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4 [Live, not 100 or 120 Years, which is the moft we now generally hope for, but near a thoufand: And this

4 [For a thousand years in thy fight are but as yefterday: feeing that is paft as a watch in the night.]

is a fmall matter with Thee, not fo much as

Watch in the

Night to us.] Mem. The Jews divided the Night into twelve Hours, Jo. xi. 9. thefe twelve Hours into four Watches, Mat. xiv. 25. fo that a Watch was but three Hours long.

5 [But thou fweepeft away even these long-lived Fathers and their Children with the Flood, which lays them afleep fuddenly, and in

5 [Affoon as thou scatterest them, they are even as a sleep: and fade away fuddenly like the grafs.]

great Multitudes: They were all cut off

like Grafs growing in a Meadow.]

Mem. The Hebrew word here tranflated [fcatter] fignifies to fcatter like a fudden Flood, which carries all before it: And I have therefore paraphras'd it accordingly.

7[I may well compare our cafe with theirs, for we likewife ftrangely pine and drop away,

6 In the morning it is green, and groweth up: but in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered.

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7 [For we confume away in thy difpleafure: and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation.] by reafon of thy displeasure, and are always under fad apprehenfions of Pain, Disease, and Death, because of thy exceeding Wrath.] Numb. xvii. 12, 13.

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10 Mofes might well wonder, and complain that fo many died daily, Years of Age; for before this period of time Men generally liv'd lon

at not above 70 or 80.

8 Thou haft fet our misdeeds before thee: and our fecret fins in the light of thy countenance.

9€ For when thou art angry, all our days are gone: we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told.

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paffeth it away, and we are gone.

ger. See Exod. vi. 16, 18, 20. Fob xlii. 16% Mofes himself liv'd 120

Years, Deut. xxxiv. 7. Aaron longer, Numb. xxxiii. 39. Now it was that the Age of Man began generally to be fhorten'd to 70 or 80, and here it has flood ever fince.

[Yet their strength ferves them to little other purpose, but only to enable them to bear the more Pain and Grief, and Difficulties of all fort.]

II [But who regardeth the power of thy wrath; for even thereafter as a man feareth, fo is thy difpleasure.]

is a very great Folly; for certain it is, what Men fear and apprehend it to be: with vain Fears, but really inflicts what den'd, fufpect he will.]

12 So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

13 Turn thee again, O Lord, at the laft and be gracious unto thy fervants.

14 O fatisfie us with thy mercy, and that foon: fo fhall we rejoyce and be glad all the days of our life.

15 Comfort us again now [after] the time that thou haft plagued us and for the years wherein we have fuffered adversity.

16 Shew thy fervants thy work:] and their children thy glory.

17 And [the glorious Majefty of the Lord our God] be upon us profper thou the work of our hands upon us, O profper thou our handy-work.

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II [But, alas, who fo effectually lays to

Heart the fad effects of

thy Wrath, as to grow better by it? and this that the Wrath of God is God does not fright Men Sinners that are not har

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15 [In proportion to, or equally to.]

16 Gracious and wonderful Care and

Providence over us.]

Glory, that is,
Prefence,

favourable
Exod. xl. 34.

17 [The very brightnefs of God's gracious Prefence.]

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Tis not certain by whom, or on what occafion this Pfalm was compofed: What Seems most probable is, that it was made on occafion of the stopping of the Peftilence, 2 Sam. xxiv. just as it was feizing on Jerufalem, v.16.

Qui habitat. Pfal. XCI.

here

1 Defence, fignifies a place, or House of Defence: So

the Hebrew word imports, and by it is

meant the Tabernacle.

W the * defence of the most

Hofo [dwelleth under

High: fhall abide under the fhadow of the Almighty.]

[Delights to spend his time at Jerufalem in worshipping God with a fincere and devout Heart, may be fure that God will protect and watch over him by his efpecial Providence.]

3 [Both Men and Devils that intend thee Mischief.]

under the Hen.

2 I will fay unto the Lord, Thou art my hope, and my ftrong-hold: my God, in him will I trust.

3 For he fhall deliver thee from the fnare of [the hunter]: and from the noifom peftilence. He fhall defend thee under his wings, and thou shalt

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4 † As the Chicken be fafe under his feathers †: his faithfulness and truth shall be thy fhield and buckler.

5 [Of any of those things that ufe to terrify us in the Night.]

Arrow Peftilence fo called,Deut.xxxii.23. which spreads itself by Day, as well as Night, as it follows in the next Verfe.

7 † Who takest San

&tuary at Jerufalem, and appliest thy felf to God by Faith, and Prayer in the Tabernacle.

5 Thou shalt not be afraid [for any terror by night]: nor for the * arrow that flieth by day;

6 For the peftilence that walketh in darknefs: nor for the sickness that deftroyeth in the noon-day.

7. A thousand fhall fall befide thee, t and ten thoufand at thy right-hand: but it fhall not come nigh thee.

8 Yea, with thine eyes fhalt thou behold: and fee the reward of the ungodly.

9 (For thou, Lord, art my hope thou haft fet thine houfe of defence very high t.)

10 There fhall no evil happen unto thee: neither fhall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

11 For he fhall give his | angels charge over thee: to keep thee in all thy ways.

12 They fhall bear thee in their hands: that thou hurt not thy foot against a stone.

13 Thou shalt go upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon fhalt thou tread under thy feet.

14 Because he hath fet his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will fet him up, because he hath known my Name.

15 He fhall call upon me, and I will hear him: yea, I am with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and bring him to honour.

16 With long life will I fatisfie him and fhew him my falvation.

7 On the Hill of Zion here on Earth, and in Heaven above.

10, 11, 12, 13. Thefe Expreffions are not to be understood, as if no

good Man ever died of any Epidemical Distemper, or fuffer'd by any ill

Beaft: But that Prayer,

Accident or Venomous

Repentance, Faith, and
Obedience, are the best
Antidotes against these
and all other Evils.
Matt. iv. 6.
Luke X, 19.

14, 15, 16th Verfes are the Speech of God

Himfelf, and as they in fome degree belong to all truly good Men, fo they are in an especial manner to be applied to Chrift Jefus, to whom they were, in all probability chiefly intended; as alfo the 11th, 12th, 13th Verfes.

A Pfalm

A Pfalm or Song for the Sabbath-Day, not only to commemorate the Works of the Creation, but that Rest from their Enemies, which God had promifed to give his People, and which he has in a more ample manner given to us under the Gospel, Luke i. 74, 75

Bonum eft confiteri. Pfal. XCII.

7 [In a growing and flourishing condition.]

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T is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord: and to fing praises unto thy Name, O moft Higheft;

2 To tell of thy lovingkindness early in the morning: and of thy truth in the nightfeafon;

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3 Upon an Inftrument of ten ftrings, and upon the lute: upon a loud inftrument, and upon the harp.

4 For thou, Lord, haft made me glad through thy works: and I will rejoyce in giving praise for the operations of thy hands.

5 O Lord, how glorious are thy works: thy thoughts are very deep.

6 An unwife man doth not well confider this: and a fool doth not understand it.

7 When the ungodly are [green as the grafs,] and when all the workers of wickedness do flourish: then shall they be deftroyed for ever; but thou, Lord, art the most Highest for

evermore.

8 For lo, thine enemies, O Lord,

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