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
Now have I found and therefore say All men untrusty lyars be 12 What shall I render to the Lord For all his bounteous gifts to me 13 The joyful cup of saving health I oft and thankfully will take In God I 'le trust on him I 'le call When I my daily prayer make 14 The Vows which I did make to thee My God I thankfully will pay Before thy Church and people all Even now without fraud or delay 15 The death and sufferings of his Saints The Lord doth not slight or despise Whatever tempted men may think Their blood the Lord doth highly prize 16 Lord I thy willing servant am Truly thy service I profess Son of thine hand-maid thou hast loos'd The heavy bonds of my distress 17 To thee my offering shall be The sacrifice of thanks and praise And as my duty and my hope I 'le call on thee my God always 18 The Vows which I did make to thee My God I thankfully will pay Before thy Church and people all Even now without fraud or delay 19 Even in the Courts of God's own house And in the sight and midst of thee O glorious Jerusalem O all his Saints the Lord praise ye PSALM CXVII 1 O All ye Nations of the world Praise ye the Lord always And all ye people every where Set forth his glorious praise 2 For great his love and mercy is Which he doth us afford The Lord's Truth everlasting is Praise ye this glorious Lord. PSALM CXVIII 1 GIve thanks to God for he is good His mercy ever doth endure 2 Let all his Israel now say His mercy ever is most sure 3 Let all the house of Aaron say His mercy to us is for ever 4 Let them all say that fear the Lord That his great mercy faileth never 5 I called on the name of God In all my danger and distress The Lord did hear and brought me forth Into a free and spacious place 6 The mighty Lord is on my side Of men I will not be afraid Whatever mortal man can do At it why should I be dismay'd 7 The Lord himself doth take my part With them that help and succour me Therefore on those that do me hate His justice I shall shortly see 8 It 's better to trust in the Lord Than for to trust to man's defence 9 Better to trust in God than put In Princes any confidence 10 The nations did against me rise And did en compass me about But in the name of God I shall Destroy them all and root them out 11 Numbers did compass me about I say they compass'd me about But in the name of God I shall Cut them all down and cast them out 12 They compas'd me about like Bees But like a hasty thorny flame They quenched are for I shall them Cut down in God's own strength and name 13 They have thrust sore to make me fall But God my help did me relieve 14 The Lord is all my strength and song And will to me salvation give 15 In righteous mens dwellings there is The voice of health and melody For God's delivering right hand Doth always for them valiantly 16 The Lord 's right hand exalted is And valiantly for us it doth 17 I shall not die but live that so God's mighty works I may shew forth 18 The righteous God for my own sin Hath me chastised very sore But yet he did not me forsake But me from threatened death restore 19 Now set ye open unto me The beauteous gates of holiness And I will enter in by them God's publick praises to express 20 This is the gate of God by which The just with me shall enter in 21 I 'le praise thee for thou hast heard me And my help and salvation bin 22 That the head corner-stone is made Which foolish builders did despise 23 And this the Lord 's own doing is And it is wondrous in our eyes 24 This is the great and blessed day Which God himself for us hath made And in it we together will Rejoyce as made by him full glad 25 To save us now to thee we pray We thee beseech O gracious Lord That to thy humbled flock thou wilt Peace and prosperity afford 26 Blessed is he that in God's name Doth come to us with his sweet peace Out of the sacred house of God We do his faithful people bless 27 God is the Lord who hath to us Made his Divine light to arise Bind ye unto the Altar's horns With cords our offer'd sacrifice 28 Thou art my God I 'le thee exalt Thou art my God I will thee praise 29 Give thanks to God for he is good His mercy to us lasts always PSALM CXIX ALEPH 1. 