David voweth perpetual praises. PSALMS. and raifeth up all those that be bowed down. 15 The eyes of all wait upon thee: and thou giveft them their meat in due feafon. 16 Thou openeft thine hand, and fatisfieft the defire of every living thing. 17 The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works. 18 The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. 19 He will fulfil the defire of them that fear him: be alfo will hear their cry, and will fave them. 20 The LORD preferveth all them that love him but all the wicked will he destroy. Exhortation to praise God. 513 2 The LORD doth build up Jerufalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Ifrael. 3 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. He telleth the number of the stars ; he calleth them all by their names. 5 Great is our LORD, and of great power: his understanding is infinite. 6 The LORD lifteth up the meek: he cateth the wicked down to the ground. 7 Sing unto the LORD with thankfgiving; fing praise upon the harp unto our God : 8 Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grafs to grow upon the mountains. 21 My mouth fhall fpeak the praise of 9 He giveth to the beaft his food, and the LORD and let all flesh blefs his ho-to the young ravens which cry. ly name for ever and ever. PSALM CXLVI. 1 The pfalmift voweth perpetual praifes to 2 While I live will I praife the LORD: I will fing praifes unto my God while I have any being. 10 He delighteth not in the ftrength of the horfe he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man. 11 The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in thofe that hope in his mercy. 12 Praife the LORD, O Jerufalem : Praife thy God, O Zion. 18 For he hath ftrengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath bleffed thy children within thee. 14 He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the 8 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. 4 His breath goeth forth, he return-wheat. eth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. 5 Happy is be that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whofe hope is in the LORD his God: 15 He fendeth forth his commandment upon earth his word runneth very fwiftly. 16 He giveth fnow like wool: he fcattereth the hoar froft like ashes. 17 He cafteth forth his ice like mor 6 Which made heaven, and earth, the fea, and all that therein is: which keep-fels: Who can ftand before his cold? eth truth for ever: 7 Which executeth judgment for the oppreffed which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD loofeth the prifoners 8 The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raifeth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the right equs: 9 The LORD preferveth the firangers; he relieveth the fatherlefs and widow but the way of the wicked he turneth uplide down. 10 The LORD fhall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praife the LORD. ye 18 He fendeth out his word, and melteth them: he caufeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow. 19. He theweth his word unto Jacob, his ftatutes and his judgments unto Ifrael. 20 He hath not dealt fo with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praife ye the LORD. PSALM CXLVIII. 1 The pfalmift exhorteth the celeftial, T the terreftrial, 11 and the rational creatures to praise God. PRAISE ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: praife him in the heights. 2 Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hofts. $ Praite ye him, fun and moon: praise him, all ye ftars of light. PSALM CXLVII. 1 The prophet exhorteth to praise God, for bis care of the church, his power, 6 and bis mercy; 7 for his providence; 12 for his bleffings upon the kingdom; 4 Praife him, ye heavens of heavens, 15 for his power over the meteors; 19 and ye waters that be above the heavens. and for his ordinances in the church. 5 Let them praife the name of the PRAISE ye the LORD for it is good | LORD: for he commanded, and they to fing praifes unto our God, for it is were created. pleafant; and praife is comely. : 3R 6 He hath also established them for ever 514 The use of proverbs. PROVERBS. Exbortation to avoid finners. ever and ever: he hath made a decree} which fhall not pafs. 7 Praife the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps: 8 Fire, and hail; fnow, and vapour; ftormy wind fulfilling his word: 9 Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars : 10 Beafts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl: 11 Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth': 12 Both young men and maidens; old men and children: 13 Let them praise the name of the LORD for his name alone is excellent ; his glory is above the earth and heaven. : 14 He alfo exalteth the horn of his people, the praife of all his faints; even of the children of Ifrael, a people near unto him. Praife ye the LORD. 4 For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with falvation. 