Word 5 There God hath placed Thrones of Power To judge his flock in righteousness The promis'd Thrones of David's house Which God 's own Government express 6 Pray for Jerusalem's true peace Lord prosper all her faithful friends 7 Her Courts bless with prosperity Let Peace within her walls defend 8 For my dear holy brethrens sake Who have my faithful comforts bin I 'le daily beg of God for thee Safety without and Peace within 9 And for the sake of God's own house Where we his name must praise and bless With all the powers of my soul I 'le seek thy real happiness PSALM CXXIII 1 LOrd in my lowest state To thee I lift mine eye Whose glorious dwelling is above Even in the heavens high 2 As servants eyes do look Unto their Master's hands And as a maiden doth expect Her Mistresses Commands So on the Lord our God Our eyes do still attend Until to our relief and help His mercy condescend 3 Have mercy on us Lord On us thy mercy show For we are filled with contempt From the insulting foe 4 Our souls fill'd with the scorn Of those that are at ease Are overwhelm'd with the contempt Of the proud foes of peace PSALM CXXIV 1 HAd not the Lord been on our side His Israel must now confess 2 Had not the Lord been on our side When men of blood sought our distress 3 Then they had swallow'd us alive When their hot wrath against us flam'd 4 The waters of their furious rage Over our sinking souls had stream'd 5 Then had these proud insulting waves O'rewhelm'd us with their cruel Laws 6 Blest be the Lord who made us not A prey unto their greedy jaws 7 Our soul like an entangled bird Escap'd out of the Fowler 's snare The snare our pow'rful Lord hath broke Our trembling souls escaped are 8 Our only help we find doth stand In the great name of our great Lord Whose power made the glorious heav'ns The earth and all things by his word PSALM CXXV 1 THey that in God put all their trust Shall firmly stand like Sion hill Which by no changes is remov'd But is the same and standeth still 2 And as about Jerusalem Mountains enclose that holy ground So will the Lord for evermore Himself his people compass round 3 For just mens rights and heritage Wicked men shall not still possess Lest righteous men should then put forth Their tempted hand to wickedness 4 Do good Lord to those that are good To men that are of upright heart But as for such as turn aside In crooked ways by sin pervert 5 The Lord shall lead them forth with those Who love and work iniquity But everlasting blessed peace On God 's true Israel shall be PSALM CXXVI 1 WHen God did lay aside his wrath And Captive Sion did redeem The great surprisal of our joy Made us like men that do but dream 2 Our mouth then fill'd with laughter did By singing our great joy express That God hath done great things for us The heathen enemies did confess 3 That God hath done great things for us We speak with glad and thankful mouth 4 Fully restore thy Captives Lord As streams refresh the scorched South 5 They that do sow in mournful tears Their water'd seed's not cast away But they a multiplyed crop Shall shortly reap with endless joy 6 He that in tears doth now go forth And cast his precious seed on earth With great increase in plenteous sheaves Shall come again with endless mirth PSALM CXXVII 1 EXcept the Lord do build house It 's but vain pains the builders take Except the Lord the City keep It 's but in vain the Watchmen wake 2 It 's vain for you betime to rise And late your selves from rest to keep To eat the bread of grief and care While God's beloved rest and sleep 3 Good Children are God's heritage The womb 's blest fruit is his reward 4 Children of youth like arrows are For Parents strength and joy prepar'd 5 Happy therein is he that hath His house his Quiver full of those For he unshamed in the gate Shall boldly speak unto his foes PSALM CXXVIII 1 BLest is each one that fears the Lord And walketh in his holy ways 2 For thou shalt of thy labour eat And happy shalt thou be always 3 As fruitful Vines by thy house-side So shall thy wife with fruit spring out Thy children like to Olive Plants Shall stand thy table round about 4 Behold the man that feareth God Blest visibly by him shall be 5 The Lord shall out of Sion give A plenteous blessing unto thee Jerusalem's good thou shalt see Whilst thou in life on earth dost dwell Thy Children's Children thou shalt see And promis'd peace on Israel PSALM CXXIX 1 MAny a time may Israel say With thankfulness to God in truth Have wicked men afflicted me Even from my prime and early youth 2 Many a time even from my youth Their cruel hands have me assail'd But for my wished overthrow They have not yet by rage prevail'd 3 The plowers plowing on my back Did long and bloody furrows make 4 But God is just and me preserv'd Their strongest cords he always brake 5 Let wicked men who Sion hate And all their plots confounded be Let them with shame be turned back And not their hop'd successes fee. 6 Let them be like the rootless grass Which grows a while on the house-tops And quickly withereth away Before they reach their wicked hopes 7 This grass fills not the mower's hand The binder finds no fruitful sheaves 8 Nor God nor man on such curs'd weeds A blessing either finds or leaves PSALM CXXX 1 OUt of the horrid woful deeps Where sin and wrath had cast me down To thee O Lord I poured forth My earnest suit and daily moan 2 O thou the Prayer-hearing God This humbled sinner's voice now hear To my loud cries and sad complaints Let pity grant a hearing ear 3 If in strict Justice thou should'st mark And charge on man iniquity Lord who shall stand at thy just bar Or who himself can justifie 4 But with thee there forgiveness is Thy word of grace doth this declare That sinful man may worship thee In joyful hope without despair 5 Therefore for thee O Lord I wait My soul doth daily wait on thee And on thy sure and faithful word My constant hope shall placed be 6 My soul more waiteth on the Lord Than they that watch for morning light More than the watchful man doth long To see a pleasant morning bright 7 O Israel still hope in the Lord Though low and broken be thy case For with the Lord still mercy is And we shall see his pleased face 8 Plenteous redemption with him is The Lord his chosen flock will bless He will redeem them from their sins And from their felt and fear'd distress PSALM CXXXI 1 LOrd I disclaim a haughty mind And an ambitious lofty eye I do not exercise my self In things for me
19 But my affliction 's not forgot The bitter wormwood and the gall 20 My soul doth still remember these And 's humbled in me under all The Second Part. 21 Yet this consider'd stays my grief It 's mercy that we yet do live 22 And that we are not all consum'd But God doth Hope and Being give 23 Mercies are every morning new God's love and faithfulness is great 24 The Lord 's my portion saith my soul Therefore my hope on him is set 25 Surely to all that wait for him The Lord is ever good and kind The soul that truly seeketh him At last shall his compassion find 26 It is man's only way to good Whatever be his grief and streight For the salvation of the Lord In hope and quietness to wait 27 Surely it is for man's own good In youth to bear the taming yoke 28 He sits alone and silence keeps Instructed by God's teaching stroke 29 His mouth he putteth in the dust Submits to any terms of hope 30 He gives his cheeks to him that smites With lying railers will not cope 31 God will not ever cast us off Nor from his chosen people go 32 Though he cause grief his mercies great In time will his compassion show 33 He doth not willingly afflict Nor love the sons of men to grieve 34 To crush earth's prisoners under feet Whom mercy rather would relieve 35 That Judges should deny men right In men of power God doth not love 36 To subvert just men in their cause The righteous Lord doth not approve The Third Part. 37 Whos 's word can stand when God gain-says Who can o'rethrow his potent will 38 The good or ill that us befals His word and counsel do fulfil 39 Why should a man chastis'd for sin Who 's yet alive grudge and complain 40 It 's better search and try our ways Repent and turn to God again 41 O let us lift up hearts and hands For help and hope to God in heav'n 42 We all have sinned and rebell'd And thou our sin hast not forgiven 43 From us poor persecuted men With wrath thou coverest thy face Thy just displeasure hath us slain Not pitying our doleful case 44 Cover'd thou art from our access Inclosed in a darksome cloud Which prayers do not penetrate Though suff'ring make them long and loud 45 Among the people we are made The refuse scorn and off-scouring 46 Our enemies mouths wide open'd are Thy flock's to them a scorned thing 47 Fear and a snare on us are come Anguish and ruin is our state 48 Mine eyes with streaming tears bemoan Thy broken flock that 's desolate 49 My heart still feeds my trickling eyes My grief and weeping ceaseth not 50 Till God in mercy look from heav'n On those that now do seem forgot 51 Mine eye affects my soul with grief To see my City's woful case 52 Mine enemies hunt me causelesly As Fowler 's harmless birds do chase 53 To prison they condemned me And shut me up sentenc'd for death 54 The waters overflow'd my head Seeming to stop my vital breath The Fourth Part. 55 I called on thy name O Lord In the low dungeon like to die 56 Thou heard'st my voice hide not thine ear Now from my doleful sighs and cry 57 In that day when I call'd on thee To succour me thou didst draw near Encouraging my fainting soul Thou kindly bidst me Do not fear 58 Thou Lord against oppressing men Didst undertake and plead my cause Thou hast redeem'd my threaten'd life From wicked mens devouring jaws 59 O Lord thou hast seen all my wrong Judge thou my cause whose word I speak 60 Their plots and vengeance thou hast seen Me and thy righteous Laws to break 61 Lord thou their false reproach hast heard The plots which they for me did lay 62 The words of those that me accus'd Their plots against me all the day 63 When to their ease their feasts their play In pride and pleasure they refort Thou seest though they fear not thee I am their musick scorn and sport 64 Render to them a recompense According to their unjust deed 65 Through thy just curse upon their hearts Let deserv'd grief and sorrow feed 66 Persecute thou these men in wrath Who persecute me and thy word Destroy them let them not abide Under thy Heav'ns O righteous Lord. Gospel-Hymns Zachary's Song Luke 1.68 BLess'd be the Lord even Israel's God For he hath visited his flock And them redeem'd and raised up A Saviour out of David's stock As by his holy Prophets mouths He our Redemption had fore-told Who ever since the world began Were sent unto his Church of old That by him we should saved be From our destructive enemies all And of all them that do us hate Be saved from the servile thrall Thus the great mercies to perform Which to our fathers promis'd were His holy Covenant to make good The Oath which he to Abraham sware That this deliverance he would grant To us that now enthralled are That saved from our enemies hands We may serve him without their fear In holiness and righteousness Even all the days that we shall live And thou the Prophet shalt be call'd Which the most High to us doth give For thou his ways for to prepare Shalt go before the Lord 's own face To call his people to repent And make them know his saving grace For the remission of their sin Through the great mercy of our God Whereby the day-spring from on high With us doth take up his abode To give his saving light to them Who sit enthralled in darkness And in death's shadow And to guide Our feet into the way of Peace Mary's Song Luke 1.46 MY soul doth magnifie the Lord My spirit in me doth rejoyce In God who is my Saviour Express'd by this my thankful voice For greatly he regarded hath His handmaid's mean and low estate Henceforth all ages shall my name As great and blessed celebrate For he who the Almighty is Great things indeed hath to me done Holy's his Name his mercy is To them that fear him largely shown He with his arm hath shewed strength He them that great and mighty be Hath put down and exalted them Who are of mean and low degree The poor and hungry he hath fill'd With what for them is truly good And the rich he hath sent away Empty through want of needful food His servant Israel he hath help'd For his own ancient mercies 〈◊〉 As to our fathers to Abraham And to his seed of old he spake Simeon's Song Luke 2.29 LOrd let thy servant now In peace to thee depart According to the gracious word Of thee who faithful art For him mine eyes have seen Who brings thy saving grace Which thou prepared hast to shew Before all peoples face To the Gentiles a Light Them to illuminate And to thy people Israel The glory of their state The Angels Doxologie Luke 2.14 GLory be to the glorious God Whose dwelling's in the heavens
