PS AL: CXIX. W. W...

ALEPH.

Leffed are they that perfe& are, Band pure in mind and heart:

Whofe lives and converfations do from God's laws never ftart.

2 Bened are they that give themselves his ftatutes to obferve:

Seeking the Lord with all their heart. and never from him fwerve.

Doubtless fuch men go not aftray, nor do a wicked thing, But ftedfaftly walk in his way without any wandring.

4 'Tis thy commandment and thy will, that with attentive heed,

Thy precepts which are moft divine, we learn and keep indeed.

50 would to God it might thee pleafe. my ways fo to direct,

That I might always keep thy laws, and never them rejett.

6 So fhall I not ashamed be,

whilft I thus fet my eyes: And bend my mind always to muse on thy decrees moft wife.

Then will I praife with upright heart, and magnifie thy Name, When I fall learn thy judgments juft, and alfo prove the fame. 8 And wholly will I give my felt to keep thý laws moft right: Forfake me not for ever, Lord, but fhew thy grace and might.

by what means may a young man beft his life learn to amend ?

If that he mark and keep thy word,
and therein his time fpend.

10 Unfeignedly I have thee fought,
and thus feeking abide:
O never fuffer me, O Lord,

from thy commands to flide.

11 Within my heart and fecret thoughts thy words I have hid ftill: That I might not at any time offend thy holy will.

12 We magnihe thy Name, O Lord, and praife thee evermore: Thy ftatures of mort worthy fame, O Lord, teach me therefore. 13 My lips have never ceaft to preach and pubi fh day and night, The judgments all which did proceed, from thy mouth full of might. 14 Thy teftimonies and thy ways,

much more my heart rejoyce, Than all the treatures of the earth, which worldings make their choice. 15 Upon thy precepts I will mufe, and thereto frame my taik As at a mark, To will i aim Low I thy ways may walk,

17 Grant to thy fervant now fuch grace, as máy my life prolong: Thy holy word then will I keep, both in my heart and tongue. 18 My eyes which are dim and fhut up, fo open and make bright: That of thy law and wondrous works, I may have the clear fight. 19 I am a ftranger on the earth wandring now here now there: Thy word therefore to me difclofe, my footiteps for to clear.

20 My foul is ravifht with defire, and never is at reft:

But feeks to know thy judgments high,
and what may please thee beft.

21 The proud and the malicious men'
thou doit deftroy each one :
And curfed are fuch as do not,

thy laws attend upon.

22 Lord, turn from me rebuke and shame which wicked men confpire:

For I have kept thy covenants with zeal as hot as fire.

23 The princes great in council fat, and did againft me fpeak:

But then thy fervant thought how he thy ftatutes might not break.

24 For why? thy cov'nants are the joy, and folace of my heart:

They are my faithful counsellors, from them I'll not depart.

The Fourth Part.

DALETR.

25 Alas, I am as brought to grave,
and almoft turn'd to dort:
Therefore restore my life again,
as thy promife is juft.

26 My ways when I acknowledged,
with mercy thou'didit hear:
Hear now alfo, and me inftrua

thy laws to love and fear.

27 Make me, O Lord, to underftand
thy precepts evermore:
Then on thy works meditate,
and lay them up in ftore.
28 My foul 1 feel fo fore oppreft,
that it doth melt for grief:
According to thy word therefore
hafte, Lord, to send relief.
29 From iring and deceitful lips
let thy grace me defead:
And that I may learn thee to love
thy holy law me fend.

30The way of truth both Araight and furt
I chofen have and found,
Before me I thy judgments fet
which keep me fafe and found.
31 Since then, O Lord, I readily
thy covenants embrace;

Let

Let me therefore have no rebuke, nor check in any cafe. 32 Then will I rua moft joyfully where thy word doth me call: When thou enlarged halt my heart, and rid me out of thrall.

33 Inftrust me, Lord, in the right way of thy ftatutes divine: And them to keep unto the end, my heart will I incline.

34 Grant me the knowledge of thy law, and I fhall it obey:

With heart and mind, and all my might I will it keep alway.

35 In the right paths of thy commands,
guide me, Lord, I require:
No other pleasure do I with,
nor greater thing defire.

36 Incline my heart thy laws to keep,
and cov'nants to embrace:
And from all filthy avarice,

Lord, fhield me with thy grace.

