sown And gladness is by God design'd For every upright hearted one 12 Ye righteous in the Lord your God Rejoyce with hearty thankfulness The honourable memory Keep of his perfect holiness PSALM XCVIII 1 SIng a new song to God The things which he hath done Are great and marvellous And make his Greatness known His right hand high And holy arm Did well perform His victory 2 His great salvation The Lord hath well made known And in the heathens sight His righteousness hath shown 3 Toward Israel He mercy hath And his firm truth Remembred well All the ends of the earth God's saving works and ways Have with their eyes beheld 4 With joy sound forth his praise Let all men raise Their loudest voice In him rejoyce And sing his praise 5 Sing to God with the Harp With Psalms and Musick 's voice 6 Trumpets and Cornets sound Make ye a joyful noise Before the Lord The World 's great King With praises sing With sweet concord 7 Let the great Ocean roar Its waves and fulness swell 8 Let all the world praise God And they that therein dwell Let floods applaud And hills rejoyce As with one voice The Lord to laud. 9 God's presence all attend For he is coming forth With truth and righteousness To judge all men on earth The world will he To judgment call And judge men all With equity PSALM XCIX 1 TRemble ye people of the world The righteous Lord doth reign above He sits between the Cherubims The earth below shall quake and move 2 The Lord in Sion is extoll'd He is above all people high 3 His holy great and dreadful name Let all men fear and magnifie 4 Judgment lov'd is the strength of Kings Thou settlest truth and equity Just judgment thou dost execute And rulest Jacob righteously 5 Exalt the Name of God the Lord And at his foot-stool humbly fall He 's holy in true holiness Worship him O ye people all 6 Moses and Aaron with his Priests Samuel and other such as have Call'd on him when to him they pray'd He heard and gracious answer gave 7 Within the cloudy Pillar he Spake unto them his word and will His testimony they receiv'd And kept his holy precepts still 8 Thou answer'dst them O Lord our God And often didst their sins forgive Though oft also thou took'st revenge Of what they did amiss contrive 9 Exalt the name of our Lord God And at his chosen holy hill Worship him in true holiness For God our Lord is holy still PSALM C. 1 ALL people that do dwell Abroad on all the earth Make to the Lord a joyful noise Praise him with holy mirth 2 O serve our glorious Lord With gladness and with joys Before his holy presence come With chearful singing voice 3 Know that the Lord is God It 's he that did us make Not we our selves us as his flock And people he doth take 4 Enter his gates with thanks Into his courts with praise Be truly thankful unto him And bless his name always 5 For God our Lord is good His mercies ever sure And to all generations His truth shall still endure The Old Metre 1 ALL people that on earth do dwell Sing to the Lord with chearful voice 2 Him serve with fear his praise forth tell Come ye before him and rejoyce 3 The Lord ye know is God indeed Without our aid he did us make We are his flock he doth us feed And for his sheep he doth us take 4 O enter then his gates with praise Approach with joy his courts unto Praise laud and bless his name always For it is seemly so to do 5 For why the Lord our God is good His mercy is for ever sure His truth at all times firmly stood And shall from age to age endure PSALM CI. 1 MErcy and Judgment are my song Of these O Lord I 'le sing to thee 2 I 'le wisely walk in perfect way O Lord when wilt thou come to me I 'le walk within my house and place With a just mind and perfect heart 3 All that is wicked and prophane Shall from before my eyes depart I hate their works that turn aside To me it shall not come or cleave 4 I will not know a wicked man A froward heart I 'le shun and leave 5 I 'le cut him off who slandereth His righteous neighbour secretly I 'le not endure men of proud hearts Nor him that scorns and looketh high 6 Mine eyes shall look to faithful men That they may always dwell with me He that walks in a perfect way My welcome servant he shall be 7 He that is bent to use deceit In my house shall not with me dwell Nor shall he tarry in my sight Who lyes doth use himself to tell 8 The wicked of the land I will Soon root out and their works deface That from the City of the Lord I may cut off their wicked race PSALM CII A Prayer of the afflicted when he is overwhelmed And poureth out his complaint before the Lord. 1 LOrd hearken to my fervent prayer And let my cry come un to thee 2 And now when I in trouble am Hide not thy gracious face from me Bow thine ear to me when I call Hear me and answer speedily 3 My days consumed are like smoak My very bones are burnt and dry 4 My heart within me smitten is And like to grass it 's withered So swallow'd up with grief that I Do even forget to eat my bread 5 By reason of my groaning voice My bones cleave to my withered skin 6 I like mournful Pelican Of the sad wilderness have bin I like an Owl in desart am Who nightly there doth streech and moan 7 I watch and like a sparrow am That sits on the house-top alone 8 My persecuting enemies All day do me reproach and scorn And they that mad against me are Are all against me set and sworn 9 Ashes I eaten have like bread And mingled have my drink with tears 10 Because thine indignation hot And wrath doth cause my pains and fears In mercy thou didst lift me up But thou hast cast me very low 11 My days like shadows do decline And like the wither'd grass I grow 12 But thou art the eternal God And ever dost endure the same Beyond all generations is The memory of thy glorious name 13 Thou wilt arise On Sion thou Wilt timely shew thy mercy great The time to favour her is come The time foretold which thou hast set 14 For in her very ruin'd stones Thy faithful servants pleasure take They love the very dust thereof And therefore for her prayers make 15 So shall the very heathens fear The mighty Lord 's most holy name And all the Kings on earth shall dread Thy glorious Majesty and fame 16 When God his Sion shall build up In glory he 'll to us appear 17 Distress'd mens prayers he 'll regard And not despise but gently hear 18 This for the ages yet to come Shall
labour he pursues Till the approach of resting night 24 How manifold and numberless Are thy great wondrous works O Lord In wisdom thou hast made them all Earth's with thy plenteous riches stor'd 25 So is this great and spacious sea Numberless things there swim or creep Some small some of vast magnitude Made by thee to dwell in the deep 26 The Ships by man for Commerce made Go there and make the deep their way There is the great Leviathan Which thou hast made therein to play 27 On thee the bounteous Lord of life All things do daily wait that live That thou sufficing sustenance In season due to them may'st give 28 They gladly gather and receive That which thou giv'st to them for food Thou openest thy liberal hand And they are fill'd by thee with good 29 Thou hid'st thy lightsome quickening face Then sick or troubled they decay They die and to their dust return When as thou tak'st their breath away 30 Thou sendest forth thy vital spirit And they are as it were new made With beauteous verdure thou renew'st The face of earth which seem'd decay'd 31 But God's own Glory endless is It never fades or waxeth old The Lord with joy and pleasure doth His own great perfect works behold 32 His very looks do make the earth As a thing frightened to quake His touch doth make the steadfast hills Forthwith as mov'd to smoak and shake 33 I will sing praise unto the Lord The longest day I have to live And while I any being have To God I 'le joyful praises give 34 My meditation of him shall Sweeten my thoughts when they are sad And in the way to endless joy In God alone I will be glad 35 Let sinners be consum'd from earth And let the wicked no more be My soul bless thou the blessed God All Saints the glorious Lord praise ye PSALM CV 1 O Give ye thanks unto the Lord Trust ye and call upon his name And that all people may them know His deeds do you to them proclaim 2 Sing unto him to him sing Psalms Of all his wondrous works talk ye And let his great and holy name Your joyful glorying still be 3 Let all their hearts that seek the Lord Be ever joyful in his grace 4 Seek ye the Lord and his great strength Evermore seek his pleased face 5 Keep ye in constant memory The strange and great works he hath done His wonders and the judgments which His mouth to us hath truly shewn 6 O ye his servant Abraham's seed His chosen Israel's Off-spring 7 His judgments are in all the earth He is the Lord our God and King 8 He keeps in faithful memory His Covenant it shall ever stand To thousand generations His word to keep he did command 9 Which Covenant he with Abraham made And he to Isaac gave his oath 10 This Law and endless Covenant He un to Israel sealed hath 11 Saying I 'le give thee Canaan's Land Your lot of heritage is there 12 When they but few yea very few In it and utter strangers were 13 When they from land to land did go Through divers Kingdoms oft remov'd 14 He suffer'd none to do them wrong But mighty Kings for them reprov'd 15 Saying to those that sit on Thrones Let no proud or presumptuous arm Touch my anointed holy Ones Nor do my sacred Prophets harm 16 He call'd for Famine on the land And brake their vital staff of bread 17 But did before them send a man By whom they after should be fed 18 Joseph was for a servant sold His feet with hurtful fetters bound 19 In Irons laid till God's Word came And tryed he was blameless found 20 The King then sent and loosed him The People's Ruler set him free 21 He made him Lord of all his house And Ruler of his Land to be 22 To bind his Princes at his will Wisdom his Senators to teach 23 Then Israel into-Egypt came And Jacob to Ham's Land did reach 24 His people he did much increase Made stronger than their enemies 25 Whose hearts he turn'd to hate his flock By craft they did their hurt devise 26 He sent his servant Moses then And Aaron chosen did command 27 Among them they his signs did shew And many wonders in Ham's land 28 He darkness sent and made it dark And all things did his word obey 29 He turn'd their waters into blood And he thereby their fish did slay 30 Their land in swarms did bring forth frogs Even in the Chambers of their Kings 31 His word all sorts of flies and lice In all their Country quickly brings 32 For rain he gave them hurtful hail And flaming fire was in their land 33 Their Vines and their Fig-trees he smote Their other trees brake by his hand 34 He spake the word the Locusts came And Caterpillars did abound 35 Herbs of the land they eat up all Devour'd the fruits of all the ground 36 He smote the first-born of the land Till all their chiefest strength was gone 37 With gold and silver brought them forth And weak in all their Tribes were none 38 Egypt was glad when they were gone For their great fear did on them light 39 For covering he did spread a cloud And fire to lead them all by night 40 The people askt and he brought Quails With bread of heav'n he filled them 41 Waters gusht from the opened Rocks And ran in desarts like a stream 42 For on his holy promise he And on his servant Abraham thought 43 With joy his people his Elect With singing gladness forth he brought 44 And he the Lord of all them gave The wicked heathens fruitful lands And they thenceforth inherited The labour of their neighbours hands 45 That hating heathen wickedness They might observe his holy Word And his just statutes might obey All men give praise unto the Lord. PSALM CVI. 1 PRaise ye the Lord to him give thanks He 's good his mercy is endless 2 Who can describe his mighty acts Who can all his due praise express 3 Blessed are they that judgment keep Who justice practice constantly 4 Lord mind me as thou dost thine own With thy salvation visit me 5 That I may see thy chosen's good And in thy nation's joy rejoyce And with thy blest inheritance May praise thee with a glorying voice 6 We with our sinful ancestors By sin from thy just Laws have gone Iniquity we did commit And very wickedly have done 7 Our fathers did not understand Thy wondrous plagues which Egypt struck Thy many mercies they forgot At the Red-Sea did thee provoke 8 Nevertheless he saved them Even for his own supream Names-sake And that his own Almighty power He known and manifest might make 9 The Red-Sea also he rebuk'd And it was dryed up and fled And he them through the dryed depths As after through the desart led 10 From the pursuing hand of him That hated them he did them save And he did from the enemies hand Redeem