1 BLessed are they that are sincere And pure in life and heart Who walk according to God's Law And not from it depart 2 Blessed are they that give themselves His statutes to observe Seeking the Lord with all their heart And never from him swerve 3 Such men go not so far astray As wickedly to live But to walk in God's holy way Themselves sincerely give 4 It is thy will and just command That with attentive heed Thy holy and divine Precepts We learn and keep indeed 5 O that my ways were so reform'd And guided all by thee That wholly thy statutes to keep I might addicted be 6 Then shall I not ashamed be Or lose my hop'd reward When to all thy Commands I have Obedient regard 7 Then will I praise with upright heart And magnifie thy name When I have learnt thy judgments just So as to keep the same Thy statutes I resolve to keep My Rule I will them make But I am weak let not thy grace Thy servant's soul forsake BETH 2. 9 By what means may a young man best His life learn to amend If he well mark and keep thy Word And do thereto attend 10 Unfeignedly I have thee sought With a devoted heart O let me not from the right way Of thy Commands depart 11 Within my heart and secret thoughts Thy Word I have hid still That I might not at any time Offend thy holy will 12 Blessed art thou most glorious God We magnifie thy name Teach me thy statutes that I may Love and observe the same 13 All the pure judgments of thy mouth I have abroad declar'd My lips to publish thy true Word To others have not spar'd 14 In thy pure testimony 's ways I have rejoyced more Than if of all the wealth on earth I had the greatest store 15 On thy Precepts I never will To meditate neglect And ever to thy holy ways I will have chief respect 16 And in thy statutes true and just My great delight I 'le set I hope O Lord thy holy Word I never shall forget GIMEL 3. 17 According to thy bounty great Deal with thy servant Lord That I may live to do thy work And keep thy holy Word 18 Open the eyes of my dark mind By thy revealing light That thy
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
and Exhort one another in Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord Col. 3.16 What sweeter foretaste of the Heavenly Everlasting Praises There is no Exercise that I had rather live and dye in than singing Praises to our Redeemer and Jehovah while I might in the Holy Assemblies and now when I may not as Paul and Silas in my Bonds and my dying pains which are far heavier than my Bonds Lord Jesus receive my Praise and Supplications first and lastly my departing Soul Amen What is the sum of my desires To KNOW and LOVE and LIVE TO GOD To PLEASE HIM and BE PLEAS'D IN HIM To long for Heaven and bear his Rod. Richard Baxter Mr. Baxter's PARAPHRASE ON THE PSALMS PSALM I. To the Tune of Old 100. 1 Blest is the man who doth avoid The Counsel of ungodly mates Who stands not in the sinners way Nor sitteth in the scorners seats 2 But in the holy Law of God Doth choose and place his chief delight And with sincere obedient heart Meditates in it day and night 3 We shall be like the prosp'ring tree That planted by a rivers side In season yieldeth plenteous fruit Whose leaf doth always green abide 4 The Lord will prosper this mans work But the ungodly are not so But like rejected worthless chaff Which every wind drives to and fro 5 Therefore th' ungodly shall not stand But fall when judgment gives their doom Nor sinners in the righteous mens Blessed assembly ever come 6 Because the way of righteous men The Lord with approbation knows But the way of ungodly men To their own just destruction goes PSALM II. 1 WHy do the rebel Nations rage And People hatch a vain design 2 The Kings of Earth do set themselves And wicked Rulers do combine Against God and his Christ they say Let us cast off and break the bands 3 And cast away those cords his Laws Which tye up hearts and tongues and hands 4 But he whose Glory is in Heaven Their Rebel Counsels shall deride Their purposes the Lord will scorn Their boasting tongues he will divide 5 Then shall he speak in wrath to those His gentle yoak who could not bear His sore displeasure shall them vex When they this Divine Sentence hear 6 Yet have I set my chosen King On Sion's Sacred Hill to reign His Kingdom 's Glory I 'le declare And God's decree I will proclaim 7 The Lord Almighty uttered it And he himself thus said to me Thou art my Son and this same day Have I rais'd and begotten thee 8 Ask me and I 'le the Heathen give For thy enlarg'd Inheritance And to possess the utmost parts Of all the earth I 'le thee advance 9 The Rebels with an Iron rod Thou shalt bruise and asunder shake Like brittle earthen vessels them Thou shalt dash and in pieces break 10 Be wise now O ye mortal Kings Learn all ye Judges of the earth 11 Serve God with true Religious fear Joyn awful trembling with