blow'n by the wind verse 6 Nor in the finall Judgment must Stand up among the Just verse 7 For God the righteous guides and knowes The path wherein he goes When wayes of Sinners perish shall In their eternall fall PSAL. II. verse 1 WHy do the furious Heathen rage Vaine people why engage verse 2 Kings of the Earth a Party make And Rulers counsell take Who 'gainst the Lord that Earth doth sway And His Annointed say verse 3 Break we the Bonds They on us lay And cast Their Cords away verse 4 But God who doth the Heavens guide Shall them in Scorne deride verse 5 Then shall His soare displeasure breake And He in anger speake verse 6 Yet have I set my King on high Adorn'd with Majesty Upon Mount Sion rais'd the throne Of mine Annointed one verse 7 I will declare that firme decree The Lord hath said to me Thou ar't my Son without all spot This day I thee begot verse 8 Ask me and thine Inheritance Ore Nations I 'le advance Far as the earth or Sea extends Are thy Possessions ends verse 9 Thou with an Iron Rod shalt bruise Such as thy pow'r refuse And like a Potters Vessell broak So dash them by thy stroake verse 10 O therefore all ye Kings that awe The Nations with your Law Yee Judges of the earth be wise His Scepter not despise verse 11 Serve ye the Lord with holy feare Rejoyce yet rev'rence beare verse 12 And kisse the Sonne before his wrath Your way consumed hath For if a little that encrease Where can we seek for Peace Since they are only safe and blest Whose hope in Him doth rest PSAL. III. verse 1 O Lord how fast do they encrease Who troubled have my Peace They many are who 'gainst me rise And are my enemies verse 2 Many there be my Soule upbraid And say God cannot aid verse 3 But Lord Thou art my Sheild my Praise Thou shalt my head up-raise verse 4 To God my loud request did cry Who heard my voyce from high verse 5 I lay'd me downe and rose againe For He did me sustaine verse 6 Then though ten thousands me invade I will not be afraid No though with threats the furious rowt Encompasse me about verse 7 Arise and save me O my God For with thy vengefull rod Thou smit'st the cheek and break'st the jaw Of such as hate thy Lawes verse 8 To Thee O Lord our God alone Belongs Salvation Who do'st Thy blessings evermore Upon Thy People powre PSAL. IV. verse 1 GOd of my righteousnesse attend When my requests ascend Thou hast enlarg'd me in distresse And eas'd my heavinesse verse 2 How long O Mortals will ye shame The glory of my Name How long will ye love vanities And take delight in Lies verse 3 Know that the Lord elected hath Men of unmoved faith He when before His throne I cry Will not my suite deny verse 4 Stand of His greatnesse then in awe Nor sinne against His Law When on your bed retir'd and still O meditate his will verse 5 Of Righteousnesse the Offering To God your maker bring And on the hope of His defence Place all your confidence verse 6 Yet some who Him not understood Aske who shall doe us good Lord let thy face beames divine On us thy servants shine verse 7 Thou fill'st my heart with greater joyes Then theirs whom plenty cloyes Who reape their fruits in time of peace whose Come and Wine encrease verse 8 I lay mee downe with quiet blest To take my sleep and rest For thou whose goodnesse doth excell Mak'st me in safety dwell PSAL. V. verse 1 LOrd Ponder what my words relate Weigh what I meditate verse 2 My God and King my cry attend To Thee my Pray'rs I send verse 3 My voyce O Lord shall in the morne Up to thy Throne be borne Betimes will I direct my cry And looke to thee on high verse 4 For thou in Sin tak'st no delight No ill dwells in thy sight verse 5 The foolish stand not in thine eye Who hat'st iniquity verse 6 Thou shalt the lying lips destroy Who leasing make their joy God will the bloody minded hate And punish all deceit verse 7 But I presuming on Thy care Will to thy House repaire And tow'rds thy Temple in thy feare Due adoration beare verse 8 Mee Lord in righteousnesse dispose Beset with watchfull foes Make streight thy way before my face And guide mee by thy grace verse 9 No faithfullnesse their mouth containes Their heart fowle Malice staines Wide Sepulchres are their black throats Their tongues but flatt'ring notes verse 10 O God destroy and let them all By their own Counsailes fall Themselves by their transgressions quell Who 'gainst Thy pow'r rebell verse 11 But let all faithfull ones rejoyce And showt with cheerfull voyce Because Thy love which knowes no end Doth ever them defend verse 12 Let those rejoyce in Thee who trust For Thou wilt blesse the Just And with Thy favour as a sheild In danger safety yeild PSAL. VI verse 1 REbuke me not O Lord in wrath Whose sinne deserv'd it hath Nor let thy hot displeasure burne Least I to nothing turne verse 2 Have pitty Lord for I am weak Asham'd my sinnes to speake O heale me for my bones are vext My Soul with griefe perplext verse 3 How long shall I lament and cry For my delivery verse 4 O turne and me to favour take For thine owne mercies sake verse 5 Can he who looses lifes short breath Remember Thee in death Or will the dust and silence raise A voyce to sound Thy praise verse 6 Weary and faint my soule bemoanes Her vaine and fruitlesse groanes My bed the mark of sorrow weares Each night bedew'd with teares verse 7 My sight is dimme my melting eye Clouded with misery I languish through my haters rage Into untimely age verse 8 Depart from me all wicked ones The Lord hath heard my moanes My voyce of weeping and my teares Sound lowdly in His eares verse 9 God who my supplication takes In Pardon answer makes When their despight who me defame Shall cover'd be with shame PSAL. VII Sing this as Psalme 51. verse 1 O Lord my God in thee I trust Deliver mee from the unjust verse 2 Least Lyon-like my soule he teare Whilst none is for my reskue neare verse 3 Lord if this guilt upon me stands Or wickednesse be in my hands verse 4 If friend I ill rewarded have Or causelesse foe I did not save verse 5 Then let mine enemy pursue Let him my captive soule subdue Let him my life to earth down thrust And lay mine honour in the dust verse 6 O Lord in thy fierce wrath arise Take vengeance on mine enemies verse 7 The people then shall me come nigh For their sakes lift thy selfe on high verse 8 The Lord his judgement shall dispence According to mine innocence verse 9 O let all wicked counsailes end But just men stablish and defend verse 10 For God the heart
