Annotations upon the five bookes of Moses, the booke of the Psalmes, and the Song of Songs, or, Canticles VVherein the Hebrevv vvords and sentences, are compared with, and explained by the ancient Greeke and Chaldee versions, and other records and monuments of the Hebrewes: but chiefly by conference with the holy Scriptures, Moses his words, lawes and ordinances, the sacrifices, and other legall ceremonies heretofore commanded by God to the Church of Israel, are explained. With an advertisement touching some objections made against the sinceritie of the Hebrew text, and allegation of the Rabbines in these annotations. As also tables directing unto such principall things as are observed in the annotations upon each severall booke. By Henry Ainsworth.

PSAL. CII.

The Prophet in his prayer complaineth of his mise∣ries. 13 He taketh comfort in the eternity and mer∣cy of God. 19 The record hereof is for posterity. 24 He sustaineth his weaknesse by the unchangeable∣nesse of Christ.

A praier for the poore afflicted when he shall [unspec 1] be overwhelmed, and shall powre forth his meditation before Iehovah.

IEhovah heare my praier, and let my cry [unspec 2] [unspec 3] come unto thee. Hide not thy face from me in the day of distresse upon me, incline thine eare unto me; in the day I cal, make hasle, answer me. For my daies are consumed as [unspec 4] smoke, and my bones are burnt as an hearth. Mine heart is smitten as grasse and withered, [unspec 5] [unspec 6] that I forget to eat my bread. For the voice of groning, my bone cleaveth to my flesh. I am like to a Pelican of the wildernesse: I am [unspec 7] [unspec 8] as an Owle of the desarts. I watch and am as a Sparrow, solitary upon the house roofe. All the day mine enemies doe reproach mee, [unspec 9] they that rage against me, have sworne against me. For I eat ashes as bread, and mingle my [unspec 10] [unspec 11] drinkes with weeping. Because of thine an∣gry threat and thy fervent wrath, for thou hast heaved me up, and cast me downe. My [unspec 12] daies are as a shadow declined, and I am wi∣thered as grasse. And thou Iehovah sittest [unspec 13] for ever, and thy memoriall to generation and generation. Thou wilt arise, wilt have ten∣der [unspec 14] meroy upon Sion, for the time to be graci∣ous unto it, for the appointed time is come.

For thy servants delight in the stones [unspec 15] thereof, and doe pitty the dust thereof.

And the heathens shall feare the name of Ie∣hovah, [unspec 16] and all the Kings of the earth thy glo∣ry. When Iehovah shall build up Sion, shall [unspec 17] [unspec 18] appeare in his glory. Shall turne unto the praier of the lowly, and not despise their prai∣er. This shall be written for the generation [unspec 19] after, and the people created shall praise Iah.

For he hath looked downe from the height [unspec 20] of his holinesse, Iehovah from the heavens did behold the earth. To heare the groaning [unspec 21] of the prisoner, to loose the sonnes of death.

To tell in Sion the name of Iehovah, and [unspec 22] [unspec 23] his praise in Ierusalem. When the peoples shall be gathered together, & the kingdomes to serve Iehovah. Hee hath afflicted my [unspec 24] strength in the way, hee hath shortened my daies. I said, O my God, take me not away [unspec 25] in the midst of my days, thy yeers are through generation of generations. Afore-time thou [unspec 26] hast founded the earth, and the heavens are the worke of thine hands. They shall perish, [unspec 27] but thou shalt stand; and they all shall wex old as a garment, as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed. But thou [unspec 28] art the same, and thy yeeres shall not be en∣ded. The sonnes of thy servants shall dwell, [unspec 29] and their seed shal be established before thee.

Annotations.

FOr the poore] agreeing to his estate; or, of the poore. overwhelmed] with feares, cares, sor∣rowes, [unspec 1] &c. see Psal. 61. 3.

Vers. 4. as smoke] or, with the smoke, vanishing in the aire, so Psal. 37. 20. The Hebrew letters [unspec 4] a 1.1 beth, with, and b 1.2 caph, as, are one like another, & sometime put one for another, as 2 Sam. 5. 24. with 1 Chron. 14. 15. an hearth] the place whereon fire burneth. Compare Iob 30. 30.

Vers. 5. as grasse] or as the herbs smitten with blasting, Amos 4. 9. to eat my bread] The Chal∣dee [unspec 5] applieth this to the bread of the soule, the Law of God.

