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Pfalm. Ixvi. Jubilate Deo.

Be joyful in God, all ye lands: fing praises unto the honour of his Name, make his praife to be glorious. 2 Say unto God, O how wonderful art thou in thy works: through the greatnefs of thy power fhall thine enemies be found liars unto thee.

3 For all the world fhall worship thee: fing of thee, and praise thy Name.

4 O come hither, and behold the works of God: how wonderful he is in his doing toward the children of men!

5 He turned the fea into dry land: fo that they went through the water on foot; there did we rejoice thereof.

6 He ruleth with his power for ever; his eyes behold the people and fuch as will not believe, fhall not be able to exalt themselves.

7 O praise our God, ye people: and make the voice of his praise to be heard;

8 Who holdeth our foul in life: and fuffereth not our feet to flip.

9 For thou, O God, haft proved us: thou alfo haft tried us, like as filver is tried.

to Thou broughtest us into the fnare: and laideft trouble upon our loins.

11 Thou fuffereft men to ride over our heads: we went through fire and water, and thou broughteft us out into a wealthy place.

12 I will go into thine houfe with burnt-offerings: and will pay thee my vows, which I promised with my lips, and Spake with my mouth when I was in trouble.

13 I will offer unto thee fat burnt-facrifices, with the incenfe of rams: I will offer bullocks and goats.

14 O come hither, and hearken all ye that fear God: and I will tell you what he hath done for my foul.

15 I called unto him with my mouth and gave him praifes with my tongue.

16 If I incline unto wickednefs with mine heart: the Lord will not hear me.

17 But God hath heard me: and confidered the voice of my prayer.

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18 Praised be God, who hath not caft out my prayer: nor turned his mercy from me.

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- Pfal. Ixvii. Deus mifereatur.

OD be merciful unto us, and bless us and fhew us the light of his countenance, and be merciful unto us; 2 That thy way may be known upon earth thy faving health among all nations.

3 Let the people praise thee, O God: yea, let all the people praise thee.

4 O let the nations rejoice, and be glad for thou fhalt judge the folk righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. 5 Let the people praife thee, O God: let all the people praise thee.

6 Then shall the earth bring forth her increase: and God, even our own God, fhall give us his bleffing.

7 God fhall blefs us: and all the ends of the world fhall fear him.

PRACTICAL OBSERVATION S.

Pfalm lxvi.] 1. The example of the prophet in this pfalm teaches us, that when God has delivered us from any danger, we fhould thank him for it, declare his goodness, and ftir up our neighbours to praise him with us; but above all, that we fhould faithfully discharge the vows and promifes we made to him in our diftrefs. 2. We ought to take great notice of thefe words of the pfalmift; " If I incline unto wickedness with mine, heart the Lord will not hear me." They teach us, that God does not receive the prayers of the wicked; and that if we defire he should hear us, our heart ought to be upright and fincere before him; and that we fhould fincerely and inviolably adhere to his worship, and the promoting his glory.

Pfalm lxvii.] This pfalm engages us to thefe two duties: 1. We are to look upon the bleffing of God as the fource of all temporal and fpiritual good things that may contribute to our happiness, and to pray continually to him in the words of the prophet, faying, "God be merciful unto us, and fhew unto us the light of his countenance, and be merciful unto us." 2. We must offer up this prayer, not only for ourselves, but for all people; that God would make himself known to them, and that his name may be praised by all nations. This prayer fuits us ftill better than it did the Jews, fince under the gofpel difpenfation the nations of the eth were to be enlightened with the knowledge of God, and enriched with his bleffings, through Chrift Jefus.

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PRAYER.

Pfalm lxviii. Exurgat Deus.

ET God arife, and let his enemies be fcattered: let them alfo that hate him, flee before him.

2 Like as the fioke vanifheth, fo fhalt thou drive them away and like as wax melteth at the fire, fo let the ungodly perifh at the prefence of God.

3 But let the righteous be glad, and rejoice before God: let them alfo be merry and joyful.

4 O fing unto God, and fing praifes unto his Name: magnify him that rideth upon the heavens, as it were upon an horfe; praife him in his Name JAH, and rejoice before him.

5 He is a father of the fatherlefs, and defendeth the cause of the widows: even God in his holy habitation.

6 He is the God that maketh men to be of one mind in an house, and bringeth the prifoners out of captivity: but letteth the runagates continue in fcarceness.

