Therefore O Lord make plain the way wherein I ought to go verse 9 Their Mouth vents nothing but Deceit their Heart is set on Wrong Their Throat is a devouring Grave they flatter with their Tongue verse 10 By their own Counsels let them fall oppress'd with loads of Sin For they against thy righteous Laws have harden'd Rebels been verse 11 But let all those who trust in thee with Shouts their Joy proclaim Let them rejoice whom thou preserv'st and all that love thy Name verse 12 To righteous Men the righteous Lord his Blessing will extend And with his Favour all his Saints as with a Shield defend PSALM VI. verse 1 THy dreadful Anger Lord restrain and spare a Wretch forlorn Correct me not in thy fierce Wrath too heavy to be born verse 2 Have Mercy Lord for I grow faint unable to endure The Anguish of my aking Bones which thou alone canst cure verse 3 My tortur'd Flesh distracts my Mind and fills my Soul with Grief But Lord how long wilt thou delay to grant me thy Relief verse 4 Thy wonted Goodness Lord repeat and ease my troubled Soul Lord for thy wond'rous Mercy 's sake vouchsafe to make me whole verse 5 For after Death no more can I thy glorious Acts proclaim No Pris'ner of the silent Grave can magnifie thy Name verse 6 Quite tir'd with Pain with Groaning faint no hope of Ease I see The Night that quiets common Griefs is spent in Tears by me verse 7 My Beauty fades my Sight grows dim my Eyes with weakness close Old Age o'ertakes me whilst I think on my insulting Foes verse 8 Depart ye Wicked in my wrongs ye shall no more rejoice For God I find accepts my Tears and listens to my Voice verse 9 10 He hears and grants my humble Pray'r and they that wish my Fall Shall blush and rage to see that God protects me from them all PSALM VII verse 1 O Lord my God since I have plac'd my Trust alone in thee From all my Persecutors Rage do thou deliver me verse 2 To save me from my threatning Foe Lord interpose thy Pow'r Lest like a salvage Lion he my helpless Soul devour verse 3 4 If I am guilty or did e'er against his Peace combine Nay if I have not spar'd his Life who sought unjustly mine verse 5 Let then to persecuting Foes my Soul become a Prey Let them to Earth tread down my Life in Dust my Honour lay verse 6 Arise and let thine Anger Lord in my Defence engage Exalt thy self above my Foes and their insulting Rage Awake awake in my behalf the Judgment to dispense Which thou hast righteously ordain'd for injur'd Innocence verse 7 So to thy Throne adoring Crouds shall still for Justice fly O! therefore for their sakes resume thy Judgment-seat on high verse 8 Impartial Judge of all the World I trust my Cause to thee According to my just Deserts so let thy Sentence be verse 9 Let wicked Arts and wicked Men together be o'erthrown But guard the Just thou God to whom the Hearts of both are known verse 10 11 God me protects nor only me but all of upright Heart And daily lays up Wrath for those who from his Laws depart verse 12 If they persist he whets his Sword his Bow stands ready bent verse 13 Ev'n now with swift Destruction wing'd his pointed Shafts are sent verse 14 The Plots are fruitless which my Foe unjustly did conceive verse 15 The Pit he digg'd for me has prov'd his own untimely Grave verse 16 On his own Head his Spite returns whilst I from Harm am free On him the Violence is fall'n which he design'd for me verse 17 Therefore will I the righteous ways of Providence proclaim I 'll sing the Praise of God most High and celebrate his Name PSALM VIII verse 1 O Thou to whom all Creatures bow within this earthly Frame Thro' all the World how great art Thou how glorious is thy Name In Heav'n thy wond'rous Acts are sung nor fully reckon'd there verse 2 And yet thou mak'st the Infant-Tongue thy boundless Praise declare Thro' thee the Weak confound the Strong and crush their haughty Foes And so thou quell'st the wicked Throng that thee and thine oppose verse 3 When Heav'n thy beauteous work on high employs my wond'ring Sight The Moon that nightly rules the Sky with Stars of feebler Light verse 4 What 's Man say I that Lord thou lov'st to keep him in thy mind Or what his Off-spring that thou prov'st to them so wond'rous kind verse 5 Him next in Pow'r thou didst create to thy Celestial Train verse 6 Ordain'd with Dignity and State o'er all thy Works to reign verse 7 They jointly own his pow'rful sway the Beasts that prey or graze verse 8 The Bird that wings its airy way the Fish that cuts the Seas verse 9 O Thou to whom all Creatures bow within this earthly Frame Thro' all the World how great art Thou how glorious is thy Name PSALM IX verse 1 TO celebrate thy Praise O Lord I will my Heart prepare To all the list'ning World thy Works thy wond'rous Works declare verse 2 The Thought of them shall to my Soul exalted Pleasure bring Whilst to thy Name O thou most High triumphant Praise I sing verse 3 Thou mad'st my haughty Foes