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Psalms Chapter 84

Benedixisti, Domine.

The coming of Christ, to bring peace and salvation to man.

84:1. Unto the end, for the sons of Core, a psalm.

84:2. Lord, thou hast blessed thy land: thou hast turned away the
captivity of Jacob.

84:3. Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people: thou hast covered
all their sins.

84:4. Thou hast mitigated all thy anger: thou hast turned away from the
wrath of thy indignation.

84:5. Convert us, O God our saviour: and turn off thy anger from us.

84:6. Wilt thou be angry with us for ever: or wilt thou extend thy wrath
from generation to generation?

84:7. Thou wilt turn, O God, and bring us to life: and thy people shall
rejoice in thee.

84:8. Shew us, O Lord, thy mercy; and grant us thy salvation.

84:9. I will hear what the Lord God will speak in me: for he will speak
peace unto his people: And unto his saints: and unto them that are
converted to the heart.

84:10. Surely his salvation is near to them that fear him: that glory
may dwell in our land.

84:11. Mercy and truth have met each other: justice and peace have
kissed.

84:12. Truth is sprung out of the earth: and justice hath looked down
from heaven.

84:13. For the Lord will give goodness: and our earth shall yield her
fruit.

84:14. Justice shall walk before him: and shall set his steps in the
way.

Psalms Chapter 85

Inclina, Domine.

A prayer for God's grace to assist us to the end.

85:1. A prayer for David himself. Incline thy ear, O Lord, and hear me:
for I am needy and poor.

85:2. Preserve my soul, for I am holy: save thy servant, O my God, that
trusteth in thee.

I am holy... I am by my office and profession dedicated to thy service.

85:3. Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I have cried to thee all the day.

85:4. Give joy to the soul of thy servant, for to thee, O Lord, I have
lifted up my soul.

85:5. For thou, O Lord, art sweet and mild: and plenteous in mercy to
all that call upon thee.

85:6. Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer: and attend to the voice of my
petition.

85:7. I have called upon thee in the day of my trouble: because thou
hast heard me.

85:8. There is none among the gods like unto thee, O Lord: and there is
none according to thy works.

85:9. All the nations thou hast made shall come and adore before thee, O
Lord: and they shall glorify thy name.

85:10. For thou art great and dost wonderful things: thou art God alone.

85:11. Conduct me, O Lord, in thy way, and I will walk in thy truth: let
my heart rejoice that it may fear thy name.

85:12. I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I
will glorify thy name for ever:

85:13. For thy mercy is great towards me: and thou hast delivered my
soul out of the lower hell.

85:14. O God, the wicked are risen up against me, and the assembly of
the mighty have sought my soul: and they have not set thee before their
eyes.

85:15. And thou, O Lord, art a God of compassion, and merciful, patient,
and of much mercy, and true.

85:16. O look upon me, and have mercy on me: give thy command to thy
servant, and save the son of thy handmaid.

85:17. Shew me a token for good: that they who hate me may see, and be
confounded, because thou, O Lord, hast helped me and hast comforted me.

Psalms Chapter 86

Fundamenta ejus.

The glory of the church of Christ.

86:1. For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. The foundations
thereof are the holy mountains:

The holy mountains... The apostles and prophets. Eph. 2.20.

86:2. The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of
Jacob.

86:3. Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God.

86:4. I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold the
foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians, these were
there.

Rahab... Egypt, etc. To this Sion, which is the church of God, many
shall resort from all nations.

86:5. Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the
Highest himself hath founded her.

Shall not Sion say, etc... The meaning is, that Sion, viz., the church,
shall not only be able to commemorate this or that particular person of
renown born in her, but also to glory in great multitudes of people and
princes of her communion; who have been foretold in the writings of the
prophets, and registered in the writings of the apostles.

86:6. The Lord shall tell in his writings of peoples and of princes, of
them that have been in her.

86:7. The dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing.

Psalms Chapter 87

Domine, Deus salutis.

A prayer of one under grievous affliction: it agrees to Christ in his
passion, and alludes to his death and burial.

87:1. A canticle of a psalm for the sons of Core: unto the end, for
Maheleth, to answer understanding of Eman the Ezrahite.

Maheleth... A musical instrument, or chorus of musicians, to answer one
another.-Ibid. Understanding... Or a psalm of instruction, composed by
Eman the Ezrahite, or by David, in his name.

