The Online Library of Liberty

A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.

• Advertisement.
• Revisers’ Preface.
• Old Testament
• The First Book of Moses, Commonly Called Genesis.
• The Second Book of Moses, Commonly Called Exodus.
• The Third Book of Moses, Commonly Called Leviticus.
• The Fourth Book of Moses, Commonly Called Numbers.
• The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy.
• The Book of Joshua.
• The Book of Judges.
• The Book of Ruth.
• The First Book of Samuel.
• The Second Book of Samuel.
• The First Book of the Kings.
• The Second Book of the Kings.
• The First Book of the Chronicles.
• The Second Book of the Chronicles.
• Ezra.
• The Book of Nehemiah.
• The Book of Esther.
• The Book of Job.
• The Psalms.
• Book I.
• Book II.
• Book III.
• Book IV.
• Book V.
• The Proverbs.
• Ecclesiastes; Or, the Preacher.
• The Song of Songs.
• The Book of the Prophet Isaiah.
• The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah.
• The Lamentations of Jeremiah.
• The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel.
• The Book of Daniel.
• Hosea.
• Joel.
• Amos.
• Obadiah.
• Jonah.
• Micah.
• Nahum.
• Habakkuk.
• Zephaniah.
• Haggai.
• Zechariah.
• Malachi.
• Appendix.
• Classes of Passages.

BOOK IV.

90

A Prayer of Moses the man of God.

• 1

  Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place
• In all generations.

• 2

  Before the mountains were brought forth,
• Or ever thou 1 hadst formed the earth and the world,
• Even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

• 3

  Thou turnest man to 2 destruction;
• And sayest, Return, ye children of men.

• 4

  For a thousand years in thy sight
• Are but as yesterday 3 when it is past,
• And as a watch in the night.

• 5

  Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep:
• In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

• 6

  In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up;
• In the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

• 7

  For we are consumed in thine anger,
• And in thy wrath are we troubled.

• 8

  Thou hast set our iniquities before thee,
• Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

• 9

  For all our days are passed away in thy wrath:
• We bring our years to an end as 1 a tale that is told.

• 10

  The days of our years are threescore years and ten,
• Or even by reason of strength fourscore years;
• Yet is their pride but labour and sorrow;
• For it is soon gone, and we fly away.

• 11

  Who knoweth the power of thine anger,
• And thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto thee?

• 12

  So teach us to number our days,
• That we may get us an heart of wisdom.

• 13

  Return, O Lord; how long?
• And let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

• 14

  O satisfy us in the morning with thy mercy;
• That we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

• 15

  Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us,
• And the years wherein we have seen evil.

• 16

  Let thy work appear unto thy servants,
• And thy glory upon their children.

• 17

  And let the 2 beauty of the Lord our God be upon us:
• And establish thou the work of our hands upon us;
• Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

91

• 1

  He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High
• 3 Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

• 2

  I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress;
• My God, in whom I trust.

• 3

  For he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler,
• And from the noisome pestilence.

• 4

  He shall cover thee with his pinions,
• And under his wings shalt thou take refuge:
• His truth is a shield and a buckler.

• 5

  Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night,
• Nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

• 6

  For the pestilence that walketh in darkness,
• Nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday

• 7

  A thousand shall fall at thy side,
• And ten thousand at thy right hand;
• But it shall not come nigh thee.

• 8

  Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold,
• And see the reward of the wicked.

• 9

  4 For thou, O Lord, art my refuge!
• Thou hast made the Most High thy habitation;

• 10

  There shall no evil befall thee,
• Neither shall any plague come nigh thy tent.

• 11

  For he shall give his angels charge over thee,
• To keep thee in all thy ways.

• 12

  They shall bear thee up in their hands,
• Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

• 13

  Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder:
• The young lion and the serpent shalt thou trample under feet.

• 14

  Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him:
• I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

• 15

  He shall call upon me, and I will answer him;
• I will be with him in trouble:
• I will deliver him, and honour him.

• 16

  With long life will I satisfy him,
• And shew him my salvation.

