beauty shall consume And it shall perish in the grave When carry'd from their houses they Shall their in dust their dwelling have 15 But God will sure redeem my soul From the hand of death and the grave For he my hope saviour is And he himself will me receive 16 Be not discouraged by fear When wicked men grow great and rich And when the glory of their house Their pomp and pow'r increaseth much 17 For he shall carry nothing hence When certain death his days shall end Nor shall his glory after him Into the loathsome grave descend 18 Though he his flatter'd soul did bless Whil'st he on earth in wealth did live And when thy courses prosperous are Worldly men will thee praises give 19 Yet shall he to his fathers go Who lived here on earth before And shall be laid among the dead Who here shall see the light no more 20 Man that in worldly honour lives And God's Word understandeth not Is nothing better than the beasts That die and in the grave do rot PSALM L. 1 THe Lord the mighty God Spake and the earth did call From the Sun-rising to the place Of its descent and fall 2 Out of holy Sion Beauty's perfection The Lord hath shined unto man 3 Our God shall surely come He shall not silent be Before him fire doth burn And round about he dreadful is By his tempestuous storm 4 And from the heav'ns above His pow'rful voice shall call And to the earth below that he May judge his people all 5 Together let my Saints To me assembled be Those that by sacrifice have made A Covenant with me 6 The heav'ns themselves then shall His righteousness declare For it is the great God himself By whom all judged are 7 My people hear my words And what I testifie Against thee sinful Israel God even thy God am I. 8 For want of sacrifice To me I judge thee not Nor because thy burnt-offerings were Neglected or forgot 9 I 'le take no calf or goats From house or fold of thine 10 The forest-beasts and cattle all On thousand hills are mine 11 The fowls on mountains high Are all to me well known Wild beasts which in the fields abide Are all of them my own 12 And if I hungry were I would not tell it thee For the whole world and Its fulness Doth all belong to me 13 I 'le not eat flesh of bulls Nor goats blood drink will I. 14 Offer true thanks to God and pay Thy vows to the most high 15 And call thou upon me In thy most troublous days And then will I deliver thee And thou shalt give me praise 16 But to the wicked man God saith My word of truth Should'st thou declare how dar'st thou take My Covenant in thy mouth 17 Sith thou instruction hat'st which should thy life direct And my commands behind thy back Dost cast and them reject 18 When thou a thief didst see With him thou then consent'st And with the foul adulterer Thou a partaker went'st 19 Thou giv'st thy mouth to ill Thy tongue deceit doth frame 20 Against thy brother thou dost speak Thy mothers son defame 21 Because I silence kept Whilst thou these things hast wrought That I was such a one as thou Was thine ungodly thought But I will thee reprove And set before thine eyes In order all thy sinful deeds And thine iniquities 22 Now you that God forget In time this well consider Lest I in pieces tear you all And none can you deliver 23 Whoso doth offer praise Doth rightly honour me And he that orders well his ways Shall God's salvation see PSALM LI. 1 AFter thy loving kindness Lord Some pity on a sinner take Blot out my hainous trespasses Good Lord for thy great mercies sake 2 O wash me throughly from my sin Cleanse me from mine iniquities 3 For my transgressions I confess My sin is still before mine eyes 4 Against thee O my God I sin'd And did this evil in thy sight And if I were therefore condemn'd Yet were thy judgments just and right 5 Thou know'st that in iniquity My shape and nature I receiv'd As guilty and defil'd by sin My sinful mother me conceiv'd 6 I know that which thou dost desire Is truth within the secret heart And wisdom thou wilt make me know Even in the hidden inward part 7 With sacred Hyssop purge thou me And then I shall be cleansed so Wash thou me in my Saviour's blood And I shall whiter be than snow 8 Of joy and gladness make thou me To hear again the welcome voice That so the bones which thou for sin Hast justly broken may rejoyce 9 From the beholding of my sin O turn away thy angry face And all my great iniquity Blot out and utterly deface 10 O God create in me a heart Clean and unspotted in thy sight And by thy grace in me renew A spirit sincere and upright 11 And from thy gracious presence Lord Do not this sinner cast away And of thy holy quickning spirit Deprive me not I humbly pray 12 Let the joy of thy saving grace To my sad soul restored be And with thy free enlarging spirit Uphold confirm and comfort me 13 Then I will teach thy holy ways To those that now transgressors be And so ungodly sinful men Shall be converted unto thee 14 O thou the God of all my hopes Deliver me from guilt of blood Then of thy saving righteousness My joyful tongue shall sing aloud 15 Open my lips which by my sin Now silenced and closed are And then shall my enlarged mouth Thy praises publickly declare 16 I know it is not sacrifice Which thou requirest I should bring Else would I give it Nor art thou Delighted with burnt-offering 17 The sacrifice which pleaseth God Is a repenting broken spirit O God thou never wilt despise A heart that 's broken and contrite 18 In thy good pleasure Lord do good To Sion and thy people all Of thy belov'd Jerusalem Do thou build up the broken wall 19 The sacrifice of righteousness Shall then be pleasing unto thee Better than whole burnt-offerings then Shall on thine Altar offered be PSALM LII 1 O Mighty man in wickedness Why boastest thou thy self with pride God's goodness to his people will Surely for evermore abide 2 Thy tongue speaks mischief which thy heart Plots and deviseth wickedly And like a sharpned rasor cuts And works by lies deceitfully 3 Thou lovest evil more than good And lying more than to speak right Thou false tongue all devouring words Thou lovest with cruel delight 4 God shall for ever cut thee down And he shall take thee quite away And pluck thee from thy dwelling-place And from among the living slay PSALM LIII 1 THe lives of fools do tell us that Their hearts no God do truly own Corrupt are they odious their works Of them that do good there is none 2 Upon the wicked sons of men From heav'n God lookt on earth abroad To see if any
In our sight Now let his God deliver him If he in him delight 9 Thou took'st me from the womb Thou wast my hope and rest When I a seeble Infant hang'd Upon my mother's breast 10 I was cast on thy care Even from my birth till now And from the womb that did me bear My God and Guide art thou 11 Be not far off for grief Is near and no help found 12 Many Bulls compass me fat Bulls Of Bashan me surround 13 Their mouth they open'd wide Upon me gaped they Like to a Lion's ravening And roaring for his prey 14 My bones are out of joynt Like water I am spilt Among my pained Intestines My heart like wax doth melt 15 Like a potsherd my strength Is dry'd My tongue cleaveth Unto my jaws and thou hast brought Me to the dust of death 16 For dogs have compass'd me And the assembled bands Of wicked men enclosed me They pierc'd my feet and hands 17 I may count all my bones On me they look and stare 18 Upon my Vesture they cast lots My Cloaths among them share 19 Be not far from me Lord My strength to help me hast 20 My soul deliver from the sword Do not to Dogs me cast 21 Save me from lying mouths For thou hast oft heard me Even from the horns of Unicorns I have been sav'd by thee 22 Unto my brethren I Will yet declare thy name And with the Congregation great I 'le joyn to praise the same 23 Ye that fear God praise him His great name glorifie All Jacob's seed and fear ye him Israel's posterity 24 For he hath not despis'd Th' afflicted's misery Nor hid his face from him but heard When he to him did cry 25 In the Assemblies great My praise shall be of thee And before them that do thee fear My Vows perform'd shall be 26 The meek shall be suffic'd With food All praise shall give To God who him do truly seek Your hearts shall ever live 27 All lands remember shall And turn unto the Lord And by all kindreds of the earth Our God shall be ador'd 28 The Kingdom is the Lord's He governs Nations all All that on earth by him are fed Before him down shall fall 29 All shall before him bow That down to dust descend None can of all the sons of men His life from death defend 30 But still a holy seed The Lord shall truly serve And God will them his chosen flock Account and still preserve 31 They shall come and his work Of righteousness make known Unto a people yet unborn That this the Lord hath done PSALM XXIII 1 THe Lord himself my shepherd is Who doth me feed and safely keep What can I want that 's truly good While I am one of his own sheep 2 He makes me to lie down and rest In pleasant pastures tender grass He keeps and gently leadeth me Near the sweet streams of quietness 3 My failing soul he doth restore And lead in safe and righteous ways And all this freely that his grace And holy Name may have the praise 4 And though my daily walk do lie Through death's dark vale yet thou art there All being managed by thee Therefore no evil will I fear For in my lowest darkest state The Lord of Love is with me still Thy Rod and Staff shall comfort me And keep me from all deadly ill 5 Thy bounty doth my Table spread In presence of my envious foes My head refreshing Oyl anoints My plenteous cup still overflows 6 Goodness and mercy all my days Shall surely keep and follow me And in the house of God always My joyful dwelling-place shall be The same by Mr. George Herbert 1 THe God of Love my Shepherd is And he that doth me feed While he is mine and I am his What can I want or need 2 He leads me to the tender grass Where I both feed and rest Then to the streams that gently pass In both I have the best 3 And if I stray he doth convert And bring my mind in frame And all this not for my desert But for his holy name 4 And in death's shady black abode Well may I walk not fear For thou art with me and thy rod To guide thy staff to bear 5 Thou makest me to sit and dine Even in mine enemies fight My head with Oyl my cup with Wine Flows over day and night 6 Surely thy sweet and wondrous love Shall measure all my days And as it never shall remove So neither shall my praise PSALM XXIV 1 THe earth is all the Lord's Its fulness all is his The world with all that are therein His own creation is 2 For he the liquid Seas Hath its foundation made And it upon the water-floods Hath stablished and staid 3 Into God's sacred mount Who 's he that shall ascend And in his place of holiness Who shall accepted stand 4 Whose heart 's pure and hands clean And unto vanity He who hath not lift up his soul Nor sworn deceitfully 5 This man a blessing great From God shall surely have Righteous and gracious usage from The God that will him save 6 Of them that seek the Lord This is the holy race Such are the men of Jacob's God Who seek thy pleased face 7 Lift up your heads ye gates You lasting doors make way That so the great desired King Of Glory enter may 8 Who is this Glorious King Who may this Monarch be The strong and mighty God the Lord Mighty in war is he 9 Lift up your heads ye gates You lasting doors make way That so the great and mighty King Of Glory enter may 10 Who is he that is King Of Glory Who is this The Lord of Hosts and he alone The King of Glory is PSALM XXV 1 I Lift my heart to thee My God and guide most just 2 O let me never be asham'd For in thee do I trust Let not my foes rejoyce And triumph over me 3 And let not any be asham'd That trust and wait on thee But let them shamed be Who causelesly transgress 4 Shew me thy ways Lord teach thou me Thy paths of Righteousness 5 Direct me in thy truth And teach me I thee pray Thou art my God and Saviour On thee I wait alway 6 Remember O my God Thy mercies manifold And thy great loving kindnesses For they have been of old 7 My sins and faults of youth O keep not on record In mercy for thy goodness sake Remember me O Lord. 8 Perfectly good is God A sure and upright guide Therefore he 'll teach sinners his way That they go not aside 9 The humble he will guide Who do his Counsels seek And he will teach his way unto The lowly and the meek 10 For all the paths of God Are truth and mercy sure To them that do his Covenant keep And Testimonies pure 11 For thy names-sake O Lord I humbly thee intreat To pardon my iniquity For it is very great 12 Whoso doth fear the Lord The Lord
early after God 35 Then they remembred that the Lord Was their strong Rock that did them save And their Redeemer the high God Who unto them deliverance gave 36 Yet with their mouth they flatter'd him And spake all this deceitfully And they unto the God of truth With their unfaithful tongues did lie 37 For all this while their hearts within Were not found upright and sincere Nor in his holy Covenant Unchangeable and steadfast were 38 But full of pity he forgave Their sin and did not them destroy And did not stir up all his wrath But often turned it away 39 For he remembred that they were But flesh whose time is short and vain And like a wind which passing by Is gone and cometh not again They oft in th' desart him provok'd Displeased with what they had done 41 Yea they turned back and tempted God Limiting Israel's Holy One. 42 And they remembred not his hand Nor yet the former days when he From their oppressing enemy Had saved them and set them free 43 How he in Egypt wrought his signs And wonders great in Zoan field 44 And turn'd their Rivers into blood And floods that they no drink could yield 45 Among them he sent divers sorts Of flyes which did them much annoy And did devour their fruits and frogs He sent to vex them and destroy 46 Their increase by the caterpiller Their labour was by locusts lost 47 Their vines he did destroy with hail And their Sycamore trees with frost 48 He gave their cattle to the hail Their flocks by thunder-bolts were spent 49 Fierce wrath and trouble cast on them By evil Angels to them sent 50 He to his anger did make way And spared not their souls from death But to the wasting Pestilence He did give up their vital breath 51 All Egypt's first-born he smote down And in Ham's land their chiefest strength 52 He made them let his people go Like sheep he led them out at length He in the desart did them guide 53 And like a flock them safely led So that they were secur'd from fear But their foes the sea covered 54 He brought them to the borders where His sanctuary now doth stand Even to the sacred mountain which He purchased with his right hand 55 Before them cast the heathen out Their land to them he did divide And made the tribes of Israel In their tents to dwell and abide 56 Yet did they tempt the most high God Him by their sin provoked they And did not his commandements Unfeignedly keep and obey 57 But like their fathers turned back And dealt with God unfaithfully Like a deceitful warping bow Which turn'd aside doth shoot awry 58 They to displeasure him provok'd With Altars set in places high And with their graven Images They moved him to jealousie 59 When God heard this he was displeas'd And abhor'd Israel greatly then 60 So that he Shilo's place forsook The tent he placed among men 61 His peoples strength he captive gave His glory to the enemies hand 62 He gave his people to the sword And was wroth with his chosen land 63 The fire consumed their young men And their maidens no marriage had 64 Their Priests also fell by the sword Their wives no lamentation made 65 But then the Lord arose like one That doth from silent sleep awake And like a Giant that by wine Exhilerate a shout doth make 66 And on his enemies hinder parts He made his heavy strokes to fall And so upon them all he cast Reproach and shame perpetual 67 Moreover Joseph's Tabernacle And Ephraim's Tribe he did refuse 68 But the Mount Sion which he lov'd And Judah's Ruling Tribe did choose 69 His Sanctuary there he built Like to a Palace fair and high And like the earth which his hand hath Founded for perpetuity 70 His servant David he did choose And him his peoples Ruler make And from the governing of sheep To dignity he did him take 71 From following Ewes great with young He call'd and brought him up to feed Israel his own inheritance His servant Jacob's chosen seed 72 So after the integrity Of his heart they by him were fed And by his hands great skilfulness By him they were well governed PSALM LXXIX 1 O God the heathen do invade Thy heritage and now by them Thy Temple is defil'd On heaps They lay thy dear Jerusalem 2 The bodies of thy servants they Cast forth have given to be meat For ravenous fowls and thy Saints flesh Unto the beasts of th' earth to eat 3 Their blood about Jerusalem Like common water they have shed And there was none to bury them When they by them were cast out dead 4 To all our neighbours that hear this A jeast and meer reproach are we A sâ—orn and mocking-stock to those That dwelling round about us be 5 How long Lord O not evermore Shall this thine anger towards us last Shall thy provoked jealousie Like fire thus always burn and wa st 6 Upon the heathen pour thy wrath That have not known thee and thy fame And on the Kingdoms which have not Ador'd thy great and holy name 7 For these are they that Jacob have Slain and devoured cruelly And made his famous dwelling-place As ruinous and wa st to lye 8 O charge not on us former sins Thy tender pardoning mercies show Let them prevent us speedily For we are now brought very low 9 For thy name's glory help us Lord Who art and hast our Saviour bin For thy names-sake deliver us And purge away our guilt and sin 10 Why say the heathen Where 's their God Let him to them be better known When these that shed thy servants blood Are in our sight judg'd and o'rethrown 11 O let the prisoners sighs ascend Before thy righteous sight on high Preserve those by thy soveraign power That are by men design'd to dye 12 And to our neighbours let seven fold Reward in Judgment rendred be Even that reproach wherewith they have Falsly O God reproached thee 13 So we thy folk and pasture-sheep Will give thee joyful thanks always And to all ages yet to come We will shew forth thy glorious praise PSALM LXXX 1 O Israel's shepherd hear who dost Like a flock Joseph feed and guide Shine forth O thou that dost between The sacred Cherubims abide 2 In Ephraim's and Benjamin's And also in Manasseh's sight For our speedy salvation come Stir up and shew thy saving might 3 Turn us again and bring us home And upon us do thou vouchsafe O God to make thy face to shine And then we shall again be safe 4 Lord God of Hosts how long wilt thou Thus in thy burning anger smoak Against thy peoples humble prayer Who do thy sacred Name invoke 5 Instead of bread tears are their food Which now thou givest them to eat And tears thou givest them to drink And that in measure very great 6 Thou makest us a strife unto Our envious neighbours round about Our enemies among
