great variety of sounds was there made sweet melody 19 And the people besought the Lord the most High by prayer before him that is merciful till the solemnity of the Lord was ended and they had finished his service 20 Then he went down and lifted up his hands over the whose congregation of the children of Israel to give the blessing of the Lord with his lips and to rejoyce in his name 21 And they bowed themselves down to worship the second time that they might receive a blessing from the most High 22 Now therefore bless ye the God of all which onely doth wondrous things every where which exalteth our days from the womb and dealeth with us according to his mercy 23 He grant us joyfulness of heart and that peace may be in our days in Israel for ever 24 That he would confirm his mercy with us and deliver us at his time 25 There be two manner of nations which my heart abhorreth and the third is no nation 26 They that sit upon the mountain of Samaria and they that dwell amongst the Philistines and that foolish people that dwell in Sichem 27 Jesus the son of Sirach of Jerusalem hath written in this book the instruction of understanding and knowledge who out of his heart poured forth wisdom 28 Blessed is he that shall be exercised in these things and he that sayeth them up in his heart shall become wise 20 For if he do them he shall be strong to all things for the light of the Lord leadeth him who giveth wisdom to the godly Blesses be the Lord forever Amen amen CHAP. LI. ¶ A prayer of Jesus the son of Sirach I Will thank thee O Lord and King and praise thee O God my Saviour I do give praise unto thy name 2 For thou art my defender and helper and hast preserved my body from destruction and from the snare of the slandrous tongue and from the lips that forge lies and hast been mine helper against mine adversaries 3 And hast delivered me according to the multitude of thy mercies and greatness of thy name from †Gr. the gnashing of the teeth the teeth of them that were ready to devour me and out of the hands of such as sought after my life and from the manifold afflictions which I had 4 From the choking of fire on every side and from the mids of the fire which I kindled not 5 From the depth of the besly of hell from an unclean tongue and from sying words 6 By an accusation to the king from an unrighteous tongue my soul drew near even unto death my life was near to the hell beneath 7 They compassed me on every side and there was no man to help me I looked for the succour of men but there was none 8 Then thought I upon thy mercy O Lord and upon thy acts of old how thou deliverest such as wait for thee and savest them out of the hands of the enemies 9 Then lifted I up my supplication from the earth and prayed for deliverance from death 10 I called upon the Lord the Father of my Lord that he would not leave me in the days of my trouble and in the time of the proud when there was no help 11 I will praise thy name continually and will sing praise with thanksgiving and so my prayer was heard 12 For thou savedst me from destruction and deliveredst me from the evil time therefore will I give thanks and praise thee and bless thy name O Lord. 13 When I was yet young or ever I ‖ Or went astray went abroad I desired wisdom openly in my prayer 14 I prayed for her before the temple and will seek here out even to the end 15 Even from the flower till the grape was ripe hath my heart delighted in her my foot went the right way from my youth up sought I after her 16 I howed down mine ear a little and received her and gat much learning 17 I profited therein therefore will I ascribe the glory unto him that giveth me wisdom 18 For I purposed to do after her and earnestly I followed that which is good so shall I not be confounded 19 My soul hath wrestled with her and in my doings I was exact I stretched forth my hands to the heaven above and bewailed my ignorances of her 20 ‖ Or I got understanding I directed my soul unto her and I found her in pureness I have had my heart joyned with her from the beginning therefore shall I not be forsaken 21 My ‖ Or bowâ—lâ— heart was troubled in seeking her therefore have I gotten a good possession 22 The Lord hath given me a tongue for my reward and I will
king in raiment of needle-work the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee 15 With gladness and rejoycing shall they be brought they shall enter into the kings palace 16 In stead of thy fathers shall be thy children whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth 17 I will make thy name to be remembred in all generations therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever PSAL. XLVI 1 The confidence which the church hath in God 8 An exhortation to behold it ¶ To the chief musician ‖ Or of for the sons of Korah A song upon Alamoth GOd is our refuge and strength a very present help in trouble 2 Therefore will not we fear though the earth be removed and though the mountains be carried into †Heb. the heart of the sâ—as the midst of the sea 3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof Selah 4 There is a river the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High 5 God is in the midst of â—er she shall not be mâ—ved God shall heâ—p her †Heb. when the morning appeareth and that early 6 The heathen raged the kingdoms were moved he uttered his voice the earth melted 7 The LORD of hosts is with us the God of Jacob is †Heb. an high place for us our refuge Selah 8 Come behold the works of the LORD what desolations he hath made in the earth 9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth he breaketh the howe and cutteth the spear in sunder he burneth the chariot in the fire 10 Be still and know that I am God I will be exalted among the heathen I will be exalted in the earth 11 The LORD of hosts is with us the God of Jacob is our refuge Selah PSAL. XLVII 1 The nations are exhorted chearfully to entertain the kingdom of Christ ¶ To the chief musician A psalm ‖ Or of for the sons of Korah O Clap your hands all ye people shout 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 shall subdue the people under us and the nations under our feet 4 He shall choose our inheritance for us the excellency of Jacob whom he loved Selah 5 God is gone up with a shout the LORD with the sound of a trumpet 6 Sing praises to God sing praises sing praises unto our King sing praises 7 For God is the King of all the earth sing ye praises ‖ Or every one that hath understanding with understanding 8 God reigneth over the heathen God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness 9 ‖ Or the voluntary of the people are gathered unto the people of the God of Abraham The princes of the people are gathered together even the people of the God of Abraham for the shields of the earth belong unto God he is greatly exalted PSAL. XLVIII The ornaments and priviledges of the church ¶ A long and psalm ‖ Or of for the sons of Korah GReat is the LORD and greatly to be praised in the city of our God in the mountain of his holiness 2 Beautiful for situation the joy of the whole earth is mount Zion on the sides of the north the city of the great king 3 God is known in her palaces for a refuge 4 For lo the kings were assembled they passed by together 5 They saw it and so they marvelled they were troubled and hasted away 6 Fear took hold upon them there and pain as of a woman in travail 7 Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind 8 As we have heard so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts in the city of our God God will establish it for ever Selah 9 We have thought of thy loving kindness O God in the midst of thy temple 10 According to thy name O God so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth thy right hand is full of righteousness 11 Let mount Zion rejoyce let the daughters of Judah be glad because of thy judgements 12 Walk about Zion and go round about her tell the towers thereof 13 †Heb. set your heart to her bulwarks Mark ye well her bulwarks ‖ Or raise up consider her palaces that ye may tell it to the generation following 14 For this God is our God for ever and ever he will be our guide even unto death PSAL. XLIX 1 An earnest perswasion to build the faith of resurrection not on worldly power but on God 16 Worldly prosperity is not to be admired ¶ To the chief musician A psalm ‖ Or of for the sons of Korah HEar this all ye people give ear all ye inhabitants of the world 2 Both low and high rich and poor together 3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding 4 * Ps â—8 2 Mat. 13.35 I will incline mine ear to a parable I will open my dark saying upon the harp 5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about 6 They that trust in their wealth and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches 7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother nor give to God a ransom for him 8 For the redemption of their soul is precious and it ceaseth for ever 9 That he should still live for ever end not see corruption 10 For he seeth that wise men die likewise the fool and the brutish person perish and leave their wealth to others 11 Their inward thought is that their houses shall continue for ever and their dwelling places †Heb. to generation and generation to all generations they call their lands after their own names 12 Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not he is like the beasts that perish 13 This their way is their folly yet their posterity †Heb. delight in their mouth approve their sayings Selah 14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave death shall seed on them and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning and their ‖ Or strength beauty shall consume ‖ Or the grave being an habitation to every one of them in the grave from their dwelling 15 But God will redeem my soul †Heb. from the hand of the grave from the power of ‖ Or hell the grave for he shall receive me Selah 16 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich when the glory of his house is increased 17 * Job 27.19 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away his glory shall not descend after him 18 Though †Heb. in his life whiles he lived he blessed his soul and men will praise thee when thou doest well to thy self 19
poor and sorrowful let thy salvation O God set me up on high 30 I will praise the name of God with a song and will magnifie him with thanksgiving 31 This also shall please the LORD better then an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs 32 The ‖ Or meek humble shall see this and be glad and your heart shall live that seek God 33 For the LORD heareth the poor and despiseth not his prisoners 34 Let the heaven and earth praise him the seas and every thing that †Heb. creepeth moveth therein 35 For God will save Sion and will build the cities of Judah that they may dwell there and have it in possession 36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it and they that love his name shall dwell therein PSAL. LXX David soliciteth God to the speedy destruction of the wicked and preservation of the godly ¶ To the chief musician A psalm of David to bring to remembrance MAke haste * Ps 40.13 c. O God to deliver me make haste †Heb. to my help to help me O LORD 2 * Ps 35.4.71.13 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul let them be turned backward and put to confusion that desire my hurt 3 Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say Aha aha 4 Let all those that seek thee rejoyce and be glad in thee and let such as love thy salvation say continually Let God be magnified 5 But I am poor and needy make haste unto me O God thou art my help and my deliverer O LORD make no tarrying PSAL. LXXI 1 David in confidence of faith and experience of Gods favour prayeth both for himself and against the enemies of his soul 14 He promiseth constancy 17 He prayeth for perseverance 19 He praiseth God and promiseth to do it chearfully IN * Psal 31.1 thee O LORD do I put my trust let me never be put to confusion 2 Deliver me in thy righteousness and cause me to escape incline thine ear unto me and save me 3 †Heb. â—e thou to me for a â—â—ck of habitation Be thou my strong habitation whereunto I may continually resort thou hast given commandment to save me for thou art my rock and my fortress 4 Deliver me O my God out of the hand of the wicked out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man 5 For thou art my hope O Lord GOD thou art my trust from my youth 6 By thee have I been holden up from the womb thou art he that took me out of my mothers bowels my praise shall be continually of thee 7 I am as a wonder unto many but thou art my strong refuge 8 Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day 9 Cast me not off in the time of old age forsake me not when my strength faileth 10 For mine enemies speak against me and they that †Heb. watch or observe lay wait for my soul take counsel together 11 Saying God hath forsaken him persecute and take him for there is none to deliver him 12 O God be not far from me O my God make haste for my help 13 Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt 14 But I will hope continually and will yet praise thee more and more 15 My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day for I know not the numbers thereof 16 I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD I will make mention of thy righteousness even of thine onely 17 O God thou hast taught me from my youth and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works 18 Now also †Heb. unto old aâ—e and trar hairs when I am old and gray-headed O God forsake me not until I have shewed †Heb. thine arm thy strength unto this generation and thy power to every one that is to come 19 Thy righteousness also O God is very high who hast done great things O God who is like unto thee 20 Thou which hast shewed me great and sore troubles shalt quicken me again and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth 21 Thou shalt increase my greatness and comfort me on every side 22 I will also praise thee †Heb. with the instrument of psaltery with the psaltery even thy truth O my God unto thee will I sing with the harp O thou holy One of Israel 23 My lips shall greatly rejoyce when I sing unto thee and my soul which thou hast redeemed 24 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long for they are confounded for they are brought unto shame that seek my hurt PSAL. LXXII 1 David praying for Solomon sheweth the goodness and glory of his in type and in truth of Christs kingdom 18 He blesseth God ¶ A psalm ‖ Or of for Solomon GIve the king thy judgements O God and thy righteousness unto the kings son 2 He shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgement 3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people and the little hills by righteousness 4 He shall judge the poor of the people he shall save the children of the needy and shall break in pieces the oppressour 5 They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure throughout all generations 6 He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass as showres that water the earth 7 In his days shall the righteous flourish and abundance of peace †Heb. if I there 〈◊〉 no moon so long as the moon endureth 8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea and from the river unto the ends of the earth 9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall how before him and his enemies shall lick the dust 10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts 11 Yea all kings shall fall down before him all nations shall serve him 12 For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth the poor also and him that hath no helper 13 He shall spare the poor needy shall save the souls of the needy 14 He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence and precious shall their bloud be in his sight 15 And he shall live and to him †Heb. one shall give shall be given of the gold of Sheba prayer also shall be made for him continually and daily shall he be praised 16 There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains the fruit thereof shall 〈◊〉 like Lebanon and they of the city shall 〈…〉 grass of the earth 17 His name †Heb. shall 〈◊〉 shall endure for ever †Heb. shall be as a son to continuâ— his fathâ—â—s name 〈…〉 his name shall be continued
that they may not pass over that they turn not again to cover the earth 10 †Heb. who sendeth He sendeth the springs into the valleys which †Heb. walk run among the hills 11 They give drink to every beast of the field the wilde asses †Heb. break quench their thirst 12 By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation which †Heb. give a voice sing among the branches 13 He watereth the hills from his chambers the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works 14 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattel and herb for the service of man that he may bring forth food out of the earth 15 And * Judg. 9. â—3 wine that maketh glad the heart of man and †Heb. to make his face shine with oyl or more then oyl oyl to make his face to shine and bread which strengthneth mans heart 16 The trees of the LORD are full of sap the cedars of Lebanon which he hath planted 17 Where the birds make their nests as for the stork the fir-trees are her house 18 The high hills are a refuge for the wilde goats and the rocks for the coneys 19 He appointeth the moon for seasons the sun knoweth his going down 20 Thou makest darkness and it is night wherein †Heb. all the beasts thereof do trample on the forest all the beasts of the forest do creep forth 21 The young lions roar after their prey and seek their meat from God 22 The sun ariseth they gather themselves together and lay them down in their dens 23 Man goeth forth to his work and to his labour until the evening 24 O LORD how manifold are thy works in wisdom hast thou made them all the earth is full of thy riches 25 So is this great and wide sea wherein are things creeping innumerable both small and great beasts 26 There go the ships there is that leviathan whom thou hast †Heb. formed made to play therein 27 * Psal 145. â—â— These wait all upon thee that thou mayest give them their meat in due season 28 That thou givest them they gather thou openest thine hand they are filled with good 29 Thou hidest thy face they are troubled thou takest away their breath they die and return to their dust 30 Thou sendest forth thy spirit they are created and thou renewest the face of the earth 31 The glory of the LORD †Heb. shall be shall endure for ever the LORD shall rejoyce in his works 32 He looketh on the earth and it trembleth he toucheth the hills and they smoke 33 I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live I will sing praise unto my God while I have my being 34 My meditation of him shall be sweet I will be glad in the LORD 35 Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth and let the wicked be no more bless thou the LORD O my soul Praise ye the LORD PSAL. CV 1 An exhortation to praise God and to seek out his works 7 The story of Gods providence over Abraham 16 over Joseph 23 over Jacob in Egypt 26 over Moses delivering the Israelites 37 over the Israelites brought out of Egypt fed in the wilderness and planted in Canaan O * 1 Chron. 16.8 Isa 12.4 Give thanks unto the LORD call upon his name make known his deeds among the people 2 Sing unto him sing psalms unto him talk ye of all his wondrous works 3 Glory ye in his holy name let the heart of them rejoyce that seek the LORD 4 Sâ—ek the LORD and his strength seek his face evermore 5 Remember his marvellous works that he hath done his wonders and the judgements of his mouth 6 O ye seed of Abraham his servant ye children of Jacob his chosen 7 He is the LORD our God his judgements are in all the earth 8 He hath remembred his covenant for ever the word which he commanded to a thousand generations 9 * Gen. 17.2 22.16 c. and 26.3 28.13 35.11 Luke 1.73 Hebr. 6.17 Which covenant he made with Abraham his oath unto Isaac 10 And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law and to Israel for an everlasting covenant 11 Saying * Gen. 13.15 and 15.18 Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan †Heb. the cord the lot of your inheritance 12 When they were but a few men in number yea very few and strangers in it 13 When they went from one nation to another from one kingdom to another people 14 He suffered no man to do them wrong yea he reproved kings for their sakes 15 Saying Touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm 16 Moreover he called for a famine upon the land he brake the whole staff of bread 17 He sent a man before them * Gen. 37.28 even Joseph who was sold for a servant 18 * Gen. 39.20 Whose feet they hurt with fetters †Heb. his soul came into iron he was laid in iron 19 Until the time that his word came the word of the LORD tried him 20 * Gen. 41 14. The king sent and loosed him even the ruler of the people and let him go free 21 * Gen. 41.40 He made him lord of his house ruler of all his †Heb. possession substance 22 To binde his princes at his pleasure and teach his senatours wisdom 23 * Gen. 46.6 Israel also came into Egypt and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. 24 And he increased his people greatly and made them stronger then their enemies 25 * Exod. 1.8 c. He turned their heart to hate his people to deal subtilly with his servants 26 * Exod. 3.10 He sent Moses his servant and Aaron whom he had chosen 27 * Exod. 7.9 They shewed †Heb. words of his signs his signs among them and wonders in the land of Ham. 28 * Exod. 10 22. He sent darkness and made it dark and they rebelled not against his word 29 * Exod. 7.20 He turned their waters into bloud and slew their fish 30 * Exod. 8.6 Their land brought forth frogs in abundance in the chambers of their kings 31 * Exod. 8.17 24. He spake and there came divers sorts of flies and lice in all their ceasts 32 * Exod. 9 23. †Heb. he gave their rain hail He gave them hail for rain and flaming fire in their land 33 He smote their vines also and their fig-trees and brake the trees of their coasts 34 * Ex. 10.4 He spake and the locusts came and caterpillers and that without number 35 And did eat up all the herbs in their land and devoured the fruit of their ground 36 * Ex. 12.29 He smote also all the first-born in their land the chief of all their strength 37 * Ex. 12.35 He brought them forth also with silver and gold
