Lord of hosts is with us the God of Jacob is our refuge Selah Psalm xlvii To the chief musician A Psalm for the sons of Korah 1 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 For he shall chuse our inheritance for us the excellencie 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 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 A song and Psalm for the sonnes of Korah 1 GReat is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the Citie of our God in the mountain of his holiness 2 Beautifull for scituation the joy of the whole earth is mount Sion on the sides of the North the Citie of the great King 3 God is known in her palaces for a refuge 4 For â—o the Kings were assembled they passed by together 5 They saw it and so thâ—y marvelled they were troubled and hasted away 6 Fear took hold upon them there and pain as of a womaâ— in travell 7 Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an Eastwind 8 As we have heard so have we seen in the Citie of the Lord of hosts in the Citie of our God God will establish it for ever Selah 10 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 Sion rejoyce let the daughters of Judah be glad because of thy judgements 12 Walk about Sion 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 and ever he will be our guid even unto death Psalm xlix To the chief musician A Psalm for the sons of Korah 1 HEar this all ye people give ear all ye inhabitants of the world 2 Both low high rich poor together 3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding 4 I will encline 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 mine 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 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 feâ—d 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 whilst he lived he blessed his soul and mâ—n will praise thee when thou dost well to thy self 19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers they shall never see light 20 Man that is in honour and understandeth not is like the beasts that perish Psalm l. A Psalm of Asaph 1 THe mighty God even the Lord hath spoken called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof 2 Out of Sion 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 speakâ— O Israel and I will testifie against thee I am God even thy God 8 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 forrest is mine and the cattell 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 be hungry I would not tell thee for the world is mine the fulness thereof 13 Will I eat the flesh of Bulls or drink the bloud 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 glorifie me 16 But unto the wicked God saith what hast thou to do to declare my statures or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth 17 Seeing thou hatest instruction and castest my words behind 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 20 Thou â—iâ—test and speakest against thy brother thou slanderest thine own mothers sonne 21 These things hast thou done and I kept silence thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thy self but I will reprove thee and set them in order before thine eyes 22 Now consider this ye that forget God least 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. To the chief musician A Psalm of David when Nathan the Prophet came unto him after he had gone in to
without effecting any thing against it whence the pen-man takes occasion to commend the happie estate and condition of that Citie above all places in the world partly for the natural scituation but chiefly for the divine priviledges and protection God had vouchsafed it And from their present experience argues unto future confidence of grace and mercie in like sort like as in their distress they had been incouraged by calling to mind former acts of power and grace to them and their forefathers For which their so wonderful deliverance he sayes God will have praise every where but acknowledgeth it chiefly due from them and that both of his power goodness and faithfulness exciting all that partake of that happiness to express their thankfulness joyfully and that they may the better do it he wishes them to survey as the glorie of Ierusalem so withall the glorious power and providence of God that hath preserved it undefaced maugre their enemies the memory whereof he would have entailed upon posterity for ever for the help of the saith of Gods Church and people in all ages and distresses A Psalm to be both sung and plaid by voices and instruments by the family of the Korathites to whom it is committed for that purpose 1 GOd in his Majesty and Power hath manifested himself to be exceeding great all the world over in all places to all people by his works of creation and dayly providence but beyond all these he is declared unto us and hath declared himself for us both great and gracious in most remarkable mercies of transcendent natures in the behalf of his own Citie Jerusalem chosen for the peculiar place of his worship and service where therefore he is to be praised accordingly for his more than ordinary favours vouchsafed to that place and people and chiefly in mount Sion the glory of Jerusalem where the Ark resideth and with it his special presence there therefore is he principally to be magnified 2 A place it is of it self naturally pleasant and sweetly scituated beautified also with the glorious splendour of the Temple built thereon admirable to behold but more to be admired for the spirituall beauty and glory that shines forth thence to all the world holding forth the saving Gospel-truths of Jesus Christ the promised Messiah in their types and lively representations to all that by faith will lay hold of him and come in unto him from the four corners of the earth and from whence