their lips, and shake their bones: they stand staring and heads, saying, 8 He trusted in God, that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, if he will have him. 9 But thou art he that took me out of my mother's womb: thou wast my hope when Ihanged yet upon my mother's breafts. Jo I have been left unto thee ever since I was born: thou art my God even from my mother's womb. 11 O go not from me, for trouble is hard at hand: and there is none to help me. 12 Many oxen are come about me: fat bulls of Bafan close me in on every fide. 13 They gape upon me with their mouths, as it were a ramping, and a roaring lion. 14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart also in the midst of my body is even like melting wax. 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my gums; and thou shalt bring me into the dust of death. 16 For many dogs are come about me; and the council of the wicked layeth siege against me. looking upon me. 18 They part my garments among them, and caft lots upon my vesture. 19 But be not thou far from me, O Lord: thou art my fuc cour, hafte thee to help me. 20 Deliver my foul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. 21 Save me from the lion's mouth: thou hast heard me also from among the horns of the unicorns. 22 I will declare thy Name unto my brethren: in the midft of the congregation will I praise thee. 23 O praise the Lord, ye that fear him: magnify him, all ye of the feed of Jacob, and fear him, all ye feed of Ifrael. 24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the low eftate of the poor: he hath not hid his face from him, but when he called unto him, he heard him, 25 My praise is of thee in the great congregation: my vows will I perform in the fight of them that fear him. 26 The poor shall eat, and be fatisfied: they that feek after the Lord shall praise him; your heart shall live for ever. 27 All the ends of the world shall remember themselves, 17 They pierced my hands and be turned unto the Lord: and my feet, I may tell all my | and all the kindreds of the in number than the hairs of 3 The Lord comfort him my head, and my heart hath when he lieth sick upon his failed me. bed; make thou all his bed in his fickness. na 16 O Lord, let it be thy pleasure to deliver me; make haste, O Lord, to help me. 17 Let them be ashamed, and confounded together, that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward, and put to rebuke, that wish me evil. 18 Let them be desolate, and rewarded with shame, that say unto me, Fie upon thee, fie upon thee. 19 Let all those that seek thee be joyful, and glad in thee; and let such as love thy salvation say alway, The Lord be praised. 20 As for me, I am poor and needy; but the Lord careth for me. 21 Thou art my helper, and redeemer; make no long tarrying, O my God. 4 I faid, Lord, be merciful unto me; heal my foul, for I have finned against thee. 5 Mine enemies speak evil of me; When shall he die, and his name perish ? 6 And if he come to fee me, he speaketh vanity, and his heart conceiveth falfhood within himself, and when he cometh forth he telleth it. 7 All mine enemies whisper together against me; even against me do they imagine this evil. 8 Let the fentence of guiltiness proceed against him, and now that he lieth, let him rife up no more. 9 Yea, even mine own familiar friend, whom I trusted, who did also eat of my bread, hath laid great wait for me. 10 But be thou merciful unto me, O Lord; raise thou me up again, and I shall reward them. 11 By this I know thou favourest me, that mine enemy doth not triumph against me. 12. And when I am in my health, thou upholdest me, and shalt fet me before thy face for ever. 13 Blessed be the Lord God of Ifrael; world without end. Amen. L Ike as the hart defireth the water brooks, fo longeth my foul after thee, O God. 2 My foul is athirst for God, yea, even for the living God; when thall I come to appear before the prefence of God? 3 My tears have been my meat day and night; while they daily fay unto me, Where is now thy God? 4 Now when I think thereupon, I pour out my heart by myself; for I went with the multitude, and brought them forth into the house of God; 5 In the voice of praise and thanksgiving; among fuch as keep holy-day. 6 Why art thou so full of heaviness, O my foul, and why art thou so disquieted within me ? 7 Put thy trust in God; for I will yet give him thanks for the help of his countenance. 8 My God, my foul is vexed within me; therefore will I remember thee concerning the land of Jordan, and the little hill of Hermon. 