the rich among the people shall entreat thy favour. the church hath in God. 5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God 13 The King's daughter is all | shall help her, and that right glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold. 14 She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee. 15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the King's palace. 16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the 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. 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 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 bow, 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. PSALM XLVII. The nations are exhorted cheerfully to entertain the kingdom of Christ. To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. 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 ornaments and PSALMS. 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 with understanding. 8 God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness. 9 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. PSALM XLVIII. The ornaments and privileges of the church. A Song and Psalm for the sons of G Korah. REAT 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 privileges of the church. 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 lovingkindness, 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 rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments. 12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. 13 Mark yewell her bulwarks, 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. The vanity of PSALMS. trusting in riches. quity of my heels shall compass | carry nothing away: his glory me about? shall not descend after him 18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul, (and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself,) 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 19 He shall go to the generagive to God a ransom for him: ❘tion of his fathers; they shall 8 (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:) 9 That he should still live for ever, and 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 dwellingplaces 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 approve their sayings. Selah. 14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling. 15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah. never see light. 20 Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish. PSALM L. 1 The majesty of God in the church. 5 His order to gather saints. 7 The pleasure of God is not in ceremonies, 14 but in sincerity of obedience. A Psalm of Asaph. THE mighty God, even the hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. 2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. 3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. 4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people. 5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. 6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah. 16 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased; 17 For when he dieth he shall | God, even thy God. 7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am The hypocrite rebuked. PSALMS. David prayeth for 8 I will not reprove thee for ❘ done, and I kept silence; thou thy sacrifices or thy burnt of thoughtest that I was altogeferings, to have been continually | ther such a one as thyself: but before me. 9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds: 10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. 11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. 13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? 14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the Most High: 15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. 16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. 22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver. 23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God. AVE mercy upon me, God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgress. ions. 2 Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me 17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words be- ❘ from my sin. hind thee. 18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. 19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. 3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. 4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. 20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son. 21 These things hast thou | conceive me. 5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother the remission of sins. PSALMS. Doeg's destruction. 6 Behold, thou desirest truth | ed with the sacrifices of right in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. 9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. 11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy Holy Spirit from me. 12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free Spirit. 13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee. 14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy right eousness. eousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar. PSALM LII. 1 David, condemning the spitefulness of Doeg, prophesieth his destruction. 6 The righteous shall rejoice at it. 8 David, upon his confidence in God's mercy, giveth thanks. To the chief Musician, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech. HY boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually. 2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 3 Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. 4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue. 5 God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwellingplace, and root 15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth | thee out of the land of the liv thy praise. ing. Selah. 6 The righteous. also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh 16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt | at him: offering. 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou ❘ of his riches, and strengthened wilt not despise. 18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. 7 Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance himself in his wickedness. 8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for 19 Then shalt thou be pleas- | ever and ever. |