An exhortation to d Ps. 142. 3. & 143. 4. Deut. 32. 7. f Ps. 42. 8. 8 Ps. 4. 4. h Ps. 74. 1. 1 Ps. 85. 1. * Rom. 9. 6. 2 Heb. to generation and generation? 1 Isai. 49. 15. m Ps. 31. 22. n Ps. 143. 5. • Ps. 73, 17. PSALMS. 13 Thy way, O God, is in the P Exod. 15. 11. sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God? PSALM LXXVIII. learn God's law. 1 An exhortation both to learn and to preach the law of God. 9 The story of God's wrath against the incredulous and disobedient. 67 The Israelites being rejected, God chose Judah, Zion, and David. " VIVE ear, O my people, to my for Asaph to law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old : a tion. • Isai. 51. 4. b Ps. 49. 4. Matt. 13. 35. 3 Which we have heard and Ps. 44. 1. known, and our fathers have told us. 4 We will not hide them from Deut. 4. 9. their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Exod. 12. 26, LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. 5 For the established a testimony Ps. 147. 19. in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: 6 h That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: k 7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: 8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation 31 that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God. 9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. m 10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his 2 Kings 17. law; 15. n Ps. 106. 13. • Exod. 7, & 8, & 9, & 10, & 11, & 12. 11 And "forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them. 12° Marvellous things did he in ver. 43. the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. r 13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap. Gen. 32. 3. Numb. 13. 22. Isai. 19. 11, 13. Ezek. 30. 14. 1 Exod. 14. 21. Exod. 15. 8. Ps. 33. 7. • Acts 7. 42. & 14. 16. Rom. 1. 24, 26. 6 Or, to the hardness of their hearts, or, imaginations. P Deut. 5. 29. & 10. 12, 13. & 32. 29. Isai. 48. 18. Ps. 18. 45. Rom. 1. 30. 7 Or, yielded feigned obedience. Ps. 18. 44. & 66. 3. 8 Heb. lied. 10 1I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: "open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. 11 But my people would not heark 2 with the finest of the wheat: and PSALM LXXXII. 1 The psalmist, having exhorted the judges, OD standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods. 2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. 4 3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. e 4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked. 5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course. h 6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. 7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. 8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: 'for thou shalt inherit all nations. PSALM LXXXIII. 1 A complaint to God of the enemies' conspi- A Song or Psalm of Asaph. a 6 Or, for Asaph. Ps. 28. 1. en to my voice; and Israel would KEEP not thou silence, O God R3, 22 12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust and they walked in their own counsels. 13 POh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! 14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. 15 The haters of the LORD should have 78 submitted themselves unto him but their time should have Deut. 32. 13, endured for ever. 14. Ps. 147. 14. 2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult and they that hate thee Ps. 81. 15. have lifted up the head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. 4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. 5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are con16 He should have fed them also federate against thee: |