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96:5. The mountains melted like wax, at the presence of the Lord: at the
presence of the Lord of all the earth.

96:6. The heavens declared his justice: and all people saw his glory.

96:7. Let them be all confounded that adore graven things, and that
glory in their idols. Adore him, all you his angels:

96:8. Sion heard, and was glad. And the daughters of Juda rejoiced,
because of thy judgments, O Lord.

96:9. For thou art the most high Lord over all the earth: thou art
exalted exceedingly above all gods.

96:10. You that love the Lord, hate evil: the Lord preserveth the souls
of his saints, he will deliver them out of the hand of the sinner.

96:11. Light is risen to the just, and joy to the right of heart.

96:12. Rejoice, ye just, in the Lord: and give praise to the remembrance
of his holiness.

Psalms Chapter 97

Cantate Domino.

All are again invited to praise the Lord, for the victories of Christ.

97:1. A psalm for David himself. Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle:
because he hath done wonderful things. His right hand hath wrought for
him salvation, and his arm is holy.

97:2. The Lord hath made known his salvation: he hath revealed his
justice in the sight of the Gentiles.

97:3. He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of
Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

97:4. Sing joyfully to God, all the earth; make melody, rejoice and
sing.

97:5. Sing praise to the Lord on the harp, on the harp, and with the
voice of a psalm:

97:6. With long trumpets, and sound of cornet. Make a joyful noise
before the Lord our king:

97:7. Let the sea be moved and the fullness thereof: the world and they
that dwell therein.

97:8. The rivers shall clap their hands, the mountains shall rejoice
together

97:9. At the presence of the Lord: because he cometh to judge the earth.
He shall judge the world with justice, and the people with equity.

Psalms Chapter 98

Dominus regnavit.

The reign of the Lord in Sion: that is, of Christ in his church.

98:1. A psalm for David himself. The Lord hath reigned, let the people
be angry: he that sitteth on the cherubims: let the earth be moved.

Let the people be angry... Though many enemies rage, and the whole earth
be stirred up to oppose the reign of Christ, he shall still prevail.

98:2. The lord is great in Sion, and high above all people.

98:3. Let them give praise to thy great name: for it is terrible and
holy:

98:4. And the king's honour loveth judgment. Thou hast prepared
directions: thou hast done judgment and justice in Jacob.

Loveth judgment... Requireth discretion.-Ibid. Directions... Most right
and just laws to direct men.

98:5. Exalt ye the Lord our God, and adore his footstool, for it is
holy.

Adore his footstool... The ark of the covenant was called, in the Old
Testament, God's footstool: over which he was understood to sit, on his
propitiatory, or mercy seat, as on a throne, between the wings of the
cherubims, in the sanctuary: to which the children of Israel paid a
great veneration. But as this psalm evidently relates to Christ, and the
New Testament, where the ark has no place, the holy fathers understand
this text, of the worship paid by the church to the body and blood of
Christ in the sacred mysteries: inasmuch as the humanity of Christ is,
as it were, the footstool of the divinity. So St. Ambrose, L. 3. De
Spiritu Sancto, c. 12. And St. Augustine upon this psalm.

98:6. Moses and Aaron among his priests: and Samuel among them that call
upon his name. They called upon the Lord, and he heard them:

Moses and Aaron among his priests... By this it is evident, that Moses
also was a priest, and indeed the chief priest, inasmuch as he
consecrated Aaron, and offered sacrifice for him. Lev. 8. So that his
pre-eminence over Aaron makes nothing for lay church headship.

98:7. He spoke to them in the pillar of the cloud. They kept his
testimonies, and the commandment which he gave them.

98:8. Thou didst hear them, O Lord our God: thou wast a merciful God to
them, and taking vengeance on all their inventions.

All their inventions... that is, all the enterprises of their enemies
against them, as in the case of Core, Dathan, and Abiron.

98:9. Exalt ye the Lord our God, and adore at his holy mountain: for the
Lord our God is holy.

Psalms Chapter 99

Jubilate Deo.

All are invited to rejoice in God the creator of all.

99:1. A psalm of praise.

99:2. Sing joyfully to God, all the earth: serve ye the Lord with
gladness. Come in before his presence with exceeding great joy.

99:3. Know ye that the Lord he is God: he made us, and not we ourselves.
We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.