too great and high 2 Thou know'st I have behav'd my self In quietness as low and mild As a child weaned from the breast My soul 's even as a weaned child 3 Upon the Lord let Israel With fullest trust and hope rely Not only now but from henceforth Even un to all Eternity PSALM CXXXII 1 REmember David's troubles Lord 2 Who vow'd to Jacob's mighty God 3 And sware I 'le not come to my house Nor go for rest unto my bed 4 I 'le give mine eyes no sleep until 5 I find a holy place to dwell A habitation for the Lord The mighty God of Israel 6 At Shiloh's place in Ephraim We heard God's holy Ark once stood We found it also in the fields And in the City of the wood 7 We 'll go into his Tabernacle And humbly at his foot-stool bow 8 Arise O Lord unto thy rest Thy holy Ark of strength and Thou 9 Let righteousness be to thy Priests Their cloathing and their comely dress And let thy Saints that worship thee Even shout aloud for joyfulness 10 And for thy servant David's sake With shame turn not away the face Of him whom thou anointed hast And chosen freely by thy grace 11 The Lord to David sware in truth And surely will not turn from it Upon the Throne of Majesty Thy body 's Off-spring I will set 12 My Covenant if thy sons will keep And Laws which I to them make known Their Children also then shall sit For ever on thy Royal Throne 13 For Sion the Lord chosen hath And there to dwell he liketh best 14 This is my chosen dwelling-place This is my worship's fixed rest 15 I her provisions will maintain And it will bless abundantly And I her poor and needy ones With daily bread will satisfie 16 And I her sacred Priests will cloath With my preserving saving grace Her Saints shall shout aloud for joy Before my shining pleased face 17 There I 'le make David's horn of Power To bud forth and afresh to spring And there I have ordain'd a lamp For my anointed sacred King 18 His enemies I will subdue And with just shame I 'le cloath them all But on him and his faithful seed His Royal Crown still flourish shall PSALM CXXXIII 1 BEhold and try how good it is What holy pleasure it doth give When holy brethren serving God In love and unity do live 2 It perfumes like the precious Oyl Which poured was on Aarons head Which down his beard and garments all It s sacred fragrant odour spread 3 As fruitful dews from Hermon hill Which waters all the lower ground And streaming showers from Sion's Mount Make the low Vales with fruit abound So on his flock by Love and Peace God doth his fruitful grace entail Even the fore-taâ—â—e of that blest life Where Love and Peace shall never fail PSALM CXXXIV 1 SEe that ye bless the Lord Ye that his servants are Who in his house by night do stand To serve and praise him there 2 Lift up your hearts and hands To him with one accord In his appointed holy place There glorifie the Lord. 3 The Lord that made the heav'ns The earth and all that live His blessing out of Sion shall Plenteously to you give PSALM CXXXV 1 PRaise ye the Lord Praise his great name All ye his servants Praise your God 2 All you that in the Lord's house stand And in his Courts have your abode 3 Praise ye the Lord for he is good Sing praises to his holy name For it is sweet to be employ'd His holy praises to proclaim 4 He to himself hath Jacob chose And Israel his own treasure made 5 I know the Lord our God is great Above all Gods in honour had 6 In heav'n and earth the Lord hath done Whatever his own will did please And also in the deeps below And in the great and swelling Seas 7 From the earth's ends it 's he that makes The vapours upward to ascend He doth make Lightnings for the rain And Winds out of his treasure send 8 Egypt's first-born both man and beast He smote and wondrous tokens he 9 On Pharaoh and his servants sent O Egypt in the midst of thee 10 He smote great Nations slew great Kings 11 Sihon who was of Heshbon King And Og of Bashan and to nought All Canaan's Kingdoms he did bring 12 And gave their Land a heritage Unto his people Israel 13 Thy name Lord everlasting is For ever 's thy memorial 14 For God for his own people will To judge and save them yet arise And will turn and repent himself Of all his servants miseries 15 The Idols which are worshipped Abroad in all the Heathen lands They are of gold and silver made The meer work of the Craftsmens hands 16 A mouth they have but do not speak Eyes have they but they never saw 17 They have ears but they do not hear And mouths which never breath did draw 18 Their makers are even like to them And all that do on them rely 19 Bless ye the Lord O Israel's house Bless God O Aaron's family 20 His servants all of Levi's house Continually bless ye the Lord All every where that do him fear Daily bless God with one accord 21 In Sion God's own chosen place Bless him and there his praise record Who dwelleth at Jerusalem In holiness praise ye the Lord. PSALM CXXXVI The Scots Version 1 PRaise God for he is good His mercy lasts for aye 2 Give thanks with heart and mind To God of Gods alway For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 3 The Lord of Lords praise ye Whose mercies still endure 4 Great wonders only he Doth work by his great power For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 5 Which God Omnipotent By might and mercies high The Heav'ns and Firmament Did frame as you may see For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 6 To him who did out-stretch This earth so great and wide Above the waters reach Making it to abide For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 7 Great Lights he made to be For his grace lafteth aye 8 Such as the Sun we see To rule the lightsome day For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 9 Also the Moon so clear Which shineth in our sight The Stars that do appear To guide the darksome night For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 10 To him that Egypt smote Who did his message scorn And in his anger hot Did kill all their first-born For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 11 Thence Israel out he brought For his grace lafteth ever 12 With a strong hand he wrought And stretch'd-out arm deliver For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 13 The Sea he cut in two For his grace lasteth still 14 And through the midst to go Made his own Israel For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure
high Let Peace abound on earth below To men Divine benignity Or Glory be to our glorious God Whose dwelling's in the highest heaven Let Peace come down on earth below Love and good will to men be given Or Glory to the Eternal God In heav'n which is his glorious place Let Peace on earth make her abode Let men receive his love and grace The Hymn called the Benedicte of Shadrach Meshach and Abednego Paraphrased Christian Philosophy 1 LEt this great wondrous frame And all God's works therein On which his glorious name Inscrib'd is clearly seen Jehovah bless To magnifie The Lord most high His praise express 2 Ye holy Angels bright Who see Jehovah's face Where his Life Love and Light Make heav'n a glorious place The Lord still praise His Majesty Still magnifie Bless him always 3 Ye heav'ns so high and great In glory which excel The blessed holy seat Where Christ and Angels dwell His praise shew forth Him magnifie More gloriously Than we on earth 4 Ye unseen Powers above Which mortals little know Who under God do move And rule the things below Praise ye God's name As all his will Ye do fulfil Bless ye the same 5 Let the great glorious Sun Earth's mover life and light And the resplendent Moon Which shines to us by night God's Glory show Praise and declare Him whose ye are To us below 6 Ye numerous Stars of light Great Orbs and glorious all Though here to Mortals sight By distance ye seem small Your wondrous frame So great and high Doth magnifie The Lord's great name 7 Ye clouds and showers of rain And earth-refreshing dew Which do its store maintain And all its fruits renew To all mens sense Of us God's care You do declare And providence 8 Ye unseen winds that blow When and where God commands Moving the air below Both over sea and lands The Lord most high Your unknown course And potent force Do magnifie 9 God's wondrous work call'd FIRE Whose substance near and great We know not but admire Its motion light and heat Doth intimate What spirits are God's praise declare And celebrate 10 Winter 's and Summer's course The year 's revolving times Keep still by Divine force In their prescribed lines Each day and hour Do glorifie The Lord most high And praise his power 11 The sharp congealing cold The Frost the Ice and Snow We feel and do behold But not their secrets know These praise the Lord Who doth command Both Sea and Land And all the World 12 The glorious Heav'n-born light Earth's beauty joy and guide Black darkness silent night When men in rest abide Both nights and days Bless our great Lord Obey his word And speak his praise 13 Lightnings and Tempests fierce Make sinful mortals quake Thunders the mountains pierce God makes the earth to shake All these proclaim And dreadfully Do magnifie The Lord's great name 14 In this great fruitful earth Though small to all the rest Where mortals have their birth God's greatness is exprest It s numerous train Doth bless our God and all abroad His praise proclaim 15 Ye mountains vast and tall Even with the cloudy sky Whence all below seem small Which in the Valleys lye You to man's eye The power of God Shew all abroad And magnifie 16 The fields and fruitful ground Each plant and beauteous flower Where God's sweet gifts abound Which shew his love and power All this rich store High praises gives To him that lives For evermore 17 Fountains and pleasant springs Sweet streams that never rest Food health and pleasure brings Refreshing man and beast These always flow Praising God's love Which from above Feeds all below 18 The Ocean deep and wide Is in God's eye and hand And Rivers all that glide To it from every land God's wonders there Which dreadfully Him magnifie To all appear 19 Great Whales dwell in this deep The fish in wondrous store God there doth feed and keep And brings for man to shore Out of man's sight These glorifie The Lord most high And praise his might The fowls that fly in air And sweetly sing on earth God's chore that praise him are And shew his glory forth To our Great King All these rejoyce With chearful voice And to him sing 21 The beasts of divers sorts The wild servile and tame God makes feeds and supports To glorifie his Name To this design'd The Lord they bless His praise express Each in his kind 22 O man to whom all these Thy God hath servants made This God to LOVE and PRAISE Should be thy life and trade Learn and be wise Will only ye The Rebels be And God despise 23 Return man to thy Lord Follow not vanity Trust and obey his word And trust not to a lye He is thy God Now seek his face Obey his grace Prevent his Rod. 24 O ye his chosen flock Brought near him by his love His Church built on the Rock Redeem'd for Joys above Your God adore Your voices raise And sing his praise For evermore 25 Ye sacred Priests of God Whose worship ye attend Whose house is your abode Your days there sweetly spend Unweariedly Spread ye his fame His holy name There sanctifie 26 All ye that serve the Lord Devoted to his will Rul'd by his holy word Trust and obey him still In him rejoyce And magnifie The Lord most high With heart and voice 27 Ye spirits of the just Advanc'd by saving grace Who here in Christ did trust And now behold his face In heav'n above You joyfully There magnifie The God of Love 28 All Saints in heav'n and earth In whom Love's holy fire Kindled in the new birth Towards God doth still aspire Spend life and days Redeem'd for this The work of bliss The Lord to praise 29 With these Lord number me Let love draw up my soul From all its bonds set free Let nothing it controul That I to please And magnifie The Lord most high May never cease 30 One God in Trinity Let heaven and earth adore From all Eternity The same for evermore All Glory 's his Who needing none Himself his own Perfection is The Hymn of St. Ambrose called Te Deum c. 1 MOst Glorious God we here present Our joyful praise to thee The only God the Lord of all Confessing thee to be 2 Th' eternal Father Lord of all Thy works do thee proclaim For all are made to honour thee And glorifie thy name 3 Thee the blest Angels magnifie The Heav'ns and Powers thee praise Cherubs and all the glorious spirits Do cry to thee always 4 Most Holy Holy Holy God The universal Lord Thy present glorious Majesty Fills heaven and all the world 5 The glorify'd Apostles there Praise thee continually With them the blessed Prophets joyn Thy name to magnifie 6 There are the Martyrs noble hosts Employed in thy praise Thy holy Church in heav'n and earth Acknowledge thee always 7 Father in greatness infinite Thy One True Glorious Son The Holy Ghost the
