yea, let him tread my life down upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the duft. 6 [Do thou, O God, exert thy felf in executing that Judgment againft Cufh, which he has deferved, and thou ordained in thy Law, Deut. xix. 16,17,18,19. viz. That he who bears falfe Witnefs fhall have it fo done to him, as he had thought to have done to his Brother.] 6 Stand up, O Lord, in thy wrath, and lift up thy felf, becaufe of the indignation of mine enemies: [arife up for me in the judgment that thou haft commanded.] 7+ As thou hast done formerly to vindicate the Innocent, 8 [On my fide.] 10 [Secret thoughts,] fo Reins fignifies, Jer. xii. 2, &c. 13 [If the wicked Man will not return and repent, God will sharpen his Inftruments of death and deftruction.T 7 And fo fhall the congregation of the people come about thee: for their fakes therefore lift up thy felf again t. 8 The Lord fhall judge the people; give fentence with me, O Lord: according to my righteousness, and according to the innocency that is in me. 9 Olet the wickednefs of the ungodly come to an end but guide thou the juft. 10 For the righteous God: trieth the very hearts and [reins.] 11 My help cometh of God; who preferveth them that are true of heart. 12 God is a righteous judge, ftrong and patient and God is provoked every day. 13 [Ifa Man will not turn, he will whet his fword: ] he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. 14 He hath prepared for him the inftruments of death: he ordaineth his arrows against the perfecutors. 15 Behold, [he travaileth with mischief: he hath conceived forrow, and brought forth ungodlinefs.] 16 He hath graven and digged up a pit and is fallen himfelf into the deftruction that he made for other. 17 For his travail fhall come upon his own head: and his wickedness fhall fall on his own pate. 18 Iwill give thanks unto the Lord, according to his righte oufnefs and I will praise the Name of the Lord most High. 15 [Cufh is big, as it were in travail, with has taken great Pains in some great Mischief; he hatching it, and is at laft deliver'd of an ug ly monftrous Villany. A Pfalm of David, on his killing Goliah of Gath, 1 Sam. vii. (as is generally thought) in which he was eminently a Type of Christ, who came to destroy or overcome the Devil, the great Enemy of our Souls. O Domine, Dominus nofter. Pfal. VIII. Lord our Governour 3 Name in all the World: thou 2. [Out of the mouth of very babes and fucklings haft thou ordained ftrength, because of thine enemies: that thou mighteft ftill the enemy and the avenger.] [Thou gavest ftrength to me, who am comparison of that lofty Giant, to discomfit the whole Army of the Philiftines ; which I did not do by virtue of but a meer Child in my Sword or Sling, fo much as by that declaration of Faith and Confidence in God, which then proceeded out of my Mouth, 1 Sam. xvii. 45, 46, 47. And fo on other occafions, thou wilt make ufe of Perfons of an Infant-like Temper, Mat. 18. 3, 4. to confound the mightieft Powers upon Earth by their Preaching, 1 Cor. 1. 27. and by the Hofanna's which the Children fhall fing to to the Meffias, fhalt filence and dash the arrogance and infolence of the Priefts and ruling Jews towards him.] 4 [Thy Tpecial Providence does in fo pr ticular a manner watch 4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him: and the fon of man, that [thou vifiteft him?] over him.] So [Vifit] st Little. See General Notes. 2. 5 [Thou haft indeed made Mankind fomewhat lower than the Angels, (and that but very little, as appears by me, whom thou haft employed in that which is the proper business af Angels, to chastise and fubdue thy Enemies:) And thy own Son fhall hereafter take upon him humane Nature; and in this refped, for a while, be lower than the Angels. But thou haft placed Men in a state below 5 [Thou madeft him † lower than the angels: to crown him with glory and worship.] 6 Thoù makeft him to have dominion of the works of thy hands: and thou haft put all things in fubjection under his feet; 7 All fheep and oxen: yea, and the beafts of the field; 8 The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the fea: and whatfoever walketh through the paths of the feas. how excellent is thy Name in १. O Lord our Governour: all the world! ving themfelves well in this Condition, they may be preferr❜d to a degree of Happiness and Dignity like to that of Angels in another World: And thy Son fhall thus for a time humble himself, that by fuffering Death he may be crown'd with Glory and Honour; and even in his Humane Nature be exalted above Angels, Eph. i. 20, 21. The Second Day. Morning Prayer. A Pfalm of David, wherein he thanks God for the great Succefs he had against the Philiftines, and other Enemies; and begs God's Affiftance in his prefent Difficulties. Confitebor tibi. I Will Pfal. IX. Will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will fpeak of all thy marvellous works. 5 [Thou haft by this Defeat caft fuch a blot upon their Glory, that they hall never be able to wipe it off.] 6 [Now, O Philiftines, there is a final end put to all that Mifchief and Havock, which you formerly made in Ifrael; the great Feats which you have done against which ye have formerly us fhall be forgotten, even as thofe Cities taken from us, and rafed: The Memory of one as well as the other is vanish'd and gone.] 7 But the Lord fhall endure for ever he hath alfo prepared his [feat] for judgment. 8 For he fhall judge the world in righteousness: and minifter true judgment unto the people. 9 The Lord also will be a defence for the oppreffed: even a refuge in due time of trouble. 10 And they that know thy Name, will put their truft in thee for thou, Lord, haft never failed them that seek thee. 11 O praise the Lord which 7 [Throne.] dwel 14 [Gates.] See the Vocabulary. *Daughter of Sion] that is, The City of Sion. The Ancients compa dwelleth in Sion: fhew the people of his doings. 12 For when he maketh inquifition for bloud, he remembreth [them]: and forgetteth not the complaint of the poor. 13 Have mercy upon me, O Lord, confider the trouble which I fuffer of them that hate me thou that lifteft me up from the gates of death. 14 That I may fhew all thy praifes within the [ports] of the daughter of Sion: I will rejoyce in thy falvation. * to IS red their Cities beautiful young Women, and therefore cal led them Daughters; by the fame Figure we The heathen are funk down in the pit that they made: in the fame net which they hid privily, is their foot taken. call a Ship of War, a 16 The Lord is known to Man of War. Thus we read of the Daughter of Babylon, Pf. cxxxvii. 8. the Daughter of Tyre, Pf. xiv. 13. the Daughter of Jerufalem very often. Sion is frequently filed a City, 1 Kings viii. 1. 1.xxxiii.20,&c. execute judgment: the ungodly is trapped in the work of his own hands. 17 The wicked fhall be turned into hell: and all the people that forget God. 18 For the poor fhall not alway be forgotten: the patient abiding of the meek fhall not perish for ever. 19 Up, Lord, and let not man have the upper hand let : the heathen be judged in thy fight. 20 Put them in fear, O Lord: that the heathen may know themselves to be but men. |