THE PSALMS.
Day 30.
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8 To bind their kings in chains and their 1. To be avenged of nobles with links of iron( 1).
the Heathens and their Princes.
9 That they may be avenged of them, as it is written( 2): such honour have all his
2." To execute upon them the judgment written."( Deut.7.)
saints.
PSALM 150.( F) Laudate Dominum.
( 3) PRAISE God in his holiness( 4) praise him in the firmament of his
3.David calleth upon all to praise the Lord of life.
power.
2 Praise him in his noble acts( 5): praise 4." His sanctuary." him according to his excellent greatness.
5." For his mighty acts.
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3 Praise him in the sound of the trumpet: praise him upon the lute and harp( 6).
4 Praise him in the cymbals and dances: praise him upon the strings and pipe.
5 Praise him upon the well- tuned cymbals praise him upon the loud cymbals. 6 Let every thing that hath breath: praise the Lord.*
6. It was the peculiar office of the Priests to blow with the trumpet, and, of the Levites,' to sing with cymbals, and harps. ( See 1 Chr. 25. 6.)
F. To David also, with little doubt, we may attribute this fine concluding Poem; it appears to be a grand chorus of all the voices and instruments belonging to the Tabernacle.
* With this wish the Psalmist of Israel closes the Songs of Sion. We can scarcely, says Bishop Lowth, conceive rightly of the original and perfect state of man, unless we assign to him the aids of harmony and poetical expression, to enable him to testify, with becoming dignity, his devout affections towards his infinite Creator! the solemnity of sacred music wafts humanity from the business of earth, to the pleasures of heaven: of these, it is revealed to us, that they consist in the practice of holy music, and holy love; for, saith St. John, ( Rev. 14. 2.)" I heard the voice of harpers, harping upon their harps;"" I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia, salvation and glory, and honour, ( Rev. 19. 1.) and power unto the Lord our God."
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Let the breath of temporal life which God hath given us, in the blessed hope of life eternal through Christ Jesus, be returned in HALLELUJAHS!