to turn their backs in shameful flight Struck with thy Presence down they fell they perish'd at thy sight verse 4 Against insulting Foes advanc'd thou didst my Cause maintain My Right asserting from thy Throne where Truth and Justice reign verse 5 The Insolence of Heathen Pride thou hast reduc'd to Shame Their wicked Offspring quite destroy'd and blotted out their Name verse 6 Mistaken Foes your haughty Threats are to a period come Our City stands which you design'd to make our common Tomb. verse 7 8 The Lord for ever lives who has his righteous Throne prepar'd Impartial Justice to dispense to punish or reward verse 9 God is a constant sure Defence against oppressing Rage As Troubles rise his needful Aids in our behalf engage verse 10 All those who have his Goodness prov'd will in his Truth confide Whose Mercy ne'er forsook the Man that on his Help rely'd verse 11 Sing Praises therefore to the Lord from Sion his Abode Proclaim his Deeds till all the World confess no other God PART II. verse 12 When he enquiry makes for Blood he calls the Poor to mind The injur'd humble Man's Complaint relief from him shall find verse 13 Take pity on my Troubles Lord which spiteful Foes create Thou that hast rescu'd me so oft from Death's devouring Gate verse 14 In Sion then I 'll sing thy Praise to all that love thy Name And with loud Shouts of grateful Joy thy saving Pow'r proclaim verse 15 Deep in the Pit they digg'd for me the Heathen Pride is laid Their guilty Feet to their own Snare are heedlesly betray'd verse 16 Thus by the just Returns he makes the mighty Lord is known While wicked
God who will employ His Aid for thee and change these Sighs to thankful Hymns of Joy verse 6 My Soul 's cast down O God but thinks on thee and Sion still From fordan's Bank from Hermon's Heights and Missar's humbler Hill verse 7 One Trouble calls another on and gath'ring o'er my Head Fall spouting down till round my Soul a roaring Sea is spread verse 8 But when thy Presence Lord of Life has once dispell'd this Storm To thee I'II midnight-Anthems sing and all my Vows porform verse 9 God of my Strength how long shall I like one forgotten mourn Forlorn forsaken and expos'd to my oppressor's Scorn verse 10 My Heart is pierc'd as with a Sword whilst thus my Foes upbraid Vain Boaster where is now thy God and where his promis'd Aid verse 11 Why reftless why cast down my Soul hope still and thou shalt sing The Praise of him who is thy God thy Health 's Eternal Spring PSALM XLIII JUST Judge of Heav'n against ' my Foes do thou affert my injur'd Right O set me free my God from those that in Deceit and Wrong delight verse 2 Since thou art still my only Stay Why leav'st thou me in deep Distress Why go I mourning all the Day whilst me insulting Foes oppress verse 3 Let me with Light and Truth be blest be these my Guides to lead the way Till on thy holy Hill I rest and in thy sacred Temple pray verse 4 Then will I there fresh Altars raise to God who is my only joy And well-tun'd Harps witn Songs of Praise shall all my grateful Hours employ verse 5 Why then cast down my'Soul and why so much opprest with arixious Care On God thy God for Aid rely who will thy ruin'd State repair PSALM XLIV O Lord our Fathers oft have told in our attentive Ears Thy Wonders in their days'perform'd and elder Times than theirs verse 2 How Thou to plant them here didst drive the Heathen from this Land Dispeopled by repeated Strokes of thy avenging Hand verse 3 For not their Courage nor their Sword to them possession gave Nor strength that from unequal Force their fainting Troops could save But thy Right-hand and pow'rful Arm whose Succour they implor'd Thy Presence with the chosen Race who thy great Name ador'd verse 4 As Thee their God our Fathers own'd thou art our Sov'reign King O therefore as thou didst to them to us Deliv'rance bring verse 5 Thro' thy victorious Name our Arms the proudest Foe shall quell And crush 'em with repeated Strokes as oft as they rebel verse 6 I 'll neither trust my Bow nor Sword when I in Fight ingage verse 7 But Thee who hast our Foes subdu'd and sham'd their spiteful Rage verse 8 To Thee the Triumph we ascribe from whom the Conquest came In God we will rejoyce all Day and ever bless his Name PART II. verse 9 But thou hast cast us off and now most shamefully we yield for thou no more vouchsaf'st to lead our Armies to the Field verse 10 Since when to every upstart Foe we turn our Backs in Fight And with our Spoil their Malice feast who bear us ancient Spite verse 11 To Slaughter doom'd we fall like Sheep into their butch'ring Hands Or what 's more wretched yet survive disperst thro' Heathen Lands verse 12 Thy People thou hast sold for Slaves and set their Price so low That not thy Treasure by the Sale but their Disgrace may grow verse 13 14 Reproach'd by all the Nations round the Heathea's By-word grown Whose Scorn of us is both in Speech