But God enclined hath his eare My prayers voice to heare verse 20 Let God for evermore be blest Who granted my request Who hath not turn'd away His face Nor held from me His grace PSAL. LXVII verse 1 THy mercy Lord extend And blessings on us send O let Thy Light and Face Divine Upon They servants shine verse 2 That through the earth Thy way Be know'n to Gentiles may And nations of the Universe Thy saving health rehearse verse 3 Let all the people raise Their voyce to sing Thy praise O God! let them with joy expresse To Thee their thankfulnesse verse 4 O let the Nations sing With gladnesse to their King For thou the world shalt judge with right And rule the earth with might verse 5 Let all the people raise Their voice to sing Thy praise O God let them with joy expresse To Thee their thankfulnesse verse 6 Then shall the earth encrease In plenty and in peace And God our God in blessings shew'n Shall us His people own verse 7 God who doth ever live To us shall blessings give That all the ends of earth may feare And duty to Him beare PSAL. LXVIII verse 1 LEt God the God of might arise And scatter'd be His enemies And let all those that hate Him flee verse 2 As smoake by winds we driven see So perish wicked men like sumes Or melted wax which fire consumes verse 3 But let the righteous rejoyce And unto God life up their voyce verse 4 Sing unto God sing praises lowd To Him that rides upon the cloud The Name of great Iehovah blesse verse 5 A father of the fatherlesse For he relieves the widowes wants verse 6 He solitary housholds plants And frees the Captives from their chaine Whil'st rebels are with hunger slaine verse 7 When Lord Thy people Thou didst lead And marches through the desart tread verse 8 The Heavens melted the earth shook And Sinai was with terrour strook verse 9 Yet Thou upon thy Lot didst powre When faint and weary plenties store verse 10 Thy congregation Thou didst feed Reliev'dst the poore and help'dst their need verse 11 The Lord Himselfe did give the word And num'rous preachers it record verse 12 Kings armies fled and took the foyle Whilst women did divide the spoile verse 13 Though then ye have neglected ly'n Ye shall againe with lustre shine Like to the doves faire plumed wing As Gold or Silver glistering verse 14 When God great Kings had put to flight The land was like to Salmon white verse 15 God's Mount is as faire Bashans hill Whose height does earth with wonder fill verse 16 Why leap ye hills which so excell This is the hill where God will dwell verse 17 His Chariots twenty thousand are Thousands of Angels serve His war Second Part. verse 18 Thou ha'st ascended up on high And captive led captivity Did'st ransome those who did rebell That God might still among them dwell verse 19 Blest be the Lord the God of health Who loads us daily with His wealth verse 20 He is the God whose saving breath The issues doth command from death verse 21 But God shall wound their hatefull head Who wilfully in sins are led verse 22 He said I will my people keep From Bashan bring through the deep verse 23 That so Thy foot borne through the cries Of fall'n and dying enemies May dipped be in slaughters flood And tongues of dogs lick up their blood verse 24 How Thou my God King we know Didst in Thy Sanctuary go verse 25 Singers lead to the Instrument Then Damsels with their Timbrels went verse 26 Blesse God all yee from Iacob spring verse 27 Small Benjamin their Ruler bring With Princely Iudah on the Throne Strong Nepthali and Zebulon verse 28 Thy God for thee did strength command O let Thy work confirmed stand verse 29 Then presents shall by Kings to Thee In Salems Temple offer'd be verse 30 Rebuke the peoples brutish spight Those scatter who in war delight verse 31 So Egypts Princes and the Moore With hands stretch'd out shall thee adore verse 32 Earth's Kingdomes sing and praise ascribe To God who 'bove the Heavens doth ride His mighty voyce He out doth send verse 34 His strength excells the clouds to rend verse 35 O God Thou from thy Holy Place With terrour dost thy foes amaze He strength and pow'r to Israel gives Blessed be God whoever lives PSAL. LXIX verse 1 SAve me O God for on my soule The furious waters rowle verse 2 Sunk deep in mire no stay I have Orewhelm'd by ev'ry wave verse 3 I weary am of my long cry My throat is hoarse and dry My failing eyes their strenght abate Whilst for my God I wait verse 4 My haters without cause exceed The haires upon my head And though I things not took restore They wrong and hate me more verse 5 O God! my folly Thou ha'st know'n My sins to Thee are show'n verse 6 Let none that seek or wait for Thee Through me confounded be verse 7 For Thy sake have I borne disgrace Shame cover'd hath my face verse 8 A stranger to my brethren am Who from my Mother came verse 9 I in Thy Houses zeale do pine Thy wrongs reputing mine verse 10 Yet when I fasted wept and mourn'd That my reproach was turn'd verse 11 For garments I have Sack-cloath worne A Proverb grow'n of scorne verse 12 Revil'd by those the gate that throng And made the drunkards song verse 13 But Lord to Thee my prayers climbe In Thy accepted time O for Thy Truth and mercies sake Heare those requests I make verse 14 Deliver me from out the mire Where envious floods conspire verse 15 To swallowing deeps me nere expose Nor let the pit enclose verse 16 Give eare O Lord as Thou art kind Let me Thy mercy find verse 17 Hide not Thy Face in time of need But heare my moane with speed Second Part. verse 18 Draw nigh O Lord my soule redeem Lost in my foes esteem verse 19 Thou my dishonour know'st and shame And those who me defame verse 20 Reproach my heavy heart hath broke Press'd downe with sorrowes stroake For pitty I and comfort look But friends have me forsook verse 21 For drink they Vineger for meat They gave me Gall to eat verse 22 O let their table prove their snare Their peace turne to despaire verse 23 Their eyes be dark'ned and still make Their loines through terrour shake verse 24 Upon their heads Thy fury powre Let vengeance them devoure verse 25 Make desolate their dwelling place Their habitation rase verse 26 For they whom Thou hast smote pursue The woundeds griefe renew verse 27 Add sin to their iniquity Let them thy presence fly verse 28 Blot from the Book of life their soule Nor with thy Saints enroll verse 29 But I am poore and full of paine O raise me up againe verse 30 So in my Song I le praise thy Name And thankfull ditties frame verse 31 Such gifts and
