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[CHARMOUTH.]

1 O LORD, my God, in thee do I
my confidence repose:
Save and deliver me from all
my persecuting foes;

2 Lest that the enemy my soul
should like a lion tear,

In pieces rending it, while there
is no deliverer.

3 O Lord, my God, if it be so
that I committed this;
If it be so that in my hands
iniquity there is:

4 If I rewarded ill to him

that was at peace with me; (Yea, e'en the man that without a cause my foe was, I did free :)

5 Then let the foe pursue, and take
my soul, and my life thrust

Down to the earth, and let him lay
mine honour in the dust.

6 Rise in thy wrath, Lord, raise thyself,
for my foes raging be;

And to the judgment which thou hast
commanded, wake for me.

7 So shall th' assembly of thy folk
about encompass thee:

Thou therefore, for their sakes, return
unto thy place on high.

8 The Lord, he shall the people judge:
my judge, JEHOVAH, be,

After my righteousness, and mine
integrity in me.

9 O let the wicked's malice end,
but stablish stedfastly

The righteous; for the righteous God
the hearts and reins doth try.

10 In God, who saves th' upright in heart, is my defence and stay.

11 God just men judgeth; God is wroth With ill men ev'ry day.

12 If he do not return again,

then he his sword will whet;
His bow he hath already bent,
and hath it ready set.

13 He also hath for him prepar'd
the instruments of death;
Against the persecutors he
his shafts ordained hath.

14 Behold, he with iniquity
doth travail as in birth;
A mischief he conceived hath,
and falsehood shall bring forth.
15 He made a pit, and digg'd it deep,
another there to take:

But he is fall'n into the ditch
which he himself did make.

16 Upon his own head his mischief
shall be returned home;
His vi'lent dealing also down
on his own pate shall come.

17 According to his righteousness,
the Lord I'll magnify:

And will sing praise unto the name
of God, that is most high.

PARALLEL PASSAGES.

Ver. 9-Rev. ii. 23.

Ver. 12-Matt. iii. 10.

Ver. 15-Esth. ix. 25.

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PSALM VIII.

THIS beautiful Psalm maintains that the glory of God is to be seen in the works of creation and providence; and that, therefore, the atheist, and the infidel, and the untutored Gentile, are all without excuse. In verses 3, 4, David admires the condescending love of God to man, and wonders that frail mortality is even remembered amid the stupendous objects of the universe. In verses 5-8, he alludes to the humiliation and exaltation of the Son of God become the son of man, and to our right in him to that lordship which we lost by the fall.

Oh, may we sing the Psalm filled with admiration and joy, and anticipating the day when we shall enter paradise regained-the new heaven and the new earth, which Christ has gone to prepare Our Saviour applies this Psalm to himself, in Matthew

for us. xxi. 16.

[LULWORTH.]

1 How excellent in all the earth, Lord, our Lord, is thy name! Who hast thy glory far advanc'd above the starry frame.

2 From infants' and from sucklings' mouth
thou didest strength ordain,

For thy foes' cause, that so thou might'st
th' avenging foe restrain.

3 When I look up unto the heav'ns,
which thine own fingers fram'd,
Unto the moon, and to the stars,

which were by thee ordain'd;
4 Then say I, What is man, that he
rememb'red is by thee?

Or what the son of man, that thou
so kind to him should'st be?

5 For thou a little lower hast

him than the angels made; With glory and with dignity, thou crowned hast his head.

6 Of thy hand-works thou mad'st him lord, all under's feet didst lay:

7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and beasts that in the field do stray.

8 Fowls of the air, fish of the sea, all that pass through the same. 9 How excellent in all the earth, Lord, our Lord, is thy name!

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1 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

Who hast set thy glory a-bove the heavens.

2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies,

That thou mightest still the enemy and the

a-venger.

3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,

The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

4 What is man, that thou art mind-ful of him?

And the son of man, that thou visit-est him?

5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels,

And hast crowned him with glory and honour. 6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands;

Thou hast put all things under his feet:

7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, anp whatsoever passeth through the paths of the

seas.

9 O LORD our Lord,

How excellent is thy name in all the earth!

PSALM IX.

DAVID lifts up this expressive anthem of praise to God, and blesses him for the aids which he had experienced in wrestling with natural and with spiritual enemies. In verses 5 to 10, he declares that all his fellow members of the body of Christ shall obtain similar support and deliverance. In verses 11, 12, he calls upon the nations of believers to unite with him in praising the Lord. In verses 13, 14, he implores for himself the pity and the interposition of his heavenly Father. In the remaining part of the Psalm he triumphs in the prospect of the establishment of the kingdom of Christ on the ruins of all his enemies, and adds his prayer to this effect.

Let us sing this Psalm, rejoicing in the general overtures of deliverance made in Jesus, and praying that we ourselves may be personally delivered from the guilt and the power of sin.

[FRENCH.]

1 LORD, thee I'll praise with all my heart, thy wonders all proclaim.

2 In thee, most High, I'll greatly joy, and sing unto thy name.

3 When back my foes were turn'd, they fell, and perish'd at thy sight;

4 For thou maintain'dst my right and cause, on throne sat'st, judging right.

5 The heathen thou rebuked hast,

the wicked overthrown;

Thou hast put out their names, that they
may never more be known.

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