verse 8 Thy statutes I my rule will make O never me forsake BETH verse 9 How shall a young man clense his way Nere from Thy word to stray verse 10 My heart doth seek and Thee prefer Let not my goings err verse 11 Thy word I hid my heart within To keep me free from sin verse 12 Blessed art Thou O Gratious Lord Teach me to do Thy word verse 13 My lips desist not to declare How just Thy judgments are verse 14 Thy testimonies make me glad Above all riches had verse 15 I will Thy precepts meditate And to Thy waies relate verse 16 Thy statutes are my cheif delight Kept in my mind and sight GIMEL verse 17 Deale well with me that whil'st I live I may observance give verse 18 Discover to my opened eyes Thy Law 's high mysteries verse 19 A stranger I on earth abide Thy precepts do not hide verse 20 My fainting soul with longing tir'd Thy judgments hath desir'd verse 21 With curses Thou the proud hast strook Who Thy Commands forsook verse 22 Reproach and scorne from me remove For I Thy precepts love verse 23 Princes did sit and 'gainst me speak But I Thy statutes seek verse 24 Thy word my only joy I make And from It counsaile take DALETH verse 25 My soul unto the dust doth cleave Yet me in death not leave verse 26 I to Thine eare my waies reveale Thy statutes not conceale verse 27 Informe me in Thy precepts well That I Thy works may tell verse 28 My melting soule with greif doth wast O quicken me at last verse 29 Remove from me the way of lies That I Thy Law may prize verse 30 The waies of Truth my Soule doth choose Thy judgments I propose verse 31 Thy testimonies are my aime Lord put me not to shame verse 32 Who from Thy Law will nere depart When Thou enform'st my heart HE verse 33 Teach me Thy statutes to intend And keep them to the end verse 34 Inform'd I shall Thy Lawes each part Observe with my whole heart verse 35 Guide me in Thy commands aright For theirein I delight verse 36 My heart unto Thy Lawes divine Not avarice incline verse 37 Quicken Thou me and turne mine eye From seeing vanity verse 38 Thy word establish in my eare Devoted to Thy feare verse 39 Remove my fear'd reproaches far For good Thy judgments are verse 40 And me Thy precepts who desire With quick'ning grace inspire VAV. verse 41 Thy saving mercies grant me Lord According to Thy word verse 42 So shall I answer scornes unjust Because in Thee I trust verse 43 43 Thy Truth from out my mouth nere take Who it my comfort make verse 44 So I Thy Law and holy will For ever shall fulfill verse 45 Enlarg'd I walk at liberty Thy precepts to descry verse 46 Which daunted nor with fear nor shame I will to Kings proclaime verse 47 On Thy Commands my love I place And joyfully embrace verse 48 With lifted hands and heart prostrate On these I meditate ZAIN verse 49 Remember Lord Thy promise made Wherein my hope is lay'd verse 50 This quickens me though dead with greif In trouble gives releif verse 51 Thy Law though proud men me deride I never have deny'd verse 52 Thy judgments old I call'd to mind And present comfort find verse 53 Horrour and trembling me surprise When sinners Thee despise verse 54 I sing Thy statutes all my age In lifes short pilgrimage verse 55 Thy name at night comes to my thought Who have Thy precepts sought verse 56 This comfort I performed saw Because I kept Thy Law CHETH verse 57 Thou art my Lot I said O Lord That I would keep Thy word verse 58 With my whole heart I favour crave Let me Thy mercy have verse 59 My waies I mark'd and turn'd my feet Within Thy Rules to meet verse 60 To keep Thy statutes hast I made With duty not delay'd verse 61 By wicked bands though robb'd spoyl'd I nere from Thee recoyl'd verse 62 At midnight I my selfe will raise To sing Thy Judgments praise verse 63 I am their friend and hold them deare Who Thee obey and feare verse 64 Through earth O Lord Thy mercies reach Me in Thy statutes teach TETH verse 65 Thou st hast dealt well with me O Lord According to Thy word verse 66 Good judgment and true knowledge give For I Thy Lawes believe verse 67 Before I troubled was I stray'd But now Thy word obey'd verse 68 All good doth from Thy bounty flow Let me Thy statutes know verse 69 The proud by Lies would me supplant Who keep Thy Covenant verse 70 Their heart is swoll'n with fat and ease But me Thy statutes please