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
Who keep'st the poor from suff'ring wrong And help'st the needy 'gainst the strong verse 11 False witnesse did against me rise And things unknowne to me devise verse 12 For good they me reward with ill To spoile my soule and life to spill verse 13 Yet when they lay in sicknesse cast I did for them both pray and fast verse 14 As for my friend or brother borne Or for my Mother did I mourne verse 15 But of my trouble glad they joyn'd Yea abjects in my scorne combin'd verse 16 The mocking hypocrites at feasts By flowting me delight the guests verse 17 How long wilt Thou looke on O Lord Nor reskue to my soule afford O save me from destructions jawes My darling from the Lions pawes verse 18 Then in the great assembly I Will thanks and praises multiply verse 19 Let not insulting foes despise Or wink upon me with their eyes verse 20 They speake not peace but practise strife Disturbing those of quiet life verse 21 Their mouth 'gainst me they opened wide Ha ha our eye hath seene it cry'd verse 22 O Lord Thou their despight dost see Nor silence keep nor absent be verse 23 Stirre up Thy selfe to judgment wake My cause to Thy protection take verse 24 O judge me in Thy truth least they verse 25 With joy We have him swallow'd say verse 26 But let confounding shame them cloath Who love my hurt my quiet loath verse 27 Let them that favour my just cause Extoll the Lord with lowd applause Whose goodnes doth his servant raise verse 28 And still my tongue shall speake Thy praise PSAL. XXXVI verse 1 MY heart of the transgressor saith No fear of God he hath verse 2 Himselfe he flatters in conceit Becomming all mens hate verse 3 His mouth doth fraud and sin devise He is nor good nor wise verse 4 He mischeife on his bed contrives By wayes abhorred thrives verse 5 Up to the clouds Thy mercies reach The hills Thy justice teach verse 6 Thy judgments Lord who all dost keep Are like th' un-fathom'd deep verse 7 How doth Thy love excell Thy wing Man-kind ore-shadowing verse 8 Thy house to them full plenty brings Who drinke of Thy pure springs verse 9 Thou hast lifes springs and in Thy sight We shall behold the light verse 10 Thy kindnesse Lord and grace impart To the upright in heart verse 11 Let not the foot of pride prevaile Nor wicked hands assaile verse 12 Downe are they fall'n who ills devise And never shall arise PSAL. XXXVII Sing this as Psalme 51. verse 1 FRet not thy selfe nor envious be At those that work iniquity verse 2 For they shall soon to nothing passe Cut downe and wither'd like the grasse verse 3 Trust in the Lord be doing good So shalt thou dwelling have and food verse 4 Delight in Him and for thy hire He give thee will thy hearts desire verse 5 Commit thy selfe to his sole care By whom our actions crowned are verse 6 Thine innocence Hee 'l bring to light Cleare as the day or noon-tide bright verse 7 Rest then on Him nor 'gainst those fret Whose wicked projects prosper yet verse 8 And cease from wrath least anger may To greater evils thee betray verse 9 For wicked ones are cut away But good men long on earth shall stay verse 10 The Sinners vanish in short space Though sought thou shalt not find their place verse 11 Yet shall the meek unshaken stand Inheriting the promis'd land Their blessings here on earth encrease With plenty crown'd and lasting peace verse 12 Ill men with fury and despight By plots would circumvent th' upright verse 13 But God shall laugh and them defie Whose vengefull day is comming nigh verse 14 Their sword is draw'n their bow is bent To slay the just is their intent verse 15 But by their sword themselves shall dy And all their bowes shall broken ly verse 16 A good mans lot though small is more Then wicked rich mens wealthy store verse 17 Destruction shall their armes enfold But God the righteous doth uphold verse 18 The Lord accounts the just mens age And will prolong their heritage verse 19 In evill times not sham'd nor griev'd In dayes of famine still reliev'd verse 20 But Gods enraged enemies Shall vanish as the Smoakes that rise Dissolv'd and melted into fume As doth the fat of Lambs consume verse 21 The wicked borrow but not pay The good both lend and give away verse 22 Such as be blest possesse the land The bad cut off and cursed stand Second Part. verse 23 A good mans steps God orders right Who doth in His commands delight verse 24 Though fallen he shall rise againe For God's right hand doth him sustaine verse 25 I have been young and now am old Yet never did my eyes behold The just forsaken or unfed Or see his children beg their bread verse 26 He mercy shewes and lends in need And ever blessed in his seed verse 27 Depart from evill and doe well That you with Him may ever dwell verse 28 God judgment loves His Saints not leaves But sinners of their race bereaves verse 29 The just His promis'd land possesse And dwell in endlesse Happinesse