4 Thou haft given a token for fuch as fear thee: that they may triumph because of the truth.

5 Therefore were thy beloved delivered: help me with thy right hand, and hear me.

6 God hath spoken in his holiness, I will rejoice, and divide Sichem and meet out the valley of Succoth.

7 Gilead is mine, and Manaffes is mine: Ephraim alfo is the ftrength of my head; Judah is my law-giver;

8 Moab is my wafh-pot; over Edom will I caft out my fhoe: Philiftia, be thou glad of me.

9 Who will lead me into the strong city: who will bring me into Edom?

10 Haft not thou caft us out, O God: wilt not thou, O God, go out with our hosts?

IO be thou our help in trouble: for vain is the help of man.

12 Through God will we do great acts: for it is he that shall tread down our enemies.

Pfalm Ixi. Exaudi, Deus.

[EAR my crying, O God: give ear unto my prayer. 2 From the ends of the earth will I call upon thee: when my heart is in heaviness.

3 O fet me up upon the rock that is higher than I: for thou hast been my hope, and a ftrong tower for me, against the enemy.

4 I will dwell in thy tabernacle for ever: and my trust fhall be under the covering of thy wings.

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For thou, O Lord, haft heard my defires: and haft given an heritage unto thofe that fear thy Name.

6 Thou shalt grant the King a long life: that his years may endure throughout all generations.

41 "Thou haft given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be difplayed because of thy truth." Bib. tranf. The modern Eaftern people regard the giving a banner as a pledge of protection to fuppliants.

& Wafb pot; Jhoe] Figurative expreffions, fignificant of the loweft ftate of fervitude. Over Philiftia give a fhout of triumph.-Horne.

9] Bozrah, the capital of Idumea or Edom, was a fortified town, situated on a rock, deemed impregnable.

Pfalm lxi.] David expreffes his gratitude for the mercies which he had experienced, and his dependence upon God in all fituations.

6) Thefe words may be applied to Him of whom it was faid by the angel," The Lord God fhall give unto Him the throne of his father

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He fhall dwell before God for ever: O prepare thy loving mercy and faithfulness, that they may preserve him.

8 So will I always fing praise unto thy Name: that I may daily perform my vows.

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MORNING PRAYER.

Pfalm lxii. Nonne Deo?

Y foul truly waiteth ftill upon God: for of him cometh my falvation.

2 He verily is my ftrength and my falvation: he is my defence, fo that I fhall not greatly fall.

3 How long will ye imagine mifchief against every man: ye fhall be flain all the fort of you; yea, as a tottering wall fhall ye be, and like a broken hedge.

4 Their device is only how to put him out whom God will exalt their delight is in lies; they give good words with their mouth, but curfe with their heart.

5 Nevertheless, my foul, wait thou ftill upon God: for my hope is in him.

16 He truly is my strength and my falvation: he is my defence, fo that I shall not fall.

7 In God is my health and my glory: the rock of my might, and in God is my truft.

8 O put your truft in him alway, ye people: pour out your hearts before him, for God is our hope.

9 As for the children of men, they are but vanity: the children of men are deceitful upon the weights; they are altogether lighter than vanity itself.

David; and he fhall reign over the houfe of Jacob for ever, and of his Kingdom there fhall be no end." Luke i. 32.

Palm Ixii. David, although in diftrefs, declares and repeats the ftrongest hope of deliverance, and his full determination to truft in God alone.

51 This repetition of the firft verfe, with the change of perfon, is very beautiful,

91 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a he: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity." Bib. tranf

10 O truft not in wrong and robbery; give not yourfelves unto vanity: if riches increase, fet not your heart upon them.

11 God fpake once, and twice I have alfo heard the fame: that power belongeth unto God;

12 And that thou, Lord, art merciful: for thou rewardest every man according to his work.

Pfalm lxiii. Deus, Deus meus.

GOD, thou art my God: early will I feek thee. My foul thirfteth for thee, my flesh alfo longeth after thee in a barren and dry land where no water is. 3 Thus have I looked for thee in holiness: that I might behold thy power and glory.