verse 71 T is good that by affliction taught To know Thee I am brought verse 72 Whose Law I in more value hold Then thousand heaps of Gold IOD verse 73 I have been fashion'd by Thy hand Teach me to understand verse 74 Who feare Thee shall be glad to see My setled hope in Thee verse 75 I know Thy judgments Lord are true And my affliction due verse 76 Yet let Thy comfort I Thee pray Thy servants grief allay verse 77 In tender mercy me forgive That I with Thee may live verse 78 Shame them whose pride without a cause Hates me who love Thy Lawes verse 79 Let those conjoyn'd to me be neare Thy truth who know and feare verse 80 My heart keep in Thy statutes sound That me no shame confound CAPH verse 81 My soule for Thy salvation faint Trusts on Thy gratious grant verse 82 Mine eyes with expectation faile When shall my hopes prevaile verse 83 Though like a bottle in the smoake Yet Thee I not forsook verse 84 Shall my short daies of life have end Ere Thou Thy judgment send verse 85 The proud for me against all right Have digged pits in spight verse 86 As Thou art faithfull send redresse 'gainst them who me oppresse verse 87 They me on earth almost consum'd But I on Thee presum'd verse 88 O quicken me as Thou art kind So I Thy word shall mind LAMED verse 89 Thy promise Lord doth ever last In heaven setled fast verse 90 Thy faith through all successions try'd Doth fixt as earth abide verse 91 Thou for Thy service did'st ordaine That all things should remaine verse 92 But that Thy Law was my releif I perisht had through greif verse 93 Thy precepts in my thought shall live For they my soule revive verse 94 Save me O Lord for I am Thine And to Thy Law encline verse 95 Though wicked men would me destroy I make Thy word my joy verse 96 Which to eternall blisse extends When earth's perfection ends MEM. verse 97 Thy Law how dearely do I rate All day to meditate verse 98 Which still before me makes me wise Above mine enemies verse 99 For studying this I knowledge have More then my teachers gave verse 100 I understand more then the old 'Cause I Thy precepts hold verse
beneath They heavy stroak verse 9 O Lord Thou know'st my whole desire My hidden groanes to Thee aspire verse 10 My heart doth pant my vigour dies Of light deprived are mine eyes verse 11 My friends who late professed love Far from my sore themselves remove My kindred my converses shun Nor come to comfort but look on verse 12 They who my life seek to ensnare Intent upon my mischiefes are With foule reproaches and false lies My ruin daily they devise verse 13 But I as those nor heare nor speake Did never into passion breake verse 14 No angry murmur from me fell Which might my griefes impatience tell verse 15 For I in Thee my trust repose To heare my moane and quell my foes verse 16 Who when my foot amisse did goe Triumphed at my overthrow verse 17 With woes opprest I daily fall My sorrowes are continuall And whilst my faults are in my view They do as oft my paine renew verse 18 I therefore will those sins confesse And with contrition beg redresse I will the guilt of my offence Wash off with teares of penitence verse 19 O Lord mine enemies are strong And live to do me further wrong Each day their number doth encrease Who are the haters of my peace verse 20 They also have against me stood Who make returnes of ill for good Yet know no cause for their despight But that I follow what is right verse 21 Therefore my sad request I make That Thou wilt never me forsake My God! O never far depart Who my releife and comfort art verse 22 My sighs and sorrowes look upon Thou God of my salvation Afford thy help in time of need And to my reskue come with speed PSAL. XXXIX verse 1 I Said my wayes I will intend And least my tongue offend My mouth shall bownd and bridled bee Whilst I the wicked see verse 2 I dumb awhile and silent stood Ev'n ceasing to speak good Untill at last my grieved heart Was urg'd with sorrowes smart verse 3 So that my heated breast became For lack of vent a flame And then my tongue these words exprest Breath'd forth from my disrest verse 4 Lord Let me understand my end How farr my dayes extend That I may know how I am fraile Each moment apt to faile verse 5 Behold Thou mad'st the dayes of man No longer then a span His age as nothing is and he At