flesh and bones Vexed by sin and by thy wrath 3 My guilty soul doth bear its part With pained flesh in sin and grief Lord do not over-long delay To ease them both with thy relief 4 Return O Lord deliver me Do not this sinful soul forsake Pity and save a humbled wretch For thy own tender mercies sake 5 The lifeless Corps in silent dust Remember not thy holy name In darksome graves who give thee thanks Or do thy glorious praise proclaim 6 My flesh and soul are tired out With painful groans and sinful fears The night I spend in woful moans And wash my bed and Touch with tears 7 My feeble eyes do fail with grief Consumed by my daily woes Untimely dimness closeth them Increased by my cruel foes 8 But workers of iniquity Shall all with shame from me depart For God doth hear my tears and cries And will relieve my grieved heart 9 He hath and will receive my suit Lord tame thy servant's enemies Turn them with humbling grief and shame Who Truth and Righteousness despise PSALM VII 1 O Lord my God in thee I trust Me from my persecutors save 2 Deliver me lest they me tear Like Lions and there 's none to save 3 Lord if this ill deed I have done And guilty be of wickedness 4 If I with hurt did him reward Who liv'd by me in quiet peace Yea Lord thou knowest that I have Vs'd kindly and deliver'd those Who now are causelesly become My cruel persecuting foes 5 Then let me foes me persecute And take my life and let them thrust And tread me down on earth and lay My name and honour in the dust 6 Rise Lord in wrath lift up thy self Because of all mine enemies rage And for that right which thou command'st Do thou thy wakened power engage 7 So shall the peoples lovely crowd About with praise encompass thee For their sakes therefore take thy seat On high to judge and succour me 8 The Lord shall all the people judge Do thou O Righteous Lord judge me According to my righteousness And after mine integrity 9 O let the heinous wickedness Of wicked men come to an end Thou Lord who try'st the hearts and reins The just do thou stay and defend 10 Of God is my defence who saves Men upright in their heart and way 11 As God doth judge the just so he With sin is angry every day 12 If men turn not he 'll whet his sword The bow is vent and ready made The executing instruments Of death he also hath prepar'd 13 Against the Persecutors he His sharpned Arrows doth ordain For such as with iniquity Do travel as it were in pain 14 Mischief in secret they conceived And brought forth fals hood and deceit 15 They made a pit and digg'd a ditch And are themselves fallen into it 16 His mischief upon his own head In time shall be returned home His violent dealing at the last Down up on his own pate shall come 17 I 'le praise the Lord according to His truth and all his righteous ways And to the name of God most high Sing joyful songs of thanks and praise PSALM VIII 1 O Lord our Lord through all the earth How excellent is thy Great name Who hast thy Glory high advanc'd Above the Heavens and starry frame 2 From Infants and from Childrens mouths Thou Wisdomes power didst ordain For thy foes sake that so thou might'st The cruel wrath of them restrain 3 When I consider well the Heav'ns Which thy own hand and power fram'd The Moon and the bright shining Stars All which were by thy word ordain'd 4 Then say I what is man that thou Of him hast daily mindful been And what 's the son of man that thou So much regard'st and visit'st him 5 Thou mad'st him little lower than The blessed Angels in degree And hast with honour crowned him And with some rays of Majesty 6 Thou gavest him dominion O're all these great works of thy hand Thou hast subjected all to him To be at this ruling command 7 The Pasture Flocks the Oxen strong Do all to him obedience yield And thou subjectest unto him The very wild beasts of the field 8 The fowl that flyeth in the air The fish that in the seas do play And whatsoever through the deeps Of the great Ocean makes its way 9 Our Owner and our Governour Art thou the Lord of this great frame How excellent through all the earth Is thy most Holy Glorious name PSALM IX 1 I 'Le praise the Lord with my whole heart Thy wonders I 'le abroad proclaim 2 With gladness I 'le rejoyce in thee Most High and sing unto thy name 3 Mine enemies do turn their back They fall and perish at thy sight 4 Thou sat'st a just Judge on thy Throne And hast maintain'd my Cause and right 5 The Heathen thou rebuked hast The wicked thou hast overthrown Their very names thou hast put out Only to be as odious known 6 O Enemy thy destroying work Is now at last come to an end They ruin'd Cities but to death Their memory did with them descend 7 But God for ever shall endure For Judgment he hath set his Throne 8 He 'll judge the world in righteousness In uprightness he 'll judge each one 9 The Lord will be a high defence For those that are by men opprest In times of trouble he will be A refuge and a secure Rest 10 And they that know thy Name in Thee Their confidence will wholly place For thou didst never them forsake Who truly sought thy saving grace 11 Sing Praises to the Lord most high Who doth in holy Sion dwell The wondrous things which he hath done Among the people daily tell 12 He will at last enquire for blood And then he will remember them And surely he doth not forget The mournful cry of humble men 13 Have mercy Lord think on my grief And wrong which I from them sustain Who hate me Thou that liftest me Vp from the gates of death again 14 That in the gates of Sion's seed I may shew forth thy Glorious praise And in thy great salvation I will trust and rejoyce always 15 The Heathen are sunk in the pit Which they themselves for us had made And in the net which they had hid Justly their own foot is ensnar'd 16 The Lord is by the Judgment known Which he in wisdom justly wrought The wicked's hands did make the snare In which at last themselves are caught 17 To be cast off and turn'd to Hell This is the wicked's final lot And all the Nations of the world That God with fear remember not 18 The needy though a while distrest Shall not by thee be still forgot The expectations of the poor Though long defer'd yet perish not 19 Rise Lord and let not men prevail Who trust in fraud or worldly might Let heathens and ungodly men Be even here judged in thy sight 20 Put senseless ones in fear O Lord That the ungodly
incline and bow thine ear Thy people and thy father's house Forget thou must and count not dear 11 And then thy beauty to the King Shall always very pleasant be And do thou humbly worship him Seeing thy rightful Lord is he 12 The daughter there of wealthy Tyre With a rich gift shall waiting be And all the rich throughout the land Shall humbly make their suit to thee 13 Within doth the King's daughter sit And is all glorious to behold And all her cloaths and ornaments Are richly wrought of purest gold 14 She shall be brought unto the King In splendid robes by needle wrought The Virgins which do follow her With her shall unto thee be brought 15 With gladness great shall they be brought And signs of joy on every side Into the presence of the King The Court where he doth use to bide 16 And thou shalt in thy father's stead Thy numerous blessed off-spring take And in all Countries of the earth Thou shalt them honoured Princes make 17 I will to generations all Thy name and memory extend The peoples joyful praise of thee Shall last and never have an end PSALM XLVI 1 GOd is our refuge and our strength A present help and always near In all our dangers and distress Therefore we will not need not fear 2 Though the whole earth removed were And though the mountains high and steep Be mov'd and carryed from their place And cast into the Ocean deep 3 And though the Seas tempestuous waves Disturb'd a hideous roaring make And though the waters swelling rage Do make the neighbour mountains quake 4 There is a River whose pure streams God's blessed City do make glad The holy place where the most high His dwelling hath and long hath had 5 The Lord is in the midst of her Nothing shall her shake and remove The Lord himself right early will To her a faithful helper prove 6 The heathens rag'd tumultuously The neighbour Kingdoms moved were He uttered his powerful voice The earth did melt as if for fear 7 The Lord himself doth take our part Who doth all hosts and powers command For our sure refuge Jacob's God As our high place doth alway stand 8 Come and behold what wondrous works The Lord himself hath for us wrought What desolations on the earth His dreadful executions brought 9 Through all the earth he makes war cease And into wished peace it turns He breaks the bow he cuts the spear With fire the warlike chariot burns 10 Be still and know that I am God And will o're all exalted be The heathen shall exalt my name And all the earth shall honour me 11 The Lord who doth all hosts command Is ever on his peoples side And our sure refuge Jacob's God Is and for ever will abide PSALM XLVII By W. Barton 1 LEt all with sweet accord Applaud and voices raise In honour of the Lord And loudly sing his praise 2 For God most high Is King of Kings And rules all things With majesty 3 Whole nations of our foes He throws beneath our feet 4 A happy lot he chose For us as he thought meet The dignity Of Israel Beloved well By the most High 5 God is gone up on high With shouts and trumpets sound Ascending gloriously Unto the Lord renown'd 6 His praises sing And loudly raise Your voice to praise Our heav'nly King 7 For God is soveraign King And Lord of all the earth With understanding sing And set his praises forth 8 God reigns alone O're heathen men Sitting upon His holy throne 9 The Princes gather there The Princes of all lands The people far and near Whom Abraham's God commands The shields are his Of all the earth God's name and worth Exalted is PSALM XLVIII 1 GReat is the Lord and greatly he By all is to be praised still Within the City of our God Upon his holy Sion hill 2 Mount Sion's situate beauteously It is the joy of all the earth The City of the great King stands On her side which is towards the North. 3 God in her palaces is known To be a refuge and defence 4 The Kings against her gathered were But past away together thence 5 When viewing it they saw its strength They wondring at it would not stay But being troubled at the sight They quickly thence did hast away 6 Even like a labouring woman's pain Fear seiz'd on them and drove them back 7 As the East-wind doth Tarshish Ships In pieces break and bring to wrack 8 As we have heard so have we seen That God's own chosen Sion's hill And City of the Lord of Hosts God surely will establish still 9 All thy great loving kindness Lord We gladly did commemorate When with thy worshippers we did Within thy Temple daily wait 10 According to thy Name O Lord So great and famous is thy praise To the earth's ends Thy right hand 's full Of perfect righteousness always 11 Because of all thy judgments just Let thy own Sion Mount rejoyce Let Judah's daughters gladness shew With thanks and chearful heart and voice 12 Walk about Sion view her round Her many stately Towers tell 13 Consider her fair Palaces And mark her Forts and Bulwarks well That you may tell posterity 14 For this God is and will abide Our God for ever He will be Even unto death our strength and guide PSALM XLIX 1 HEar this all people and give ear All you that in the world do dwell 2 Both low and high both rich and poor My mouth to you shall wisdom tell 3 My heart shall knowledge meditate I will also incline mine ear 4 To parables And on the harp My sayings dark I will declare 5 Why should I fear in evil days When fruits of mine iniquities Of my own he 'll surround me with Many deserv'd calamities 6 As for those men who in their wealth And worldly treasure put their trust And in their riches multitude And great estates do make their boast 7 None of them can his brother's life Redeem by any means or way Nor can he for him unto God Any sufficient ransom pay 8 To redeem life's impossible And therefore it can never be 9 That he should always live on earth And not common corruption see 10 For that both wise and fools do die They daily see and must perceive And wordly bruitish men at death Their loved wealth to others leave 11 Their inward thought is that their house And stately dwelling-places shall Stand through all ages they their lands Therefore by their own names do call 12 Nevertheless none of them all On earth abide in honour must Their flesh must perish as the beasts That dyes and turns to common dust 13 Thus brutish folly plainly is Their boast and chosen worldly way Yet their deceiv'd posterity Do like and follow what they say 14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave And hungry death shall them devour And in the morning upright men Shall over them have ruling power Their strength and