your mirth 12 Now kiss the Son left in his wrath You die and perish from the way If once his anger kindled be Then all who trust him blest are they PSALM III. 1 LOrd how are they increas'd That are mine enemies Many there be that trouble me And do against me rise 2 Many say of my soul He hath no help in God 3 But thou my shield and glory art And liftest up my head 4 I with my mournful voice Unto the Lord did cry And he out of his holy place Did hear me graciously 5 I laid me down and slept I wak'd and rose again For it is God in whom I trust That doth me still sustain 6 And though ten thousand foes Were round about me laid While God is for me and my help Why should I be afraid 7 Arise and save me Lord My God the Cheek-bone strake Of all my foes and wicked mens Devouring teeth did break 8 To save his chosen doth Belong to God alone Thy blessing shall for evermore Thy people rest upon PSALM IV. 1 O Hear me when to thee I call God of my help and righteousness Have mercy on me hear my prayer Thou sav'dst me in my great distress 2 O sons of men how long will ye The great God's glory vilifie How long will ye love vanity And seek and trust a flatt'ring lie 3 But know that God doth for himself The Godly choose and set apart The Lord will hear when I to him Do call in faith with fervent heart 4 Fear God therefore Take heed of sin Use to consider with your hearts In secret silence of the night In bed when sleep from you departs 5 Offer to God the sacrifice Of Love and sincere righteousness And then put all your trust in him To save and help you in distress 6 Deceived men enquire for good But where to find it cannot tell Lord let the glory of thy face Shine forth on us and we are well 7 Thy Love and Grace into my heart Hath put more joy and solid peace Then all their wealth will them afford When Corn and Wine do most increase 8 I will both lay me down in peace And hope for quiet rest and sleep Trusting alone that thou Lord wilt Me and my dwelling safely keep PSALM V. 1 GIve ear unto my words O Lord My doleful meditation weigh 2 And hear my voice my King my God For unto thee I cry and pray 3 At Morning thou shalt hear my voice My Morning Prayer I 'le direct To thee O Lord and looking up Thy gracious answer will expect 4 For thou the Holy God dost not In any wickedness delight Neither shall evil dwell with thee 5 Or wicked fools stand in thy sight 6 Thou hatest wicked workers all And Lyars all thou wilt subvert The Lord abhorreth men of blood And the deceitful tongue and heart 7 In thine abundant mercies I Will in thy sacred house appear And tow'rd thy holy temple I Will worship thee in holy fear 8 Lead me Lord in thy righteousness Before my watchful envious foe Before my face do thou make strait The way wherein I ought to go 9 Their mouth no credit doth deserve Their inward part is wickedness Their throat is like an open grave Their tongues do flattering lies express 10 By their own Counsels let them fall Destroy them Lord and them expel In their abundant sins for they Against thee madly did rebel 11 Let all rejoyce and shout for joy Who firmly put their trust in thee For them thou keepest Let them that love Thy Holy Name still joyful be 12 For thou Lord wilt the righteous bless And with thy special favour own Thou as a shield wilt him defend And with thy loving kindness crown PSALM VI. 1 LOrd in thy wrath rebuke me not I earnestly do thee desire Though my great sin do it deserve Correct me not in burning ire 2 Lord pity me a feeble wretch Whom sin and dolour weakned hath O heal my pained
will him direct To choose that way and walk therein Where God will him accept 13 His soul preserv'd by God Shall dwell in holy peace His Covenant keeping seed shall here On earth enough possess 14 To such as fear the Lord He will his secret show And his true saving Covenant The Lord will make them know 15 Mine eyes upon the Lord Continually are set For it is he who shall bring forth My feet out of the net 16 Lord turn thee unto me On me thy mercy shew For I in grief am desolate And brought exceeding low 17 The troubles of my heart Are great and do increase O pity and deliver me Out of my sore distress 18 On my affliction look And on my grief and pain O Lord forgive me all my sins And make me whole again 19 Consider thou my foes That great and many are And what a causeless cruel hate They do against me bear 20 O safely keep my soul And still deliver me And let me never be asham'd Because I trust in thee 21 Let my integrity And uprightness defend And