Aloud the voice of his high praise 9 Who puts and holds our soul in life Our feet from hurtful sliding stays 10 For thou didst prove and try us Lord As men by fire do silver try 11 Brought'st us into the net and layd'st Bonds of grief on our loyns to lye 12 Over our heads thou mad'st men ride Through fire and water floods to pass But thou through all hast brought us out Into a water'd wealthy place 13 I 'le bring burnt-offerings to thy house And all my vows to thee I 'le pay 14 Which my lips uttered and mouth spake When I in grievous trouble lay 15 Burnt sacrifices of fat Rams With Incense I to thee will bring Of Bullocks and of Goats I will Present to thee an offering 16 Come now and hearken to my words All you that have God's holy fear And what he for my soul hath done To you I will forthwith declare 17 In my distress my mouth to him Sent forth my humble earnest cry And his great name I with my tongue With praise extolled fervently 18 I know if I do in my heart Iniquity love and regard When I to him my prayer make I shall not then by him be heard 19 But God did hear me readily And he did graciously attend Unto my praying voice and cry Which I to him did humbly send 20 And blessed be the Lord my God Who hath not from me turn'd away His mercy not deny'd my suit When I to him did seek and pray PSALM LXVII The old Metre Corrected by W. Barton 1 HAve mercy on us Lord And grant to us thy grace And unto us do thou afford The brightness of thy face 2 That all the earth may know The way to godly wealth And all the people here below May see thy saving health 3 Let all the world O God Give praise unto thy name O let the people all abroad Extoll and laud the same 4 Throughout the world so wide Let all rejoyce with mirth For thou shalt justly judge and guide The nations of the earth 5 Let all the world O God Give praise unto thy name And let the people all abroad Extoll and laud the same 6 Then shall the earth increase Great store of fruit shall fall And God our God shall grant us peace And greatly bless us all 7 Yea God shall bless us all And earth both far and near And people all in general Of him shall stand in fear The same by the Scots 1 LOrd unto us be merciful Do thou us also bless And graciously make shine on us The brightness of thy face 2 That so thy way upon the earth To all men may be known Also among the nations all Thy saving health be known 3 O Let the people praise thee Lord Let people all thee praise 4 And let the nations all be glad And sing for joy always For rightly thou shalt people judge And nations rule on earth 5 Let people praise thee Lord let all The folk praise thee with mirth 6 Then shall the earth yield her increase God our God bless us shall 7 God shall us bless and of the earth The ends shall fear him all PSALM LXVIII 1 LEt God arise and scattered Let all his daring enemies be And let all those that do him hate From his just face and presence flee 2 Drive them away as smoak is driven As wax melts at the burning fire Let wicked men before God's face So perish by his righteous ire 3 But let the righteous all be glad Greatly rejoycing in God's sight Let them addict themselves to joy And this express with all their might 4 Sing unto God his praises sing Extol him with your chearful voice That rides on Heav'n By his name JAH Before his gracious face rejoyce 5 A father of the fatherless And judge of helpless widows case Is God whom we adore and praise Even in his holy dwelling place 6 The barren God in families Doth set I he from iron bands The bound sets free while Rebels dwell In want in dry and barren lands 7 O God of old when thou went'st forth Before thy ransom'd peoples face And through the barren wilderness Thou didst as their Conductor pass 8 At God's presence the earth did shake From heav'n the dropping showers fell Sinai was at God's presence mov'd Before the God of Israel 9 O God thou healed'st the desart's drought Sending to it a plenteous rain Whereby thy weary heritage Thou didst confirm and own again 10 Thy Congregation then did make Their setled habitation there And of thy goodness for the poor O God thou didst relief prepare 11 The publick word of joy to us Was given out by thee O God Great was the company of them That quickly publisht it abroad 12 Kings of great armies terrify'd Were forc'd apare to flee away And she that tarryed at home Did share and distribute the prey 13 Though you have lien among the pots Like beauteous doves you shall appear Whose wings with silver and with gold Their yellow feathers cover'd are 14 When the Almighty