by his skilfull conduct led PSAL. LXXIX Sing this as the Lamentation verse 1 O God the Heathen us invade Thine heritage a prey is made Thy Holy Temple they defile And Salem make their ruins pile verse 2 The bodies of thy servants ly To gorge the fowles through heav'n that fly The carkasses of Saints are feasts To glut and feed devouring beasts verse 3 Their bloud like water hath been shed And none would see them buryed verse 4 We are become our neighbours flowt Reproach'd and laugh'd at round about verse 5 How long Lord shall thy jealous ire Consume us like unquenched fire verse 6 Let thy fierce anger those devoure Who neither feare thy Name or pow'r verse 7 Let those at length thy judgments tast Whose furious rage lay'd Iacob wast verse 8 Remember not our former sin Nor how rebellious we have bin Let speedy mercies us prevent Who languish through thy punishment verse 9 Save us O God for thy great Name Forgive our sins remove our shame verse 10 Why should in scorne the Heathen say Where is the God whom we obay O let the value of our blood In thy revenge be understood verse 11 And let the pris'ners groanes and sighes Up to thy throne of mercy rise Deliver those are mark't to dy By their blood-thirsting cruelty verse 12 Let seven-fold vengeance them reward Who nor thy Church nor thee regard And may those tongues which thee blaspheme Become themselvs reproaches theme verse 13 So we thy People and the sheep Which thine own Fold Pastures keep Wil thank thy goodnes all our daies And to succession sing thy praise PSAL. LXXX verse 1 GReat Shepheard who dost Israel keep And leadest Ioseph like a sheep Give eare and shine with glorious light O thou that dwell'st 'twixt Cherubs bright verse 2 Before thy Tribes now Captives made Stir up thy selfe and bring us aid Manasses Ephraim behold And Benjamin to bondage sold verse 3 Turne us againe O God of might And shew to us thy comforts light Thy favour to thy servants deigne And then we shall be whole againe verse 4 How long wilt thou displeased be With those who daily worship thee How long thy closed eare exclude Their Prayers who to Thee have su'd verse 5 Thou feedest Them with sorrowes bread And teares for drink are measured verse 6 We are through strife and envy torne Our neighbours spoile our haters scorne verse 7 Turne us againe great God of might And shew to us thy comforts light Thy favour to Thy servants deigne And then we shall be whole againe verse 8 Thou didst a Vine from Aegypt bring Thy hand which planted made it spring verse 9 And that it might have room to spred The Heathen were discomfited I'ts root Thou caused'st fast to stand And with faire branches fill the land verse 10 The Hills were cover'd with Hir shade Hir boughes like goodly Cedars made verse 11 Hir Armes did from the River reach Unto the Swelling Oceans beach verse 12 Why ha'st Thou then broke downe hir fense Exposing hir to violence That all who passe along hir place Pluck off hir grapes hir stock deface verse 13 The Mountaine beasts the Forrest Boare Root up hir planes devoure hir store verse 14 Returne O God! from heaven shine Visit Thy now despised Vine And what thy right hand once did plant O never may thy blessing want verse 15 Let all hir branches flourish long Which for thy self thou mad'st so strong verse 16 For though cut down and burnt she lyes Thy beames of love shall make hir rise verse 17 Thy people strengthen and protect Whom for thy self Thou did'st elect verse 18 So will we not goe back from Thee Whose name shall still invoked be verse 19 Turne us again O God of might And shew to us Thy comforts light Thy favour to thy servants deigne And then we shall be whole againe PSAL. LXXXI verse 1 TO God our strength lift up your voyce And make a joyfull noyse verse 2 Let Timbrell Psalme the pleasant Lyre With Psaltery conspire verse 3 The Trumpet in the New Moone blow In solemne triumph goe verse 4 Which God did as a Law ordaine For Iacob to retaine verse 5 This He to Ioseph did command In the Egyptian land Where I a language heard unknow'n And understood by none verse 6 His shoulder I from burthens eas'd From making bricks releas'd verse 7 Thou didst on me in trouble call Who ransom'd thee from thrall In thunder from the breaking cloud I answer'd thee alowd And at the waters where you strove In Meribah did prove verse 8 Heare O my people I will tell To Thee O Israel verse 9 No Heathen Gods shalt Thou adore Nor worship them before verse 10 I am thy God who freedome wrought And Thee from Egypt brought Thy mouth enlarg'd and open'd wide By me shall be supply'd verse 11 But they my precepts did neglect And Iacob Me reject verse 12 So left I them to Iusts unknow'n And counsells of their own verse 13 O that my people would have hear'd And from my wayes not errd verse 14 Their foes then had I soon subdu'd And with my hand pursu'd verse 15 No place God's haters should secure But they should still endure verse 16 I fed them had with finest wheat And hony for their meat PSAL. LXXXII Sing this as the Prayer after the Commandements verse 1 GOd in the great assembly sits To Kings and Judges judgment sits verse 2 How long the right will ye reject And persons of the bad respect verse 3 The poor and fatherlesse defend Justice to men opprest extend verse 4 Deliver those in need that stand And save them from the wicked's hand verse 5 They will not understand nor know But in the mists of darknes go Earths bases all are out of course Whil'st justice failes and Law wants force verse 6 I said that Kings are Gods on earth And sons deriv'd from highest birth verse 7 But ye like other men shall dy And with the fallen Princes ly verse 8 O God! whose pow'r doth all comprise In judgment on the earth arise For all the nations scatter'd far Thy lot and Tributaries are PSAL. LXXXIII verse 1 DO not O God Thou silence keep Nor let Thy vengeance sleep verse 2 Thy hatefull foes lift up their head In tumults gathered verse 3 With craft and counsailes of deceit They plot and ly in wait How they Thy People may annoy And Thine elect destroy verse 4 Come let us say this furious rout Their Nation quite root out And let the name of Israel be Lost to all memory verse 5 In consultations full of hate 'gainst Thee confederate verse 6 Edom with Ishmael combine Moah with Hagars line verse 7 Gebal and Ammon 'gainst us fight With the Amalekite The Philistines arm'd bands conspire With those that dwell at Tyre verse 8 And Ashur runs in to their aid Prepared to invade They strengthen Lots incestuous race Our dwellings to deface verse 9 But Thou