best but vanitie verse 6 Man like a shadow walkes in vaine Wasting his time with paine He heapes up riches yet not knowes What heire shall them dispose verse 7 And now O Lord on whom shall I Whilst I stay here rely Truly my hope shall wait on Thee My joyes there treasur'd be verse 8 Deliver me when I transgresse And help me in distresse Let not the foolish me deride Or scorne me in their pride verse 9 Under Thy scourge I silent lay Prepared to obay I did not murmur at my paine Or of Thy hand complaine verse 10 Yet now Thy mercies I invoke To take away Thy stroke For I consume and my faint breath Is yeelding up to death verse 11 When Thou for sin dost man correct Rebuking his neglect Thou mak'st his beauty soone consume Like to the wandring fume Sicknesse destroyes him as a moath Corrodes and frets the cloath So vaine is man and quickly gone Into corruption verse 12 Lord heare my cry let not thine eares Be deaf unto my teares For I with Thee a stranger am And but to sojourne came verse 13 O spare my time a little length Till I recover strength Before I goe from this worlds shore And shall be seene no more PSAL. XL Sing this as Psalme 51. verse 1 I Patient did for God attend Who to my cry His eare did lend verse 2 From horror's pit He did me pluck And miry clay wherein I stuck And on the rock He set my feet From whence my goings nere should fleet verse 3 My mouth new songs of praises fill That men may feare and trust Him still verse 4 The man most happy is and blest Whose constant faith on God doth rest And never will the proud ones prize Nor such as turne aside to lies verse 5 Lord many are Thy wonders wrought And loving towards us is Thy thought If I would speak and them declare They more then can be numbred are verse 6 No sacrifice Thou did'st desire Nor sin-oblation burnt in fire Thou pierc'd and open'd hast mine eare To shew what gifts more pleasing were verse 7 Then said I Lo I come Of old The volume of the booke foretold verse 8 Lord I to do Thy will delight Yea in my heart Thy Law I write verse 9 Thy righteousnesse my lips did teach Thy truth in great assemblies preach verse 10 Thy word I hid not or conceal'd But unto men Thy love reveal'd verse 11 Thy tender mercies nere remove But still preserve me in Thy love verse 12 For more in number then my haires My sin-prest soule is vext with cares verse 13 Be pleas'd to save and keep me fast O Lord to give me help make hast verse 14 Let them confounded be with shame Who at my soules destruction aime Let them repulsed backe retire Who wish my fall or hurt desire verse 15 Let them be sham'd and desolate Who Fy upon thee say in hate verse 16 Let all that seek thy glorious Name Their joyes and comforts loud proclame Let all who Thy salvation love Say alwayes Prais'd be God above verse 17 Though poore and needy I am brought Thou not exclud'st me from Thy thought Thou my redeemer art stay My God! O make no long delay PSAL. XLI Sing this as the Prayer after the Commandments verse 1 BLessed is he the poor who minds He help from God in trouble finds verse 2 The Lord preserves and life supplies Nor gives him up to enemies verse 3 When languishing upon his bed By God he shall be strengthened By Thee when weak and lowest layd His bed is in his sicknesse made verse 4 I said my soule in mercy save For Lord 'gainst Thee I sinned have verse 5 My foes thus speak When shall he dy And loose both Name and Memory verse 6 Even those to see me who resort When gone traduce me in report verse 7 My haters whisper and devise To hurt me in their calumnies verse 2 Sick of a fowle disease he lies Say they and never more shall rise verse 9 Yea my near friend who eat my bread Lifts up his heel to spurne my head verse 10 Lord raise me from this wofull plight That I their malice may requite verse 11 I shall in this Thy favour know If not triumphed by my foe verse 12 Thou do'st my innocence sustaine And in Thy presence me retaine verse 13 Blest be the God of Iacob then Through all enduring times Amen PSAL. XLII verse 1 AS the chas'd Hart distrest with heat Flies to the Brookes retreat O God! my soule pursu'd and faint So after Thee doth pant verse 2