87:2. O Lord, the God of my salvation: I have cried in the day, and in
the night before thee.

87:3. Let my prayer come in before thee: incline thy ear to my petition.

87:4. For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to
hell.

87:5. I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a
man without help,

87:6. Free among the dead. Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres,
whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

87:7. They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the
shadow of death.

87:8. Thy wrath is strong over me: and all thy waves thou hast brought
in upon me.

87:9. Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they have set me
an abomination to themselves. I was delivered up, and came not forth:

87:10. My eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee,
O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee.

87:11. Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? or shall physicians raise to
life, and give praise to thee?

87:12. Shall any one in the sepulchre declare thy mercy: and thy truth
in destruction?

87:13. Shall thy wonders be known in the dark; and thy justice in the
land of forgetfulness?

87:14. But I, O Lord, have cried to thee: and in the morning my prayer
shall prevent thee.

87:15. Lord, why castest thou off my prayer: why turnest thou away thy
face from me?

87:16. I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted have
been humbled and troubled.

87:17. Thy wrath hath come upon me: and thy terrors have troubled me.

87:18. They have come round about me like water all the day: they have
compassed me about together.

87:19. Friend and neighbour thou hast put far from me: and my
acquaintance, because of misery.

Psalms Chapter 88

Misericordias Domini.

The perpetuity of the church of Christ, in consequence of the promise of
God: which, notwithstanding, God permits her to suffer sometimes most
grievous afflictions.

88:1. Of understanding, for Ethan the Ezrahite.

88:2. The mercies of the Lord I will sing for ever. I will shew forth
thy truth with my mouth to generation and generation.

88:3. For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the
heavens: thy truth shall be prepared in them.

88:4. I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my
servant:

88:5. Thy seed will I settle for ever. And I will build up thy throne
unto generation and generation.

88:6. The heavens shall confess thy wonders, O Lord: and thy truth in
the church of the saints.

88:7. For who in the clouds can be compared to the Lord: or who among
the sons of God shall be like to God?

88:8. God, who is glorified in the assembly of the saints: great and
terrible above all them that are about him.

88:9. O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? thou art mighty, O Lord,
and thy truth is round about thee.

88:10. Thou rulest the power of the sea: and appeasest the motion of the
waves thereof.

88:11. Thou hast humbled the proud one, as one that is slain: with the
arm of thy strength thou hast scattered thy enemies.

88:12. Thine are the heavens, and thine is the earth: the world and the
fulness thereof thou hast founded:

88:13. The north and the sea thou hast created. Thabor and Hermon shall
rejoice in thy name:

88:14. Thy arm is with might. Let thy hand be strengthened, and thy
right hand exalted:

88:15. Justice and judgment are the preparation of thy throne. Mercy and
truth shall go before thy face:

88:16. Blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation. They shall walk, O
Lord, in the light of thy countenance:

88:17. And in thy name they shall rejoice all the day, and in thy
justice they shall be exalted.

88:18. For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy good
pleasure shall our horn be exalted.

88:19. For our protection is of the Lord, and of our king the holy one
of Israel.

88:20. Then thou spokest in a vision to thy saints, and saidst: I have
laid help upon one that is mighty, and have exalted one chosen out of my
people.

88:21. I have found David my servant: with my holy oil I have anointed
him.

88:22. For my hand shall help him: and my arm shall strengthen him.

88:23. The enemy shall have no advantage over him: nor the son of
iniquity have power to hurt him.

88:24. And I will cut down his enemies before his face; and them that
hate him I will put to flight.

88:25. And my truth and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall
his horn be exalted.

88:26. And I will set his hand in the sea; and his right hand in the
rivers.

88:27. He shall cry out to me: Thou art my father: my God, and the
support of my salvation.

88:28. And I will make him my firstborn, high above the kings of the
earth.

88:29. I will keep my mercy for him for ever: and my covenant faithful
to him.

88:30. And I will make his seed to endure for evermore: and his throne
as the days of heaven.

88:31. And if his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments:

88:32. If they profane my justices: and keep not my commandments:

88:33. I will visit their iniquities with a rod and their sins with
stripes.

88:34. But my mercy I will not take away from him: nor will I suffer my
truth to fail.

