heir mouth: and two-edged
swords in their hands:

149:7. To execute vengeance upon the nations, chastisements among the
people:

149:8. To bind their kings with fetters, and their nobles with manacles
of iron.

149:9. To execute upon them the judgment that is written: this glory is
to all his saints. Alleluia.

Psalms Chapter 150

Laudate Dominum in sanctis.

An exhortation to praise God with all sorts of instruments.

Alleluia.

150:1. Praise ye the Lord in his holy places: praise ye him in the
firmament of his power.

150:2. Praise ye him for his mighty acts: praise ye him according to the
multitude of his greatness.

150:3. Praise him with the sound of trumpet: praise him with psaltery
and harp.

150:4. Praise him with timbrel and choir: praise him with strings and
organs.

150:5. Praise him on high sounding cymbals: praise him on cymbals of
joy: let every spirit praise the Lord. Alleluia.

THE BOOK OF PROVERBS

This Book is so called, because it consists of wise and weighty
sentences: regulating the morals of men: and directing them to wisdom
and virtue. And these sentences are also called PARABLES, because great
truths are often couched in them under certain figures and similitudes.

Proverbs Chapter 1

The use and end of the proverbs. An exhortation to flee the company of
the wicked: and to hearken to the voice of wisdom.

1:1. The parables of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel,

1:2. To know wisdom, and instruction:

1:3. To understand the words of prudence: and to receive the instruction
of doctrine, justice, and judgment, and equity:

1:4. To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge and
understanding.

1:5. A wise man shall hear, and shall be wiser: and he that
understandeth shall possess governments.

1:6. He shall understand a parable and the interpretation, the words of
the wise, and their mysterious sayings.

1:7. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise
wisdom and instruction.

1:8. My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law
of thy mother:

1:9. That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy
neck.

1:10. My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent not to them.

1:11. If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let
us hide snares for the innocent without cause:

1:12. Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth
down into the p