92

A Psalm, a Song for the sabbath day.

• 1

  It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord,
• And to sing praises unto thy name, O Most High:

• 2

  To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning,
• And thy faithfulness every night,

• 3

  With an instrument of ten strings, and with the psaltery;
• With a solemn sound upon the harp.

• 4

  For thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy work:
• I will triumph in the works of thy hands.

• 5

  How great are thy works, O Lord!
• Thy thoughts are very deep.

• 6

  A brutish man knoweth not;
• Neither doth a fool understand this:

• 7

  When the wicked spring as the grass,
• And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish;
• It is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

• 8

  But thou, O Lord, art on high for evermore.

• 9

  For, lo, thine enemies, O Lord,
• For, lo, thine enemies shall perish;
• All the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

• 10

  But my horn hast thou exalted like the horn of the wild-ox:
• I am anointed with fresh oil.

• 11

  Mine eye also hath seen my desire on 1 mine enemies,
• Mine ears have heard my desire of the evildoers that rise up against me.

• 12

  The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree:
• He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

• 13

  They that are planted in the house of the Lord
• Shall flourish in the courts of our God.

• 14

  They shall still bring forth fruit in old age;
• They shall be full of sap and green:

• 15

  To shew that the Lord is upright;
• He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

93

• 1

  The Lord reigneth; he is apparelled with majesty;
• The Lord is apparelled, he hath girded himself with strength:
• The world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.

• 2

  Thy throne is established of old:
• Thou art from everlasting.

• 3

  The floods have lifted up, O Lord,
• The floods have lifted up their voice;
• The floods lift up their 2 waves.

• 4

  Above the voices of many waters,
• The mighty breakers of the sea,
• The Lord on high is mighty.

• 5

  Thy testimonies are very sure:
• Holiness becometh thine house,
• O Lord, for evermore.

94

• 1

  O Lord, thou God to whom vengeance belongeth,
• Thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, shine forth.

• 2

  Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth:
• Render to the proud their desert.

• 3

  Lord, how long shall the wicked,
• How long shall the wicked triumph?

• 4

  They prate, they speak arrogantly:
• All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.

• 5

  They break in pieces thy people, O Lord,
• And afflict thine heritage.

• 6

  They slay the widow and the stranger,
• And murder the fatherless.

• 7

  And they say, 3 The Lord shall not see,
• Neither shall the God of Jacob consider.

• 8

  Consider, ye brutish among the people:
• And ye fools, when will ye be wise?

• 9

  He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?
• He that formed the eye, shall he not see?

• 10

  He that 4 chastiseth the nations, shall not he correct,
• Even he that teacheth man knowledge?

• 11

  The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man,
• 5 That they are 6 vanity.

• 12

  Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, 3 O Lord,
• And teachest out of thy law;

• 13

  That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity,
• Until the pit be digged for the wicked.

• 14

  For the Lord will not cast off his people,
• Neither will he forsake his inheritance.

• 15

  For judgement shall return unto righteousness:
• And all the upright in heart shall follow it.

• 16

  Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers?
• Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

• 17

  Unless the Lord had been my help,
• My soul had soon dwelt in silence.

• 18

  When I said, My foot slippeth;
• Thy mercy, O Lord, held me up.

• 19

  In the multitude of my 1 thoughts within me
• Thy comforts delight my soul.

• 20

  Shall the 2 throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee,
• Which frameth mischief by statute?

• 21

  They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous,
• And condemn the innocent blood.

• 22

  But the Lord hath been my high tower;
• And my God the rock of my refuge.

• 23

  And he hath brought upon them their own iniquity,
• And shall cut them off in their own evil;
• The Lord our God shall cut them off.

95

• 1

  O come, let us sing unto the Lord:
• Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.

• 2

  Let us come before his presence with thanks-giving,
• Let us make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.

• 3

  For the Lord is a great God,
• And a great King above all gods.

• 4

  In his hand are the deep places of the earth;
• The 3 heights of the mountains are his also.