88:35. Neither will I profane my covenant: and the words that proceed
from my mouth I will not make void.

88:36. Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David:

88:37. His seed shall endure for ever.

88:38. And his throne as the sun before me: and as the moon perfect for
ever, and a faithful witness in heaven.

88:39. But thou hast rejected and despised: thou hast been angry with my
anointed.

88:40. Thou hast overthrown the covenant of thy servant: thou hast
profaned his sanctuary on the earth.

Overthrown the covenant, etc... All this seems to relate to the time of
the captivity of Babylon, in which, for the sins of the people and their
princes, God seemed to have set aside for a while the covenant he made
with David.

88:41. Thou hast broken down all his hedges: thou hast made his strength
fear.

88:42. All that pass by the way have robbed him: he is become a reproach
to his neighbours.

88:43. Thou hast set up the right hand of them that oppress him: thou
hast made all his enemies to rejoice.

88:44. Thou hast turned away the help of his sword; and hast not
assisted him in battle.

88:45. Thou hast made his purification to cease: and thou hast cast his
throne down to the ground.

88:46. Thou hast shortened the days of his time: thou hast covered him
with confusion.

88:47. How long, O Lord, turnest thou away unto the end? shall thy anger
burn like fire?

88:48. Remember what my substance is: for hast thou made all the
children of men in vain?

88:49. Who is the man that shall live, and not see death: that shall
deliver his soul from the hand of hell?

88:50. Lord, where are thy ancient mercies, according to what thou didst
swear to David in thy truth?

88:51. Be mindful, O Lord, of the reproach of thy servants (which I have
held in my bosom) of many nations:

88:52. Wherewith thy enemies have reproached, O Lord; wherewith they
have reproached the change of thy anointed.

88:53. Blessed be the Lord for evermore. So be it. So be it.

Psalms Chapter 89

Domine, refugium.

A prayer for the mercy of God: recounting the shortness and miseries of
the days of man.

89:1. A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our refuge
from generation to generation.

89:2. Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was
formed; from eternity and to eternity thou art God.

89:3. Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be
converted, O ye sons of men.

Turn not man away, etc... Suffer him not quite to perish from thee,
since thou art pleased to call upon him to be converted to thee.

89:4. For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday, which is past.
And as a watch in the night,

89:5. Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.

89:6. In the morning man shall grow up like grass; in the morning he
shall flourish and pass away: in the evening he shall fall, grow dry,
and wither.

89:7. For in thy wrath we have fainted away: and are troubled in thy
indignation.

89:8. Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes: our life in the
light of thy countenance.

89:9. For all our days are spent; and in thy wrath we have fainted away.
Our years shall be considered as a spider:

As a spider... As frail and weak as a spider's web; and miserable
withal, whilst like a spider we spend our bowels in weaving webs to
catch flies.

89:10. The days of our years in them are threescore and ten years. But
if in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is
labour and sorrow. For mildness is come upon us: and we shall be
corrected.

Mildness is come upon us, etc... God's mildness corrects us; inasmuch as
he deals kindly with us, in shortening the days of this miserable life;
and so weaning our affections from all its transitory enjoyments, and
teaching us true wisdom.

89:11. Who knoweth the power of thy anger, and for thy fear

89:12. Can number thy wrath? So make thy right hand known: and men
learned in heart, in wisdom.

89:13. Return, O Lord, how long? and be entreated in favour of thy
servants.

89:14. We are filled in the morning with thy mercy: and we have
rejoiced, and are delighted all our days.

89:15. We have rejoiced for the days in which thou hast humbled us: for
the years in which we have seen evils.

89:16. Look upon thy servants and upon their works: and direct their
children.

89:17. And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and direct
thou the works of our hands over us; yea, the work of our hands do thou
direct.

Psalms Chapter 90

Qui habitat.

The just is secure under the protection of God.

90:1. The praise of a canticle for David. He that dwelleth in the aid of
the most High, shall abide under the protection of the God of Jacob.

90:2. He shall say to the Lord: Thou art my protector, and my refuge: my
God, in him will I trust.

90:3. For he hath delivered me from the snare of the hunters: and from
the sharp word.

90:4. He will overshadow thee with his shoulders: and under his wings
thou shalt trust.

