above those they count and make miserable here for as wealthy as they are they have their time set them by God which they cannot lengthen a moment neither their own life nor their friends or kinsmans but when their hour comes one must die as well as the other how vain then is their confidence in riches 8 For however money may buy other things yet life the principall of mans happiness neither temporall nor eternall will be purchased by it it s too precious a commodity to be bought with such trash another gets ransome is the price of that and therefore for all their great wealth they may be short lived and then where is all their happiness they and it ceaseth for ever 9 Neither his own life nor any ones else that he hath a mind should live can he with all his wealth make to do so if that were so they would be sure to live always and never die for they know no happiness but what this world affords on the tother side the grave they look for no good 10 And though this be so that they cannot have an everlasting happiness by the transitory and fading wealth of this world but that they must part from it and leave it behind them which they see by dayly experience in others of their rank that death makes no difference of rich and worldly wise men from those that they count fools and brutish and for all their wisdom in getting and fore-casting they are not onely so unhappy as to leave their estates behind them but when they are dead oft times they have it that they never ment it to 11 Yet for all they see and cannot but know this they are far from reflecting upon themselves and seeing their errour but notwithstanding it their thoughts and minds are wholly still taken up how to greaten and perpetuate themselves and their families as if it were so that they should never die nor part from that they have and dream of an earthly immortality and felicity and none other being ignorant of heavens 12 But let them think what they will of this their earthly happiness and price it never so highly and hope to enjoy it everlastingly yet they shall find themselves mistaken miserably they and their contentments will not last long much less always be they never so highly promoted they shall stoop to death and then for all their honour and happiness here what difference between them and the very brute beasts whose happiness was here also for as the one so the other by death bids farewell to felicity which onely this life afforded them 13 However these men applaud themselves in their worldly wisdom and happiness and esteem other men fools that value not the things of this life at the rate they do yet this their wisdom is but foolishness and their confidence their deceit and their end proves it whereby all happiness ends with them but as nothing is more apparent so nor less believed for their posterity tread in the same steps approve of their fathers errours and think that folly that deceived them to be the onely wisdom and so are in like sort deceived themselves And so let them be 14 Though here on earth by their pomp and plentifull way of living they were distinguished from other men of inferiour ranck yet the grave will make no difference but as sheep are put into a fold so shall the grave receive them like as it doth other men and the worms there consume them and those that here they set so light by and trampled upon the godly and faithfull ones after the long night of the grave is over and that Christ in his second coming shall appear and they with him in glory and immortality then shall these despised righteous ones be their judges and shall approve that to be the onely true wisdom which in them they counted here to be but foolishness Thus shall all the honour and contentment they had here on earth end in the grave in corruption and rottenness and they never like to see good days again 15 But how ever my case and the case of the children of God may here seem miserable Lazarus like whilst they lie under the contempt and oppression of the Dives-es of this world yet are we sure of everlasting salvation which they shall not partake of for God in faithfulness and mercy will raise us up from death to life and though our bodies have suffered in this world our souls shall be saved in the next for as we belong to the election of his grace so he will be sure to receive us into glory of this we may be confident 16 And as I said before what need I or any other child of God then fear what man can do unto us Though we see power put into worldly mens hands that fear not God though wealth and honour increase upon them 17 Let not this dismay us nor make us envy them but consider such a mans end when death comes and die he must then and there he shall be poor enough and low enough neither his honour nor riches shall profit him or disprofit thee in the grave then is thy turn to be happy and his to be miserable 18 Though while he lived here in the midst of sensualities and had what the world could afford to give him content and make him happy he flattered himself with omne bene never once thinking of a change but lived as if he should never die and thought himself by reason of his worldly affluence as much and more in favour with God then Gods own children that wanted what he had and surely so think others too the world generally believes those men onely to be happy and in a good condition that have the world at will and pampers themselves with that they have these are they that are had in reputation for the onely