10 Who will lead me into the ftrong city: and who will bring me into Edom?

11 Haft not thou forfaken us, O God: and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hofts?

12 O help us against the enemy: for vain is the help of man. 13 Through God we fhall do great acts: and it is he that fhall tread down our enemies.

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|| Pfalm 109. Deus laudum.

Old not thy tongue, O God of my praife: for the mouth of the ungodly, yea, the mouth of the deceitful is opened up

on me.

2 And they have spoken against me with falfe tongues: they compaffed me about alfo with words of hatred, and fought against me without a caufe.

3 For the love that I had unto them, lo, they take now my contrary part: but I give myfelf unto prayer,

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4 Thus have they rewarded me evil for good and hatred for my good will.

5 Set thou an ungodly man to be ruler over him: and let Satan. ftand at his right hand.

6 When fentence is given upon him, let him be condemned: and let his prayer be turned into fin.

7 Let his days be few: and let another take his office.

8 Let his children be fatherlefs: and his wife a widow.

9 Let his children be vagabonds: and beg their bread: let them feck it alfo out of defolate places.

10 Let the extortioner confume all that he hath: and let the ftranger spoil his labour.

11 Let there be no man to pity him: nor to have compaffion upon his fatherless children.

In this Pfaim David defcribes the Malice and In jullice of his Enemies, and relates particularly their Imprecations against him. He then befeecheth God to deal kindly with him, and to disappoint the Malice

of his Accufers, and promifes that he will joyfulị celebrate him as the Deliverer of the helpless from. merciless Oppreffors.

Set thou an ungodly Man to be Ruler over him, &c.

12 Let his posterity be destroyed: and in the next generation let his name be clean put out.

13 Let the wickednefs of his fathers be had in remembrance in the fight of the Lord: and let not the fin of his mother be done away.

14 Let them alway be before the Lord: that he may root out the memorial of them from off the earth;

15 And that, because his mind was not to do good: but perfecuted the poor helpless man, that he might flay him that was vexed at the heart.

16 His delight was in curfing, and it shall happen unto him : He loved not bleffing, therefore fhall it be far from him.

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17 He cloathed himself with curfing, like as with a raiment: and it fhall come into his bowels like water and like oil into his bones.. 18 Let it be unto him as the cloke that he hath upon him: and as the girdle that he is always girded withal.

19 Let it thus happen from the Lord unto mine enemies: and to those that speak evil against my soul.

20 But deal thou with me, O Lord God, according unto thy name: for sweet is thy mercy.

21 O deliver me, for I am helpless and poor and my heart is wounded within me.

22 I go hence like the shadow that departeth and am driven away as the grafhopper,

23 My knees are weak through fafting: my flesh is dried up for want of fatness.

24 I became alfo a reproach unto them: they that looked upon me, shaked their heads.

25 Help me, O Lord my God: O fave me according to thy mercy.

. This and the following Imprecations are not to be confidered as the Words of David, but of David's Enemies against him: as will appear by confidering that he fpeaks of his Enemies in the fourth Verfe in the Plural Number, whereas this Imprecation is ut

tered against one Perfon in the fingular. And if the Word Jaying, was added after the Expreffion good Will in the end of the fourth Verfe the Difficulty would be fufficiently cleared up.

26 And they fhall know, how that this is thy hand : and that thou, Lord, haft done it.

27 Though they curfe, yet blefs thou: and let them be confounded that rise up against me; but let thy fervant rejoice.

28 Let mine adverfaries be cloathed with fhame: and let them cover themfelves with their own confufion as with a cloke. 29 As for me, I will give great thanks unto the Lord with my mouth: and praise him among the multitude.

30 For he fhall ftand at the right hand of the poor: to fave his foul from unrighteous judges.

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MORNING

PRAYER.

§ Pfalm 110. Dixit Dominus.

HE Lord faid unto my Lord: Sit thou on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

2 The Lord fhall fend the rod of thy power out of Sion: be thou ruler, even in the midst among thine enemies.

3 In the day of thy power fhall the people offer thee freewill-offerings with an holy worship: *the dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning.

4 The Lord fware, and will not repent: Thou art a Prieft for ever after the order of Melchifedech.

5 The Lord upon thy right hand: fhall wound even kings in the day of his wrath.

6 He fhall judge among the heathen; he fhall fill the places with the dead bodies: and fmite in funder the heads over divers countries.

