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 feat for judgment.

8 For he shall judge the world in righteousness, and minifter 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 feek thee.

11 O praise the Lord which dwelleth in Sion: shew the people of his doings.

12 For when he maketh in quisition for blood, he remembereth them, and forgetteth not the complaint of the poor. 13 Have mercy upon me, O Lord; confider the trouble which I fuffer of them that hate me, that thou lifteft 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 falvation.

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 Up, Lord, and let not man have the upper hand: let the heathen be judged in thy fight.

20 Put them in fear, O Lord; that the heathen may know themselves to be but men. PSALM 10.

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HY standest thou fo O Lord, and hideft thy face in the needful time of trouble?

2 The ungodly for his own luft doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the crafty wiliness that they have imagined.

3 For the ungodlyhath made boast of his own heart's defire: and speaketh good of the covetous whom God abhorreth.

4 The ungodly is fo proud, that he careth not for God: neither is God in all his thoughts.

5 His ways are alway grievous: thy judgments are far above out of his fight, andthere6 For he hath said in his heart, Tush, I shall never be cast down: there shall no harm happen unto me.

7 His mouth is full of cur. fing, deceit, and fraud: under his tongue is ungodliness and vanity.

8 He fitteth lurking in the thievish corners of the streets; and privily in his lurking dens doth he murder the innocent; his eyes are fet against the poor.

9 For he lieth waiting fecretly, even as a lion lurketh he in his den, that he may ra vish the poor.

10 He doth ravish the poor, when he getteth them into his

net.

He falleth down, and humbleth himself, that the congregation of the poor may fall into the hands of his captains. 12 He hath faid in his heart, Tush, God hath forgotten: he hideth away his face, and he will never fee it.

15 Arife, O Lord God, and lift up thine hand: forget not the poor.

14 Wherefore should the wicked blafpheme God: while he doth say in his heart, Tush, thou God carest not for it.

15 Surely thou hast seen it : for thou beholdest ungodliness and wrong.

16 That thou mayeft take the matter into thy hand: the

poor committeth himself unto thee; for thou art the helper of the friendless.

17 Break thou the power of the ungodly and malicious: take away his ungodliness, and thou shalt find none.

18 The Lord is King for ever and ever: and the heathen are perished out of the land.

19 Lord, thou haft heard the desire of the poor: thou prepareft their heart, and thine ear hearkeneth thereto.

20 To help the fatherless and poor unto their right: that the man of the earth be no more exalted against them.

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PSALM и.

N the Lord put I my truft: how say ye then to my foul, that she should flee as a bird unto the hill?

2 Forlo, the ungodly bend their bow, and make ready their arrows within the quiver, that they may privily shoot at them which are true of heart.

3 For the foundations will be cast down; and what hath the righteous done?

4 The Lord is in his holy temple: the Lord's feat is in heaven.

5 His eyes consider the poor; and his eye-lids try the children of men.

6 The Lord alloweth the righteous but the ungodly, B 4 and and him that delighteth in wickedness doth his foul abhor.

7 Upon the ungodly he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, storm and tempest: this shall be their portion to drink.

8 For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness: his countenance will behold the thing that is just.

PSALM 12.

is not one godly man left: for the faithful are mi nished from among the chil dren of men.

2 They talk of vanity every one with his neighbour: they do but flatter with their lips, and dissemble in their double heart.

3 The Lord shall root out all deceitful lips, and the tongue that freaketh proud things.

4 Which have faid, With our tongue will we prevail: we are they that ought to speak, who is Lord over us?

5 Now for the comfortless troubles fake of the needy, and because of the deep fighing of the poor;

6 I will up, faith the Lord, and will help every one from him that swelleth against him, and will fet him at rest.

7 The words of the Lord are pure words; even as the filver, which from the earth is tried, and purified seven times in the fire.

8 Thou shalt keep them, O Lord; thou shalt preserve him from this generation for ever.

9 The ungodly walk on every fide: when they are exalted, the children of men are put to rebuke.

PSALM 13.

OW long wilt thou forget me, O Lord, for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

2 How long shall i feek counsel in my soul, and be fo vexed in my heart? how long shall mine enemies triumph over me?

3 Confider and hear me, O Lord my God; lighten mine eyes, that I fleep not in death:

4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him: for if I be cast down, they that trouble me will rejoice at it.

5 But my trust is in thy mercy; and my heart is joyful in thy falvation.

61 will fing of the Lord, because he hath dealt so lovingly with me: yea, I will praise the Name of the Lord most Highest.

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PSALM 14. HE fool hath said in his heart; There is no God.

3 The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that would understand, and seek after God.

4 But they are all gone out of the way, they are altogether be

come abominable: there is none that doth good, no not one.

5 Their throat is an open sepulchre, with their tongues have they deceived: the poison of afps is under their lips.

6 Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: their

feet are swift to shed blood.

7 Destruction and unhappiness is in their ways, and the way of peace have they not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes.

8 Have they no knowledge, that they are all fuch workers of mischief: eating up my people as it were bread, and call not upon the Lord?

9 There were they brought in great fear, even where no fear was: for God is in the generation of the righteous.

PSALM 15.

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Ord, who shall dwell in L thy tabernacle? or who shall rest upon thy holy hill?

2 Even he that leadeth an uncorrupt life, and doth the thing which isright, and speak

eth the truth from his heart.

3 He that hath used no deceit in his tongue, nor done evil to his neighbour; and hath not slandered his neighbour.

4 He that fetteth not by himself, but is lowly in his own eyes; and maketh much

of them that fear the Lord.

5 He that sweareth untohis neighbour, and disappointeth him not, though it were to his own hinderance.

6 He that hath not given his money upon ufury, nor taken reward against the innocent. 7 Whoso doeth these things, shall never fall.

3 All my delight is upon the faints that are in the earth, and upon such as excel in virtue.

4 But they that run after another god, shall have great trouble.

5 Their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer; neither make mention of their names within my lips.

6 The Lord himself is the portion of mine inheritance, and of my cup: thou shalt maintain my lot

7 The lot is fallen unto me in a fair ground: yea, I have a goodly heritage.

81 will thank the Lord for giving me warning: my reins also chaften me in the nightseason.

9 I have set God always before me: for he is on my right hand, therefore I shall not fall.

10 Wherefore my heart was glad, and my glory rejoiced; my flesh also shall rest in hope. 11 For why? thou shalt not leave my foul in hell; neither shalt thou suffer thy holy One to see corruption.

12 Thou shalt shew me the path of life; in thy prefence is the fulness of joy; and at thy right hand there is pleafure for evermore.

PSALM 17. Ear the right, O Lord, consider my complaint,

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that goeth not out of feigned lips.

2 Let my sentence come forth from thy prefence; and let thine eyes look upon the thing that is equal.

3 Thou hast proved and visited mine heart in the nightseason; thou hast tried me, and shalt find no wickedness in me: for I am utterly purposed that my mouth shall not offend.

4 Because of men's works that are done against the words of thy lips, I have kept me from the ways of the deftroyer.

5 O hold thou up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps Aip not.

6 I have called upon thee, O God, for thou shalt hear me : incline thine ear to me, and hearken unto my words.

7 Shew thy marvellous loving kindness, thou that art the Saviour of them which put their trust in thee, from fuch as resist thy right hand.

8 Keep me as the apple of an eye: hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

9 From the ungodly that trouble me. Mine enemies compass me round about to take away my foul.

10 They are inclosed in their own fat; and their mouth speaketh proud things.