keep me for in faith and hope I do on thee depend 22 O gracious Lord redeem And bring thy people out Of all the dangers and distress That compass them about PSALM XXVI 1 JUdge me O Lord for I In uprightness abide And I have trusted in the Lord Therefore I shall not slide 2 Examine me O Lord My case now prove and try My reins and heart well known to thee Unto my self descry 3 Thy loving kindness is Ever before mine eyes Thy Truth and Righteousness have been My most beloved ways 4 With vain false persons I Have no Companion been With lyars and dissemblers I never will go in 5 Ill-doers company I have and still do hate With wicked and ungodly men I have not gone or sate 6 Guiltles of reigning sin I 'le wash my hands and so Unto thy sacred Altar Lord I then will boldly go 7 That I may publish there With voice of joy and praise The glory and the fame of all Thy wondrous works and ways 8 Thy worship in the house Lord I have loved well I much delighted in the place Where doth thine honour dwell 9 Crop not my life with mens Of wickedness and blood 10 Whose hands are fill'd with bribes and with Mischief against the good 11 But as for me I 'le walk In my integrity Be merciful and me redeem And set at liberty 12 My foot in an even place Doth stand with stedfastness And in the Congregations I The Lord will praise and bless PSALM XXVII 1 THe Lord my Light and Saviour is Whom therefore shall I need to dread The Lord is of my life the strength Of man why should I be afraid 2 When wicked men that are my foes Did all in rage against me come To eat my flesh they stumbled then And fell and were themselves o'rethrown 3 Though Hosts encampt against me lie Yet this my heart shall not much fear Though wars against me raised be I 'le confident be also there 4 One thing of God I have desir'd And that I will still seek and crave That in the Lord's house all my days I may a quiet dwelling have That there God's beauteous holiness I may with joy see and admire And for direction in my doubts May humbly of his will enquire 5 For he in times of trouble will Secure me by his saving grace In his own Tent and Tabernacle And on a Rock he shall me place 6 And now by him who is my strength My head shall highly lifted be Above my cruel enemies Who do about encompass me The sacrifice of joy will I Into his holy Temple bring I 'le sing aloud unto the Lord Yea I will joyful praises sing 7 Hear me O Lord when with my voice I mournfully to thee do cry Have mercy also upon me And grant thine answer graciously 8 When thou command'st seek ye my face My willing heart said unto thee Thy pleased face Lord I will seek 9 Hide not thy pleased face from me O put me not away in wrath Thou wast thou art my help alone Forsake not me who art the God Of my health and salvation 10 When my Father and Mother both Do me in greatest straits forsake Even then the Lord will gather me And up my fainting soul will take 11 Teach me thy righteous way O Lord And in a plain path lead thou me Because of those who are my foes And my watchful observers be 12 Leave me not to mine enemies will Many false witnesses arise Against me and malicious men Who breath out wrath and cruelties 13 My heart had fail'd unless I had Hope't and believed for to see Thy Goodness manifested yet On earth to them that living be 14 Wait on the Lord Couragious be And he shall help and and strength afford Unto thy heart I say again Still trust and wait upon the Lord. PSALM XXVIII 1 TO thee I cry O Lord my Rock Let me thy speedy answer have Lest by thy silence I become Like dead men buried in the grave 2 My earnest supplications hear When I to thee for help do cry When I my hands lift up towards Thy sacred Oracle on high 3 O draw me not away with those Who falsly act this wicked part Who speak unto their neighbour's peace While mischief 's in their treacherous heart 4 Give them according to their deeds After the evil which they meant According to their handy work Render to them their punishment 5 Since they regarded not God's works Nor what great things his hands have wrought He shall not build but pull them down Destroy and bring them all to nought 6 Blest be the Lord because he heard The earnest voice of my request 7 The Lord 's my strength my shield and help My heart on him alone shall rest Because he saveth me therefore My heart in him doth much rejoyce And with the songs of thanks and praise To him I will lift up my voice 8 The Lord is the defence and strength Of those that be indeed his own And his anointed's Saviour