Book I. No. 5.

To the chief Musician upon Nehiloth [flutes or any pierce instruments], A Psalm of David.

GIVE car to my words, O Jehovah, consider my meditation.

Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my Elohim: for unto thee will I pray.

My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Jehovah; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.

For thou art not an El that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.

The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: Jehovah will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

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.

Lead me, O Jehovah, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face. For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue. Destroy thou them, O Elohim; let them fall by their 10 own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.

But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee. For thou, Jehovah, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.

AMID sorrow and weakness and the wicked around. V.-1-3 Cry to Jehovah, my King and my Elohim; 4—6 El, in way and character, against the evil-doer; 7-9 for me a shelter in mercy; 10 imprecation against the wicked; 11 for the faithful; 12 confidence in Jehovah.

Book I. No. 6.

To the chief Musician on Neginoth [or, stringed instruments] upon Sheminith [or, the eighth], A Psalm of David.

O JEHOVAH, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; for I am weak: 0 Jehovah, heal me; for my bones are vexed.

My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O Jehovah, how long?

Return, O Jehovah, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake.

For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the 5 grave who shall give thee thanks ?

I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears. Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.

Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for Jehovah hath heard the voice of my weeping.

Jehovah hath heard my supplication; Jehovah will receive my prayer.

Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let 10 them return and be ashamed suddenly.

VI.-1-7 Cry for pity to Jehovah; 8 away you wicked! 9 Jehovah has heard me; 10 let my enemies pass.

Book I. No. 7.

Shiggaion [a wandering ode, or, an ode of wandering-see Hab. iii. 1.] of David, which he sang unto Jehovah, concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite.

O JEHOVAH my Elohim, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver,

me:

Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

O Jehovah my Elohim, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)

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Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah,*

Arise, O Jehovah, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded. So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high. Jehovah shall judge the people: judge me, O Jehovah, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous Elohim trieth the hearts and reins.

My defence is of Elohim, which saveth the upright in 10 heart.

Elohim judgeth the righteous, and El is angry with the wicked every day.

If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the perse

cutors.

Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the 15 ditch which he made.

His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate. I will praise Jehovah according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of Jehovah Gneliōn.

In an extreme of sorrow and evil around, conscious integrity looks up for the judgment appointed, and for Jehovah to viudicate himself before men against the wicked.

VII.—Jehovah my Elohim, in thee do I trust; save me and him
that is righteous from the enemy and the wicked.
Book I. No. 8.

To the chief Musician upon Gittith [qy. the wine-vat],
A Psalm of David.

O JEHOVAH our Lord [Adonim], how excellent is

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thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels [elohim], and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

O Jehovah our Lord [Adonim], how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

Messiah rejected here below, owned as Son of Man on high. VIII.-1 Jehovah our Lord [Adonim], thy name in the earth, thy glory above the heavens thou hast set; 2 thy ways; 3-9 among thy works what is man [Enosh, man in weakness; not Adam nor Ish], or the son of Adam [man].

NOTE.-Ver. 9 gives but half of ver. 1.

Book I. No. 9.

To the chief Musician upon Muth-labben [or, concerning death for the son], A Psalm of David.

I WILL praise thee, O Jehovah, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.

I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou Gneliōn.

When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.

For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.

Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed 5 the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.

O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual

end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.

But Jehovah shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.

And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness. Jehovah also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

And they that know thy name will put their trust in 10 thee for thou, Jehovah, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

Sing praises to Jehovah, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.

When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.

Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation. The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made:

in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. Jehovah is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget Elohim.

For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

Arise, O Jehovah; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.

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Put them in fear, O Jehovah: that the nations may 20 know themselves to be but men. Selah.g

IX.—1, 2 I will praise Jehovah and sing the name of Gneliōn; 3-20 my enemies fall before him maintaining my right: he is on the throne of judgment, all evil shall perish, O thou enemy; and poor and needy shall be delivered.

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IX. and X. give a view of the last days and of the faithful then, and show how judgments will become the deliverance of those that believe.