7 He fhall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up his head.

The Pfalmift, under the Image of a young Prince, taking Poffeffion of a Kingdom and going forth to fubdue all that oppofe him, here foretels that the Meffiab fhould be exalted to the right of God; that he fhould be the King and High Priest of the Church; that he should gloriously eftablifh his Kingdom, and triumph over all his Enemies.

* The Dew of thy Birth is of the Womb of the Morn

ing. This is a remarkable Prophecy concerning the extraordinary Propagation of the Gospel; fignifying that the Converts to Christianity should be more fplendid and numerous than the Drops of pearly Dew which befpangle the Grafs on fome fair Summer's Morning and like that too refreshing and fertilizing all around them by their heavenly Doctrine and Examples..

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* Pfalm 111. Confitebor tibi.

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Will give thanks unto the Lord with my whole heart: fecretly among the faithful, and in the congregation.

2 1 he works of the Lord are great: fought out of all them that have pleasure therein.

3 His work is worthy to be praised and had in honour: and his rightcoufncfs endureth for ever::

4 The merciful and gracious Lord hath fo done his marvellous works: that they ought to be had in remembrance.

5 He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he fhall ever be mindful of his covenant.S

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6 He hath fhewed his people the power of his works: that he may give them the heritage of the heathen.

7 The works of his hands are verity and judgment: all his commandments are true.

8 They ftand faft for ever and ever: and are done im truth and equity.

9 He fent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever; holy and reverend is his Name.

: : 10,† The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wifdōm: a good understanding have all they that do thereafter; the praise of it endureth for ever.

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§ Pfalm 112. Beatus vir.:

LESSED is the man that feareth the Lord: he hath great delight in his commandments. ban tevbod hrob si X 2 His feed fhall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the faithful fhall be bleffed.

*This Pfalm in the original is alphabetical; the fr letter of every Verfe reprefenting the order of the Hebrew Alphabet; and was probably done as an help to the men oiy. Herein the Prophet recounts the di vine benefits, as well in general, with refpect to the creation and prefervation of all things, as thofe which had been peculiarly beflowed upon the Jews.

The fear of the Lora is the beginning of wifdem, &c. With refpe&t to this pallage, Dr. Tilleajon, faith " Re.

"gion tends to the improvement of our understandings. Ido not mean only that it inftructs us in the knowledge of divine and fpiritual things, and makes us to understand the great intereft of our Souls, and the concernments of Eternity better, but that, in ge“neral, it doth raife and enlarge the minds of Men, "and make them mote capable of true knowledge, by fubduing their Lufts, and moderating their paffions. "Because the more any Man's Soul is cleanfed from

3 Riches and plenteousness shall be in his house: and his righteousness endureth for ever.

4 Unto the godly there arifeth up light in the darkness: he is merciful, loving, and righteous.

5 A good man is merciful, and lendeth: and will guide his words with difcretion.

6 For he fhall never be moved! and the righteous fhall be had in everlasting remembrance.

7 He will not be afraid of any evil tidings: for his heart standeth fast, and believeth in the Lord.

8 His heart is ftablished, and will not fhrink: until he fee his defire upon his enemies.

9. He hath difperfed abroad, and given to the poor: and his righteousness remaineth for ever; his horn fhall be exalted with

honour.

10 The ungodly fhall fee it, and it fhall grieve him: he fhall gnash with his teeth, and confume away; the defire of the ungodly fhall perish.

+ Pfalm 113. Laudate, peuri.

Raife the Lord, ye fervants: O praise the Name of the Lord. 2 Bleffed be the Name of the Lord: from this time forth for evermore.

3 The Lords Name is praised: from the rifing up of the fun, unto the going down of the fame.

4 The Lord is high above all heathen: and his glory above the heavens.

5 Who is like unto the Lord our God, that hath his dwelling

"the filth and dregs of fenfual Lufts the more nimble and expedite it will be in its operations. The more "any Man conquers his paffions the more calm and fedate his Spirt is, and the greater equality he maintains in his Temper, his apprehenfions of "Things will be the more clear and unprejudiced, "and his judgment more firm and fteddy."

This Pfalm is wrote alphabetically like the preceding, and may be faid to be an explication of that faying of St. Paul to Timothy, viz. that godliness bath

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promife of the Life that now is, and of that which is to come. 1 Tim. iv. 8.

Bled is the Man that feareth the Lord, he baib great, r. i. e. He who is a truly religiou good Man will enjoy a fenfible pleasure in the difcharge of his Ducy. Happy is he who is arrived at such a pitch of Virtue.

This is a Pfalm of Praife, and a Exhortation to celebrate the infinite Power, Majeity, and Providence of God, by which all Things are governed and pre