• 5

  The sea is his, and he made it;
• And his hands formed the dry land.

• 6

  O come, let us worship and bow down;
• Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker:

• 7

  For he is our God,
• And we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
• 4 To-day, Oh that ye would hear his voice!

• 8

  Harden not your heart, as at 5 Meribah,
• As in the day of 6 Massah in the wilderness:

• 9

  When your fathers tempted me,
• Proved me, and saw my work.

• 10

  Forty years long was I grieved with that generation,
• And said, It is a people that do err in their heart,
• And they have not known my ways:

• 11

  Wherefore I sware in my wrath,
• That they should not enter into my rest.

96

• 1

  O sing unto the Lord a new song:
• Sing unto the Lord, all the earth.

• 2

  Sing unto the Lord, bless his name;
• Shew forth his salvation from day to day.

• 3

  Declare his glory among the nations,
• His marvellous works among all the peoples.

• 4

  For great is the Lord, and highly to be praised:
• He is to be feared above all gods.

• 5

  For all the gods of the peoples are 7 idols:
• But the Lord made the heavens.

• 6

  Honour and majesty are before him:
• Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

• 7

  Give unto the Lord, ye kindreds of the peoples,
• Give unto the Lord glory and strength.

• 8

  Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name:
• Bring an offering, and come into his courts.

• 9

  O worship the Lord8 in the beauty of holiness:
• Tremble before him, all the earth.

• 10

  Say among the nations, The Lord reigneth:
• The world also is stablished that it cannot be moved:
• He shall judge the peoples with equity.

• 11

  Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice;
• Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof;

• 12

  Let the field exult, and all that is therein;
• Then shall all the trees of the wood sing for joy;

• 13

  Before the Lord, for he cometh;
• For he cometh to judge the earth:
• He shall judge the world with righteousness,
• And the peoples 1 with his truth.

97

• 1

  The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice;
• Let the multitude of isles be glad.

• 2

  Clouds and darkness are round about him:
• Righteousness and judgement are the foundation of his throne.

• 3

  A fire goeth before him,
• And burneth up his adversaries round about.

• 4

  His lightnings lightened the world:
• The earth saw, and trembled.

• 5

  The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord,
• At the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

• 6

  The heavens declare his righteousness,
• And all the peoples have seen his glory.

• 7

  Ashamed be all they that serve graven images,
• That boast themselves of idols:
• Worship him, all ye gods.

• 8

  Zion heard and was glad,
• And the daughters of Judah rejoiced;
• Because of thy judgements, O Lord.

• 9

  For thou, Lord, are most high above all the earth:
• Thou art exalted far above all gods.

• 10

  O ye that love the Lord, hate evil:
• He preserveth the souls of his saints;
• He delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.

• 11

  Light is sown for the righteous,
• And gladness for the upright in heart.

• 12

  Be glad in the Lord, ye righteous;
• And give thanks to his holy 2 name.

98

A Psalm.

• 1

  O sing unto the Lord a new song;
• For he hath done marvellous things:
• His right hand, and his holy arm, hath wrought salvation for him.

• 2

  The Lord hath made known his salvation:
• His righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the nations.

• 3

  He hath remembered his mercy and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel:
• All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

• 4

  Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth:
• Break forth and sing for joy, yea, sing praises.

• 5

  Sing praises unto the Lord with the harp;
• With the harp and the voice of melody.

• 6

  With trumpets and sound of cornet
• Make a joyful noise before the King, the Lord.

• 7

  Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof;
• The world, and they that dwell therein;

• 8

  Let the floods clap their hands;
• Let the hills sing for joy together;

• 9

  Before the Lord, for he cometh to judge the earth:
• He shall judge the world with righteousness,
• And the peoples with equity.

99

• 1

  The Lord reigneth; let the peoples tremble:
• He 3 sitteth upon the cherubim; let the earth be moved.

• 2

  The Lord is great in Zion;
• And he is high above all the peoples.

• 3

  Let them praise thy great and terrible name:
• Holy is he.