cast verse 16 He me from many waters tooke verse 17 My too strong foes with vengeance strook verse 18 They me in day of trouble seiz'd But God my stay those sorrowes eas'd verse 19 He brought me to a spacious place Deliv'ring me through His free grace verse 20 He did my righteousnesse regard And cleannesse of my hands reward verse 21 For I the wayes of God have kept Nor wickedly His precepts left verse 22 His judgments I and statutes prize Still placing them before my eyes verse 23 I perfect was and innocent Nor to ungodly courses bent verse 24 Therefore as guiltlesse and upright I am rewarded in His sight Second Part. verse 25 Thou to the mercifull art kind verse 26 And pure where Thou dost purenesse find verse 27 But with the froward art perverse Dost save the poor the proud disperse verse 28 For thou my candle wilt make bright And turne my darknesse into light verse 29 By Thee I made a Troop to fall And through my God leap'd ore a wall verse 30 God's way is perfect His word try'd Doth as a shield the faithfull hide verse 31 Who can like Him a Saviour be Or who a Rock to us but He verse 32 T is God that girdeth me with might And keepes me in my wayes upright verse 33 My feet like Hind's He maketh swift And to high places doth me lift verse 34 T is He doth teach my hands to warre Steel bowes by them now broken are verse 35 Thou wast my shield Thy hand sustain'd I through Thy favour greatnesse gain'd verse 36 My feet enlarged have not fail'd verse 37 'gainst foes pursuit my hands prevail'd verse 38 Whose pride now quite confounded lies Wounded and fall'n no more to rise verse 39 Thou girdest me with strength for fight And hast subdu'd the rebells might verse 40 Their captive necks below me bend And in deserv'd destruction end verse 41 They cry'd for safety 'midst their feare But God nor help them would nor hear verse 42 Like dust blow'n up so did I beat And tread them downe in their retreat verse 43 From mutiny and peoples strife O Lord Thou resku'd hast my life My head ore Nations Thou dost crowne Those serve me whom I have not know'n verse 44 Soone as they heare they me obay And strangers stoop unto my sway verse 45 The aliens away shall fade And their close places leave dismai'd verse 46 Blest be my Rock who ever lives Exalt Him who Salvation gives verse 47 T is God whose vengeance doth pursue And people under me subdue verse 48 He saves me from mine enemies And lifts me up 'bove those that rise He is my reskue my defence From men of blood and violence verse 49 Therefore will I to Thee O Lord My thanks Eternally record Amongst the Heathen speake Thy fame And praises sing unto Thy Name verse 30 He great deliverance doth bring In love to His annointed King His mercies doth on David powre And on his seed for evermore PSAL. XIX verse 1 THe Heavens high declare the fame Of God who did them frame verse 2 One day another tels and night His wonders doth recite verse 3 They have no language yet they teach Without or tongue or speech verse 4 And through the earth their sound is gone To every Nation God in the Circle of those spheares A Tabernacle reares In which the swift unweary'd Sun His daily course may run verse 5 Who as a Bridegroome freshly deckt Doth on the world reflect And as a Giant strong in might Darts forth his piercing light verse 6 He breaking from the Easterne skies Doth from his Chambers rise And till his beames declining set Nothing can shun his heat verse 7 Gods Law is incorrupt and whole Converting every Soule His faithfull promise never dies And makes the simple wise verse 8 The Statutes of the Lord are right And drooping hearts delight Both pure and perfect His command Gives light to understand verse 9 Most unpolluted is His feare Eternall and sincere The judgments of the Lord are fixt With Truth and Justice mixt verse 10 More to be wish'd then golden mines When them the test refines And more then hony that distills The mouth with sweetnesse fills verse 11 By These Thy servant warned is Oft as he goes amisse Which yeeld a plentifull reward To all that Them regard verse 12 Who knowes how often he offends How far his sin extends Lord cleanse my Soule from crimes conceal'd To none but Thee reveal'd verse 13 Keep me that no presumptuous staine May ore Thy Servant reigne Then shall I walke in innocence Free from the great offence verse 14 O Lord my only strength and tow'r Who sav'st me by Thy pow'r Let all my words and thoughts by Thee Heard and accepted be PSAL. XX verse 1 THe Lord in thy afflictions day Give eare when thou dost pray The Name of Iacob's God defend On whom thy hopes depend verse 2 Help from His Sanctuary send And strength from Sion lend verse 3 Thy Gifts in His remembrance prize Accept thy sacrifice verse 4 4 May He who comforts doth inspire Grant thee thy heart's desire Make thee enjoy thy wishes still Thy counsailes all fulfill verse 5 With thankfull and triumphant voyce We in Thy help rejoyce And in Thy Name our banners reare Who wilt thy servants heare verse 6 Now know I God who power gave Doth His Annointed save He heares from Heav'n and His right hand Makes him in safety stand verse 7 Some in their armed Chariots force Some put their trust in horse But we remember will the Lord Whose Name doth strength afford verse 8 They are brought down and fall'n in war We rays'd in triumph are verse 9 O save us Lord great Heavens King Heare those requests we bring PSAL. XXI verse 1 THe King shall in Thy strength be glad Through Thee with safety clad verse 2 Thou gav'st him all his heart desir'd And what his lips requir'd verse 3 Thou didst no good from him withhold Crownd'st him with purest gold verse 4 He asked life and Thou didst give Him endlesse dayes to live verse 5 Great Majesty doth him invest Through Thy Salvation blest Thou giv'st him joy and lasting grace The favour of Thy face verse 7 The King on God his trust hath plac't Whose Mercy keeps Him fast verse 8 Thy right hand all Thy foes shall find Whose hate 'gainst Thee combin'd verse 9 Thy wrath shall those who Thee forsake A fiery Oven make The Lord shall swallow them in ire By His revenges fire verse 10 Their fruit shalt Thou destroy from earth Root out their childrens birth verse 11 For they 'gainst Thee did ill invent Though fayl'd in their intent verse 12 When at their face Thine arrowes aime They turn their back with shame verse 13 O Lord Thy strength and glory raise So we Thy pow'r will praise PSAL. XXII Sing this as the Lamentation verse 1 MY God My God upon me look O wherefore hast Thou me forsook
