5 Then shall he speak unto them in his anger,

And terrify them in his wrath,

6 "But as for me, I have set my king

7

8

9

10

"Upon Zion, my holy mountain."

I will declare the decree: Jehovah

Said unto me, "Thou art my Son;

"It is I, this day, that have begotten thee."

"Ask of me, and I will give the nations for
thine inheritance,

"And the ends of the earth for thy possession.
"Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron;
"Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's
vessel."b

Now, therefore, O kings, understand:
Be instructed, O judges of the earth.

11 Serve Jehovah with fear,

And rejoice with trembling. 12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, And ye perish from the way;

For soon will his anger be kindled.

Blessed are all those that take refuge in him.

a Acts xiii. 32, 33; Heb. i. 5; v. 5.
b Rev. ii. 26, 27; xii. 5; xix. 15.
e 1 Kings xix. 18; 1 Sam. x. 1.

PSALM III.

A Palm by David when he fled from Absalom his son.

O JEHOVAH, how many are mine ad-
versaries!

Many are those that rise up against me.
Many are those that say of my soul,

tìve is no salvation for him in God.

Selah.

that thou, O Jehovah, art a shield about me,
My glory, and the lifter up of my head."
With my voice will I call upon Jehovah,
And he will answer me out of his holy
mountain.

Selah.

As for me, I lie down and sleep; Lawake for Jehovah sustaineth me. tter not the tens of thousands of people, That set waves against me round about. Rep up, O Jehovah: save me, O my God; My hom wite smite all mine enemies upon the cheek bon

Phow wife bowk the teeth of the wicked.

* Mutyafuum ex of dehovah :

1

2

PSALM IV.

For the chief Musician. With stringed instruments.
A Psalm by David.

ANSWER me when I call, O my righteous
God:

Thou hast relieved me in trouble,

Be gracious unto me, and hear my prayer.

O ye children of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame ?

How long will ye love vanity and seek after

lies ?

Selah.

3 But know that Jehovah hath set apart for him

self his godly one:

Jehovah will hear when I call upon him.

4 Tremble and sin not:

Commune with your own heart upon your

bed, and be silent.

5 Sacrifice the sacrifices of righteousness,

And trust in Jehovah.

Selah.

O Jehovah, lift thou up upon us the light of

thy countenance;

a Ps. li. 19.

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The Selwood Printing Works,

Frome, and London.

PREFACE.

Ir has been thought that if the Psalms were thrown into the metrical form, as suggested by the parallelisms in the original Hebrew, and divided into paragraphs, and if, further, every effort were made to preserve uniformity of translation, that is, to give the same English word wherever the same Hebrew word occurs, the English reader would be in a much better position to understand this precious portion of God's testimonies. To carry out this thought, taking care, at the same time, that the translation should be correct in other respects, has been the object of the present work. It has been a studied aim, whilst so doing, to preserve as much of the authorized version as possible.

Italics are here used for the same purpose as that for which they are used in that version,