will I bring again, as I did fometime from the deep of the fea.] 23 That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies and that the tongue of thy dogs may be red through the fame.

24 [It is well feen, O God, how thou goeft: how thou, my God and King, goeft in the fanctuary.]

25 The fingers go before, the minstrels follow after: in the midst are the damfels playing with the timbrels.

26 Give thanks, O Ifrael, unto God the Lord in the congregations from the ground of the heart.

27 [There is little Benjamin their ruler, and the princes of Juda their counsel: the princes of Zabulon, and the princes of Nepththali.]

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when we fought with Og, King of Bafan; or, when he deliver d us and

from Pharaoh, brought us through the Red-Sea

fight to fee how thou, 24 ['Tis a glorious

O our King and God, (by the token of thy Prefence, the Ark) makeft thy folemn Pro

ceffion through the Sanctuary, in order to march out with our Armies.]

27 [See and obferve, here are not only the two neighbouring

Tribes following the Ark in Proceffion, whereof the first, little

Benjamin, has got the name of Ruler, becaufe the firft King, (Saul) was of that Tribe: The other (Fudah) the Title of Counjel, by reafon of the many able Statemen which that Tribe affords: But there are likewife the two remoteft Tribes, Zabulon and Nephthali, attending this Solemnity, and ready to engage, for the Service of God and their Country, againft this potent Enemy.] 28 [Thy God hath fent forth ftrength for thee: ftablish the thing, O God, that thou haft wrought in us,]:

fed to confirm 29 [For thy temples fake at Jerufalem: fo fhall kings bring prefents unto thee.]

and

28 'Tis the Will of

thy God, O Ifrael, that has thus ftrengthned us, by uniting our Tribes:

Be thou, O God, pleaincrease this Union.] 29 Temple, that is,

Sanctuary. See Pfalm

v. 7. further oblerve, that Jerufalem and Zion

fignify one and the fame City,both here, and in divers other places.

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29 [Con

29 [Confirm it, O God, for the fake of thy Sanctuary, which is now fettled at Jerufalem, and on the account of the Services there perform'd to thee: And then shall other neighbouring Kings. dedicate their Treafures, and Perfons to thy Service, when they fee how great a God thou art.] See 2 Sam. viii. 9, 10, 11.

30 [Together with

the brutish CommonSoldiers.

In order to buy Peace of the People of Ifrael.

31 † By way of Em

30 When the company of the fpear-men,and multitude of the mighty,are fcattered abroad [among the beafts of the people] To that they humbly bring pieces of filvert: and when he hath fcattered the people that delight in war,

bally to treat of Peace.
The Morians Landrians

31 Then fhall the princes come out of Egypt+: [*the Morians land fhall foon ftretch out meaning a Country her hands unto God.]

here fignifies Æthiopia,

whose People are Blacks. By the fame Figure, or for the fame Reason, we commonly call ali fuch People Black-mores. We ufe likewife the fame liberty, when we call the Southern parts of America, the Weft-Indies.

[The Ethiopians fhall foon ftretch out their hands to God, in offering their Prayers and Oblations.] This Verfe has been more fully verified in Chrift Jefus, than ever it had been before, to whom many Princes, in all parts of the World, have submitted themselves.

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34 * Worship,] that is, Honour, Majefty. See the Vocabulary.

32 Sing unto God, O ye kingdoms of the earth: O fing praises unto the Lord,

33 Who fitteth in the heavens over all from the beginning: lo, he doth fend out *his voice, yea, and that a mighty

voice.

*

God over Ifrael: his worship 34 [Afcribe ye the power to and ftrength is in the clouds.]

[Acknowledge that Ifrael is God's peculiar Dominion, that He governs and prefides over it in an especial manner; tho' his Power is not confined to any one Nation on Earth: nay, he reigns above in Heaven, as well as here below.]

35 O God, [wonderful art. thou in thy holy places]: even the God of Ifrael; he will give ftrength and power unto his people; bleffed be God.

Evening Prayer.

35 [Thou doft Wonders, in confounding our Enemies, by exerting thy Power from thy Throne in Heaven a

bove, and the Ark here on Earth.j

A Pfalm of David when in great Diftrefs: And as what David fays of his own Sufferings, was more truly and literally fulfilled in Chrift; fo, by parity of Reason, what is here wish'd to the Enemies of David, may more probably be applied to the Enemies of Chrift, and his Gofpel. And accordingly St. Peter applies the 26th Verfe to Judas, Acts i. 20. And St. Paul the 24th to the unbelieving Jews, Rom. xi. 10. and therefore 'tis only against fuch who would willingly, in the literal fenfe, crucify the Lord of Life, that thefe Anathema's can justly be used. See Preface.

Salvum me fac. Pfal. LXIX 2 Ave me, O God: for the waters are come in, even unto my foul.

2 Iftick faft in the deep mire, where no ground is: I am come into deep waters, fo that the floods run over me.

3 I am weary of crying, my throat is dry my fight faileth me for waiting fo long upon my God.

4 They that hate me without a caufe, are more than the hairs of my head: they that are mine enemies, and would deftroy me [guiltless,] are mighty. 5 I paid them the things that I never took: God, thou know

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of that which they ac4 Who am innocent cufe me.]

eft

*

5 My Simpleness, that is, my Folly, Miflakes, Sins of Igno

rance.

Faults, that is, Greater, wilful Sins,

eft *
eft my fimplenefs, and my
* faults are not hid from thee.

6Let not them that truft in thee, O Lord God of hofts, be afhamed for my cause let not those that seek thee, be confounded through me, O Lord God of Ifrael.

7 And why? for thy fake

7 Reproof,] that is, have I fuffered *reproof: fhame Slander, or Reproach. See Vocabulary. hath covered my face. 8 + Who 'difown me, because of the averfion I have to their Evil Praices.

9 [The great Zeal I have for the place and purity of thy WorThip, and against them who profane thy San

8 Tam become a ftranger unto my brethren: even an alien unto my mothers children f.

9 [For the zeal of thine houfe hath even eaten me: and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee, are fallen upon me.]

ctuary, is like an inward Flame that preys upon my Heart and Spirits. And I am not lefs concern'd to hear thy Name blafphemed, than to have the greatest Wrong done to my self.] How this was fulfilled in Christ. See John ii, 17. Rom. xv. 3.