he took from them 17 He sent a man before them Joseph whas sold for a slaue 18 They put fetters upon his feet his irons penetrated his soul till his prophecy was accomplished 19 He was inspired by revelation from our Lord. The king sent and caus'd him to be unbound The ruler of the people set him at liberty 20 He gave him absolute authority over his house And made him the cheif over all his dominions 21 That he might instruct his Princes as well as himself And give rules of wisdome to his Elders 22 Then Israel came into Egypt And Jacob resided in the land of Cham 23. And God exceedingly increased his people And made them stronger then their Enemies 24 Who 's hearts he turned into hatred against his people so that they contrived to insnare his servants 25 Then he sent Moses his servant And Aron whom he had chosen to himself 26 He endowed them with the power of doing miracles and prodigies in the land of Cham. 27 He sent darknes And Egipt was cover'd with it All his words had their effect 28 He turn'd their waters into blood And destroyd all their fishes 29 Their land brought forth frogs Even in the privat lodgings of their king 30 He said the word And swarms of flys of all sorts came upon them And lice were spread over all their Country 31 In stead of rain he sent them hail and à consuming fire on their lands 32 He kill'd their vines and their fig trees and destroyed all the trees on the ground 33 He spake And the Locusts came and the Caterpillers that were innumerable 34 And they did eat up all their grass in the feilds And devoured all the fruit of their Country 35 And he kill'd every first born in their land And the first fruits of their child-bed labours 36 And he brought forth his people loaded with gold and silver And there was not an infirme person in all their Tribes 37 Egypt rejoyced at their departure For they were in great dread of them 38 He extended a cloud to be a cover to them And lighted them by night with a pillar of fire 39 They askt him meat and he sent them quailes And he fed them with the bread of heaven 40 He broke open the rock and the waters did run In the dry ground rivers did flow 41 For he was mindfull of his sacred word which he gave to Abraham his servant 42 And he brought forth his people with joy And his chosen ones with gladnes 43 And he gave them the lands of the Gentils And they possessed and injoyed the labours of the Nations 44 That they might observe his precepts And carefully mind his law PSALME CV Confitemini Domino quoniam In this Psalme the people are excited to praise God and to put their trust in his mercy To which end the benefites of God formerly bestowed upon the Israelites are comemorated Their sins are discribed and the divine mercy towards them is extol ed. This Psalme ends with a short prayer for the safety of the people and the coming back of their dispersed brâ—thren So that it seemes to have been writt in the time of the Captivity of Babylon 1 PRaise our Lord Psalm 105. for he is good For his mercy is everlasting 2 Who shall relate the wonders of our Lord who shall publish all his praises 3 Happy are they who keep the rules of justice and in all times do what is right 4 Remember us O Lord according to the love thou bearest thy people visite us with thy saving mercy 5 That wee may inioy the good things reserved for thy Elect That wee may have part in the enjoyments of thy people And that thou mayest be prais'd by all thos of thy Inheritance 6 Wee as well as our Fathers have sin'd Wee have acted uniustly And wee are guilty of iniquity 8 They provoked God even when they were entering into the sea Into the red sea 9 Yet he ceased not to preserve them for the glory of his name And to manifest his power 10 He threatningly commanded the red sea And it instantly became dry And he led them thorow the midle of the waters as if it had been thorow a dry desert 11 He rescu'd them out of the hands of thos who hated them and delivered them out of the hands of Pharaoh their Enemy 12 And the water overwhelmed thos who pursued them Not one of them escap'd 13 Then they believed his words and they celebrated his praises 14 But soon after they forgott what he had done for them And had not patienâ—e to wait for the execution of his designs 15 They were carried away with their inordinat desires in the defert And tempted God in the place without water 16 He gave them what they petition'd for And fill'd them with what their souls desir'd 17 Again they provoked Moses in the Camp And Aron the holy one of our Lord. 18 The earth opened and swallowed Dathan and devoured Abiram with his associats 19 A fire rose up in the assembly of them And the flames consumed the sinners 20 They made a Calf in Horeb and they ador'd the graven Image 21 They transfered the glory belonging to him To the image