scatter'd Kings As Salmon snow 't was over white 15 The hill of God's as Bashan hill As Bashan hill it is for height 16 Why leap ye you high hills This is The holy mount chosen by God Where he delights to dwell on which He 'll ever settle his abode 17 God's Chariots twenty thousand are His Angels many thousands be Among them as in Sinai mount So in his holy Temple 's he 18 Thou hast triumphing gloriously Ascended up to dwell on high And conquering in triumph led Captive even our Captivity Thou hast received gifts in Man And that for them that did rebel That as their reconciled God Among them thou in love might'st dwell 19 Blest be the Lord who with his gifts Of mercy doth us daily load Even he who ever was and is Of our defence and help the God 20 Our God is he that is the God Of all health and salvation The issues and defence from death Belong to none but him alone 21 But God shall surely wound the head Of all his harden'd enemies Their hairy scalp who shall go on In their belov'd iniquities 22 God said I 'le bring them back as I From Bashan did for them before And as from the depths of the sea I brought them safely to the shore 23 That thy feet may be dipt in blood Of these thy stain and bleeding foes And even thy dogs may dip their tongue In blood which from the wounded flows 24 Thy goings they have seen O God In all thy glorious majesty The goings of my God and King In his sublime Sanctuary 25 First went the fingers next to them Musicians follow'd in array Among them all the damsels were That do on sounding Timbrels play 26 Bless God in your Assemblies all Unto him joyful praises sing All you that of the blessed race From Israel's ancient fountain spring 27 Benjamin and his Ruler's there And Juda's Ruling Companies And with his
incline and bow thine ear Thy people and thy father's house Forget thou must and count not dear 11 And then thy beauty to the King Shall always very pleasant be And do thou humbly worship him Seeing thy rightful Lord is he 12 The daughter there of wealthy Tyre With a rich gift shall waiting be And all the rich throughout the land Shall humbly make their suit to thee 13 Within doth the King's daughter sit And is all glorious to behold And all her cloaths and ornaments Are richly wrought of purest gold 14 She shall be brought unto the King In splendid robes by needle wrought The Virgins which do follow her With her shall unto thee be brought 15 With gladness great shall they be brought And signs of joy on every side Into the presence of the King The Court where he doth use to bide 16 And thou shalt in thy father's stead Thy numerous blessed off-spring take And in all Countries of the earth Thou shalt them honoured Princes make 17 I will to generations all Thy name and memory extend The peoples joyful praise of thee Shall last and never have an end PSALM XLVI 1 GOd is our refuge and our strength A present help and always near In all our dangers and distress Therefore we will not need not fear 2 Though the whole earth removed were And though the mountains high and steep Be mov'd and carryed from their place And cast into the Ocean deep 3 And though the Seas tempestuous waves Disturb'd a hideous roaring make And though the waters swelling rage Do make the neighbour mountains quake 4 There is a River whose pure streams God's blessed City do make glad The holy place where the most high His dwelling hath and long hath had 5 The Lord is in the midst of her Nothing shall her shake and remove The Lord himself right early will To her a faithful helper prove 6 The heathens rag'd tumultuously The neighbour Kingdoms moved were He uttered his powerful voice The earth did melt as if for fear 7 The Lord himself doth take our part Who doth all hosts and powers command For our sure refuge Jacob's God As our high place doth alway stand 8 Come and behold what wondrous works The Lord himself hath for us wrought What desolations on the earth His dreadful executions brought 9 Through all the earth he makes war cease And into wished peace it turns He breaks the bow he cuts the spear With fire the warlike chariot burns 10 Be still and know that I am God And will o're all exalted be The heathen shall exalt my name And all the earth shall honour me 11 The Lord who doth all hosts command Is ever on his peoples side And our sure refuge Jacob's God Is and for ever will abide PSALM XLVII By W. Barton 1 LEt all with sweet accord Applaud and voices raise In honour of the Lord And loudly sing his praise 2 For God most high Is King of Kings And rules all things With majesty 3 