90:5. His truth shall compass thee with a shield: thou shalt not be
afraid of the terror of the night.

90:6. Of the arrow that flieth in the day, of the business that walketh
about in the dark: of invasion, or of the noonday devil.

90:7. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right
hand: but it shall not come nigh thee.

90:8. But thou shalt consider with thy eyes: and shalt see the reward of
the wicked.

90:9. Because thou, O Lord, art my hope: thou hast made the most High
thy refuge.

90:10. There shall no evil come to thee: nor shall the scourge come near
thy dwelling.

90:11. For he hath given his angels charge over thee; to keep thee in
all thy ways.

90:12. In their hands they shall bear thee up: lest thou dash thy foot
against a stone.

90:13. Thou shalt walk upon the asp and the basilisk: and thou shalt
trample under foot the lion and the dragon.

90:14. Because he hoped in me I will deliver him: I will protect him
because he hath known my name.

90:15. He shall cry to me, and I will hear him: I am with him in
tribulation, I will deliver him, and I will glorify him.

90:16. I will fill him with length of days; and I will shew him my
salvation.

Psalms Chapter 91

Bonum est confiteri.

God is to be praised for his wondrous works.

91:1. A psalm of a canticle on the sabbath day.

91:2. It is good to give praise to the Lord: and to sing to thy name, O
most High.

91:3. To shew forth thy mercy in the morning, and thy truth in the
night: 91:4. Upon an instrument of ten strings, upon the psaltery: with
a canticle upon the harp.

91:5. For thou hast given me, O Lord, a delight in thy doings: and in
the works of thy hands I shall rejoice.

91:6. O Lord, how great are thy works! thy thoughts are exceeding deep.

91:7. The senseless man shall not know: nor will the fool understand
these things.

91:8. When the wicked shall spring up as grass: and all the workers of
iniquity shall appear: That they may perish for ever and ever:

91:9. But thou, O Lord, art most high for evermore.

91:10. For behold thy enemies, O lord, for behold thy enemies shall
perish: and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

91:11. But my horn shall be exalted like that of the unicorn: and my old
age in plentiful mercy.

91:12. My eye also hath looked down upon my enemies: and my ear shall
hear of the downfall of the malignant that rise up against me.

91:13. The just shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow up like
the cedar of Libanus.

91:14. They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in
the courts of the house of our God.

91:15. They shall still increase in a fruitful old age: and shall be
well treated,

91:16. That they may shew, That the Lord our God is righteous, and there
is no iniquity in him.

Psalms Chapter 92

Dominus regnavit.

The glory and stability of the kingdom; that is, of the church of
Christ.

Praise in the way of a canticle, for David himself, on the day before
the sabbath, when the earth was founded.

92:1. The Lord hath reigned, he is clothed with beauty: the Lord is
clothed with strength, and hath girded himself. For he hath established
the world which shall not be moved.

92:2. My throne is prepared from of old: thou art from everlasting.

92:3. The floods have lifted up, O Lord: the floods have lifted up their
voice. The floods have lifted up their waves,

92:4. With the noise of many waters. Wonderful are the surges of the
sea: wonderful is the Lord on high.

92:5. Thy testimonies are become exceedingly credible: holiness becometh
thy house, O Lord, unto length of days.

Psalms Chapter 93

Deus ultionum.

God shall judge and punish the oppressors of his people.

A psalm for David himself on the fourth day of the week.

93:1. The Lord is the God to whom revenge belongeth: the God of revenge
hath acted freely.

93:2. Lift up thyself, thou that judgest the earth: render a reward to
the proud.

93:3. How long shall sinners, O Lord: how long shall sinners glory?

93:4. Shall they utter, and speak iniquity: shall all speak who work
injustice?

93:5. Thy people, O Lord, they have brought low: and they have afflicted
thy inheritance.

93:6. They have slain the widow and the stranger: and they have murdered
the fatherless.

93:7. And they have said: The Lord shall not see: neither shall the God
of Jacob understand.

93:8. Understand, ye senseless among the people: and, you fools, be wise
at last.

93:9. He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? or he that formed the
eye, doth he not consider?

93:10. He that chastiseth nations, shall he not rebuke: he that teacheth
man knowledge?

93:11. The Lord knoweth the thoughts of men, that they are vain.