verse 30 In judgment and discourses wise A righteous mouth will exercise verse 31 Gods Law doth in his heart abide Nor shall his goings ever slide verse 32 Though wicked persons daily wait To shed his blood confederate verse 33 God lets him not condemned ly Or by a wrongfull sentence dy verse 34 Wait on the Lord and keep His way That He to life exalt thee may When thou the wicked men shalt see Cut off and quite extinguish'd be verse 35 I in great pow'r have ill ones seen Like spreading Lawrells fresh and green verse 36 Yet pass'd he by and soon was gone Not found againe nor thought upon verse 37 Marke the upright the just intend For such a man in peace shall end verse 38 But sinners to destruction cast Are in their death cut off at last verse 39 God to the righteous help doth raise He is their strength in troubled dayes His aid shall save them from th' unjust Because in Him they plant their trust PSAL. XXXVIII Sing this as the Lamentation verse 1 LOrd let me not in anger wast Nor Thy rebukes in fury tast verse 2 Thy piercing arrowes deeply wound Thy pressing hand doth me confound verse 3 My sickly body finds no ease Because my sinne doth Thee displease Nor will that guilt Thou dost detest Afford my troubled conscience rest verse 4 My sins like to a torrent grow'n My sinking head have overflow'n They burthen me with care and feare And are become too great to beare verse 5 My sores and wounds corrupted smell My foule offence and folly tell verse 6 Bow'd downe with trouble and forlorne By night I wake by day I mourne verse 7 My Ioynes diseas'd my flesh unsound And all my body seems one wound verse 8 I feeble am with anguish broake And roare
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
long shall I without reliefe Take counsaile of my griefe How long wilt Thou my soule expose To hir insulting foes verse 3 Consider Lord my Prayer heare When I my hands up-reare Lighten mine eyes ere losse of breath Cause me to sleep in death verse 4 Lest that mine enemy prevaile Triumphing when I faile And those that trouble me be glad When they behold me sad verse 5 But in thy Mercy Lord and Grace My constant trust I place My glad heart shall rejoyce alone In thy salvation verse 6 I will my gratefull Anthems sing Unto the Heavenly King Who with such bountifull regard His servants doth reward PSAL. XIV Sing this as Psalme 100. verse 1 THe fool within his heart hath said There is no God that all things made Corrupt and wicked are their facts Nor is there one who goodnesse acts verse 2 The Lord from Heaven downe did looke And view of all mans children tooke To see if any knowledge sought Or upon God would place his thought verse 3 But all of them are gone aside And in their filthinesse abide Throughout their numbers there is none That good performeth No not one verse 4 Do then all knowledge thus defy Those workers of iniquity Who eat my people up as bread And never God have worshipped verse 5 Affrighted they and stricken were With great amaze and sudden feare For God amongst the righteous race Is ever present by His Grace verse 6 The poore mans counsaile and his faith Your shamelesse malice mocked hath Because he God his refuge makes And sure protection from Him takes verse 7 O who that Israël may live Salvation will from Sion give When God shall His from bondage free Then Iacobs race shall joyfull bee PSAL. XV verse 1 LOrd who shall in thy dwelling bide Or on Thy Hill reside verse 2 Ev'n he whose life and deeds are right Whose words in truth delight verse 3 He who reviles not with his tongue Nor doth his neighbour wrong Who none with slanders doth backbite Or undeserved spight verse 4 Who in his pure impartiall eyes Vile persons doth despise But love and honour doth afford To them that feare the Lord verse 5 Whose mind not alters if he sweare Though he a looser were verse 6 Nor by extortion wealth contracts Nor lawlesse use exacts Nor to betray the innocent For wicked bribes is bent verse 7 Who so doth this shall never move Out of his Makers love PSAL. XVI Sing this as the Lamentation verse 1 PReserve O God and succour mee Who put my faithfull trust in Thee verse 2 Thou O my Soule to Him hast said Thou ar't my Lord and only aid To Thee my goodnes not extends No merit nor perfection lends verse 3 But my delight on Saints is plac'd By most excelling vertues grac'd verse 4 Their sorrowes shall be multiply'd Who have on other Gods rely'd To These I no burnt offering Nor bloody sacrifice will bring Of them I neither mention make Nor in my lips their Names will take verse 5 Thou only Who my portion ar't Shalt have the duties of my heart God fills my Cup and doth advance The lot of mine inheritance verse 6 My lines in pleasant places lay'd A wealthy heritage have made verse 7 Thee therefore will I ever bless Who gav'st me counsell in distress And by Thy warnings do'st invite My reines to serve Thee in the night verse 8 I