Title. A song of degrees] Of lifting up: for they did lift up their voices sometimes in singing, 2 Chron. 20. 19. or, of excellencies, 1 Chron. 17. 17. or, to be sung on the steps of the temple, on high dayes: or, at their severall stations, as they returned from Babylon. IN my distresse I cryed unto the Lord] Psalms 118:5. Albeit, the children of God ought to rejoyce, when they are in extremity; yet it is a great grief to the flesh, to hear evill for well doing.