written be left on record They that hereafter shall be made Shall gladly serve and praise the Lord. 19 The Lord lookt down on all below Even from his high and holy place The earth unto the Lord of Heaven Is ever seen before his face 20 To hear the prisoners doleful groans And save men falsly judg'd-to die 21 God's name in Sion to declare Him there to praise and magnifie 22 When many people far and nigh Meet there to pray with one accord And when the Kingdoms shall consent To fear and serve the highest Lord. 23 My strength he weakened in the way As shortning my Life 's short day 24 I said By an untimely death Lord take me not in wrath away Through Ages all thou art the same 25 The solid Earth's Foundations laid Thou hast of old Heavens are the Work Which thy own Power and Hands have made 26 They perish shall but thou shalt stand As garments they shall all wax old Thou shalt them change as Men their Cloaths And as a Vesture them up fold 27 But thou art endlesly the same 28 Thy Servants Off-spring shall survive Their Seed established by thee Shall in thy blessed presence live PSALM CIII 1 MY Soul bless thou the glorious God Praise him and celebrate his Fame Let all my inward Powers concur To praise and bless his holy Name 2 Still bless the living Lord my Soul Never do thou sleight or forget Unthankfully his benefits So many undeserv'd and great 3 Thy many great provoking sins His Mercy freely doth forgive He thy Diseases and thy Pains Doth heal or ease and thee relieve 4 He did redeem thy forfeit Life And it from threatned death did free And with his loving kindness great And tender Mercies crowned thee 5 What hast thou wanted that is good To satisfie thy just desire Thy strength like Eagles he renew'd Reviving nature's languid fire 6 God will just Judgment execute For them by man oppress'd that are 7 To Moses and to Israel's seed His ways and acts he did declare 8 Gracious and merciful is God Great is his mercy high and deep 9 He 's slow to wrath he chides not still Nor doth his anger ever keep 10 He hath not dealt with us in wrath According to our hainous sin Nor strictly us rewarded hath As our guilt and deserts have bin 11 But as the great and glorious heav'ns Than this low earth far higher are God's mercy so transcendent is To all that do him truly fear 12 As far as East is from the West So far from us remov'd hath he Our hated and forsaken sin And our bewail'd iniquity 13 As loving Parents taught of God Pity to their dear Children bear The Lord of Love will pity them That serve him with true child-like fear 14 For he remembers flesh is dust Our frail and mortal frame he knows 15 And that the days of man on earth Are like the grass in field that grows 16 There flowers flourish but sharp winds Blast them and they are quickly gone And to the place which they persum'd And beautify'd they are unknown 17 But unto such as do him fear God's boundless mercy hath no end And his sure love and righteousness To Childrens Children doth extend 18 To such as keep his Covenant And his Commandments keep in mind And them sincerely do obey And therein their chief pleasure find 19 The Lord his Throne prepared hath In heaven where Saints his glory see And all the world his Kingdom is And Ruler over all is he 20 You mighty Angels great in strength Must bless the Lord with highest praise Your holiness fulfils his will And readily his voice obeys 21 All ye his great and glorious Hosts For ever bless and praise the Lord You serve the pleasure of his will And all as one obey his word 22 Let all his works through all the world To praise their glorious Lord accord And O my soul bear thou thy part And ever bless and praise the Lord. PSALM CIV 1 MY soul bless thou the living Lord Thou Lord my God art very great With honour and with majesty Thou cloathed art in glorious state 2 The fulgent light thy covering is Appearing in it as thy robes Thou like a curtain dost stretch out The Heavens with all their splendid globes 3 The beams of his great Chambers he Doth in the liquid waters lay The Clouds he makes his Chariots On winged Winds he takes his way 4 Blest Spirits he his Angels makes His Ministers a flaming fire 5 The Earth's Foundations firm he laid That nothing shall them ever stir 6 Like to a Garment with the deep The Earth by thee was covered The Waters stood above the Hills 7 But soon at thy rebuke they fled Thy thunders voice hasts them away 8 They go up by the mountain ground Down by the Valleys they go to The place which thou for them didst found 9 Thou unto them a bound hast set That over it they may not pass That the Earth again may not be drown'd By them as once for sin it was 10 He sends the Springs into the Vales They sweetly run between the Hills 11 They 're drink for all beasts of the Fields There his great thirst the wild Ass fills 12 By these sweet Streams the Fowls of Heav'n Do use to make their dwelling house For them and theirs They chirp and sing Among the pleasant shady Boughs 13 And from his cloudy Chambers he Doth water even the highest Hills And by his satisfying Works The Earth with plenteous fruit he fills 14 He for the Food of Cattle makes The tender Grass spring and suit forth And for Man's service various Herbs And so he brings food from the Earth 15 And Wine which doth exhilerate And Oil which doth smooth and refresh And Bread which strengtheneth Man's Heart And doth repair his wasting flesh 16 The Trees of God are full of Sap The stately Cedars which do stand In Lebanon and planted were Even by his own Almighty hand 17 The beauteous Birds among these Trees By Nature's skill their Nests do make As for the Stork the Firr-trees she Doth for her lofty dwelling take 18 The Mountains high for the wild Goats A place of secure refuge be The Conies in the craggy Rocks Dwell and for safety thither flee 19 The changing Moon he doth appoint The Seasons change to Man to shew The glorious Sun as taught by God Its time to rise and set doth know 20 The dismal darkness thou dost make And then the day gives place to night And in the Forests then come forth Wild beasts that shun Man and the Light 21 The hungry Lyons with their whelps Do then go roaring all abroad After their prey and fiercely seek Their sustenance assign'd from God 22 But when the shining Sun doth rise They get away together then For fear of Man and lay them down For rest and safety in their den 23 Then Man goes forth unto his work When he enjoys desired light His proper
19 But my affliction 's not forgot The bitter wormwood and the gall 20 My soul doth still remember these And 's humbled in me under all The Second Part. 21 Yet this consider'd stays my grief It 's mercy that we yet do live 22 And that we are not all consum'd But God doth Hope and Being give 23 Mercies are every morning new God's love and faithfulness is great 24 The Lord 's my portion saith my soul Therefore my hope on him is set 25 Surely to all that wait for him The Lord is ever good and kind The soul that truly seeketh him At last shall his compassion find 26 It is man's only way to good Whatever be his grief and streight For the salvation of the Lord In hope and quietness to wait 27 Surely it is for man's own good In youth to bear the taming yoke 28 He sits alone and silence keeps Instructed by God's teaching stroke 29 His mouth he putteth in the dust Submits to any terms of hope 30 He gives his cheeks to him that smites With lying railers will not cope 31 God will not ever cast us off Nor from his chosen people go 32 Though he cause grief his mercies great In time will his compassion show 33 He doth not willingly afflict Nor love the sons of men to grieve 34 To crush earth's prisoners under feet Whom mercy rather would relieve 35 That Judges should deny men right In men of power God doth not love 36 To subvert just men in their cause The righteous Lord doth not approve The Third Part. 37 Whos 's word can stand when God gain-says Who can o'rethrow his potent will 38 The good or ill that us befals His word and counsel do fulfil 39 Why should a man chastis'd for sin Who 's yet alive grudge and complain 40 It 's better search and try our ways Repent and turn to God again 41 O let us lift up hearts and hands For help and hope to God in heav'n 42 We all have sinned and rebell'd And thou our sin hast not forgiven 43 From us poor persecuted men With wrath thou coverest thy face Thy just displeasure hath us slain Not pitying our doleful case 44 Cover'd thou art from our access Inclosed in a darksome cloud Which prayers do not penetrate Though suff'ring make them long and loud 45 Among the people we are made The refuse scorn and off-scouring 46 Our enemies mouths wide open'd are Thy flock's to them a scorned thing 47 Fear and a snare on us are come Anguish and ruin is our state 48 Mine eyes with streaming tears bemoan Thy broken flock that 's desolate 49 My heart still feeds my trickling eyes My grief and weeping ceaseth not 50 Till God in mercy look from heav'n On those that now do seem forgot 51 Mine eye affects my soul with grief To see my City's woful case 52 Mine enemies hunt me causelesly As Fowler 's harmless birds do chase 53 To prison they condemned me And shut me up sentenc'd for death 54 The waters overflow'd my head Seeming to stop my vital breath The Fourth Part. 55 I called on thy name O Lord In the low dungeon like to die 56 Thou heard'st my voice hide not thine ear Now from my doleful sighs and cry 57 In that day when I call'd on thee To succour me thou didst draw near Encouraging my fainting soul Thou kindly bidst me Do not fear 58 Thou Lord against oppressing men Didst undertake and plead my cause Thou hast redeem'd my threaten'd life From wicked mens devouring jaws 59 O Lord thou hast seen all my wrong Judge thou my cause whose word I speak 60 Their plots and vengeance thou hast seen Me and thy righteous Laws to break 61 Lord thou their false reproach hast heard The plots which they for me did lay 62 The words of those that me accus'd Their plots against me all the day 63 When to their ease their feasts their play In pride and pleasure they refort Thou seest though they fear not thee I am their musick scorn and sport 64 Render to them a recompense According to their unjust deed 65 Through thy just curse upon their hearts Let deserv'd grief and sorrow feed 66 Persecute thou these men in wrath Who persecute me and thy word Destroy them let them not abide Under thy Heav'ns O righteous Lord. Gospel-Hymns Zachary's Song Luke 1.68 BLess'd be the Lord even Israel's God For he hath visited his flock And them redeem'd and raised up A Saviour out of David's stock As by his holy Prophets mouths He our Redemption had fore-told Who ever since the world began Were sent unto his Church of old That by him we should saved be From our destructive enemies all And of all them that do us hate Be saved from the servile thrall Thus the great mercies to perform Which to our fathers promis'd were His holy Covenant to make good The Oath which he to Abraham sware That this deliverance he would grant To us that now enthralled are That saved from our enemies hands We may serve him without their fear In holiness and righteousness Even all the days that we shall live And thou the Prophet shalt be call'd Which the most High to us doth give For thou his ways for to prepare Shalt go before the Lord 's own face To call his people to repent And make them know his saving grace For the remission of their sin Through the great mercy of our God Whereby the day-spring from on high With us doth take up his abode To give his saving light to them Who sit enthralled in darkness And in death's shadow And to guide Our feet into the way of Peace Mary's Song Luke 1.46 MY soul doth magnifie the Lord My spirit in me doth rejoyce In God who is my Saviour Express'd by this my thankful voice For greatly he regarded hath His handmaid's mean and low estate Henceforth all ages shall my name As great and blessed celebrate For he who the Almighty is Great things indeed hath to me done Holy's his Name his mercy is To them that fear him largely shown He with his arm hath shewed strength He them that great and mighty be Hath put down and exalted them Who are of mean and low degree The poor and hungry he hath fill'd With what for them is truly good And the rich he hath sent away Empty through want of needful food His servant Israel he hath help'd For his own ancient mercies 〈◊〉 As to our fathers to Abraham And to his seed of old he spake Simeon's Song Luke 2.29 LOrd let thy servant now In peace to thee depart According to the gracious word Of thee who faithful art For him mine eyes have seen Who brings thy saving grace Which thou prepared hast to shew Before all peoples face To the Gentiles a Light Them to illuminate And to thy people Israel The glory of their state The Angels Doxologie Luke 2.14 GLory be to the glorious God Whose dwelling's in the heavens