Whole nations of our foes He throws beneath our feet 4 A happy lot he chose For us as he thought meet The dignity Of Israel Beloved well By the most High 5 God is gone up on high With shouts and trumpets sound Ascending gloriously Unto the Lord renown'd 6 His praises sing And loudly raise Your voice to praise Our heav'nly King 7 For God is soveraign King And Lord of all the earth With understanding sing And set his praises forth 8 God reigns alone O're heathen men Sitting upon His holy throne 9 The Princes gather there The Princes of all lands The people far and near Whom Abraham's God commands The shields are his Of all the earth God's name and worth Exalted is PSALM XLVIII 1 GReat is the Lord and greatly he By all is to be praised still Within the City of our God Upon his holy Sion hill 2 Mount Sion's situate beauteously It is the joy of all the earth The City of the great King stands On her side which is towards the North. 3 God in her palaces is known To be a refuge and defence 4 The Kings against her gathered were But past away together thence 5 When viewing it they saw its strength They wondring at it would not stay But being troubled at the sight They quickly thence did hast away 6 Even like a labouring woman's pain Fear seiz'd on them and drove them back 7 As the East-wind doth Tarshish Ships In pieces break and bring to wrack 8 As we have heard so have we seen That God's own chosen Sion's hill And City of the Lord of Hosts God surely will establish still 9 All thy great loving kindness Lord We gladly did commemorate When with thy worshippers we did Within thy Temple daily wait 10 According to thy Name O Lord So great and famous is thy praise To the earth's ends Thy right hand 's full Of perfect righteousness always 11 Because of all thy judgments just Let thy own Sion Mount rejoyce Let Judah's daughters gladness shew With thanks and chearful heart and voice 12 Walk about Sion view her round Her many stately Towers tell 13 Consider her fair Palaces And mark her Forts and Bulwarks well That you may tell posterity 14 For this God is and will abide Our God for ever He will be Even unto death our strength and guide PSALM XLIX 1 HEar this all people and give ear All you that in the world do dwell 2 Both low and high both rich and poor My mouth to you shall wisdom tell 3 My heart shall knowledge meditate I will also incline mine ear 4 To parables And on the harp My sayings dark I will declare 5 Why should I fear in evil days When fruits of mine iniquities Of my own he 'll surround me with Many deserv'd calamities 6 As for those men who in their wealth And worldly treasure put their trust And in their riches multitude And great estates do make their boast 7 None of them can his brother's life Redeem by any means or way Nor can he for him unto God Any sufficient ransom pay 8 To redeem life's impossible And therefore it can never be 9 That he should always live on earth And not common corruption see 10 For that both wise and fools do die They daily see and must perceive And wordly bruitish men at death Their loved wealth to others leave 11 Their inward thought is that their house And stately dwelling-places shall Stand through all ages they their lands Therefore by their own names do call 12 Nevertheless none of them all On earth abide in honour must Their flesh must perish as the beasts That dyes and turns to common dust 13 Thus brutish folly plainly is Their boast and chosen worldly way Yet their deceiv'd posterity Do like and follow what they say 14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave And hungry death shall them devour And in the morning upright men Shall over them have ruling power Their strength and
themselves At us do daily laugh and flout 7 Turn us again O Lord of Hosts And upon us do thou vouchsafe To make thy pleased face to shine And then we shall again be safe 8 Thou hast a Vine from Egypt brought By thy out-stretched mighty hand And thou the heathen didst cast out And plant it in their promis'd land 9 Before it thou prepared'st room And mad'st it therein take deep root Till it did spread and multiply And so did fill the land throughout 10 Through its increase the hills about Were cloath'd and covered with its shade And like the lofty Cedar trees Her spreading branches were display'd 11 And she as far as to the sea Her prosperous fruitful boughs did send And to the bounding river's side Her out-spread branches did extend 12 Why hast thou then her fencing hedge Thus greatly broken and cast down So that all passengers her fruit Do pluck and take