fire deuovvred His burning ire like lightning forth did fly That coles of fire euen kindled vvere therby verse 10 He bovvd the heaun's dovvn from thence descended Beneath his feet dark misty clouds extended verse 11 On Cherubins he riding mounted high And on the vvings of svvift vvinds he did fly Pause verse 12 Black gloomy clouds vvith darknes him did couer And as a tent about him hong all ouer verse 13 Aâ—ahining light that bright before him vvas The heaâ—s of clouds disperst avvay did passe Hail mixt vvith fire amaz'd the vvorld vvith vvonder verse 14 The Lord from heau'n threvv forth his bolts of thunder The most high God sent forth his voyce vvhose ire Cast lightnings forth hailstones and coles of fire verse 15 His shafts he shot their troups disperst distrayed His lightnings he threvv forth and them dismaied verse 16 At thy rebuke O LORD and at the blast That vvhirlvvind like thy nostrils forth did cast The chanels void of vvaters vvere espyed Foundations of the vvorld vvere bare discryed verse 17 From heau'n he sent to take me safe to keep And drevv me out of many vvaters deep verse 18 He set me free from my strong foe remoued From hatefull foes too strong for me vvho proued verse 19 Me in distres vnvvares they did preuent But then the Lord my stay me succour sent verse 20 He brought me forth set free in place most spatious Because to me he pleased to be gratious verse 21 As I vvas iust the LORD did me regard And as my hands vvere clean did me revvard verse 22 Because the vvayes of God I had obserued And haue not from him as the vvicked svverued verse 23 His iudgments all before me vvere alvvay His lavves from me I did not put avvay verse 24 I vpright vvas vvith him clear and vnstained And from my sin my self strictly restrained verse 25 GOD did revvard me as I vvas vpright And as my hands vvere clean in his eye sight Pause verse 26 VVith gracious men thou to be gracious louest Good to the good iust to the iust thou prouest verse 27 Pure to the pure kinde thou art to the kinde But frovvard men shall thee as frovvard finde verse 28 For thou vvilt saue thy people poor afflicted But vvilt cast dovvn high lookes to pride addicted verse 29 The LORD my GOD vvill giue my candle light And make my night as day shine clear and bright verse 30 For I brake through the battaile by thy povver By thee my God I leapt ore vvall and tovver The vvay and vvord of God is perfect tride As gold in fire refinde and purifide verse 31 He is a shield and fort of strong resistance To all that trust in him and his assistance verse 32 For vvho is GOD besides the LORD of might Who is a rock but God that iudgeth right verse 33 With strength God girds me high atchieuements daring Before me strayt and clear my vvay preparing verse 34 He makes my feet to run svvift as the Hinde Sets me on high vvhere places safe I finde verse 35 Such vvarlike skill he teacheth me t is vvonder Makes my armes breake a bovv of steel in sunder verse 36 Thou hast giu'n me thy strong saluations shield And thy right hand hath firmly me vpheld Thy gentlenes my errors rectifying Hath made me great in goodnes multiplying verse 37 My steps thou hast made steddy large and vvide From vnderme that my feet did not slide verse 38 My foes I chas'd and ouertooke them flying I turnd not back till they were dead or dying verse 39 I vvounded them they could not rise at all Beneath my feet I made them dovvn to fall Pause verse 40 Thou hast girt me vvith vvarlike strength endevved And vnderme hast all my foes subdevved verse 41 Thou hast giu'n me my foes necks subiugate That I might them destroy that me doe hate verse 42 They cry'd for ayd but there vvas none to saue them They calld to God but he no ansvver gaue them verse 43 Before the vvinde as dust I bet them small I cast them out as dirt i' th street to fall verse 44 Thou hast me sau'd from their rage that inuade me Ore Nations thou to rule as head hast made me A people strange vvhom I did neuer knovv Shall vnto me submissiue seruice shovv verse 45 When they shall heare of me vvithout delaying Strangers shall yeeld me homage-faind obeying verse 46 Strange children vvhich in secret places dvvell To vanish from their sorts feare shall compell verse 47 LIue blessed LORD my strong fortification Exalted be the God of my saluation verse 48 With vengeance iust the LORD my foes pursevvs Aâ—d vâ—der me the people he subdevvs verse 49 I from my foes am freed by thy protection Ore them that make against me insurrection Thou hast me raisd and safe deliuerd me From violence of men that cruell be verse 50 Therfore my GOD among the heathen Nation I le praise thy Name vvith thankfull gratulation verse 51 It is the LORD our GOD omnipotent Who to his King hath great deliuerance sent VVho mercy hath to Dauid his anointed And to his race for euermore appointed Psalme 19. Doctrin THe heau'ns so framed are That they to all declare GOD'S glory doth excell The skyes and firmament Bright clear and permanent His handy vvork doth tell verse 2 Day vnto day doth teach And of the LORD do preach His vvondrous povvr relating Night vnto night doth shovv That euery one may knovv His vvisdome them creating verse 3 Ther is no speech nor land But doth this vnderstand Though it far distant lyes Yet doth it hear the noise Acknovvledging the voice And language of the skyes Their line and vvords extend To earths remotest end Throughout the vvorld directing verse 4 VVherin he for the Sun Built a pauilion Bright radiant rays reflecting verse 5 Who like a braue bridegrom Fresh from his chamber com When he abroad appeares As champion stout of hart Doth ioy to act his part To run his race him cheares verse 6 He setting forth to goe His iourney to and fro From heau ns remotest ending Huge circle runs amain Till he returns again His heat to all extending Pause verse 7 The Lavv of God the Lord Most perfect is his Word The soul vvith life supplyes His testimonies true With vvisdome do indue The simple making vvise verse 8 Of God the LORD of might The statutes all are right The heart vvith ioy relieuing The LORDS comands are pure Directing safe and sure Vnto the eyes light giuing verse 9 The vvorship and the fear Of him do cleane appeare To perpetuitie The iudgments of the LORD With truth and right accord All full of equitie verse 10 They are to be admir'd And more then gold desir'd Then much fine gold beloued Then hony that doth come From dropping hony comb To tast more svveet approued verse 11 Therby also from sins Thâ— seruant vvarnd begins To stand vpon his guard For vvho vvith vvisdom deep
ayd or succor send me Against the vvicked or defend me Gainst vvorkers of iniquity verse 17 Vnlesse the Lord had vvith his arm My helper bin sau'd me from harm My soul had perisht suddenly verse 18 VVhen I complaind my footing slideth Thy mercy Lord vvhich sure me guideth Did me sustain held me vpright verse 19 VVhen many thoughts do trouble me In anguish and perplexitie Thy comforts svveet my soule delight verse 20 Shall vvicked Tyrants cruell raigning Haue fellovvship vvith thee remaining Their throne mischieuous lavves inuents verse 21 Themselues assembling gainst the iust To lay his honor in the dust They spill the bloud of innocents verse 22 But God the Lord is my defender My refuge is his mercy tender verse 23 He vvill revvard their vvickednes And make their sons themselues oppres And in their ovvn vnrighteousnes The Lord our God shall them suppres Psalme 95. Doctrin COme let vs sing vvith pleasant voyce To God and make a ioyfull noyse Vnto the rock of our saluation verse 2 His presence let vs come before With thanks and praises him adore Sing Psalms to him vvith exultation verse 3 For he the Lord is GOD of might Great King aboue all gods by right verse 4 He in his hands the earth infoldeth Therof the secret places deep VVithin his compas he doth keep The strength of hils he also holdeth verse 5 The sea is his he did it make The land at his hand form did takeâ— All creatures haue of him creation verse 6 Come therfore let vs fall dovvn novv Before the Lord our maker bovv All kneeling yeeld him adoration verse 7 He is our God his people vve And sheep of his ovvn pasture be His hands our safety hath procured If ye vvill heare his voyce to day Obserue ye vvell vvhat he shall say verse 8 Bevvare your hearts be not obdured As vvhen ye did at Meriba And Massa desert disobey verse 9 When in the day of prouocation Your fathers prou'd and tempted me VVhere they my mighty vvorks did see Beholding them vvith admiration verse 10 Tvvice tvventy years thrice tedious space Haue I endur'd this irksom race So long this people vext and grieu'd me I said in heart this people erre Before my vvayes they their 's prefer They haue not knovvn mine nor belieu'd me verse 11 Wherfore in my fierce vvrath and ire VVhich in my brest did flame as fire I svvare this in my indignation Since they my vvords and vvorks forgot Into my rest they enter not Much les shall haue their habitation O Sing to God nevv songs composed To God Sing all on earth reposed verse 2 Sing to the Lord his praise expres His sacred Name praise vve and bles Let his grace daily be disclosed verse 3 Among the heathen shevv his glory To people all his vvonders story verse 4 For God is great and greatly prais'd His feare aboue all Gods is rais'd For other Gods are transitory verse 5 For all the gods of other Nations Are idols vain imaginations But God the Lord vvho is most high The heau'ns hath framed and the sky Prime parcels of his ovvn creation verse 6 Might maiesty attend before him In 's Sanctuary they adore him verse 7 Ye people all vvith one accord Ascribe all glory to the Lord VVith honorable praises store him Pause verse 8 The Lord vvith praise be celebrated His Name vvith glory eleuated With you an offring for him take Into his courts an entrance make VVhich vnto him are consecrated verse 9 Before the Lord your selues assemble To vvorship him do not dissemble Approch to him vvith comly grace In 's Sanctuary at his face Let all the earth both feare and tremble verse 10 Say Nations all the Lord God raigneth His raigne eternally remaineth The vvorld by him shall stablisht be Vnmou'd The people iudg vvill he With iustice vvhich his might maintaineth verse 11 Let heau'n reioyce vvith iubilation Let earth be glad vvith exultation Let all the spacious Ocean rore verse 12 Let fields and forrests vvith their store Ring out their ioyfull acclamation verse 13 Before the Lord vvithout delaying He comes he comes no longer staying To iudg the earth vvith righteousnes And all the vvorld vvith faithfulnes With iustice people all repaying Psalme 97. Doctrin prophecy THe Lord eternall raignes VVho righteousnes maintaines Let all earth lovv and high lands Therof reioyce all Ilands verse 2 Thick clouds obscurity Surround his Maiesty Both iustice and iudgment His thrones establishment On him attendant be verse 3 The fire before him goes the flame consumes his foes VVhich round about them burneth and into ashes turneth verse 4 His lightning flashes make the vvorld inlightned quake Which vvhen the earth did see it trembled fearfully VVith terror it did shake verse 5 As vvax by fiers might so mountains melt at sight Of God the Lord eternall of earth and heau'n supernall verse 6 The heaun's his iustice tell and people all that dvvell On earth his glory see his might and maiesty His bounty doth excell Pause verse 7 Confounded be vvith shame vvho idols serue or frame VVho boast that they haue serued Vain idols grau'n or kerued Let all Gods Saints vvho be him seruing bovv the knee verse 8 VVhen Sion this did hear her ioyes did then appear For them declare did shee Thy iudgments Lord to knovv VVhich thou to them didst shovv Hath brought great consolation to Iudahs generation verse 9 For thou O Lord art high â—boue all the earth and sky Thou art exalted far aboue all gods that are To thee can none come nigh verse 10 VVho loue God loue him still and haters be of ill Abhor all levvd deuices and vvicked enterprises His Saints liues he doth saue Keeps their soules from the graue Puld from the vvicked hand of Tyrants in the land By him they freedom haue verse 11 Novv clearest light is sovvn to be by iust men movvn Delight and ioy he gaineth Whose heart vpright remaineth verse 12 Ye iust your ioyes expres your selues to mirth addres The Lord God praise and bles his gracious Name confes Record his Holines Psalme 98. Doctrin prophecy SIng to the Lord nevv songs delightfull For he great vvondrous vvorks hath done His holy arm of iustice rightfull His right hand victory hath vvon verse 2 The Lord our God hath his saluation Most gratious to all made knovvn And in the sight of euery Nation His iustice openly hath shovvn verse 3 He cald to minde his promise royall His mercy and his verity To Israel his seruant loyall He shevved his fidelity Throughout the vvorld the Lords saluation Hath clearly manifested been verse 4 Therfore to God vvith exultation Let all the earth be ioyfull seen VVith loudest shovvts and shrillest noyses Reioyce and sing vvith instrument verse 5 VVith Harps svveet sound ioyn cheerfull voyceâ— To praise the Lord nevv Psalms inuent verse 6 Before the Lord our King most gracious VVith trumpets and vvith Cornets sound verse 7 With roring noyse let
ouer his possessions all Made him the ruler generall verse 22 His Princes to his minde to tye And teach his Elders policy Pause verse 23 Then into Egypt Israel turned And long time in that land soiorned In Chams land Iacob did abide verse 24 VVhere God his people multiplide And in short time made them more strong Then they that them had hated long verse 25 But from his people he estranged Their hearts from loue to hate them changed That they might exercise their hate Against his people obstinate Who many mischiefes did inuent Against his seruants innocent verse 26 His seruant Moses chief respected He sent vvith Aaron his elected verse 27 He these his faithfull seruants chose Who manifestly shevv'd to those Among them all his signes of fame And vvonders in the land of Cham. verse 28 He darknes sent and them obscured They darknes palpable indured Against his Word vnto them sent Were they not disobedient verse 29 He turnd their riuers into bloud And slevv their fishes in the floud Pause verse 30 He them vvith frogs innumerable Annoyd vvith stinks abhominable In presence chambers of their Kings He sayd the vvord and on them brings verse 31 A mixed svvarm of noysom flyes Throughout their land dust turnd to lice verse 32 For rain he hailstones on them povvred And on their land fire flames he shovvred verse 33 Their Vines and fig-trees he orethrevv And all that in their borders grevv verse 34 The caterpillers at his call Grashoppers numberles did fall verse 35 All fruits and herbs they did deuovver verse 36 Their first born all and euen the flovver Of all their strength vvith deadly vvound He struck and them did quite confound verse 37 His people safe from them he brought With store of gold and siluer fraught Among their troupes the strong vvere many But sick or feeble vvere not any verse 38 Th'Egyptians all vvere very glad VVhen from their land they passage had For feare and avv of them did fall Vpon th' Egyptian dvvellers all Pause verse 39 By day a clovvd he spred them ouer That them from heat the shade might couer A flame of fire he set for light To guide his Israel by night verse 40 When they desired flesh to eat He dainty quails gaue them for meat With bread from heau'n he them relieued verse 41 When drought or thirst them vext or grieued He from the Rock made riuers flovv In desarts dry large streams did goe verse 42 For he his promise did renevv To Abraham his seruant true verse 43 His people forth vvith ioy directed And safe conducted his elected Reioycing vvith triumphant shovvt verse 44 The heathen people he cast out And gaue them their possessions The labours of the Nations verse 45 That they his statutes iust ordained Might duly keep vvith hearts vnfained His precepts strictly to obserue And neuer from his lavves to svverue Then let vs solemnly alvvaies Th' Eternall mighty Lord God praise Psalme 106. Comfort PRaise ye the Lord to him confes Giue thanks to God for his goodnes For his svveet mercy lasteth euer verse 2 VVho can expres Gods povvr and might Or shevv his praise vvhich ceaseth neuer Or vvorthily his acts recite verse 3 O blessed man vvhose vvorks alvvayes â—re iust vvho vvalks in vpright vvayes verse 4 Lord in that loue vvhich thou extendest To thy elect remember me And as thou safely them defendest So let me Lord protected be verse 5 That I may see thy grace diuine Which thou bestovvest vpon thine That of thy mercies boundles measure VVith thy elect I may partake And vvith thy heritage in pleasure And glorious state may merry make verse 6 Our father 's all and also vve Haue sinned and offended thee An vniust peruerse generation Committing vvickednes and sin verse 7 A thankles and forgetfull Nation In Egypt vvhat thy vvorks haue bin Our fathers minded not aright Thy mercies great thy vvondrous might But frovvardly themselues behaued Rebelling at the red sea deep verse 8 VVhere for his Name sake he them saued To shevv his povvr them safe did keep verse 9 At his rebuke the red sea dry'd