for war A steel bow 's broken by my arms 35 The shield of thy salvation Thou freely didst on me bestow And thy right hand hath held me up Thy gentleness hath made me grow 36 My steps enlarg'd my feet confirm'd 37 I have parsu'd mine enemies Them overtook nor did turn back Till they were fallen and could not rise 38 They wounded are fallen at my feet With strength thou girdest me for war 39 And those that up against me rose To me by thee subdued are 40 Mine enemies necks thou gavest me That I my haters might cut down 41 They cry'd but there was none to save To God but he would not them own 42 I beat them then in pieces small As dust before the wind that flies And I did cast them out as dirt Which in the street despised lies 43 Thou sav'st me from the peoples strife Made'st me the heathens head to be A people whom I have not known Shall subject servants be to me 44 At the first hearing they 'l obey The strangers shall to me submit 45 And they through fear shall fade away Who now in their close places sit 46 The Lord still lives Blest be my Rock Let God my help exalted be 47 God doth avenge me and he doth Subdue the people under me 48 He saves me from mine enemies Above all those thou liftest me That rise against me from the man Of violence thou set'st me free 49 Therefore among the heathen Lord I will with praise my thanks proclaim And unto thee I publickly Will sing the praises of thy name 50 He great deliverance gives his King And mercy to him doth extend To David his anointed one And to his seed even without end PSALM XIX 1 THe Glory of Almighty God The vast and glorious Heav'ns declare Behold the starry Firmament And see what his sublime works are 2 Day unto day doth utter speech Night unto night doth teach God's fear All Nations of whatever tongue These Publick Teachers words may hear 3 Their teaching Character and Line Doth through out all the earth extend 4 Their visible convincing words Go forth the world's utmost end A tabernacle there he set In them for the great glorious Sun 5 Which as a Bridegroom-and strong man Comes forth with joy his race to run 6 From end to end of the vast Heav'n Its rise progress and circuit is Nothing 's hid fron its lively heat Nor potent influence doth miss 7 The Law of God most perfect is Turns sinful souls from vanities God's testimony is most sure And maketh simple sinners wise 8 The Statutes of the Lord are right And do rejoyce the upright heart The Lord's Commandements are pure And light to darkned eyes impart 9 The fear of God is pure and clean And doth in force endure for ever The judgments of the Lord are true Holy and righteous altogether 10 Much more desirable than gold Than much and finest gold they are Than honey and the honey-comb Sweeter to holy souls by far 11 In all his doubts and dangers here They are thy servants guide and guard They that sincerely them observe Shall have a great and sure reward 12 Who can his errors understand O cleanse my life and soul within From secret faults Thy servant Lord 13 Keep thou from all presumptuous sin Let them not have dominion Consent and conquest over me And then from great and damning sin I shall by grace delivered be 14 Lord let the service of my mouth The thoughts and studies of my heart Be acceptable in thy sight Who my Strength and Redeemer art PSALM XX. 1 Lord hear thee in the day When trouble he doth send And let the name of Jacob's God Thy keeper thee defend 2 From his high Sanctuary Let him thy keeeper be And out of Sion let the Lord Support and strengthen thee 3 Thy gifts and offerings Let him remember still And let thy sacrifices find His kind accepting will 4 After thy just desire Let him grant unto thee Let all thy righteous Counsels still By him fulfilled be 5 In thy salvation we Rejoice in the God's name will Our banners we 'll set up The Lord All thy requests fulfil 6 Now know I that the Lord His own anointed saves And with his saving strength from heaven Will grant him what he craves 7 In Chariots some do trust Some Horses trust upon But we remember will the name Of our Lord God alone 8 We raised stand upright They are brought down and fall 9 Save Lord and let our blessed King Hear us when we do call PSALM XXI 1 THe King shall joyful be Lord in thy strength alone How greatly shall his heart rejoice In thy salvation 2 For thou hast given him His own heart's whole desire And nothing hast from him with-held Of what he did require 3 With good thou him prevent'st With blessings manifold And thou upon his head hast set A Crown of purest Gold 4 He asked life of thee Thou it to him dist give Even such a length of days that he For evermore shall live 5 In thy salvation His Glory is made great Honour and Royal Majesty Hast thou upon him set 6 For thou for evermore Most blessed hast him made And with thy gracious countenance Made him exceeding glad 7 Because upon the Lord The King his trust doth lay He through the grace of the most High Shall not be mov'd away 8 Thy hand shall find out all Thine enemies that be Yea thy right hand shall find out those That haters are of thee 9 Make them like hearths of fire In thy revenging hour The Lord shall swallow them in wrath The fire shall them devour 10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy From earth their wicked race Among the sons of men their seed Shall find no resting place 11 For they against thee did Mischief plot and intend A wicked purpose which yet they Could not bring to an end 12 Therefore thou shalt make them To turn their backs in chase And make thine arrows on the strings Ready against their face 13 In thine own strength O Lord Thy matchless Glory raise So shall our joyful songs rehearse Thy Power 's deserved praise PSALM XXII 1 MY God my God O why Hast thou forsaken me Why from my roaring voice so far Help and salvation be 2 Thou hear'st me not though I Call to thee day by day And in the seasons of the night I do not cease to pray 3 But thou art holy who Inhabit'st Israel's praise 4 Of old our Fathers trusted thee And thou didst help always 5 They trusted unto thee From thee deliverance came They wholly put their trust in thee And were not put to shame 6 But I am a poor worm Not worth the name of man Ev'n mens reproach and much despis'd I of the people am 7 All they that look on me Laugh me to scorn and they Shoot out the lip and shake the head And thus against me say 8 This man did trust in God To save him
Cedars break Which the Mount Lebanon doth bear 6 Yea he doth make the trembling hills Like a young Calf about to skip And Lebanon and Sirion Like the young Unicorns to leap 7 God's voice casts out the flames of fire This voice it makes the desarts quake 8 The Lord the great dry Wilderness Of Kadesh makes as mov'd to shake 9 God's voice doth make the Hinds to calve And makes the cover'd Forests bare And in his holy Temple all His glory do by praise declare 10 The Lord sits King on swelling floods His Rule and Kingdom never cease The Lord will give his people strength And he will bless them all with peace PSALM XXX 1 ALL thankful praise with heart and voice O gracious Lord I give to thee Who hast not made my foes rejoyce But hast sav'd and exalted me 2 O Lord my God to thee I cry'd In all my pain my fears and grief Thou soon didst hear and help provide And heal me with speedy relief 3 Lord thy great mercy did bring up My soul from death and hell to save Till now thou hast kept me alive From an untimely feared grave 4 O ye that are his holy ones Sing joyful praises to the Lord In memory of his holiness Give thanks to him with one accord 5 There 's but a moment in his wrath Endless life in his favour lies Though weeping be our evening's work Joy with us in the morn shall rise 6 In health and sweet prosperity My careless heart affected was As if I never should be mov'd And see what after came to pass 7 For thy great savour Lord did seem To make my present state secure My mountain of prosperity Did seem so setled strong and sure But when offended by my sin Thou hid'st from me thy pleased face My painful flesh and troubled soul Did quickly feel a changed case 8 Then did I cry to thee O Lord When pain and danger bid me pray I poured out before the Lord My earnest suit both night and day 9 I said what gain is in my blood If to the feared grave I go Doth silent dust there speak thy praise Doth it thy truth and mercy show 10 Hear gracious Lord a sinner's cries Who doth thy needful mercy crave Lord help me in this deep distress And from this feared danger save 11 Then didst thou turn my grief and moans Into a pleasant thankful voice My mourning garments thou took'st off And taught'st me to sing and rejoyce 12 That so my tongue may sing thy praise And never henceforth silent be O Lord my God for evermore I will give thanks and praise to thee The Old Metre lengthened 1 ALL laud and praise with heart and voice O Lord my God I give to thee Who didst not make my foes rejoyce But hast sav'd and exalted me 2 O Lord my God to thee I cry'd In all my woful pain and grief Thou gav'st an ear and didst provide To ease me with timely relief 3 Of thy good will thou hast call'd back My soul from death and hell to save Thou didst revive when strength did lack And sav'dst me from the feared grave 4 Sing praise ye Saints who prove and see The love and goodness of the Lord In memory of his Majesty Sing and rejoyce with one accord 5 For why his anger but a space Doth last and quickly slack again But in his favour and his grace Always doth blessed life remain 6 Though gripes and grief and pangs full sore Shall lodge with us all the dark night The Lord to joy shall us restore Betimes before the day be light 7 When I enjoy'd the Word at will Thus vainly would I boast and say Tush I am sure to feel no ill This health and wealth shall not decay 8 For thou O Lord of thy good grace Hadst sent me present strength and aid But when thou turn'dst away thy face My troubled mind was sore dismaid 9 Wherefore again yet did I cry To thee O gracious Lord of might My God with plaints I did apply And pray'd to him both day and night What gain is in my blood said I If hasty death destroy my days Doth dust declare thy Majesty Or yet thy grace and truth doth praise 10 Wherefore my God some pity take O Lord I humbly thee desire Do not this simple soul forsake My God of help I thee require 11 Then didst thou turn my grief and woe Into a glad and chearful voice The mournful weeds thou took'st me fro And mad'st me to sing and rejoyce 12 Wherefore my soul uncessantly Shall sing unto thy holy praise My Lord my God to thee will I Give laud and joyful thanks always PSALM XXXI 1 IN thee O Lord I put my trust Therefore let me not shamed be But in thy constant righteousness Do thou save and deliver me 2 Bow down thine ear to me with speed Vouchsafe me thy deliverance To save me by my Rock of strength My Fort and Castle of defence 3 For thou art in my strong Rock and thee I for my secure Fortress take Lead me therefore and keep me safe For thy own name and glory sake 4 Pull me out of the net which they For me in craft have closely laid Because thou only art my strength To which I trust and flie for aid 5 Into thy hand I do commit My spirit for thou alone art he Jehovah God of truth and grace Who hast in love redeemed me 6 Them that deceitful vanities Regard I shun and have abhor'd But my firm hope and confidence Is in my great and gracious Lord. 7 I in thy mercies will rejoyce Because my many miseries Thou weighest and hast known my soul In all my great adversities 8 Thou hast not left and shut me up Into my wrathful enemies hand Thou set'st my feet at liberty In a large and free room to stand 9 Have mercy on me O my God In my great trouble send relief Mine eye my belly and my soul Consumed are with pain and grief 10 My life is spent in grief my years In mournful sighs away do fly My strength doth fail my bones consume And this for mine iniquity 11 Among my foes I was a scorn And to my neighbours specially A fear to friends They that saw me Without away did from me fly 12 I am forgotten as a man That now a long time hath been dead And like a broken vessel cast Aside I am as perished 13 Many mens slanders I have heard Fear compass'd me about while they Against me did consult and plot By fraud to take my life away 14 But I did trust in thee O Lord When I by foes was under-trod This was my soul's support and rest I said Thou art my gracious God 15 My times are in thy hand and will Do thou save and deliver me From their hands who mine enemies And causeless persecutors be 16 On thine afflicted servant Lord Make thou thy pleased face to shine And save me for that mercies sake Which thou dost
and are great and strong And they are multiplyed much Who hate and hurt me to my wrong 20 And they that render ill for good Daily as enemies me use Not that I wrong them but because The thing that 's good I do and choose 21 Forsake me not O gracious Lord My God O be not far from me 22 Lord to my needful help make hast For my salvation is of thee PSALM XXXIX 1 I Said I will look to my ways Lest with my hasty words I sin While wicked men stand by my tongue I 'le bridle and with care keep in 2 With silence I became as dumb Resolv'd restraint did hold my peace Even from good talk and just defence Till stirred sorrows did increase 3 My heart within me then grew hot While troubled thus I mused long Till the restrained fire broke out Then thus I loos'd my bridled tongue 4 Lord make me to foreknow my end The shortness of my hastning days That I may know how frail I am And do my work without delays 5 Experience tells us Thou hast made Man's days to be but as a span Even as meer nothing before thee Is the short age of Mortal man Surely not one but every man Here in his setled fastest state Is altogether vanity His life is of so short a date 6 The worldling walks in a vain show Turmoils himself for wealth in vain He heapeth up but doth not know To whom it after will remain 7 And now O Lord what wait I for My trust and hope is all on thee 8 Save me from all my sins lest I To wicked fools a scorn should be 9 As dumb I opened not my mouth Because I knew the scourge was thine 10 Remove from me thy heavy hand Under thy chastening stroke I pine 11 When with rebukes thou chastenest man Justly for his iniquity His strength dissolveth like a moth Thus every man is vanity 12 Lord hear my pray'r regard my cries And be not silent at my tears I sojourn and a stranger am On earth as all my fathers were 13 O spare me yet prolong my days My strength and peace do thou restore Before I go from hence by death And shall be seen on earth no more PSALM XL. 1 I Waited long seeking the Lord And patiently his hand did bear And he inclined unto me And did my cry and prayer hear 2 He took me from an horrid pit Out of the sordid miry clay And set my feet upon a Rock And safely stablished my way 3 He put a new song in my mouth Our God to praise and magnifie Many shall see and fear the Lord And shall by faith on him rely 4 O blessed is that man whose trust Upon the Lord alone relies Respecting not the proud nor such As turn aside from truth to lyes 5 O Lord my God how many are The wonders thou for us hast wrought By which thou hast made known to us The measures of thy gracious thoughts They cannot all be reckoned up By-us in order unto thee If I would mention them they 'r more Than numbered by man can be 6 Thou dost no bloody sacrifice Or offering of us desire Burnt-offering and sin-offering Thou dost not now of man require Mine ear thou openedst to thy call 7 Then said I to thee Loe I come For so of me it written is Even in thy sacred book 's Volumne 8 My God I come to do thy will It is my work and great delight My heart within the Tables is Where thou thy holy Law didst write 9 In the great Congregation I Thy truth and righteousness did preach Thou know'st Lord I did not refrain By sinful silence holy speech 10 I have not in my heart conceal'd Thy sacred truth and righteousness But openly I have declar'd Thy saving grace and faithfulness Thy loving kindness I declar'd I did it not from men conceal To thy great Congregations Thy holy truth I did reveal 11 Thy tender saving mercies Lord With hold not nor to me deny Let thy benignity and truth Keep me from ill continually 12 For I am compassed about With evils great and manifold I am not able to look up My sins on me do take such hold More than hairs on my head they are Therefore my failing heart 's dismaid Be pleased Lord to deliver me O Lord make hast to be my aid 14 Shame and confusion be to all That seek my guiltless blood to spill Let them be driven back and sham'd Who wish in heart my wrongful ill 15 For a reward of this their shame Then desolate let them all be Who in my hurt do cry Aha With scorn and triumph over me 16 Let all that truly seek thy face Joy and be ever glad in thee Let such a love thy grace still say Our God shall magnified be 17 I weak and poor and needy am But yet am not of God forgot Thou art my help and saviour My God O too long tarry not PSALM XLI 1 BLest is he who with mercy doth The poor and needy's case consider For in the troublous evil day The Lord will him keep and deliver 2 The Lord will him preserve alive And he will bless him in the land And thou wilt not deliver him Into his enemies will and hand 3 Upon his bed of languishing He shall by thee be strengthened And in his painful sickness thou For ease wilt make and turn his bed 4 I pray'd and said to thee my God O be thou merciful to me And heal my soul of guilt and woe That hath by sin offended thee 5 Mine enemies speak and wish me ill And say How long when will he dye That so his name may be forgot Or buried under slanders lye 6 Or if he come to visit me He speaketh lies and vanity His heart to tell it all abroad Gathers it self iniquity 7 Against me they whisper and plot Then all that are mine enemies Together they some hurt or ill Against me daily do devise 8 There cleaves to him say they with joy Some ill disease or mortal sore And now that he doth keep his bed Off it he shall rise up no more 9 Yea he with whom I liv'd in peace Who was my friend and confident Who of my bread did eat even he His scornful hee l against me bent 10 But thou O Lord be merciful To me and raise me up agen That I in justice may requite The doings of these wicked men 11 And by this I may know that I Am own'd and favoured by thee Because mine enemies do not still Thus boast and triumph over me 12 Thou me in mine integrity Upholdest by thy saving grace And wilt me set for evermore Before thy pleased glorious face 13 The Lord the God of Israel For ever prais'd and blessed be From age to age for evermore All Saints Amen Amen say ye PSALM XLII 1 AS the dry Hart for water-brooks In thirst doth fainting pant and bray So after thee my gracious God My thirsty soul
