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3 My soul, also, is sore troubled ;

And thou, O Lord, how long4 Return, O Lord, and deliver me;

O save me according to thy mercy!
5 For in death no praise ascends to thee;
In the grave, who can give thee thanks?
6 I am weary with groaning;

All the night I make my bed to swim,
And drench my couch with my tears.

7 Mine eye is wasted with grief;

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It hath become old because of all my enemies.

Depart from me, all ye that do iniquity;

For Jehovah heareth the voice of my weeping.

9 Jehovah heareth my supplication;

Jehovah accepteth my prayer.

10 All my enemies shall be ashamed, and utterly confounded;

They shall be turned back and put to shame suddenly.

V. 3. How long, i. e. How long wilt thou delay to help me!

PSALM VII.

A psalm of David, which he sang to Jehovah, on account of the reproaches of Cush the Benjamite.

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O JEHOVAH, my God, to thee do I look for help! Save me from them that persecute me, and deliver me! 2 Lest mine enemy tear me like a lion ;

Lest he rend me in pieces, while there is none to help.

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O Jehovah, my God! If I have done this;

If there be iniquity upon my hands,

4 If I have rendered evil to my friend,

Or have despoiled him, that without cause is mine en

emy;

5 Let my adversary pursue, and take me ;

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Let him trample me to the ground,

And lay me prostrate in the dust!

Arise, O Lord, in thine anger;

Lift thyself up against the rage of mine enemies ;
Awake for me! Ordain judgment !

7 Let the assembly of the nations compass thee about, And on their account ascend thy throne !

8 The Lord judgeth the nations;

Judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness,
And requite me according to my integrity!

9 O let the wickedness of the wicked be at an end;
But establish the righteous;

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For thou, O God of justice, triest the heart and the reins !

My shield is with God,

Who saveth the upright in heart.

11 God is a righteous judge;

And God is ever angry with the wicked.

12 If he do not desist, he sharpeneth his sword; He bendeth his bow, and maketh it ready;

13 He prepareth for him the instruments of death; He shooteth his burning arrows.

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Behold, he travailed with iniquity, And conceived mischief,

But hath brought forth disappointment.

VII.]

15 He made a pit and digged it,

And is fallen into the ditch, which he made. 16 His mischief returneth upon his own head,

And his violence descendeth upon his own pate. 17 I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness; I will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high.

V 3. If I have done this, i. e. that with which my enemies charge me. — V. 12. If he do not desist, i. e. If the wicked do not desist from his purpose. He sharpeneth, i. e. God sharpeneth, &c.

PSALM VIII.

The greatness of the Creator, and his goodness to man.

For the leader of the music; to be accompanied with the gittith.* A psalm of David.

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O JEHOVAH, Our Lord,

How excellent is thy name in all the earth!

Thou hast set thy glory above the heavens !

2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou

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ordained praise;

To put thine adversaries to shame,

And to silence the enemy and avenger.

When I consider thy heavens, the work 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 carest for him!

5 Yet thou hast made him little lower than the angels ; Thou hast crowned him with glory and honor.

6 Thou hast given him dominion over the works of thy hands;

Thou hast put all things under his feet;

7 All sheep and oxen,

Yea, and the beasts of the forest;

8 The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea, And whatever passeth through the paths of the deep. 9 O Jehovah, our Lord,

How excellent is thy name in all the earth!

*A musical instrument.

V. 5. The angels: or, than God.

PSALM IX.

A thanksgiving ode for victory and deliverance from enemies; with prayers for future help. Supposed to have been composed after the wars mentioned in 2 Samuel, ch. viii.

For the leader of the music. with the voice of virgins. David.

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To be sung in the manner, or

To the Benites. A psalm of

I WILL praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will show forth all thy marvellous works.

2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee;

I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High! 3 All my enemies are turned back;

They fall and perish at thy presence.

4 For thou dost defend my right, and my cause; Thou sittest upon the throne, a righteous judge.

5 Thou rebukest the nations;

Thou destroyest the wicked;

Thou blottest out their name for evermore !
6 The destruction of the enemy is complete;
Thou, O Jehovah, hast destroyed their cities!
Their memory is perished with them,

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Jehovah reigneth for ever;

He hath prepared his throne for judgment.

8 He judgeth the world in righteousness;

He administereth judgment to the nations with uprightness.

9 Jehovah is also the refuge of the oppressed;

A refuge in times of trouble.

10 They, who know thy name, put their trust in thee; For thou, O Lord, forsakest not them that seek thee!

11 Sing praises to Jehovah, who reigneth in Zion ; Declare his doings among the people.

12 As the avenger of blood, he remembereth the distressed;

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He forgetteth not their complaint.

"Have pity upon me, [said I,] O Lord!

"Look upon my affliction from them that hate me ; "Lift me up from the gates of death!

14 "That I may show forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion;

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"That I may rejoice in salvation by thee."

The nations have sunk into the pit which they made; In the net, which they hid, is their own foot taken. 16 Thus it is known that Jehovah executeth judgment; The wicked are ensnared in the work of their

own hands.

17 The wicked shall be driven into Hades;

Yea, all the nations that forget God.

18 For the poor shall not always be forgotten;

The hopes of the afflicted shall not perish for ever.

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