5 Let the faints be joyful in glory: let them fing aloud upon their beds. 6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two edged fword in their hand; 7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; 3 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 9 To execute upon them the judgment written this honour have all his faints. Praife ye the LORD. : PSALM CL. 1. An exhortation to praise God, Swith all kinds of inftruments. PRAISE ye the LORD. Praise God in his fanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. 2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatnefs. S Praife him with the found of the trumpet: praife him with the pfaltery and harp. 4 Praife him with the timbrel and dance: praife him with ftringed inftruments and organs. 5 Praife him upon the loud cymbals : praife him upon the high founding cym 6 Let every thing that hath breath 8 Let thein praife his name in the bals. dance: let them fing praifes unto him! with the timbrel and harp. CHAP. I. ye 10 My fon, if finners entice thee, 1 The use of the proverbs. An exhortation content thon not. 10 fear God, and believe his word; 10 11 If they fay, Come with us, let us to avoid the enticings of finners. 20 lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for Wifdom complaineth of her contempt: the innocent without caufe: 2 he threateneth ber contemners. THE Proverbs of Solomon the fon of David, king of Ifrael; 2 To know wisdom and inftruction; to perceive the words of understanding; 3 To receive the inftruction of wildom, juftice, and judgment, and equity; 4 To give fubtilty to the fimple, to the young man knowledge and difcretion. 5 A wife man will hear, and will increafe learning; and a man of understanding all attain unto wife counfels : 6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wife, and their dark fayings. 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as thofe that go down into the pit : 18 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houfes with spoil: 14 Caft in thy lot among us; let us all have one purfe: 15 My fon, walk not thou in the way with them; retrain thy foot from their path: 16 For their feet run to evil, and make hafte to fhed blood. 17 Surely in vain the net is fpread in the fight of any bird. 18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own 7 The fear of the LORD is the be-lives. ginning of knowledge: but fools defpife wildom and inftruction. 8 My fon, hear the inftruction of thy father, and forfake not the law of thy mother: 19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof. 20 ¶ Wifdom crieth without; the uttereth her voice in the treets: 9 For they all be an ornament of grace 21 She crieth in the chief place of conanto thy head, and chains about thy neck. [courfe, in the openings of the gates: in the Wifdom threateneth ber contemners. Chap. ii. iii. She promiseth direction. 515 the city, the uttereth her words, faying, 22 How long, ye fimple ones, will ye love fimplicity? And the fcorners delight in their fcorning, and fools hate knowledge? 23 Turn ye at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my fpirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. 11 Difcretion fhall preferve thee, underftanding thall keep thee: 12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the map that speaketh froward things; 13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darknefs; 14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight 24 Because I have called, and ye re-in the frowardnefs of the wicked; fufed; I have ftretched out my hand, and no man regarded; 25 But ye have fet at nought all my counfel, and would none of my reproof: 26 I alfo will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; 27 When your fear cometh as defolation, and your deftruction cometh as a whirlwind; when diftrefs and anguish cometh upon you : 28 Then fhall they call upon me, but I will not anfwer; they hall feek me early, but they shall not find me: 29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: 80 They would none of my counfel: they defpifed all my reproof: 31 Therefore, fhall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. 32 For the turning away of the fimple fhall lay them, and the profperity of fools hall destroy them. 38 But whofo hearkeneth unto me fhall dwell fafely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil. CHAP. II. 1 Wifdom promifeth godliness to her chil dren. 10 and Jafety from evil company, 20 and direction in good ways. MY fon, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee: 15 Whole ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: 16 To deliver thee from the ftrange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; 17 Which foríaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. 18 For her houfe inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. 19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life. 20That thou mayeft walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous. 21 For the upright fhall dwell in the land, and the perfect fhall remain in it 22 But the wicked fhall be cut off from the earth, and the tranfgreffors hall be rooted out of it. 1 CHAP. III. An exhortation to obedience, 5 10 faith, to mortification, 9 to devotion, 11 to patience. 13 The happy gain of wisdom. 19 The power, 21 and benefits of wisdom. 