Aloud the voice of his high praise 9 Who puts and holds our soul in life Our feet from hurtful sliding stays 10 For thou didst prove and try us Lord As men by fire do silver try 11 Brought'st us into the net and layd'st Bonds of grief on our loyns to lye 12 Over our heads thou mad'st men ride Through fire and water floods to pass But thou through all hast brought us out Into a water'd wealthy place 13 I 'le bring burnt-offerings to thy house And all my vows to thee I 'le pay 14 Which my lips uttered and mouth spake When I in grievous trouble lay 15 Burnt sacrifices of fat Rams With Incense I to thee will bring Of Bullocks and of Goats I will Present to thee an offering 16 Come now and hearken to my words All you that have God's holy fear And what he for my soul hath done To you I will forthwith declare 17 In my distress my mouth to him Sent forth my humble earnest cry And his great name I with my tongue With praise extolled fervently 18 I know if I do in my heart Iniquity love and regard When I to him my prayer make I shall not then by him be heard 19 But God did hear me readily And he did graciously attend Unto my praying voice and cry Which I to him did humbly send 20 And blessed be the Lord my God Who hath not from me turn'd away His mercy not deny'd my suit When I to him did seek and pray PSALM LXVII The old Metre Corrected by W. Barton 1 HAve mercy on us Lord And grant to us thy grace And unto us do thou afford The brightness of thy face 2 That all the earth may know The way to godly wealth And all the people here below May see thy saving health 3 Let all the world O God Give praise unto thy name O let the people all abroad Extoll and laud the same 4 Throughout the world so wide Let all rejoyce with mirth For thou shalt justly judge and guide The nations of the earth 5 Let all the world O God Give praise unto thy name And let the people all abroad Extoll and laud the same 6 Then shall the earth increase Great store of fruit shall fall And God our God shall grant us peace And greatly bless us all 7 Yea God shall bless us all And earth both far and near And people all in general Of him shall stand in fear The same by the Scots 1 LOrd unto us be merciful Do thou us also bless And graciously make shine on us The brightness of thy face 2 That so thy way upon the earth To all men may be known Also among the nations all Thy saving health be known 3 O Let the people praise thee Lord Let people all thee praise 4 And let the nations all be glad And sing for joy always For rightly thou shalt people judge And nations rule on earth 5 Let people praise thee Lord let all The folk praise thee with mirth 6 Then shall the earth yield her increase God our God bless us shall 7 God shall us bless and of the earth The ends shall fear him all PSALM LXVIII 1 LEt God arise and scattered Let all his daring enemies be And let all those that do him hate From his just face and presence flee 2 Drive them away as smoak is driven As wax melts at the burning fire Let wicked men before God's face So perish by his righteous ire 3 But let the righteous all be glad Greatly rejoycing in God's sight Let them addict themselves to joy And this express with all their might 4 Sing unto God his praises sing Extol him with your chearful voice That rides on Heav'n By his name JAH Before his gracious face rejoyce 5 A father of the fatherless And judge of helpless widows case Is God whom we adore and praise Even in his holy dwelling place 6 The barren God in families Doth set I he from iron bands The bound sets free while Rebels dwell In want in dry and barren lands 7 O God of old when thou went'st forth Before thy ransom'd peoples face And through the barren wilderness Thou didst as their Conductor pass 8 At God's presence the earth did shake From heav'n the dropping showers fell Sinai was at God's presence mov'd Before the God of Israel 9 O God thou healed'st the desart's drought Sending to it a plenteous rain Whereby thy weary heritage Thou didst confirm and own again 10 Thy Congregation then did make Their setled habitation there And of thy goodness for the poor O God thou didst relief prepare 11 The publick word of joy to us Was given out by thee O God Great was the company of them That quickly publisht it abroad 12 Kings of great armies terrify'd Were forc'd apare to flee away And she that tarryed at home Did share and distribute the prey 13 Though you have lien among the pots Like beauteous doves you shall appear Whose wings with silver and with gold Their yellow feathers cover'd are 14 When the Almighty scatter'd Kings As Salmon snow 't was over white 15 The hill of God's as Bashan hill As Bashan hill it is for height 16 Why leap ye you high hills This is The holy mount chosen by God Where he delights to dwell on which He 'll ever settle his abode 17 God's Chariots twenty thousand are His Angels many thousands be Among them as in Sinai mount So in his holy Temple 's he 18 Thou hast triumphing gloriously Ascended up to dwell on high And conquering in triumph led Captive even our Captivity Thou hast received gifts in Man And that for them that did rebel That as their reconciled God Among them thou in love might'st dwell 19 Blest be the Lord who with his gifts Of mercy doth us daily load Even he who ever was and is Of our defence and help the God 20 Our God is he that is the God Of all health and salvation The issues and defence from death Belong to none but him alone 21 But God shall surely wound the head Of all his harden'd enemies Their hairy scalp who shall go on In their belov'd iniquities 22 God said I 'le bring them back as I From Bashan did for them before And as from the depths of the sea I brought them safely to the shore 23 That thy feet may be dipt in blood Of these thy stain and bleeding foes And even thy dogs may dip their tongue In blood which from the wounded flows 24 Thy goings they have seen O God In all thy glorious majesty The goings of my God and King In his sublime Sanctuary 25 First went the fingers next to them Musicians follow'd in array Among them all the damsels were That do on sounding Timbrels play 26 Bless God in your Assemblies all Unto him joyful praises sing All you that of the blessed race From Israel's ancient fountain spring 27 Benjamin and his Ruler's there And Juda's Ruling Companies And with his
Lord God to whom alone Final revenging doth belong Shew men that Justice is thy work And surely God avengeth wrong 2 Lift up thy self thou Judge of all The proud do thou check and reward 3 How long shall wicked men triumph Even they that do not God regard 4 Shall they still speak false and hard things And their tongues utter cruelty How low shall they triumph and boast Who plot and work iniquity 5 Thy people they in pieces break Thy heritage do they afflict 6 Widows strangers and fatherless They murder or by wrong deject 7 Yet say they God doth not this see Nor doth he it regard and know 8 Ye brutish people understand Ye fools when will ye wiser grow 9 Shall he not hear who made the ear Nor all things see that form'd the eye 10 He that the heathen doth chastise Shall judge and correct righteously He that all knowledge teacheth man What can from him concealed be 11 The Lord knows all the thoughts of man He sees that they are vanity 12 O blessed is the man who is In love chastis'd by thee O Lord And thou effectually dost teach Withal out of thy holy Word 13 That thou may'st give him rest from times Of sad and sharp adversity Until the pit be dig'd for them That still do work iniquity 14 God who corrects will not cast off His flock nor his sure Covenant break Nor his belov'd inheritance Will ever utterly forsake 15 Judgment shall Righteousness restore And Truth â—â— earth return again And all shall follâ—w after it Who upright hearted do remain 16 Who will rise up for me against The wicked doer's cruel band The workers of iniquity Who will against them for me stand 17 Unless the Lord had been my help I had dwelt quickly in the grave 18 But whâ—â— I said My foot doth slip O Lord my mercy did me save 19 And in the croud and multitude Of troubling thoughts that in me roul Within me thy sweet comforts dwell And do delight my troubled soul 20 Shall the Throne of iniquity Have any fellowship with thee Which frameth mischief by a Law And pleads its own unjust decree 21 They all conspire against the lives Of the most righteous men and good And by their Law ujustly do Condemn and shed the guiltless blood 22 But God alone against them all Is my secure defence and stay The Lord my God my refuge is My rock of strength and trust alway 23 The Lord our God shall bring on them Their own works of iniquity In their own sin he 'll cut them off The Lord he 'll do it certainly PSALM XCV 1 O Come let us unto the Lord Lift up aloud our singing voice And to our Rock and Saviour Make a triumphant joyful noise 2 Before his presence let us all Appear with joy and thankfulness And with the joyful noise of Psalms The praise of our great God express 3 Great is the Lord a mighty King Above all pow'rs and Gods alone 4 The earth 's great depths are in his hands The mountains strength is all his own 5 The Sea and all therein is his It 's he that did it make and form The dry land also he did make And it replenish and adorn 6 O come and let us worship him And to him let us bow down all And on our knees before the Lord Our maker let us humbly fall 7 He only is our God and we The sheep of his own pasture are The flock which his own hand doth lead Of whom he taketh special care 8 To day if you will hear his voice Then longer harden not your hearts As you did tempt and strive with God When led and try'd in the desart 9 Your fathers did me tempt and prove When they my wondrous works did see 10 Even forty years that sinful race Often provok'd and grieved me 11 I said This peoples hearts do err My will and ways they will not know To whom in wrath I sware that to My promis'd Rest they should not go PSALM XCVI 1 O Sing ye now unto the Lord New framed songs with joy and mirth Sing praises to the Lord our God All people of the spacious earth 2 Sing to the Lord and bless his name And daily his salvation show 3 His Glory to the heathen tell Make all the world his wonders know 4 For great and glorious is our God And greatly to be prais'd is he And he above all Gods and Powers By all must fear'd and praised be 5 The feigned Gods are Idols all Which the blind heathen Nations fear It is our God alone by whom The heav'ns and all created were 6 In honour and in majesty His holy presence doth excel And strength with glorious beauty in His Sanctuary always dwell 7 All nations that on earth do dwell Ye people of each land and tribe Give glory to our glorious Lord Glory and strength to him ascribe 8 Give to God's Name the glory due To 's Courts come and your off'ring bring 9 In splendid beauteous holiness Worship the Lord our supream King Fear ye before him all the earth 10 Tell heathens all the Lord doth reign The world shall be established And shall not be remov'd again He all men righteously shall judge 11 Let earth be glad and heav'n rejoyce The great sea and its fulness all Praise God even with its roaring noise 12 Let the fields prosper and rejoyce And all that 's on and from the earth The woods and all the trees shall sing And flourish as it were with mirth 13 Before the Lord For lo he comes He comes the earth to judge and try The world he 'll judge with righteousness And people all with equity PSALM XCVII 1 GOd reigneth Let the earth be glad And let the Isles rejoyce each one 2 Darkness and clouds encompass him In truth and judgment dwells his throne 3 Fire goes before him and his foes It wasts and burns up round about 4 His Lightnings lightened the world The earth it saw and shook throughout 5 And at the presence of the Lord The mighty hills like wax did melt When of the Lord of all the earth The dreadful presence they had felt 6 The glorious heav'ns his righteousness To all do manifestly show His Glory so resplendent is That all men willing may it know 7 They that serve graven Images Sham'd and confounded all shall be And they that of their Idols boast All called Gods him worship ye 8 Sion heard this and did rejoyce And Judah's daughters all were glad For all thy judgments Lord of which The sight or notice they have had 9 For thou the glorious Lord art high Extoll'd above the earth by far All that are called Gods by men Thy creatures and thy subjects are 10 Hate evil ye that fear the Lord The souls of Saints that do him serve He keepeth out of wicked hands And will them all save and preserve 11 For righteous men though now in grief Future light is prepar'd and