101 My feet from evill waies refrain'd Are by Thy word restrain'd verse 102 I from Thy judgments not depart For Thou hast taught my heart verse 103 Then hony bred from flowry fields Thy word more sweetnesse yields verse 104 Through this I understanding gat And waies of falsehood hate NVN. verse 105 Thy word a lamp is shining bright And to my path a light verse 106 I in my solemne vowes have sworne Thy statutes to performe verse 107 I ly perplext with greif and paine Lord quicken me againe verse 108 O let my Pray'rs Thy audience reach And me Thy judgments teach verse 109 My soul though death dangers threat Can never Thee forget verse 110 And though the wicked snares have lay'd From Thee I never stray'd verse 111 Thy statutes are my chosen part The comfort of my heart verse 112 And to performe Them I intend Untill my life shall end SAMECH verse 113 I hate vaine thoughts ill men neglect But I Thy Law affect verse 114 Thou art my refuge and my shield Whose word doth safety yield verse 115 Depart ye wicked ones away I will my God obey verse 116 Uphold me in a life unblam'd Nor let my hope be sham'd verse 117 Sustaine me Lord so shall my faith Resting on Thee be safe verse 118 Thou tread'st them downe whose guile-full heart Doth from Thy Lawes depart verse 119 And like the drosse that 's cast away Mak'st them on earth decay verse 120 My trembling flesh is full of feare When I these judgments heare AIN verse 121 Lord leave me not who love the right To my oppressors might verse 122 Be Thou my surety 'gainst their pride Who have my waies decry'd verse 123 Mine eyes for Thy salvation faile Untill my hopes prevaile verse 124 In mercy with Thy servant deale Thy statutes Lord reveale verse 125 Give me an understanding heart Thy sacred will impart verse 126 T is time for Thee to bring Thy aid For voyd Thy Law is made verse 127 I Thy Commandments pretious hold Above refined gold verse 128 And all Thy precepts justly prize But hate deceit and lyes PE verse 129 Thy testimonies wond'rous are My soules delight and care verse 130 Thy words like beams of light arise To make the simple wise verse 131 Panting and breathlesse in desire I to Thy lawes aspire verse 132 Such mercy Lord upon me powre As those who Thee adore verse 133 Order my steps no sins may staine Nor vices or'e me reigne verse 134 From man's oppression me redeeme Thy precepts who esteeme verse 135 Make Thy blest face on me to shine Teach me Thy Lawes divine verse 136 Rivers of Teares run down mine eyes When men Thy Law despise TSADDI verse 137 Thou righteous art O Lord my might Thy judgments are upright verse 138 The Statutes which Thou do'st command Unchang'd and faithfull stand verse 139 My zeale consumes me when I find Thy Law not kept in mind verse 140 Thy word is very pure and try'd By me most magnify'd verse 141 I though despis'd and lightly set Thy precepts not forget verse 142 Thy righteousnesse no period knew And Thy Commands are true verse 143 Though troubles me or anguish seize Yet I delight in these verse 144 Lord in Thy statutes knowledge give And I shall ever live COPH. verse 145 I cry'd with my whole heart Lord heare Through whom I persevere verse 146 O save me when to Thee I call So keep Thy Lawes I shall verse 147 My cryes prevent the dawning light verse 148 My eyes out watch the night That I Thy word might meditate My hope and safe Retreit verse 149 O Lord my voice in mercy heare Me quicken in Thy feare verse 150 Men bent to mischeif nigh me draw Contemners of thy Law verse 151 Yet Thou O Lord art neare at hand And true is Thy command verse 152 For on eternall bases plac't Thy testimonies last RESCH. verse 153 Consider me in my distresse For I Thy Law confesse verse 154 Plead Thou my cause and life afford According to Thy word verse 155 Salvation far from sinners flies For they Thy Lawes despise verse 156 Thy tender mercies Lord exceed O quicken me with speed verse 157 Though many foes 'gainst me combine From Thee I not decline verse 158 With sorrow I transgressors saw Who have not kept Thy Law verse 159 Lord think how I Thy precepts love Inspire me from above verse 160 Thy word is true Thy Judgments pure And ever shall endure SCHIN verse 161 Princes pursue me without cause Yet still I feare Thy Lawes verse 160 Whose sacred word more glads my mind Then those that treasures find verse 163 I falshood hate abhorre all lyes But Thy Commandments prize verse 164 Sev'n times