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glory and honour:
8:7. And hast set him over the works of thy hands.
8:8. Thou hast subjected all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen:
moreover, the beasts also of the fields.
8:9. The birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, that pass through the
paths of the sea.
8:10. O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth!

Psalms Chapter 9
Confitebor tibi, Domine. The church praiseth God for his protection
against her enemies.
9:1. Unto the end, for the hidden things of the Son. A psalm for David.
The hidden things of the Son. . .The humility and sufferings of Christ,
the Son of God; and of good Christians, who are his sons by adoption;
are called hidden things, with regard to the children of this world, who
know not the value and merit of them.
9:2. I will give praise to thee, O Lord, with my whole heart: I will relate
all thy wonders.
9:3. I will be glad, and rejoice in thee: I will sing to thy name, O thou
most high.

9:4. When my enemy shall be turned back: they shall be weakened, and
perish before thy face.
9:5. For thou hast maintained my judgment and my cause: thou hast sat
on the throne, who judgest justice.
9:6. Thou hast rebuked the Gentiles, and the wicked one hath perished;
thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.
9:7. The swords of the enemy have failed unto the end: and their cities
thou hast destroyed. Their memory hath perished with a noise:
9:8. But the Lord remaineth for ever. He hath prepared his throne in
judgment:
9:9. And he shall judge the world in equity, he shall judge the people in
justice.
9:10. And the Lord is become a refuge for the poor: a helper in due
time in tribulation.
9:11. And let them trust in thee who know thy name: for thou hast not
forsaken them that seek thee, O Lord.
9:12. Sing ye to the Lord, who dwelleth in Sion: declare his ways
among the Gentiles:
9:13. For requiring their blood, he hath remembered them: he hath not
forgotten the cry of the poor.
9:14. Have mercy on me, O Lord: see my humiliation which I suffer
from my enemies.
9:15. Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death, that I may declare
all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion.
9:16. I will rejoice in thy salvation: the Gentiles have stuck fast in the
destruction which they prepared. Their foot hath been taken in the very
snare which they hid.

9:17. The Lord shall be known when he executeth judgments: the
sinner hath been caught in the works of his own hands.
9:18. The wicked shall be turned into hell, all the nations that forget
God.
9:19. For the poor man shall not be forgotten to the end: the patience of
the poor shall not perish for ever.
9:20. Arise, O Lord, let not man be strengthened: let the Gentiles be
judged in thy sight.
9:21. Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them: that the Gentiles may
know themselves to be but men.
Here the late Hebrew doctors divide this psalm into two, making ver.
22 the beginning of Psalm 10. And again they join Psalms 146 and 147
into one, in order that the whole number of psalms should not exceed
150. And in this manner the psalms are numbered in the Protestant
Bible.
Psalm 10 according to the Hebrews.
9a:1. Why, O Lord, hast thou retired afar off? why dost thou slight us
in our wants, in the time of trouble?
9a:2. Whilst the wicked man is proud, the poor is set on fire: they are
caught in the counsels which they devise.
9a:3. For the sinner is praised in the desires of his soul: and the unjust
man is blessed.
9a:4. The sinner hath provoked the Lord, according to the multitude of
his wrath, he will not seek him:
9a:5. God is not before his eyes: his ways are filthy at all times. Thy
judgments are removed form his sight: he shall rule over all his
enemies.

9a:6. For he hath said in his heart: I shall not be moved from generation
to generation, and shall be without evil.
9a:7. His mouth is full of cursing, and of bitterness, and of deceit:
under his tongue are labour and sorrow.
9a:8. He sitteth in ambush with the rich, in private places, that he may
kill the innocent.
9a:9. His eyes are upon the poor man: he lieth in wait, in secret, like a
lion in his den. He lieth in ambush, that he may catch the poor man: so
catch the poor, whilst he draweth him to