freely shew to thine 17 Let me not be asham'd O Lord For I did trust and call on thee Let wicked men be sham'd cut off In their graves silent let them be 18 To silence put the lying lips Which grievous things and false do say And hard reports in pride and scorn On righteous men do falsly lay 19 O how great is the goodness which Thou hast laid up and wrought for the◠Who fear thee and who trust in thee Even here before the sons of men 20 Thou in thy secret presence dost Hide them from cruel pride and wrongs Kept in thy close Pavilion From all the strife of lying tongues 21 All thanks and praise be to the Lord For he hath shewn and magnify'd His wondrous love to me within A City strong and fortify'd 22 I said in hast I am cut off And put even from before thine eyes Yet didst thou hear my praying voice And didst regard my mournful cries 23 O love the Lord all ye his Saints For still the Lord the faithful guards And proud Oppressors thô secure In time he plenteously rewards 24 Be of good courage and more strength He to your fainting hearts will send All ye whose hope and confidence Doth truly on the Lord depend PSALM XXXII 1 HE though a sinner blessed is Whose guilt and loath'd transgression God freely doth to him forgive Covering what he hath been and done 2 He 's blest to whom the Lord doth not Impute and charge iniquity And in whose spirit reigneth not Guile Falshood or Hypocrisie 3 While I in silence hid my sin And had not duly it confest My bones wax'd old and roaring pains All day allowed me no rest 4 Through painful weary days and nights I bare thy just and heavy hand My strength and moisture are consum'd Like Summers drought on scorched land 5 My sin I then acknowleding With humbling grief my self did blame I did confess it all to thee And did bewail my guilt and shame When my repenting soul resolv'd All to confess with grief to God Thou mercifully didst forgive And oft lay by thy chastening rod. 6 Such mercy shall encourage all The godly still in hope to pray And seek to thee in their distress In an accepted finding day Surely when waters great do swell And threatning floods cause me to fear Him that thus seeks and trusts in thee They shall not hurt or once come near 7 Thou art my help and hiding place Against all trouble fears and wrongs And thy deliverances shall cause Mine and thy peoples thankful songs 8 Saith God I 'le thee instruct and teach The righteous way where thou shalt go Mine eye shall always on thee be My guiding Counsels I 'le thee show 9 Be not like brutish Horse and Mule Which ruling understanding want But must be rul'd by bridling force And kept from hurt by mans restraint 10 To all self-flattering wicked men Their self-made sorrows do abound But him that trusteth in the Lord Mercy shall save and compass round 11 Ye righteous in the Lord be glad With thankful hearts in him rejoyce All ye that are of upright hearts Aloud sing praise with joyful voice PSALM XXXIII 1 YE righteous in the Lord rejoyce For chearful praise becometh Saints 2 Praise God with Psaltery Harp and Voice And with sweet ten-string'd Instruments 3 Play skilfully with a loud noise And sing to him a song that 's new 4 For all the Word of God is right And all his works are sure and true 5 God greatly loveth righteousness And judgment well ad ministred And with the goodness of the Lord The earth's richly replenished 6 By the Almighty Word of God The vast and glorious Heav'ns were made And by the spirit of his mouth Their whole host all their being had 7 The waters of the Sea he keeps On heaps confined by the shore He layeth up the liquid deeps As Treasures in a house of store 8 Let all the people of the earth The Lord Almighty serve with fear And all the world's inhabitants To him due awe and reverence bear 9 He spake but the creating word And it was done and all things made He did but potently command And it stood faft as firmly stay'd 10 The Counsels of the Nations rude The Ruling Lord doth bring to nought He doth defeat the multitude Of their device and wicked thought 11 But all the counsels of the Lord Do stand unchang'd for ever sure And all the purposes of God Beyond all ages do endure 12 That Nation blessed is to whom The Lord as their own God is known And those whom as an heritage He loves and chooseth for his own 13 The Lord looks down from Heav'n and sees All done by men of humane birth 14 And from his habitation views Even all the dwellers of the earth 15 He fashioneth their hearts alike And all their doings he observes 16 No King is saved by an Host Much strength no Mighty man preserves 17 A horse of war is a valn thing To save a man in time of fight Nor shall deliver any man Either by swiftness or by might 18 But upon those that do him fear The Lord doth set his gracious eye On those that on his mercy do With hope and confidence rely 19 To save them from a pining death In Famine food and life to yield 20 Our soul still waiteth for the Lord He is our help and only shield 21 Because his holy name we trust Our hearts in him shall joyful be 22 Lord let thy mercy be on us As we do place our hope in thee PSALM XXXIV 1 AT all times I will magnifie And bless the Lord with tongue and heart His joyful praises never shall Out of my thankful mouth depart 2 My soul in her preserving Lord Her boasting boldly shall express And humble men shall hear thereof And joyn therein with joyfulness 3 O magnifie the Lord with me We 'll joyntly all exalt his name 4 In all my fears I sought the Lord He heard and sav'd me from the same 5 They that to him did look for help Of light and comfort did partake Their confidence in him did not Their face at all ashamed make 6 This poor man cryed in distress The Lord to him a hearing gave And him from all his troubles did Effectually help and save 7 About all them that fear the Lord Encamped Angels always lye To save and to deliver them From every hurtful enemy 8 O taste and see that God is good Blest are all they that in him trust 9 Fear God ye Saints no hurtful want Befalls the upright walking just 10 Even Lion's young ones hungry are And often want desired food But they that seek the Lord shall not Want any thing that 's truly good 11 Teachable Children come to me My sure and tryed Counsel hear And I will teach you faithfully The true way of God's holy fear 12 What man desireth length of life And his own good doth wisely seek 13 From evil keep thy
Princes Zebulon And with them also Naphtali's 28 Thy God commands thy strength O God Confirm what thou for us hast wrought 29 For thy house at Jerusalem King's Presents shall to thee be brought 30 Spear-men and people rude rebuke Till all of them submissive are And tribute pay scatter thou them That do delight in strife and war 31 Princes shall then submit to thee And hither come from Egypt lands And Ethiopia to God Shall soon stretch out her subject hands 32 Sing unto God adoring praise O all ye people of the earth Sing praises to the Lord our God With reverence and holy mirth 33 To him that on the heaven of heavens Which was of old doth ride rejoyce His voice he sendeth all abroad It is a mighty dreadful voice 34 Ascribe ye power unto God Who reigns on high o're Israel And his great strength and excellence Doth in the heav'ns in glory dwell 35 Dreadful out of his holy place Is Israel's God who doth afford Unto his people strength and pow'r Blessed therefore be God our Lord. PSALM LXIX 1 SAve me O God for rising floods Unto my fearful soul are come 2 I sink in deep unstable mire Deep waters have me overflown 3 I of my crying weary am My voice is hoarse my throat is dry'd My eyes also do fall while I Do waiting for my God abide 4 More than my hairs of head they be Who causeless hatred to me bear And my injurious enemies That would destroy me mighty are Then I restored that to them Which never taken was by me 5 O God thou know'st my foolishness And my sins are not hid from thee 6 Let not them for my sake be sham'd O Lord of Hosts that wait on thee Nor those that seek thee Israel's God For my own cause confounded be 7 For thy sake I have born reproach And shame hath covered my face 8 I to my brethren strange am grown An Alien to my mother's race 9 Because the zeal did eat me up Which to thy sacred house I bear And the reproaches cast on thee Upon me fallen for thy cause are 10 When I in tears with fasting lay This to my own reproach was turn'd A Proverb to them I became 11 When I in sackcloth cloathed mourn'd 12 The great men that sit in the gate Spake of me all the ill they think And I was made the song of them That are the drinkers of strong drink 13 But Lord in an accepted time My Prayer I send up to thee Lord in thy mercies multitude And in thy saving truth hear me 14 Deliver me out of the mire And me from sinking in it keep Save me from them that do me hate And out of all these waters deep 15 Let not the floods me overflow Nor let the deeps up swallow me And let not the pit's mouth below Upon me buryed closed be 16 Hear me O Lord for thy sure love And kindness is exceeding good Turn thou to me according to Thy tender mercies multitude 17 From thy servant hide not thy face In this my trouble soon attend 18 Draw nigh my soul and it redeem And from mine enemies me defend 19 To thee is my reproach well known My shame and my causeless disgrace My adversaries and their ways Are open all before thy face 20 Reproach hath broke my heart and grief Abounds in me I lookt for some To pity me but there was none True comforters I found not one 21 They gave me also bitter gall For food which they would have me eat They gave me vinegar