mine own verse 12 If hunger could me pinch yet would I not complain To thee because the world is mine and all it doth contain The Second Part. verse 13 That I the flesh of bulls will eat canst thou once think Or else that I to quench my thirst the bloud of goats will drink verse 14 Nay rather to the Lord thanksgiving offer thou To the most high perform thy word and duly pay thy vow verse 15 And call thou on my name when trouble thee dismaies And then will I deliver thee and thou shalt give me praise verse 16 But what hast thou to doe to wicked men saith God To take my cov'nant in thy mouth or laws declare abroad verse 17 Seeing it doth appear thou hat'st instruction And hast my words behinde thee cast them not to think upon verse 18 When thou a thief dost see thou join'st with him in sin And with unclean adulterers thou hast partaker been verse 19 Thy mouth thou usest still to evil to apply And slie deceits thy tongue doth join together cunningly verse 20 Thou sitt'st and speak'st to wrong thy brother in his name And thine own mothers son thy tongue by slanders doth defame verse 21 These things thou thus hast done and I have silent been Thou thought'st that I was like to theâ— and did delight in sin But I will thee reprove for thine iniquities And I will them in order set plainly before thine eyes verse 22 Consider wisely this you that forget the Lord Lest he do you in pieces tear when none can help afford verse 23 Who so doth offer praise he truly honours mee And he that orders right his way shall Gods salvation see Psal 51. O Lord have mercy upon me After thy loving kindnesses Blot out my sins according to Thy tender mercies numberlesse verse 2 Wash me from mine iniquitie And throughly cleanse me from my sin verse 3 I knowledge my transgressions My sins before him still have been verse 4 Against thee thee alone I sinn'd And did those evils in thy sight To justifie thee when thou speak'st And clear thee when thou judgest right verse 5 Behold when I was born with pain I was stain'd with iniquity My mother that did bring me forth Before in sin conceived me verse 6 Behold thou in the inward parts Desirest uprightnesse alone And wisdome in the secret of My soul to me thou didst make known verse 7 With hyssop purge me now O Lord And then I shall be clean and bright And if thou wash me thoroughly More then the snow I shall be white verse 8 Of joy and gladnesse cause thou me To hear again the pleasant voice That so the bones that thou hast now By sorrow broken may rejoice verse 9 From the beholding of my sin O Lord turn thou away thy face And all my deeds of wickednesse Blot out and utterly deface The Second part verse 10 O Lord create in me an heart Clean and unspotted in thy sight And do within me Lord renue A spirit constant free and right verse 11 Cast me not from thy presence out Nor take thy holy Spirit away verse 12 The joy of thy salvation Restore to me again I pray With thy free Spirit me still uphold verse 13 Transgressors then shall learn of mee Thy righteous ways yea sinners then Shall be converted unto thee verse 14 Thou God of my salvation O God from blouds deliver mee Then of thy truth and righteousnesse My tongue aloud shall sing to thee verse 15 My lips which now fast closed are Do thou Lord open graciously My mouth shall then set forth thy praise When it is set at liberty verse 16 For thou desir'st not sacrifice That I should it present to thee Nor in burnt-offerings dost delight That thou should'st them accept of mee verse 17 A broken spirit is to God An acceptable sacrifice A broken and a contrite spirit O Lord thou never wilt despise verse 18 Do good in thy good pleasure Lord To Zion and her still sustain The walls of thy Jerusalem Build thou up now and still maintain verse 19 The sacrifices which they then Shall freely offer up to thee In truth and uprightnesse of heart Thou shalt accept most graciously With burnt-off rings of sundry sorts With whole burnt-off'rings in that day They shall their bullocks offer up And them upon thine Altar lay Psalm 52. O Mighty man in wickednesse why dost thou boast with pride Be sure the goodnesse of the Lord for ever shall abide verse 2 Thy tongue speaks mischief which thine heart deviseth wickedly And like unto a rasor sharp it works deceitfully verse 3 In evil more then any good thine heart doth take delight And lying rather then to speak and utter what is right verse 4 O thou deceitful tongue thou lov'st words that devour and waste verse 5 But God shall justly cut thee down for evermore at last Thee shall he take away and pluck out of thy dwelling place Yea from the land of life shall he pluck up thy root and race verse 6 The righteous man shall this behold and tremble in that day And have him in derision and thus of him shall say verse 7 Behold the