20. O let not the oppreffed be afhamed; let the poor and needy praise thy name.

21. Arife, O God, plead thine own caufe; remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.

22. Forget not the voice of thine enemies; the tumult of thine adverfaries that continually encreaseth.

FIFTEENTH MORNING.

Morning Prayer.

PSALM LXXV.

This Pfalm feems to have been written by David, when he was on the eve of being promoted to the kingdom, according to the promise of God, after the fubverfion of Saul.

1. UNTO thee, O God, will we give thanks, will we give thanks; we will call upon thy name, we will declare thy wondrous works.

2. When I fhall attain the appointed time, I will judge according unto right.

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3. The land and all the inhabitants thereof are diffolved; but I will bear up its pillars.

4. I have faid unto the fools, deal not foolishly; and to the ungodly, lift not up the horn.

5. Lift not up your horn on high; fpeak not with a stiff neck.

6. For promotion cometh not from the eaft, nor from the weft, nor from the fouth.

7. But God is the judge; he putteth down one, and fetteth up another.

8. In the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is ftrong, it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the fame; and all the ungodly of the earth fhall fuck the lees thereof, and drink them.

9. But I will for ever rejoice, I will fing praises to the God of Jacob.

10. All the horns alfo of the ungodly will I break off, but the horns of the righteous fhall be lift

ed up.

PSALM LXXVI.

This Pfalm was probably written on the deftruction of Sennacherib's army by the angel of the Lord. See 2 Kings, ch. xix. and 2 Chron. xxxii.

1. IN Judah is God known, his name is great in Ifrael.

2. In Salem alfo is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.

3. There brake he the arrows and the bow, the fhield and the fword of war.

4. Thou art more glorious and excellent, O Sion, than the mountains of prey.

5. The ftout-hearted are cut off, they have flept their fleep, and the hands of all the mighty men were impotent.

6. At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the rider and the horse were cast into a deadly sleep.

7. Thou, thou art to be feared, and who may stand in thy fight, when thou art angry?

8. Thou didst caufe judgment to be heard from heaven, the earth feared and was ftill; when God arofe to judgment, to fave all the meek of the land. 9 Truly the valour of man is for thy glory; thou art girt with the spoils of valour.

10. Pay your vows unto the Lord your God, let all that are round about him bring prefents unto the terrible one.

11. He repreffeth the spirit of princes, he is terrible to the kings of the earth.

PSALM LXXVII.

Afaph here bewails the calamity of the nation, but confoles himself with the remembrance of what God had formerly done for them, when he delivered them out of the Egyptian bondage.

1. MY

cry is unto God and I complain; my cry is unto God that he would give ear unto me.

2. In the day of my trouble I feek the Lord; mine eye trickleth down in the night and ceafeth not; my foul refufeth to be comforted.

3. I remember God and am troubled; I complain and my fpirit is overwhelmed.

4. Thou keepest mine eyes waking; I am troubled, and I cannot speak.

5. I confider the days of old, the years of ancient times.

6. I call to remembrance my fong; I meditate in the night within my heart, and my fpirit enquireth,

7. Will the Lord reject for ever? And will he be favourable no more?

8. Is his mercy clean gone for ever? And hath his promife failed from generation to generation? 9. Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath he in anger fhut up his tender mercies?

10. And I say, fhall there not be a change in the right hand of the Moft High?

II. I will remember the works of the Lord, furely I will remember the wonders of old.

12. I will meditate alfo on all thy works, and talk of thy doings.

13. O God, in holiness is thy way; who is fo great a God as our God?

14. Thou art the God that doest wonders, thou haft made known thy strength among the nations.

15. Thou haft with thine arm redeemed thy people, the fons of Jacob and Jofeph.

16. The waters faw thee, O God, the waters faw thee, they were afraid; the depths alfo were troubled.

17. The clouds poured down water, the skies fent out a found; thine arrows alfo went abroad. 18. The voice of thy thunder was in the whirlwind; the lightnings lightened the world, the earth trembled and fhook.

19. Thy way was in the fea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps were not known.

20. Thou leddeft thy people like a flock, by the hand of Mofes and Aaron.