The Lord's own goodness in the land
of them that living be.

14 Wait on the Lord, and be thou strong,
and he shall strength afford
Unto thine heart; yea, do thou wait
I say, upon the Lord.

PARALLEL PASSAGES.

Ver. 1-Mic. vii. 7, 8.

Ver. 5-Psalm xc.

PSALM XXVII.

SECOND OR BIBLE VERSION.-[Cooke's Chant.]

1 THE LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?

The LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be a-fraid?

2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes,

Came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

3 Though an host should en-camp a-gainst me, My heart shall not fear:

Though war should rise a-gainst me,

In this will I be confident.

4 One thing have I de-sired of the LORD, That will I seek after ;

That I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life,

To behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inqui.re in his temple.

5 For in the time of trouble

He shall hide me in his pa-vilion :

In the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me ; He shall set me up-on a rock.

6 And now shall mine head be lift-ed up Above mine ene-mies round a-bout me:

Therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacri-
fices of joy:

I will sing, yea, I will sing praises un-to the
LORD.

7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice:
Have mercy also up-on me, and answer me.
8 When thou saidst, Seek ye my face;

My heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will
I seek.

9 Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant a-way in anger;

Thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my sal-vation.

10 When my father and my mother for-sake me, Then the LORD will take me up.

11 Teach me thy way, O LORD,

And lead me in a plain path, be-cau.se of mine enemies.

12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies :

For false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD

In the land of the living.

14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart:

Wait, I say, on the LORD.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost:

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

PSALM XXVIII.

A Psalm of David.

If this Psalm cannot with full propriety be applied to the Lord Jesus, it may truly be used by his members. In verses 1, 2, the believer looks up to God as the hearer of prayer. In verses 3-5, he prays for his own deliverance from carnal men, whose hearts enmity against God," and for the vindication of the Divine glory, in causing men to reap what they have sown. In verse 6, the believer blesses God for hearing his prayer. In verses 7, 8,

are

he lays down, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, some refreshing views of God's relation to his people, and concludes with prayer for the maintenance and prosperity of the children of God. May we enter into the spirit of the Psalm. The words are given, but unless the Spirit enables us to use them, they are but a dead letter. In verse 4, the future sense is preferable-"Thou wilt give."

[ST. ANDREW'S.]

1 To thee I'll cry, O Lord, my rock,
hold not thy peace to me:

Lest, like those that to pit descend,
I by thy silence be.

2 The voice hear of my humble pray'rs,
when unto thee I cry:

When to thy holy oracle

I lift mine hands on high.

3 With ill men draw me not away,
that work iniquity;

That speak peace to their friends, while in
their hearts doth mischief lie.

4 Give them according to their deeds,
and ills endeavoured:

And as their handiworks deserve
to them be rendered.

5 God shall not build, but them destroy,
who would not understand

The Lord's own works, nor did regard
the doing of his hand.

6 For ever blessed be the Lord :
for graciously he heard
The voice of my petitions,

and prayers did regard.

7 The Lord's my strength and shield, my heart upon him did rely,

8

And I am helped; hence my heart
doth joy exceedingly;

And with my song I will him praise.
Their strength is God alone:
He also is the saving strength

of his anointed One.

9 O, thine own people do thou save,
bless thine inheritance:

Them also do thou feed, and them
for evermore advance.

PARALLEL PASSAGES.

Ver. 2-1 Tim. ii. 8.

Ver. 8-Rom. viii. 11.

PSALM XXIX.

A Psalm of David.

THIS is a solemn address of the Holy Ghost to the kings and princes of the earth to glorify God in their official capacity. They are exhorted to establish the church of Christ throughout their kingdoms, because (verses 3-8) God is more to be feared than the clamours of a godless people, or any earthly individual or body; secondly, because Christ is an everlasting King, under whom all kings are but subjects; and lastly, because God will strengthen and bless and exalt the kings and nations that honour and serve him. May all the kings of the earth feel it their duty to recognise the church of Christ, and to throw their shields over her altars, and to provide and support faithful ministers to teach their subjects the truth as it is in Jesus.

[ST. DAVID'S.]

1 GIVE ye unto the Lord, ye sons that of the mighty be,

All strength and glory to the Lord
with cheerfulness give ye.

2 Unto the Lord the glory give
that to his name is due ;

And in the beauty of holiness
unto JEHOVAH bow.

3 The Lord's voice on the waters is:
the God of majesty

Doth thunder, and on multitudes
of waters sitteth he.

4 A pow'rful voice it is that comes
out from the Lord most high:
The voice of that great God is full
of glorious majesty.

5 The voice of the Eternal doth asunder cedars tear:

Yea, God the Lord doth cedars break
that Lebanon doth bear.
6 He makes them like a calf to skip :
e'en that great Lebanon,

And like to a young unicorn
the mountain Sirion.

7 God's voice divides the flames of fire; The desert it doth shake;

8

The Lord doth make the wilderness

of Kadesh all to quake.

9 God's voice doth make the hinds to calve;

it makes the forest bare;

And in his temple ev'ry one

his glory doth declare.

10 The Lord sits on the floods: the Lord

sits King, and ever shall.

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