PSALMS. 31 This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

32 The humble shall see this, and be glad and your heart shall live that seek God.

34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth there-eousness and thy salvation all the day; for in. I know not the numbers thereof.

4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the un-son. righteous and cruel man.

5 For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: eousness, and thy poor with judgment. thou art my trust from my youth.

6 By thee have I been holden up from the people, and the little hills, by righteousthe womb: thou art he that took me out of ness. my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.

11 Saying, God hath forsaken him: per- 8 He shall have dominion also from sea secute and take him; for there is none to to sea, and from the river unto the ends of deliver him.

The prosperity of the wicked. PSALMS. The desolation of the sanctuary. 9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall vain, and washed my hands in innocency. bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

11 Yea, all kings shall fall down before him all nations shall serve him.

14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.

15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.

16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;

12 For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath God; then understood I their end.

17 Until I went into the sanctuary of

no helper.

18 Surely thou didst set them in slip13 He shall spare the poor and needy, pery places: thou castedst them down into and shall save the souls of the needy. destruction.

14 He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.

19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed

with terrors.

15 And he shall live, and to him shall be 20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also O LORD, when thou awakest, thou shalt shall be made for him continually; and despise their image. daily shall he be praised.

16 There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

17 His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.

18 Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. 19 And blessed be his glorious name for ever and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and amen.

20 The prayers of David the son Jesse are ended.

of

to

2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. 3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.

21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

22 So foolish was I, and ignorant; I was as a beast before thee.

23 Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.

24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

25 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.

26 My flesh and my heart faileth; but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

27 For lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.

28 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works. PSALM LXXIV.

¶ Maschil of Asaph.

GOD, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke

against the sheep of thy pasture?

2 Remember thy congregation, which 5 They are not in trouble as other men; thou hast purchased of old; the rod of neither are they plagued like other men. thine inheritance, which thou hast redeem6 Therefore pride compasseth them ed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast about as a chain; violence covereth them dwelt.

as a garment.

3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual 7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: desolations; even all that the enemy hath they have more than heart could wish. done wickedly in the sanctuary. 8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly 4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of concerning oppression: they speak loftily. thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.

9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

10 Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and ham

mers.

11 And they say, How doth God know? 7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuaand is there knowledge in the Most High? ry, they have defiled by casting down the 12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who dwelling-place of thy name to the ground. prosper in the world; they increase in 8 They said in their hearts, Let us deriches. stroy them together: they have burned up 13 Verily I have cleansed my heart in all the synagogues of God in the land.

David rebukes the wicked.

PSALMS.

God's majesty in the church. 9 We see not our signs: there is no the dregs thereof all the wicked of the more any prophet: neither is there among earth shall wring them out, and drink them. us any that knoweth how long. 9 But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.

12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood thou driedst up mighty rivers. 16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the

sun.

17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth thou hast made summer and winter. 18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for

ever.

20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.

23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.

PSALM LXXV.

10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

PSALM LXXVI.

To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A
Psalm or Song of Asaph.

N Judah is God known: his name is
great in Israel.

IN

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

3 There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.

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

5 The stout-hearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep and none of the men of might have found their hands.

6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.

7 Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?

8 Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,

9 When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.

10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.

11 Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.

12 He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth. PSALM LXXVII.

¶ To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph.

To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Anto God with my voice; and he gave

А CRIED unto God with my voice, even

UNTO

Psalm or Song of Asaph.

NTO thee, O God, do we give thanks, ear unto me. unto thee do we give thanks: for that

2 In the day of my trouble I sought the

thy name is near, thy wondrous works LORD: my sore ran in the night and ceased declare.

2 When I shall receive the congrega. tion I will judge uprightly.

3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.

4 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly; and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.

6 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. 7 But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

not: my soul refused to be comforted.

3 I remembered God, and was troubled : I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

7 Will the LORD cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?

8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?

8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a 9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious? cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mix- hath he in anger shut up his tender mer ture, and he poureth out of the same: but cies? Selah.

God's wrath against the

PSALMS.

incredulous and disobedient. 10 And I said, This is my infirmity :| 12 Marvellous things did he in the sight but I will remember the years of the right of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in hand of the Most High. the field of Zoan.

11 I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonde s of old.

12 I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.

13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.

14 In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of

13 Thy way, O God, is in the sanc-fire. tuary who is so great a God as our God! 15 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, 14 Thou art the God that doest won- and gave them drink as out of the great ders: thou hast declared thy strength depths.

among the people.

16 He brought streams also out of the 15 Thou hast with thine arm redeemed rock, and caused waters to run down like thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. rivers. Selah. 17 Aud they sinned yet more against 16 The waters saw thee, O God, the him by provoking the Most High in the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the wilderness. depths also were troubled.

17 The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.

18 The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.

19 Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.

20 Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

PSALM LXXVIII.
Maschil of Asaph.
IVE ear, O my people, to my law:
incline your ears to the words of my

GIVE

mouth.

2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:

3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

4 We will not hide them from their chil

18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

19 Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

20 Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?

21 Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;

22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation :

23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,

24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.

25 Man did eat angels' food: he sent dren, shewing to the generation to come them meat to the full.

the praises of the LORD, and his strength, 26 He caused an east wind to blow in and his wonderful works that he hath the heaven: and by his power he brought done. in the south wind.

5 For he established a testimony in Ja- 27 He rained flesh also upon them as cob, and appointed a law in Israel, which dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand he commanded our fathers, that they should of the sea: make them known to their children:

6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born who should arise and declare them to their children:

7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.

29 So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;

30 They were not estranged from their lust: but while their meat was yet in their mouths,

31 The wrath of God came upon them, 8 And might not be as their fathers, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down a stubborn and rebellious generation; a the chosen men of Israel. generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.

32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.

33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

34 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God.

35 And they remembered that God was their Rock, and the high God their Redeemer

Judah, Zion, and David chosen. PSALMS.

The desolation of Jerusalem.

36 Nevertheless they did flatter him 59 When God heard this, he was wroth, with their mouth, and they lied unto him and greatly abhorred Israel:

with their tongues.

60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of

37 For their heart was not right with Shiloh, the tent which he placed among him, neither were they steadfast in his

covenant.

38 But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

39 For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! 41 Yea, they turned back and tempted| God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.

43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:

44 And had turned their rivers into blood and their floods, that they could not drink.

45 He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs which destroyed them.

46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the lo

cust.

47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore-trees with frost.

48 He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunder-bolts.

49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.

50 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

51 And smote all the first-born in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:

52 But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

53 And he led them on safely, so that they feared not but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

men ;

61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand. 62 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.

63 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.

64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.

65 Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

66 And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.

67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.

69 And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.

70 He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:

71 From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

PSALM LXXIX.

¶ A Psalm of Asaph.

GOD, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

4 We are become a reproach to our 54 And he brought them to the border neighbours, a scorn and derision to them of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, that are round about us. which his right hand had purchased.

55 He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell

in their tents.

56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

5 How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

6 Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name. 7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling-place.

8 O remember not against us former 57 But turned back, and dealt unfaith- iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily fully like their fathers: they were turned prevent us: for we are brought very low. aside like a deceitful bow.

58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.

10 Wherefore should the heathen say