• 4

  The king’s strength also loveth judgement;
• Thou dost establish equity,
• Thou executest judgement and righteousness in Jacob.

• 5

  Exalt ye the Lord our God,
• And worship at his footstool:
• Holy is he.

• 6

  Moses and Aaron among his priests,
• And Samuel among them that call upon his name;
• They called upon the Lord, and he answered them.

• 7

  He spake unto them in the pillar of cloud:
• They kept his testimonies, and the statute that he gave them.

• 8

  Thou answeredst them, O Lord our God:
• Thou wast a God that forgavest them,
• Though thou tookest vengeance of their doings.

• 9

  Exalt ye the Lord our God,
• And worship at his holy hill;
• For the Lord our God is holy.

100

A Psalm 1 of thanksgiving

• 1

  Make a joyful noise unto the Lord,2 all ye lands.

• 2

  Serve the Lord with gladness:
• Come before his presence with singing.

• 3

  Know ye that the Lord he is God:
• It is he that hath made us, 3 and we are his;
• We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

• 4

  Enter into his gates with 4 thanksgiving,
• And into his courts with praise.
• Give thanks unto him, and bless his name.

• 5

  For the Lord is good; his mercy endureth for ever;
• And his faithfulness unto all generations.

101

A Psalm of David.

• 1

  I will sing of mercy and judgement:
• Unto thee, O Lord, will I sing praises.

• 2

  I will 5 behave myself wisely in a perfect way:
• Oh when wilt thou come unto me?
• I will walk within my house 6 with a perfect heart.

• 3

  I will set no base thing before mine eyes:
• I hate 7 the work of them that turn aside;
• It shall not cleave unto me.

• 4

  A froward heart shall depart from me:
• I will know no 8 evil thing.

• 5

  Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I destroy:
• Him that hath an high look and a proud heart will I not suffer.

• 6

  Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me:
• He that walketh in a perfect way, he shall minister unto me.

• 7

  He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house:
• He that speaketh falsehood shall not be established before mine eyes.

• 8

  Morning by morning will I destroy all the wicked of the land;
• To cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of the Lord.

102

A Prayer of the afflicted, when he 9 is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the Lord

• • 1

    Hear my prayer, O Lord,
  • And let my cry come unto thee.

  • 2

    Hide not thy face from me in the day of my distress:
  • Incline thine ear unto me;
  • In the day when I call answer me speedily.

  • 3

    For my days consume away 10 like smoke,
  • And my bones are burned 11 as a firebrand.

  • 4

    My heart is smitten like grass, and withered;
  • For I forget to eat my bread.

  • 5

    By reason of the voice of my groaning
  • My bones cleave to my flesh.

  • 6

    I am like a pelican of the wilderness;
  • I am become as an owl of the waste places.

  • 7

    I watch, and am become
  • Like a sparrow that is alone upon the housetop.

  • 8

    Mine enemies reproach me all the day;
  • They that are mad against me do curse by me.

  • 9

    For I have eaten ashes like bread,
  • And mingled my drink with weeping.

  • 10

    Because of thine indignation and thy wrath:
  • For thou hast taken me up, and cast me away.

  • 11

    My days are like a shadow that 1 declineth;
  • And I am withered like grass.

• • 12

    But thou, O Lord,2 shalt abide for ever;
  • And thy memorial unto all generations

  • 13

    Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion:
  • For it is time to have pity upon her, yea, the set time is come.

  • 14

    For thy servants take pleasure in her stones,
  • And have pity upon her dust.

  • 15

    So the nations shall fear the name of the Lord,
  • And all the kings of the earth thy glory:

  • 16

    For the Lord hath built up Zion,
  • He hath appeared in his glory;

  • 17

    He hath regarded the prayer of the destitute,
  • And hath not despised their prayer.

  • 18

    This shall be written for the generation to come:
  • And a people which shall be created shall praise 3 the Lord.

