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appreciate some aspects authorship Biblical BODLEIAN LIBRARY Book of Devotion BOOK OF PSALMS Book which occupies brightest hopes depart Christian Churches Church of England composition contents couplet CROSS David devotions of individual earth Edom English poetry English Readers fairest visions fade Faith Militant Faith Triumphant feelings Gallican glory heart Hints to English holy individual Christians Introductory Hints Israel Jerusalem Jewish and Christian Jewish Church kings large a place Libanus Lord Maccabees Moab Modern Book National Elements national enemies Nature Psalms occasionally occupies so large Old Testament Longmans original partly reprinted Personal and National persons to appreciate Philistia poems poetical Prayer-book Version private devotions Prophetical books prosperity Psalm cxliv Psalmists Psalter Religion religious sacred Self-confidence SINGING WITH UNDERSTANDING sometimes found Succoth Temple Thee Thou hast thought tion translation Triumphant and Unclouded Unforgiving Spirit ungodly unto viii Volume are partly Waters of Babylon writers xviii xxiv xxix Zion
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Page 13 - If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Page 8 - Be ye sure that the Lord he is God : it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Page 6 - Then thought I to understand this : but it was too hard for me, Until I went into the sanctuary of God : then understood I the end of these men; Namely, how thou dost set them in slippery places : and castest them down, and destroyest them.
Page 20 - God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance ; thy holy temple have they defiled ; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
Page 6 - Whom have I in heaven but thee : and there is none upon earth that I desire in comparison of thee ? My flesh and my heart faileth : but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Page 6 - Nevertheless I am continually with thee : Thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, And afterward receive me to glory.
Page 25 - Neither was it mine adversary that did magnify himself against me; for then peradventure I would have hid myself from him : 14 But it was even thou, my companion, my guide, and mine own familiar friend.
Page 5 - Tush, say they, how should God perceive it : is there knowledge in the most High ? 12 Lo, these are the ungodly, these prosper in the world, and these have riches in possession : and I said, Then have I cleansed my heart in vain, and washed mine hands in innocency.
Page 31 - One the light of God's own presence o'er his ransomed people shed, chasing far the gloom and terror, brightening all the path we tread: One the object of our journey, one the faith which never tires, one the earnest looking forward, one the hope our God inspires.