to drink In scorn when as my thirst was great 22 Let their own Table be their snare Do thou to them in justice make Their welfare and posterity Become a trap themselves to take 23 And let their eyes so darkened be That pleasant light do them forsake And let their weakned Ioyns by thee Be made continually to shake 24 Thy dreadful indignation Pour out upon these wicked men And let thy hot displeasure and Thy heavy wrath take hold on them 25 And let their stately palaces Be left as desolate within Their tents without inhabitants Where these ill men have dwellers bin 26 Because him whom thou didst correct Yet they have persecuted more They talk unto the grief of those Whom thou didst strike and wound before 27 Add thou deserved punishment Unto their hainous wilful sin And to thy saying righteousness Let them not have admission in 28 Out of the book of living men Let them by death be blotted quite And with the just that blessed are Do not their names number and write 29 But I am poor and sorrowful Because of my adversity But let thy saving grace O Lord Yet raise and set me up on high 30 The Name of God I with a song Will praise and honour joyfully And with thanksgiving for his grace The Lord's name I will magnifie 31 This also shall a sacrifice More acceptable to him be Than Bull or Ox with hoof and horns If they were offered by me 32 The meek and humble shall be glad And greatly joy when this they see Your hearts shall live that seek the Lord And ever comfortable be 33 Because the Lord doth hear the poor When they to him do cry and pray And doth not neglect or despise Those that for him in prison lay 34 Let the high heav'ns and spacious earth Unto Jehovah praises give The Ocean deep and every thing Which therein doth but creep and live 35 For God will surely Sion save And Judah's Cities again build That men may them possess and dwell In houses plentifully fill'd 36 And they that are his servants seed Shall be possessors of the same And they shall have their dwelling there Who do sincerely love his name PSALM LXX 1 O God from my distress and fear Do thou vouchsafe to set me free Make hast O Lord do thou afford Thy speedy saving help to me 2 Let them confounded be and sham'd Who do my death seek and conspire Confound them all and turn them back That do my hurt in heart desire 3 Let shame be their reward Let them Fly and be turned back by thee Who triumphing in my distress Do say in scorn Aha to me 4 Let all that truly seek thy face With joy be ever glad in thee Let all that thy salvation love Say still the Lord God praised be 5 But I am poor and weak O God Make hast to me and do not stay Thou art my Saviour and help Help Lord and make no more delay PSALM LXXI 1 IN thee O Lord I put my trust Let me no hurtful shame befal 2 In justice save me from my foes By thee let me escape them all Incline thine ear and save thou me 3 Be thou my strength my rock and fort My dwelling unto which I may For help and refuge still resort My safety is thy own Command My rock and fortress thou wilt be 4 From wicked unjust cruel men Do thou my God deliver me 5 For upon thee
hath found out a house The swallow found a nest Where she may lay her young and where Her self and they may rest Even near thy holy Altars they May make their safe abode And why not I seeing thou art My King and only God 4 Blest are they in thy house that dwell They always give thee praise 5 Blessed is he whose strength 's in thee In whose heart are thy ways 6 Who passing as through Bala's vale Make it a place of wells And the descending plenteous rain The pools with water fills 7 Unwearied they forward go Marching from strength to strength Till all in Sion do appear Before the Lord at length 8 Lord God of Hosts my prayer hear O Jacob's God give ear 9 O God our shield look on the face Of thine anointed dear 10 Because one day within thy house Is better to abide Than in another place to stay A thousand days beside Much rather would I keep a door In the house of my God Than in the tents of wickedness To take up mine abode 11 For the Lord God our Sun and Shield Will grace and glory give And no good thing from them with-hold Who uprightly do live 12 O thou that art the Lord of Hosts That man is surely blest Who by a stedfast confidence On thee alone doth rest PSALM LXXXV 1 THou hast been favourable O Lord unto thy land And Israel's sad Captivity Thou brought'st back by thy hand 2 Thy people thou forgav'st The guilt that they were in And by thy free and plenteous gracâ— Didst cover all their sin 3 Thy wrath thou took'st away And didst to mercy turn Even from thine anger terrible That did against us burn 4 O God our Saviour Turn us unto thy peace And cause thine anger that 's gone forth Against us for to cease 5 Shall thy displeasure last Against us without end And to all generations Wilt thou thy wrath extend 6 Wilt thou not us restore And quicken us that we Who are thy people evermore In thee may joyful be 7 Shew us thy mercy Lord Which may thy flock relieve And thy salvation unto us In season freely give 8 I 'le hear what God to us Will speak It will be peace To all his Saints But let not them Return to foolishness 9 Surely to all those who In fear of God do stand His help is nigh that Glory may Dwell always in our land 10 Mercy and truth shall meet And no more parted be And Peace with Righteousness shall greet And blessedly agree 11 Truth here even on this earth Shall spring and prosper well And righteousness from heav'n descend And here among us dwell 12 The Lord shall give what 's good Our land shall yield increase 13 Justice to set us in his way Shall go before his face PSALM LXXXVI 1 BOw down thine ear O Lord Hear me for I am poor 2 And in distress Yet I am thine Preserve my soul therefore My God thy servant save Who doth on thee rely 3 Be merciful to me O Lord Who daily to thee cry 4 Rejoyce thy servant's soul For unto thee O Lord Do I lift up my soul in hope That thou wilt help afford 5 For thou O Lord art good And ready to forgive And rich in mercy and all those That seek thee dost relieve 6 Give ear to my request My praying voice attend 7 I 'le call on thee when troubles come For thou wilt answer send 8 Among the Gods O Lord None may with thee compare Neither among the works they do Any like thy works are 9 All nations made by thee Shall come and reverently Worship before thee our great God And thy name magnifie 10 For thou art high and great And wondrous things hast done Besides thee there 's no other God For thou art God alone 11 Teach me thy truth and way And I 'le walk in the same Unite my heart Lord unto thee To fear thy holy name 12 My God with all my heart To thee will I give praise And I the glory will ascribe Unto thy name always 13 For thy mercy to me In greatness doth excel Thou hast delivered my soul Both from the Grave and Hell 14 The proud against me rise Terrible men are met In troops that seek my life but thee Before them have not set 15 But full of pity Lord And gracious thou art found Thou art long-suffering and in truth And mercy dost abound 16 O turn thee unto me And mercy on me have Strengthen thy servant and the Son Of thine own handmaid save 17 Shew me some sign for good That all my foes may see And be asham'd because thou Lord Dost help and comfort me PSALM LXXXVII 1 UPon the sacred hills He his foundation sets 2 More than all Jacob's dwellings else God loveth Sion gates 3 Great things are said of thee O City of the Lord. 4 Rahab's and Babel's case to those That know me I 'le record It 's said of famous Tyre And land of Palestine And of the Ethiopian land This man was born therein 5 Of Sion't shall be said This man and that man there Was born and he that highest is Himself shall stablish her 6 When God recites their names Who his own people are To their great honour he shall count That this man was born there 7 Singers and those that play On musick there shall be Yea all my springs of holy peace And comfort are in thee PSALM LXXXVIII 1 O God who art my hope and help To thee I cryed night and day 2 Let my cries have access to thee Incline thine ear when I do pray 3 My soul with troubles doth abound My life draws nigh unto the grave 4 Like one that to be buryed goes I am as those that no strength have 5 As a companion of the dead Like those that slain in grave do lye Whom thou hast cut off by thy hand And dost put out their memory 6 Thou lay'st me in the lowest pit And as in deep and darksom caves 7 Thy wrath lyes hard on me and thou Afflictest me with all thy waves 8 My friends thou hast put far from me To them as burdensome I grow In sorrows I am so shut up That forth from thence I cannot go 9 My eye through my affliction mourns I call on thee from day to day To thee O Lord I have stretch'd out My craving hands to thee I pray 10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead Shall the dead rise and praise thee here 11 Is thy love praised in the grave Doth death thy faithfulness declare 12 Are thy great works known in the dark Or is thy truth and righteousness Remembred and mention'd in The land of deep forgetfulness 13 But unto thee O Lord I cry My morning's pray'r shall thee prevent 14 Lord why dost thou cast off my soul Why is thy face against me bent 15 Even from my early youth I was Afflicted and as near to die While I thy terrors do endure I almost as distracted lie
JOD 10. 73 Thy hands have made and fashioned me It 's thee by whom I live That thy Commandments I may learn Me understanding give 74 They that thy mercy to me see Who fear thee will be glad Encouraged because thy word My hope and trust I made 75 I know O Lord that thy judgments All good and righteous be And that in love and faithfulness Thou hast afflicted me 76 To me thy merciful kindness I pray thee now afford To comfort this thy Servant's Soul According to thy word 77 Thy tender mercies pour on me That I to thee may live For holy comfort and delight Thy Law to me doth give 78 Confound the proud who dealt with me Perversly without cause But still I 'll meditate upon And keep thy holy Laws 79 Let those that fear thee come to me And see what thou hast done And let them join in thanks that have Thy testimonies known 80 And in thy righteous Statutes all Let my heart still be sound And then no guilt or Mens reproach With shame shall me confound CAPH 11. 81 My Soul for thy Salvation faints Till I do it obtain But still thy sure and faithful word With hope doth me sustain 82 Mine eyes do fail while on thy word I wait and daily say When wilt thou comfort me O Lord O make no more delay 83 Like a dry'd bottle in the smoak With grief I am become Yet do I not thy sacred word Forget to think upon 84 How many are thy Servant's days O might I live to see That thou wilt judgment do on them That persecutors be 85 The proud malicious sort of men Who do oppose thy Law Have digged pits and laid their snares As if they thought none saw 86 Thy holy Laws which they oppose All faithful are and just They persecute me wrongfully Be thou my help and trust 87 Hunting and wasting me on earth They scarce alive me leave Yet I forsake not thy Precepts But ever to them cleave 88 After thy loving kindness yet Revive me and restore So shall I keep thy holy word And trust it more and more LAMED 12. 