In haste avvay the vvaters hy'd Through gulf of vvaters deep diuided They passed safe as on dry land As through the desart he them guided verse 10 And sau'd them from their foes strong hand Pause From cruell forces of their foe Pursuing them to ouerthrovv He set them free and them relieued verse 11 For all their foes i' th sea he drovvnd verse 12 And then his vvords they vvell beleeued And sang his praise vvhose help they found verse 13 But all his vvorks they soone forgot For his aduice they vvaited not His counsell iust no time attending verse 14 They burnd vvith lust and levvd desire I' th vvildernes the LORD offending And tempting him prouokt to ire verse 15 Then gaue he vnto them their vvill And their request he did fulfill But leanenes sent their soules consumed verse 16 They Moses in the Campe enuy'd And to rebell gainst him presumed Nor holy Aaron vvould abide verse 17 The earth then Dathan did deuovvr And prou'd Abiram vvith his povvr verse 18 Then in their camp the fier flamed And all the vvicked therin burnd verse 19 Yet they a Calf in Oreb framed And to adore that idoll turn'd Pause verse 20 Their glory so resembled vvas Vnto an Ox that eateth gras Like bruitish beasts vvas their behauior verse 21 Vnthankfull they remembred not The Lord their God and mighty Sauior His vvorks in Egypt they forgot verse 22 His vvondrous vvorks of maruelous might Which all the land of Cham did fright And dreadfull povvr vvhich he declared At the red sea in all their sight verse 23 Therfore the Lord in vvrath prepared Resolued to consume them quite But Moses his elect did see VVhat danger this to them might be Himself betvveen he interposed Gods anger fierce to turn avvay Lest he to ruin them disposed Them all should in his fury slay verse 24 The land of promise they disdaind VVhich vnto them he had ordaind Vpon his Word no trust they builded verse 25 But in their tents did oftrepine Obedience none to him they yeelded Nor hearkned to his vvord diuine Pause verse 26 Therfore he lifted vp his hand Them to destroy in desart land An oath he made there to destroy them verse 27 That their seed might be ouerthrovvn Among the heathen to annoy them And scatter them in lands vnknovvn verse 28 They vvith Baal-Peor did combine Themselues vvith them they did conioyne Eating dead Idols sacrifices verse 29 Wherby to vvrath the Lord they mou'd VVho for their vvicked enterprises With grieuous sore plagues them reprou'd verse 30 Then stood vp Phineas vvhen he knevv Their vvickednes and them he slevv VVhen iudgment he had executed Gods vvrath appeas'd the plague did cease verse 31 And this vvas vvorthily imputed To him alvvay for righteousnes verse 32 But still they caus'd Gods vvrath and ire At Meriba to burn like fire
sots are they vvho do them make And vvho in them affyeth Pause verse 9 O Israel place thou thy confidence In God thy ayd thy shield and thy defence From perils he vvill vvard thee verse 10 O Aarons house place thou thy confidence In God thy ayd thy shield and thy defence From dangers he vvill gard thee verse 11 VVho feare the Lord place all your confidence And trust in him your helper your defence He is your sure saluation verse 12 The Lord did not forget vs in distres He Israel for euermore vvill bles And Aarons generation verse 13 All those that him do fear the Lord vvill bles Both yong and old the greater vvith the les Shall high be dignified verse 14 Gods mercy grace and great benignity Both vnto you and your posterity Shall still be multiplyed verse 15 Of God the Lord ye euer blessed are VVho heau'n and earth hath made vvhich do declare His povvrfull operation verse 16 The Lord himself inhabiteth high heau'n And all the earth vvith all therin hath giuen To Adams generation verse 17 Thy praise O Lord by deadmen is not shovvn By those vvho in the silent graue go dovvn Thy honor is not raised verse 18 But liuing vve thee liuing Lord adore And vve vvill praise thee euer more and more Therfore the Lord be praised Psalme 116. Thanksgiuing I Loue the Lord because he eare doth giue Vnto my voyce and to my supplication verse 2 Since he inclin'd to hear vvith acceptation Therfore vvill I call on him vvhile I liue verse 3 The pains of death did compas me about With grieuous pangs afflicted I did languish Neere to the graue in dolefull grief and anguish I on the Lords Name cald and cryed out verse 4 O Lord saue thou my soule and set it free Then did I finde the Lord most iust gracious verse 5 The mercies of the Lord are large spacious verse 6 The Lord doth keep thē safe that simple be Cast dovvn vvith grief I vvas brought very lovv He rais'd me vp in safety me inclosing verse 7 Return to rest my soule on him reposing For God on thee doth freely gifts bestovv verse 8 Because my soule from death thou didst release My eyes from teares my slippry feet from sliding verse 9 Before the Lord vvill I vvalk my steps guiding Into the land of life through paths of peace Pause verse 10 I did beleeue and therfore haue I said In my distres afflicted and tormented verse 11 My hasty tong my troubled sense preuented That lyers all men are vain is their ayd verse 12 VVhat shall I to the Lord repay for all His bounty to me vvhat gratification verse 13 I vvill take vp the cup of his saluation And thankfully on Gods Name I vvill call verse 14 Vnto the LORD my vovves novv I vvill pay In presence of his people all redeemed verse 15 The death of Gods deare Saints is high esteemed Most precious in his sight it is alvvay verse 16 Thy seruant Lord thy seruant loe am I Thy hand-maids son to serue thee ay addressed In sorrovvs straits vvhen I vvas sore distressed Thou didst release me all my bonds vnty verse 17 A thankfull heart to thee I offer vvill And call vpon thy Name vvith adoration verse 18 In presence of thy sacred congregation Novv vnto thee vvill I my vovves fulfill verse 19 VVithin the Courts of Gods ovvn house sound vve The praises of his Name vvith glory crovvned In midst of thee Ierusalem renovvned Praise ye the Lord to him a◠thankfull be Psalme Cxvij ALl Nations laud the Lord our God Praise him all people all abroad verse 2 For in his mercies bounteous Hath he exceeded tovvard vs His truth abides eternally Him therfore euer magnifie Psalme 118. Thanksgiuing prophecy TO God giue thanks all praises render Because so gracious good is he For his compassion mercy tender Endureth sure eternally verse 2 Let Israel make declaration And singing publish solemnly That his so great commiseration Most sure endures perpetually verse 3 Let Aarons house and generation Novv say declaring publikely That his great bounty and compassion Endureth sure continually verse 4 Let euery one all vvhosoeuer Doth feare and serue God faithfully Novv say his mercies ay perseuer Enduring euerlastingly verse 5 In great afflictions straits distressed I called on him earnestly He ansvverd me my vvrongs redressed From thrall at large he set me free verse 6 The Lord almighty vvho commandeth Both heauen and earth stands firm for me Me safe defending vvhile he standeth I need not feare mans enmity Pause verse 7 VVith them vvhose help I haue acquired The Lord for me stands stedfastly What I to see haue much desired My foes before my face shall flee verse 8 T is better far to haue affiance In God then in mans amity verse 9 In God 't is best to haue affiance For frail earths greatest Princes be verse 10 All nations me about surrounding Me haue besieg'd perniciously In Gods Name vvith his ayd abounding I shall destroy them vtterly verse 11 They compast me about inclosing On euery side maliciously But in the Name of God reposing I vvill destroy them totally verse 12 Like Bees about me they haue svvarmed Their vvings vvere singed instantly In Gods Name I at all points armed Shall them destroy vndoubtedly verse 13 Against me thou hast rudely rushed That I might fall dovvn suddenly At me vvith all thy povvr hast pushed But God did help me certainly verse 14 The Lord almighty is my povver Of him vvill I sing chearfully He is my refuge and my tovver He keeps me safe assuredly verse 15 The voyce of shovvting and saluation Is heard to sound most ioyfully Within the righteous habitation The Lords right hand doth valiantly Pause verse 16 The Lords right hand is magnified Exalted in most high degree The Lords right hand is dignified His vvorks are vvrought most povvrfully verse 17 Inspite of them that me enuyed I shall not dy but liue to see God 's vvorks declar'd and testified My self vvill shevv them openly verse 18 The Lord seuerely me chastised I must confes deseruedly To my instruction exercised Not to destruction finally verse 19 Ope ye to me the gates of iustice That entring in humility I to the LORD GOD vvho most iust is May render praises thankfully verse 20 This gate so beautifull erected Is God's the Lord of sanctity The righteous in his sight respected Shall enter therin peacefully verse 21 With thanks praise I vvill confes thee Thou gau'st me ansvver graciously For thy saluation I vvill bles thee And for thy great benignity Pause verse 22 The stone vvhich builders had reiected Refusing it disdainfully Is novv the chief and choise selected Adorns the corner gracefully verse 23 To be so done the Lord best thought it He did it most apparently He that vvorks vvonders he hath vvrought it In our sight it shovvs maruelously verse 24 This is the day the Lord hath made it Let vs inioy it
subdue me Yea let him cast my life avvay And in the dust my honour lay verse 6 Arise O Lord vvith expedition In vvrath to vvorke my foes perdition And vvatch for me both day and night Till I obtain my promis'd right verse 7 So multitudes of people pressing Shall come to thee freely confessing Thee Lord and King and Iudg supreme Then rouse thy self for loue of them verse 8 And thou of all men Iudg supernall Novv iudg thou me my God eternall According to my innocence Sincere and cleer free from offence Pause verse 9 The vvickeds rage to cease constrain thou The righteous iust confirm sustain thou For God most iust the reins doth try All thoughts all hearts he doth discry verse 10 The Lord is my defence assured My shield vvherby I am secured VVho saueth by his povver and might All those that are in heart vpright verse 11 The Lord is iust and iustice giueth To euery one that iustly liueth God threatens them that disobey To vvrath prouoked euery day verse 12 But if hard hearted not relenting He vvil not turn Gods vvrath preuenting Then he his svvord vvill sharper vvher His bovv is bent and ready set verse 13 His instruments of death destroying Prepared are his shafts imploying Against them vvho inflam'd vvith spight In persecuting take delight verse 14 Behold iniquity he vveaued VVith mischief great vvhich he conceiued In trauell painfull he brought forth A lying issue nothing vvorth verse 15 A pit he digged darke and deeply A bloudy caue descending steeply To haue intrapt my harmles foot But he himself is faln intoo'r verse 16 The euill that he hath proiected Vpon himself shall be reflected His cruelty and fell despight On his ovvn head shall surely light verse 17 Therfore vvill I extoll the iustice Of God the Lord in vvhom my trust is Him vvill I praise and magnifie The glorious Name of God most high Psalme 8. Thanksgiuing ETernall God our Lord incomparable Hovv excellent is thy Name admirable Ore all the vvorld thy glory manifold Is far aboue the highest heau'ns extold verse 2 Euen by the mouthes of babes and sucklings tender Thou hast confirmd thy mighty povver to render Thy enemies confounded and by those To stop the mouthes of thy reuengefull foes verse 3 VVhen I behold in sacred contemplation The heau'ns the vvorks of thy high hands creation The Sun the Moon and all the Stars about In their due place so orderly set out verse 4 Lord think I then as in my self amazed O vvhat is man that thou O Lord art pleased To visit him or vvhat is all mankinde That thou vouchsafâ—st to keep them in thy minde Pause verse 5 For thou hast made him but a little vnder Thy Angels bright thy ministers of vvonder Thou hast vvith vvealth and honor girt him round And thou hast him vvith glory richly crovvnd verse 6 Thou hast ordaind him Lord and ruler ouer Thy handy vvorks vvhich all the vvorld doth couer And all therin as to thee seemed meet Thou hast subdevvd beneath his regall feeâ— verse 7 Both Oxen Sheep and euery kinde of cattell VVhich on the hils or on the playns imbattell The sauage beasts vvhich in the forrests breed And vvhich in fields or in the foulds do feed verse 8 The vvinged fovvls through ayrie regions flying Fish in the Seas and riuers multiplying Through vvatry paths vvhat passeth great or small Thou vnto man hast them subiected all verse 9 Eternall God our Lord incomparable Hovv excellent and O hovv admirable Is thy great Name vvith praises most deuout To be extold the spacious vvorld throughout Psalme 9. Thanksgiuing WIth all my heart O Lord most high I vvill extoll and magnifie All thy great vvorks incomparable VVhich vvondrous are and admirable verse 2 In thee O Lord I vvill reioyce VVith chearfull heart and chearfull voyce O thou most high thy Name relating I le sing and praise it celebrating verse 3 Because by thy almighty might Mine enemies are put to flight Dovvn shall they fall vvith fear surrounded And at thy presence all confounded verse 4 For thou hast daignd my friend to stand Thou hast vouchsaft to take in hand My guiltles cause thy Throne ascending As righteous Iudg my cause defending verse 5 Thou hast rebukt the heathen rout The vvicked ruind raced out Their fame their name extinct for euer Repriued or reuiued neuer Pause verse 6 Proud foe vvhers novv our threatned spoil Our cities leueld vvith the soil And are their names vvith them consumed Hast thou preuaild as vvas presumed verse 7 No no the Lord on high doth raign VVhose kingdom euer shall remain His regall throne he hath prepared VVhere iudgment iust shall be declared verse 8 Loe he vvill iudge and iustly too The vvorld and all that vvorldlings doe Yea he vvith equall doome vvill duly All people censure iust and truly verse 9 God vvill the refuge be and ayd Of the opprest and ouerlaid Their refuge and sure consolation Euen in the midst of tribulation verse 10 And they that knovv thy holy Name VVill put their vvhose trust in the same For vvho himself to thee betaketh Thy mercy Lord neuer forsaketh Pause verse 11 Sing thankfull praises to the Lord Who dvvels in Sion and record His high exploits to nations telling His great and glorious acts excelling verse 12 When he of guiltles bloud inquires Remembring them he it requires And neuer doth forget the crying Of the opprest on him relying verse 13 Haue mercy Lord on me distrest Consider hovv I am opprest By those that hate me thou that euer From gates of death dost me deliuer verse 14 That I in Sion may declare Thy praises all past all compare Reioycing vvith intire affection In thy saluation and protection verse 15 The heathen folk into the pit Are faln themselues that digged it Yea their ovvn feet are fast insnared In hidden nets themselues prepared verse 16 And therby hath the Lord bin knovvn For hauing such a iudgment shovvn In that the vvicked are surprised Euen in the snare themselues deuised Pause verse 17 The vvicked all shall suffer vvrack And headlong into hell fall back And all the nations God forgetting Their mindes vpon him neuer setting verse 18 For th' humble hearted poor shall not Be euerlastingly forgot Nor shall the meek in tribulation For euer lose their expectation verse 19 Arise O Lord and let not still The proud preuail and haue their vvill But vnto iudgment bring before thee The Gentiles vvhich do not adore thee verse 20 O Lord vvhose povvr is euery vvhere Strike thou the nations all vvith fear And make them knovv O God immortall They are but men but mould but mortall Psalme x. Of prayer and comfort WHy dost thou Lord vvithdravv from vs thy grace Why standest thou from vs departed far Why hidest thou the fauor of thy face In troublous times of need and grieuous care verse 2 Inflam'd vvith rage and pride the vvicked are To vex the poor but let them