11 for his kingdom 14 for his providence 17 for his saving mercy ¶ Davids psalm of praise I Will extol thee my God O King and I will bless thy name for ever and ever 2 Every day will I bless thee and I will praise thy name for ever and ever 3 Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised †Heb. and of his greatness there is no searth and his greatness is unsearchable 4 One generation shall praise thy works to another and shall declare thy mighty acts 5 I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty and of thy wondrous †Heb. thines or words works 6 And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts and I will †Heb. declare 〈◊〉 declare thy greatness 7 They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness and shall sing of thy righteousness 8 * Exod. 34.6 7. Nu. 14.18 Psal 86.5 15. and 102.8 The LORD is gracious and full of compassion slow to anger and †Heb. great in mercy of great mercy 9 The LORD is good to all and his tender mercies are over all his works 10 All thy works shall praise thee O LORD and thy saints shall bless thee 11 They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom and talk of thy power 12 To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts and the glorious majesty of his kingdom 13 Thy kingdom is †Heb. a kingdom of all ages an everlasting kingdom and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations 14 The LORD upholdeth all that fall and raiseth up all those that be bowed down 15 The eyes of all ‖ Or look unto thee wait upon thee and thou-givest them their meat in due season 16 Thou openest thine hand and satisfiest the desire of every living thing 17 The LORD is righteous in all his ways and ‖ Or merciful or bâ—â—â—tiful holy in all his works 18 The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him to all that call upon him in truth 19 He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him he also will hear their cry and will save them 20 The LORD preserveth all them that love him but all the wicked will he destroy 21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever PSAL. CXLVI 1 The psalmist voweth perpetual praises to God 3 He exborteth not to trust in man 5 God for his power justice mercy and kingdom is onely worthy to be trusted †Heb. Hal e lessujah PRaise ye the LORD Praise the LORD O my soul 2 While I live will I praise the LORD I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being 3 * Psal 118.8 9. Put not your trust in princes nor in the son of man in whom there is no ‖ Or salvation help 4 His breath goeth forth he returneth to his earth in that very day his thoughts perish 5 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help whose hope is in the LORD his God 6 Which made heaven and earth the sea and all that therein is which keepeth truth for ever 7 Which executeth judgement for the oppressed which giveth food to the hungry the LORD looseth the prisoners 8 The LORD openeth the eyes of the blinde the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down the LORD loveth the righteous 9 The LORD preserveth the strangers he relieveth the fatherless and widow but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down 10 * Exod. 15.18 The LORD shall reign for ever even thy God O Zion unto all generations Praise ye the LORD PSAL. CXLVII 1 The prophet exhorteth to praise God for his care of the church 4 his power 6 and his mercy 7 to praise him for his providence 12 to praise him for his blessings upon the kingdom 15 for his power over the meteors 19 and for his ordinances in the church PRaise ye the LORD for it is good to sing praises unto our God for it is pleasant and praise is comely 2 The LORD doth build up Jerusalem he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel 3 He healeth the broken in heart and bindeth up their †Heb. griefs wounds 4 He telleth the number of the stars he calleth them all by their names 5 Great is our Lord and of great power †Heb. of his understanding there is no number his understanding is infinite 6 The LORD listeth up the meek he casteth the wicked down to the ground 7 Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving sing praise upon the harp unto our God 8 Who covereth the heaven with clouds who prepareth rain for the earth who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains 9 * Job 38.41 Psal 104.27 28. He giveth to the beast his food and to the young ravens which cry 10 He delighteth not in the strength of the horse he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man 11 The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him in those that hope in his mercy 12 Praise the LORD O Jerusalem praise thy God O Zion 13 For he hath strengthned the bars of thy gates he hath blessed thy children within thee 14 †Heb. who maketh thy border peace He maketh peace in thy borders and filleth thee with the †Heb. fat of wheat finest of the wheat 15 He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth his word runneth very swiftly 16 He giveth snow like wool he scattereth the hoar frost like ashes 17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels who can stand before his cold 18 He sendeth out his word and melteth them he causeth his wind to blow and the waters flow 19 He sheweth †Heb. his words his word unto Jacob his statutes and his judgements unto Israel 20 He hath not dealt so with any nation and as for his judgements they have not known them Praise ye the LORD PSAL. CXLVIII 1 The psalmist exhorteth the celestial 7 the terrestrial 11 and the rational creatures to praise God †Heb. Hallelujah PRaise ye the LORD Praise ye the LORD from the heavens praise him in the heights 2 Praise ye him all his angels praise ye him all his hosts 3 Praise ye him sun and moon praise him all ye stars of light 4 Praise him ye heavens of heavens and ye waters that be above the heavens 5 Let them praise the name of the LORD for he commanded and they were created 6 He hath also stablished them for ever and ever he hath made a decree which shall not pass 7 Praise the LORD from the earth ye dragons and all deeps 8 Fire and hail snow and vapour stormy wind fulfilling his word 9 Mountains and all hills fruitful trees and all cedars 10 Beasts and all cattel creeping things and †Heb. birds of wing flying fowl 11 Kings of the earth and all people princes and all judges of the earth 12 Both young
and they shall †Heb. utter lift up a shout against thee 15 * Gen. 1.1 6. Chap. 10.12 c. He hath made the earth by his power he hath established the world by his wisdom and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding 16 When he uttereth his voice there is a ‖ Or noise multitude of waters in the heavens and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth he maketh lightnings with rain and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures 17 * Chap. 10.14 Every man ‖ Or is more brutish then to know is brutish by his knowledge every founder is confounded by the graven image for his molten image is falshood and there is no breath in them 18 They are vanity the work of errours in the time of their visitation they shall perish 19 * Ch. 10.16 The portion of Jacob is not like them for he is the former of all things and Israel is the rod of his inheritance the LORD of hosts is his name 20 Thou art my battel-ax and weapons of war for ‖ Or in thee◠or by thee with thee will I break in pieces the nations and with thee will I destroy kingdoms 21 And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider 22 With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman and with thee will I break in pieces old and young and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid 23 I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers 24 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Caldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight saith the LORD 25 Behold I am against thee O destroying mountain saith the LORD which destroyest all the earth and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee and roll thee down from the rocks and will make thee a burnt mountain 26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner nor a stone for foundations but thou shalt be †Heb. everlasting desolations desolate for ever saith the LORD 27 Set ye up a standard in the land blow the trumpet among the nations prepare the nations against her call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat Minni and Ashchenaz appoint a captain against her cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers 28 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes the captains thereof and all the rulers thereof and all the land of his dominion 29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant 30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight they have remained in their holds their might hath sailed they became as women they have burnt her dwelling-places her bars are broken 31 One post shall run to meet another and one messenger to meet another to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end 32 And that the passages are stopped and the reeds they have burnt with fire and the men of war are affrighted 33 For thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor ‖ Or in the time that be thresheth her it is time to thresh her yet a little while and the time of her harvest shall come 34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me he hath crushed me he hath made me an empty vessel he hath swallowed me up like a dragon he hath filled his belly with my delicates he hath cast me out 35 †Heb. my violence The violence done to me and to my ‖ Or remainde◠flesh be upon Babylon shall the †Heb inhabitrest inhabitant of Zion say and my bloud upon the inhabitants of Caldea shall Jerusalem say 36 Therefore thus saith the LORD Behold I will plead thy cause and take vengeance for thee and I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry 37 And Babylon shall become heaps a dwelling-place for dragons an astonishment and an hissing without an inhabitant 38 They shall roar together like lions they shall ‖ Or shake themselves yell as lions whelps 39 In their heat I will make their feasts and I will make them drunken that they may rejoyce and sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake saith the LORD 40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter like rams with he goats 41 How is Sheshach taken and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations 42 The sea is come up upon Babylon she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof 43 Her cities are a desolation a dry land and a wilderness a land wherein no man dwelleth neither doth any son of man pass thereby 44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him yea the wall of Babylon shall fall 45 My people go ye out of the midst of her and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger or the LORD 46 And lest your heart faint and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land a rumour shall both come one year and after that in another year shall come a rumour and violence in the land ruler against ruler 47 Therefore behold the days come that I will †Heb. visit upon do judgement upon the graven images of Babylon and her whole land shall be confounded and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her 48 Then the heaven and the earth and all that is therein shall sing for Babylon for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north saith the LORD 49 ‖ Or both Babylon is to fall O ye slain of Israd and with Babylon c As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all ‖ Or the countrey the earth 50 Ye that have escaped the sword go away stand not still remember the LORD afar off and let Jerusalem come into your minde 52 We are confounded because we have heard reproach shame hath covered our faces for strangers are come into the santuaries of the LORDS house 52 Wherefore behold the days come saith the LORD that I will do judgement upon her graven images and through all her land the wounded shall groan 53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven and though she should fortifie the height of her strength yet from me shall spoilers come unto
by their cities are destroyed so that there is no man that there is none inhabitant 7 I said Surely thou wilt fear me thou wilt receive instruction so their dwelling should not be cut off howsoever I punished them but they rose early and corrupted all their doings 8 ¶ Therefore wait ye upon me saith the LORD until the day that I rise up to the prey for my determination is to gather the nations that I may assemble the kingdoms to pour upon them mine indignation even all my fierce anger for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my * Ch. 1.18 jealousy 9 For then will I turn to the people a pure †Heb. lip language that they may all call upon the name of the LORD to serve him with one †Heb. shoulder consent 10 From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants even the daughter of my dispersed shall bring mine offering 11 In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings wherein thou haâ—t transgressed against me for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoyce in thy pride and thou shalt no more be haughty †Heb. iâ— my holy because of my holy mountain 12 I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people and they shall trust in the name of the LORD 13 The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity nor speak lies neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth for they shall feed and lie down and none shall make them afraid 14 ¶ Sing O * Isa 12.6 54.1 daughter of Zion shout O Israel be glad and rejoyce with all the heart O daughter of Jerusalem 15 The LORD hath taken away thy judgements he hath cast out thine enemy the King of Israel even the LORD is in the midst of thee thou shalt not see evil any more 16 In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem Fear thou not and to Zion Let not thine hands be ‖ Or faint slack 17 The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty he will save he will rejoyce over thee with joy †Heb. he will be silent he will rest in his love he will joy over thee with singing 18 I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly who are of thee to whom †Heb. the burden upon it was reproach the reproach of it was a burden 19 Behold at that time I will undo all that afflict thee and I will save her that * Mic. 4.7 halteth and gather her that was driven out and †Heb. I will set them for a praise I will get them praise and fame in every land †Heb. of their shame where they have been put to shame 20 At that time will I bring you again even in the time that I gather you for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth when I turn back your captivity before your eyes saith the LORD ¶ HAGGAI CHAP. I. 1 Haggai reproveth the people for neglecting the building of the house 7 He intiteth them to the building 12 He promiseth Gods assistance to them being forward IN the second year of Darius the king in the sixth moneth in the first day of the moneth came the word of the LORD †Heb. by the hand of Haggai by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel ‖ Or captain governour or Judah and to Joshua the son of Josedech the high priest saying 2 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts saying This people say The time is not come the time that the LORDs house should be built 3 Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet saying 4 Is it time for you O ye to dwell in your cieled houses and this house lie waste 5 Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts †Heb. Set your heart on your ways Consider your ways 6 Ye have * Deu. 28.38 Mic. 6.14 15. sown much and bring in little ye eat but ye have not enough ye drink but ye are not filled with drink ye clothe you but there is none warm and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag †Heb. pierced through with holes 7 ¶ Thus saith the LORD of hosts Consider your ways 8 Go up to the mountain and bring wood and build the house and I will take pleasure in it and I will be glorified saith the LORD 9 Ye looked for much and lo it came to little and when ye brought it home I did ‖ Or blow it away blow upon it why saith the LORD of hosts Because of mine house that is waste and ye run every man unto his own house 10 Therefore * Deu. 28.23 the heaven over you is stayed from dew and the earth is stayed from her fruit 11 And I called for a drought upon the land and upon the mountains and upon the corn and upon the new wine and upon the oyl and upon that which the ground bringeth forth and upon men and upon cattel and upon all the labour of the hands 12 ¶ Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Joshua the son of Josedech the high priest with all the remnant of the people obeyed the voice of the LORD their God and the words of Haggai the prophet as the LORD their God had sent him and the people did fear before the LORD 13 Then spake Haggai the LORDs messenger in the LORDs message unto the people saying I am with you saith the LORD 14 And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel governour of Judah and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech the high priest and the spirit of all the remnant of the people and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts their God 15 In the four and twentieth day of the sixth moneth in the second year of Darius the king CHAP. II. 1 He encourageth the people to the work by promise of greater glory to the second temple then was in the first 10 In the type of holy things and unclean be sheweth their sins hindred the work 20 Gods promise to Zerubbabel IN the seventh moneth in the one and twentieth day of the moneth came the word of the LORD †Heb. by the hand of by the prophet Haggai saying 2 Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel governour of Judah and to Joshua the son of Josedech the high priest and to the residue of the people saying 3 Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory and how do ye see it now is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing 4 Yet now be strong O Zerubbabel saith the LORD and be strong O Joshua son of Josedech the high priest and be strong all ye people of the land saith the LORD and work for I am
cursed and her reproach shall not be blotted out 27 And they that remain shall know that there is nothing better then the fear of the Lord and that there is nothing sweeter then to take heed unto the commandments of the Lord. 28 It is great glory to follow the Lord and to be received of him is long life CHAP. XXIV 2 Wisdom doth praise her self sheweth her beginning 4 her dwelling 13 her glory 1â— her fruit 26 ber increase and perfection The praise of wisdom Wisdom shall praise her self and shall glory in the midst of her people 2 In the congregation of the most High shall she open her mouth and triumph before his power 3 I came out of the mouth of the most High and covered the earth as ‖ Or a mist a cloud 4 * Job 22.14 I dwelt in high places and my throne is in a cloudy pillar 5 I alone compassed the circuit of heaven and walked in the bottom of the deep 6 In the waves of the sea and in all the earth and in every people and nation I got a possession 7 With all these I sought rest in whose inheritance shall I abide 8 So the Creatour of all things gave me a commandment and he that made me caused my tabernacle to rest and said Let thy dwelling be in Jacob and thine inheritance in Israel 9 He * Prov. 8.22 created me from the beginning before the world and I shall never fail 10 In the * Exod. 21.3 holy tabernacle I served before him and so was I established in Sion 11 * Ps 132.8 Likewise in the ‖ Or holy beloved city he gave me rest and in Jerusalem was my power 12 And I took root in an honourable people even in the portion of the Lords inheritance 13 I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus and as a cypress-tree upon the mountains of Hermon 14 I was exalted like a palm-tree in ‖ Or Caâ—es Engaddi and as a rose-plant in Jericho as a fair olive tree in a pleasant field and grew up as a plant-tree ‖ Or in the water by the water 15 I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon and aspalathus and I yeelded a pleasant odour like the best myrrh as galbanum and onyx and sweet storax and as the fume of frankincense in the * Exod. 30.34 tabernacle 16 As the turpentine-tree I stretched out my branches and my branches are the branches of honour and grace 17 * Joh. 15.1 As the vine brought I forth pleasant savour and my flowers are the fruit of honour and riches 18 I am the mother of fair love and fear and knowledge and holy hope I therefore being eternal am given to all my children which are ‖ Or chosen named of him 19 Come unto me all ye that be desirous of me and fill your selves with my fruits 20 For my memorial is * Psal 19.10 11. sweeter then hony and mine inheritance then the hony-comb 21 They that eat me shall yet be hungry and they that drink me shall yet be thirsty 22 He that obeyeth me shall never be confounded and they that work by me shall not do amiss 23 All these things are the book of the covenant of the most High God even the * Ex. 20.1 24.3 Deut. 4.1 29.1 law which Moses commanded for an heritage unto the congregation of Jacob. 24 Faint not to be strong in the Lord that he may confirm you cleave unto him for the Lord Almighty is God alone and besides him there is no other Saviour 25 He filleth all things with his wisdom as * Gen. 2. â—1 Phison and as Tigris in the time of the new fruits 26 He maketh the understanding to abound like Euphrates and as * Josh 3.15 Jordan in the time of the harvest 27 He maketh the doctrine of knowledge appear as the light and as Geon in the time of vintage 28 The first man knew her not perfectly no more shall the last finde her out 29 For her thoughts are more then the sea and her counsels profounder then the great deep 30 I also came out as a ‖ Or drain or ditch brook from a river and as a conduit into a garden 31 I said I will water my best garden and will water abundantly my garden-bed and lo my brook became a river and my river became a sea 32 I will yet make doctrine to shine as the morning and will send forth her light afar off 33 I will yet pour out doctrine as prophesie and leave it to all ages for ever 34 * Chap. 33.17 Behold that I have not laboured for my self onely but for all them that seek wisdom CHAP. XXV 1 What things are beautiful and what hateful 6 What is the crown of age 7 What things make men happy 13 Nothing worse then a wicked woman IN three things I ‖ Or gloried was beautified and stood up beautiful both before God and men the * Gen. 13.8 Rom. 12. â—0 unity of brethren the love of neighbours a man and a wife that agree together 2 Three sorts of men my soul hateth and I am greatly offended at their life a poor man that is proud a rich man that is a liar and an old adulterer that doteth 3 If thou hast gathered nothing in thy youth how canst thou finde any thing in thine age 4 Oh how comely a thing is judgement for gray hairs and for ancient men to know counsel 5 Oh how comely is the wisdom of old men and understanding and counsel to men of honour 6 Much experience is the crown of old men and the fear of God is their glory 7 There be nine things which I have judged in mine heart to be happy and the tenth I will utter with my tongue A man that hath joy of his children and he that liveth to see the fall of his enemy 8 Well is him that dwelleth with a wife of understanding and that hath not * Ch. 14.1 19.16 Jam. 3.2 slipped with his tongue and that hath not served a man more unworthy then himself 9 Well is him that hath found ‖ Or a friend prudence and he that speaketh in the ears of them that will hear 10 Oh how great is he that findeth wisdom yet is there none above him that feareth the Lord. 11 But the love of the Lord passeth all things for illumination he that holdeth it ‖ Or to whom whereto shall he be likened 12 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of his love and faith is the beginning of cleaving unto him 13 Give me any plague but the plague of the heart and any wickedness but the wickedness of a woman 14 And any affliction but the affliction from them that hate me and any revenge but the revenge of enemies 15 There is no head above the head of a serpent and there is no wrath above the wrath of an enemy 16 * Prov.
searful in praises doing wonders 12 Thou stretchedst out thy right hand the earth swallowed them 13 Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation 14 * Deut. 2.25 Josh 2.9 The people shall hear and be afraid sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina 15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed the mighty men of Moab trembling shall take hold upon them all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away 16 * Deut. 2.15 Josh 2.9 Fear and dread shall fall upon them by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone till thy people pass over O LORD till the people pass over which thou hast purchased 17 Thou shalt bring them in c plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance in the place O LORD which thou hast made for thee to dwell in in the Sanctuary O LORD which thy hands have established 18 The LORD shall reign for ever and ever 19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his hors-men into the sea and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them but the children of Israel went on dry-land in the midst of the sea 20 ¶ And Miriam the prophetess the sister of Aaron took a timbrel in her hand and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances 21 And Miriam answered them Sing ye to the LORD for he hath triumphed gloriously the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea 22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea and they went out into the wilderness of Shur and they went three days in the wilderness and sound no water 23 ¶ And when they came to Marah they could not drink of the waters of Marah for they were bitter therefore the name of it was called †That is bitterness Marah 24 And the people murmured against Moses saying What shall we drink 25 And he cried unto the Lord and the LORD shewed him a * Ecclus 38.5 tree which when he had cast into the waters the waters were made sweet there he made for them a statute and an ordinance and there he proved them 26 And said If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God and wilt do that which is right in his sight and wilt give car to his commandments and keep all his statutes I will put none of these diseases upon thee which I have brought upon the Egyptians for I am the the LORD that healeth thee 27 ¶ * Numb 33.9 And they came to Elim where were twelve wells of water and threescore and ten palm-trees and they encamped there by the waters CHAP. XVI 1 The Israelites come to Sin 2 They murmure for want of bread 4 God promiseth them bread from heaven 11 Quails are sent 14 and manna 16 The ordering of manna 25 It was not to be found on the sabbath 32 An owner of it is preserved ANd they took their journey from Elim and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin which is between Elim and Sinai on the fifteenth day of the second moneth after their departing out of the land of Egypt 2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness 3 And the children of Israel said unto them Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt when we sat by the flesh-pots and when we did eat bread to the full for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger 4 ¶ Then said the LORD unto Moses Behold I will rain bread from heaven for you and the people shall go out and gather †Heb. the portion of a say in his day a certain rate every day that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law or no. 5 And it shall come to pass that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in it shall be twice as much as they gather daily 6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel At even then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought you out from the land of Egypt 7 And in the morning then ye shall see the glory of the LORD for that he heareth your murmurings against the LORD And what are we that ye murmure against 〈◊〉 8 And Moses said This shall be when the LORD shall give you in the evening â—iâ—sh to eat and in the morning bread to the fâ—ll for that the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye murmure against him And what are 〈◊〉 morning are nor against us but against the LORD 9 ¶ And Moses spake unto Aaron Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel Come near before the LORD for he hath heard your murmurings 10 And it came to pass as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel that they looked toward the wilderness and behold the glory of the LORD * Chap. 13.21 appeared in the cloud 11 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel speak unto them saying At even ye shall eat flesh and in the morning ye shall be silled with bread and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God 13 And it came to pass that at even * Numb 11.31 the quails came up and covered the camp and in the morning the dew lay round about the host 14 And when * Numb 11.7 Psa 78.24 Wis 16.20 the dew that lay was gone up behold upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing as small as the hear frost on the ground 15 And when the children of Israel saw it they said one to another ‖ Or What is this or It is a portion It is manna for they wist not what it was And Moses said unto them * Joh. 6.31 2 Cor. 10.3 This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat 16 ¶ This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded Gather of it every man according to his eating an omer †Heb. by the poll or bead for every man according to the number of your †Heb. soult persons take ye every man for them which are in his tents 17 And the children of Israel did so and gathered some more some less 18 And when they did mete it with an omer * 2 Cor. 8.25 he that gathered much had nothing over and he that gathered little had no lack they gathered every man according to his eating 19 And Moses said Let no man leave of it till the morning 20 Notwithstanding they hearkned not unto Moses but some of them left of it until the morning and it bred worms and stank And Moses was wroth with
valour and there escaped not a man 30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel and the land had rest fourscore years 31 ¶ And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox-goad and he also delivered Israel CHAP. IV. 1 Deberah and Barak deliver Israel from Jabin and Sisera 18 Jael killeth Sisera ANd the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD when Ehud was dead 2 And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan that reigned in Hazor the captain of whose host was Sisera which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles 3 And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD for he had nine hundred chariots of iron and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel 4 ¶ And Deboral a prophetess the wife of Lapidoth she judged Israel at that time 5 And she dwelt under the palm-tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in mount Ephraim and the children of Israel came up to her for judgement 6 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali and said unto him Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded saying Go and draw toward mount Tabor and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun 7 And I will draw unto thee to the * Psal 83.9 10. river Kishon Sisera the captain of Jabins army with his chariots and his multitude and I will deliver him into thine hand 8 And Barak said unto her If thou wilt go with me then I will go but if thou wilt not go with me then I will not go 9 And she said I will surely go with thee notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman And Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh 10 ¶ And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet and Deborah went up with him 11 Now Heber the Kenite which was of the children of * Numb 10.29 Hobab the father in law of Moses had severed himself from the Kenites and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim which is by Kedesh 12 And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor 13 And Sisera †Heb. gathered by crâ—â— or proclamation gathered together all his chariots even nine hundred chariots of iron and all the people that were with him from Harosheth of the GentileÌ„s unto the river of Kishon 14 And Deborah said unto Barak Up for this is the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand is not the LORD gone out before thee So Barak went down from mount Tabor and ten thousand men after him 15 And * Psal â—â— 9.10 the LORD discomfited Sisera and all his chariots and all his host with the edge of the sword before Barak so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot and fled away on his feet 16 But Barak pursued after the chariots and after the host unto Harosheth of the Gentiles and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword and there was not †Heb. unto ouâ— a man left 17 Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite 18 ¶ And Jael went out to meet Sisera and said unto him Turn in my lord turn in to me fear not and when he had turned in unto her into the tent she covered him with a ‖ Or rug or Haâ—ket mantle 19 And he said unto her Give me I pray thee a little water to drink for I am thirsty and she opened * Ch. 5.25 bottle of milk and gave him drink and covered him 20 Again he said unto her Stand in the door of the tent and it shall be when any man doth come and enquire of thee and say Is there any man here that thou shalt say No. 21 Then Jael Hebers wife took a nail of the tent and †Heb. put took an hammer in her hand and went softly unto him and smote the nail into his temples and fastned it into the ground for he was fast asleep and weary so he died 22 And behold as Barak pursued Sisera Jael came out to meet him and said unto him Come and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest And when he came into her tent behold Sisera lay dead and the nail was in his temples 23 So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel 24 And the hand of the children of Israel †Heb. going went and was bard prospered and prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan CHAP. V. 1 The song of Deborab and Barak THen sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day saying 2 Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel when the people willingly offered themselves 3 Hear O ye kings give ear O ye princes I even I will sing unto the LORD I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel 4 LORD * Deut. 4.11 when thou wentest out of Seir when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom the earth trembled and the heavens dropped the clouds also dropped water 5 * Ps 9â— 5 The mountains †Heb. flowed melted from before the LORD even * Ex. 19.18 that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel 6 In the days of * Ch. 3.31 Shamgar the son of Anath in the days of * Ch 4.18 Jael the high-ways were unoccupied and the †Heb. walkers of paths travellers walked through †Heb. crooked ways by-ways 7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased they ceased in Israel until that I Deborah arose that I arose a mother in Israel 8 They chose new gods then was war in the gates was there a shield or spear seen among fourty thousand in Israel 9 My heart is toward the governours of Israel that offered themselves willingly among the people Bless ye the LORD 10 ‖ Or Meditate Speak ye that ride on white asses ye that sit in judgment and walk by the way 11 They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water there shall they rehearse the †Heb. righteousnesses of the LORD righteous acts of the LORD even the righteous acts towards the inhabitants of his villages in Israel then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates 12 Awake awake Deborah awake awake utter a song arise Barak and lead thy captivity captive thou son of Abinoam 13 Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people the LORD made me have
the people went forth and brought them and made themselves booths every one upon the roof of his house and in their courts and in the courts of the house of God and in the street of the water-gate and in the street of the gate of Ephraim 17 And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths and sat under the booths for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so and there was very great gladness 18 Also day by day from the first day unto the last day he read in the book of the law of God and they kept the feast seven days and on the eighth day was †Heb. a restraint a solemn assembly according unto the manner CHAP. IX 1 A solemn fast and repentance of the people 4 The Levites make a religious confession of Gods goodness and their wickedness NOw in the twenty and fourth day of * Chap. 8.2 this moneth the children of Israel were assembled with fasling and with sackclothes and earth upon them 2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all †Heb. strange children strangers and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers 3 And they stood up in their place and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day and another fourth part they confessed and worshipped the LORD their God 4 ¶ Then stood up upon the ‖ Or seaffold stairs of the Levites Jeshua and Bani Kadmiel Shebaniah Bunni Sherebiah Bani and Chenani and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God 5 Then the Levites Jeshua and Kadmiel Bani Hashabniah Sherebiah Hodijah Shebaniah and Pethabiah said Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever and blessed be thy glorious name which is exalted above all blessing and praise 6 Thou even thou art LORD alone * Gen. 1.1 thou hast made heaven the heaven of neavens with all their host the earth and all things that are therein the seas and all that is therein and thou preservest them all and the host of heaven worshippeth thee 7 Thou art the LORD the God who didst choose * Gen. 11.31 12.1 Abram and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Caldees and gavest him the name of * Gen. 17.5 Abraham 8 And foundest his heart * Gen. 15 6. faithful before thee and madest a * Gen. 12.7 and 15.18 and 17.7 â— covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites the Hittites the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Jebusites and the Girgashites to give it I say to his seed and hast performed thy words for thou art righteous 9 * Ex. 3.7 14.10 And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt and heardest their cry by the Red sea 10 And * Ex. 7.8 9 10 12 and 14 chap. shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh and on all his servants and on all the people of his land for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them so didst thou get thee a name as it is this day 11 * Ex. 14.21 22. And thou didst divide the sea before them so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land and their persecuters thou threwest into the deeps as a stone into the * Ex. 15.10 mighty waters 12 Moreover thou * Ex. 13 21 leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar and in the night by a pillar of fire to give them light in the way wherein they should go 13 * Ex. 19.20 20.1 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai and spakest with them from heaven and gavest them right judgements and †Heb. laws of truth true laws good statutes and commandments 14 And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath and commandedst them precepts statutes and laws by the hand of Moses thy servant 15 And * Ex. 15.14 15. gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger and * Ex. 17.6 Num 20.9 c. broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst and promisedst them that they should * Deu. 1.8 go in to possess the land †Heb. which thou hadst lift up thine hand to give them which thou hadst sworn to give them 16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardned their necks and hearkned not to thy commandments 17 And refused to obey neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them but hardned their necks and in their rebellion appointed * Nu. 14.4 a captain to return to their bondage but thou art †Heb. a God of pardons a God ready to pardon graciou and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and forsookest them not 18 Yea * Ex. 32.4 when they had made them a molten calf and said This is thy god that brought thee up out of Egypt and had wrought great provocations 19 Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness the * Ex. 13.22 Nu. 14.14 1 Cor. 10.1 pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead them in the way neither the pillar of fire by night to shew them light and the way wherein they should go 20 Thou gavest also thy * Nu. 11.17 good spirit to instruct them and withheldest not thy * Ex. 16.15 Jos 5.12 manna from their mouth and gavest them * Ex. 17.6 water for their thirst 21 Yea fourty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness so that they lacked nothing their * Deu. 8.4 clothes waxed not old and their feet swelled not 22 Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations and didst divide them into corners so they possessed the land of * Nu. 21.21 c. Sihon and the land of the king of Heshbon and the land of Og king of Bashan 23 Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven and broughtest them into the land concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers that they should go in to possess it 24 So the children went in and possessed the land and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land the Canaanites and gavest them into their hands with their kings and the people of the land that they might do with them †Heb. according to their will as they would 25 And they took strong cities and a fat land and possessed houses full of all goods ‖ Or â—iâ—â—â—rns wells digged vineyards and olive-yards and †Heb. tree of food fruit-trees in abundance so they did eat and were filled and became fat and delighted themselves in thy great goodness 26 Nevertheless they were disobedient rebelled against thee and cast thy law behinde their backs and slew thy * 1 Kin. 19.10 prophets with testified against them to turn them to thee they wrought great provocations
1.15 Behold he travaileth with iniquity and hath conceived mischief and brought forth falshood 15 †Heb. he hath digged a pit He made a pit and digged it * Psal 9.15 10.2 Prov. 5.22 and is faln 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 17 I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high PSAL. VIII Gods glory is magnified by his works and by his love to man ¶ To the chief musician upon 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 * Mat. 21.16 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou †Heb. founded 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 singers the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained 4 * Job 7.17 Psal 144.3 Heb. 2.6 What is man that thou art mindful of him and the son of man that thou visitest him 5 For thou hast made him a little lower then the angels and hast crowned him with glory and honour 6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands * 1 Cor. 15.27 thou hast put all things under his feet 7 †Heb. flocks and oxen all of them 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 PSAL. IX 1 David praiseth God for executing of judgement 11 He inciteth others to praise him 13 He prayeth that he may have cause to praise him ¶ To the chief musician upon Muthlabben 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 rejoyce in thee I will sing praise to thy name O thou most High 3 When mine enemies are turned back they shall fall and perish at thy presence 4 For †Heb. thou hast made my judgement thou hast maintained my right and my cause thou sattest in the throne judging †Heb. in righteousness right 5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen thou hast destroyed the wicked thou hast put out their name for ever and ever 6 ‖ Or the destructions of the enemy are come to a perpetual end and their cities hast thou destroyed c. 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 judgement 8 And * Psal 95.13 98. ◠he shall judge the world in righteousness he shall minister judgement to the people in uprightness 9 * Psal 37.39 46.1 91.1 The LORD also will be †Heb. an high place 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 LORD hast not forsaken them that seek thee 11 Sing praises to the LORD which dwelleth in Zion declare among the people his doings 12 * Gen. 9.5 When he maketh inquisition for bloud he remembreth them he forgetteth not the cry of the ‖ Or afflicted 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 rejoyce in thy salvation 15 * Psal 7.16 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 judgement 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 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 20 Put them in fear O LORD that the nations may know themselves to be but men Selah PSAL. X. 1 David complaineth to God of the outrage of the wicked 12 He prayeth for remedy 16 He professeth his confidence WHy standest thou afar off O LORD why hidest thou thy self in times of trouble 2 †Heb. in the pride of the wicked he doth persecute The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor * Psal 7.16 and 9.16 Prov. 5.22 let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined 3 For the wicked boasteth of his †Heb. souls hearts desire and ‖ Or the covetous blesseth himself he abhorreth the LORD blesseth the covetous whom the LORD abhorreth 4 The wicked through the pride of his countenance will not seek after God ‖ Or all his thoughts are there is no God God is not in all his * Psal 14.1 53.1 thoughts 5 His ways are always grievous thy judgements 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 †Heb. unto generation and generation never be in adversity 7 * Rom. 3.14 His mouth is full of cursing and †Heb. deceits deceit and fraud under his tongue is mischief and ‖ Or iniquity vanity 8 He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages in the secret places doth he murder the innocent his eyes †Heb. hide themselves are privily set against the poor 9 He lieth in wait †Heb. in the secret places secretly as a lion in his den he lieth in wait to catch the poor he doth catch the poor when he draweth him into his net 10 †Heb. he breaketh himself He croucheth and humbleth himself that the poor may fall ‖ Or into his strong parts by his strong ones 11 He hath said in his heart God hath forgotten * Psal 94.7 he hideth his face he will never see it 12 Arise O LORD O God lift up thine hand forget not the ‖ Or afflicted humble 13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn 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 †Heb. leaveth 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 till thou finde none 16 * Psal 29.10 and 145.13 and 146.10 Jer. 10.10 Lam. 5.19 The
