CHAP. XIV. DELIGHT IN GOD-HOPE IN GOD. DELIGHT IN GOD. Job xxii. 21. CXIV. Delight in God. Acquaint thyself with God.-Ver. 26. Then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and lift up thy face unto God. Ps. xxxvii. 4. Delight thyself in the Lord, and he shall give thee the desires of thy heart. Isa. lviii. 14. Keep the sabbath, &c. Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord, and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father. CXV. Things of God delighted in by his people. Neh. ix. 25. Thy people delighted themselves in thy great goodness. Ps. i. 2. A good man's delight is in the law of the Lord. Ps. cxix. 70. 77. 92. vii. 22. Rom. xciv. 19. Thy comforts delight my soul. cxii. 1. Blessed is the man that delighteth in God's commandments. exix. 16. I will delight myself in thy statutes. Ver. 47. 143. Isa, Iviii. 13. Call the sabbath a delight. CXVI. Delight in Christ. Song ii. 3. I sat down under his shadow with great delight. Mal. iii. 1. The Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant whom ye delight in. Isa. xli. 16. GLORYING IN GOD. CXVII. Glorying in God. Thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, and glory in the Holy One of Israel. Ch. xlv. 25. Jer. iv. 2. Jer. ix. 24. Let him that glorieth glory in the Lord. Ps. Ixiii. 11.-lxiv. 10.-cv. 3.cvi. 4, 5. 1 Cor. i. 31. 2 Cor. x. 17. Gal. vi. 14. God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world. CXVIII. Sinful glorying forbidden. Jer. ix. 23. Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches. 1 Cor. i. 29. No man should glory in God's sight. Rom. iv. 2. iii. 21. Let no man glory in man. iv. 7. Who maketh thee to differ? and what Now hast thou that thou didst not receive? if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it? ix. 16. Though I preach the gospel I have nothing to glory of, for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel. 159 2 Cor. xi. 18. Many glory after the flesh. 1 Cor. v. 6. James iii. 14. xii. 5. Of myself will I not glory, but of mine infirmities. Ver. 9. Ch. xi. 30. SINFUL BOASTING. CXX. Sinful boasting of the wicked. Ps. x. 3, 4. The wicked boasteth of his heart's desire. God is not in all his thoughts. xlix. 6. They boast themselves of the multitude of their riches. lii. 1. Why boastest thou thyself in mischief? xciv. 4. How long shall the workers of iniquity boast themselves?-Ver. 7. They say, The Lord shall not see nor regard it. Prov. xxvii. 1. Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Isa. x. 15. Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? Ezek. xxxv. 13. With your mouth ye have boasted against me.-Ver. 14. Thus saith the Lord, I will make you desolate. Rom. i. 30. Wicked men are boasters. 2 Tim. iii. 2. ii. 17, 18. Thou makest thy boast of God, and knowest his will.-Ver. 23. Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God? iii. 27. Boasting is excluded by the law of faith. James iii. 5. The tongue boasteth great things. iv. 16. Ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. HOPE IN GOD. CXXI. Hope in God and in Christ. Ezra x. 2. We have trespassed against our God, yet now is there hope concerning this. Job v. 15, 16. God saveth the poor from the sword, and from the hand of the mighty. The poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth. xi. 14. Put iniquity far from thee.-Ver. 18. Then thou shalt be secure, because there is hope. Ps. xvi. 9, 10. My flesh shall rest in hope: For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell. Acts ii. 26. xxii. 9. Thou didst make me to hope when | dust, if so be there may be hope.-Ver. 31. I was upon my mother's breasts. xxxi. 24. Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord. xxxiii. 18. The eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy. Ver. 22. Let thy mercy, Lord, be upon us, according as we hope in thee. Ps. cxlvii. 11. xxxviii. 15. For in thee, O Lord, do I hope; thou wilt hear, O Lord, my God. xxxix. 7. Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. xlii. 5. Why art thou cast down, O my soul? why art thou disquieted in me? Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him, for the help of his countenance. Ver. 11. Ps. lxxi. 4, 5. 14. lxxviii. 5. He commanded our fathers, that they should make known to their children his testimony and his law.-Ver. 7. That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments. cxix. 43. I have hoped in thy judgments. Ver. 49. Remember the word on which thou hast caused me to hope.-Ver. 74. I have hoped in thy word. Ver. 81. 114. 116. Ver. 166. Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments. cxxx. 7. Let Israel hope in the Lord; for with the Lord there is mercy, and plenteous redemption. Ps. cxxxi. 3. cxlvi. 5. Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, and whose hope is in the Lord his God. Prov, x. 28. The hope of the righteous shall be gladness; but the expectation of the wicked shall perish. xiv. 32. The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death. Jer. iii. 23. In vain is salvation hoped for from the hills and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel. xiv. 8. O Lord, the hope of Israel and the Saviour thereof in time of trouble. xvii. 7. Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. Ver. 13. O Lord, the hope of Israel.-Ver. 17. Thou art my hope in the day of evil. xxxi. 17. There is hope, saith the Lord, that thy children shall come again from captivity. 1. 7. They sinned against the Lord, the hope of their fathers. Lam. iii. 24. The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. Ver. 26. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.-Ver. 29. He putteth his mouth in the For the Lord will not cast off for ever. Hos. ii. 15. The Lord saith, I will give her (the church) the valley of Achor for a door of hope. Joel iii. 16. The Lord will be the hope of his people. Zech. ix. 12. Turn you to the strong-hold, ye prisoners of hope. Acts xxiii. 6. Of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question, said Paul. xxiv. 15. I have hope toward God, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead. Ch. xxvi. 6, 7.-xxviii. 20. Rom. iv. 18. Abraham believed in hope. v. 2. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Ver. 4, 5. Experience worketh hope: and hope maketh not ashamed. viii. 24, 25. We are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope; for what a man seeth why doth he yet hope for? If we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. xii. 12. Rejoicing in hope. xv. 4. Whatsoever things were written aforetime, were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. Ver. 13. Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Ghost. 1 Cor. ix. 10. For our sakes this is written, That he that plougheth should plough in hope, and that he that thresheth in hope should be a partaker of his hope. xiii. 7. Charity hopeth all things.-Ver. 13 Now abideth faith, hope, charity. xv. 19. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. 2 Cor. iii. 12. Seeing we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech. Gal. v. 5. We through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness through faith. Eph. i. 18. Your understanding being enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints. iv. 4. Ye are called in one hope of your calling. Phil. i. 20. My earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed; but that with all boldness, as always, so now also, Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death. Col. i. 5. The hope laid up for you in heaven. Ver. 23. Be not moved away from the hope of the gospel.-Ver. 27. Christ in you the hope of glory. 1 Thess. i. 2, 3. We give thinks to God always for you; remembering your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father. ii. 19. What is our hope or joy, or crown of rejoicing? are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ? v. 8. Let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. 2 Thess. ii. 16. Now our Lord Jesus Christ, and God even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work. 1 Tim. i. 1. The Lord Jesus Christ which is our hope. Tit. i. 2. In hope of eternal life, which God hath promised. ii. 13. Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God our Saviour, who gave himself for us. iii.7. Being justified by his grace, we shall be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. Heb. iii. 6. Hold fast the confidence and rejoicing of hope firm unto the end. vi. 11. Full assurance of hope. Ver. 17-19. God confirmed his promise by an oath; that we might have a strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil. Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest. vii. 19. The law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did. xi. 1. Faith is the substance of things hoped for. 1 Pet.i.3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy, hath begotten us again unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Ver. 13. Be sober and hope to the end, for the grace, &c.-Ver. 21. God raised Christ from the dead, and gave him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God. iii. 15. Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear. 1 John iii. 2, 3. Now are we the sons of God: when he shall appear we shall be like him. Every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. CXXII. The hope of the wicked perisheth. Job viii. 13. The hypocrite's hope shall perish. Ver. 14. xi. 20. The eyes of the wicked shall fail, their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost. xxvii. 8. What is the hope of the hypocrite, when God taketh away his soul? Prov. x. 28. The expectation of the wicked shall perish. Job xviii. 14. xi. 7. When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish; and the hope of unjust men perisheth. Jer. xviii. 