and mocking Gestures shown verse 14 Confusion strikes me blind my Face in conscioiis shame I hide verse 16 While we are seoff'd and God blasphem'd by their licentious pride PART III. verse 17 On us this Heap of Woes is fall'n all this we have endur'd Yet have not Lord renoune'd thy Name or Faith to thee abjur'd verse 18 But in thy righteous Paths have kept our Hearts ana Steps with Care verse 19 Tho'thou hast broken all bur Strength and we almost despair verse 20 Could we forgetting thy great Name on other Gods rely verse 21 And not the Searcher of all Hearts the treach'rous Crime descry verse 22 Thou seest what Suff'rings for thy sake we ev'ry day sustain All slaughter'd or reserv'd like Sheep appointed to be slain verse 23 Awake arise let seeming Sleep no longer thee detain Nor let us Lord who sue to thee for ever sue in vain verse 24 O wherefore hidest thou thy Face from our afflicted state verse 25 Whose Soul 's and Bodies sink to Earth with Griefs oppressive Weight verse 26 Arise O Lord and timely Haste to our Deliv'rance make Redeem us Lord if not for our's yet for thy Mercy 's sake PSALM XLV WHile I the King 's loud Praise rehearse endited by my Heart My Tongue is like the Pen of him that writes with ready Art verse 2 How matchless is thy Form O King thy Mouth with Grace o'erflows Because fresh Blessings God on thee eternally bestows verse 3 Gird on thy Sword most mighty Prince and clad in rich Array With glorious Ornaments of Pow'r Majestick Pomp display verse 4 Ride on in state and still protect the Meek the Just and True Whilst thy Right-hand with swift Revenge does all thy Foes pursue verse 5 How sharp thy Weapons are to them that dare thy Pow'r despise Down down they fall while through their Heart the feather'd Arrow flies verse 6 But thy firm Throne O God is fix'd for ever to endure Thy Scepter 's Sway shall always last by righteous Laws secure verse 7 Because thy Heart by Justice led did upright Ways approve And hated still the crooked Paths where wand'ring Sinners rove Therefore did God thy God oh thee the Oyl of Gladness shed And has above thy Fellows round advanc'd thy losty Head verse 8 With Cassia Aloes and Myrrh thy Royal Robes abound Which from the stately Wardrobe bronght spread grateful Odours round verse 9 Among the honourable Train did Princely Virgins wait The Queen was plac'd at thy Right-hand in Golden Robes of State PART II. verse 10 But thou O Royal Bride give ear and to my Words attend Forget thy Native Country now and ev'ry former Friend verse 11 So shall thy Beauty charm the King nor shall his Love decay For he is now become thy Lord to him due Rev'rence pay verse 12 The Tyrian Matrons rich and proud shall humble Presents make And all the wealthy Nations sue thy Favour to partake verse 13 The King 's fair Daughter 's fairer Soul all inward Graces fill Her Raiment is of purest Gold adorn'd with costly Skill verse 14 She in her nuptial Garment dress'd with needles richly wrought Attended by her Virgin Train shall to the King be brought verse 15 With all the State of solemn Joy the Triumph moves along Till with wide Gates the Royal Court receives the pompous Throng verse 16 Thou in thy Royal Father's room must princely Sons expect Whom thou
Friend And he shall from unrighteous Dooms their guiltless Souls defend Psalm CX verse 1 THE Lord unto my Lord thus spake Till I thy Foes thy Footstool make sit thou in state at my Right-hand verse 2 Supreme in Sion thou shall be and all thy proud Opposers see subjected to thy just Command verse 3 Thee in thy Pow'rs triumphant Day the willing Nations shall obey and when thy rising Beams they view shall all redeem'd from Error 's Night appear as numberless and bright as Chrystal Drops of Morning Dew verse 4 The Lord hath sworn nor sworn in vain that like Melchizedech's thy Reign and Priesthood shall no Period know verse 5 No proud Competitor to fit at thy Right-hand will he permit but in his wrath crown'd Heads o'erthrow verse 6 The sentenc'd Heathen he shall flay and fill with Carcasses his way till he hath struck Earth's Tyrants dead verse 7 But in the high-way Brooks shall first like a poor Pilgrim slake his Thirst and then in Triumph raise his Head Psalm CXI verse 1 PRise ye the Lord our God to praise My Soul her utmost Pow'r raise With private Friends and in the Throng Of Saints his Praise shall be my Song verse 2 His Works for Greatness tho' renown'd His wond'rous Works with ease are found By those who seek for them aright And in the pious Search delight verse 3 His Works are all of matchless Fame And universal Glory claim His truth confirm'd thro'Ages past Shall to eternal Ages last verse 4 By precept he has us enjoyn'd To keep his wondrous Works in mind And to posterity record That good and gracious is our Lord. verse 5 His Bounty like a flowing Tide Has all his Servants Wants supply'd And he will ever keep in mind His Cov'nant with our Fathers sign'd verse 6 At once astonish'd and o'erjoy'd They saw his matchless Pow'r employ'd Whereby the Heathen were suppress'd And we their Heritage possess'd verse 7 Just are the Dealings of his Hands Immutable are his Commands verse 8 By Truth and Equity sustain'd And for eternal Rules ordain'd verse 9 He set is Saints from Bondage free And then establish'd his Decree For ever to remain the fame Holy and Rev'rend is his Name verse 10 Who Wisdom's sacred Prize would win Must with the Fear of God begin Immortal praise and heav'nly Skill Have they who know and do his Will Psalm CXII HALLELUJAH verse 1 THat Man is blest who stands in aw Of God and loves his sacred Law verse 2 His seed on Earth shall be renown'd And with successive Honours crown'd verse 1 His House the Seat of Wealth shall be An inexhausted Treasury His Justice free from all Decay Shall Blessings to his Heirs convey verse 4 The Soul that 's fill'd with Vertue 's Light Shine's brightest in Assliction's Night To pity the Distrest inclin'd As well as just to all Mankind verse 5 His lib'ral Favours he extends To some he gives to others lends Yet what his Charity impairs He saves by Prudence in Affairs verse 6 Beset with threatning Dangers round Unmov'd shall he maintain his Ground The sweet Remembrance of the Just Shall flourish when he sleeps in Dust verse 7 III Tidings never can surprize His Heart that still on God relies verse 8 On Safety 's Rock he sits and sees The Shipwreck of his Enemies verse 9 His Hands while they his Alms bestow'd His Glory 's future Harvest sow'd Whence he shall reap Wealth Fame Renown A temp'ral and eternal Crown verse 10 The Wicked shall his Trinmph see And gnash their Teeth in Agony While their unrighteous Hopes decay And vanish with themselves away Psalm CXIII verse 1 YE Saints and Servants of the Lord the Triumphs of his Name record verse 2 His sacred Name for ever bless verse 3 Where e'er the circling Sun displays his rising Beams or setting Rays due praise to his great Name address verse 4 God thro' the World extends his Sway the Regions of eternal Day but Shadows of his Glory are verse 5 To him whose Majesty excels who made the Heav'n in which he dwells let no created Pow'r compare verse 6 Tho' t is beneath his State to view in highest Heav'n what Angels do yet he to Earth vouchsafes his Care He takes the Needy from his Cell advancing him in Courts to dwell Companion to the greatest there verse 7 When childless Families despair He sends the Blessing of an Heir to rescue their expiring Name Makes her that barren was to bear and joyfully her fruit to rear O then extol his matcless Fame Psalm CXIV verse 1 WHen ' ISr'el by th' Almighty led Enrich'd with their Oppressors spoil From Egypt march'd and Jacob's Seed From Bondage in a foreign Soil Jehovab for his Residence Chose out imperial Judah's Tent His Mansion Royal and from thence Thro' Israel's Camp his Orders sent verse 3 The distant Sea with Terrors saw And from th' Almighty's presence fled Old Jordan's Streams surpriz'd with Awe Retreated to their Fountain's Head verse 4 The taller Mountains skipp'd like Rams When danger near the Fold they hear The Hills skipp'd after them like Lambs affrighted by their Leader's Fear verse 5 O Sea what made your Tide withdraw And naked leave your oozy Bed Why Jordan against Natur 's Law Recoild'st thou to thy Fountain's Head verse 6 Why Mountains did ye skip like Rams When Danger does approach the Fold Why after you the Hills like Lambs When they their Leader's Flight behold verse 7 Earth tremble on well may'st thou fear Thy Lord and Maker's Face to fee When Jacob's awful God draws near 'T is time for Earth and Seas to flee verse 8 To flee from God who Natures Law Confirms and cancels at his Will Who Springs from flinty Rocks can draw And thirsty Vales with Water fill Psalm CXV verse 1 LOrd not to us we claim no Share but to thy sacred Name Give Glory for thy Mercy 's fake and Truth 's eternal Fame verse 2 Why should the Heathen cry Where'snow the God whom we adore verse 3 Convince'em that in Heav'n thou art and uncontroul'd thy Pow'r verse 4 Their God's but Gold and Silver are the Works of Mortal Hands verse 5 With speechless Mouth and fightless Eyes the molten Idol stands verse 6 The Pageant has both Ears and Nose but neigher hears nor smells verse 7 Its Hands and Feet nor feel nor move no Life within it dwells verse 8 Such senseless Stocks they are that we can nothing like 'em find But those who on their Help rely and them for Gods design'd verse 9 O Ifr el make the Lord your Trust who is your Help and Shield verse 10 Priests Levites trust in him alone who only Help can yield verse 11 Let all who truely fear the Lord on him they fear rely Who them in Danger can defend and all their Wants supply verse 12 13 Of us he oft has mindful been and Israel's House will bless Priests Levites Proselytes ev'n All who his great Name confess verse 14
