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THE COMMON PRAYER, &c.

6 Let not them that truft in thee, O Lord God of hosts, be afhaned for my caufe: let not thofe that feek thee, be confounded through me, O Lord God of Ifrael.

7 And why? for thy fake have I fuffered reproof: fhame hath covered my face.

8 I am bec me a ftranger unto my brethren: even an alien unto my mothers children.

9 For the zeal of thine houfe hath even eaten me: and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee, are fallen upon me. 10 I wept and chaftened myself with fafting: and that was turned to my reproof.

11 I put on fackcloth alfo: and they jefted upon me.

12 They that fit in the gate fpeak against me: and the drunkards make fongs upon me.

13 But, Lord, I make my prayer unto thee; in an acceptable time.

14 Hear me, O God, in the multitude of thy mercy : even in the truth of thy falvation,

15 Take me out of the mire, that I fink not: O let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep

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16 Let not the water-flood drown me, neither let the deep fwallow me up and let not the pit fhut her mouth

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17 Hear me, O Lord, for thy loving kindness is com, fortable: turn thee unto me, according to the multitude of thy mercies.

18 And hide not thy face from thy fervant, for I am in trouble hafte thee, and hear me."

19 Draw nigh onto my foul, and fave it: O deliver me, becaufe of mine enemies.

20 Thou hafte known my reproof, my shame, and my dishonour; mine adverfares are all in thy fight.

21 Thy rebuke hath broken my heart, I am full of heavinefs I looked for fome to have pity on me, but there was no man, neither found I any to comfort me.

22 They gave me gall to eat; and when I was thirsty, they gave me vinegar to drink.

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Let their table be made a fnare to take themselves and let the things that fhould have been for their wealth, be unto them an occafion of falling.

24 Let their eyes be blinded, that they fee not: and ever bow thou down their backs.

25 Pour out thine indignation upon them: and let thy wrathful difpleasure take hold of them.

26 Let their habitation be void and no man to dwell in their tents.

27 For they perfecute him whom thou haft fmitten: and they talk how they may vex them whom thou haft wounded. 28 Let them fall from one wickedness to another; and not come into thy righteoufness.

29 Let them be wiped out of the book of the living: and not be written among the righteous.

30 As for me, when I am poor and in heaviness: thy help, O God, fhall lift me up.

31 I will praise the Name of God with a fong: and magnify it with thanksgiving.

32 This alfo fhall please the Lord: better than a bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

33 The humble fhall confider this, and be glad: feek ye after God, and your foul fhall live.

34 For the Lord heareth the poor; and despiseth not his prisoners.

35 Let heaven and earth praise him: the fea and all that moveth therein.

36 For God will fave Sion, and build the cities of Judah: that men may dwell there, and have it in poffeffion.

37 The pofterity alfo of his fervants fhall inherit it; and they that love his Name fhall dwell therein.

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Pfalm Ixix.] David seems here in a very great affliction, and in a con dition almoft paft remedy. But the prayers and thanksgivings which he joins to his complaints, hew, that the faithful in the midft of their greateft diftrefs ftill hope in God; that they call upon him for aid and affiftance with fervency, humility, and confidence; and that, not only after, but even before he delivers them, they praise him, and give him thanks for the help they expect to receive from his goodness. If David PRAC

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THE COMMON PRAYER, &c.

Pfalm lxx. Deus, in adjutorium.

ASTE thee, O God, to deliver me: make hafte to help me, O Lord.

2 Let them be afhamed and confounded, that seek after my foul: let them be turned backward and put to confufion, that wish me evil.

3 Let them for their reward be foon brought to fhame: that cry over me, There, there.

4 But let all thofe that feek thee, be joyful and glad in thee: and let all fuch as delight in thy falvation, fay alway, The Lord be praised.

5 As for me, I am poor, and in mifery: hafte thee unto me, O God.

6 Thou art my helper and my redeemer: O Lord, make no long tarrying.

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Pfalm. lxxi. In te, Domine, fperavi.

N thee, O Lord, have I put my truft, let me never be put to contufion: but rid me, and deliver me in thy righ teousness incline thine ear unto me, and fave me.

PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS. expreffes himself as if he feemed to defire the punishment of his enemies, we must confider, that they are not properly imprecations against them; they are rather predictions than wishes; and therefore what he fays will by no means juftify us in wishing evil to any perfon whatsoever, or to intercede with God to take vengeance on those who injure us. Laftly, We are to obferve, that David speaks in this pfalm as a type of Jefr Chrift: here we see our Lord's zeal for the glory of God; the contempt to which he was expofed; the gall and vinegar that was offered to him on the cross; the fatal end of Judas; and the obstinacy and rejection of the Jews. This appears from the application which the apoftles make in the New Teftament of feveral paffages of this pfalm.

Pfalm Ixx.] This pfalm teaches us, that God comes to the help of fuch as are unjustly perfecuted; that the expectation of the righteous in their afflictions is never vain; and that the deliverances he vouchfafe them, gives them and all good men reafon to rejoice, and celebrate h goodnels.

2 Be thou my ftrong hold, whereunto I may alway refort: thou haft promised to help me, for thou art my house Aof defence, and my caftle.

3 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the ungodly out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. 4 For thou, O Lord God, art the thing that I long for: thou art my hope, even from my youth.

5 Through thee have I been holden up ever fince I was born: thou art he that took me out of my mother's womb: my praise fhall be always of thee.

6 I am become as it were a monfter unto many: but my fure truft is in thee.

7 O let my mouth be filled with thy praife: that I may fing of thy glory and honour all the day long.

8 Caft me not away in the time of age: forfake me not when my strength faileth me.

9 For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my foul, take their counsel together, faying: God hath forfaken him; perfecute him, and take him; for there is none to deliver him.

10 Go not far from me, O God: my God hafte thee to help me.

in Let them be confounded and perifh that are against my foul let them be covered with fhame and dishonour that feek to do me evil.

12 As for me, I will patiently abide alway: and will praise thee more and more.

13 My mouth fhall daily speak of thy righteoufnefs and falvation for I know no end thereof.

14 I will go forth in the ftrength of the Lord God: and will make mention of thy righteoufnefs only.

15 Thou, O God, haft taught me from my youth up until now therefore will I tell of thy wondrous works.

16 Forfake me not, O God, in mine old age, when I am grey headed until I have fhewed thy ftrength unto this generation, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come.

17 Thy righteoufnefs, O God, is very high and great things are they that thou haft done; O God, who is like unto thee?

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18 O what great troubles and adversities haft thou fhew. ed me! and yet didst thou turn and refreth me: yea, and broughteft me from the deep of the earth again.

19 Thou haft brought me to great honour and comforted me on every fide.

20 Therefore will I praife thee, and thy faithfulness, O God, playing upon an inftrument of mufic: unto thee will I fing upon the harp, O thou Holy One of Ifrael.

21 My lips will be fain when I fing unto thee: and fo will my foul whom thou haft delivered.

22 My tongue alfo fhall talk of thy righteousness all the day long for they are confounded and brought unto shame, that feek to do me evil.

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IVE the king thy judgments, O God and thy righteoufness unto the king's fon.

2 Then fhall he judge thy people according unto right: and defend the poor.

3 The mountains alfo fhall bring peace: and the little hills righteoufnefs unto the people.

4 He fhall keep the fimple folks by their right: defend the children of the poor, and punish the wrong-doer.

5 They fhall fear thee as long as the fun and moon endureth from one generation to another.

6 He shall come down like the rain into a fleece of wooll: even as the drops that water the earth.

7 In his time fhall the righteous flourish: yea, and abun dance of peace, fo long as the moon endureth.

8 His dominion fhall be alfo from the one fea to the other and from the flood unto the world's end.

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Pfalm lxxi.] As David, for his comfort and encouragement to praife God, called to mind the favours he had received from him in time paft; fo should we preferve the remembrance of the mercies God has vouch fafed us from our youth, and through the whole courfe of our lives. In this meditation, we meet with occafions of joy and gratitude, and motives of comfort and confidence for the time to come; which is more efpecially the duty of those persons who, like David, are in an advanced age.

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