99:4. Go ye into his gates with praise, into his courts with hymns: and
give glory to him. Praise ye his name:

99:5. For the Lord is sweet, his mercy endureth for ever, and his truth
to generation and generation.

Psalms Chapter 100

Misericordiam et judicium.

The prophet exhorteth all by his example, to follow mercy and justice.

100:1. A psalm for David himself. Mercy and judgment I will sing to
thee, O Lord: I will sing,

100:2. And I will understand in the unspotted way, when thou shalt come
to me. I walked in the innocence of my heart, in the midst of my house.

I will understand, etc... That is, I will apply my mind, I will do my
endeavour, to know and to follow the perfect way of thy commandments:
not trusting to my own strength, but relying on thy coming to me by thy
grace.

100:3. I will not set before my eyes any unjust thing: I hated the
workers of iniquities.

100:4. The perverse heart did not cleave to me: and the malignant, that
turned aside from me, I would not know.

100:5. The man that in private detracted his neighbour, him did I
persecute. With him that had a proud eye, and an unsatiable heart, I
would not eat.

100:6. My eyes were upon the faithful of the earth, to sit with me: the
man that walked in the perfect way, he served me.

100:7. He that worketh pride shall not dwell in the midst of my house:
he that speaketh unjust things did not prosper before my eyes.

100:8. In the morning I put to death all the wicked of the land: that I
might cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of the Lord.

Psalms Chapter 101

Domine, exaudi.

A prayer for one in affliction: the fifth penitential psalm.

101:1. The prayer of the poor man, when he was anxious, and poured out
his supplication before the Lord.

101:2. Hear, O Lord, my prayer: and let my cry come to thee.

101:3. Turn not away thy face from me: in the day when I am in trouble,
incline thy ear to me. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear
me speedily.

101:4. For my days are vanished like smoke, and my bones are grown dry
like fuel for the fire.

101:5. I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot
to eat my bread.

101:6. Through the voice of my groaning, my bone hath cleaved to my
flesh.

101:7. I am become like to a pelican of the wilderness: I am like a
night raven in the house.

A pelican, etc... I am become through grief, like birds that affect
solitude and darkness.

101:8. I have watched, and am become as a sparrow all alone on the
housetop.

101:9. All the day long my enemies reproached me: and they that praised
me did swear against me.

101:10. For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with
weeping.

101:11. Because of thy anger and indignation: for having lifted me up
thou hast thrown me down.

101:12. My days have declined like a shadow, and I am withered like
grass.

101:13. But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever: and thy memorial to all
generations.

101:14. Thou shalt arise and have mercy on Sion: for it is time to have
mercy on it, for the time is come.

101:15. For the stones thereof have pleased thy servants: and they shall
have pity on the earth thereof.

101:16. All the Gentiles shall fear thy name, O Lord, and all the kings
of the earth thy glory.

101:17. For the Lord hath built up Sion: and he shall be seen in his
glory.

101:18. He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble: and he hath not
despised their petition.

101:19. Let these things be written unto another generation: and the
people that shall be created shall praise the Lord:

101:20. Because he hath looked forth from his high sanctuary: from
heaven the Lord hath looked upon the earth.

101:21. That he might hear the groans of them that are in fetters: that
he might release the children of the slain:

101:22. That they may declare the name of the Lord in Sion: and his
praise in Jerusalem;

101:23. When the people assemble together, and kings, to serve the Lord.

101:24. He answered him in the way of his strength: Declare unto me the
fewness of my days.

He answered him in the way of his strength... That is, the people,
mentioned in the foregoing verse, or the penitent, in whose person this
psalm is delivered, answered the Lord in the way of his strength: that
is, according to the best of his power and strength: or when he was in
the flower of his age and strength: inquiring after the fewness of his
days: to know if he should live long enough to see the happy restoration
of Sion, etc.

101:25. Call me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are unto
generation and generation.

101:26. In the beginning, O Lord, thou foundedst the earth: and the
heavens are the works of thy hands.

101:27. They shall perish but thou remainest: and all of them shall grow
old like a garment: And as a vesture thou shalt change them, and they
shall be changed.

101:28. But thou art always the selfsame, and thy years shall not fail.

101:29. The children of thy servants shall continue and their seed shall
be directed for ever.

Psalms Chapter 102

Benedic, anima.

Thanksgiving to God for his mercies.

102:1. For David himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul: and let all that is
within me bless his holy name.

