Why help'st Thou not when I implore Nor hear'st when I through anguish roare verse 2 O God by day to Thee I cry But Thou Thy audience dost deny And in the night when I should sleep My sorrowes will not silence keep verse 3 But Thou in Holinesse dost dwell O Thou the praise of Israel verse 4 Our Fathers plac'd their trust in Thee And Thy deliverance set them free verse 5 They cry'd to Thee surpriz'd with feare And from Confusion saved were verse 6 But I a worme and no man am Reproach of men and peoples shame verse 7 7 Beholders Me their pastime make Shoot out their lip their head they shake verse 8 He trusted God that He would save See if from him he safety have verse 9 But Thou didst take me from the womb And ever since my hope become verse 10 On Thee when on the breast I hung And from the birth my care was flung verse 11 When trouble 's neare O be not far Since left to me no helpers are verse 12 For many bulls with bellowing sound Strong bulls of Bashan girt me round verse 13 They gape like Lions Me about verse 14 I am like water powred out My bones disjoynted torture crackes My heart within me melts like Waxe verse 15 My strength is like a Pot-sheard dry'd My tongue up to my Palate ty'd verse 16 Thou brought'st me down unto the grave For dogs my life encompast have Assemblies of the wicked meet They pierced have my hands and feet verse 17 My bones stick out consum'd and bare Whil'st they remorselesse on me stare verse 18 They now to part my garments hast And Lots upon my vesture cast verse 19 But be not far from me O Lord verse 20 My soule deliver from the sword verse 21 My darling save from rav'ning jawes Of dogs and from the Lions pawes For thou hast heard me from the hornes Of fierce assayling Unicornes verse 22 I to my brethren will proclaime The Praises due to Thy great Name verse 22 Yee that fear God all Iacobs line And Israëls seed in Prayses joyne verse 24 Th' afflicted He did nere despise Nor hid His face but heard their cries verse 25 My praise and vowes devout to Thee Shall in thy Church performed be verse 26 He to the meeke will plenty give The hearts that seek Him ever live verse 27 Far as the world extends it 's bound Religious Converts shall be found They shall remember and implore And ev'ry Kindred Him adore verse 28 For God's the Kingdome is whose sway All Nations of the Earth obay verse 29 The rich who on Earth's fatnesse feed Ev'n to the Soule that dies for need All from the throne unto the dust Before Him bow and worship must verse 30 All these shall serve Him in their seed And sons to God adopted breed verse 31 Who to succession shall proclaime His righteousnesse and awfull Name PSAL. XXIII verse 1 THe Lord my Shepheard is and guide I shall no want abide verse 2 He makes me lye in fruitfull meads And by stil waters leads verse 3 My Soule to danger given ore He doth againe restore And guides me in the righteous path His Name elected hath verse 4 Yea though in vale of darknesse lay'd Or death's more ghastly shade I feare no ill Thy rod and staffe Direct and keep me safe verse 5 Thou dost for me a plenteous fare Before my foes prepare Thou dost with oyle annoint my head My flowing Cup doth shed verse 6 Thy mercy sure shall me attend Untill my Life doth end And in the House of God will I Remaine Eternally PSAL. XXIV verse 1 EArth is the Lords with hir encrease And all that there have place verse 2 He founded it upon the Seas And made the floods hir base verse 3 Who in God's Holy Place shall stand Or on His Hill appeare verse 4 He who is pure in Heart and hand Nor to deceive doth sweare verse 5 He blessings shall from God receive And righteousnesse from high verse 6 This is their race who God believe And to His sight are nigh verse 7 Lift up yee Gates lift up your head Yee Doores Eternall spread The King of Glory shall come in And his approach begin verse 8 Who is the Great and Glorious King Of whom our Praises sing The Lord in Battaile mighty This The King of Glory is verse 9 Lift up yee Gates lift up your Head Yee Doores Eternall spread The King of Glory shall come in And his approach begin verse 10 Who is the Great and Glorious King Of whom our Praises sing The Lord in Battell mighty This The King of Glory is PSAL. XXV verse 1 WIth Thoughts lift up to Thee O God my Soule doth flee verse 2 