28 And the afflicted pe. ple thou wilt || ſave : but nn chine eyes are upon the haughty,that thou mayeſt bring bs them down. |
29 For thou art my || lamp, O LORD : and the || Or, LORD will lighten my darkneſs. candle.
30 For by thee I hare || run through a troop : by ann my God have leaped over a wall. ele
31 As for God, his way is perfect ; the word of the LORD is |] tried : he is a buckler to all them that truſt |or,rfud in. him.
32 For who is God fave the LORD ? and who 3s a rock, ſave our God ?
33 God is my ſtrength and power : and he F maketh + He. my way perfec. 34 He + maketh my feet like hinds feet : and ſetteth 5; me upon my high places. 7
25 He teacheth my hands Þ to war : fo that a bow # Hb of jicel is broken by mine arms, for thewn 36 Thou haſt alſo given me the ſhield of thy ſalva- tion, and Þ thy gentleneſs hath F made me great. + Heb.th 37 Thou haſt enlarged my ſteps under me : ſo that j,urkmiy my Þ+ feet did nor lip. to me.
38 I have purſued mine enemies, and deſtroyed = them, and turned nor again until Ihad conſumed them. | |; 39 And I have conſumed them, and wounded them, ,,.. that chey could not ariſe : yea, they are fallen under Þ Heb. my feet. Ci 40 For thou haſt girded me with ſtrength to battel: them that roſe up againft me, haſt chou + ſubdued un- 4 He. der me. cau'ed tt 41 Thou haſt alſo given me the necks of mine ene- mics, that I might deſtroy them that hate me. 42 They looked, but there was none to ſave : even unto the LORD, but he anſwered them not. 43 Then did I beat them as ſmall as the duſt of the earth, 'I &id ſtamp them as the mire of the ſtreet, and did ſpread them abroad. 44 Thou alſo haſt delivered me from the ſtrivings of my people,thou haſt keept me 70 be head of the hea- then : a people which I knew not, ſhall ſerve me. + Hzb. 45 + Strangers thall [| ſubmit themſelves unto me : Jor- Fe as foon as they hear, they ſhall be obedient unto me. gt 46 + Strangers ſhall fade away, and they ſhall be a- {jm fraid out of their cloſe places. obedient: 47 The LORD liveth, and bleſſed be my rock, and t He>* exalted be the God of the rock of my ſalvation.
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9 And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies : Pious,and Merciful,and an unſpeakable Blefling to David himſelf, and thou alſo haſt lifted me up ON high above them that | *2 all his Family and People,and to the whole World, even the great
role up againft me : thou haſt delivered me from the violent man.
go Therefore IT will give thanks unto thee, C LORD, among * the heathen, and I will ſing praiſes unto thy name.
51 He 3s the tower of ſalvation for his king : and ſheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and * «c his ſeed for evermore. |
CHAP. XAFEE David's laſt words ; a charafter of himſelf ; of a good ruler, and his uſefulneſs, 1,— - 4. His faithon God's coverant with him, 5. Deſtruf.on fo the wicked, 6, 7. David's worthies amd their waliant atts,
8. 39+ OW thele be the laſt words of Davids : David the ſon of Jeſſe ſaid, and the man who 24s raiſed up on high b, the anointed of the God of Jacobec, and the ſweet Pfalmiſt of Iſrael 4 ſaid,
a Not ſimply the laſt that he ſpoke, but ſome of the laſt uttered in his laſt days upon the approach of his death: or, the laſt which he ſpake by the Spirit of God, afliſting and direQing him in an extra- ordinary manner. + Advanced from an obſcure Family and Eftate, to the Kingdom. c Whem, though deſpiſed by Men,and rejected by his own Brethren, God himſelf ſingled out from all his Fathers Houle, and out of all the Families aad Tribes of Iſrael, and anvinted to be King» 4 Or, ſw-et, or delightful, or amiable in the Songs of Iſrael | Either, Firſt, As the obje& of them : he whom the People of 1/rae! mentioned in their Songs with Joy and Praiſe, as when they ſung, Saul hath flain hu thouſands, and David his ten thouſands; and many others which doubrleſs they made and ſung concerning him. upon the occaſion of his eminent Vi&ories, and the Bleſſings of his wiſe and righteous Government ; ſome whereof we have in the Book of Pſalms. Or, 2dly, As the Author of them : he who was eminent and famous among the People of God, for the compoſing of tweet and holy Songs to the Praiſc of God, anor the uſe of his Church in after Ages : tor he did not only indite moſt of the Book of Pſalms, by the direftion of God's Spirit; but alſo invented the Tunes, or appointed Tunes to which they were to be ſung and the Inſtrument: of Muſick which were uſed in and with thoſe Holy Songs, 1 Chron. 25. 2, 6: Amos 6. 5, Itthe expreſſions here uſed ſeem arrogant, and not fit to beſaid by David in his own Praiſe ; let it be confidered, Firſt, Thar holy Men ſpake by Inſpiration from God ; and theretore muſl follow his ſuggeſtions impartially,as indeed they do,ſometimesin the publiſhing their own praites ; which yer is never done unneceſſarily, and always moderately ; and ſomerimes in the publiſhing of their
own infirmities and ſhame, as they are moved thereunto, and as the
Edification of the Church requires Secondly, That thete ſeem not to be the words of David, but of the Sacred Pen-man of this
Bock, to make for, and gain the greater attention and reipet&t unto
David's following words.
2 The ſpiricof the LORD fpake by me, and his word 244 11 my tongues :
e The following words, and conſequently the other words and Pſalms compoſed and uttered by me upon the like ſolemn occaſions, are not to be looked upon as my private Eancies or humane Inventi- ons, but both the marter and the words of them are ſuggeſted and go- verned by God's Spirit, which is the great Teacher ot the Church.
3 The God of Ifrael ſaid, * The rock of Iſrael f ſpake re me g : || He that ruleth over men muſt be juſt, ruling in the fear of God þh: |