May Israel now say verse 2 Oft in my tender yeares assaild Yet have they not prevail'd verse 3 My back the plowers did invade And there long furrowes made verse 4 But God hath cut their wicked bands And sav'd me from their hands verse 5 Let them confounded back retire Who Sions hurt desire verse 6 Or prove like grasse on houses top Which withers e're growne up verse 7 Which hath no mower for it found Nor into sheaves is bound verse 8 And none that pass God speed you say Or wish you prosper may PSAL. CXXX verse 1 OUt from the Depths of misery O Lord to Thee I cry verse 2 Mark well my voice and let Thine eare My supplication heare verse 3 If Thou O Lord wilt be extreame And with thy searching beame Examine each transgression And errour we have done When we thus strictly shall be try'd Who may thy sentence bide Or who endure thy vengfull hand And in thy judgment stand verse 4 But there is Mercy Lord with Thee That Thou may'st feared be verse 5 Thy word and Promises are just Therefore in them I trust verse 6 On Thee alone my hope is plac't To Thee my Soule doth hast On Thee she waites to Thee she flyes Before the morning rise They that expect the morning light After the weary night Watch not so much the break of day As she for Thee doth stay verse 7 O Israel trust in the Lord Who pity doth afford For He more ready is to save Then we his help to crave With Him abundant mercy is To salve what 's done amiss verse 8 And Plentifull redemption found To cure each sinfull wound Another of the same paraphrased for an Antheme OUt of the horrour of the lowest Deep Where cares endlesse fears their station keep To thee O Lord I send my woful cry O heare the accents of my misery If Thy enquiry Lord should be severe To mark all sins which have been acted here Who may abide or when they sifted are Stand un-condemned at Thy Judgments bar But there is mercy O my God with Thee That Thou by it may'st lou'd and feared be My Soule waites for the Lord in Him I trust Whose word is faithful whose promise just On him my longing thoughts are fixt as they Who wait the cōforts of the rising day Yea more then those that watch the morning light Tir'd with the sorrowes of a rest-less night O Israel trust in that Gratious Lord Who plentifull remission doth afford And will His people who past pardon seeme By mercyes greater then their sins redeeme PSAL. CXXXI verse 1 O Lord have no haughty mind Nor eyes to pride inclin'd To matters great I not aspire Nor things too high desire verse 2 But low in thought in action mild Like to a weaned Child So wean'd from all earth's vanities My soule on Thee relies verse 3 Let Israel make God their scope And in His goodnesse hope Untill both time and life shall end On Him alone depend PSAL. CXXXII verse 1 REmember David's trouble Lord His vow and oath record verse 2 How he in zeale and holy fear To Iacob's God did swear verse 3 I will not house my weary head Nor go into my bed verse 4 Nor shall my eyes with sleep opprest Acquainted be with rest verse 5 Untill a dwelling place I find Unto the Lord design'd And till I shall a Temple raise For the Almighty's praise verse 6 Lo we have heard in Ephrata Thy Arke did sometimes stay And found in open fields it stood Or shelt'red by the wood verse 7 But in His Tabernacle now Our knees wee 'l humbly bow We will before His foot stool fall And on His power call verse 8 Arise O Lord into Thy Rest Long with Thy presence blest And let Thy Arke be fixed here Whose strength the Nations feare verse 9 Thy Priests with holyness attire With joy Thy Saints inspire verse 10 Do not Thy love for Davids sake From Thine Annointed take verse 11 The Lord to David vowed hath Nor will He break His faith From thine owne Ioynes shall issue one To sit upon thy throne verse 12 And if thy Children will consent To my Commandement Their sons whil'st day and night remaine Successively shall Reigne verse 13 For I the Lord have Sion chose For my desir'd repose verse 14 Within this dwelling will I rest An everlasting guest verse 15 Hir stores with plenty shall be fed Hir poor reliev'd with bread verse 16 Hir Priests with blessing shall be deckt With gladness Hir Elect. verse 17 There shall the Horne of David spring In honour flourishing And like a Lamp his glorious light Shall still continue bright verse 18 His adversaries cloath'd with shame Shall lose both life and name But from his Sacred Head the Crowne Shall never be cast downe PSAL. CXXXIII verse 1 BEhold how pleasant 't is to see When brethren do agree Whose hearts as dwellings love unites And to accord invites verse 2 'T is like the pretious ointment shed On Aarons sacred head Which did from face and beard descend And on his garment end verse 3 'T is as the silver drops of dew Which Hermons top renew Or as the fuitfull raines distill Upon faire Sions Hill verse 4 The Lord on such agreement powres His loves unwasted showres And doth their habitations bless With endless happiness PSAL. CXXXIV Sing this as Psalme 51. verse 1 YE servants of the Lord Bless Him with one accord You in His House who nightly wait His praises due relate verse 2 With lifted hands adore And daily Him implore Within His Sanctuary bless The Lord of Holiness verse 3 The God that Heaven made And earth's foundation lay'd Out of His Sion thee defend And blessings endless send PSAL. CXXXV Sing this as Psalme 119. verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord His praise proclaime All ye that love His Name verse 2 Ye in His House and Courts that stand Attending His Command verse 3 O praise His goodness blest His Name From whom all mercies came verse 4 He Iacob chose and on his race Did all His treasure place verse 5 Our God is great and in His deeds All other Gods exceeds verse 6 In Heav'n or earth or deepest Seas He acts what ere He please verse 7 He makes from earth the vapours rise Which cloud the dark'ned skies From whence He raines and light'ning flings And winds there treasur'd brings verse 8 He man and beast in Egypt smote verse 9 And plagues on Pharaoh brought verse 10 His arme did vanquish Nations great And mighty Kings defeat verse 11 Sibon and Og and Canaan fell verse 12 In lot to Israel verse 13 Therefore Thy pow'rfull Name O Lord Succession shall record verse 14 Thy judgments are on sinners bent But tow'rds Thine owne relent verse 15 The Gods in Heathen Temples sought Are gold and silver wrought verse 16 Speechless they be and blind and deaf verse 17 Nor in their mouths have breath verse 18 Like them the Makers are and
and reines doth try Preserves men of integrity verse 11 God doth in right his judgements lay Yet is provoked every day verse 12 If he not turne His sword is whet His bow is bent and ready set verse 13 The instruments of death He brings And arrowes from His quiver flings verse 14 Behold he travailes great with hate Mischiefe conceaves brings forth deceit verse 15 He made a ditch and dig'd a Pit And he himselfe is fall'n in it verse 16 Thus all his practises revert To strike his owne malicious heart His mischiefe shall his own head wound His violence himselfe confound verse 17 I will the praise of God expresse According to His righteousnesse And in my Songs extoll the fame Of His most high most glorious Name PSAL. VIII verse 1 LOrd how excelling is Thy Name Through earths extended frame Who hast Thy glory set on high Above the starry sky verse 2 Thou didst by infant mouthes ordaine Renowne and strength to gaine Whose weaknesse might thy foes confound And the Avenger wound verse 3 When I consider Heavens state Thy fingers did create The Moone with all the Stars of night To which thy beams gave light verse 4 O what is Man or all his race Thy favour should him grace verse 5 Whom made next Angels in renowne Thou wilt with glory crowne verse 6 Thou under his command hast layd The workes Thy hand had made What in each element doth meet Is subject to his feet verse 8 All sheep and beasts which range the feild The fowles which aire doth yield The Fishes which their motion keep Within the liquid deep verse 8 O Lord our Governour whose sway All in the world obey How far excelling is Thy Name Through earths extended frame PSAL. IX Sing this as Psalme 51. verse 1 I Thee will praise with my whole heart And all thy wond'rous works impart In Songs and Hymns rejoyce will I verse 2 To blesse Thy Name O Thou most high Mine enemies repulsed all Shall at Thine awfull presence fall verse 4 Thou hast my righteous cause maintain'd Whose throne wrong judgement never stain'd verse 5 At Thy rebuke the Heathens fame Destroyed is put out their name O thou malitious enemy verse 6 Thy loath'd remembrance now must dy And like the Cities thou hast ras'd Thine own Memoriall is defac'd verse 7 But God for ever shall endure His throne in judgment stablish'd sure verse 8 The world Hee 'll judge in righteousnesse verse 9 A Refuge be in times distresse verse 10 Who know Thy Name in Thee will trust For Thou hast never left the just verse 11 Praise God who doth in Sion dwell His doings to the people tell verse 12 When He enquires for Blood the Cry Nere passes from His memory verse 13 Have mercy on my troubled state O Lord who lift'st me from death's gate verse 14 That Sion I thy praise may shew Whose joyes from thy Salvation grow verse 15 Sunke to the Pit the Heathen are Their feet are caught in their own snare verse 16 The Lord in their revenge is know'n Who by themselves are overthrow'n verse 17 The wicked shall be turn'd to hell And all who God forgetting fell verse 18 For on the poore He thinkes alway Nor shall the Needies hope decay verse 19 Up Lord and let not man prevaile Nor let thy judgements ever faile verse 20 Put them in feare the Nations then Will know themselves to be but men PSAL. 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Sing this as the Lamentation verse 1 WHy Lord dost Thou so far abide Thy face in times of trouble hide verse 2 Proud men the helplesse persecute But let them fall in the pursuit verse 3 He boasteth in his own desires And wretches whom God hates admires verse 4 Through pride of heart he God neglects Whom he nor thinkes on nor affects verse 5 His grievous wayes Thy judgments slight His thoughts do feare no opposite verse 6 He said I never shall be mov'd Nor by adversity be prov'd verse 7 His mouth deceit and curses fill Whilst mischiefes from his tongue distill verse 8 He lurkes to kill the innocent His eyes against the poore are bent verse 9 He as a Lyon lyes in wait To catch the guiltlesse through deceit verse 10 With humble shewes he doth assay To make the poore his strong ones prey verse 11 His heart hath said God hath forgot He hides His face and seeth not verse 12 O God lift up thy selfe arise And think upon our miseries verse 13 Why doth his pride and scorn surmount As if that God kept no account Nor will his wicked workes require Or in His judgements pay their hire verse 14 Lord Thou hast seen his impious spight Whose hand their follies can requite He trusts on Thee whom woes oppresse Who still do'st help the fatherlesse verse 15 Break Thou their wicked arme at length And let them perish by Thy strength verse 16 Thou canst O Lord Eternall King The Heathen to destruction bring verse 17 Thou hear'st Thy servants humble plaint Prepar'st their heart art swift to grant verse 18 To judge the poore and fatherlesse That men of earth no more oppresse PSAL. XI verse 1 IN God I put my trust How then Do yee reproachfull men Say To the mountaines flie my soule Like to the chased fowle verse 2 For lo the wicked bend their bow Their deadly shafts to throw That privily in darknesse they Th' upright in heart may slay verse 3 If the foundations perish so What can the righteous do verse 4 But in His Temple God resides Whose throne in Heaven abides He all beholds with searching eye The Sons of men to try The Lord His righteous servants proves Hates him oppression loves He snares with fire and brimstone showres Upon the wicked powres Black tempests are by Him rais'd up The portion of their cup verse 7 For the just God doth those respect Who righteousnes affect His countenance and favour bright Beholdeth the upright PSAL XII verse 1 HElpe Lord for godly men decrease Goodnesse on earth doth cease And like all other Mortals fraile The faithfull Persons faile verse 2 Each to his neighbour vainly speakes And to deceive him seekes With fratt'ring Lips and double hearts They use deceitfull arts verse 3 God shall cut off their guile full tongues Puft up with pride and wrongs verse 4 Who say Our words their ends shall gaine What Lord can us restraine verse 5 But for th' oppressions of the poore Whose sighes their want deplore Now saith the Lord will I arise To ease their miseries verse 6 The words which from the Lord we heare Are pure and most sincere As Silver in the fornace try'd And sev'n times purifi'd verse 7 Thou shalt O Lord keep Thine Elect And from this race protect verse 8 The wicked live esteem'd and prais'd When vilest men are rais'd PSAL. XIII verse 1 HOw long Lord Wilt Thou me forget Who am with woes beset Shall I still languish in disgrace Whil'st Thou dost hide thy Face verse 2 How