man that made not God his strength but trusted in His store of riches and himself did strengthen in his sin verse 8 But like to a green Olive tree within Gods house am I For in his mercy great shall be my trust continually verse 9 And I because thou this hast done to praise thee will not cease And still will wait upon thy name for this thy Saints doth please Psalm 53. THere is no God the fool hath said in 's heart corrupt they are Their works most vile and to do good not one takes any care verse 2 The Lord beheld from Heaven high the whole race of mankind To see if any one were wise or sought his God to find verse 3 They all are gone aside and are most filthy there is none Amongst them all doth any good there is not any one verse 4 These workers of iniquity are they so blinded all Eating my people up as bread not one on God doth call verse 5 There were they with great fear possest and stood all as dismaid Even where there was no cause at all why they should be afraid For God his bones that thee besieg'd hath scattered all abroad Thou hast consumed them for they rejected are of God When God his people brings again and sets his captives free Then Jacob greatly shall rejoice and Israel glad shall bee Psalm 54. SAve me O God by thy great name by thy strength judge thou me verse 2 Lord hear my pray'r give ear unto the words I speak to thee verse 3 Oppressors for my soul do seek strangers against me rise And God the Lord they have not set at all before their eyes verse 4 But lo my God doth give me aid the Lord is straight at hand With them that do uphold my soul the Lord doth ever stand
down my soul what should discourage thee And why with vexing thoughts art thou disquieted in mee Still hope in God for him to praise good cause I still shall have He of my count'nance is the health the God that doth me save Psalm 44. O God we with our ears have heard our fathers us have told What works thou in their days hast done and in the times of old How thou didst drive the Heathen out and plant them in their land Mad'st them take root but didst afflict the Heathen with thine hand verse 3 'T was not their sword that gate for them possession of the land Nor did the strength of their own arm save them from th' enemies hand But thy right hand thine arm the light of thine own countenance Because them out of thy free love it pleas'd thee to advance verse 4 'T is thou O God that art my King command deliverances For Jacob thine own people now in time of this distress verse 5 Through thy pow'r will we now at once push down our enemies Through thy name will we tread them down that up against us rise verse 6 For neither shall my sword me save nor trust I in my bow verse 7 Thou sav'st us from our foes and them with shame dost overthrow verse 8 In God we all day long do boast and ever praise thy name verse 9 But now thou hast us quite cast off and hast put us to shame verse 10 Thou with our armies goest not forth but from our foes dost make Us fly our haters do our goods spoil for themselves and take verse 11 Amongst the Heathen thou dost us scatter and give for meat verse 12 Like sheep and sell'st us for no price nor wealth by us dost get The Second Part. verse 13 Unto our neighbours a reproach thou makest us to be They mock us that dwell round about to them a scorn are we verse 14 Yea thou amongst the Heathen all a by-word dost us make The nations proudly in contempt their heads at us do shake verse 15 Thus my confusion hast thou made before me still to be Yea so that daily shame of face doth wholly cover me verse 16 Ev'n for his voice that doth reproach and utter blasphemy Because of the avenger and the cruel enemy verse 17 For all this we forgat not thee nor yet thy covenant brake We turn'd not back our hearts from thee nor did thy paths forsake verse 19 Though thou us brak'st in desolate places of Dragons fell And didst us cover with the shade of dreadful death and hell verse 20 If our Gods name we have forgot or help of idols sought verse 21 Shall not God search this out who knows the hearts most secret thought verse 22 Yea all day long most cruelly slain for thy name are we As sheep that are for slaughter kept so we accompted be verse 23 But Lord awake why sleepest thou arise and us deliver Stand up and do not us forsake nor cast us off for ever verse 24 Why doest thou hide thy face and us in grief and sorrows leave verse 25 Our souls stoop to the dust to th' earth our bellies fast do cleave verse 26 Arise now O thou gracious God to us an helper be We pray thee for thy mercies sake redeem and set us free Psalm 45. MIne heart good matter poureth out touching the King I utter What I compos'd my tongue the pen is of a ready writer verse 2 O thou the fairest of all men grace to thy lips doth flow Therefore God blessings evermore will