All the French Psalm tunes with English words BEING A COLLECTION OF PSALMS Accorded to the verses and tunes generally vsed in the Reformed Churches of France and Germany Perused and approved by judicious Divines both English and French Omnis spiritus laudet Dominum LONDON Printed by Thomas Harper with permission of the Company of Stationers 1632. CONSECRATED to the glory of GOD DEDICATED to the pious Benefactors and Patrons of this well intended and laborious work SVBMITTED to the censure of them onely who shall haue duely examined these expressions of places most difficult abstruse and of most various interpretation and exposition Which if it proue favorable may produce another Edition more exact compleat and of a larger letter if otherwise it may provoke those who are more able to performe it better The Preface THe remarkable conformity of many Languages to the French in their Psalmody or Psalm tunes and verses hath appeared so gracious and diuine in regard no humane power commanded them thereunto that it hath affected many of our Nation with wonder and emulation Insomuch that some Personages of eminent quality and fame haue not only desired but also endeuored that those so celebrated tunes might bee sung with English words and that English people in French or Dutch Cities or Families might sing English Psalms in those tunes which they vse among whom they liue To this other purposes all the Psalms of Dauid are composed with all care and diligence principally to expresse the genuine senâ—â— of the originall Hebrew text as near as might be attained vnto by the help of the best Expositers without respect to any controuersie which hath bin or is now in agitation As also that the matter be alike disposed of in euery couplet staue or line agreeable to the French In euery verse which are of as many kindes almost as the tunes is obserued the same accent in the beginning continuance and end of the line Note that some long lines should be set in two and accordingly accented in reading them The resonancies are as many so disposed and so many of the same kinde as in the French by which rimes and in some Psalms by Alphabeticall letters the lines and staves are knit together for better help of memory The seuerall kindes of tunes being in number about 124 and formerly expressed in 6 systems or cliffs are now reduced into 2 for more facility in learning them and are placed for the most part where the Psalm is most in sight Other obseruations for breuity are omitted To conclude it is wished that not any Christian would spend their leisure worse then in singing these or such like Psalms vntill we all together in heauen sing praise to the Eternall to whom bee all honor thanksgiuing and glory for euer Amen Psalme j Doctrine WHo vvalketh not in counsell levvd astray VVho standeth not in sinners vvicked vvay VVho sitteth not in scorners chaire deriding verse 2 But day and night in Gods pure lavv abiding VVith true delight theron doth meditate That man is sure to liue in blessed state verse 3 He shall appear like to a tree that grovvs Fair planted neer the riuer cleer that flovvs VVhich vvholsom fruit abundant timely beareth VVhose leaf still green norfals nor fails nor seareth So that this man and all he takes in hand Shall prosper vvell in happy stare 〈◊〉 â—â—and verse 4 But vvicked men shall no such fauour finde They shall be like the chaff before the vvinde And as the dust driuen to and fro contemned verse 5 Therfore they shal not stand but fall condemned In iudgement iust nor shall the vvicked train Appear in place vvhere righteous men remain verse 6 For God most iust vvho righteous men doth loue Their vpright vvay doth knovv and vvell approue And he on them eternall life bestovveth But those that be vniust he ouerthrovveth For euery vvay that vvicked men do take Shall perish quite them accursed make Psalme 2. Prophecy WIth brutish rage vvhy do the heathen rise Tumultuously assembling combinations VVhat is the cause rude people enterprise To execute their vain imaginations verse 2 Kings of the earth and Potentates aspiring â—ogether all their armed forces bring They counsell take rebelliously conspiring Against the Lord and his anointed king verse 3 Come let vs break thus vvith themselues they say Come let vs break their seruile cords in sunder Come let vs cast their slauish yoke avvay VVhervvith they think to keep vs strictly vnder verse 4 But he thaâ—â—â—â—ls vvithin the heau'ns for euer Shall laugh at them and their audacious pride The Lord of hosts shall scorn their vain endeuer And euermore them and their deeds deride verse 5 VVhen pleaseth him then vvill he thunder dovvn His dreadfull voyce on them and in displeasure And fury fierce vvith terror of his frovvn He vvill perplex and vex them out of measure verse 6 Kings vvill he say in vain is your endeuer For I my king anointed haue to raign On Sion hill my holy mount for euer His throne theron I haue set to remain Pause verse 7 And I the king vvill publish this decree Seeing the Lord hath this to me expressed Thou art my son this day begot I thee Novv to appear my heir eternall blessed verse 8 Demand of me and I vvill sure endovv thee VVith Nations all for thine inheritage The ends of all the earth I vvill allovv thee Thou shalt possesse them all from age to age verse 9 VVith iron rod and scepter in thy fist As pleaseth thee thou shalt controul check them And vvith the same vvhen vvhere and hovv thou list Thou shalt them bruise like potters vessels break theÌ„ verse 10 O therfore novv ye Kings be vvell aduised Ye Potentates bevvise and vnderstand Ye Magistrates in ruling exercised Be learned novv ye Iudges of the land verse 11 Serue ye the Lord in humblenesse and avv Fear ye his vvrath forbeare ye to displease him Ioy in his loue reioyce ye in his lavv And as ye ought endeuer ye to please him verse 12 O kisse the son embrace vvith lovv submission His sacred loâ—e lest mouing him to vvrath Ye misse the vvay and perish in perdition To ruin run in blinde erronious path For if his ire like fire begin to flame And kindled once but little be extended O blest are all that in his sacred Name Haue put their trust and on his grace depended Psalme 3. Doctrine O Lord vvhat numbers rise Of spitefull enemies Euen ready to assail me VVhat multitudes vvhat svvarmes Are ready vp in armes To ouercome quall me verse 2 Hovv many is the roul Of them that tell my soul It cannot be relieued It must be vndertrod No help comes from his God But they are all deceiued verse 3 For Lord thou art my shield My buckler in the field My succour and my safety My glory my renovvn Thou hast vpheld my crovvn And born my head so lofty verse 4 Aloud I often cry'd Vnto my God my
That I can tell my bones yet vvhen I meet My cruell foes their eyes my sorrovves greet VVith scornfull staring verse 18 My garments they among them fall to sharing My seamles coat to cut in pieces sparing They keep it vvhole and try by lots declaring VVhose it shall be verse 19 But O my God be thou not far from me Thou art my strength I only rest on thee Therfoâ—e make haste to let thy seruant see Thy succor speedy verse 20 Saue from the edge of death my grassy reedy And helplesse life my darling poore and needy Let not these dogs so hatefull fierce and greedy At once deuovvr verse 21 From Lyons mouthes that threaten euery hovvr To svvallovv me and from the horned povvr Of Vnicornes guard me thou art my tovvr Of preseruation verse 22 I vvill declare to brethren of my Nation Thy sacred Name and sing of thy saluation In midst of all the holy congregation VVhich thus I le raise verse 23 O ye that feare the LORD exalt his praise Ye Iacobs seed extoll him in your layes And O ye race of Israel let your vvayes Shevv that ye feare him verse 24 For he nere scornd nor hated to vpreare him VVho vvas brought lovv afflicted vvho drevv neare him Nor hid his face from him nor loath'd to heare him VVhen he did cry verse 25 My voyce among the multitude shall fly VVingd vvith thy praise and in the open ey Of those that feare thy Name O Lord vvill I My vovves deliuer verse 26 In feasts of ioy the meek and patient liuer Shall feed his fill and those that seek the giuer Of this high grace shall praise the Lord for euer Your soules liue shall verse 27 Vnto the Lord shall be conuerted all The coasts of earth vvhen they to minde him call And all the tribes of men to thee shall fall In adoration verse 28 For vvith suprem and soueraign exaltation The LORD is crovvnd and euery high gradation Of royaltie is his and ore each Nation He beareth svvay verse 29 All that are rich shall sacrifice and pray All that dovvn to the graue do goe their vvay Shall bovv to him and those that rotting lay Past all reuiuing verse 30 Their seed that are still after them suruiuing His seruants shall become by his atchieuing A people vvho are counted euer liuing Vnto the Lord. verse 31 And they shall of his righteousnes bring vvord To folk vvhose birth shall aftertimes afford And make them knovv that he vvhom they ador'd Deserues belieuing Psalme 23. Thanksgiuing THe liuing LORD me euer louing feedeth My Pastor true my soul novv nothing needeth verse 2 He leads me forth in fields and foulds inclosing Of plenteous food by fountains clear reposing verse 3 My soul reuiues vvhere he me safely leadeth For his Names sake in right paths my foot treadeth verse 4 Though in the vale of deaths shade I vvalk straying There dreadles I shall be vvithout dismaying For LORD vvith me my comfort thou remainest Thou vvith thy rod and staffe my life sustainest verse 5 A table rich vvell furnisht setst before me Euen in the face of foes that hatred bore me VVith precious oyl my head thou hast anointed My cup vvell filld and all things vvell appointed verse 6 Thy fauors thou to me art alvvayes giuing Thou daignst to me such grace vvhile I am liuing That I on thee in thy ovvn house attending Shall praise thy Name O LORD vvorld vvithout ending THe earth belongs vnto the LORD VVith all the store it doth afford VVhat in the vvorld hath scituation verse 2 For on the flouds he plac'd the land VVhich on the vvaters firm doth stand Establisht on a sure foundation verse 3 LORD to thy hill vvho shall ascend VVho shall remain vvorld vvithout end VVithin thy sacred mountain placed verse 4 VVhose hand or heart nought can defile Whose mouth hath neuer svvorn to guile VVhose soul vain things hath not imbraced verse 5 He of the LORD shall sure be blest Of righteousnes shall be possest Euen from the GOD of his saluation verse 6 Of those that Iacobs GOD inquire Who seek his face and him desire This is the blessed generation verse 7 Ye gates your heads aloft vphould Eternall dores yourselues vnfould The king of glory entertaining verse 8 Who is the King so glorious The Lord most strong and valerous The LORD in battell mighty raigning verse 9 Your heads aloft ye Gates vpraise Stand vp eternall Dores alvvayes To entertain the King of glory verse 10 Who is the King so glorious The LORD of Hoasts victorious He only is the King of glory Psalme xxv Alphabeticall Prayer ALl my hearts desire is raised To thee LORD I trust in thee Let me neuer be disgraced Nor my foes ioy ouer me verse 2 By thy grace do thou protect Them from shame vvhich do attend thee But confound vvith shame deiect Them that causelesly offend thee verse 3 Cause me LORD to be instructed In the knovvledge of thy vvay Let me safely be conducted In thy paths that vvalk I may verse 4 Do thou guide me in the vvord Of thy truths cleare declaration For thou art my help O Lord And my daily expectation verse 5 Euer thou art good and gracious Call thy mercy still to minde For thy loue is large and spacious Thou hast euermore been kinde verse 6 Faults and follies of my youth Holy LORD do not remember For thy goodnes and thy ttuth Deale vvith me in mercy tender verse 7 Good and holy in perfection Iust and righteous is the LORD Therefore he vvill giue direction Vnto sinners by his vvord verse 8 He vvill make in iudgment tread Humblemen truly conuerted GOD vvill teach and safely lead In his vvayes the lovvly hearted Pause verse 9 Iustice mercy and saluation Are the paths of God the Lord Vnto those vvhose conuersation Is still guided by his vvord verse 10 Keep me from iniquity For thy Names sake Lord relieue me My sinâ— great and many be Shevv thy mercy and forgiue me verse 11 Let that man be vvell assured VVhoso feares the Lord of might That he shall be taught inured In the vvay he doth delight verse 12 Moued neuer shall he be But at rest in minde and spirit Likevvise his posteritie Shall the plenteous land inherit verse 13 Novv Gods secret is vnsealed Vnto them that him do feare Knovvledge is to them reuealed VVho in heart his couenant beare verse 14 On the Lord my heart is set Alvvayes him my eye beholdeth He my feet dravves from the net If I slide he me vpholdeth verse 15 Poore I am do not forsake me But O Lord shevv me thy face From this great affliction take me Shevv thy mercy and thy grace verse 16 Quit me free from my hearts grief VVhich augmenting doth distres me Send deliuerance and relief From all troubles that oppres me verse 17 Restles grief of my vexations Lord behold and pitty me Many are my molestations Let my sins all pardoned be verse 18 See
To vvhom his sins the LORD hath not imputed Within vvhose soul doth dvvell integrity Free from all fraud guile and hypocrisie verse 3 VVhen silence I did keep from speech long ceasing My hainous sins concealed not confessing My flesh and bones consumed as vvith age And all day long roaring vvith torments rage verse 4 For day and night thy hand me sore distressed Thy heauy plagues incessant me oppressed So vvasted vvas my natiue moisture spent It did the drought of summer represent verse 5 Then I to thee my trespasses confessed And freely my transgressions I expressed LORD I vvill shevv said I my faults to thee And thou forgau'st my sins iniquitie verse 6 For this each one thy grace and glory minding By prayr shall seek thy face in time of finding The vvaues of vvoe to him shall not come neare Afflictions stouds he needeth not to feare Pause verse 7 My refuge sure thou art me secret hiding From trouble thou shalt keep me safe abiding For giuing me deliuerance by thy grace VVith songs of ioy thou vvilt me round imbrace verse 8 Come thou to me that so I may instruct thee And in the vvay that thou shalt goe conduct thee Thee to direct my counsell thou shalt try And I vvill guide thee alvvay vvith mine eye verse 9 Be not like them vvho haue no vnderstanding Like horse and mule vvhom vvithout bit commanding Thou canst not rule vvhose mouth must be restrained With bit or spur to stay or goe constrained verse 10 With many griefs the vvicked shall be vexed With sorrovves great they shall be all perplexed But in the LORD vvho all his trust doth place Compassion shall him compas and imbrace verse 11 Be glad ye iust and in the LORD take pleasure Reioyce in GOD vvho is your comforts treasure All ye that are in faithfull heart vpright Shout ye aloud for ioy vvith true delight Psalme 33. Doctrine WIth ioyfull shouts peals gladly ringing Ye righteous in the LORD reioyce It vvell becoms you his praise singing Praise ye the LORD vvith Harp and voice Making musick meetest Consorts sounding svveetest On the Psalterie VVith ten strings resounding Sing Psalms to him sounding Praise his Name vvith glee verse 3 Sing to the LORD vvith voice melodious In nevv songs shevv his praise your ioyes Play skilfully vvith sounds harmonious Triumphantly vvith lovvdest noyse verse 4 For Gods Word delightfull Is most iust and rightfull His vvorks â—â—thfull bide All things he composeth Faithfully disposeth Them in truth doth guide verse 5 He righteousnes for euer loueth And Iudgment iust doth please his vvill The earth his bounteous mercy proueth The Lords great goodnes doth it fill verse 6 GODS Word heau'n created On high scituated When the vvord he said His mouth on them breathed He their form bequeathed All their Host he made Pause verse 7 The vvaters he vp heaps together VVithin the Sea by povvr diuine The deeps he keeps all flovving thither Stor'd vp vvithin his magazine verse 8 Then let all earth feare him And high reuerence beare him Who is GOD the LORD In the vvorld all dvvelling Feare his povvr excelling Tremble at his vvord verse 9 For vvhat he said it vvas fulfilled It vvas performed readily And vvhat his sacred vvord had vvilled It stood remaining steadily verse 10 Heathen enterprises Counsels and deuises GOD doth dissipate Peoples consultations Wicked machinations He doth nihilate verse 11 The Lords most sacred cogitations Shall stand for euer firm and sure His counsels through all generations And thoughts of his heart ay endure verse 12 Blessed is that Nation People Congregation Whos 's GOD is the LORD VVhom he doth inherit Chosen by his spirit Purchast by his Word Pause verse 13 The Lord our God the heau'n vnfoldeth And looketh dovvnvvard from the sky He all the sons of men beholdeth And on them sets his vvatchfull ey verse 14 From his habitation In high contemplation He beholdeth vvell His eye doth discouer All the earth quite ouer Them vvho there do dvvell verse 15 For he his might povver shovveth Conforming all their hearts alone He vnderstandeth vvell and knovveth Their vvorks considering euery one verse 16 Great Hosts compleat armed Though like Bees they svvarmed Cannot saue a King Strength of man can neuer Him saue or deliuer From deaths killing sting verse 17 He is deceiued vvho accounteth Himselfe to saue by strength of horse Though he in courage fierce surmounteth He none shall saue by his great force verse 10 Lo the Lord ay vievveth Them vvith grace rendevveth VVho vvith feare him serue Who in him affyeth On his grace relyeth He vvill them preserue Pause verse 19 Their souls he vvill keep saue from dying Death shall not them of life depriue With plenteous food them all supplying In famin them to keep aliue verse 20 On the Lord relying To him vve applying Our soules him attend His ayd and his fauer Is our shield and sauer He doth vs defend verse 21 Our heart reioyceth in him solely In him vve ioy vvho is most iust For in his Name vvhich is most holy We setled haue our hope and trust verse 22 Lord our God most gratious Let thy mercy spacious Euer on vs be Let thy might maintain vs And thy grace sustain vs As vve trust in thee Psalme 34. Alphabeticall Doctrin AT all times I vvill bles The Lord my God his vvorthy praise His glory and renovvn alvvayes My mouth shall still expres verse 2 Break forth my souls glad voyce Boast in thy gloriouâ— Sauer deare The faithfull meeke therof shall heare And shall vvith me reioyce verse 3 Come laud the Lord vvith me Him magnifie extoll his Name Let vs him praise and raise his fame Together all ioyntly verse 4 Duely the Lord I sought VVho graciously my suit did heare And freed me soone from all my feare My full deliuerance vvrought verse 5 Euen they that did expect And looke for fauor gaind his grace Shame did not make them hide their face Nor did it them deiect verse 6 For this poor man did call For help at need the Lord did heare And freed him from distres and feare Sau'd him from troubles all Pause verse 7 Gods Angels pitch their tent About them that in feare him serue From all distres them to preserue All dangers to preuent verse 8 Hovv gracious is the Lord Hovv good is he O tast and see He blessed shall for euer be VVho trusteth in his vvord verse 9 Iehouah's children deare Feare ye the Lord but feare no vvant For nothing is or shall be scant To them that him do feare verse 10 In hunger Lyons ly But they that seek God shall not vvant Nor any good to them be scant VVho on the Lord rely verse 11 Keep ye attentiue eare My children deare come neer and learn Tru vvisdom to knovv and discern The Lord your God to feare verse 12 Long life vvho doth desire VVho loueth many dayes to see Of comfort and prosperitie Tru riches to acquire verse 13 Must