To shame O never me expose Nor triumph of my foes verse 3 Let those be free from shame Who wait upon Thy Name But let them feele it who Thy Lawes Transgresse without a cause verse 4 Thy wayes unto me shew Teach me Thy truth to know verse 5 Thou art the God do'st me defend On Thee I still depend verse 6 Thinke on Thy mercies Lord Thy ancient love record verse 7 Remember not my sins of youth But save me in Thy truth verse 8 Good is the Lord His ways To sinners He displaies verse 9 The meek He will in judgment guide Who in His precepts bide verse 10 His paths with truth abound Great mercies there are found Which He unto all such doth grant Who keep his Covenant verse 11 O for Thy Names sake Lord Pardon to me afford And with my heinous crime dispense For great is mine offence verse 12 To him that feares He shewes The way which he shall chuse verse 13 His Soule shall dwell at ease his race Shall long on earth have place verse 14 To them who God do feare His secret shall appeare He will His Covenant declare To such as faithfull are verse 15 Mine eyes on God are set Who plucks me from the net verse 16 O Lord to we in mercy turne Afflicted forlorne verse 17 My heart's distresse is large O Thou my woes discharge verse 18 Looke on the paine wherein I live And all my sins forgive verse 19 Thinke on my many foes Whose hate most cruell growes verse 20 O keep my soule from scandall free Who put my trust in Thee verse 21 Let Justice me defend Who on Thy grace attend verse 22 Thy Israël O God release And all his troubles ease PSAL. XXVI verse 1 IUdge me O God for in Thy path My foot insisted hath My trust hath on Thee Lord rely'd Therefore I shall not slide verse 2 Examine me O Lord and try My reines and heart descry verse 3 Thy mercy still is in my sight Thy truth hath kept me right verse 4 I have not with vaine persons sate Or those that use deceit verse 5 Ill congregations I detest Nor am the sinners guest verse 6 In innocence I le wash my hand So at Thine Altar stand verse 7 That I may
publish in my Song What thankes to Thee belong verse 8 O Lord devoutly I affect The House Thou dost Elect. I Love the honour of that Place Thy presence deignes to grace verse 9 Shut not my soule nor judge my life With men of blood and strife verse 10 Whose arme it selfe in mischiefe lifts Whose hand is fill'd with gifts verse 11 In mine integrity I goe Save me and mercy show verse 12 So will I Praise Thee when my feet Within Thy Temple meet PSAL. XXVII Sing this as Psalme 51. verse 1 GOd my Salvation is and Light What terrour then shall me affright My life 's sole strength He is and aid Of whom then shall I be afraid verse 2 When wicked men mine enemies Conspiring did against me rise When they approach'd my flesh to eat They stumbling fell in their retreat verse 3 Although an host encamped were My heart their numbers shall not feare And though a War against me rise My confidence shall them despise verse 4 One thing of God I have desir'd That I unto His House retir'd Might spend my dayes there grow old His Temples beauty to behold verse 5 For He when times of trouble threat Will me in his Pavilion seat Within His Tabernacle hide And safety on a rock provide verse 6 And now my head up-up-lifted shall Behold my foes encircling fall Therefore glad Songs and sacrifice With praises to Thy throne shall rise verse 7 Heare O my Lord and when I cry In mercy to my voyce reply verse 8 When Thou command'st Seek ye my face My heart O Lord seek Thee saies verse 9 Hide not Thy face from me in ire Nor leave me helplesse I desire verse 10 Who when my Parents me forsake Wilt me unto Thy favour take verse 11 Teach me O Lord Thy wayes to tread In pathes of truth and plainnesse lead verse 12 Nor leave me to their cruell will Who raise false witnesse me to kill verse 13 I fainted had but for beleife In endlesse life to find releife Wait on the Lord of courage be O wait on Him will strengthen Thee PSAL XXVIII verse 1 TO Thee O Lord my Rock I cry Forbeare not to reply Least I be if Thou silence keep Like those in death that sleep verse 2 Heare Thou the voyce of my request In accents lowd exprest When I with lifted hands entreat Before thy Mercy seat verse 3 O draw me not with sinners hence Whose works are Thy offence Who when their hearts would mischiefe wreake