The Psalmist PSALMS, LXXX, LXXXI. 2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the d Je. 16.4. fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. 3 Their blood have they shed like to them that are round about us. 6 Pourg out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have' not called upon thy name. 7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling-place. 8 Oh remember not against us 2 former iniquities: let thy tender! mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low. 9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake. 10 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the 3 revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed. 34.20. De.25.37. f Zep.1.18. g Je. 10.23. Re. 16.1. h Ps. 130.3. Is.64.9. 2 or, the in- them that k Ps. 102.20. 5 reserve the m Is.43.21. 6 generation PSALM 80. a Ps.60, title. 251.6.2. d De.33.2. 11 Let k the sighing of the prison-Ex.25.20,22. er come before thee; according to the greatness of 4 thy power 5 preserve thou those that are appointed e Nu.2. 18-24. to die; 2 for salvation to us. fver.7, 19. 12 And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O LORD. La.5.21. g Nu.6.25. 13 So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks h Ps.42.3. for ever: we will show m forth thy praise to 6 all generations. PSALM LXXX. The Psalmist complaineth of the miseries of the church. To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim-Eduth. a A Psalm 1 of Asaph. IVE ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Gr thou that leadest & Joseph like a flock; cthou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine d forth, 2 Before e Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come 2 and save us. 3 Turnf us again, O God, and cause thy face g to shine; and we shall be saved. 4 O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou 3 be angry against the prayer of thy people? 5 Thou feedest them with the h bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure. 6 Thou i makest us a strife unto Is.30.20. i Ps.79.4. k Is.5.1-7. 1 Na.2.2. o Ps.76.7. p Is.53.5. PSALM 81. complaineth. our neighbours and our enemies laugh among themselves. 7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. 8 Thou hast brought a vine k out of Egypt: thon hast cast out the heathen and planted it. 9 Thon preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. 10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. 11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river. 12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? 13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. 14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look m down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; 15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the n branch that thou madest strong for thyself. 16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish o at the rebuke of thy countenance. 17 Let thy hand p be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself. 18 So will not we go back from thee: quicken q us, and we will call upon thy name. 19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. PSALM LXXXI. To the chief Musician upon Gittith.a ING aloud unto God our Strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. 2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. 3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. 4 For this b was a statute for Isa Ps.8, title.rnel, and a law of the God of Jacob. 1 or, for. 5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out 2 through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language c that I under b Le.23.24, 26. 2 or, against. c Ps. 114.1. 3 passed away. d Ex.1.14. stood not. 6 removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands 3 were delivered from the pots.d A prayer against PSALMS, LXXXII, LXXXIII, LXXXIV. church oppressors. 7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved e thee at the waters of 4 Meribah. Selah. e Ex. 17.2-7. 4 or, strife. f Ex.20.2. g Jno. 15.7. 8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou De.32.15, wilt hearken unto me; 9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. 10 If am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: openg thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. 11 Buth my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. 12 Soi I gave them up 5 unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked, in their own counsels. 13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! 14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. 15 The haters of the LORD should have 6 submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever. 16 He should have fed them also with the 7 finest of the wheat: and with honey Z out of the rock should I have satisfied thee. PSALM LXXXII. i Ac.7.42. 18. 5 or, to the own hearts, Is.48.18. De.32.29. lied, or, yielded feigned obedience, Ps.66.3. fat. 1 De.32. 13. PSALM 82. 1 or, for. a 2Ch. 19.6,7. 2 Judge. b Je.22.3. c Jno. 12.35. d Ps.75.3. 2Ti.2.19. 3 moved. b Ps.31.20. 32 Defend the poor and fatherless : do justiceb to the afflicted and c Est.3.6,9. needy. d Ps.2.2. 4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked. 5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: c all the d foundations of the earth are 3 out of course. 6 I have said, Ye are gods; e and all of you are children of the Most High. But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. 8 Arise, O God. judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations. PSALM LXXXIII. A prayer against them that oppress the church. A Song or Psalm of Asaph. KLEP not thou silence, O God; hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. 2 For, lo, thine enemies make aa 2 heart. tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden bones. 4 They have said, c Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. 