my moane Thou to that rock of strength shalt lead My care-oppressed head verse 3 Who art my shelter and defense Against all violence verse 4 Within Thy Tabernacle I Will dwell eternally Whilst my unshaken hopes endure Under Thy wing secure verse 5 For Thou O God hast heard my vow Thou my desire dost know From whom the heritages came To those that feare Thy Name verse 6 Thou shalt preserve the King in peace And give His yeares encrease verse 7 That He within Thy gratious sight May dwell in endlesse light Thy mercy and Thy truth prepare Which his preservers are verse 8 So to Thy Name Ile praises sing And vowes performed bring PSAL. LXII verse 1 MY soule doth wait on God alone Whence comes salvation verse 2 He is my Rock firm'd in His love I shall not greatly move verse 3 How long will mischiefe ye devise Swift death shall you surprise Ye shall be like a bowing wall Or tott'ring fences fall verse 4 For they consult to cast him downe Whom God lifts to renowne They blessings with their mouth impart But curses from their heart verse 5 My soule wait Thou on God alone My expectation verse 6 He is my Rock my safe defense I shall not move from hence verse 7 In God my health and glory rest My strength and refuge blest verse 8 Trust Him ye people and implore Your heart before Him powre verse 9 The sons of men both low and high Are lyes and vanity And all alike in ballance lay'd Weigh lighter then the shade verse 10 O never in oppression trust Nor robberies unjust If wealth encrease your heart nere set Upon the gaines you get verse 11 God once hath spoke and oft I heard His pow'r is to be fear'd verse 12 And that His Mercy doth dispense Each work its recompense PSAL. LXIII verse 1 O God Thou art my God to Thee My thoughts addressed be And early as the rising day I will before Thee pray My thirsting soule and longing flesh Beg Thou wilt them refresh In that dry land where fruits nere grow Nor streams of water flow verse 2 That in Thy Sanctuary I May see Thy Majesty And Thy bright glory may behold As I had seen of old verse 3 Thy loving kindnesse better is Then life or earthly blisse My lips shall therefore praises give verse 4 And blesse Thee whilst I live Thus unto Thee whose Name is fear'd My hands shall be up-reard verse 5 My soule is as with marrow cloy'd When thus my mouth 's employ'd verse 6 I Thee remember on my bed With crosses wearied And in the watches of the night Thy goodnesse I recite verse 7 Under the shadow of Thy wing To Thee my Help I sing verse 8 My soule on Thee alone depends Whose Right hand me defends verse 9 But those that would my Soule enslave Shall sinke into the grave verse 10 The killing sword their lives shall slay Or make them foxes prey verse 11 The King in God his joy shall beare With those that by Him sweare When all the mouthes of such as ly Stop'd and confounded dy PSAL. LXIV verse 1 MY voice in Pray'r O God intend My life from foes defend verse 2 Me from all wicked counsails shrowd swords And risings of the proud verse 3 Whose tongues full bent and whet like swords As darts shoot bitter words verse 4 That fearlesse and in secret they The perfect man may slay verse 5 In mischeife they encourage each Of snares make private speech Which when in secret lay'd They cry What eyes shall them descry verse 6 They both contrive and practise ill Most diligent to kill Which in their heart concealed deep Their thoughts in secret keep verse 7 But God shall with a suddaine dart Wound their malitious heart verse 8 So their own tongue betray them shall As causer of their fall Then those deride them shall that see And from their vengeance flee verse 9 All men shall feare and thence declare God's work these judgments are For wisely they consider on And ponder what is done verse 10 In God rejoyce then shall the just And glory in His trust PSAL. LXV verse 1 THy praise O God! in Sion flowes Where we performe our vowes verse 2 O Thou that hear'st our prayers summe To Thee all flesh shall come verse 3 My misdeeds Lord 'gainst me prevaile Thy mercies though nere faile Who our transgressions from thy sight Remov'st and purgest quite verse 4 Blest is the man Thou do'st admit Within Thy Courts to sit For with Thy Temples beauty he Shall satisfied be verse 5 O God of our salvation Thou Wilt dreadfull wonders show Thou hope of all earth's bounds containe Or far dilated Maine verse 6 Whose strength the mountaines setteth fast On their foundation plac't verse 7 Who doth the roaring Seas asswage And still the People's rage verse 8 They in earth's utmost parts that dwell Thy fearfull tokens tell Thou mak'st th' outgoings of the morne And nights thy praise adorne verse 9 Thou waterest the earth with raine Then giv'st hir store of graine Such plenty Gods full river yields T' enrich the thirsty fields verse 10 The setled furrowes soft with showres Take in Thy blessings stores verse 11 Thou do'st the year with goodnes crowne Thy clouds drop fatnesse downe verse 12 The barren deserts shall abound The hills with joy resound verse 13 The flocks be full the pastures spring With corne the vallies sing PSAL. LXVI verse 1 MAke unto God a joyfull noyse Ye lands lift up your voyce verse 2 Sing forth the honour of His Name Report His glorious fame verse 3 Say unto God how wond'rous are The works Thou dost prepare To Thee who in great pow'r do'st sit Shall all Thy foes submit verse 4 With Songs and adoration shall The earth before Thee fall verse 5 Come see His awfull works and might Shew'n in His children's sight verse 6 He turn'd the Sea into dry land Wher-on their foot did stand verse 7 He rules in pow'r His eye doth quell The Nations that rebell verse 8 O blesse our God so justly fear'd And cause His praise be heard verse 9 Who makes our soule in life abide Nor lets our feet to slide verse 10 Thou us O God hast prou'd try'd Like silver purify'd verse 11 Thou broughtest us into the suare Our loines afflicted are verse 12 Thou wicked men hast suffered To trample on our head We went through fire and water past Yet sav'dst Thou us at last verse 13 I will into thy Temple bring A thankfull Offering verse 14 The vow my lips in trouble made Devoutly shall be paid verse 15 I offer will burnt sacrifice Whilst clouds of Incense rise Rams Goats with Bullocks from the stall Shall at Thy Altar fall verse 16 O come and heare my words declare How large Gods favours are verse 17 When with my mouth on Him I call'd And with my tongue extoll'd verse 18 If wickednesse my heart regard I shall not then be heard verse 19