  • 19

    For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary;
  • From heaven did the Lord behold the earth;

  • 20

    To hear the sighing of the prisoner;
  • To loose 4 those that are appointed to death;

  • 21

    That men may declare the name of the Lord in Zion,
  • And his praise in Jerusalem;

  • 22

    When the peoples are gathered together,
  • And the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.

• • 23

    5 He weakened my strength in the way;
  • He shortened my days.

  • 24

    I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days:
  • Thy years are throughout all generations.

  • 25

    Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth;
  • And the heavens are the work of thy hands.

  • 26

    They shall perish, but thou shalt endure:
  • Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment;
  • As a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:

  • 27

    But thou art the same,
  • And thy years shall have no end.

  • 28

    The children of thy servants shall continue,
  • And their seed shall be established before thee.

103

A Psalm of David.

• 1

  Bless the Lord, O my soul;
• And all that is within me, bless his holy name.

• 2

  Bless the Lord, O my soul,
• And forget not all his benefits:

• 3

  Who forgiveth all thine iniquities;
• Who healeth all thy diseases;

• 4

  Who redeemeth thy life from 6 destruction;
• Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies:

• 5

  Who satisfieth 7 thy mouth with good things;
• So that thy youth is renewed like the eagle.

• 6

  The Lord executeth righteous acts,
• And judgements for all that are oppressed.

• 7

  He made known his ways unto Moses,
• His doings unto the children of Israel.

• 8

  The Lord is full of compassion and gracious,
• Slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

• 9

  He will not always chide;
• Neither will he keep his anger for ever.

• 10

  He hath not dealt with us after our sins,
• Nor rewarded us after our iniquities.

• 11

  For as the heaven is high above the earth,
• So great is his mercy toward them that fear him.

• 12

  As far as the east is from the west,
• So far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

• 13

  Like as a father pitieth his children,
• So the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

• 14

  For he knoweth our frame;
• He remembereth that we are dust.

• 15

  As for man, his days are as grass;
• As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

• 16

  For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone;
• And the place thereof shall know it no more.

• 17

  But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him,
• And his righteousness unto children’s children;

• 18

  To such as keep his covenant,
• And to those that remember his precepts to do them.

• 19

  The Lord hath established his throne in the heavens;
• And his kingdom ruleth over all.

• 20

  Bless the Lord, ye angels of his:
• Ye mighty in strength, that fulfil his word,
• Hearkening unto the voice of his word.

• 21

  Bless the Lord, all ye his hosts;
• Ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure.

• 22

  Bless the Lord, all ye his works,
• In all places of his dominion:
• Bless the Lord, O my soul.

104

• 1

  Bless the Lord, O my soul.
• O Lord my God, thou art very great;
• Thou art clothed with honour and majesty.

• 2

  Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment;
• Who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:

• 3

  Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters;
• Who maketh the clouds his chariot;
• Who walketh upon the wings of the wind:

• 4

  Who maketh 1 winds his messengers;
• His ministers a flaming fire:

• 5

  2 Who laid the foundations of the earth,
• That it should not be moved for ever.

• 6

  Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a vesture;
• The waters stood above the mountains.

• 7

  At thy rebuke they fled;
• At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away;

• 8

  3 They went up by the mountains, they went down by the valleys,
• Unto the place which thou hadst founded for them.

• 9

  Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over;
• That they turn not again to cover the earth.

• 10

  He sendeth forth springs into the valleys;
• They run among the mountains:

• 11

  They give drink to every beast of the field;
• The wild asses quench their thirst.

• 12

  By them the fowl of the heaven have their habitation,
• They 4 sing among the branches.

• 13

  He watereth the mountains from his chambers:
• The earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.

• 14

  He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle,
• And herb for the 5 service of man;
• That he may bring forth 6 food out of the earth:

• 15

  And wine that maketh glad the heart of man,
• 7And oil to make his face to shine,
• And bread that strengtheneth man’s heart.

• 16

  The trees of the Lord are 8 satisfied;
• The cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted;

• 17

  Where the birds make their nests:
• As for the stork, the fir trees are her house.