cast verse 16 He me from many waters tooke verse 17 My too strong foes with vengeance strook verse 18 They me in day of trouble seiz'd But God my stay those sorrowes eas'd verse 19 He brought me to a spacious place Deliv'ring me through His free grace verse 20 He did my righteousnesse regard And cleannesse of my hands reward verse 21 For I the wayes of God have kept Nor wickedly His precepts left verse 22 His judgments I and statutes prize Still placing them before my eyes verse 23 I perfect was and innocent Nor to ungodly courses bent verse 24 Therefore as guiltlesse and upright I am rewarded in His sight Second Part. verse 25 Thou to the mercifull art kind verse 26 And pure where Thou dost purenesse find verse 27 But with the froward art perverse Dost save the poor the proud disperse verse 28 For thou my candle wilt make bright And turne my darknesse into light verse 29 By Thee I made a Troop to fall And through my God leap'd ore a wall verse 30 God's way is perfect His word try'd Doth as a shield the faithfull hide verse 31 Who can like Him a Saviour be Or who a Rock to us but He verse 32 T is God that girdeth me with might And keepes me in my wayes upright verse 33 My feet like Hind's He maketh swift And to high places doth me lift verse 34 T is He doth teach my hands to warre Steel bowes by them now broken are verse 35 Thou wast my shield Thy hand sustain'd I through Thy favour greatnesse gain'd verse 36 My feet enlarged have not fail'd verse 37 'gainst foes pursuit my hands prevail'd verse 38 Whose pride now quite confounded lies Wounded and fall'n no more to rise verse 39 Thou girdest me with strength for fight And hast subdu'd the rebells might verse 40 Their captive necks below me bend And in deserv'd destruction end verse 41 They cry'd for safety 'midst their feare But God nor help them would nor hear verse 42 Like dust blow'n up so did I beat And tread them downe in their retreat verse 43 From mutiny and peoples strife O Lord Thou resku'd hast my life My head ore Nations Thou dost crowne Those serve me whom I have not know'n verse 44 Soone as they heare they me obay And strangers stoop unto my sway verse 45 The aliens away shall fade And their close places leave dismai'd verse 46 Blest be my Rock who ever lives Exalt Him who Salvation gives verse 47 T is God whose vengeance doth pursue And people under me subdue verse 48 He saves me from mine enemies And lifts me up 'bove those that rise He is my reskue my defence From men of blood and violence verse 49 Therefore will I to Thee O Lord My thanks Eternally record Amongst the Heathen speake Thy fame And praises sing unto Thy Name verse 30 He great deliverance doth bring In love to His annointed King His mercies doth on David powre And on his seed for evermore PSAL. XIX verse 1 THe Heavens high declare the fame Of God who did them frame verse 2 One day another tels and night His wonders doth recite verse 3 They have no language yet they teach Without or tongue or speech verse 4 And through the earth their sound is gone To every Nation God in the Circle of those spheares A Tabernacle reares In which the swift unweary'd Sun His daily course may run verse 5 Who as a Bridegroome freshly deckt Doth on the world reflect And as a Giant strong in might Darts forth his piercing light verse 6 He breaking from the Easterne skies Doth from his Chambers rise And till his beames declining set Nothing can shun his heat verse 7 Gods Law is incorrupt and whole Converting every Soule His faithfull promise never dies And makes the simple wise verse 8 The Statutes of the Lord are right And drooping hearts delight Both pure and perfect His command Gives light to understand verse 9 Most unpolluted is His feare Eternall and sincere The judgments of the Lord are fixt With Truth and Justice mixt verse 10 More to be wish'd then golden mines When them the test refines And more then hony that distills The mouth with sweetnesse fills verse 11 By These Thy servant warned is Oft as he goes amisse Which yeeld a plentifull reward To all that Them regard verse 12 Who knowes how often he offends How far his sin extends Lord cleanse my Soule from crimes conceal'd To none but Thee reveal'd verse 13 Keep me that no presumptuous staine May ore Thy Servant reigne Then shall I walke in innocence Free from the great offence verse 14 O Lord my only strength and tow'r Who sav'st me by Thy pow'r Let all my words and thoughts by Thee Heard and accepted be PSAL. XX verse 1 THe Lord in thy afflictions day Give eare when thou dost pray The Name of Iacob's God defend On whom thy hopes depend verse 2 Help from His Sanctuary send And strength from Sion lend verse 3 Thy Gifts in His remembrance prize Accept thy sacrifice verse 4 4 May He who comforts doth inspire Grant thee thy heart's desire Make thee enjoy thy wishes still Thy counsailes all fulfill verse 5 With thankfull and triumphant voyce We in Thy help rejoyce And in Thy Name our banners reare Who wilt thy servants heare verse 6 Now know I God who power gave Doth His Annointed save He heares from Heav'n and His right hand Makes him in safety stand verse 7 Some in their armed Chariots force Some put their trust in horse But we remember will the Lord Whose Name doth strength afford verse 8 They are brought down and fall'n in war We rays'd in triumph are verse 9 O save us Lord great Heavens King Heare those requests we bring PSAL. XXI verse 1 THe King shall in Thy strength be glad Through Thee with safety clad verse 2 Thou gav'st him all his heart desir'd And what his lips requir'd verse 3 Thou didst no good from him withhold Crownd'st him with purest gold verse 4 He asked life and Thou didst give Him endlesse dayes to live verse 5 Great Majesty doth him invest Through Thy Salvation blest Thou giv'st him joy and lasting grace The favour of Thy face verse 7 The King on God his trust hath plac't Whose Mercy keeps Him fast verse 8 Thy right hand all Thy foes shall find Whose hate 'gainst Thee combin'd verse 9 Thy wrath shall those who Thee forsake A fiery Oven make The Lord shall swallow them in ire By His revenges fire verse 10 Their fruit shalt Thou destroy from earth Root out their childrens birth verse 11 For they 'gainst Thee did ill invent Though fayl'd in their intent verse 12 When at their face Thine arrowes aime They turn their back with shame verse 13 O Lord Thy strength and glory raise So we Thy pow'r will praise PSAL. XXII Sing this as the Lamentation verse 1 MY God My God upon me look O wherefore hast Thou me forsook
His love Are kept that they can never move For He when dangers Hir distresse His early succour shall addresse verse 6 The Nations rage the Kingdomes are Disturb'd with strife and threats of war But He the tempest can allay And cause the earth to melt away verse 7 The Lord of Hosts doth us direct Great Iacobs God doth us protect verse 8 Come see on those our mischeifs wrought What desolations He hath brought verse 9 He maketh strife and wars to cease And crowns the bleeding earth with peace He breaks the bow and crackes the speare In fire the Chariots burned were verse 10 Lo this is God whose awfull sway Both earth and Heaven must obey verse 11 The Lord of Hosts doth us direct Great Iacobs God doth us protect PSAL. XLVII verse 1 O Clap your hands All earth throughout To God in triumph shout verse 2 His greatnesse rules the world from high With awfull Majesty verse 3 He Nations under us subdues And will our portion chuse Which doth in glory far excell The Lot of Israël verse 5 God is gone up with showting voice And sounding trumpets noyse verse 6 Unto our God loud praises sing Sing praises to our King verse 7 To Him whose pow'r the earth doth fill With knowledge sing and skill verse 8 Who on His sacred throne remaines And ore the Heathen reignes verse 9 The Princes with the People joyne Sprung out of Abra'm's loyne For all are in His care enroll'd Who highly is extoll'd PSAL. XLVIII verse 1 GReat is the Lord His praise is great In Salem His blest seat verse 2 Mount Sion beauteous is for site The spatious earth's delight Upon the sides which Northward rise The Great King's City lies verse 3 God in hir Palaces alone Is for a refuge know'n verse 4 For lo the Kings assembled were Hir glories downe to teare verse 5 They saw with marvail hir defense In trouble hasting thence verse 6 They were surpriz'd with sudden feare Like pangs which women beare verse 7 Thou break'st the Ships from Tarshish saile With Thy strong Easterne gale verse 8 In Salem unto God endear'd We saw what oft we heard The Lord of Hosts will hir defend And stablish to the end verse 9 Lord in Thy Temple to our thought We have Thy mercies brought verse 10 O God according to Thy Name So endlesse is Thy fame Thy hand is full of righteousnesse Let Sion joy expresse verse 11 Let Iudah's daughter gladly sing The judgments of their King verse 12 Walk round about faire Sions Mount Hir stately Tow'rs recount verse 13 Hir Bulwarks marke and structures well And to your Children tell verse 14 For here the Lord our God intends Till time expired ends His favours on This place to breath And guide us unto death PSAL. XLIX As Psalme 51. verse 1 ALl people of the world give eare verse 2 Low high rich poore togither heare verse 3 My mouth of wisedome shall dilate My heart deep knowledge meditate verse 4 To Parables I will encline Darke sayings on the harp divine verse 5 Why should my end affrightment feel When sin or death assault my heel verse 6 Who trust in wealth and riches boast verse 7 Cannot redeeme a brother lost Or bring back life when fled away Or unto God his ransome pay verse 8 The soule so pretious is no rate Can it recall or expiate verse 9 That so he might for ever last And not of earth's corruption tast verse 10 For he perceiveth that the wise Like to the foole and brutish dies And all the wealth which they have got Must then become anothers lot verse 11 Yet they suppose their dwelling place Shall last through each succeeding race And to their lands their names bequeath To keep them living after death verse 12 Man nerethelesse to honour brought Like beasts that perish comes to nought verse 13 Thus their vaine folly ends yet they Who them survive praise all they say verse 14 Like sheep they in the grave are layd For death to feed on dishes made The just in light eternall reignes Whilst others pomp in dust remaines verse 15 But God my my soule shall take and save From power of the wide-mouth'd grave verse 16 Be not thou troubled or afraid When one of these is wealthy made Or when with plenty fill'd and ease His houses glory doth encrease verse 17 He carries nothing when he dies But stript of all his honour lies verse 18 Though living he his soule did blesse Applauding his false happinesse And men that course in worldings praise Which most the appetite obaies verse 19 He with his fathers ends in night And never more shall see the light verse 20 Man who in honour nothing knowes From hence like beasts that perish goes PSAL. 