9 One deep calleth another, because of the noise of the water-pipes; all thy waves and storms are gone over me. 10 The Lord hath granted his loving-kindness in the daytime, and in the night-season did I fing of him, and made my prayer unto the God of my life. 11 I will say unto the God of my strength, Why haft thou forgotten me; why go I thus heavily, while the enemy oppresseth me? 12 My bones are smitten afunder as with a sword; while mine enemies that trouble me caft me in the teeth; 13 Namely, while they say daily unto me, Where is now thy God? 14 Why art thou so vexed, O my foul, and why art thou so disquieted within me? 15 O put thy trust in God; for I will yet thank him, which is the help of my countenance, and my God. G PSALM 43. Ive fentence with me, O God, and defend my cause against the ungodly people; O deliver me from the deceitful and wicked man. 2 For thou art the God of my strength, why haft thou put me from thee, and why go I fo heavily, while the enemy oppreffeth me? 3 O fend out thy light and thy truth, that they may lead me, and bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy dwelling. 4 And that I may go unto the altar of God, even unto the God of my joy and gladness; and upon the harp will I give thanks unto thee, O God, ❘ us from our enemies, and puttest them to confusion that hate `us. my God. 5 Why art thou so heavy, O my foul, and why art thou so disquieted within me? 6 O put thy trust in God; for I will yet give him thanks, which is the help of my countenance, and my God. W PSALM 44. E have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what thou hast done in their time of old. 2 How thou hast driven out the heathen with thy hand, and planted them in; how thou haft destroyed the nations, and caft them out. 3 For they got not the land in poffeffion through their own fword, neither was it their own arm that helped them; 4 But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance; because thou hadst a favour unto them. 5 Thou art my King, O God; fend help unto Jacob. 6 Through thee will we overthrow our enemies, and in thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. 7 For I will not trust in my | bow; it is not my fword that shall help me. 8 But it is thou that savest 9 We make our boast of God all day long, and will praise thy Name for ever. 10 But now thou art far off, and puttest us to confusion, and goeft not forth with our armies. 1 II Thou makest us to turn our backs upon our enemies; so that they which hate us, fpoil our goods. 12 Thou lettest us be eaten up like sheep, and haft fcattered us among the heathen. 13 Thou fellest thy people for nought, and takest no money for them. 14 Thou makest us to be rebuked of our neighbours, to be laughed to scorn, and had in derision of them that are round about us. 15 Thou makest us to be a by-word among the heathen, and that the people shake their heads at us. 16 My confufion is daily before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me; 17 For the voice of the slanderer and blafphemer, for the enemy and avenger. 18 And though all this be come upon us, yet do we not forget thee, nor behave ourselves frowardly in thy covenant. D2 19 Our : 19 Our heart is not turred back; neither our fteps gone out of thy way; 20 No, not when thou hast fmitten us into the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. 21 If we have forgotten the Name of our God, and holden up our hands to any strange god, shall not God search it out? for he knoweth the very fecrets of the heart. 22 For thy fake also are we killed all the day long, and are counted as fsheep appoint ed to be flain. 23 Up, Lord, why sleepest thou? awake, and be not abfent from us for ever. 24 Wherefore hideft thou thy face, and forgettest our mifery and trouble? 25 For our foul is brought low, even unto the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the ground. 29 Arife, and help us, and deliver us for thy mercies fake. Y heart is inditing of a of the things which I have made unto the King. 2 My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.. 3 Thou art fairer than the children of men; full of grace are thy lips, because God hath bleffed thee for ever, 4 Gird thee with thy sword upon thy thigh, O thou most mighty; according to thy worship and renown. 5 Good luck have thou with thine honour; ride on, because of the word of truth, of meekness, and righteousness, and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. 6 Thy arrows are very sharp, and the people shall be fubdued unto thee; even in the midst among the king's enemies. 7 Thy feat, O God, endureth for ever; the scepter of thy kingdom is a right scepter. 8 Thou hast loved righte ousness, and hated iniquity; wherefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. 9 All thy garments smell of myrrh, aloes, and caffia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad. 10 Kings daughters were among thy honourable women; upon thy right hand did stand the queen in a vesture of gold, wrought about with divers rough 11 Hearken, O daughter, and confider, incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house. 12 So shall the King have pleasure in thy beauty; for he is thy Lord God, and worship thou him. 13 And |