PSALM CXI 1 PRaise ye the Lord with my whole heart With joy I will God's praise declare Where upright men assembled be And holy Congregations are 2 The works of God are very great And manifest his glorious might The fruitful study of all them Who do therein place their delight 3 All his work honourable is All glorious steadfast and sure His truth and perfect righteousness Unchang'd for ever do endure 4 His wondrous works he made for man To mind and meditate upon The Lord is very gracious Full he is of compassion 5 To all that do him fear and serve He daily gives convenient food He always true and mindful is His holy Covenant to make good 6 The power of his wondrous works He did unto his people show That heathens land and heritage As his he might on them bestow 7 His hand-work Truth and Judgment are All his Commands are just and sure 8 All done in truth and uprightness They shall from age to age endure 9 His people he redemption sent His Covenant ever is the same Which he commanded which declares To us his holy reverend Name 10 God's fear Wisdom's beginning is Their understanding's sound and sure Who his Commandments truly keep His glorious praise doth still endure PSALM CXII 1 PRaise ye the Lord Blest is that man Who lives in fear as in God's sight To know and practice his Commands Who always greatly doth delight 2 His seed on earth shall be advanc'd The upright Off-spring God will bless 3 His house shall have sufficient store Endless shall be his righteousness 4 In their dark state rejoycing light God to just upright men will raise Gracious and pitiful are such Righteous and true in all their ways 5 A good man's ready to do good And kindly lends to him that needs And he with wise discretion doth Manage affairs and guide his deeds 6 His standing's sure He never shall Be mov'd and brought to misery His precious name shall be preserv'd In sweet and endless memory 7 Whatever evil tidings come He shall not greatly be afraid His steadfast heart by fixed trust Upon the mighty Lord is slay'd 8 His heart is firmly stablished And shall not sink and be dismay'd Till his malignant enemies He sees God's Justice hath repay'd 9 He hath abroad dispers'd his seed And largely given to the poor God shall with honour him advance His righteousness shall ever dure 10 This shall the wicked see and grieve Gnash with his teeth for grief he shall His wealth and he shall melt away His flat'ring hopes shall perish all PSALM CXIII 1 PRaise ye the Lord his servants all Praise our great God with one acoord With joyful hearts and chearful voice Praise the name of the world 's great Lord. 2 Blest be the Lord's renowned name Ever his praise continue shall 3 From East to West through all the world God's Name is to be prais'd of all 4 The Lord in Glory dwells on high And over all the Nations reigns His glory is above the heav'ns No place no limits him contains 5 O who is like to our great God Who from high Glory looketh forth 6 To heav'n and its inhabitants And minds what 's done below on earth 7 He from the dust doth raise the poor And needy from the dunghill brings 8 That he like Princes may them make Even Princes with his people's Kings 9 He to the barren woman doth A numerous family afford A joyful mother maketh her Of many Children Praise the Lord. PSALM CXIV 1 WHen Israel out of Egypt went And Jacob's House by God's strong hand From under those strange Task-masters Whose speech they did not understand 2 Judah he did his Sanctuary And Israel his Dominion make 3 The Sea did see and fled away And Jordan's stream was driven back 4 Like Rams the mountains and like Lambs The little hills skipt to and fro 5 O Sea what made thee thus to flee Jordan why didst thou backward go 6 Ye mountains great what was the cause That made you thus to skip like Rams Ye little hills wherefore was it That you did skip like playing Lambs 7 Tremble O earth before the Lord When Jacob's God his presence shows 8 Which turn'd the Rock to water-pools By whom the flint like fountains flows PSALM CXV 1 NOt unto us Lord not to us But do thou all the glory take To thy great name for thy own truth And for thy saving mercies sake 2 Why should the heathen people say To us where is their mighty God 3 But our God is in heav'n and doth What ever to him seemeth good 4 Their Idols are silver and gold The work of workmen's hands they be 5 They have mouths but they do not speak 6 And eyes have they but do not see Ears have they but they do not hear Noses but smell or savour not 7 Hands feet but handle not nor walk Nor speak they through their mouth or throat 8 Their makers are like them and all Their trust for help on them that build 9 O Israel trust in the Lord He is their only help and shield 10 O house of Aaron trust in God He only is their help and shield 11 You that fear God trust in the Lord Your shield who certain help will yield 12 The Lord hath mindful been of us And he will surely bless us still The house of Israel he will bless Aaron's house also bless he will 13 Both small and great that fear the Lord The Lord will always surely bless 14 You and your Children more and more The Lord will bless and still increase 15 You are the blessed of the Lord Who made both all the earth and heav'n 16 The heav'n of heav'ns is his but earth He to the sons of men hath given 17 The dead who down to silence go Do not in dust God's praise record 18 But we henceforth for ever will Bless our great God Praise ye the Lord. PSALM CXVI 1 I Love the Lord who did my voice And earnest supplication hear 2 While I have life I 'le call on him Who bow'd to me his gracious ear 3 The sorrows of expected death My flesh and heart did compass round The pains of Hell took hold on me Trouble and grievous pain I found 4 Upon the name of God my help Then did I daily call and say Deliver thou my grieved soul O Lord I do thee humbly pray 5 Our God is merciful and just Yea very gracious is the Lord 6 He saves the meek I was brought low And he did speedy help afford 7 My soul distrust thy God no more Return by faith to him thy Rest Who largely in thy great distress To thee his bounty hath exprest 8 For my afflicted soul from death Safely delivered was by thee Thou didst mine eyes from mourning tears My feet from dangerous falling free 9 Among the living I will walk By faith as still before the Lord 10 When greatly I afflicted was I did believe and spake this word 11
Law 's wondrous mysteries May be as in my sight 19 I am a stranger in this earth And need a certain guide Thy true and just commandements Let nothing from me hide 20 The daily longings of my soul Do make it pant and break That thy just judgments I may know And of their light partake 21 Proud wicked men thou hast rebuk'd They justly cursed are Who from thy true and righteous Laws Maliciously do err 22 Contempt and false reproach of men Do thou from me remove Because thy Testimonies pure I do observe and love 23 Princes against me falsly spake When they in Counsel sate But I thy servant did upon Thy statutes meditate 24 My comfort and my great delight Thy Testimonies be And they in all my doubts and streights Are Counsellors to me DALETH 4. 25 My life down to the dust declines So that I scarcely live According to thy holy Word Do thou my strength revive 26 I open'd all my ways to thee Thou didst to me attend Teach me thy statutes that I may My sinful ways amend 27 The way of thy divine Precepts Make me to understand That all thy great and wondrous works May my discourse command 28 My soul with grief and heaviness Doth melt and drop away Be thou according to thy word My strength support and stay 29 The way of lying and deceit Lord far from me remove Graciously grant that thy true Law I may believe and love 30 The way of undeceiving truth My fixed choice I made Thy judgments sure to be my guide Before me I have laid 31 It is to thy just Testimonies That constantly I cleave To wicked men's unjust reproach Do not thy servant leave 32 The way of thy Commandements I 'le â—â—n with chearful speed When my restrained streighten'd heart Thou hast enlarg'd and freed HE. 5. 33 Instruct me Lord to understand Thy Precept's righteous ways That through thy grace I may observe And keep them all my days 34 Give me an understanding heart To keep thy Law aright And I shall strictly it observe With all my heart and might 35 In the right paths of thy Precepts Thy conduct I require They are the pleasure of my soul Which I do most desire 36 Incline my heart thy testimonies To love and still observe From wordly covetous desires Turn it and me preserve 37 Govern and turn away mine eyes From sights of vanity And quicken thou my backward heart In thy most holy way 38 Stablish that blessed word of thine Which thou hast bid me hear Unto thy servant who is fast Devoted to thy fear 39 Turn by the slanders and reproach Of which I am afraid For thou wilt justly judge for them Who on thy Word are stay'd 40 Thou know'st how greatly I have long'd Thy judgments to enjoy Quicken me in thy righteousness That I may them obey VAU 6. 41 Thy mercies great and manifold Let me obtain O Lord Thy saving health let me enjoy According to thy word 42 So shall I stop the slandrous mouths Of lewd men and unjust For in thy sure and sacred Word I place my hope and trust 43 And never let the word of Truth Out of my mouth depart For in thy judgments I have set My only hope and heart 44 And while it pleaseth thee on earth My frail life to preserve Even while I have a day to live Thy Law will I observe 45 Enlarged from restraints and fears I 'le walk at liberty Because to know and keep thy Laws My heart I do apply 46 Thy Testimonies I will plead And daily them proclaim Unto the face of mortal Kings Without all fear or shame 47 Thy sure and just Commandements Guiding my ways aright Which I have dearly lov'd and kept Shall be my great delight 48 To thy belov'd Commandements My hands I 'll elevate And in thy sacred Status I Will daily meditate ZAIN 7. 49 Thy promise to thy Servant made O never do forget For upon it thou caused'st me My hope and trust to set 50 In all my various sufferings My comfort this shall be Thy holy Spirit by this word Renew'd and quicken'd me 51 The proud and such as God contemn Have made me long their scorn Yet did I not thy Law forsake Nor service have forborn 52 I lookt back on the days of old Thy judgments I did mind In this review of former things I did great comfort find 53 Horror hath taken hold on me When I mens evil saw How obstinately wicked men Hate and forsake thy Law 54 The World hath been my pilgrimage And as I past along Thy sure conducting Statutes were My guide my joy and song 55 Thy name I have remembred Lord By night instead of sleep And meditated in thy Law Which I resolve to keep 56 This sweet employment and delight By thee I did enjoy Because to mind and keep thy Laws I did my Soul employ CHETH 8. 57 My chosen portion and my lot Thou only art O Lord I have resolved and profest That I will keep thy word 58 My Soul did earnestly intreat Thy face to shine on me Give me according to thy word Thy mercies great and free 59 I did consider seriously My ways I thought upon I to thy testimonies turn'd In which I since have gone 60 When once convinc'd I did make haste And did no longer stay To keep all thy Commandements I did no more delay 61 The troups of wicked militants Did rob me at their will But thy supporting holy love I did remember still 62 At midnight I will wake and rise To render thanks to thee Because thy word and judgments all So good and righteous be 63 I choose the company of such As fear thee in their heart Who neither will for love or fear From thy Commands depart 64 O Lord thy mercies rich and great The earth throughout do fill O teach me to believe and do Thy statutes and thy will TETH 9. 65 Thy dealings with thy servant have Been always good O Lord For all have proved good to me And have made good thy word 66 Teach me with skill and jugdment how My ways I order must For I in thy Commandements Place my belief and trust 67 Before affliction call'd me back I err'd and went astray But now I keep thy holy word And by it guide my way 68 Thou art essential Love and Good All good proceeds from thee Thy Statutes to believe and keep O throughly teach thou me 69 The proud and wicked men have forg'd Against me many a lye But I with my whole heart will keep Thy Precepts constantly 70 Their hearts are fat with pride and wealth They live in mirth and ease But in thy Law do I delight And thee my God to please 71 It proved very good for me That thou didst me correct To understand and keep thy Law Thy rod did me direct 72 The good word of thy mouth to me Is better manifold Then Worldlings wealth and thousands be Of Silver and of Gold