Peace to their neighbour speake verse 4 Give them according to their deeds And wicked labours seeds And in the workes they did invent Render their punishment verse 5 Because Gods works they set at nought And what His hand hath wrought He cast them to destruction shall Nor build them when they fall verse 6 Blessed be God who when I pray'd Became my shield and aid verse 7 Therefore my heart in Songs of Praise With joy His fame shall raise verse 8 He His Annointed doth defend Strength to His Servants send verse 9 Thy people save Thine Heritance To endlesse blisse advance PSAL XXIX verse 1 YEe Mighty in your Race and Tribe Glory to God ascribe verse 2 In beauty of His holinesse His Name adore and blesse verse 3 The Lord by His commanding voyce Brings downe the Waters noyse The Glorious God the Thunder makes Which earth's foundation shakes verse 4 He rules the Sea with pow'r from high Dreadfull in Majesty verse 5 His voyce when He in fury speakes The lofty Cedars breaks verse 6 Like sporting Calves the Mountaines skip Great Lebanon doth leap And Syrion by his Motion borne Like a young Unicorne verse 7 His voyce the flames of fire divides From clouds when Lightning glides verse 8 At His rebuke the desart quakes And barren Kadesh shakes verse 9 Bring forth He makes the frighted Hinds Rends forrests with His Winds And all His glory must declare Who in His Temple are verse 10 God sits above the Watry maine Doth King for ever reigne verse 11 He will His peoples strength encrease And blesse them long with peace PSAL. XXX Sing this as the Lamentation verse 1 O Lord I Thee will magnifie For Thou hast lifted me on high Nor madest me a scorne to those Who were my lifes professed foes verse 2 O Lord my God I cry'd to Thee Who hast in mercy healed me My Soule Thou broughtest from the grave And from the pit of Hell didst save verse 4 O all ye Saints your voyces raise To sing your Makers endlesse praise Remember still with thankes to blesse And magnifie His Holinesse verse 5 For but a Moment lasts His wrath His favour life restored hath Our weeping may endure a night But joy comes with the morning light verse 6 In my prosperity I said My bases are for ever lay'd I shall not from my place remove But stand supported by Thy love No change of times or fortunes hate Can overthrow my happy state For thou my Mountaine mad'st so strong I shall on earth continue long Yet whilst exalted in my thought I was to suddaine trouble brought And soon as Thou didst hide Thy face My comforts vanish'd hence apace verse 8 Then unto Thee O Lord did I With humble supplication cry I did to God my plaint addresse Thus powring forth my heavinesse verse 9 O Thou most Glorious most Good What profit is there in my blood What triumph canst Thou gaine by it When I goe downe into the pit Shall silent dust or darknesse have A tongue to praise Thee in the grave Or those in earth who closed are From their low Cells Thy truth declare verse 10 O Lord Thine eare of mercy lend And from Thy dwelling succour send verse 11 For Thou the cause for which I mourn'd Hast into Songs and Dances turn'd My Sack-cloath Thou didst off me take And cheerfull robes of gladnesse make verse 12 That I Thy praises might renew To whom incessant thankes are due PSAL. XXXI Sing this as the Lamentation verse 1 IN Thee O Lord I put my trust Save me from shame as Thou art just verse 2 Bow downe Thy gratious eare with speed Be Thou my strong defence at need verse 3 For Thou my Rock do'st me protect O for Thy Names sake me direct verse 4 Pull me from out the dang'rous net Which they for me have closely set verse 5 My spirit I to Thee commit For Thou O God did'st purchase it verse 6 I hate all those love vanities But on the Lord my trust relies verse 7 I joy in Thy compassion show'n Who hast my Soule in trouble know'n verse 8 Thou didst from hostile hands discharge To liberty my feet enlarge verse 9 Have mercy Lord and send reliefe Mine eye and soule both wast with griefe verse 10 Through sin I sigh away my dayes My bones consume my strength decayes verse 11 My foes reproach my neighbours fright I am whilst friends avoid my sight verse 12 Like to the dead I sit forgot And