On you and on your Heirs he will increase of Blessings bring verse 15 Thrice happy you who Fav'rites are of this Almighty King verse 16 Heav'ns highest Orb of Glory he hiS Empire 's Seat design'd And gave this lower Globe of Earth a Portion td Mankind verse 17 They who in Death and Silence sleep to him no Praise afford verse 18 But we will bless for evermore our ever-living Lord. Psalm CXVI verse 1 MY Soul with grateful Thoughts of Love intirely is poslest Because the Lord vouchsasd to hear the Voice of my Request verse 2 Since he has now his Ear inclin'd I never will despair But still in all the straits of Life to him address my Prayer verse 3 With deadly Sorrows compass'd round with pains of Hell opprest When Troubles seiz'd my aking Heart and Anguish rack'd my Breast verse 4 On God's Almighty Name I call'd and thus to him I pray'd Lord I beseech thee save my Soul with Sorrows quite dismay'd verse 5 6 How just and merciful is God how gracious is the Lord Who saves the harmless and to me does timely help afford verse 7 Then free from pensive Cares my Soul resume thy wonted Rest For God has wond'rously to thee his bounteous Love exprest verse 8 When Death alarm'd me he remov'd my dangers and my Fears My Feet from falling he secur'd and dry'd my Eyes from Tears verse 9 Therefore my Life 's remaining years which God to me shall lend Will I in praises to his Name and in his Service spend verse 10 11 In God I trusted and of him in greatest Straits did boast For in my Flight all hopes of Aid from faithless Men were lost verse 12 13 Then what Return to him shall I for all his goodness make I 'll praise his Name and with glad Zeal the Cup of Blessing take verse 14 15 I 'll pay my Vows amongst his Saints whose Blood howe'er despis'd By Wicked Men in God's account is always highly priz'd verse 16 By various Ties O Lord must I to thy Dominion bow Thy humble Handmaid's Son before thy ransom'd Captive now verse 17 18 To thee I 'll Off rings bring of praise and whilst I bless thy Name The just performance of my Vows to all thy Saints proclaim verse 19 They in Jerusalem shall meet and in thy House shall joyn To bless thy Name consent and mix their Songs with mine Psalm CXVII verse 1 WIth cheerful Notes let all the Earth to Heav'n their Voices raise Let all inspir'd with godly Mirth sing solemn Hymns of Praise verse 2 God's tender Mercy knows no bound his Truth shall ne'er decay Then let the willing Nations round their grateful Tribute pay Psalm CXVIII verse 1 2 OPraise the Lord for he is good his Mercies ne'er decay That his kind Favours ever last let thankful Isr'el say verse 3 4 Their Sense of his eternal Love let Aaron's House express And that it never fails let all that fear the Lord confess verse 5 To God I made my humble moan with troubles quite opprest And he releas'd me from my Straits and granted my Request verse 6 Since therefore God does on my fide so graciously appear Why should the vain Attempts of Men possess my Soul with fear verse 7 Since God with those that aid my Cause vouchsases my part to take To all my Foes I need not doubt a just Return to make verse 8 9 For better 't is to trust in God and have the Lord our Friend Than on the greatest humane Pow'r for Safety to depend verse 10 11 Tho' many Nations closely leagu'd did ost beset me round Yet by his boundless Pow'r sustain'd I did their Strength confound verse 12 They swarm'd like Bees and yet their Rage was but a short-liv'd Blaze For whilst on God I still rely'd I vanquish'd them with ease verse 13 When all united press'd me hard in hopes to make me fall The Lord vouchsaf'd to take my part and fav'd me from them all verse 14 The Honour of my strange Escape to him alone belongs He is my Saviour and my Strength he only claims my Songs verse 15 Joy fills the Dwelling of the just whom God has fav'd from Harm For wond'rous things are brought to pass by his Almighty Arm. verse 16 He by his own resistless Pow'r has endless Honour won The saving Strength of his Right-hand amazing Works has done verse 17 God will not susser me to fall but still prolongs my Days That by declaring all his Works I may advance his Praise verse 18 When God had sorely me chastiz'd till quite of Hopes bereav'd His Mercy from the Gates of Death my fainting Life repriev'd verse 19 Then open wide the Temple-Gates to which the Just repair That I may enter in and praise my great Deliv'rer there verse 20 21 Within those Gates of God's Abgde to which the righteous press Since thou hast heard and set me safe thy holy Name I 'll bless verse 22 23 That which the Builders once refus'd is now the Corner-stone This is the wond'rous Work of God the Work of God alone verse 24 25 This Day is God's let all the Land exalt their cheerful Voice Lord we be seech thee fave us now and make us still rejoyce verse 26 Him that approaches in God's Name let all