70:18. And unto old age and grey hairs: O God, forsake me not, Until I shew forth thy arm to all the generation that is to come: Thy power, 70:19. And thy justice, O God, even to the highest great things thou hast done: O God, who is like to thee? 70:20. How great troubles hast thou shewn me, many and grievous: and turning thou hast brought me to life, and hast brought me back again from the depths of the earth: 70:21. Thou hast multiplied thy magnificence; and turning to me thou hast comforted me. 70:22. For I will also confess to thee thy truth with the instruments of psaltery: O God, I will sing to thee with the harp, thou holy one of Israel. 70:23. My lips shall greatly rejoice, when I shall sing to thee; and my soul which thou hast redeemed. 70:24. Yea and my tongue shall meditate on thy justice all the day; when they shall be confounded and put to shame that seek evils to me. Psalms Chapter 71 Deus, judicium tuum. A prophecy of the coming of Christ, and of his kingdom: prefigured by Solomon and his happy reign. 71:1. A psalm on Solomon. 71:2. Give to the king thy judgment, O God, and to the king's son thy justice: To judge thy people with justice, and thy poor with judgment. 71:3. Let the mountains receive peace for the people: and the hills justice. 71:4. He shall judge the poor of the people, and he shall save the children of the poor: and he shall humble the oppressor. 71:5. And he shall continue with the sun and before the moon, throughout all generations. 71:6. He shall come down like rain upon the fleece; and as showers falling gently upon the earth. 71:7. In his days shall justice spring up, and abundance of peace, till the moon be taken away. 71:8. And he shall rule from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth. 71:9. Before him the Ethiopians shall fall down: and his enemies shall lick the ground. 71:10. The kings of Tharsis and the islands shall offer presents: the kings of the Arabians and of Saba shall bring gifts: 71:11. And all kings of the earth shall adore him: all nations shall serve him. 71:12. For he shall deliver the poor from the mighty: and the needy that had no helper. 71:13. He shall spare the poor and needy: and he shall save the souls of the poor. 71:14. He shall redeem their souls from usuries and iniquity: and their names shall be honourable in his sight. 71:15. And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Arabia, for him they shall always adore: they shall bless him all the day. 71:16. And there shall be a firmament on the earth on the tops of mountains, above Libanus shall the fruit thereof be exalted: and they of the city shall flourish like the grass of the earth. A firmament on the earth, etc. . .This may be understood of the church of Christ, ever firm and visible: and of the flourishing condition of its congregation.