141 Small, and despis'd I am, yet I

thy precepts not forget.

142 Thy righteousness is righteousness which ever doth endure: Thy holy law, Lord, also is the very truth most pure.

143 Trouble and anguish have me found, and taken hold on me:

Yet in my trouble my delight thy just commandments be. 144 Eternal righteousness is in thy testimonies all:

Lord, to me understanding give,
and ever live I shall.

KоPH. The 19th Part.

145 With my whole heart I cry'd, Lord, I will thy word obey.

According to thy judgments just, revive and quicken me.

157 My persecutors many are,

and foes that do combine; Yet from thy testimonies pure my heart doth not decline.

158 I saw transgressors, and was griev'd; for they keep not thy word. 159 See how I love thy law! as thou art kind, me quicken, Lord. 160 From the beginning all thy word hath been most true and sure: Thy righteous judgments ev'ry one for evermore endure.

SCHIN. The 21st Part. Princes have persecuted me, although no cause they saw: But still of thy most holy word my heart doth stand in awe. 162 I at thy word rejoice, as one

161

[hear;

146 I cry'd to thee; save me, and I will keep thy laws alway.

147 I of the morning did prevent
the dawning, and did cry:
For all mine expectation
did on thy word rely.

148 Mine eyes did timeously prevent
the watches of the night,

That in thy word with careful mind then meditate I might. 149 After thy loving-kindness hear my voice, that calls on thee: According to thy judgment, Lord, revive and quicken me.

150 Who follow mischief they draw nigh; they from thy law are far:

151 But thou art near, Lord; most firm

all thy commandments are. [truth 152 As for thy testimonies all,

of old this have I try'd,

That thou hast surely founded them for ever to abide.

RESH. The 20th Part.

153 Consider mine affliction, in safety do me set: Deliver me, O Lord, for I

thy law do not forget.

154 After thy word revive thou me; save me, and plead my cause. 155 Salvation is from sinners far;

for they seek not thy laws.

156 O Lord, both great and manifold thy tender mercies be:

of spoil that finds great store. 163 Thy law I love; but lying all I hate and do abhor.

164 Sev'n times a-day it is my care to give due praise to thee; Because of all thy judgments, Lord, which righteous ever be. [law; 165 Great peace have they who love thy offence they shall have none. 166 I hop'd for thy salvation, Lord,

and thy commands have done. 167 My soul thy testimonies pure observed carefully;

On them my heart is set, and them
I love exceedingly.

168 Thy testimonies and thy laws
I kept with special care;
For all my works and ways each one
before thee open are.

TAU. The 22nd Part.

169 O let my earnest pray'r and cry come near before thee, Lord: Give understanding unto me, according to thy word.

170 Let my request before thee come: after thy word me free.

171 My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught thy laws to me.

172 My tongue of thy most blessed word shall speak, and it confess;

Because all thy commandements are perfect righteousness. 173 Let thy strong hand make help to thy precepts are my choice. [me: 174 I long'd for thy salvation, Lord, and in thy law rejoice.

175 O let my soul live, and it shall
give praises unto thee;
And let thy judgments gracious
be helpful unto me.

176 I, like a lost sheep, went astray;
thy servant seek, and find:

For thy commands I suffer'd not
to slip out of my mind.

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1 IN my distress to God I cry'd,

and he gave ear to me.

2 From lying lips, and guileful tongue, O Lord, my soul set free.

3 What shall be giv'n thee? or what shall be done to thee, false tongue? 4 Ev'n burning coals of juniper,

sharp arrows of the strong.

5 Woe's me that I in Mesech am
a sojourner so long;
That I in tabernacles dwell

to Kedar that belong.

6 My soul with him that hateth peace hath long a dweller been.

7 I am for peace; but when I speak, for battle they are keen.

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1 I To the hills will lift mine eyes, from whence doth come mine aid. 2 My safety cometh from the Lord,

who heav'n and earth hath made. 3 Thy foot he'll not let slide, nor will he slumber that thee keeps. 4 Behold, he that keeps Israel,

he slumbers not, nor sleeps.

5 The Lord thee keeps, the Lord thy shade

on thy right hand doth stay:

6 The moon by night thee shall not smite,

nor yet the sun by day.