th' Assembly bless We that belong to God's own House have wish'd you good Success verse 27 God is the Lord thro' whom we all both Light and Comfort find Fast to the Altar's Horn with Cords the chosen Victim bind verse 28 Thou art my Lord O God and still I 'll praise thy holy Name Because thou only art my God I 'll celebrate thy Fame verse 29 O then with me give thanks to God who still does gracious prove And let the Tribute of our Praise be endless as his Love Psalm CXIX ALEPH. verse 1 HOW blest are they who always keep the pure and perfect way Who never from the sacred Paths of God's Commandments stray verse 2 How blest who to his righteous Laws have still obedient been And have with servent humble Zeal his Favour fought to win verse 3 Such Men their utmost caution use to shun each wicked Deed But in the path which he directs with constant Care proceed verse 4 Thou strictly hast enjoyn'd us Lord to learn thy sacred Will And all our Diligence employ thy Statutes to fulfil verse 5 O then that thy most holy Will might o'er my ways preside And I the course of all my Life by thy Direction guide verse 6 Then with Assurance should I walk from all Confusion free Convinc'd with Joy that all my Ways with thy Commands agree verse 7 My upright Heart shall my glad Mouth with cheerful Praises fill When by thy righteous Judgments taught I shall have learnt thy Will verse 8 So to thy sacred Laws shall I all due Observance pay O then forsakc me not my God nor cast me quite away BETH verse 9 How shall the Young preserve their Ways from all Pollution
of Life is done shall keep thy upright Way SAMECH verse 113 Deceitful Thoughts and Practices I utterly detest But to thy Law Affection bear too great to be exprest verse 114 My Hidihg-place my Refuge-Tow'r and Shield art thou O Lord I firmly anohor all my Hopes on thy unerring Word verse 115 Hence ye that trade in Wickedness approach not my Abode For firmly I resolve to keep the Precepts of my God verse 116 According to thy gracious Word from Danger set me free Nor make me of those Hope 's asham'd that I repose on thee verse 117 Uphold me so shall I be safe and rescu'd from Distress To thy Decrees continually my just Respect address verse 118 The wicked thou hast trod to earth who from thy statutes stray'd Their vile Deceit the just Reward of their own Falshood made verse 119 The wicked from thy holy Land thou dost like Dross remove I therefore with such Justice charm'd thy Testimonies love verse 120 Yet with that love they make me dread left I should offend When on Transgreffors I behold Thy Judgments thus descend AIN verse 121 Judgment and Justice I have lov'd O therefore Lord engage In my Defence nor give me up to my Oppressors Rage verse 122 Do thou be Surety Lord for me and so shall this Distress Prove good for me nor shall the Proud my guiltles Soul oppress verse 123 My Eyes alas begin to fail in long expectance held 'Till thy Salvation they behold and righteous Word fulfill'd verse 124 To me thy Servant in distress thy wonted Grace display And discipline my willing Heart thy Statutes to obey verse 125 On me devoted to thy Fear thy sacred Skill bestow That of thy Testimonies I the full extent may know verse 126 'T is time high time for thee O Lord thy Vengeance to employ When Men with open Violence thy sacred Law destroy verse 127 Yet their Contempt of thy Commands but makes their Value rise In my esteem who purest Gold compar'd with them despise verse 128 Thy Precepts therefore I account in all respects diving They teach me to discern the right and all false Ways decline PE. verse 129 The Wonders which thy Laws contain no Words can represent Therefore to learn and practise them my zealous Heart is bend verse 130 The very entrance to thy Word celestial Light displays And Knowledge of true Happiness to simplest Minds conveys verse 131 With eager Hopes I waiting stood and fainted with Desire That of thy wise Commands I might the sacred Skill acquire verse 132 With Favour Lord look down on me who thy Relief implore As thou art wont to visit those who thy blest Name adore verse 133 Directed by thy heav'nly Word let all my Footsteps be Nor Wickedness of any kind Dominion have o'er me verse 134 Release intirely set me free from persecuting Hands That unmolested I may learn and practise thy Commands verse 135 On me devoted to thy Fear Lord make thy Face to shiine Thy Statutes both to know and keep my Heart with Zeal incline verse 136 My Eyes to Weeping Fountains turn whence briny Rivers flow To see Mankind against thy Laws in bold defiance go TSADHI verse 137 Thou art the righteous Judge in whom wrong'd Innocence may trust And like thy self thy Judgments Lord in all respects are just verse 138 Most just and true those Statutes were which thou didst first decree And all with Faithfulness perform'd succeeding times shall see verse 139 With Zeal my Flest consumes away my Soul