God accepteth and blesseth Job. him; one would think the deep to be hoary. PSALMS. 33 Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear. 34 He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride. CHAP. XLII. 9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD Commanded them: the LORD also Job fubmitteth himself unto God. 7 God accepted Job. THEN Job answered the Lord, and 2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. 10 And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: alfo the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. 11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his fifters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house : and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave 3 Who is he that hideth counsel with out knowledge? thereføre have I uttered that I understood not; things too won-him a piece of money, and every one an derful for me, which I knew not. 4 Hear, I befeech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. 5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye feeth thee. 6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in duft and ashes. 7 And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD faid to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my fervant Job bath. earring of gold. 12 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and fix thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand the affes. 13 He had also seven fons and three daughters. 14 And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the fecond, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch. 15 And in all the land were no women found o fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance 8 Therefore take unto you now feven among their brethren. bullocks and feven rams, and go to my 16 After this lived Job an hundred fervant Job, and offer up for yourselves and forty years, and faw his fons, and a burnt offering; and my fervant Job his fons' fons, even four generations. shall pray for you: for him will I ac- 17 So Job died, being old and full of cept: left I deal with you after your days. THE BOOK OF PSALMS. PSALM Ι. 1 The happiness of the godly. 4 The unhappiness of the ungodly. B LESSED is the man that walketh not in the counfel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of finners, nor fitteth in the feat of the fcornful. 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf alfo shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth fhall profper. 4 The ungodly are not fo: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand I The kingdom of Christ. 10 Kings are exhorted to submit to it. WHY do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth fet themfelves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, faying, 3 Let us break their bands afunder, and caft away their cords from us. 4 He that fittethin the heavensshalllaugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. The Security of God's protection. PSALMS. God favoureth not the wicked. 5 Then shall he speak unto them in 2 O ye fons of men, how long will his wrath, and vex them in his fore difpleafure. 6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. 7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath faid unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. 8 Afk of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermoft parts of the earth for thy poffeffion. 9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's veffel. To Be wife now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. II Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. 12 Kiss the Son, left he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Bleffed are all they that put their trust in him. PSALM III. The Security of God's protection. A Pfalm of David, when he fled from Abfalom his fon. LORD, how are they increased that trouble me? many are they that rife up against me. 2. Many there be which say of my foul, There is no help for him in God. Selah. 3 But thou, O Lord, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head. 4 I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah. 5 I laid me down and flept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me. 6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have fet themselves againft me round about. 7 Arife, O LORD; fave me, Omy God: for thou haft fmitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou haft broken the teeth of the ungodly. 8 Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy bleffing is upon thy people. Selah. PSALM IV. ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and feek after leafing? Selah. 3 But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him. 4 Stand in awe, and fin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah. 5 Offer the facrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the Lord. 6 There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. 7 Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased. 8 I will both lay me down in peace, and fleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in fafety. PSALM V. I David prayeth and professeth his study in prayer. 4 God favoureth not the wicked. 7 David profeffing his faith, prayeth unto God to guide him, 10 to destroy his enemies, 11 and to preserve the godly. To the chief Musician upon Nehiloth, A Pfalm of David. G IVE ear to my words, O LORD, ☑ confider my meditation. 2 Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray. 3 My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. 4 For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee. 5 The foolish shall not stand in thy fight thou hatest all workers of iniquity. 6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leafing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man. 7 But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple. 8 Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteoufness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face. 9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickednefs; their throat is an open fepulchre; they flatter with their tongue. 10 Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; caft them out in the multitude of their tranfgreffions; for they have rebelled against thee. II But let all those that put their truft David's complaint in his fickness. PSALMS. in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also 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 shield. PSALM VI. I David's complaint in his fickness. 8 By faith he triumpheth over his enemies. To the chief Mufician on Neginoth, upon Sheminith, A Pfalm of David. LORD, rebuke me not in thine an ger, neither chaften me in thy hot difpleafure. 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. God's love to man. my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah. 6 Arife, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgement that thou hast commanded. 7 So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their fakes therefore return thou on high. 8 The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteoufness, 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 saveth the upright in heart. 11 God judgeth the righteous, 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 ready. 5 For in death there is no remem-it brance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks? 6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to fwim; I water my couch with my tears. 7 Mine eye is confumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies. 8 Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping. 9 The LORD hath heard my fupplication; the LORD will receive my prayer. 