12. They said, There is no hope; but we will walk after our own devices. Ch. ii. 25. Eph. ii. 12. Having no hope, and without God in the world. 1 Thess. iv. 13. Sorrow not [for the dead] as others which have no hope. EXPECTATION. CXXIII. The expectation of the righteous from God. Ps. Ixii. 5. My expectation is from the Lord. Prov. xxiii. 18. Thine expectation shall not be cut off. Ch. xxiv. 14. Phil. i. 20. According to my earnest expectation Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death. CXXIV. Expectation of the wicked. Prov. X. 28. The expectation of the wicked shall perish. Ch. xi. 7. xi. 23. The expectation of the wicked is wrath. Zech. ix. 5. Ekron, her expectation shall be ashamed. Acts xii. 11. The Lord hath delivered me from the expectation of the Jews. WAITING. CXXV. The righteous wait for God. Gen. xlix. 18. I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord. Ps. xxv. 3. Let none that wait on the Lord be ashamed. Ver. 5. Thou art the God of my salvation: on thee do I wait all the day. Ver. 21. xxvii. 14. Wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart. xxxiii. 20. Our soul waiteth for the Lord: he is our help and our shield. xxxvii. 7. Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him.-Ver. 9. Those that wait on the Lord shall inherit the earth. Ver. 34. xxxix. 7. Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee; deliver me from all my transgressions. Ver. 8. xl. 1. I waited patiently for the Lord, and he inclined unto me and heard my cry. lix. 9. Because of his strength I will wait upon thee, for God is my defence. lxii. 1. My soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. Ver. 5. lxix. 3. Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.-Ver. 6. Let not them that wait on thee be ashamed. cxxiii. 2. Our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until he have mercy upon us. cxxx. 5, 6. I wait for the Lord; my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. My soul waiteth for the Lord, more than they that watch for the morning. Prov. viii. 34. Blessed is the man that heareth me, [Wisdom,] watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. xx. 22. Wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee. Isa. viii. 17. I will wait upon the Lord that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. XXV. 9. Lo, this is our God, we have waited for him, and he will save us; this is the Lord, we have waited for him; we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. xxvi. 8. In the way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee: the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. xxx. 18. The Lord is a God of judgment: blessed are all that wait for him. xxxiii. 2. O Lord, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in time of trouble. xl. 31. They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. xlix. 23. Thou shalt know that I am the Lord, for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me. li. 5. The isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust. See also, Isa. xlii. 4. Ixiv. 4. Men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen what he hath prepared for them that wait for him. Jer. xiv. 22. Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? Art not thou he, O Lord our God? therefore we will wait upon thee; for thou hast made all these things. Lam. iii. 25, 26. The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. Hos. xii. 6. Keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually. Mic. vii. 7. I will wait for the God of my salvation my God will hear me. Hab. ii. 3. The vision is for an appointed time; wait for it, because it will surely come. Zeph. iii. 8. Wait upon me, saith the Lord. Mark xv. 43. Joseph of Arimathea waited for the kingdom of God. Luke xxiii. 51. Luke ii. 25. Simeon waited for the consolation of Israel. xii. 36. Be ye like men that wait for the coming of their Lord. Rom. viii. 23. We groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. 1 Cor. i. 5. 7. In every thing ye are enriched: So that ye come behind in no gift, waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Gal. v. 5. We through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. 1 Thess. i. 9, 10. Ye turned from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven. 2 Thess. iii. 5. James v. 7. See Zech. ix. 1. CXXVI. The wicked wait not for God. 2 Kings vi. 33. Behold, this evil is of the Lord, what should I wait for the Lord any longer? Ps. cvi. 13. They forgat his works, they waited not for his counsel. SUBMISSION AND RESIGNATION TO GOD. CXXVII. Language expressive of this temper of mind. Judg. x. 15. Do unto us what seemeth good unto thee. 1 Sam. iii. 18. Eli said, It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good. 2 Sam. x. 12.-xv. 26. 2 Kings xx. 19. Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken. Isa. xxxix. 