begin Bear date from the same place and day Together came together stay Scarce any joy appears between Yet through that God who helps me I have Conqueror been II. My Enemies came and with their plough My tender back did cruelly run o're My tender back with cruel furrows tore They plow'd but nothing hop'd would grow But then God did the furrows sow From my fresh wounds new armes I bore And o're them brought the wheel who plow'd o're me before III. The Righteous God has strook in two And broke those snares which for Our feet they made Has all their plots and mischiefs open lai'd And though they thought He did not know Discover'd what they thought to do Made them of their own snares afraid May Sions foes with their own wrongs thus be repai'd IV. May God upon their glory blow And like the grass which on some aged Wall Looks fresh and gay and almost out of call With scorn beholds the fields below So may they flourish wither so So may they stand so may they fall Till in one ruine perish grass and mound and all V. The Reaper cannot fill his hand In vain the husband man do's give it rest In vain expects with sheaves to fill his breast It thrives not like his other land That growes but this is at a stand That by each passenger is blest But none for this do's ever put up one request VI. There stirrs not as you pass a prayer But all struck silent as they there go by First look up if their prayers will reach so high And think them better us'd else where Nor like these shall you wishes hear Th' Almighty grant prosperity And what Our blessings want may His to Thee supply Psalm CXXX De profundis clamavi c. I. OUT of the depths unto the Lord I cry'd Deep Seas of Miserie Where I lay But o're my soul the waves did ride And louder roar'd when I began to pray Ah! still their noise and be not Lord as deaf as they II. I know I have deserv'd these miseries And greater plagues might justly fear And if Thou should'st to judgement rise Indeed despair of ever coming near For those great sins which harden mine may stop Thy ear III. But Lord there is forgiveness still with Thee Thou wait'st Thy Favours to bestow I wait when Thou wilt gracious be My hope alone do's from Thy Mercie flow And since Thou wait'st Lord to be gracious Ah be so IV. For as the Watchman who has stood all night Upon the guard do's long for day Looks when the Sun will make it light Just so attending on the Lord We stay Till the bright Sun of Righteousness His beames display V. Hope in Thy God O Israel and Thy trust All times upon His Mercie place He who has promis'd Thee is just And if with confidence Thou seek His Face Thy sins He 'l take away and freely give His Grace I. PLung'd in the depths of sin and misery Where I could nothing see but Death Ready to stifle my complaining breath With which to Thee my God I sent my Cry Hoping at length to reach Thine ear And by my often calls get Thee to hear Hear me I said let not my Cries be vain Lest I no strength should have to Cry again II. Eternall God should Thy all-seeing eye Severely marke Our often strayes Our wandrings i' th' forbidden dangerous wayes Of basest sin and fond Iniquity Who then could in Thy presence stand Or bear the weight of Thy enraged hand But Thou art mighty in Thy Pardoning love O let us fear that we may grateful prove III. Wherefore I 'll wait for Thee my gracious Lord Till Thou Thy Favours shalt dispence And make me feel their powerful influence My Soul for this shall hope in Thy sure word For Thee I 'll wait with more desire Than they who for the Morning light enquire That from their weary watch they may be freed Yea more than they wherefore my God make speed IV. Let Israel on the Lord repose His trust With whom both Mercie is and love The constant streames that flow from Him above Like whom there 's none so good yet none so just For though He did a ransom find 'T was such as through't His Justice brighter shin'd From Him Redemption shall to Israel come Which to their land and Him shall bring them home Psalm CXXXI Domine not est exaltatum c. I. NO Lord Thou knowst I am not so And yet Thou all my soul dost know Alike before Thee open ly My Innocent heart and humble eye Which have no pride but from the malice of my Foe II. I do not to the Crown aspire Nor what 's my Sovereigns Lord desire Such thoughts beyond m' ambition go Too high for me who am so low And yet my humble Soul beneath the Crown looks higher III. To Thee I look on Thee attend Hoping Thou wilt my Right defend The Crown is but an empty thing And what it has not cannot bring Not after that but Thee O God my prayers I send IV. For I restrain my self in this Just like a child that new wean'd is From ' his Mothers breast who though he cry And grieves at first those streames are dry Forgets it and streight loaths what he was wont to kiss V. As I have done may Israel do And wean'd from all things here below Unto their God alone attend And only on His help depend On God who greater things than Kingdoms can bestow Psalm CXXXII Memento Domine David I. LORD REmember David and His vow And all the troubles He did undergo Whilst for Thy