2 Testimony here fignifies a Command ment, with a Promife annext, fuch as the Fifth Commandment. [Thy Commandments are juft and reafonable, and the Promifes made to them who keep them, are always exactly fulfilled.]. 3 [ [My zeal hath even confumed me because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.] Enemies; not fo much for any wrong they have no fenfe of Religion, or of the 4 [Thy word is tried to the uttermoft] and thy fervant loveth it. have taken hold upon me : yet is my delight in thy commandments. 8 [The righteousness of thy teftimonies is everlasting: Ó grant me understanding, and I Thall live.] 3 [That which very much wears and tordignation against my ments me, is a juft Indone to me, as because Authority of thy Law.] 4 [For I look upon thy Law to be like Metal fined, and without Drofs, made up of perWisdom and Juftice.] 5 + In my own fight. 2 Şam. vi. 22. vinced of the eternal Juftice of thy Commandments: O grant me fo to know them, 8 [I am fully con as that I may not ceafe to practise them; and then I doubt not, but through thy Mercy I fhall live, notwithstanding the Malice of my Enemies, nor only live, but comfortably enjoy myfelf.] * To live] often fignifies to live comfortably, 1 Theff. iii. and fo to quicken often in this Pfalm fignifies to Comfort; as to revive or bring to Life again does in common fpeaking, Even Koph xix. 4 [My Eyes are more wakeful than those who are to rife, in order to keep Watch in the Evening Prayer. Clamavi in toto corde meo. ICal Call with my whole heart: hear me, O Lord, I will keep thy ftatutes. 2 Yea, even unto thee do I call: help me, and I fhall keep thy teftimonies. 3 Early in the morning dol cry unto thee: for in thy word is my trust. 4 [Mine eyes prevent the night-watches: that I might be occupied in thy words.] Night. I am more quick, and early, and intent on my Duty in ftudying thy Law, than the Priefts in the Tabernacle, who rife in the Night, that they may obferve the firft dawns of the Morning. See Pfal. cxxx. 6. See [prevent] in the Vocabulary. 5 Hear my voice, O Lord, according unto thy loving s [Comfort, revive.] kindness: [quicken] me according as thou art wont. 6 They draw nigh that of malice perfecute me: and are. far from thy law. 7 Be thou nigh at hand, O Lord: for all thy command ments are true. 8 As concerning thy teftimonies, I have known long fince: that thou hast grounded them for ever. Resh xx. Vide humilitatem. Confider mine adversity, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law. 2 Avenge 2 Avenge thou my cause, and deliver me: [quicken] me according to thy word. 3 [Health] is far from the ungodly for they regard not thy ftatutes. 4 Great is thy mercy, O Lord: quicken me as thou art wont. 5 Many there are that trouble me, and perfecute me: yet do I not fwerve from thy teftimonies. 6 It grieveth me when I fee the trangreffors: because they keep not thy law. 7 Confider, O Lord, how I love thy commandments: O quicken me according to thy loving-kindness. 8 [Thy word is true from everlafting all the judgments of thy righteoufnefs endure for evermore. 2, 4, 7, [Comfort.] 3 [Safety.] See Ve cabulary 8 Thy Promises have always been faithfully kept in all Ages paft, and thy Moral Law confifts of Pre cepts that have an eternal reason, and are therefore unalterable.] See Stanza.Aleph, ver. 7. s[None do enjoy fo much Content and Satisfaction in this praise thee because of thy righteous judgments. 5 [Great is the peace that they have who love thy law: and they are not offended at it.] are truly delighted with the knowledge and practice of thy Law; and there are no difficulties in Scripture, no objections against Religion, that can unfettle or stagger fuch Men, as comply with Religion out of a true love to Vertue and Goodness. 8 [Because I firmly believe, and frequently confider, that all my 6 Lord I have looked for thy faving health and done after thy commandments. 7 My foul hath kept thy teftimonies and loved them exceedingly. 8 I have kept thy commandments and teftimonies: [for all my ways are before thee. ] Thoughts and Actions Tau xxii. Appropinquet deprecatio. L Et my complaint come before thee, O Lord: give me understanding according to thy word. 2 Let my fupplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word. 3 My lips fhall speak of thy praife: when thou haft taught mé thy ftatutes. 4 Yea, my tongue fhall fing of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteous. 5 Let thine hand help me : for I have chofen thy commandments. 6 [Deliverance from 6 I have longed for [thy faving health, O Lord: and thee.] in thy law is my delight. 70 let my foul live, and it fhall praife thee: [and thy Judgments fhall help me.] fave me from all 8 [I have gone aftray like a fheep that is loft: O feek thy fervant, for I do not forget thy commandments.] 7 [And thy equita ble Proceedings against my Enemies, and in my behalf, fhall effectually their Attempts.] felf for fafety; but do thou, like a careful Shepherd, look after me, and take me out of the danger to which I am expofed.] The Twenty Seventh Day. Morning Prayer. A Song of Afcents, that is, which used to be fung by the Levites ftanding on Stairs or Scaffolds, Neh. ix. 4. This is generally believed to have been Composed by David, when he was accufed by Doeg, 1 Sam. xxii. Ad Dominum, Pfal. CXX. Hen I was in trouble, I WH called upon the Lord: and he heard me. 2 Deliver my foul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. 3 What reward fhall be given or done unto thee, thou falfe tongue: [even mighty and fharp arrows, with hot burning coals.] 4 Wo is me, that I am conftrained to dwell with *Mefech: and to have my habitation among the tents of *Kedar. 3 [Even this fhall be thy Reward, the Ar rows of Divine Ven geance fhall pierce to thy very Soul, like hot burning Coals. See Pfal. xviii. 13. and Kedar are parti4 'Tis true Mefech * cular Countries. See Ezek. xxvii. 13. 21. but fure they seem to deas we in English call all note any inhumane, barbarous People; s My |