• 18

  The high mountains are for the wild goats;
• The rocks are a refuge for the 9 conies.

• 19

  He appointed the moon for seasons:
• The sun knoweth his going down.

• 20

  Thou makest darkness, and it is night;
• Wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.

• 21

  The young lions roar after their prey,
• And seek their meat from God.

• 22

  The sun ariseth, they get them away,
• And lay them down in their dens

• 23

  Man goeth forth unto his work
• And to his labour until the evening.

• 24

  O Lord, how manifold are thy works!
• In wisdom hast thou made them all:
• The earth is full of thy 1 riches

• 25

  Yonder is the sea, great and wide,
• Wherein are things creeping innumerable,
• Both small and great beasts.

• 26

  There go the ships;
• There is leviathan, whom thou hast formed to 2 take his pastime therein.

• 27

  These wait all upon thee,
• That thou mayest give them their meat in due season.

• 28

  That thou givest unto them they gather;
• Thou openest thine hand, they are satisfied with good.

• 29

  Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled;
• Thou 3 takest away their breath, they die,
• And return to their dust.

• 30

  Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created;
• And thou renewest the face of the ground.

• 31

  Let the glory of the Lord endure for ever;
• Let the Lord rejoice in his works:

• 32

  Who looketh on the earth, and it trembleth;
• He toucheth the mountains, and they smoke.

• 33

  I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live:
• I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.

• 34

  Let my meditation be sweet unto him:
• I will rejoice in the Lord.

• 35

  Let sinners be consumed out of the earth,
• And let the wicked be no more.
• Bless the Lord, O my soul.
• 4 Praise ye the Lord.

105

• 1

  O give thanks unto the Lord, call upon his name;
• Make known his doings among the peoples.

• 2

  Sing unto him, sing praises unto him;
• 5 Talk ye of all his marvellous works.

• 3

  Glory ye in his holy name:
• Let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.

• 4

  Seek ye the Lord and his strength;
• Seek his face evermore.

• 5

  Remember his marvellous works that he hath done;
• His wonders, and the judgements of his mouth;

• 6

  O ye seed of Abraham his servant,
• Ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

• 7

  He is the Lord our God:
• His judgements are in all the earth.

• 8

  He hath remembered his covenant for ever,
• The word which he commanded to a thousand generations;

• 9

  The covenant which he made with Abraham,
• And his oath unto Isaac;

• 10

  And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a statute,
• To Israel for an everlasting covenant:

• 11

  Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan,
• The 6 lot of your inheritance:

• 12

  When they were but a few men in number;
• Yea, very few, and sojourners in it;

• 13

  And they went about from nation to nation,
• From one kingdom to another people.

• 14

  He suffered no man to do them wrong;
• Yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;

• 15

  Saying, Touch not mine anointed ones,
• And do my prophets no harm.

• 16

  And he called for a famine upon the land;
• He brake the whole staff of bread.

• 17

  He sent a man before them;
• Joseph was sold for a servant:

• 18

  His feet they hurt with fetters;
• 7 He was laid in chains of iron:

• 19

  Until the time that his word came to pass;
• The word of the Lord tried him.

• 20

  The king sent and loosed him;
• Even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.

• 21

  He made him lord of his house,
• And ruler of all his substance:

• 22

  To bind his princes at his pleasure,
• And teach his 1 senators wisdom.

• 23

  Israel also came into Egypt;
• And Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

• 24

  And he increased his people greatly,
• And made them stronger than their adversaries.

• 25

  He turned their heart to hate his people,
• To deal subtilly with his servants.

• 26

  He sent Moses his servant,
• And Aaron whom he had chosen.

• 27

  2 They set among them 3 his signs,
• And wonders in the land of Ham.

• 28

  He sent darkness, and made it dark;
• And they rebelled not against his words.

• 29

  He turned their waters into blood,
• And slew their fish.

• 30

  Their land swarmed with frogs,
• In the chambers of their kings.

• 31

  He spake, and there came swarms of flies,
• And 4 lice in all their borders.