of an Ox that eats grass 22 They forgott God who had saved them who had done such great things in Egypt such prodigys in the land of Cham And such terrifying wonders in the red sea 23 And he resolved to destroy them which he had done if Moses his chosen one had not stood in the breach and presented himself before him 24 To divert his anger from destroying them Then again they dispised the land so much to be desired 25 They gave no credit to his word And they murmured in their tents They did not hear the voice of our Lord 26 And he lifted up his hand upon them to exterminate them in the desert 27 And to scatter the race of them amongst the nations And to disperse them into severall Countries 27 They worshiped Belphegor and did eat of the sacrifices offered to dead men 29 They irritated God in all their actions And great numbers of them were destroyed 30 Then Phinâ—es rose up and appeased God And the mortality ceased 31 And this was imputed to him as justice for all the Ages to come 32 Again they provoked him at the waters of contradiction And they brought great vexation upon Moyses for they imbitter'd his spirit 33 And he spake diffidently They did not destroy the Nations which our Lord had commanded them to exterminat 34 They mingled amongst the Gentils and learned their ways and works They adored their Idols and this was the occasion of their fall 35 And they immolated their sons and their daughters to Divels 36 They did spill innocent blood even the blood of their sons and daughters which they sacrificed to the Idols of Canaan 37 And the land was infected with blood and contaminated with their works And they prostituted them
the wonderfull things he had shewn to them 15 Their fathers beheld with their eyes the wonderfull things he did in the land of Egipt in the plaines of Janes 16 He divided the sea and brought them thorow it He shutt up the waters as it were in a vessel 17 With a cloud he led them by day and by night with an illumination of fire 18 He cleaved the rock in the desert and gave them to drink as plentifully as out of the deep 19 He brought water out of the rock and made it flow like a great river 20 And after all this they fell again to sinning against him and provoked the anger of the most high in the dry desert 21 And they tempted God in their hearts in asking him for meat they long'd for 22 And they spoke evill of God saying can God provide a table for us in the desert 23 Because he struck the rock and the water gush'd out and the torrents did oveâ—flow 24 Is he likewise able to give us bread and provide a table in the wildernes for all his people 25 Therfor our Lord hearing this suspended his blessings and a fire was kindled in Jacob and he powred his wroth over Israel 26 Because they did not beleeve God and did not trust to his powerfull assistance 27 And he gave his command to the clouds aboue and he opened the gates of heaven 28 And he rained manna for them to eat and he gave them the bread of heaven 29 Man did eat the bread of angels he sent them food in great abundance 30 He removed the southerly wind out of the air and by his power brought in a westernly wind 31 And he rained meat upon them as thick as the dust that flyes in the air and birds innumerable as the sands of the sea 32 And he caused them to fall in the midle of their camp and round about their tents 33 And they did eat and they were fill'd with them he gave them their desire And they had what they long'd for 34 The meat was still in their mouths when the anger of our Lord rose up against them 35 And he kill'd the strongest amongst them and the choicest of Israel he overthrew 36 After all this they sinned still and his wonders wrought no faith in them 37 And their days vanish'd like a shadow and their years were suddenly at an end 38 When he punished them with death they sought him They returned and made hast to come to him 39 They remembred that God was their defender that God the most high was their redeemer 40 And in their words they lovâ—d him but their tongue ly'd to him 41 For their heart was not right towards him and they were found unfaithfull in observing his covenant 42 But he is mercifull and he pardoned their sins and did not wholly destroy them 43 And in great measure he did moderate the rigour of his justice and would not kindle his whole anger against them 44 He remembred that they were flesh and that their life was like a breath of wind passing away and never returning 45 How often did they exasperat him in the desert and provoke his anger in places without water 46 They still relapsed to tempt God and to irritate the holy one of Israel 47 They did not remember with what might and power he had delivered them out of the hands of their persecutor 48 What signs he had shew'd of his mightines in Egipte and what