with Anguish frets To see my Foes contemn at once thy promises and Threats verse 140 Yet each neglected Word of thine howe'er by them despis'd Is pure and for eternal Truth by me thy Servant priz'd verse 141 Brought for thy sake to low Estate Contempt from All I find Yet no Affronts or Wrongs can drive thy Precepts from my Mind verse 142 Thy Righteousness shall then endure when Time it self is past Thy Law is Truth it self that Truth which shall for ever last verse 143 Tho' Trouble Anguish Doubts and Dread to compass me unite Beset with Danger still I make thy Precepts my Delight verse 144 Eternal and unerring Rules thy Testimonies give Teach me the Wisdom that will make my Soul for ever live KOPH verse 145 with my whole Heart to God I Call'd Lord hear my earnest Cry And I thy Statues to perform will all my Care apply verse 146 Again more servently I pray'd O save me that I may Thy Testimonies throughly know and stedfastly obey verse 147 My earlier Pray'r the dawning Day prevented while I cry'd To him on whose engaging Word my Hope alone rely'd verse 148 With Zeal have I awak'd before the midnight-Watch was set That I of thy mysterious Word might perfect Knowledge get verse 149 Lord hear my supplicating Voice and wonted Favour shew O quicken me and so approve thy Judgments ever true verse 150 My persecuting Foes advance and hourly nearet draw What Treatment can I hope from them who violate thy Law verse 151 Tho' they draw nigh my comfort is thou Lord art yet more near Thou whose Commands are righteous all thy promises sincere verse 152 Concerning thy Divine Decrees my Soul has known of old That they were true and shall their Truth to endless Ages hold RESCH. verse 153 Cosider my Affiction Lord and me from Bondage draw Think on try Servant in Distress who ne'er Forgets thy Law verse 154 Plead thou my cause to that and me thy timely Aid afford With Beams of mercy quicken me according to thy Word verse 155 From hard'ned Sinners thou remov'st Salvatien far away 'T is just should'st withdraw from them who from thy Statutes stray verse 156 Since great thy tender mercies are to all who thee adore According to thy Judgments Lord my fainting Hopes restore verse 157 A num'rous Host of spiteful Foes against my life combine But all too few to force my Soul thy Statutes to decline verse 158 Those bold Transgressors I beheld and was with grief opprss'd To see with what audacious Pride thy Cov'nant they transgress'd verse 159 Yet while they slight consider Lord how I thy Precepts love O therefore quicken me with Beams of mercy from above verse 160 As from the Birth of Time thy Truth has held through Ages past So shall thy righteous Judgments firm to endless Ages last SCHIN verse 161 Tho' mighty Tyrants without cause conspire my Blood to shed Thy sacred Word Has Pow'r alone to fill my Heart with dread verse 162 And yet that Word my joyful Breast with heav'nly Raptur warms Nor Conquest nor the Spoils of War have such transporting Charms verse 163 Perfidious Practises and Lies I utterly detest But to thy Laws affection bear too vast to be exprest verse 164 Sev'n times a day with grateful voice thy Praises I resound Because I find thy Judgments all with Truth and Justice crown'd verse 165 Secure substantial Peace have they who truly love thy Law No smiling Mischief them can tempt
Host verse 20 Ev'n they whom I oblig'd return my Kindness with Despight And are my Enemies because I chuse the Path that 's right verse 21 Forsake me not O Lord my God nor far from me depart verse 22 Make haste to my relief O Thou who my Salvation art PSALM XXXIX verse 1 REsolv'd to watch o'er all my Ways I kept my Tongue in aw I curb'd my hasty words when I the Wicked prosp'rous saw verse 2 Like one thai's Dumb I silent stood and did my Tongue refrain From good Discourse but that restraint incres'd my inward Pain verse 3 My Heart did glow With working thoughts and Repose cou'd take Till strong Reflecion fann'd the Fire and thus at length I spake verse 4 Lord let me'know my term of Days how soon my Life will end The num'rous Train of Ills disclose which this frail State attend verse 5 My Life thou know'st is but a Span a Cypher sums my Years And ev'ry Man in best Estate but Vanity appears verse 6 Man like a Shadow vainly walks with fruitless Cares oppress'd He heaps up Wealth but cannot tell by whom 't will be possess'd verse 7 Why then S hould I on worthless Toys with anxious Care attend On thee alone my stedfast Hope shall ever Lord depend verse 8 9 Forgive my Sins nor let me scorn'd by foolish Sinners be For I was Dumb and murmur'd not because 't was done by Thee verse 10 The dreadful Burthen of thy Wrath in Mercy soon remove Lest my frail Flesh too weak to bear the heavy Load s hould prove verse 11 For when thou chast'nest Man for Sin thou mak'st his Beauty fade So vain a thing is he like Cloth by fretting Moths decay'd verse 12 Lord