ftrength is in thee, in whofe heart are thy ways. 6 Who going through the vale of mifery, ufe it for a well, and the pools are filled with water. 7 I hey will go from ftrength to ftrength, and unto the God of gods appeareth every one of them in Sion. 8 O Lord God of hofts, hear my prayer; hearken, O God of Jacob. 9 Behold, O God our defender, and look upon the face of thine anointed. 10 For one day in thy courts is better than a thousand. 11 I had rather be a doorkeeper in the houfe of my God, than to dwell in the tents of ungodliness. 3 Thou haft taken away all thy displeasure, and turned thyfelf from thy wrathful indignation. 4 Turn us then, O God our Saviour, and let thine anger ceafe from us. 5 Wilt thou be difpleafed at us for ever, and wilt thou ftretch out thy wrath from one generation to another? 6 Wilt thou not turn again and quicken us, that thy people may rejoice in thee? 7 Shew us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy falvation. 8 I will hearken what the Lord God will fay concerning me, for he shall peak peace unto his people, and to his faints, that they turn not again. 12 For the Lord God is a light and defence; the Lord 9 For his falvation is nigh will give grace and worship, them that fear him, that gloand no good thing fhall hery may dwell in our land. withhold from them that live a godly life. 10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kiffed each other. II Truth fhall flourish out of the earth, and righteoufnefs hath looked down from heaven. 12 Yea, the Lord fhall fhew thou haft turned away the cap-loving-kindness, and our land tivity of Jacob. 2 Thou haft forgiven the offence of thy people, covered all their fins. and fhall give her increase. 13 Righteousness fhall go before him, and he fhall direct his going in the way. PSALM PSALM 86. OW down thine ear, O Lord, and hear me; for I am poor and in mifery. 2 Preserve thou my foul, for I am holy; my God, fave thy fervant that putteth his truft in thee. 3 Be merciful unto me, O Lord; for I will call daily upon thee. 4 Comfort the foul of thy fervant; for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my foul. 5 For thou, Lord, art good and gracious, and of great mercy unto all them that call upon thee. 6 Give ear, Lord, unto my prayer, and ponder the voice of my humble defires. 7 In the time of my trouble I will call upon thee, for thou hearest me. 8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; there is not one that can do as thou doest. 9 All nations whom thou haft made fhall come and worship thee, O Lord, and fhall glorify thy Name. 10 For thou art great, and doest wonderous things; thou art God alone. II Teach me thy way, O Lord, and I will walk in thy truth; O knit my heart unto thee, that I may fear thy Name. 12 I will thank thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart, and will praife thy Name for evermore. 13 For great is thy mercy toward me, and thou haft delivered my foul from the nethermoft hell. 14 O God, the proud are rifen against me, and the congregations of naughty men have fought after my foul, and have not fet thee before their eyes. 15 But thou, O Lord God, art full of compaffion and mercy, long-fuffering, plenteous in goodness and truth. 16 O turn thee then unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy ftrength unto thy fervant, and help the fon of thine handmaid. 17 Shew fome token upon me for good, that they who hate me may fee it, and be afhamed; because thou, Lord, haft holpen me, and comforted me. H' PSALM 87. TER foundations are upon the holy hills; the Lord loveth the gates of Sion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. 2 Very excellent things are fpoken of thee, thou city of God. 3 I will think upon Rahab F 4 and and Babylon, with them that know me. 4 Behold ye the Philistines alfo, and they of Tyre, with the Morians, lo, there was he born. 5 And of Sion it fhall be reported, that he was born in her, and the most High fhall stablish her. upon me, and thou haft vexed me with all thy ftorms. me, 7 Thou haft put away mine acquaintance far from and made me to be abhorred of them. 8 I am fo faft in prifon, that I cannot get forth. 9 My fight faileth for very trouble; Lord, I have called 6 The Lord fhall rehearse it daily upon thee, I have stretchwhen he writeth up the peo-ed forth my hands unto thee. ple, that he was born there. 7 The fingers alfo and trumpeters fhall he rehearse; all my fresh fprings fhall be in thee. PSALM 88. Lord God of my falvation, I have cried day and night before thee; O let my prayer enter into thy prefence, incline thine ear unto my calling. 