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To the proper Tune verse 1 THe God of might Unto the earth did call From the Suns light To his declining fall verse 2 From Sion faire The Lord himselfe hath shone verse 3 God shall repaire In noise and terrour know'n Usher'd with Flame Wrapt in a stormy cloud verse 4 He shall proclaime To earth his judgment lowd verse 5 My Saints collect To me with offrings sworne verse 6 Heav'ns shall detect The justice by Him borne verse 7 My people heare O Israel I speak And witnesse beare 'gainst thee my Lawes dost break verse 8 I not reprove Thy sacrifices faile verse 9 No goates I love Nor Bullocks from thy stall verse 10 Mine is each beast Which the wild Forrests feed Ev'n to the least Which thousand hils doe breed verse 11 The fowles I know Which on the Mountaines fly The wild beasts owe Which in the desartly verse 12 If I would eat I need not tell it thee The whole worlds meat And it belongs to me verse 13 That I require Bulls flesh why should'st thou think Burnt in the fire Or blood of goats would drink verse 14 Thanksgivings bring And pay to God thy vowes This offering He as the best allowes verse 15 And on Me call In thine afflicted dayes I save thee shall And thou shalt give Me praise verse 16 But to the bad Saith God why should you dare The Lawes I made Or Statutes to declare Why doe ye vaunt In your un-hallow'd mouth My Covenant verse 17 Whose hearts instruction loath verse 18 Thou did'st consent When thou a thief hadst seen Thy foule intent Hath with adult'rers been verse 19 Thou to all ill Thy mouth do'st dedicate Thy false tongue still Is uttering deceit verse 20 Thou do'st back-bite To work thy brothers shame And full of spight Thy Mothers sonne defame verse 21 This hast thou done And whilst I silent sate Thou thought'st Me one Who had like thee forgate But I will hast And order'd 'fore thine eyes Present at last All these impieties verse 22 Consider ye Who God nor judgment fear Least anger'd He Your soules in pieces teare verse 23 Who offers praise Me honours and th' upright After earthes dayes Shall dwell in endlesse light PSAL. 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unto ruin cast verse 19 How are their glories quick as thought To desolation brought They in a moment turn'd to teares Consume by their own feares verse 20 God as a dreame when one awakes Their Image vanish makes Causing their late admirers eyes Them now as much despise verse 21 Thus was my heart perplex'd with paines And anguish prick'd my reines verse 22 So foolish in my thoughts disrest Am I so like a beast verse 23 Yet I by Thee am still sustain'd Held up by Thy Right hand verse 24 Thy counsail here shall me direct Then crown with Thine Elect. verse 25 Whom have I in the heav'ns but Thee Who can my Saviour be And through the spacious earth I none Desire but Thee alone verse 26 My drooping heart doth daily faile My flesh corrupt and fraile But Thou the strength'ner of my heart And lasting portion art verse 27 Who far from Thee revolting fly Shall perish utterly For Thou destroy'st and castest low Such as to Idols bow verse 28 But it is good with holy feare That I to God draw neare To Thee my hopes entrusted are Who will Thy works declare PSAL. LXXIV Sing this as the Lamentation verse 1 WHy art Thou absent Lord so long Regardlesse of Thy Servants wrong Or wherefore doth Thy kindled ire Thy sheep and Pastures burne like fire verse 2 O think upon Thy chosen Lot Nor let Mount Sion be forgot And may the tribe thou did'st redeeme Be ever deare in Thy esteeme verse 3 Lift up Thy feet bring those to nought Who 'gainst Thy Church Have evill wrought verse 4 Thine adversaries roar and shout They hang in scorne their banners out verse 5 The carved workes whose art and cost Thy Temples building once did boast verse 6 Are into pitty'd ruin throw'n And with their hammers broken down verse 7 Thy Holy Place they turne to flame Defile the dwelling of Thy Name And in their wicked hearts designe Hir glories quite to undermine verse 8 With generall havock let us rase The Sanctuaries hallow'd place Gods Houses thus in ashes lay'd Are wofull heaps of rubbish made verse 9 We see no Signe nor Miracle No Prophet have who can foretell Not one hath knowledge to forecast How long these miseries shall last verse 10 O God! still shall the foe blaspheme And make Thy Name dishonours theme verse 20 11. Thy vengefull hand no longer hide But stretch it forth to strike their pride verse 12 For God is my all pow'rfull King From whom earths help safety spring verse 13 Thou did'st restraine the rising tide And with Thy strength the Sea divided Thou brak'st th' Eegyptian Dragons head And left'st him on the waters dead verse 14 Leviathan that sports the flood Thou gavest for Thy peoples food verse 15 Thou from the rock mad'st fountaines flow And swelling Seas dry land to grow verse 16 Thine is the day the Suns faire light Thine are the courses of the night verse 17 The borders which the earth confine Are set and bounded by Thy line The Summers heat and winters cold From Thee their yearly seasons hold verse 18 Remember Lord Thy House defil'd Thy Name by blasphemies revil'd verse 19 O give not up Thy Turtles life A spoile to adversaries strife Let not Thy Congregation mourne Reproach'd by Them of Thee forlorne verse 20 Look on the Covenant and see Earth dark'ned by their crueltie verse 21 Let not th' opprest returne with shame But let the needy praise Thy Name verse 22 Arise O God! maintaine Thy cause Thy Temples honour and Thy Lawes Remember their blaspheming noise Thine enemies insulting voice verse 23 Their insolence who Thee despise Doth still encrease and higher rise PSAL. LXXV verse 1 TO Thee O God with gratefull heart To Thee we thanks impart How neare and helpfull is Thy Name Thy wond'rous works proclaime verse 2 When I advanc'd to Judah's throne Shall rule the Nation In justice will I take delight And judge the peoples right verse 3 The earth with hir inhabitants Through feare dissolves and faints Yet of hir loose declining frame The Pillars I sustain verse 4 I said unto the foolish men Deale not so madly then And unto those Gods precepts scorne Exalt not you the horne verse 5 Lift not your selves against His check Nor speak with a stiffe neck verse 6 Promotion comes not from the east Nor South nor from the West verse 7 But God as Judge our fortune guides Our lot of life divides He one man lifts unto the Crowne And puts another downe verse 8 He holds a cup whose wine is red Full mixt and tempered For wicked ones the dreg and lee Wrung out to drink shall be verse 9 I will in Songs of praise declare The God of Iacobs care verse 10 The hornes of Pride cut off will I But lift the Just on high PSAL. LXXVI Sing this as the Prayer after the Commandements verse 1 IN Iudah God is know'n His Name The Israelites for Great proclaime verse 2 His Tabernacles Salem grace And Sion is His dwelling place verse 3 There He the Bow and arrowes broke And Battailes to confusion shooke The glittering sword the guarding shield Could not resist nor safety yield verse 4 Thou of more honour art then they Who rove upon the Hills of prey verse 5 For They whose pride did us embroile Are now themselves become a spoile A lasting sleep shuts up their eyes And all their strength in weaknes dyes verse 6 At Thy rebuke the barbed horse And armed Chariots loose their force verse 7 Thou Lord art fear'd who may withstand The fury of Thy pow'rfull hand verse 8 From Heaven we Thy Judgments heard The trembling earth was still and fear'd verse 9 When God the meek and humble saves But gives the proud untimely graves verse 10 He on their fall his fame doth raise And turnes their malice to His praise verse 11 Vow to the Lord your God and bring To Him your promis'd offering verse 12 He Princes spirits can restraine And Kings of earth with terrour chaine PSAL. LXXVII Sing this as the Lamentation verse 1 I Cry'd to God with accents shrill To God that heares my prayer still verse 2 When into times of trouble brought I unto Him for succour sought All night my anguish did not cease My soule no comfort found nor ease verse 3 I think on God amidst my paines My vexed spirit to Him complaines verse 4 My sleeples eyes Thou hold'st awake My tongue perplexed nothing spake verse 5 The daies of old I meditate The antient times expired date verse 6 I to remembrance call my Song My wonted mirth omitted long All night I commune with my heart My spirits search to ease my smart verse 7 Will God for ever us reject Nor by His favour us protect Is His compassion lost and gone His promises not thought upon verse 9 Hath God His pitty now forgot Or must destruction be our lot Or will His wrath by sin renew'd His tender mercies quite exclude verse 10 Thus
I complain'd And then said I This is mine own infirmity But I remember will the yeares Thy right hand kept from want or feares verse 11 The wonders which Thou did'st of old Shall with my thankfull tongue be told verse 12 My heart Thy works Shall meditate My words Thy noble acts relate verse 13 Thy wayes O God! most holy are Who with Thy greatnes may compare verse 14 In miracles and wond'rous signes Thy strength among the People shines verse 15 Thou with that high victorious hand Not all the Nations could withstand The Sons of Iacob did'st redeeme And Iosephs off-spring wilt esteeme verse 16 O God the waters at Thy sight Unto their depths retir'd with fright The billowes of the troubled maine Shrunk downe and hid themselves againe verse 17 The melting cloud discharg'd in showres Like to a falling tempest powres Whilst sounds of horrour teare the sky And through the aire thine arrowes fly verse 18 Loud thunder from the heavens strook Thy lightnings shone earths fabrick shook verse 19 In the great waters lyes Thy path Which where Thou go'st no footsteps hath verse 20 Thy people Thou like sheep ha'st led Sav'd from the Sea in deserts fed And brought'st them to their promis'd land By Moses and by Aarons hand PSAL. LXXVIII Sing this as Psalme 51. verse 1 HEare O my people and encline Your eare unto my Lawes divine verse 2 I will dark Parables unfold verse 3 Which we have heard from fathers told verse 4 We will not from succession hide His works in praises magnifi'd verse 5 Who gave a Law to Israel Which Parents must to Children tell verse 6 That generations yet unborne Might know their duty to performe verse 7 That they their hope in God may set And not His workes or Law forget verse 8 Nor like their fathers rebells prove With hearts unstedfast in His love verse 9 Like those revolters Ephraim bred Who armed from the battell fled verse 10 They Gods command and Pact refus'd verse 11 His works forgate and pow'r abus'd verse 12 When Egypts land and Zoans field Such marvailes to their sight did yield verse 13 For then divided He the deep The floods contracting to an heap verse 14 By day the Cloud their guide became At night He led them with a Flame verse 15 He Rocks in barren desarts clave Which drink like swelling rivers gave verse 16 He caus'd full streams from drought to grow And waters made like torrents flow verse 17 Yet they by sinning Him forsook And in the desart did provoke verse 18 They tempted God by asking meat Which they for lust not hunger eat verse 19 Yea thus against their God they spake Can He in desarts diet make