set the Lord before mine ey And hold Him in my memory Whil'st He assists at my right hand I stedfast and unmoved stand verse 9 This glads my heart my Glory shall Rejoyce how low so ere I fall And in the grave my flesh shall rest With hope to Rise againe possest verse 10 Thou wilt not leave my Soul in Hell Eternally condemn'd to dwell Nor sufferest Thy Holy one In death to see corruption verse 11 Thou wilt the path of Life declare At whose Right Hand and Presence are Such pleasures which no time shall end And joyes no thought can comprehend PSAL. XVII verse 1 LOrd heare the right my cry attend My pray'r which lips unfeigned send verse 2 Judge me and with impartiall eye Behold my causes equity verse 3 Thou prov'st my heart and in the night Visit'st and try'st and find'st me right I in my purpos'd thoughts professe That never shall my mouth transgresse verse 4 Thy word hath kept me from mens works And pathes where the destroyer lurkes verse 5 Hold up my goings in thy way That so my footsteps never stray verse 6 I call'd on thee who ar't inclin'd My voyce to heare my speech to mind verse 7 O shew thy kindnes thou whose hand Sav'st them that trust when foes withstand verse 8 Keep as the Apple of the eye And by Thee shadow'd let me lye verse 9 From wicked men and deadly foes Whose strong oppressions me enclose verse 10 For they with fatnes swoll'n and pride verse 11 Have compass'd us and closely ey'd verse 12 Like Lions greedy of their prey Or Lions whelps they lurking lay verse 13 Arise O Lord and in thy frowne Both disappoint and cast him downe Deliv'rance to my soul afford From wicked men who are thy sword verse 14 From men I say who are thy hand To punish sinners in the land Whom pleasures of the world enslave And in this life their portion have Thou giv'st them treasure at their will Their belly do'st with plenty fill Who full of Children at their death Their substance to their race bequeath verse 15 But I behold Thy glorious sight And presence will in endlesse light And wak'd from death with thee abide With Thy blest likenesse satisfi'd PSAL. XVIII Sing this as Psalme 51. verse 1 I Thee will love O Lord my pow'r Thou art my fortresse rock and tow'r verse 2 My God my trust my confidence My horne of safety and defence verse 3 To God most prais'd I send my Cries Who saves me from mine enemies verse 4 When pangs of circling death prevail'd And floods of wicked men assail'd verse 5 I compass'd am with paines of Hell The snares of death about me dwell verse 6 To God I cry'd distrest and griev'd Who from His Temple me reliev'd verse 7 The earth then trembled at His wrath Which Hir foundations shaken hath verse 8 A smoake from out His nostrills came And from His mouth devouring flame verse 9 He bow'd the Heavens and came downe Beneath His feet was darknesse throw'n verse 10 On flying Cherubs He did ride verse 11 On wings of Wind through Heaven glide Thick darknesse His Pavilion made And watry Clouds the sky orelay'd verse 12 Yet at His brightnesse those gave place Whilst haile and fire powr'd down apace verse 13 13 His voyce was heard in thunders loud And coales fell from the breaking Cloud verse 14 His shafts dispers'd them as they flew Their force His darted lightnings slew verse 15 The Oceans Chanell did appear The world's foundations naked were At Thy rebuke O Lord and blast Which Thy incensed Nostrills
publish in my Song What thankes to Thee belong verse 8 O Lord devoutly I affect The House Thou dost Elect. I Love the honour of that Place Thy presence deignes to grace verse 9 Shut not my soule nor judge my life With men of blood and strife verse 10 Whose arme it selfe in mischiefe lifts Whose hand is fill'd with gifts verse 11 In mine integrity I goe Save me and mercy show verse 12 So will I Praise Thee when my feet Within Thy Temple meet PSAL. XXVII Sing this as Psalme 51. verse 1 GOd my Salvation is and Light What terrour then shall me affright My life 's sole strength He is and aid Of whom then shall I be afraid verse 2 When wicked men mine enemies Conspiring did against me rise When they approach'd my flesh to eat They stumbling fell in their retreat verse 3 Although an host encamped were My heart their numbers shall not feare And though a War against me rise My confidence shall them despise verse 4 One thing of God I have desir'd That I unto His House retir'd Might spend my dayes there grow old His Temples beauty to behold verse 5 For He when times of trouble threat Will me in his Pavilion seat Within His Tabernacle hide And safety on a rock provide verse 6 And now my head up-lifted shall Behold my foes encircling fall Therefore glad Songs and sacrifice With praises to Thy throne shall rise verse 7 Heare O my Lord and when I cry In mercy to my voyce reply verse 8 When Thou command'st Seek ye my face My heart O Lord seek Thee saies verse 9 Hide not Thy face from me in ire Nor leave me helplesse I desire