the mowers hand nor lades the binders lap 8 So as no passer by shall say The Lord give good successe The Name of God the Lord we pray you and your labour blesse PSAL. 130. De profundis Canticâ—m Graduum OUt of the deeps that thou maist heare Lord my complaints repaire 2 Lord heare my voice and let thine eare attend my voices praier 3 Our sins if thou O Lord shouldst summe and marke where we have miss't When thy revengefull stroke shall come who Lord shall then subsist 4 But by forgivenesse of our sinne thy mercy hath appear'd And as our love thy Judgements winne thy mercy makes thee fear'd 5 I earnestly expect the Lord expect his promise just My soule hath waited for his Word wherein my hopes put trust 6 My soule upon the Lord depends attends for her dispatch More than for morne the watch attends more than for morne the watch 7 With confidence let Israel attend the Lord therefore For with the Lord doth Mercy dwell with him redemption store 8 And Israel redeem he shall and make him freedome winne From all his sorrowes bonds from all his sorrow-breeding sinne PSAL. 131. Domine non est Canticum Graduum Davidis A Haughty heart high-looking eies O Lord I never brooke I wade not in deep mysteries nor after marvells looke 2 I still'd my soule and made it milde as from the mothers brests A weanling as a weanling childe my soule in silence rests Trust in the Lord his time attend O Jacobs family Attend his time that hath no end from now eternally PSAL. 132. Memento Domine Canticum Graduum OF David and his troublous daies be mindfull Lord and how 2 To Jacobs mighty Lord he payes his oathes solemniz'd vow 3 Nor tent nor house my harbour be repose my bed forbids 4 To sleep mine eyes shall pardon me to slumber mine eye-lids 5 Untill a dwelling place I find where may the Lord remaine The Mighty One of Jacobs kind a house to entertaine 6 Loâ— Ephrata we understood thereof good tidings yeelds At length we found it in the wood in Kirjath-jears fields 7 Within his house we will goe meet and there assembled all Before his â—oot-stoole at his feet bow downe our selves and fall 8 Arise O Lord into thy rest returne to dwell at length In Salem sometime Silo's guest thou and thy Arke of strength 9 Let be that thine they may be knowne thy Priests with Justice cloth'd And seeking thee more than their owne thy Saints to joy betroth'd 10 And for thy servant Davids sake turne not the face away Of thine Annointed Soveraignes make his seed his Scepter sway 11 The Lord in Truth to David sware and will not turne from it Fruit of thy wombe will I prepare upon thy Throne to sit 12 My Covenant if thy sons retaine my Testimonies heed Thy sons perpetually shall raigne and on thy Throne succeed 13 For as the Lord loves Sion best his liking is so great That her he hath above the rest selected for his seat 14 This is my rest a longer space than Sun shall lend his light Perpetuall here my dwelling place here my desir'd delight 15 Her victuals blessing will I blesse her poore with bread suffice 16 Her Priests in pure Salvation dresse her Saints shall joy surprize 17 There will I make the Horne upright to bud on Davids head A lamp for mine Annointed light throughout all lands to spread 18 His enemies shall shame befall and weave the web they weare Up on his head while flourish shall the Crowne that he shall beare PSAL. 133. Ecce quam bonum Canticum Graduum Davidis BEhold how good it is how pleasing well that there dwell unity where Brethren dwell 2 The precious odour did not sweeter smell When on the head the holy Oile that fell As downe the beard downe Aarons beard it went Perfum'd the border of his Vestiment 3 So fall the pearly gems from Hermon Hâ—ll On Sion Mountaines so the deaws distill And eithers fields with rich embroidry fill Powdring the 'r un-shorne lockes with various skill For there the Lords command the blessing bound And Brethrens love with life eternall crown'd PSAL. 134. Ecce nunc benedicite Canticum Graduum BEhold praise ye the Lord all ye observers of his Rites That servants in the Lords House be before him stand by nights 2 There where his Sanctuary stands to sanctifie his Name To blesse the Lord up-lifted hands let hearts low-humbled frame 3 And he whose blessings over-shade the Hill of Holinesse The Lord that Heav'ns and earth hath made thee out of Sion blesse PSAL. 135. Laudate nomen Domini Halelu-jah SIng Halelu-jah praise th' Eternals Name Ye servants of the Lord set forth his praise 2 That to the Lords House stand his praise proclaime In our Gods Houses Courts that spend your dayes 3 Praise JAH The Lord is good as then is meet Sing Psalmes unto his Name so pleasing sweet 4 For to himselfe the Lord hath Jacob chose And his chiefe treasure Israel accounts 5 Great is the Lord my knowledge can disclose And that our Lord all other gods surmounts 6 What will the Lord have done his will alone In Heav'ns Earth Seas and all the Deeps is done 7 From earths extremes he makes the clouds ascend His fires and waters on the aire he flings In lightning-shot and show'rs of raine to spend The wind out of his treasuries he brings 8 And branded Egypt bare his furies note Whose first-borne all from man to beast he smote 9 His signes and wonders here and there he sent Hard hearted Egypt in the midst of thee On Pharaoh's head and all his servants spent Yet who so blind as they that would not see His signes and wonders sent and spent in vaine Nor Pharaoh's nor his servants pride restraine 10 He smote great Nations mighty Kings he slew 11 As Heshbons Sehon King of Amorites And Ghog the King of Bashan overthrew With all the Kingdomes of the Cananites 12 And dispossest them of their land to blesse And give his people Israel to possesse 13 Thy Name O Lord is ever permanent Thy memory Lord is to age and age 14 The Lord will judge his people and repent To execute the rigour of his rage His servants faults as ready to forbeare As to their foes in his revenge severe 15 The Heathens Idols silver are and gold Worke of mans hand their makers worth beneath 16 Mouthes eyes eares noses can their makers mold 17 But cannot make them speake see heare nor breathe 18 Vaine Idoll-mongers like your Idols just That Idols make or in made Idols trust 19 O blesse the Lord ye house of Israel O blesse the Lord ye house of Aarons line 20 O house of Levi blesse the Lord As well Who feare the Lord to blesse the Lord encline 21 From out of Sion his high praise record Whose dwelling is in Salem Praise the Lord. Halelu-jah PSAL. 136. Confitemini Domino O Praise the Lord for he is good his mercy
