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Thou preparest their corn, for so Thou pro- God; generally unIvidest for the earth.

11 Thou waterest her furrows, Thou sendest rain into the little valleys thereof Thou makest it soft with the drops of rain, and blessest the increase of it.

12 Thou crownest the year with Thy goodness and Thy clouds drop fatness.

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13 They shall drop upon the dwellings of the wilderness and the little hills shall rejoice on every side.

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14 The folds shall be full of sheep the valleys also shall stand so thick with corn, that they shall laugh and sing.

PSALM 66. Jubilate Deo.

[A Psalm of thanksgiving for the noble works of God in ancient days. The date of the composition is uncertain.]

O BE joyful in God, all ye lands: sing praises unto the honour of His Name, make His praise to be glorious.

2 Say unto God, O how wonderful art Thou in Thy works through the greatness of Thy power shall Thine enemies be found liars unto Thee.

3 For all the world shall worship Thee: sing of Thee, and praise Thy Name.

4 O come hither, and behold the works of God how wonderful He is in His doing toward the children of men.

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5 He turned the sea into dry land so that they went through the water on foot; there did we rejoice thereof.

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6 He ruleth with His power for ever; His eyes behold the people and such as will not believe shall not be able to exalt themselves.

derstood to mean rain -the "atmospheric reservoir."

12. Clouds; Heb. tracks in which wheels revolve: hence paths.

13. Dwellings-i.e., of flocks, their pastures.

14. Folds-i.e., the pasture of lambs, meadows, as in Ps. xxxvii. 20, there translated the fat of lambs. They shall laugh, &c.—i.e., shall cause the reapers and owners laugh and sing.

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7 O praise our God, ye people and make the voice of His praise to be heard;

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8 Who holdeth our soul in life and suffereth not our feet to slip.

9 For Thou, O God, hast proved us : Thou also hast tried us, like as silver is tried. 10 Thou broughtest us into the snare: and laidest trouble upon our loins.

9. Cf. "I... will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried," &c., Zech. xiii. 9.

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11. 'Thou madest a frail man to ride in state as head over us. A wealthy place; Heb. abundance.

11 Thou sufferest men to ride over our heads we went through fire and water, and Thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place. 12 I will go into Thine house with burnt--KAY. offerings and will pay Thee my vows, which I promised with my lips, and spake with my mouth, when I was in trouble.

13 I will offer unto Thee fat burntsacrifices, with the incense of rams: I will offer bullocks and goats.

14 O come hither, and hearken, all ye that fear God and I will tell you what He hath done for my soul.

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15 I called unto Him with my mouth : and gave Him praises with my tongue.

16 If I incline unto wickedness with mine heart the LORD will not hear me.

17 But God hath heard me and considered the voice of my prayer.

18 Praised be God who hath not cast out my prayer: nor turned His mercy from me.

PSALM 67. Deus misereatur.

[A Psalm of unknown authorship: apparently written at the time of the gathering in of the harvest.] GOD be merciful unto us, and bless us and shew us the light of His countenance, and be merciful unto us;

13. Incense; here, that part of the victim which was commonly burned, fat. Ges. [ SELAH. ]

To be sung on Neginoth.

1. This verse is taken from the high priest's blessing, Num. vi. 24-26

"The LORD bless thee, and keep thee: the LORD make His face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: the LORD lift up His countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

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2 That Thy way may be known upon the earth: Thy saving health nations.

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3 Let the people praise Thee, O God: yea, let all the people praise Thee.

4 O let the nations rejoice and be glad : for Thou shalt judge the folk righteously, and govern the nations upon earth.

5 Let the people praise Thee, O God: let all the people praise Thee.

6 Then shall the earth bring forth her increase and God, even our own God, shall give us His blessing.

2. Saving health; salvation.

4. [SELAH.]

6. "If ye walk in My statutes, and keep My commandments and do them: then I

7 God shall bless us and all the ends will give you rain in of the world shall fear Him.

due season, and the land shall yield her increase," Lev. xxvi. 3, 4.

Morning Prayer.

PSALM 68. Exurgat Deus.

[A Psalm of David, describing the entry of God into
His sanctuary on Zion. He describes the jour-
ney through the wilderness into the promised
land, where God takes up His abode, and
reigns in universal dominion. The Psalm has
manifest reference to the eventual triumph of
Christianity, when "THE KINGDOMS OF THIS

WORLD ARE BECOME THE KINGDOMS OF OUR
LORD AND OF HIS CHRIST AND HE SHALL
REIGN FOR EVER AND EVER."]

LET God arise, and let His enemies be scat-
tered: let them also that hate Him flee
before Him.

2 Like as the smoke vanisheth, so shalt Thou drive them away and like as wax melteth at the fire, so let the ungodly perish at the presence of God.

3 But let the righteous be glad and rejoice before God let them also be merry and joyful.

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DAY 13.