wise and happy men 19 But alas how are they deceived both the one and the other for he must die as his forefathers did in their times and turns his happiness here will have an end as theirs had and then begins his misery as theirs did which will have no end the lamp of this life shall extinguish in utter darkness 20 The sum and substance of all is this That those men that have honour and riches if withall they have not the knowledge and fear of God they live like brute beasts whose God is their belly and shall die like them too for they and their happiness shall perish together The l. PSALM God by the Psalmist declares that as all the world lies in sinne so he will judge them for it and yet can and will save his faithfull and elect people when he condemns the rest which he will procâ—â—â— against in judgement though they never partaked of that divine light which shâ—â—â— onely amongst his people Israel who therefore he more especially taxes
ever for me to trust in He shews now that he hath not been idle all the while he seemed so but hath been fitting himself to execute judgement when the time shall come as now it is 8 And the wicked of the world shall ever find it so that though they think him remiss and careless how things go yet they shall find that he is not so but with most perfect wisdom righteousness and integrity will judge and punish the wicked all the world over sooner or later 9 And so also on the other side shall the poor and innocent when they are unjustly oppressed however they may likewise think him regardless yet shall they not find him so but if they flee to him trust in him he will be a refuge to them yea then when because of extremity they most need it and can least think or exspect it 10 And truly they that know thy power and goodness and have had triall of it will venture all upon thee For for my part I am able to say it that as I have sought to thee and none but thee so thou hast never failed mine exspectation nor been unfaithful to my trust but according to my praier and dependance have I ever found thee helpful to me and so shall others 11 O ye Ministers of his worship to whom I have recommended this Psalm of praise Lift up your voices in praises to the Lord that hath chosen Sion for the place of his special residence and solemn worship where accordingly you celebrate it let the people that resort thither hear you sing aloud his marveilous doings that they may also learn to praise him and trust in him 12 When the time cometh that mens sins are ripe and that he will call them to accompt and reckon with them for the bloud of the innocent which they have unjustly shed or coveted he will then make it appear that he remembers to right the wrongs of them that trust in him and seek to him and forgets not the cry of the afflicted that in singleness of heart and poverty of spirit makes his humble addresses to him as to his onely refuge 13 Though I have had many deliverances and thou hast given me great cause to praise thee for ridding me of a world of enemies yet I am not without but still have those that hate me and of meer malice vex and trouble me so that I suffer much by them good Lord still continue to be merciful to me and to deliver me thou that many and many a time hast delivered me when mine enemies had brought me to that pass that I knew not which way to turn me but death and destruction waited for me on every side 14 That I may muster up all thy mercies and praisefully proclaim them in the publick assemblies of Sion the place which of all Israel and Jerusalem thou hast chosen for thy publick and solemn worship Yea there I will most joyfully make known thy saving grace and favour to me 15 Thou hast vanquished the heathen and disappointed their plots and designs against me having ensnared them in the ruine they meant to me 16 All men that have eyes may see that thou favorest me and may be convinced that it is onely thy doing that mine enemies are foiled by the manner of thy effecting it and thine executing such wonderful and admirable judgments upon them making their own wicked enterprises against me the means to bring to pass their own destruction I cannot but extraordinarily put men on seriously to mind and muse on this thy remarkable providence Yea again and again I wish they would well consider this thing 17 And mark how my foes perish even so shall all the wicked of the world that rebel against Christ and resist his government and oppress his innocent and righteous people perish eternally in hell even all the nations of the world that know not God to serve him and believe in him like as the heathen people hereabout that take up arms against me come to ruine 18 For though God may defer his judgeing the wicked and his delivering the poor and needy that trust in him very long for so he did me yet will he not ever do so either first or last there will come a time when the poor afflicted ones shall be sure of what they have long praied and looked for 19 Thou O Lord hast long forborn the heathen but truely they are grown now to that greatness and insolency that if thou doest not shew thy self in my behalf they will have the better of me and so of thee whose quarrel I maintain Therefore look thou to it that they which are but men get not the better of thee by vanquishing me but by thy judgements upon them let them plainly see its thou that condemnest them and justifies me 20 O Lord by thy judgements upon them make them afraid to hold on their