102:2. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and never forget all he hath done for
thee.

102:3. Who forgiveth all thy iniquities: who healeth all thy diseases.

102:4. Who redeemeth thy life from destruction: who crowneth thee with
mercy and compassion.

102:5. Who satisfieth thy desire with good things: thy youth shall be
renewed like the eagle's.

102:6. The Lord doth mercies, and judgment for all that suffer wrong.

102:7. He hath made his ways known to Moses: his wills to the children
of Israel.

102:8. The Lord is compassionate and merciful: longsuffering and
plenteous in mercy. 102:9. He will not always be angry: nor will he
threaten for ever.

102:10. He hath not dealt with us according to our sins: nor rewarded us
according to our iniquities.

102:11. For according to the height of the heaven above the earth: he
hath strengthened his mercy towards them that fear him.

102:12. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our
iniquities from us.

102:13. As a father hath compassion on his children, so hath the Lord
compassion on them that fear him:

102:14. For he knoweth our frame. He remembereth that we are dust:

102:15. Man's days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he
flourish.

102:16. For the spirit shall pass in him, and he shall not be: and he
shall know his place no more.

102:17. But the mercy of the Lord is from eternity and unto eternity
upon them that fear him: And his justice unto children's children,

102:18. To such as keep his covenant, And are mindful of his
commandments to do them.

102:19. The lord hath prepared his throne in heaven: and his kingdom
shall rule over all.

102:20. Bless the Lord, all ye his angels: you that are mighty in
strength, and execute his word, hearkening to the voice of his orders.

102:21. Bless the Lord, all ye his hosts: you ministers of his that do
his will.

102:22. Bless the Lord, all his works: in every place of his dominion, O
my soul, bless thou the Lord.

Psalms Chapter 103

Benedic, anima.

God is to be praised for his mighty works, and wonderful providence.

103:1. For David himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul: O Lord my God, thou
art exceedingly great. Thou hast put on praise and beauty:

103:2. And art clothed with light as with a garment. Who stretchest out
the heaven like a pavilion:

103:3. Who coverest the higher rooms thereof with water. Who makest the
clouds thy chariot: who walkest upon the wings of the winds.

103:4. Who makest thy angels spirits: and thy ministers a burning fire.

103:5. Who hast founded the earth upon its own bases: it shall not be
moved for ever and ever.

103:6. The deep like a garment is its clothing: above the mountains
shall the waters stand.

103:7. At thy rebuke they shall flee: at the voice of thy thunder they
shall fear.

103:8. The mountains ascend, and the plains descend into the place which
thou hast founded for them.

103:9. Thou hast set a bound which they shall not pass over; neither
shall they return to cover the earth.

103:10. Thou sendest forth springs in the vales: between the midst of
the hills the waters shall pass.

103:11. All the beasts of the field shall drink: the wild asses shall
expect in their thirst.

103:12. Over them the birds of the air shall dwell: from the midst of
the rocks they shall give forth their voices.

103:13. Thou waterest the hills from thy upper rooms: the earth shall be
filled with the fruit of thy works:

103:14. Bringing forth grass for cattle, and herb for the service of
men. That thou mayst bring bread out of the earth:

103:15. And that wine may cheer the heart of man. That he may make the
face cheerful with oil: and that bread may strengthen man's heart.

103:16. The trees of the field shall be filled, and the cedars of
Libanus which he hath planted:

103:17. There the sparrows shall make their nests. The highest of them
is the house of the heron.

103:18. The high hills are a refuge for the harts, the rock for the
irchins.

103:19. He hath made the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going
down.

103:20. Thou hast appointed darkness, and it is night: in it shall all
the beasts of the woods go about:

103:21. The young lions roaring after their prey, and seeking their meat
from God.

103:22. The sun ariseth, and they are gathered together: and they shall
lie down in their dens.

103:23. Man shall go forth to his work, and to his labour until the
evening.

103:24. How great are thy works, O Lord? thou hast made all things in
wisdom: the earth is filled with thy riches.

103:25. So is this great sea, which stretcheth wide its arms: there are
creeping things without number: Creatures little and great.

103:26. There the ships shall go. This sea dragon which thou hast formed
to play therein.

103:27. All expect of thee that thou give them food in season.

103:28. What thou givest to them they shall gather up: when thou openest
thy hand, they shall all be filled with good.

