is pleasant, and praife is Comely. 2 The Lord doth build up Jerufalem he gathereth together the outcafts of If rael. 3 He healeth the broken. in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. 4 He telleth the number of the ftars; he calleth them all by their names. 5 Great is our Lord, and of great power: his underftanding is infinite. 6 The Lord lifteth up the meek: he cafteth the wicked down to the ground. upon 7 Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving fing praises the harp unto our God. 8 Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grafs to grow upon the mountains. 9 He giveth to the beaft his food, and to the young ravens which cry. 10 He delighteth not in the ftrength of the horfe: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man. II The Lord taketh pleafure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy. 12 Praise the Lord, O Jerufalem; praife thy God, O Zion. ened the bars of thy gates: he hath bleffed thy children within thee. 14 He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat. 15 He fendeth forth his commandment upon earth: word word runneth very his fwiftly. 16 He giveth fnow like wool: he scattereth the hoar, froft like afhes. 17 He cafteth forth his ice like morfels: who can ftand before his cold? 18 He fendeth out his word, and melteth them; he caufeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow. 19 He fheweth his word unto Jacob, his ftatutes and his judgments unto Ifrael. 20 He hath not dealt fo with any hation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise Praise ye the Lord. 6 He hath alfo ftablished them them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which fhall not pafs. 7 Praife the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps: 8 Fire and hail: fnow and vapour: ftormy wind fulfilling his word; 9 Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars; 10 Beafts and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl; PSALM CXLIX. RAISE ye the Lord: new fong, and his praise in the congregation of faints. 2 Let Ifrael rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King. 3 Let them praise his name in the dance; let them fing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp. 4 For the Lord taketh pleafure in his people: he will beautify the meek with falvation. 5 Let the faints be joyful in glory: let them fing aloud upon their beds. P PSALM CL. II Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all RAISE ye the Lord. judges of the earth; Praife God in his fanc12 Both young men and tuary: praise him in the firold men and chil-mament of his power. maidens ; dren; 13 Let them praife the name of the Lord; for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven. 14 He also exalteth the horn of his people, the praise of all his faints; even of the children of Ifrael, a people near unto him. Praife ye the Lord. 2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praife him according to his excellent greatness. 3 Praise him with the found of the trumpet: praise him with the pfaltery and harp. 4 Praife him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with ftringed inftruments and organs. 5 Praife him upon the A a 3 loud loud cymbals, praife him | 6. Let every thing that upon the high- founding hath breath praife the Lord, cymbals. TH 212 The CHAP. I. Praife ye the Lord. PROVERBS. HE proverbs of So lomon the fon of David, king of Ifrael; 2 To know wisdom and inftruction, to perceive the words of understanding; 3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, juftice, and judgment, and equity; 4 To give fubtilty to the fimple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. 5 A wife man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding fhall attain unto wife coun- purfe; fels: one 15 My fon, walk not thou 6 To understand a pro-in the way with them; reverb, and the interpretation: frain thy foot from their the words of the wife, and their dark fayings. 7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools defpife wifdom and inftruction. 8 My fon, hear the inftruction of thy father, and forfake not the law of thy mother: 9 For they Jhall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy path. 16 For their feet run to evil, and make hafte to fhed blood. 17 Surely in vain the net is fpread in the fight of any bird... 18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. 19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof. 20 ¶ Wisdom crieth without; he uttereth her voice in the streets: 21 She crieth in the chief place of concourfe, in the openings of the gates: in the city fhe uttereth her words, faying, 22 How long, ye fimple ones, will ye love fimplicity; and the fcorners delight in their fcorning, and fools hate knowledge? 23 Turn ye at my reproof; behold, I will pour out my fpirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. 24 Becaufe I have called, and ye refufed; I have ftretched out my hand, and no man regarded; at 25 But ye have set nought all my counfel, and would none of my reproof: 26 I will alfo laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh: 27 When your fear cometh as defolation, and your deftruction cometh as a whirlwind; when diftrefs and anguith cometh upon you: > choose the fear of the Lord. 30 They would none of my counfel, they defpised all my reproof. 31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. 32 For the turning away of the fimple fhall flay them, and the profperity of fools fhall destroy them. 33 But whofo hearkeneth unto me fhall dwell fafely, and fhall be quiet from fear of evil. M CHAP. II. Y fon, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; 2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to underftanding; 3. Yea, if thou crieft after knowledge, and lifteft up thy voice for understanding; 4 If thou feekest her as filver, and fearcheft for her as for hid treasures; 5. Then fhalt thou underftand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of 28 Then fhall they call upon me, but I will not an-God. fwer; they fhall feek me 6 For the Lord giveth early, but they fhall not find me 29 For that they hated knowledge, and did ́ ́not wifdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and underftanding. 7 He layeth up found wifA a 4 dom dom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. 8 He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preferveth the way of his faints. unto the dead. 19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life. 2o ། That thou mayeft; walk in the way of good 9 Then fhalt thou under-men, and keep the paths of ftand righteousness, and judg- the righteous. ment, and equity; yea, every good path. 10 When wifdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleafant unto thy foul; 21 For the upright fhall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. 22 But the wicked fhall be cut off from the earth, and the tranfgreffors fhall be 11 Difcretion fhall pre-rooted out of it, ferve thee, understanding fhall keep thee: 12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from M CHAP. III. Y fon, forget not my law; but let thine the man that fpeaketh fro-heart keep my command ward things: 13 Who leave the paths of uprightnefs, to walk in the ways of darkness; 14 Who rejoiceth to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; 15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths, 16 To deliver thee from the ftrange woman, even from the ftranger which flattereth with her words : 17 Which forfaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. 18 For her houfe inclineth unto death, and her paths 3 Let not mercy and truth forfake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart. 4 So fhalt thou find fayour and good understanding in the fight of God and man. 5 Truft in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he fhall direct thy paths, , [ Be |