they none could spie nor sinne O Lord they saw 4 Without iniquitie in mee they runne and ready make To meet me raise thy selfe and see my helper Lord awake 5 Awake therefore Lord God of hosts thou God of Israel To visit all the Heathen coasts against thee that rebell 6 And where for grace to thee alone fraile sinners find accesse O let thy mercy favour none that faithlesly transgresse Selah 7 They when the evening Sun shuts in run jetting to and fro And like a dogge they howle and grin and round the Citie goe 8 Vollies loe from their mouth they shoot swords in their lips they beare Weapons that warre with silent foot for who say they shall heare 9 But thou O Lord shalt them deride make all the Heath'ns a mocke That strength to thee will I ascribe to thee O God my Rocke 10 God of my mercy shall prevent and in such plight to mee Mine enemies shall God present as my desire would see 11 Whom let not slaughters hand devoure lest that my flocke forget Disperse them by thy mighty power them Lord our shield defeat 12 Their sinfull mouth their lip-wise words let their swolne pride descry And take them in their selfe-twin'd cords that curse forsweare and lye 13 Consume consume them in thy wrath that they no more may grow What empire God in Jacob hath through earth that they may know 14 As soon as day his light drawes in returne they to and fro And like the dogge they howle and grin and round the Citie goe 15 Goe wandring here and there for meat and snart if un-suffic'd They find short fare for them to eate by want and hunger siz'd 16 But I will sing thy mighty power thy mercy early praise For thou hast been my fortresse-Tower my Rocke in restlesse daies 17 I O my strength to thee will sing to God my refuge hie The God that makes his mercies spring my mercies treasurie PSAL. 60. Deus repulisti Ad Praestantem super Sushan-Eduth Michtam Davidis ad docendum cùm contenderet erga Aram Naharaim erga Aram-zobah conversus Ioab et percussit Edom in valle Salis duodecim millia THou hast O God cast us aside routed our poore remaine Thine angry brow hast bent to chide O turne to us againe 2 The trembling earth thou didst invade and rifts therein hast cleft O heale the breaches thou hast made for it is shaking left 3 Thou shewdst thy people harder things than they had borne before Of wine that stupid horrour brings to drinke thou gav'st them store 4 To them that feare thee hast thou given a signe to shun the bow A Banner by the hand of Heaven set up for truth to shew 5 That free deliverance they may have that are belov'd of thee With thy resistlesse right hand save O heare and answer mee 6 God in his Holinesse hath spoke which I with joy repeat In Shechem will I strike the stroke and Succoths valley mete 7 Mine Galghad is Manasseh mine strength of my head doth live In quiver-bearing Ephraims line my Law shall Judah give 8 My wash-pot Moab will I make my shooe on Edom fling Thy pride Pelesheth overtake and to my triumphs bring 9 The Citie of such strength within what guide shall make me get The warlike Edoms towers to win what Leader shall I set 10 When thou O God as nought of worth hast cast us off so long And with our Armies wentst not forth to make our battels strong 11 O give us help from our distresse mans health is vaine deceit Through God we shall doe valiantnesse our foes he shall defeat PSAL. 61. Exaudi Deus Ad Praestantem super Neghinoth Davidis MY crie O God my praier attend when I to thee complaine 2 When from this earths extremest end my smoth'red heart I straine 3 Conduct me to the Rocke of power that higher is than I 4 For thou hast been my hopes strong tower against the enemie 5 Thy Tabernacle will I take for ever there to dwell And to my hopes a shelter make thy wings my secret cell Selah 6 For thou to heare my vowes from heaven thine eare O God didst frame An heritage to me hast given of them that feare thy Name 7 Daies upon daies encreast by thee thou to the King shalt give The compasse of his yeeres shall be from age to age to live 8 Him God before his face to sit for ever shall accept With mercy truth prepare thou fit by whom he may be kept 9 Praise to thy Name so will I sing for ever day by day To thee my vowes upon me bring that I may duly pay PSAL. 62. Nonne Deo Ad Praestantem apud Ieduthun Psalmus Davidis ON God my silent soule attends his seasons surely heeds To him my safeties care commends from whom my health proceeds 2 He surely is my Rocke of power and my salvation prov'd My hold my high-defensive tower I shall not much be mov'd 3 How long on mischiefe will ye thinke Man-slayers slaughtred all Ye like a ruin'd sense shall sinke and like a shaken wall 4 His dignity how to suppresse their counsells they convert Delight in lies with mouth they blesse but curse within their heart Selah 5 On God yet never thou the lesse my silent soule attend From whom