89 Thy word and thy decree O Lord For ever shall endure It s settled in the Heav'ns above Established and sure 90 Thy faithfulness to ages all Doth certainly extend Thou hast established the earth And it doth firmly stand 91 According to thine ordinance They all remain this day For all thy Works and Servants are And do thy will obey 92 Unless thy good and faithful word Had been my Soul's delight In my affliction I had sunk Despair'd and perisht quite 93 Thy holy Precepts never shall By me forgotten be For thou in my dejected state By them didst quicken me 94 By holy Covenant I am thine Therefore thy Servant save For with desire and diligence Thy Precepts sought I have 95 Ungodly men have lain in wait My Life for to destroy But I thy testimonies all Will think upon with joy 96 Of all that earth perfection calls I have perceived an end But thy Commandments to all time And places do extend MEM 13. 97 How greatly do I love thy Law It hath been all the day My serious Meditation And my delight and joy 98 Through thy Commandments thou didst make Me wiser than my foes Where ere I am what ere I do It ever with me goes 99 I greater understanding have Than all my Teachers far Because thy testimonies still My meditation are 100 In understanding I exceed Them that did older live Because in keeping thy Precepts Thou didst more Wisdom give 101 And I my feet refrained have From every evil way That I may keep thy holy word And ever it obey 102 From thy sure word and judgments just I never will depart For thou art he that teachest me And speakest to the Heart 103 How sweet unto my relish are Thy words of saving truth The sweetest honey never was So pleasant to my mouth 104 By serious study of thy word I understanding gat Which made me turn from Vanity And every false way hate NUN 14. 105 Thy Word is unto me a Lamp And unto me a Light Through this dark and deceitful world To guide my way aright 106 I covenanted and vow'd to thee And it perform I will That I will keep thy righteous Laws And strive them to fulfil 107 My various afflictions Are very sharp and sore According to thy faithful word Revive and me restore 108 The free will offering of my mouth Accept I thee beseech And unto me thy Servant Lord Thy judgments clearly teach 109 My mortal life continually I carry in my hands Yet do I not in dangers great Forget thy just Commands 110 The wicked for my envy'd life Have laid a secret snare But I will not for fear or hope From thy Commandments err 111 Thy Statutes are the heritage Of which I have made choice To my last day for it is they That make my heart rejoice 112 My heart inclined by thy grace Doth fixedly intend Thy sacred Statutes to obey And keep unto the end SAMECH 15. 113 False thoughts and vanity I hate But love thy Statutes just 114 Thou art my shield and hiding place Upon thy word I trust 115 All ye that evil doers are Depart from me away For the Commandments of my God I purpose to obey 116 According to thy faithful word Uphold and stablish me That I may live and of my hope Never ashamed be 117 Hold thou me up and I shall be In peace and safety kept And to thy perfect guiding word I 'll ever have respect 118 All those who from thy Statutes err Thou treadest down as vile Their false deceits do but themselves And other men beguile Lewd men like dross thou casts away Therefore I love thy word 120 For fear of thee my flesh doth quake I dread thy judgments Lord. AIN 16. 121 I faithfully have practised Judgment and righteousness O leave me not to those mens wrath Who me by might oppress 122 Be surety for thy Servants good Let not the proud oppress 123 Mine eyes for thy Salvation fail And word of righteousness 124 According to thy Mercy great With me thy Servant deal And thy instructing Statutes all Clearly to me reveal 125 I am thy Servant Wisdom give That I thy Laws may know 126 Its time for thee O Lord to work For men make void thy Law 127 Therefore I love thy word and it In estimation hold Better than Gold and worldly Wealth Yea than the finest Gold 128 All that thy Law determineth I judge to be most right And all mens false deceiving ways Are hateful in my sight PE 17. 129 Wonderful are thy Testimonies My Soul keeps them with care 130 The entrance of thy word gives light To them that simple are 131 My thirsty Soul with strong desire Doth pant with open mouth Because I long'd to know and keep Thy words of saving Truth 132 Look on me and be merciful Bestow on me the same Which thou accustom'd
and Exhort one another in Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord Col. 3.16 What sweeter foretaste of the Heavenly Everlasting Praises There is no Exercise that I had rather live and dye in than singing Praises to our Redeemer and Jehovah while I might in the Holy Assemblies and now when I may not as Paul and Silas in my Bonds and my dying pains which are far heavier than my Bonds Lord Jesus receive my Praise and Supplications first and lastly my departing Soul Amen What is the sum of my desires To KNOW and LOVE and LIVE TO GOD To PLEASE HIM and BE PLEAS'D IN HIM To long for Heaven and bear his Rod. Richard Baxter Mr. Baxter's PARAPHRASE ON THE PSALMS PSALM I. To the Tune of Old 100. 1 Blest is the man who doth avoid The Counsel of ungodly mates Who stands not in the sinners way Nor sitteth in the scorners seats 2 But in the holy Law of God Doth choose and place his chief delight And with sincere obedient heart Meditates in it day and night 3 We shall be like the prosp'ring tree That planted by a rivers side In season yieldeth plenteous fruit Whose leaf doth always green abide 4 The Lord will prosper this mans work But the ungodly are not so But like rejected worthless chaff Which every wind drives to and fro 5 Therefore th' ungodly shall not stand But fall when judgment gives their doom Nor sinners in the righteous mens Blessed assembly ever come 6 Because the way of righteous men The Lord with approbation knows But the way of ungodly men To their own just destruction goes PSALM II. 1 WHy do the rebel Nations rage And People hatch a vain design 2 The Kings of Earth do set themselves And wicked Rulers do combine Against God and his Christ they say Let us cast off and break the bands 3 And cast away those cords his Laws Which tye up hearts and tongues and hands 4 But he whose Glory is in Heaven Their Rebel Counsels shall deride Their purposes the Lord will scorn Their boasting tongues he will divide 5 Then shall he speak in wrath to those His gentle yoak who could not bear His sore displeasure shall them vex When they this Divine Sentence hear 6 Yet have I set my chosen King On Sion's Sacred Hill to reign His Kingdom 's Glory I 'le declare And God's decree I will proclaim 7 The Lord Almighty uttered it And he himself thus said to me Thou art my Son and this same day Have I rais'd and begotten thee 8 Ask me and I 'le the Heathen give For thy enlarg'd Inheritance And to possess the utmost parts Of all the earth I 'le thee advance 9 The Rebels with an Iron rod Thou shalt bruise and asunder shake Like brittle earthen vessels them Thou shalt dash and in pieces break 10 Be wise now O ye mortal Kings Learn all ye Judges of the earth 11 Serve God with true Religious fear Joyn awful trembling with your mirth 12 Now kiss the Son left in his wrath You die and perish from the way If once his anger kindled be Then all who trust him blest are they PSALM III. 1 LOrd how are they increas'd That are mine enemies Many there be that trouble me And do against me rise 2 Many say of my soul He hath no help in God 3 But thou my shield and glory art And liftest up my head 4 I with my mournful voice Unto the Lord did cry And he out of his holy place Did hear me graciously 5 I laid me down and slept I wak'd and rose again For it is God in whom I trust That doth me still sustain 6 And though ten thousand foes Were round about me laid While God is for me and my help Why should I be afraid 7 Arise and save me Lord My God the Cheek-bone strake Of all my foes and wicked mens Devouring teeth did break 8 To save his chosen doth Belong to God alone Thy blessing shall for evermore Thy people rest upon PSALM IV. 1 O Hear me when to thee I call God of my help and righteousness Have mercy on me hear my prayer Thou sav'dst me in my great distress 2 O sons of men how long will ye The great God's glory vilifie How long will ye love vanity And seek and trust a flatt'ring lie 3 But know that God doth for himself The Godly choose and set apart The Lord will hear when I to him Do call in faith with fervent heart 4 Fear God therefore Take heed of sin Use to consider with your hearts In secret silence of the night In bed when sleep from you departs 5 Offer to God the sacrifice Of Love and sincere righteousness And then put all your trust in him To save and help you in distress 6 Deceived men enquire for good But where to find it cannot tell Lord let the glory of thy face Shine forth on us and we are well 7 Thy Love and Grace into my heart Hath put more joy and solid peace Then all their wealth will them afford When Corn and Wine do most increase 8 I will both lay me down in peace And hope for quiet rest and sleep Trusting alone that thou Lord wilt Me and my dwelling safely keep PSALM V. 1 GIve ear unto my words O Lord My doleful meditation weigh 2 And hear my voice my King my God For unto thee I cry and pray 3 At Morning thou shalt hear my voice My Morning Prayer I 'le direct To thee O Lord and looking up Thy gracious answer will expect 4 For thou the Holy God dost not In any wickedness delight Neither shall evil dwell with thee 5 Or wicked fools stand in thy sight 6 Thou hatest wicked workers all And Lyars all thou wilt subvert The Lord abhorreth men of blood And the deceitful tongue and heart 7 In thine abundant mercies I Will in thy sacred house appear And tow'rd thy holy temple I Will worship thee in holy fear 8 Lead me Lord in thy righteousness Before my watchful envious foe Before my face do thou make strait The way wherein I ought to go 9 Their mouth no credit doth deserve Their inward part is wickedness Their throat is like an open grave Their tongues do flattering lies express 10 By their own Counsels let them fall Destroy them Lord and them expel In their abundant sins for they Against thee madly did rebel 11 Let all rejoyce and shout for joy Who firmly put their trust in thee For them thou keepest Let them that love Thy Holy Name still joyful be 12 For thou Lord wilt the righteous bless And with thy special favour own Thou as a shield wilt him defend And with thy loving kindness crown PSALM VI. 1 LOrd in thy wrath rebuke me not I earnestly do thee desire Though my great sin do it deserve Correct me not in burning ire 2 Lord pity me a feeble wretch Whom sin and dolour weakned hath O heal my pained