†Heb. did flee did flee did flee apace and she that tarried at home divided the spoil 13 Though ye have lien among the pots yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver and her feathers with yellow gold 14 When the Almighty scattered kings ‖ Or for her she was in it it was white as snow in Salmon 15 The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan an high hill as the hill of Bashan 16 Why leap ye ye high hills this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in yea the LORD will dwell in it for ever 17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand ‖ Or even many thousands even thousands of angels the Lord is among them as in Sinai in the holy place 18 * Eph. 4.8 Thou hast ascended on high thou hast led captivity captive thou hast received gifts †Heb. in the man for men yea for the rebellious also that the LORD God might dwell among them 19 Blessed be the Lord who daily loadeth us with benefits even the God of our salvation Selah 20 He that is our God is the God of salvation and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death 21 But God shall wound the head of his enemies and the hairy scalp of such a one as goeth on still in his trespasses 22 The Lord said I will bring again from Bashan I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea 23 That thy foot may be ‖ Or râ—d dipped in the bloud of thine enemies and the tongue of thy dogs in the same 24 They have seen thy goings O God even the goings of my God my King in the sanctuary 25 The singers went before the players on instruments followed after amongst them were the damsels playing with timbress 26 Bless ye God in the congregations even the Lord ‖ Or ye that are of the fountain of Israel from the fountain of Israel 27 There is little Benjamin with their ruler the princes of Judah ‖ Or with their company and their council the princes of Zebulun and the princes of Naphtali 28 Thy God hath commanded thy strength strengthen O God that which thou hast wrought for us 29 Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee 30 Rebuke ‖ Or the beast of the reeds the company of spear-men the multitude of the bulls with the calves of the people till every one submit himself with pieces of silver ‖ Or he scattereth scatter thou the people that delight in war 31 Princes shall come out of Egypt Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God 32 Sing unto God ye kingdoms of the earth O sing praises unto the Lord Selah 33 To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens which were of old so he doth †Heb. give send out his voice and that a mighty voice 34 Ascribe ye strength unto God his excellency is over Israel and his strength is in the ‖ Or heavens clouds 35 O God thou art terrible out of thy holy places the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people blessed be God PSAL. LXIX 1 David complaineth of his affliction 13 He prayeth for deliverance 22 He devoteth his enemies to dectruction 30 He praiseth God with thanksgiving ¶ To the chief musician upon Shoshannim A psalm of David SAve me O God for the waters are come in unto my soul 2 I sink in †Heb. the mire of depth deep mire where there is no standing I am come into †Heb. depth of waters deep waters where the flouds everflow me 3 I am weary of my crying my throat is dried mine eyes fail while I wait for my God 4 They that hate me without a cause are mo then the hairs of mine head they that would destroy me being mine enemies wrongfully are mighty then I restored that which I took not away 5 O God thou knowest my foolishness and my †Heb. guiltiness sins are not hid from thee 6 Let not them that wait on thee O Lord GOD of hosts he ashamed for my lake let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake O God of Israel 7 Because for thy sake I have born reproach shame hath covered my face 8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren and an aliant unto my mothers children 9 * Joh. 2. â—â— For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up * Rom. 15.3 and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are faln upon me 10 When I wept and chastned my soul with fasting that was to my reproach 11 I made sackcloth also my garment and I became a proverb to them 12 They that sit in the gate speak against me and I was the song of the †Heb. drinkers of strong drink drunkards 13 But as for me my prayer is unto thee O LORD in an acceptable time O God in the multitude of thy mercy hear me in the truth of thy salvation 14 Deliver me out of the mire and let me not sink let me be delivered from them that hate me and out of the deep waters 15 Let not the water-flood overflow me neither let the deep swallow me up and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me 16 Hear me O LORD for thy loving kindness is good turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies 17 And hide not thy face from thy servant for I am in trouble †Heb. make haste to hear me hear me speedily 18 Draw nigh unto my soul and redeem it deliver me because of mine enemies 19 Thou hast known my reproach and my shame and my dishonour mine adversaries are all before thee 20 Reproach hath broken my heart and I am full of heaviness and I looked for some †Heb. to lament with me to take pity but there was none and for comforters but I found none 21 They gave me also gall for my meat * Mat. 27.48 Mar. 15.23 Joh. 19.29 and in my thirst they gave me vineger to drink 22 * Rom. 11.9 Let their table become a snare before them and that which should have been for their welfare let it become a trap 23 Let their eyes be darkned that they see not and make their loyns continually to shake 24 Pour out thine indignation upon them and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them 25 Let †Heb. their palace their habitation be desolate †Heb. let there not be a dweller let none dwell in their tents 26 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten and they talk to the grief of †Heb. thy wounded those whom thou hast wounded 27 Add ‖ Or punishment of iniquity iniquity to their iniquity and let them not come into thy righteousness 28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the siving and not be written with the righteous 29 But I am
that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare 2 ‖ Or when I shall take a set time When I shall receive the congregation I will judge up rightly 3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved I bear up the pillars of it Selah 4 I said unto the fools Deal not foolishly and to the wicked Lift not up the horn 5 Lift not up your horn on high speak not with a stiff neck 6 For promotion cometh neither from the east nor from the west nor from the †Heb. desert south 7 But God is the judge he putteth down one and setteth up another 8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup and the wine is red it is full of mixture and he poureth out of the same but the dregs thereof all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out and drink them 9 But I will declare for ever I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. 10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted PSAL. LXXVI 1 A declaration of Gods majesty in the church 11 An exhortation to serve him reverently ¶ To the chief musician on Neginoth A psalm or song ‖ Or for Asaph of Asaph IN Judah is God known his name is great in Israel 2 In Solem also is his tabernacle and his dwelling-place in Zion 3 There brake he the arrows of the bowe the shield and the sword and the battel Selah 4 Thou art more glorious and excellent then the mountains of prey 5 The stout-hearted are spoiled they have slept their sleep and none of the men of might have found their hands 6 At thy rebuke O God of Jacob both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep 7 Thou even thou art to be feared and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry 8 Thou didst cause judgement to be heard from heaven the earth feared and was still 9 When God arose to judgement to save all the meek of the earth Selah 10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain 11 Vow and pay unto the LORD your God let all that be round about him bring presents †Heb. to fear unto him that ought to be feared 12 He shall cut off the spirit of princes he is terrible to the kings of the earth PSAL. LXXVII 1 The psalmist sheweth what fierce combat he had with diffidence 10 The victory which he had consideration of Gods great and gracious works ¶ To the chief musician to Jeduthun A psalm ‖ Or for Asaph of Asaph I Cried unto God with my voice even unto God with my voice and he gave ear unto me 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord †Heb. my hand my sore ran in the night and ceased not my soul refused to be comforted 3 I remembred God and was troubled I complained and my spirit was over-whelmed Selah 4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking I am so troubled that I cannot speak 5 I have considered the days of old the years of ancient times 6 I call to remembrance my song in the night I commune with mine own heart and my spirit made diligent search 7 Will the Lord cast off for ever and will he be favourable no more 8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever doth his promise fail †Heb. to ceâ—â—ration and generation for evermore 9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies Selah 10 And I said This is my infirmity but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High 11 I will remember the works of the LORD surely I will remember thy wonders of old 12 I will meditate also of all thy work and talk of thy doings 13 Thy way O God is in the sanctuary who is so great a God as our God 14 Thou art the God that doest wonders thou hast declared thy strength among the people 15 Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people the sons of Jacob and Joseph Selah 16 The waters saw thee O God the waters saw thee they were afraid the depths also were troubled 17 †Heb. the clouds were poured forth with water The clouds poured out water the skies sent out a sound thine arrows also went abroad 18 The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven the lightnings lightned the world the earth trembled and shook 19 Thy way is in the sea and thy path in the great waters and thy foot-steps are not known 20 * Exod. 14.19 Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron PSAL. LXXVIII 1 An exhortation both to learn and to preach the law of God 9 The story of Gods wrath against the incredulous and disobedient 67 The Israelites being rejected God chose Judah Zion and David ¶ ‖ Or A psalm for Asaph to give instruction Maschil of Asaph GIve ear O my people to my law incline your ears to the words of my mouth 2 * Ps 49.4 Mat. 13.35 I will open my mouth in a parable I will utter dark sayings of old 3 Which we have heard and known and our fathers have told us 4 We will not hide them from their children shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD and his strength and his wonderful works that he hath done 5 For he established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel which he commanded our fathers * Deu. 4.9 6.7 that they should make them known to their children 6 That the generation to come might know them even the children which should be born who should arise and declare them to their children 7 That they might sâ—t their hope in God and not forget the works of God but keep his commandments 8 And might not be as their fathers a stubborn and rebellious generation a generation †Heb. that prepared not their heart that set not their heart aright and whose spirit was not stedfast with God 9 The children of Ephraim being armed and †Heb. throwing forth carrying bowes turned back in the day of battel 10 They kept not the covenant of God and refused to walk in his law 11 And forgat his works and his wonders that he had shewed them 12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers in the land of Egypt in the field of Zoan 13 * Exod. 14.21 He divided the sea and caused them to pass through and he made the waters to stand as an heap 14 * Ex. 13.25 14.24 In the day-time also he led them with a cloud and all the night with a light of fire 15 * Ex. 17.6 Numb 20.11 Ps 105 4â— 1 Cor. 20. 4. He clave the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as out of the great depths 16 He brought streams also out of the rock and caused
〈◊〉 from the south 4 They wandred in the wilderness in a solitary way they found no city to dwell in 5 Hungry and thirsty their soul sainted in them 6 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble and he delivered them out of their distresses 7 And he led them forth by the right way that they might go to a city of habitation 8 Oh that meâ— would praise the LORD for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men 9 For he satisfieth the longing soul and filleth the hungry soul with goodness 10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death being bound in affliction and iron 11 Because they rebelled against the words of God and contemned the counsel of the most High 12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labour they fell down and there was none to help 13 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble and he saved them out of their distresses 14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and brake their bands in sunder 15 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men 16 For he hath broken the gates of brass and cut the bars of iron in sunder 17 Fools because of their transgression and because of their iniquities are afflicted 18 * Job â—3 20. Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat and they draw near unto the gates of death 19 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble he saveth them out of their distresses 20 He sent his word and healed them and delivered them from their destructions 21 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men 22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare his works with †Heb. singing rejoycing 23 They that go down to the sea in ships that do business in great waters 24 These see the works of the LORD and his wonders in the deep 25 For he commandeth and †Heb. maketh to stand raiseth the stormy wind which sitteth up the waves thereof 26 They mount up to the heaven they do down again to the depths their soul is melted because of trouble 27 They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man and †Heb. act their wisdom is swallowed up are at their wits end 28 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble and he bringeth them out of their distresses 29 He maketh the storm a calm so that the waves thereof are still 30 Then are they glad because they be quiet so he bringeth them unto their desired haven 31 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men 32 Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people and praise him in the assembly of the elders 33 He turneth rivers into a wilderness and the water-springs into dry ground 34 A fruitful land into †Heb. saltness barrenness for the wickedness of them that dwell therein 35 * Isa 41.18 He turneth the wilderness into a standing water and dry ground into water-springs 36 And there he maketh the hungry to dwell that they may prepare a city for habitation 37 And sowe the fields and plant vineyards which may yeeld fruits of increase 38 He blesseth them also so that they are multiplied greatly and suffereth not their cattel to decrease 39 Again they are minished and brought low through oppression affliction and sorrow 40 * Job 12.21 He poureth contempt upon princes and causeth them to wander in the ‖ Or void place wilderness where there is no way 41 * 1 Sam. 2.8 Psal 113.7 8. Yet setteth he the poor on high ‖ Or after from affliction and maketh him families like a flock 42 * Job 22.19 The righteous shall see it and rejoyce and all * Job 5.16 iniquity shall stop her mouth 43 Whoso is wise and will observe those things even they shall understand the loving kindness of the LORD PSAL. CVIII 1 David encourageth himself to praise God 5 He prayeth for Gods assistance according to his promise 11 His confidence in Gods help ¶ A song or psalm of David O God my heart is fixed I will sing and give praise even with my glory 2 Awake psaltery and harp I my self will awake early 3 I will praise thee O LORD among the people and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations 4 For thy mercy is great above the heavens and thy truth reacheth unto the ‖ Or skiâ—s clouds 5 Be thou exalted O God above the heavens and thy glory above all the earth 6 * Psal 60 5. That thy beloved may be delivered save with thy right hand and answer me 7 God hath spoken in his holiness I will rejoyce I will divide Shechem and mete out the valley of Succoth 8 Gilead is mine Manasseh is mine Ephraim also is the strength of mine head Judah is my law-giver 9 Moab is my wash-pot over Edom will I cast out my shoe over Philistia will I triumph 10 Who will bring me into the strong city who will lead me into Edom 11 Wâ—lt not thou O God who hast cast us off and wilt not thou O God go forth with our hosts 12 Give us help from trouble for vain is the help of man 13 Through God we shall do valiantly for he it is that shall tread down our enemies PSAL. CIX 1 David complaining of his slanderous enemies under the person of Judas devoteth them 16 He sheweth their sin 21 Complaining of his own misery he prayeth for help 30 He promiseth thankfulness ¶ To the chief musician A psalm of David HOld not thy peace O God of my praise 2 For the mouth of the wicked and the †Heb. mouth of deceit mouth of the deceitful †Heb. have opened themselves are opened against me they have spoken against me with a lying tongue 3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred and sought against me without a cause 4 For my love they are my adversaries but I give my self unto prayer 5 And they have rewarded me evil for good and hatred for my love 6 Set thou a wicked man over him and let ‖ Or an adversary Satan stand at his right hand 7 When he shall be judged let him †Heb. go out guilty or wicked be condemned and let his prayer become sin 8 Let his days be few and * Act. 1.20 let another take his ‖ Or charge office 9 Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow 10 Let his children be continually vagabonds and beg let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places 11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath and let the stranger spoil his labour 12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him neither let there be any
