198 rage : 
A TRANSLATION of the Eighteenth Psat, 
from the unpointed Hebrew Text. 
_ By Sterxen WEAVER Browne. 
Will love thee, O Jehovah, my ftrength! 
Jehovah is my rock, and my fortrefs, 
My deliverer, my God, and my ftrength, 
In whom I will take refuge; 
My fhield, the horé of my deliverance, and 
my high tower. 
T invoked Jehovah, the glorified, 
Anzu from mine enemies was I faved. 
The breakers *- of death faced me, 
And the torrents of iniquity difturbed me 5 
The toils of the grave furrounded me, 
The fnares of death were before me. 
In my affliction Tinvoked Jehovah, 
And loudly cried to my God. 
He heard my voice from his tempie, 
And my cry in his prefence entered into his 
ears. 
The earth rocked and fhook; ' 
Yea, the foundations of the mountains 
trembied 
find quaked, becaufe he was wroth: 
Smoke defcended from his noftrils, 
And a deftroying fire from his mouth 5 
Coals were kindled by it. 
He bowed the heavens, and defcended 5 
Thick darknefs was under his feet: 
He rode on a cherub, he flew, 
Yea, he flew on the wings of the wind. 
He made daricnefs his covert ; 
~The veil furrounding him 
Was*black waters, and the thick clouds of 
the air: 
From the brightnefs preceding him 
The thick clouds pafied away, 
And +} became bright a fiery meteors. 
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%* Upon comparing this pfalm with the 
twenty-fecond chapter of the fecond book of 
Samuel, I have preferred the reading of 
SAV to ar as it agrees better with 
the context. See Street's °° Verfon of the 
Pfalns,” where NAWID is tranflated billows ; 
but the word I have chofen preferves the 
radical fenfe of the original Hebrew, expreffes 
the metaphor more forcibly, and is more 
aptly fuited to the parallelifm bya OTS; 
which I have rendered torrents of iniguity. 
+ In the printed Hebrew text, ‘* the 
fourteenth verfe of this pfalm is very irre- 
gular, having three hemiftics, the laft of 
which is not atall exprefied in its corref{pond- 
ing verfe in Samuel; wherefore we may pre- 
fume fucha third hemittic ts mot original: and 
that it hos heen interpolated, feems to be 
certain; becaufe, ewen in the pfalm, it is not 
‘found in the Vatican, Aldine, Compluten- 
fian, or Alexandrian copies of the Septuagint, 
though inferted in Breitinger’s edition of the 
latter, but in a lefs chara€&ter, and with an * 
afterifk, and not in the old Italic verfion 
Original Poetry. 
[Sept 
Jehovah thundered in the heavens, 
The Moft High iifued forth his voice; 
He fent forth his errows, and-fcattered them, 
He multiplied his lightnings, and deftroyed 
them ; 
The channels of the waters were feen, 
And the foundations of the world were made 
bare, 
At thy rebuke, G Jehovah, 
At the bla& of the breath of thy noftrils. 
He fent from on high, he took me; 
He drew me out of many waters. 
He delivered me from my powerful enemies, 
From thofe of greater might, who hated mew. 
They oppofed me in the day of calamity 5 
But Jehovah was my ‘upport. ’ 
He made me go forth into a broad place, 
And delivered mye, becaufe he delighted is 
me. 
Jehovah requited me according to my righte= 
oufnefs,. 
According to the purity of my hands he re= 
paid me: ; 
For I kept the ways of Jehovah, 
And departed not impioufly from my God. 
His judgments were before me, 
And I removed not from me his ftatutes : 
IT was perfect with him, 
And kept me from mine iniquity. 
Jehovah hath rewarded me according to my 
righteoufnefs, 
According to the purity of my hands before 
his fearch. 
With the merciful man thou w 
merciful 5 
ith the upright man thou wilt thew thyfelf 
upright 5 : 
With the pure thou wilt fhew thyfelf pure; 
But with the perverfe thou wilt contend. 
Thou faveft the affli€ted people, 
And makeft the lofty looks humble. 
Thou caufe& my lamp to burn elear 5 
Jehovah, my God, maketh my darknefs light. 
By thee have I run througir the hoft, 
By my God-I have leaped over a wall. 
As for God, his ways are perfect; 
The word of Jehovah is proved: 
He is a fhield to all who take fhelter under 
him. 
Who is a god, but Jehovah? 
Whois a rock, except aur God? 
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publithed by Blanchini. This hemiftic, thens 
feems to have been inferted into this verfe 
from the preceding, as Capellus fuppofes ; 
and the manner of this infertien is difcovered 
to us by five manufcripts, which have the 
pfalms in hemiftics, with a vacant {pace be- 
‘tween them.”—Kennicott’s ‘* State of the 
printed Hebrew Text of the Old Teftament con- 
fidered,” vol. i. pages 465 and 466: Oxford, 
175% On this authority I have omitted the 
third hemiftic of the fourteenth verie in the 
tranflation.. 1 have alio preferred the reading 
of {UPI in 2d Sam. xxii, 13. ~ . 
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