flesh and bones Vexed by sin and by thy wrath 3 My guilty soul doth bear its part With pained flesh in sin and grief Lord do not over-long delay To ease them both with thy relief 4 Return O Lord deliver me Do not this sinful soul forsake Pity and save a humbled wretch For thy own tender mercies sake 5 The lifeless Corps in silent dust Remember not thy holy name In darksome graves who give thee thanks Or do thy glorious praise proclaim 6 My flesh and soul are tired out With painful groans and sinful fears The night I spend in woful moans And wash my bed and Touch with tears 7 My feeble eyes do fail with grief Consumed by my daily woes Untimely dimness closeth them Increased by my cruel foes 8 But workers of iniquity Shall all with shame from me depart For God doth hear my tears and cries And will relieve my grieved heart 9 He hath and will receive my suit Lord tame thy servant's enemies Turn them with humbling grief and shame Who Truth and Righteousness despise PSALM VII 1 O Lord my God in thee I trust Me from my persecutors save 2 Deliver me lest they me tear Like Lions and there 's none to save 3 Lord if this ill deed I have done And guilty be of wickedness 4 If I with hurt did him reward Who liv'd by me in quiet peace Yea Lord thou knowest that I have Vs'd kindly and deliver'd those Who now are causelesly become My cruel persecuting foes 5 Then let me foes me persecute And take my life and let them thrust And tread me down on earth and lay My name and honour in the dust 6 Rise Lord in wrath lift up thy self Because of all mine enemies rage And for that right which thou command'st Do thou thy wakened power engage 7 So shall the peoples lovely crowd About with praise encompass thee For their sakes therefore take thy seat On high to judge and succour me 8 The Lord shall all the people judge Do thou O Righteous Lord judge me According to my righteousness And after mine integrity 9 O let the heinous wickedness Of wicked men come to an end Thou Lord who try'st the hearts and reins The just do thou stay and defend 10 Of God is my defence who saves Men upright in their heart and way 11 As God doth judge the just so he With sin is angry every day 12 If men turn not he 'll whet his sword The bow is vent and ready made The executing instruments Of death he also hath prepar'd 13 Against the Persecutors he His sharpned Arrows doth ordain For such as with iniquity Do travel as it were in pain 14 Mischief in secret they conceived And brought forth fals hood and deceit 15 They made a pit and digg'd a ditch And are themselves fallen into it 16 His mischief upon his own head In time shall be returned home His violent dealing at the last Down up on his own pate shall come 17 I 'le praise the Lord according to His truth and all his righteous ways And to the name of God most high Sing joyful songs of thanks and praise PSALM VIII 1 O Lord our Lord through all the earth How excellent is thy Great name Who hast thy Glory high advanc'd Above the Heavens and starry frame 2 From Infants and from Childrens mouths Thou Wisdomes power didst ordain For thy foes sake that so thou might'st The cruel wrath of them restrain 3 When I consider well the Heav'ns Which thy own hand and power fram'd The Moon and the bright shining Stars All which were by thy word ordain'd 4 Then say I what is man that thou Of him hast daily mindful been And what 's the son of man that thou So much regard'st and visit'st him 5 Thou mad'st him little lower than The blessed Angels in degree And hast with honour crowned him And with some rays of Majesty 6 Thou gavest him dominion O're all these great works of thy hand Thou hast subjected all to him To be at this ruling command 7 The Pasture Flocks the Oxen strong Do all to him obedience yield And thou subjectest unto him The very wild beasts of the field 8 The fowl that flyeth in the air The fish that in the seas do play And whatsoever through the deeps Of the great Ocean makes its way 9 Our Owner and our Governour Art thou the Lord of this great frame How excellent through all the earth Is thy most Holy Glorious name PSALM IX 1 I 'Le praise the Lord with my whole heart Thy wonders I 'le abroad proclaim 2 With gladness I 'le rejoyce in thee Most High and sing unto thy name 3 Mine enemies do turn their back They fall and perish at thy sight 4 Thou sat'st a just Judge on thy Throne And hast maintain'd my Cause and right 5 The Heathen thou rebuked hast The wicked thou hast overthrown Their very names thou hast put out Only to be as odious known 6 O Enemy thy destroying work Is now at last come to an end They ruin'd Cities but to death Their memory did with them descend 7 But God for ever shall endure For Judgment he hath set his Throne 8 He 'll judge the world in righteousness In uprightness he 'll judge each one 9 The Lord will be a high defence For those that are by men opprest In times of trouble he will be A refuge and a secure Rest 10 And they that know thy Name in Thee Their confidence will wholly place For thou didst never them forsake Who truly sought thy saving grace 11 Sing Praises to the Lord most high Who doth in holy Sion dwell The wondrous things which he hath done Among the people daily tell 12 He will at last enquire for blood And then he will remember them And surely he doth not forget The mournful cry of humble men 13 Have mercy Lord think on my grief And wrong which I from them sustain Who hate me Thou that liftest me Vp from the gates of death again 14 That in the gates of Sion's seed I may shew forth thy Glorious praise And in thy great salvation I will trust and rejoyce always 15 The Heathen are sunk in the pit Which they themselves for us had made And in the net which they had hid Justly their own foot is ensnar'd 16 The Lord is by the Judgment known Which he in wisdom justly wrought The wicked's hands did make the snare In which at last themselves are caught 17 To be cast off and turn'd to Hell This is the wicked's final lot And all the Nations of the world That God with fear remember not 18 The needy though a while distrest Shall not by thee be still forgot The expectations of the poor Though long defer'd yet perish not 19 Rise Lord and let not men prevail Who trust in fraud or worldly might Let heathens and ungodly men Be even here judged in thy sight 20 Put senseless ones in fear O Lord That the ungodly
Nations then May humbled be and know themselves To be but feeble dying men PSALM X. 1 WHy standest thou Lord as far off And seem'st from us thy self to hide 2 In troublous times when wicked men Do persecute the poor in pride But let these proud and wicked men Themselves be taken and surpriz'd Even in the same destructive trap Which they in craft for us devis'd 3 The wicked of his hearts desire Doth boast in prosperous worldly state The covetous worldling he doth praise Whom yet the righteous Lord doth hate 4 The wicked puffed up with pride Is to such sottish folly brought That he disdains to seek the Lord God is not in his bruitish thought 5 Hurtfulness is in all his ways For thine are all above his sight All that he takes for enemies He puffs at with scorn and despight 6 He saith in his self-flattering heart Surely I never mov'd shall be My prosperous state shall not decay Nor shall I ever trouble see 7 His mouth 's with rage and cursing full And with deceit and guileful lies Under his wicked tongue is hatcht Mischief falshood and vanities 8 He lurks in Towns and Villages To catch and kill the innocent In secret his malicious eyes Against the helpless poor are benâ— 9 He Lion-like lurks in his den And waits the humbled poor to take And drawn into his own made net Him as his lawful prey doth make 10 He crowcheth low that so the poor In his strong cruel paws may fall 11 His heart saith God doth not regard But winks and will not see at all 12 Forget not humble men O Lord Lift up thy hand for them arise 13 Because they think thou 'lt not them judge Therefore the wicked thee despise 14 Mischief and spight thou dost behold And with thy hand wilt it repay The poor commits himself to thee Thou art the Orphans help and stay 15 Break thou the arm of wicked men And take down those that evil be Seek out their wickedness until Thou find none 's unreveng'd by thee 16 The Lord is King for evermore The heathen by his mighty hand And wicked all are perished And cast out of his holy land 17 The humble man's righteous desires O Lord thou graciously didst hear Thou wilt prepare and fix their hearts And thou wilt yield a hearing ear 18 To judge and help the fatherless And the opprest and humble poor That so these men of earth may vex And terrifie the just no more PSALM XI 1 IN God I put my trust Why then in scorn say ye To God for help as silly birds Unto your mountain flee 2 The wicked bend their bow Their arrows they prepare That in the dark they may them shoot At those that upright are 3 If by their violence Foundations be destroy'd What can the grieved righteous do The ruins to avoid 4 God in his Temple is The Lord's Throne is in Heaven His eyes behold his eye-lids try The sons of mortal men 5 The Lord the just man tries But he the wicked hates And him that loveth violence His soul abominates 6 Snares fire and brimstone he On wicked men will rain This is the portion and the cup That doth for them remain 7 For the just Lord doth love Just things as his delight And with a pleased countenance Beholdeth the upright PSALM XII 1 HElp Lord for upright godly men from us are taken hence away And from among the sons of men The faithful daily do decay 2 Unto his neighbour every one Dont speak with lies and vanity With a false double heart they talk And lips of fraud and flattery 3 God will cut off all flattering lips And the proud tongue that speaketh thus 4 Our word shall stand our tongue is ours What Lord is Ruler over us 5 For the oppression of the poor And needy's sighs I 'le now a rise And them in safety set saith God From those that them with scorn despise 6 The words of God are words most pure Like purest silver fully try'd In earthen furnace many times Refin'd and throughly purify'd 7 Lord thou wilt thine save and preserve For ever from this wicked race 8 The wicked then are bold and brisk When vile men get in highest place PSALM XIII 1 HOw long wilt thou forget me Lord O shall it thus for ever be How long wilt thou displeasedly Thus hide thy pleased face from me 2 How long shall thoughts disturb my soul And daily grief my heart assail How long shall cruel enemies By pow'r thus over me prevail 3 Pity my case O Lord my God Hear me and lighten thou mine eyes Left me as by fatal sleep Untimely feared death surprize 4 Left my triumphing foes should say We have prevail'd our work it 's done And those that trouble me rejoyce And boast when I am overthrown 5 But in thy tender mercy Lord My troubled soul her trust doth place O Let my raised hearty rejoyce In thy defence and saving grace 6 Because the Lord hath bounteously Dealt well with me in every thing To him my saved thankful soul Shall joyful endless praises sing PSALM XIV 1 THe hearts and lives of wicked fools Tell us they no God truly own Corrupt are they their works are vile Of them that do good there is none 2 Upon the worldly sons of men From Heav'n God lookt and searcht abroad To see if any understood And seriously sought after God 3 They wholly filthy are become They all from him aside are gone None of them liveth to do good Of all these wordly men not one 4 Have all these men of wicked works No wit or knowledge left at all Who eat my people up as bread On God they never truly call 5 Yet oft in sin they have great fear For God's among and for the just 6 They shame the counsels of poor Saints Because to God they seek and trust 7 O that our help from God were come When God brings back the Captives sad Then Jacob shall therein rejoyce And Israel shall in him be glad PSALM XV. 1 LOrd in thy Tabernacle Who shall inhabit still And whom wilt thou receive to dwell In thy most holy hill 2 He that walks uprightly And worketh righteousness And the truth which is in his heart Doth with his tongue express 3 He that backbiteth not Nor doth his neighbour hurt Nor yet against his neighbour doth Receive an ill report 4 In whose discerning eyes Vile persons are contemn'd But those that truly fear the Lord Doth honour and commend His righteous oath and word That keepeth faithfully Although he made his covenant so That he doth lose thereby 5 On hurtfull Usury His money hath not lent Nor taketh a reward or brib Against the innocent He that these things observes Which God would have be done Shall never be by fraud or force Moved and overthrown PSALM XVI 1 LOrd keep me for I trust in thee My refuge and my chosen part 2 My soul by thy command hath said That thou