Ark He sought a Resting place Abroad He suffred and at home But when He thought the worst was overcome This still remain'd and His great trouble was II. Remember Lord the Oath He made And how solicitous to see it pai'd Within my house said He I 'll come no more Nor on soft couches wait for sleep My very Bed shall watch against it keep Girt round with Pious Cares and arm'd all o're III. I 'll search till I the place shall find Which God Himself has for His Rest design'd We know it Lord and to it each remove How first at Shilo Thou didst reign Then in a grove and unfrequented plain Places still innocent because once Thy love IV. Look how Thy Courts we reach with praise And as We bow Our knees Our voices raise Arise O God and Thy great journy take Thou and Thy Ark together rise Before Thee scatter all Thine Enemies And Sion Thy delight Thy Residence make V. Let all Thy Priests Their praises sing And with loud shouts Thy Saints their Offrings bring Let Thy Annointed in the Roll be one And for Thy Servant Davids sake To whom Thou freely didst Thy Promise make This Happiness confirm unto His Son VI. In Truth Thou didst to David swear Witness Thy self Thou shalt not want an heir But of Thy seed I on Thy Throne will set And if Thy Children
it broken there in peices lay Gods secret path was Israels Great High Way Through which as through the Wilderness they pass Only these sands were wall'd about with glass Thus from their Enemies He set them free Whilst the admiring waves stood up to see But when the sacred Army was gon o're The seas no longer own'd their new made shore But o're it leapt as friends return'd to greet And in their old embraces hast to meet Th' Egyptian Troops which scattred lay between And thought to tell at home what they had seen Swift as that thought were buried in the waves And not one left to shew their empty Graves Then Israel fear'd His Word and sang His Praise But soon forgot that and His Wondrous wayes Did in the Wilderness His Power distrust And for full Tables in the Desert lust He gave it them but therewith leaness sent Into their very Souls the Poyson went Next against Moses they in tumults rise And Aaron the Almightys choyce despise But God Himself from Heaven His Choice approv'd And from His sight the Murmurers remov'd The Sea before the Earth do's now obey And frighted at His presence ran away Loosned its hold and as apart it fell Let Dathan and Abiran quick to Hell And those who to the Priesthood did aspire And off'red Incense were consum'd by Fire At Horeb they had griev'd him long before When there they did their molton god adore At Horeb where they that great Voice did hear Which fill'd the most rebellious breast with fear And strook the Soul as it surpriz'd the Eare. Thus to an Ox their glory they compare And these cry they Thy Gods O Israel are Not because they the true one did not know But their old love to Egypt thus would show Forgetting what in Egypt He had done Both for their Nations honour and His own And all His Wonders in the Mighty Deep Making a Causey there that they their way might keep Wherefore about destroying them He spake And that He Moses a great Name would make Moses who in the breach before Him stood And would have given His Own to save their blood That pass'd the Happy Canaan they contemn But more the God who promis'd it to them To Egypt they again had rather go Than serve new Masters whom they did not know Therefore in wrath He rais'd His vengefull Hand To Strike and swear they should not see the Land And that all those who fell not by His own Should by their En'mies swords be overthrown Sure they will try it and to Peor turn'd Before dumb Idols ate and Incense burn'd Thus were they only constant in their sin And knew no measure till the Plague brake in Had some new solly to enflame His Ire And set the Mine He lay'd so deep a fire Till Phineas stood up and with dextrous skill Three En'mies at one happy blow did kill Zimri and Cosbi and the Plague did stay Which weltring in their gore and breathless lay An Act whose Memory God Himself would save And for reward to His House the Priest-hood gave Another time at Meriba they strove And their meek Guide did with their murmurings prove Full ill it went with Moses for their sake Who unadvis'dly in His Passion spake And with them both in sin and judgement did partake The Nations of which God in charge did give Should be destroy'd they were resolv'd should live And come to Canaan to preserve their seed Were mingled with them and did by them breed Learn'd all their works their Idols did adore Curs'd to Them now though for their sakes before Idols that Devils were yet unto whom All smear'd they in their Childrens blood must come No other Sacrifice but that will please Nor any blood but the Innocent appease Their childrens blood with which their Gods were stain'd They and their Gods and with their own the land Thus justly plagu'd for their impiety That Gods of their own making should so cruel bee This blew the Heav'nly wrath up to a Flame Turn'd love to hatred Mercy rage became Up to the Heathen He His People gave