93:12. Blessed is the man whom thou shalt instruct, O Lord: and shalt
teach him out of thy law.

93:13. That thou mayst give him rest from the evil days: till a pit be
dug for the wicked.

Rest from the evil days... That thou mayst mitigate the sorrows, to
which he is exposed, during the short and evil days of his mortality.

93:14. For the Lord will not cast off his people: neither will he
forsake his own inheritance.

93:15. Until justice be turned into judgment: and they that are near it
are all the upright in heart.

Until justice be turned into judgment, etc... By being put in execution;
which will be agreeable to all the upright in heart.

93:16. Who shall rise up for me against the evildoers? or who shall
stand with me against the workers of iniquity?

93:17. Unless the Lord had been my helper, my soul had almost dwelt in
hell.

93:18. If I said: My foot is moved: thy mercy, O Lord, assisted me.

93:19. According to the multitude of my sorrows in my heart, thy
comforts have given joy to my soul.

93:20. Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, who framest labour in
commandment?

Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, etc... That is, wilt thou, O
God, who art always just, admit of the seat of iniquity: that is, of
injustice, or unjust judges, to have any partnership with thee? Thou who
framest, or makest, labour in commandment, that is, thou who obligest us
to labour with all diligence to keep thy commandments.

93:21. They will hunt after the soul of the just, and will condemn
innocent blood.

93:22. But the Lord is my refuge: and my God the help of my hope.

93:23. And he will render them their iniquity: and in their malice he
will destroy them: the Lord our God will destroy them.

Psalms Chapter 94

Venite exultemus.

An invitation to adore and serve God, and to hear his voice.

Praise of a canticle for David himself.

94:1. Come let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joyfully sing to God
our saviour.

94:2. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and make a
joyful noise to him with psalms.

94:3. For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

94:4. For in his hand are all the ends of the earth: and the heights of
the mountains are his.

94:5. For the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry
land.

94:6. Come let us adore and fall down: and weep before the Lord that
made us.

94:7. For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture
and the sheep of his hand.

94:8. To day if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts:

94:9. As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the
wilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my
works.

94:10. Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said:
These always err in heart.

94:11. And these men have not known my ways: so I swore in my wrath that
they shall not enter into my rest.

Psalms Chapter 95

Cantate Domino.

An exhortation to praise God for the coming of Christ and his kingdom.

95:1. A canticle for David himself, when the house was built after the
captivity. Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: sing to the Lord, all the
earth.

When the house was built, etc... Alluding to that time, and then ordered
to be sung: but principally relating to the building of the church of
Christ, after our redemption from the captivity of Satan.

95:2. Sing ye to the Lord and bless his name: shew forth his salvation
from day to day.

95:3. Declare his glory among the Gentiles: his wonders among all
people.

95:4. For the Lord is great, and exceedingly to be praised: he is to be
feared above all gods.

95:5. For all the gods of the Gentiles are devils: but the Lord made the
heavens.

95:6. Praise and beauty are before him: holiness and majesty in his
sanctuary.

95:7. Bring ye to the Lord, O ye kindreds of the Gentiles, bring ye to
the Lord glory and honour:

95:8. Bring to the Lord glory unto his name. Bring up sacrifices, and
come into his courts:

95:9. Adore ye the Lord in his holy court. Let all the earth be moved at
his presence.

95:10. Say ye among the Gentiles, the Lord hath reigned. For he hath
corrected the world, which shall not be moved: he will judge the people
with justice.

95:11. Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad, let the sea
be moved, and the fulness thereof:

95:12. The fields and all things that are in them shall be joyful. Then
shall all the trees of the woods rejoice

95:13. before the face of the Lord, because he cometh: because he cometh
to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with justice, and the
people with his truth.

Psalms Chapter 96

Dominus regnavit.

All are invited to rejoice at the glorious coming and reign of Christ.

96:1. For the same David, when his land was restored again to him. The
Lord hath reigned, let the earth rejoice: let many islands be glad.

96:2. Clouds and darkness are round about him: justice and judgment are
the establishment of his throne.

Clouds and darkness... The coming of Christ in the clouds with great
terror and majesty to judge the world, is here prophesied.

96:3. A fire shall go before him, and shall burn his enemies round
about.

96:4. His lightnings have shone forth to the world: the earth saw and
trembled.

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