for war A steel bow 's broken by my arms 35 The shield of thy salvation Thou freely didst on me bestow And thy right hand hath held me up Thy gentleness hath made me grow 36 My steps enlarg'd my feet confirm'd 37 I have parsu'd mine enemies Them overtook nor did turn back Till they were fallen and could not rise 38 They wounded are fallen at my feet With strength thou girdest me for war 39 And those that up against me rose To me by thee subdued are 40 Mine enemies necks thou gavest me That I my haters might cut down 41 They cry'd but there was none to save To God but he would not them own 42 I beat them then in pieces small As dust before the wind that flies And I did cast them out as dirt Which in the street despised lies 43 Thou sav'st me from the peoples strife Made'st me the heathens head to be A people whom I have not known Shall subject servants be to me 44 At the first hearing they 'l obey The strangers shall to me submit 45 And they through fear shall fade away Who now in their close places sit 46 The Lord still lives Blest be my Rock Let God my help exalted be 47 God doth avenge me and he doth Subdue the people under me 48 He saves me from mine enemies Above all those thou liftest me That rise against me from the man Of violence thou set'st me free 49 Therefore among the heathen Lord I will with praise my thanks proclaim And unto thee I publickly Will sing the praises of thy name 50 He great deliverance gives his King And mercy to him doth extend To David his anointed one And to his seed even without end PSALM XIX 1 THe Glory of Almighty God The vast and glorious Heav'ns declare Behold the starry Firmament And see what his sublime works are 2 Day unto day doth utter speech Night unto night doth teach God's fear All Nations of whatever tongue These Publick Teachers words may hear 3 Their teaching Character and Line Doth through out all the earth extend 4 Their visible convincing words Go forth the world's utmost end A tabernacle there he set In them for the great glorious Sun 5 Which as a Bridegroom-and strong man Comes forth with joy his race to run 6 From end to end of the vast Heav'n Its rise progress and circuit is Nothing 's hid fron its lively heat Nor potent influence doth miss 7 The Law of God most perfect is Turns sinful souls from vanities God's testimony is most sure And maketh simple sinners wise 8 The Statutes of the Lord are right And do rejoyce the upright heart The Lord's Commandements are pure And light to darkned eyes impart 9 The fear of God is pure and clean And doth in force endure for ever The judgments of the Lord are true Holy and righteous altogether 10 Much more desirable than gold Than much and finest gold they are Than honey and the honey-comb Sweeter to holy souls by far 11 In all his doubts and dangers here They are thy servants guide and guard They that sincerely them observe Shall have a great and sure reward 12 Who can his errors understand O cleanse my life and soul within From secret faults Thy servant Lord 13 Keep thou from all presumptuous sin Let them not have dominion Consent and conquest over me And then from great and damning sin I shall by grace delivered be 14 Lord let the service of my mouth The thoughts and studies of my heart Be acceptable in thy sight Who my Strength and Redeemer art PSALM XX. 1 Lord hear thee in the day When trouble he doth send And let the name of Jacob's God Thy keeper thee defend 2 From his high Sanctuary Let him thy keeeper be And out of Sion let the Lord Support and strengthen thee 3 Thy gifts and offerings Let him remember still And let thy sacrifices find His kind accepting will 4 After thy just desire Let him grant unto thee Let all thy righteous Counsels still By him fulfilled be 5 In thy salvation we Rejoice in the God's name will Our banners we 'll set up The Lord All thy requests fulfil 6 Now know I that the Lord His own anointed saves And with his saving strength from heaven Will grant him what he craves 7 In Chariots some do trust Some Horses trust upon But we remember will the name Of our Lord God alone 8 We raised stand upright They are brought down and fall 9 Save Lord and let our blessed King Hear us when we do call PSALM XXI 1 THe King shall joyful be Lord in thy strength alone How greatly shall his heart rejoice In thy salvation 2 For thou hast given him His own heart's whole desire And nothing hast from him with-held Of what he did require 3 With good thou him prevent'st With blessings manifold And thou upon his head hast set A Crown of purest Gold 4 He asked life of thee Thou it to him dist give Even such a length of days that he For evermore shall live 5 In thy salvation His Glory is made great Honour and Royal Majesty Hast thou upon him set 6 For thou for evermore Most blessed hast him made And with thy gracious countenance Made him exceeding glad 7 Because upon the Lord The King his trust doth lay He through the grace of the most High Shall not be mov'd away 8 Thy hand shall find out all Thine enemies that be Yea thy right hand shall find out those That haters are of thee 9 Make them like hearths of fire In thy revenging hour The Lord shall swallow them in wrath The fire shall them devour 10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy From earth their wicked race Among the sons of men their seed Shall find no resting place 11 For they against thee did Mischief plot and intend A wicked purpose which yet they Could not bring to an end 12 Therefore thou shalt make them To turn their backs in chase And make thine arrows on the strings Ready against their face 13 In thine own strength O Lord Thy matchless Glory raise So shall our joyful songs rehearse Thy Power 's deserved praise PSALM XXII 1 MY God my God O why Hast thou forsaken me Why from my roaring voice so far Help and salvation be 2 Thou hear'st me not though I Call to thee day by day And in the seasons of the night I do not cease to pray 3 But thou art holy who Inhabit'st Israel's praise 4 Of old our Fathers trusted thee And thou didst help always 5 They trusted unto thee From thee deliverance came They wholly put their trust in thee And were not put to shame 6 But I am a poor worm Not worth the name of man Ev'n mens reproach and much despis'd I of the people am 7 All they that look on me Laugh me to scorn and they Shoot out the lip and shake the head And thus against me say 8 This man did trust in God To save him
In our sight Now let his God deliver him If he in him delight 9 Thou took'st me from the womb Thou wast my hope and rest When I a seeble Infant hang'd Upon my mother's breast 10 I was cast on thy care Even from my birth till now And from the womb that did me bear My God and Guide art thou 11 Be not far off for grief Is near and no help found 12 Many Bulls compass me fat Bulls Of Bashan me surround 13 Their mouth they open'd wide Upon me gaped they Like to a Lion's ravening And roaring for his prey 14 My bones are out of joynt Like water I am spilt Among my pained Intestines My heart like wax doth melt 15 Like a potsherd my strength Is dry'd My tongue cleaveth Unto my jaws and thou hast brought Me to the dust of death 16 For dogs have compass'd me And the assembled bands Of wicked men enclosed me They pierc'd my feet and hands 17 I may count all my bones On me they look and stare 18 Upon my Vesture they cast lots My Cloaths among them share 19 Be not far from me Lord My strength to help me hast 20 My soul deliver from the sword Do not to Dogs me cast 21 Save me from lying mouths For thou hast oft heard me Even from the horns of Unicorns I have been sav'd by thee 22 Unto my brethren I Will yet declare thy name And with the Congregation great I 'le joyn to praise the same 23 Ye that fear God praise him His great name glorifie All Jacob's seed and fear ye him Israel's posterity 24 For he hath not despis'd Th' afflicted's misery Nor hid his face from him but heard When he to him did cry 25 In the Assemblies great My praise shall be of thee And before them that do thee fear My Vows perform'd shall be 26 The meek shall be suffic'd With food All praise shall give To God who him do truly seek Your hearts shall ever live 27 All lands remember shall And turn unto the Lord And by all kindreds of the earth Our God shall be ador'd 28 The Kingdom is the Lord's He governs Nations all All that on earth by him are fed Before him down shall fall 29 All shall before him bow That down to dust descend None can of all the sons of men His life from death defend 30 But still a holy seed The Lord shall truly serve And God will them his chosen flock Account and still preserve 31 They shall come and his work Of righteousness make known Unto a people yet unborn That this the Lord hath done PSALM XXIII 1 THe Lord himself my shepherd is Who doth me feed and safely keep What can I want that 's truly good While I am one of his own sheep 2 He makes me to lie down and rest In pleasant pastures tender grass He keeps and gently leadeth me Near the sweet streams of quietness 3 My failing soul he doth restore And lead in safe and righteous ways And all this freely that his grace And holy Name may have the praise 4 And though my daily walk do lie Through death's dark vale yet thou art there All being managed by thee Therefore no evil will I fear For in my lowest darkest state The Lord of Love is with me still Thy Rod and Staff shall comfort me And keep me from all deadly ill 5 Thy bounty doth my Table spread In presence of my envious foes My head refreshing Oyl anoints My plenteous cup still overflows 6 Goodness and mercy all my days Shall surely keep and follow me And in the house of God always My joyful dwelling-place shall be The same by Mr. George Herbert 1 THe God of Love my Shepherd is And he that doth me feed While he is mine and I am his What can I want or need 2 He leads me to the tender grass Where I both feed and rest Then to the streams that gently pass In both I have the best 3 And if I stray he doth convert And bring my mind in frame And all this not for my desert But for his holy name 4 And in death's shady black abode Well may I walk not fear For thou art with me and thy rod To guide