sacrifice as these Will God much better please Then fatted Oxen from the stall Which on His Altar fall verse 32 The meek shall see this and be glad whose hopes on God are stay'd verse 33 For he will hear the poor mans cryes His pris'ners not despise verse 34 Let Heaven praise Him Seas and earth With all in them have birth verse 35 For God will Sions Cities blesse For Iudah to possesse verse 36 His servants and succeeding race Inherit shall this place And those that love His glorious Name For ever there remaine PSAL. LXX verse 1 MAke hast O God my life to save Thy speedy help I crave verse 2 Their practises with shame confound That seek my soule to wound Let them disgraced all retire That do my hurt desire verse 3 Who 'gainst me say Aba in scorne To shamefull ruin turn verse 4 And let all those that seek to Thee Rejoyce and gladded be Let them who in thy love confide Say God be magnify'd verse 5 But I am poor and prest with need O God to me make speed Thou art my help and only stay O Lord make no delay PSAL. LXXI Sing this as the Lamentation verse 1 IN thee O Lord my trust I place Confound me never with disgrace verse 2 Thou in Thy justice set me free Incline Thine eare and succour me verse 3 Be Thou my strong and safe resort Who art my Rock and only Fort verse 4 O Save me from unrighteous bands From cruell men and bloody hands verse 5 Thou art my hope O God of truth My trust and Comfort from my youth verse 6 Thou from the womb did'st me sustaine When brought forth in my Mothers paine Thou from her bowels did'st me bring Of Thee my praise shall ever sing verse 7 And though mens wonder I am made My strong defense on Thee is lay'd verse 8 O let my mouth be fill'd with praise And with Thy honour all my daies verse 9 Cast me not off when old and fraile Nor me forsake when strength doth faile verse 10 Mine enemies combine with hate And for my Soule lay daily wait verse 11 Saying Him persecute and take For God and man doth him forsake verse 12 O be not far from me at need My God to succour me make speed verse 13 Consume all those and them confound Who seek my Soule with hate to wound Reproach them who conspire my hurt And my affliction make their Sport verse 14 So never shall my hope give ore But I will praise Thee more and more verse 15 My mouth shall still Thy mercies shew Whose number I could never know verse 16 And in Thy strength will I go on Thy goodnesse only mention verse 17 O God thou me from youth hast taught To speak the wonders thou hast wrought verse 18 Forsake me not when gray and old Till to this Age Thy pow'r is told verse 19 Thy righteousnesse O God exceeds Who equall can Thy mighty deeds verse 20 Thou who hast shew'd me grief paine Shalt quicken me O Lord againe Thy hand shall bring me from the deep Though bury'd low in earth I sleep verse 21 Thou shalt my greatnes then encrease And comfort me with endlesse peace verse 22 Therefore O God through all my daies On Psalteries Thy truth I 'le praise And on the harpe Thy mercies tell O Holy one of Israël verse 23 My joyfull lips to thee shall sing My soul which Thou from death didst bring verse 24 My tongue Thy justice shall proclaime Who do'st my foes confound with shame PSAL. LXXII As Psalme 51. verse 1 GIve Lord thy judgments to the King And from his Son let Justice spring verse 2 So shall the right to all extend And equity the poor defend verse 3 The mountains then shall bring forth peace The hils by righteousnesse encrease verse 4 He shall the poor and needy save But break oppressors in the grave verse 5 All generations shall Thee feare So long as Sun and Moon appeare verse 6 He shall like raine on grasse new mow'n Or showres that water earth come downe verse 7 The just shall flourish in His daies And Peace abound whilst light displayes verse 8 From Sea to Sea His Throne shall reach And from the flood to earths end stretch verse 9 They who in desarts dwell shall bow His Foes as dust His feet below verse 10 Tarshish the Isles with Sheba's King And Seba shall their presents bring verse 11 All Kings before Him shall fall downe And every Nation serve His crowne verse 12 The cries of helples He will heed verse 13 And save the soules of such as need verse 14 He shall from violence redeem And pretious their blood esteem verse 15 Sheba shall Gold for Tribute pay Men praise Him still and for Him pray verse 16 The smallest handfull then of corne Upon the tops of Mountaines borne Like Lebanon full fruits shall powre The people flourish like the flow'r verse 17 His Name endureth whil'st the Sun About the world his course doth run Blessings through Him descend on all And Nations shall Him Blessed call verse 18 Blessed be God whose every act His Servants wonder doth attract verse 19 Blest be His Name Let Earth and men Be with His glory fill'd Amen PSAL. LXXIII Sing this as Psalme 119. verse 1 GOd unto Israel is kind To those are cleane in mind verse 2 Yet had my wav'ring feet and faith Almost forsook their path verse 3 For I to envy could not cease At fools and sinners peace verse 4 Who not impaire in ages length Nor lessen'd are in strength verse 5 They not like others troubled are Nor plagu'd with common care verse 6 They therefore are with proud disdaine Compass'd as with a chaine And as a garment for defence Cover'd with violence verse 7 Their wanton eye with fatnesse swells And wealth their wish excells verse 8 They most corrupt oppresse the weak And arrogantly speak verse 9 They set their mouth 'gainst heaven to talk Their tongue through earth doth walk verse 10 Therefore Gods people when they see How prosp'rous sinners be And vexed with their sorrowes sense Incline to their defense verse 11 So words like these their passion throwes How should we thinke God knowes verse 12 Who lets the wicked live in health And daily grow in wealth verse 13 Why vertue then should I retained I cleanse my heart in vaine In vaine my hands held from offense I wash in innocence verse 14 For all the daies my life hath seen I have afflicted been My Soule with wants and sorrowes worn◠Was chast'ned every morne verse 15 Yet should I not these murmurs check But thus disturbed speak I might thy Children so offend And Thee blaspheming end Second Part. verse 16 But this I found by flesh and blood Hard to be understood verse 7 Nor till I to Thy Temple went Could know what these things meant Then I discern'd what they portend And how the wicked end verse 18 Whom Thou in slippery fortunes plac't Do'st
