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 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
Why help'st Thou not when I implore Nor hear'st when I through anguish roare verse 2 O God by day to Thee I cry But Thou Thy audience dost deny And in the night when I should sleep My sorrowes will not silence keep verse 3 But Thou in Holinesse dost dwell O Thou the praise of Israel verse 4 Our Fathers plac'd their trust in Thee And Thy deliverance set them free verse 5 They cry'd to Thee surpriz'd with feare And from Confusion saved were verse 6 But I a worme and no man am Reproach of men and peoples shame verse 7 7 Beholders Me their pastime make Shoot out their lip their head they shake verse 8 He trusted God that He would save See if from him he safety have verse 9 But Thou didst take me from the womb And ever since my hope become verse 10 On Thee when on the breast I hung And from the birth my care was flung verse 11 When trouble 's neare O be not far Since left to me no helpers are verse 12 For many bulls with bellowing sound Strong bulls of Bashan girt me round verse 13 They gape like Lions Me about verse 14 I am like water powred out My bones disjoynted torture crackes My heart within me melts like Waxe verse 15 My strength is like a Pot-sheard dry'd My tongue up to my Palate ty'd verse 16 Thou brought'st me down unto the grave For dogs my life encompast have Assemblies of the wicked meet They pierced have my hands and feet verse 17 My bones stick out consum'd and bare Whil'st they remorselesse on me stare verse 18 They now to part my garments hast And Lots upon my vesture cast verse 19 But be not far from me O Lord verse 20 My soule deliver from the sword verse 21 My darling save from rav'ning jawes Of dogs and from the Lions pawes For thou hast heard me from the hornes Of fierce assayling Unicornes verse 22 I to my brethren will proclaime The Praises due to Thy great Name verse 22 Yee that fear God all Iacobs line And Israëls seed in Prayses joyne verse 24 Th' afflicted He did nere despise Nor hid His face but heard their cries verse 25 My praise and vowes devout to Thee Shall in thy Church performed be verse 26 He to the meeke will plenty give The hearts that seek Him ever live verse 27 Far as the world extends it 's bound Religious Converts shall be found They shall remember and implore And ev'ry Kindred Him adore verse 28 For God's the Kingdome is whose sway All Nations of the Earth obay verse 29 The rich who on Earth's fatnesse feed Ev'n to the Soule that dies for need All from the throne unto the dust Before Him bow and worship must verse 30 All these shall serve Him in their seed And sons to God adopted breed verse 31 Who to succession shall proclaime His righteousnesse and awfull Name PSAL. XXIII verse 1 THe Lord my Shepheard is and guide I shall no want abide verse 2 He makes me lye in fruitfull meads And by stil waters leads verse 3 My Soule to danger given ore He doth againe restore And guides me in the righteous path His Name elected hath verse 4 Yea though in vale of darknesse lay'd Or death's more ghastly shade I feare no ill Thy rod and staffe Direct and keep me safe verse 5 Thou dost for me a plenteous fare Before my foes prepare Thou dost with oyle annoint my head My flowing Cup doth shed verse 6 Thy mercy sure shall me attend Untill my Life doth end And in the House of God will I Remaine Eternally PSAL. XXIV verse 1 EArth is the Lords with hir encrease And all that there have place verse 2 He founded it upon the Seas And made the floods hir base verse 3 Who in God's Holy Place shall stand Or on His Hill appeare verse 4 He who is pure in Heart and hand Nor to deceive doth sweare verse 5 He blessings shall from God receive And righteousnesse from high verse 6 This is their race who God believe And to His sight are nigh verse 7 Lift up yee Gates lift up your head Yee Doores Eternall spread The King of Glory shall come in And his approach begin verse 8 Who is the Great and Glorious King Of whom our Praises sing The Lord in Battaile mighty This The King of Glory is verse 9 Lift up yee Gates lift up your Head Yee Doores Eternall spread The King of Glory shall come in And his approach begin verse 10 Who is the Great and Glorious King Of whom our Praises sing The Lord in Battell mighty This The King of Glory is PSAL. XXV verse 1 WIth Thoughts lift up to Thee O God my Soule doth