thy staff to bear 5 Thou makest me to sit and dine Even in mine enemies fight My head with Oyl my cup with Wine Flows over day and night 6 Surely thy sweet and wondrous love Shall measure all my days And as it never shall remove So neither shall my praise PSALM XXIV 1 THe earth is all the Lord's Its fulness all is his The world with all that are therein His own creation is 2 For he the liquid Seas Hath its foundation made And it upon the water-floods Hath stablished and staid 3 Into God's sacred mount Who 's he that shall ascend And in his place of holiness Who shall accepted stand 4 Whose heart 's pure and hands clean And unto vanity He who hath not lift up his soul Nor sworn deceitfully 5 This man a blessing great From God shall surely have Righteous and gracious usage from The God that will him save 6 Of them that seek the Lord This is the holy race Such are the men of Jacob's God Who seek thy pleased face 7 Lift up your heads ye gates You lasting doors make way That so the great desired King Of Glory enter may 8 Who is this Glorious King Who may this Monarch be The strong and mighty God the Lord Mighty in war is he 9 Lift up your heads ye gates You lasting doors make way That so the great and mighty King Of Glory enter may 10 Who is he that is King Of Glory Who is this The Lord of Hosts and he alone The King of Glory is PSALM XXV 1 I Lift my heart to thee My God and guide most just 2 O let me never be asham'd For in thee do I trust Let not my foes rejoyce And triumph over me 3 And let not any be asham'd That trust and wait on thee But let them shamed be Who causelesly transgress 4 Shew me thy ways Lord teach thou me Thy paths of Righteousness 5 Direct me in thy truth And teach me I thee pray Thou art my God and Saviour On thee I wait alway 6 Remember O my God Thy mercies manifold And thy great loving kindnesses For they have been of old 7 My sins and faults of youth O keep not on record In mercy for thy goodness sake Remember me O Lord. 8 Perfectly good is God A sure and upright guide Therefore he 'll teach sinners his way That they go not aside 9 The humble he will guide Who do his Counsels seek And he will teach his way unto The lowly and the meek 10 For all the paths of God Are truth and mercy sure To them that do his Covenant keep And Testimonies pure 11 For thy names-sake O Lord I humbly thee intreat To pardon my iniquity For it is very great 12 Whoso doth fear the Lord The Lord
will him direct To choose that way and walk therein Where God will him accept 13 His soul preserv'd by God Shall dwell in holy peace His Covenant keeping seed shall here On earth enough possess 14 To such as fear the Lord He will his secret show And his true saving Covenant The Lord will make them know 15 Mine eyes upon the Lord Continually are set For it is he who shall bring forth My feet out of the net 16 Lord turn thee unto me On me thy mercy shew For I in grief am desolate And brought exceeding low 17 The troubles of my heart Are great and do increase O pity and deliver me Out of my sore distress 18 On my affliction look And on my grief and pain O Lord forgive me all my sins And make me whole again 19 Consider thou my foes That great and many are And what a causeless cruel hate They do against me bear 20 O safely keep my soul And still deliver me And let me never be asham'd Because I trust in thee 21 Let my integrity And uprightness defend And keep me for in faith and hope I do on thee depend 22 O gracious Lord redeem And bring thy people out Of all the dangers and distress That compass them about PSALM XXVI 1 JUdge me O Lord for I In uprightness abide And I have trusted in the Lord Therefore I shall not slide 2 Examine me O Lord My case now prove and try My reins and heart well known to thee Unto my self descry 3 Thy loving kindness is Ever before mine eyes Thy Truth and Righteousness have been My most beloved ways 4 With vain false persons I Have no Companion been With lyars and dissemblers I never will go in 5 Ill-doers company I have and still do hate With wicked and ungodly men I have not gone or sate 6 Guiltles of reigning sin I 'le wash my hands and so Unto thy sacred Altar Lord I then will boldly go 7 That I may publish there With voice of joy and praise The glory and the fame of all Thy wondrous works and ways 8 Thy worship in the house Lord I have loved well I much delighted in the place Where doth thine honour dwell 9 Crop not my life with mens Of wickedness and blood 10 Whose hands are fill'd with bribes and with Mischief against the good 11 But as for me I 'le walk In my integrity Be merciful and me redeem And set at liberty 12 My foot in an even place Doth stand with stedfastness And in the Congregations I The Lord will praise and bless PSALM XXVII 1 THe Lord my Light and Saviour is Whom therefore shall I need to dread The Lord is of my life the strength Of man why should I be afraid 2 When wicked men that are my foes Did all in rage against me come To eat my flesh they stumbled then And fell and were themselves o'rethrown 3 Though Hosts encampt against me lie Yet this my heart shall not much fear Though wars against me raised be I 'le confident be also there 4 One thing of God I have desir'd And that I will still seek and crave That in the Lord's house all my days I may a quiet dwelling have That there God's beauteous holiness I may with joy see and admire And for direction in my doubts May humbly of his will enquire 5 For he in times of trouble will Secure me by his saving grace In his own Tent and Tabernacle And on a Rock he shall me place 6 And now by him who is my strength My head shall highly lifted be Above my cruel enemies Who do about encompass me The sacrifice of joy will I Into his holy Temple bring I 'le sing aloud unto the Lord Yea I will joyful praises sing 7 Hear me O Lord when with my voice I mournfully to thee do cry Have mercy also upon me And grant thine answer graciously 8 When thou command'st seek ye my face My willing heart said unto thee Thy pleased face Lord I will seek 9 Hide not thy pleased face from me O put me not away in wrath Thou wast thou art my help alone Forsake not me who art the God Of my health and salvation 10 When my Father and Mother both Do me in greatest straits forsake Even then the Lord will gather me And up my fainting soul will take 11 Teach me thy righteous way O Lord And in a plain path lead thou me Because of those who are my foes And my watchful observers be 12 Leave me not to mine enemies will Many false witnesses arise Against me and malicious men Who breath out wrath and cruelties 13 My heart had fail'd unless I had Hope't and believed for to see Thy Goodness manifested yet On earth to them that living be 14 Wait on the Lord Couragious be And he shall help and and strength afford Unto thy heart I say again Still trust and wait upon the Lord. PSALM XXVIII 1 TO thee I cry O Lord my Rock Let me thy speedy answer have Lest by thy silence I become Like dead men buried in the grave 2 My earnest supplications hear When I to thee for help do cry When I my hands lift up towards Thy sacred Oracle on high 3 O draw me not away with those Who falsly act this wicked part Who speak unto their neighbour's peace While mischief 's in their treacherous heart 4 Give them according to their deeds After the evil which they meant According to their handy work Render to them their punishment 5 Since they regarded not God's works Nor what great things his hands have wrought He shall not build but pull them down Destroy and bring them all to nought 6 Blest be the Lord because he heard The earnest voice of my request 7 The Lord 's my strength my shield and help My heart on him alone shall rest Because he saveth me therefore My heart in him doth much rejoyce And with the songs of thanks and praise To him I will lift up my voice 8 The Lord is the defence and strength Of those that be indeed his own And his anointed's Saviour And strength is he and he alone 9 Lord save thy people and still bless Thy own chosen inheritance Them as their Shepherd rule and feed Save and for ever them advance PSALM XXIX 1 ALL ye that mighty are on earth Give all the glory to the Lord To God the glory and the strength Ascribe ye all with one accord 2 The glory due to God's great name Give to him and to all confess Publickly worship ye the Lord In solemn beauteous holiness 3 The Lord's voice on the waters is The God of strength and majesty Doth thunder and on waters great Doth sit and rule them all on high 4 The thundring dreadful voice of God Full of prevailing power is And full of Royal Majesty Is that great frightful voice of his 5 This voice of the Almighty doth The great tall Cedars break and tear The Lord doth thus the
Cedars break Which the Mount Lebanon doth bear 6 Yea he doth make the trembling hills Like a young Calf about to skip And Lebanon and Sirion Like the young Unicorns to leap 7 God's voice casts out the flames of fire This voice it makes the desarts quake 8 The Lord the great dry Wilderness Of Kadesh makes as mov'd to shake 9 God's voice doth make the Hinds to calve And makes the cover'd Forests bare And in his holy Temple all His glory do by praise declare 10 The Lord sits King on swelling floods His Rule and Kingdom never cease The Lord will give his people strength And he will bless them all with peace PSALM XXX 1 ALL thankful praise with heart and voice O gracious Lord I give to thee Who hast not made my foes rejoyce But hast sav'd and exalted me 2 O Lord my God to thee I cry'd In all my pain my fears and grief Thou soon didst hear and help provide And heal me with speedy relief 3 Lord thy great mercy did bring up My soul from death and hell to save Till now thou hast kept me alive From an untimely feared grave 4 O ye that are his holy ones Sing joyful praises to the Lord In memory of his holiness Give thanks to him with one accord 5 There 's but a moment in his wrath Endless life in his favour lies Though weeping be our evening's work Joy with us in the morn shall rise 6 In health and sweet prosperity My careless heart affected was As if I never should be mov'd And see what after came to pass 7 For thy great savour Lord did seem To make my present state secure My mountain of prosperity Did seem so setled strong and sure But when offended by my sin Thou hid'st from me thy pleased face My painful flesh and troubled soul Did quickly feel a changed case 8 Then did I cry to thee O Lord When pain and danger bid me pray I poured out before the Lord My earnest suit both night and day 9 I said what gain is in my blood If to the feared grave I go Doth silent dust there speak thy praise Doth it thy truth and mercy show 10 Hear gracious Lord a sinner's cries Who doth thy needful mercy crave Lord help me in this deep distress And from this feared danger save 11 Then didst thou turn my grief and moans Into a pleasant thankful voice My mourning garments thou took'st off And taught'st me to sing and rejoyce 12 That so my tongue may sing thy praise And never henceforth silent be O Lord my God for evermore I will give thanks and praise to thee The Old Metre lengthened 1 ALL laud and praise with heart and voice O Lord my God I give to thee Who didst not make my foes rejoyce But hast sav'd