7 The Lord shall keep thy soul; he shall preserve thee from all ill.

8 Henceforth thy going out and in God keep for ever will.

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1 I JOY'D when to the house of God, Go up, they said to me. Jerusalem, within thy gates our feet shall standing be. Jerus'lem, as a city, is

2

3

compactly built together:

4 Unto that place the tribes go up, the tribes of God go thither: To Isr'el's testimony, there

to God's name thanks to pay. 5 For thrones of judgment, ev'n the thrones

of David's house, there stay.

6 Pray that Jerusalem may have peace and felicity:

Let them that love thee and thy peace have still prosperity.

7 Therefore I wish that peace may still within thy walls remain,

And ever may thy palaces
prosperity retain.

8 Now, for my friends' and brethren's Peace be in thee, I'll say.

[sakes, 9 And for the house of God our Lord, I'll seek thy good alway.

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1 0 THOU that dwellest in the heav'ns, I lift mine eyes to thee.

2 Behold, as servants' eyes do look their masters' hand to see,

As handmaid's eyes her mistress' hand, so do our eyes attend Upon the Lord our God, until to us he mercy send.

3 O Lord, be gracious to us,
unto us gracious be;

Because replenish'd with contempt
exceedingly are we.

4 Our soul is fill'd with scorn of those that at their ease abide,

And with the insolent contempt
of those that swell in pride.

4 Waters had cover'd us, our soul

had sunk beneath the stream.

5 Then had the waters, swelling high, over our soul made way.

6 Bless'd be the Lord, who to their teeth us gave not for a prey.

7 Our soul's escaped, as a bird

out of the fowler's snare;

The snare asunder broken is,
and we escaped are.

8 Our sure and all-sufficient help
is in JEHOVAH'S name;

His name who did the heav'n create, and who the earth did frame.

Another of the same.

1 Now Israel

may say, and that truly,

If that the Lord

had not our cause maintain'd;

2 If that the Lord

had not our right sustain'd, When cruel men

against us furiously Rose up in wrath,

to make of us their prey;

3 Then certainly

they had devour'd us all, And swallow'd quick,

for ought that we could deem; Such was their rage,

as we might well esteem.

4 And as fierce floods

before them all things drown, So had they brought

our soul to death quite down. 5 The raging streams,

with their proud swelling waves, Had then our soul

o'erwhelmed in the deep.

6 But bless'd be God,
who doth us safely keep,
And hath not giv'n
us for a living prey
Unto their teeth,

and bloody cruelty.

7 Ev'n as a bird

out of the fowler's snare Escapes away,

so is our soul set free: Broke are their nets,

and thus escaped we.

1 WHEN Sion's bondage God turn'd back, as men that dream'd were we. 2 Then fill'd with laughter was our our tongue with melody: [mouth, They 'mong the heathen said, The Lord great things for them hath wrought. 3 The Lord hath done great things for us, whence joy to us is brought.

4 As streams of water in the south, our bondage, Lord, recall.

5 Who sow in tears, a reaping time of joy enjoy they shall.

6 That man who, bearing precious seed, in going forth doth mourn,

7 He doubtless, bringing back his rejoicing shall return. [sheaves,

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1 EXCEPT the Lord do build the house, the builders lose their pain: Except the Lord the city keep, the watchmen watch in vain.

2 'Tis vain for you to rise betimes, or late from rest to keep,

To feed on sorrows' bread; so gives he his beloved sleep.

3 Lo, children are God's heritage, the womb's fruit his reward.

4 The sons of youth as arrows are, for strong men's hands prepar'd. 5 O happy is the man that hath

his quiver fill'd with those; They unashamed in the gate shall speak unto their foes.

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1 BLESS'D is each one that fears the Lord, and walketh in his ways;

2 For of thy labour thou shalt eat, and happy be always.

3 Thy wife shall as a fruitful vine by thy house' sides be found: Thy children like to olive plants about thy table round.

4 Behold, the man that fears the Lord, thus blessed shall he be.

5 The Lord shall out of Sion give his blessing unto thee: Thou shalt Jerus'lem's good behold whilst thou on earth dost dwell.

6 Thou shalt thy children's children see, and peace on Israel.

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1 OFT did they vex me from my youth, may Isr'el now declare;

2 Oft did they vex me from my youth, yet not victorious were.

3 The plowers plow'd upon my back; they long their furrows drew.

4 The righteous Lord did cut the cords of the ungodly crew.

5 Let Sion's haters all be turn'd back with confusion.

6 As grass on houses' tops be they,
which fades ere it be grown:

7 Whereof enough to fill his hand
the mower cannot find;
Nor can the man his bosom fill,
whose work is sheaves to bind.

8 Neither say they who do go by,
God's blessing on you rest:
We in the name of God the Lord
do wish you to be blest.

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2

1 LORD, from the depths to thee I cry'd, My voice, Lord, do thou hear: Unto my supplication's voice

give an attentive ear.