And Israel in His own land was a slave Those who most hated them for Lords did reign And those they conquer'd conquer'd them again When God delivered them they yet sinn'd more Tempting new plagues they never felt before Yet to their cry He gently bow'd His Ear And though they would not Him their grones did hear According to His Cov'nant Mercy sent And taught them by His oft once to Repent Made their proud Lords resent their Miseries And shew less cruel hands and more indulgent eyes Save us O God and bring Thy Captives home That we with prayse may to Thy Temple come To Israels King let thanks be ever pay'd And let Amen by all the World be say'd Hallelujah The end of the Fourth Book of Psalms THE FIFTH BOOK OF PSALMS Psalm CVII Confitemini Domino quoniam c. Chorus Omnium ALL you who on th' Almighty Love depend And by His liberal hand improve Let with your voice your thanks ascend And here begin what you shall do above His Mercy like His Truth is ever sure And so your Praise should be as constant and as pure Versus I. Let His Redeem'd say so that Israel whom Their Enemys Captive led but He brought home Then brought them home when from the farthest East They were dispers'd and scattred to the West When North and South their weary steps did know But they nor where they went nor where to go Now in the Desart an untrodden way Where they could hardly pass yet durst not stay Where they no City found and none to tell Which road to take or in what Place to dwell Hungry and thirsty doubtful in their mind Scarce knowing what they sought or what they 'd wish to find Chorus Minor Then to the Lord in their distress they cry'd They cry'd aloud and He did hear And though His Face He seem'd to hide By His great Hand declar'd that He was near For when in vain they had look'd round about And saw no help tow'rds Him they look'd were brought out Versus Respondens He led them forth Himself by the right way Their passage made as their great journey lay And City founded for them and did tell Not only where but made them in it dwell Chorus Omnium Let all the Earth th' Eternal Bounty praise And talk of all that He has done How Truth and Mercy are His wayes To the whole World as well as to His Own For to the longing Soul He grants His Will And with that Goodness which He is do's th' hungry fill Versus II. Those who in darkness and in Horror sit And so near death 't is in the shade of it Bound in Affliction and in heavy chaines In prison where there noyse and silence reignes Feeling their sins in all they suffer there Whose weight more rings â—han th' Irons which they bear Their hearts sink lower than
But on Thy God O Israel trust He only is Thy help and shield O house of Aaron flee to Him that 's Just For He is Thine and help will yield All you who fear th' Almighty Lord Upon Him trust and flee unto His Word For He 's your help and He will be your shield And though you flee it is to gain the field VI. The Lord has mindful of us been And He will all Our joyes restore The house of Israel have His blessing seen And He will bless them more and more The house of Aaron He will bless And all who fear Him shall by ' His love encrease 'Twixt rich and poor He do's no difference know But by His blessing both in numbers grow VII Bless'd of that God who all things made Both Earth and Sea and glorious Heaven High Heav'n's His seat and of Him is afraid But He to Man the Earth has given 'T is there that we admire His Wayes Before the grave shut us up and His Praise There will we bless the God in whom we live And as He life to us Him praises give Hallelujah Psalm CXVI Delexi quoniam exaudivit c. I. I Love Thee Lord with my whole heart For Thou dost my petitions hear Because Thou to me hast inclin'd Thine ear And thus propitious to Thy servant art With new requests I 'll ever prove Thee And shew by that I love Thee II. The pains of death enclos'd me round Grief held my heart and teares my eyes My grave stood open and death thence did rise Trouble and Horror on all sides I found Death it self waited underneath Above the pains of Death III. Yet to the Lord I cry'd and said My God Thy help I now implore Deliver me as Thou hast done before When in my trouble I unto Thee pray'd Though I deserv'd to be deni'd Yet to the Lord I cry'd IV. To wrath He 's slow abounds in love Our sins most ready to forgive The Innocent upon His bounty live In Him they live who reigns their God above He help'd me when I was brought low For He to wrath is slow V. Then to Thy rest my Soul return For God has kindly dealt with Thee Thy feet from sliding life from death set free Nor shall Thy failing eyes in sorrow mourn Thy dayes to praise Him are increas'd Return Soul to Thy rest VI. Lord I believe and therefore speak I knew I should Thy Mercy praise Though when afflicted and in rugged wayes One sorrow did my heart and silence break Then I all flesh the ly did give And yet Lord I believe VII What shall I bring and yield the Lord For all His Favours shown to me A thankful heart my sacrifice shall be I 'll praise Him and rely upon His Word New songs of thanks I 'll to Him sing