my ayd alvvay Thou only thou art he That dost deliuer me My God make no delay Psalme 41. Prayer and prophecy HE blessed is that doth compassion shovv To them that are brought lovv He from the Lord of comfort shall not miâ— VVhen he afflicted is verse 2 The Lord vvill him preserue aliue that he On earth shall blessed be He vvill not him deliuer noâ— expose Vnto his furious foes verse 3 VVhen on his bed he lyâ—s vveak sick and sore God vvill his strength restore And turn his couch from all disease and pain To health and ease againe verse 4 Therfore I said in mine infirmitie Haue mercy LORD on me O heal my soul let it recured be For I offended thee verse 5 My foes ill vvords against me hate display While thus of me they say VVhen vvhen vvill death oâ—e take this vvretched vvight And his name perish quite verse 6 Their visits are but comâ—lementing lyes They invvard hate disguise They vvicked thoughts vp heap vvhich strayt they shovv As soone as forth they goe Pause verse 7 Together all they that bare hate to me Against me vvhispering be Against me they conspire and enterprise To hurt me they deuise verse 8 An ill disease say they vvill not him leaue It fast to him doth cleaue Deiected lovv cast dovvn there novv he lyes That neuer more shall rise verse 9 Nay my neere friend to vvhom I did impart The secret of my heart Who ate my bread and did my bounty feel Against me lift his heel verse 10 Therfore O Lord abandond thus of all On me let mercy fall And raise me vp that I may haue the might Their merits to requite verse 11 By this I knovv to me it doth appear That I to thee am deare Because thou dost not make mine enemy To triumph ouer me verse 12 But vvell triumph I may vvhom thou dost stay In my most rightfull vvay Whom thou of thy good grace dost firmly place For ay before thy face verse 13 O bles the Lord the God of Israel His praises euer tell From age to age vvorld vvithout end Amen Amen I say agen Psalme 42. Consolation AS the chased Hart pants braying Seeking some refreshing brooke So my thirsty soul longs praying Zealous on my GOD to looke verse 2 My soul thirsteth eagerly Euerliuing GOD for thee LORD vvhen shall I come before thee In thy presence to adore thee verse 3 Day and night great grief sustaining Briâ—ish teares are all my food VVhile they question me disdaining Where is novv thy God so good verse 4 My heart melts this thinking on Hovv I marching late had gon Leading troups Gods praises singing To his Temple offrings bringing verse 5 VVhy art thou my soul so sory So disquiet so disma'yd Wait on God for still his glory In my song shall be displayd VVhen but vvith one looke of his He shall me restore to blisse verse 6 O my God vvhose grace erecteth See my soul it self deiecteth For my minde on my God thinketh Euen from Hermon mountain high From the land that Iordan drinketh And vvhere Missar hillocks lye verse 7 One deep vvith noise of his fall Other depths of vvoes doth call While my GOD vvith dreadfull vvonders On me vvretch his Tempests thunders Pause All thy flouds ore me abounded All thy billovves ore me vvent Yet on this my hope is grounded That thine anger being spent verse 8 I by day thy loue shall tast Singing shall the night be past Praying praising and thanksgiuing To my God vvhile I am liuing verse 9 I vvill say O GOD my Tovver VVhy am I forgot by thee Why should grief my heart deuovver While the Foe oppresseth me verse 10 Bitter scoffs of haughty ones Wound and pierce me to the bones Whilst my foes aske me deriding Where hath novv your God his biding verse 11 Why art thou my soul so sory So deiected so dismaid Wait on God for still his glory In my songs shall be displayd To him shall my thanks be payd VVho is still my present ayd Whose saluation me hath raised Is my God for euer praised LOrd iudg me make examination Plead thou my cause and set me free From this vniust and cruell Nation Deceitfull in their conuersation From them that deal iniuriously Saue and deliuer me verse 2 My God thou art my strength and tovver From thee vvhy dost thou me exclude Why goe I mourning euery hovver My foes vvho vvould my soul deuovver Oppres me vvith their multitude By them I am pursevvd verse 3 Send out thy light for my instruction And let thy faithfull truth diuine Conduct and saue me from destruction And let them be my introduction Into that sacred hill of thine Me to thy house assigne verse 4 Then vvill I goe vvith mirth and pleasure Vnto the Altar chearfully Of God vvho is my comforts treasure In vvhom my ioy exceedeth measure Vpon the Harp I vvill praise thee Thou LORD art GOD to me verse 5 My soul vvhy then art thou deiected And so disquieted in me Wait thou on God vvith hope erected With patience let him be expected For he by me shall praised be My health my God is he Psalme 44. Prayer LORD GOD of high renovvn and glory Our eares haue heard the ioyous story Which our forefathers haue vs told Of vvondrous vvorkes thou didst of old Hovv thou the heathen didst expell And in that land our fathers planted By thy strong hand therein to dvvell Their foes vvere plagued and supplanted verse 3 For they haue not this land possessed By their ovvn svvord to vvar addressed Nor could the might of their ovvn arme In doubtfull fight saue them from harme But it vvas that right hand of thine And thy strong arme that vvas their Sauer On them thy face vvith light did shine Because thou didst thy people fauer verse 4 O GOD thou art my king most royall To Iacob to thy seruant loyall Help and saluation timely send And him as thou vvert vvont defend verse 5 For if our armies thou dost lead We shall push dovvn them that distres vs And in thy Name vve shall dovvn tread All them that rise vp to suppres vs. verse 6 My bovv I knovv vvill not secure me Nor shall at all my svvord assure me In them no confidence I haue Nor hope that me my armes shall saue verse 7 But it is thou and thou alone Which sauest vs from our distressers And thou hast put to shame each one Who vvere our haters and oppressers Pause verse 8 In God vve all day long do glory And vve record the sacred story Of his all-blessed Name most high Which euermore vve magnify verse 9 But novv hast thou cast vs dovvn lovv Thou dost vs shame and quite reiect vs Thou vvith our armies dost not goe Forth dost not lead vs nor protect vs. verse 10 To turn vs back thou dost novv make vs From enemies that captiue take vs Our hatefull foes giue vs the foil And vvhat they please they take and spoil
verse 11 Thou hast appointed vs to dy As sheepe for slaughter be ordained Thou hast disperst vs that to ly Mongst nations strange vve are constrained verse 12 Thy flock as nothing vvorth thou prisest For nought theâ— selling thou despisest Thou letst them goe at rates so cheap For them no profit thou dost reap verse 13 To them reproch that neer vs bide Thou makst vs be they mock and flout vs They scorn and scoff vs they deride That are our neighbours round about vs. verse 14 VVe to the heathen are a fable Their by vvord common talke and bable When vs the vvicked people see They nod their heads in mockerie verse 15 Confusion mine continually Is in my sight spreds me all ouer And my reprochfull infamie With shame my blushing face doth couer verse 16 Because of his voyce that blasphemeth And at our ebbe so flovving streameth For that the foe in rage and ire To be reueng'd is set on fire verse 17 Yet haue vve not forgotten thee Though this befall vs notvvithstanding Nor haue vve dealt deceitfully Against thy couenant and commanding Pause verse 18 Our harts vvhich long distrest haue mourned Yet are not from thy seruice turned Our steps from thee go not astray Nor do vve vvander from thy vvay verse 19 Though thou hast vvounded vs in place VVhere monstrous Dragons haue their biding And hast vs couerd vvith disgrace VVith deaths shade vs in darknes hiding verse 20 If vve forget the Name eternall Of our good gracious God supernall If vve haue lifted vp our hands To other gods of godles lands verse 21 Shall not our God this search and spy Who all thoughts vvords vvorks vnfoldeth All secrets knovvs vvith piercing eye All harts most invvard parts beholdeth verse 22 Euen for thy sake our bloud is spilled For thee vve all day long are killed And vve are counted but as sheepe Which they for present slaughter keep verse 23 Vp Lord vvhy sleepest thou avvake Arise and let thy povver erect vs For euer do not vs forsake Be not far off nor quite reiect vs verse 24 VVhy is it that thy face thou hidest From vs still absent thou abidest Vnmindfull yet dost thou remain Forgetting our distres and pain verse 25 Dovvn to the dust our soul doth bovv Our vitall spirits grief bereaueth We on the ground ly prostrate novv And to the earth our belly cleaueth verse 26 Arise and shevv vs thy saluation Deliuer vs from tribulation And for thy mercy sake vs free Redeem vs from aduersitie Psalme xlv Doctrin A High designe my feruent heart inflameth Of King diuine heroycall song iâ— frameth Inuention quicke to fluent tong indites VVhich faster flovves then svviftest penman vvrites Thy beauty rare the fons of men exceedeth Past all compare grace from thy lips proceedeth Therefore thy God hath thee foreuer blest And thou of blisse eternall art possest verse 3 Then povverfull Prince aduance thy self all-glorious Vpon thy thigh gird thou thy svvord victorious verse 4 Ride on triumph in thy maiestick might Prosper preuail in vvord of truth and right Thy mercy milde vvith rigorous iustice bideth Thy gracious heart thy vigorous arm still guideth But those thy foes vvhose hearts no loue can vvin Thy hand to fright vvith terrors shall begin verse 5 Then thy sharp darts vpon them all shall thunder And thy foes hearts shall pierce and strike in sunder To thee O King the Nations all shall bend Thy mighty arm thy rule shall far extend verse 6 Thy Throne O GOD for euermore endureth Thy Scepter right through all thy Realme procureth verse 7 Thou louest truth iustice and righteousnes But hatest vvrong deceit and vvickednes VVherfore thy God hath thee his Christ appointed And thee vvith oyle of gladnes hath annointed Much more and far aboue thy fellovves all Whom to partake vvith thee thy loue doth call verse 8 VVith Aloes Mirrh and Cassia svveetly sented Thy robes perfumde are vnto thee presented From palaces of precious iuorie Wherby they haue exhilarated thee Pause Then Ladies fair present attendant duty Kings daughters rare prime paragons of beauty Boue all the Queene thy ioyous louely Bride In Ophir gold doth stand at thy right side verse 10 Fair daughter novv behold a vvhile attend thou Consider vvell thine eares to my vvords bend thou Thy fathers house forget thy peoples guise And natiue rites thou also shalt despise verse 11 So shall the King thy Spouse take greater pleasure In thy pure loue and in thy beauties treasure Him honor thou thy Lord vvith pleasing grace Bovv fair to him his loue intire imbrace verse 12 The Tyrian state shall then vvith other Nations Great Princes shall to thee bring rich oblations verse 13 Kings daughter fair vvithin deckt gloriously VVith robes of gold embroidred gorgeously verse 14 Thus shall O King thy beauteous spouse admired Be brought in robes of Phrygian vvork attired And Virgin troupes her lou'd associates deare Attending shall in thy blest sight appeare verse 15 VVith pleasant mirth and chearfull acclamations Triumphant ioy and glad congratulations She shall be brought vvith all her Princely train The Palace royall shall them entertain verse 16 For Parents left shall children be supplyed VVith royall Sons thy of spring multiplied VVhom Princes in all lands thou shalt ordain VVhose Scepters right and iustice shall maintain verse 17 Therfore vvill I of thy name crovvnd vvith glory From age to age record th' eternall story The people all thy honour high shall raise And celebrate perpetually thy praise Psalme 46 Victory WHen â—s aduersity offendeth God is our refuge vs defendeth In all distres and time of need His help vve finde vvith present speed verse 2 Therfore vve feare no molestation Though moued be the earths foundation Although the mountains high and steep Were throvvn i' th middle of the deepe verse 3 Though surging billovves of the Ocean Roar troubled tost vvith violent motion And though provvd svvelling vvaues do make The mighty mountains high to shake verse 4 In time of troubles fiercely grovving There is a riuer fairely flovving Which shall refresh vvith ioy renovvn Of God most high the sacred Tovvn verse 5 And in the midst of her excelling The LORD eternall hath his dvvelling Nor shall it moue for God vvill send It early ayd and it defend verse 6 The heathen kingdomes vvere inraged Anâ— mou'd to fury vnasvvaged Till they his voyce had heard and felt That vvith the noyse the earth did melt Pause verse 7 But this vvith comfort our hearts cheareth The LORD of hosts vvith vs appeareth The GOD of Iacob most of might Our refuge is for vs doth fight verse 8 Come see in serious contemplation The vvorks of God vvith admiration What he to pas on earth hath brought What desolation there he vvrought verse 9 All cruell vvars and iarrs he ceaseth Throughout the vvorld he them appeaseth He cuts the speares he breaks the bovves And into fire the charrets throvves verse 10 Knovv I am God be pacified My