my hopefull patientnesse expects a happy end 6 He surely is my Rocke of power and my salvation prov'd My hold my high-defensive tower I shall not be remov'd 7 In God is my Salvations port my Glories lofty crest Rocke of my strength in God my Fort my Confidences rest 8 O people trust in him alway your heart before him powre For of our hopes God is the stay our safeties trusty towre 9 Sure Adams sonnes are vanitie and lighter in account The best together weigh'd a lie and make the ballance mount 10 Trust not in wrong to reap your part in rapine be not vaine If wealth encrease set not your heart on baited lures of gaine 11 God spake at once which twice I heard To God the power pertaines Of punishment and of reward of pardons and of paines 12 And mercy Lord in thee alone exceeds from thee proceeds For thou wilt render every one according to his deeds PSAL. 63. Deus Deus meus Psalmus David cùm is esset insolitudine Iehudah THou art O God my God alone mine eies shall watch to see The Nights obscurer watchmen gone and early seeke for thee 2 For thee my thirsty soule doth toile for thee my flesh doth long Within a waste and weary soile and waters none among 3 Within thy Sanctuaries seat which now I see no more To see thy power and glory great as I have seen before 4 For good thy mercy is above the gladsome length of daies More lovely is than life thy love My lips shall sing thy praise 5 Thus will I blesse thee while I live while breath this breast commands And in thy Name the off'ring give of my up-lifted hands 6 With marrow
therefore bowe downe your selves and fall PSAL. 100. Iubilate Deâ— Psalmus ad Confessionem SIng loud unto the Lord a song that all the earth may ring 2 With gladnesse serve the Lord among before him come and sing 3 Know that the Lord is God that he not we our selves did make His pasture-sheep his people we from him our being take 4 Goe in his gates your thankes proclaime his praise within his Courâ—s To praise him and to blesse his Name make thither your resorts 5 For good and gracious is the Lord his Mercy never ends The truth of his eternall Word to Age and Age extends PSAL. 101. Misericordiam Iudicium Davidis Psalmus WHat Mercy and what Judgement say Lord I will sing to thee 2 And wisely take the perfect way when thou shalt come to mee 3 My selfe will good example give to walke with upright heart And others as I live to live amidst my house convert 3 I will not in mine eyes abide a word of Belial I hate their worke that turne aside nor cleave to me it shall 4 A froward heart an evill man from me unknowne depart 5 Detractors tongue nor beare I can proud looke nor large of heart 6 The faithfull of the Land mine eyes soâ—t out with me to sit In perfect way whose walking lies for me is servant fit 7 Within mine house deceitfull wight there shall not any dwell Nor be establisht in my sight whose lips doth leasings tell 8 The wicked all out of the land my morning search shall shut That from Gods City may my hand all evill doers cut PSAL. 102. Domine exaudi Oratio afflicti cùm obruitur efâ—undit coram Domino meditationem suam IN my distresse to comfort me yet heare O Lord my praier And let the crying unto thee of my complaint repaire 2 Hide not thy face from me this day when trouble tells my need Incline thine eare and heare me pray to answer me make speed 3 For here my daies consum'd on earth away like smoake are gone My bones are burnt up lie an hearth of fire-out-eaten stone 4 My heart is smitten downe for dead and withred as the grasse That I to eate my daily bread forgetfull overpasse 5 My breast my sorrowes uncouth Inne breathes forth such broken groanes My flesh but knits up with my skinne a sacke of saplesse bones 6 So mournes the Wildernesses Foule the Hermit-Pellican In Deseâ—t shades so shriâ—kes the Owle portending spells of bane 7 I watch the widow'd Sparrowes watch on houses ridge alone That of her better halfe her match bewailes the comfort gone 8 Reproaches bitter gall my foes cast daily in my dish And in their madnesse make my woes the measure of their wish 9 For I when faintnesse would be fed and thirst no longer beares Have eaten ashes as my bread and blent my drinkes with teares 10 Thine angry threat so sore doth lie so fierce thy wrath doth grow Thy hand but heav'd me up so hie to hurle me downe as low 11 The shadow of my daies declin'd my light in darknesse spends Like withred grasse my breath resign'd the house of death attends 12 But thou O Lord one and the same for ever dost reside And this Memoriall of thy Name shall age and age abide 13 Thou to thy mercies seat shalt climbe and bring thy Sion home For now of mercy is the time the time appointed come 14 Now though thy servants nought relieve delight her stones yet move To see her in the dust they grieve and yet her dust they love 15 Thy Name O lord the Heath'ns shall feare to find what thou hast done And all the Kings on earth to heare what glory thou hast wonne 16 When Sion up the Lord to build in glory shall appeare 17 He to the lowlies praier shall yeeld nor them despise to heare 18 This writing shall remaine un-worne when after-age shall live And praise the people yet un-borne unto the Lord shall give For from his Sanctuaries height he downe did cast his looke The Lord from Heaven did vaile his sight when earths survey he tooke 20 To heare the heavie groanes of those that draw imprison'd breath From chimes of iron chaines to loose the eldest sonnes of death 21 That of the Lord their tongues the Name in Sion may declare And in Jerusalem proclaime his praises what they are 22 When Nations from their farthest home together gathred meet To serve the Lord when Soveraignes come and Kingdomes kisse his feet 