like Midian them confound Whose sword themselvs did wound Like Sisera O make them all Who did at Kishon fall verse 10 Be they as Iabin swoll'n with pride Whose dreadfull Armies dy'd Their carkasses in Endor flung Were spread on earth as dung verse 11 Let Oreb's Zeb's Zalmunna's fate Reward their Princes hate verse 12 Who said let us our force address Gods Houses to possess verse 13 My God! O make them like a wheele As straw in winds to reele verse 14 As raging fires their fuell burn And Hills to ashes turn verse 15 So with Thy tempest them pursue With stormes their fear renew verse 16 O Lord their faces fill with shame That they may seek Thy Name verse 17 Let them confounded ever stand And perish by Thy hand verse 18 That men may know Iehovahs Name Rules all this earthly frame PSAL. LXXXIV verse 1 HOw lovely Thou great Lord of war Thy Tabernacles are verse 2 My longing soule is faint and pain'd Whilst from thy Courts restrain'd My heart my flesh with all that give Me pow'r to move or live Cry loud till they admitted be The living God to see verse 3 Yea Sparrows find a house to rest The Swallow builds hir nest Their young they to thine Altar bring O Lord my God and King verse 4 Blessed are they who all their daies Thee in thy Temple praise verse 5 Blest in the man whose strength Thou art Whose wayes direct his heart verse 6 Who passing through the mournfull vale Where springs and comforts faile Make wells in Baca's barren plaine And pooles to fill with raine verse 7 They go from strength to strength nor faint Through wearinesse or want Till to thy House approaching neare In Sion they appeare verse 8 Lord God of Hosts my prayer heare O Iacob's God give eare verse 9 O God our Shield looke downe with grace On Thine Annointed's face verse 10 One day which in Thy Courts He spends Thousands of ours transcends I 'ld rather keep a door with thee Then all earth's glory see verse 11 For God our shield our Sun and light Crownes those that walk upright Nor failes all good such men to give Who in His Statutes live verse 12 O Lord of Hosts great God of Might Who dwell'st in endlesse light How blessed shall that servant be Who puts his trust in Thee PSAL. LXXXV verse 1 LOrd to thy land Thou good hast been Which hath Thy favour seen Thou Iacob's Off-spring hast set free From thtir captivitie verse 2 Thou thy forgivenes didst dispense To cover all offence verse 3 Thou hast remov'd Thy wrath which burn'd And from thy fiercenes turn'd verse 4 Turne us O God of health and peace O cause Thine anger cease verse 5 Wilt Thou displeas'd for ever be With all posterity verse 6 Wilt Thou not us againe receive Thy peoples joyes enlive verse 7 Lord shew That mercy which we want And Thy salvation grant verse 8 I will what God declares attend For He His peace will send And cures His Saints of all their paine If they not sin againe verse 9 For His salvation is near To such as do Him fear That glory in our land may dwell And all things prosper well verse 10 Mercy with Truth united is Justice and Peace do kisse verse 11 Truth springing out of earth is strook And Right from Heav'n doth look verse 12 The Lord shall give us all things good Our land yield store of food verse 13 Before Him Righteousnes shall go His wayes and steps to shew PSAL. LXXXVI verse 1 BOw down thine eare Lord to my cry Poor and in misery verse 2 Preserve my guiltles soul whose faith On thee depended hath verse 3 Shew mercy Lord for all the day Before thy throne I pray verse 4 Rejoyce thy servants soul which he Lifts up O Lord to thee verse 5 Thou good and gratious do'st live And ready to forgive Thou plenteous mercy keep'st in store For all who Thee implore verse 6 Unto my prayer Lord give eare My supplications heare verse 7 In time of trouble and of greife Thou sendest me releife verse 8 Among earths Gods or Pow'rs Divine No works are like to thine verse 9 The Nations all whom Thou didst frame Shall glorifie Thy Name verse 10 Thou wonders do'st Great God alone verse 11 Thy way to me make know'n My heart unto thy feare unite Who in thy name delight verse 12 Then I my faculties will raise To honour Thee with praise verse 13 Who do'st my soul in mercy save From the devouring grave verse 14 O God! the proud against me rise In furious companies Ungodly men my life have sought Who set thy pow'r at nought verse 15 But Thou a God compassionate Whose mercies not abate Long suff'ring art and patient To pardon sinners bent verse 16 O turne to me in love againe Let me thy pity gaine Give strength and from destruction O save Thine hand-maids son Some token of thy favour deigne Which may my haters shame Because Thou Lord ha'st brought me aid And art my comfort made PSAL. LXXXVII verse 1 UPon the Holy Mountaines brest Where God Himself doth rest By His protection firmely stay'd Are Her foundations lay'd verse 2 The Lord who Sion did elect Hir gates doth more affect Then all the num'rous tents beside Where Jacob's sons abide verse 3 Ierusalem thou City faire God's dwelling and His care Of thee thou throne of Iudahs Kings Are spoken glorious things verse 4 I wil strong Rahab mention With high-towr'd Babylon The scorched Ethiopian lands The plaines where Tyrus stands Philistia too shall reck'ned be With those acknowledg me verse 5 For ev'ry quarter of the earth Gives Sions children birth God shall establish Hir on high Hir numbers multiply When Nations far dispersed shall Be gather'd at His call verse 6 And when the Lord His Churches fruits With all Hir Sons computes They shall amongst His people know'n Be counted for his own verse 7 The Singers too rehearsed are Who there His praise declare From whence arise fresh springs of Grace To water ev'ry place PSAL. LXXXVIII Sing this as the Lamentation verse 1 TO Thee O Lord who me do'st save Both day and night I cryed have verse 2 Lend to my voice a gratious eare verse 3 Whose troubled soul to death draws neare verse 4 Cast down to earth I mongst the dead verse 5 Am only free and numbered Like those who in the grave forgot By thee cut off corrupt and rot verse 6 Thou in the lowest pit ha'st layd And darkest deeps my cov'ring made verse 7 I am hard pressed by Thy wrath And every wave afflicted hath verse 8 Thou mine acquaintance hast remov'd And sever'd me from those I lov'd Their friendship turned is to hate My life shut up and desolate verse 9 My weeping eye doth daily mourne My hands stretch'd out my hopes forlorne verse 10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead To praise Thee rais'd and wakened verse 11 Shall the devouring grave declare How true thy