miracles he had wrought in the plaines of Tanis 49 How he turn'd the rivers into blood and left them no waters that they could drink 50 He sent them swarms of flys that devour'd them and frogs that destroy'd them 51 He gave their fruit to the Caterpiller and their labour to the grashoper 52 With haile he killed their vines and with frost their mulbery trees 53 And with hailstones he destroy'd theire cattle and their possessions with fire 54 He made them feel the effects of his anger and indignation is punishments of all kinds by the ministery of evil angels 55 He open'd the passage of his angeâ— to fall upon them He spared not the lives of them nor of their cattle 56 And he destroyd every first born in the land of Egipte and all the first fruit of their labour in the tabernacle of Cham. 57 And he brought away his people like sheep and conducted them like a flock in the desert 58 He led them on with hope and they feared nothing And their enemys were overwhelmed in the sea 59 And he brought them up to the-mountaine which he had made ' holy To the mountaine acquired with his right hand 60 And he drove out the nations before them And divided by lot the land amongst them measur'd out by the line 61 And he established the tribes of Israel in the dwellings of these nations 62 And still they tempted and irritated God the most high and his precepts they did not observe 63 They turn'd away from him And did not keep his covenant as their fathers before them they became like a bow that never carrys true 64 Vpon their hills they provoked him to anger and by their idols they rais'd his jealousy 65 This God heard and he despised them And brought Israel even to nothing 66 And he abandon'd his Tabernacle at Silo his Tabernacle where he had dwelt amongst men 67 And he deliver'd up the ark their strength into captivity And their glory into the hands of the Enemy 68 And he expos'd people on all sides to the sword And he contemned his inheritance 69 Their young men were devour'd by fire ad their virgins were not lamented 70 Their preists fell by the sword and there was none to mourn for their widows 71 Then our Lord rose up as it were waked out of a long sleep Or like a strong man after being drunk with wine 72 And he struck the enemy in their hinder parts and gave them a lasting mark of infamy 73 And he rejected the Tabernacle of Joseph nor did he chuse the tribe of Ephraim 74 But he made choice of the Tribe of Judah The mountain of Sion which he loved 75 And he built his sanctuary in a high place upon the earth which he hath founded to last for ever 76 And he chose David his servant and took him from the flocks of sheep and from following the breeding yews 77 To feed Jacob his servant And Israel his inheritance 78 And he led them with integrity of heart And with skillfull hands he conducted them PSALME LXXVIII Deus venerunt gentes Some interpreters think that by this Psalme is meant the cruell persecution which the Iews suffered under Antiochus his successors according to what is cited in the history of the Mabées shewing that what is here fortold was there accomplish'd Others maintain that this Psalme speaks of the ruine of Ierusalem caused by Nabuchodonosor Whither it be the one or the other what is said in it may be very
thanksgiving and with voice and instrument let us celebrate his glory 3 For God is the great Lord And the great king over all the Gods 4 For the whole earth from one end to the other is in his hand And the highest mountains belong to him 5 For his is the sea And he made it And his hands formed the dry Land 6 Come Let us adore and fall down And let us weep before our Lord who has made us 7 For he is the Lord our God and we are the people nourish'd in his pastures and the sheep guided by his hand 8 If today you shall hear his voyce harden not your hearts 9 As in the time of provocation and in the day of temptation in the desert wher your fathers tempted me they made tryall of me and beheld my works 10 For forty years together I was offended with that generation and said The heart of this people goes allways wrong 11 And they have not known my ways Therfor I swore in my anger they shall not enter into my place of rest PSALME LXXXXV Cantate Domino Vnder the litterall sense of this Psalme which expresses the greatnes of God rais'd infinitly aboue the Gods of the Nations and Victorious over all the Enemies of his people All interpreters agree that in the prophetick sense it contains the mistery of the comming of the Messias and of the establishment of the kingdom of Iesus-Christ which is his Church upon the earth 1 SIng to our Lord a new canticle Psalm 95. sing to our Lord over all the Earth 2 Sing to our Lord and bless his holy name From day to day set forth his saving mercy 3 Proclaime his glory amongst the people