• 32

  He gave them hail for rain,
• And flaming fire in their land.

• 33

  He smote their vines also and their fig trees;
• And brake the trees of their borders.

• 34

  He spake, and the locust came,
• And the caukerworm, and that without number,

• 35

  And did eat up every herb in their land,
• And did eat up the fruit of their ground.

• 36

  He smote also all the firstborn in their land,
• The 5 chief of all their strength.

• 37

  And he brought them forth with silver and gold:
• And there was 6 not one feeble person among his tribes.

• 38

  Egypt was glad when they departed;
• For the fear of them had fallen upon them.

• 39

  He spread a cloud for a covering;
• And fire to give light in the night.

• 40

  They asked, and he brought quails,
• And satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

• 41

  He opened the rock, and waters gushed out;
• They ran in the dry places like a river.

• 42

  For he remembered his holy word,
• And Abraham his servant.

• 43

  And he brought forth his people with joy,
• And his chosen with singing.

• 44

  And he gave them the lands of the nations;
• And they took the labour of the peoples in possession:

• 45

  That they might keep his statutes,
• And observe his laws.
• 7 Praise ye the Lord.

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• • 7 Praise ye the Lord.
  • O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good:
  • For his mercy endureth for ever.

  • 2

    Who can utter the mighty acts of the Lord,
  • Or shew forth all his praise?

  • 3

    Blessed are they that keep judgement,
  • And he that doeth righteousness at all times.

  • 4

    Remember me, O Lord, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people;
  • O visit me with thy salvation:

  • 5

    That I may see the prosperity of thy chosen,
  • That I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation,
  • That I may glory with thine inheritance.

• • 6

    We have sinned with our fathers,
  • We have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

  • 7

    Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt;
  • They remembered not the multitude of thy mercies;
  • But were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

  • 8

    Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake,
  • That he might make his mighty power to be known.

  • 9

    He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up:
  • So he led them through the depths, as through a 1 wilderness.

  • 10

    And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them,
  • And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

  • 11

    And the waters covered their adversaries:
  • There was not one of them left.

  • 12

    Then believed they his words;
  • They sang his praise.

  • 13

    They soon forgat his works;
  • They waited not for his counsel:

  • 14

    But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,
  • And tempted God in the desert.

  • 15

    And he gave them their request;
  • But sent leanness into their soul.

  • 16

    They envied Moses also in the camp,
  • And Aaron the 2 saint of the Lord.

  • 17

    The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,
  • And covered the company of Abiram.

  • 18

    And a fire was kindled in their company;
  • The flame burned up the wicked.

  • 19

    They made a calf in Horeb,
  • And worshipped a molten image.

  • 20

    Thus they changed their glory
  • For the likeness of an ox that eateth grass.

  • 21

    They forgat God their saviour,
  • Which had done great things in Egypt;

  • 22

    Wondrous works in the land of Ham,
  • And terrible things by the Red Sea.

  • 23

    Therefore he said that he would destroy them,
  • Had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach,
  • To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

  • 24

    Yea, they despised the pleasant land,
  • They believed not his word;

  • 25

    But murmured in their tents,
  • And hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord.

  • 26

    Therefore he lifted up his hand unto them,
  • That he would 3 overthrow them in the wilderness:

  • 27

    And that he would overthrow their seed among the nations,
  • And scatter them in the lands.

  • 28

    They joined themselves also unto 4 Baal-peor,
  • And ate the sacrifices of the dead.

  • 29

    Thus they provoked him to anger with their doings;
  • And the plague brake in upon them.

  • 30

    Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgement:
  • And so the plague was stayed.

  • 31

    And that was counted unto him for righteousness,
  • Unto all generations for evermore.

  • 32

    They angered him also at the waters of 5 Meribah,
  • So that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:

  • 33

    Because they were rebellious against his spirit,
  • And he spake unadvisedly with his lips.

