y terrors have troubled me.

87:18. They have come round about me like water all the day: they have
compassed me about together.

87:19. Friend and neighbour thou hast put far from me: and my
acquaintance, because of misery.

Psalms Chapter 88

Misericordias Domini.

The perpetuity of the church of Christ, in consequence of the promise of
God: which, notwithstanding, God permits her to suffer sometimes most
grievous afflictions.

88:1. Of understanding, for Ethan the Ezrahite.

88:2. The mercies of the Lord I will sing for ever. I will shew forth
thy truth with my mouth to generation and generation.

88:3. For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the
heavens: thy truth shall be prepared in them.

88:4. I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my
servant:

88:5. Thy seed will I settle for ever. And I will build up thy throne
unto generation and generation.

88:6. The heavens shall confess thy wonders, O Lord: and thy truth in
the church of the saints.

88:7. For who in the clouds can be compared to the Lord: or who among
the sons of God shall be like to God?

88:8. God, who is glorified in the assembly of the saints: great and
terrible above all them that are about him.

88:9. O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? thou art mighty, O Lord,
and thy truth is round about thee.

88:10. Thou rulest the power of the sea: and appeasest the motion of the
waves thereof.

88:11. Thou hast humbled the proud one, as one that is slain: with the
arm of thy strength thou hast scattered thy enemies.

88:12. Thine are the heavens, and thine is the earth: the world and the
fulness thereof thou hast founded:

88:13. The north and the sea thou hast created. Thabor and Hermon shall
rejoice in thy name:

88:14. Thy arm is with might. Let thy hand be strengthened, and thy
right hand exalted:

88:15. Justice and judgment are the preparation of thy throne. Mercy and
truth shall go before thy face:

88:16. Blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation. They shall walk, O
Lord, in the light of thy countenance:

88:17. And in thy name they shall rejoice all the day, and in thy
justice they shall be exalted.

88:18. For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy good
pleasure shall our horn be exalted.

88:19. For our protection is of the Lord, and of our king the holy one
of Israel.

88:20. Then thou spokest in a vision to thy saints, and saidst: I have
laid help upon on