doth pant and pray 2 My soul for God the living God Doth thirst O when when shall I come And in his house before my God Appear with joy as I have done 3 My flowing tears have been to me As bitter food both night and day While with reproach continually To me where is thy God they say 4 My soul is poured out in me When this I sadly think upon How I with the glad multitude Unto God's sacred house have gone I went with them to worship God With joyned voice of joy and praise Even with the multitude that kept In peace God's solemn holy days 5 Why art thou so cast down my soul And why so troubled and dismaid Trust God for I shall yet praise him Whose face and favour is my aid 6 My God my soul 's cast down in me But yet remember thee I will From Jordan's land and Hermonites And from the place of Mizar hill 7 At thy great water-spout's loud noise Dreadful deep unto deep doth call Frightfully over me have gone Thy rowling waves and billows all 8 Yet will the Lord command for me His kindest love by lightsome day By night his song shall be with me To God my life in faith I 'le pray 9 I 'le say to God My Rock O why Am I of thee forgotten so Why by my foes oppression Thus mourning do I daily go 10 It 's as a sword within my bones When thus my foes do me upbraid When in reproach Where is thy God To me I hear it daily said 11 Why art thou cast down O my soul And why with grief so much opprest Why so disquieted in me In God still place thy hope and rest Yet surely I shall speak his praise Who is and still hath been to me My heart 's my countenances health My ever gracious God is he PSALM XLIII 1 O God be thou the Judge And plead my righteous cause Against a Nation of bad men Who violate thy Laws From false men of deceit Men of Iniquity Do thou the great and righteous God Save and deliver me 2 Thou Lord art all my strength Why do I mourning go As if I were cast off by thee Oppressed by my foe 3 Send out thy Light and Truth Let them conduct me still And bring me to thy Tabernacles Upon thy holy hill 4 I 'le to God's Altar go To God my greatest joy O God my God to sing thy praise My harp will I employ 5 Why art thou O my soul Cast down what grieveth thee Why art thou with distrustful thoughts Disquieted in me Still trust and hope in God For him I shall yet praise He 's the health of my countenance He 'll be my God always PSALM XLIV 1 WE with our ears have heard O God Our ancient fathers have us told What work thou in their days hast done Even in the famous times of old 2 How thou didst drive the heathen out And plant them in their pleasant land By thy own gift but didst afflict The heathen people with thy hand 3 Their own sword got not them the land Nor their own arm and strength them save But thy hand and light countenance All this thy love and favour gave 4 Thou art my King for Jacob Lord Deliverance do thou command 5 Through thee we shall push down our foes Even those that do against us stand We through thy name will tread them down Who rose and fought against us have 6 For in my bow I will not trust Nor shall my sword or strength me save 7 But thou hast sav'd us from our foes And all our haters put to shame 8 In God we all the day do boast And we will ever praise thy name 9 But now even thou hast cast us off And us to open shame hast put And when our armies have gone forth With them to war thou goest not out 10 Thou mak'st us from the enemy To fly in fear and turn our back And they who hate us for themselves Our wealth as spoil away do take 11 Thou scatterest us in heathen lands And givest us to them for meat 12 And sellest us for nought and dost No wealth or increase for us get 13 Thou makest us a meer reproach To all our neighbours that are near Derision and a scorn to them That round about us dwelling are 14 Among the heathen thou dost us A jeast and very by-word make The people in contempt and spight At us cast down their heads do shake 15 My great confusion and disgrace I as before me always see Of my reproached countenance The shame hath daily covered me 16 Because of the reproachers voice Which of thee speaketh blasphemy Because of the revenging rage Of this our cruel enemy 17 All this is come on us yet we O God have not forgotten thee Nor falsly from thy Covenant Apostatiz'd and gone have we 18 Our heart 's not turned back nor have Our going steps from thy ways stray'd 19 Though thou us among Dragons break'st And in death's covering shade hast lay'd 20 If we the Lord's name have forgot Or any help from Idols sought 21 Would not God search this out who knows The very secrets of our thought 22 We for thy sake are kill'd all day And counted but as slaughter-sheep 23 Rise Lord cast us not ever off Awake for us why dost thou sleep 24 Wherefore thus hidest thou thy face Forgetting this our great distress 25 And look'st not on our miseries Nor them that do our souls oppress 26 Our soul is bowed down to dust To earth our very bellies cleave Arise Lord for thy mercies sake And us do thou redeem and save PSALM XLV 1 THe good things of the King I speak My fervent heart doth it indite My tongue is as the pen of one That very readily doth write 2 Thou fairer art than sons of men Plenteous grace to thy lips doth flow Therefore great blessings evermore God doth and will on thee bestow 3 O thou that art the mighty one Thy warlike sword gird on thy thigh 4 In all thy glory excellent And in thy splendid majesty In state do thou ride prosperously For meekness truth and righteousness And dreadful things thy strong right hand Shall do and reach thee by success 5 Thine arrows are sharp in the hearts Of the King's hateful enemies Whereby the people under thee Shall fall that do against thee rise 6 For ever and for ever Lord Abides thy Royal Throne of might The Scepter of thy Kingdom is A Scepter that is just and right 7 Thou lov'st the right and hatest ill Therefore thy God doth and still shall With Oyl of gladness thee anoint Even much above thy fellows all 8 Of Aloes Myrrh and Cassia A pleasant smell thy garments had Out of the Ivory palaces Whereby they greatly made thee glad 9 Among thy women honourable Kings daughters waiting were at hand And on thy right hand did the Queen In precious gold of Ophir stand 10 Hearken O daughter and advise To me
the earth below Shew forth thy Glorious Majesty 6 They for my steps prepar'd a net My soul by them is bowed down They dig'd a pit for me in which Themselves are fallen and overthrown 7 My heart is fixt my heart is fixt O God I 'le sing thy joyful praise 8 My glory wake Psaltery and Harp My self for this I 'le early raise 9 Among the people I 'le thee praise With publick songs thee magnifie 10 Thy mercies great unto the heav'ns Thy truth unto the cloudy sky 11 Exalted be thy glorious name O God above the heavens high And over all the earth advance Thy glorious pow'r and majesty PSALM LVIII 1 DO you that are in Council met Speak and determine what is just And justly judge ye sons of men Indeed according to your trust 2 Yea in your hearts you wickedness Contrive plot and promote and then Out of the Judgment-seats your hands Weigh violence on earth to men 3 Bad men are from the womb estrang'd From every just and holy way As soon as they are born they are Inclin'd by lies to go astray 4 To serpent's poyson very like Their hurtful poyson doth appear And like the adder deaf they are That fast doth close and stop her ear 5 Lest she should hear the charmer's voice At all although the man should charm Never so wisely to inchant Her that she do no deadly harm 6 Break thou their poysonous teeth O God Yea from their mouth quite break them out Yea break the sharp devouring teeth Of Lions even the young and stout 7 Let them like waters melt away Which downward still do slide and flow In pieces cut his arrows all When he doth bend his unjust bow 8 Like to a snail that melts away Let them all pass and hence be gone That like the womb 's untimely birth They never see the shining sun 9 Before your pots can feel the thorns Away in wrath he shall them drive And with his whirlwind's angry storms Sweep them away from hence alive 10 The righteous shall rejoyce when he This just revenge from God shall see And in the blood of wicked men Even wash his conquering feet shall he 11 Then men shall say Truly there is For righteous men a great reward Surely there is a God that doth The earth judge and mens works regard PSALM LIX 1 DEliver me O God From all mine enemies Set me in safety from all them That do against me rise 2 Deliver me from them That work-iniquity Save me from men of blood who for My life in wait do lie 3 Against me the great men Have joyntly gathered bin But not for my transgression Lord Nor real guilt of sin 4 They run and do prepare Themselves without any crime Behold their course and now awake And help thou me betime 5 Awake to visit such Lord God of Israel And spare not those who against thee Do wickedly rebel 6 At evening they return Like dogs they make a noise And round about the City go With dogged snarling voice 7 Their mouths do belch out rage And in their lips are swords For still they do perswade themselves Thou hearest not their words 8 Thou Lord wilt them despise And all the heathen mock 9 His strength shall make me wait on thee Thou art my help and rock 10 The God of my mercies With help shall me prevent And let me see on these my foes His righteous punishment 11 Lest it should be forgot Scatter them all abroad And bring them down but slay them not O thou our shield and God 12 For the sin of their words Take thou them in their pride And for the curses and the lies Which from their lips do slide 13 In wrath consume them all That so they may not be That Jacob's God rules through the earth Let them all know and see 14 At even let them return And make like dogs a noise And round about the City go With discontented voice Let them wander about As wanting food to eat And pine and grudge through emptiness Not satisfy'd with meat 16 I of thy power will sing Early thy mercy praise Thou my defence and refuge wast In all my troublous days 17 Unto thee I will sing Who art my strength and power The God of all my mercies and My sure defence and tower PSALM LX. 1 LOrd thou of late hast cast us off And thou hast scattered us abroad Thou justly hast displeased been O turn again to us O God 2 Thou mad'st the earth it self to quake Thine heavy anger did it break O heal thou now its grievous breach For it as yet doth sorely shake 3 Unto thy people thou hard things Hast shew'd and sharply on them sent And thou hast caused them to drink The wine of great astonishment 4 And yet a banner thou hast given To them that do thee humbly fear That it by them because of truth Displayed may to all appear 5 That thy dearly beloved flock Sav'd and delivered may be Help O our God with thy right hand In mercy do thou answer me 6 I will rejoyce because the Lord Spake from his high and holy seat Sechem I will divide and will The fruitful Vale of Succoth mete 7 Gilead belongeth unto me Manasseh also mine shall be Ephraim is the strength of my head Judah rules and gives Laws for me 8 Moab my servile wash-pot is On Edom I will freely tread And the Philistine nation all I will in warlike triumph lead 9 Who is he that will bring me in The City strong and fortify'd And who will into Edom's land Me and my conquering armies guide 10 Even he that seem'd to cast us off And wilt not thou again O God Go forth before our warlike hosts When they to fight do march abroad 11 From trouble give us thy sure help For meerly vain is all mens aid 12 Through God we shall do valiantly Our foes God down for us will tread PSALM LXI 1 HEar thou my cries O God Unto my pray'r attend 2 Even from the ends of all the earth My cry to thee I send When my heart 's overwhelm'd With my perplexity Lead me to the defensive Rock That higher is than I. 3 For thou hast been to me A shelter by thy power And from the rage of enemies A strong defensive tower 4 I in thy Tabernacle For ever will abide Under the covert of thy wings With trust will I reside 5 For thou my solemn vows To thee my God didst hear And gavest me the heritage Of those thy name that fear 6 A life by thee prolong'd Thou to the King wilt give As many generations are The life that he shall live 7 For ever before God His dwelling he shall have Prepare thy mercy and thy truth Which him may ever save 8 So will I evermore Sing praises to thy name That having made my vows I may Daily perform the same PSALM LXII 1 MY soul in silence waits on God My only help and rock is he 2
Princes Zebulon And with them also Naphtali's 28 Thy God commands thy strength O God Confirm what thou for us hast wrought 29 For thy house at Jerusalem King's Presents shall to thee be brought 30 Spear-men and people rude rebuke Till all of them submissive are And tribute pay scatter thou them That do delight in strife and war 31 Princes shall then submit to thee And hither come from Egypt lands And Ethiopia to God Shall soon stretch out her subject hands 32 Sing unto God adoring praise O all ye people of the earth Sing praises to the Lord our God With reverence and holy mirth 33 To him that on the heaven of heavens Which was of old doth ride rejoyce His voice he sendeth all abroad It is a mighty dreadful voice 34 Ascribe ye power unto God Who reigns on high o're Israel And his great strength and excellence Doth in the heav'ns in glory dwell 35 Dreadful out of his holy place Is Israel's God who doth afford Unto his people strength and pow'r Blessed therefore be God our Lord. PSALM LXIX 1 SAve me O God for rising floods Unto my fearful soul are come 2 I sink in deep unstable mire Deep waters have me overflown 3 I of my crying weary am My voice is hoarse my throat is dry'd My eyes also do fall while I Do waiting for my God abide 4 More than my hairs of head they be Who causeless hatred to me bear And my injurious enemies That would destroy me mighty are Then I restored that to them Which never taken was by me 5 O God thou know'st my foolishness And my sins are not hid from thee 6 Let not them for my sake be sham'd O Lord of Hosts that wait on thee Nor those that seek thee Israel's God For my own cause confounded be 7 For thy sake I have born reproach And shame hath covered my face 8 I to my brethren strange am grown An Alien to my mother's race 9 Because the zeal did eat me up Which to thy sacred house I bear And the reproaches cast on thee Upon me fallen for thy cause are 10 When I in tears with fasting lay This to my own reproach was turn'd A Proverb to them I became 11 When I in sackcloth cloathed mourn'd 12 The great men that sit in the gate Spake of me all the ill they think And I was made the song of them That are the drinkers of strong drink 13 But Lord in an accepted time My Prayer I send up to thee Lord in thy mercies multitude And in thy saving truth hear me 14 Deliver me out of the mire And me from sinking in it keep Save me from them that do me hate And out of all these waters deep 15 Let not the floods me overflow Nor let the deeps up swallow me And let not the pit's mouth below Upon me buryed closed be 16 Hear me O Lord for thy sure love And kindness is exceeding good Turn thou to me according to Thy tender mercies multitude 17 From thy servant hide not thy face In this my trouble soon attend 18 Draw nigh my soul and it redeem And from mine enemies me defend 19 To thee is my reproach well known My shame and my causeless disgrace My adversaries and their ways Are open all before thy face 20 Reproach hath broke my heart and grief Abounds in me I lookt for some To pity me but there was none True comforters I found not one 21 They gave me also bitter gall For food which they would have me eat They gave me vinegar to drink In scorn when as my thirst was great 22 Let