27 An exbortation to charitableness, 30 peaceableness, 51 and contentednejs. 35 The curfed flate of the wicked. MY fon, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: 2 For length of days, and long life, and So that thou incline thine ear unto wildom, and apply thine heart to under-peace, thall they add to thee. ftanding; 3 Yea, if thou crieft after knowledge, and lifteft up thy voice for understanding; 4 If thou feckeft her as filver, and fearchelt for her as for hid treafures; 5 Then fhalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. 6 For the LORD giveth wifdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. 7 He layeth up found wifdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. 8 He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preferveth the way of his faints. 3 Let not mercy and truth forfake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: 4 So halt thou find favour and good understanding in the fight of God and man. 5 Truft in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own underftanding. 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he thall direct thy paths. 7 Be not wife in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. 8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. 9 Honour the LORD with thy fub9 Then halt thou underfiand right-flancë, and with the trft fruits of all coufness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path. 10 When wifdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleafant unto thy foul; thine increale : 10 So fhall thy Barns be filled with plenty, and thy prefes fall burf out with new wine. 114 My fon, defpife not the chaßen 516 The benefits of wisdom. PROVERBS. Solomon perfuades to obedience, ing of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: 12 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the fon in whom he delighteth. 13 Happy is the man that findeth wifdom, and the man that getteth underftanding 14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandife of filver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. 15 She is more precious than rubies : and all the things thou cantt defire are not to be compared unto her 16 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour 17 Her ways are ways of pleafantness, and all her paths are peace. 18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her and happy is every one that retaineth her. 19 The LORD by wifdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he eftablished the heavens. 20 By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew. 21 My fon, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep found wifdom and difcretion: 22 So fhall they be life unto thy foul, and grace to thy neck. 23 Then halt thou walk in thy way fafely, and thy foot fhall not stumble. 24 When thou lieft down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou fhalt lie down, and thy fleep fhall be fweet. CHAP. IV. 1 Solomon, to perfuade to obedience, $ fbewerb what inftruction he had of his parents, 5 to fudy wisdom, is and to Jbun the path of the quick d. 20 He exborteth in faith, 23 and janelification. HEAR, ye children, the inftruction of a father, and attend to know understanding 2 For I give you good doctrine, forfake ye not my law. 3For I was my father's fon, tender and only beloved in the fight of my mother. 4 He taught me alfo, and faid unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. 5 ¶ Get wildom, get understanding: forget i not; neither decline from the words of thy mouth. 6 Forfake her not, and the fhall preserve thee: love her, and the hall keep thee. 7 Wifdom is the principal thing; therefore get wiidem: and with all thy getting get understanding. 8 Exalt her, and the fhall promote thee: the hill bring thee to honour, when thou doft embrace her. 9 She thall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory thall the deliver to thee. 10 Hear, O my fon, and receive my fayings; and the years of thy life shall be many. 111 have taught thee in the way of wifdom; I have led thee in right paths. 12 When thou geeft, thy teps fhall not be ftraitened: and when thou runneft, 25 Be not afraid of fudden fear, nei-thou shalt not fumble. ther of the defolation of the wicked, when it cometh. 26 For the LORD fhall be thy confidence, and fhall keep thy foot from being taken. 27 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due. when it is in the power of thine hand to do it. 28 Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give: when thou haft it by thee. 29 Devife not evil againft thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth fecurely by thee. 30 Strive not with a man without caufe, if he have done thee no harm. 81 Envy thou not the oppreffor, and choose none of his ways. 32 For the froward is abomination to the LORD; but his fecret is with the righteous. 38 The curfe of the LORD is in the houfe of the wicked: but he bleffeth the habitation of the juft. 34 Surely he fcorneth the fcorners : but he giveth grace unto the lowly. 