even as their own 13 It rooted up and wasted is By the unclean boar of the wood And all the wild beasts of the field Devour it as their proper food 14 O God of Hosts we thee beseech With help return yet unto thine With mercy look from heav'n behold And visit this thy wasted Vine 15 The Vineyard which inclosed by thee Thy right hand set and planted young And that chief branch which for thy self In it thou mad'st so high and strong 16 It is as fuel now cut down And burnt up by the raging fire They perish when thy countenance Rebuketh them with burning ire 17 Let thy defending hand be on The chosen man of thy right hand The son of man whom for thy self Thou madest strong to Rule and stand 18 So will we not go back from thee Nor from our promis'd duty fall Quicken and raise us up and we Upon thy Name will trust and call 19 Turn us again Lord God of Hosts And upon us do thou vouchsafe To make thy pleased face to shine And then we shall be ever safe PSALM LXXXI 1 UNto the glorious God our strength Sing all aloud with raised voice And unto Jacob's mighty God In praise make all a joyful noise 2 Take ye a Psalm the Timbrel bring To help our joyful melody The pleasant Harp and every string We 'll use with the sweet Psaltery 3 In the new Moon the Trumpet blow The time which God whom we obey Appointed us this use to keep Even on our solemn feast ing day 4 A statute this for Israel was A Law which Jacob's God had sent 5 To Joseph made a testimony When he from Egypt saved went He heard a speech not understood 6 The heavy burdens he did bear I from his shoulders took his hands From making pots delivered were 7 Thou call'dst in fear I saved thee And from the secret thundring sky I answer'd and at Meribah Thy wavering trust in me did try 8 Hear O my people and my mind I 'le shew and testifie to thee O Israel if thou wilt obey And truly hearken unto me 9 Then know that no strange God at all In thee I ever will allow Nor shalt thou to any strange God By way of worship kneel and bow 10 For I the Lord thy God am he Who thee from Egypt's bondage led Open thy mouth wide and thou shall By me be plentifully fed 11 But this my people would not hear This statute which to them I spake And Israel would have none of me But this my great Commandment brake 12 So to their hardened hearts and lusts I left them and so far forsook And in their own wrong way they walkt And their own foolish counsel took 13 O that my people had receiv'd My Word and Law which I thus made And Israel had walked in My righteous Laws and me obey'd 14 I should then quickly have subdu'd To them their feared enemies And turn'd my hand against all those That did as foes against them rise 15 The haters of the Lord to him Should have submission made or feign'd But as for them their prosp'rous time Should surely ever have remain'd 16 He should have fed them with the fat And finest flower of the Wheat And made the Rock with honey flow That thou thereof thy fill might'st eat PSALM LXXXII 1 IN the Assembly of the great'st The Lord o're all himself doth stand As Judge among those called Gods The mortal Rulers of the land 2 How long will ye unjustly judge And favour unjust wicked men Accepting their persons to shew That you your selves are like to them 3 Defend the poor and fatherless To all the poor oppress'd do right 4 The poor and needy ones set free Rid them from bad mens hand and might 5 They know not nor will understand In wilful darkness they walk on All the foundations of the earth Are mov'd and almost overthrown 6 I call'd you Gods for ruling power Honour'd sons of the Highest all 7 But you shall die like men and like To other mortal Princes fall 8 Arise O Lord and judge the earth And bring unjust oppressors down For thou all nations shall possess And rule them justly as thine own PSALM LXXXIII 1 LOrd do not silence keep Nor longer hold thy peace Seem not these doings to neglect And bear with wickedness 2 For now thine enemies Do rage tumultuously And they that hate thee are set up And lift their heads on high 3 They crafty Counsel take Against thy people all And against thine own hidden ones They plot and seek their fall 4 They say Let 's cut them off That they no Nation be And that the name of Israel come No more in memory 5 Together they consult With one consenting hate Even against thee thy peoples strength They are confederate 6 Edom and Ishmaelites Moab and Hagarens 7 Gebal Ammon and Amalek Tyre and the Philistines 8 Assur is with them joyn'd Lot's Children to assist 9 Do them as the Midianites And as to Sisera's host And