their own Table be their snare Do thou to them in justice make Their welfare and posterity Become a trap themselves to take 23 And let their eyes so darkened be That pleasant light do them forsake And let their weakned Ioyns by thee Be made continually to shake 24 Thy dreadful indignation Pour out upon these wicked men And let thy hot displeasure and Thy heavy wrath take hold on them 25 And let their stately palaces Be left as desolate within Their tents without inhabitants Where these ill men have dwellers bin 26 Because him whom thou didst correct Yet they have persecuted more They talk unto the grief of those Whom thou didst strike and wound before 27 Add thou deserved punishment Unto their hainous wilful sin And to thy saying righteousness Let them not have admission in 28 Out of the book of living men Let them by death be blotted quite And with the just that blessed are Do not their names number and write 29 But I am poor and sorrowful Because of my adversity But let thy saving grace O Lord Yet raise and set me up on high 30 The Name of God I with a song Will praise and honour joyfully And with thanksgiving for his grace The Lord's name I will magnifie 31 This also shall a sacrifice More acceptable to him be Than Bull or Ox with hoof and horns If they were offered by me 32 The meek and humble shall be glad And greatly joy when this they see Your hearts shall live that seek the Lord And ever comfortable be 33 Because the Lord doth hear the poor When they to him do cry and pray And doth not neglect or despise Those that for him in prison lay 34 Let the high heav'ns and spacious earth Unto Jehovah praises give The Ocean deep and every thing Which therein doth but creep and live 35 For God will surely Sion save And Judah's Cities again build That men may them possess and dwell In houses plentifully fill'd 36 And they that are his servants seed Shall be possessors of the same And they shall have their dwelling there Who do sincerely love his name PSALM LXX 1 O God from my distress and fear Do thou vouchsafe to set me free Make hast O Lord do thou afford Thy speedy saving help to me 2 Let them confounded be and sham'd Who do my death seek and conspire Confound them all and turn them back That do my hurt in heart desire 3 Let shame be their reward Let them Fly and be turned back by thee Who triumphing in my distress Do say in scorn Aha to me 4 Let all that truly seek thy face With joy be ever glad in thee Let all that thy salvation love Say still the Lord God praised be 5 But I am poor and weak O God Make hast to me and do not stay Thou art my Saviour and help Help Lord and make no more delay PSALM LXXI 1 IN thee O Lord I put my trust Let me no hurtful shame befal 2 In justice save me from my foes By thee let me escape them all Incline thine ear and save thou me 3 Be thou my strength my rock and fort My dwelling unto which I may For help and refuge still resort My safety is thy own Command My rock and fortress thou wilt be 4 From wicked unjust cruel men Do thou my God deliver me 5 For upon thee
my God alone My trust and hope do all depend Even from my raw and feeble youth It 's thou that didst me still defend 6 Thou hast sustain'd me from the womb It 's thou that safely didst take me From mother's bowels All my thanks And praise shall always be to thee 7 A wonder I to many am But thou art still my refuge strong 8 With thy praise let my mouth be fill'd And with thy honour all day long 9 Cast me not off now when old age And feebleness on me is come O do not me forsake at last When failing strength is almost gone 10 For those that are mine enemies Against me speak with bitter hate And they together counsel take Who for my life lay daily wait 11 They say His God in whom he trusts Doth wholly now this man forsake There 's none to save him now let us Him persecute and boldly take 12 O God in time of my distress Be not thou far from me away My God who art my only help Now help thou me without delay 13 Confound consume them all that are To my soul causeless enemies Let them be cloathed all with shame Who do my hurt seek and devise 14 But I will wholly trust in thee And hope in thee continually And yet with praises more and more Thy great name I will magnifie 15 Thy righteousness and saving help My mouth abroad shall daily show For I of all thy mercies great The numbers do not cannot know 16 In all my duty I 'le go on In thy strength only O my Lord And only thy own righteousness To men I 'le mention and record 17 Even from my tender youth O God By thee it is I have been taught And hitherto I have declar'd The wonders all which thou hast wrought 18 Now Lord forsake me not when I Old feeble and grey-headed grow Till to this age and all to come I shall thy strength and power show 19 High is thy righteousness O God And very great things thou hast done Lord who may be compar'd with thee Surely there is not any one 20 Thou Lord who troubles great and sore Didst bring on me and make me know Shalt quicken and bring me again Even from the depth of earth below 21 Yea thou my greatness shalt increase Thy blessings on me shall abound And with thy comforts and sweet peace Thou safely wilt enclose me round 22 I 'le use the pleasant Psaltery To make thy praises further known And with the Harp I 'le sing to thee O Israel's most Holy One. 23 My lips shall my great joy express When singing I thy praises sound My soul which thou redeemed hast Shall with her holy joy abound 24 And of thy righteousness my tongue Shall talk with joy all the day long For they confounded are with shame Who sought my hurt and-death with wrong PSALM LXXII 1 LOrd give thy judgments to the King And to his son thy righteousness 2 With right he shall thy people judge Thy poor with truth and uprightness 3 Then shall the mountains great and firm Bring to the neighbour people peace So also shall the little hills By pleasant fruits of righteousness 4 The poorest people he shall judge And he shall save the poor and weak And those that their oppressors are Cast down he shall in pieces break 5 And even from age to age shall they Reverence thy name and fear thy might As long as Sun doth shine by day Or as the Moon doth shine by night 6 He shall come down like fruitful rain Upon the grounds of late mown grass And as for watering the dry earth Refreshing showers from heav'n do pass 7 Just men shall flourish in his days And all shall have abundant peace And this continued shall be Until the Moon to shine doth cease 8 His great and blest dominion shall Widely from Sea to Sea extend And from the River it shall reach To the earth's remote utmost end 9 Those that dwell in the wilderness Humbly bow down before him must And they that are his enemies Must crowch and lick the very dust 10 The Kings of Tarshish and the Isles To him shall costly Presents bring The King of Sheba and Seba Shall send their gifts and offering 11 Yea all the greatest Kings on earth Shall prostrate down before him fall The many nations of the world Shall also humbly serve him all 12 The weak and needy he will save When they for help to him do call Also the poor and forlorn man That hath no humane help at all 13 Those that are low and indigent He shall in tender mercy spare And not oppress but save the souls Of them that weak and needy are 14 Their souls from fraud and violence His pow'r and mercy shall redeem Their blood he shall not vilifie But it as precious shall esteem 15 He shall live and to him shall be Presented Sheba's finest gold He shall be pray'd for constantly And daily be his praise extoll'd 16 The corn that grows on mountain tops Prosp'ring the reaper's hand shall fill The fruit thereof shall wave and shake Like trees on woody Lebanon hill His City shall be flourishing With store of Citizens abound Even as the green and plenteous grass Doth flourish on the fertile ground 17 His name shall last His father's name By him his son continue shall And men in him shall blessed be All nations him shall blessed call 18 And blessed be his holy name For ever by all living men 19 And with his glory let the earth Be wholly fill'd Amen Amen PSALM LXXIII 1 YEt surely God is ever good To all his Israel and to them Whose hearts are purify'd and clean And that are upright hearted men 2 But yet my weakness was so great In my time of temptation That my foot-steps had well-nigh slipt My stumbling feet were almost gone 3 For at the fools who flourished I grudg'd and looked enviously When as I saw how wicked men Do live in great prosperity 4 For there are no bands in their death Their strength shews they are fully fed 5 Other mens troubles they escape And are not like them chastened 6 Therefore with pride as with a chain About they all encompass'd are And covered with violence It as a garment they do wear 7 Their eyes stand out with fat they have More than their very hearts can wish 8 They are corrupt their wicked speech Oppressing lofty and pâ—oud is 9 They set their mouth against the Heav'ns In their prophane blaspheming talk And their reviling lavish tongue At large throughout the earth doth walk 10 And hereupon his people do Hither themselves return agen And waters of a vessel full Are drawn and wrung out unto them 11 And thus they say How can it be That God all this doth note and know And that there is in the most high Knowledge of things done here below 12 Behold these the ungodly are Who live in health and fleshly ease Who prosper in the present
16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me Thy terrors kill and cast me out 17 Like floods they daily on me come Gather and compass me about 18 My dearest friends that did me love Thou hast removed far from me Those that my old acquaintance were Into the dark are cast by thee PSALM LXXXIX 1 OF the great mercies of the Lord I will perpetually sing The notice of thy faithfulness To ages all my mouth shall bring 2 For I have said that mercy shall Be built for ever to endure And in the very heav'ns thou wilt Thy faithfulness establish sure 3 I to my chosen servant have My self by my own Covenant ty'd Even unto David and to him By oath I have it ratify'd 4 That I thy seed establish will That it for evermore endure And to all generations Thy throne will build and settle sure 5 The praises of thy wonders Lord The heav'ns shall gloriously express The Congregations of thy Saints Shall praise thy truth and faithfulness 6 For in the heav'ns themselves who may With thee the only Lord compare Who may be liken'd to the Lord Of all their sons that mighty are 7 God greatly to be feared is Th' assemblies of the Saints throughout And to be had in reverence Of all that him attend about 8 O thou that art the Lord of Hosts What Lord like thee with strength is crown'd Who 's like to thee in faithfulness Which doth thy Throne encompass round 9 When as the swelling Sea doth rage Thou over it dost rule and reign And when the waves thereof arise Thou quickly stillest them again 10 Rahab in pieces thou didst break As one that slain on the earth lies And with thy own Almighty arm Thou scattered hast thine enemies 11 The heav'n and earth the world is thine Their fulness all Thou foundest them 12 Thou mad'st the North and South Tabor And Hermon glory in thy name 13 Strong is thine arm high thy right hand 14 Justice and Judgment are the place Where thy Throne dwells Mercy and Truth Shall ever go before thy face 15 That people truly blessed is The joyful sound and call that know In the light of thy countenance O Lord they onward still shall go 16 In thy great name that people shall Rejoyce all day exceedingly And in thy perfect righteousness Shall they exalted be on high 17 Thou art the glory of their strength Thy love doth exaltation bring 18 Thou Lord alone art our defence And Israel's Holy One our King 19 In vision to thy Holy One Thou said'st I have laid help upon One that is strong and out of all I did exalt a chosen one 20 David my servant I have found With holy Oyl did him anoint 21 With whom my hand shall stablish'd be My arm shall strength to him appoint 22 His foes shall not exact on him Wicked men shall not him afflict 23 His foes before him I 'le beat down His haters I 'le with plagues correct 24 My mercy and my faithfulness Shall keep him and be with him still And while he trusteth in my name His horn of Power exalt I will 25 I 'le set his hand upon the sea And on the rivers his right hand 26 He 'll cry My Father and my God The Rock on which my help doth stand 27 Also I 'le make him my first-born Higher than Kings of any land 28 Mercy I 'le ever keep for him With him my Covenant fast shall stand 29 His seed I 'le make still to endure And as the days of heav'n his Throne 30 If his Children my Law forsake My Judgments do not keep and own 31 If they my statutes do prophane And keep not my Commandements 32 Their sins I 'le visit with the rod And their misdeeds with chastisements 33 Yet I 'le not take from him my love Nor will my faithful promise break 34 My Covenant I 'le not violate Nor alter what of him I spake 35 Once by my Holiness I sware And unto David will not lye 36 His seed and throne shall as the Sun Before me last perpetually 37 And it shall be established For ever and like to the Moon Which as a witness in the heav'ns My steady faithfulness makes known 38 But now thou dost him so forsake As if cast down thou dost him loath And with this thine anointed one Thou dealest as in heavy wrath 39 Thy servant's Covenant hast made void And on the ground prophan'd his Crown 40 His strong holds thou to ruin brought'st And hast broke all his hedges down 41 All spoil him that pass by the way To neighbours a reproach is he 42 And thou hast set up their right hand That his great adversaries be Thou hast made all his foes rejoyce 43 The edge of his sword in his hand Thou turned hast and hast not him Made able in the fight to stand 44 His glory thou hast made to cease His Throne down to the ground hast cast 45 His days of youth hast shortened And him with shame thou covered hast 46 How long Lord shall it ever be That thou wilt hide thy self in ire And shall thy wrath unreconcil'd Consume and burn us up as fire 47 Remember how short is the time That I must here on earth remain Wherefore hast thou all mortal men Made to live here as meerly vain 48 What man is he that liveth here And fatal Death shall never see And who is he that from the grave Can his own life save and set free 49 The former loving kindnesses Which thou O Lord to him didst bear Where are they now Which in thy truth Thou unto David then didst swear 50 Remember Lord the great reproach Which we thy servants daily bear How in my bosom I receive The scorn of them that mighty are 51 The scorn wherewith thine enemies Have thee reproach'd Lord think upon Even that wherewith they have reproach'd The steps of thine anointed One. 52 Blessed and magnified be For evermore our glorious Lord Let all thy Church resound with me Amen Amen with one accord PSALM XC 1 LOrd thou hast been our dwelling-place In all the Changes we have past Unto thy wandring people thou A certain guide and safety wast 2 Before the mountains were brought forth And thou the earth and world didst frame In and to all Eternity Thou art true God and still the same 3 Thou dost dissolve this frame of MAN By wasting age and chastning pain And say'st unto them Now return You mortal sons of men again 4 The long time of a thousand years Appeareth in thy boundless sight As yesterday when it is past And as a hasty watch by night 5 From whence thou carryest them away As things a speedy torrent doth They are asleep and like the grass Which is but of one morning's growth 6 In that morning it flourisheth It quickly grows up and is green And in the evening it 's cut down And dead and withered is seen 7 For by thine anger for our sin We are from earth consum'd