23 My strength when able strength began he weakned in my waies Cut off my pilgrimages span and shorter made my daies 24 I said my God post not my Sunne at noone to mid-nights stage My race of daies is halfe to runne thy yeeres are Age and Age. 25 The earths foundations on their weight thou Lord hast laid of old Those lamps of Heaven their orbes their height thy fingers did enfold 26 When they shall perish thou shalt hold the Centre of thy yeeres They as a garment all waxe old as chang'd a vesture weares 27 But thee for evermore the same no compasse comprehends And of thy yeeres eternall frame the circle never ends 28 Thy servants children shall succeed to stand before thee fast And last-succeeding times their seed succeeding shall out-last PSAL. 103. Benedic anima Dâ—vidis MY soule and every secret part within my bodies frame To praise the Lord assist my heart to blesse his holy Name 2 To blesse the Lord let nothing let my soule thy ready way No benefit of his forget with praises to repay 3 Which pardoning all thy sins fore-past wâ—â—h thee in mercy deales To cure thy frailties doth fore-cast and all thy sicknesse heales 4 Which frees thy life from going downe into corruptions Pit His mercies and Compassions Crowne upon thine head doth fit 5 With good things to thy hearts desire which satiates thy mouth And Eagle-like renewes the fire in embers of thy youth 6 To Justices the Lord gives light he guides the ballance best And Judgements executes aright to all that are opprest 7 His waies he made to Moses knowne the limits of his Law His wondrous actions all his owne the sons of Israel saw 8 Compassion from the Lord doth flow for clemencie none such Of suffrance long to anger flow his tender mercy much 9 His censure checkes not each offence he will not alwaies chide Nor keep his anger in suspense for ever to abide 10 He hath not as our sins require with us severely dealt Nor our iniquities like hire to our deserts have felt 11 But as the Heavens unmeasur'd height above the earth is hie Such is his Mercies matchlesse might to them that feare him nie 12 As far as whore the Sunne begins to where he sets the day So farre hath he remov'd our sins and rid his wrath away 13 As with compassion on his sons a fathers bowells melt So in the Lord compassion runs by them that feare him felt 14 For to the mold he knowes we
to them unknowne to fanne their exil'd breed 28 And to Baal Phegors Idoll-head they joyn'd themselves amaine The offrings eating of the dead to powers Infernall slaine 29 Thus they to anger him provoke with Rites that they invent And in the plague upon them broke their follies punishment 30 Then stood up Phineas in pursuit of Cosbies carnall sin His hand did Judgement execute so was the plague call'd in 31 The Author of so just a deed his Justice did commend From age to age that shall succeed whose praise shall never end 32 They vext him at the flouds of strife with Moses ill it went For them he had a weary life and for their sakes was shent 33 Because his spirit they did provoke and him to murmure prest That unadvisedly he spoke and with his lips transgrest 34 The Nations did they not destroy of whom the Lord had said Nor land nor life let them enjoy his charge they disobey'd 35 But mingled with the Heath'ns they were to learne their workes tooke care 36 To serve their Idolls well could beare which were to them a snare 37 The bloud of sons and daughters slaine on Divels Altars stood Of Innocents the bloudy staine of sons and daughters bloud Whose limbes their Divellish-led desire with murthrous hand had pil'd To Cana'n-Idolls burnt with fire the Land with bloud defil'd 38 With works their own thus were they stain'd on them their zeale they spent 39 As their Inventions entertain'd a whoring thus they went 40 The fury therefore of the Lord against his people burn'd His owne Inheritance abhorr'd his love to loathing turn'd 41 He gave them up to Tyran's law into the Heathens hand That whom they hated held in awe and Lord-like might command 42 By enemies with humbling strokes opprest and bow'd they were Whose hand on them laid heavie yokes above their strength to beare 43 Them many a time did he redeem but they eftsoon begin And of their counsells more esteem though humbled for their sin 44 Yet when he saw their hard restraint how their afflictions grew Then hearkning he to their complaint his chastisement withdrew 45 His Covenant did he beare in mind that he with them had strooke On them his many mercies kind repentant pity tooke 46 He gave them to the tender eare of their Commanders will Made them to whom they captives were their eyes with favours fill 47 Proceed O Lord our God to save from Heath'ns our heads to raise That praise thy holy Name may have we glory in thy praise 48 The Lord the God of Israel King be blest eternally Amen let all the people sing all Halelu-jah cry Finis Libri quarti LIB V. PSAL. 107. Consitemini Domino THe Lord is God with thanks expresse His mercy is for ever and 2 So let the Lords redeem'd confesse Redeem'd from their distressors hand 3 Which gathred were out of the lands From shining East from shady West From where the frozen Pole-starre stands From Desert south-seas sun-burnt brest 4 They wandred in the Wildernesse And tooke a solitary way Where soot of man did seldome presse Nor found they City where to stay 5 With hunger pin'd with thirsting faint Their anguish't soule was overcharg'd 6 Then to the Lord they made complaint Who them from their distresse enlarg'd 7 He led them on and brought them home The readiest way for them the best 〈◊〉 to a City they might come 〈…〉 tation where to rest 8 Let them before the Lord confesse His tender mercies many a one To