103:29. But if thou turnest away thy face, they shall be troubled: thou
shalt take away their breath, and they shall fail, and shall return to
their dust.

103:30. Thou shalt send forth thy spirit, and they shall be created: and
thou shalt renew the face of the earth.

103:31. May the glory of the Lord endure for ever: the Lord shall
rejoice in his works.

103:32. He looketh upon the earth, and maketh it tremble: he troubleth
the mountains, and they smoke.

103:33. I will sing to the Lord as long as I live: I will sing praise to
my God while I have my being.

103:34. Let my speech be acceptable to him: but I will take delight in
the Lord.

103:35. Let sinners be consumed out of the earth, and the unjust, so
that they be no more: O my soul, bless thou the Lord.

Psalms Chapter 104

Confitemini Domino.

A thanksgiving to God for his benefits to his people Israel.

Alleluia.

104:1. Give glory to the Lord, and call upon his name: declare his deeds
among the Gentiles.

104:2. Sing to him, yea sing praises to him: relate all his wondrous
works.

104:3. Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that
seek the Lord.

104:4. Seek ye the lord, and be strengthened: seek his face evermore.

104:5. Remember his marvellous works which he hath done; his wonders,
and the judgments of his mouth.

104:6. O ye seed of Abraham his servant; ye sons of Jacob his chosen.

104:7. He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth.

104:8. He hath remembered his covenant for ever: the word which he
commanded to a thousand generations.

104:9. Which he made to Abraham; and his oath to Isaac:

104:10. And he appointed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for
an everlasting testament:

104:11. Saying: To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the lot of your
inheritance.

104:12. When they were but a small number: yea very few, and sojourners
therein:

104:13. And they passed from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to
another people.

104:14. He suffered no man to hurt them: and he reproved kings for their
sakes.

104:15. Touch ye not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets.

104:16. And he called a famine upon the land: and he broke in pieces all
the support of bread.

104:17. He sent a man before them: Joseph, who was sold for a slave.

104:18. They humbled his feet in fetters: the iron pierced his soul,

104:19. Until his word came. The word of the Lord inflamed him.

104:20. The king sent, and he released him: the ruler of the people, and
he set him at liberty.

104:21. He made him master of his house, and ruler of all his
possession.

104:22. That he might instruct his princes as himself, and teach his
ancients wisdom.

104:23. And Israel went into Egypt: and Jacob was a sojourner in the
land of Cham.

104:24. And he increased his people exceedingly: and strengthened them
over their enemies.

104:25. He turned their heart to hate his people: and to deal
deceitfully with his servants.

He turned their heart, etc... Not that God (who is never the author of
sin) moved the Egyptians to hate and persecute his people; but that the
Egyptians took occasion of hating and envying them, from the sight of
the benefits which God bestowed upon them.

104:26. He sent Moses his servant: Aaron the man whom he had chosen.

104:27. He gave them power to shew them signs, and his wonders in the
land of Cham.

104:28. He sent darkness, and made it obscure: and grieved not his
words.

Grieved not his words... That is, he was not wanting to fulfil his
words: or he did not grieve Moses and Aaron, the carriers of his words:
or he did not grieve his words, that is, his sons, the children of
Israel, who enjoyed light whilst the Egyptians were oppressed with
darkness.

104:29. He turned their waters into blood, and destroyed their fish.

104:30. Their land brought forth frogs, in the inner chambers of their
kings.

104:31. He spoke, and there came divers sorts of flies and sciniphs in
all their coasts.

Sciniphs... See the annotation, Ex.8.16.

104:32. He gave them hail for rain, a burning fire in the land.

104:33. And he destroyed their vineyards and their fig trees: and he
broke in pieces the trees of their coasts.

104:34. He spoke, and the locust came, and the bruchus, of which there
was no number.

Bruchus... An insect of the locust kind.

104:35. And they devoured all the grass in their land, and consumed all
the fruit of their ground.

104:36. And he slew all the firstborn in their land: the firstfruits of
all their labour.

104:37. And he brought them out with silver and gold: and there was not
among their tribes one that was feeble.

104:38. Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them lay upon
them.

104:39. He spread a cloud for their protection, and fire to give them
light in the night.

104:40. They asked, and the quail came: and he filled them with the
bread of heaven.

104:41. He opened the rock, and waters flowed: rivers ran down in the
dry land.

