faries: thou fhalt rid me from the wicked man: 1. 2 B 50 For this cause will I give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the Gentiles and fing praifes unto thy Name. 51 Great profperity_giveth he unto his King and fheweth loving kindness unto David his Anointed, and unto his Seed for evermore. ven and Firmament, Night and Day, are heard and understood by them: They convince all People, in fome measure, of the Power and Wifdom of Him who made and governs them.] 4 Their found is gone out into all lands: and their words 4 As the Voice and Doctrine of the Apostles, and other Minifters, fhall hereafter do in a more plain and intelligible manner, Rom. x. 18. t 7 [Free from any mixture of Evil.] + From Sin and Error. [A fafe way for Men to walk in.] 8 [Juft and reafonable. +By the Promifes annexed to them. [Clear like Glafs, eafy to be understood.] 9[The true fear of God will make Men fincere in their Actions, teach them to avoid all Fraud and Hypocrify; 'tis a Principle that never - ceases to work upon all that live under the power of it, and will make Men good, not only by Fits, but always: The Judgments, or Commandments of God, teache Men to be faith out of his chamber, and rejoyceth as a Giant to run his courfe. C 6 It goeth forth from the uttermoft part of the heaven, and runneth about unto the end of it again: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. 7 The law of the Lord is an [undefiled] law, converting the foult the teftimony of the Lord is [fure,] and giveth wifdom unto the fimple. 8 The ftatutes of the Lord are [right,] and rejoyce the heartt: the commandment of the Lord is [pure,] and giveth light unto the eyes. 9 [The fear of the Lord is clean, and endureth for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether. 10 More to be defired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: fweeter alfo than hony, and the hony-comb.. 11 Moreover,by them is thy fervant taught: and in keeping of them there is great reward. ful and juft, seriously and fincerely honeft in all their Dealings with each other.] 12 Secret Faults;] that is, Sins of Ignorance, fuch as I have committed unawares; Sins which have efcaped 13 * P, esumptuous Sins;] 12 Who can tell how oft he offendeth: O cleanse thou me from my *fecret faults. my Obfervation or Memory. 13 Keep thy fervant alfo from * prefumptuous fins, left they they get the dominion over me: fo fhall I be undefiled, and innocent from the great offence. 14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart: be alway acceptable in thy fight, 15 O Lord: my ftrength and my redeemer. that is, all wilful, ftudied, habitual, fcandalous Sins. A Pfalm of David, wherein the People are taught to pray for his good Succefs. The occafion of compofing it was probably the Invafion mentioned, 2 Sam. x. 6, 8. Exaudiat te Dominus. Pfal. XX. "He Lord hear thee in the T day of trouble: the Name of the God of Jacob defend thee. 2 Send thee help from the Sanctuary and ftrengthen † thee out of Sion †. 3 Remember all thy offerings: and accept thy Burnt-Sacrifice. 4 Grant thee thy hearts defire and fulfil all thy mind. 5 We will rejoyce in thy falvation, and triumph in the Name of the Lord our God: the Lord perform all thy petitions. 6 Now know I that the Lord helpeth his Anointed, and will *hear him from his holy Heaven: even with the [wholsom ftrength of his right-hand. 7 Some pnt their truft in D 2 7 * Chariots, in ancient time, were of great ufe in War. Deut.xx.1. *Chariots, and fome in Horses: but we will remember the Name of the Lord our God. 8 They are brought down, and fallen: but we are rifen, and stand upright. 9 Save, Lord, and hear us, O King of Heaven: when we call upon thee. A Pfalm of David, in which the People are taught to thank God for the great Victory and Succefs which God had given to David: And let it be remembred, that thefe Conquests of David were Types of that greater Villory of Chrift over the Devil, &c. Our Tranflators took it principally to be understood of Chrift, and therefore turn it, ver. 3, 5, 6. [Thou fhalt] as if it were hereafter to be compleated in Chrift, and were not fulfilled in David, when this Pfalm was compofed; and in thus Tranflating they exactly follow the Hebrew. Domine, in virtute tua. Pfal. XXI. 3 [For thon fhalt be before-hand with him, and grant him before he asks, and more than he could defire; and TH He King fhall rejoyce in thy ftrength, O Lord: exceeding glad fhall he be of thy falvation. 2 Thou haft given him his hearts defire and haft not denied him the request of his lips. 3 [For thou shalt prevent him with the bleffings of goodnefs: and fhalt fet a crown of pure gold upon his head. halt daily make his Crown fhine more bright on his Head.] See Prevent in Vocabulary. 4 He asked life of thee, and thou gaveft him a long life: eyen for ever, and ever. 1 5 [His * Honour is great in thy falvation]: glory, and great *worship fhalt thou lay upon him. 6 For thou fhalt give him everlasting felicity: and [make him glad with the joy of thy countenance.] 7 And why? because the King putteth his truft in the Lord and in the mercy of the moft Highest he fhall not mifcarry. 8 All thine enemies fhall feel thy hand thy right hand shall find out them that hate thee. 9 Thou fhalt make him like a fiery oven in time of thy wrath; the Lord fhall deftroy them in his displeasure, and the fire fhall confume them. 10 Their fruit fhalt thou root out of the earth and their feed from among the children of men. II For they intended mifchief against thee: and [imagined] fuch a device as they are not able to perform. 12 Therefore fhalt thou put them to flight and the strings of thy bow fhalt thou make ready against the face of them, 13 [Be thou exalted,Lord, in thine own ftrength:] fo will we fing, and praife thy power. D 3 5 [Great is the Honour he has won by thofe Victories, which thou haft given him.] * Worship; Dignity. See Vocab. 6 [Greatly rejoice him with thy Favours.] 11 [Contrived, plotred.] See Vocab. 13 [ Shew, O Lord, the greatness of thy power,and magnify thy felf before their Eyes.] Even |