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* Or, Egypt.

5 And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.

6 For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?

7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.

8 O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?

9 Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.

10 Thou hast broken * Rahab in pieces, as one that is + Heb. with slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies + with thy strong

the arm of thy

strength.

1 Gen. i. 1. Ps. xxiv. 1. & 1.

12.

Heb. an arm with might.

Or, establishment.

|| Or, our shield is of the

LORD, and

our king is of the Holy One

fracl, Ps.

xlvii. 9.

m 1 Sam. xvi.

12.

arm.

11 The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them. 12 The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.

13 Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.

14 Justice and judgment are the § habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.

15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance. 16 In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.

17 For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.

18 For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.

19 Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

20 m I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him :

21 With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him.

22 The
shall not exact upon
enemy
wickedness afflict him.

him;

nor the son of

23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.

24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.

25 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.

26 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, A. C. 539. and the rock of my salvation.

27 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.

28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

29 His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;

31 If they * break my statutes, and keep not my com- * Heb. promandments;

32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

fane my statutes.

33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness + will I not utterly + Heb. I will take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.

34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that

is gone out of my lips.

not make void from him. Heb. to lic.

35 Once have I sworn by my holiness § that I will not! lie unto David.

n

Heb. If I

36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the n 2 Sam. vii. sun before me.

37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven.

Selah.

38 But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.

39 Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant : thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground. 40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.

41 All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.

42 Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.

43 Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast

not made him to stand in the battle.

16. Luke i. 33. John xii, 31.

ness.

44 Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his Heb. bright throne down to the ground.

45 The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame.

Selah.

46 How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?

47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain ?

48 What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

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o 2 Sam. vii. 15.

* Heb. in the

nights.

+ Or, upon the

solemn

with the harp. Heb. Hig

gaion, Ps. ix.

16.

p Hos. xiv. 5.

49 LORD, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?

50 Remember, LORD, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people; 51 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.

52 Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen.

PSALM XCII.

Amen, and

1 The prophet exhorteth to praise God, 4 for his great works, 6 for his judgments on the wicked, 10 and for his goodness to the godly.

¶ A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day.

1 It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most high:

2 To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness* every night,

3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; † upon the harp with a solemn sound. +

4 For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.

5 O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.

6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

7 When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

8 But thou, LORD, art most high for evermore.

9 For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. 10 But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.

11 Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.

12 P The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

13 Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.

14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall Heb.green. be fat and § flourishing;

15 To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

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PSALM XCIII.

The majesty, power, and holiness of Christ's kingdom.

1 The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.

them.

2 Thy throne is established * of old: thou art from ever- * Heb. from lasting.

3 The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.

4 The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.

5 Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, + for ever.

PSALM CXXIII 48.

1 The godly profess their confidence in God, 3 and pray to be delivered from

contempt.

A Song of Degrees.

1 Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.

2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.

3 Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

SECTION XVI.

Belshazzar's Feast.

DANIEL V 49.

1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

48 Psalm cxxiii. is reckoned likewise by Calmet, Horne, and Gray, among those which were composed during the captivity, or one of the principal distresses of the church.

The fifth chapter of Daniel is inserted here as in its proper historical place: but who the Belshazzar of Daniel was, and the time of his death, has given rise to much conjecture, and both are uncertain. This uncertainty arises from the difficulty of ascertaining the succession of the kings of Babylon, between the death of Nebuchadnezzar, and the accession of Cyrus to the Babylonian empire,

+ Heb. to

length of days.

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2 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to

after the death of Darius. The extreme confusion which prevails among the historians of this period, may be seen from the following table.

SUCCESSION OF THE KINGS OF BABYLON,

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The duration of these reigns is given variously by commentators.

After examining the several hypotheses here inserted, I cannot but think that the system proposed by Lightfoot is the most consistent, and the most conformable with Scripture.

Three facts seem to be implied in the book of Daniel; first, that Belshazzar was of the family of Nebuchadnezzar; for he is repeatedly called his son, and

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