verse 10 Who when my Parents me forsake Wilt me unto Thy favour take verse 11 Teach me O Lord Thy wayes to tread In pathes of truth and plainnesse lead verse 12 Nor leave me to their cruell will Who raise false witnesse me to kill verse 13 I fainted had but for beleife In endlesse life to find releife Wait on the Lord of courage be O wait on Him will strengthen Thee PSAL XXVIII verse 1 TO Thee O Lord my Rock I cry Forbeare not to reply Least I be if Thou silence keep Like those in death that sleep verse 2 Heare Thou the voyce of my request In accents lowd exprest When I with lifted hands entreat Before thy Mercy seat verse 3 O draw me not with sinners hence Whose works are Thy offence Who when their hearts would mischiefe wreake Peace to their neighbour speake verse 4 Give them according to their deeds And wicked labours seeds And in the workes they did invent Render their punishment verse 5 Because Gods works they set at nought And what His hand hath wrought He cast them to destruction shall Nor build them when they fall verse 6 Blessed be God who when I pray'd Became my shield and aid verse 7 Therefore my heart in Songs of Praise With joy His fame shall raise verse 8 He His Annointed doth defend Strength to His Servants send verse 9 Thy people save Thine Heritance To endlesse blisse advance PSAL XXIX verse 1 YEe Mighty in your Race and Tribe Glory to God ascribe verse 2 In beauty of His holinesse His Name adore and blesse verse 3 The Lord by His commanding voyce Brings downe the Waters noyse The Glorious God the Thunder makes Which earth's foundation shakes verse 4 He rules the Sea with pow'r from high Dreadfull in Majesty verse 5 His voyce when He in fury speakes The lofty Cedars breaks verse 6 Like sporting Calves the Mountaines skip Great Lebanon doth leap And Syrion by his Motion borne Like a young Unicorne verse 7 His voyce the flames of fire divides From clouds when Lightning glides verse 8 At His rebuke the desart quakes And barren Kadesh shakes verse 9 Bring forth He makes the frighted Hinds Rends forrests with His Winds And all His glory must declare Who in His Temple are verse 10 God sits above the Watry maine Doth King for ever reigne verse 11 He will His peoples strength encrease And blesse them long with peace PSAL. XXX Sing this as the Lamentation verse 1 O Lord I Thee will magnifie For Thou hast lifted me on high Nor madest me a scorne to those Who were my lifes professed foes verse 2 O Lord my God I cry'd to Thee Who hast in mercy healed me My Soule Thou broughtest from the grave And from the pit of Hell didst save verse 4 O all ye Saints your voyces raise To sing your Makers endlesse praise Remember still with thankes to blesse And magnifie His Holinesse verse 5 For but a Moment lasts His wrath His favour life restored hath Our weeping may endure a night But joy comes with the morning light verse 6 In my prosperity I said My bases are for ever lay'd I shall not from my place remove But stand supported by Thy love No change of times or fortunes hate Can overthrow my happy state For thou my Mountaine mad'st so strong I shall on earth continue long Yet whilst exalted in my thought I was to suddaine trouble brought And soon as Thou didst hide Thy face My comforts vanish'd hence apace verse 8 Then unto Thee O Lord did I With humble supplication cry I did to God my plaint addresse Thus powring forth my heavinesse verse 9 O Thou most Glorious most Good What profit is there in my blood What triumph canst Thou gaine by it When I goe downe into the pit Shall silent dust or darknesse have A tongue to praise Thee in the grave Or those in earth who closed are From their low Cells Thy truth declare verse 10 O Lord Thine eare of mercy lend And from Thy dwelling succour send verse 11 For Thou the cause for which I mourn'd Hast into Songs and Dances turn'd My Sack-cloath Thou didst off me take And cheerfull robes of gladnesse make verse 12 That I Thy praises might renew To whom incessant thankes are due PSAL. XXXI Sing this as the Lamentation verse 1 IN Thee O Lord I put my trust Save me from shame as Thou art just verse 2 Bow downe Thy gratious eare with speed Be Thou my strong defence at need verse 3 For Thou my Rock do'st me protect O for Thy Names sake me direct verse 4 Pull me from out the dang'rous net Which they for me have closely set verse 5 My spirit I to Thee commit For Thou O God did'st purchase it verse 6 I hate all those love vanities But on the Lord my trust relies verse 7 I joy in Thy compassion show'n Who hast my Soule in trouble know'n verse 8 Thou didst from hostile hands discharge To liberty my feet enlarge verse 9 Have mercy Lord and send reliefe Mine eye and soule both wast with griefe verse 10 Through sin I sigh away my dayes My bones consume my strength decayes verse 11 My foes reproach my neighbours fright I am whilst friends avoid my sight verse 12 Like to the dead I sit forgot And
