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2 Have mercy upon me, 3 O Lord my God, if I have O Lord, for 1 am weak: O done any fuch thing: or if Lord, heal me, for my bones there be any wickedness in my are vexed. hands;

3 My foul alfo is fore troubled: but, Lord, how long wilt thou punish me?

4 Turn thee, O Lord, and deliver my foul: O fave me for thy mercies fake.

5 For in death no man re membereth thee: and who will give thee thanks in the pit?

6 I am weary of my groaning, every night wafh I my bed, and water my couch with my tears.

7 My beauty is gone for very trouble, and worn away because of all mine enemies.

8 Away from me, all ye that work vanity; for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping.

9 The Lord hath heard my petition: the Lord will receive my prayer.

10 All mine enemies fhall be confounded, and fore vexed: they shall be turned back, and put to shame fuddenly.

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4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that dealt friendly with me: yea, I have delivered him that without any caufe is mine enemy;

5 Then let mine enemy perfecute my foul, and take me: yea, let him tread my life down upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust.

6 Stand up, O Lord, in thy wrath, and lift up thyfelf, becaufe of the indignation of mine enemies: arife up for me in the judgment that thou haft commanded.

7 And fo fhall the congregation of the people come about thee: for their fakes therefore lift up thyfelf again.

8 The Lord fhall judge the people; give fentence with me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to the innocency that is in me.

9 O let the wickedness of the ungodly come to an end; but guide thou the juft.

10 For the righteous God trieth the very hearts and reins.

11 My help cometh of God, who preferveth them that are true of heart.

12 God is a righteous judge, strong and patient; and God is provoked every day.

13 If a man will not turn, he will whet his fword: he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

14 He hath prepared for him the inftruments of death: he ordaineth his arrows against the perfecutors.

15 Behold, he travaileth with mischief: he hath conceived forrow, and brought forth ungodliness.

16 He hath graven and digged up a pit, and is fallen himself into the deftruction that he made for other.

17 For his travail fhall come upon his own head, and his wickedness fhall fall on his own pate.

18 I will give thanks unto the Lord, according to his righteousness; and I will praise the Name of the Lord most high.

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PSALM 8.

Lord our Governor, how excellent is thy Name in all the world: thou that haft fet thy glory above the heavens!

2 Out of the mouth of very babes and fucklings haft thou ordained ftrength, because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy, and the avenger.

3 For I will confider thy heavens, even the works of thy fingers; the moon and the ftars which thou haft ordained.

4 What is man,that thou art mindful of him? and the fon of man, that thou visitest him?

5 Thou madeft him lower than the angels, to crown him with glory and worship.

6 Thou makeft him to have dominion of the works of thy hands; and thou haft put all things in fubjection under his feet;

7 All fheep and oxen: yea, and the beafts of the field;

8 The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the fea: and whatfoever walketh through the paths of the feas.

9 O Lord our Governor, how excellent is thy Name in all the world!

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PSALM 9.

Will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, with my whole heart I will speak of all thy marvellous works.

2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: yea, my fongs will I make of thy Name, O thou moft Higheft.

3 While mine enemies are driven back, they shall fall and perish at thy prefence.

4 For thou haft maintained. my right, and my caufe: thou art fet in the throne that judgeft right.

5 Thou haft rebuked the heathen, and deftroyed the unB 3 godly:

godly: thou haft put out their name for ever and ever.

60 thou enemy, deftructions are come to a perpetual end: even as the cities which thou haft destroyed; their memorial is perifhed with them.

7 But the Lord fhall endure for ever he hath alfo prepared his feat for judgment.

8 For he fhall judge the world in righteousness, and minifter true judgment unto the people.

9 The Lord alfo will be a defence for the oppreffed; even a refuge in due time of trouble.

10 And they that know thy Name, will put their truft in thee: for thou, Lord, haft never failed them that feek thee.

11 O praise the Lord which dwelleth in Sion: fhew the people of his doings.

12 For when he maketh in quifition for blood, he remembereth them, and forgetteth not the complaint of the poor.

13 Have mercy upon me, O Lord; confider the trouble which I fuffer of them that hate me, that thou lifteft me up from the gates of death:

14 That I may fhew all thy praises within the ports of the daughter of Sion; I will rejoice in thy falvation.

15 The heathen are funk down in the pit that they made:

in the fame net which they hid privily, is their foot taken.

16 The Lord is known to execute judgment: the ungodly is trapped in the work of his own hands.

17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the people that forget God.