each day my tongue displayes Thy righteous judgments praise verse 165 Great peace have those Thy Law attend Nothing shall them offend verse 166 Lord I in Thy salvation hope And make Thy will my scope verse 167 My soule Thy testimonies loves And them 'bove all approves verse 168 And constantly Thy Law obeyes Who searchest all my waies TAV. verse 169 Accept O Lord my lowd complaint And knowledge to me grant verse 170 Let my request admission crave And in Thy promise save verse 171 So shall my lips Thy praises reach When Thou my heart dost teach verse 172 My tongue Thy statutes shall recite For Thy commands are right verse 173 O let Thine hand bring help to me Whose choise Thy precepts be verse 174 My thoughts for Thy salvation long My cheifest joyes among verse 175 Let my souls live Thy Name to praise Whose judgments me shall raise I like a lost sheep went astray O Lord my wand'rings stay PSAL. CXX verse 1 WIth troubles prest and drown'd in grief I called for relief When God unto my help appear'd And my Petition heard verse 2 Lord save me from their cruell lies Who would my life surprize Make not my soule their envies bait To perish by deceit verse 3 What vengeance doth to Thee belong O false and perjur'd tongue verse 4 Sharp arrowes and a quenchlesse fire Shall one day be thy hire verse 5 Wo unto me constrain'd to dwell So far from Jsrael That I in Mesech sojourne must And Tents of Kedar trust verse 6 My Soule this long time doth converse With dispositions fierce Who shunned have like some disease The happy fruits of peace verse 7 To quench wars flame and lessen strife I labour'd all my life But They when Treaties were my care For lasting war prepare PSAL. CXXI Sing this as the Prayer after the Commandements verse 1 UP to the Hills I lift mine eyes From whence my help and comfort rise verse 2 My safety from the Lord doth spring Who made the world and every thing verse 3 Thy foot from falling He protects Nor Slumbers He nor thee neglects verse 4 Behold that Lord who Israel keeps Unweary'd is and never sleeps verse 5 God is thy Keeper like a shade Which on thy right hand is
like a Serpents whet Their lips in poyson set verse 4 Lord keep me from the raging foe That would my feet orethrow verse 5 The proud have hidden nets prepar'd To take my life ensnar'd verse 6 But I Thou art my God have said O heare and send me aid verse 7 O God my Lord the strength alone Of my salvation In day of battaile Thou my head Hast safely covered verse 8 Grant not O Lord their bad desire Least then their pride aspire verse 9 Let suddaine mischeif cover those Who would my life enclose verse 10 Let quenchless fire upon them raine Nor let them rise againe verse 11 No violent man nor evill tongue On earth be stablish'd long verse 12 I know the Lord will them maintaine Who have afflicted lay'n Their cause regards and doth delight To help the poor to right verse 13 For this unto Thy Name the just Their thanks acknowledg must And those who live upright and well Shall in Thy presence dwell PSAL. CXLI verse 1 TO Thee I cry O Lord make hast To heare my voice at last verse 2 Let my request like Incense rise Or ev'ning sacrifice verse 3 Set Thou a watch my mouth before And keep my speeches doore verse 4 Incline not unto ill my heart With sinners to take part Let me not eat of that delights Their wicked appetites verse 5 But let the righteous me reprove And smite me in his love Like pretious balmes or odours shed Such stroaks not break my head And in my pray'rs I shall them bless In midst of their distress verse 6 When wicked Judges overthrow'n Ly dash'd against the stone They shall with much contentment heare My words which comfort beare verse 7 Disperst and scatter'd on the grave Our bones no value have As fallen trees cut downe and cleft Are in their splinters left verse 8 But though in darknes clos'd I ly On Thee I fix mine eye Thou wilt not leave me in the dust In whom my soul doth trust verse 9 O keep me from the cruell net Which wicked men have set verse 10 Let them be snar'd in their own trap But let my soul escape PSAL. CXLII verse 1 WIth low'd-voic'd cries to God I came And my request did frame verse 2 I powred out my sad complaint And shew'd Him my restraint verse 3 Thou when my soul was drown'd in woe My way and path