sown And gladness is by God design'd For every upright hearted one 12 Ye righteous in the Lord your God Rejoyce with hearty thankfulness The honourable memory Keep of his perfect holiness PSALM XCVIII 1 SIng a new song to God The things which he hath done Are great and marvellous And make his Greatness known His right hand high And holy arm Did well perform His victory 2 His great salvation The Lord hath well made known And in the heathens sight His righteousness hath shown 3 Toward Israel He mercy hath And his firm truth Remembred well All the ends of the earth God's saving works and ways Have with their eyes beheld 4 With joy sound forth his praise Let all men raise Their loudest voice In him rejoyce And sing his praise 5 Sing to God with the Harp With Psalms and Musick 's voice 6 Trumpets and Cornets sound Make ye a joyful noise Before the Lord The World 's great King With praises sing With sweet concord 7 Let the great Ocean roar Its waves and fulness swell 8 Let all the world praise God And they that therein dwell Let floods applaud And hills rejoyce As with one voice The Lord to laud. 9 God's presence all attend For he is coming forth With truth and righteousness To judge all men on earth The world will he To judgment call And judge men all With equity PSALM XCIX 1 TRemble ye people of the world The righteous Lord doth reign above He sits between the Cherubims The earth below shall quake and move 2 The Lord in Sion is extoll'd He is above all people high 3 His holy great and dreadful name Let all men fear and magnifie 4 Judgment lov'd is the strength of Kings Thou settlest truth and equity Just judgment thou dost execute And rulest Jacob righteously 5 Exalt the Name of God the Lord And at his foot-stool humbly fall He 's holy in true holiness Worship him O ye people all 6 Moses and Aaron with his Priests Samuel and other such as have Call'd on him when to him they pray'd He heard and gracious answer gave 7 Within the cloudy Pillar he Spake unto them his word and will His testimony they receiv'd And kept his holy precepts still 8 Thou answer'dst them O Lord our God And often didst their sins forgive Though oft also thou took'st revenge Of what they did amiss contrive 9 Exalt the name of our Lord God And at his chosen holy hill Worship him in true holiness For God our Lord is holy still PSALM C. 1 ALL people that do dwell Abroad on all the earth Make to the Lord a joyful noise Praise him with holy mirth 2 O serve our glorious Lord With gladness and with joys Before his holy presence come With chearful singing voice 3 Know that the Lord is God It 's he that did us make Not we our selves us as his flock And people he doth take 4 Enter his gates with thanks Into his courts with praise Be truly thankful unto him And bless his name always 5 For God our Lord is good His mercies ever sure And to all generations His truth shall still endure The Old Metre 1 ALL people that on earth do dwell Sing to the Lord with chearful voice 2 Him serve with fear his praise forth tell Come ye before him and rejoyce 3 The Lord ye know is God indeed Without our aid he did us make We are his flock he doth us feed And for his sheep he doth us take 4 O enter then his gates with praise Approach with joy his courts unto Praise laud and bless his name always For it is seemly so to do 5 For why the Lord our God is good His mercy is for ever sure His truth at all times firmly stood And shall from age to age endure PSALM CI. 1 MErcy and Judgment are my song Of these O Lord I 'le sing to thee 2 I 'le wisely walk in perfect way O Lord when wilt thou come to me I 'le walk within my house and place With a just mind and perfect heart 3 All that is wicked and prophane Shall from before my eyes depart I hate their works that turn aside To me it shall not come or cleave 4 I will not know a wicked man A froward heart I 'le shun and leave 5 I 'le cut him off who slandereth His righteous neighbour secretly I 'le not endure men of proud hearts Nor him that scorns and looketh high 6 Mine eyes shall look to faithful men That they may always dwell with me He that walks in a perfect way My welcome servant he shall be 7 He that is bent to use deceit In my house shall not with me dwell Nor shall he tarry in my sight Who lyes doth use himself to tell 8 The wicked of the land I will Soon root out and their works deface That from the City of the Lord I may cut off their wicked race PSALM CII A Prayer of the afflicted when he is overwhelmed And poureth out his complaint before the Lord. 1 LOrd hearken to my fervent prayer And let my cry come un to thee 2 And now when I in trouble am Hide not thy gracious face from me Bow thine ear to me when I call Hear me and answer speedily 3 My days consumed are like smoak My very bones are burnt and dry 4 My heart within me smitten is And like to grass it 's withered So swallow'd up with grief that I Do even forget to eat my bread 5 By reason of my groaning voice My bones cleave to my withered skin 6 I like mournful Pelican Of the sad wilderness have bin I like an Owl in desart am Who nightly there doth streech and moan 7 I watch and like a sparrow am That sits on the house-top alone 8 My persecuting enemies All day do me reproach and scorn And they that mad against me are Are all against me set and sworn 9 Ashes I eaten have like bread And mingled have my drink with tears 10 Because thine indignation hot And wrath doth cause my pains and fears In mercy thou didst lift me up But thou hast cast me very low 11 My days like shadows do decline And like the wither'd grass I grow 12 But thou art the eternal God And ever dost endure the same Beyond all generations is The memory of thy glorious name 13 Thou wilt arise On Sion thou Wilt timely shew thy mercy great The time to favour her is come The time foretold which thou hast set 14 For in her very ruin'd stones Thy faithful servants pleasure take They love the very dust thereof And therefore for her prayers make 15 So shall the very heathens fear The mighty Lord 's most holy name And all the Kings on earth shall dread Thy glorious Majesty and fame 16 When God his Sion shall build up In glory he 'll to us appear 17 Distress'd mens prayers he 'll regard And not despise but gently hear 18 This for the ages yet to come Shall
the wondrous works which he For us the Sons of Men hath done 32 And when the people congregate Let them his Name in triumph raise And in the Elders assemblies Let all there celebrate his praise 33 To Desarts he the Rivers turns And water springs into dry ground 34 A fruitful land to barrenness When wickedness doth there abound 35 He desarts turns to water-pools And dry ground into water springs 36 And there he makes the hungry dwell And them to build a City brings 37 To sow the fields and plant vineyards Which may yield them fruit of increase 38 He blesseth them they multiply Their flocks preserveth from decrease 39 But yet in this unconstant state They are diminished again And for their sins they are brought low Opprest afflicted and in pain 40 On Princes he doth pour contempt And wandring causeth them to stay In desart places for their sin Where desolate they find no way 41 Yet setteth he the poor on high From their contempt and miseries And like to great increasing flocks Giveth them prosperous families 42 All this the righteous shall perceive And shall rejoice these things to see And the mouth of iniquity Shall ever stopt and silent be Who so is wise and will these things Observe and in their minds record They shall well understand and taste The loving kindness of the Lord. PSALM CVIII 1 O God my heart is fixt I will sing and give praise 2 My Glory Psaltery Harp and self For this I 'll early raise 3 Among the people all I 'll praise thy name O God Thy praises I will sing among The Nations all abroad 4 For great thy mercy is Above the Heavens high Thy truth and faithfulness doth reach Above the cloudy Skie 5 Above the Heavens O God Be thou exalted high And over all the spacious earth Thy Glory magnifie 6 That thy beloved Ones Delivered may be O save them with thine own right hand And hear and answer me 7 I will rejoice for God Spake from his holy Seat Shechem I will divide and will The Vale of Succoth mete 8 Gilead is only mine Manasseh mine shall be Ephraim is the strength of my Head Juda gives Laws for me 9 Moab my washpot is On Edom I will tread And the Philistine-Nation all In triumph I will lead 10 Who will bring me into The City fortify'd And who will into Edom's Land My conquering Army guide 11 Even he that cast us off And wilt not thou O God Again go forth before our Hosts When â—hey do march abroad 12 From trouble give us help For vain is all Mens aid 13 Through God we shall do valiantly Our Foes he down will tread PSALM CIX 1 O Thou that art God of my praise Neglect me not hold not thy peace 2 For Mouths of wicked lying Men To speak against me do not cease The Mouths of false deceitful Men Against me widely opened be And with a false and lying Tongue Thou knowest they have accused me 3 They did beset me round about With bitter words of hateful spight And though I gave to them no Cause Against me they did speak and fight 4 They for my love became my foes But I did give my self to pray 5 They me with ill for good reward And hatred for my love repay 6 Set over him a wicked Man Let Satan stand at his right hand 7 And let his Prayer become sin Let him when judged be condemn'd 8 Let his days be but few and short His Office let another take 9 Let his Children be Fatherless His Wife do thou a Widow make 10 Let his Children wander and beg And seek their Bread in Desert soil 11 The Extortioner caâ—ch all he hath Let Strangers all his Labours spoil 12 Let none to him Mercy extend Nor pity to his Orphans show 13 Let his Off-spring be quite cut off And the next Age his name not know 14 Let God his Father's Wickedness In Justice to remembrance call Let unto him his Mother's sin Be never blotted out at all 15 But let their sins and them be seen Before the Lord continually That he may cut off from the Earth Their very Name and Memory 16 Because he did not Mercy show But persecute the Weak and Poor That such as were of broken heart He might destroy or break yet more 17 As he in cursing did delight Upon himself so let it come In blessing he delighted not So him let it be still far from 18 As he with cursing cloath'd himself As garments cloath adorned ones As water let it on him come And like to oil into his bones 19 As garments to him let it be Even as his covering and array And as a girdle on his loins Wherewith he girded is alway 20 From God let this be the reward To him that is mine enemy And of them that against my Soul Do evil speak maliciously 21 But for thy own name sake O Lord Do thou in mercy deal with me Thy mercies good therefore O Lord By it let me delivered be 22 I poor and needy am my heart Wounded in me hath comfort lost 23 Like the declining shadow sunk And like the flitting Locust tost 24 My knees with fasting are grown weak My fatness and my flesh are worn 25 To them that see me a reproach They shake their heads at me in scorn 26 Help me O Lord my God and let Thy mercy my deliverance bring 27 That they may know it is thy hand And that the Lord hath done the thing 28 Bless thou whenever they do curse When they rise let them shamed be But let thy faithful Servants all Be glad and still rejoice in thee 29 And let my causless enemies Be cloathed with shame and disgrace And let confusion mantle like Become the covering of their face 30 But with my mouth I daily will Declare the praises of the Lord And among the great multitude His praises I 'll speak and record 31 For he shall stand at the right hand Of the oppressed to controul Their foes and save them from those Men who do condemn the guiltless Soul PSALM CX 1 THE Lord to my Lord said Sit thou at my right hand Till I thy foes a foot stool make Subject to thy command 2 God will from Sion send The rod of thy great power In midst of all thine enemies Be thou the Governour 3 A willing people in Thy reign shall come to thee In holy joys from mourning's womb Thy youth like dew shall be 4 The Lord himself hath sworn And will repent it never Of the order of Melchizedeck Thou art a Priest for ever 5 The great and glorious Lord Who is at thy right hand Shall in his day of wrath strike through Kings who do thee withstand 6 The heathen he shall judge And graves fill with the dead And over many Countries he Shall wound their proudest head 7 He shall drink of the brook That runneth in the way Therefore shall he lift up the head In his triumphing day
PSALM CXI 1 PRaise ye the Lord with my whole heart With joy I will God's praise declare Where upright men assembled be And holy Congregations are 2 The works of God are very great And manifest his glorious might The fruitful study of all them Who do therein place their delight 3 All his work honourable is All glorious steadfast and sure His truth and perfect righteousness Unchang'd for ever do endure 4 His wondrous works he made for man To mind and meditate upon The Lord is very gracious Full he is of compassion 5 To all that do him fear and serve He daily gives convenient food He always true and mindful is His holy Covenant to make good 6 The power of his wondrous works He did unto his people show That heathens land and heritage As his he might on them bestow 7 His hand-work Truth and Judgment are All his Commands are just and sure 8 All done in truth and uprightness They shall from age to age endure 9 His people he redemption sent His Covenant ever is the same Which he commanded which declares To us his holy reverend Name 10 God's fear Wisdom's beginning is Their understanding's sound and sure Who his Commandments truly keep His glorious praise doth still endure PSALM CXII 1 PRaise ye the Lord Blest is that man Who lives in fear as in God's sight To know and practice his Commands Who always greatly doth delight 2 His seed on earth shall be advanc'd The upright Off-spring God will bless 3 His house shall have sufficient store Endless shall be his righteousness 4 In their dark state rejoycing light God to just upright men will raise Gracious and pitiful are such Righteous and true in all their ways 5 A good man's ready to do good And kindly lends to him that needs And he with wise discretion doth Manage affairs and guide his deeds 6 His standing's sure He never shall Be mov'd and brought to misery His precious name shall be preserv'd In sweet and endless memory 7 Whatever evil tidings come He shall not greatly be afraid His steadfast heart by fixed trust Upon the mighty Lord is slay'd 8 His heart is firmly stablished And shall not sink and be dismay'd Till his malignant enemies He sees God's Justice hath repay'd 9 He hath abroad dispers'd his seed And largely given to the poor God shall with honour him advance His righteousness shall ever dure 10 This shall the wicked see and grieve Gnash with his teeth for grief he shall His wealth and he shall melt away His flat'ring hopes shall perish all PSALM CXIII 1 PRaise ye the Lord his servants all Praise our great God with one acoord With joyful hearts and chearful voice Praise the name of the world 's great Lord. 2 Blest be the Lord's renowned name Ever his praise continue shall 3 From East to West through all the world God's Name is to be prais'd of all 4 The Lord in Glory dwells on high And over all the Nations reigns His glory is above the heav'ns No place no limits him contains 5 O who is like to our great God Who from high Glory looketh forth 6 To heav'n and its inhabitants And minds what 's done below on earth 7 He from the dust doth raise the poor And needy from the dunghill brings 8 That he like Princes may them make Even Princes with his people's Kings 9 He to the barren woman doth A numerous family afford A joyful mother maketh her Of many Children Praise the Lord. PSALM CXIV 1 WHen Israel out of Egypt went And Jacob's House by God's strong hand From under those strange Task-masters Whose speech they did not understand 2 Judah he did his Sanctuary And Israel his Dominion make 3 The Sea did see and fled away And Jordan's stream was driven back 4 Like Rams the mountains and like Lambs The little hills skipt to and fro 5 O Sea what made thee thus to flee Jordan why didst thou backward go 6 Ye mountains great what was the cause That made you thus to skip like Rams Ye little hills wherefore was it That you did skip like playing Lambs 7 Tremble O earth before the Lord When Jacob's God his presence shows 8 Which turn'd the Rock to water-pools By whom the flint like fountains flows PSALM CXV 1 NOt unto us Lord not to us But do thou all the glory take To thy great name for thy own truth And for thy saving mercies sake 2 Why should the heathen people say To us where is their mighty God 3 But our God is in heav'n and doth What ever to him seemeth good 4 Their Idols are silver and gold The work of workmen's hands they be 5 They have mouths but they do not speak 6 And eyes have they but do not see Ears have they but they do not hear Noses but smell or savour not 7 Hands feet but handle not nor walk Nor speak they through their mouth or throat 8 Their makers are like them and all Their trust for help on them that build 9 O Israel trust in the Lord He is their only help and shield 10 O house of Aaron trust in God He only is their help and shield 11 You that fear God trust in the Lord Your shield who certain help will yield 12 The Lord hath mindful been of us And he will surely bless us still The house of Israel he will bless Aaron's house also bless he will 13 Both small and great that fear the Lord The Lord will always surely bless 14 You and your Children more and more The Lord will bless and still increase 15 You are the blessed of the Lord Who made both all the earth and heav'n 16 The heav'n of heav'ns is his but earth He to the sons of men hath given 17 The dead who down to silence go Do not in dust God's praise record 18 But we henceforth for ever will Bless our great God Praise ye the Lord. PSALM CXVI 1 I Love the Lord who did my voice And earnest supplication hear 2 While I have life I 'le call on him Who bow'd to me his gracious ear 3 The sorrows of expected death My flesh and heart did compass round The pains of Hell took hold on me Trouble and grievous pain I found 4 Upon the name of God my help Then did I daily call and say Deliver thou my grieved soul O Lord I do thee humbly pray 5 Our God is merciful and just Yea very gracious is the Lord 6 He saves the meek I was brought low And he did speedy help afford 7 My soul distrust thy God no more Return by faith to him thy Rest Who largely in thy great distress To thee his bounty hath exprest 8 For my afflicted soul from death Safely delivered was by thee Thou didst mine eyes from mourning tears My feet from dangerous falling free 9 Among the living I will walk By faith as still before the Lord 10 When greatly I afflicted was I did believe and spake this word 11