as at Kison brook To Jabin who did fall 10 At Endor who became as dung To soil the earth withal 11 Make thou their Nobles all Like Oreb and Zeeb Let their Princes as Zeba be And as Zalmunna dead 12 Who said Let 's to our selves The houses of God take 13 My God like rowling wheels or chaff Before the wind them make 14 As fire burns wood and flame The mountains sets on fire 15 Chase and affright them with the storms And tempests of thine ire 16 With shame their faces fill That they may seek thy name 17 Let them confounded be and vext And perish in their shame 18 That men may know that thou Whom we Jehovah call In all the earth art supream Lord And highest over all PSALM LXXXIV 1 HOw lovely is thy dwelling-place O Lord of Hosts to me The tabernacles of thy grace How pleasant Lord they be 2 My thirsty soul doth long and faint The Courts of God to see My heart and even my flesh cry out O living God for thee 3 The sparrow
flesh and bones Vexed by sin and by thy wrath 3 My guilty soul doth bear its part With pained flesh in sin and grief Lord do not over-long delay To ease them both with thy relief 4 Return O Lord deliver me Do not this sinful soul forsake Pity and save a humbled wretch For thy own tender mercies sake 5 The lifeless Corps in silent dust Remember not thy holy name In darksome graves who give thee thanks Or do thy glorious praise proclaim 6 My flesh and soul are tired out With painful groans and sinful fears The night I spend in woful moans And wash my bed and Touch with tears 7 My feeble eyes do fail with grief Consumed by my daily woes Untimely dimness closeth them Increased by my cruel foes 8 But workers of iniquity Shall all with shame from me depart For God doth hear my tears and cries And will relieve my grieved heart 9 He hath and will receive my suit Lord tame thy servant's enemies Turn them with humbling grief and shame Who Truth and Righteousness despise PSALM VII 1 O Lord my God in thee I trust Me from my persecutors save 2 Deliver me lest they me tear Like Lions and there 's none to save 3 Lord if this ill deed I have done And guilty be of wickedness 4 If I with hurt did him reward Who liv'd by me in quiet peace Yea Lord thou knowest that I have Vs'd kindly and deliver'd those Who now are causelesly become My cruel persecuting foes 5 Then let me foes me persecute And take my life and let them thrust And tread me down on earth and lay My name and honour in the dust 6 Rise Lord in wrath lift up thy self Because of all mine enemies rage And for that right which thou command'st Do thou thy wakened power engage 7 So shall the peoples lovely crowd About with praise encompass thee For their sakes therefore take thy seat On high to judge and succour me 8 The Lord shall all the people judge Do thou O Righteous Lord judge me According to my righteousness And after mine integrity 9 O let the heinous wickedness Of wicked men come to an end Thou Lord who try'st the hearts and reins The just do thou stay and defend 10 Of God is my defence who saves Men upright in their heart and way 11 As God doth judge the just so he With sin is angry every day 12 If men turn not he 'll whet his sword The bow is vent and ready made The executing instruments Of death he also hath prepar'd 13 Against the Persecutors he His sharpned Arrows doth ordain For such as with iniquity Do travel as it were in pain 14 Mischief in secret they conceived And brought forth fals hood and deceit 15 They made a pit and digg'd a ditch And are themselves fallen into it 16 His mischief upon his own head In time shall be returned home His violent dealing at the last Down up on his own pate shall come 17 I 'le praise the Lord according to His truth and all his righteous ways And to the name of God most high Sing joyful songs of thanks and praise PSALM VIII 1 O Lord our Lord through all the earth How excellent is thy Great name Who hast thy Glory high advanc'd Above the Heavens and starry frame 2 From Infants and from Childrens mouths Thou Wisdomes power didst ordain For thy foes sake that so thou might'st The cruel wrath of them restrain 3 When I consider well the Heav'ns Which thy own hand and power fram'd The Moon and the bright shining Stars All which were by thy word ordain'd 4 Then say I what is man that thou Of him hast daily mindful been And what 's the son of man that thou So much regard'st and visit'st him 5 Thou mad'st him little lower than The blessed Angels in degree And hast with honour crowned him And with some rays of Majesty 6 Thou gavest him dominion O're all these great works of thy hand