And strength is he and he alone 9 Lord save thy people and still bless Thy own chosen inheritance Them as their Shepherd rule and feed Save and for ever them advance PSALM XXIX 1 ALL ye that mighty are on earth Give all the glory to the Lord To God the glory and the strength Ascribe ye all with one accord 2 The glory due to God's great name Give to him and to all confess Publickly worship ye the Lord In solemn beauteous holiness 3 The Lord's voice on the waters is The God of strength and majesty Doth thunder and on waters great Doth sit and rule them all on high 4 The thundring dreadful voice of God Full of prevailing power is And full of Royal Majesty Is that great frightful voice of his 5 This voice of the Almighty doth The great tall Cedars break and tear The Lord doth thus the
hath found out a house The swallow found a nest Where she may lay her young and where Her self and they may rest Even near thy holy Altars they May make their safe abode And why not I seeing thou art My King and only God 4 Blest are they in thy house that dwell They always give thee praise 5 Blessed is he whose strength 's in thee In whose heart are thy ways 6 Who passing as through Bala's vale Make it a place of wells And the descending plenteous rain The pools with water fills 7 Unwearied they forward go Marching from strength to strength Till all in Sion do appear Before the Lord at length 8 Lord God of Hosts my prayer hear O Jacob's God give ear 9 O God our shield look on the face Of thine anointed dear 10 Because one day within thy house Is better to abide Than in another place to stay A thousand days beside Much rather would I keep a door In the house of my God Than in the tents of wickedness To take up mine abode 11 For the Lord God our Sun and Shield Will grace and glory give And no good thing from them with-hold Who uprightly do live 12 O thou that art the Lord of Hosts That man is surely blest Who by a stedfast confidence On thee alone doth rest PSALM LXXXV 1 THou hast been favourable O Lord unto thy land And Israel's sad Captivity Thou brought'st back by thy hand 2 Thy people thou forgav'st The guilt that they were in And by thy free and plenteous gracâ— Didst cover all their sin 3 Thy wrath thou took'st away And didst to mercy turn Even from thine anger terrible That did against us burn 4 O God our Saviour Turn us unto thy peace And cause thine anger that 's gone forth Against us for to cease 5 Shall thy displeasure last Against us without end And to all generations Wilt thou thy wrath extend 6 Wilt thou not us restore And quicken us that we Who are thy people evermore In thee may joyful be 7 Shew us thy mercy Lord Which may thy flock relieve And thy salvation unto us In season freely give 8 I 'le hear what God to us Will speak It will be peace To all his Saints But let not them Return to foolishness 9 Surely to all those who In fear of God do stand His help is nigh that Glory may Dwell always in our land 10 Mercy and truth shall meet And no more parted be And Peace with Righteousness shall greet And blessedly agree 11 Truth here even on this earth Shall spring and prosper well And righteousness from heav'n descend And here among us dwell 12 The Lord shall give what 's good Our land shall yield increase 13 Justice to set us in his way Shall go before his face PSALM LXXXVI 1 BOw down thine ear O Lord Hear me for I am poor 2 And in distress Yet I am thine Preserve my soul therefore My God thy servant save Who doth on thee rely 3 Be merciful to me O Lord Who daily to thee cry 4 Rejoyce thy servant's soul For unto thee O Lord Do I lift up my soul in hope That thou wilt help afford 5 For thou O Lord art good And ready to forgive And rich in mercy and all those That seek thee dost relieve 6 Give ear to my request My praying voice attend 7 I 'le call on thee when troubles come For thou wilt answer send 8 Among the Gods O Lord None may with thee compare Neither among the works they do Any like thy works are 9 All nations made by thee Shall come and reverently Worship before thee our great God And thy name magnifie 10 For thou art high and great And wondrous things hast done Besides thee there 's no other God For thou art God alone 11 Teach me thy truth and way And I 'le walk in the same Unite my heart Lord unto thee To fear thy holy name 12 My God with all my heart To thee will I give praise And I the glory will ascribe Unto thy name always 13 For thy mercy to me In greatness doth excel Thou hast delivered my soul Both from the Grave and Hell 