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tongue a fharp sword.

5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth. 6 They have prepared a net for my steps, my foul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midft whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.

7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will fing and give praise.

8 Awake up my glory, awake pfaltery and harp: I myfelf will awake early.

9 I will praife thee, O Lord, among the people: will fing unto thee among

the nations.

4 They only confult to caft him down from his excellency, they delight in lies: they blefs with their mouth, but they curfe inwardly. Selah.

5 My foul, wait thou only upon God: for my expectation is from him.

6 He only is my rock and my falvation; he is my defence; I fhall not be moved.

7 In God is my falvation and my glory: the rock of my ftrength, and my refuge is in God.

8 Truft in him at all times; Iye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.

10 For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.

9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie to be Olaid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

II Be thou exalted, God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth.

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PSALM LXII.

RULY foul waitmy eth upon God: from him cometh my falvation.

2 He only is my rock and my falvation: he is my defence; I fhall not be greatly moved.

3 How long will ye imagine mifchief against a man? ye fhall be flain all of you:

10 Truft not in oppreffion, and become not vain in robbery: If riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

II God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this, that power belongeth unto God.

12 Alfo unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy for thou rendereft to every man according to his work.

PSALM LXIII.

GOD, thou art my

as a bowing wall shall ye be, God, early will I feek

and as a tottering fence.

thee:

thee: my foul thirfteth for we fhall be fatisfied with the

thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is:

2 To fee thy power and thy glory, fo as I have feen thee in the fanctuary.

3 Because thy loving kindness is better than life, my lips fhall praife thee.

4 Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.

5 My foul fhall be fatisfied as with marrow and fatnefs; and my mouth fhall praise thee with joyful lips:

6 When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the nightwatches.

Because thou haft been my help; therefore in the fhadow of thy wings will I rejoice.

PSALM LXV.

PRAIS

RAISE waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee fhall the vow be performed.

goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.

5 By terrible things in righteoufnefs wilt thou anfwer us, O God of our falvation: who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the fea.

6 Which by his ftrength fetteth faft the mountains; being girded with power.

7 Which stilleth the noise of the feas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.

8 They also that dwell in the uttermoft parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the out-goings of the morning and evening to rejoice.

9 Thou vifiteft the earth, and watereft it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou prepareft them corn, when thou haft fo provided for it.

ΙΟ Thou watereft the ridges thereof abundantly:

2 O thou that heareft thou fettleft the furrows prayer, unto thee fhall all flesh come.

3 Iniquities prevail against me: as for our tranfgreffions, thou fhalt purge them away.

4 Bleffed is the man whom thou chooseft, and caufeft to approach unto thee, that he he may dwell in thy courts:

thereof: thou makest it soft with fhowers, thou bleffeft the springing thereof.

II Thou crowneft the year with thy goodness, and thy paths drop fatnefs.

12 They drop upon the the paftures of the wildernefs and the little hills re

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joice on every fide.

in life, and fuffereth not our

13 The pastures are clo-feet to be moved. thed with flocks; the vallies alfo are covered over with corn; they fhout for joy, they also fing.

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10 For thou, O God, haft proved us: thou hast tried us as filver is tried.

II Thou broughteft us into the net, thou laidst affliction upon our loins.

12 Thou haft caused men to ride over our heads, we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.

13 I will go into thy houfe with burnt-offerings: I will pay thee my vows,

14 Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trou

3 Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power fhall thine enemies fubmit themselves unto thee. 4 All the earth fhall wor-ble. fhip thee, and fhall fing unto thee, they fhall fing to thy Selah.

name.

5 Come and fee the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of

men.

6 He turned the fea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot, there did we rejoice in him.

7 He ruleth by his power for ever, his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. lah.

15 I will offer unto thee burnt-facrifices of fatlings, with the incenfe of rams : I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.

16 Come and hear all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my foul.

17 I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.

18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not Se-hear me.

8 O blefs our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard.

9 Which holdeth our foul

19 But verily God hath heard me he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.

20 Bleffed be God, which hath not turned away my

prayer,

prayer, nor his mercy from jin the prefence of God.

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3 But let the righteous be glad let them rejoice before God, yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.

4 Sing unto God, fing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.

5 A father of the fatherlefs, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

6 God fetteth the folitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains, but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

7 O God, when thou wenteft forth before thy people; when thou didst march through the wilder-. nefs; Selah:

8 The earth fhook, the heavens alfo dropped at the prefence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the prefence of God, the God of Ifrael.

9 Thou, O God, didft fend a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.

10 Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, haft prepared of thy goodnefs for the poor.

II The Lord gave the word:

word: great was the com- is the God of falvation; and pany of those that published

it.

12 Kings of armies did flee apace and fhe that tarried at home, divided the spoil.

13 Though ye have lien among the pots, yet fhall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with filver, and her feathers with yellow gold.

14 When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as fnow in Salmon.

15 The hill of God is as the hill of Bafhan, an high hill as the hill of Bashan.

16 Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God defireth to dwell in, yea, the Lord will dwell in it for ever.

unto God the Lord belong the iffues from death.

21 But God fhall wound the head of his enemies : and the hairy fcalp of fuch an one as goeth on still in his trefpaffes.

22 The Lord faid, I will bring again from Bafhan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the fea:

23 That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the fame.

24 They have seen thy goings, O God, even the goings of my God, my King, in the fanctuary.

25 The fingers went before, the players on inftruments followed after; amongst them were the damfels play

17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, evening with timbrels thousands of angels:

the

26 Blefs ye God in the

Lord is among them as in congregations, even the Lord,

Sinai, in the holy place.

18 Thou haft afcended on high, thou haft led captivity captive: thou haft received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious alfo, that the Lord God might dwell among

them.

19 Bleffed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our falvation. Selah.

20 He that is our God,

from the fountain of Israel.

27 There is little Benjamin, with their ruler, the princes of Judah, and their counfel, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.

28 Thy God hath commandedthyftrength: ftrengthen, O God, that which thou haft wrought for us.

29 Because of thy temple at Jerufalem, fhall kings bring prefents

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