course of enmity and opposition against me by seeing thee to take part with me and so cause them to know by their ill success that for all their great power and multitudes of people they are too weak by humane strength which yet they trust in as if it were more to resist thee whose cause I maintain and fight for Yea Lord make them know it to purpose Tenth PSALM David represents to God his own and his peoples condition generally in this world under the insolent confidence of the wicked heaping unmeasurable pressures upon the godly by reason of his long-suffering towards them which makes them worse and not better as he finds by experience in his persecutors Saul and his complices And therefore praies the Lord to appear for his people against them that do but abuse his patience and doubts not but he will even destroy the Churches enemies as he did the Cananites for Israels sake being the same God in pittie and power now as ever 1 2 MOst merciful and righteous Lord why art thou contrarie to thy nature and promise a stranger to the trouble of thy people me and others and takest no knowledge of it to help us in it but seemeth to let the wicked afflict the godly without regard who by thy forbearance is heightned exceedingly in wickednes and takes a pride to vex and trample down the poor thinking to make themselves great by oppression but Lord do thou blast and utterly disappoint their wicked designs against them that are good and do thou turn all the evil they unjustly imagine against the innocent upon the nocent 3 And truly its time for thee to shew thy self for men grow shameless in wickednes and are confident by those courses to carrie all before them thinking meanly of all good men and the ways they walk that are not as wicked and worldly minded as themselves esteeming those onely wise and happie that heap up riches and grow great by hook or crook whom
Covenant and mercy-seat signs of thy favour to us and presence with us which did much incourage us to seek unto thee and there to mind thee as of those speciall relations and ingagements so of all thy former acts of love and kindness which when we called to mind exceedingly upheld our hearts in the midst of our greatest dangers and gave us argument of prayer unto thee and faith in thee for the like grace in the like occasion to be shewn again and again as oft as thy people and this place stands in need 10 According to the greatness of our deliverances which thou hast wrought whereby the fame of thy grace and power to us-ward is spread throughout all the earth such is the increase of thine honour and renown amongst those people far and near And whilst others behold thee onely in thy power and goodness to us and admire thee for it we have reason to see farther and to acknowledg more of thee than so even thy faithfulness also according to what thou hast promised in all these wonderfull works of deliverance which thou hast wrought for us with an out-stretched arm of power and strength for all the world to take notice of 11 And though thy works do challenge the honour and praise that is due unto thee for them from all Nations where the fame of them is spread yet chiefly from us that experiment the good of them and the goodness of thee to us that dost so great things for us and for thy holy mountain the figure of thy Church in all ages situate amongst us whereby thou givest cause of joy and gladness not onely to it but to all thy people round about it that are so secured and safeguarded by it from all their enemies which for the preservation of it and them thou hast destroyed with such remarkable manifestation of thy judgements upon them and favour unto it and us 12 The better to stirre you up to praise and rejoycing and confidence in God take an exact view and advisedly consider the beauty and strength that he hath bestowed upon this place the type of heaven it self above all places in the world how though it hath been so often and so mightily attempted by enemies yet how fruitlesly on their behalf that have not been able to deface the least beauty nor to weaken the least strength belonging to it but that round about on all sides God hath defended it as Christ shall his Church every where that nothing is diminished though surrounded with armies of enemies on every side The walls and towers as you may see are still the same they were 13 Her fortifications not one jot demolished her beautifull Temple and palaces no whit impaired O wonderfull deliverance O infinite grace consider it again and again what God hath done to and for his people and peculiar place of residence that you may declare it to your children and they to theirs to strengthen their faith in God and to gain him the praises of after ages who as well as we will tast the sweet of these past and present mercies and which are a pledge of future favours unto them 14 For this God whom we worship in Jerusalem and who hath wrought such deliverances for it is one and the same his power and goodness unchangeable to his own faithfull people and servants in one age as well as in another and shall be made so to appear even to the end of the world and though he be always theirs yet then chiefly shall he shew himself their God and guid when they have most need of him and are in greatest danger xlix PSALM The Psalmist that what he should say might be more effectuall and take the better impression with all sorts and conditions of men good and bad high and low it being matter both of