104:42. Because he remembered his holy word, which he had spoken to his
servant Abraham.

104:43. And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with
gladness.

104:44. And he gave them the lands of the Gentiles: and they possessed
the labours of the people:

104:45. That they might observe his justifications, and seek after his
law.

His justifications... That is, his commandments; which here, and in many
other places of the scripture, are called justifications, because the
keeping of them makes man just. The Protestants render it by the word
statutes, in favour of their doctrine, which does not allow good works
to justify.

Psalms Chapter 105

Confitemini Domino.

A confession of the manifold sins and ingratitudes of the Israelites.

Alleluia.

105:1. Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth
for ever.

105:2. Who shall declare the powers of the Lord? who shall set forth all
his praises?

105:3. Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do justice at all times.

105:4. Remember us, O Lord, in the favour of thy people: visit us with
thy salvation.

105:5. That we may see the good of thy chosen, that we may rejoice in
the joy of thy nation: that thou mayst be praised with thy inheritance.

105:6. We have sinned with our fathers: we have acted unjustly, we have
wrought iniquity.

105:7. Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: they remembered
not the multitude of thy mercies: And they provoked to wrath going up to
the sea, even the Red Sea.

105:8. And he saved them for his own name's sake: that he might make his
power known.

105:9. And he rebuked the Red Sea and it was dried up: and he led them
through the depths, as in a wilderness.

105:10. And he saved them from the hand of them that hated them: and he
redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

105:11. And the water covered them that afflicted them: there was not
one of them left.

105:12. And they believed his words: and they sang his praises.

105:13. They had quickly done, they forgot his works: and they waited
not for his counsel.

105:14. And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted
God in the place without water.

105:15. And he gave them their request: and sent fulness into their
souls.

105:16. And they provoked Moses in the camp, Aaron the holy one of the
Lord.

105:17. The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan: and covered the
congregation of Abiron.

105:18. And a fire was kindled in their congregation: the flame burned
the wicked.

105:19. They made also a calf in Horeb: and they adored the graven
thing.

105:20. And they changed their glory into the likeness of a calf that
eateth grass.

105:21. They forgot God, who saved them, who had done great things in
Egypt,

105:22. Wondrous works in the land of Cham: terrible things in the Red
Sea.

105:23. And 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.

105:24. And they set at nought the desirable land. They believed not his
word,

105:25. And they murmured in their tents: they hearkened not to the
voice of the Lord.

105:26. And he lifted up his hand over them: to overthrow them in the
desert;

105:27. And to cast down their seed among the nations, and to scatter
them in the countries.

105:28. They also were initiated to Beelphegor: and ate the sacrifices
of the dead.

Initiated... That is, they dedicated, or consecrated themselves to the
idol of the Moabites and Madianites, called Beelphegor, or Baal-Peor.
Num. 25.3.-Ibid. The dead... Viz., idols without life.

105:29. And they provoked him with their inventions: and destruction was
multiplied among them.

105:30. Then Phinees stood up, and pacified him: and the slaughter
ceased.

105:31. And it was reputed to him unto justice, to generation and
generation for evermore.

105:32. They provoked him also at the waters of contradiction: and Moses
was afflicted for their sakes:

105:33. Because they exasperated his spirit. And he distinguished with
his lips.

He distinguished with his lips... Moses, by occasion of the people's
rebellion and incredulity, was guilty of distinguishing with his lips;
when, instead of speaking to the rock, as God had commanded, he said to
the people, with a certain hesitation in his faith, Hear ye, rebellious
and incredulous: Can we from this rock bring out water for you? Num.
20.10.

105:34. They did not destroy the nations of which the Lord spoke unto
them.

105:35. And they were mingled among the heathens, and learned their
works:

105:36. And served their idols, and it became a stumblingblock to them.

105:37. And they sacrificed their sons, and their daughters to devils.

105:38. And they shed innocent blood: the blood of their sons and of
their daughters which they sacrificed to the idols of Chanaan. And the
land was polluted with blood,

105:39. And was defiled with their works: and they went aside after
their own inventions.

105:40. And the Lord was exceedingly angry with his people: and he
abhorred his inheritance.

105:41. And he delivered them into the hands of the nations: and they
that hated them had dominion over them.

105:42. And their enemies afflicted them: and they were humbled under
their hands:

105:43. Many times did he deliver them. But they provoked him with their
counsel: and they were brought low by their iniquities.

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