And this at least will bring VIII My Vowes which in distress I made Before His People will I pay His People shall rejoice that solemn day Whilst those who are His En'mies be afraid When He His plagues upon them throws And do's accept My Vowes IX Dear in His sight His servants are He will Himself repay their wrong Though in forbearing He may seem too long It is more deep to strike and not to spare Nor is the death of the upright Less pretious in His sight X. Lord I am Thine and thine will be Thy Handmaids Son whom Thou did'st save My God Himself a ransome for me gave And to a nobler service set me free Thou brake'st my bonds and made'st me mine And now Lord I am Thine XI This will I bring and yield the Lord For all His Favours shown to me A thankful heart my sacrifice shall be I 'll praise Him and rely upon His Word New songs of thanks I 'll to Him sing And this at least will bring XII My Vowes which in distress I made Before His People will I pay His People shall rejoice that solemn day And where I made them there shall see them pai'd Within the Courts of the Lord's House There will I pay my Vowes Hallelujah Psalm CXVII Laudate Dominum Omnes c. I. ALL you who to the Lord your Beings ow All Nations with His blessings crown'd All people through the World renown'd Sing praises to that God who made you so II. To God whose Mercy do's to all extend Is great to us and good to you And with His Truth do's still renew But like Himself knowes neither bound nor end Hallelujah Psalm CXVIII Confitemini Domino quoniam c. I. TO God's Almighty Name sing praise And you who know how good He is Resign to Him what 's truely His And Arches of His own great Mercies raise For like His Word they have been sure And to Eternity endure II. Israel the great Jehova's choice Who all His fearful Works have seen Who His great Care have alwayes been Let Israel now confess with thankful voice His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure III. Let those who by their place attend And at His Altar daily wait Their own experiences relate Sing as they see the sacred flame ascend His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure IV. And to advance the Blessed King Let all the Righteous with them join And in a service thus Divine Bear their part too and in the Chorus sing His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure V. To God on high for help I cri'd Who from His Temple answer'd me Both heard my prayers and set me free The Lord of Host Himself was on my side I will not fear what man can do Since I 've a God to flee unto VI. With those who help'd me He was seen His Presence brought my greatest aid Nothing shall make me now afraid He 'll be my sword who has my Buckler been And when my Foes shall be o'rethrowne I 'll boast of what His hand has done VII Those who their Care on God do cast And know no other will but His Of sure recruits shall never miss But as a Rock i' th' midst of stormes stand fast On God 't is more secure to trust Than man who must return to dust VIII He never yet did any fail Most sure when most reli'd upon And though His Power subscribes to none He lets weak prayers o're Heav'n and Him prevail On God 't is more secure to trust Than Princes who must turn to dust IX Let Barbarous Nations girt me round And for my ruine all engage My trust is plac'd above their rage And stands unshaken on the higher ground For on the Lord of Hosts I 'll call And in His Name destroy them all X. Round let them compass me and round And for my ruine all engage My Trust is plac'd above their rage And stands unshaken on the higher ground For on the Lord of Hosts I 'll call And in His Name destroy them all XI Let them
look'd they like a Mine From thence took fire and ever since are bright His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure VII He charg'd the Sun to rule the day Gave him His beams and influence Laws how he should his Flames dispence And when he rules then do's he most obey His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure VIII The Moon and stars at night attend And on the guard in turns all wait Some go of sooner some more late And to relieve them God do's others send His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure IX Praise Him who for their Fathers sin Smote Cham's first born did none pass o're Sent death to look on every dore Who frighted at no blood without went in His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure X. Who with strong hand and out-stretch'd Arm Deliver'd Israel from the Yoke Who all the Egyptian fetters broke And made His Israels March be their Al-arm His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XI Who all times did His Promise keep The Red-Sea for them did divide And what the Waves before did hide Made them His Wayes see truly in the Deep His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XII The liquid Deep in Walls did stand Of purest Chrystal through whose glass The Floods behind saw Israel pass And there as in themselves admir'd His hand His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XIII But when the army was