weight and difficulty he therefore doth introduce it with a serious preamble Of weight both for the godly to understand thereby to frame themselves to a patient enduring of afflictions from the wicked in this life with assured hope of reward and deliverance in the life to come when as their enemies shall perish and also for the great ones of the world to know that they may learn not to put their confidence and felicity in riches and honour which are transiunt and shall perish with themselves to the neglect of true happiness Of difficulty to be practised and submitted to both of the one and the other the godly being too apt to fear dissidence and impatitiency by reason of their present sufferings and they that enjoy the affluence of the world to abuse it to their own destruction A Psalm committed to Heman the chief musician of the family of the Korathites for him and them to sing 1 THat which I am about to speak in this ensuing Psalm is of that weight and universall concernment that I wish it may come to the knowledge of all men that live upon the face of the whole earth now or hereafter and so many as it does I wish them to be heedfull of it 2 Let none exempt themselves for every man let his condition be what it will good or bad is concerned one as well as another in what by the spirit of God I shall teach them 3 It is no vain or needless thing that I am about to utter that which I shall speak is that wisdom which God himself hath taught me not any thing hatched in mine own brain nor phancy but such understanding as God hath revealed to that end therefore shall I from mine heart declare it to you 4 I for my part confess my self a learner in such things as I shall teach you from God and therefore though I am used as Gods instrument to declare them yet will I consider them with the uttermost care and diligence I can for my self as I would have you to do for your selves And what I shall speak shall be by way of Psalm sung to the Harp the better to affect both my self and you with it which being of so divine a nature is not easily understood by men that in whole or in part are flesh and bloud as we all are and therefore need to be the better heeded 5 Why should I or any child of God distrustfully lay to heart mine afflictions by wicked worldly men yea though God himâ—elf set them on work to punish me and deservedly too for my sinfull wayes and that in such a manner as there seems to speak humanely no way to escape the danger but to perish under it 6 For what are they that I am afraid of but vain and foolish men that trust not in God but in deceiveable riches which is all they have to glory in knowing no other happiness 7 Which yet stands them in no stead as to free them from death temporall or to the obtaining life eternall as to these they have no priviledg
his bow and made it readie 13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors 14 Behold he travelleth with iniquitie and hath conceived mischief and brought forth falshood 15 He made a pit and digged it and is fallen into the ditch which he made 16 His mischief shall return upon his own head and his violent dealing shall come upon his own pate 17 I will praise the Lord according to his righteousnes and will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high Psalm 8. To the chief musician upon Gittith A Psalm of David 1 O Lord our God how excellent is thy name in all the earth who hast set thy glory above the Heavens 2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thineâ— enemies that thou mightest still thâ— enemie and the avenger 3 When I consider thy Heavens the work of thy fingers the Moon and the Starrs which thou hast ordained 4 What is man that thou art mindful of him and the son of man that thou visitest him 5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the Angels hast crowned him with glory and honour 6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands thou hast put all things under his feet 7 All sheep and Oxen yea and the beasts of the field 8 The fowl of the aire and the fish of the sea and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the sea 9 O Lord our Lord how excellent is thy name in all the earth Psalm 9. To the chief musiciâ—n upon Muth-labben A Psalm of David 1 I will praise thee O Lord with my whole heart I will shew forth all thy marvellous works 2 I will be glad and rejoyce in thee I will sing praise to thy name O thou most high 3 When mine enemies are turned back they shall fall and perish at thy presence 4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause thou â—atest in the throne judgeing right 5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen thou hast destroied the wicked thou hast put out their name for ever and ever 6 O thou enemy destructions are come to a perpetual end and thou hast destroied cities their memory is perished with them 7 But the Lord shall endure for ever he hath prepared his throne for judgement 8 And he shall judge the world in righteousnesse he shall minister judgement to the people in uprightness 9 The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed a refuge in times of trouble 10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee for thou Lord hast not forsaken them that seek thee 11 Sing praises to the Lord which dwelleth in Sion declare among the people his doings 12 When he maketh inquisition for blood he remembreth them he forgetteth not the cry of the humble 13 Have mercy upon me O Lord consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me thou that liftest me up from the gates of death 14 That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Sion I will rejoyce in thy salvation 15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made in the net which they hid is their own foot taken 16 The Lord is known by the judgement which he executeth the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands Higgaion Selah 17 The wicked shall be turned into hell and all the nations that forget God 18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten the exspectation of the poor shall not perish for ever 19 Arise O Lord let not man prevail let the heathen be judged in thy sight 20 Put them in fear O Lord that the nations may know themselves to be but men Selah Psalm 10. 