men his wondrous workes expresse That he for Adams sons hath done 9 The thirsty soule he satiates The hungry soule with good sustaines 10 That sits in darknesse at the gates And shade of death in iron chaines 11 Because against the words of God They bent themselves rebelliously Despis'd his counsell and withstood The hand of him that is Most-Hie 12 Thus humbled for they did not well In griefe of heart he let them lie Where downe they fell but helplesse fell For refuge none nor help was nie 13 Distrest unto the Lord they cri'd Who set them free from their distresse 14 From darknesse from deaths shade unti'd And brake their bands of heavinesse 15 Let them before the Lord confesse His tender mercies many a one To men his wondrous workes expresse That he for Adams sons hath done 16 For he the gates of brasse hath broke The gates of brasse against him bent And by his hands resistlesse stroke The iron barres in sunder rent 17 Fooles for their faults afflicted are Whose way hath made their will their law 18 Their soule abhorres all kind of fare Neere to the gates of death they draw 19 Distrest unto the Lord they cry Who them from dying anguish saves 20 He heales them by his words supply And frees them from corrupting graves 21 Let them before the Lord confesse His tender mercies many a one To men his wondrous workes expresse Which he for Adams sons hath done 22 Before him offrings let them lay Confessions of their thankfulnesse And sacrifice of praises pay His workes with shouts of joy expresse 23 They that in ships goe downe to sea And Marts in many waters keep 24 What deeds the Lord hath showne them see His workes of wonder in the deep 25 The stormy wind his word bespake That all the Maine with Mountaines fills The sea-wet starres their mantles shake The brinie downes are turn'd to hills 26 As high as Heaven the billowes mount Dis-mounted deep as hell descend Their melting soule makes small account But feare of death in death to end 27 Thus bandi'd to and fro they reele And stagger like a drunken man Ill may the Pilot rule the keele Where wisedomes care so little can 28 Distrest unto the Lord they crie Who sets them free from their distresse 29 The storme he calmes with cleerer skie And sets their waves at quietnesse 30 The combat ceast the sea-men glad That winds and waves were parted friends He that of them the conduct had To their desired haven them sends 31 Let them before the Lord confesse His tender mercies many a one To men his wondrous workes expresse That he for Adams sons hath done 32 Assembled in the peoples throngs His worthy acts when they repeat With hymnes of praise and thankfull songs Exalt him in the Elders seat 33 Which turnes the flouds to desert sands To drinesse drawes the springing Weâ—â— 34 With salt he sowes the fruitfull lands For their misdeeds that therein dwell 35 Againe he turnes the desert dry To standing pooles with water fill'd 36 And seats the hungry downe thereby Where they to dwell a City build 37 Their fields they sow their vines they plant Which yeeld them fruits of faire encrease 38 Their Mynes of wealth no blessings want Nor suffreth he their heards decrease 39 On them made lesse and low brought downe He makes restraint and anguish prey 40 On Princes leaves contempt to frowne In Deserts lets them lose their way 41 Yet
Aaron blesse 13 Be â—t your state small meanes afford sit ye in honours seat Young old that feare the Lord the Lord will blesse you small and great 14 To adde to you and to your race the Lord will yet proceed To multiply on you his grace on you and on your seed 15 The blessed of the Lord ye are his blessings ye partake Your Maker he makes you his care that Heaven and Earth did make 16 The Heavens Heavens supremest Heaven the Lord alone commands The Earth to Adams sons hath given to serve him in all lands 17 And though the dead Lord of thy praise no song in silence sing 18 To praise thee Lord shall endlesse daies our Halelu-jahs ring Halelu-jah PSAL. 116. Dilexi quoniam I Love the Lord that so lov'd mee my voice my praiers to heare 2 And in my daies will call for hee to mee inclin'd his care 3 The pangs of death did wind about and had beset mee round The straights of Hell had found me out distresse and griefe I found 4 Upon the Lords Name then I call'd and ecchoing did repeat Deliver thou my soule enthrall'd O Lord I thee entreat 5 How gracious is the Lord and just our God is mercifull 6 The Lord the simple keeps from dust my ransom'd head did pull 7 Soule to thy rest returne for why the Lord hath rendred thee 8 My soule from death from teares mine eye my feet from falling free 9 My walkes before the Lord I make the lands of them that live 10 I did beleeve and therefore spake for greatly did I grieve 11 I did as feare and haste conceiv'd All men are lyars say 12 For bounties from the Lord receiv'd what gift shall I repay 13 Salvations cup will I up take and on the Lords Name call 14 And of my vowes now payment make before his people all 15 His gracious Saints the Lord beholds his eyes high-prize their daies Their death in deare account he holds and with revenge repaies 16 Sure Lord I am thy servant one redeem'd from hostile hands Thy servant I thy hand-maids sonne thou hast unloos'd my bands 17 A sacrifice of praise to thee my thankfull heart shall frame My sacrifice O Lord shall be to call upon thy Name 18 My vowes I to the Lord will pay and put them off no more But on my hearts pure altar lay his people all before 19 Lord in thy houses courts let me these vowes upon me bring O Salem in the midst of thee mine Halelu-jah sing Halelu-jah PSAL. 117. Laudate Dominum O Praise the Lord ye Gentiles all throughout the earth that dwell Upon his Name