hear my Cry accept my Tears and listen to my Pray'r Who sojourn like a Stranger here as all my Fathers were verse 13 O spare me yet a litle time my wasted Strength restore Before I vanish quite from hence and shall be seen no more PSALM XL verse 1 I Waited meekly for the Lord till he vouchsas'd a kind reply Who did his gracious Ear afford and heard from Heav'n my humble Cry verse 2 He took me from the dismal Pit when founder'd deep in miry Clay On solid Ground he plac'd my Feet and suffer'd not my Steps to stray verse 3 The Wonders he for me has wrought shall fill my mouth with Songs of Praise And others to his Worship brought to hopes of like Deliv'rance raise verse 4 For Blessings shall that Man reward who on th' Almighty Lord relies Who treats the Proud with Disregard and hates the Hypocite's Disguise verse 5 Who can the wond'rous Works recount which thou O God for us hast wrought The Treasures of thy Love surmount the Pow'r of numbers speech and thought verse 6 I've learn'd that Thou hast not desir'd Off'rings and Sacrifice alone Nor Blood of guiltless Beasts requir'd for Man's Transgression to atone verse 7 I therefore come come to fulfil the Oracles thy Books impart verse 8 'T is my delight to do thy Will thy Law is written in my Heart PART II. verse 9 In full Assemblies I have told thy Truth and Rightcousncss at large Nor did thou know'st my Lips with-hold from utt'ring what thou gav'st in charge verse 10 Nor kept within my Breast confin'd thy faithtulness and saving Grace But Preach thy Love for All design'd that all might that and Truth embrace verse 11 Then let those Mercies I decar'd to others Lord extend to me Thy loving Kindne s s my Reward thy Truth my safe Protecion be verse 12 For I with troubles am distrest too numberless for me to bear Nor less with loads of Guilt opprest that plunge and sink me to Despair As soonr alas may I recount the Hairs on this afflicted Head My vanquisht Courage they surmount and fill my drooping Soul with Dread PART III. verse 13 But Lord to my Relief draw near for never was more pressing Need In my Deliv'rance Lord appear and add to that Deliv'rance Speed verse 14 Confusion on their Heads return who to destroy my Soul combine Let them defeated blush and mourn ensnar'd in their own vile design verse 15 Their Doom let Desolation be with Shame their Malice be repaid Who mock'd my Confidence in Thee and sport of my Assction made verse 16 While those who humbly seek thy Face to joyful Triumphs shll be rais'd And all who prize thy Saying Grace with me resound The Lord be prais'd verse 17 Thus wretched tho' I am and poor of me th' Almighty Lord takes care Thou God who only canst restore to my relief with Speed repair PSALM XLI HAppy the Man whose tender Care relieves the poor distrest When Troubles compass him around the Lord shall give him Rest verse 2 The Lord his Life with Blessings crown'd in Safety shall prolong And disappoint the Will of those that seek to do him wrong verse 3 If he in languishing estate opprest with Sickness lye The Lord will easy make his Bed and inward Strength supply verse 4 Secure of This to thee my God I thus my Pray'r address'd Lord for thy Mercy heal my Soul tho' I have much transgress'd verse 5 My cruel Foes with sland'rous words attempt to wound my Fame When shall he die say they and Men forget his very Name verse 6 Suppose they formal Visits make t is all but empty show They gather Mischief in their Hearts and vent it where they go verse 7 8 With private Whispers such as these to hurt me they devise A sore Disease afflicts him now he 's fall'n no more to rise verse 9 My own familiar Bosom-Friend on whom I most rely'd Has me whose daily Guest he was with open Scorn defy'd verse 10 But thou my sad and wretched State in Mercy Lord regard And raise me up that all their Crimes may meet their just Reward verse 11 By this I know thy gracious Ear is open when I call Because thou suff'rest not my foes to triumph in my Fall verse 12 Thy tender care secures my life from Danger and Disgrace And thou vouchsaf'st to set me still before thy glorious Face verse 13 Let therefore Is'els Lord and God from age to age be bless'd And all the People's glad Applause with loud Amens express'd PSALM XLII AS pants the Hart for cooling Streams when heated in the chace So longs my Soul O God for thee and thy refreshing Grace verse 2 For thee my God the living God my thirsty Soul doth pine O when shall I behold thy Face thou Majesty Divine verse 3 Tears are my constant Food while thus insulting Foes upbraid Deluded Wretch where 's now thy God and where his promis'd Aid verse 4 I sigh when-e'er my musing Thoughts those happy Days present When I with Troops of pious Friends thy Temple did frequent When I advanc'd with Songs of Praise my solemn Vows to pay And led the joyful sacred Throng that kept the Festal Day verse 5 Why restless why cast down my Soul truft