8. Matt. xi. 26. Jesus said, Even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight. Luke x. 21. vi. 10. Thy will be done. Luke xi. 2. xxvi. 42. Jesus prayed, and said, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done. Acts xxi. 14. The will of the Lord be done. Neh. ix. 33. Thou art just in all that is brought upon us. Job i. 21. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be his name. Lam. iii. 39. Wherefore doth a living man complain; a man for the punishment of his sins? James iv. 7. Submit yourselves to God. Ps. xxxix. 9. I was dumb and opened not my mouth, because thou didst it. Threats. Isa. xlv. 9. Wo to him that striveth with his Maker! RELYING UPON GOD. CXXVIII. Relying upon God. 2 Chron. xiii. 18. The children of Judah prevailed against their enemies, because they relied upon the Lord God of their fathers. 1 Chron. v. 20. xiv. 11. Help us, O Lord our God, for we rest on thee. xvi. 8. Because thou didst rely upon the Lord; he delivered thine enemies into thine hand. Ps. xxxvii. 7. Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him. Iv. 22. Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he will sustain thee; he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. cxvi. 7. Return unto thy rest, O my soul. Jer. vi. 16. Walk in the good way, and ye shall find rest for your souls. 1 Pet. v. 7. Casting all your care upon him, for he careth for you. TRUST IN GOD. CXXIX. Trusting in God and Christ. 2 Sam. xxii. 2, 3. David said, The Lord is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer; the God of my rock, in him will I trust; he is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my Saviour: thou savest me from violence. Ps. xviii. 2.-cxliv. 1, 2. Ver. 31. The Lord is a buckler to all that trust in him. 2 Kings xviii. 5. Hezekiah trusted in the Lord God of Israel, so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him. Ch. xix. 10. 2 Chron. xxxii. 7, 8. Isa. xxxvi. xxxvii. chapters. xi. 1. In the Lord put I my trust. xiii. 5. I have trusted in thy mercy, my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation. xvi. 1. Preserve me, O God, for in thee do I put my trust. xvii. 7. Shew thy marvellous loving-kindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee. xx. 7. Some trust in chariots and horses, but we will remember the name of the Lord our God. xxi. 7. The king trusteth in the Lord, and through the mercy of the Most High he shall not be moved. xxii. 4, 5. Our fathers trusted in thee, and thou didst deliver them. They trusted in thee, and were not confounded. Ver. 8. He trusted in the Lord that he would deliver him. Matt. xxvii. 43. xxv. 2. O my God, I trust in thee; let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.-Ver. 20. O keep my soul, and deliver me; let me not be ashamed, for I put my trust in thee. xxvi. 1. I have trusted in the Lord, therefore I shall not slide. xxviii. 7. The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth, and with my song will I praise him. xxxi. 1. In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust: let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness. Ps. lxxi. 1. 5. Ver. 6. I have hated them that regard lying vanities, but I trust in the Lord. Ver. 19. How great is thy goodness which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee, which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men! mercy shall compass him round. 1 Chron. v. 18-20. The sons of Reuben, xxxii. 10. Many sorrows shall be to the and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manas-wicked; but he that trusteth in the Lord, seh, made war with the Hagarites. And the Hagarites were delivered into their hand; for they cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated of them; because they put their trust in him. Job xiii. 15. Job said, Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him. xxxv. 14. Judgment is before him, therefore trust thou in him. Ps. ii. 12. Blessed are they that put their trust in him. iv. 5. Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the Lord. v. 11. Let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice. vii. I. O Lord my God, in thee do I put my trust; save me from all that persecute me. ix. 10. They that know thy name will put their trust in thee; for thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee. xxxiii. 21, 22. Our heart shall rejoice in him because we trusted in his holy name. Let thy mercy be upon us. xxxiv. 8. Blessed is the man that trusteth in him. (Ps. lxxxiv. 12.) Ver. 22. None that trust in him shall be desolate. xxxvi. 7. How excellent is thy loving-kindness, O God; therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. xxxvii. 3. Trust in the Lord and do good, so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. Ver. 5. 40. xl. 4. Blessed is the man that maketh the Lord his trust. Ver. 3. xliv. 6. I will not trust in my bow: thou hast saved us from our enemies. Ver. 7. lii. 8. I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever. Iv. 22. Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and |