4 For thy loving-kindness is better than the life itself: my lips fhall praise thee.

5 As long as I live will I magnify thee on this manner: and lift up my hands in thy Name.

6 My foul fhall be fatisfied, even as it were with marrow and fatnefs: when my mouth praifeth thee with joy. ful lips.

7 Have I not remembered thee in my bed and thought upon thee when I was waking?

8 Because thou haft been my helper: therefore under the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.

9 My foul hangeth upon thee: thy right hand hath upholden me.

10 Thefe also that feek the hurt of my foul: they fhall go under the earth.

11 Let them fall upon the edge of the fword: that they may be a portion for foxes.

Pfalm lxiii.] This pfalm is faid to have been composed by David under circumftances of great sadness, when not daring to truft himself in Keilah, which he had refcued from the Philiftines, he got into ftrong holds in the wilderness of Judea, in the forest of Hareth. I Sam. xxii. 5.

3]"To fee thy power and glory, fo as I have feen thee in the fanctuary." Bib. tranf.

11] Persons flain in war were left on the field to be devoured by jackalls, here called foxes.

12 But the King shall rejoice in God; all they allo that fwear by him thall be commended: for the mouth of them that fpeak lies fhall be ftopped.

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Pfalm Ixiv. Exaudi, Deus.

EAR my voice, O God, in my prayer: preferve my lite from fear of the enemy.

2 Hide me from the gathering together of the froward: and from the infurrection of wicked doers.

3 Who have whet their tongue like a fword: and fhoot out their arrows, even bitter words;

4 That they may privily fhoot at him that is perfect: fuddenly do they hit him, and fear not.

5 They encourage themfelves in mifchief: and com. mune among themselves, how they may lay fnares; and fay, that no man shall see them.

6 They imagine wickednefs, and practise it: that they keep fecret among themfelves, every man in the deep of his heart.

7 But God fhall fuddenly shoot at them with a fwift arrow that they shall be wounded.

8 Yea, their own tongues fhall make them fall: infomuch that whoso seeth them fhall laugh them to fcorn.

9 And all men that fee it fhall fay, This hath God done for they fhall perceive that it is his work.

10 The righteous fhall rejoice in the Lord, and put his truft in him: and all they that are true of heart, fhall be glad.

12] It was a common mark of respect to kings, for their subjects in taking an oath to mention their names. 1 Sam. i. 26, and xx. 3; 2 Sam. xv. 21, and in feveral other places.

Pfalm Ixiv] This is a prayer of David for deliverance from his enemies, and a prediction of God's deftruction of them.

2] "Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked." Bib. tranf.

4 Hit] "Shoot at him." Bib. tranf.

63" They fearch out iniquities, they accomplish a diligent fearch: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart is deep.” Bib, tr.

8] Their tongues, which they had whetted to hurt others, fhall in the event occafi their own ruin; "all that fee them fhall flee away" at the dread of the udg.ents of God.

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EVENING PRAYER.

Pfalm lxv. Te decet hymnus.

HOU, O God, art praised in Sion: and unto the fhall the vow be performed in Jerufalem..

2 Thou that heareft the prayer: unto thee shall all flesh come.

3 My mifdeeds prevail against me: O be thou merciful unto our fins.

4 Bleffed is the man whom thou chooseft, and receiveft unto thee: he fhall dwell in thy court, and shall be fatisfied with the pleasures of thy house, even of thy holy temple.

5 Thou shalt fhew us wonderful things in thy righte ousness, O God of our falvation: thou that art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them that remain in the broad fea.

6 Who in his strength fetteth fast the mountains: and is girded about with power.

7 Who ftilleth the raging of the fea: and the noise of his waves, and the madnefs of the people.

8 They alfo that dwell in the uttermoft parts of the earth, shall be afraid at thy tokens: thou that makeft the out-goings of the morning and evening to praise thee.

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9 Thou vifiteft the earth, and bleffeft it thou makest very plenteous.

10 The river of God is full of water: thou preparest their corn, for fo thou provideft for the earth.

II Thou watereft her furrows, thou fendeft rain into the little valleys thereof thou makeft it foft with the drops of rain, and bleffeft the increafe of it.

12 Thou crowneft the year with thy goodness: and thy clouds drop fatness.

13 They fhall drop upon the dwellings of the wilder nefs and the little hills fhall rejoice on every side.

Plalm Ixv.] This is a thankful commemoration of God's mercies and deliverances; robably of his reftoration of plenty after a famine of three

years.

2 Sam. xxi. I.

9, 10] Watereft it,' as in the Bib. tranfl. fhould be "makeft it thirsty." Thou the fame God, which haft punished and made thirsty the land, doft again return in mercy, and reftereft plenty to it.