all Nations call his praise all people tell 2 For towards us his Graciousnesse his Mercies mighty store And of the Lord the faithfulnesse endures for evermore Halelu-jah PSAL. 118. Confitemini Domino THe Lord is good with thankes confesse his mercy is for ever 2 Let Israel now say no lesse his mercy faileth never 3 Now Aarons house acknowledge may his mercy is for ever 4 Let them that feare the Lord now say his mercy faileth never 5 From where in straight distresse I lay unto the Lord I cri'd The Lord made answer with my way about me made more wide 6 The Lord for me I feare not all what man can doe to mee 7 The Lord my helpers helps I shall upon my haters see 8 The hopes that on the Lord are laid lye safer than on man 9 Our hopes the Lord can better aide than powerfull Princes can 10 All Nations round about me came conspirers for my fall But in the Lords more-powerfull Name I shall cut off them all 11 They prest in swarmes on every side on every side they swarm'd But Lord thy Name my weapon tri'd to cut them off me arm'd 12 Like swarmes of Bees their forces link't they round about me bent Whom Lord like fire in thornes extinct thy Name shall soon prevent 13 That I might fall by some offence thou hast thrust at me sore But yet a hand in my defence the Lord my helper bore 14 The Lord is of my strength the summe the subject of my songs And my salvation is become to whom my life belongs 15 The voice of joy and health is heard in tents where Justice dwells The right hand of the Lord up-rear'd in fortitude excells 16 The right hand of the Lord preferr'd preheminence hath wonne The right hand of the Lord up-rear'd right valiant deeds hath done 17 Thy deeds in death Lord they that dwell to light have never brought I shall not die but live to tell what workes the Lord hath wrought 18 Thy stripes O Lord I feele some bloud thy chastisement did draw Yet hath not given me up for food to deaths devouring jaw 19 The gates of Justice open mee that I may enter there And there O Lord confesse to thee that Saints thy praise may heare 20 Of God the Lord this is the gate the Just shall enter there 21 Where thee my Saviour celebrate will I whom thou didst heare 22 The Stone the Builders did despise is made head corner-stone 23 And marvellous is in our eyes this that the Lord hath done 24 This day the Lord that gave it light did unto us commend This Festivall from morne to night let joy and gladnesse spend 25 Save now O Lord send happinesse Hosanna now we sing Salvation Lord and good successe Hosanna to our King 26 Who in the Lords Name comes Good-speed faire blessings him befall We from the Lords House whence proceed all blessings blesse you all 27 God is the Lord that light affords hath given us gladsome mornes The Host for sacrifice with cords bind to the Altars hornes 28 Thou art my God I will confesse that hast exalted me What then my God can I doe lesse but thy Exalter be 29 O praise the Lord beyond all bounds whose goodnesse doth extend Whose tender mercy farther sounds than time shall ever end PSAL. 119. Beati immaculati Octostichon Acrostichon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ALl blessed they in perfect way that undefil'd are found That of their walkes the steps to stay make Lord thy Law their bound 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 All blessed they that all their daies and daily care convert To keep his Testimonies waies him seeke with all their heart 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3 As no iniquitie they doe his waies their walking guide As stedfast in his pathes they goe then footing cannot slide 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 4 All thy Commandments give command to doe as to discerne To stand to as to understand to live in as to learne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 5 Assisted O that by thy grace directed were my waies So should my foot-steps hold their place thy Statutes be my staies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 6 Abasht confusion should not fall nor shame on me reflect While unto thy Commandments all I had a due respect 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 7 An upright heart will I prepare to make thy praise
is for ever 2 Praise him that is of gods the God whose mercy faileth never 3 Praise him that is of lords the Lord whose mercy is for ever 4 His sole done wonders great record whose mercy faileth never 5 The Heavens that by his wisedome made whose mercy is for ever 6 The earth above the waters spread his mercy ceaseth never 7 Which made great lights for severall place his mercy is for ever 8 The Sun by day to runne his race his mercy failing never 9 The Moon and Starres to governe night his mercy lasting ever 10 In their first-borne did Egypt smite his mercy failing never 11 And Israel from amidst them brought his mercy is for ever 12 With mighty hand and arme out-rought his mercy failing never 13 The red sea into parts did lay his mercy is for ever 14 And through the midst made Israel way his mercy failing never 15 There shook off Pharaoh and his Host his mercy lasting ever 16 His people led through Desert-coast his mercy failing never 17 Great Kings he smote and overthrew his mercy is for ever 18 And mighty Kings in battell slew his mercy failing never 19 As Sehon King of Amorites his mercy lasting ever 20 And Ghog the King of Basanites his mercy ceasing never 21 Their land in heritage to have his mercy is for ever 22 To Israel his servant gave his mercy failing never 23 Which of our humbled state esteem'd his mercy is for ever 24 From our distressors us redeem'd his mercy failing never 25 Bread to all flesh by whom is given his mercy lasting ever 