14 The proud against me rise Terrible men are met In troops that seek my life but thee Before them have not set 15 But full of pity Lord And gracious thou art found Thou art long-suffering and in truth And mercy dost abound 16 O turn thee unto me And mercy on me have Strengthen thy servant and the Son Of thine own handmaid save 17 Shew me some sign for good That all my foes may see And be asham'd because thou Lord Dost help and comfort me PSALM LXXXVII 1 UPon the sacred hills He his foundation sets 2 More than all Jacob's dwellings else God loveth Sion gates 3 Great things are said of thee O City of the Lord. 4 Rahab's and Babel's case to those That know me I 'le record It 's said of famous Tyre And land of Palestine And of the Ethiopian land This man was born therein 5 Of Sion't shall be said This man and that man there Was born and he that highest is Himself shall stablish her 6 When God recites their names Who his own people are To their great honour he shall count That this man was born there 7 Singers and those that play On musick there shall be Yea all my springs of holy peace And comfort are in thee PSALM LXXXVIII 1 O God who art my hope and help To thee I cryed night and day 2 Let my cries have access to thee Incline thine ear when I do pray 3 My soul with troubles doth abound My life draws nigh unto the grave 4 Like one that to be buryed goes I am as those that no strength have 5 As a companion of the dead Like those that slain in grave do lye Whom thou hast cut off by thy hand And dost put out their memory 6 Thou lay'st me in the lowest pit And as in deep and darksom caves 7 Thy wrath lyes hard on me and thou Afflictest me with all thy waves 8 My friends thou hast put far from me To them as burdensome I grow In sorrows I am so shut up That forth from thence I cannot go 9 My eye through my affliction mourns I call on thee from day to day To thee O Lord I have stretch'd out My craving hands to thee I pray 10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead Shall the dead rise and praise thee here 11 Is thy love praised in the grave Doth death thy faithfulness declare 12 Are thy great works known in the dark Or is thy truth and righteousness Remembred and mention'd in The land of deep forgetfulness 13 But unto thee O Lord I cry My morning's pray'r shall thee prevent 14 Lord why dost thou cast off my soul Why is thy face against me bent 15 Even from my early youth I was Afflicted and as near to die While I thy terrors do endure I almost as distracted lie
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
them and deliverance gave 11 The waters overwhelm'd their foes Not one of them was left alive 12 And then they did believe his word And praise in joyful songs did give 13 They soon forgat his works and for His Counsels did not wait with trust 14 But in the desart tempted God And there provokingly did lust 15 He granted them their own request But to their souls he leanness sent 16 They envy'd Moses in the Camp And Aaron the Lord 's chosen Saint 17 The open'd earth Dathan devour'd Cover'd Abiram's company 18 A fire among them kindled was The wicked were burnt up thereby 19 In Horeb they did form a Calâ— The molten Image worshipped 20 To the shape of a grazing Ox Their God their Glory they changed 21 Their God and Saviour who had done Great things in Egypt they forgat 22 Wondrous works in the land Ham By the Red-Sea dreadful and great 23 Therefore he said he 'd them cut off Had not lest he should them destroy His chosen Moses in the breach Stood for to turn his wrath away 24 Yea they despis'd the pleasant land And did not yet believe his word 25 But often murmur'd in their Tents And heard not the voice of the Lord. 26 In desart them to overthrow He therefore did lift up his hand 27 Abroad to make their seed to fall And scatter them in every land 28 They joyn'd themselves to Baal-Peor Sacrifice of the dead they eat 29 Thus they provoked him to wrath Their vile-inventions were so great 30 Then did the plague upon them break But Phinehas stood up to slay And execute Judgment on some And so the wasting Plague did stay 31 This so pleas'd God that he to him Imputed it for righteousness And all his generations For this he promised to bless 32 And at the waters where they strove God into just displeasure brake So that even Moses felt his part And was rebuked for their sake 33 Because their provocations great His patient spirit so much stirr'd That he in passion with his lips Did speak an unadvised word 34 Nor as the