flee verse 2 To shame O never me expose Nor triumph of my foes verse 3 Let those be free from shame Who wait upon Thy Name But let them feele it who Thy Lawes Transgresse without a cause verse 4 Thy wayes unto me shew Teach me Thy truth to know verse 5 Thou art the God do'st me defend On Thee I still depend verse 6 Thinke on Thy mercies Lord Thy ancient love record verse 7 Remember not my sins of youth But save me in Thy truth verse 8 Good is the Lord His ways To sinners He displaies verse 9 The meek He will in judgment guide Who in His precepts bide verse 10 His paths with truth abound Great mercies there are found Which He unto all such doth grant Who keep his Covenant verse 11 O for Thy Names sake Lord Pardon to me afford And with my heinous crime dispense For great is mine offence verse 12 To him that feares He shewes The way which he shall chuse verse 13 His Soule shall dwell at ease his race Shall long on earth have place verse 14 To them who God do feare His secret shall appeare He will His Covenant declare To such as faithfull are verse 15 Mine eyes on God are set Who plucks me from the net verse 16 O Lord to we in mercy turne Afflicted forlorne verse 17 My heart's distresse is large O Thou my woes discharge verse 18 Looke on the paine wherein I live And all my sins forgive verse 19 Thinke on my many foes Whose hate most cruell growes verse 20 O keep my soule from scandall free Who put my trust in Thee verse 21 Let Justice me defend Who on Thy grace attend verse 22 Thy Israël O God release And all his troubles ease PSAL. XXVI verse 1 IUdge me O God for in Thy path My foot insisted hath My trust hath on Thee Lord rely'd Therefore I shall not slide verse 2 Examine me O Lord and try My reines and heart descry verse 3 Thy mercy still is in my sight Thy truth hath kept me right verse 4 I have not with vaine persons sate Or those that use deceit verse 5 Ill congregations I detest Nor am the sinners guest verse 6 In innocence I le wash my hand So at Thine Altar stand verse 7 That I may
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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promis'd mercies are verse 12 Or shall the dark Thy wonders see The land where all forgotten be verse 13 To Thee O Lord my cryes are sent My prayer shall the morne prevent verse 14 O why do'st Thou my soul reject And hid'st from me Thy blest aspect verse 15 Afflicted and in misery I almost ready am to dy From youth to age in lifes each act Thy suffer'd terrours me distract verse 16 Thy wrath quite over me doth go Thine indignation strikes me so verse 17 They like the raging floods abound Or swelling waters me surround verse 18 My friends and all my lovers are By Thee from my reliefe put far And those who my acquaintance were Conceal'd or lost my sight forbear PSAL. LXXXIX Sing this as Psalme 51. verse 1 MY Song thy mercies shall make know'n Thy truth to all succession verse 2 For They built up for ever last And are in Heav'n establish'd fast verse 3 I to my chosen David sware And did by Covenant declare verse 4 I stablish will thy seed alone And build to Thee a lasting Throne verse 5 The Heav'ns Thy wonders praise confesse And Saints proclaime thy faithfulnesse For who in earth or heaven are verse 6 Whose might can with the Lord compare verse 7 Fear'd by His Saints by them implor'd And by His servants still ador'd verse 8 O Lord of Hosts who is so strong Whose word like thine endures so long verse 9 Thou rul'st the Seas that rage and rise Whose swelling wave becalmed lies verse 10 Thou Rahab brak'st like one that 's dead Thine arme thy foes hath scattered verse 11 The Heav'ns are Thine with earth's encrease And all the fulnesse growes from these verse 12 The North South thy pow'r did frame Tabor and Hermon praise thy Name verse 13 13 Thy mighty arme is lifted high Thy right hand full of Majesty verse 14 Thy Throne hath justice for its base Mercy and Truth before Thy face verse 15 Blessed are they who at Thy Feasts And in Thy presence are the guests verse 16 They all the day rejoyce in Thee In righteousnes exalted be verse 17 Thy strength and glory them adorne Whose favour shall lift up our horne verse 18 The Lord to us doth safety bring Thy Holy one remaines our King verse 19 In visions Thou to Him hast said I on my chosen help have lay'd verse 20 I have my servant David found With Oyle annointed Him crown'd verse 21 