3 Lord, who shall stand, if thou, O Lord, should'st mark iniquity?

4 But yet with thee forgiveness is, that fear'd thou mayest be.

5 I wait for God, my soul doth wait, my hope is in his word.

6 More than they that for morning my soul waits for the Lord; [watch, I say, more than they that do watch the morning light to see.

7 Let Israel hope in the Lord, for with him mercies be;

And plenteous redemption is ever found with him. 8 And from all his iniquities he Isr'el shall redeem.

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1 My heart not haughty is, O Lord,
mine eyes not lofty be;
Nor do I deal in matters great,
or things too high for me.

2 I surely have myself behav'd
with quiet sp'rit and mild,

As child of mother wean'd: my soul is like a weaned child.

3 Upon the Lord let all the hope of Israel rely,

Ev'n from the time that present is unto eternity.

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1 DAVID, and his afflictions all, Lord, do thou think upon;

2 How unto God he sware, and vow'd to Jacob's mighty One.

3 I will not come within my house, nor rest in bed at all;

4 Nor shall mine eyes take any sleep, nor eyelids slumber shall;

5 Till for the Lord a place I find, where he may make abode;

A place of habitation

for Jacob's mighty God.

6 Lo, at the place of Ephratah of it we understood;

And we did find it in the fields,
and city of the wood.

7 We'll go into his tabernacles,
and at his footstool bow.
8 Arise, O Lord, into thy rest,

th' ark of thy strength, and thou. 9 O let thy priests be clothed, Lord, with truth and righteousness; And let all those that are thy saints shout loud for joyfulness.

10 For thine own servant David's sake,
do not deny thy grace;
Nor of thine own anointed one
turn thou away the face.

11 The Lord in truth to David sware,
he will not turn from it,
I of thy body's fruit will make
upon thy throne to sit.

12 My cov'nant if thy sons will keep,
and laws to them made known,
Their children then shall also sit
for ever on thy throne.

13 For God of Sion hath made choice; there he desires to dwell.

14 This is my rest, here still I'll stay; for I do like it well.

15 Her food I'll greatly bless; her poor with bread will satisfy.

16 Her priests I'll clothe with health; her saints

shall shout forth joyfully.

17 And there will I make David's horn to bud forth pleasantly:

For him that mine anointed is
a lamp ordain'd have I.

18 As with a garment I will clothe
with shame his en'mies all:

But yet the crown that he doth wear upon him flourish shall.

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1 BEHOLD, how good a thing it is, and how becoming well, Together such as brethren are in unity to dwell!

2 Like precious ointment on the head, that down the beard did flow,

Ev'n Aaron's beard, and to the skirts did of his garments go.

3 As Hermon's dew, the dew that doth on Sion' hills descend:

For there the blessing God comlife that shall never end. [mands, 134

1 BEHOLD, bless ye the Lord, all ye that his attendants are,

Ev'n you that in God's temple be, and praise him nightly there. 2 Your hands within God's holy place lift up, and praise his name.

3 From Sion' hill the Lord thee bless, that heav'n and earth did frame.

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1 PRAISE ye the Lord, the Lord's name praise;

his servants, praise ye God.

2 Who stand in God's house, in the
of our God make abode. [courts
3 Praise ye the Lord, for he is good;
unto him praises sing:
Sing praises to his name, because
it is a pleasant thing.

4 For Jacob to himself the Lord
did chuse of his good pleasure,
And he hath chosen Israel
for his peculiar treasure.
5 Because I know assuredly
the Lord is very great,

And that our Lord above all gods
in glory hath his seat.

6 What things soever pleas'd the Lord, that in the heav'n did he,

And in the earth, the seas, and all the places deep that be.

7 He from the ends of earth doth make the vapours to ascend;

9

With rain he lightnings makes, and wind

doth from his treasures send.

8 Egypt's first-born, from man to beast who smote. Strange tokens he On Phar'oh and his servants sent, Egypt, in midst of thee.

10 He smote great nations, slew great 11 Sihon of Heshbon king, [kings: And Og of Bashan, and to nought did Čanaan's kingdoms bring; 12 And for a wealthy heritage

their pleasant land he gave, An heritage which Israel,

his chosen folk, should have.