82:12. Make their princes like Oreb, and Zeb, and Zebee, and Salmana. All their princes, 82:13. Who have said: Let us possess the sanctuary of God for an inheritance. 82:14. O my God, make them like a wheel; and as stubble before the wind. 82:15. As fire which burneth the wood: and as a flame burning mountains: 82:16. So shalt thou pursue them with thy tempest: and shalt trouble them in thy wrath. 82:17. Fill their faces with shame; and they shall seek thy name, O Lord. 82:18. Let them be ashamed and troubled for ever and ever: and let them be confounded and perish. 82:19. And let them know that the Lord is thy name: thou alone art the most High over all the earth. Psalms Chapter 83 Quam dilecta. The soul aspireth after heaven; rejoicing in the mean time, in being in the communion of God's church upon earth. 83:1. Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for the sons of Core. 83:2. How lovely are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! 83:3. my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have rejoiced in the living God. 83:4. For the sparrow hath found herself a house, and the turtle a nest for herself where she may lay her young ones: Thy altars, O Lord of hosts, my king and my God. 83:5. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house, O Lord: they shall praise thee for ever and ever. 83:6. Blessed is the man whose help is from thee: in his heart he hath disposed to ascend by steps, In his heart he hath disposed to ascend by steps, etc. . .Ascensiones in corde suo disposuit. As by steps men ascended to the temple of God situated on a hill; so the good Christian ascends towards the eternal temple by certain steps of virtue disposed or ordered within the heart: and this whilst he lives as yet in the body, in this vale of tears, the place which man hath set: that is, which he hath brought himself to: being cast out of paradise for his sin. 83:7. In the vale of tears, in the place which he hath set. 83:8. For the lawgiver shall give a blessing, they shall go from virtue to virtue: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion. 83:9. O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. 83:10. Behold, O God our protector: and look on the face of thy Christ. 83:11. For better is one day in thy courts above thousands. I have chosen to be an abject in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners. 83:12. For God loveth mercy and truth: the Lord will give grace and glory. 83:13. He will not deprive of good things them that walk in innocence: O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee. Psalms Chapter 84 Benedixisti, Domine. The coming of Christ, to bring peace and salvation to man. 84:1. Unto the end, for the sons of Core, a psalm. 84:2. Lord, thou hast blessed thy land: thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob. 84:3. Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people: thou hast covered all their sins.