5 For they have consultedd together with one 2 consent: they are confederate against thee: 6 The e tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes; 7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre; 8 Assur also is joined with them: they have 3 holpen the children of Lot. Selah. 9 Do unto them as unto the f Midianites; as to Sisera, g as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison: 10 Which perished at En-dor: they became as dung for the earth. 11 Make their nobles like Oreb, h and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna: 12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in posses sion. 13 0 my God, make them like a wheel; ask the stubble before the wind. 14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire; 15 So persecute them with thy 83.tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm. e 2Ch.20.10. 3 been an arm to. f Nu.31. 1.12. Ju.4.15-24. g i Ju.8. 12-21, k Is. 17. 13,14. Mat.3.12. Is.42.8. PSALM 84. a Ps.8, title. 1 or, of. b Ps.27.4. c Ps.65.4. 16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD. 17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish: 18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the Most High over all the earth. › PSALM LXXXIV. The Prophet longeth for the communion of the sanctuary. To the chief Musician upon a Gittith. A Psalm 1 for the sous of Korah. ITOW amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts! 2 My b soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. H 3 Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God. 4 Blessed c are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah. David strengtheneth PSALMS, LXXXV, LXXXVI, LXXXVII. his prayer. PSALM LXXXVI. strength is in thee; in whose heart 2 or, mulber- David strengtheneth his prayer by the are the ways of them. 6 Who passing through the valley of 2 Baca make it a well; the rain] also 3 filleth the pools. 7 They d go from 4 strength to strength, every one e of them in Zion appeareth before God. 80 LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah. 9 Behold, O God, our shield,f and look upon the face of thine anointed. 10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. 5 I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. 11 For the LORD God is a sung and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good h thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. 12 O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee. PSALM LXXXV. The Psalmist prayeth for the continuance of former mercies. To the chief Musician. A Psalm 1 for the sons of Korah. ry trees make him a well, 2Sa.5.23. 3 covereth. d Job 17.9. Pr.4. 18. choose ra Ps.77.7. Lab, theo thy land: thou hast ORD, thou hast been 2 favour-b 15.32.17. Ps. 130.4. brought back the captivity of Jacob. d Ps.84.11. 2 Thou hast forgiven a the ini-e Ps.89. 14. quity of thy people, thou hast f Ps. 119.35. covered all their sin. Selah. 3 Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned 3 thyself from the fierceness of thine anger. 4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease. 5 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations? 6 Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee? 7 Show us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation. 1 a PSALM 86. or, being a Psalm of. 2 or, one whom thou favourest. Is.26.3. 3 or, all the day. b Joel 2.13. c Ps.50. 15. d Is.40.18,25. e De.3.24. f Re. 15.4. g De.32.39. 1Co.S.4. 8 I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: h Ps. 119.33. but blet them not turn again to folly.i Jno. 17.20, 9 Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory maydwell in our land. to 10 Mercy and truth are met gether; righteousness c and peace have kissed each other. 11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven. 12 Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; d and our land shall yield her increase. 13 Righteousness e shall go before hum; and shall set us in the way of his steps. 21. 1Co.6.17. A Ps. 145.1,2. Ps. 103.11. 4 or, grave. m 1Th. 1. 10. 5 terrible. n Ps. 10.4. o Ne.9.17. p Ps.85.10. Is.45.24. 2Co.5.5. PSALM 87. 1 or, of. 2 Preserve my soul; for I am 2 holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth a in thee. 3 Be merciful unto me, O LORD: for I cry unto thee 3 daily. 4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant : for unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul. 5 Forb thou, LORD, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee. 6 Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications. 7 In the day of my trouble I will c call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me. 8 Among the gods there is none d like unto thee, O LORD; neither e are there any works like unto thy works. 9 Allf nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O LORD; and shall glorify thy name. 10 For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thoug art God alone. 11 Teach h me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite i my heart to fear thy name. 12 Ik will praise thee, O LORD my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore. 13 For great / is thy mercy toward me and thou hast delivered m my soul from the lowest 4 hell. 14 O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of 5 violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set theen before them. 15 Buto thou, O LORD, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, long-suffering, and plenteous in mercyp and truth. 16 O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength q unto thy servant, and save the son of thine hand-maid. 17 Show me a token r for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me. PSALM LXXXVII. 1 The nature and glory of the church: 2 The b LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. 