7 From vain defires and worldly lufts turn back my eyes and sight: And with the Spirit itrengthen me, to walk thy ways aright,

38 Confirm thy gracious promife, Lord, which thou hart made to me, Who am thy fervant, and do love, and nothing fear but thee.

39 Reproach and fhame which I fo fear, from me, Lord, expel: For thou doft judge with equity, and therein doft excel.

40 Behold.my hearts defire is bent thy laws to keep alway:

O ftrengthen me fo with thy grace, that it perform I may.

The Sixth Part.

VAU.

47 I will rejoyce then to obey

thy jutt commands and will: Which evermore I have lov'd beft;

and fo will love them till. 48 My hands I will lift to thy lawn, which I have dearly fought: And practife thy commandments all in word, in deed, and thought. The Seventh Part.

ZAIN:

49 Thy promife which thou mad it to me remember, Lord, I pray. For therein have I put my truft and confidence alway

So It is my comfort and my joy, when troubles me aflail:

For were my life not by thy word, it fuddenly would fail.

51 The proud, and fuch as God contemn; ftill make of me a fcorn:

Yer will I not thy law forfake

as if I were forelorn:

52 But call to mind, Lord, thy great works fhew'd to our fathers old: Whereby i feel my joy furmount my grief a hundred fold.

53 Horrour hath taken hold on mej because the wicked do

Forfake thy righteous law, and will have no regard thereto.

54 But as for me, I fram'd my fongs thy ftatutes to exalt,

When I among the ftrangers dwek,
and grief did me aflauit.

55 I thought upon thy Name, O Lord,
by night when others fleep:
Thy law alfo I kept always,
and ever will it keep.

56 This grace I did obtain, because
thy covenants mot dear

I did embrace and alfo keep with reverence and fear.

The Eighth Part.

CHETR

57 O God, wh art my part and lot, my comfor and my ftay,

I have decreed and promifed

thy laws to keep alway. 58 With my whole heart I humbly fu' in prefence of thy face: As thou therefore kait promised, Lord, grant to me thy grace. 59 My life I have examined, and try'd my fecret heart, Which to thy statutes caufed me my feet straight to convert. 60 i did not tay nor linger long; as they that flothful are: But haftily thy laws to keep I did my felf prepare.

61 The cruel bands of wicked men have made of me their prey:

Yer would I not thy taw forget, nor from thee go aftray.

62 Thy righteous laws and judgments are Lo very great and high,

65 According to thy promife, Lord, fo haft thou with me dealt: For of thy grace in fundry forts,

have I thy fervant felt.

66 Teach me to judge always aright, and give me knowledge fure:

For ftedfaftly I do believe

thy precepts are moit pure.

67 Before that I afflicted was,

I err'd and went aftray:

But now I keep thy holy word, and make it all my ftay.

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81 My foul doth faint and ceafeth not thy faving health to crave:

And for thy words fake till I trust

my hearts desire to have.

82 My eyes do fail with looking for thy word, and thus I fay,

Oh when wilt thou me comfort, Lord) why doft thou thus delay?

83 Like as a bottle in the moke, fo am I parcht and dry'd:

and in thy gifts moft free: Thy ordinances how to keep therefore, O Lord, teach me.

69 The proud and the ungodly have
againit me forg'd a lye:
Yet thy commandiments ftill obferve
with all my heart will I.

70 Their hearts are ev: like unto brawn, which is exceeding

:

But in thy law do I delight, and nothing feek but that.

71 O happy time, may I well fay,

when thou didit me correct: That I thereby might learn thy laws and never them reje&.

72 So that thy word and law to me is dearer manifold,

Than gold and filver in great fums

or ought that can be toid.

The Tenth Part.

JOD.

73 Thy hands have made and fashion'd me, thy creature, Lord, am I:

Make me to understand thy iaw,

and keep it faithfully.

74 So they that fear thee fhall rejoyce
whenever they me fee
Because I have learn'd by thy word
to put my trust in thee.

75 I know, O Lord, thy judgments all,
moft juft and righteous be:
And that in very faithfulness,
thou haft affifted me.

76 Now of thy goodness I thee pray
fome comfort to me fend:
And as thou haft me hitherto,
O Lord, ftill me defend.

77 Thy tender mercies pour on me,
then fhall I fely live,
For joy and confolation both
thy law to me doth give.

let thy commandments flide.

84 How long, O Lord, fhall I yet live before I fee the hour:

That on my foes which me torment, thy vengeance thou wilt pour? 8 Prefumptuous men have digged pica, thinking to make me fure:

Thus quite contrary to thy law, my hurt they do procure.