might my right is knovvn and tryed Ore all the heathen I vvill raign On earth exalted I 'le remain verse 11 In brief this is our consolation The LORD of hosts is our saluation The God of Iacob gracious iust Our refuge is in vvhom vve trust Psalme 47. Reioycing PEople of all Lands Ioyfull clap your hands Praising God our King Shout triumphant sing VVith a strong shrill voyce Chearefully reioyce verse 2 For the LORD most hig Far aboue the sky Is of dreadfull might Terrible in fight Monarch ouer all Kings terrestriall verse 3 He the people shall Vnto vs make thrall He them dovvn belovv Vnder vs doth throvv Nations shall submit Themselues at our feet verse 4 He our heritance Chosen doth aduance Iacobs excellence Is in his defence Whom he hath approu'd And intirely lou'd verse 5 Our God vp is gon Mirthfull marching on With triumphant noise High expressing ioyes In the LORD reioyce With the trumpets voice verse 6 Sing praise to the Lord Psalms to him accord Praise to our God sing Sing praise to our King verse 7 GOD is ouer all Kings terrestriall Psalms instructing vvell Sing ye that excell verse 8 God raigns and commands All the heathen lands He doth sit vpon His high holy Throne verse 9 Peeres and Princes ioyn And vvith them combine Who themselues declare That they people are Of him that became God of Abraham For God sole soueraign Doth keep and retain In his povverfull hands All shields of all lands His fame high is rais'd His great Name be prais'd Psalme 48. Thanksgiuing GReat is the LORD in this his seat His praises are exceeding great In our God's city his ovvn dvvelling His sacred mountain high excelling verse 2 Sion mountain is in place Full of beauty full of grace Northvvard being scituated To the great King consecrated All the earth therevvith delighted To reioyce there are inuited verse 3 In Sions palace God is knovvn For refuge and deliuerance shovvn verse 4 For lo the Kings their forces ioyned They marched there in league combined verse 5 When they had therof the sight They amazed tooke their flight They and all their troupes astounded Terrifyde vvith fear confounded verse 6 So great horror them agasted Quite avvay they headlong hasted Such trembling fright hold on them tooke That they like traueling vvomen shooke verse 7 Thy eastern tempests storms like thunder Their Tarshish nauy tore in sunder verse 8 VVondrous acts such as vve heard Like hath novv to vs appeard In the city high renovvned VVith the LORD of hosts name crovvned VVhere remaines the sacred dvvelling Of the LORD our GOD excelling Pause The LORD vvill it establish sure For euermore it shall endure verse 9 In midst LORD of thy habitation Thy mercies are our meditation verse 10 LORD according to thy Name And the greatnes of the same So is thy great praise transcending To earths vtmost ends extending Iustice plentifull redoundeth In thy right hand it aboundeth verse 11 Let all in Sions sacred mount Be glad and let the ioyes surmount Of Iudahs daughters amiable For all thy iudgments admirable verse 12 VValk about fair Sions mount Tovvers built thereon recount verse 13 Vievv the Forts vvith circumspection Mark the Pallaces perfection That ye may make the relation To each future generation verse 14 For this God is our God for ay Is euer our defence and stay He is and vvill be our protection In life and death all our direction Psalme 49. Doctrin TO this my speech all people giue good eare All dvvellers in the earth attentiue heare verse 2 The noble and the base both rich and poore All famous and obscure both high and lore verse 3 My mouth shall speak of vvisdom prudent speach My hearts discourse shall vnderstanding teach verse 4 I vvill incline my eare to heare reuealed VVith harp exprest my parable concealed verse 5 VVhy should I feare vvhen euill dayes approach VVhen on me grief and trouble doe incroch And vvhen my sins and foes vvhich do abound Me close at heeles pursevving shall surround verse 6 VVho of his vvealth and povver is confident And boasteth of his riches insolent verse 7 His brothers life cannot saue nor redeeme it Nor ransom pay at vvhich God doth esteem it verse 8 Too deare the price is their souls to release For him to pay it shall for euer cease verse 9 That euer he might liue perpetually And in the pit corruption neuer see verse 10 For he obserues the vvise and prudent dyes They perish as the bruitish fool likevvise At length their strength health vvealth breath death bereaueth All he did ovvn to heirs vnknovvn he leaueth verse 11 Their invvard thought vvhich busieth most their brain Is that their house for euer may remain Their dvvellings to eternize and their fames From age to age their lands do beare their names verse 12 But man by no meanes can himselfe assure That he being in honor shall endure He bideth not nor long this life enioyeth Him like to beasts that perish death destroyeth Pause verse 13 This is their vvay vvhich to no other end But vanity and foolishnes doth tend Their children yet all trained to their trade Approue applaud and laud vvhat they haue said Selah verse 14 Slain as the sheep they in the graue are put Death on their flesh feeding himself doth glut But the vpright all in the morning glorious Dominion shall haue ouer them victorious Their beauty shall be vvasted in the graue Quite from the place vvhere they their dvvelling haue But God vvill me redeem from povvr of hell For he shall me receiue vvith him to dvvell verse 16 VVhen one grovves rich fear not nor him enuy VVhen honors of his house do multiply Selah verse 17 For vvhen he dyes he nought avvay shall carry His glory shall not vvith him goe not tarry verse 18 VVho in this life himselfe doth gratulate And to himself doth good they celebrate verse 19 He shall goe to his fathers out of sight In place obscure and neuer see the light verse 20 The man vvhose state in vvorldly honour flovves But knovvledg vvants still sensuall senceles grovves Nor vnderstands at all vvhat he enioyeth Is like brute beasts vvhom sudden death destroyeth Psalme l. Doctrin THe mighty GOD the LORD eternall blest Hath spoke and cald the earth from East to VVest verse 2 From Sion fair in perfect beauty bright Our God hath shin'd and shovvd forth glorious light verse 3 Our God vvill come his Maiesty reuealing His sentence iust in silence not concealing Before him fire deuouring shall abound About him stormes and tempests shall surround verse 4 To heauen aboue for vvitnes he vvill call And earth beneath to iudg his people all verse 5 My gracious Saints assemble ye combined With me in league by sacrifice assigned verse 6 The heauens shall shevv his righteousnes and might For God himself is Iudg most iust and right Sela. verse 7 My people heare to Israel speak vvill I I am thy GOD to
vvill turn back all terrifyed This sure I knovv for I haue often tryed That God is still vvith me verse 10 The Lord my God by me shall praised be And of his Word vvill I sing ioyfully Because perform his promise sure vvill he The LORD is my saluation verse 11 On him I trust and build my hopes foundation Therfore I vvill not feare the machination verse 12 Of mortall man My vovves gratification To thee Lord vvill I pay Vnto thee Lord vvill I giue thanks alvvay And I vvill sing thy praises day by day To thee O Lord I vvill confes and say Thou Lord vvilt me deliuer verse 13 From direfull death thou art the only giuer Of safety sure so that my feet shall neuer In danger slide but vpright vvalk for euer In thy life 's lightned vvay Psalme 57. Prayer THy mercy shevv some pitty take on me For O my God my soul doth trust in thee And till these vvoes and troubles be past ouer My soul doth hope thou my defence vvilt be And that vvith thy vvings shade thou vvilt me couer verse 2 Vnto the Lord my God vvho is most high Will I lift vp my voyce and to him cry verse 3 His promise sure vvho keeps vvho by his povver From heau'n vvill saue me from mine enemy Confounding him vvho seeks me to deuovver Selah verse 4 My soul alas distres doth novv compell Mongst Lyons fierce and raging still to dvvell Among men set on fire inflamed fuell Whose teeth are speares and shafts sharp long and fell Whose tongs like svvords do vvound vvith vvords most cruel Pause verse 5 Exalt thy self O God aboue the sky And on the earth aduance thy glory high verse 6 They set a net my steps to haue insnared My humbled soul dovvn bovved lovv doth ly For me my foes a deep pit haue prepared verse 7 Mine enemies before me digd a pit And they themselues are faln dovvn into it Selah Wherfore O God my heart is novv prepared My heart O Lord to praise thee is made fit Thy praises in my song shall be declared verse 8 My glory vvake Harpe Lute avvake I say For I my self vvill vvake ere break of day verse 9 Among the throng in frequent congregations To thee O Lord confessing I vvill pray And praise thy Name O Lord among the Nations verse 10 For mercy thine is as the heau'n most high Thy truth extends vnto the cloudy sky Exalt thy self aboue the heau'n supernall Let all the earth O GOD thee glorifie And sound thy praise O Lord most high eternall Psalme 58. Consolation YE Rulers all to vvhom the trust is Committed to defend the right Against oppressors vvrongfull might Are all your iudgments truth and iustice Ye sons of men haue you regard To all iust iudgment to avvard verse 2 Your mindes on mischief still are musing Your hands vvith vvrongs ye do pollute For cruelties ye execute The Land vvith measures false abusing verse 3 These vvicked men vvho iustice hate From God are strangers alienate Eu'n from the vvomb they haue reiected The truth for error speaking lyes verse 4 Within their brests fell venim lyes VVith poysnous Serpents rage infected And like the Adder deaf vvhose eare He stops because he vvill not heare verse 5 The skilfull charmers voyce not hearing Though of all Charmers chief vvere he verse 6 LORD let their teeth all broken be Within their yavvning mouthes appearing Lord break the Lyons cruell iavves Pull out their fangs cut off their clavves Pause verse 7 Let them as vvater in the riuers Avvay all vnregarded fall verse 8 Their arrovves cut in pieces small Them scatter shatter into shiuers Let them consume avvay as snailes That dry and dy vvhen moysture failes As vvomens fruit vntimely dyeth Nere seeing light abortiue born verse 9 Before the bramble bush or thorn Do prick or burn svvift vengeance flyeth And like a vvhirlvvind them aliue VVith furious force avvay shall driue verse 10 Then shall vvith gladnes mirth pleasure The righteous man right ioyfull be When he the vvicked men shall see Fall vnder vengeance dreadfull measure He in the bloud of vvicked men Shall vvash his feet Man shall say then verse 11 The righteous shall be vvell regarded He shall the fruit and profit gain Of all his labour not in vain With plenty he shall be revvarded For sure there is a God of might That iudgeth all the vvorld by right Psalme lix Prayer MY GOD my enemies surround me Saue me from them that vvould confound me Let me my God defended be From them that rise vp against me verse 2 Deliuer me from all transgressors saue me from them that be oppressors From vvorkers of iniquity From cruell men and bloud-thirsty verse 3 For loe they all my vvayes espying To take my life in vvait are lying Lord mighty men their forces bend Gainst me vvho them did not offend verse 4 With speed prepard they haue intended To punish me vvho nere offended Therfore arise behold and see And vvith thy might assist thou me verse 5 Lord God of hosts vvhose mighty povver Is Israels defensiue tovver The heathen visit thou avvake And on them all due vengeance take To none let mercy be extended Who of meer malice haue offended Selah verse 6 I' th euening they run to and fro About the streets they rambling go â—ike hounds they hovvl their mouthes loud sounding verse 7 Their speech vvith brags and boasts abounding â—ith cruell lips like sharpned svvords For vvho say they do hear our vvords verse 8 But thou LORD vvilt reproue and chide them â—isdainfully thou vvilt deride them â—nd laughing at their lust disgrace â—halt mock the heathen to their face verse 9 Because my strength on thee dependeth On thee alone my soul attendeth For only God defendeth me My high tovvr of defence is he verse 10 The God of mercy is my Sauer He shall preuent me vvith his fauer The Lord vvill surely suffer me On my foes my desire to see Pause verse 11 But suddenly O Lord them slay not That our remembrance soone decay not But by degrees them all abroad Disperse by thy great povver O God Them all vvith shame dovvn lovv deiect thou Thou art our shield vs Lord protect thou verse 12 Because their vvicked mouthes abound In sin their lips vvith lyes resound They in their pride shall be surprised For cursed plots vvhich they deuised For execrations fraud and vvrongs verse 13 Proceeding from their lying tongs In thy fierce anger fury fuming Confound thou them all quite consuming That nothing may them ere restore Destroy them that they be no more That they may knovv in Iacob raigneth The God that euermore remaineth Whose rule and empire doth extend Vnto the vvorlds remotest end Selah verse 14 They in the euening back returning Enraged mad vvith fury burning As dogs do grin bark vvhine and cry About the city rambling pry verse 15 From place to place they shift still changing Sharking for meat in hunger ranging And vvhen
vvith svveet perfume Both Buls and Goats of greatest prises Fire on thy altar shall consume Selah verse 16 All ye that feare the LORD most blessed To vvhat I say attentiue be While by my tong shall be expressed What for my soul performd hath he verse 17 VVhen vvith my mouth to him I cryed His ayd assisted me alvvayes Therfore my toug him magnified And highly did extoll his praise verse 18 If sins aspect my heart affecteth If vvickednes in me remains Me vvith neglect the Lord reiecteth He heares me not my suit disdains verse 19 But certainly the Lord bath heard me Apparent proof therof I finde VVhen I did pray he did regard me Attentiue he my voyce did minde verse 20 My soul praise thou the Lord most blessed VVho faild me not vvhen I did pray VVho from me vvhen I vvas distressed His mercy did not take avvay Psalme 67. Thanksgiuing LOrd God to vs be fauourable To vs vouchsafe thou blessings thine Thy gracious face most amiable Vpon vs make thou bright to shine Selah verse 2 That thy vvay excelling to all on earth dvvelling May be fully knovvn And that thy saluation vnto euery nation May be plainly shovvn verse 3 Thy praise O GOD be magnified By all the people on the earth Thy Name O Lord be glorified By nations all vvith ioy and mirth verse 4 Voyces shâ—ill be singing Shouts of ioy be ringing Their acclamations Thou art Iudg vnto them Thou vvilt iustice do them Guide thou the Nations Selah verse 5 By all the people magnified Be thou Lord for thy gracious peace By people all be glorified verse 6 Then shall the earth yeeld large increase GOD shall blessings send vs Our GOD vvill defend vs And his grace vs giue God shall giue vs blessing All earths ends possessing In his feare shall liue Psalme 68. Of praise publique LEt God the povvrfull Lord arise And let his hatefull enemies VVith fear and dread confounded Be all disperst from place to place Fly from the frovvning of his face VVith gastly terror vvounded verse 2 As smoke by vvindes is suddenly Driuen quite avvay so let them be From Gods high presence banisht As vvax doth melt before the fire So be the vvicked in his ire Consum'd for euer vanisht verse 3 But let the iust before the Lord Be glad his honour to record His vvorthy praise resounding Let them before the Lord reioyce Extolling him lift vp their voyce With mirth and ioy abounding verse 4 Sing to the Lord of high renovvn His sacred Name vvith praises crovvn Whose glory is supernall VVho rideth on the clovvdy sky In royall maiesty most high Iah is his Name eternall verse 5 Before him ioy vvith thankfulnes A father to the fatherles In fauour and compassion A Iudg that vviddovvs right maintainâ— A God that vvith delight remains In 's holy habitation verse 6 God fils the empty family The barren vvith posterity With issue store indevved He frees them that vvith chains are bound Makes Rebels till the desart ground Quite vanquisht and subdevved Pause verse 7 O GOD vvhen marching thou didst goe Before thy people to and fro In vvildernes them trying Selah verse 8 The heau'ns did drop vvith melting heat The earth did quake vvith terror great Thy face them terrifying When God euen Iacobs God drevv neare VVhen he in presence did appeare The mountain Sina moued verse 9 A gracious rain a plenteous shovvr Thou on thy heritage didst povvr Thy bounty it hath proued VVhen it vvas vveary faint and dry Thou didst refresh it vvith supply verse 10 Thy people there remained Thou LORD preparedst for the poore Thou giust them of thy goodnes store Wherby they are sustained verse 11 VVhen thou O GOD didst giue the vvord And ioyfull tydings didst afford Amid thy congregation Fair troups of Virgins pure vvere found VVho vvith triumphant thankfull sound Thereof made declaration verse 12 Strong Kings vvith armies great took flight Fled from the field in feare and fright Their shamed faces hiding Weak vvomen vvont at home to stay Marcht brauely forth and tooke the prey Rich spoiles and lands diuiding verse 13 What though ye haue endured long The fornaces of pots among Besmeared and defaced With moneâ— soot all ouer soild And vvith hard labour ouer-toild Obscured and disgraced Yet you a great change soone shall see For you made louely bright shall be As Doues vvings siluer couer In sight all glorious to behold With fethred plumes of purest gold All glittring burnisht ouer verse 14 VVhen God almighties povvrfull hand Disperst the Kings driuen from the land In fear and terror flying His peoples darknes turnd to light And they became as pure and vvhite As snovv in Salmon lying Pause verse 15 This is the mount of God most high As Basan mount so near the sky As Basan mount excelling verse 16 Why do ye mounts thus leap hop As if ye vvould vs ouertop Against vs proudly svvelling This is the Mount God loues so vvell That therein he is pleas'd to dvvell His fauour it obtaineth The Lord in grace and mercy great Hath this elected for his seat For euer here remaineth verse 17 Gods charrets tvvise ten thousand are Of Angels vvhich his povvr declare Attending he hath millions The Lord among them shevves his face As Sina's Lord in sacred place Possesseth his Pauilions verse 18 Ascending in high maiesty Thou captiue leadst captiuity O God of hosts victorious Thy gracious gifts thou dost impart To men thy seruants for thou art Most bountifull and glorious VVith them vvho of rebellious foes Become thy seruants thou vvith those For ay hast habitation verse 19 The Lord be blessed our strong God VVho vs vvith gifts doth daily load The God of our saluation Selah verse 20 He that is GOD our God vvill be Of our saluation GOD is he Our Sauiour he remaineth The LORD eternall is most strong To him the keyes of Death belong All povver to him pertaineth Pause verse 21 But God vvill vvound vvith povverfull hand The heads of those that him vvithstand In hatefull opposition And he vvill break the hairy pate Of him that sinneth obstinate Procuring self perdition verse 22 The Lord this to his people spake From Basan I again vvill take And bring you by my povver And I vvill lead ye once again Safe through the gulfe the red sea main Shall foes not you deuovver verse 23 That thy feet hauing trampled ore Dead corpses vveltring in their gore In bloud may be imbrevved Of all thy foes that thee vvithstood Dogs tongs shall lick the purple bloud From gaping vvounds issued verse 24 O God thy marches they haue seen My God my King hovv thy vvayes been VVithin thy holy places verse 25 The vangard singers led the vvay The Reer on instruments did play They marcht vvith stately paces On timbrels beating them among Triumphant Damsels sang this song Amid their congregation verse 26 Bles ye the Lord his praise declare O Israel all ye that are Of Iacobs generation
