thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace,* neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same.2 Chron. xxxiv. 26-28.

* Though Josiah was wounded in battle, he died in Jerusalem, at peace with God, and saw none of the calamities here foretold.

XVII. The glory of our Lord and Saviour celebrated.

O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

Who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength* Because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.+

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,

* See the next subject, Matt. xxi. 15, 16. + Satan, who tempted the chief priests and scribes to prevent the children from praising Christ.

The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

What is man, that thou art mindful of him?

And the son of man, that thou visitest him?

For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels,

And hast crowned him with glory and honour.

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands;

Thou hast put all things under his feet: *

All sheep and oxen,

Yea, and the beasts of the field;

The fowl of the air, and the fish of

the sea,

And whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

O LORD our Lord,

How excellent is thy name in all the earth!-Psa. viii.

*See Heb. ii. 6-8.

XV

Christ in the temple.-The children's hosanna.

And when he was come into Jerusalem,* all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet † of Nazareth of Galilee.

And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, and said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them.

And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna § to the

*See ver. 1 to 9. + Deut. viii. 18. + They changed foreign money into that current at Jerusalem. ? Sare, we beseech thee.

Son of David; they were sore displeased, and said unto him, Hearest thou what these say ? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?* -Matt. xxi. 10-17.

See the preceding subject, Psa. viii. 2.

XIX. The difference between the righteous and the wicked.

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly,

Nor standeth in the way of sinners, Nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.* But his delight is in the law of the LORD;

And in his law doth he meditate day and night.

And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water,

*Here are three characters: bad, worse, worst, namely, the ungodly-the sinners-the scornful; and three marks of progress in evil: walking in the counsel, standing in the way, and sitting in the seat.

That bringeth forth his fruit in his

season;

His leaf also shall not wither;

And whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodly are not so:

But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,*

Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

For the LORD knoweth † the the righteous:

way of

But the way of the ungodly shall perish.-Psa. i.

*When judged shall be condemned. + Approveth.

XX. Prayer.-Exhortation.-The worldling and the believer contrasted.

Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness:

Thou has enlarged me when I was in distress;

Have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.