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the day-time, but thou hear-with their mouths, as a raeft not; and in the night-vening and a roaring lion. feafon, and am not filent. 3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabiteft the praises of Ifrael.

4 Our fathers trufted in thee they trufted, and thou didft deliver them.

5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded..

6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

7 All they that fee me, laugh me to fcorn: they fhoot out the lip, they fhake the head, faying,

8 He trufted on the Lord, that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, feeing he delighted in him.

9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb; thou didst make me hope, when I was upon my mother's breafts.

10 I was caft upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.

II Be not far from me, for trouble is near; for there is none to help.

12 Many bulls have compaffed me ftrong bulls of Bafhan have befet me round.

14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax, it is melted in the midft of my bowels.

15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou haft brought me into the duft of death.

16 For dogs have compaffed me, the affembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

17 I may tell all my bones: they look and ftare

upon me.

18 They part my garments among them, and caft lots upon my vesture.

19 But be not thou far from me, O Lord; O my ftrength, hafte thee to help me.

20 Deliver my foul from the fword: my darling from the power of the dog.

21 Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou haft heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

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22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren ; in the midft of the congregation will I praise thee.

23 Ye that fear the Lord, praise

praise him; all ye the feed be born that he hath done of Jacob, glorify him; and this.

fear him, all ye the feed of

Ifrael.

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Therd, I fhall not want.

24 For he hath not de-THE Lord is my fhepfpifed nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted: neither hath he hid his face from him, but when he cried unto him, he heard.

25 My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me befide the ftill

waters.

3 He reftoreth my foul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's fake.

26 The meek shall eat 4 Yea, though I walk and be fatisfied: they fhall through the valley of the praise the Lord that feek fhadow of death, I will fear him; your heart fhall live no evil: for thou art with for ever. me, thy rod and thy ftaff they comfort me.

27 All the ends of the world fhall remember and turn unto the Lord; and all the kindreds of the nations fhall worship before thee.

5 Thou preparest a table before me in the prefence of mine enemies: thou anointeft my head with oil, my cup runneth over.

28 For the kingdom is the Lord's and he is the governor among the na-mercy fhall follow me all

tions.

29 All they that be fat upon earth, fhall eat and worship all they that go down to the duft, fhall bow before him, and none can keep alive his own foul.

30 A feed fhall ferve him, it fhall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

31 They fhall come, and fhall declare his righteoufnefs unto a people that shall

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the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

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4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his foul unto vanity, nor fworn deceitfully.

5 He fhall receive the bleffing from the Lord, and righteoufnefs from the God of his falvation."

over me.

3 Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed; let them be afhamed which tranfgrefs without caufe.

4 Shew me thy ways, O Lord; teach me thy paths.

5 Lead me in thy truth, and teach me for thou art the God of my falvation, on thee do I wait all the day.

6 This is the generation of them that feek him, that 6 Remember, O Lord, feek thy face, O Jacob. thy tender mercies, and thy Selah. loving kindneffes: for they 7 Lift up your heads, Ohave been ever of old. ye gates, and be ye lift up, ye everlafting doors, and the King of glory fhall come

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8 Who is this King of glory? the Lord ftrong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.

9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates, even lift them up, ye everlafting doors, and the King of glory fhall come

in.

7 Remember not the fins of my youth, nor my trans greffions: according to thy mercy remember thou me, for thy goodness fake, O Lord.

8 Good and upright is the Lord: therefore will he

teach finners in the way.

9 The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.

10 All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth, unto fuch as keep his cove

10 Who is this King of glory? the Lord of hofts, he is the King of glory.nant, and his teftimonies.

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II For thy name's fake, O Lord, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.

12 What man is he that feareth the Lord? him fhall he teach in the way that he

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15 Mine eyes are ever towards the Lord: for he fhall pluck my feet out of the net.

16 Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me: for I am defolate and afAlicted.

17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my diftreffes.

18 Look upon mine affiction, and my pain, and forgive all my fins.

19 Confider mine enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with cruel hatred.

20 O keep my foul, and deliver me let me not be afhamed, for I put my trust in thee.

21 Let integrity and uprightness preferve me: for I wait on thee.

22 Redeem Ifrael, O God, out of all his troubles.

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6 I will wash mine hands. in innocency: fo will I compafs thine altar, O Lord.

7 That I may publish with the voice of thankf giving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.

8 Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy houfe, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.

9 Gather not my foul with finners, nor my life with bloody men:

10 In whofe hands is mifchief and their right hand is full of bribes.

II But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful

unto me.

12 My foot ftandeth in an even place in the congregations will I blefs theLord,

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4 One thing have I defired of the Lord, that will I seek after that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his temple.

5 For in the time of trouble he fhall hide me in his pavilion in the fecret of his tabernacle fhall he hide me, he shall set me up upon a rock.

6 And now fhall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me : therefore will I offer in his tabernacle facrifices of joy, I will fing, yea, I will fing praises unto the Lord.

7 Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and

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9 Hide not thy face far from me, put not thy fervant away in anger: thou haft been my help, leave me not, neither forfake me, O God of my falvation.

10 When my father and my mother forfake me, then the Lord will take me up.

II Teach me thy way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.

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12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies for false witneffes are rifen up against me, and fuch as breathe out cruelty.

13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to fee the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

14 Wait on the Lord : be of good courage, and he fhall ftrengthen thine heart: wait, I fay, on the Lord.

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