Word 5 There God hath placed Thrones of Power To judge his flock in righteousness The promis'd Thrones of David's house Which God 's own Government express 6 Pray for Jerusalem's true peace Lord prosper all her faithful friends 7 Her Courts bless with prosperity Let Peace within her walls defend 8 For my dear holy brethrens sake Who have my faithful comforts bin I 'le daily beg of God for thee Safety without and Peace within 9 And for the sake of God's own house Where we his name must praise and bless With all the powers of my soul I 'le seek thy real happiness PSALM CXXIII 1 LOrd in my lowest state To thee I lift mine eye Whose glorious dwelling is above Even in the heavens high 2 As servants eyes do look Unto their Master's hands And as a maiden doth expect Her Mistresses Commands So on the Lord our God Our eyes do still attend Until to our relief and help His mercy condescend 3 Have mercy on us Lord On us thy mercy show For we are filled with contempt From the insulting foe 4 Our souls fill'd with the scorn Of those that are at ease Are overwhelm'd with the contempt Of the proud foes of peace PSALM CXXIV 1 HAd not the Lord been on our side His Israel must now confess 2 Had not the Lord been on our side When men of blood sought our distress 3 Then they had swallow'd us alive When their hot wrath against us flam'd 4 The waters of their furious rage Over our sinking souls had stream'd 5 Then had these proud insulting waves O'rewhelm'd us with their cruel Laws 6 Blest be the Lord who made us not A prey unto their greedy jaws 7 Our soul like an entangled bird Escap'd out of the Fowler 's snare The snare our pow'rful Lord hath broke Our trembling souls escaped are 8 Our only help we find doth stand In the great name of our great Lord Whose power made the glorious heav'ns The earth and all things by his word PSALM CXXV 1 THey that in God put all their trust Shall firmly stand like Sion hill Which by no changes is remov'd But is the same and standeth still 2 And as about Jerusalem Mountains enclose that holy ground So will the Lord for evermore Himself his people compass round 3 For just mens rights and heritage Wicked men shall not still possess Lest righteous men should then put forth Their tempted hand to wickedness 4 Do good Lord to those that are good To men that are of upright heart But as for such as turn aside In crooked ways by sin pervert 5 The Lord shall lead them forth with those Who love and work iniquity But everlasting blessed peace On God 's true Israel shall be PSALM CXXVI 1 WHen God did lay aside his wrath And Captive Sion did redeem The great surprisal of our joy Made us like men that do but dream 2 Our mouth then fill'd with laughter did By singing our great joy express That God hath done great things for us The heathen enemies did confess 3 That God hath done great things for us We speak with glad and thankful mouth 4 Fully restore thy Captives Lord As streams refresh the scorched South 5 They that do sow in mournful tears Their water'd seed's not cast away But they a multiplyed crop Shall shortly reap with endless joy 6 He that in tears doth now go forth And cast his precious seed on earth With great increase in plenteous sheaves Shall come again with endless mirth PSALM CXXVII 1 EXcept the Lord do build house It 's but vain pains the builders take Except the Lord the City keep It 's but in vain the Watchmen wake 2 It 's vain for you betime to rise And late your selves from rest to keep To eat the bread of grief and care While God's beloved rest and sleep 3 Good Children are God's heritage The womb 's blest fruit is his reward 4 Children of youth like arrows are For Parents strength and joy prepar'd 5 Happy therein is he that hath His house his Quiver full of those For he unshamed in the gate Shall boldly speak unto his foes PSALM CXXVIII 1 BLest is each one that fears the Lord And walketh in his holy ways 2 For thou shalt of thy labour eat And happy shalt thou be always 3 As fruitful Vines by thy house-side So shall thy wife with fruit spring out Thy children like to Olive Plants Shall stand thy table round about 4 Behold the man that feareth God Blest visibly by him shall be 5 The Lord shall out of Sion give A plenteous blessing unto thee Jerusalem's good thou shalt see Whilst thou in life on earth dost dwell Thy Children's Children thou shalt see And promis'd peace on Israel PSALM CXXIX 1 MAny a time may Israel say With thankfulness to God in truth Have wicked men afflicted me Even from my prime and early youth 2 Many a time even from my youth Their cruel hands have me assail'd But for my wished overthrow They have not yet by rage prevail'd 3 The plowers plowing on my back Did long and bloody furrows make 4 But God is just and me preserv'd Their strongest cords he always brake 5 Let wicked men who Sion hate And all their plots confounded be Let them with shame be turned back And not their hop'd successes fee. 6 Let them be like the rootless grass Which grows a while on the house-tops And quickly withereth away Before they reach their wicked hopes 7 This grass fills not the mower's hand The binder finds no fruitful sheaves 8 Nor God nor man on such curs'd weeds A blessing either finds or leaves PSALM CXXX 1 OUt of the horrid woful deeps Where sin and wrath had cast me down To thee O Lord I poured forth My earnest suit and daily moan 2 O thou the Prayer-hearing God This humbled sinner's voice now hear To my loud cries and sad complaints Let pity grant a hearing ear 3 If in strict Justice thou should'st mark And charge on man iniquity Lord who shall stand at thy just bar Or who himself can justifie 4 But with thee there forgiveness is Thy word of grace doth this declare That sinful man may worship thee In joyful hope without despair 5 Therefore for thee O Lord I wait My soul doth daily wait on thee And on thy sure and faithful word My constant hope shall placed be 6 My soul more waiteth on the Lord Than they that watch for morning light More than the watchful man doth long To see a pleasant morning bright 7 O Israel still hope in the Lord Though low and broken be thy case For with the Lord still mercy is And we shall see his pleased face 8 Plenteous redemption with him is The Lord his chosen flock will bless He will redeem them from their sins And from their felt and fear'd distress PSALM CXXXI 1 LOrd I disclaim a haughty mind And an ambitious lofty eye I do not exercise my self In things for me
Eternally 15 But overwhelm'd and lost Was proud King Pharaoh With all his mighty Host And Chariots there also For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 16 To him who powerfully His chosen Israel led Even through the desart dry And in that place them fed For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 17 To him great Kings who smote For his grace hath no bound 18 Who slew and spared not Kings famous and renown'd For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 19 Sihon the Amorites King For his grace lafteth ever 20 Og also who did reign The land of Bashan over For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 21 Their land by lot he gave For his grace faileth never That Israel might it have An heritage for ever For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 22 Who hath remembred us 23 In all our low estate 24 And us delivered From foes that did us hate For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 25 Who to all flesh gives food For his grace faileth never 26 Give thanks to God most good To God of Gods for ever For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally The same By W. Barton 1 O Render thanks to God For he is very good His mercies sure do still endure And have for ever stood 2 The God of Gods proclaim With praises to his name His mercies sure do still endure Eternally the same 3 The Lord of Lords most high With praises magnifie His mercies sure do still endure To all eternity 4 To him who wrought alone Great wonders many a one His mercies sure do still endure To ages all made known 5 To him who skilfully Compos'd the heavens high His mercies sure do still endure To perpetuity 6 That did the earth extend The seas to comprehend His mercies sure do still endure And never have an end 7 To him whose power divine Did make great Lights to shine His mercies sure do still endure Not subject to decline 8 The Sun to rule and sway The motions of the day His mercies sure do still endure And never fall away 9 The Moon and Stars of light He made to rule the night His mercies sure do still endure For they are infinite 10 To him your praise devote Who Egypt's first-born smote His mercies sure do still endure Of everlasting note 11 Who from among them all Brought Israel out of thrall His mercies sure do still endure And are perpetual 12 With strong out-stretched hand And arm at his command His mercies sure do still endure And shall for ever stand 13 To him that did divide The Red-sea on each side His mercies sure do still endure And evermore abide 14 And Israel did transmit Even through the midst of it His mercies sure do still endure And never fail a whit 15 But on the Red-sea coast Smote Pharaoh and his host His mercies sure do still endure Unto the uttermost 16 To him that led his own Through desarts all unknown His mercies sure do still endure As permanent alone 17 To him that smote and slew Great Kings and famous too His mercies sure do still endure And ever so shall do 18 King Sihon he did smiâ—e That Giant Amorite His mercies sure do still endure Continuing day and night 19 And Og Bashan's great King He did to ruin bring His mercies sure do still endure An unexhausted spring 20 He did their land engage To be an heritage His mercies sure do still endure Out-wearing time and age 21 Their heritage befel His servant Israel His mercies sure do still endure Times constant parallel 22 Who thought on our estate When low and desolate His mercies sure do still endure And bear eternal date 23 Redeeming us from those That were our mortal foes His mercies sure do still endure A Spring that overflows 24 Who still provideth meat Whereof all flesh may eat His mercies sure do still endure For ever full and great 25 The God of heav'n therefore With thankful hearts adore His mercies sure do still endure Henceforth for evermore PSALM CXXXVII 1 IN Babylon's Captivity We sadly by their rivers sate When Sion we remembred there We wept as men disconsolate 2 On Willows in the midst thereof We hang'd our silent Harps unstrung For they who had us Captives made In scorn requir'd of us a Song 3 They that had made our Country wast To make sport of us talked thus Now sing us one of Sion's songs Said they insulting over us 4 How shall we sing God's sacred songs Thus Captives in a foreign land 5 If I Jerusalem forget Let Musick skill forsake my hand 6 Let my tongue dumb cleave to my jaws If belov'd Sion I forget And if above my chiefest joy I do not Sion always set 7 Remember Edom's Off-spring Lord Who in thy peoples woful day Cry'd Rase it Rase it to the ground This hated City level lay 8 O Babylon to destruction judg'd That conquering hand shall honour'd be Which just as thou hast used us A just reward shall give to thee 9 That Victor's hand shall honour'd be That fiercely takes thy little ones Not we but foes in bloody war Will dash them dead against the stones PSALM CXXXVIII 1 WIth my whole heart I will thee praise Before the Gods thy praise I 'le sing 2 I 'le tow'rd thy holy Temple bow And praise thy name O glorious King Even for thy loving kindness great And for thy holy truth O Lord Above all thy instructing name Thou hast advanc'd thy sacred word 3 In my sad days thou answered'st me When I to thee did pray and cry And thou my feeble soul with strength Didst kindly strenghthen inwardly 4 All Kings on earth shall praise the Lord When they shall hear and know thy word And singing shall walk in thy ways So great 's thy fame and glory Lord. 5 The God that 's infinitely high The lowly men he doth respect But knows the proud as afar off And with disdain doth them reject 6 Though I in midst of trouble walk Thou wil t revive me and extend Thy hand against mine enemies wrath And thy right hand shall me defend 7 All that my welfare doth concern The Lord at last will perfect make O Lord thy mercy endless is Do not thy handy work forsake PSALM CXXXIX 1 O Lord thou hast me search'd and known 2 Thou know'st my daily sitting down And mine uprising All my thoughts Even a far off to thee are known 3 Thou fift'st and compassest my path And seest me when down I lye And art with all my works and ways Always acquainted perfectly 4 No word is in my tongue O Lord But it is fully known to thee 5 Thou hast beset me round about And thou hast laid thy hand on me 6 This knowledge high's above my reach It is too wonderful for me 7 Whither shall I go from thy face Or whither from thy spirit flee 8
