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1. BETH.

In thee I trust; let me not be confounded; let not my foes exult over me.

1. GHIMEL.

Let none be confounded, who look up to thee: be they confounded, who vainly prevaricate.

7, DALETH.

Make me know thy ways, JEHOVAH! and teach me to follow thy paths.

7. HE.

Direct me to thy truth, and teach me : for thou art the God of my falvation.

1. VAU.

And to thee I daily look up,

because of thy goodness, JEHOVAH!|

1. ZAIN.

Remember, JEHOVAH! thy tender mercies,

and thy kindneffes of former days.

. HETH.

The fins and crimes of my youth remember not; remember me, according to thine own bounty!

D. TETH.

Bountiful and righteous is JEHOVAH: therefore he showeth finners the right track.

. JOD.

The meek he directeth to justice;

to the meek he pointeth out his way.

3. CHAPH.

All the paths of JEHOVAH are mercy and truth, to those who obferve his precepts and teftimonies.

3. LAMED.

For the fake of thine own name, JEHOVAH ! pardon mine iniquity although great it is.

D. MEM.

Who is the man that revereth JEHOVAH? to him he will show the moft eligible way.

J. NUN.

That man fhall enjoy prosperity;

and his feed fhall inherit the land.

D. SAMECH.

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The fecret of JEHOVAH is for those who revere him; 15

and to them he maketh known his covenant.

. AIN.

Mine eyes are ever directed to JEHOVAH, because out of the fnare he can draw my

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Regard me, and have compaffion on me; for defolate and miferable am I.

Y. TSADE.

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Preferve my life, and deliver me:

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let me not be confounded, fince in thee I truft.

H. THAU.

May integrity and justice protect me;

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fince on thee I depend, JEHOVAH.

O God! redeem Ifrael

from all his diftreffes.

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NOTES.

Ver. 1. My God. These words, in the present Heb. text have been disjointed from ver. 1. and begin ver. 2. which destroys the alphabetic arrangement. This is not all: feveral words have been dropt after My God and I can see nothing so probable as the words which I have supplied in Italics, from pfalm 86. 2. which pfalm resembles this fo very much, that the one feems to be modelled on the other.-Ver. 6. Here again, a letter of the first comma has been dropt; and the whole fecond comma has been transposed to the end of ver. 7. This I have reftored to its proper place, and supplied the letter wanting, reprefented in my verfion by And.-Ver. 19. This verfe in the present Heb. begins not with a koph, but with a reb, which is the letter of the following verse. Another word therefore must be fought to rectify the mistake and various fubftitutes have been thought of. Some think the word or words wanting should be Cut bort, others prefer Draw near. I am clearly of opinion, with Michaëlis, that the word wanting is Meet. "Meet my afflictions, &c." in the fame fenfe as we fay to meet one's wishes, defires, &c.—Ver. 23. This is an extra verse; and may have been added by fome transcriber.

PSALM XXVI.-al. XXV.

I see no reason to doubt of this psalm baving been composed by David, in distress; that is, during the rebellion of Absbalom. See ver. 7. and 8.

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A PSALM OF DAVID.

JUDGE thou my caufe, JEHOVAH!

for in mine innocence I have walked :

fince I truft in JEHOVAH! I fhall not totter.

Search me, JEHOVAH ! and bring me to the teft; explore my reins and mine heart:

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with the wicked I never fit down.
I wash mine hands in innocence,
when I approach thine altar, JEHOVAH!
to make my voice be heard in thy praise,

and to recount all thy wondrous works.

I love, JEHOVAH! the house where thou dwelleft; and the place of the tabernacle of thy glory.

Aggregate not my foul with finners,

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nor my life with fanguinary men :
who harbour malicious defigns;
while their right hand is full of bribes.
But, as I walk in mine innocence,
redeem me and have mercy on me.

When my foot shall stand on even ground;
I will, in the affemblies, blefs JEHOVAH!

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Ver. 3. Thy bounty bath ever been before mine eyes, &c. The meaning is, that he has made God's goodness and truth the model of his own.Ver. 12. When my foot ball ftand on even ground, i. e. when I fhall be delivered out of my present fituation, and be again restored to a state of fecurity. Some modern tranflators paraphrase thus: I now perceive that I fball be faved.

PSALM XXVII.—al. XXVI.

Of the same stamp with the preceding one; and most probably composed on the same occasion.

A PSALM OF DAVID.

JEHOVAH is my light, and my falvation:

whom then shall I fear?

JEHOVAH is the fafeguard of my life:

whom then fhall I dread?

When to devour my flesh the malevolent advanced- 2 those who perfecuted me, and were mine enemies;

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they themselves ftumbled, and fell back!
Should an hoft encamp about me,

mine heart would not be afraid:
fhould war be waged against me,

even then would I be confident.

One thing I ask of JEHOVAH,
and this I earnestly request;

that I may dwell by the house of JEHOVAH,

all the days of my life:

to contemplate the beauty of JEHOVAH,
and in his palace search for a place :

where, in a covert, he may hide me in the evil day;
may hide me in his interior tabernacle;

and place me in perfect fecurity.

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Even now, he may exalt mine head

above all my furrounding enemies,
that I may offer, at his tabernacle,
facrifices of praife ;

and fing and pfalmodize to JEHOVAH.

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hide not, JEHOVAH ! from me thy face:

fhun not, in ire, thy fervant:

thou art my refuge, abandon me not;

nor forfake me, O God of my falvation !

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let JEHOVAH take me up.

Teach me, JEHOVAH! thy way;

and guide me in the right path;

on account of mine enemies:

to the will of mine enemies deliver me not.

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