Now have I found and therefore say All men untrusty lyars be 12 What shall I render to the Lord For all his bounteous gifts to me 13 The joyful cup of saving health I oft and thankfully will take In God I 'le trust on him I 'le call When I my daily prayer make 14 The Vows which I did make to thee My God I thankfully will pay Before thy Church and people all Even now without fraud or delay 15 The death and sufferings of his Saints The Lord doth not slight or despise Whatever tempted men may think Their blood the Lord doth highly prize 16 Lord I thy willing servant am Truly thy service I profess Son of thine hand-maid thou hast loos'd The heavy bonds of my distress 17 To thee my offering shall be The sacrifice of thanks and praise And as my duty and my hope I 'le call on thee my God always 18 The Vows which I did make to thee My God I thankfully will pay Before thy Church and people all Even now without fraud or delay 19 Even in the Courts of God's own house And in the sight and midst of thee O glorious Jerusalem O all his Saints the Lord praise ye PSALM CXVII 1 O All ye Nations of the world Praise ye the Lord always And all ye people every where Set forth his glorious praise 2 For great his love and mercy is Which he doth us afford The Lord's Truth everlasting is Praise ye this glorious Lord. PSALM CXVIII 1 GIve thanks to God for he is good His mercy ever doth endure 2 Let all his Israel now say His mercy ever is most sure 3 Let all the house of Aaron say His mercy to us is for ever 4 Let them all say that fear the Lord That his great mercy faileth never 5 I called on the name of God In all my danger and distress The Lord did hear and brought me forth Into a free and spacious place 6 The mighty Lord is on my side Of men I will not be afraid Whatever mortal man can do At it why should I be dismay'd 7 The Lord himself doth take my part With them that help and succour me Therefore on those that do me hate His justice I shall shortly see 8 It 's better to trust in the Lord Than for to trust to man's defence 9 Better to trust in God than put In Princes any confidence 10 The nations did against me rise And did en compass me about But in the name of God I shall Destroy them all and root them out 11 Numbers did compass me about I say they compass'd me about But in the name of God I shall Cut them all down and cast them out 12 They compas'd me about like Bees But like a hasty thorny flame They quenched are for I shall them Cut down in God's own strength and name 13 They have thrust sore to make me fall But God my help did me relieve 14 The Lord is all my strength and song And will to me salvation give 15 In righteous mens dwellings there is The voice of health and melody For God's delivering right hand Doth always for them valiantly 16 The Lord 's right hand exalted is And valiantly for us it doth 17 I shall not die but live that so God's mighty works I may shew forth 18 The righteous God for my own sin Hath me chastised very sore But yet he did not me forsake But me from threatened death restore 19 Now set ye open unto me The beauteous gates of holiness And I will enter in by them God's publick praises to express 20 This is the gate of God by which The just with me shall enter in 21 I 'le praise thee for thou hast heard me And my help and salvation bin 22 That the head corner-stone is made Which foolish builders did despise 23 And this the Lord 's own doing is And it is wondrous in our eyes 24 This is the great and blessed day Which God himself for us hath made And in it we together will Rejoyce as made by him full glad 25 To save us now to thee we pray We thee beseech O gracious Lord That to thy humbled flock thou wilt Peace and prosperity afford 26 Blessed is he that in God's name Doth come to us with his sweet peace Out of the sacred house of God We do his faithful people bless 27 God is the Lord who hath to us Made his Divine light to arise Bind ye unto the Altar's horns With cords our offer'd sacrifice 28 Thou art my God I 'le thee exalt Thou art my God I will thee praise 29 Give thanks to God for he is good His mercy to us lasts always PSALM CXIX ALEPH 1. 1 BLessed are they that are sincere And pure in life and heart Who walk according to God's Law And not from it depart 2 Blessed are they that give themselves His statutes to observe Seeking the Lord with all their heart And never from him swerve 3 Such men go not so far astray As wickedly to live But to walk in God's holy way Themselves sincerely give 4 It is thy will and just command That with attentive heed Thy holy and divine Precepts We learn and keep indeed 5 O that my ways were so reform'd And guided all by thee That wholly thy statutes to keep I might addicted be 6 Then shall I not ashamed be Or lose my hop'd reward When to all thy Commands I have Obedient regard 7 Then will I praise with upright heart And magnifie thy name When I have learnt thy judgments just So as to keep the same Thy statutes I resolve to keep My Rule I will them make But I am weak let not thy grace Thy servant's soul forsake BETH 2. 9 By what means may a young man best His life learn to amend If he well mark and keep thy Word And do thereto attend 10 Unfeignedly I have thee sought With a devoted heart O let me not from the right way Of thy Commands depart 11 Within my heart and secret thoughts Thy Word I have hid still That I might not at any time Offend thy holy will 12 Blessed art thou most glorious God We magnifie thy name Teach me thy statutes that I may Love and observe the same 13 All the pure judgments of thy mouth I have abroad declar'd My lips to publish thy true Word To others have not spar'd 14 In thy pure testimony 's ways I have rejoyced more Than if of all the wealth on earth I had the greatest store 15 On thy Precepts I never will To meditate neglect And ever to thy holy ways I will have chief respect 16 And in thy statutes true and just My great delight I 'le set I hope O Lord thy holy Word I never shall forget GIMEL 3. 17 According to thy bounty great Deal with thy servant Lord That I may live to do thy work And keep thy holy Word 18 Open the eyes of my dark mind By thy revealing light That thy
art to give To those that love thy Name 133 Let all my steps by thy just word Exactly ordered be That no iniquity may have Dominion over me 134 Save me from mine oppressours all And I will keep thy word 135 O let thy face upon me shine Thy Statutes teach me Lord. 136 Rivers of water from mine eyes Ran down when as I saw How wicked men go on in sin And will not keep thy Law TZADDI 18. 137 Righteous art thou O Lord and all Thy judgments upright be 138 Righteous and faithful are thy Laws Which thou commandest me 139 My zeal hath even consumed me Because mine enemies Thy holy Word forgotten have And thy just Laws despise 140 Because thy word is try'd and pure Thy Servant loveth it 141 Small and despis'd I am but yet Thy Laws do not forget 142 Thy righteousness most steadfast is And ever doth endure Thy holy Law is truth it self Confirmed truth and sure 143 Trouble and anguish have me found And taken hold on me Yet in this trouble my delight Thy just Commandments be 144 Thy testimonies righteousness Even everlasting is Cause me to know them that they may Bring me to life and bliss KOPH 19. 145 With my whole heart I poured forth My cries to thee O Lord Hear and deliver me that I May keep thy holy word 146 In trouble I do cry to thee Thy Servant hear and save And then to keep thy testimonies Fully resolv'd I have 147 The dawning of the morning I Prevented with my cry For on thy true and faithful word My hope did all rely 148 My waking eyes betime prevent The watches of the night That in thy comfortable word Then meditate I might 149 After thy loving kindness hear My voice and answer give In mercy great with quick'ning grace Do thou my Soul revive 150 The wicked hunters do draw nigh Who after mischief run Thy holy Law they do forsake And far from it are gone 151 But thou O Lord art alway nigh Their mischiefs to repel And all thy word thou wilt make good Which doth in truth excel 152 As for thy testimonies all Of old I know full sure That thou hast firmly founded them For ever to endure RESH 20. 153 Consider my affliction great And me in safety set By thy deliverance for I Thy Law do not forget 154 Plead my just cause and it defend Deliver me O Lord Revive and comfort me again According to thy word 155 Salvation's far from wicked men It 's far from their intents To seek it in the only way Of thy Commandements 156 Many and very great O Lord Thy tender mercies be According to thy Judgments just Restore and quicken me 157 Many my persecutors are And foes who do combine Yet from thy testimonies pure My soul doth not decline 158 When I beheld transgressors ways I grieved and abhorr'd Their opposition to thy Laws Who would not keep thy word 159 Consider how on thy Precepts My heart with love is set Quicken me Lord according to Thy loving kindness great 160 From the beginning all thy word Hath been most true and sure And all thy righteous judgments shall For evermore endure SCHIN 21. 161 Princes have persecuted me Unjustly without cause But thy authority and word My heart and Conscience awes 162 I in thy word rejoice as one That findeth riches great 163 I love thy Laws but Lying all I do abhor and hate 164 Seven times a day in holy praise My Soul ascends to thee Because thy judgments and thy ways All good and righteous be 165 Great peace have these confirmed Souls Thy Laws who truly love No fears or scandal shall these men From God and Truth remove 166 For thy Salvation I have hop'd And thy Commandments done 167 My Soul thy Testimonies kept And lov'd them every one 168 Thy Testimonies and Commands I kept with constant care For all my ways and works I know Before thee open are TAU 22. 169 O Let my daily suit and cry Before thee come O Lord To me sound understanding give According to thy word 170 And let my supplication Before thee daily come My fears according to thy word Deliver thou me from 171 From a full heart my thankful lips Shall utter joyful praise When thou hast made me know and keep Thy statutes and thy ways 172 My tongue shall of thy word discourse Its goodness I 'll express Because all thy Commandements Are truth and righteousness 173 In all streights let thy mighty hand With succour me relieve For I by choice have made thy Laws The Rule by which I live 174 Lord for thy sure salvation My soul doth daily long Thy Law is still my heart's delight Its praises are my song 175 O let my drooping soul yet live And it shall give thee praise And let thy judgments succour me And be my help always 176 I like a lost sheep went astray Thy servant seek and find I yet forget not thy Commands Still print them on my mind PSALM CXX 1 IN my distress unto the Lord I poured out my mournful cry His ear attended my request He heard and help'd me speedily 2 From lying lips deliver me Lord and from the deceitful tongue 3 What shall be given and done to thee False mouth that causeth others wrong 4 Sharp arrows from a mighty hand With burning coals of Juniper 5 Woe 's me that I in Meshech stay And dwell in the Tents of Kedar 6 My soul hath too long dwelt with them That haters are of quiet peace 7 I am for peace but when I speak To war they soon themselves address PSALM CXXI 1 UNto the hills from whence my help Doth come I will lift up mine eyes 2 In God who made both heaven and earth My only help and succour lies 3 He will not let thy foot be mov'd Nor slumbers who thee always keeps 4 Behold he that keeps Israel He slumbers not nor ever sleeps 5 The mighty Lord thy keeper is And he doth always by thee stand To be a shade and a defence Daily to thee at thy right hand 6 The scorching Sun in Summer heat Shall not by day thee hurt or smite Nor the Moon 's hurtful influence Annoy thee in the darksome night 7 The Lord shall keep thee from all ill Thy soul he shall keep safe and sure 8 Thy going out and coming in The Lord shall still to thee secure PSALM CXXII 1 WHen in the willing crouding flock I heard that pleasant welcome voice Come let us go up to God's house It made my longing heart rejoyce 2 Our feet in God's Jerusalem Shall stand even in her Gates and Courts When those who were dispers'd by men Shall thither flock in great resorts 3 God's City is not a rude heap But built in comely form exact In great diversity of parts In order all are well compact 4 Thither the several Tribes go up The Tribes in Covenant with the Lord With thanks to celebrate his Name His Mysteries and holy
too great and high 2 Thou know'st I have behav'd my self In quietness as low and mild As a child weaned from the breast My soul 's even as a weaned child 3 Upon the Lord let Israel With fullest trust and hope rely Not only now but from henceforth Even un to all Eternity PSALM CXXXII 1 REmember David's troubles Lord 2 Who vow'd to Jacob's mighty God 3 And sware I 'le not come to my house Nor go for rest unto my bed 4 I 'le give mine eyes no sleep until 5 I find a holy place to dwell A habitation for the Lord The mighty God of Israel 6 At Shiloh's place in Ephraim We heard God's holy Ark once stood We found it also in the fields And in the City of the wood 7 We 'll go into his Tabernacle And humbly at his foot-stool bow 8 Arise O Lord unto thy rest Thy holy Ark of strength and Thou 9 Let righteousness be to thy Priests Their cloathing and their comely dress And let thy Saints that worship thee Even shout aloud for joyfulness 10 And for thy servant David's sake With shame turn not away the face Of him whom thou anointed hast And chosen freely by thy grace 11 The Lord to David sware in truth And surely will not turn from it Upon the Throne of Majesty Thy body 's Off-spring I will set 12 My Covenant if thy sons will keep And Laws which I to them make known Their Children also then shall sit For ever on thy Royal Throne 13 For Sion the Lord chosen hath And there to dwell he liketh best 14 This is my chosen dwelling-place This is my worship's fixed rest 15 I her provisions will maintain And it will bless abundantly And I her poor and needy ones With daily bread will satisfie 16 And I her sacred Priests will cloath With my preserving saving grace Her Saints shall shout aloud for joy Before my shining pleased face 17 There I 'le make David's horn of Power To bud forth and afresh to spring And there I have ordain'd a lamp For my anointed sacred King 18 His enemies I will subdue And with just shame I 'le cloath them all But on him and his faithful seed His Royal Crown still flourish shall PSALM CXXXIII 1 BEhold and try how good it is What holy pleasure it doth give When holy brethren serving God In love and unity do live 2 It perfumes like the precious Oyl Which poured was on Aarons head Which down his beard and garments all It s sacred fragrant odour spread 3 As fruitful dews from Hermon hill Which waters all the lower ground And streaming showers from Sion's Mount Make the low Vales with fruit abound So on his flock by Love and Peace God doth his fruitful grace entail Even the fore-taâ—â—e of that blest life Where Love