Thou hast subjected all to him To be at this ruling command 7 The Pasture Flocks the Oxen strong Do all to him obedience yield And thou subjectest unto him The very wild beasts of the field 8 The fowl that flyeth in the air The fish that in the seas do play And whatsoever through the deeps Of the great Ocean makes its way 9 Our Owner and our Governour Art thou the Lord of this great frame How excellent through all the earth Is thy most Holy Glorious name PSALM IX 1 I 'Le praise the Lord with my whole heart Thy wonders I 'le abroad proclaim 2 With gladness I 'le rejoyce in thee Most High and sing unto thy name 3 Mine enemies do turn their back They fall and perish at thy sight 4 Thou sat'st a just Judge on thy Throne And hast maintain'd my Cause and right 5 The Heathen thou rebuked hast The wicked thou hast overthrown Their very names thou hast put out Only to be as odious known 6 O Enemy thy destroying work Is now at last come to an end They ruin'd Cities but to death Their memory did with them descend 7 But God for ever shall endure For Judgment he hath set his Throne 8 He 'll judge the world in righteousness In uprightness he 'll judge each one 9 The Lord will be a high defence For those that are by men opprest In times of trouble he will be A refuge and a secure Rest 10 And they that know thy Name in Thee Their confidence will wholly place For thou didst never them forsake Who truly sought thy saving grace 11 Sing Praises to the Lord most high Who doth in holy Sion dwell The wondrous things which he hath done Among the people daily tell 12 He will at last enquire for blood And then he will remember them And surely he doth not forget The mournful cry of humble men 13 Have mercy Lord think on my grief And wrong which I from them sustain Who hate me Thou that liftest me Vp from the gates of death again 14 That in the gates of Sion's seed I may shew forth thy Glorious praise And in thy great salvation I will trust and rejoyce always 15 The Heathen are sunk in the pit Which they themselves for us had made And in the net which they had hid Justly their own foot is ensnar'd 16 The Lord is by the Judgment known Which he in wisdom justly wrought The wicked's hands did make the snare In which at last themselves are caught 17 To be cast off and turn'd to Hell This is the wicked's final lot And all the Nations of the world That God with fear remember not 18 The needy though a while distrest Shall not by thee be still forgot The expectations of the poor Though long defer'd yet perish not 19 Rise Lord and let not men prevail Who trust in fraud or worldly might Let heathens and ungodly men Be even here judged in thy sight 20 Put senseless ones in fear O Lord That the ungodly
Nations then May humbled be and know themselves To be but feeble dying men PSALM X. 1 WHy standest thou Lord as far off And seem'st from us thy self to hide 2 In troublous times when wicked men Do persecute the poor in pride But let these proud and wicked men Themselves be taken and surpriz'd Even in the same destructive trap Which they in craft for us devis'd 3 The wicked of his hearts desire Doth boast in prosperous worldly state The covetous worldling he doth praise Whom yet the righteous Lord doth hate 4 The wicked puffed up with pride Is to such sottish folly brought That he disdains to seek the Lord God is not in his bruitish thought 5 Hurtfulness is in all his ways For thine are all above his sight All that he takes for enemies He puffs at with scorn and despight 6 He saith in his self-flattering heart Surely I never mov'd shall be My prosperous state shall not decay Nor shall I ever trouble see 7 His mouth 's with rage and cursing full And with deceit and guileful lies Under his wicked tongue is hatcht Mischief falshood and vanities 8 He lurks in Towns and Villages To catch and kill the innocent In secret his malicious eyes Against the helpless poor are benâ— 9 He Lion-like lurks in his den And waits the humbled poor to take And drawn into his own made net Him as his lawful prey doth make 10 He crowcheth low that so the poor In his strong cruel paws may fall 11 His heart saith God doth not regard But winks and will not see at all 12 Forget not humble men O Lord Lift up thy hand for them arise 13 Because they think thou 'lt not them judge Therefore the wicked thee despise 14 Mischief and spight thou dost behold And with thy hand wilt it repay The poor commits himself to thee Thou art the Orphans help and stay 15 Break thou the arm of wicked men And take down those that evil be Seek out their wickedness