FOURTEENTH MORNING.

Morning Prayer.

PSALM LXXI.

1. IN thee, O Lord, do I put my truft, let me not be put to confufion for ever.

2. Deliver me in thy righteoufnefs, and rid me; incline thine ear to me and fave me.

3. Be thou my strong hold, for an house of defence to fave me, furely thou art my rock and my fortrefs.

4. Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the ungodly, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

5. For thou, O Lord God, art my hope, thou art my trust even from my youth.

6. By thee have I been holden up ever fince I was born, thou haft dealt kindly towards me, from my mother's womb, my praise shall be always of thee. 7. I have been as a wonder unto many, for thou haft been my strong refuge.

8. My mouth fhall be filled with thy praise, and with thy honour all the day.

9. Caft me not off in the time of old fake me not when my strength faileth me.

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10. For mine enemies speak against me, and they that lay wait for my foul take counsel together,

11. Saying, God hath forfaken him, perfecute him, and take him, for there is none to deliver him.

12. O God, be not far from me, O my God make hafte to help me.

13. Let them be confounded and confumed, that are adverfaries to my foul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.

14. But as for me, I will hope alway, and will praise thee more and more.

15. My mouth fhall fhew forth thy righteousness and thy falvation all the day long; but I know not the numbers thereof.

16. I will fet forth thy power, O Lord God, I will make mention of thy righteoufnefs, even of thine only.

17. O God thou haft taught me from my youth; and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.

18. Now alfo when I am old and grey-headed, O God, forfake me not, until I fhall have fhewed thy ftrength unto this generation; thy power and thy juftice to every one that is to come.

19. O God on high, great are the things which thou haft done; O God, who is like unto thee.

20. Thou who haft fhewed me great and fore

troubles, fhall quicken me again, and bring me back from the depths of the earth.

21. Thou wilt increase my greatnefs, and comfide.

fort me on every

22. I will alfo praise thee with the pfaltery; thy truth, O God, will I celebrate; to thee, on the harp, O Holy One of Ifrael, will I fing.

23. My lips fhall greatly rejoice when I fing unto thee, and my foul which thou haft redeemed.

24. My tongue alfo fhall talk of thy righteousness all the day long, when they are confounded, when they are brought into shame, that seek to do me evil.

PSALM LXXII.

The argument of this Pfalm, as Dathe obferves, fuits a father expreffing his hope and expectation of the happiness that would refult from the government of his fon, rather than the fon himself, who could not, without extreme vanity, thus prefage the blessings that would follow from his virtues. Befides it is without example to call a person the king's fon, after the king's death. For thefe reafons we accede to thofe interpreters, who confider David as the author of this Pfalm, which he probably wrote a fhort time before his death, when he had declared Solomon his fucceffor in the

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kingdom, and bad feen him anointed by Zadok the prieft in Gibon, 1 Kings i. 39.

1. GIVE the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's fon.

2. Then fhall he judge thy people according unto right, and defend the poor.

3. The mountains alfo fhall bring peace, and the little hills righteoufnefs unto the people.

4. He fhall judge the poor of the people, he shall fave the children of the needy, and break in pieces the oppreffor.

5. He fhall endure as long as the fun and moon, throughout all generations.

6. He fhall come down like rain upon the mowen grafs, as fhowers that water the earth.

7. In his days fhall righteousness flourish, and abundance of peace fo long as the moon endureth. 8. He fhall have dominion alfo from fea to fea, and from the river unto the ends of the land.

9. They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him, and his enemies fhall lick the duft.

10. The kings of Tarfhifh and of the ifles fhall bring prefents, the kings of Sheba and Seba fhall offer gifts.

11. Yea, all kings fhall fall down before him, all nations fhall do him fervice.

12. For he fhall deliver the poor when he crieth, the needy also, and him that hath no helper.

13. He fhall fpare the fimple and needy, and shall preserve the lives of the poor.

14. He fhall deliver their fouls from falsehood and wrong, and dear fhall their blood be in his fight.

15. And he shall live, and to him fhall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer alfo fhall ever be made for him, and daily shall he be praised.

16. There fhall be abundance of corn in the land; the fruit, on the top of the mountains, shall wave like Lebanon; and they of the city fhall flourish like the grass of the earth.

17. His name fhall endure for ever, his name fhall be continued as long as the fun; all the tribes of the land shall be blessed through him; all the nations fhall praise him.

18. Bleffed be the Lord God of Ifrael who only doeth wondrous things.

19. And bleffed be his glorious name for ever, and let the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and Amen.