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7. Thou loveft righteousness and hatest iniquity, therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

8. Myrrh, aloes, and caffia are all thy garments, out of the ivory veffels of Arabia they delight thee.

9. Kings daughters are among thine honourable women; on thy right hand is placed the Queen, in gold of Ophir.

10. Hearken, O daughter, and confider, and incline thine ear; and forget thine own people, and thy father's house.

11. For the King greatly admireth thy beauty; furely he is thy Lord.

12. And do thou reverence him, O daughter of Tyre, with a gift; let the rich also of thy people do homage before him.

13. The King's daughter is all glorious in her inner garments, her robes are inwoven with gold.

14. She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needle work; the virgins that follow after her, her companions, fhall be brought unto thee.

15. With joy and gladness fhall they be brought, they shall enter into the King's palace.

16. Instead of thy fathers, there fhall be thy children, whom thou mayeft make princes in all the land.

17. I will make thy fame to be remembered in all generations; fo fhall nations praise thee for ever and ever.

PSALM XLVI.

The Poet expreffes the perfect reliance of the inhabitants of Ferufalem on God for protection and fecurity in the invafion of a powerful enemy. It is fuppofed to relate to the invasion of Sennacherib; and Venema is of opinion, that Ifaiah was the writer.

1. GOD is our hope and ftrength, a very prefent help in trouble.

2. Therefore will we not fear though the earth be moved, though the hills be carried into the midst of the sea.

3. Though the waters thereof rage, and fwell ; and though the mountains shake with the furges thereof.

4. The gentle ftreams of a brook fhall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacle of the Most High.

5. God is in the midst of her, fhe fhall not be moved; God fhall help her, and that right early. 6. The heathen rage, the kingdoms are moved he uttereth his voice, the earth melteth away.

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7. The Lord of hofts is with us, the God of Jacob is our refuge.

8. O come hither and behold the works of the Lord! what defolations he hath wrought upon the earth.

9. He maketh wars to cease in all the world, he breaketh the bow, and knappeth the spear in funder; he burneth the chariots in the fire.

10. "Be still then, and know that I am God, I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth."

11. The Lord of hosts is with us, the God of Jacob is our refuge.

NINTH EVENING,

Evening Prayer.

PSALM XLVII.

A triumphal song in which the Poet fets forth the univerfal dominion of God, and the fuperiority which he gives his chofen people over their enemies.

1. O CLAP your hands, all ye people, fhout unto God with the voice of triumph.

2. For the Lord moft high is terrible, he is a great king over all the earth.

3. He fubdueth the people under us, and the nations under our feet.

4. He choofeth our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob whom he loveth.

5. God afcends his throne with a fhout, the Lord with the found of the trumpet.

6. Sing praises unto God, fing praises, sing praises unto our King.

7. Sing praises, for God is king of all the earth, with fkill a fong of praise.

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8. God reigneth over the heathen, God fitteth upon the throne of his holiness.

9. The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham. 10. For God is our fhield; he is greatly exalted over all the earth.

PSALM XLVIII.

This Pfalm is a thanksgiving to God for the wonderful protection of Jerufalem from the enemies which had threatened an affault. It is fupposed to relate to the war in which three different nations united against Jehoshaphat, fee 2 Chron. xx.

I. GREAT is the Lord, and highly to be praifed in the city of our God, even upon his holy hill.

2. The hill of Sion is a fair place, the joy of

the whole land; on the north fide lieth the city of the great king; God is well known in her palaces, as a fure refuge.

3. For lo, the kings affembled, they paffed on together.

4. They faw, they were astonished, they were terrified, they hafted away.

5. Fear took hold upon them there; and forrow, as of a woman in travail; fuddenly as the east wind breaketh the ships of Tarshish.

6. What has been told us, that have we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God, God upholdeth it for ever.

We think upon thy loving kindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

7. As is thy name, fo alfo is thy praife, O Lord unto the ends of the earth, thy right hand is full of righteousness.

8. Mount Sion fhall rejoice, and the daughter of Judah fhall be glad, because of thy judgments.

9. Go round Sion and encompass her, tell the towers thereof, mark ye well her bulwarks, confider her palaces.

10. That ye may tell to the generation that cometh after, that this God is our God, and will be our guide for ever.

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