26 Confesse ye to the God of Heaven whose mercy ceaseth never PSAL. 137. Super flumina Babyl DOwne sate we by the rivers side that waters Babels wall To raise whose streames a springing tide of teares our eyes let fall Remembring Sion in our vowes our uselesse Harps we hung 2 Upon amidst the willow boughes as slightly tun'd as strung 3 For they that led us captives there requir'd of us a song A Sion-song said let us heare these moanes some mirth among 4 O no! nor harp we have nor hand nor voice to straine nor string Our Sion-song in Shinar-land song of the Lord to sing 5 If O Jerusalem I set no more by thee than so Let my right hand her skill forget my voice her song forgoe 6 My tongue fast to my palate cling aâ—d never tune employ If ought I doe but Salem sing the Soveraigne of my joy 7 Be mindfull Lord of Edoms sons who said on Salems day Raze Raze to her foundations with earth her levell lay 8 Thou Daughter Babel laidst us waste thy selfe shalt wasted be O happy that as done thou hast to us shall doe to thee 9 O happy that thy little ones from mothers breasts shall rash And pitilesse against the stones their braines in pieces dash PSAL. 138. Consitebor tibi Davidis I Will confesse thee to their face with all the heart in mee Were Princes Angels Gods in place Psalmes will I sing to thee 2 Prostrate before thy holy Seat thy Name will I confesse Thy tender mercies there repeat and sing thy faithfulnesse For all thy powerfull deeds proclaime and ample proofe afford That thou hast magnifi'd thy Name above all Name thy Word 3 The day I cri'd to thee I cri'd thou heardst and answerdst mee My soule with vigour was suppli'd and strengthned much by thee 4 Kings of the earth shall all confesse and make thy praise appeare When of thy mouth the faithfulnesse the words O Lord they heare 5 Their songs shall of the waies entreat that to the Lord belong For of the Lord the glory great is subject of their song 6 For though the Lord be thron'd on hie yet are his eies below The lowly-hearted ever nie the proud afar to know 7 Amidst distresse although I went reviv'd by thee I stand Thy hand against my haters sent to save me thy right hand 8 This worke the hand that wrought me this the Lord accomplish will Thy mercy Lord for ever is thy handy-worke fulfill PSAL. 139. Domine probisti Ad Praestantem Davidis Psalmus THou hast O Lord me searched out and knowne 2 My sitting downe and my up-rising are Within thy knowledge cleerer than mine owne My thoughts un-thought thou understandst afarre 3 My path my pallet winnow'd with thy fan And all my waies thy custome is to scan 4 For in my tongue there teem's not any word The breathlesse infant of my pregnant thought Bucloe un-borne thou know'st it wholly Lord Though with the organs of my speech un-wrought 5 Behind before thou hast beset me straight And of thy hand upon me put the waight 6 It is too wonderfull for me to know To itâ— cannot it is set so hie 7 O from thy spirit whither shall I goe And whither shall I from thy presence flie 8 If I ascend the Heavens the Heavens thee beare Make I my bed the Hell loe thou art there 9 Take I the early-rising mornings wings And utmost seas my uncouth dwelling make 10 Even thither me thy hand my leader brings And thy right hand fast hold on me shall take 11 Yet sure shall darknesse shrowd me if I say The night about me shall be light as day 12 For light-lesse darknesse darkneth not from thee But as the day before thee shines the night Where seeing sees not thou hast eyes to see As darknesse is to thee so is the light 13 My reines are but the texture of thy loome Thou coveredst me within my mothers wombe 14 For casting me in such a covert mold My praise shall of thy fearfull wonders tell How marvellous thy workes are to behold My soule cannot expresse yet knowes right well 15 No bone of mine from thee is hid to know Though close embroidred in the earth below 16 Thine eyes did on my shapelesse substance looke And fram'd my members from a formlesse masse Each one of them is written in thy booke What day they formed were when none there was 17 How precious are O God thy thoughts to mee Of their increase what mighty summes I see 18 To number them to number were the sand As oft as I awake I am with thee 19 That thou O God wouldst slay the wicked band And men of blouds Depart ye all from mee 20 Which speake of thee what mischiefe can devise And but lift up in vaine thine enemies 21 And doe not I Lord them that hate thee hate And grieve at those that up against thee rise As if with me thy haters held debate As if they me despis'd that thee despise 22 In hatreds full perfection them I hate And in the number of my foes relate 23 Search me O God my secret angles sound And of my heart exactest knowledge take Examine mine intentions from their ground Of all my thoughts a perfect audit make See whether I in sorrowes by-path stray And lead me in the everlasting way PSAL. 140. Eripe me Domine Ad Praestantem Psalmus Davidis