1 WHy standest thou afar of O Lord why hidest thou thy self in times of trouble 2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined 3 For the wicked boasteth of his hearts desire and blesseth the covetous whom the Lord abhorreth 4 The wicked through the pride of his countenance will not seek after God God is not in all his thoughts 5 His ways are always grievous thy judgements are far above out of his sight 6 He hath said in his heart I shall not be moved for I shall never be in adversity 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud under his tongue is mischief and vanitie 8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages in the secret places doth he murder the innocent his eyes are privily â—et against the poor 9 He lieth in wait secretly as a Lion in his den he lieth in wait to catch the poor he doth catâ—h the poor when he draweth him into his net 10 He croucheth and humbleth himself that the poor may fall by his strong ones 11 He hath said in his heart God hath forgotten he hideth his face he will never see it 12 Arise O Lord O God lift up thine hand forget not the humble 13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God he hath said in his heart Thou wilt not require it 14 Thou hast seen it for thoâ— beholdest mischief and spite to require it with thy hand the poor committeth himself unto thee thou art the â—eâ—per of the fatherless 15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man seek out his wickâ—dness till thou find none 16 The Lord is King for ever and ever the heathen are perished out of his land 17 Lord thou hast heard the desire of the humble thou wilt prepare their heart thou wilt cause thine ear to hear 18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed that the man of the earth may no more oppress Psalm xi To the chief musician A Psalm of David 1 IN the Lord put â— my trust how say ye to my soul flee as a bird to your mountain 2 For lo the wicked bend their bow they make ready their arrow upon the string that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart 3 If the foundations be destroyed what can the righteous do 4 The Lord is in his holy temple the Lords throne is in heaven his eyes behold his eye lids trie the children of men 5 The Lord trieth the righteous but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth 6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares fire and brimstone and an horrible tempest this shall be the portion of their cup. 7 For the righteous Lord loveth righteousnes his countenanâ—e doth behold the upright Psalm xii To the chief musician upon Sheminith A Psalm of David 1 HElp Lord for the godly man ceaseth for the faithful fail from among the children oâ— men 2 They speak vanitie every one with hiâ— neighbour with flattering lips and witâ— a double heart 〈◊〉 they speak 3 The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips and
and I am withered like grass 12 But thou O Lord shalt endure for ever and thy remembrance unto all generations 13 Thou shalt arise and have mercie upon Sion for the time to favour her yea the set time is come 14 For thy servants take pleasure in her stones and favour the dust thereof 15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the Lord and all the Kings of the earth thy glorie 16 When the Lord shall build Sion he shall appear in his glorie 17 He shall regard the prayer of the destitute and not despise their prayer 18 This shall be written for the generation to come and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord. 19 For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuarie from heaven did the Lord behold the earth 20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner to loose those that are appointed to death 21 To declare the name of the Lord in Sion and his praise in Jerusalem 22 When the people are gathered together and the Kingdoms to serve the Lord. 23 He weakened my strength in the way he shortned my dayes 24 I said O my God take me not away in the midst of my daie 2 Bless the Lord O my soul and forget not all his benefits 3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities who healeth all thy diseases 4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies 5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things so that thy youth is renewed as the Eagles 6 The Lord executeth righteousness and judgement for all that are oppressed 7 He made known his wayes unto Moses his acts unto the children of Israel 8 The Lord is merciful and gracious slow to anger and plenteous in mercy 9 He will not allwayes chide neither will he keep his anger for ever 10 He hath not dealt with us after our sins nor rewarded