98:7. He spoke to them in the pillar of the cloud. They kept his testimonies, and the commandment which he gave them. 98:8. Thou didst hear them, O Lord our God: thou wast a merciful God to them, and taking vengeance on all their inventions. All their inventions... that is, all the enterprises of their enemies against them, as in the case of Core, Dathan, and Abiron. 98:9. Exalt ye the Lord our God, and adore at his holy mountain: for the Lord our God is holy. Psalms Chapter 99 Jubilate Deo. All are invited to rejoice in God the creator of all. 99:1. A psalm of praise. 99:2. Sing joyfully to God, all the earth: serve ye the Lord with gladness. Come in before his presence with exceeding great joy. 99:3. Know ye that the Lord he is God: he made us, and not we ourselves. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture. 99:4. Go ye into his gates with praise, into his courts with hymns: and give glory to him. Praise ye his name: 99:5. For the Lord is sweet, his mercy endureth for ever, and his truth to generation and generation. Psalms Chapter 100 Misericordiam et judicium. The prophet exhorteth all by his example, to follow mercy and justice. 100:1. A psalm for David himself. Mercy and judgment I will sing to thee, O Lord: I will sing, 100:2. And I will understand in the unspotted way, when thou shalt come to me. I walked in the innocence of my heart, in the midst of my house. I will understand, etc... That is, I will apply my mind, I will do my endeavour, to know and to follow the perfect way of thy commandments: not trusting to my own strength, but relying on thy coming to me by thy grace. 100:3. I will not set before my eyes any unjust thing: I hated the workers of iniquities. 100:4. The perverse heart did not cleave to me: and the malignant, that turned aside from me, I would not know. 100:5. The man that in private detracted his neighbour, him did I persecute. With him that had a proud eye, and an unsatiable heart, I would not eat. 100:6. My eyes were upon the faithful of the earth, to sit with me: the man that walked in the perfect way, he served me. 100:7. He that worketh pride shall not dwell in the midst of my house: he that speaketh unjust things did not prosper before my eyes. 100:8. In the morning I put to death all the wicked of the land: that I might cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of the Lord. Psalms Chapter 101 Domine, exaudi. A prayer for one in affliction: the fifth penitential psalm. 101:1. The prayer of the poor man, when he was anxious, and poured out his supplication before the Lord. 101:2. Hear, O Lord, my prayer: and let my cry come to thee. 101:3. Turn not away thy face from me: in the day when I am in trouble, incline thy ear to me. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear me speedily. 101:4. For my days are vanished like smoke, and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire.