THE PSALMS.
Day 29.
13 I will give thanks unto thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made( 1): marvellous are thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well.
14 My bones are not hid from thee: though I be made secretly, and fashioned beneath in the earth.
15 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being imperfect and in thy book were all my members written;
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16 Which day by day were fashioned: when as yet there was none of them.
17 How dear are thy counsels( 2) unto me, O God: 0 how great is the sum of them!
18 If I tell them, they are more in number than the sand: when I wake up I am present with thee.
1. The medical writers of the ancients have declared that the structure of the.
human frame must be the work of a Supreme Being.
men.
20 For they speak unrighteously against thee and thine enemies take thy name in vain.
21 Do not I hate them( 4), O Lord, that hate thee and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
22 Yea, I hate them right sore: even as though they were mine enemies.
23 Try me, O God, and seek the ground of my heart prove me, and examine my thoughts.
24 Look well if there be any way of wickedness in me: and lead me in the way everlasting.
2." How precious are Thy thoughts," Thy providential mercies.
19 Wilt thou not slay the wicked, O God( 3): depart from me, ye blood- thirsty 3." Surely Thou wilt
slay;" the Psalmist
draws this conclusion from what he has expatiated on at the beginning. 4. The term applies to the ways of the wicked; a good man hates not what God has made,( the persons of men), but what they have made themselves, their
own sins.
and beauty of the images, it is superlatively excellent. Surely no people, except the Jews, wrote in such strains, or were possessed of such sentiments. It seems evident from the latter part of this instructive Psalm, that the author penned it under persecution, as an appeal to the all- seeing Judge, between him and his enemies.
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