us according to our iniquities 11 For as the heaven is high above the earth so great is his mercie toward them that fear him 12 As far as the East is from the West so far hath he removeth our transgressions from us 13 Like as a father pitieth his children so the Lord pitieth them that fear him 14 For he knoweth our frame he remembreth that we are dust 15 As for man his dayes are as grass as a flower of the field so he flourisheth 16 For the wind passeth over it and it is gone and the place thereof shall know it no more 17 But the mercie of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him and his righteousness unto childrens children 18 To such as keep his Covenant and to those that remember his commandments to do them 19 The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens and his Kingdom ruleth over all 20 Bless the Lord ye his angels that excel in strength that do his commandments hearkening unto the voice of his word 21 Bless ye the Lord all ye his hosts ye ministers of his that do his pleasure 22 Bless the Lord all his works in all places of his dominion bless the Lord O my soul. Psalm civ 1 BLess the Lord O my soul O Lord my God thou art very great thou art clothed with honour and Majestie 2 Who coverest thy self with light as with a garment who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain 3 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters who maketh the clouds his chariot who walketh upon the wings of the wind 4 Who maketh his angels spirits his ministers a flaming â—ire 5 Who laid the foundations of the earth that it should not be removed for ever 6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment the waters stood above the mountains 7 At thy rebuke they fled at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away 8 They go up by the mountains they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them 9 Thou hast set a bound that they may may not pass over that they turn not again to cover the earth 10 He sendeth the springs into the valleys which run among the hils 11 They give drink to every beast of the field the wild asses quench their thirst 12 By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation which sing among the branches 13 He watereth the hils from his chambers the earth is satisfied with the fruit of his works 14 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattel and hearb for the service of man that he may bring forth food out of the earth 15 And wine that makes glad the heart of man and oyl to make his face to shine and bread which strengtheneth mans heart 16 The trees of the Lord are full of sap the Cedars of Lebanon which he hath planted 17 Where the birds make their nests as for the stork the fir-trees are her house 18 The high hils are a refuge for the wild Goats and the rocks for the conies 19 He appointeth the moon for seasons the sun knoweth his going down 20 Thou makest darkness and it is night wherein all the beasts of the forrest do creep forth 21 The young lions roar after their prey and seek their meat from God 22 The sun ariseth they gather themselves together and lay them down in their dens 23 Man goeth forth to his work and to his labour until the evening 24 O Lord how manifold are thy works in wisdom hast thou made them all the earth is full of thy riches 25 So is the great and wide sea wherein are things creeping innumerable both small and great 26 There go the ships there is that Leviathan whom thou hast made to play therein 27 These wait all upon thee that thou maist give them their meat in due season 28 That thou givest them they gather thou openest thine hand they are filled with good 29 Thou hidest thy face they are troubled thou takest away their breath they die and return to their dust 30 Thou sendest forth thy spirit they are created and thou renewest the face of the earth 31 The glorie of the Lord shall endure for ever the Lord shall rejoyce in his works 32 He looketh on the earth and it trembleth he toucheth the hills and they smoak 33 I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live I will sing praise unto my God while I have my being 34 My meditation of him shall be sweet I will be glad in the Lord. 35 Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth and let the wicked be no more bless thou the Lord O my soul. Praise ye the Lord. Psalm cv 1 O Give thanks unto the Lord call upon his name make known his deeds among the people 2 Sing unto him sing Psalms unto him talk ye of all his wonderous works 3 Glorie ye in his holy name let the heart of them rejoyce that â—ear the Lord. 4 Seek
polluted with bloud 39 Thus were theâ— defiled with their own works and went a whoring with their own inventions 40 Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people insomuch as he abhorred his own inheritanâ—e 41 And he gave them into the hand of the heathen and they that hated them ruled over them 42 Their enemies also oppressed them they were brought into subjection under their hand 43 Many times did he deliver them but they provoked him with their counsel and were brought low for their iniquitie 44 Nevertheless he regarded their affliction when he heard their crie 45 And he remembred for them his Covenant and repented according to the multitude of his mercies 46 He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives 47 Save us O Lord our God and gather us from among the heathen to give thanks unto thy holy name and to triumph in thy praise 48 