86 But thy commandments are all true; and caulefs they me grieve To thee therefore I do complain, that thou may'ft me relieve.

87 Almoft they had me clean destroy'd, and brought me quite to ground: Yet by thy ftatures i abode,"

and therein fuccour found. 88 Reftore me, Lord, again to life, thy mercies do excel:

And fo fhall I thy ftatutes keep, till death my iffe expel.

The Twelfth Part.

LAMBD.

And thy commands moft excellent

teach me alfo to know.

125 Thy humble fervant, Lord, I am, grant me to understand, How by thy ftatutes I may know best what to take in hand. 126 It is now time, Lord, to begin, for truth doth quite decay :

Thy law likewife they have made void, and none doth it obey.

127 This is the caufe wherefore I love thy laws much more than gold, Or Jewels fine, which are efteem'd

mott coftly to be fold.

128 I thought thy precepts all most juft, and fo them kept in ftore: All crafty and malicious ways

I greatly do abhor.

The Seventeenth Parr. PE. 129 Thy covenants are wonderful. and full ofthings profound: My foul therefore doth keep them fure, when they are try'd and found. 130 The entrance of thy word doth give to men a light moft clear: The fimple likewife understand when they it read or hear. 131 My mouth I open'd and did pant, because my foul did long

For thy commandments, which always do guide my heart and tongue. 132 With mercy and compaffion, look, upon me from above,

As thou art wont fuch to behold

as thy Name fear and love.

133 DireЯ my footsteps by thy word,
that I thy will may know:
And never let iniquity

thy fervaat overthrow.

134 From flandrous tongues and deadly
preferve and keep me fure:
Thy precepts then will I obferve,
with heart upright and pure.
35 Thy countenance which doth furpafs
the fun in its bright hue,

I et fhine on me, and by thy law
teach me what to efchew.
36-Rivers of waters from my eyes
incefiantly do fall:
Because I fee how wicked men
thy laws keep not at all.

The Eighteenth Part. TZ ADI. 137 In ev'ry thing, Lord, thou art juft, although the wicked grudge: And when thou doft fentence pronounce, thou art a righteous judge. 138 To render right and Bee from guile are two chief points moft high: And fuch as thou haft in thy law commanded us ftraitly.

139 My zeal hath ev'n consumed me,
and I am pin'd away,
Because my foes thy word forget,
and will it not obey.

140 Thy word is very pure and doth greatly my heart rejoyce: Therefore thy fervant nothing more can love or make my choice. 141 And though I be nothing fet by, as one of bate degree: Yet do I not thy laws forget,

nor fhrink away from thee. 142 Thy truth and righteoufnefs, O Lord, for ever fhall endure:

Alfo thy law is truth it felf,

moft conftant and meft pure.

143 Anguish and grief have feiz'd on me, and brought me wondrous low: Yet of thy precepts do I ftill delight to hear and know.

144 The righteoufnefs of thy commands doth laft for evermore:

Then teach them me, because in them my life lies up in ftore.

The Nineteenth Part. KOPH. 145 With fervent heart I call'd and cry'd now anfwer me, O Lord: That thy commandments to obferve I fully may accord.

146 To thee, my God, I make my fuit,
fave me, I humbly pray:
Thy teftimonies then will I
always keep and obey.

147 To thee do I cry in the morn
before the day appear:
For in thy word I put my truft,
and thee alone do fear:

148 My eyes prevent the night-watches
before they call, I wake:
That meditating on thy word,

I might fome comfort take."
149 Incline thy ears to hear my voice
and pity on me take:

As thou waft wont, fo quicken me,
left life fhould me forfake.
150 My foes draw near, and greedily
do after mifchief run:

Far from thy law they are gone back,
and wickedly it fhun.

151Therefore, O Lord, approach theu ne
fince need doth fo require:
For all thy precepts are moft true,
then help, I thee defire.

152 Concerning thy commandments,]
have learned long ago,
That they remain for evermore,
thou haft them grounded fo.

The Twentieth Fart. RES
153 My trouble and affiЯion, Lord,
confider and behold:
Deliver me, for of thy law

I ever take faft hold..

154 Defend my good and righteous cause, with speed fome fuccour fend: From death as thou haft promised,

Lord, ever me defend.

155 As for the wicked, they are far from faving health and grace:

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