Selected quad for the lemma: nation_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nation_n	people_n	praise_v	rejoice_v	1,821	5	9.6365	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43769	The canticles, or Song of Solomon paraphrased and explained by divers others texts of Scriptures, very useful / by ... Mr. Arthur Hildersham ... ; as also the same, together with the two songs of Moses, and the song of Deborah, collected into meeter.	Hildersam, Arthur, 1563-1632.	1672 (1672)	Wing H1975; ESTC R21009	43,006	164

grown thick fat and cover'd ore With fat puft up and blown Then his great Maker he forsook And greatly disesteem'd The Rock which his Salvation wrought The God that him redeem'd Ver. 16. With strange Gods they provoked him And execrable Rites Than which his jealousie and wrath There 's nothing more excites Ver. 17. They to plain Devils not to God Profanely sacrific'd To Gods they never knew before Which they themselves devis'd To new God's that came newly up That were no God's before Such as your Fathers feared not Nor offered to adore Ver. 18. But of the Rock that thee begat Thou art unmindful grown Forgetting God who formed thee As if he 'd ne'r been known Ver. 19. This seen the Lord abhorred them His jealousie did smoak Because his Sons and Daughters too Did him no less provoke Ver. 20. I 'le hide my face said he from them And I their end will see For they 're a very forward race Children that faithless be Ver. 21. Since they with that which is not God Mov'd me to jealousie And unto anger me provok't With every vanity Them with a people next to none To jealousie I 'le move And will some foolish Nation raise Who shall their patience prove Ver. 22. For in mine anger flames of fire Which are unquenchable Are kindled and shall fiercely burn Unto the lowest Hell Which shall consume and wast the earth With her increased store And fire the foundations down On which the Mountains shore Ver. 23. On them will I great mischiefs heap And all mine Arrows spend Ver. 24. Devouring Famine which shall burn And burning heat I 'le send On them shall sore destruction come The teeth of savage beasts Shall waste them Serpents of the dust Whose poyson soon infests Ver. 25. The Sword without Terrors within Shall stroy none shall be spar'd Young men nor Virgins Sucking Babes Nor him that is gray-hair'd Ver. 26. I said I 'de scatter them abroad And into corners chase And cause that their remembrance here With men should have no place Ver. 27. Were it not that I fear'd the wrath Of the insulting Foe Lest their proud Adversaries then Themselves should strongly show And lest triumphing they should say Our hand is raised high It 's not the Lord hath done all this But our own gallantry Ver. 28. For they 're a Nation most unwise Of Councel wholly voyd Nor do they understand at all How they themselves should guide Ver. 29. O that at length they would be wise That they this understood And that they would their latter end Consider for their good Ver. 30. How should one man a thousand chase And two ten thousand foyle Except the Lord their rock had sold And shut them up for spoyl Ver. 31. For their Rock is not as our Rock Our Enemies can tell If they themselves were left to judg Or make the parallel Ver. 32. For their Vine is of Sodoms Vine And of Gomorrah's Feild Their Grapes are very Grapes of gall And bitter clusters yeild Ver. 33. As strong and deadly is their Wine As Dragons Poyson is Nor can the Venom of the Asp More cruel be than this Ver. 34. Is not this thing amongst the rest Layd up in store with me And up amongst my treasures seal'd Till there occasion be Ver. 35. Veng'ance and Recompence belong To me and none beside In due and most convenient time Their wandring feet shall slide For loe the day draws on a pace Which their destruction brings The troubles that shall come on them Approach with open wings Ver. 36. For God shall judg his peoples cause A righteous God is he And shall repent himself for them That his own Servants be Especially when he perceives That all their power is gone And that ther 's none shut up or lest But they themselves alone Ver. 37. And he shall say where are their Gods What is become of those Their Rock in whom they did their trust And confidence repose Ver. 38. Which of your Sacrifices eat The fat and pleasant things And drank the wine they did present In their drink offerings Let them arise with all their help And help you all they can And in your great extremities Be your protection Ver. 39. See now that I even I am he With me there is no God I kill and I do make alive In all the earth abroad I wound and I make whole again And none can me withstand Nor is there any that can save Or take out of my hand Ver. 40. For to the Heavens where I dwell I lift mine hand on high And do most solemnly profess I live eternally Ver. 41. If I my bright and glittering sword Shall once begin to whet On judgment if my hand take hold And there-upon be set I 'le render Veng'ance on them all That are mine Enemies And them reward to their desert That hate and me despise Ver. 42. I 'le make mine Arrows drunk with blood My Sword shall flesh devour Because of blood and Captives made From the first day and hour Ver. 43. Ye wiser Nations then rejoyce And with his people sing For hee 'l revenge his peoples blood And wrongful suffering His adversaries hee 'l requite And veng'ance on them send But to his land and people there His mercy will extend The Song of Deborah Iudges 5. Ver. 2. PRaise ye the Lord let it be said Who veng'ance to our foes repaid When you his people not affraid Of life so brave a tender made Ver. 3. Ye Princes ye your ear afford And ye who bear the Regal sword Whil'st I in sacred hymns record The praise of Israels God the Lord Ver. 4. When he from Scir his Army led Through Edoms fields his Ensigns spred Th' Earth shook the Heavens dropt for dread The Clouds did tears in plenty shed Ver. 5. The Mountains which before did swell Before thy face a melting fell Nor Sina could his force repel Who is the God of Israel Ver. 6. In Shamgars time and Iael's days Shamgar I mean of Anaths race None durst frequent the common ways Fear did the Traveller amaze The high-ways then unsafe men crept Through Woods or into by-ways stept Or went by night when others slept Their Foes them in such thraldom kept Ver. 7. The Land uncultivated lay In Isr'el men became a prey Till I arose I Deborah Till I their Matron bore the sway Ver. 8. When to themselves new Gods they chose Then were their walls beseig'd with foes Though Isr'el forty thousand rose Was sheild or spear among all those Ver. 9. Ye Rulers O how well I take When your poor Country lay at stake Your zeal and valour for their sake Of Gods renown due mention make Ver. 10. Spake ye that on white Asses ride Now judging those that you defi'd And they that have the high-ways tride Now walking safe on every side Ver. 11. Ye to your Fountains now restor'd Where you the Archers noyse deplor'd There with united joyes record The righteous judgments of