undertake PSAL. XCI verse 1 WHo so in God's protection dwell Abide secure and well For shadow'd by th' Almighties care Both soul and body are verse 2 I therefore to the Lord will say Thou art my hope and stay Thou art my refuge my strong hold Who do'st my faith embold verse 3 He shall preserve Thee from the net Which cunning hunters set Protecting thee by His defense In times of Pestilence verse 4 He over thee His wings shall spread With safety covered And least temptation make thee yield His truth shall be thy shield verse 5 The gastly terrours of the night Shall not thy peace affright Nor arrowes which by day do kill Thy life with slaughter spill verse 6 No tainted aire or noysome Pest Thy dwelling shall infest No perills which at noon destroy Thy safety shall annoy verse 7 Though Thousands or ten thousands dy'd Thick falling by thy side Thou shalt unhurt and guarded stand From sicknesse on each hand verse 8 Thine eye the wicked shall behold Unto destruction sold verse 9 Yet them nor feares nor dangers shake Who God their refuge make verse 10 No evill hap shall Thee distast Nor plague thy dwelling wast verse 11 For He his Angels shall command Thy Centinells to stand verse 12 In all thy wayes they shall thee keep Whither thou wake or sleep And least a stone thy foot should hurt Their hands shall thee support verse 13 No Basilisk nor Adders sting Thy life in danger bring Thou shalt upon the Lion tread And bruise the Dragons head verse 14 Because his love is set on me I will his guardian be Since he acknowledg'd hath My name I will exalt his fame verse 15 When ere he calls I will him heare In trouble and in feare I will to honour him advance And send deliverance verse 16 With length of life and happy daies I will his comforts raise And when his time on earth is done Give him salvation PSAL. XCII Sing this as Psalme 51. verse 1 IT is a good and blessed thing Praise to Thy Name most High to sing verse 2 Thy kindnes 'fore the morning light To shew Thy faithfulnes each night verse 3 Upon a ten-string'd instrument With Psalteries well-tun'd concent And on the solemne sounding Lyre Where all harmonious notes conspire verse 4 For Thou O Lord my heart hast made Through all Thy hands atchieuements glad Who in Thy works which earth do fill Rejoyce and alwayes triumph will O Lord how great Thy actions are Deep are Thy thoughts and hidden far The brutish doe not this attend Nor will the fooles it apprehend verse 7 When like the Grasse or flow'rs which spring The wicked men are flourishing Ev'n then their quick destruction hasts verse 8 But Lord Thy glory ever lasts verse 9 For lo throw'n downe and scatter'd all Thine enemies before Thee fall verse 10 How ere Thou wilt exalt my horne Like to the stately Unicorne With freshest oyle and balme new shed Thou wilt annoint my conqu'ring head verse 11 Mine eye shall see its just desire On those who 'gainst my life conspire And for those wicked enemies Who to my safeties hazard rise Mine eares shall heare them come to nought By Thy revenge to ruin brought verse 12 The righteous like the Palme shall grow Or Cedars on the mountaines brow verse 13 Who in Gods House emplanted be Within His courts we prosper see verse 14 In their old age they fruit shall bring Continue fat and flourishing verse 15 To shew the Lord my Rock is just With whom no wicked harbour must PSAL. XCIII verse 1 THe Lord our God doth reigne on high Cloathed with Majesty He vested is with glorious light And girds Himselfe with might The world created by His hand Established doth stand So fast and firme upon its base It moves not from the place verse 2 Yet far more stable and more old Thy Throne O Lord shall hold Which when earth's fabrick melts and wasts Like Thee for ever lasts verse 3 The floods O Lord lift up their voice In uproare and in noyse The swelling waves up-lifted rise To band against the skies verse 4 Yet is the Lord more mighty far Then those proud waters are And stronger then the Oceans wave Which winds enchafed have verse 5 Thy Testimonies true and sure Eternally endure And holynes becomes O God! The house of Thine aboad PSAL. XCIV verse 1 O God! who just revenge dost take Now let Thy vengeance wake verse 2 Great Judge of earth arise from hence The proud to recompence verse 3 How long Lord shall their wicked host How long triumph and boast verse 4 How long shall their insulting tongue Joy in Thy servants wrong verse 5 They break