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in life, and fuffereth not our feet to be moved.

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

II Thou broughtest us into the net, thou laidft 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

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 sea into dry land they went through the food on foot, there did we rejoice in him.

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

7 He ruleth by his power for ever, his eyes behold the nations let not the rebel-my heart, the Lord will not lious exalt themfelves. Se-hear me. lah.

8 O ble 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 in the prefence of God.

me.

G

PSALM LXVII.

OD be merciful unto us, and bless us and cause his face to fhine upon us. Selah.

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

4 Sing unto God, fing praifes to his name: extol him that rideth upon the 2 That thy way may be heavens by his name JAH, known upon earth, thy fav-and rejoice before him. ing health among all na

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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 didft march through the wildernefs; Selah:

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

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

io 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 publifhed

at.

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

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

14 When the Almighty fcattered 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 Bafhan.

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 scalp of fuch an one as goeth on ftill 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 feen 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 17 The chariots of God them were the damfels playare twenty thoufand, evening with timbrels thousands of angels the Lord is among them as in 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.

26 Blefs ye God in the congregations, even the Lord, from the fountain of Ifrael.

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 com19 Bleffed be the Lord,mandedthyftrength:ftrengthwho daily loadeth us with en, O God, that which thou benefits, even the God of our haft wrought for us. falvation. Selah.

20 He that is our God,

29 Because of thy temple at Jerufalem, fhall kings bring

prefents

prefents unto thee.

30 Rebuke the company of fpear-men, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one fubmit himself with pieces of filver: fcatter thou the people that delight in war.

31 Princes fhall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia fhall foon ftretch out her hands unto God.

32 Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth: O fing praifes unto the Lord. Selah.

33 To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.

34 Afcribe ye ftrength unto God: his excellency is over Ifrael, and his strength is in the clouds.

35 O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places, the God of Ifrael is he that giveth ftrength and power unto his people: bleffed be God.

PSALM LXXVI.

rows of the bow, the fhield, and the fword, and the battle. Selah.

4 Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.

5 The ftout-hearted are fpoiled, they have flept their fleep and none of the men of might have found their hands.

6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead fleep.

7 Thou, even thou art to be feared, and who may ftand in thy fight when once thou art angry?

8 Thou didft caufe judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was ftill,

9 When God arose to judgment, to fave all the meek of the earth. Selah.

10 Surely the wrath of man fhall praise thee: the remainder of wrath fhalt thou restrain.

II Vow, and pay unto the Lord your God; let all that be round about him

IN Judah is God known: bring presents unto him that

rael.

his name is great in If

2 In Salem alfo is his ta

ought to be feared.

12 He fhall cut off the fpirit of princes: he is ter

bernacle, and his dwelling-rible to the kings of the place in Zion.

earth.

3

There brake he the ar

PSALM

PSALM LXXXIV.

in the houfe of my God, than to dwell in the tents of

H tabernacles, O Lord

WOW amiable are thy wickedness.

of hofts!

2 My foul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

11 For the Lord God is a fun and fhield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

12 O Lord of hofts, 3 Yea, the fparrow hath bleffed is the man that trustfound an house, and the fwal-eth in thee.

low a neft for herself where

the may lay her young, even

PSALM LXXXVI.

OW down thine ear,

thine altars, O Lord of hofts, BO Lord, hear me: for

my King, and my God. Bleffed are they that dwell in thy house they will be ftill praifing thee.

Selah.

5 Bleffed is the man whofe Arength is in thee: in whofe heart are the ways of them. 6 Who paffing through the valley of Baca, faktet

the pools.

I am poor and needy.

2 Preferve my foul, for I am holy: O thou my God, fave thy fervant that trufteth in thee.

3 Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily. fervarejoice the foul of thy 4 of

7 They go from strength to ftrength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.

8 O Lord God of hofts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob.. Selah.

9 Behold, O God our fhield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.

10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thoufand I had rather be a door-keeper

Lord, do I lift up my foul.

5 For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive: and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.

6 Give ear, O Lord, unto my prayer: and attend to the voice of my fupplications.

7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt anfwer me.

8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O. Lord, neither are there any

works

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