shall spring the doctrin of salvation which shall be preached all the world over to the joy of all that shall receive it specially Northerly whether by its situation it partly looks and is thereby pleasantly refreshed with the coole winds that blow from thence in that hot countrey Every way commendable it is but in nothing more than in this That it is the chosen Metropolis of King David and Salomon where they specially resided and swayed the Scepter over Jews and Gentils in representation of Christ rule and dominion in and over his Church universall 3 Nor doth the strength of this beautifull Citie Jerusalem consist onely in that of Art and Nature which yet is very considerable in her above others but chiefly in the favour and protection of God himself there specially residing by the Ark in the Temple that glorious structure and in those Kingly types inhabiting the royall places thereof to which and to the whole Citie for their sakes he hath sundry times yielded admirable preservations and given great deliverances as God shall to his Church and people for Christs sake their King and Priest 4 Many instances may be given wherein God hath appeared miraculously in the behalf of this his Citie the holy mountain in it against sundry potent and combined forces of heathenish Kings that have endeavoured the destruction of it more times than once and have pitched before it for that purpose but have been disappointed of their aimes and sent away without their errand having been able for all their great preparation and joynt combinations against it to do it no more harm than as if they had been so many wayfaring men that passed by it 5 Nay though they came with minds full fraught with pride and hatred against it yet when they come to be eye-witnesses of the excellencies humane and divine that appeared in the Citie and Temple their hearts misgave them and they were struck into astonishment and admiration of what they saw God so awing their hearts and doing such supernaturall execution upon their armies that they wished they had never undertaken the enterprise and thereupon got them gone as fast as they could when they saw it was a place defended by the living God 6 Though when they came to beseidge it in their thoughts they had as good as taken it promising themselves infallible success by the greatness of their power but when they once set to work about it and should have done execution upon it God appeared against them and then their courage quickly failed them on a sudden their hearts were dashed and they discomfited with extream distraction and unexpected terrour 7 Thou O God didst by them even by these mighty armies as thou dost sometimes by the strong and tall ships at sea dashest them one against another by the storms thou raisest and so splits and scatters them that a whole Navie is brought to nothing and so were they before Jerusalem by the mighty and immediate hand against them 8 God hath approved himself of the self-same goodness to us as to our forefathers and of the same faithfulness in performing as in promising for what deliverances God wrought in the times of the Patriarks and what he promised by the mouths of his Prophets we in our times are able as concerning his wonderfull deliverances of Jerusalem and this Nation to draw a parallel line to any that went before and to write probatum est to what ever promise God made for the good of his chosen people for he hath marvellously improved his power in the defence of this place which is so peculiarly his above all places in the world shewing himself to have the command of all earthly powers and that he onely is the Lord of Hosts having sovereign Authority over them and their Kings which hath been manifested by the glorious and marvellous victories he hath given this Citie against such potent enemies as have come against it because it is his after a peculiar sort and he ours so too in a differing manner from all the people upon earth and what he hath done is a sure sign and pledge of his future favour and grace that he will still continue to be the same God to it and us we continuing so to him as Christ will be to his Church and people everlastingly Even so be it 9 In our distresses we had the happiness to have thy Temple O Lord to go unto and in it the Ark of the
and reproves not onely for a sinfull but an ungratefull and a despising people that having those excellent priviledges of his worship and presence amongst them so shamefully play the hypocrits with him pretending holiness in outward ceremoniall worship and performances but never heed how faith and grace acts in their services nay many of them are not onely formall but even prophane hypocrites that dare to live in sin even gross sins and yet be frequent in duties thus mocking God to his face and yet think he likes well enough of that they do because they smart not for it but God tells them they shall tast the bitter fruit of their wayes if they repent not And for them that spiritually and uprightly worship him amongst them as they honour him so he will reward them to their hearts content A Psalm made by Asaph THe onely true and Almighty God the Lord of all the earth having noted thē Idolatrous miscarriages and false worships that are every where practised summons all men in all the world to take notice 2 That though the whole world be in sinfull darkness and ignorance of the true God and the right way of serving him Yet there is a corner of the earth that God hath vouchsafed to shine out of as the sun when it arises in the East and spreads its light by degrees over the face of the whole heavens a place and people that he hath chosen to reveal himself in and amongst it is his people Israel in the land of Canaan principally in the Citie Jerusalem but most especially upon