upon thee bestow verse 3 Gird now thy sword upon thy thigh thou that art most of might Appear in dreadful Majesty and in thy glory bright verse 4 On truth meeknesse and justice ride prosp'ring in Majesty Most dreadful things thy strong right hand shall teach thee fearfully verse 5 The heart of the Kings enemies by th'arrows of thy word Is peirc'd that men fall down to thee as conquer'd by the sword verse 6 Thy roial throne for ever is O God and shall remain Because thy Kingdomes Scepter still doth righteousnesse maintain verse 7 Justice thou lov'st and wrong doest hate above thy fellows he Ev'n thine own God hath oil of joy and gladnesse pour'd on thee verse 8 Of Myrrhe Alloes and Cassia a sent thy garments had Out of thy ivory palaces whereby they made thee glad verse 9 Amongst thine honourable train Kings daughters waiting stand And thy fair Queen in precious gold is seen at thy right hand The Second Part. verse 10 Hearken O daughter well advise incline and bow thine ear Thine own people thou must forsake and fathers house most dear verse 11 And then thy beauty of the King shall much desired be Yet thou must humbly worship him because thy Lord is he verse 12 The daughter there of glorious Tyre with a rich gift shall be And all the wealthy of the land shall make their sute to thee verse 13 Within doth the Kings daughter sit all glorious to behold And all the garments that she wears are wrought of perfect gold verse 14 She shall be brought forth to the King in robes with needle wrought The Virgins that do follow her shall unto thee be brought verse 15 They shall be brought with gladness great and mirth on ev'ry side Into the palace of the King and there they shall abide verse 16 In stead of those thy parents whom thou now dost quite forsake Shall be thy children whom thou maist in all Lands Princes make verse 17 Thy name will I remembred make to all posterity â—e therefore shall the people praise to all eternity Psalm 46. GOd is our strength and refuge then when dangers us surround In troubles great a present help and ready to be found verse 2 Wherefore we will not be afraid though th' earth removed be Though mountains hurled be into the middle of the sea verse 3 No though the deep waters thereof troubled with windes do roar And their high swellings cause to shake the mountains on the shoar verse 4 There is a brook whose pleasant streams Gods City do make glad The holy place where the most high his tabernacle had verse 5 In midst of her God doth abide nothing can her remove For God betimes shall succour her and help her in his love verse 6 The Heathen raged furiously the Kingdomes moved were He did but utter his loud voice the earth melted for feare verse 7 The Lord of hosts stands on our part who all things doth command The God of Jacob's our high place all evil to withstand verse 8 Come and the works of God behold and weigh them in your thought What fearful desolations he in all the world hath wrought verse 9 Through th' earth he makes all wars to cease and them to peace he turns He breaks the bow he cuts the spear with fire the charets burns Be still and know that I am God and will exalted be The Heathen me shall magnifie the earth shall honour
we in him rejoice exceedingly verse 7 He rules for ever by his power his eyes the nations see Let none of them exalt themselves to him that rebels bee verse 8 O let the people blesse our God and let the chearful voice Of his due praise be heard abroad with thanks in him rejoice verse 9 Which holds and doth preserve our soul in life from day to day And suffers not our feet to move or our estate decay verse 10 For thou hast proved us O Lord as with the fiers heat Men try their silver thou hast us triâ—d with affliction great verse 11 Thou broughtest us into the net where in we snared were Heavy afflictions to our loins thou bound'st and mad'st us bear The Second Part. verse 12 Over our heads thou causedst men imperiously to ride We went through fire and water both we every way were tri'd Yet when we had been thus abas'd and hopelesse seem'd our case Ev'n then thou brought'st us out into a large and wealthy place verse 13 Burnt-offerings now within thine house present to thee will I And all the vows which I have made will pay thee faithfully verse 14 Which with my lips I uttered in all my grief and smart Which I have spoken with my mouth when troubles vex'd my heart verse 15 Burnt-sacrifices I to thee with fatlings offer will Incense with rams I will present and beeves and goats will kill Come near and hearken every one whose heart the Lord doth fear And what he for my soul hath done you now of me shall hear verse 17 To him in mine adversity I with my voice did cry And with my tongue his holy name I did lift up on high verse 18 If in my heart I any way regard