garners large fulfils The Citizens shall fairly flourish So numerous quickly grovvn As grasse vvhich fruitfull medovvs nourish Millions of blades vnknovvn verse 17 His honord Name renovvned euer In glory high shall raigne And his remembrance failing neuer Shall as the Sun remain All men by him of blisse possessed For euer blesse him shall All Nations shall in him be blessed And him right blessed call verse 18 The Lord God Israels God be praised Who vvonders vvorkes alone verse 19 His glorious Name on high be raised For ay by euery one Recorded be the sacred story Of his renovvned fame Let all the earth fild vvirh his glory For euer blesse his Name Amen Psalme Lxxiij Doctrin YEt sure the LORD is good and kinde To Israel his loue they finde Who be of righteous conuersation And serue him vvith pure adoration verse 2 My steps vvere like to goe astray And neer to misse the rightfull vvay My feet did almost svverue aside And into error neer did slide verse 3 For I enuy'd and vext to see Vainglorious fooles in dignitie VVith grief of heart I vvas annoyed That vvicked men such peace inioyed verse 4 In prosperous state they alvvay stand Vntill their death they feel no pain In health and strength they still remain And all things haue at their command verse 5 VVhen others grieu'd and troubled are They knovv no sorrovv take no care As other men they are not vexed They are not troubled nor perplexed verse 6 VVith pride as vvith a Carkanet VVith ievvels rich they are beset As vvith a garment for defence They armed are vvith violence verse 7 Their eyes do stand out of their head With fatnes they so full are fed They haue more then their hearts desired They are more high then they aspired verse 8 In all their vvayes corrupt they are Their speeches vvicked hearts declare They of oppression boasting tell Their vvords like mountains proudly svvell Pause verse 9 Their mouthes against heau'n they oppose Their lips vvith blasphemies vnclose Their bold tong vncontrouled talketh Throughout the vvorld vnbounded vvalketh verse 10 Gods people vnaduis'd also Do thither turn and vvith them goe Quite tyred out vvith grief and vvoe Drink of their cups vvhich full do flovv verse 11 And this they say th' Almighty one From his so high supernall throne Doth he regard doth he take notice Hath he intelligence that so t is verse 12 Behold the vvicked such as these Their vvealth their might their ioyes increase They still do liue in rest at ease Haue plenteous happines and peace verse 13 And do I as it seems in vain Still in my innocence remain My heart from vvickednes I clensed My hands in righteousnes I rensed verse 14 Yet all day long plagues me torment And early in the morn betimes Am I reproacht vvith grieuous crimes And suffer seuere chastisement verse 15 Yet surely if I this do say Then do I vvrong and falsly lay A scandalous calumniation Vpon the righteous generation verse 16 When this in minde I did reuolue This doubt indeuering to resolue I found it vvas too hard for me The depth therof I could not see verse 17 Till in the Temple of the Lord Consulting vvith his sacred VVord VVhere I their finall end perceiued Of all their comforts vain bereaued verse 18 For thou didst iustly place them all In slipry places soone to fall And suddenly didst cast them dovvn Into destruction hast them throvvn Pause verse 19 Hovv are they brought so suddenly Forlorn in vvoe and misery With terrors errors deadly vvounded For euer finally confounded Thou vtterly dost them deface And root them out from humane race verse 20 Like to a dream vvhich lasteth not But vvhen one vvakes is quite forgot When thou Lord vvakest vve arise Their image vain thou vvilt despise verse 21 My heart imbittred vvas perplexed I in my reins vvas prickt and vexed verse 22 I vvas as bruitish vvithout sense Depriued of intelligence I in thy sight vvas as a beast And in my ovvn account the least verse 23 Yet neuertheles I am vvith thee And so I hope shall euer be For thy right hand me firm vpholdeth VVhich vnto me thy loue vnfoldeth verse 24 The counsell vvhich thou vvilt me giue Shall guide me safely vvhile I liue And after vvhen this life I leaue To glory thou vvilt me receiue verse 25 VVhat help or hope in heau'n â—aue I But only thee vvho dvvelst on high On earth I none but thee desired To thee alone I haue aspired verse 26 No arme of flesh for me preuailes My courage and my heart me failes God is the strength of my poore heart He euer is my choice my part verse 27 For loe all them that thee forsake Destruction quite avvay shall take For thou hast euery one consumed False gods to vvorship vvho presumed verse 28 But as for me I hold it best To dravv neare God to him addrest I trust in God in him I rest By me his vvorkes shall be exprest Psalme 74. Prayer WHy Lord hast thou for euer vs off cast VVhy is thy vvrath and fury so inflamed Against thy flock thy congregation named Thy pasture sheep that thou forgot them hast verse 2 Think thou on thy ovvn people bought of old The rod of thy inheritance esteemed Thy mercy svveet hath dearly it redeemed In Sion mount thy dvvelling thou didst hold verse 3 Stand vp and let thy povvrfull feet stamp dovvn â—hy foes for their perpetuall desolation VVhose sacriledge and vvastfull deuastation Haue all things in thy Temple ouerthrovvn verse 4 Insulting foes a rude tumultuous rout VVith out-cryes fierce and horrid exclamations Make vvar against thy sacred congregations Set banners vp for trophes round about verse 5 As vvorkmen stroâ—g contending for renovvn VVith lofty strokes sharp axes armes of vigor In forrests thick vvith mighty force and rigor Make haste to fell the vvel-grovvn Cedars dovvn verse 6 So novv the posts ingrau'd caru'd curiously The polisht stones in corners of thy Temple They cut and spoil those buildings past example With axes and vvith hammers furiously verse 7 VVith fire they burn vvirh hands prophane pollute Thy Sanctuary dovvn cast ruinated The dvvelling place of thy Name violated All cruelties theron they execute verse 8 Proceed say they come let vs out of hand Destroy them all together they haue burned Gods Temples all and into ashes turned All Synagogues of GOD throughout the land Pause verse 9 Novv vve no signe of vvonted comfort see Nor any hope at all thy fauour shevveth No Prophet novv there is nor one that knovveth Hovv long vve shall endure this misery verse 10 Hovv long O Lord hovv long vvilt thou abide This vile reproch this scoffing aduersary Shall they blaspheme thy Name thy Sanctuary For euermore Both thee and vs deride verse 11 VVhy dost thou thus thy hand from vs vvith-hold Thy mighty right hand thervvith vs defend thou Vs to restore thy povvrfull arme extend thou For euer shall thy bosom it infold verse
I' th desart grieue him by their vvickednes Pause verse 41 Yet they again their former sins attempted Vngraciously their gracious GOD they tempted And limited the GOD of povvr vnbounded The holy one of Israel they bounded verse 42 They quite forgot his hand the day that he From all their foes did set them safe and free verse 43 In Egypt he vvrought vvonders admirable In Zoan fields shevvd signes reformidable verse 44 For all their pooles and riuers of cleare vvater He turnd to bloud and filthy gory matter That they became so loathsom did so stink Although their thirst increas'd they could not drink verse 45 Of vermin svvarâ—us so thick he sent among them That greedily did them deuovvr and stong them Them he vvith frogs corrupted and annoyed verse 46 Their fruits and trees he gaue to be destroyed And their increase to Locusts of the field Their vvorks he did to caterpillers yeeld verse 47 Their fruitfull Vines vvith hail he stroid and vvasted Their Sycomores vvith frosts and tempests blasted verse 48 He to the hayle gaue vp their heards inclosed To thunderbolts he all their flocks exposed verse 49 On them he cast rhe fiercenes of his ire His furious vvrath against them burnt like fire On them he tooke iust vengeance for offending Enrag'd among them euill angels sending verse 50 He to his vvrath a ready vvay prepared Their soul from death he nor vvith-held nor spared From Pestilence their life he did not saue But their vvilde beasts he to the morain gaue Pause verse 51 Their first born he throughout all Egypt killed Their firstlings all vvith deadly stroke he thrilled In all Chams tents of all their youth the flovver And prime of all their strength did death deuovver verse 52 But his ovvn folke like to a flock of sheep I' th vvildernes he safe did guide and keep verse 53 He led them safe vvithout all feare secured To drovvn their foes the vvaters he procured And them of feare their foes of life depriued verse 54 They neer vnto his holy place arriued To borders of this mountain he them brought Which his right hand had purchased and bought verse 55 Before them he the heathen people chased His people he in their possessions placed To Israels tribes their lands by lot assigned Yet they vvere still to stubbornes inclined verse 56 For they the most high tempting did prouoke His statutes they neglecting quite forsooke verse 57 For they turndback vnfaithfully departing From his decrees as their forefathers starting Aside like to a bovv deceitfull proued verse 58 They him to vvrath vvith their high places moued They him prouokt to irefull iealousie With idols vain and grau'n imagery Pause verse 59 VVhen God heard this his anger vvas exceeding To shevv his vvrath inflamed vvas proceeding He Israel abhorred and disdained verse 60 He Shilo left vvhere he had long remained In sacred Tent diuine vvhich he did place Among fraile men vvho vvere of earthly race verse 61 He yeelded vp his strength to be captiued The beauty of his glory vvas depriued By force of foes his people to the povver verse 62 Of bloudy svvords he gaue them to deuovver So deadly vvas his dreadfull anger mou'd Against his ovvn inheritance approu'd verse 63 Their choise yong men his vvrathfull flame destroyed Their Virgins praise nor nuptiall feast inioyed Nor vvere they grac'd nor giu'n in vvedlock sacred verse 64 Their Priests did fall by murdring svvord massacred Their vviddovvs these euents did not bevvail For them their life or sense or heart did fail verse 65 But yet the Lord not vtterly forsaking His once belou'd as one from sleep avvaking As after vvine a Champion strength renevveth verse 66 With shovvts and strokes his flying foes pursevveth His enemies so he behinde them smites With pain and shame deserued them requites Pause verse 67 Also the tent of Ioseph he refused Nor as his choise the tribe of Ephraim vsed verse 68 The royall tribe of Iuda he elected Fair Sions mount vvhich he lou'd and affected verse 69 His sacred house he builded in that place As palaces that be of highest grace His palace there his holy habitation He stablished vpon a sure foundation Like to the earth vvhich he for euer founded To his elect so hath his loue abounded verse 70 He of his seruant Dauid choise did make And from the folds of sheep he did him take verse 71 From keeping evves that pregnant vvere he brought him And faithfully to feed his sheep he taught him Iacob to him and Israel he committed His heritage and therunto him fitted verse 72 Who feeding them intire his heart did bide With vvisdom them his faithfull hand did guide Psalme Lxxix Prayer THe heathen haue thy heritage obtained Thy holy house O Lord they haue prophaned Ierusalem thy sacred habitation On heaps is laid and brought to desolation verse 2 Thy Saints dead bodies they To fovvls of heau'n for prey Haue cast vvithout the city Thy seruants flesh made food For vvild beasts of the vvood Inhumane voyd of pitty verse 3 Thy Saints about Ierusalem vvere killed Their bloud despis'd vpon the ground vvas spilled Like vvater streames on euery side it flovved A graue on their dead corpses none bestovved verse 4 VVho neer to vs abide Reproch vs and deride They scoffe and scorn and flout vs. VVe falsly are condemd Disgraced and contemd By them that dvvell about vs. verse 5 Hovv long vvith vs Lord vvilt thou be displeased For euermore vvilt thou nere be appeased And shall thy vvrath inflam'd nere be assvvaged Like fire still burns thy iealousse inraged verse 6 Those Nations ouerthrovv That neuer thee did knovv On them thy vvrath dovvn povver And on those kingdoms all Who neuer yet did call Vpon thy Name of povver verse 7 For Iacob they haue eaten and deuoured And on his race destruction they haue povvred They desart quite haue made his habitation His dvvelling place haue brought to desolation verse 8 Our sins remember not O let all be forgot VVhich euer vve committed Make haste our souls to saue Thy mercy let vs haue For vve are lovv submitted Pause verse 9 Assist thou vs O GOD of our saluation Because of thy Names glorious exaltation Deliuer vs for our safegard prouide thou For thy Name sake all our offences hide thou verse 10 Why should the heathen say VVhere is their God I pray To them vvho God regard not In our sight make him knovvn By vengeance on them shovvn Thy seruants bloud vvho spar'd not verse 11 O let the sighs of prisners poore tormented Before thy face vvith fauour be presented According to the greatnes of thy povver Saue them aliue vvhom death threats to deuovver verse 12 Our neighbours to repay Seau'n-fold do not delay Into their bosom render Reproch and infamie Thervvith they raild on thee Thy self O Lord remember verse 13 So shall vve all thy people seruants loyall The pasture sheep of thee our shepheard royall Thy praises sing in an eternall story
God thou shalt be praised With my heart to heau'n vpraised And vvhile I haue breath to liue Thanks to thee my breath shall giue verse 13 For vvheÌ„ iustice I deserued thy svveet mercy me preserued Rescuing me from deaths sharp clavvs And from hels deep svvallovving lavves verse 14 Lord the proud vvith malice endles band against me help Vsing vvithout feare of thee fraud or force to ruin me verse 15 But thy might their malice passes And thy grace thy might surpasses Svvift to mercy slovv to vvrath bound nor end thy goodnes hath verse 16 Thy kind looks no more deny me But vvith eyes of mercy eye me Me thy seruaÌ„t giue at length easing ayd or bearing strength verse 17 Some good gracious token shevv me That my foes vvho seek t'orethrovv me May be sham'd or vext to see thee to help and comfort me Psalme 87. Prayer and prophecy ON sacred hils and mountains her foundations The Lord hath layd they neuer shall remoue verse 2 Fair Sions gates the most high God doth loue Aboue the rest of Iacobs habitations verse 3 What glorious things throughout the vvorld reported Are said of thee thou City of the Lord Selah verse 4 Of Babylon and Rahab I 'le record And mention them among my friends consorted The Tyrians Mores Philistims euery nation Shall citizens becom and natiues there verse 5 It shall be said of Sion that in her All people had their birth and education verse 6 The Lord vvhose Word most sure he doth rely on His Sion vvill establish by his might The people there recounting he vvill vvrite The Nations and all others born in Sion Selah verse 7 VVith instruments and voyces ioyfull singing His honor high they all shall euer sound Thus saith the Lord in Sion shall abound My fount of grace for euer freshly springing Psalme 88. Prayer ETernall Lord my Sauer dear Both day and night my cryes implore thee O let my prayer come before thee Vnto thy presence entring near Incline to heare thy eare applying To my sad plaints and rufull crying verse 3 My soul is fild vvith misery My life dravves to the graue neer ending verse 4 VVith them that dovvnvvard are descending In dungeon deep account they me To help my self I am vnable A strengthles man poor vveak vnstable verse 5 Among the dead become as free As if some murdrous hand had slaine me And that the graue did entertain me As if thou hadst forgotten me As thy remembrance me had balked As from thy hand I vvere defalked verse 6 I' th lovvest pit thou hast me layd In darknes deep vncomfortable verse 7 Thy heauy vvrath insupportable To ouerpres me thou hast made VVith all thy vvaues thou hast me vexed With storms and tempests me perplexed Selah verse 8 Me far from my acquaintance all Thou hast remou'd they care not for me VVhom late they lou'd they novv abhor me And thou hast shut me vp in thrall Close prisner made in such a tovver From vvhence to scape I haue no povver Pause verse 9 Through anguish vvasted vvas my fight O Lord to thee my griefe vnfolding I daily call my hands vpholding verse 10 Wilt thou to dead men shevv thy might And vvilt thou them vvith povver enable To knovv thy vvonders admirable Selah Shall dead men rise to magnifie Thee vvith vvhom none may be compared verse 11 And shall thy kindnes be declared By them that in the graue do ly Shall they vvhom thou hast quite destroyed To