Thy people Lord in rage Afflict Thine heritage verse 6 They widowes slay the poor oppress And kill the fatherless verse 7 Yet hard'ned in presumption they The Lord not sees us say Great Iacobs God doth not regard Nor will the sin reward verse 8 Take heed yee brutish and unwise Who thus your crimes disguise Yee foolish people of the land When will yee understand verse 9 Think ye that he who plants the eare Unable is to heare Or shall not he who form'd the eye Your wickednes descry verse 10 Shall he who Nations overthrew Not know to punish you verse 11 To whose all-searching view is brought The vainnes of mans thought verse 12 Blessed O Lord and happy he Who chast'ned is by Thee Whom Thou in mercy do'st correct And in Thy Law direct verse 13 That though with crosses over-prest He may in patience rest Till for transgressors ruin he A pit prepared see verse 14 For God his people not rejects Nor his own choise neglects verse 15 But judgement all their wrongs shall right And comfort the upright verse 16 Who will with me against those rise Who work iniquities verse 17 But from the Lord my help was seen My soule had silenc'd been verse 18 When I my slipping foot complain'd Thy mercy me sustain'd verse 19 When thoughts my grieved soul excite Thy comforts hir delight verse 20 Wilt Thou support the wicked's throne Or joyne it with Thine owne Who under Laws and Reason's name Their acts of mischief frame verse 21 Whose meetings and whose plots are bent The just to circumvent Who sit in Counsaile soules to kill And guiltles blood to spill verse 22 But yet the Lord is my defense God is my confidence My Rock my refuge and my tow'r To save me by His pow'r verse 23 He on their heads the ills shall bring Which from themselves did spring And in their sins God's vengfull hand Shall cut them from the land PSAL. XCV verse 1 O Come and let us to the Lord Our cheerfull Songs record Unto our Rock lift up our voice And make a joyfull noyse verse 2 Let us with praise sent up on high Approach His presence nigh With Psalmes and Anthems glad expresse Our bounden thankfulnes verse 3 He is the God and King whose hand The spatious
like a Serpents whet Their lips in poyson set verse 4 Lord keep me from the raging foe That would my feet orethrow verse 5 The proud have hidden nets prepar'd To take my life ensnar'd verse 6 But I Thou art my God have said O heare and send me aid verse 7 O God my Lord the strength alone Of my salvation In day of battaile Thou my head Hast safely covered verse 8 Grant not O Lord their bad desire Least then their pride aspire verse 9 Let suddaine mischeif cover those Who would my life enclose verse 10 Let quenchless fire upon them raine Nor let them rise againe verse 11 No violent man nor evill tongue On earth be stablish'd long verse 12 I know the Lord will them maintaine Who have afflicted lay'n Their cause regards and doth delight To help the poor to right verse 13 For this unto Thy Name the just Their thanks acknowledg must And those who live upright and well Shall in Thy presence dwell PSAL. CXLI verse 1 TO Thee I cry O Lord make hast To heare my voice at last verse 2 Let my request like Incense rise Or ev'ning sacrifice verse 3 Set Thou a watch my mouth before And keep my speeches doore verse 4 Incline not unto ill my heart With sinners to take part Let me not eat of that delights Their wicked appetites verse 5 But let the righteous me reprove And smite me in his love Like pretious balmes or odours shed Such stroaks not break my head And in my pray'rs I shall them bless In midst of their distress verse 6 When wicked Judges overthrow'n Ly dash'd against the stone They shall with much contentment heare My words which comfort beare verse 7 Disperst and scatter'd on the grave Our bones no value have As fallen trees cut downe and cleft Are in their splinters left verse 8 But though in darknes clos'd I ly On Thee I fix mine eye Thou wilt not leave me in the dust In whom my soul doth trust verse 9 O keep me from the cruell net Which wicked men have set verse 10 Let them be snar'd in their own trap But let my soul escape PSAL. CXLII verse 1 WIth low'd-voic'd cries to God I came And my request did frame verse 2 I powred out my sad complaint And shew'd Him my restraint verse 3 Thou when my soul was drown'd in woe My way