passion, and gracious, long suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

16. O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.

17. Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, Lord, hast holpen me, and comforted me.

PSALM LXXXVII. 61.
Eulogium on the city and mountain of Zion.

A Psalm or Song for the sons of Korah.

A Psalm or Song for the sons of mourning.

1-3 Chorus of priests. 4 King. End of 4 Chorus. 5, 6 Highpriest. 7 Chorus.

1. His foundation is in the holy mountains. 2. The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

3. Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.

4. I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia;

This man was born there.

5. And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.

6. The Lord shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.

7. As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.

PSALM LXXXVIII. 17.

Psalm composed by David in the cave of Adullam, in the tribe of Judah, whither he had withdrawn himself in solitude, as in a sepulchre, from the pursuit of the Philistines. 1 Sam. xxii. 1.

A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. A song or Psalm for the sons of mourning. To the giver of victory. Concerning the profane for grievous afflictions. An instruction for times of tumult, for my dispersed ones.

1. O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:

2. Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;

3. For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

4. I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

5. Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

6. Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

7. Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves.

Selah.

8. Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

9. Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

10. Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead: shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah. 11. Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?

12. Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

13. But unto thee have I cried, O Lord; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.

14. Lord, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?

15. I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

16. Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

17. They come round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.

18. Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.

Psalm composed by David, at Mahanaim, when Absalom and all the hosts of Israel, having crossed Jordan, were in pursuit of him to attack and destroy him. 2 Sam. xvii. 24–26.

N. B. It is to be remembered that in these prefaratory titles we only aim to mark the literal occasion on which David composed his psalms; and not what is in truth the principal view presented to him by the Holy Spirit. That is, the Messiah, to whom many of the psalms seem to belong in their natural sense, which can only be figuratively understood of David. Thus David could not, in the literal sense, complain of his hands and feet being pierced, and of having actually drank gall and vinegar; of his enemies falling back to the ground and stumbled and fell, when they came to apprehend him, which is literally true of our Lord.

Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.

Instruction to strengthen my dispersed.

1. I WILL sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.

2. For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.

3. I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,

4. Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.

5. And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Lord thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.

6. For who in the heaven can be compared unto the Lord? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Lord?

7. God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.

8. O Lord God of hosts, who is a strong Lord like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?

9. Thou rulest the raging of the sea when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.

10. Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one