us. 6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. 7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us. 8 In God we boast all the day long: and praise thy Name for ever. Selah. 9 But thou hast cast off and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies. 10 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us, spoil for themselves. 11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat: and hast scattered us among the heathen. 12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price. 13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. 14 Thou makest us a by-word among the heathen: a shaking of the head among the people. 15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me. Christ's kingdom. 25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the earth. 26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake. PSALM XLV. The majesty and grace of Christ's kingdom. To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil: a song of loves. MY heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made, touching the King: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. 2 Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever. 3 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most Mighty: with thy glory and thy majesty. 4 And in thy majesty ride prosperously, because of truth and meekness, and righteousness: and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. 5 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the King's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee. 6 Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. 7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of 16 For the voice of him that reproach-gladness above thy fellows. eth, and blasphemeth: by reason of the enemy and avenger. 17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. 18 Our heart is not turned back: neither have our steps declined from thy way, 19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange God: 8 All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia: out of the Ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad. 9 Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the Queen in gold of Ophir. 10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house. 11 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord, and worship thou him. 12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift, even the rich among the people shall entreat thy favour. 13 The king's daughter is all glorious within; her clothing is of wrought gold. 14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needle work: the virgins her companions that follow her, shall be brought unto thee. 15 With gladness and rejoicing shall PSALM XLVI. Zion's beauty. 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 with understand. ing. 8 God reigneth over the heathen: The confidence which the Church hath God sitteth upon the throne of his holi. in God. To the chief Musician for the sons of 2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea. 3 Though the waters thereof roar, The privileges of the Church. TA song, and Psalm for the sons of Korah. and be troubled, though the mountains G be praised in the city of our REAT is the LORD, and greatly shake with the swelling thereof. Selah. 4 There is a river, the streams where. of shall make glad the city of God: the holy place of the Tabernacles of the most High. 5 God is in the midst of her: she shall not be moved; God shall help her, and that right 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. PSALM XLVII. The Nations are exhorted. Selah. 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 righte To the chief musician, a psalm for ousness. 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 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 ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following. 14 For this God is our God for ever Vain trust. PSALMS. God's Majesty. and ever; he will be our guide even | his soul: and men will praise thee, unto death. together. when thou doest well to thyself. 19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers, they shall never see light. 20 Man that is in honour and under. standeth not, is like the beasts that perish. PSALM L. The Majesty of God in the Church. A Psalm of Asaph. HE mighty God, even the LORD 3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom: hath spoken, and called the earth and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding. 4 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, 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 dwelling places 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. 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 carry nothing away his glory shall not descend after him. 18 Though while he lived, he blessed 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. 7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against thee; I am God, eren thy God. E i will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually 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? 17 Scong thou atest instruction, and castest my words behind thes. Spirit. A contrite heart. 18 When thou sawest a thief, then | vation: and uphold me with thy free thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. 19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. 20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son. 21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence: thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself; but 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 Who so offereth praise, glorifieth me and to him that ordereth his conversation aright, will I shew the salvation of God. PSALM LI. David prayeth for remission of sins. To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the Prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. AVE mercy upon me, God, 13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways, and sinners shall be converted unto thee. 14 Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. 15 O Lord open thou my lips, and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. 16 For thou desirest not sacrifice: else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. 18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusa lem. 19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar. PSALM LII. David condemning the spitefulness of Doeg. Hording to thy loving kindness: To the chief Musician, Maschil, A 5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity: and in sin did my mother conceive me. 6 Behold, thou desirest truth 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 sal Psalm of David: When Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech. WHY HY boastest thou thyself in mis. chief, O mighty man? the good. ness 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 dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah. 6 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him. 7 Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength: but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened 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 ever and ever. 9 I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name, for it is good before thy saints. THE HE fool hath said in his heart, There is no God; Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity; there is none that doeth good. 2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God. 3 Every one of them is gone back, they are altogether become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no not one. 4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people, as they eat bread; they have not called upon God. 5 There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee, thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them. 60 that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. PSALM LIV. David prayeth for salvation. To the chief musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David. When the Ziphims came and said to Saul: doth not David hide himself with us? AVE me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength. SA 2 Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth. 3 For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul; they have not set God before them. Selah. 4 Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my soul. 5 He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy truth. 6 I will freely sacrifice unto thee; I will praise thy name (O LORD:) for it is good. 7 For he hath delivered me out of all trouble and mine eye hath seen his desire upon mine enemies. PSALM LV. David complaineth of his case. David's complaint. 2 Attend unto me, and hear me: 1 mourn in my complaint, and make a noise. 3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me. 4 My heart is sore pained within me : and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. 5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me. 6 And I said, O that I had wings like a dove; for then would I fly away and be at rest. 7 Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah. 8 I would hasten my escape from the windy storm, and tempest. 9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city. 10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it. 11 Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets. 12 For it was not an enemy that reproached me, then I could have borne it, neither was it he that hated me, that did magnify himself against me, then I would have hid myself from him. 13 But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. 14 We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company. 15 Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them. 16 As for me, I will call upon God: and the Lord shall save me. 17 Evening and morning, and at noon will I pray, and cry aloud : and he shall hear my voice. 18 He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me. 19 God shall hear and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Be. cause they have no changes, therefore they fear not God. 20 He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him he hath Ghid at myself from my suppli- broken his covenant. cation. 21 The words of his mouth were |