2 For my foul is full of trouble, and my life draweth nigh unto hell. 3 I am counted as one of them that go down into the pit, and I have been even as a man that hath no strength. 4 Free among the dead, like unto them that are wounded, and lie in the grave, who are out of remembrance, and are cut away from thy hand. 5 Thou haft laid me in the lowest pit, in a place of darknefs, and in the deep. 6 Thine indignation lieth hard 10 Doft thou fhew wonders. among the dead? Or fhall the dead rife up again, and praise thee? II Shall thy loving-kindnefs be fhewed in the grave? Or thy faithfulness in deftruction? 12 Shall thy wonderous works be known in the dark; and thy righteousness in the land where all things are forgotten? 13 Unto thee have I cried, O Lord, and early fhall my prayer come before thee. 14 Lord, why abhorreft thou my foul, and hideft thou thy face from me? 15 I am in mifery, and like unto him that is at the point to die; even from my youth up thy terrors have I fuffered with a troubled mind. 16 Thy wrathful difpleasure goeth over me, and the fear of thee hath undone me. 17 They came round about me daily like water, and compaffed 9 O Lord God of hofts, who is like unto thee? Thy truth, moft mighty Lord, is on every fide. 10 Thou ruleft the raging of the fea; thou ftilleft the waves thereof when they arise. II Thou haft fubdued Egypt, and destroyed it; thou haft fcattered thine enemies abroad with thy mighty arm. 12 The heavens are thine, 13 3 I have made a covenant] Name. with my chofen ; I have sworn unto David my fervant. 4 Thy feed will I ftablish for ever,and set up thythrone from one generation to another. 5 O Lord, the very heavens shall praise thy wonderous works, and thy truth in the congregation of the faints. 6 For who is he among the clouds that shall be compared unto the Lord? 7 And what is he among the gods that fhall be like unto the Lord? 8 God is very greatly to be feared in the council of the faints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are round about him. 14 Thou haft a mighty arm; ftrong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. 15 Righteoufnefs and equity are the habitation of thy feat; mercy and truth fhall go before thy face. 16 Bleffed is the people, O Lord, that can rejoice in thee; they fhall walk in the light of thy countenance. 17 Their delight fhall be daily in thy Name, and in thy righteoufnefs fhall they make their boaft. 18 For thou art the glory of their ftrength, and in thy loving-kindness thou shalt lift up our horns. 19 For the Lord is our de fence; fence; the holy One of Ifrael is our King. 20 Thou spakest sometime in vifions unto thy faints, and faidft, I have laid help upon one that is mighty, I have exalted one chofen out of the people. 21 I have found David my fervant; with my holy oil have I anointed him. 22 My hand fhall hold him fast, and my arm fhall ftrengthen him. 23 The enemy fhall not be able to do him violence; the fon of wickedness fhall not hurt him. fake my law, and walk not in my judgments; 32 If they break my ftatutes, and keep not my commandments, I will visit their offences with the rod, and their fin with fcourges. 33 Nevertheless, my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor fuffer my truth to fail. 34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips; I have fworn once by my holiness, that I will not fail David. 35 His feed fhall endure for ever, and his feat is like as the fun before me. 36 He shall stand fast for e 24 I will fmite down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him. 25 Mytruth alfo and mymer-vermore as the moon, and as cy shall be with him, and in my the faithful witness in heaven, Name fhall his horn be exalted. 26 I will fet his dominion alfo in the fea, and his right hand in the floods. 27 He shall call me, Thou art my Father, my God, and my strong falvation. 28 And I will make him my first-born; higher than the kings of the earth. 29 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant fhall ftand faft with him. 30 His feed alfo will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. 51 But if his children for 37 But thou haft abhorred, and forfaken thine Anointed, and art displeased at him. 38 Thou haft broken the covenant of thy fervant, and caft his crown to the ground. 39 Thou haft overthrown all his hedges, and broken down his ftrong holds. 40 All they that go by, fpoil him, and he is become a reproach to his neighbours. 41 Thou haft fet up the right hand of his enemies, and made all his adverfàries to rejoice. 42 Thou haft taken away the edge of his fword, and givest him not victory in the battle, 43 Thou |