18 For the poor shall not alway be forgotten: the patient abiding of the meek fhall not perish for ever.

19 Up, Lord,and let not man have the upper hand: let the heathen be judged in thy fight.

20 Put them in fear, O Lord; that the heathen may know themselves to be but men. PSALM 10.

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HY ftandeft thou fo far off, O Lord, and hideft thy face in the needful time of trouble?

2 The ungodly for his own luft doth perfecute the poor: let them be taken in the crafty wilinefs that they have imagined.

3 For the ungodlyhath made boaft of his own heart's defire: and fpeaketh good of the covetous whom God abhorreth.

4 The ungodly is fo proud, that he careth not for God: neither is God in all his thoughts.

5 His ways are alway grievous: thy judgments are far above out of his fight, andtherefore defieth he all his enemies.

6 For he hath faid in his heart, Tush, I fhall never be caft down there fhall no harm happen unto me.

His mouth is full of cur. fing, deceit, and fraud: under his tongue is ungodlinefs and vanity.

8 He fitteth lurking in the thievifh corners of the streets; and privily in his lurking dens doth he murder the innocent; his eyes are fet against the poor. 9 For he lieth waiting fecretly, even as a lion lurketh he in his den, that he may ra vish the poor.

10 He doth ravish the poor, when he getteth them into his

net.

He falleth down, and humbleth himself, that the congregation of the poor may fall into the hands of his captains.

12 He hath faid in his heart, Tufh, God hath forgotten: he hideth away his face, and he will never fee it.

15 Arife, O Lord God, and lift up thine hand: forget not the poor.

14 Wherefore should the wicked blafpheme God: while he doth fay in his heart, Tufh, thou God careft not for it.

15 Surely thou haft feen it: for thou beholdest ungodlinefs and wrong.

16 That thou mayeft take the matter into thy hand: the

poor committeth himself unto thee; for thou art the helper of the friendless.

17 Break thou the power of the ungodly and malicious: take away his ungodliness, and thou fhalt find none.

18 The Lord is King for ever and ever: and the heathen are perished out of the land.

19 Lord, thou haft heard the defire of the poor: thou prepareft their heart, and thine ear hearkeneth thereto.

20 To help the fatherless and poor unto their right: that the man of the earth be no more exalted against them.

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PSALM II.

N the Lord put I my truft: how fay ye then to my foul, that the fhould flee as a bird unto the hill?

2 For lo, the ungodly bend their bow, and make ready their arrows within the quiver, that they may privily fhoot at them which are true of heart.

3 For the foundations will be caft down; and what hath the righteous done?

4 The Lord is in his holy temple: the Lord's feat is in heaven.

5 His eyes confider the poor; and his eye-lids try the children of men.

6 The Lord alloweth the righteous but the ungodly, B 4 and

and him that delighteth in wickedness doth his foul abhor.

7 Upon the ungodly he fhall rain fnares, fire and brimftone, ftorm and tempeft: this fhall be their portion to drink.

8 For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness: his countenance will behold the thing that is juft.

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PSALM 12.

Elp me, Lord, for there is not one godly man left for the faithful are mi nished from among the chil dren of men.

2 They talk of vanity every one with his neighbour: they do but flatter with their lips, and diffemble in their double heart.

3 The Lord fhall root out all deceitful lips, and the tongue that fpeaketh proud things.

4 Which have faid, With our tongue will we prevail: we are they that ought to fpeak, who is Lord over

us?

5 Now for the comfortless troubles fake of the needy,

7 The words of the Lord are pure words; even as the filver, which from the earth is tried, and purified feven times. in the fire.

8 Thou shalt keep them, O Lord; thou shalt preferve him from this generation for ever.

9 The ungodly walk on every fide: when they are exalted, the children of men are put to rebuke.

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PSALM 13. OW long wilt thou forget me, O Lord, for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

2 How long fhall İ feek counsel in my foul, and be fo vexed in my heart? how long fhall mine enemies triumph over me?

3 Confider and hear me, O Lord my God; lighten mine eyes, that I fleep not in death:

4 Left mine enemy fay, I have prevailed against him: for if I be caft down, they that trouble me will rejoice at it.

5 But my truft is in thy mercy; and my heart is joyful in thy falvation.

6 I will fing of the Lord, because he hath dealt fo loving

and because of the deep figh-ly with me: yea, I will praise

ing of the poor;

6 I will up, faith the Lord, and will help every one from him that fwelleth against him, and will fet him at reft.

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