praise thy iustice be imployed verse 12 Shall thy great vvonders vvrought be shovvn Where darknes euermore remaineth I' th land vvherin obliuion raigneth verse 13 Shall there thy righteousnes be knovvn VVith these my cryes Lord I implore thee My earely prayr shall come before thee verse 14 Lord vvhy dost thou my soul reiect And hid'st thy face from me in anguish verse 15 Afflicted from my youth I languish Expiring present death expect Enduring thy affrighting terrors Distracted still vvith doubtfull errors verse 16 Thy â—uries fierce pas ouer me Thy horrors feares dismay confound me verse 17 Like vvater-flouds about surround me On euery side continually The dread of them doth make me tremble VVho to beleaguer me assemble verse 18 My knovvn acquaintance are estrang'd My fellovv friends vvhich me haue loued From me far off thou hast remoued Their former loue to hate is chang'd They in my grief no fauor shovv me In darknes hid they vvill not knovv me Psalme 89. Prayer THe mercies of the Lord I le sing continually To ages all record his truths fidelity verse 2 For this is truth most sure it cannot be denyed His grace doth ay endure establisht verified As heau'n perpetually keepes course inuariable So his fidelity much more is firm and stable verse 3 Th' eternall Lord hath said vvith my ovvn folk elect I haue a couenant made and svvorn it to effect On Dauid and his race vvho is my seruant loyall verse 4 I vvill bestovv my grace and bles vvith blessings royall His throne I vvill aduance and build his habitations For his inheritance throughout all generations verse 5 The heaun's O Lord shal praise thy vvondrous acts diuine Thy faithfulnes alvvaies among thy Saints shall shine verse 6 For vvho is there so high aboue the clouds declared Remaining in the sky vvith thee to be compared Or vvho the children are of mighty States supernall May they vvith thee compare vvho art the Lord eternall verse 7 The Lord vvith fear renovvn'd among his Saints vvil be To all about him round most reuerend is he verse 8 O Lord of armies might thy strength is admirable VVith thee in povvrfull fight vvhat lord is comparable Thy avvfull maiesty is all about surrounded With faithfull constancy vvhich euer hath abounded Pause verse 9 In thee alone it lyes to rule the raging seas When vvaues therof arise thou them dost soone appease verse 10 Proud Egypt thou struckst dovvn al vvounded ruinated Thy foes thou hast orethrovvn thy arm them dissipated verse 11 Both heau'n earth are thine The vvorlds store thou hast founded By thy great povvr diuine by thy might vnbounded verse 12 The north east south vvest by thee vvere plac'd made West Tabor Hermon east in thy Name shall be glad verse 13 A mighty arm thou hast thy hand is strong prepared That thy right hand is plac'd on high thou hast declared verse 14 Iudgment and equity thy royall throne sustaineth Thy truth and clemency before thy face remaineth verse 15 That people blessed is vvho knovv the ioyfull sound Their hopes do neuer mis their comforts do abound Lord they their vvalk shal frame in light of thy face shining verse 26 Reioycing in thy Name from morn till dayes declining Thy iustice to confes They shall be dignified And in thy righteousnes on high be magnified verse 17 For if vve strength obtain vve shall thee glorifie Thy fauor if vve gain our might shall rise on high verse 18 Vs ayd he doth afford against
shall this behold Therin take ioy and pleasure Bad men their tongs shall hold perplexed vvithout measure verse 43 VVho vvisdom true attaineth And vvill these thingâ— obserue Of Gods grace knovvledg gaineth That he the Lord may serue Let men vvith thanks confes Gods mercies fauourable To Adams race expres Gods vvorks most admirable Psalme 108. Prayer O God my heart is firm prepard In Psalms thy praise shall be declar'd My glory sing his vvorthy praise My Lute my Harp your selues vpraise verse 2 Before the day do davvn avvake Right early I this taske vvill take With heart and hand my voyce concenting Betimes i' th morning day preuenting verse 3 O Lord I vvill thee celebrate Among the people I 'le relate With my vvhole hearts affections Thy praise among the nations verse 4 Because thy great benignity Thy mercy and thy verity Aboue the heau'ns most high ascendeth Aboue the cloudy sky extendeth verse 5 Exalt thy self O God most high Thy glory ore the earth and sky verse 6 Thy ovvn beloued saue and free With thy right hand and ansvver me verse 7 For vvhy the Lord to vs hath said In holines I vvill be glad Diuiding Shechem at my pleasure The vale of Succoth I vvill measure verse 8 Of Galaad land both vaâ—e and mount As my possession I account Manassa rich that vvealth of thine Without all doubt becommeth mine To me doth Ephraim belong The chief part of my army strong And I the kingdom vvill deliuer To royall Iuda my Lavv-giuer verse 9 The Moabites shall then submit For seruile base employments fit As they deserue such is their lot Vnder my feet to vvash my pot And as for Edom this I 'le doe I ouer it vvill cast my shoe Ore Palestina that proud nation I vvill triumph vvith exultation verse 10 But vvho vvill lead me novv along Into the city builded strong For sure defence vvhere I may bide VVho into Edom vvill me guide verse 11 Wilt thou O God not this effect Who vs thy people didst reiect And thou O God vvouldst not instruct vs Nor lead our armies nor conduct vs. verse 12 Novv giue thou vs help from distres Against those vvho vvould vs oppres Saue vs for there is none that can On earth vain is the help of man verse 13 God giues vs valor to preuaile Against all those that vs assaile And he vvill by his mighty povver Tread dovvn them vvho vvould vs deuoure Psalme 109. Prayer O Lord God of my praise and glory From me in silence do not tary verse 2 From false tongs levvdly lovvdly lying Against me vntruths multiplying Their mouthes deceitfull novv sâ— cope Me falsly to condemn they hope verse 3 VVith vvords malitious they surround me With vvar pernicious to confound me verse 4 For loue vvhich I on them bestovved Their hate against me they haue shovved But I to pray my self addrest For succor causelesly distrest verse 5 My good vvill they vvith ill requited My loue to them their hate excited verse 6 The vvicked one vvhich doth deuovver Shall therfore ouer him haue povver His enemy shall ready stand Perniciously at his right hand verse 7 VVhen he before the Iudg is proued As guilty he shall be remoued When he his prayr shall haue erected VVith shame it shall return reiected verse 8 His dayes a number small shall make Another shall his office take Pause verse 9 His Orphans all shall be oppressed His vviddovv euermore distressed verse 10 His children vagabonds be taken And vvandring lurke in streets forsaken In secret beg from gate to gate And lurke in corners desolate verse 11 His goods by vs'rers shall be snared His toyles be spoyles by robbers shared verse 12 VVhen he in vvant is like to perish In mercy no man shall him cherish Nor shall there any for his sake On his poor Orphans pitty take Pause verse 13 His race and all his generation Shall suffer vtter extirpation And in the age that next doth follovv Obliuion shall his black name svvollovv verse 14 The Lord shall euer mindefull be Of his fathers iniquity Forgetfulnes shall neuer smother The vvickednesses of his mother verse 15 The Lord shall giue them pardon neuer They shall be odious to him euer He shall them put to endlesse shame From earth shall cut their hatefull name verse 16 For he had no commiseration Nor minded poor mens tribulation But on the needy vvhich did languish Perplexed in extremest anguish His fury he did execute Their life to death did persecute verse 17 In cursing others he delighted With curses he shall be requited He blessing hated neuer loued From him shall blessing be remoued verse 18 Himself vvith cursed furious vvrath As vvith a garment cloath'd he hath Into his belly like to vvater Throughout his bovvels it shall scatter verse 19 Into his bones still penetrating Like corsiue oyl them macerating As garments giâ—t about his vvaste Close to him alvvaies sticking fast verse 20 This shall to my foes be avvarded The Lord vvill haue them thus revvarded He vvill confound them that annoy me Whose slandrous tongs seek to destroy me But thou O Lord for thy Names sake Be good to me some pitty take Pause verse 21 Thou Lord of goodnes art the giuer Of thy great mercy me deliuer verse 22 For I am needy and oppressed My heart is vvounded and distressed verse 23 Like to a shadovv I decline At euen vvhen light doth cease to shine From place to place tost I betake me Leap like a locust they do make me verse 24 My knees are feeble grovvn vvith fasting My flesh avvay from bones is vvasting My ioynts all fleshles naked are And all my body leane and bare verse 25 I their reproches haue endured Their scoffs to beare I am inured Beholding me in anguish painfull At me they shake their heads disdainfull verse 26 My Lord my God O ayd thou me In mercy let me saued be verse 27 Let them all knovv thou Lord didst do it That thou didst set thy hand vnto it VVe this deliuerance had not gained If thy might had not vs sustained verse 28 Though they their curse on vs bestovv That thou dost bles vs let them knovv VVhen they arise vvith rage inflamed Cast thou them dovvn abasht ashamed Thy seruant raise vvith ioy abounding verse 29 But cloth my foes vvith shame confounding By themselues let them couer'd be As vvith a cloke of infamy verse 30 Lord vvith my mouth I vvill confes thee In great assemblies I vvill bles thee I 'le praise thee for thy excellency verse 31 For thou by thy omnipotency VVilt ayd the poore him saue from them VVhich vvickedly his soule condem Psalme 110. Doctrin prophecy THe mighty Lord vnto my Lord declared His sacred minde to him these vvords he spake At my right hand take thou thy seat prepared Vntill thy foes thy footstool I shall make verse 2 From Sion hill to thee the Lord eternall Shall send the rod and scepter of thy might And thou shalt
rule vvith soueraign povvr supernall Amids thy foes amazed at thy sight verse 3 Thy people free to thee most amiable Shall run vvhen thou vvith sacred povvr art cround As morning devv drops so innumerable To thee the youth of thy vvomb shall abound verse 4 The Lord vvhose vvord and promise changeth neuer VVho nere repents hath svvorn great Prince to thee A Priest thou art Melchisdec like foreuer Thou shalt of that eternall order be verse 5 At thy right hand the Lord vvith his saluation Shall thee assist and all thy foes confound In dreadfull day of his fierce indignation Proud Princes heads shall break and Kings shall vvound verse 6 Ore Gentiles all he iustice exercising Shall fill the fields and streets vvith bodies dead Of Monarchs great imperious tyrannising That ruled far and vvide shâ—ll vvound the head verse 7 In thirst and heat pursuing his foes chased He of the brooke shall drink in speedy vvay Therfore shall he exalt his head high raised Victoriously triumph and raign for ay Psalme 111. Praise Thanksgiuing TO God the Lord I vvill confes VVith all my heart him praise and bles Among the righteous congregation His benefits I vvill relate With thanks his glory celebrate And of his praise make declaration verse 2 The vvorks are great vvhich God hath vvrought By euery one they out are sought In them vvho true delight obtaineth verse 3 His deeds shevv glorious Maiesty His iustice and benignity To all eternity remaineth verse 4 By vvonders vvhich the Lord hath done He euerlasting fame hath vvon He gracious is full of compassions verse 5 He hath them fed vvho do him feare His couenant he in minde vvill beare For ay throughout all generations Pause verse 6 He shevved in his peoples sight His actions full of povvr and might The heathens lands vnto them giuing verse 7 Iust truth are all vvorks of his hands And faithfull are all his commands To his in due obedience liuing verse 8 Established they are most sure For euermore they shall endure In truth and righteousnes ordained verse 9 He freedome to his people sent To keep his couenant he is bent At his command it ay remained Most holy euer is his Name Most reu'rend also is the same verse 10 VVho feareth God true vvisdom gaineth Of sauing knovvledg sure are they That his commandments do obey His praise eternally remaineth Psalme 112. Consolation THe man is blest the Lord vvho feareth And to his Lavv affection beareth verse 2 His seed vpon the earth remaining Shall mighty be as Princes raigning The iust and righteous generation Shall euer be a blessed Nation verse 3 Abundant vvealth his house containeth His righteousnes euer remaineth verse 4 Though night a vvhile the iust surpriseth Cleare light to him betimes ariseth He gracious is full of compassion And righteous in his conuersation verse 5 A good man to the needy lendeth Iudiciously his vvords expendeth In all affairs he doth indeuer With iust discretion to perseuer verse 6 He doubtles shall be moued neuer His memory shall last for euer verse 7 He neuer feareth euill rumors He doth not harbor fickle humors His heart is fixt vvhat ere betideth His faithfull trust in God abideth verse 8 His constant heart him feareles guideth He sees his foe to ruin slideth verse 9 His goods he giueth free and speedy Dispersing to the poore and needy To all his iustice neuer ceaseth To do all good himself addresseth The strength and honor he possesseth Shall be exalted still increaseth verse 10 The vvicked man shall ay be vexed And seeing this shall be perplexed Gnashing his teeth in rage and ier Shall melt avaay as fat in fier His hope is crost and lost his hyer He perish shall and his desier Psalme 113. Praise PRaise ye the Lord his seruants all The Name of God right blessed call His Name to praise let all endeuer verse 2 His honor'd Fame let all relate His glorious Name to celebrate And magnifie both novv and euer verse 3 From orient East vnto the West His honor make vve manifest The Name of God the Lord be praised verse 4 Aboue all nations God is high Exalted far aboue the sky Aboue heau'n is his glory raised verse 5 Like to our God vvhom may vve count He only is Lord paramount VVho to his Throne most high ascendeth verse 6 And yet from heau'n to earth belovv All matters there to see and knovv To rule and guide he dovvn descendeth verse 7 The poor vvhich in the dust do ly He raiseth vp to honors high The needy from filth foule defaced verse 8 To high preferment he vp takes To sit vvith Nobles he them makes Among his peoples Princes placed verse 2 By him the vvombs sterility Is changed to fertility Dead hopes by him to life are raised He makes the barren to conceiue With children mothers ioy receiue The Lord our God be euer praised Psalme 114. Thanksguing WHen Israel from out of Egypt vvent And Iacobs house from people strange vvere sent From cruell thrall secured verse 2 Then Iuda vvas his Sanctuary made He Israel for his dominion had Vnto himself procured verse 3 The sea did fly amazed at the sight And Iordans floud did backvvard take his flight To turn his streams constraining verse 4 The mountains high then leaped like the rams And little hils did skip it like the lambs In fearfull plight remaining verse 5 VVhy didst thou fly thou sea in such affright What ayled thee thou Iordan taking flight To turn thy streams constraining verse 6 Ye mountains high vvhy did ye leap like rams Ye little hils vvhy did ye skip like lambs In fearfull plight remaining verse 7 At presence of the mighty Lord of hosts Of Iacobs God thou earth vvith all thy coasts Quake shake ye frighted mountains verse 8 VVho turns the Rocke into a vvater lake Hard stones to streames and from the flint doth make To flovv fresh flouds and fountains Psalme 115. Prayer NOt to vs Lord not to vs vve intreat But to thy Name giue thou the glory great For thy truth and thy fauer verse 2 Why should the proud the heathen mock and ieer VVher 's novv your Godâ— vvhy doth he not appear Wher 's novv your trust your Sauer verse 3 In heau'n our God is all things to him bovv There he doth rule aboue and here belovv He doth vvhat ere he vvilleth verse 4 Their idols vain are gaudy to behold Of siluer fram'd or at the best of gold As hand of vvorkman skilleth verse 5 A mouth they haue but yet are speechles quite And eyes they haue but neuer see the light No life in them remaineth verse 6 Though they haue eares yet do they nothing heare They smell not though their nostrils doe appear Their bulk no sense containeth verse 7 They cannot feel themselues vvith either hand They neuer vvalk vvith feet vvheron they stand Their throat nor sings nor cryeth verse 8 For blockish trunks vvho so vvill may them take As senseles