13 Take faft hold of inftruction; let her not go: keep her; for the is thy life. 14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men: 15 Avoid it, pafs not by it, turn from it, and pafs away. 16 Forthey fleep not, except they have done mifchief; and their fleep is taken away, uniets they caufe fome to fall. 17 For they eat the bread of wickedncfs, and drink the wine of violence. 18 But the path of the just is as the fhining light, that thineth more and more unto the perfect day. 19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they fumble. 20 My fon, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my fayings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midft of thine heart. 22 For they are life unto thofe that find them, and health to all their flesh. 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the iffues of life. 24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverfe lips put far fron 85 The wife hall inherit glory: but hame shall be the promotion of fools.thee. Solomon recommends wisdom. Chap. v. vi. 25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look ftraight before thee 26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established 27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil. CHAP. V. Againft idleness. 517 wicked himself, and he fhall be holden with the cords of his fins. 23 He hall die without inftruction; and in the greatnefs of his fully he hall go aftray. CHAP. VI. 1 Ag-inft fureship, oidieness, 12 and mif1 Solomon exborieth to the fludy of wif chievousness. 20 The blessings of obedidom. 3 bie Bewerb the mijchief of ence Toe mischiefs of whoredom. boredom and riot. 15 He exhorteth MY fon, if thou be furety for thy to contentedness, liberality, and chasti-friend, if thou halt ftricken thy hand ty. 22 The wicked are overtaken with a stranger, with their own fins. 2 Thou art fnared with the words of MY fon, attend unto my wifdom, and thy mouth, thou art taken with the words bow thine ear to my understanding: of thy mouth. 2 That thou mayeft regard difcretion, 8 Do this now, my fon, and deliver and that thy lips may keep knowledge.thyfelf when thou art come into the hand 5 For the lips of a ftrange woman of thy friend; go, humble thy felf, and drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is make fure thy friend. fmoother than oil: 4 Give not fleep to thine eyes, nor 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood,Дumber to thine eyelids. tharp as a two edged fword. 5 Her feet go down to death; her fleps take hold on hell. 6 Left thou thouldeft ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou cant not know them. 5 Deliver thyfelf as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. 6 Go to the ant, thou fluggard ; confider her ways, and be wife : 7 Which having no guide, overseer, 7 Hear me now therefore, O ye chil-or ruler, dren, and depart not from the words of my mouth. 8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: 9 Let thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel : 10 Left ftrangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the houfe of a stranger; 11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are confused, 12 And fay, How have I hated infiruction, and my heart defpifed reproof; 13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that inftructed me ! 14 I was almoft in all evil in the midst of the congregation and affembly. 15 Drink waters out of thine own ciftern, and running waters out of thine own well. 16 Let thy fountains be difperfed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. 17 Let them be only thine own, and not ftrangers with thee. 18 Let thy fountain be bleffed and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. 19. Let her be as the loving hind and pleafant roe; let her breafts fatisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravifhed always with her love 20 And, Why wilt thou, my fon, be rav ifhed with a frange woman, and embrace the bofoin of a stranger? 21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings. 22 His own iniquities hall take the 8 Provideth her meat in the fummer, and gathereth her food in the harveft. 9 How long wilt thou fleep, Ofluggard, When wilt thou arife out of thy fleep? 10 7er a little fleep, a little flumber, a little folding of the hands to fleep. 11 So fhall thy poverty come as one that travaileth, and thy want as an arin ed man. 12 A naughty perfon, a wicked nian, walketh with a froward mouth. 13 He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; 14 Frowardnefs is in his heart; he devifeth mischief continually; he soweth difcord. 15 Therefore fhall his calamity come fuddenly; fuddenly fhall he be broken without remedy. 16 Thefe fix things doth the LORD hate : yea, feven are an abomination unto him: 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that hed innocent blood, 18 An heart that devifeth wicked imaginations, feet that be fwift in running to mischief, 19 A falfe witnefs that fpeaketh lies, and him that foweth discord among brethren. 20 My fon, keep thy father's commandment, and fortake not the law of thy mother: 21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. 22 When thou goeft, it thall lead thee; when thou fleepeft, it shall keep thee; and |