verse 20 The Rock He did in streames divide But can He bread or flesh provide verse 21 When God heard this His just mov'd ire 'gainst Iacob kindled like a fire verse 22 Because their God they faithles griev'd And His salvation not believ'd verse 23 Though his command the clouds had try'd The doores of heaven open'd wide verse 24 He rain'd downe Manna for their meat And gave them corne from heav'n to eat verse 25 Thus man with Angels food was fed For to the full He gave them bread verse 26 He caus'd the Eastern wind to blow And made the South His plenty throw verse 27 He flesh as dust upon them rain'd The fowles like heaps of Sand remain'd verse 28 They 'midst their Camp with food were cloy'd verse 29 And all they could desire enjoy'd verse 30 But whil'st Their mouth the meat in took verse 31 God's wrath their best choicest strook verse 32 For all this Israel sinned still His wonders slight neglect His will Second Part. verse 33 Therefore their daies they vainely spend And all their yeares in trouble end verse 34 Yet when He slew them then they sought And God to their remembrance brought They turn'd and from their sin retir'd And early after God enquir'd verse 35 Then God They for their Rock esteem'd Remembring He had them redeem'd verse 36 Yet with their flatt'ring mouth they ly'd verse 37 Their heart His Covenant deny'd verse 38 Though full of pitty He forgave Restrain'd His wrath and Them did save verse 39 For He remembred They were fraile Whose lusts above His Laws prevaile As passing winds so light and vaine Which breathing out nere come againe verse 40 Oft did they grieve Him oft rebell verse 41 Tempting the God of Israel verse 42 They thought not on His pow'rfull arme Which kept them safe from hostile harme verse 43 How He His signes in Egypt wrought His wonders over Zoan brought verse 44 And turn'd their rivers into blood They could not drink the crimsin flood verse 45 He sent strange flies which them annoy And frogs their plenty to destroy verse 46 Their fruits the Caterpillars eat And Locusts reap'd the ploughman's sweat verse 47 With haile their swelling vines were lost Their Sycamores destroy'd with frost verse 48 Their herds by tempest came to nought Their flocks the furious thunder smote verse 49 His fiercest wrath on them was spent Bad Angels were among them sent verse 50 Their soules not spared were from death Disease and plagues depriv'd their breath verse 51 The first borne He through Egypt slew The chief which Ham or Nilus knew verse 52 But He His people led like sheep And did His flock in desarts keep Third Part. verse 53 He brought them safe and free from fear When their pursuers drowned were verse 54 And to His Sanctuary led The Mount His hand had purchased verse 55 The Heathen He before them drave Their land by line to Iacob gave And made their tribes in tents to dwell verse 56 Who tempting God againe rebell verse 57 They like their fathers backward slide As bowes deceitfull turn'd aside verse 58 High places Him provoke and prove His jealousie their Idols move verse 59 When God heard this He waxed wroth And Israel did greatly loath verse 60 His Tabernacle He forsook And no delight in Shiloh took verse 61 Their strength He gave to captive bands His Glory to the Heathens hands He left His people to the sword His kindled wrath His Lot devour'd verse 63 Their young men were consum'd by fire Their maids in marriage none require verse 64 Their Priests were unto slaughter sent Nor did their widowes them lament verse 65 Then did the Lord from sleep awake From wine as Giants spirit take verse 66 Upon His flying foes He came And put them to perpetuall shame verse 67 He Ioseph's Tent did then refuse Nor would the Tribe of Ephraim chuse verse 68 But Iudahs Tribe He did elect Mount Sion which His thoughts affect verse 69 His Sanctuary high He plac't Like earth which stands for ever fast verse 70 His choyce did then on David looke And from amongst the Sheepfolds took verse 71 From following Ewes he made him feed His chosen People Iacob's seed verse 72 Whom with a perfect heart he fed And
like Midian them confound Whose sword themselvs did wound Like Sisera O make them all Who did at Kishon fall verse 10 Be they as Iabin swoll'n with pride Whose dreadfull Armies dy'd Their carkasses in Endor flung Were spread on earth as dung verse 11 Let Oreb's Zeb's Zalmunna's fate Reward their Princes hate verse 12 Who said let us our force address Gods Houses to possess verse 13 My God! O make them like a wheele As straw in winds to reele verse 14 As raging fires their fuell burn And Hills to ashes turn verse 15 So with Thy tempest them pursue With stormes their fear renew verse 16 O Lord their faces fill with shame That they may seek Thy Name verse 17 Let them confounded ever stand And perish by Thy hand verse 18 That men may know Iehovahs Name Rules all this earthly frame PSAL. LXXXIV verse 1 HOw lovely Thou great Lord of war Thy Tabernacles are verse 2 My longing soule is faint and pain'd Whilst from thy Courts restrain'd My heart my flesh with all that give Me pow'r to move or live Cry loud till they admitted be The living God to see verse 3 Yea Sparrows find a house to rest The Swallow builds hir nest Their young they to thine Altar bring O Lord my God and King verse 4 Blessed are they who all their daies Thee in thy Temple praise verse 5 Blest in the man whose strength Thou art Whose wayes direct his heart verse 6 Who passing through the mournfull vale Where springs and comforts faile Make wells in Baca's barren plaine And pooles to fill with raine verse 7 They go from strength to strength nor faint Through wearinesse or want Till to thy House approaching neare In Sion they appeare verse 8 Lord God of Hosts my prayer heare O Iacob's God give eare verse 9 O God our Shield looke downe with grace On Thine Annointed's face verse 10 One day which in Thy Courts He spends Thousands of ours transcends I 'ld rather keep a door with thee Then all earth's glory see verse 11 For God our shield our Sun and light Crownes those that walk upright Nor failes all good such men to give Who in His Statutes live verse 12 O Lord of Hosts great God of Might Who dwell'st in endlesse light How blessed shall that servant be Who puts his trust in Thee PSAL. LXXXV verse 1 LOrd to thy land Thou good hast been Which hath Thy favour seen Thou Iacob's Off-spring hast set free From thtir captivitie verse 2 Thou thy forgivenes didst dispense To cover all offence verse 3 Thou hast remov'd Thy wrath which burn'd And from thy fiercenes turn'd verse 4 Turne us O God of health and peace O cause Thine anger cease verse 5 Wilt Thou displeas'd for ever be With all posterity verse 6 Wilt Thou not us againe receive Thy peoples joyes enlive verse 7 Lord shew That mercy which we want And Thy salvation grant verse 8 I will what God declares attend For He His peace will send And cures His Saints of all their paine If they not sin againe verse 9 For His salvation is near To such as do Him fear That glory in our land may dwell And all things prosper well verse 10 Mercy with Truth united is Justice and Peace do kisse verse 11 Truth springing out of earth is strook And Right from Heav'n doth look verse 12 The Lord shall give us all things good Our land yield store of food verse 13 Before Him Righteousnes shall go His wayes and steps to shew PSAL. LXXXVI verse 1 BOw down thine eare Lord to my cry Poor and in misery verse 2 Preserve my guiltles soul whose faith On thee depended hath verse 3 Shew mercy Lord for all the day Before thy throne I pray verse 4 Rejoyce thy servants soul which he Lifts up O Lord to thee verse 5 Thou good and gratious do'st live And ready to forgive Thou plenteous mercy keep'st in store For all who Thee implore verse 6 Unto my prayer Lord give eare My supplications heare verse 7 In time of trouble and of greife Thou sendest me releife verse 8 Among earths Gods or Pow'rs Divine No works are like to thine verse 9 The Nations all whom Thou didst frame Shall glorifie Thy Name verse 10 Thou wonders do'st Great God alone verse 11 Thy way to me make know'n My heart unto thy feare unite Who in thy name delight verse 12 Then I my faculties will raise To honour Thee with praise verse 13 Who do'st my soul in mercy save From the devouring grave verse 14 O God! the proud against me rise In furious companies Ungodly men my life have sought Who set thy pow'r at nought verse 15 But Thou a God compassionate Whose mercies not abate Long suff'ring art and patient To pardon sinners bent verse 16 O turne to me in love againe Let me thy pity gaine Give strength and from destruction O save Thine hand-maids son Some token of thy favour deigne Which may my haters shame Because Thou Lord ha'st brought me aid And art my comfort made PSAL. LXXXVII verse 1 UPon the Holy Mountaines brest Where God Himself doth rest By His protection firmely stay'd Are Her foundations lay'd verse 2 The Lord who Sion did elect Hir gates doth more affect Then all the num'rous tents beside Where Jacob's sons abide verse 3 Ierusalem thou City faire God's dwelling and His care Of thee thou throne of Iudahs Kings Are spoken glorious things verse 4 I wil strong Rahab mention With high-towr'd Babylon The scorched Ethiopian lands The plaines where Tyrus stands Philistia too shall reck'ned be With those acknowledg me verse 5 For ev'ry quarter of the earth Gives Sions children birth God shall establish Hir on high Hir numbers multiply When Nations far dispersed shall Be gather'd at His call verse 6 And when the Lord His Churches fruits With all Hir Sons computes They shall amongst His people know'n Be counted for his own verse 7 The Singers too rehearsed are Who there His praise declare From whence arise fresh springs of Grace To water ev'ry place PSAL. LXXXVIII Sing this as the Lamentation verse 1 TO Thee O Lord who me do'st save Both day and night I cryed have verse 2 Lend to my voice a gratious eare verse 3 Whose troubled soul to death draws neare verse 4 Cast down to earth I mongst the dead verse 5 Am only free and numbered Like those who in the grave forgot By thee cut off corrupt and rot verse 6 Thou in the lowest pit ha'st layd And darkest deeps my cov'ring made verse 7 I am hard pressed by Thy wrath And every wave afflicted hath verse 8 Thou mine acquaintance hast remov'd And sever'd me from those I lov'd Their friendship turned is to hate My life shut up and desolate verse 9 My weeping eye doth daily mourne My hands stretch'd out my hopes forlorne verse 10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead To praise Thee rais'd and wakened verse 11 Shall the devouring grave declare How true thy