did'st know Yet in that walk my feet did tread Close snares for me were spread verse 4 I did upon my right hand look But no man knowledg took My soul of help was quite bereft And had no refuge left verse 5 I therefore cry'd to Thee O Lord And said this faithfull word Thou do'st my Help and Portion stand In the Eternall Land verse 6 Consider then my great distress Brought low with heaviness From persecuters me defend Unable to contend verse 7 My soule out of the prison bring That I Thy praise may sing And for this bounty shew'd to me The just shall honour Thee PSAL. CXLIII As Psalme 25. verse 1 O Lord my Prayer heare Presented in Thy feare With mercy answer my request In humblest words exprest verse 2 Weigh not in judgments scales Thy servants daily failes For no man living in Thine eye Himself shall justify verse 3 My foes which do pursue My soule by waies undue Make me in darkness hide my head Like those have long been dead verse 4 My Spirit faint and worne Is by my griefes oreborne My heart within me desolate Through my dejected state verse 5 Yet I the daies of old In my remembrance hold Thy wonders past I meditate And all Thy works of late verse 6 To Thee I stretch my hands Like as the thirsty Lands The fruitfull raines desire to see So thirsts my soul for Thee verse 7 Heare me O Lord with speed My fainting spirit heed Least if Thou frowne I prove like those The pit of Death doth close verse 8 O let my longing eare Betimes Thy kindnes heare In Thee I trust reveale that Path Thy truth prescribed hath verse 9 Lord save me from their spight Who in my wrongs delight To Thee my soul for shelter flies Against hir enemies verse 10 Teach me to do Thy will That I may please Thee still Let Thy good spirit me direct To live with Thine elect verse 11 Lord quicken me againe Cleanse Thou my sinfull staine For Thy great Name and justice sake My soul from trouble take verse 12 I am Thy servant Lord My comfort is Thy word Then of Thy goodnes those destroy Who in my sorrowes joy PSAL. CXLIV verse 1 BLest be the Lord my strength my might Who taught my hands to fight verse 2 My rock my shield and helper true My people to subdue verse 3 Lord what is man or what his race Thy notice should him grace verse 4 Who is so vaine his daies do fade Like to the passing shade verse 5 O Lord the arched Heavens bow Come downe to earth below Touch their proud tops and then thy stroak Shall make the mountains smoak verse 6 From Thy full clouds quick lightning cast And them by scatt'ring wast Let Thy sharp arrowes 'gainst them shot Destruction make their lot verse 7 Send from above Thine hand to save Me from the swelling wave verse 8 From children strange whose mouth speaks hate Whose right hand acts deceit verse 9 Then I new Songs will sing to Thee Upon the Psalterie And on the ten-string'd Instrument Ditties of praise invent verse 10 For God salvation gives to Kings His help to David brings From perill of the Sword and grave He doth His servant save verse 11 Deliver me from strangers hands Whose mouth against Thee bands Whose right hand falshood doth defend Whose deeds in rapine end verse 12 Our Sons like plants then fresh in growth Shall flourish in their youth Our daughters like faire columnes be Which we in Temples see verse 13 Our garners shall be fill'd with store Our sheep bring thousands more verse 14 Our Oxen strong nor shall restraint Cause in our streets complaint verse 15 Happy that people and that place Which is in such a case Yea blessed are and happy they Who God their Lord obey PSAL. CXLV Sing this as Psalme 100. verse 1 I Thee extoll my God and King And of Thy Name for ever sing verse 2 I Thee will bless through all my daies And yield Thy Name eternall praise verse 3 Great is the Lord prais'd and admir'd His greatness is by none exquir'd verse 4 Each generation shall declare How mighty His achievements are verse 5 I will Thy glory celebrate Thy wond'rous works Majestick State verse 6 Thy acts of terrour and of fame All men shall speak and I proclaime verse 7 They shall abundantly profess Thy goodness and Thy righteousness verse 8 Whose grace and full compassions flow To mercy swift to anger slow verse 9 God's goodness every where extends His mercy all His works transcends verse 10 All things O Lord Thou did'st create