his Jerusalem Where he as God is truly known He the dispers'd of Israel In time doth gather into one 3 The broken-hearted he doth heal Their wounds up he doth gently bind 4 He tells the number of the stars Calls all things by their names and kind 5 Great is our God and of great power His knowledge hath no end or bound 6 The meek he lifteth up but casts The proud and wicked to the ground 7 Sing forth the praises of the Lord With thankful heart and chearful tongue Let Harp and pleasant melody Be joyned with your praising song 8 He covereth the heav'ns with clouds And for the earth prepareth rain The barren mountains doth refresh That grass on them may grow again 9 He gives the beasts their food and feeds Young Ravens which for food do cry 10 His pleasure not in horses strength Nor in the strong man's legs do lye 11 But in all those who do him fear The Lord himself doth pleasure take And those that in his mercy hope His love and grace will not forsake 12 Jerusalem shall praise the Lord Sion thy God with praise confess 13 Thy bars and gates he strengtheneth Thy Children in thee he doth bless 14 Thy borders he with peace doth bless And fills thee with Wheat 's finest flower 15 His word goes forth through all the earth And swiftly prospers by his power 16 Hoar frost like ashes scattereth he On earth like wool he snow doth give 17 Like morsels he casts forth his ice Who in his extream cold can live 18 He sendeth out his word of power And quickly melteth them again He makes his wind to blow and then The waters flow with plenteous rain 19 The Doctrine of his Holy Word To Jacob he doth clearly show His statutes and his judgments he Makes his own Israel to know 20 He with no nation thus hath dealt His judgments and his holy word To none of them are thus made known Ye therefore praise the glorious Lord. PSALM CXLVIII 1 PRaise ye our glorious Lord Who dwells in heav'n on high Let him be still ador'd Above the starry sky 2 Ye Angels bright And all his host Throughout heav'ns coasts In praise delight 3 Praise him both Sun and Moon And every shining Star 4 Ye Heav'ns which are his Throne His glorious praise declare His praise forth show Ye waters high In clouds that fly And fall below 5 Let all these praise the Lord And magnifie his name He did but speak the word And thereby all things frame He plac'd them fast 6 By his decree They fixed be And ever lasts 7 Praise God on earth below Ye Dragons and all deeps 8 Fire hail clouds wind and snow Which in command he keeps 9 Mountain and hill Fruitful trees all And Cedars tall Praise ye him still 10 All beasts both wild and tame And every creeping thing Praise ye God's glorious name And every bird of wing All men on earth 11 Kings and Judges Greatest Princes Of highest birth 12 Young men and maidens all Praise ye the Lord's great name Old men and children small Let all his praise proclaim O're all the world 13 God's Name alone And Glory known Shall be extoll'd 14 His people he will raise And them exalt on high All his Saints shall him praise And bless continually He is ador'd By Israel Who near him dwell Praise ye the Lord. PSALM CXLIX 1 PRaise ye the Lord and sing A new rejoycing song Praise ye our glorious King His holy ones among Where they do meet In holy throngs To sing these songs Sacred and sweet 2 Let Israel rejoyce In him that did them make With chearful heart and voice Let Sion's sons partake And to their King Who them directs And still protects This off'ring bring 3 And let them praise his name With dances grave and meet Yea let them praise the same With Harp and Musick sweet For the upright 4 His people true Whom he fore-knew Are his delight With his salvation he The meek will beautifie 5 Let them all joyful be In his and their Glory To their great King Their resting head Shall on their bed His praises sing 6 Let the high praise of God Be ever in their mouth And let them wield abroad The two-edg'd-sword with truth 7 On heathens all And wicked men God's Judgments then Shall surely fall 8 With chains to bind their Kings Their Lords with iron bands 9 To execute the things On them which God commands God by his Word This honour grants To all his Saints Praise ye the Lord. PSALM CL. 1 PRaise God Prise him where faithful men Do in his holy place draw near Praise him in the high firmament Where his great power doth appear 2 Praise him for all his mighty acts Their glory in his praises tell His Greatness and Perfection praise Which doth all creatures reach excel 3 With Trumpets and shrill Cornet's noise Sound forth his glorious praise on high Praise him with the melodious harp And with the pleasant Psaltery 4 Praise him with Timbrel and with Flute With Organs and string'd Harpsicals With joyful and well-tuned hearts 5 Praise him upon the loud Cymbals On the loud Cymbals praise ye him 6 Let every living thing accord That breath enjoys to give God praise All joyn to praise our glorious Lord. Chap. 3. Lamentations 1 I Am the miserable man Selected by my righteous God To see days of calamity And feel his wrath and chastening Rod. 2 He hath me led and brought into The dismal darkness of the night He doth deny my grieved soul The comforts of the pleasant light 3 Surely against me he is turn'd All day his hand wrings out my groans 4 My wasted flesh my skin made old By tiring pain he breaks my bones 5 His batteries he against me built With gall and travel compass'd me 6 In darkness he hath shut me up Like those that dead and buryed be 7 His chastening hand doth hedge me in And my escape by flight restrains My feeble flesh and galled limbs He fetters with his heavy chains 8 And when thus prest with pain and grief To him I daily cry and shout He seems to turn away his ear And shut my fervent prayer out 9 With hewen stone he hath me enclos'd Led me into a crooked way 10 And he hath us'd me in his wrath As Bears and Lions do their prey 11 He turn'd me from the pleasant way Tore me and made me desolate 12 He bends his bow makes me the mark Which piercing arrows level at 13 The shafts which from his quiver come Enter into and pierce my reins 14 I daily am the peoples song Which me with mocks and scorn disdains 15 With bitterness he filled me With wormwood he hath made me drunk 16 With gravel-stones he brake my teeth My flesh's in ashes roll'd and shrunk 17 Thou set'st my soul so far from peace That I almost all good forgat 18 I said My strength and hope in God Hath fail'd and left me desolate
tongue and lips That they no quite or falshood speak 14 Depart from evil and do good Seek and pursue peace faithfully 15 The eyes of God are on the just His ears attend their plaint and cry 16 The face of God is set against All them that do live wickedly That he may cut off from the earth Their very name and memory 17 The righteous cry unto the Lord And them in mercy he doth hear And them deliver out of all The troubles which they feel or fear 18 To them that are of broken hearts The Lord with healing grace is near And surely saveth such whose spirits Are contrlte and him truly fear 19 The just mens sufferings many are But God in time doth out of all 20 Deliver them He keeps their bones None of them 's broken by their fall 21 As for the wicked enemies Who do God's righteous servants hate Their sin by its own dire effects Shall stay and make them desolate 22 But the Lord doth his servants souls Redeem and fully set them free And of all them that trust in him None cast off desolate shall be PSALM XXXV 1 LOrd plead my righteous cause with them Who trouble me with envious strife Fight against them that causelesly Do fight to take away my life 2 Of shield and buckler take thou hold Stand up defend and help thou me 3 Draw out the spear and stop their way That causeless persecutors be Say to my soul I will thee save 4 Let them to utter shame be brought Who seek my life and plot my hurt Them foil confound and bring to nought 5 Make them like chaff before the wind And let God's Angel chase them all 6 Make their way dark and slippery God's Angel hunt and make them fall 7 They hid for me a snaring net In malice without a just cause They dig'd a pit to take my soul In cruel craft against thy Laws 8 Let him be ruin'd unawares And caught in his own hidden net Let him fall in that pit and snare Which his own hands have dig'd and set 9 In God and his salvation then My soul shall glad and joyful be 10 My very flesh and bones shall say Lord who or what is like to thee Who sav'st the poor and weak from them That for him are too great and strong The poor and needy from the men Who him oppress by spoil and wrong 11 False witness rose they to my charge Things false of which I knew not laid 12 To spoil my soul unthankful men Evil for good to me repaid 13 But as for me when they were sick In sackcloth clad for them I mourn'd With fasting I humbled my soul My prayer home to me return'd 14 For him I sadly walk'd as for A real friend or loving brother I heavily bow'd down as one That mourneth for his dying mother 15 But they rejoyced in my woe Combin'd vile abjects met to plot Unknown to me they gathered were And they to tear me ceased not 16 And not unlike Stage-hypocrites My cruel adversaries be And in their feasts with scoffing jeasts They grind and gnash their teeth on me 17 But Lord how long wilt thou look on From contriv'd ruin rescue me And let my soul my darling be From greedy Lions kept by thee 18 Then I will render thanks to thee Even in the Congregations great And I will celebrate thy praise Where the strong multitudes do meet 19 Let not them over me rejoyce Who hate and hurt me wrongfully Let not my causeless foes triumph And wink with scornful scoffing eye 20 Their heart and talk is not for peace They false and crafty plots prepare Against all those that in the land Hurt none but to all quite are 21 Yea their malicious lying mouths They widely opened against me And with triumphing scorn did say His crime his fall our eyes did see 22 All this O Lord thine eye hath seen O do not longer silent stand Against these false malicious men For help be thou still near at hand 23 Stir up thy self and shew thy power To judge my cause do thou awake My righteous cause well known to thee My Lord my God do not forsake 24 O Lord my God do thou me judge After thy perfect righteousness And suffer not them over me Their boasting triumph to express 25 Let them not say insultingly Aha so we would have it be Let them not proudly boast and say That they have wholly swallowed me 26 Shame and confusion come to them Who at my hurt and fall are glad They that against me vaunt themselves With shame cast down let them be clad 27 Let all that love my righteous cause Gladly their joy with shouts express And say The Lord be magnify'd Who loves his faithful servants peace 28 To speak thy righteousness shall be The glad employment of my tongue And thy high praises to set forth With joy and gladness all day long PSALM XXXVI 1 BY wicked mens ungodly lives My heart hath surely understood What ere he says before his eyes There is no serious fear of God 2 By flattery he deceives himself As safe and just in his own eyes Till God make known how hateful are His many foul iniquities 3 His prophane mouth in his discourse Doth daily speak deceit and sin For to be wise and to do good This shews he wants a heart within 4 Even on his bed iniquity Is his device and busie thought He sets himself in ways not good And hates not what is vain and naught 5 Thy mercies Lord are very great And do the highest heav'ns transcend Thy truth and constant faithfulness Do to the rowring clouds extend 6 Thy Justice is like mountains great Thy judgments are like a great deep Thy bounty and good providence Both man and beast doth feed and keep 7 O God how precious is thy love Because that thou art good and just Under the shadow of thy wings The sons of men do put their trust 8 With the rich fatness of thy house They sweetly nourished shall be And of thy streams of holy joys They shall be made to drink by thee 9 For of desired endless life The flowing fountain is with thee And in thy light thy holy ones The true and glorious light shall see 10 Thy loving kindness still draw out To faithful men that do thee know And unto men of upright heart Thy love and righteousness still show 11 Stop thou the foot of furious pride That would in rage against me come Let not the hand of wicked men Thee and my safety move me from 12 Dreadfully there are thy all fallen The men that work iniquities Cast down by God and never shall Henceforth be able more to rise PSALM XXXVII 1 FRet not thy self at wicked men For their present prosperity Not be thou envious at those That now do work iniquity 2 For like the grass which flourished Quickly cut down and gone are they And like the green and tender herb They wither and must die