They shall speak of thy endles kingdoms glory And of thy povvr relate the sacred story verse 12 That men may knovv thy mighty acts victorious And of thy realm the maiesty most glorious verse 13 Eternall is thy kingdom and thy raigne Through ages all thy Empire doth remain verse 14 The Lord vpholds the vveake and them that fall Who are bovvd dovvne he rectifies them all verse 15 Expecting thee each creatures eye attendeth Thy plenty great their timely food them sendeth verse 16 Thy bounties hand thou openest freely giuing The full desire of all things that are liuing verse 17 The Lord our God is iust in all his vvayes He holy is in all his vvorks alvvayes verse 18 The Lord is nigh to all that on him call VVho call on him in truth he helps them all verse 19 He them that feare him vvith good things supplyeth Their hearts desire he fully satisfieth Them he vvill heare to him for mercy crying Them he vvill saue to him for succour flying verse 20 The Lord vvill them preserue that in him ioy But vvicked men all he vvill quite destroy verse 21 My mouth shall speak the praise of God alvvay All flesh shall bles his holy name for ay Psalme 146. Thanksgiuing PRaise to God my soul be giuing To the Lord my soul giue praise verse 2 Him I le laud vvhile I am liuing To my God I le sing alvvayes To the Lord my God my King VVhile I am I Psalms vvill sing verse 3 Princes are no sure foundation On their promise no trust haue Nor in Adams generation For themselues they cannot saue verse 4 VVhen no breath they do retain They return to earth again VVith them all their thoughts do perish And their enterprises vain verse 5 Happy vvhom the Lord doth cherish Iacobs God doth him maintain Happy vvho doth place his trust In the Lord his God most iust verse 6 VVho created and sustaineth Heauen and earth by his great might Sea and all that it containeth He hath framed all aright His truth and fidelity He doth keep eternally verse 7 He relieueth the oppressed Giuing sentence on their side For the hungry and distressed He doth food and ayd prouide By him prisners freedom finde He the bondmen doth vnbinde verse 8 God to them that are in blindnes Giueth eyes to see the light God in mercy great and kindnes Makes the crooked vvalk vpright God loues them that iust remain He the righteous doth sustain verse 9 God doth keep and saue the strangers His strong guard doth them attend He doth free them out of dangers Orphans vviddovves doth defend He doth comfort them that grieue He the helplesse doth relieue VVicked men the Lord destroyeth He doth ouerthrovv their vvay verse 10 God his kingdom ay enioyeth God the Lord shall raign for ay Sions God endures alvvayes Vnto God the Lord giue praise Haleluiah Psalme 147. Thanksgiuing PRaise ye the Lord such praise is meetest Sing Psalms to God such Psalms are svveetest The Lord to praise sing neuer ceasing His praise is gracefull euer pleasing verse 2 The Lord most gracious full of pity Builds vp Ierusalem his city His Israel disperst deplored He hath assembled and restored verse 3 The contrite broken heart he healeth And comfort vnto them reuealeth Full of compassion them he mindeth He salues their sores their vvounds vp bindeth verse 4 His knovvledg all in all surmounteth The number of the Stars he counteth Them in their order he installeth Them by their proper names he calleth verse 5 Great is our God great is his povver Our refuge of our strength the tovver Is infinite in vnderstanding In might and vvisdom all commanding verse 6 The Lord almighty magnifieth The meek vvhose trust in him relieth He to the ground the vvicked casteth Confounding them to nothing vvasteth verse 7 Sing to the Lord God euerliuing Praise him vvith Harp in Psalms thanksgiuing verse 8 VVho spreadeth clouds the heauens all ouer VVith them the firmament doth couer Prepareth rain vvhich dovvn he shovvreth On earth a main the shovvrs he povvreth The verdant grasse he multiplieth VVhich on the mountains fructifieth verse 9 The beasts vvith food he satisfieth The rauens yong brood vvith meat supplyeth VVhen hatcht they hungry ly a crying Or fledg they forth for food are flying verse 10 God hath no pleasure nor delighteth In strength of horse that fiercely fighteth Svvift running legs vvith prize revvarded He hath nor prized nor regarded verse 11 But God vvhose grace exceedeth measure In them that feare him taketh pleasure VVho on his mercy giue attendance And on his promise haue dependance verse 12 Ierusalem vvho art renovvned Praise thou the Lord vvith glory crovvned Praise thou thy God and him rely on Thou holy mountain sacred Sion verse 13 For he thy gates reedifieth VVith strongest bars them fortifieth And all thy children he hath blessed VVithin thy vvals by thee possessed verse 14 He planteth peace vvithin thy borders There setleth lavves and rightfull orders To satisfie thee he bestovveth The flovvr of finest vvheat that grovveth verse 15 On earth his precept forth he sendeth His mighty povvr on it attendeth His vvord runs very svviftly speeding VVith all celerity exceeding verse 16 He makes the snovv and vvhen it snovveth Like fleeces of vvhite vvoll it shovveth His frost all ouer hoary grovveth VVhich he abroad like ashes strovveth verse 17 The stream to ice congealed lasteth VVhich like to morsels forth he casteth His frosts are so intollerable Them to enduer vvho is able verse 18 And vvhen the vvorld enough hath felt theâ— He sendeth forth his vvord to melt them At his command the vvarm vvind blovveth And then again the vvater flovveth verse 19 His vvord to Iacob he declareth And to obedience him prepareth The lavves and iudgments he ordained To Israel he hath explained verse 20 In such a kind and gracious fashion He hath not dealt vvith any nation For those his iudgments iust and sacred He vnto them hath not declared Psalme 148. Thanksgiuing PRaise ye the Lord from heauen on high Praise him ye dvvellers in the sky All ye inhabitants of heau'n To God all praise by you be giu'n verse 2 All ye his Angels high renovvn him Victorious hosts vvith glory crovvn him verse 3 Both Sun and Moon praise ye his Name All stars of light his praise proclaime verse 4 Praise him ye heau'n of heau'ns most high Ye vvaters in the cloudy sky verse 5 Let all his vvorks vvhich vvondrous are The praises of his Name declare verse 6 At his command they vvere created And to his glory consecrated He them establisht firm and sute Ay to continue and endure Their bounds of time and place decreed By him they neuer shall exceed verse 7 Praise him ye Dragons vvhich do keep In caues of earth Whales in the deep verse 8 Fire vapors hail ice frost and snovving Ye tempests storms vvinds boistrous blovving VVhich execute his sacred vvill Praise ye the Lord his vvord fulfill verse 9 O praise
his Name ye mountains all Ye fruitfull trees and cedars tall verse 10 Beasts of the earth both vvilde and tame All creeping creatures praise his Name Ye fetherd fovvls i' th ayr svvift flying Praise ye the Lord him magnifying verse 11 All Kings and people euery vvhere Earths Princes Iudges vvhich rule beare verse 12 Men vvomen children yong and old verse 13 To praise the Lord your ioyes vnfold His Name is high aduanc't alone Ore heau'n and earth his glories knovvn verse 14 His peoples horn he high erecteth His Saints to praise him he affecteth The children of his Israel To him most deare and neare do dvvell Psalme Cxlix Thanksgiuing SIng to the Lord nevv songs excelling All in the Church of his Saints dvvelling Sing praises in your congregation To God vvith adoration verse 2 Let Israel in songs relate His high praise vvho did him create Let Sions sons reioyce and sing And triumph in their King verse 3 His Name to praise vvith ioy abounding Let Timbrels Fife and Flute be sounding Praise him vvith Harps svveet strings according His praise in Psalms recording verse 4 God in his people pleasure takes His people his delight he makes VVith his saluation dravving nigh The meek to dignifie verse 5 His gracious Saints in glorious measure Shall be all glad vvith ioy and pleasure Vpon their beds in iubilation Shall shout vvith exultation verse 6 Their mouths vvith shrill notes shall abound The Lords praise high to raise and sound They vvith their tvvo edg'd svvord in hand In arms compleat shall stand verse 7 To be reueng'd on euery Nation Their foes to plague vvith desolation To punish them for their offences VVith condigne recompences verse 8 Their conquerd Kings captiue to take Their vanquisht Princes prisners make In strongest holds them to restrâ—in In irons them to chain verse 9 On them the iudgment iust avvarded To execute as t is recorded His Saints are to this honor raised The Lord our God be praised Psalme 150. Praise LEt vs all Gods praise expres Praise him in his holines Praise him in the firmament Of his povver permanent And his high magnificency verse 2 Praise him in his greatnes shevvd In his goodnes multitude VVitnessing his excellency verse 3 Praise him ioyning vvith the noyse Both of Trumpets and Hautboyse Praise him in the Psaltery And the Harps svveet harmony Laud the Lord vvith praise abounding verse 4 Timbrel Taber Fife and Flute Organ Sagbut Cornamute Laud the Lord his praise resounding verse 3 Praise to him for his goodnes Let the Cymbals loud expres Viall Virginall and lute Let nor string nor breath be mute Him to praise let all indeuer verse 6 All his vvorks aboue beneath VVhat so ere doth moue or breath Praise the Lord most blessed euer The Song of Simeon Luke 2. NOvv let thy seruant Lord. According to thy Word In peace depart contented verse 2 2 For novv my eyes haue vievv'd Before all people shevv'd Thy sauing health presented verse 3 To be a shining light To all the Gentils sight This grace thou hast declared And Israel to crovvn VVith honor and renovvn This glory hast prepared Decalogue Exod. 20. LIft vp your hearts to God addressed All people hear vvhat he doth say Giue ear vnto his word expressed And his commandments all obay I am saith he thy God eternall From Egypt I deliuerd thee From cruell seruitude infernall Therfore haue thou no God but me commandment 2 No image make thou to adore it Of any thing in earth or sky To vvorship or to bovv before it Because a iealous God am I. commandment 3 Gods sacred Name in vain take neuer Let no oathes false or vain be vsd For he vvill hold him guilt â—â—â—er Who hath his sacred Name abus d. commandment 4 Six dayes in labour profitable Spend thou and thine the seuenth in rest For God from his vvorks admirable Repos'd the seuenth made holy blest commandment 5 Thy Father and thy Mother honor That thou long dayes mayst happy liue I' th laud vvherof thou art the ovvner And vvhich to thee thy God doth giue commandment 6 Thou shalt not kill mans life destroy not commandment 7 Adultrous thoughts and acts eschevv commandment 8 Nor rob nor steale goods stoln enioy not commandment 9 Beare no false tales speak euer true commandment 10 Thou shalt not in thy heart desier Thy neighbours house nor vvife to gaiâ— Nor any seruant he doth hyer Nor ought that to him doth pertain Haue mercy on vs Lord most blessed Inspire vs vvith thy grace diuine VVrite in our hearts thy Word expressed To keep thy lavves our hearts incline FINIS
verse 27 There Beniamin vvho of a fevv And little great and mighty grevv The chief of many Nations There royall Iudahs Princes be There zabulon and Nephtaly The Princely congregations Pause verse 28 Thy God he is by vvhose command It is that thou so firm dost stand Thy strong fortification Giue strength to that vvhich thou hast vvrought For vs vvhich thou to passe hast brought O God grant confirmation verse 29 Because so gracious thou vvilt be To thy ovvn Templeâ— vnto thee Shall Kings bring gifts abounding verse 30 Rebuke and scatter by thy might The troupes of spear men armd for fight Their armies huge confounding Knock dovvn the mighty multitude Of Buls and Calues of people rude As in the shambles slay them Who glory in their siluer spoiles And vvho delight in vvars and broyles Defeat disperse dismay them verse 31 Great Lords shall come from Egypt lands The Mores in hast shall stretch their hands And hearts to God thanksgiuing verse 32 Sing to the Lord both Prince King Throughout the vvorld to God Psalms sing And praise God euer liuing Selah verse 33 Praise him vvho rideth mounted on The heau'n of heau'ns his ancient Throne VVhose vvorks are full of vvonder Behold he makes his voyce rebound More dreadfull mighty strong in sound Then loudest noise of thunder verse 34 Ascribe to God omnipotence In Israel his excellence Appeareth admirable His povver let all magnifie His strength is far aboue the sky His might vnutterable verse 35 O God most dreadfull is thy face For thou out of thy holy place Hast all thy foes distressed Thy strength maintains thy peoples right Thou Iacobs God dost giue them might The Lord be euer blessed Psalme 69. Prayer prophecy SAue me O God the vvaters me to drovvn To svvallovv vp my soul the seas are ready I sinke in mire vvhere is no footing steady Plungd in the deep the flouds haue me oreflovvn verse 2 With crying vveak I vveary vveâ—â— and vvall My throat is hoarse vvith dolefull lamentation verse 3 VVith shovvring teares consum d my eyes do fail VVhile on my God I vvait vvith expectation verse 4 Haires on my head in number fevver be Then they that seek vvithout cause to destroy me My foes vvith hate that vvrongfully annoy me Are great and strong preuailing mightily That I restord vvhat I tooke not avvay verse 5 O GOD to thee my folly is reuealed Thou knovvst vvhen hovv and vvhere I vvent astray And from thy sight my sins are not concealed verse 6 LORD GOD of hosts all povvr belongs to thee Wherby thou hast thine ovvne from foes defended With constant hope vvho haue on thee attended O let them not be put to shame for me Lord Israels God O suffer no disgrace For me be fall them that seek thy saluation verse 7 Because for thy sake shame did hide my face And I endur'd reproach and defamation Pause verse 8 A stranger I am in my kindreds sight Me as vnknovvn my brethren haue neglected verse 9 Because so much thy people I affected Zeal of thy house hath me consumed quite Reproches vvhich the vvicked on me cast Are faln on me for thy sake I am blamed verse 10 I chastised my soul did vveep and fast For vvhich I vvas reproched and defamed verse 11 My self I haue vvith sackcloth garments rayde Their by-vvord me the scoffers mock iests breaking verse 12 The proud sit at their gates against me speaking The drunkards sing of me their pastime made While I O Lord my feruent prayer make To thee alone in time of acceptation On me in thy great mercy pitty take Heare me Lord in the truth of thy saluation verse 14 Deliuer me out of this mire profound Let me not sink therin lest it confound me Free me from foes vvho hatefully surround me O let me not in vvaters deep be drovvnd verse 15 Let not the flouds streams me ouerflovv Let not the gulf me svvallovv and deuovver Let none into the greedy graue me throvv Nor let the pit in tomb me in her povver verse 16 Lord ansvver me hear me for thy good grace And for thy loue and kindnes goodnes treasure Accoâ—ding to thy mercies boundles measure Turn thou to me the fauour of thy face verse 17 Thy face from me thy seruant do not hide For I in grief and trouble am distressed Make haste therfore my God my gracious guide To hear my prayt vvhich is to thee addressed Pause verse 18 Dravv neer my soul in my aduersity Redeem my life vvith ransom quite discharge me From spitefull foes from thraldom soon inlarge me And set me free from this captiuity verse 19 Thou my reproch hast knovvn and my disgrace Thou seest my shame and hovv they do oppresse me My enemies are all before thy face And in thy sight they are that do distres me verse 20 Reproch and shame haue broke my grieued heart With heauines and sorrovv sick I languish I lookt but noâ—e I found bemone my anguish None vvould me ayd not one vvould take my part All comfortles amid my troubles great Not one vvas found to succour or to saue me verse 21 And bitter gall they gaue me for to eat And in my thirst sharp vineger they gaue me verse 22 Before them let their table them orethrovv Their pleasures turn to be as snares vnto them Their treasures make as trapfals to vndo them Their ioy to grief their vvelfare change to vvoe verse 23 Let both their eyes so euer darkned be That vvanting sight the light may not auaile them Their vveakned loynes so shake continually That thighs legs and feeble feet may faile them Pause verse 24 Let thy fierce vvrath fast hold vpon them take Pour out on them thy vvrathfull indignation verse 25 Make desolate and voyd their habitation And in their tents let none their dvvelling make verse 26 Because they him to persecute nere cease Whom thou hast smit their strokes haue more abounded His sorrovves their insultings more increase Whom thy ovvn hand afflicted hath and vvounded verse 27 Vpon their sins heap sins shame on their shames Let them into thy righteousnes come neuer verse 28 Wipe them out of thy booke of life for euer And vvith the iust vnvvritten be their Names verse 29 But as for me afflicted making mone Raise thou me vp O God by thy saluation verse 30 That I may sing and praise thy Name alone Extolling thee vvith thankfull gratulation verse 31 And this my song the Lord shall better please Then Ox or Bull that horns and clou'n hoof vveareth verse 32 The humble meek and vvho the Lord God feareth Shall ioy vvhen they do see such things as these All ye that seek the LORD your hearts shall liue verse 33 For God doth hear the poor mans supplication An eare to his ovvn people he doth giue His prishers scorns not in their tribulation verse 34 Let heau'n and earth vnto him praises yeeld Praise him all seas and all that therin moueth verse 35