Whitsunday.

The second [and last] Psalm at Morning Prayer. It is used at Pentecost in the Jewish ritual. Pentecost, or the fiftieth day from the Passover, corresponds to the Feast of WEEKS -our Whitsuntide.

1. When the Israel. ites set forward on a journey with the Ark, "Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let Thine enemies be let them that hate Thee scattered, and flee before Thee," Num. x. 35.

4 O sing unto God, and sing praises unto His Name magnify Him that rideth upon the heavens, as it were upon an horse; praise Him in His Name JAH, and rejoice before Him.

5 He is a Father of the fatherless, and defendeth the cause of the widows: even God in His holy habitation.

6 He is the God that maketh men to be of one mind in an house, and bringeth the prisoners out of captivity: but letteth the runagates continue in scarceness.

7 O God, when Thou wentest forth before the people: when Thou wentest through the wilderness,

8 The earth shook, and the heavens dropped at the presence of God: even as Sinai also was moved at the presence of God, who is the God of Israel.

9 Thou, O God, sentest a gracious rain upon Thine inheritance : and refreshedst it when it was weary.

10 Thy congregation shall dwell therein : for Thou, O God, hast of Thy goodness prepared for the poor.

11 The LORD gave the word: great was the company of the preachers.

12 Kings with their armies did flee, and were discomfited: and they of the household divided the spoil.

13 Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove: that is covered with silver wings, and her feathers like gold.

14 When the Almighty scattered kings for their sake: then were they as white as snow in Salmon.

Scarcely two commentators agree about it.

4. Translate the second half, "Make

a way for Him that rideth over the deserts: Jah is His name; and rejoice before Him." Cf. "Make

straight in the desert
an highway for our
God," Isa. xl. 3. Jah
is the shortened form

of Jehovah, as in Hal-
lelujah.
The origin

of the P. B. version
of the passage cannot
be found.

6. Men of one mind; Heb. the solitary,

lonely, wretched ones. These God settles in homes. Runagatesi.e., degenerate persons, who have rebelled. Continue in scarceness-i.e., abide in a dry land; in contrast to the well-wa

tered land of plenty.

[ SELAH. ] 9. Gracious; Heb. eral, copious. spontaneous, so lib

11. Preachers; the women who announce the victory.

12. They of the household; Heb. she who tarried at home. Cf. the mother of

Sisera; here it means the congregation of Israel.

13. Translate, will ye lie among the sheep-folds ?—i..., be

in rest and idleness. The reference to the dove is obscure and variously interpreted.

14. Salmon; a hill of Shechem: the reference here also is obscure.

15 As the hill of Basan, so is God's hill : even an high hill, as the hill of Basan.

16 Why hop ye so, ye high hills? this is God's hill, in the which it pleaseth Him to dwell yea, the LORD will abide in it for

ever.

17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels and the LORD is among them, as in the holy place of Sinai.

18 Thou art gone up on high, Thou hast led captivity captive, and received gifts for men: yea, even for Thine enemies, that the LORD God might dwell among them.

19 Praised be the LORD daily even the God who helpeth us, and poureth His benefits upon us.

20 He is our God, even the God of whom cometh salvation: God is the LORD, by whom we escape death.

21 God shall wound the head of His enemies and the hairy scalp of such a one as goeth on still in his wickedness.

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22 The LORD hath said, I will bring My people again, as I did from Basan: Mine own will I bring again, as I did sometime from the deep of the sea.

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23 That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies and that the tongue of thy dogs may be red through the same. 24 It is well seen, O God, how Thou goest: how Thou, my God and King, goest in the sanctuary.

25 The singers go before, the minstrels follow after in the midst are the damsels playing with the timbrels.

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discomfiture and overthrow of the enemies of God.

24. The Psalm returns to the procession to Zion.

15, 16. The lofty, many - peaked chain of Bashan, reaching to Hermon, is regarded as contemptuously looking down on the lowly hill of Zion.

16. Why hop ye, &c.; translate, why do ye look sullenly, mountains of many peaks?

17. The meaning God who manifested seems to be, that the His glory in Sinai has now taken up His abode in Zion.

18. God in His glorious triumph ascended, led men as for His own, consecaptives, took them crated them, even His enemies, that He might dwell among them. S. Paul quotes this as being fulfilled in JESUS CHRIST.

19. [SELAH.] 21. The hairy scalp points to youth and strength, as seen in Samson and in Absalom.

22. My people is not in the Hebrew. The promise rather refers to the bringing Israel's enemies from the east and west, to deliver them up captive to His people. This thought is most vividly enlarged upon by Amos ix. 1-3.

23. An image signifying the complete

25. In the midst are; rather, "in the midst of maidens." Cf. Miriam and her damsels joining, as a chorus, in Moses' song.-Ex. xv. 20, 21.

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