set upon thy throne 12 If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them their children also shall sit upon thy throne for evermore 13 For the LORD hath chosen Zion he hath desired it for his habitation 14 This is my rest for ever here will I dwell for I have desired it 15 I will ‖ Or surely abundantly bless her provision I will satifie her poor with bread 16 I will also clothe her priests with salvation and her saints shall shout aloud for joy 17 * Lu. 1 69 There will I make the horn of David to bud I have ordained a ‖ Or candle lamp for mine anointed 18 His enemies will I clothe with shame but upon himself shall-his crown flourish PSAL. CXXXIII The benefit of the communion of saints ¶ A song of degrees of David BEhold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell †Heb. even together together in unity 2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head that ran down upon the beard even Aarons beard that went down to the skirts of his garments 3 As the dew of Hermon and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion for there the LORD commanded the blessing even life for evermore PSAL. CXXXIV An exhortation to bless God ¶ A song of degrees BEhold bless ye the LORD all ye servants of the LORD which b◠night stand in the house of the LORD 2 Lift up your hands ‖ Or in holiness in the sanctuary and bless the LORD 3 The LORD that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion PSAL. CXXXV An exhortation to praise God for his mercy 5 for his power 8 for his judgements 15 The vanity of idols 19 An exhortation to bless God PRaise ye the LORD praise ye the name of the LORD praise him O ye servant of the LORD 2 Ye that stand in the house of the LORD in the courts of the house of our God 3 Praise ye the LORD for the LORD is good sing praises unto his name for it is pleasant 4 For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself and Israel for his peculiar treasure 5 For I know that the LORD is great that our Lord is above all gods 6 Whatsoever the LORD pleased that did he in heaven and in earth in the seas and all deep places 7 * Jer. 10.13 He causeth the vapour to ascend from the ends of the earth he maketh lightnings for the rain the bringeth the wind out of his treasuries 8 * Ex. 12.29 Who smote the first-born of Egypt †Heb. from man unto beast both of man and beast 9 Who sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee O Egypt upon Pharaoh and upon all his servants 10 * Num. 21.24 25 26 34 35. Who smote great nations and slew mighty kings 11 Sihon king of the Amorites and Og king of Bashan and all the kingdoms of Canaan 12 * Jol. 12.7 And gave their land for an heritage an heritage unto Israel his people 13 Thy name O LORD endureth for ever and thy memorial O LORD †Heb. to generation and generation throughout all generations 14 For the LORD will judge his people and he will repent himself concerning his servants 15 * Ps 115.4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11. The idols of the heathen are silver and gold the work of mens hands 16 They have mouths but they speak not eyes have they but they see not 17 They have ears but they hear not neither is there any breath in their mouths 18 They that make them are like unto them so is every one that trusteth in them 19 Bless the LORD O house of Israel bless the LORD O house of Aaron 20 Bless the LORD O house of Levi ye that scar the LORD bless the LORD 21 Blessed be the LORD out of Zion which dwelleth at Jerusalem Praise ye the LORD PSAL. CXXXVI An exhortation to give thanks to God for particular mercies O * Ps 106.1 107.1 118.1 Give thanks unto the LORD for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever 2 O give thanks unto the God of gods for his mercy endureth for ever 3 O give thanks to the Lord of lords for his mercy endureth for ever 4 To him who alone doeth great wonders for his mercy endureth for ever 5 * Gen. 1.1 To him that by wisdom made the heavens for his mercy endureth for ever 6 * Gen. 1.9 Jer. 10.12 To him that stretched out the earth above the waters for his mercy endureth for ever 7 * Gen. 1.14 To him that made great lights for his mercy endureth for ever 8 The sun †Heb. for the rulings by day to rule by day for his mercy endureth for ever 9 The moon stars to rule by night for his mercy endureth for ever 10 * Ex. 12.29 To him that smote Egypt in their first-born for his mercy endureth for ever 11 * Ex. 13.17 And brought out Israel from among them for his mercy endureth for ever 12 With a strong hand and with a stretched out arm for his mercy endureth for ever 13 * Ex. 14.21 22. To him which divided the Red sea into parts for his mercy endureth for ever 14 And made Israel to pass through the midst of it for his mercy endureth for ever 15 * Ex. 14.28 But †Heb. shaked off overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea for his mercy endureth for ever 16 * Ex. 15.22 To him which led his people through the wilderness for his mercy endureth for ever 17 To him which smote great kings for his mercy endureth for ever 18 * Deu. 29.7 Ps 135.10 12. And slew famous kings for his mercy endureth for ever 19 * Nu. 21.23 Sihon king of the Amorites for his mercy endureth for ever 20 * Nu. 21.33 And Og the king of Bashan for his mercy endureth for ever 21 * Jos 12.7 And gave their land for an heritage for his mercy endureth for ever 22 Even an heritage unto Israel his servant for his mercy endureth for ever 23 Who remembred us in our low estate for his mercy endureth for ever 24 And hath redeemed us from our enemies for his mercy endureth for ever 25 Who giveth food to all flesh for his mercy endureth for ever 26 O give thanks unto the God of heaven for his mercy endureth for ever PSAL. CXXXVII The constancy of the Jews in captivity 7 The prophet curseth Edom and Babel BY the rivers of Babylon there we sat down yea we wept when we remembred Zion 2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof 3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us †Heb. the words of a song a song and they that †Heb. laid us on heaps wasted us required of us mirth saying Sing us one of the songs of Zion
dance there 22 And †Heb. lim the wilde beasts of the islands shall cry in their ‖ Or palaces desolate houses and dragons in their pleasant palaces and her time is near to come and her days shall not be prolonged CHAP. XIV 1 Gods merciful restauration of Israel 4 Their triumphant insultation over Babel 24 Gods purpose against Assyria 29 Palestina is threatned FOr the LORD will have mercy on Jacob and will yet choose Israel and set them in their own land and the strangers shall be joyned with them and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. 2 And the people shall take them and bring them to their place and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and hand-maids and they shall take them captives †Heb. that had taken them captives whose captives they were and they shall rule over their oppressours 3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow and from thy fear and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve 4 ¶ That thou shalt take up this ‖ Or taunting speech proverb against the king of Babylon and say How hath the oppressour ceased the ‖ Or exactress of gold golden city ceased 5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked and the sceptre of the rulers 6 He who smote the people in wrath with †Heb. a stroke without removing a continual stroke he that ruled the nations in anger is persecuted and none hindreth 7 The whole earth is at rest and is quiet they break forth into singing 8 Yea the fir-trees rejoyce at thee and the cedars of Lebanon saying Since thou art laid down no feller is come up against us 9 ‖ Or the grave Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming it stirreth up the dead for thee even all the †Heb. leaders ‖ Or great gâ—â—â—s chief ones of the earth it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations 10 All they shall speak and say unto thee Art thou also become weak as we art thou become like unto us 11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave and the noise of thy viols the worm is spread under thee and the worms cover thee 12 How art thou faln from heaven ‖ Or O day star O lucifer son of the morning how art thou cut down to the ground which didst weaken the nations 13 For thou hast said in thine heart I will ascend into heaven I will exalt my throne above the stars of God I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the north 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds I will be like the most High 15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell to the sides of the pit 16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee and consider thee saying Is this the man that made the earth to tremble that did shake kingdoms 17 That made the world as a wilderness and destroyed the cities thereof that ‖ Or did not let his prisoners loose home-ward opened not the house of his prisoners 18 All the kings of the nations even all of them lie in glory every one in his own house 19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch and as the raiment of those that are slâ—in thrust through with a sword that go down to the stones of the pit as a carcase troden under feet 20 Thou shalt not be joyned with theâ— in burial because thou hast destroyed thy land and slain thy people * Job 18.19 Psal 21 1â— and 37.28 109.13 the seed of evil doers shall never be renowned 21 Prepare slaughter for his children * Ex. 20.5 Mat. 23.35 for the iniquity of their fathers that they do not rise nor possess the land nor fill the face of the world with cities 22 For I will rise up against them saith the LORD of hosts and cut off from Babylon the name and remnant and son and nephew saith the LORD 23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern and pools of water and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction saith the LORD of hosts 24 ¶ The LORD of hosts hath sworn saying Surely as I have thought so shall it come to pass and as I have purposed so shall it stand 25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land and upon my mountains tread him under foot then shall his yoke depart from off them and his burden depart from off their shoulders 26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations 27 For the LORD of hosts hath * 1 Chr. 20.6 Job 9.12 Pr. 21.30 Dan. 4.31 purposed and who shall disanul it and his hand is stretched out and who shall turn it back 28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden 29 ¶ Rejoyce not thou whole Palestina because the rod of him that smote thee is broken for out of the serpents root shall come forth a ‖ Or adder cockatrice and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent 30 And the first-born of the poor shall feed and the needy shall lie down in safety and I will kill thy root with famine and he shall slay thy remnant 31 Howl O gate cry O city thou whole Palestina art dissolved for there shall come from the north a smoke and ‖ Or he shall not be alone none shall be alone in his ‖ Or assemblies appointed times 32 What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation That * Ps 8â— 1 5. 102.16 the LORD hath founded Zion ‖ Or â—â—take themselves unto it and the poor of his people shall trust in it CHAP. XV. The lamentable state of Moab THe burden of Moab Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste and ‖ Or cut off brought to silence because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste and in bought to silence 2 He is gone up â—o Bajith and to Dibon the high places to weep Moab shall howl over Nebo and over Medeba * Jer. 48.37 38. Ezek. 7.18 on all their heads shall be baldness and every beard cut off 3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth on the tops of their houses and in their streets every one shall howl †Heb. descending into weeping or coming down with weeping weeping abundantly 4 And Heshbon shall cry and Elealeh their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz therefore the armed souldiers of Moab shall cry out his life shall be grievous unto him 5 My heart shall cry out for Moab ‖ Or to the borders there-fâ—â—ven as an ceisâ—â— his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar an * Jer. 41. â— 34. heifer of three
of the fear shall fall into the pit and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare for the windows from on high are open and the foundations of the earth do shake 19 The earth is utterly broken down the earth is clean dissolved the earth is moved exceedingly 20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard and shall be removed like a cottage and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it and it shall fall and not rise again 21 And it shall come to pass in that day that the LORD shall †Heb. visit upon punish the host of the high ones that are on high and the kings of the earth upon the earth 22 And they shall be gathered together †Heb. with the gathering of prisoners as prisoners are gathered in the ‖ Or dungeon pit and shall be shut up in the prison and after many days shall they be ‖ Or found wanting visited 23 Then the * Ch. 13.10 Ezek. 32.7 Joel 2.31 and 3.15 moon shall be confounded and the sun ashamed when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion and in Jerusalem and ‖ Or there shall be glory before his ancients before his ancients gloriously CHAP. XXV 1 The prophet praiseth God for his judgements 6 for his saving benefits 9 and for his victorious salvation O LORD thou art my God I will exalt thee I will praise thy name for thou hast done wonderful things thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth 2 For thou hast made of a city an heap of a defenced city a ruine a palace of strangers to be no city it shall never be built 3 Therefore shall the strong people glorifie thee the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee 4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor a strength to the needy in his distress a refuge from the storm a shadow from the heat when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall 5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers as the heat in a dry place even the heat with the shadow of a cloud the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low 6 ¶ And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things a feast of wines on the lees of fat things full of marrow of wines on the lees well refined 7 And he will †Heb. swallow up destroy in this mountain the face of the covering †Heb. covered cast over all people and the veil that is spread over all nations 8 He will * 1 Cor. 15.54 swallow up death in victory and the Lord GOD will * Rev. 7.17 and 21.4 wipe away tears from off all faces and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth for the LORD hath spoken it 9 ¶ And it shall be said in that day Lo this is our God we have waited for him and he will save us this is the LORD we have waited for him we will be glad and rejoyce in his salvation 10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest and Moab shall be ‖ Or threshed troden down under him even as straw is ‖ Or threshed in Madmenah troden down for the dunghil 11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim and he shall bring down their pride together with the sports of their hands 12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down lay low and bring to the ground even to the dust CHAP. XXVI 1 A song inciting to confidence in God 5 for his judgements 12 and for his favour to his people 20 An exhortation to wait on God IN that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah We have a strong câ—tâ—â— salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks 2 Open ye the gates that the righteous nation which keepeth the †Heb. truths truth may enter in 3 Thou wilt keep him in †Heb. peace peace perfect peace whose ‖ Or thought or imagination minde is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee 4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever for in the LORD JEHOVAH is †Heb. the rock of ages everlasting strength 5 ¶ For he bringeth down them that dwell on high the lofty city he layeth it low he layeth it low even to the ground he bringeth it even to the dust 6 The foot shall tread it down even the feet of the poor and the steps of the needy 7 The way of the just is uprightness thou most upright dost weigh the path of the just 8 Yea in the way of thy judgements O LORD have we waited for thee the desire of our soul is to thy name and to the remembrance of thee 9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night yea with my spirit within me will I seek thee early for when thy judgements are in the earth the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness 10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked yet will he not learn righteousness in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly and will not behold the majesty of the LORD 11 LORD when thy hand is lifted up they will not see but they shall see and be ashamed for their envy ‖ Or towards thy people at the people yea the fire of thine enemies shall devour them 12 ¶ LORD thou wilt ordain peace for us for thou also hast wrought all our works ‖ Or for us in us 13 O LORD our God other lords besides thee have had dominion over us but by thee onely will we make mention of thy name 14 They are dead they shall not live they are deceased they shall not rise therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them and made all their memory to perish 15 Thou hast increased the nation O LORD thou hast increased the nation thou art glorified thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth 16 LORD in trouble have they visited thee they poured out a †Heb. secret speech prayer when thy chastening was upon them 17 Like as a woman with childe that draweth near the time of her delivery is in pain and crieth out in her pangs so have we been in thy sight O LORD 18 We have been with childe we have been in pain we have as it were brought forth wind we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth neither have the inhabitants of the world â—aln 19 Thy dead men shall live together with my dead body shall they arise awake and sing ye that dwell in dust for thy dew is as the dew of herbs and the earth shall cast out the dead 20 ¶ Come my people enter thou into thy chambers and shut thy doors about thee hide thy self as it were
the shittah-tree and the myrtle and the oyl tree I will set in the desert the fir-tree and the pine and the box-tree together 20 That they may see and know and consider and understand together that the hand of the LORD hath done this and the holy One of Israel hath created it 21 †Heb. Cause to come near Produce your cause saith the LORD bring forth your strong reasons saith the King of Jacob. 22 Let them bring them forth and shew us what shall happen let them shew the former things what they be that we may †Heb. set our heart upon them consider them and know the latter end of them or declare us things for to come 23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter that we may know that ye are gods yea do good or do evil that we may be dismayed and behold it together 24 Behold ye are ‖ Or worse then nothing of nothing and your work ‖ Or worse then of a viper of nought an abomination is he that chooseth you 25 I have raised up one from the north and he shall come from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name and he shall come upon princes as upon morter and as the potter treadeth clay 26 Who hath declared from the beginning that we may know and beforetime that we may say He is righteous yea there is none that sheweth yea there is none that declareth yea there is none that heareth yoâ—r words 27 The first shall say to Zion Behold behold them and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings 28 For I beheld and there was no man even amongst them and there was no counsellour that when I asked of them could †Heb. return answer a word 29 Behold they are all vanity their works are nothing their molten images are wind and confusion CHAP. XLII 1 The office of Christ graced with meekness and constancy 5 Gods promise unto him 10 An exhortation to praise God for his gospel 17 He reproveth the people of incredulity BEhold * Mat. 12.18 my servant whom I uphold mine elect in whom my soul * Mat. 3.17 and 17.5 Eph. 1.6 delighteth I have put my spirit upon him he shall bring forth judgement to the Gentiles 2 He shall not cry nor lift up nor cause his voice to be heard in the street 3 A bruised reed shall he not break and the ‖ Or dimly burning smoking flax shall he not †Heb. quench it quench he shall bring forth judgement unto truth 4 He shall not fail nor be †Heb. broken discouraged till he have set judgement in the earth and the isles shall wait for his law 5 ¶ Thus saith God the LORD he that created the heavens and stretched them out he that spread forth the earth and that which cometh out of it he that giveth breath unto the people upon it and spirit to them that walk therein 6 I the LORD have called thee in righteousness and will hold thine hand and will keep thee and give thee for a covenant of the people for * Ch. 40.6 Lu. 2.32 Act. 13 47. a light of the Gentiles 7 To open the blinde eyes to * Ch. 61.1 Lu. 4.18 Heb. 2.14 15. bring out the prisoners from the prison and them that sit in * Ch. 9.2 darkness out of the prison-house 8 I am the LORD that is my name and my * Ch. 48.11 glory will I not give to another neither my praise to graven images 9 Behold the former things are come to pass and new things do I declare before they spring forth I tell you of them 10 Sing unto the LORD a new song and his praise from the end of thâ— earth ye that go down to the sea and †Heb. the fulness thereof all that is therein the isles and the inhabitantâ— thereof 11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice the villages that Kedar doth inhabit let the inhabitants of the rock singlet them shout from the top of the mountains 12 Let them give glory unto the LORD and declare his praise in the islands 13 The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man he shall stir up jealousie like a man of war he shall cry yea roar he shall ‖ Or behave himself mightily prevâ—â—l against his enemies 14 I have long time holden my peace I have been still and refrained myself now will I cry like a travailing woman I will destroy and †Heb. swallow or sup up devour at once 15 I will make waste mountains and hills and dry up all their herbâ— and I will make the rivers islands and I will dry up the pools 16 And I will bring the blinde by a way that they knew not I will lead them in paths that they have not known I will make darkness light before them and crooked things †Heb. into straitness strait These things will I do unto them and not forsake them 17 ¶ They shall be * Ps 97.7 Câ— 1.29 and 44.11 and 45.16 turned back they shall be greatly ashamed that trust in graven images that say to the molten images Ye are our gods 18 Hear ye deaf and look ye blinde that ye may see 19 Who is blinde but my servant or deaf as my messenger that I sent who is blinde as he that is persect and blinde as the LORDS servant 20 Seeing many things * Ro. 2.22 but thou observest not opening the ears but he heareth not 21 The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness sake he will magnifie the law and make ‖ Or him it honourable 22 But this is a pâ—ople robbed and spoiled ‖ Or in snaring all the young men of them they are all of them snared in hoses and they are hid in prison houses they are for a prey and none delivereth for †Heb. a treading a spoil and none saith Restore 23 Who among you will give ear to this who will hearken and hear †Heb. for the after-time for the time to come 24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil and Israel to the robbers did not the LORD he against whom we have sinned for they would not walk in his ways neither were they obedient unto his law 25 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger and the strength of battel and it hath set him on fire round about yet he knew not and it burned him yet he laid it not to heart CHAP. XLIII 1 The Lord comforteth the church with his promises 8 He appealeth to the people for witness of his omnipotency 14 He foretelleth them the destruction of Babylon 18 and his wouderful deliverance of his people 22 He reproveth the people as inexcusable BUt now thus saith the LORD that created thee O Jacob and he that formed thee O Israel Fear not for I have redeemed thee I have called the by thy name thou art mine
