| 601 thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
5 The Lord, that is at thy right hande, shall wound kings in the day of his wrath.
6 He shall be judge among the heathen: he shall fill all with dead bodies, and smite the head over great countreys [countries].
7 He shall drink of the brooke in the way: therefore shall he lift up his head."
The second translation made in the beginning of the 17th century, by King James translators, is as follows:
A PSALM OF DAVID.
1 "The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool,
2 The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.
3 Thy people shall be, willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.
4 The Lord hath sworn and will not repent, thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
5 The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with dead bodies; he shall wound the head over many countries.
7 He shall drink of the brook in the way; therefore he shall lift up the head."
The third translation made in the 19th century, is from the Hebrew of Michaelis, independent of sects or creeds, and is as follows:-
A SONG OF DAVID.
1 "The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou on my right hand until I place thine enemies at thy footstool.
2 The rod of thy strength the Lord will send from Zion: subdue thou in the midst of thy enemies.
3 A plenty of thy people for the day; thine army in the majesty of holiness from the recess of the morning, for thyself, the dew hath begotten thee.
4 The Lord hath sworn and will not lament, thou art a priest for eternity over the order of the king of righteousness.
5 My Lord, upon thy right crusheth the kingdoms in the day of his wrath.
6 He will judge among the nations full of dead bodies, to crush the head over the whole earth.
7 From the stream in the way, he will drink, therefore he will exalt the head.
+ We hope our readers will compare these three equally true translations, leaving out the italic, and judge for themselves which is most consistent according to revelation and reason.
COMMUNICATIONS.
REFLECTIONS.
O earth! earth! earth! and ye inhabitants thereof hear the word of the Lord, and reverence the wisdom that cometh from the council of perfection! wherever the sun, moon or stars shine: wherever the dew moistens: wherever there is an ear to hear, or a heart to conceive, there let truth be obeyed, and virtue honored: for truth is worth more than gold; obedience is better than sacrifice; honor is the fidelity of God, and virtue the bliss of heaven. God is all for all; and all that was, or is, or yet shall be, comes from him: his power is boundless; his wisdom almighty; his justice perfect; his mercy eternal, and his lifetime the perpetual eternity that continues throughout the eternities, which gave time to all his creations ad infinitum.
His throne is the centre [center] of the great all; and his light the light of the whole, though there be Lords many and Gods many. Order, union, beauty, harmony and grace, adorn the creations of his hand, from a mite to a man; from a fowl to a beast; from a globe to a god. His wisdom; his reason; his prudence, his justice, and virtue exalt him to a glory that man, poor weak man, in his low estate, never saw; never dreamed of; no, nor never will, till he comes up through the same tribulation, the same narrow way, the old path wherein our fathers went, and escaped in fire to bliss; and wherein Jesus, by his own blood, wrought out a more perfect escape for the children of obedience from evil to good, from death unto life; from mortality to immortality; from time to eternity; wherefore O man! consider thy ways; obey the voice of the Lord; be directed by reason; embrace the truth; reject error; love thy kindred; never stray from the ways of wisdom, and you shall find rest for your soul in the hour of calamity, the great day of God Almighty, when the wicked shall be cut off from the earth.
O man! man! why wast thou made in the image of God? was it to war with thy brethren, and follow the dictates of passion, and bemean thyself as the beasts of the field and become the slave of Satan and his fallen host of angels in a kingdom of misery and darkness, or was it to do his will and be exalted like him, through the perfection of grace, goodness, knowledge, wisdom, power and virtue unto a
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