May Israel now say verse 2 Oft in my tender yeares assaild Yet have they not prevail'd verse 3 My back the plowers did invade And there long furrowes made verse 4 But God hath cut their wicked bands And sav'd me from their hands verse 5 Let them confounded back retire Who Sions hurt desire verse 6 Or prove like grasse on houses top Which withers e're growne up verse 7 Which hath no mower for it found Nor into sheaves is bound verse 8 And none that pass God speed you say Or wish you prosper may PSAL. CXXX verse 1 OUt from the Depths of misery O Lord to Thee I cry verse 2 Mark well my voice and let Thine eare My supplication heare verse 3 If Thou O Lord wilt be extreame And with thy searching beame Examine each transgression And errour we have done When we thus strictly shall be try'd Who may thy sentence bide Or who endure thy vengfull hand And in thy judgment stand verse 4 But there is Mercy Lord with Thee That Thou may'st feared be verse 5 Thy word and Promises are just Therefore in them I trust verse 6 On Thee alone my hope is plac't To Thee my Soule doth hast On Thee she waites to Thee she flyes Before the morning rise They that expect the morning light After the weary night Watch not so much the break of day As she for Thee doth stay verse 7 O Israel trust in the Lord Who pity doth afford For He more ready is to save Then we his help to crave With Him abundant mercy is To salve what 's done amiss verse 8 And Plentifull redemption found To cure each sinfull wound Another of the same paraphrased for an Antheme OUt of the horrour of the lowest Deep Where cares endlesse fears their station keep To thee O Lord I send my woful cry O heare the accents of my misery If Thy enquiry Lord should be severe To mark all sins which have been acted here Who may abide or when they sifted are Stand un-condemned at Thy Judgments bar But there is mercy O my God with Thee That Thou by it may'st lou'd and feared be My Soule waites for the Lord in Him I trust Whose word is faithful whose promise just On him my longing thoughts are fixt as they Who wait the cōforts of the rising day Yea more then those that watch the morning light Tir'd with the sorrowes of a rest-less night O Israel trust in that Gratious Lord Who plentifull remission doth afford And will His people who past pardon seeme By mercyes greater then their sins redeeme PSAL. CXXXI verse 1 O Lord have no haughty mind Nor eyes to pride inclin'd To matters great I not aspire Nor things too high desire verse 2 But low in thought in action mild Like to a weaned Child So wean'd from all earth's vanities My soule on Thee relies verse 3 Let Israel make God their scope And in His goodnesse hope Untill both time and life shall end On Him alone depend PSAL. CXXXII verse 1 REmember David's trouble Lord His vow and oath record verse 2 How he in zeale and holy fear To Iacob's God did swear verse 3 I will not house my weary head Nor go into my bed verse 4 Nor shall my eyes with sleep opprest Acquainted be with rest verse 5 Untill a dwelling place I find Unto the Lord design'd And till I shall a Temple raise For the Almighty's praise verse 6 Lo we have heard in Ephrata Thy Arke did sometimes stay And found in open fields it stood Or shelt'red by the wood verse 7 But in His Tabernacle now Our knees wee 'l humbly bow We will before His foot stool fall And on His power call verse 8 Arise O Lord into Thy Rest Long with Thy presence blest And let Thy Arke be fixed here Whose strength the Nations feare verse 9 Thy Priests with holyness attire With joy Thy Saints inspire verse 10 Do not Thy love for Davids sake From Thine Annointed take verse 11 The Lord to David vowed hath Nor will He break His faith From thine owne Ioynes shall issue one To sit upon thy throne verse 12 And if thy Children will consent To my Commandement Their sons whil'st day and night remaine Successively shall Reigne verse 13 For I the Lord have Sion chose For my desir'd repose verse 14 Within this dwelling will I rest An everlasting guest verse 15 Hir stores with plenty shall be fed Hir poor reliev'd with bread verse 16 Hir Priests with blessing shall be deckt With gladness Hir Elect. verse 17 There shall the Horne of David spring In honour flourishing And like a Lamp his glorious light Shall still continue bright verse 18 His adversaries cloath'd with shame Shall lose both life and name But from his Sacred Head the Crowne Shall never be cast downe PSAL. CXXXIII verse 1 BEhold how pleasant 't is to see When brethren do agree Whose hearts as dwellings love unites And to accord invites verse 2 'T is like the pretious ointment shed On Aarons sacred head Which did from face and beard descend And on his garment end verse 3 'T is as the silver drops of dew Which Hermons top renew Or as the fuitfull raines distill Upon faire Sions Hill verse 4 The Lord on such agreement powres His loves unwasted showres And doth their habitations bless With endless happiness PSAL. CXXXIV Sing this as Psalme 51. verse 1 YE servants of the Lord Bless Him with one accord You in His House who nightly wait His praises due relate verse 2 With lifted hands adore And daily Him implore Within His Sanctuary bless The Lord of Holiness verse 3 The God that Heaven made And earth's foundation lay'd Out of His Sion thee defend And blessings endless send PSAL. CXXXV Sing this as Psalme 119. verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord His praise proclaime All ye that love His Name verse 2 Ye in His House and Courts that stand Attending His Command verse 3 O praise His goodness blest His Name From whom all mercies came verse 4 He Iacob chose and on his race Did all His treasure place verse 5 Our God is great and in His deeds All other Gods exceeds verse 6 In Heav'n or earth or deepest Seas He acts what ere He please verse 7 He makes from earth the vapours rise Which cloud the dark'ned skies From whence He raines and light'ning flings And winds there treasur'd brings verse 8 He man and beast in Egypt smote verse 9 And plagues on Pharaoh brought verse 10 His arme did vanquish Nations great And mighty Kings defeat verse 11 Sibon and Og and Canaan fell verse 12 In lot to Israel verse 13 Therefore Thy pow'rfull Name O Lord Succession shall record verse 14 Thy judgments are on sinners bent But tow'rds Thine owne relent verse 15 The Gods in Heathen Temples sought Are gold and silver wrought verse 16 Speechless they be and blind and deaf verse 17 Nor in their mouths have breath verse 18 Like them the Makers are and