earth hath spann'd verse 4 By Him steep hills and seas were made verse 5 The dry land by Him lay'd verse 6 Come let us worship and adore Kneel downe the Lord before verse 7 For He our God is we His care His sheep and people are To day if ye His voice will heare verse 8 No hard'ned heart bring neare Like that provoking in the day You in the desart lay verse 9 When your fore-fathers tempted me Who did my wonders see verse 10 And forty yeares you Tribes did pass Wherein I grieved was I said my people err in heart And wilfully depart My wayes prescrib'd they have not know'n Nor in my precepts gone verse 11 To whom my just incensed wrath By oath protested hath Those murmurers should nere be blest Or enter to my rest PSAL. XCVI Sing this as Psalme 51. or 100. verse 1 A New Song to the Lord rehearse Sing to him all the Universe verse 2 O blesse his Name in Songs display His saving mercies every day His glory and his wonders tell verse 3 To Nations who far distant dwell verse 4 This great Lord must be greatly prais'd Whose feare above all Gods is rais'd verse 5 For Heathen Gods are Idols vaine But 't is the Lord doth heav'n sustaine verse 6 Honour and awe are him before His sanctuary strong in pow'r verse 7 Ye kindreds then on earth that live Unto the Lord due honour give verse 8 Ascribe all glory to his Name And let his Courts with off'rings flame verse 9 O worship him your zeale express In beauty and in holiness Let all the earth before him feare And say God doth the Scepter beare verse 10 The world shall be establis'd so It shall not from its fast'nings go He to the people righteously His finall judgment shall apply verse 11 Let earth be glad and heav'n rejoyce The roaring Ocean make a noyse verse 12 Be glad ye fruits sprung from the fields With all the trees the forrest yields verse 13 For lo to judgment God doth come He comes to give the earth it's doome His just revenge the world pursu'th To judge the people with his truth PSAL. XCVII verse 1 LEt earth rejoyce that God doth reigne And Isles within the maine verse 2 Darknes and clouds waite Him upon And Justice is His Throne verse 3 Devouring fire before Him goes To burne His circling foes verse 4 Throughout the world His lightnings blaze Which trembling earth amaze verse 5 Hills at his presence turn'd to fume Like melting wax consume verse 6 The Heav'ns His righteousnes proclaime And men confess His fame verse 7 Let quick perdition all confound To worship Idols bound Who boast in Stocks and from Him swerve Whom all the Gods must serve verse 8 Sion and Iudah both rejoyc'd To heare Thy judgments voyc'd verse 9 With whose exalted state none dare Or men or Gods compare verse 10 Who love the Lord and do His will See that ye hate all ill He doth from wicked hands protect The soules of His Elect. verse 11 Unto the Godly springs a light And joy to the upright verse 12 Let righteous men their Lord then bless And praise His Holines PSAL. XCVIII verse 1 VNto the Lord your Songs renew Who marvailes wrought for you His holy arme and His right hand The victory hath gain'd verse 2 God His salvation hath made know'n His truth to Heathens shew'n verse 3 His mercies have remembred been Earth His Salvation seen verse 4 Make to the Lord a joyfull noyse Earth in lowd Songs rejoyce verse 5 With Harps unto your Maker sing And Psalmes tun'd to the string verse 6 With Trumpets and the Cornets sound Let your full joyes rebound All in your shrillest accents sing Before the Lord your King verse 7 Let roaring Seas for gladnes swell The world with those there dwell verse 8 Floods clap their hands the waves combine All Hills in praises joyne verse 9 For lo to Judgment God doth come To give the earth it's doome With justice He the world will try And men with Equity PSAL. XCIX verse 1 THe Lord doth reigne ye people all With trembling 'fore Him fall His throne 'twixt Cherubs He doth make Let earth be mov'd and shake verse 2 The Lord is in His Sion great Above the world His Seat verse 3 Let all the Holines proclaime Of His most awfull Name verse 4 This King of strength true Judgment loves And equity approves Thou do'st Thy righteous judgments fruit In Iacob execute verse 5 Exalt the Lord and Him adore His foot-stoole fall before verse 6 Moses and Aaron mongst His Priests On whom His service rests And Samuel mongst those that came To supplicate His Name These call'd on Him and when they pray'd He gratious answer made verse 7 He from the pillar of the Cloud Did speak to them aloud Whose Testimonies they obay'd Nor from His statutes stray'd verse 8 Thou answer'dst them O Lord our God! With mercy us'dst Thy rod Their sins Thy wrath did not forbear Yet they forgiven were verse 9 The Lord our God then magnify Exalt His praise on high And worship at His sacred Hill For God is holy still PSAL. C. verse 1 MAke to the Lord a joyfull noyse All lands to Him lift up your voice verse 2 Serve Him with gladnes let your tongue Approach His presence with a Song verse 3 Know He is God by whose hand we And not our own created be We are His people and the sheep His folds enclose His pastures keep verse 4 Enter with thanks His dwelling place And let His Courts resound with praise Your gratitude to Him profess His glorious Name for ever bless verse 5 For He is good and great His care His mercies everlasting are His truth eternally shall last When Time and all successions wast PSAL. CI. verse 1 I Mercy will and Judgment sing To Thee my Lord and King verse 2 I wisely will my steps direct In wayes of Thine elect O when wilt Thou to me come neare Thy presence when appear Who in my house with perfect heart Will nere from Thee depart verse 3 No wicked thing before mine eyes Will I behold or prize I hate the work of them whose pride From Thee doth turne aside verse 4 A wicked man and froward heart Shall from my thoughts depart Nor with the sinfull or perverse My knowledg shall converse verse 5 I will cut off the man whose spight His neighbour doth back-bite With him whose heart or look is high I never will comply verse 6 Upon the faithfull of the land Mine eyes shall fixed stand Who walketh in the perfect way Shall in my service stay verse 7 My house shall never give receit To him that works deceit Nor shall he tarry in my sight Who doth in lyes delight verse 8 All those in wickedness that joy I early will destroy And from the City of the Lord Cut all whom He abhorr'd PSAL. CII Sing this as the Lamentation verse 1 HEare me O Lord and let my cry
To Thy bright throne ascend on high verse 2 Hide not Thy face in time of need But answer my request with speed verse 3 For all my daies away consume Like to the smoak or rising fume My bones like fired brands became Burnt up scorch'd in sorrowes flame verse 4 My heart like grass is withered And I forget to eat my bread verse 5 I wast and pine in daily groanes That scarse my flesh cleaves to my bones verse 6 Like Pelicans remov'd from sight Or Owles in desarts shunning light verse 7 As sparrowes their lost mates bemoane So do I watch and sit alone verse 8 I with reproach all day am torne Of enemies against me sworne verse 9 I ashes eat instead of bread And drink the tears my sorrows shed verse 10 Which mischeifs from thy wrath are grow'n Since thou who rais'd hast cast me down verse 11 Thus like the dark declining shade Or dying flow'r I hourely fade verse 12 Yet thou O Lord dost still endure From times successive change secure verse 13 Thou therefore shalt in mercy rise And Sion help which ruin'd lies The time is come for hir repaire verse 14 Whose stones and rubbish prized are Thy servants pity hir neglect And on hir dust with sighs reflect verse 15 So shall the Heathen feare Thy Name And Kings Thy Majesty proclaime verse 16 When God shall Sions buildings reare And in His glory shall appeare verse 17 He will regard the poor man's suit And not despise the destitute verse 18 This shall be written for record That after Times may praise the Lord Second Part. verse 19 The Lord from high His beams display'd And out of Heaven earth survay'd verse 20 The Captives setters to unty And Pris'ners save condemn'd to dy verse 21 That so in Sions blessed hill And Salem which His wonders sill verse 22 They may His name and praise declare When all the people gather'd are verse 23 He hath my strength to weaknes brought My Short'ned dayes are come to nought verse 24 So that to God I thus did pray O take me not as yet away Nor cast me off from this lifes stage In prime of youth and mid'st of age For though My dayes be few and fraile Thy yeares O God will never faile verse 25 Thou Lord hast earth's foundation lay'd And by Thy hand the Heav'ns were made They all shall perish and decay And in their time consume away Like to a garment when grow'n old They shall nor use nor motion hold But though the world and they must fall Thy Being is perpetuall verse 27 Yea as a vesture worne and chang'd Is from it's gloss and forme estrang'd So Shalt Thou change this massy frame Yet still Thy selfe abide the same verse 28 And like Thy selfe from changes freed Thou wilt prolong Thy servants seed Whose children shall remaine with Thee And in Thy sight establisht be PSAL. CIII As Psalme 51. verse 1 MY Soul thy best devotion raise To bless the Lord and sing His praise verse 2 O never unremembred be The benefits He powr'd on thee verse 3 Whose pardon doth all sins release And keep thy body from disease verse 4 Who thee redeem'd to death cast downe And doth thy life with mercies crowne verse 5 Who with good things shall fill thy mouth And eagle-like renew thy youth verse 6 He by right judgment hath redrest All such as are by wrong opprest verse 7 His wayes have Know'n to Moses been The Israelites His works have seen verse 8 All which His will and nature shew To mercy swift to vengeance slow verse 9 He will not alwayes with us chide Nor let His anger long abide verse 10 Nor deales according to our sin Nor have our crimes rewarded bin verse 11 For high as Heav'n is earth above So large so boundless is his love verse 12 Removing all our sins as far As East and West divided are verse 13 Yea like a Father 's to his Son To us is his compassion verse 14 He knowes our frame too weak to trust Remembring that we are but dust verse 15 The daies of man like to the grass Or fading flow'r to nothing pass verse 16 Which blow'n and shaken by the wind Leave neither place nor print behind verse 17 His goodnes though confirm'd and sure To childrens children doth endure verse 18 Ev'n unto such whose cleare intents Walk after His Commandements verse 19 The Lord in heav'n prepares His throne And governs all the world alone O therefore bless that pow'rfull Lord Who made and rules us by His word verse 20 Ye Angels that in strength excell And never 'gainst His word rebell verse 21 Ye winged Ministers who still Prepared are to act His will Ye Heav'nly hosts and creatures all verse 22 Bless Him and at His foot-stool fall Lastly my Soul thy Maker praise And bless His goodnes all thy daies PSAL. CIV. As Psalme 51. verse 1 MY Soul the Lord for ever bless O God! Thy greatnesse all confess Whom Majesty and honour vest verse 2 In robes of Light eternall drest He Heaven makes his Canopy verse 3 His chambers in the waters ly His Chariot is the cloudy storme And on the wings of wind is borne verse 4 He Spirits makes His Angels quire His Ministers a flaming fire verse 5 He so did earth's foundations cast It might remaine for ever fast verse 6 Then cloath'd it with the spatious deep Whose wave out swells the mountaines steep verse 7 At Thy rebuke the waters fled And hid their thunder frighted head verse 8 They from the mountaines streaming flow And downe into the Vallies go Then to their liquid center hast Where their collected floods are cast verse 9 These in the Ocean met and joyn'd Thou hast within a bank confin'd Not suff'ring them to pass their bound Least earth by their excess be drown'd verse 10 He from the hills his Christall springs Down running to the vallies brings verse 11 Which drink supply and coolnes yield To thirsting beasts throughout the field verse 12 By them the fowles of heaven rest And singing in their branches nest verse 13 He waters from his clouds the Hills The teeming earth with plenty fills verse 14 He grass for Cattle doth produce And every Herbe for humane use That so He may His creatures feed And from the earth supply their need verse 15 He makes the clusters of the vine To glad the Sons of men with wine He oyle to cheere the face imparts And bread the strength'ner of their hearts Second Part. verse 16 The trees which God for fruit decreed Nor sap nor moyst'ning vertue need The lofty Cedars by His hand In Lebanon emplanted stand verse 17 Unto the birds these shelter yield And Storks upon the fir-trees build verse 18 Wild goats the hills defend and feed And in the Rocks the Conies breed verse 19 He made the changing Moone appeare To note the seasons of the yeare The Sun from Him his strength doth get And knows the measure of his Set.