and Peace shall never fail PSALM CXXXIV 1 SEe that ye bless the Lord Ye that his servants are Who in his house by night do stand To serve and praise him there 2 Lift up your hearts and hands To him with one accord In his appointed holy place There glorifie the Lord. 3 The Lord that made the heav'ns The earth and all that live His blessing out of Sion shall Plenteously to you give PSALM CXXXV 1 PRaise ye the Lord Praise his great name All ye his servants Praise your God 2 All you that in the Lord's house stand And in his Courts have your abode 3 Praise ye the Lord for he is good Sing praises to his holy name For it is sweet to be employ'd His holy praises to proclaim 4 He to himself hath Jacob chose And Israel his own treasure made 5 I know the Lord our God is great Above all Gods in honour had 6 In heav'n and earth the Lord hath done Whatever his own will did please And also in the deeps below And in the great and swelling Seas 7 From the earth's ends it 's he that makes The vapours upward to ascend He doth make Lightnings for the rain And Winds out of his treasure send 8 Egypt's first-born both man and beast He smote and wondrous tokens he 9 On Pharaoh and his servants sent O Egypt in the midst of thee 10 He smote great Nations slew great Kings 11 Sihon who was of Heshbon King And Og of Bashan and to nought All Canaan's Kingdoms he did bring 12 And gave their Land a heritage Unto his people Israel 13 Thy name Lord everlasting is For ever 's thy memorial 14 For God for his own people will To judge and save them yet arise And will turn and repent himself Of all his servants miseries 15 The Idols which are worshipped Abroad in all the Heathen lands They are of gold and silver made The meer work of the Craftsmens hands 16 A mouth they have but do not speak Eyes have they but they never saw 17 They have ears but they do not hear And mouths which never breath did draw 18 Their makers are even like to them And all that do on them rely 19 Bless ye the Lord O Israel's house Bless God O Aaron's family 20 His servants all of Levi's house Continually bless ye the Lord All every where that do him fear Daily bless God with one accord 21 In Sion God's own chosen place Bless him and there his praise record Who dwelleth at Jerusalem In holiness praise ye the Lord. PSALM CXXXVI The Scots Version 1 PRaise God for he is good His mercy lasts for aye 2 Give thanks with heart and mind To God of Gods alway For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 3 The Lord of Lords praise ye Whose mercies still endure 4 Great wonders only he Doth work by his great power For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 5 Which God Omnipotent By might and mercies high The Heav'ns and Firmament Did frame as you may see For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 6 To him who did out-stretch This earth so great and wide Above the waters reach Making it to abide For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 7 Great Lights he made to be For his grace lafteth aye 8 Such as the Sun we see To rule the lightsome day For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 9 Also the Moon so clear Which shineth in our sight The Stars that do appear To guide the darksome night For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 10 To him that Egypt smote Who did his message scorn And in his anger hot Did kill all their first-born For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 11 Thence Israel out he brought For his grace lafteth ever 12 With a strong hand he wrought And stretch'd-out arm deliver For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 13 The Sea he cut in two For his grace lasteth still 14 And through the midst to go Made his own Israel For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure
Eternally 15 But overwhelm'd and lost Was proud King Pharaoh With all his mighty Host And Chariots there also For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 16 To him who powerfully His chosen Israel led Even through the desart dry And in that place them fed For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 17 To him great Kings who smote For his grace hath no bound 18 Who slew and spared not Kings famous and renown'd For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 19 Sihon the Amorites King For his grace lafteth ever 20 Og also who did reign The land of Bashan over For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 21 Their land by lot he gave For his grace faileth never That Israel might it have An heritage for ever For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 22 Who hath remembred us 23 In all our low estate 24 And us delivered From foes that did us hate For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 25 Who to all flesh gives food For his grace faileth never 26 Give thanks to God most good To God of Gods for ever For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally The same By W. Barton 1 O Render thanks to God For he is very good His mercies sure do still endure And have for ever stood 2 The God of Gods proclaim With praises to his name His mercies sure do still endure Eternally the same 3 The Lord of Lords most high With praises magnifie His mercies sure do still endure To all eternity 4 To him who wrought alone Great wonders many a one His mercies sure do still endure To ages all made known 5 To him who skilfully Compos'd the heavens high His mercies sure do still endure To perpetuity 6 That did the earth extend The seas to comprehend His mercies sure do still endure And never have an end 7 To him whose power divine Did make great Lights to shine His mercies sure do still endure Not subject to decline 8 The Sun to rule and sway The motions of the day His mercies sure do still endure And never fall away 9 The Moon and Stars of light He made to rule the night His mercies sure do still endure For they are infinite 10 To him your praise devote Who Egypt's first-born smote His mercies sure do still endure Of everlasting note 11 Who from among them all Brought Israel out of thrall His mercies sure do still endure And are perpetual 12 With strong out-stretched hand And arm at his command His mercies sure do still endure And shall for ever stand 13 To him that did divide The Red-sea on each side His mercies sure do still endure And evermore abide 14 And Israel did transmit Even through the midst of it His mercies sure do still endure And never fail a whit 15 But on the Red-sea coast Smote Pharaoh and his host His mercies sure do still endure Unto the uttermost 16 To him that led his own Through desarts all unknown His mercies sure do still endure As permanent alone 17 To him that smote and slew Great Kings and famous too His mercies sure do still endure And ever so shall do 18 King Sihon he did smiâ—e That Giant Amorite His mercies sure do still endure Continuing day and night 19 And Og Bashan's great King He did to ruin bring His mercies sure do still endure An unexhausted spring 20 He did their land engage To be an heritage His mercies sure do still endure Out-wearing time and age 21 Their heritage befel His servant Israel His mercies sure do still endure Times constant parallel 22 Who thought on our estate When low and desolate His mercies sure do still endure And bear eternal date 23 Redeeming us from those That were our mortal foes His mercies sure do still endure A Spring that overflows 24 Who still provideth meat Whereof all flesh may eat His mercies sure do still endure For ever full and great 25 The God of heav'n therefore With thankful hearts adore His mercies sure do still endure Henceforth for evermore PSALM CXXXVII 1 IN Babylon's Captivity We sadly by their rivers sate When Sion we remembred there We wept as men disconsolate 2 On Willows in the midst thereof We hang'd our silent Harps unstrung For they who had us Captives made In scorn requir'd of us a Song 3 They that had made our Country wast To make sport of us talked thus Now sing us one of Sion's songs Said they insulting over us 4 How shall we sing God's sacred songs Thus Captives in a foreign land 5 If I Jerusalem forget Let Musick skill forsake my hand 6 Let my tongue dumb cleave to my jaws If belov'd Sion I forget And if above my chiefest joy I do not Sion always set 7 Remember Edom's Off-spring Lord Who in thy peoples woful day Cry'd Rase it Rase it to the ground This hated City level lay 8 O Babylon to destruction judg'd That conquering hand shall honour'd be Which just as thou hast used us A just reward shall give to thee 9 That Victor's hand shall honour'd be That fiercely takes thy little ones Not we but foes in bloody war Will dash them dead against the stones PSALM CXXXVIII 1 WIth my whole heart I will thee praise Before the Gods thy praise I 'le sing 2 I 'le tow'rd thy holy Temple bow And praise thy name O glorious King Even for thy loving kindness great And for thy holy truth O Lord Above all thy instructing name Thou hast advanc'd thy sacred word 3 In my sad days thou answered'st me When I to thee did pray and cry And thou my feeble soul with strength Didst kindly strenghthen inwardly 4 All Kings on earth shall praise the Lord When they shall hear and know thy word And singing shall walk in thy ways So great 's thy fame and glory Lord. 5 The God that 's infinitely high The lowly men he doth respect But knows the proud as afar off And with disdain doth them reject 6 Though I in midst of trouble walk Thou wil t revive me and extend Thy hand against mine enemies wrath And thy right hand shall me defend 7 All that my welfare doth concern The Lord at last will perfect make O Lord thy mercy endless is Do not thy handy work forsake PSALM CXXXIX 1 O Lord thou hast me search'd and known 2 Thou know'st my daily sitting down And mine uprising All my thoughts Even a far off to thee are known 3 Thou fift'st and compassest my path And seest me when down I lye And art with all my works and ways Always acquainted perfectly 4 No word is in my tongue O Lord But it is fully known to thee 5 Thou hast beset me round about And thou hast laid thy hand on me 6 This knowledge high's above my reach It is too wonderful for me 7 Whither shall I go from thy face Or whither from thy spirit flee 8
thirsts after thee As do for rain the thirsty lands 7 Hear me with speed my spirit fails Lord do not hide from me thy face Lest I untimely as the dead Go to the dreaded burying-place 8 O let me with the morning light Thy loving kindness hear and see For in my lowest state I place My confidence alone in thee The way which thou wouldst have me go Clearly do thou make known to me For I for thy conduct and help Lift up my craving soul to thee 9 Lord save me from mine enemies For still with thee my self I hide 10 Teach me to do thy holy will Thou art my God and surest guide Thy spirit and his work is good Safely lead thou my soul in peace Through this false wicked world into The land of truth and uprightness 11 Revive and quicken me O Lord For thy great name and mercies sake And for thy truth and righteousness My humbled soul from trouble take 12 And of thy mercy let those foes Cut off subdu'd and humbled be Who do afflict and persecute Me and thy flock for serving thee PSALM CXLIV 1 FOr ever blessed be the Lord He is my only Rock and might Which taught my hands the skill of war And taught my fingers how to fight 2 My Goodness Fortress my high Tower My Saviour and my shield is he In whom I trust who doth subdue My foes and people under me 3 Lord what is man that thou of him Dost so much mindful notice take Or what 's the son of man that thou Of him so much account dost make 4 Man is like vanity his days Away like passing shadows fly 5 Lord bow the heav'ns come down and shew To man thy awful Majesty The mountains touch and they will smoak 6 Cast forth thy frightful Lightening Scatter them shoot thine arrows out Them to deserv'd destruction bring 7 Send from above thy pow'rful hand Do thou rid and deliver me From waters great and from the hands Of envious strangers set me free 8 Such whose deceitful mouth doth speak Hurtful untruth and vanity And their right hand doth execute Falshood and cruel treachery 9 A new song I to thee will sing Lord on the pleasant Psaltery On a ten-stringed instrument I will sing joyful praise to thee 10 It 's he that Victory to Kings And their desir'd salvation sends His servant David he preserves And from the hurtful sword defends 11 Save me from wicked strangers hands Whose faithless mouth speaks vanity And their right hand doth execute Falshood and their own treachery 12 That grown up in their youth like plants Sons be that are unto us born Our daughters like to polish'd stones May be that Palaces adorn 13 That to afford all kind of store Our garners may be alway fill'd That thousands and ten thousands more Sheep in our streets increas'd store yield 14 That strong our Oxen be to work That on us no Invasion come No flying out that in our streets With us be no complaining moan 15 Those are a happy people here Who are in such a case as this Happy indeed those people are Whose God our great Jehovah is PSALM CXLV 1 MY God and King I 'le thee extol And bless thy holy name always 2 I 'le magnifie thee every day And thy name will for ever praise 3 Great is the Lord and greatest praise Is due from all to him alone His greatness is unsearchable And to us men but little known 4 One age of mortals shall transmit His praise to that which next succeeds They shall declare thy famous works And celebrate thy mighty deeds 5 The glory of thy Majesty And honour I will daily speak And of thy great and wondrous works My tongue shall frequent mention make 6 It shall be mens delight to tell How great and dreadful thy works are And my employment it shall be Thy boundless greatness to declare 7 The mention of thy goodness great Shall largely exercise their tongues Thy Truth and Righteousness shall be The matter of their daily songs 8 The Lord is very gracious Tender compassions in him flow His mercy is exceeding great He 's unto anger very slow 9 That unto all the Lord is good His common mercies do declare And over all his other works His great and tender mercies are 10 Lord all thy works shew forth thy praise Thy Saints thy holy name shall bless 11 Thy Kingdom 's glory they shall speak Their tongues shall thy great power express 12 To make known to the sons of men His many strange and mighty deeds And that in glorious Majesty His Kingdom all our praise exceeds 13 Thy Kingdom everlasting is A Kingdom firm unchang'd and sure Thine absolute Dominion Doth through each age the same endure 14 The Lord of mercy them upholds Who sink and fall into distress And riseth those that are cast down And doth their wrongs and griefs redress 15 The eyes of all do wait on thee Thy bounteous hand doth them relieve And unto all sufficient food In time and measure thou dost give 16 Thou openest thy liberal hand To maintain all enough it gives To satisfie the just desire Of every thing by food that lives 17 The Lord is just in all his ways Holy in all the works he doth 18 He 's nigh to all that call on him That humbly call on him in truth 19 He will fulfil the just desire Of those who do him fear and serve He 'll hear their cry in their distress And them from threatned hurt preserve 20 The God of Love will safely keep All those that do him truly love But all the hateful wicked race Dreadful destruction shall remove 21 With thankful heart my mouth shall speak The praises of the glorious Lord And let all flesh from age to age To bless his holy name accord PSALM CXLVI 1 PRaise ye the Lord most high My soul speak thou his praise I 'le praise him constantly And bless him all my days 2 Even whilst I live And being have God who this gave I 'le praises give 3 In Princes put no trust Nor any son of man Impotent and unjust None of them help us can 4 He life resigns Returns to dust And then he must Cease his designs 5 He is the happy man Whom God doth help afford Who own and trust God can Whose hope is in the Lord. 6 Who all things made Heav'n Earth and Sea His truth and they Do never fade 7 God food to th' hungry gives Judgment doth execute Th' oppress'd loose and relieves Prisoners and destitute 8 To blind gives sight Dejected men He raiseth them Loves the upright 9 God strangers doth defend Orphans and widows knows Ways which to mischief tend Utterly overthrows 10 God King shall be Sion's God shall Still reign o're all The Lord praise ye PSALM CXLVII 1 PRaise ye the Lord for it is good Praise to our glorious God to sing It is a sweet and pleasant work And praise to God a comely thing 2 God buildeth