nation neither chasten me in Thy dis-i.e., chasten me only pleasure. in love [K.] 2 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am weak O LORD, heal : are vexed. me, for my bones 3 My soul also is sore troubled : but, LORD, how long wilt Thou punish me? 4 Turn Thee, O LORD, and deliver my soul: O save me for Thy mercy's sake. 5 For in death no man remembereth Thee: and who will give Thee thanks in the pit? 6 I am weary of night wash I my bed with my tears. : my groaning; every 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 shall be confounded, and sore vexed: they shall be turned back, and put to shame suddenly. PSALM 7. Domine, Deus meus. [A Psalm which David "sang unto the Lord concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite." Cush was probably one of Saul's followers, and the occasion of the Psalm that described in 1 Sam. xxiv., xxvi., when David twice spared Saul's life.] O LORD my God, in Thee have I put my trust save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me; 2 Lest he devour my soul, like a lion, and tear it in pieces while there is none to help. 3 O LORD my God, if I have done any such thing: or if there be any wickedness in my hands; 4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that dealt friendly with me : yea, I have delivered him that without any cause is mine enemy; 5 Then let mine enemy persecute my soul, 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 Thyself, because of the indignation of mine enemies : arise up for me in the judgment that Thou hast commanded. 7 And so shall the congregation of the people come about Thee for their sakes therefore lift up Thyself again. 8 The LORD shall judge the people; give sentence 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 just. 10 For the righteous God: trieth the very hearts and reins. 11 My help cometh of God: Who serveth them that are true of heart. 8. Innocency; Heb. the word frequently wholeness, integrity; used by Job. In the plural number it is thummim, truth. 10. Reins. Prob pre-ably spoken of as the most central part of spring impulses and the body, from whence 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 sword: He hath bent His bow, and made it ready. 14 He hath prepared for him the instruments of death: He ordaineth His arrows against the persecutors. 15 Behold, he travaileth with mischief: he hath conceived sorrow, and brought forth ungodliness. 16 He hath graven and digged up a pit : and is fallen himself into the destruction that he made for other. affections. 17 For his travail shall come upon his own head and his wickedness shall 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. PSALM 8. Domine, Dominus noster. [A Psalm of David, most probably composed when he was a shepherd in the pasture-lands of Bethlehem. It is addressed to JEHOVAH the Creator, and to MESSIAH the Saviour, glorifying their condescension to frail man.] O LORD our Governour, how excellent is Thy Name in all the world: Thou that hast set Thy glory above the heavens ! 2 Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklings hast Thou ordained strength, because of Thine enemies : that Thou mightest still the enemy, and the avenger. 3 For I will consider Thy heavens, even the works of Thy fingers : the moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained. 4 What is man, that Thou art mindful of him and the son of man, that Thou visitest him? : 5 Thou madest him lower than the angels: to crown him with glory and worship. 6 Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of Thy hands and Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet; : 7 All sheep and oxen; yea, and the beasts of the field; 8 The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas. 17. Travail-i.e., the trouble which he has taken to hurt others. Pate; lit. the top, crown of, the head. The word pate seems to signify the skull. Ascension Day. The first Psalm at Morning Prayer, followed by Ps. 15. To be sung on Gittith. This was a kind of musical instrument used by the people of Gath; hence its name. 1. Governour-i.e., Sovereign, Lord, A donai. O LORD our Lord. this verse, S. Matt. 2. Our Saviour cites xxi. 16. So also the collect for Innocents' Day appropriately embodies these words. Avenger-i.e., the revengeful person. 3. Thy fingers — i.e., Thy power. "If I by the finger of God [S. Matt. the power of God] cast out devils," S. Luke xi. 20. 4. Man; Heb. man in his weakness—frail man. Visitest―i.e., watchest over. 5. Than the angels; Heb. "than God." The man Christ Jeience, was sus, through obed"crowned with glory and honour," Heb. ii. 7. 6. S. Paul extends this from an earthly to an universal dominion, 1 Cor. xv. 27. This supremacy, conferred on man by God at the creation, and lost by him through sin, was regained by the second Adam, Jesus Christ. 9 O LORD our Governour: how excellent is Thy Name in all the world! Morning Prayer. PSALM 9. Confitebor tibi. [A Psalm of David, commemorating a victory.] I 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 songs will I make of Thy Name, O Thou most Highest. 3 While mine enemies are driven back : they shall fall and perish at Thy presence. 4 For Thou hast maintained my right and my cause Thou art set in the throne That judgest right. 5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, and destroyed the ungodly: Thou hast put out their name for ever and ever. 60 thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end even as the cities which Thou hast destroyed; their memorial is perished with them. 7 But the LORD shall endure for ever: He hath also prepared His seat for judg ment. 8 For He shall judge the world in righteousness and minister true judgment unto the people. 9 The LORD also will be a defence for the oppressed even a refuge in due time of trouble. 10 And they that know Thy Name will put their trust in Thee : for Thou, LORD, hast never failed them that seek Thee. : DAY 2. To be sung upon Muthlabben. This is conjectured to be the name of a melody: "The death of the son;" to which music this Psalm was to be sung. 3. "As soon then as he had said unto went backward, and them, I am HE, they fell to the ground," S. John xviii. 6. 4. Heb. Thou art seated on a throne, judging righteously. 6. The translation and meaning are suggested to be thus: "The enemy - they are extinct, in ruins for ever; their cities memory is perished." are destroyed; their God alone remains triumphant. 9. A refuge; such as the mountain fortresses in Palestine. 11 O praise the LORD which dwelleth in Sion shew the people of His doings. : 12 For, when He maketh inquisition for blood, He remembereth them: and forgetteth not the complaint of the poor. 13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider the trouble which I suffer of them that hate me Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death. 14 That I may shew all Thy praises within the ports of the daughter of Sion: I will rejoice in Thy salvation. 15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made in the same 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 shall not perish for ever. 19. Man ; Heb. 19 Up, LORD, and let not man have the upper hand let the heathen be judged in frail man. Thy sight. : 20 Put them in fear, O LORD : that the heathen may know themselves to be but men. PSALM 10. Ut quid, Domine? [The circumstances under which this Psalm was composed are uncertain; in the Septuagint and Vulgate it is joined to Ps. 9.] : WHY standest Thou so far off, O LORD and hidest Thy face in the needful time of trouble? 2 The ungodly for his own lust doth persecute the poor : let them be taken in the crafty wiliness that they have imagined. 3 For the ungodly hath made boast of 20. Men; again frail men, as in Ps. viii. 4. 3. And speaketh |