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10 Destroy thou them, O 7 Mine eye is confumed God; let them fall by their becaufe of grief; it waxeth own counfels: caft them out old because of all mine enein the multitude of their tranf-mies.

greffions, for they have rebelled against thee.

II But let all thofe that put their truft in thee, rejoice: let them ever fhout for joy: because thou defendeft them: let them alfo that love thy name be joyful in thee.

12 For thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous, with favour wilt thou compass him as with a field.

PSALM VI.

LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chaften me in thy hot difpleasure.

2 Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am weak: O Lord, heal me, for my bones are vexed.

3 My foul is alfo fore vexed: but thou, O Lord, how long?

4 Return, O Lord, deliver my foul: Oh fave me for thy mercies fake.

5 For in death there is no remembrance of thee: In the grave who fhall give thee thanks?

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anger, lift up thyself, becaufe turn upon his own head, and of the rage of mine enemies: his violent dealing fhall come and awake for me to the judg-down upon his own pate. ment that thou haft com

manded.

17 I will praife the Lord according to his righteouf7 So fhall the congregation nefs: and will fing praife to of the people compafs thee the name of the Lord most about for their fakes there-high.

fore return thou on high.

8 The Lord fhall judge the

PSALM VIII.

Lord our Lord, how

people: judge me, O Lord, excellent is thy name in O

according to my righteoufnefs, and according to mine integrity that is in me.

9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the juft: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.

10 My defence is of God, which faveth the upright in heart.

all the earth! who haft fet thy glory above the heavens.

2 Out of the mouth of babes and fucklings haft thou ordained ftrength, because of thine enemies, that thou mighteft ftill the enemy and the avenger.

3 When I confider thy heavens, the work of thy fin

which thou haft ordained;

11 God judgeth the righ-gers, the moon and the ftars teous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

12 If he turn not, he will whet his fword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

13 He hath also prepared for him the inftruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the perfecutors.

14 Behold, he travelleth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falfhood.

15 He made a pit and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

16 His mifchief fhall re

4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the fon of man, that thou visitest him?

5 For thou haft made him a little lower than the angels, and haft crowned him with glory and honour.

6 Thou madeft him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou haft put all things under his feet:

7 All fheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field: 8 The fowl of the air, and

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9 O Lord our Lord, how

PSALM XV.

excellent is thy name in all LORD, who fhall abide

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PSALM XIV.

HE fool hath faid in his heart, There is no God: they are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

2 The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men; to fee if there were any that did underftand, and feek God.

3 They are all gone afide, they are all together become filthy there is none that doeth good, no not one.

4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord?

5 There were they in great fear for God is in the generation of the righte

ous.

6 Ye have fhamed the counsel of the poor; because the Lord is his refuge.

7 O that the falvation of Ifrael were come out of Zion! when the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob fhall rejoice, and If

in thy tabernacle? who fhall dwell in thy holy hill? 2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteoufnefs, and fpeaketh the truth in his heart.

3 He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.

4 In whofe eyes a vile perfon is contemned: but he honoureth them that fear the Lord: he that fweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.

5 He that putteth not out his money to ufury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things, fhall never be moved,

PSALM XVI. Referve me, O God: for in thee do I put

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my trust.

2 O my foul, thou haft faid unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee:

3 But to the faints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.

4 Their forrows fhall be

multiplied, that haften after I deliverer: my God, my another god their drink- ftrength, in whom I will truft, offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.

5 The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance, and of my cup: thou maintaineft my lot.

6 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

7 I will blefs the Lord, who hath given me counfel: my reins alfo inftruct me in the night-feafons.

8 I have fet the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I fhall not be moved.

9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh alfo fhall reft in hope.

10 For thou wilt not leave my foul in hell; neither wilt thou fuffer thine holy One to see corruption.

my buckler, and the horn of my falvation, and my high

tower.

3 I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praifed: fo fhall I be faved from mine enemies.

4 The forrows of death compaffed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

5 The forrows of hell compaffed me about the fnares of death prevented

me.

6 In my diftrefs I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears,

7 Then the earth fhook and trembled; the foundaticns alfo of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.

8 There went up a fmoke out of his noftrils, and fire

coals were kindled by it.

II Thou wilt fhew me the path of life in thy pre-out of his mouth devoured: fence is fulness of joy, at thy right hand there are pleafures for evermore.

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9 He bowed the heavens alfo and came down: and darkness was under his feet.

10 And he rode upon cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.

II He made darkness his

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fecret place his pavilion oufnefs, according to the round about him were dark cleannefs of my hands hath waters, and thick clouds of he recompensed me. the fkies.

12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds paffed, hail-ftones, and coals of fire.

21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God..

22 For all his judgments

13 The Lord alfo thun-were before me, and I did dered in the heavens, and not put away his ftatutes the Highest gave his voice; from me. hail-ftones, and coals of fire. 14 Yea, he fent out his arrows, and fcattered them; and he fhot out lightnings, and difcomfited them.

23 I was also upright before him and I kept myself from mine iniquity.

24 Therefore hath the Lord recompenfed me ac15 Then the channels of cording to my righteousness, waters were feen, and the according to the cleanness foundations of the world of my hands in his eyewere difcovered: at thy re- fight.

buke, O Lord, at the blaft

25 With the merciful

of the breath of thy nof-thou wilt fhew thyself mer

trils.

16 He fent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too ftrong for

me.

18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the Lord was my stay.

19 He brought me forth alfo into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

20 The Lord rewarded me according to my righte

ciful, with an upright man thou wilt fhew thyfelf upright.

26 With the pure thou wilt fhew thyfelf pure, and with the froward thou wilt fhew thyself froward.

27 For thou wilt fave the afflicted people: but wilt bring down high looks.

28 For thou wilt light my candle the Lord my God will enlighten my darknefs.

29 For by thee I have run through a troop: and by my God have I leaped over a wall.

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