iniquity The Lord I know will not give ear to my voice when I cry verse 19 But God did hear me readily and graciously attend Unto my prayers voice and cry which did to him ascend verse 20 Blessed now be the Lord my God who hath not turn'd away His mercy any time from me for which to him I pray Psalm 67. HAve mercy Lord on us and blesse us with thy grace And on us ever cause to shine the brightnesse of thy face Thy ways and works to us that all the earth may know And that thy saving health thou maist unto all Nations show verse 3 O let the people all give praise unto thy name Yea let the people through the world in praise extoll the same verse 4 O let the nations all rejoice and sing with mirth For thou in righteousnesse dost judge the nations of the earth verse 5 O let the people all give praise unto thy name Yea let the people through the world in praise extoll the same verse 6 And then the earth shall yield a plentiful increase And our God even our own God shall blesse us all in peace verse 7 God shall himself us blesse who are his people dear And then the ends of all the earth shall worship him in fear Psalm 68. LEt God arise and let his foes be scatter'd in their flight And let them all that him do hate fly from before his sight verse 2 Like smoak so drive thou them away as wax melts by the fire Let wicked men before his face so perish in his ire verse 3 But let the righteous men be glad and in Gods sight rejoice Exceedingly let them be glad in him with chearful voice verse 4 Praise God that on the heavens rides sing praises to his name By his name JAH advance him and rejoice before the same verse 5 To such as are left fatherlesse he is a father kinde The widows in his holy place him a just Judge shall finde verse 6 The barren God in families doth place and he from bands Sets free the bound while rebels dwell in dry and thirsty lands verse 7 When thou before the people went'st redeem'd from great distresse Marching before them as their guide through the great wildernesse verse 8 Then did thy presence shake the earth the drops from Heaven fell Sinai did shake before the Lord the God of Israel verse 9 Thou didst upon thine heritage pour out a plenteous rain O God whereby when it was faint it was refresht again verse 10 Thy Congregation dwelt O Lord in Canaan land whereby Thou of thy goodnesse for the poor preparest plenteously The Second Part. verse 11 By thy great works thou matter gav'st of publique joy O God Great multitude of women it did publish all abroad verse 12 The Kings of armies of our foes fled in great haste away And she that still abode at home did part and share the prey verse 13 And though ye lay among the pots like doves ye shall appear Whose wings with silver and with gold her feathers covered were verse 14 When the Almighty by his pow'r great Kings did overthrow Then was it like to Salmon hill when it was white with snow verse 15 Like unto fruitful Bashan so is Zion Gods own hill Above the height of Bashan hill advanced by his will verse 16 Why leap ye you high hills this is the hill chosen by God To dwell in God for ever there will settle his abode verse 17 Gods chariots twenty thousand are his Angels thousands be Amongst them as in Sinai mount in 's holy place is he verse 18 When thou ascendest up on high triumphing gloriously A multitude of captives thou leadst in captivity Thou then bestowedst gifts on men even such as did rebel That by thine Ordinances thou in midst of them might'st dwell verse 19 All praises be unto our God we daily loaden be With his great benefits alone our Saviour is he verse 20 Our God is he that is the God of all salvation The issues out of death belong to God the Lord alone verse 21 But God shall deadly wound the head of all his enemies The hairy scalp of all that walk still in iniquities The Third part verse 22 God said I 'le bring them back as I from Bashan did before And as my people through the seas I once brought safe to shore verse 23 That thou maist dip thy feet in bloud of thy slain enemies And that thy dogs may lick it up where spilt on ground it lies verse 24 Thy goings they have seen O God in glorious majesty The goings of my God my King in his own sanctuary verse 25 First went the singers next came they on instruments that play The damsels too their tabrets beat in midst of that array verse 26 Blesse God in your assemblies all unto him praises sing All ye that from the fountain doe of blessed Jacob spring verse 27 Young Benjamin's there with his Prince with Judahs companies And Princes with them Zebuluns Princes and Naptalies verse 28 Thy Word and thy Commandement this strength to us hath brought Then Lord we pray thee strengthen what thy self for us hath wrought Ev'n for thy Temples sake which thou hast at Jerusalem Set up to thee shall Princes