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting let all the people say Amen Praise ye the Lord. 1 O Give thanks unto the Lord for he is good for his mercie endureth for ever 2 Let the redeemed of the Lord say so whom he hath redeemed from the hands of the enemy 3 And gathered them out of the lands from the East and from the West from the North and from the South 4 They wandered in the wilderness in a solitarie way they found no Citie to dwell in 5 Hungrie and thirstie their soul fainted in them 6 Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble and he delivered them out of their distresses 7 And he led them forth by the right way that they might go to a Citie of habitation 8 Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men 9 For he satisfieth the longing soul and filleth the hungry soul with goodness 10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death being bound in affliction and iron 11 Because they rebelled against the words of God and contemned the counsel of the most high 12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labour they fell down and there was none to help 13 Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble and he saved them out of their distresses 14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and brake their bands in sunder 15 Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children ofmen 16 For he hath broken the gates of brass and cut the bars of iron in â—â—nder 17 Fools because of their transgressions and because of their iniquities are afflicted 18 Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat and they draw near unto the gates of death 19 Then they crie unto the Lord in their trouble he saveth them out of their distresses 20 He sent his word and healed them and delivered them from their destruction 21 Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men 22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanks-giving and declare his works with rejoycing 23 They that go down to the sea in ships that do business in great waters 24 These see the works of the Lord â—nd his wonders in the deep 25 For he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind which lifteth up the waves thereof 26 They mount up to the heaven they go down again to the depths their soul is melted because of trouble 27 They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man and are at their wits end 28 Then they crie unto the Lord in their trouble and he bringeth them out of their distresses 29 He maketh the storm a calm so that the waves thereof are still 30 Then are they glad because they be quiet so he bringeth them unto their desired haven 31 Ohâ— that men would praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderfull works to the children of men 32 Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people and praise him in the assembly of the elders 33 He turneth rivers into a wilderness and the water-springs into drie ground 34 A fruitful land into barrenness for the wickedness of them that dwell therein 35 He turned the wilderness into a standing water and drie ground into water-springs 36 And there he maketh the hungrie to dwell that they may prepare a Citie for habitation 37 And sow the fields and plant vineyards which may yield fruits of increase 38 He blesseth them also so that they are multiplied greatly suffereth not their cattel to decrease 39 Again they are minished and brought low through oppression affliction and sorrow 40 He poureth contempt upon Princes and causeth them to wander in the wilderness where there is no way 41 Yet setteth he the poor on high and maketh him families like a â—lock 42 The righteous shall see it and rejoyce and all iniquitie shall stop her mouth 43 Who so is wise and will observe those things even they shall understand the loving kindness of the Lord. Psalm cviii A Song or Psalm of David 1 O God my heart is fixed I will sing and give praise even with my glorie 2 Awake Psalterie and harp I my self will awake early 3 I will praise thee O Lord among the People and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations 4 For thy mercie is great above the heavens and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds 5 Be thou exalted O God above the heavens and thy glorie above all the earth 6 That thy beloved may be delivered save with thy right hand and answer me 7 God hath spoken in his holiness I will rejoyce I will divide Sechem and meet out the valley of Succoth 8 Gilead is mine Manasseh is mine Ephraim also is the strength of mine head Judah is my law-giver 9 Moab is my wash-pot over Edom will I cast my shoe over Philistia will I triumph 10 Who will bring me into the strong citie who will lead me into Edom. 11 Wilt not thou O God who hast cast us off and wilt not thou O God go foâ—th with our hosts 12 Give us help from trouble for vain is the help of man 13 Through God we shall do valiantly for he it is that shall tread down our enemies Psalm cix To the chief musitian A Psalm of David 1 HOld not thy thy peace O God of my praise 2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceiptful are opened against me they have spoken against me with a lying tongue 3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred and fought against me without a cause 4 For my love they are mine advâ—rsaries but I give my self unto prayer 5 And they have rewarded me evil for good and hatred for my love 6 Set thou a wicked man over him and lâ—t