Confirm'd and strength'ned by my arme I will protect his life from harme verse 22 No enemy on Him exact Nor hurt him shall by wicked pact verse 23 His foes beat down before him fly And shall by plagues consumed dy verse 24 My mercy yet to him assur'd Shall in his glory be secur'd Second Part. verse 26 His right hand lifted ore the maine Shall to the in-land rivers reigne verse 26 He crying in his prayers shall My God and Rock and Father call verse 27 I 'le make him heire my first begot Above earth's Kings advance his lot verse 28 To Him my mercy nere shall wast My Covenant stand ever fast verse 29 His seed shall long endure his Throne Like Heav'ns unweary'd motion verse 30 But if His Sons my Law forsake verse 31 Or my Commands and Statutes break verse 32 My rod shall punish their neglect My hand with stripes their sin correct verse 33 Yet shall my love to him prevaile verse 34 My Covenant nor change nor faile verse 35 To David have I sworne that I My promise would not falsify verse 36 His seed shall governe whil'st the sun About the world his course doth run verse 37 And like the Moon establish'd be The faithfull pledg of my decree verse 38 But thine annointed now thy wrath Cast off and quite abhorred hath verse 39 Thou voyd hast made the Cov'nant seal'd Profan'd his crowne his Rule repeal'd verse 40 His Bulwarks broke his senses torne verse 41 Make him his neighbour's spoyle scorne verse 42 Thou strength'ned ha'st his foes right hand That he in battail cannot stand verse 44 His sword wants edge His glory 's gone And to the earth cast down his throne verse 45 Thou short'ned hast his youth His fame Obscur'd and cover'd is with shame verse 46 Lord wilt Thou ever from us turne Or shall like fire thine anger burne verse 47 Remember yet how short my dayes How vaine man's life how soon decaies verse 48 What mortall lives who shall not dy And in the pit of silence ly verse 49 Where are thy mercies Lord the faith Thy oath to David plighted hath verse 50 Remember Lord thy servants shame How mighty people us defame verse 51 Thinke how thy foes have us abus'd And thine Annointed's steps traduc'd verse 52 Yet shall my soul how ere opprest Say evermore The Lord be blest PSAL. XC Sing this as the Lamentation verse 1 O Lord Thou ha'st our refuge been All ages have thy mercies seene verse 2 Before the lofty hills were made Or earth's unmov'd foundation lay'd From everlasting Thou art God And wilt out live times period verse 3 Thou turn'st to dust the Sons of men Then say'st Returne to life agen verse 4 4 A thousand yeares in thy account But to a day with us amount Nor are extended in thy sight Beyond the watch of one short night verse 5 Our time runs on like rapid streams We vanish as forgotten dreams verse 6 Like grasse or morning flowres we spring Then wither in the evening verse 7 When Thou displeased art we wast And unto nothing come at last verse 8 Thou mark'st our deeds our sins of night Are alwayes open to thy sight Making the breach of thy pure Lawes Our death and swift destructions cause verse 9 From whence we suddenly waxe old Expiring like a tale that 's told verse 10 The common Age of mortall men Exceeds not Threescore yeares and ten And if to Fourscore they attaine Their life is but a length'ned paine Incessant sorrowes and disease Their faculties and vigour seize For soon cut off our dayes decay And suddenly we flie away verse 11 But who regards Thy heauy wrath Or of Thy feare true feeling hath Neither Thy judgements nor Thy love Can us unto repentance move verse 12 Lord so our dayes to number teach We may the end of wisedome reach And learne those errours to forget Which us in Thy displeasure set verse 13 Returne O Lord and now repent At our endured punishment How long wilt Thou thy help delay Or not remove our woes away verse 14 O satisfy our Soule with joyes To recompense Lifes past annoyes verse 15 Afford us comfort for those yeares We were enforc'd to spend in teares verse 16 Lord Let Thy glorious work appeare Thy servants from the dust to reare That all succeeding times may know What praises to thy Name we owe verse 17 O let thy beames of favour shine On those who in death's shade have ly'n Grant that for which we prayers make And prosper all we
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
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
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