Sing this as the Lamentation verse 1 GOd of my praise nor silent be Nor unattentive unto me verse 2 For wicked mouths me falsely wrong And wound me with their lying tongue verse 3 They compass me with words of hate And causeless vex me with debate verse 4 For all my friendship they are foes But I my grief in pray'r disclose verse 5 My good with evill they requite And my affection pay with spight verse 6 Let wicked rulers him command And Satan stand at his right hand verse 7 Let him when judg'd receive his doome And let his pray'r his sin become verse 8 His daies both few and irksome make His office let another take verse 9 May fatherless his children live His wife forlorne a widow grieve verse 10 Like vagrants let them want their bread And where they beg it not be fed verse 11 Let him be made extortions spoyle And strangers reap his harvests toyle verse 12 None him their pitties object make Nor on his feed compassion take verse 13 His name from earth and Off-spring blot In the succeeding age forgot verse 14 And ever let the Lord retaine His Fathers sin and Mothers staine verse 15 15 Still let them stand before His ey To cut from earth his memory verse 16 Who merciless the poor pursu'd And wounds of broken hearts renew'd verse 17 Feele he those curses which he lou'd All blessings be from him remov'd verse 18 As curses cloath'd him round about So seize they him within without Like water through his bowels flow'd Or oyle into his bones bestow'd verse 19 So let them cloath and gird him fast Returning on himself at last verse 20 Thus let the Lord reward my foes Who to reproach my soul expose verse 21 But for the mercies of Thy Name Deliver me O Lord from shame verse 22 For I am poor and prest with need My wounded heart doth inward bleed verse 23 I like the falling shadow go As puffs of wind the Locusts throw verse 24 My feeble knee through fasting failes And faintnes ore my flesh prevailes verse 25 I am their scorne and laughter bred They looking on me shake their head verse 26 Help me O Lord who mercy crave verse 27 That they may know thy hand can save verse 28 Bless when they curse their pride confoūd But let me live with gladnes crown'd verse 29 Lord let my shamed enemy In sharp confusion cloathed ly verse 30 So shall Thy praises with my tongue Be in the full assembly sung verse 31 For God will at the poor's right hand By His protection ready stand To save his innocence from them Who wrongfully his soul condemne PSAL. CX verse 1 THe Lord whose pow'r all things doth sway Unto my Lord did say Sit at my right hand till thou see Thy foes Thy foot-stool be verse 2 The Lord Thy Scepter shall extend And strength from Sion send That all Thine enemies below May to Thy Kingdome bow verse 3 The people in great numbers shall That day before Thee fall Whose glorious Birth and youthfull hue Is as the morning dew verse 4 The Lord hath sworne who not repents His long decreed intents Thou do'st from great Melchisedek Thy Royall Priest-hood take verse 5 God at Thy right hand Kings shall wound And Nations strong confound verse 6 Whose countries shall be overspread With Bodies of their dead verse 7 He of the River in the way Shall drink his thirst to stay And his victorious head advance In our Deliverance PSAL. CXI To the usuall Tune verse 1 PRaise God with heart and tongue The Quire of Saints among His praises shall be sung verse 2 The works of God are great All those will them repeat Whose thoughts on Him are set verse 3 His actions glorious are Renown'd and honour'd far Nor can His truth empaire verse 4 His wonders fill our thought Who hath compassion wrought And pitty shewes when sought verse 5 He hath His servants fed Giv'n those that fear Him bread His Cov'nant stablished verse 6 His pow'r to them exprest And made His people rest Where Heathen late possest verse 7 What ever wrought His hands In truth and judgment stands And sure are His Commands verse 8 They all for ever last By His decree kept fast Till fleeting time is past verse 9 He did His people save Whom Tyrants did enslave His sacred Cov'nant gave Renowned is His fame And reverend His Name Which all the world proclaime verse 10 God's fear true wisdome brings The knowledg of good things From that beginning springs They understand aright Who make His Lawes their light And still His praise recite PSAL. CXII verse 1 BLest is the man that feares the Lord Delighting in His word verse 2 His seed on earth shall mighty be Blest his posteritie verse 3 His house wich riches shall abound His life with plenty crown'd His righteous dealing clear as sure For ever shall endure verse 4 In shades of darknesse to th' upright There riseth up a light He gracious is and free from hate His heart compassionate verse 5 A good man mercy shewes and lends Nor in his words offends verse 6 He shall not move but placed be In lasting memorie verse 7 He of ill tidings not afraid Hath God his refuge made Thus fix'd his heart shall never faile verse 8 But 'gainst his foes prevaile verse 9 With liberall hand unto the poor He hath disperst his store His righteousnesse shall still remaine And lasting honour gaine verse 10 The wicked man when this he seeth For spight shall gnash his teeth And melted by his envies fire Perish in his desire PSAL. CXIII To the usuall Tune verse 1 THe Lord O ye His servants praise To His great Name your ditties raise verse 2 Which blest and sacred be alwaies verse 3 Ev'n from the rising of the Sun Till to the West his course be run Nis Name is to be prais'd alone verse 4 The Lord above all Nations high Is seated in great Majesty And in the Heav'ns His glories ly verse 5 What pow'r created parallells The Lord our God who thus excells And far above the Heaven dwells verse 6 Who humbling downe himselfe doth bow Not only things in heaven to know But what is done in earth below verse 7 To him that did in dust deplore He joyfull comforts doth restore And from the dunghill lifts the poore verse 8 That set with Princes of the earth And persons of a Royall birth His sorrows may be chang'd to mirth verse 9 The barren woman when implor'd His bounty hath with children stor'd O therefore praise this gratious Lord PSAL. CXIV verse 1 WHen Israel from Egypt went Free from his banishment And Iacob came from that strange land Conducted by God's hand verse 2 The house of Iudah which did passe His Sanctuary was And Israel the chosen throne Of his dominion verse 3 The Sea saw that and did disperse Iordan his course reverse verse 4 The Mountaines skip'd like sporting rams The little hills like
Lambs verse 5 What ay'ld thy waters O thou Sea That they so fled from thee Iordan what did thy current lack That thou wast driven back What Miracle did then prevaile That both your streams should faile verse 6 You Mountaines that ye skip'd like rams Yet little hills like Lambs verse 7 Tremble thou earth when Iacobs God Commands thee with his rod verse 8 Who from the Rock did waters bring And made the flint a spring PSAL. CXV Sing this as Psalme 51. verse 1 NOt unto us O Lord but Thee Thy Name Thy Truth the glory be verse 2 Why should the heathen Thee defy Whilst Where is now their God they cry verse 3 Our God in heaven doth remaine And acts what ere he did ordaine Their Idols Silver are and Gold The work which hands of men did mould verse 5 Mouths have they yet they speechlesse be And they have eyes but cannot see verse 6 They ears possesse which nothing heare And noses not for smelling beare verse 7 Their hands not touch their feet not walk Nor through their throat resounds their talk verse 8 Who make them are as vaine as they And so are all that to them pray O Israel O Aarons line verse 11 O yee that in His feare combine Trust ye in God who is your shield Protection He and help doth yield verse 12 He mindfull still of our redresse Will Israel and Aaron blesse verse 13 Who feare Him small or great are blest verse 14 And in their race shall be encreast verse 15 You are the blessed of the Lord Who heaven fram'd and earth hath stor'd verse 16 He in the Heav'n of Heavens lives But earth unto mans children gives verse 17 The dead Thy praises cannot shew Nor those who downe to silence go verse 18 But we the Lord through all our daies Will blesse The Lord for ever praise PSAL. CXVI verse 1 I Love the Lord and am well pleas'd He hath me heard and eas'd verse 2 Whilst therefore life continue shall I will upon Him call verse 3 The snares of death about me dwelt And paines of Hell I felt Disturbed thoughts and heavinesse My conscience did oppress verse 4 Then to the Lord my plaint I made And thus unto Him said O Lord my soule from falling save And lift me from the grave verse 5 The Lord is gracious and just To those His mercy trust verse 6 His Hand the simple doth protect When crosses them deject verse 7 Turne then my soule unto thy rest God's favours have thee blest He bountifully doth reward And thee from dangers guard verse 8 Thou keep'st my soule from death's pale feares My drooping eyes from teares And did'st my wand'ring steps recall When I was apt to fall verse 9 My feet before the Lord shall stand In His eternall land verse 10 I therefore pray'd and thus believ'd Yet still my heart was griev'd For in my foes successe I fail'd Till faith at last prevail'd verse 11 Then I all men for Lyars knew And God alone for true verse 12 What retribution shall I give To him by whom I live Or what acknowledgment apply For His benignity verse 13 Salvations sacred Cup I 'le take And humble prayers make verse 14 Before His people shall be pay'd The vowes which I have made verse 15 For those that live like Saints upright And in the Lord delight Are living dear unto His eye And pretious when they dy verse 16 Lord I Thy faithfull servant am And still adore Thy Name Thou loosed hast my heavy yoak My bonds in sunder broke verse 17 Therefore my praises unto Thee Shall daily offer'd be My gratitude and pray'r shall rise Like thankfull sacrifice verse 18 The vowes shall be which I have made Before the people pay'd verse 19 Who in Thy house and sacred Courts To praise Thy Name resorts PSAL. CXVII verse 1 O All ye Nations record The Praises of the Lord Ye people through the Universe Your Makers praise rehearse verse 2 For He to us great kindness shewes And Mercies large bestowes His constant Truth no time decaies The Lord for ever praise PSAL. CXVIII verse 1 O Thank the goodness of our God Whose mercy knowes no period verse 2 Let Israel their voices joyne verse 3 Let those who come from Aarons loyne verse 4 Let all who feare the Lord confesse His mercies everlastingnesse verse 5 I call'd upon Him when distrest Who me enlarged and releast verse 6 The Lord Himselfe is on my side I fearlesse mans attempts abide verse 7 He takes their part who succour me I shall my haters ruin'd see verse 8 'T is bettet in the Lord to trust Than leane on man who is but dust verse 9 Better rely on His defense Then put in Princes confidence verse 10 All Nations me encompass'd round But His great Name shall them confound verse 11 They closely set against me came But I destroy'd them in His Name verse 12 Like bees they thick about me swarm'd Yet through His Name I was unharm'd As kindled Thorns which blazing dy They quenched in their ashes ly verse 13 Though pressing foes my fall assay'd The Lord Himself became may aid verse 14 God is my health my strength my song verse 15 Lowd joyes the Righteous are among verse 16 For God's Right hand 's lift up on high His Right hand acts most valiantly verse 17 I shall not dy but live to praise And speake His wonders all my daies verse 18 Although the Lord me chast'ned sore He unto death not gave me ore verse 19 Open His sacred Gates that I With praise the Lord may glorify verse 20 This is the Gate through which the just And righteous Persons enter must verse 21 Thee wil I thank who heard'st my voice And mak'st me in Thy help rejoyce verse 22 That stone the builders from them lay'd The Head is of the Corner made verse 23 This is Gods act which in our eyes Religious wonder multiplies verse 24 This is the day the Lord hath made We will rejoyce in it be glad verse 25 Save now and prosper we intreat O Lord who art as good as great verse 26 He blessed be comes in His Name We blessings from God's house proclaime verse 27 God is the Lord whose light hath shin'd Pure Off'rings to His Altar bind verse 28 Thou art my God I Thee will praise And in my Song Thine honour raise O thank the goodnesse of our God Whose mercy knowes no period PSAL. CXIX ALEPH. verse 1 BLessed are They who undefil'd Nor in their waies beguil'd verse 2 God's Lawes obay His statutes keep And with their whole heart seek verse 3 No wicked act seduc'd them hath Or turn'd them from His path verse 4 For Thou command'st that from Thy Law We never should withdraw verse 5 O that my waies were so upright I keep Thy statutes might verse 6 Thou wilt not me with shame reject Who Thy commands respect verse 7 My heart to praise Thee will delight When taught Thy judgments right