uselesse as a broken pot verse 13 For I their slander heard and strife Who counsaile took against my life verse 14 But Lord my trust in Thee is lay'd Thou art my God my help I said verse 15 My fleeting times are in Thy hand Whose short-liv'd date by Thee is span'd Me never to the pow'r expose Or hand of persecuting foes verse 16 On me O let Thy favour shine To save me through Thy grace incline verse 17 Thy servant let no shame befall Who daily on Thy Name doth call Let wicked men confusion have Put downe to silence in the grave verse 18 And shut the lying lips that use The just by slanders to traduce verse 19 O how great goodnesse hast thou wrought For those thee fear whose faith thee sought verse 20 Them shalt Thou in Thy presence hide Kept safe from mens insulting pride And from the tongues malitious strife As in a tow'r defend their life verse 21 Blessed be God whose love endures Whose strong protection me secures verse 22 I said though in my hast unwise I am cut off before Thine eyes Yet hast Thou not my suit deny'd When in my Pray'r to Thee I cry'd verse 23 O Love the Lord who His regards And with revenge the proud rewards verse 24 Be bold since He such grace imparts To strengthen both your hopes hearts PSAL. XXXII verse 1 BLessed is he whose wickednesse To pardon finds accesse Whose sin with all he did amisse Forgot and cover'd is verse 2 Blest is the man to whom The Lord Imputes no crime abhord Whose spirit right whose heart is streight And harbours no deceit verse 3 When I my tongue from speech refrain'd I was with anguish pain'd My bones wax't old through discontent My dayes in moanes were spent verse 4 Thy hand upon me heavy lay Not resting night or day My Moisture was to nothing brought Like fields in Summers drought verse 5 Then I to Thee my sin reveal'd And no offence conceal'd And soon as my confession said My peace with Thee was made verse 6 For this to Thee shall prayer sound What time Thou may'st be found Nor shall the floods which highest goe Thy servants overflow verse 7 Thou art a refuge me to hide From dangers troubled tide With Songs of Thy delivery I shall encompast ly verse 8 I will enforme thy life and teach How thou this blisse shalt reach And with mine eye I thee will guide Least thou should'st tread aside verse 9 Be ye not like the horse or mule Whom reason cannot rule Whose stubborne mouths the bit and reine From fury must restreine verse 10 Great plagues and paines that never end For wicked men attend But those in God their trust who place Sure mercies shall embrace Be glad ye righteous and rejoyce Who make the Lord your choice With shouts alowd your joy impart All ye upright in heart PSAL. XXXIII verse 1 YEe righteous in the Lord delight For praise becomes th' upright verse 2 Let Harpe and Psaltery's consent The ten-string'd instrument verse 3 New Songs record unto the voyce With their melodious noise verse 4 For just Gods promise is to you And all His workes are true verse 5 He righteousnesse and judgment wills All earth his goodnesse fills verse 6 The Heav'ns bright host and all beneath He formed with His breath verse 7 He doth the waters of the deep Heap'd in His store house keep verse 8 Let men and all which earth doth beare Of Him then stand in feare verse 9 He spake and at His free commands The world unmoved stands verse 10 Mens counsailes and devises wrought The Lord will bring to nought verse 11 Yet through all ages His decree And thoughts unchanged be verse 12 Blest is the People He protects And for His Lot elects verse 13 The Lord from Heav'n His dwelling place verse 14 Beheld all humane race verse 15 Their hearts He fashion'd whose each thought And worke to light is brought verse 16 No King is sav'd by multitude Nor man with might endu'd verse 17 As vaine for safety is the horse To reskue by his force verse 18 Who feare and on Gods love relye Are ever in his Eye verse 19 Their Soule to reskue from the grave And life from famine save verse 20 Our soule doth wait for God our sheild verse 21 Glad hopes on Him we build verse 22 Lord let Thy mercy on us be As we beleive in Thee PSAL. XXXIV verse 1 I Will at all times blesse the Lord His praises still record verse 2 And whilst my soule of God makes choice The humble shall rejoyce verse 3 The Lord with me O magnifie Exalt His Name on high I sought Him who my prayer heard And sav'd from all I fear'd verse 5 They look'd to Him and light'ned were No shame their faces beare verse 6 For God did at the poor man's cry Relieve his misery verse 7 His Angell those environs round Who in His fear are sound verse 8 O tast and see how good is Hee To such as faithfull be verse 9 O fear the Lord yee Saints of His For such no blessings misse verse 10 Young Lions often lacking prey With hunger pine away But those that seek His Covenant No good thing ever want verse 11 Come children hearken to my speech I you His feare will teach