of the earth 4 For great is our Lord and infinitly praise-worthy he is terrible aboue all the Gods 5 For all the Gods of the Gentils are divells But our Lord is the Creator of the Heavens 6 Glory beauty shine out before him sanctity and magnificence are in his sanctuary 7 Ye Countries and nations I make offerings to our Lord of glory and honour offer to our Lord the glory due to his name 8 Take your victimes and go into his house Adore our Lord at the entrance of his holy Tabernacle 9 Let the whole earth tremble before him Tell the nations that our Lord is he who reigns 10 For he has setled the earth And it shall not be moved The people thereof he will judge with equity 11 Let the heavens rejoyce and the earth be transported with joy Let the sea alike be moued and all that fill it The feilds will have gladnes and all that is in them 12 Then will all the trees of the woods shew their joy in the presence of our Lord Because he comes because he comes to judge the earth 13 He will judge the whole earth with equity And all nations according to his truth PSALME LXXXXVI Dominus regnavit It is probable that David made this Psalme after some signall victory gain'd upon his Enemies for which he magnifys the power and mercy of God At the same time he does very plainly foretell the establishment of the spirituall kingdom of Iesus-Christ And he exhorts all men to prepare themselves for it by hatred to sin and loue to justice 1 OUr Lord does reign Psalm 96. let the earth rejoyce Let all the Islands be glad 2 Clouds and darknes are round about him justice and judgement support his Throne 3 Fire will go before him and he will consume his enemys round about him 4 His lightnings appeared over all the earth at the fight thereof the earth trembled 5 The mountains melted like wax in the presence of our Lord so did the whole earth in the presence of our Lord. 6 The heavens have declared his justice And all people of the earth have seen his glory 7 Let all be confounded who adore graven images And who glory in their jdols 8 Adore him all his Angels Sion has heard and has rejoiced 9 And the daugherts of Juda have been fill'd with joy by reason of thy judgements o Lord 10 For thou art the supreme Lord over all the earth Thou art infinitly rais'd aboue all the Gods 11 All you that love our Lord be haters of evill our Lord takes care of the souls of his saints he will deliver them out of the hand of the sinner 12 Light is risen upon the just And joy upon the upright of heart 13 Let all the just rejoyce in our Lord And celebrate the memory of his Hollines PSALME LXXXXVII Cantate Domino This Psalme seemes to have been made upon the same occasion and upon the same subject with the last And has the same spirituall and prophetick meaning 1 Sing to our Lord a new hymne Psalm 97. For he has done wonderfull things 2 We are saved by the might of his right hand and by the strength of his holy arm 3 Our Lord has made known his saving power in the sight of the nations he has manifested his justice 4 He has remembred his mercys and the making good his promises to the house of Israel 5 The whole earth has seen the saving mercy of our God 6 Joyfully sing all ye inhabitants of the earth the praises of God sing and be transported with joy sing and play upon your instruments 7 Sing to our Lord upon the harp and the Psaltery with trumpets and cornets 8 Sound forth your joy in the presence of our Lord our king Let the sea rejoyce and all it contains and the whole world with the inhabitants thereof 9 The rivers will joyn their applause and the mountains will shew their joy at the sight of our Lord because he comes to judge the earth 10 He will judge the earth according to justice And the people thereof with equity PSALME LXXXXVIII Dominus regnavit irascantur It is probable David made this Psalme at the time when the Ark was placed upon mount Sion It contains an exhortation to the people that they should reverence the glory of God residing in the Ark and adore him with humble fear as the holy Prophets in former times had done 1 OUr Lord reigns Psalm 98. Let the Nations be angry he reigns who sits upon the Cherubins Let the earth tremble 2 Our Lord is great in Sion And supreme over all the people of the world 3 Let them give glory to thy great name because it is terrible and holy And the glory of a king is loue of justice 4 Thou hast establish'd just laws Thou hast executed judgement and justice in Jacob. 5 Magnify the glory of the Lord our God And adore his footstool because it is holy 6 Moses and Aron were of the number of his preists Samuell was amongst thos who call'd upon his name 7. They call'd upon the Lord and he heard them in the pillar of the Cloud he spoke to them 8 They Kept his ordinances and the precept which he gave them 9 O Lord our God! thou