3 Glorious things c are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah. 4 I will make mention of Rahabd prayer. c Is.51.2,&c. 15 I am afflicted and ready to die Re.21.2,&c. from my youth up: while g I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. d Is.51.9. and Babylon to them that knowe Is. 19.23-25. Ac.8.27. g Is.60.1-9. 5 And of Zion it shall be said, g h Eze. 13.9. This and that man was born in her: i 1Ch.23.5. and the Highest himself shall esta-k Ja. 1.17. blish her. 6 The LORD shall count, when he writeth h up the people, that this man was born there. Selah. 7 As well the singers as the players on instruments i shall be there all my springs & are in thee. PSALM LXXXVIII. A prayer containing a grievous com plaint. PSALM 88. or, of. 2 or, A Psalm a IKI.4.31. b Lu. 18.7. A Song or Psalm 1 for the sons of Korah. LORD God of my salvation. Ib have cried day and night before thee: d Job 19.13, &c. e Job 12.14. 2 Let my prayer come before thee: Is.38. 18. incline thine ear unto my cry; 3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. 4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: 5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more and they are cut off 3 from thy hand. 6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. g Job 6.4. PSALM 89. 16 Thy fierce wrath h goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. 17 They came round about me 4 daily like water; they compassed me about together. 18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness. PSALM LXXXIX. The Psalmist praiseth God for his covenant and wonderful power. 1 Maschil of Ethan a the Ezrahite. T WILL sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to 2 all generations. 2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens. 3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn b unto David my servant, 4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah. 5 And the heavens c shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints. 6 For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD? 7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to struction.be had in reverence of all them a 1Ch.2.6. that are about him. 80 LORD God of hosts, whod is a Thy wrath c lieth hard upon 2 generation strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee? 9 Thone rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. 10 Thou hast broken 3 Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with 4 thy strong arm. 11 The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof,thou hast founded them. 12 The north and the south thou hast created them: Taborƒ and Hermong shall rejoice in thy name. 13 Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. 14 Justice h and judgment are the 6 habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face. 15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, The psalmist O LORD, in the light k of thy countenance. 16 In thy name shall they rejoice all the day and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted. 17 For thou art the glory of their strength and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted. 18 For 7 the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.m PSALMS, XC. k Nu.6.26. ICo.1.30. 7 or, our shield is of the LORD, and our king is of the Holy One of Israel, Ps.47.9. 19 Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; n 1 m Is.33.22. have exalted one chosen out of the n Is.9.6. people. 20 Lo have found David my servant; with my holy oil have anointed him: o 1Sa. 16.1,12. IP 281.7.8-16. q Ps. 72.S. 30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; 31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; 32 Then will I visit their trans-| gression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Col.1.15,16. s Re. 19.16. t Is.55.3. u 28a.23.5. 8 Je.9.13-16. w La,3.31,32. 9 I will not make void from. 10 lie. x Je.33.20. 1 if I lie. y 1Ch.28.9. Ps.60.1,10. Ho.9.17. ≈ Is.5.5,6. 12 brightness. or, being a 33 Nevertheless to my loving-kind-a De.33.1. ness 9 will I not utterly take from b Ps.71.3. Lim, nor suffer my faithfulness to Eze.11.16. 10 fail. praiseth God. horred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed. 39 Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground. 40 Thou hast broken down z all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin. 41 All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours. 42 Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice. 43 Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle. 44 Thou hast made his 12 glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground. 45 The days of his youth hast thou shortened thou hast covered him with shame. Selah. 46 How long, LORD? wilt thou hide a thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire? 47 Remember how short my time is wherefore hast thou made all men in vain? 48 What b man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah. 49 LORD, where are thy former loving-kinduesses, which thou Swarest c unto David in thy truth? 50 Remember, LORD, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people; 51 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed. 52 Blessed d be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and amen. PSALM XC. Ling place in 2 all generations. 2 Before c the mountams were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world. even from everlasting to everlast2 generation and gene-ing, thou art God. ration. 31 My covenant will I not break, z nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. 35 Once have I sworn by my holi-e Pr.8.25,26. ness 11 that I will not lie unto David. d Ge.3.19. 36 His seed shall endure for ever, 3 or, he hath and his throne as the sun before passed them. e Is.40.6. 4 is changed. f Job 14.2. 3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, dye children of men. 4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday, when 3 it is past, and as a watch in the night. 5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grasse which 4 groweth up. 6 Inf the morning it flourisheth, |