gon o're God took His rein from of the Wave And Jacobs way was Egypts grave Was Sea again and wash'd its ancient shore His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XIV God did Himself direct their Way A fiery Pillar was their Moon Night follow'd close when they were gon And from their Foes hid where their journies lay His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XV. He potent Kings did overthrow Their Forces scattred scorn'd their rage Himself did for His Flock engage And made them conquer when He bid them go His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XVI Sehon who did their Way deny Found all His Troops to be but vain When God their Battles did maintain Instead of stopping them himself did fly His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XVII Ogg heard his fall but would come out Thinking a double Victory Would raise his glory to the sky But God who Sehon slew against him fought His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XVIII God to the Conquest wav'd His hand Descending in the Sacred Flame Weak Israel by His Power o'recame And they who ask'd but passage shar'd the Land His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XIX Praise Him who in Our low estate Did many Victories for us gain Unseen Our weakness did sustain Redeem'd us when we thought is was too late His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XX. Who for all Creatures do's provide Of His Own fulness gives them food Feeds both the Wicked and the Good Who from His Treasures alwayes are supply'd His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure XXI Who to frail Man the Earth has given And made Him King and God below Where all things to His Scepter bow But is Himself Mans King and God of Heav'n His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure Psalm CXXXVII Super flumina Babylonis c. I. AS on the banks of Chebar we state down Lamenting Sions Miseries At Sions Miseries we forgot our own And wisht for her such Rivers in our eyes We envy'd there the rolling tide That at Our feet did gently slide That at our feet more streames than from our eyes did glide II. The Willows to our plaints bow'd down their ear And did in hollow murmurs grone The Willows bow'd as though they long'd to hear Again those griefs which they before had known They bow'd and on their heads we hung Our Harps untun'd Our Harps unstrung Sorrow their strings unloos'd but faster ty'd Our tongue III. 'T was then we suffred double misery When to us Our rude spoilers came And to deride our sad Captivity Imbittred it with Captive Sions Name Our selves we only griev'd before But when Their scorns just Sion bore At Her great suffrings of our own we thought no more IV. One of your songs let 's hear they proudly cry'd And one of Sions Anthems play Your griefs and pensive cares now throw aside Sion is here since we brought you away As if we at their base Commands Could sing forgetfull of our bands Could play when they who stop'd our mouths had ty'd our hands V. No! No! in forreign Lands if we do thus For Sion thus forget to grieve Let Her God too forget to pity us And these foud tongues close to their palats cleave Her Praises first our mouths did fill From Her Our hands first learn't their skill No wonder then if Sion mourns that they lie still VI. Remember Edom Lord who in the day Jerus'lem was a Captive made Joyn'd with Her Enemies and shar'd the prey And made us more than Babylon afraid Rase it they cri'd down with the Wall To the foundations Levell all She that to Babylon will not stoop 't is fit She fall VII Hold Babylon where will thy rage extend God has enough to Sion done Hold and prepare Thee Babylon for Thy end What mayst Thou fear if thus He serves His Own Mayst Thou in Thine Our miseries see And all the wrongs we bore from Thee And know that less than what Thou hast deserv'd they be VIII May Thy own Mercies on Thy head return Those Mercies which are Cruelties Mayst Thou in flames of Thy own kindling burn And send in vain to Heav'n Thy fruitless cries And Happy He who on the stones On Flints shall dash Thy little ones And have than flints less bowels for their dying grones Psalm CXXXVIII Confitebor tibi Domine in toto corde c. I. LOrd I will bless Thee and my cheerful voice Before the gods shall tell my joies Those glorious Powers to whom Thou dost impart Thy Name and Office here below Shall see me pay the praise I ow And as I had Thy ear return my Heart II. Then to Thy Sacred Hill my eyes I 'll raise And fetch new subjects for my Praise My Song shall count of what Thou didst for me Of Mercy and of Truth I 'll sing And when I'have wearied out that string Thy Faithfulness another ground shall be III. Thou hast exalted it and why not I For when to Thee I Loud did cry To Thee my God and mourn'd in my distress My dolefull groanes Thy heart did move Thou didst refresh me from above And answer gav'st of Thine Own Faithfulness IV. The heathen Kings when they Thy Wonders hear Shall both rejoice and serve with fear By My example in Thy Wayes shall sing Ascribe to Thee what is Thine Own Cast