Lord commanded them Did they the wicked Nations slay 35 But with the heathen mingled were And learnt their wicked works and way 36 And they the heathen's Idols serv'd Which were to them a deadly snare 37 By them their sons and daughters then To Devils sacrificed were 38 In their own Childrens guiltless blood Their guilty hands they did embrew Whom unto Canaan's Idols they For bloody Sacrifices slew So was the land defil'd with blood 39 And they with their own sinful way And with their own inventions thus From God a whoring went astray 40 Therefore against his people then God's wrath was justly kindled more So that his own inheritance He loathed and did it abhor 41 He gave them to the heathen's power Their wicked foes did them command 42 Their enemies them oppress'd who were Before subjected to their hand 43 Many times he deliver'd them But they again provok'd him so By their own Counsels and their crimes That they were brought exceeding low 44 Yet he regarded their distress And heard when they to him did cry 45 His ancient Covenant also he For them did call to memory And he repenting pity'd them After his mercies manifold 46 And made them pityed be of those Who did them as their Captives hold 47 Save us O Lord and gather us The wicked heathens from among To give thanks to thy holy name And praise thee with triumphing song 48 Blest be Jehovah Israel's God Henceforth to all eternity Let all the people joyntly say Amen Praise ye the Lord most high PSALM CVII 1 GIve thanks to God for he is good His mercies everlasting be 2 Let God's redeemed ones say so Whom from their foes hands he set free 3 And gathered them out of the lands From North and South from East and West 4 In pathless desart wandred they And found no City where to rest 5 Hungry and thirsty their souls saint When want and streights do them oppress 6 They in their trouble cry to God He saves them out of their distress 7 He led them forth by the right way And in the desart did them guide That they might to a City go Where quietly they might abide 8 O that all men would praise the Lord For his great goodness to us shewn And for the wondrous works which he For us the sons of men hath done 9 He satisfies the longing soul The hungry soul with good is fill'd 10 Such as in darkness and death's shade Do sit in painful Irons held 11 Because against the words of God They often sin'd rebelliously And the just Counsels did contemn Of him that 's over all most high 12 Their hearts with labour he brought down And they from man no help could have 13 They in their trouble cry'd to God From their distress he did them save 14 From darkness and the shade of death He in compassion did them take And their afflicting Captive bonds In pity he asunder brake 15 O that all men would praise the Lord For his great goodness to us shewn And for the wondrous works which he For us the sons of men hath done 16 For the enthralling gates of brass In pieces he for them did tear And by his hands the Iron bands Asunder also broken were 17 Fools for their own transgressions And for their sins afflicted are 18 Their soul abhors all sorts of meat They to the gates of death draw near 19 They in their trouble cry to God From their distress he doth them save 20 He sent his Word and healed them From danger he deliverance gave 21 O that all men would praise the Lord For his great goodness to us shewn And for the wondrous works which he For us the sons of men hath done 22 And let them sacrifice to him The sacrifice of thankfulness And his great works declare to all And with singing their joy express 23 They that in ships go to the Sea And in great waters business do 24 These see the dreadful works of God And in the deep his wonders view 25 He doth but give out his Command And powerful stormy winds do rise Which makes the Sea in waves to rage And to mount up toward the skies 26 Passengers toss'd up as to heav'n And to the deep cast down again Their troubled Soul in them doth melt While fear doth keep their hearts in pain 27 They reel and stagger to and fro Tost about like to drunken men And in this their distress and fear All their own wit doth fail them then 28 They in their trouble cry to God And he from their distress them saves 29 He makes the storm become a calm And presently doth still the waves 30 Then they with gladness do rejoice Because their danger seemeth past And unto their desired port He safely bringeth them at last 31 O that all men would praise the Lord For the great goodness he hath shown And for