mout Sion there shall you find and see in a breife map of lively types and representations God manifested not onely in his majesty but in his true and saving way of worship grace and truth shining there and from thence shall take its rise to overspread the whole world 3 This God that is so peculiarly ours and at present seems comparatively to be professour of no part of the earth but this that his people dwell in nor to have no dominion over any else for none serve him but they This God of ours shall one day make it appear that he is Lord of all the world when he shall come to judge it which he will do though now he forbear and suffer it to lie in ignorance and Idolatry but he will appear in terrour and great glory to the astonishing and confounding of all men all the world over that believe not in him nor worship him aright 4 None shall escape his judgement the heavens and the earth which he made he shall command to render up all mankind alive or dead and dissolved into their elements or first principles as subject to him to be judged by him from the four corners of the world 5 Then shall it appear that but some of all the world are Gods peculiar sanctified ones a people sprinkled with the bloud of the covenant keeping faith and a good conscience which the Angels by speciall appointment shall gather together from out the rest of the world and set them on Gods right hand in heaven as now his Israel his onely covenanting and sacrificing people severed from all the world besides are by a powerfull hand settled in Canaan 6 His righteous justice shall be made manifest over all the earth in condemning the wicked be they never so many and saving those that are godly from amongst them be they never so few for the righteous and omnipotent God that is Lord over all and hath all power both in heaven and earth who is of wisdom to judge aright of all men and of power to execute his judgement shall himself pass sentance infallibly from heaven upon them Even so be it 7 What have been said of my peculiar favour to you above all the world besides is true how that I have chosen you out of the whole earth placed you in the promised land vouchsafed you my speciall presence in my speciall place of worship entered covenant with you to be your God and you likewise with me to be my people mine Israel to tread in the steps of your faithfull forefathers and therefore though I have a quarrell with all the world for their sinfull evil ways for which I will one day judge them as I have said yet you that are my people even because you are so I would have you know and therefore do I passionately press it upon you that your sins in your ignorance of me and abuse of my name and worship in an outward pretence of holiness without faith and affection are my greatest trouble and which I cannot but with griefe complain of as a great unkindness against me the God of all the world but more especially your God above and beyond all the world besides and therefore exspect to be served in sincerity and not in hypocriticall shews and formalities by you 8 It is not your sacrifices that I so much care for nor do I complain the want of them I have had enough and too many of such ceremonies from you that I even surfet again of them 9 Those are things which thou valuest thy Bullocks and thy Goats they are thy livelihood and sustenance which makes thee set by such kind of service but they are not of that value to me nor of that use it is not they that give me content I had rather be without them than have them after that carnall and formall manner you offer them you think you do me a pleasure by being at such charges and that you feast me as you do your selves with the sacrifices you offer me whereas did I need such things I would not be beholden to your stalls or folds for them 10 I would go where there is better choice and more variety and take either what I wanted or what I pleased all the world over for they are all mine the whole store that the whole earth is furnished with and where you can plead no propriety 11 Yea I can command also the fowls that flie in the air or that breed in the mountains out of your reach and those beasts that naturally are wild and untameable and never will be at your command they are all mine 12 So that if I were an hungry and had an appetite to eat and feed upon the creature as thou dost as by your manner of service you seem to fancy me to be I need not take the meat out of thy mouth by appointing you sacrifices to any such end who am the God of all the world and can serve my self as I please upon the creature which I have replenished the whole earth withall 13 Can you have such low and base thoughts of me as to think me to have appointed the sacrifices I command you for any such carnall and sensuall respects that am a spirit and look to be worshipped in spirit or are you so void of reason and understanding as
fall edge 26 I have so surfeited of self-deceit that abstracted from God I see now what I am one that hath neither reason to judge aright nor strength to hold out in a temptation if it had not been for the grace and supportation of the Almightie and my good God and that I had not left all and taken to him what had become of me but I bless his name I did so and find him more my friend than I was or could be mine own yea when my wit was non-plussed and my courage cow'd the Lord restored me to both so that when all fails he shall not my faith in him shall uphold me and my proprietie in him shall satisfie and content me 27 For it is sure enough that they that take other courses shall but deviate and go astray men that depart from thee by devided hopes and creature-confidence the ground they stand upon shall fail them it will be their ruine as it hath been thy practice to be faithful to them