display'd verse 6 The Sun by day thee shall not smite Nor vapours of the Moon by night verse 7 The Lord shall Thee preserve from harme Thy soule against temptations arme verse 8 Thy going out and comming in For evermore His care have bin PSAL. CXXII verse 1 I Was right glad and joyfull made When They unto me said Let us unto God's House repaire And worship Him with pray'r verse 2 O blest Ierusalem our feet Within Thy Gates shall meet verse 3 Who builded like a City art United in each part verse 4 To Thee the Tribes of God ascend Their praises to commend And by their zeale the rest enflame To blesse their Makers Name verse 5 There are the great Tribunals plac't By publick justice grac't There is the Palace and the Throne Which David sits upon verse 6 O pray for Salems lasting peace That it may nere decrease They still shall prosper from whose love These happy wishes move verse 7 With peace thy wals encircled be Sweet concord dwell in Thee And let thy Palaces abound With fullest plenty crown'd verse 8 I for my brethrens sake will pray Peace may within thee stay verse 9 And for the House of Gods aboad Will ever seek Thy good PSAL. CXXIII verse 1 I Unto Thee lift up mine eyes O thou who rul'st the skies And in the highest Heav'ns dost dwell Whose brightness none can tell verse 2 As servants wait their Lords command And Maids their mistresse hand On God so do our eyes depend Till He his mercy send verse 3 O Lord some pity on us shew To end our painfull woe For we reproached and unpriz'd Are utterly despis'd verse 4 Our soule afflicted daily mournes Fill'd with excessive scornes Whil'st those who live in ease and pride Our wretched state deride PSAL. CXXIV To the proper Tune verse 1 NOw Israel This truth may gladly tell But that the Lord Did help to us afford verse 2 If He our side With strength had not supply'd When banding foes Against our safety rose verse 3 Their kindled ire Had swallow'd us like fire verse 4 The angry flood Had then above us stood Who by the streame Quite overwhelm'd had been verse 5 And swelling waves Become our timeless graves Whil'st ore our soule The billowes proudly rowle verse 6 Blest be His aid Who us their prey not made verse 7 Our resku'd soules Like late-entangled fowles Escaped are Out of the deadly snare Broke is the net And we at freedom set verse 8 In His great Name Who Heav'n and earth did frame Our ruin stay'd And help on Him is lay'd Another of the same verse 1 NOw Israel may truly say In honour of this day Had not the Lord our quarrell took All help had us forsook verse 2 Yea had not God our battailes fought When men our ruin sought And when our close conspiring foes Against our safety rose verse 3 The wrath which in their breasts did strive Had buried us alive Consuming both our Place and Name In their revenges flame verse 4 Our Life and what we most esteem Had perisht in this stream verse 5 And in the furious billowes womb Beheld our glories comb verse 6 But let our God be alwayes prais'd Who thus from death us rais'd Nor made us subject to their pow'r Who sought us to devour verse 7 From danger resku'd is our soule Like some net scaping fowle So broken is the bloody snare And we deliver'd are verse 8 Our present help and hopes of aid In God alone are lay'd 'T is He who made both Heav'n and earth That gave our comforts birth PSAL. CXXV verse 1 WHo God their hope and trust account Are like faire Sions Mount Whose head unmoved and unshook Abides the tempests stroak verse 2 As rising Mountaines Salem's fense By their circumference So God His people guards throughout And circles them about verse 3 The wicked shall not by their pow'r The righteous Lot devour Least they the heathens sins partake Who them their vassall make verse 4 Do good O Lord unto the just Who in Thy goodnes trust And those that are in heart upright Continue in Thy sight verse 5 But as for such who turn'd aside To crooked waies back-slide The Lord their judgments shall encrease But Iacob blesse with peace PSAL. CXXVI verse 1 WHen God did cast a gratious eye On Sions misery And did his captiv'd Peoples state To liberty translate This unexpected safety wrought On us such wonder brought Our freedome like a vision seem'd And we like them that dream'd verse 2 Joy fill'd our mouth triumphant Songs Did exercise our tongues That Heathens with amazement said God hath This gladness made verse 3 The Lord who crownes His servants faith Great things effected hath And makes us publish through the earth The causes of our mirth verse 4 Lord turne our bondage end our woe Let Thy full mercyes flow As waters from the fountaines mouth Or Rivers in the South verse 5 They who before in teares have sow'n And only sorrowes know'n Shall so their future hopes employ That they may reap in joy verse 6 He who good seed in weeping beares And water'd with his teares Shall doubtless find return'd with gaine What here he sow'd in paine A blessed harvest shall ensue His comforts to renew Long joyes shall spring from his short grief And from each graine a sheaf PSAL. CXXVII Sing this as the Lords Prayer verse 1 EXcept the Lord the house sustaine The builders labour is in vaine Except the City He defend And to the dwellers safety send In vaine are Centinels prepar'd Or armed watchmen for the guard verse 2 You vainly with the early light Arise or sit up late at night To find support and dayly eat Your bread with sorrow earn'd and sweat When God who His beloved keepes This plenty gives with quiet sleepes verse 3 Lo children and the fruitfull womb Are blessings which from Heaven come verse 4 As arrowes in a strong mans hand So children are in youth obtain'd verse 5 Who hath his quiver full of those Shall never feare upbraiding foes PSAL. CXXVIII verse 1 BLessed is he who God doth fear And holds His precepts deare verse 2 Thou shalt have plenty in thy meat And of thy labours eat verse 3 Thy Wife shall like the loving vine Which doth thy walls entwine With fruits enrich thy dwelling place And multiply thy race Thy Children shall like branches shew Which from the Olive grow And round about thy table stand As blessings to thy land verse 4 These favours shall the man obtaine Whose hopes in God remaine verse 5 The Lord shall thee from Sion bless With all earthes happiness Thine eyes Hierusalem shall see Fill'd with prosperitie And whil'st thy dayes of life endure Hir gloryes shall be sure verse 6 Thou Childrens Children shalt behold Spring up when thou art old And added to thine own encrease See Israel in peace PSAL. CXXIX Sing this as Psalme 119. verse 1 OFt vext me from my Youth have they
those Who trust in Them repose verse 19 His praise O ye from Iacob spring O house of Aaron sing verse 20 O house of Levi who profess His feare your Maker bless verse 21 From Sion let your blessings sound Your thankfull Songs abound Praise ye the Lord His mercies tell Who doth in Salem dwell PSAL. CXXXVI To the usuall Tune As Psalme 148. verse 1 GIve thanks unto the Lord Who doth all good afford verse 2 The God of Gods who swaies verse 3 Those Lords whom earth obeyes verse 4 Who hath alone Great wonders done His mercy sure Doth still endure verse 5 To Him who Heavens made verse 6 Earth 'bove the waters lay'd verse 7 To Him who form'd great lights To rule our daies and nights verse 8 The Sun at noone The Stars and Moone verse 9 Whose mercy sure Doth still endure verse 10 Who Egypts first-borne smote And Iacob from them brought verse 13 The Red Sea parted was verse 14 For Israel to pass verse 15 But Pharaoh's host In it was lost His mercy sure Doth still endure verse 16 Who His through desarts led Great Kings discomfited verse 19 Sihon the Amorite verse 20 And Og with Bashan's might verse 21 And gave their land verse 22 To Iacob's hand His mercy sure Doth still endure verse 23 Who our low state esteem'd verse 24 And from our foes redeem'd verse 25 Who to all flesh gives food His creatures fills with good verse 26 Your thanks O bring To Heavens King Whose mercy sure Doth still endure PSAL. CXXXVII Sing this as Psalme 119. verse 1 BY Babylons swift streames we sate Sad and disconsolate The teares as fast ran from our ey For Sions memory verse 2 Our harps untuned and unstrung Upon the Willowes hung verse 3 When those who did us captive bring Bid us in scorne to sing They who us spoil'd with sword and fire Did mirth of us require Sing us say'd They one of the Songs To Sion which belongs verse 4 But how shall we sing the Lords Song His Enemies among Or tune His Notes in strangers Land That cannot understand verse 5 O deare Ierusalem when I Forsake thy memory May my skill faile my right hand let Her cunning quite forget verse 6 Cleave to the roof O may my tongue When I not not mourne thy wrong Or if I not preferr thy mirth Above all joyes on earth verse 7 In thy remembrance Lord retaine Proud Edoms fierce disdaine Who 'gainst Ierusalem did cry Mocking hir misery Now she is fall'n nere may our eyes Againe behold hir rise Down with it their rude clamours sound Rase it ev'n to the ground verse 8 O Babylon which did'st us wast Thy self our woes must tast And in thy finall ruin we Sions revenge shall see Happy are They who to requite The measure of thy spight verse 9 Without all pitty 'gainst the stones Shall dash thy little ones PSAL. CXXXVIII verse 1 I Thee will praise with my whole heart My thankfull hymnes impart Before the Gods of Earth I 'le sing My praise to Heaven's King verse 2 I towards Thy Temple worship will And praises utter still Thy word and Name shall loudly sound Whose love and truth abound verse 3 When in my plaints to Thee I cry'd Thy love as soon reply'd My fainting spirit was renew'd With strength my soule endu'd verse 4 The Kings of earth Thy praise shall beare When they Thy words do heare verse 5 They in the waies of God shall sing The glory of their King verse 6 For though the Lord be very high Yet He cast's downe His eye The meek and lowly He respects But all the proud neglects verse 7 Though I in mid'st of trouble live Yet Thou wilt me revive Thy stretch'd out hand my wrathfull foes To ruin shall expose verse 8 The Lord my comforts will assure By mercyes which endure Cease not of me regard to take Nor Thine own works forsake