beauty shall consume And it shall perish in the grave When carry'd from their houses they Shall their in dust their dwelling have 15 But God will sure redeem my soul From the hand of death and the grave For he my hope saviour is And he himself will me receive 16 Be not discouraged by fear When wicked men grow great and rich And when the glory of their house Their pomp and pow'r increaseth much 17 For he shall carry nothing hence When certain death his days shall end Nor shall his glory after him Into the loathsome grave descend 18 Though he his flatter'd soul did bless Whil'st he on earth in wealth did live And when thy courses prosperous are Worldly men will thee praises give 19 Yet shall he to his fathers go Who lived here on earth before And shall be laid among the dead Who here shall see the light no more 20 Man that in worldly honour lives And God's Word understandeth not Is nothing better than the beasts That die and in the grave do rot PSALM L. 1 THe Lord the mighty God Spake and the earth did call From the Sun-rising to the place Of its descent and fall 2 Out of holy Sion Beauty's perfection The Lord hath shined unto man 3 Our God shall surely come He shall not silent be Before him fire doth burn And round about he dreadful is By his tempestuous storm 4 And from the heav'ns above His pow'rful voice shall call And to the earth below that he May judge his people all 5 Together let my Saints To me assembled be Those that by sacrifice have made A Covenant with me 6 The heav'ns themselves then shall His righteousness declare For it is the great God himself By whom all judged are 7 My people hear my words And what I testifie Against thee sinful Israel God even thy God am I. 8 For want of sacrifice To me I judge thee not Nor because thy burnt-offerings were Neglected or forgot 9 I 'le take no calf or goats From house or fold of thine 10 The forest-beasts and cattle all On thousand hills are mine 11 The fowls on mountains high Are all to me well known Wild beasts which in the fields abide Are all of them my own 12 And if I hungry were I would not tell it thee For the whole world and Its fulness Doth all belong to me 13 I 'le not eat flesh of bulls Nor goats blood drink will I. 14 Offer true thanks to God and pay Thy vows to the most high 15 And call thou upon me In thy most troublous days And then will I deliver thee And thou shalt give me praise 16 But to the wicked man God saith My word of truth Should'st thou declare how dar'st thou take My Covenant in thy mouth 17 Sith thou instruction hat'st which should thy life direct And my commands behind thy back Dost cast and them reject 18 When thou a thief didst see With him thou then consent'st And with the foul adulterer Thou a partaker went'st 19 Thou giv'st thy mouth to ill Thy tongue deceit doth frame 20 Against thy brother thou dost speak Thy mothers son defame 21 Because I silence kept Whilst thou these things hast wrought That I was such a one as thou Was thine ungodly thought But I will thee reprove And set before thine eyes In order all thy sinful deeds And thine iniquities 22 Now you that God forget In time this well consider Lest I in pieces tear you all And none can you deliver 23 Whoso doth offer praise Doth rightly honour me And he that orders well his ways Shall God's salvation see PSALM LI. 1 AFter thy loving kindness Lord Some pity on a sinner take Blot out my hainous trespasses Good Lord for thy great mercies sake 2 O wash me throughly from my sin Cleanse me from mine iniquities 3 For my transgressions I confess My sin is still before mine eyes 4 Against thee O my God I sin'd And did this evil in thy sight And if I were therefore condemn'd Yet were thy judgments just and right 5 Thou know'st that in iniquity My shape and nature I receiv'd As guilty and defil'd by sin My sinful mother me conceiv'd 6 I know that which thou dost desire Is truth within the secret heart And wisdom thou wilt make me know Even in the hidden inward part 7 With sacred Hyssop purge thou me And then I shall be cleansed so Wash thou me in my Saviour's blood And I shall whiter be than snow 8 Of joy and gladness make thou me To hear again the welcome voice That so the bones which thou for sin Hast justly broken may rejoyce 9 From the beholding of my sin O turn away thy angry face And all my great iniquity Blot out and utterly deface 10 O God create in me a heart Clean and unspotted in thy sight And by thy grace in me renew A spirit sincere and upright 11 And from thy gracious presence Lord Do not this sinner cast away And of thy holy quickning spirit Deprive me not I humbly pray 12 Let the joy of thy saving grace To my sad soul restored be And with thy free enlarging spirit Uphold confirm and comfort me 13 Then I will teach thy holy ways To those that now transgressors be And so ungodly sinful men Shall be converted unto thee 14 O thou the God of all my hopes Deliver me from guilt of blood Then of thy saving righteousness My joyful tongue shall sing aloud 15 Open my lips which by my sin Now silenced and closed are And then shall my enlarged mouth Thy praises publickly declare 16 I know it is not sacrifice Which thou requirest I should bring Else would I give it Nor art thou Delighted with burnt-offering 17 The sacrifice which pleaseth God Is a repenting broken spirit O God thou never wilt despise A heart that 's broken and contrite 18 In thy good pleasure Lord do good To Sion and thy people all Of thy belov'd Jerusalem Do thou build up the broken wall 19 The sacrifice of righteousness Shall then be pleasing unto thee Better than whole burnt-offerings then Shall on thine Altar offered be PSALM LII 1 O Mighty man in wickedness Why boastest thou thy self with pride God's goodness to his people will Surely for evermore abide 2 Thy tongue speaks mischief which thy heart Plots and deviseth wickedly And like a sharpned rasor cuts And works by lies deceitfully 3 Thou lovest evil more than good And lying more than to speak right Thou false tongue all devouring words Thou lovest with cruel delight 4 God shall for ever cut thee down And he shall take thee quite away And pluck thee from thy dwelling-place And from among the living slay PSALM LIII 1 THe lives of fools do tell us that Their hearts no God do truly own Corrupt are they odious their works Of them that do good there is none 2 Upon the wicked sons of men From heav'n God lookt on earth abroad To see if any
My Saviour and my strong high place I shall not greatly moved be 3 How long will ye mischief devise You by the sword at last shall fall You stand but like a tottering fence And like a crazed bowing wall 4 Their consult is to cast him down That 's set by God in dignity They love to lie with mouth they bless But they hate and curse inwardly 5 My soul wait thou only on God For all my hope 's on him alone 6 He 's all my strength help and defence I shall not be mov'd and o'rethrown 7 All my salvation is in God My glory and my dignity He is the Rock of all my strength God is my refuge always nigh 8 At all times put your trust in him Ye people that indeed are his Pour out your hearts before him still For God our certain refuge is 9 Surely low men are vanity And high and great men are a lie Together in the ballance put They lighter are than vanity 10 Trust ye not in oppression then In theft and wrong become not vain Set not your hearts on wealth and on The increase of your worldly gain 11 This God hath spoken once and twice This certain truth I heard again That all disposing Ruling Power To God alone doth appertain 12 And to distribute Mercy doth Belong to thee O Lord alone For thou according to his work Rendrest in time to every one PSALM LXIII 1 O God thou art my God therefore Early I 'le seek near thee to be In an unwater'd weary land My heart and flesh doth thirst for thee 2 That I thy power may behold And see the glory of thy face As I have seen thee heretofore Within thy house and holy place 3 Because thy loving kindness is Better than life and length of days My joyful soul which thou hast sav'd And lips shall ever give thee praise 4 While thou continuest me in life Thus will I daily speak thy praise In worshipping thy holy name My heart and hands I will up raise 5 With thy fat-sweet delights my soul Shall fed and satisfied be My chearful heart with joyful lips Shall offer daily praise to thee 6 When on my quiet bed I thee Seek and remember with delight And when on thee I meditate In silent watches of the night 7 Because to me in all distress Thy helping hand still succour brings Therefore my soul shall still rejoyce Under thy safe and covering wings 8 My soul encourag'd by thy love Thus closely followeth after thee In all my dangers and distress Thy right hand still upholdeth me 9 But they that seek my life shall go Into earth's dark and lowest room 10 The sword let out their guilty souls And they the foxes prey become 11 But let the King rejoyce in God His faithful servants glory shall Who swear by him But God will stop The mouth of perjur'd lyars all PSALM LXIV 1 THe Prayer which to thee I make O God do thou vouchsafe to hear My life save thou from enemies And from all their perplexing fear 2 Hide me from their secret designs Who do live and plot wickedly From insurrection of those men That still do work iniquity 3 Who do their tongues with malice whet That they may cut like sharpned swords In whose bent bows are arrows set To shoot even false and bitter words 4 That they may at the perfect man In secret aim their cruel shot Suddenly do they shoot at him Harden'd in sin they fear it not 5 In ill encourage they themselves And commune how closely to lay Their snares for to entrap the just For who our plots shall see say they 6 They study for iniquity For it they use their greatest art Deep is their inward plotting thought And unknown is their wicked heart 7 God shall an arrow at them shoot And wound them deep and suddenly 8 Their tongues shall fall upon themselves All that see them away shall fly 9 And seeing this all men shall fear And shall God's dreadful works declare For wisely then they shall perceive That these his righteous doings are 10 The righteous shall rejoyce in God And in him wholly put their trust And all that be of upright heart In him shall boldly make their boast PSALM LXV 1 LOrd praise in Sion waits for thee The Vows made by us we 'll perform O thou that hearest sincere pray'r To thee all flesh for help shall come Injuries and iniquities Against me have had much success â—ut thou wilt purge away the sin And guilt of us who did transgress 4 Blessed is he whom thou dost choose To approach nigh to thee his God That in thy holy pleasant Courts He may have his constant abode Our souls shall satisfied be With the goodness and Divine grace Which in thy blessed house abounds Even in thy chosen holy place 5 Thy Justice will by dreadful things An answer to us waiting give God of our help the trust of all On earth or on the sea that live 6 The God of Power who by strength Set'st fast the great and massy hills 7 Who the great noise of sea and waves And raging people's tumult stills 8 Those that in utmost parts do dwell Are at thy dreadful signs afraid Mornings and evenings out-goings By thee sing and are joyful made 9 The earth thou visit'st watering it Enrich'd by thee with fruit to grow By God's full streams Thou Corn prepar'st Having for it provided so 10 Her ridges thou dost water well Her plowed surrows settlest With showers thou dost make it soft Her springing fruit by thee is blest 11 Thus thou the year from time to time Dost with thy bounteous goodness crown And thy high paths do from above On earth drop plenteous fatness down 12 They drop upon the pasture-grounds That lye even in the desart wide The little hills thereby refresh'd Rejoyce with fruit on every side 13 The pastures cloathed are with Flocks The vallies also covered be With Corn Thy blessing is their joy Their fruits sing praises unto thee PSALM LXVI 1 MAke ye a joyful noise to God All people of the spacious earth 2 Sing to the honour of his name His glorious praise do ye set forth 3 Say unto God How-terrible In all thy mighty works art thou Through thy great pow'r thy foes to thee Shall be constrain'd to crouch and bow 4 All men on earth shall worship thee Thy praise in songs shall they proclaim They shall sing Psalms of praise unto The honour of thy holy name 5 Come and the works which God hath wrought With fear and admiration see His doings towards the sons of men All great and very dreadful be 6 He turn'd the Sea into dry land And they thereby safe passage had All marching through the flood on foot There singing we in him were glad 7 He ever ruleth by his pow'r His eyes do all the Nations see The Rebels that exalt themselves By him full low shall humbled be 8 Ye people sound forth of our God