  • 34

    They did not destroy the peoples,
  • As the Lord commanded them;

  • 35

    But mingled themselves with the nations,
  • And learned their works:

  • 36

    And they served their idols;
  • Which became a snare unto them:

  • 37

    Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,

  • 38

    And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters,
  • Whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan;
  • And the land was polluted with blood.

  • 39

    Thus were they defiled with their works,
  • And went a whoring in their doings.

  • 40

    Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people,
  • And he abhorred his inheritance.

  • 41

    And he gave them into the hand of the nations;
  • And they that hated them ruled over them.

  • 42

    Their enemies also oppressed them,
  • And they were brought into subjection under their hand.

  • 43

    Many times did he deliver them;
  • But they were rebellious in their counsel,
  • And were brought low in their iniquity.

  • 44

    Nevertheless he regarded their distress,
  • When he heard their cry:

  • 45

    And he remembered for them his covenant,
  • And repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

  • 46

    He made them also to be pitied
  • Of all those that carried them captives.

• • 47

    Save us, O Lord our God,
  • And gather us from among the nations,
  • To give thanks unto thy holy name,
  • And to triumph in thy praise.

• • 48

    Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
  • From everlasting even to everlasting.
  • And let all the people say, Amen.
  • 1 Praise ye the Lord.

[1 ]Heb. gavest birth to.

[2 ]Or, dust Heb crushing.

[3 ]Or, when it passeth

[1 ]Or, a sound or sigh

[2 ]See Ps xxvii 4.

[3 ]Or, That abideth . . . Almighty, even I &c.

[4 ]Or, Because thou hast said, The Lord is my refuge;

[1 ]Or, them that lie in wait for me

[2 ]Or, roaring

[3 ]Heb. Jah.

[4 ]Or, instructeth

[5 ]Or, For

[6 ]Heb. a breath.

[1 ]Or, doubts

[2 ]Or, seat

[3 ]Or, strength

[4 ]Or, To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden &c

[5 ]That is, strife.

[6 ]That is, temptation.

[7 ]Or, things of nought

[8 ]Or, in holy array

[1 ]Or, in his faithfulness

[2 ]Heb. memorial.

[3 ]Or, dwelleth between

[1 ]Or, for the thank offering

[2 ]Heb. all the earth.

[3 ]Another reading is, and not we ourselves

[4 ]Or, a thank offering

[5 ]Or, give heed unto the perfect way

[6 ]Or, in the integrity of my heart

[7 ]Or, the doing of unfaithfulness

[8 ]Or, evil person

[9 ]Or, fainteth

[10 ]Or, in smoke

[11 ]Or, as an hearth

[1 ]Or, is stretched out

[2 ]Or, sittest as king

[3 ]Heb Jah.

[4 ]Heb. the children of death.

[5 ]Another reading is, He afflicted me with his strength.

[6 ]Or, the pit

[7 ]Or, thy years Or, thy prime Heb thine ornament.

[1 ]Or, his angels winds

[2 ]Heb. He founded the earth upon her bases.

[3 ]Or, (The mountains rose, the valleys sank down;)

[4 ]Heb. utter their voice.

[5 ]Or, labour

[6 ]Heb. bread.

[7 ]Heb. To make his face to shine with oil.

[8 ]See ver. 13.

[9 ]See Lev. xi. 5.

[1 ]Or, creatures

[2 ]Or, play with him See Job xli. 5.

[3 ]Or, gatherest in

[4 ]Heb. Hallelujah.

[5 ]Or, Meditate

[6 ]Heb. cord, or, line.

[7 ]Heb. His soul entered into the iron.

[1 ]Heb. elders.

[2 ]Some ancient versions have, He.

[3 ]Heb. the words of his signs.

[4 ]See Ex. viii. 16.

[5 ]Heb. beginning. See Deut. xxi. 17.

[6 ]Or, none that stumbled

[7 ]Heb. Hallelujah.

[1 ]Or, pasture land

[2 ]Or, holy one

[3 ]Heb. make them fall.

[4 ]See Num. xxv. 3.

[5 ]Or, strife

[1 ]Heb Hallelujah.