verse 12 What man is he long life doth crave Or happy dayes would have verse 13 Keep thou thy tongue from wicked wile Thy lips from speaking guile verse 14 Depart from ill in good encrease Pursue and seek for peace verse 15 For on the just God casts His eyes His eares admit their cryes verse 16 Against the bad He sets his face To cut them from their place verse 17 The righteous cry and God attends In trouble safety sends verse 18 He doth in broken hearts delight And saveth soules contrite verse 19 Great troubles on the righteous fall But He releives in all verse 20 He keeps the number of each bone Nor broken shall be one verse 21 Transgressors their own mischeifs slay And with just vengeance pay All such as doe the righteous hate Shall soone be desolate verse 22 For God His servants soules redeems And deare their faith esteems PSAL. XXXV As Psalme 51. verse 1 PLead Lord my cause with striving foes Against them fight who me oppose verse 2 The shield for my Protection weare Draw out Thy all-subduing speare Stop Thou my persecutors way Soule I am thy salvation say verse 4 Let them drove back with shame retire Who to procure my hurt conspire verse 5 Like chaffe before the Whirlwinds blast Let them be by God's Angell chas'd verse 6 Darke be their way their steps untrue And let His Angel them pursue verse 7 For without cause they hid their snare And for my soule did pits prepare verse 8 But let themselves surprised all In their contriv'd destruction fall verse 9 My soule in God shall joyfull be verse 10 My bones all say who 's like to Thee
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
My soule to care and sorrow curst For God doth hourely thirst When shall I come Thy presence neare And in Thy sight appeare verse 3 But teares which day and night did fall I had no meat at all While they where is thy God do cry On whom thou dost rely verse 4 Remembring this my soule I powre And those glad times deplore When to Thy house we throng'd with praise To keep Thy Holy daies verse 5 Why O my soule art thou perplext My heart cast downe and vext Hope thou in God and praise Him still Whose help up-raise thee will verse 6 O God my soule cast downe with greife Within finds no releife But Jordans Land and Hermon hill I will remember still verse 7 One deep upon another calls At Thy loud Water-falls Thy waves and billowes highest run All over me have gone verse 8 The Lord yet sends His favours ray To shine on me by day And I my songs and Pray'rs all night Send to the God of light verse 9 To God I le say My Rock and strength Am I forgot at length Before my foes why do I mourne Oppressed and forlorne verse 10 At their reproach with scoffing mixt I am with swords trans-fixt Whilst flouting at my misery Where is Thy God they cry verse 11 Why O my soule art thou perplext My heart cast downe and vext Hope thou in God and praise Him still Whose help up-raise thee will PSAL. XLIII verse 1 IUdge me O Lord and plead my cause With them that know no Lawes Deliver me from the unjust In fraud and wrong that trust verse 2 Thou God! canst only me protect Why dost Thou me reject Why goe I thus in mourning drest By enemies opprest verse 3 O send Thy Glorious beams of light Thy truth to keep me right That of Thy holy dwellings I May make discovery verse 4 Then will I to Thy altar bring A joyfull offering And on the harp my ditties raise To celebrate Thy praise verse 5 Why droop'st thou then my Soule so fast Downe in thy sorrowes cast Or wherefore my afflicted heart Thou so disturbed art verse 6 Trust in the Lord for I will praise And thank Him all my dayes Who cures and crownes lifes short annoyes With never ending joyes PSAL. XLIV Sing this as the Lamentation verse 1 O God! our fathers have us told What Thou hast done in times of old verse 2 Thou drav'st out Nations by Thine hand got To plant Thy people in their land verse 3 'T was not their arme or sword which Those faire possessions for their lot But thy right hand thine arme of might Because in them Thou took'st delight verse 4 O glorious God! Thou art my King Deliverance to Iacob bring verse 5 Through Thee we will our enemies And those tread downe who 'gainst us rise verse 6 For in my bow I will not trust 'T is not my sword deliver must verse 7 But Thou hast sav'd us by Thy Name And all that hate us put to shame verse 8 In God all day we make our boasts And praise Thy Name great Lord of hoasts verse 9 But Thou hast left and cast us low Nor with our Armies forth dost goe verse 10 Thou makest us our backs to turne Whilst they which hate us spoile burne verse 11 Thou gav'st us to the Heathens pow'r Like sheep to scatter and devoure verse 12 Thou do'st Thy People sell for nought Not richer when to price is brought verse 13 Thou makest us our neighbours scorne Laugh'd at and with reproaches torne verse 14 We are a by-word all about The Heathen shake their head flowt verse 15 I ly confounded