strength of his arms yea he is hungry and his strength faileth he drinketh no water and is faint 13 The carpenter stretcheth out his rule he marketh it out with a line he fitteth it with planes and he marketh it out with the compass and maketh it after the figure of a man according to the beauty of a man that it may remain in the house 14 He heweth him down cedars and taketh the cypress and the oak which he ‖ Or taketh courage strengthneth for himself among the trees of the forest he planteth an ash and the rain doth nourish it 15 Then shall it be for a man to burn for he will take thereof and warm himself yea he kindleth it and baketh bread yea he maketh a god and worshippeth it he maketh it a graven image and falleth down thereto 16 He burneth part thereof in the fire with part thereof he eateth flesh he rosteth rost and is satisfied yea he warmeth himself and saith Aha I am warm I have seen the fire 17 And the residue thereof he maketh a god even his graven image he falleth down unto it and worshippeth it and prayeth unto it and saith Deliver me for thou art my God 18 They have not known nor understood for he hath †Heb. daubed shut their eyes that they cannot see and their hearts that they cannot understand 19 And none †Heb. setteth to his heart considereth in his heart neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say I have burnt part of it in the fire yea also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof I have rosted flesh and eaten it and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination shall I fall down to †Heb. that which comes of a tree the stock of a tree 20 He feedeth of ashes a deceived heart hath turned him aside that he cannot deliver his soul nor say Is there not a lie in my right hand 21 ¶ Remember these O Jacob and Israel for thou art my servant I have formed thee thou art my servant O Israel thou shalt not be forgotten of me 22 I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions and as a cloud thy sins return unto me for I have redeemed thee 23 Sing O ye heavens for the LORD hath done it shout ye lower parts of the earth break forth into singing ye mountains O forest and every tree therein for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob and glorified himself in Israel 24 Thus saith the LORD thy redeemer and he that formed thee from the womb I am the LORD that maketh all things that stretcheth forth the heavens alone that spreadeth abroad the earth by my self 25 That frustrateth the tokens of the liars and maketh diviners mad that turneth wise men backward and maketh their knowledge foolish 26 That confirmeth the word of his servant and performeth the counsel of his messengers that saith to Jerusalem Thou shalt be inhabited and to the cities of Judah Ye shall be built and I will raise up the †Heb. wastes decayed places thereof 27 That saith to the deep Be dry and I will dry up thy rivers 28 That saith of Cyrus He is my shepherd and shall perform all my pleasure even saying to Jerusalem * 2 Chr. 36 22.23 Ezra 1.1 c. Ch. 45.13 Thou shalt be built and to the temple Thy foundation shall be laid CHAP. XLV 1 God calleth Cyrus for his churches sake 5 By his omnipotency he challengeth obedience 20 He convinceth the idols of vanity by his saving power THus saith the LORD to his anointed to Cyrus whose right hand I ‖ Or strengthned have holden to subdue nations before him and I will loose the loyns of kings to open before him the two-leaved gates and the gates shall not be shut 2 I will go before thee and make the crooked places straight I will break in pieces the gates of brass and cut in sunder the bars of iron 3 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places that thou mayest know that I the LORD which call thee by thy name am the God of Israel 4 For Jacob my servants sake and Israel mine elect I have even called thee by thy name I have furnamed thee though thou hast not known me 5 ¶ I * Deu. 4.35.39 32 3◠Ch. 44.8 am the LORD and there is none else there is no God besides me I girded thee though thou hast not known me 6 That they may know from the rising of the sun and from the west that there is none besides me I am the LORD and there is none else 7 I form the light and create darkness I make peace and create evil I the LORD do all these things 8 Drop down ye heavens from above and let the skies pour down righteousness let the earth open and let them bring forth salvation and let righteousness spring up together I the LORD have created it 9 Wo unto him that striveth with his maker let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth * Jer. 18.6 Rom. 9.20 shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it What makest thou or thy work He hath no hands 10 Wo unto him that saith unto his father What begettest thou or to the woman What hast thou brought forth 11 Thus saith the LORD the holy One of Israel and his maker Ask me of things to come concerning my sons and concerning the work of my hands command ye me 12 I have made the earth and created man upon it I even my hands have stretched out the heavens and all their host have I commanded 13 I have raised him up in righteousness and I will ‖ Or make straight direct all his ways he shall * 2 Chr. 36.22 23. Ezr. 1.1 c. Ch. 4◠28 build my city and he shall let go my captives not for price nor reward saith the LORD of hosts 14 Thus saith the LORD The labour of Egypt and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans men of stature shall come over unto thee and they shall be thine they shall come after thee in chains they shall come over and they shall fall down unto thee they shall make supplication unto thee saying Surely God is in thee and there is none else there is no God 15 Verily thou art a God that hidest thy self O God of Israel the saviour 16 They shall be ashamed and also confounded all of them they shall go to consusion together that are * Ch. 44 1◠makers of idols 17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end 18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens God himself that formed the earth and made it he hath established it he created it not in vain he formed it to be inhabited I am the LORD and there is none else 19 I have not spoken in * Deut. 30.11 secret
backwardness 20 He powerfully delivereth his out of Babylon HEar ye this O house of Jacob which are called by the name of Israel and are come forth out of the waters of Judah which swear by the name of the LORD and make mention of the God of Israel but not in truth nor in righteousness 2 For they call themselves of the holy city and stay themselves upon the God of Israel the LORD of hosts is his name 3 I have declared the former things from the beginning and they went forth out of my mouth and I shewed them I did them suddenly and they came to pass 4 Because I knew that thou art †Heb. bard obstinate and thy neck is an iron sinew and thy brow brass 5 I have even from the beginning declared it to thee before it came to pass I shewed it thee lest thou shouldest say Mine idol hath done them and my graven imgage and my molten image hath commanded them 6 Thou hast heard see all this and will not ye declare it I have shewed thee new things from this time even hidden things and thou didst not know them 7 They are created now and not from the beginning even before the day when thou heardest them not lest thou shouldest say Behold I knew them 8 Yea thou heardest not yea thou knewest not yea from that time that thine ear was not opened for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously and wast called a transgressour from the womb 9 ¶ For my names sake will I defer mine anger and for my praise will I refrain for thee that I cut thee not off 10 Behold I have refined thee but not ‖ Or for silver with silver I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction 11 For mine own sake even for mine own sake will I do it for how should my name be polluted and * Ch. 42.8 I will not give my glory unto another 12 ¶ Hearken unto me O Jacob and Israel my called I am he I am the * Ch. 41.4 and 44.6 Rev. 1.17 and 22.13 first I also am the last 13 Mine hand also hath said the foundation of the earth and ‖ Or the palm of my right hand hath spread out my right hand hath spanned the heavens when I call unto them they stand up together 14 All ye assemble your selves and hear which among them hath declared these things the LORD hath loved him he will do his pleasure on Babylon and his arm shall be on the Caldeans 15 I even I have spoken yea I have called him I have brought him and he shall make his way prosperous 16 ¶ Come ye near unto me hear ye this I have not spoken in secret from the beginning from the time that it was there am I and now the Lord GOD and his spirit hath sent me 17 Thus saith the LORD thy redeemer the holy One of Israel I am the LORD thy God which reacheth thee to profit which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go 18 O that thou hadst hearkned to my commandments then had thy peace been as a river and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea 19 Thy seed also had been as the sand and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me 20 ¶ Go ye forth of Babylon flee ye from the Caldeans with a voice of singing declare ye tell this utter it even to the end of the earth say ye the LORD hath * Ex. 19.4.5 6. redeemed his servant Jacob. 21 And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts he * Ex. 17.6 Nu. 20.11 caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them he clave the rock also and the waters gushed out 22 * Ch. 57.21 There is no peace saith the LORD unto the wicked CHAP. XLIX 1 Christ being sent to the Jews complaineth of them 5 He is sent to the Geâ—tiles with gracious promises 13 Gods love is perpetual to his church 18 The ample restauration of the church 24 The powerful deliverance out of captivity LIsten O isles unto me and hearken ye people from far The LORD hath called me from the womb from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name 2 And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me and made me a polished shaft in his quiver hath he hid me 3 And said unto me Thou art my servant O Israel in whom I will be glorified 4 Then I said I have laboured in vain I have spent my strength for nought and in vain yet surely my judgement is with the LORD and ‖ Or my reward my work with my God 5 ¶ And now saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant to bring Jacob again to him ‖ Or That Israel may be gathered to him and I may c. Though Israel be not gathered yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD and my God shall be my strength 6 And he said ‖ Or Art thou lighter then that thou shouldest c. It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the ‖ Or desolations preserved of Israel I will also give thee for a * Ch. 42.6 light to the Gentiles that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth 7 Thus saith the LORD the redeemer of Israel and his holy One ‖ Or to him that is despised in soul to him whom man despiseth to him whom the nation abhorreth to a servant of rulers Kings shall see and arise princes also shall worship because of the LORD that is faithful and the holy One of Israel and he shall choose thee 8 Thus saith the LORD * 2 Cor. 6.2 In an acceptable time have I heard thee and in a day of salvation have I helped thee and I will preserve thee and give thee for a covenant of the people to ‖ Or raise up establish the earth to cause to inherit the desolate heritages 9 That thou mayest say * Ch. 41.7 to the prisoners Go forth to them that are in darkness Shew your selves they shall feed in the ways and their pastures shall be in all high places 10 They shall not * Rev. 7.16 hunger nor thirst neither shall the heat nor sun smite them for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them even by the springs of water shall he guide them 11 And I will make all my mountains a way and my high-ways shall be exalted 12 Behold these shall come from far and so these from the north and from the west and these from the land of Sinim 13 ¶ Sing O heavens and be joyful O earth and break forth into singing O mountains for the LORD hath comforted his people and will have mercy upon his
shall eat the riches of the Gentiles and in their glory shall you boast your selves 7 ¶ For your shame you shall have double and for confusion they shall rejoyce in their portion therefore in their land they shall possess the double everlasting joy shall be unto them 8 For I the LORD love judgement I hate robbery for burnt-offering and I will direct their work in truth and I will make an everlasting covenant with them 9 And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles and their offspring among the people all that see them shall acknowledge them that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed 10 I will greatly rejoyce in the LORD my soul shall be joyful in my God for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness as a bridegroom †Heb. decketh as a priest decketh himself with ornaments and as a bride adorneth her self with her jewels 11 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations CHAP. LXII 1 The fervent desire of the prophet to confirm the church in Gods promises 5 The office of the ministers unto which they are incited in preaching the gospel 10 and preparing the people thereto FOr Zions sake will I not hold my peace and for Jerusalems sake I will not rest until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth 2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness and all kings thy glory and thou shalt be called by a new name which the mouth of the LORD shall name 3 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God 4 * Hos 1.10 1 Pet. 2.10 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate but thou shalt be called ‖ That is My delight is in ber Hephzi-bah and thy land ‖ That is Married Beulah for the LORD delighteth in thee and thy land shall be married 5 For as a young man marrieth a virgin so shall thy sons marry thee and †Heb. with the joy of the bridegroom as the bridegroom rejoyceth over the bride so shall thy God rejoyce over thee 6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls O Jerusalem which shall never hold their peace day nor night ‖ Or ye that are the LORD remembrancers ye that make mention of the LORD keep not silence 7 And give him no †Heb. silence rest till he establish and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth 8 The LORD hath sworn by his right hand and by the arm of his strength †Heb. If I give c. Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine for the which thou hast laboured 9 But they that have gathered it shall eat it and praise the LORD and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness 10 ¶ Go through go through the gates * Ch. 40.3 and 57.14 prepare you the way of the people cast up cast up the high-way gather out the stones list up a standard for the people 11 Behold the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world * Zec. 9.9 Mat. 21.5 Joh. 12.15 Say ye to the daughter of Zion Behold thy salvation cometh behold his * Ch. 40.10 reward is with him and his ‖ Or recompence work before him 12 And they shall call them The holy people the redeemed of the LORD and thou shalt be called Sought out a city not forsaken CHAP. LXIII 1 Christ sheweth who be is 2 what his victory over his enemies 7 and what his mercy toward his church 10 In his just wrath be remembreth his free mercy 15 The church in their prayer 17 and complaint profess their faith WHo is this that cometh from Edom with died garments from Bozrah this that is †Heb. decked glorious in his apparel travelling in the greatness of his strength I that speak in righteousness mighty to save 2 Wherefore * Rev. 19.13 art thou red in thine apparel and thy garments like him that treadeth in the wine-fat 3 I have troden the wine-press alone and of the people there was none with me for I will tread them in mine anger and trample them in my sury and their bloud shall be sprinkled upon my garments and I will stain all my raiment 4 For the * Chap. 34.8 day of vengeance is in mine heart and the year of my redeemed is come 5 And I looked and there was none to help and I wondred that there was none to uphold therefore mine own * Chap. 58.16 arm brought salvation unto me and my fury it upheld me 6 And I will tread down the people in mine anger and make them drunk in my fury and I will bring down their strength to the earth 7 ¶ I will mention the loving kindnesses of the LORD and the praises of the LORD according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us and the great goodness toward the house of Israel which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses 8 For he said Surely they are my people children that will not lie so he was their saviour 9 ¶ In all their affliction he was afflicted and the angel of his presence saved them * Deut. 7.7 8. in his love and in his pity he redeemed them and he bare them and carried them all the days of old 10 ¶ But they * Evod. 15.24 Numb 14.11 Psal 78.56 95.9 rebelled and vexed his holy spirit therefore he was turned to be their enemy and he fought against them 11 Then he remembred the days of old Moses and his people saying Where is he that * Exod. 14.30 brought them up out of the sea with the ‖ Or shepherds as Psal 77.20 shepherd of his flock where is he that put his holy spirit within him 12 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm * Exod. 14.21 Josh 3.16 dividing the water before them to make himself an everlasting name 13 That led them through the deep as an horse in the wilderness that they should not stumble 14 As a beast goeth down into the valley the spirit of the LORD caused him to rest so didst thou lead thy people to make they felt a glorious name 15 ¶ * Deut. 26.15 Look down from heaven and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory where is thy zeal and thy strength ‖ Or the multitude the sounding of thy bowels and of thy
Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah which they have done to provoke me to anger they their kings their princes their priests and their prophets and the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem 33 And they have turned unto me the †Heb. neck * Chap. 2.27 back and not the face though I taught them rising up early and teaching them yet they have not hearkned to receive instruction 34 But they * Chap. 23.11 set their abominations in the house which is called by my name to defile it 35 And they built the high places of Baal which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom to * Chap. 7.31 19.5 cause their sons and their daughters to paâ—s through the fire unto * Levit. 18.21 Molech which I commanded them not neither came it into my minde that they should do this abomination to cause Judah to sin 36 ¶ And now therefore thus saith the LORD the God of Israel concerning this city whereof ye say It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword and by the famine and by the pestilence 37 Behold I will * Deut. 30.3 gather them out of all countreys whither I have driven them in mine anger and in my fury and in great wrath and I will bring them again unto this place and I will cause them to dwell safely 38 And they shall be * Chap. 24.7 and 30.22 31.33 my people and I will be their God 39 And I will * Ezek. 11.19 give them one heart and one way that they may fear me †Heb. all days for ever for the good of them and of their children after them 40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn away †Heb. from after them from them to do them good but I will put my fear in their hearts that they shall not depart from me 41 Yea I will rejoyce over them to do them good and I will plant them in this land †Heb. in truth or stability assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul 42 For thus saith the LORD Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them 43 And fields shall be bought in this land whereof ye say It is desolate without man or beast it is given into the hand of the Caldeans 44 Men shall buy fields for money and subscribe evidences and seal them and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin and in the places about Jerusalem and in the cities of Judah and in the cities of the mountains and in the cities of the valley and in the cities of the south for I will cause their captivity to return saith the LORD CHAP. XXXIII 1 God promiseth to the captivity a gracious return 9 a joyful state 12 a setled government 15 Christ the branch of righteousness 17 a continuance of kingdom and priesthood 20 and a stability of a blessed seed MOreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time while he was yet * Chap. 32 2.3 shut up in the court of the prison saying 2 Thus saith the LORD the * Isa 37.26 maker thereof the LORD that formed it to establish it the LORD is his name 3 Call unto me and I will answer thee and shew thee great and ‖ Or hidden mighty things which thou knowest not 4 For thus saith the LORD the God of Israel concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah which are thrown down by the mounts and by the sword 5 They come to fight with the Caldeans but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city 6 Behold I will bring it health and cure and I will cure them and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth 7 And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return and will build them as at the first 8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity whereby they have sinned against me and I will * Chap. 31.34 Mic. 7.18 pardon all their iniquities whereby they have sinned and whereby they have transgressed against me 9 ¶ And it shall be to me a name of joy a praise an honour before all the nations of the earth which shall hear all the good that I do unto them and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it 10 Thus saith the LORD Again there shall be heard in this place which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast even in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate without man and without inhabitant and without beast 11 The * Chap. 7.34 16.9 voice of joy and the voice of gladness the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride the voice of them that shall say Praise the LORD of hosts for the LORD is good for his mercy endureth for ever and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD for I will cause to return the captivity of the land as at the first saith the LORD 12 Thus saith the LORD of hosts Again in this place which is desolate without man and without beast and in all the cities thereof shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down 13 In the cities of the mountains in the cities of the vale and in the cities of the south and in the land of Benjamin and in the places about Jerusalem and in the cities of Judah shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that telleth them saith the LORD 14 Behold the days come saith the LORD that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah 15 ¶ In those days and at that time will I cause the * Isa 11.1 4.2 Chap. 23.5 branch of righteousness to grow up unto David and he shall execute judgement and righteousness in the land 16 In those days shall Judah be saved and Jerusalem shall dwell safely and this is the name wherewith she shall be called †Heb. Jehovah-tsidkenu the LORD our righteousness 17 ¶ For thus saith the LORD †Heb. There shall not be cut off from David David shall never * 2 Sam. 7.16 1 Kings 2.4 want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel 18 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt-offerings and to kindle meat-offerings and to do sacrifice continually 19 ¶ And the word of the LORD
9 Unto you therefore O kings do I speak that ye may learn wisdom and not fall away 10 For they that keep holiness holily shall be ‖ Or justified judged holy and they that have learned such things shall finde ‖ Or a defence what to answer 11 Wherefore set your affection upon my words desire them and ye shall be instructed 12 Wisdom is glorious and never fadeth away yea she is easily seen of them that love her and found of such as seek her 13 She preventeth them that desire her in making her self first known unto them 14 Whoso seeketh her early shall have no great travel for he shall finde her sitting at his doors 15 To think therefore upon her is perfection of wisdom and whoso watcheth for her shall quickly be without care 16 For she goeth about seeking such as are worthy of her sheweth her self favourably unto them in the ways and meeteth them in every thought 17 For the very true beginning of her is the desire of ‖ Or nurture discipline and the care of discipline is love 18 And love is the keeping of her laws and the giving heed unto her laws is the assurance of incorruption 19 And incorruption maketh us near unto God 20 Therefore the desire of wisdom bringeth to a kingdom 21 If your delight be then in thrones and sceptres O ye kings of the people honour wisdom that ye may reign for evermore 22 As for wisdom what she is and how she came up I will tell you and will not hide mysteries from you but will seek her out from the beginning of her nativity and bring the knowledge of her into light and will not pass over the truth 23 Neither will I go with-consuming envy for such a man shall have no fellowship with wisdom 24 But the multitude of the wise is â—â—e welfare of the world and a wise king is the upholding of the peoâ—â—e 25 Receive therefore instruction through my words and it shall do you good CHAP. VII 1 All men have their beginning and end alike 8 He preferred wisdom before all things elso 15 God gave him all the knowledge which he had 22 The praise of wisdom I My self also am a mortal man like to all and the offspring of him that was first made of the earth 2 And in my mothers womb was fashioned to be flesh in the time of ten moneths * Job 10.10 being compacted in bloud of the seed of man and the pleasure that came with sleep 3 And when I was born I drew in the common air and fell upon the earth which is of like nature and the first voice which I uttered was crying as all others do 4 I was nursed in swadling-clothes and that with cares 5 For there is no king that had any other beginning of birth 6 * Job 1.21 1 Tim. 6.7 For all men have one entrance into life and the like going out 7 Wherefore I prayed and understanding was given me I called upon God and the spirit of wisdom came to me 8 I preferred her before sceptres and thrones and esteemed riches nothing in comparison of her 9 Neither compared I unto her any †Gr. stone of inestimable priâ—â— precious stone because all gold in respect of her is as a little sand and silver shall be counted as clay before her 10 I loved her above health and beauty and chose to have her in stead of light for the light that cometh from her never goeth out 11 * 1 Kings 3.13 Mat. 6 33. All good things together came to me with her and innumerable riches in her hands 12 And I rejoyced in them all because wisdom goeth before them and I knew not that she was the mother of them 13 I learned †Gr. without guile diligently and do communicate her †Gr. without envy liberally I do not hide her riches 14 For she is a treasure unto men that never faileth which they that use ‖ Or enter friendship with God become the friends of God being commended for the gifts that come from learning 15 ‖ Or God grant God hath granted me to speak as I would and to conceive as is meet for the things that ‖ Or are to be spoken of are given me because it is he that leadeth unto wisdom and directeth the wise 16 For in his hand are both we and our words all wisdom also and knowledge of workmanship 17 For he hath given me certain knowledge of the things that are namely to know how the world was made and the operation of the elements 18 The beginning ending and midst of the times the alterations of the turning of the sun and the change of seasons 19 The circuits of years and the positions of stars 20 The natures of living creatures and the furies of wilde beasts the violence of winds and the reasonings of men the diversities of plants and the vertues of roots 21 And all such things as are either secret or manifest them I know 22 For wisdom which is the worker of all things taught me for in her is an understanding spirit holy †Gr. onely begotten one onely manifold subtil lively clear undefiled plain not subject to hurt loving the thing that is good quick which cannot be letted ready to do good 23 Kinde to man stedfast sure free from care having all power overseeing all things and going through all understanding pure and most subtil spirits 24 For wisdom is more moving then any motion she passeth and goeth through all things by reason of her pureness 25 For she is the ‖ Or vapour breath of the power of God and a pure ‖ Or strum influence flowing from the glory of the Almighty therefore can no defiled thing fall into her 26 For she is the * Heb. 1.3 brightness of the everlasting light the unspotted mirrour of the power of God and the image of his goodness 27 And being but one she can do all things and remaining in her self she ‖ Or â—â—uteth maketh all things new and in all ages entring into holy souls she maketh them friends of God and prophets 28 For God loveth none but him that dwelleth with wisdom 29 For she is more beautiful then the sun and above all the order of stars being compared with the sight she is found before it 30 For after this cometh night but vice shall not prevail against wisdom CHAP. VIII 2 He is in love with wisdom 4 for he that hath it hath every good thing 21 It cannot be bad but from God WIsdom reacheth from one end to another mightily and ‖ Or profitably sweetly doth she order all things 2 I loved her and sought her out from my youth I desired ‖ Or to marry her to my self to make her my spouse and I was a lover of her beauty 3 In that she is conversant with God she magnifieth her nobility yea the Lord of all things himself
burnt-offering or sacrifice or oblation or incense or place to sacrifice before thee and to finde mercy 16 Nevertheless in a contrite heart and an humble spirit let us be accepted 17 Like as in the burnt-offerings of rams and bullocks and like as in ten thousands of fat lambs so let our sacrifice be in thy sight this day and grant that we may wholly go after thee for they shall not be confounded that put their trust in thee 18 And now we follow thee with all our heart we fear thee and seek thy face 19 Put us not to shame but deal with us after thy loving kindness and according to the multitude of thy mercies 20 Deliver us also according to thy marvellous works give glory to thy name O Lord let all them that do thy servants hurt be ashamed 21 And let them be confounded ‖ Or by thy power and might in all their power and might and let their strength be broken 22 And let them know that thou art Lord the onely God and glorious over the whole world 23 And the kings servants that put them in ceased not to make the oven hot with ‖ Or naphtha which is a certain kinde of fat and chalky clay Plin. lib. 2 cap. 105. rosin pitch tow and small wood 24 So that the flame streamed forth above the furnace fourty and nine cubits 25 And it passed through and burnt those Caldeans it found about the furnace 26 But the angel of the Lord came down into the oven together with Azarias and his fellows and smote the flame of the fire out of the oven 27 And made the mids of the furnace as it had been a ‖ Or 〈◊〉 moist whistling wind so that the fire touched them not at all neither hurt nor troubled them 28 Then the three as out of one mouth praised glorified and blessed God in the furnace saying 29 Blessed art thou O Lord God of our fathers and to be praised and exalted above all for ever 30 And blessed is thy glorious and holy name and to be praised and exalted above all for ever 31 Blessed art thou in the temple of thine holy glory and to be praised and glorified above all for ever 32 Blessed art thou that beholdest the depths and sittest upon the cherubims and to be praised and exalted above all for ever 33 Blessed art thou on the glorious throne of thy kingdom and to be praised and glorified above all for ever 34 Blessed art thou in the firmament of heaven and above all to be praised and glorified for ever 35 O all ye works of the Lord bless ye the Lord Praise and ‖ Or highly exalt and so in the rest exalt him above all for ever 36 * Ps 148.4 O ye heavens bless ye the Lord praise and exalt him above all for ever 37 O ye angels of the Lord bless ye the Lord praise and exalt him above all for ever 38 O all ye waters that be above the heaven bless ye the Lord praise and exalt him above all for ever 39 O all ye powers of the Lord bless ye the Lord praise and exalt him above all for ever 40 O ye sun and moon bless ye the Lord praise and exalt him above all for ever 41 O ye stars of heaven bless ye the Lord praise and exalt him above all for ever 42 O every showre and dew bless ye the Lord praise and exalt him above all for ever 43 O all ye winds bless ye the Lord praise and exalt him above all for ever 44 O ye fire and heat bless ye the Lord praise and exalt him above all for ever 45 O ye winter and summer bless ye the Lord praise him and exalt him above all for ever 46 O ye dews and storms of snow bless ye the Lord praise and exalt him above all for ever 47 O ye nights and days bless ye the Lord praise and exalt him above all for ever 48 O ye light and darkness bless ye the Lord praise and exalt him above all for ever 49 O ye ice and cold bless ye the Lord praise and exalt him above all for ever 50 O ye frost and snow bless ye the Lord praise and exalt him above all for ever 51 O ye lightnings and clouds bless ye the Lord praise and exalt him above all for ever 52 O let the earth bless the Lord praise and exalt him above all for ever 53 O ye mountains and little hills bless ye the Lord praise and exalt him above all for ever 54 O all ye things that grow on the earth bless ye the Lord praise and exalt him above all for ever 55 O ye fountains bless ye the Lord praise and exalt him above all for ever 56 O ye seas and rivers bless ye the Lord praise and exalt him above all for ever 57 O ye whales and all that move in the waters bless ye the Lord praise and exalt him above all for ever 58 O all ye fowls of the †Gr. heaven air bless ye the Lord praise and exalt him above all for ever 59 O all ye beasts and cattel bless ye the Lord praise and exalt him above all for ever 60 O ye children of men bless ye the Lord praise and exalt him above all for ever 61 O Israel bless ye the Lord praise and exalt him above all for ever 62 O ye priests of the Lord bless ye the Lord praise and exalt him above all for ever 63 O ye servants of the Lord bless ye the Lord praise and exalt him above all for ever 64 O ye spirits and souls of the righteous bless ye the Lord praise and exalt him above all for ever 65 O ye ‖ Or saints holy and humble men of heart bless ye the Lord praise and exalt him above all for ever 66 O Ananias Azarias and Misael bless ye the Lord praise and exalt him above all for ever for he hath delivered us from ‖ Or grave hell and saved us from the hand of death and delivered us out of the midst of the furnace and burning flame even out of the midst of the fire hath he delivered us 67 O give thanks unto the Lord because he is gracious for his mercy endureth for ever 68 O all ye that worship the Lord bless the God of gods praise him and give him thanks for his mercy endureth for ever ¶ The history of Susanna set apart from the beginning of Daniel because it is not in the Hebrew as neither the narration of †Gr. Bels dragon Bel and the Dragon 16 Two judges hide themselves in the garden of Susanna to have their pleasure of her 28 which when they could not obtain they accuse and cause her to be condemned for adultery 45 But Daniel examineth the matter again and findeth the two judges false THere dwelt a man in Babylon called Joacim 2 And he took a wife whose name was Susanna the daughter of Chelcias
and war yet ye have not because ye ask not 3 Ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss that ye may consume it upon your ‖ Or pleasures lusts 4 Ye adultâ—rers and adulteresses know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God 5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain The spirit that dwelleth in us suffeth ‖ Or â—aviously to envy 6 But he giveth more grace wherefore he saith * Pr. 3.34 1 Pet. 5.5 God resisteth the proud but giveth grace unto the humble 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God * Eph. 4.27 resist the devil and he will flee from you 8 Draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you cleanse you hands yesinners and purifie your hearts ye double-minded 9 Be afflicted and mourn and weep set your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness 10 * 1 Pet. 5.6 Humble your selves in the sight of the Lord and he shall lift you up 11 Speak not evil one of another brethren He that speaketh evil of his brother and judgeth his brother speaketh evil of the law and judgeth the law but if thou judge the law thou art not a doer of the law but a judge 12 There is one law giver who is able to save and to destroy * Rom. 14.4 who art thou that judgest another 13 * Pr. 27.1 Go to now ye that say To day or to morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain 14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow For what is your life ‖ Or for it is It is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away 15 For that ye ought to say * 1 Cor. 4.13 If the Lord will we shall live and do this or that 16 But now ye rejoye in your boastings all such rejoycing is evil 17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good and doeth it not to him it is sin CHAP. V. 1 Wicked rich men are to fear Gods vengeance 7 We ought to be patient in afflictions after the example of the prophets and Job 12 to forbear swearing 13 to pray in adversity to sing in prosperity 16 to acknowledge mutually our several faults to pray one for another 19 and to reduce a straying brother to the truth GO to now ye rich men weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you 2 Your â—iches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten 3 Your gold and silver is cankered and the rust of them shall be a witness against you and shall eat your flesh as it were fire ye have heaped treasure together for the last days 4 Behold the hire of the labourers which have reaped down your fields which is of you kept back by fraud crieth and the cries of them which have reaped are entred into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth 5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth and been wanton ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter 6 Ye have condemned and killed the just and he doth not resist you 7 ‖ Or be long patient or suffer with long patience Be patient therefore brethren unto the coming of the Lord. Behold the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth and hath long patience for it until he receive the early and latter rain 8 Be ye also patient stablish your hearts for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh 9 ‖ Or groan or grieve not Grudge not one against another brethren lest ye be condemned behold the judge standeth before the door 10 Take my brethren the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord for an example of suffering affliction and of patience 11 Behold we count them happy which endure Ye have heard of the patience of Job and have seen the end of the Lord that the Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy 12 But above all things my brethren * Mat. 5.34 swear not neither by heaven neither by the earth neither by any other oath but let your yea be yea and your nay nay lest ye fall into condemnation 13 Is any among you afflicted let him pray Is any merry let him sing psalms 14 Is any sick among you let him call for the elders of the church and let them pray over him * Mar. 6 1â— anointing him with oyl in the name of the Lord 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick and the Lord shall raise him up and if he have committed sins they shall be forgiven him 16 Confess your faults one to another and pray one for another that ye may be healed The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much 17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are and * 1 Kin. 17.1 he prayed ‖ Or. in his prayer earnestly that it might not rain and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six moneths 18 And * 1 Kin. 18.42 45. he prayed again and the heaven gave rain and the earth brought forth her fruit 19 Brethren * Mat. 18.15 if any of you do err from the truth one convert him 20 Let him know the he which converteth the sinner from the errour of his way shall save a soul from death and shall hide a multitude of sins ¶ The first epistle general of S. PETER CHAP. I. 1 He blesseth God for his manifold spiritual graces 10 shewing that the salvation in Christ is no news but a thing prophesied of old 13 and exhorteth them accordingly to a godly conversation forasmuch as they are now born anew by the word of God PEter an apostle of Jesus Christ to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus Galatia Cappadocia Asia and Bithynia 2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience †Heb. 12.24 sprinkling of the bloud of Jesus Christ Grace unto you peace be multiplied 3 * 2 Cor. 1.3 Eph. 1.3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ which according to his †Gr. math abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead 4 To an inheritance in corruptible and undefiled and that fadeth not away reserved in heaven ‖ Or for us for you 5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time 6 Wherein ye greatly rejoyce though now for a season if need be ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations 7 That the trial of your faith being much more precious then of gold that perisheth though it be tried with fire might be found unto praise and honour and-glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ 8 Whom having