10 Let all mine enemies be ashamed and fore vexed: let them return and be ashamed fuddenly. PSALM VII. David prayeth against the malice of his enemies, profeffing his innocency. 10 By faith he feeth his defence, and the deftruction of his enemies. Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto the LORD, concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite. 0 LORD my God, in thee do I put my truft: fave me from all them that perfecute me, and deliver me : 2 Left he tear my foul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver. 3 O LORD My God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands; 4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:) 5 Let the enemy perfecute my foul, and take it; yea, let him tread down 13 He hath also prepared for him the inftruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the perfecutors. 14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falfehood. 15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. 16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate. 17 I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will fing praife to the name of the LORD most high. PSALM VIII. God's glory is magnified by his works, and LORD our Lord, how excellent is fet thy glory above the heavens. 2 Out of the mouth of babes and fucklings haft thou ordained strength becanfe of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. 3 When I confider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; 4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the fon of man, that thou visiteft him? 5 For thou hast 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: I Will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works. 2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will fing praise to thy name, O thou moft High. 3 When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy prefence. 4 For thou haft maintained my right and my caufe; thou fatteft in the throne judging right. 5 Thou haft rebuked the heathen, thou haft deftroyed the wicked, thou haft put out their name for ever and ever. 6 O thou enemy, deftructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou haft destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them. 7 But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judge ment. The outrage of the wicked. 17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. 18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever. 19 Arife, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy fight. 20 Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah. PSALM X. I David complaineth to God of the outrage of the wicked. 12 He prayeth for remedy. 16 He profeffeth his confidence. W THY standest thou afar off, OLORD? why hideft thou thyself in times of trouble? 2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. 3 For the wicked boafteth of his heart's defire, and bleffeth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth. 4. The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not feek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. 5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his fight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them. 6 He hath faid in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity. 7 His mouth is full of curting and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mif 8 And he shall judge the world in right-chief and vanity. eoufnefs, he thall minifter judgment to the people in uprightness. 9 The LORD alfo will be a refuge for the oppreffed, a refuge in times of trouble. 10 And they that know thy name will put their truft in thee: for thou, LORD, haft not forfaken them that feek thee. 11 Sing praifes to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings. 12 When he maketh inquifition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble. 13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; confider my trouble which I fuffer of them that hate me, thou that lifteft me up from the gates of death: 14 That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy falvation. 15 The heathen are funk down in the pit that they made in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. 16 The LORD is known by the judgement which he executeth: the wicked is fnared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.net rysov 8 8 He fitteth in the lurkingplaces of the villages: in the fecret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily fet against the poor. 9 He lieth in wait fecretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net. 10 He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his ftrong ones. 11 He hath faid in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never fee it. 12 Arife, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. 13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath faid in his heart, Thou wilt not require it. 14 Thou hast feen it; for thou beholdest mischief and fpite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himfelf unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless. 15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: feek out his wickedI nefs till thou find none. 16 The The providence and justice of God. PSALMS. David's complaint, Sc. 16 The LORD is King for ever and 6 The words of the LORD are pure ever: the heathen are perished out of his land. 17 LORD, thou hast heard the defire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear: 18 To judge the fatherless and the oppreffed, that the man of the earth may no more opprefs. PSALM XI. I David encourageth himself in God against bis enemies. A The providence and justice of God. To the chief Musician, A Pfalm of David. IN the LORD put I my truft: how fay ye to my foul, Flee as a bird to your mountain? 2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart. 3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? 4 The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men. 5 The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his foul hateth. 6 Upon the wicked he shall rain fnares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempeft: this shall be the portion of their cup. 7 For the righteous LORD loveth righteoufnefs; his countenance doth behold the upright. PSALM XII. 1 David, deftitute of human comfort, craveth help of God. 3 He comforteth himself with God's judgments on the wicked, and confidence in God's tried promises. To the chief Mufician upon Sheminith, A Pfalm of David. H TTELP, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men. 2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they fpeak. 3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things: 4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is LORD Over us? 5 For the oppreffion of the poor, for the fighing of the needy, now will I arife, faith the LORD; I will fet him in safety from him that puffeth at him. 。 words: as filver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. 7 Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. 8 The wicked walk on every fide, when the vileft men are exalted. thou hide thy 2 How long shall I take counsel in my foul, having forrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me? 3 Confider and hear me, O LORD My God: lighten mine eyes, left I fleep the sleep of death; 4 Left mine enemy fay, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved. 5 But I have trufted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy falvation. 6 I will fing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me. 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 righteous. 6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge. 7 O that the salvation of Ifrael avere come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Ifrael shall be glad. 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