Vers. 6. to my flesh] that is, my skin, as Iob 19. 20. so elsewhere skin is put for flesh, Iob 18. 13. See [unspec 6] also Lam. 4. 8.

V. 7. a Pelican] a bird living in wilde & desolate places, Zeph. 2. 14. Esa. 34. 11. It seemeth to have [unspec 7] the name in Hebrew of vomiting, and to be that fowle which we call the shovelard, which swallow∣eth shell-fishes, and after vomiteth them to get the fish. It was a bird uncleane by the law, Levit. 11. 18. Some thinke it to be the bittour, which ma∣keth a loud and dolefull noise. Compare Iob 30. 29.

Vers. 9. rage against me] or vaunt against; or, would make a foole of mee: the Greeke saith, that [unspec 9] praise me; meaning fainedly. The word signifieth to lift up with praise and glory; and also inglori∣ously to vaunt, rage, or be mad: see Psal. 5. 6. and 75. 5. The word against is here to be understood: as in Prov. 8. 35. he that sinneth against me. An ex∣ample of such raging madnesse, see against Christ, Luke 6. 11.

Vers. 12. declined] or stretched out; as the sha∣dow [unspec 12] of the Sunne, when it is neere downe, which though it seeme longer, yet soone passeth away. So Psal. 109. 23. and 144. 4.

Vers. 13. sittest] that is, continuest, as the Greeke [unspec 13] explaineth it: for sitting and standing (as after in vers. 27.) are often used for sure and setled abiding. The Chaldee addeth, sittest for ever in heaven. thy memoriall] or remembrance of thee: so Psa. 135. 13. from Exod. 3. 15.

Vers. 14. the appointed time] promised for re∣stauration [unspec 14] of the Church, as Dan. 9. 2. 24, 25. &c. Ier. 29. 10.

Vers. 15. delight] or doe favour the stones, [unspec 15] though ruinous: as Nehem. 2. 13, &c. and 4. 2. Zach. 1. 12.

Vers. 18. the lowly] so the Greeke here turneth [unspec 18] it, which elsewhere we call heath, that groweth in the wildernesse, Ier. 17. 6. and 48. 6. by the name in Hebrew, it seemeth to be some naked shrub, and so a fit resemblance of Gods afflicted people, made low, naked, and desolate by their enemies. Or we may turne it, the broken downe, or ruined, from Ier. 51. 58.

Vers. 19. This shall be] or, Let this be written, to [unspec 19] wit, for remembrance to ages after, as Ex••, 17. 14. Deut. 31. 19. 21. This sheweth these to be pro∣phesses for our times. created] that is, restored and made a new; as Ps. 104. 30. Esa. 65. 18. crea∣ted in Christ Iesus unto good workes, Eph. 2. 10. So, a people borne, Psal. 22. 32.

Vers. 20. the height of his holinesse] that is, his holy [unspec 20] high place, or his high sanctuary, meaning heaven. This is taken from Deut. 26. 15.

Vers. 21. groaning] or mournfull cry: so Psal. 79. [unspec 21] 11. sonnes of death] appointed to die, as Psal. 79. 11.

Vers. 24. in the way] in the course of my life; see [unspec 24] Psal. 2. 12. He respecteth the affliction of Israel, in the way that God led them thorow the wildernesse, Deut. 8. 2, 3.

Vers. 25. take me not away] or, make me not as∣cend: [unspec 25] see Iohn 12. 32. The Chaldee addeth, take mee not away out of this world, bring mee unto the world that is to come.

Vers. 26. Afore-time] that is, At the beginning, [unspec 26] as Heb. 1. 10. where these things spoken to God, are applied to Christ, to prove his god head.

Vers. 27. shalt stand] that is, endure or continue, [unspec 27] as the Greeke expresseth it, Heb. 1. 11. change them] by folding them up, as the Greeke explaineth, Heb. 1. 12. for the heavens when they are changed shall be folden like a booke, Esa. 34. 4.

V. 28. art the same] or, art he, that is, unchange∣able, [unspec 28] Mal. 3. 6. Iam. 1. 17.

Vers. 29. shall dwell] to wit, in Sion, vers. 14. 22. [unspec 29] as is also expressed, Psal. 69. 36, 37. before thee] that is, so long as thou dost dure, meaning for ever,

as the Greeke well explaineth it. So, before the Moone and Sunne, Psal. 72. 5. 17. is so long as the Moone and Sunne endure.

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