7. When sentence is given upon him, let him be condemned; and let his cry for mercy be of no effect.

8. Let his days be few and another take his office. 9. Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

10. Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg; and be caft out from their defolate habitations.

II. Let the extortioner enfnare all that he hath, and the stranger spoil his labour.

12. Let there be none to extend mercy to him; neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

13. Let his pofterity be cut off, and in the generation following let their name be blotted out. 14. Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord, and let not the fin of his mother be done away.

15. Let them be continually before the Lord, that he may cut off their memory from the earth. 16. Because he remembered not to fhew mercy, but perfecuted the needy man; and the broken in heart, to flay him.

17. As he loved curfing, fo let it come upon him; as he delighted not in bleffing, fo let it be far from him.

18. As he clothed himself with curfing as with

a garment, fo let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

19. Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for the girdle wherewith he is continually girded.

20. This is the reward of mine adverfaries from the Lord, and of them that speak evil against my foul.

21. But deal thou with me, O Lord God, according unto thy name; because thy mercy is good, deliver me.

22. For I am helpless and afflicted, my heart is wounded within me.

23. I am departing like a shadow that declineth, I am driven here and there like the locuft.

24. My knees are weak with fafting, and my flesh faileth of fatnefs.

25. I am also become a reproach unto them ; when they look upon me they shake their head,

26. Help me, O Lord my God, Oh fave me according to thy mercy :

27. That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, Lord, haft done it.

28. They fhall curfe, but blefs thou; when they arise against me they shall be ashamed; but thy fervant shall rejoice.

29. Mine adverfaries fhall be clothed with shame; and they fhall cover themselves with their own confufion, as with a mantle.

30. I will greatly celebrate the Lord with my mouth, and I will praise him among the multitudes.

31. For he fhall ftand at the right hand of the wretched man, to fave him from them that judge his life.

TWENTY THIRD MORNING,

Morning Prayer,

PSALM CX.

This Pfalm of David is a prophecy of Chrift, and of the extenfive fpiritual empire which he was to acquire in the world, by being victorious over his moft powerful enemies, and making idolatry and fuperftition fall before him.

1. JEHOVAH faid unto my Lord, "Sit thou on my right hand until I make thine enemies thy foot

ftool.

2. Jehovah fhall fend the fceptre of thy strength out of Sion; thou fhalt rule in the midst of thine enemies.

3. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy

power on the holy mountains: the dew of thy youth fhall be more than that of the womb of the morning.

4. Jehovah hath fworn, and will not repent, Thou shalt be a priest for ever, after the likeness of Melchizedec.

5. The Lord at thy right hand, O Jehovah, fhall wound kings in the day of his wrath.

6. He fhall judge the nations, he fhall fill all places with dead bodies, he fhall fmite the heads throughout many countries.

7. Of the river in the way shall he drink; thus fhall he lift up the head.

PSALM CXI.

This Pfalm commemorates the divine favours conferred on the Ifraelitish people: it is one of the Alphabetical Pfalms.

Hallelujah.

1. I WILL praise the Lord with my whole heart; in the affembly of the upright and in the congregation.

2. The works of the Lord are great, fought out of all them that have pleasure in him.

3. Honour and glory are his due reward; and his righteousness endureth for ever.

4. He hath fo done his marvellous works that they ought to be had in remembrance; the Lord is gracious and full of compaffion.

5. He hath given food unto them that fear him; he will ever be mindful of his covenant.

6. He hath fhewed unto the people the power of his deeds; by giving them the heritage of the nations.

7. The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are fure.

8. They ftand fast for ever and ever; and are done in truth and equity.

9.

He fent redemption unto his people; he ordained his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name.

10. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all they that do thereafter; his praise endureth for ever.

PSALM CXII.

Happiness cannot be obtained independently of the fear of God and the study of virtue. This Pfalm is alphabetical.

1. BLESSED is the man that feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.