with disgrace And shame hath covered my face verse 16 By reason of their vengfull pride Who Thee blaspheme and me deride verse 17 All this we beare yet have we not Thy selfe or Covenant forgot verse 18 Our heart revolting turnes not back Nor do our feet Thy waies forsake verse 19 Though mongst the dragons broken sore And with death's shadow cover'd ore verse 20 If we our God forgotten have Or unto Idols worship gave verse 21 Shall not his search the sin impart Who knowes the secrets of each heart verse 22 Yea for Thy sake so ill we fare We all the day-long killed are Counted as sheep for shambles bred Fit only to be slaughtered verse 23 Awake O Lord why do'st Thou sleep Still wilt Thou us at distance keep verse 24 Why hidest Thou Thy face from those Who ly opprest and griev'd by foes verse 25 Our soule unto the dust is throw'n To earth our belly cleaveth downe verse 26 Arise our life from ruin take And save us for Thy mercies sake PSAL. XLV verse 1 MY heart good matter doth indite Which of the King I write And like a ready pen my tongue Frames hir triumphant song verse 2 Thou fairer art then humane race Thy lips are full of grace Therefore thy God on thee doth powre His blessings endlesse store verse 3 Gird on thy sword O great in might For Truth and Justice fight verse 4 That all the world may understand The terrour of Thy hand verse 5 Thy sharp'ned arrowes wound all those Who dare the King oppose Whereby subdued at Thy call The vanquisht people fall verse 6 Thy throne O God doth still endure Thy Scepter just and pure verse 7 Thou righteousnesse do'st value best And wickednesse detest Therefore thy God hath Thee preferr'd And by a love unheard The oyle of gladnesse on Thy head Above Thy fellowes shed verse 8 Myrrhe Aloës and Cassia's smell Upon Thy garments dwell Out of the Ivory Palaces Provided Thee to please verse 9 King's daughters were amongst Thy traine Nor to attend disdaine The Queen upon Thy right hand plac'd With gold of Ophir grac'd verse 10 Hearken O Daughter and give eare Forget thy parents deare verse 11 The King shall prize thy beauty more Whom as thy Lord adore verse 12 Rich Tyre with gifts and presents great Thy favour shall entreat verse 13 Who far above Thy beauties seen All glorious art within verse 14 Shee in a robe with needles wrought Shall to the King be brought The Virgins which upon hir wait Shall add unto Thy State verse 15 With joy and gladnesse they resort To enter the Kings Court verse 16 Thou shalt have sons in Father's stead And many Princes breed verse 17 In all succeeding times Thy Name Shall mention'd be with fame Whilst the glad people Thy renowne With endlesse praises crowne PSAL. XLVI Sing this as Psalme 51. verse 1 GOd is our refuge our defence Rests wholly on His providence Which still affords a present aid When greatest troubles us invade verse 2 Therefore we shall not need to feare Though the fixt earth removed were Or though the hills and mountaines steep Lay buried in the angry Deep verse 3 Although the roaring waters make The Mountaines with their swelling shake verse 4 Yet calmer rivers do embrace Gods City His faire dwelling place verse 5 Whose Tabernacles by
display'd verse 6 The Sun by day thee shall not smite Nor vapours of the Moon by night verse 7 The Lord shall Thee preserve from harme Thy soule against temptations arme verse 8 Thy going out and comming in For evermore His care have bin PSAL. CXXII verse 1 I Was right glad and joyfull made When They unto me said Let us unto God's House repaire And worship Him with pray'r verse 2 O blest Ierusalem our feet Within Thy Gates shall meet verse 3 Who builded like a City art United in each part verse 4 To Thee the Tribes of God ascend Their praises to commend And by their zeale the rest enflame To blesse their Makers Name verse 5 There are the great Tribunals plac't By publick justice grac't There is the Palace and the Throne Which David sits upon verse 6 O pray for Salems lasting peace That it may nere decrease They still shall prosper from whose love These happy wishes move verse 7 With peace thy wals encircled be Sweet concord dwell in Thee And let thy Palaces abound With fullest plenty crown'd verse 8 I for my brethrens sake will pray Peace may within thee stay verse 9 And for the House of Gods aboad Will ever seek Thy good PSAL. CXXIII verse 1 I Unto Thee lift up mine eyes O thou who rul'st the skies And in the highest Heav'ns dost dwell Whose brightness none can tell verse 2 As servants wait their Lords command And Maids their mistresse hand On God so do our eyes depend Till He his mercy send verse 3 O Lord some pity on us shew To end our painfull woe For we reproached and unpriz'd Are utterly despis'd verse 4 Our soule afflicted daily mournes Fill'd with excessive scornes Whil'st those who live in ease and pride Our wretched state deride PSAL. CXXIV To the proper Tune verse 1 NOw Israel This truth