may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel unto the place that I have prepared for it 13 For because ye did it not at the first the LORD our God made a breach upon us for that we sought him not after the due order 14 So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel 15 And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon as * Exod. 25.14 Moses commanded according to the word of the LORD 16 And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick psalteries and harps and cymbals sounding by lifting up the voice with joy 17 So the Levites appointed * Chap. 6.33 Heman the son of Joel and of his brethren * Chap. 6.39 Asaph the son of Berechiah and of the sons of Merari their brethren * Chap. 6.44 Ethan the son of Kushaiah 18 And with them their brethren of the second degree Zechariah Ben and Jaaziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and Unni Eliab and Benaiah and Maaseiah and Mattithiah and Elipheleh and Mikneiah and Obed-edom and Jeiel the porters 19 So the singers Heman Asaph and Ethan were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass 20 And Zechariah and Aziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and Unni Eliah and Maaseiah Benaiah with psalteries on Alamoth 21 And Mattithiah and Elipheleh and Mikneiah and Obed-edom and Jeiel and Azzaziah with harps ‖ Or on the eighth to oversee on the Sheminith to excel 22 And Chenaniah chief of the Levites ‖ Or was for the carriage be instructed about the carriage was for †Heb. lifting up song he instructed about the song because he was skilful 23 And Berechiah and Elkanah were door-keepers for the ark 24 And Shebaniah and Jehoshaphat and Nethaneel and Amasai and Zechariah and Benaiah and Eliezer the priests did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God and Obed-edom and Jehiah were door-keepers for the ark 25 ¶ So * 2 Sam. 6.12 13 c. David and the elders of Israel and the captains over thousands went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the house of Obed-edom with joy 26 And it came to pass when God helped the Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams 27 And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen and all the Levites that bare the ark and the singers and Chenaniah the master of the ‖ Or carriage song with the singers David also had upon him an ephod of linen 28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting and with sound of the cornet and with trumpets and with cymbals making a noise with psalteries and harps 29 ¶ And it came to pass as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David that Michal the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing and she despised him in her heart CHAP. XVI 1 Davids festival sacrifice 4 He ordereth a quire to sine thanksgiving 7 The psalm of thanksgiving 37 He appointeth ministers porter priests and musicians to attend continually on the ark SO * 2 Sam. 6.17 they brought the ark of God and set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it and they offered burnt-sacrifices and peace-offerings before God 2 And when David had made an end of offering the burnt-offerings the peace-offerings he blessed the people in the name of the LORD 3 And he dealt to every one of Israel both man and woman to every one a loaf of bread and a good piece of flesh and a flagon of wine 4 ¶ And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD and to record and to thank and praise the LORD God of Israel 5 Asaph the chief and next to him Zechariah Jeiel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and Mattithiah and Eliah and Benaiah and Obed-edom and Jeiel †Heb. with instruments of psalteries and harps with psalteries and with harps but Asaph made a sound with cymbals 6 Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God 7 ¶ Then on that day David delivered first this psalm to thank the LORD into the hand of Asaph and his brethren 8 * Psal 105 1. Give thanks unto the LORD call upon his name make known his deeds among the people 9 Sing unto him sing psalms unto him talk you of all his wondrous works 10 Glory ye in his holy name let the heart of them rejoyce that seek the LORD 11 Seek the LORD and his strength seek his face continually 12 Remember his marvellous works that he hath done his wonders and the judgements of his mouth 13 O ye seed of Israel his servant ye children of Jacob his chosen ones 14 He is the LORD our God his judgements are in all the earth 15 Be ye mindful always of his covenant the word which he commanded to a thousand generations 16 Even of the * Gen. 1â— 2 26. â— 28.13 covenant which he made with Abraham and of his oath unto Isaac 17 And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law and to Israel for an everlasting covenant 18 Saying Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan †Heb. the cord the lot of your inheritance 19 When ye were but †Heb. men of number few * Gen. 3â— 30 even a few and strangers in it 20 And when they went from nation to nation and from one kingdom to another people 21 He suffered no man to do them wrong yea he * Gen. 12 17 20.3 reproved kings for their sakes 22 Saying * Psal 105.15 Touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm 23 * Psal â—6 1 Sing unto the LORD all the earth shew forth from day to day his salvation 24 Declare his glory among the heathen his marvellous works among all nations 25 For great is the LORD and greatly to be praised he also is to be feared above all gods 26 For all the gods * Lev. 19.6 of the people are idols but the LORD made the heavens 27 Glory and honour are in his presence strength and gladness are in his place 28 Give unto the LORD ye kindreds of the people give unto the LORD glory and strength 29 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name bring an offering and come before him worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness 30 Fear before him all the earth the world also shall be stable that it be not moved 31 Let the heavens be glad and let the earth rejoyce and let men say among the nations The LORD reigneth 32 Let the sea roar and the fulness
thereof let the fields rejoyce and all that is therein 33 Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the LORD because he cometh to judge the earth 34 * Psal 10â— 1. 118.1 136. â— O give thanks unto the LORD for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever 35 And say ye Save us O God of our salvation and gather us together and deliver us from the heathen that we may give thanks to thy holy name and glory in thy praise 36 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel for ever and ever and all * Deut. 27 25. the people said Amen and praised the LORD 37 ¶ So he left there before the ark of the covenant of the LORD Asaph and his brethren to minister before the ark continually as every days work required 38 And Obed-edom with their brethren threescore and eight Obed-edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be porters 39 And Zadok the priest and his brethren the priests before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that was at Gibeon 40 To offer burnt offerings unto the LORD upon the altar of the burnt-offering continually †Heb. in the morning and in the evening morning and evening and to do according to all that is written in the law of the LORD which he commanded Israel 41 And with them Heman and Jeduthun and the rest that were chosen who were expressed by name to give thanks to the LORD because his mercy endureth for ever 42 And with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should make a sound and with musical instruments of God and the sons of Jeduthun were †Heb. for the gate porters 43 And all the people departed every man to his house and David returned to bless his house CHAP. XVII 1 Nathan first approving the purpose of David to build God an house 3 after by the word of God forbidâ—eth him 11 He promiseth him blessings and benefits in his seed 16 Davids prayer and thanksgiving NOw * 2 Sam. 7.1 c. it came to pass as David sat in his house that David said to Nathan the prophet Lo I dwell in an house of cedars but the ark of the cevenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains 2 Then Nathan said unto David Do all that is in thine heart for God is with thee 3 ¶ And it came to pass the same night that the word of God came to Nathan saying 4 Go and tell David my servant Thus saith the LORD Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in 5 For I have not dwelt in an house since the day that I brought up Israel unto this day but †Heb. have been have gone from tent to tent and from one tabernacle to another 6 Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel whom I commanded to feed my people saying Why have ye not built me an house of cedars 7 Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David Thus saith the LORD of hosts I took thee from the sheep-cote even †Heb. from after from following the sheep that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel 8 And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth 9 Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel and will plant them and they shall dwell in their place and shall be moved no more neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more as at the beginning 10 And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel moreover I will subdue all thine enemies Furthermore I tell thee that the LORD will build thee an house 11 ¶ And it shall come to pass when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers that I will raise up thy seed after thee which shall be of thy sons and I will establish his kingdom 12 He shall build me an house and I will stablish his throne for ever 13 * 2 Sam. 7.14 I will be his father and he shall be my son and I will not take my mercy away from him as I took it from him that was before thee 14 But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever and his throne shall be established for evermore 15 According to all these words and according to all this vision so did Nathan speak unto David 16 ¶ And David the king came and sat before the LORD and said Who am I O LORD God and what is mine house that thou hast brought me hitherto 17 And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes O God for thou hast also spoken of thy servants house for a great while to come and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree O LORD God 18 What can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy servant for thou knowest thy servant 19 O LORD for thy servants sake and according to thine own heart hast thou done all this greatness in making known all these †Heb. greatnesses great things 20 O LORD there is none like thee neither is there any God besides thee according to all that we have heard with our ears 21 And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel whom God went to redeem to be his own people to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness by driving out nations from before thy people whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt 22 For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever and thou LORD becamest their God 23 Therefore now LORD let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever and do as thou hast said 24 Let it even be established that thy name may be magnified for ever saying The LORD of hosts is the God of Israel even a God to Israel and let the house of David thy servant be established before thee 25 For thou O my God †Heb. hast revealed the ear of thy servant hast told thy servant that thou wilt build him an house therefore thy servant hath found in his heart to pray before thee 26 And now LORD thou art God and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant 27 Now therefore ‖ Or it hath plused thee let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant that it may be before thee for ever for thou blessest O LORD and it shall be blessed for ever CHAP. XVIII 1 David subdueth the Philistines and the Moabites 3 He smiteth Hadarezer and the Syrians 9 Tou sendeth Hadoram with presents to bless David 11 The presents and the spoil David dedieateth to God 13 He putteth garisons in Edom. 14 Davids officers NOw
set his love upon me therefore will I deliver him I will set him on high because he hath known my name 15 He shall call upon me and I will answer him I will be with him in trouble I will deliver him and honour him 16 With †Heb. length of days long life will I satisfie him and shew him my salvation PSAL. XCII 1 The prophet exhorteth to praise God 4 for his great works 6 for his judgements on the wicked 10 and for his goodness to the godly ¶ A psalm or song for the sabbath-day IT is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD and to sing praises unto thy name O most High 2 To shew forth thy loving kindness in the morning and thy faithfulness †Heb. in the nights every night 3 Upon an instrument of ten strings and upon the psaltery ‖ Or upon the solemn sound with the harp upon the harp with †Heb. Higgaion a solemn sound 4 For thou LORD hast made me glad through thy work I will triumph in the works of thy hands 5 O LORD how great are thy works and thy thoughts are very deep 6 A brutish man knoweth not neither doth a fool understand this 7 When the wicked spring as the grass and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish it is that they shall be destroyed for ever 8 But thou LORD art most high for evermore 9 For lo thine enemies O LORD for lo thine enemies shall perish all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered 10 But my horn shalt thou exalt like the born of an unicorn I shall be anointed with fresh oyl 11 Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me 12 * Hosea 14.5 The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon 13 Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God 14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age they shall be fat and †Heb. green flourishing 15 To shew that the LORD is upright he is my rock and there is no unrighteousness in him PSAL. XCIII The majesty power and holiness of Christs kingdom THe LORD reigneth he is clothed with majesty the LORD is clothed with strength wherewith he hath girded himself the world also is stablished that it cannot be moved 2 Thy throne is established †Heb from then of old thou art from everlasting 3 The flouds have lifted up O LORD the flouds have lifted up their voice the flouds lift up their waves 4 The LORD on high is mightier then the noise of many waters yea then the mighty waves of the sea 5 Thy testimonies are very sure holiness becometh thine house O LORD †Heb. to length of days for ever PSAL. XCIV 1 The prophet calling for justice complaineth of tyranny and impiety 8 He teacheth Gods providence 12 He sheweth the blessedness of affliction 16 God is the defender of the afflicted O LORD †Heb. God of revenges God to whom vengeance belongeth O God to whom vengeance belongeth †Heb. shine forth shew thy self 2 Lift up thy self thou judge of the earth render a reward to the proud 3 LORD how long shall the wicked how long shall the wicked triumph 4 How long shall they utter and speak hard things and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves 5 They break in pieces thy people O LORD and afflict thine heritage 6 They slay the widow and the stranger and murder the fatherless 7 * Psal 10.11 13. Yet they say The LORD shall not see neither shall the God of Jacob regard it 8 Understand ye brutish among the people and ye fools when will ye be wise 9 * Exod. 4.11 Prov. 20.13 He that planted the ear shall he not hear he that formed the eye shall he not see 10 He that chastiseth the heathen shall not he correct he that teacheth man knowledge shall not he know 11 * 1 Cor. 3.20 The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man that they are vanity 12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest O LORD and teachest him out of thy law 13 That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity until the pâ—t be digged for the wicked 14 For the LORD will not cast off his people neither will he forsake his inheritance 15 But judgement shall return unto righteousness and all the upright in heart †Heb. shall be afteâ— it shall follow it 16 Who will rise up for me against the evil doers or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity 17 Unless the LORD had been my help my soul had ‖ Or quickly almost dwelt in silence 18 When I said My foot slippeth thy mercy O LORD held me up 19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul 20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee which frameth miscâ—iâ—f â—y a law 21 They gather tâ—â—mselves together against the soul of the righteous and condâ—mn the innocent bloud 22 But the LORD is my defence and my God is the rock of my râ—fuge 23 And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity and shall cut them off in their own wickedness yea the LORD our God shall cut them off PSAL. XCV 1 An exhortation to praise God 3 for his greatness 6 and for his goodness 8 and not to tempt him O Come let us sing unto the LORD let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation 2 Let us †Heb. prevent his face come before his presence with thanksgiving and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms 3 For the LORD is a great God and a great King above all gods 4 †Heb. in whose In his hand are the deep places of the earth ‖ Or the brights of the hills are his the strength of the hills is his also 5 †Heb. whos 's the sea is The sea is his and he made it 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 pasture and the sheep of his hand * Heb. 3.7 and 4.7 to day if ye will hear his voice 8 Harden not your heart * Exod. 17.2.7 Num. 14.22 c. as in the †Heb. contention provocation and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness 9 When your fathers tempted me proved me and saw my work 10 Fourty years long was I grieved with this generation and said It is a people that do err in their heart and they have not known my ways 11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath †Heb. if they enter into my rest that they should not enter into my rest PSAL. XCVI 1 An exhortation to praise God