that are faithful to thee so thou hast and wilt not fail to disappoint the confidences of misbelievers power and policie and such like harlots that carnal minded men do court shall not onely deceive them but also destroy them for thou hast often enough made it appear how thou dost blast such men with contrarie events to their expectations and destruction to themselves 28 But I in my particular have found the contrarie course most beneficial and establishing to draw off my mind and heart from every thing but thee and by prayer and faith to support my spirit and seek mine advantage the effects whereof I have lately felt which hath so corroborated my faith in God that I am now resolved and fixed upon him satisfactorily for ever hereafter to trust him his Almightie power and never failing faithfulness above and against my fleshly reasoning for the making good his word by his works whereof nothing shall fail which now I am able confidently to affirm to his praise and the establishment of the generation of the righteous whom ere-while I had almost scandalized being enlightened by faith and experience I have changed my mind and declare the contrarie to what I then thought that his works and wayes of what kind soever are all of them just and holy as the faithful shall ever find The lxxiv. PSALM The Psalmist lamenteth the woful declentions of the flourishing estate of the Kingdom and Church of Iudah by the desolations and captivation of that nation probably by the Babylonians or Caldees for to those times most of those particulars in the Psalm seem to point All which are very pathetically deplored and affectionatly expostulated with God not onely in their behalf but also in his own in respect of as well the blasphemies as the cruelties of the enemie inter-weaving prayers inforced with those arguments both for their restauration Gods own vindication and their enemies confusion A Psalm to mind God of his peoples distress and his own dishonour made either prophetically by David and so committed to Asaph or by Asaph himself or committed to those of his course that bare his name after him by some other man of God that made it upon the captivitie which is the most probable 1 O God why hast thou brought us into such a state as seems to be an utter dereliction of us for length of time and immeasurableness of miserie why is thy displeasure so hot and thy favour so clouded against the people of thine own chusing to worship thee and special providing for doubtless it s very strange and causeth very great thoughts of heart 2 Be not unmindful though thou seemest so of thy peculiar people which thou didst redeem out of their Egyptian thraldom long ago nor of the land which thou didst allot for their portion so as to let it be inhabited again by the nations whom thou hast cast out and destroyed for their sakes or such like but remember graciously what thou hast promised and undertaken concerning them to make it good and particularly the Citie Jerusalem and in it Sion the habitation of thine Ark the pledge of thy presence be evermore propitious to it 3 Lord make hast to destroy utterly those enemies that have made cruel havock of thy people spoiled the land and prophaned thy worship 4 O the Lion-like cruelties that are executed upon thy people by the Gentils those enemies of thine and theirs murdering them in the very Temple and Synagogues in scorn and hatred of thine holy assemblies offering all manner of despightful insolencies to thy worship and worshippers destroying both them and all the holy things thereof they even crie victoria against God himself and brave thee to thy face by advancing the monuments of their Idolatrie in the places of thy worship and fixing their displayed ensigns on the top of all thy Temple proudly triumphing over thee as vanquished by them and unable to defend either thy worship or people against them to thine unspeakable dishonour 5 Lord how are things changed the time was when happie was he that could contribute most and readiest assistance to the erecting and beautifying of thy temple when no pains nor cost was spared 6 But now the heathen that are victors and have broken in upon us take as much felicitie to demolish it as ever thy people did to erect it plundering it of all its treasure and rich utensils and every one putting to his helping hand have regardlesly to the beautie and holiness of such a place defaced all the curious workmanship thereof with militarie violence and noise of axes and hammers that was erected without any and in a moment have they utterly defaced that which was so many years in building and beautifying 7 And not satisfied with the demolishings and defacings of so glorious a structure the better to perfect their malice upon it and to bring dishonour to thy name and root out thy worship they have burnt it down to the ground all the wayes they could devise have they abased and annihilated it 8 It is a fearful thing to tell what havock they have made and with what minds they did it every one one as forward as another nay each one striving who could exceed his fellow each emulating and imitating other in doing most mischief and making quickest work threatening thunder-bolts and thinking on nothing but how to multiply and perfect the destruction of thy people without exception of age sex or degree and encrease the devastations of the land especially of the Temple and Synagogues which because they more immediatly concerned thee and thy worship have they the more elaboratly destroyed them every where none escaping and to make the surer work have done it with fire 9 O what a sad condition are we in under such woful pressures by raging enemies and at the same time utterly benighted as to thee-ward no testimonies at all of thy favour towards