until Thou find none 's unreveng'd by thee 16 The Lord is King for evermore The heathen by his mighty hand And wicked all are perished And cast out of his holy land 17 The humble man's righteous desires O Lord thou graciously didst hear Thou wilt prepare and fix their hearts And thou wilt yield a hearing ear 18 To judge and help the fatherless And the opprest and humble poor That so these men of earth may vex And terrifie the just no more PSALM XI 1 IN God I put my trust Why then in scorn say ye To God for help as silly birds Unto your mountain flee 2 The wicked bend their bow Their arrows they prepare That in the dark they may them shoot At those that upright are 3 If by their violence Foundations be destroy'd What can the grieved righteous do The ruins to avoid 4 God in his Temple is The Lord's Throne is in Heaven His eyes behold his eye-lids try The sons of mortal men 5 The Lord the just man tries But he the wicked hates And him that loveth violence His soul abominates 6 Snares fire and brimstone he On wicked men will rain This is the portion and the cup That doth for them remain 7 For the just Lord doth love Just things as his delight And with a pleased countenance Beholdeth the upright PSALM XII 1 HElp Lord for upright godly men from us are taken hence away And from among the sons of men The faithful daily do decay 2 Unto his neighbour every one Dont speak with lies and vanity With a false double heart they talk And lips of fraud and flattery 3 God will cut off all flattering lips And the proud tongue that speaketh thus 4 Our word shall stand our tongue is ours What Lord is Ruler over us 5 For the oppression of the poor And needy's sighs I 'le now a rise And them in safety set saith God From those that them with scorn despise 6 The words of God are words most pure Like purest silver fully try'd In earthen furnace many times Refin'd and throughly purify'd 7 Lord thou wilt thine save and preserve For ever from this wicked race 8 The wicked then are bold and brisk When vile men get in highest place PSALM XIII 1 HOw long wilt thou forget me Lord O shall it thus for ever be How long wilt thou displeasedly Thus hide thy pleased face from me 2 How long shall thoughts disturb my soul And daily grief my heart assail How long shall cruel enemies By pow'r thus over me prevail 3 Pity my case O Lord my God Hear me and lighten thou mine eyes Left me as by fatal sleep Untimely feared death surprize 4 Left my triumphing foes should say We have prevail'd our work it 's done And those that trouble me rejoyce And boast when I am overthrown 5 But in thy tender mercy Lord My troubled soul her trust doth place O Let my raised hearty rejoyce In thy defence and saving grace 6 Because the Lord hath bounteously Dealt well with me in every thing To him my saved thankful soul Shall joyful endless praises sing PSALM XIV 1 THe hearts and lives of wicked fools Tell us they no God truly own Corrupt are they their works are vile Of them that do good there is none 2 Upon the worldly sons of men From Heav'n God lookt and searcht abroad To see if any understood And seriously sought after God 3 They wholly filthy are become They all from him aside are gone None of them liveth to do good Of all these wordly men not one 4 Have all these men of wicked works No wit or knowledge left at all Who eat my people up as bread On God they never truly call 5 Yet oft in sin they have great fear For God's among and for the just 6 They shame the counsels of poor Saints Because to God they seek and trust 7 O that our help from God were come When God brings back the Captives sad Then Jacob shall therein rejoyce And Israel shall in him be glad PSALM XV. 1 LOrd in thy Tabernacle Who shall inhabit still And whom wilt thou receive to dwell In thy most holy hill 2 He that walks uprightly And worketh righteousness And the truth which is in his heart Doth with his tongue express 3 He that backbiteth not Nor doth his neighbour hurt Nor yet against his neighbour doth Receive an ill report 4 In whose discerning eyes Vile persons are contemn'd But those that truly fear the Lord Doth honour and commend His righteous oath and word That keepeth faithfully Although he made his covenant so That he doth lose thereby 5 On hurtfull Usury His money hath not lent Nor taketh a reward or brib Against the innocent He that these things observes Which God would have be done Shall never be by fraud or force Moved and overthrown PSALM XVI 1 LOrd keep me for I trust in thee My refuge and my chosen part 2 My soul by thy command hath said That thou