PSAL. CXXXIX Sing this as Psalme 51. verse 1 LOrd thou hast throughly searched me I open am and know'n to Thee verse 2 My sitting downe and my up rise Are not concealed from Thine eyes Thou understand'st my distant thought Ere it to forme my self had brought verse 3 Thou circlest in my path and bed And hast my waies discovered verse 4 Thou hear'st each whisper from my tongue And ere 't was utter'd knew'st it long verse 5 By Thee I fashion'd am and made Thy hand each part in order lay'd verse 6 Yet can I not the knowledge gaine How I this being did attaine Which doth in wonder so excell 'T is easier to admire then tell verse 7 How shall I from Thy spirit fly Or Thy all present pow'r deny verse 8 If I climbe Heav'n 't is Thine own Shere If stoop to Hell lo Thou art there verse 9 If borne upon the mornings wing Far as the Sea doth swell or spring verse 10 Thy Right hand shall protect and lead Where ere my weary footsteps tread verse 11 If I pretend the darknes shall Upon me like a cov'ring fall Those heavy fogs those mists of night Will quickly cleare and turne to light verse 12 The thickest shade or blackest cloud Can nothing from thy knowledg shrow'd For darkness doth like Noon-tide shine Light'ned by brighter beams of Thine verse 13 My reines are Thine Thou mad'st the womb My bodies cloathing to become verse 14 I will give thanks to Thee O Lord Who was enlived by Thy word With awfull art and wond'rous forme Thou did'st Thy workmanship adorne My soule Their marvels must confess And for Thy favours daily bless verse 15 Though I was fashion'd in the dark Too secretly for man to mark There is no curious joynt or bone But was to Thy inspection know'n verse 16 Thou did'st upon my substance look And wrot'st each member in Thy book Thou saw'st how my imperfect frame By daily growth to figure came verse 17 O Lord how pretious O how deare Thy purposes and thoughts appeare verse 18 Which were they summ'd in my account They would the num'rous sands surmount These wonders alwaies presently Fixt in my thankfull memory And whil'st of them surveies I take My contemplation still must wake verse 19 O God! Thou shalt the wicked slay Ye bloody men depart away verse 20 For their fowle tongues Thy honour staine And take Thy sacred Name in vaine verse 21 Do not I hate and grieve at those Whose proud despight against thee rose verse 22 With perfect hate I them despise Accounting them mine enemies verse 23 Search me O Lord and prove my heart Who Judg of all my actions art Do Thou my faith to tryall bring My hidden thoughts examining verse 24 Look well and all my motions view If I persist in waies untrue And when Thou find'st my feet to stray Reduce me to Thy lasting way PSAL. CXL verse 1 SAve me from men to evill bent And from the violent verse 2 Which mischeif in their hearts devise In war and tumult rise verse 3 Their tongues are
And Saints Thy praise shall celebrate verse 11 Their tongues Thy Kingdom's rule make know'n By them Thy glorious acts are show'n verse 12 That all the Sons of men may see Thy mighty pow'r and Majestie verse 13 Thy Kingdom doth for ever last When men decay and time is past verse 14 God doth uphold all such as fall And men cast downe from ruin call verse 15 The eyes of all on Thee attend Who in due season meat do'st send verse 16 Thy open hand when need requires Doth satisfie their just desires verse 17 The Lord is right in all His waies In Holiness His works He layes verse 18 The Lord is good and nigh to all Who faithfully upon Him call verse 19 He their desire will satisfie Who feare Him and regard their cry verse 20 Saves all that love Him from annoy But all the wicked will destroy verse 21 Therefore my mouth to speake His praise Shall lowd and thankfull accents raise And let all flesh whom He did frame For ever bless His Holy Name PSAL. CXLVI verse 1 TTo God my soule His praises give And bless Him whil'st I live verse 2 I will to Him my thankes up send Untill my being end verse 3 Put not in Princes any trust Nor in the Sons of dust Who nor themselves nor others save From the devouring grave verse 4 Soon as man breathless doth remaine He turnes to earth againe And as his time of life expires So perish his desires verse 5 O therefore happy he whose faith On God relyance hath Who makes the fear of Him his scope And object of his hope verse 6 He Heav'n and earth and Sea did frame With all that Those containe And when their frame is quite defac't His truth shall ever last verse 7 He doth the wronged help to right Who are opprest by might Feeds those that are to want expos'd And hath the Captives loos'd verse 8 He to the blind restores their eyes He makes the fall'n to rise He upon such bestowes his care Who just and faithfull are verse 9 The Lord all strangers doth receive And fatherless releive When wicked men are overthrowne And all their hopes cast downe verse 10 The Lord thy God O Sion reignes His glory still remaines Then to thy everlasting King Eternall praises sing PSAL. CXLVII verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord a pleasant thing It is His praise to sing verse 2 God ruin'd Salem doth repaire Whose out-casts gather'd are verse 3 He heales and binds the broken heart Relieves the wounded's smart verse 4 The sparkling Starres He numbers all And by their names doth call verse 5 Great is our Lord and strong His might His Wisdome infinite verse 6 He doth the meek exalt and crowne But cast's the wicked downe verse 7 To God the Lord so good so great Your thankfull hymnes repeat And to the Harpes melodious string His constant praises sing verse 8 Who heavens face with vapour shrowds And covers it with clouds Who powres his raine on earth below And makes the Mountaines grow verse 9 He gives his food unto the beast And from their airy nest When the young ravens to Him cry Feeds Them abundantly verse 10 He not delights in strength of horse Nor values humane force verse 11 But those who make His feare their scope And in His mercy hope verse 12 Ierusalem O praise the Lord Sion Thy God record verse 13 Who barres thy gates to give thee rest And hath thy children blest verse 14 He maketh in thy borders peace Fills thee with cornes increase verse 15 His wing'd commands most swiftly run And soon as said are done verse 16 He giveth like the wooll his snowes Hoare frost like ashes strowes verse 17 Casts forth his Ice like morsells roll'd Who can withstand His cold verse 18 He sendeth out His word and Law Which melts them to a thaw He causeth His strong wind to blow And makes the waters flow verse 19 His word He doth to Iacob shew Makes him His judgment know And to his chosen Israel He doth His Statutes tell verse 20 He with no Nation so did deale Nor thus His Love reveale Who nor His judgments knew nor word Therefore Praise ye the Lord PSAL. CXLVIII To the proper Tune verse 1 PRaise God from Heaven high Who sits above the sky verse 2 Ye glorious Angels all Ye Hosts Celestiall verse 3 Ye Sun and Moon Both Night and Noon Ye Stars of light His praise recite verse 4 Praise Him ye Heavens that move Ye waters them above verse 5 Praise Him whose pow'rfull Name Created This great frame He did command verse 6 Them fast to stand By His decree They lasting be verse 7 All that earth's bosome keeps Ye dragons and all deepes verse 8 Fire haile the falling snow The furious winds that blow Stormes that fulfill His sacred will And serve His word Praise ye the Lord verse 9 Mountaines that touch the sky Ye Hills which lower ly All trees that fruitfull are The Cedars tall and faire verse 10 Beasts which the field Or pastures yeild Each creeping thing And bird of wing verse 11 Kings which the earth do sway People who them obey Princes of royall birth And Judges of the earth verse 12 Young men and maids Old men and babes verse 13 Let them proclaime His awfull name His Name doth all excell In earth or Heaven that dwell verse 14 He will His People raise Of all His Saints the praise Ev'n Iacob deare His care most neare Joyn'd in accord Praise ye the Lord PSAL. CXLIX Sing this as Psalme 119. verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord New Anthems bring Which ye to God may sing And let the quire of Saints His praise In their assembly raise verse 2 Let Israel in Him rejoyce Who form'd him with his voyce Let all the Sons from Sion spring Be joyfull in their King verse 3 Let them with Dance and Pipe proclaime The glory of His Name Let them sing praises with the Harp With Timbrell shrill and sharp verse 4 For in His people He delights Who celebrate His Rites And those with meekness who abound Are with salvation crown'd verse 5 Let Saints with glory raise their heads And sing upon their beds verse 6 Let His high praise who rules the skies Their voices exercise And in their hand a Two-edg'd sword Be put to act His word verse 7 For judgment 'gainst the Heathen bent And peoples punishment verse 8 Their captive Kings in chaines confin'd With manacles to bind And their rebellious Nobles lead In iron fettered verse 9 To execute that heavy wrath His judgment threat'ned hath And in faire Characters engrave His Saints such honour have PSAL. CL verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord your Songs address To praise His Holynes O praise Him in His pow'rs extent Who rules the firmament verse 2 Praise Him for all His acts of might Our wonder which invite In praises due His greatness tell Which all things doth excell verse 3 Praise Him with Trumpets lofty sound With Cornets shake the ground His praise the Psaltery inspire With the melodious Lyre verse 4 Praise him with Timbrells and advance His honour in the Dance Praise Him with Organs Violls Flutes And the well-stringed Lutes verse 5 With Cymbals loud Him magnify Praise Him on Cymbals high verse 6 Let every creature that hath breath His Maker praise till death FINIS THis Tune which is proper to Psalme 119. serves for the 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.39.137 With any other of that Meter conteining Eight Lines in a Staffe This is for Psal. 8.15.19.20.21.23.24.26.28.29.32.41.42.45.47.48.52.69 With any others of that Meter conteining only Fowre lines in a Staffe But if the Former seemes more difficult or be lesse used in diverse Places This Tune will serve generally for all whose Meter is like the First Psalme This Tune is for Psal. 81.85.87.98.101 This For Psal. 25.67.134.143 Tune of Psalme 51. For the 17.68.80.118 With the others mentioned PSAL. LI. Lamentation Prayer after the Commandements PSAL. C. There be other Tunes which being not very usuall are not here set downe as Psal. 50.124.127 c. For which you are referred to the Psalmes Printed with the Bibles Some Errours of the Presse are thus amended PSal. 12. v. 7. Flatt'ring Psal. 25.16 To me Ps. 38.8 Thy heavy c. Psal. 42. v. 6. From Iordan yet and Hermons hill I Thee remember still Ps. 43. v. 5. Why droop'st thou O my soule c. Ps. 48. v. 11. Let Iudahs daughters c Ps. 49. v. 15. But God my soule c. Ps 67. v. 1. Upon Thy servants c. Ps. 73. v. 16. Hard to be c. Ps. 98.8 Let Hills c. Ps. 107. v. 40. Puts to scorne Ps. 105.2 Celebrate Ps. 114. v. 6. Ye little hills c. Ps. 125. v. 3. Vassalls v. 2. Salem sense Ps 139. v. 8. 'T is Thine own Sphaere v. 14. These marvels Ps. 146. v. 6. And when their Forme c. Figures of verses wanting Ps. 6. v. 10. at When their c. Ps. 30. deest 3. 7. at For Thou my Mountaine c. Ps. 134. The Tune is falsely referred as 51. for 25. FINIS August Epist. 118. ad Januarium de consuetud variis Regionum Vallem sitientem ob id ad fletum excitantem Vatablus Psal. 47.7 Histor. Concil. Tridentin Lib. 2 An. 1546