Selah 5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee in whose heart are the ways of them 6 Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well the rain also filleth the pooles 7 They go from strength to strength every one of them in Sion appeareth before God 8 O Lord God of hosts hear my prayer give ear O God of Jacob Selah 9 Behold O God our shield and look upon the face of thine anointed 10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God than to dwel in the â—ents of wickedness 11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield the Lord will give grace and glory no good thing will â—e with-hold from them that walk uprightly 12 O Lord of hosts blessed is the man that trusteth in thee Psalm lxxxv To the chief musician A Psalm for the sons of Korah 1 LOrd thou hast been favourable unto thy land thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob. 2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquitie of thy people thou hast covered all their sin Selah 3 Thou hast taken away all thy wrath thou hast turned thy self from the fierceness of thine anger 4 Turn us O God of our salvation and cause thine anger towards 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 rejoce in thee 7 Shew us thy merâ— O Lord and grant salvation 8 I will hear what God the Lord will speak for he will speak peace unto his people and to his Saints but let them not turn again to â—olly 9 Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him that glorie may dwell in our land 10 Mercie and truth are met together righteousness peace have killed eaâ—h 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 and our land shall yield her increase 13 Righteousness shall go before him and shall set us in the way of his steps Psalm lxxxvi A prayer of David 1 BOw down thine ear O Lord hear me for I am poor and needie 2 Preserve my soul for I am holy O thou my God save thy servant that trusteth in thee 3 Be merciful unto me O Lord for I crie unto thee dayly 4 Rejoyce the soul of thy servant for unto thee O Lord do I lift up my soul. 5 For thou Lord art good and ready to forgive and plenteous in mercie unto all them that call upon thee 6 Give ear O Lord unto my praier and attend to the voice oâ— my supplications 7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee for thou wilt answer me 8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee O Lord neither are there any works like unto thy works 9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee O Lord and shall glorifie thy name 10 For thou art great and doest wondrous things thou art God alone 11 Teach me thy way O Lord I will walk in thy truth unite my heart to fear thy name 12 I will praise thee O Lord my God with all my heart and I will glorifie thy name for evermore 13 For great is thy mercie toward me and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell 14 O God the proud are risen against me and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul and have not set thee before them 15 But thou O Lord art a God full of compassion and gracious long-suffering and plenteous in mercie and truth 16 O turn unto me and have mercie upon me give thy strength unto thy servant and save the son of thine handmaid 17 Shew me a token for good that they which hate me may see it and be ashamâ—d because thou Lord hast holpen me and comforted me Psalm lxxxvii A Psalm or song for the sons of Korah 1 HIs foundation is in the holy mountains 2 The Lord loveth the gates of Sâ—on more than all the dwellings of Jacob. 3 Glorious things are spoken of thee O citie of God Selah 4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know ' me behold Philistia and Tyre with Ethiopia this man was born there 5 And of Sion it shall be said This and that man was born in her and the highest himself shall establish her 6 The Lord shall count when he writeth up the people that this man was born there Selah 7 As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there all my springs are in thee Psalm lxxviii A song or Psalm for the sons of Korah to the chief musician upon Mahalath Leannoth Maschil of Heman the Ezraelite 1 O Lord God of my salvation I have cried day and night before thee 2 Let my prayer come before thee incline thine ear unto my cry 3 For my soul is full of troubles and my life draweth nigh unto the grave 4 I aâ— 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 from thy hand 6 Thou hast â—aid me in the lowest pit in darknes in the deeps 7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves Selah 8 Thou hast put away mine aâ—quaintance far from me thou hast made me an abomination unto them I am shut up and I cannot come forth 9 Mine eye mourneth by reason of afâ—â—ition Lord I have called dâ—lly upon thee I have stretched our mine hands unto thee 10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead shall the dead arise and praise thee Selah 11 Shall thy loving kindness be declared in the grave or thy faithfulness in destruction 12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness 13 But unto thee have I cried O Lord and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee 14 Lord why castest thou off my soul why hidest thou thy face from me 15 I am afflicted and readie to die from my youth up while I suâ—fer thy terrours I am distracted 16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me thy terrours have cut me off 17 They came round about me dayly like water they compassed me about together 18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me and mine acquaintance into darkness Psalm lxxxix Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite 1 I Will sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations 2 For I have said mercie 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 unto