may gladly tell But that the Lord Did help to us afford verse 2 If He our side With strength had not supply'd When banding foes Against our safety rose verse 3 Their kindled ire Had swallow'd us like fire verse 4 The angry flood Had then above us stood Who by the streame Quite overwhelm'd had been verse 5 And swelling waves Become our timeless graves Whil'st ore our soule The billowes proudly rowle verse 6 Blest be His aid Who us their prey not made verse 7 Our resku'd soules Like late-entangled fowles Escaped are Out of the deadly snare Broke is the net And we at freedom set verse 8 In His great Name Who Heav'n and earth did frame Our ruin stay'd And help on Him is lay'd Another of the same verse 1 NOw Israel may truly say In honour of this day Had not the Lord our quarrell took All help had us forsook verse 2 Yea had not God our battailes fought When men our ruin sought And when our close conspiring foes Against our safety rose verse 3 The wrath which in their breasts did strive Had buried us alive Consuming both our Place and Name In their revenges flame verse 4 Our Life and what we most esteem Had perisht in this stream verse 5 And in the furious billowes womb Beheld our glories comb verse 6 But let our God be alwayes prais'd Who thus from death us rais'd Nor made us subject to their pow'r Who sought us to devour verse 7 From danger resku'd is our soule Like some net scaping fowle So broken is the bloody snare And we deliver'd are verse 8 Our present help and hopes of aid In God alone are lay'd 'T is He who made both Heav'n and earth That gave our comforts birth PSAL. CXXV verse 1 WHo God their hope and trust account Are like faire Sions Mount Whose head unmoved and unshook Abides the tempests stroak verse 2 As rising Mountaines Salem's fense By their circumference So God His people guards throughout And circles them about verse 3 The wicked shall not by their pow'r The righteous Lot devour Least they the heathens sins partake Who them their vassall make verse 4 Do good O Lord unto the just Who in Thy goodnes trust And those that are in heart upright Continue in Thy sight verse 5 But as for such who turn'd aside To crooked waies back-slide The Lord their judgments shall encrease But Iacob blesse with peace PSAL. CXXVI verse 1 WHen God did cast a gratious eye On Sions misery And did his captiv'd Peoples state To liberty translate This unexpected safety wrought On us such wonder brought Our freedome like a vision seem'd And we like them that dream'd verse 2 Joy fill'd our mouth triumphant Songs Did exercise our tongues That Heathens with amazement said God hath This gladness made verse 3 The Lord who crownes His servants faith Great things effected hath And makes us publish through the earth The causes of our mirth verse 4 Lord turne our bondage end our woe Let Thy full mercyes flow As waters from the fountaines mouth Or Rivers in the South verse 5 They who before in teares have sow'n And only sorrowes know'n Shall so their future hopes employ That they may reap in joy verse 6 He who good seed in weeping beares And water'd with his teares Shall doubtless find return'd with gaine What here he sow'd in paine A blessed harvest shall ensue His comforts to renew Long joyes shall spring from his short grief And from each graine a sheaf PSAL. CXXVII Sing this as the Lords Prayer verse 1 EXcept the Lord the house sustaine The builders labour is in vaine Except the City He defend And to the dwellers safety send In vaine are Centinels prepar'd Or armed watchmen for the guard verse 2 You vainly with the early light Arise or sit up late at night To find support and dayly eat Your bread with sorrow earn'd and sweat When God who His beloved keepes This plenty gives with quiet sleepes verse 3 Lo children and the fruitfull womb Are blessings which from Heaven come verse 4 As arrowes in a strong mans hand So children are in youth obtain'd verse 5 Who hath his quiver full of those Shall never feare upbraiding foes PSAL. CXXVIII verse 1 BLessed is he who God doth fear And holds His precepts deare verse 2 Thou shalt have plenty in thy meat And of thy labours eat verse 3 Thy Wife shall like the loving vine Which doth thy walls entwine With fruits enrich thy dwelling place And multiply thy race Thy Children shall like branches shew Which from the Olive grow And round about thy table stand As blessings to thy land verse 4 These favours shall the man obtaine Whose hopes in God remaine verse 5 The Lord shall thee from Sion bless With all earthes happiness Thine eyes Hierusalem shall see Fill'd with prosperitie And whil'st thy dayes of life endure Hir gloryes shall be sure verse 6 Thou Childrens Children shalt behold Spring up when thou art old And added to thine own encrease See Israel in peace PSAL. CXXIX Sing this as Psalme 119. verse 1 OFt vext me from my Youth have they
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