mercy store 17 And from thy servant cease to hide thy face in time of need In my distresses springing tide to answer me make speed 18 Draw neere my soule and cleare the debt for my redemption due Deliver me whom sore beset mine enemies pursue 19 Reproach and shame thou know'st have brought mine honour in disgrace All this have my distressors wrought and all before thy face 20 Rebuke hath broken through my heart some balme for sorrowes wound I sought but none to salve my smart no comforter I found 21 For food to eate they gave me gall my hungry taste to dine For drinke when thirsty I did call they gave me eagre wine 22 Let be their table made their snare to trap themselves withall And well what might have made them fare be warp to make them fall 23 Darke eies let darker judgement bleare nor sight nor fore-sight take And make their loines for guilty feare continually to shake 24 Thine indignation on them powre with dread to strike them cold Or let thy hot displeasures showre upon their heads take hold 25 Waste let their ruin'd Castle lie no hand their soile manure Nor Lord nor Tenant hold thereby no head their Tents endure 26 For whom thou smit'st they persecute thou chastenest they confound And how to mischiefe they dispute where thou hast made a wound 27 From wickednesse to wickednesse let their offences fall And to thy Justice have accesse of them let none at all 28 Out of the Booke let them be crost where thine Elected live And with the Just no name engrost of them no notion give 29 As poore and pensive as I stand thy saving healths supply Let find O God a powerfull hand to raise me up on hie 30 To blesse thy Name O God will I a Psalme of praises bring And with confession magnifie his mercy whom I sing 31 And this shall doe the Lord more good and better please in proofe Than tendrest Bullockes reeking blood in pride of horne and hoofe 32 To see this sight with joy of heart it shall transport the meeke Your soule from life shall not depart if after God ye seeke 33 For to the poore the Lord gives eare his prisoners cares to keep 34 Heavens Earth and Seas his praises beare and all that in them creep 35 For his Mount Sion God will save and Judah's Cities build That there their dwellings men may have with heires of promise fill'd 36 And of his servants shall the seed possesse the heritage And they that love his Name succeed therein from age to age PSAL. 70. Deus in adjutorium Ad Praestantem Psal. Davidis ad recordandum NOw now in my extremes of need O lose no time in waste Deliver me O God with speed to help me Lord make haste 2 Shame and confusion on them lie that seeke my soules annoy Turn'd backe and blushing let them flie that in my evill joy 3 Let this reward their wages pay to send them backe with shame Aha in scorne to me that say and make my griefe their game 4 Let them that seeke thee all alway in thee with joy abide Let thy Salvations lovers say still God be magnifi'd 5 To me poore soule so low downe cast O God make speed away My help and my deliverer haste O Lord make no delay PSAL. 71. In te Domine FOr ever me that in thee trust Lord let not shame deprave 2 My plaintiffe-soule as thou art just deliver heare and save 3 Be thou where I may enter still my Rocke of residence To save me is thy Precepts will the Fort of my defence 4 The raging hand my God becalme assert my libertie Safe from the evill-doers palme sow'r-leav'nd in crueltie 5 For thou Lord God art of my rest the long-expected scope Thou art my weaner from the breast mine infant-ages hope 6 My navill since the wombe forsooke thy hand did me uphold Me from my mothers bowels tooke of thee my praise still told 7 As from a Monster many eies from me astonisht start When strong distresse yet on me lies my stronger hope thou art 8 My mouth no other musicke fill no story stile my song To descant of thy praise my skill thy glory all day long 9 O cast me not in age away when weaknesse strong assailes Now leave me not to my decay when strength enfeebled failes 10 For they that bare me causelesse hate my foes against me spake And they that for my soule lay wait together counsell take 11 Since God say they doth him forsake now left he is alone On on him persecute him take to rescue him is none 12 But goe not farre O God from me nor fit occasion waste At present need as present be my God to help me haste 13 Confusion let confound them all that to my soule are foes Reproach dishonour on them fall that seeke my evill woes 14 Yet shall my hope wait patiently upon thy help in store And to thy praise continually adde praises more and more 15 Thy Justice shall my mouth expresse thy saving health all day Whose numbers summe so numberlesse my cyphers cannot say 16 To sing thy power this power of mine how be it Lord God too weake Yet of thy Justice only thine somewhat suffice I speake 17 My heart O God hast thou prepar'd and from my childhood taught And hitherto have I declar'd what wonders thou hast wrought 18 And now that I O God am old mine Almond-tree growne gray Mine age from thee let none behold forsaken sent away 19 Till I have shew'd thine Armes extent unto this Ages view And of thy power a president to all that shall ensue 20 Thy Justice is in thee alone O God unto on hie To those great acts which thou hast done who like O God comes nie 21 Thou shew'dst me many evill daies much sorrow mad'st me see From under ground yet didst thou raise returne and quicken mee 22 To make me greater far and wide thou gav'st me great encrease To better me on every side thy goodnesse did not cease 23 Thee and thy Truth my God to praise not Psalterie alone But Song and Harp will I up-raise O Israels Holy-One 24 With joy above all joyes esteem'd my lips shall shout to thee So shall my soule by thee redeem'd in Psalmes as joyfull be 25 My tongue the Trumpet shall proclaime thy Justice all the day For they are blank't and brought to shame that seeke my soules decay PSAL. 72. Deus Iudicium Solomoni O God give Judgement to the King thy Judgements depths to sound And to the Kings son Knowledge bring where Justice may be found 2 So he that gives the life to Lawes an upright hand shall beare With Justice judge the peoples cause the poore with Judgement heare 3 The Mountaines that in height excell shall bring the people peace The lesser Hills that lower dwell by Justice shall encrease 4 Him for their Judge the poore shall have to crush the fraudulent The sons of needy-soules to save