Psalms 93

There is no title in the Hebrew to tell us who was the author of this Psalm: nor was there any in Origen’s Hexaplus, or in Eusebius, as Theodoret confesses: who found, in the Greek copy which he used, this Psalm called An Ode of David, in PraiseofGod: to which hath been since added, in the day before the sabbath, when the earth began to be inhabited. Which Musculus thinks was not rashly done by the Greeks: but* suspects they were moved to it; because they knew, perhaps, that the Jews used this Psalm upon that day. As indeed they did: for the words of the Talmud, in the title Kedishim, confirm his suspicions; which are these (as I find them set down by De Dieu, upon the foregoing Psalm); “The Canticles which the Levites sung in the sanctuary were as follow: on the first day of the week the twenty-fourth, on the second the forty-eighth, on the third the eighty-second, on the fourth the ninety-fourth, on the fifth the eighty-first, on the sixth the ninety-thiTd, and on the seventh the ninety-second. Nor is the matter of this Psalm more distant from the foregoing, than the sixth day is from the seventh; for it seems to me to havo been composed when some of those potent enemies began to take heart again, and threaten to disturb David’s peace and tranquillity: which, in the foregoing Psalm, he had said he was confident they should never be able to overthrow. Though, in the more sub- 2A2.