and path did'st know Yet in that walk my feet did tread Close snares for me were spread verse 4 I did upon my right hand look But no man knowledg took My soul of help was quite bereft And had no refuge left verse 5 I therefore cry'd to Thee O Lord And said this faithfull word Thou do'st my Help and Portion stand In the Eternall Land verse 6 Consider then my great distress Brought low with heaviness From persecuters me defend Unable to contend verse 7 My soule out of the prison bring That I Thy praise may sing And for this bounty shew'd to me The just shall honour Thee PSAL. CXLIII As Psalme 25. verse 1 O Lord my Prayer heare Presented in Thy feare With mercy answer my request In humblest words exprest verse 2 Weigh not in judgments scales Thy servants daily failes For no man living in Thine eye Himself shall justify verse 3 My foes which do pursue My soule by waies undue Make me in darkness hide my head Like those have long been dead verse 4 My Spirit faint and worne Is by my griefes oreborne My heart within me desolate Through my dejected state verse 5 Yet I the daies of old In my remembrance hold Thy wonders past I meditate And all Thy works of late verse 6 To Thee I stretch my hands Like as the thirsty Lands The fruitfull raines desire to see So thirsts my soul for Thee verse 7 Heare me O Lord with speed My fainting spirit heed Least if Thou frowne I prove like those The pit of Death doth close verse 8 O let my longing eare Betimes Thy kindnes heare In Thee I trust reveale that Path Thy truth prescribed hath verse 9 Lord save me from their spight Who in my wrongs delight To Thee my soul for shelter flies Against hir enemies verse 10 Teach me to do Thy will That I may please Thee still Let Thy good spirit me direct To live with Thine elect verse 11 Lord quicken me againe Cleanse Thou my sinfull staine For Thy great Name and justice sake My soul from trouble take verse 12 I am Thy servant Lord My comfort is Thy word Then of Thy goodnes those destroy Who in my sorrowes joy PSAL. CXLIV verse 1 BLest be the Lord my strength my might Who taught my hands to fight verse 2 My rock my shield and helper true My people to subdue verse 3 Lord what is man or what his race Thy notice should him grace verse 4 Who is so vaine his daies do fade Like to the passing shade verse 5 O Lord the arched Heavens bow Come downe to earth below Touch their proud tops and then thy stroak Shall make the mountains smoak verse 6 From Thy full clouds quick lightning cast And them by scatt'ring wast Let Thy sharp arrowes 'gainst them shot Destruction make their lot verse 7 Send from above Thine hand to save Me from the swelling wave verse 8 From children strange whose mouth speaks hate Whose right hand acts deceit verse 9 Then I new Songs will sing to Thee Upon the Psalterie And on the ten-string'd Instrument Ditties of praise invent verse 10 For God salvation gives to Kings His help to David brings From perill of the Sword and grave He doth His servant save verse 11 Deliver me from strangers hands Whose mouth against Thee bands Whose right hand falshood doth defend Whose deeds in rapine end verse 12 Our Sons like plants then fresh in growth Shall flourish in their youth Our daughters like faire columnes be Which we in Temples see verse 13 Our garners shall be fill'd with store Our sheep bring thousands more verse 14 Our Oxen strong nor shall restraint Cause in our streets complaint verse 15 Happy that people and that place Which is in such a case Yea blessed are and happy they Who God their Lord obey PSAL. CXLV Sing this as Psalme 100. verse 1 I Thee extoll my God and King And of Thy Name for ever sing verse 2 I Thee will bless through all my daies And yield Thy Name eternall praise verse 3 Great is the Lord prais'd and admir'd His greatness is by none exquir'd verse 4 Each generation shall declare How mighty His achievements are verse 5 I will Thy glory celebrate Thy wond'rous works Majestick State verse 6 Thy acts of terrour and of fame All men shall speak and I proclaime verse 7 They shall abundantly profess Thy goodness and Thy righteousness verse 8 Whose grace and full compassions flow To mercy swift to anger slow verse 9 God's goodness every where extends His mercy all His works transcends verse 10 All things O Lord Thou did'st create