7 O God, when thou wenteft forth before the people : when thou wenteft through the wilderness.

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

9 Thou, O God, fenteft a gracious rain upon thine inheritance and refreshedft it when it was weary.

10 Thy congregation fhall dwell therein for thou, O God, haft of thy goodnefs prepared for the poor.

11 The Lord gave the word: great was the company of the preachers.

12 Kings with their armies did flee, and were difcomfited: and they of the houshold divided the fpoil.

13 Though ye have lien among the pots, yet fhall ye be as the wings of a dove: that is covered with filver wings, and her feathers like gold.

14 When the Almighty fcattered kings for their fake: then were they as white as fnow in Salmon.

15 As the hill of Bafan, fo is Gods hill: even an high hill, as the hill of Bafan,

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16 Why hop ye fo, ye high hills? this is Gods hill, in thee which it pleafeth him to dwell: yea, the Lord will abide in it for ever.

17 The chariots of God are twenty thoufand, even thoufands of angels: and the Lord is among them, as in the holy place of Sinai.

18 Thou art gone up on high, thou haft led captivity captive, and received gifts for men: yea, even for thine enemies, that the Lord God might dwell among them.

19 Praised be the Lord daily even the God who helpeth us, and poureth his benefits upon us.

20 He is our God, even the God of whom cometh falvation: God is the Lord, by whom we escape death.

21 God. fhall wound the head of his enemies and the hairy fcalp of fuch a one as goeth on still in his wickedness.

22 The Lord hath faid, I will bring my people again, as I did from Bafan: mine own will I bring again, as I did fometime from the deep of the sea.

23 That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies and that the tongue of thy dogs may be red through the fame.

24 It is well feen, O God, how thou goeft: how thou, my God, and King, goeft in the fanctuary.

25 The fingers go before, the minstrels follow after: in the midst are the damfels playing with the timbrels.

26 Give thanks, O Ifrael, unto God the Lord in the congregations from the ground of the heart.

27 There is little Benjamin their ruler, and the princes of Judah their council: the princes of Zabulon, and the princes of Nephthali.

28 Thy God hath fent forth ftrength for thee: stablish the thing, O God, that thou haft wrought in us.

29 For thy temple's fake at Jerufalem: fo fhall kings bring prefents unto thee.

30 When the company of the fpear-men, and multitude of the mighty, are fcattered abroad among the beafts of the people, fo that they humbly bring pieces of filver: and when he hath fcattered the people that delight in war.

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31 Then fhall the princes come out of Egypt: the Mo rians land fhall foon ftretch out her hands unto God.

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

33 Who fitteth in the heavens over all, from the beginning: lo, he doth send out his voice, yea, and that a mighty voice.

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35 O God, wonderful art thou in thy holy places: even the God of Ifrael; he will give ftrength and power unto his people bleffed be God.

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PRAYER.

Pfalm ixix. Salvum me fac.

AVE me, O God: for the waters are come in, even unto my foul.

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2 I ftick faft in the deep mire, where no ground is: I am come into deep waters, fo that the floods run over me. 3 I am weary of crying, my throat is dry: my fight faileth me for waiting fo long upon my God.

4 They that hate me without a cause, are more than the hairs of my head: they that are mine enemies, and would deftroy me guiltlefs, are mighty.

5 I paid them the things that I never took: God, thou knoweft my fimplenefs, and my faults are not hid from thee.

PRACTICAL OBSERVATION S.

Pfalm lxviii.] There are two remarkable prophecies in this pfalm. The firft is this, "Thou art gone up on high, thou haft led captivity captive, and received gifts for men." In the other, the Holy Ghost foretels, that kings, and the most diftant people, fhould come and worship the true God. The first of these prophecies was accomplished, when our Lord afcended into heaven: as St Paul fhews in the fourth chapter of the epiftle to the Ephefians, where he quotes this prophecy, and applies it to the afcenfion of Jefus Chrift, and to the gifts he heftowed on his church by his word and fpirit. And the fecond was fulfilled when feveral nations were converted by the pre ching of the gofpel; but it will be accomplished after a more perfect manner in the latter days and this ought to be the fubject of our prayers, our hopes, and our thanksgivings.

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