and exalted me 2 O Lord my God to thee I cry'd In all my woful pain and grief Thou gav'st an ear and didst provide To ease me with timely relief 3 Of thy good will thou hast call'd back My soul from death and hell to save Thou didst revive when strength did lack And sav'dst me from the feared grave 4 Sing praise ye Saints who prove and see The love and goodness of the Lord In memory of his Majesty Sing and rejoyce with one accord 5 For why his anger but a space Doth last and quickly slack again But in his favour and his grace Always doth blessed life remain 6 Though gripes and grief and pangs full sore Shall lodge with us all the dark night The Lord to joy shall us restore Betimes before the day be light 7 When I enjoy'd the Word at will Thus vainly would I boast and say Tush I am sure to feel no ill This health and wealth shall not decay 8 For thou O Lord of thy good grace Hadst sent me present strength and aid But when thou turn'dst away thy face My troubled mind was sore dismaid 9 Wherefore again yet did I cry To thee O gracious Lord of might My God with plaints I did apply And pray'd to him both day and night What gain is in my blood said I If hasty death destroy my days Doth dust declare thy Majesty Or yet thy grace and truth doth praise 10 Wherefore my God some pity take O Lord I humbly thee desire Do not this simple soul forsake My God of help I thee require 11 Then didst thou turn my grief and woe Into a glad and chearful voice The mournful weeds thou took'st me fro And mad'st me to sing and rejoyce 12 Wherefore my soul uncessantly Shall sing unto thy holy praise My Lord my God to thee will I Give laud and joyful thanks always PSALM XXXI 1 IN thee O Lord I put my trust Therefore let me not shamed be But in thy constant righteousness Do thou save and deliver me 2 Bow down thine ear to me with speed Vouchsafe me thy deliverance To save me by my Rock of strength My Fort and Castle of defence 3 For thou art in my strong Rock and thee I for my secure Fortress take Lead me therefore and keep me safe For thy own name and glory sake 4 Pull me out of the net which they For me in craft have closely laid Because thou only art my strength To which I trust and flie for aid 5 Into thy hand I do commit My spirit for thou alone art he Jehovah God of truth and grace Who hast in love redeemed me 6 Them that deceitful vanities Regard I shun and have abhor'd But my firm hope and confidence Is in my great and gracious Lord. 7 I in thy mercies will rejoyce Because my many miseries Thou weighest and hast known my soul In all my great adversities 8 Thou hast not left and shut me up Into my wrathful enemies hand Thou set'st my feet at liberty In a large and free room to stand 9 Have mercy on me O my God In my great trouble send relief Mine eye my belly and my soul Consumed are with pain and grief 10 My life is spent in grief my years In mournful sighs away do fly My strength doth fail my bones consume And this for mine iniquity 11 Among my foes I was a scorn And to my neighbours specially A fear to friends They that saw me Without away did from me fly 12 I am forgotten as a man That now a long time hath been dead And like a broken vessel cast Aside I am as perished 13 Many mens slanders I have heard Fear compass'd me about while they Against me did consult and plot By fraud to take my life away 14 But I did trust in thee O Lord When I by foes was under-trod This was my soul's support and rest I said Thou art my gracious God 15 My times are in thy hand and will Do thou save and deliver me From their hands who mine enemies And causeless persecutors be 16 On thine afflicted servant Lord Make thou thy pleased face to shine And save me for that mercies sake Which thou dost
tongue and lips That they no quite or falshood speak 14 Depart from evil and do good Seek and pursue peace faithfully 15 The eyes of God are on the just His ears attend their plaint and cry 16 The face of God is set against All them that do live wickedly That he may cut off from the earth Their very name and memory 17 The righteous cry unto the Lord And them in mercy he doth hear And them deliver out of all The troubles which they feel or fear 18 To them that are of broken hearts The Lord with healing grace is near And surely saveth such whose spirits Are contrlte and him truly fear 19 The just mens sufferings many are But God in time doth out of all 20 Deliver them He keeps their bones None of them 's broken by their fall 21 As for the wicked enemies Who do God's righteous servants hate Their sin by its own dire effects Shall stay and make them desolate 22 But the Lord doth his servants souls Redeem and fully set them free And of all them that trust in him None cast off desolate shall be PSALM XXXV 1 LOrd plead my righteous cause with them Who trouble me with envious strife Fight against them that causelesly Do fight to take away my life 2 Of shield and buckler take thou hold Stand up defend and help thou me 3 Draw out the spear and stop their way That causeless persecutors be Say to my soul I will thee save 4 Let them to utter shame be brought Who seek my life and plot my hurt Them foil confound and bring to nought 5 Make them like chaff before the wind And let God's Angel chase them all 6 Make their way dark and slippery God's Angel hunt and make them fall 7 They hid for me a snaring net In malice without a just cause They dig'd a pit to take my soul In cruel craft against thy Laws 8 Let him be ruin'd unawares And caught in his own hidden net Let him fall in that pit and snare Which his own hands have dig'd and set 9 In God and his salvation then My soul shall glad and joyful be 10 My very flesh and bones shall say Lord who or what is like to thee Who sav'st the poor and weak from them That for him are too great and strong The poor and needy from the men Who him oppress by spoil and wrong 11 False witness rose they to my charge Things false of which I knew not laid 12 To spoil my soul unthankful men Evil for good to me repaid 13 But as for me when they were sick In sackcloth clad for them I mourn'd With fasting I humbled my soul My prayer home to me return'd 14 For him I sadly walk'd as for A real friend or loving brother I heavily bow'd down as one That mourneth for his dying mother 15 But they rejoyced in my woe Combin'd vile abjects met to plot Unknown to me they gathered were And they to tear me ceased not 16 And not unlike Stage-hypocrites My cruel adversaries be And in their feasts with scoffing jeasts They grind and gnash their teeth on me 17 But Lord how long wilt thou look on From contriv'd ruin rescue me And let my soul my darling be From greedy Lions kept by thee 18 Then I will render thanks to thee Even in the Congregations great And I will celebrate thy praise Where the strong multitudes do meet 19 Let not them over me rejoyce Who hate and hurt me wrongfully Let not my causeless foes triumph And wink with scornful scoffing eye 20 Their heart and talk is not for peace They false and crafty plots prepare Against all those that in the land Hurt none but to all quite are 21 Yea their malicious lying mouths They widely opened against me And with triumphing scorn did say His crime his fall our eyes did see 22 All this O Lord thine eye hath seen O do not longer silent stand Against these false malicious men For help be thou still near at hand 23 Stir up thy self and shew thy power To judge my cause do thou awake My righteous cause well known to thee My Lord my God do not forsake 24 O Lord my God do thou me judge After thy perfect righteousness And suffer not them over me Their boasting triumph to express 25 Let them not say insultingly Aha so we would have it be Let them not proudly boast and say That they have wholly swallowed me 26 Shame and confusion come to them Who at my hurt and fall are glad They that against me vaunt themselves With shame cast down let them be clad 27 Let all that love my righteous cause Gladly their joy with shouts express And say The Lord be magnify'd Who loves his faithful servants peace 28 To speak thy righteousness shall be The glad employment of my tongue And thy high praises to set forth With joy and gladness all day long PSALM XXXVI 1 BY wicked mens ungodly lives My heart hath surely understood What ere he says before his eyes There is no serious fear of God 2 By flattery he deceives himself As safe and just in his own eyes Till God make known how hateful are His many foul iniquities 3 His prophane mouth in his discourse Doth daily speak deceit and sin For to be wise and to do good This shews he wants a heart within 4 Even on his bed iniquity Is his device and busie thought He sets himself in ways not good And hates not what is vain and naught 5 Thy mercies Lord are very great And do the highest heav'ns transcend Thy truth and constant faithfulness Do to the rowring clouds extend 6 Thy Justice is like mountains great Thy judgments are like a great deep Thy bounty and good providence Both man and beast doth feed and keep 7 O God how precious is thy love Because that thou art good and just Under the shadow of thy wings The sons of men do put their trust 8 With the rich fatness of thy house They sweetly nourished shall be And of thy streams of holy joys They shall be made to drink by thee 9 For of desired endless life The flowing fountain is with thee And in thy light thy holy ones The true and glorious light shall see 10 Thy loving kindness still draw out To faithful men that do thee know And unto men of upright heart Thy love and righteousness still show 11 Stop thou the foot of furious pride That would in rage against me come Let not the hand of wicked men Thee and my safety move me from 12 Dreadfully there are thy all fallen The men that work iniquities Cast down by God and never shall Henceforth be able more to rise PSALM XXXVII 1 FRet not thy self at wicked men For their present prosperity Not be thou envious at those That now do work iniquity 2 For like the grass which flourished Quickly cut down and gone are they And like the green and tender herb They wither and must die
and are great and strong And they are multiplyed much Who hate and hurt me to my wrong 20 And they that render ill for good Daily as enemies me use Not that I wrong them but because The thing that 's good I do and choose 21 Forsake me not O gracious Lord My God O be not far from me 22 Lord to my needful help make hast For my salvation is of thee PSALM XXXIX 1 I Said I will look to my ways Lest with my hasty words I sin While wicked men stand by my tongue I 'le bridle and with care keep in 2 With silence I became as dumb Resolv'd restraint did hold my peace Even from good talk and just defence Till stirred sorrows did increase 3 My heart within me then grew hot While troubled thus I mused long Till the restrained fire broke out Then thus I loos'd my bridled tongue 4 Lord make me to foreknow my end The shortness of my hastning days That I may know how frail I am And do my work without delays 5 Experience tells us Thou hast made Man's days to be but as a span Even as meer nothing before thee Is the short age of Mortal man Surely not one but every man Here in his setled fastest state Is altogether vanity His life is of so short a date 6 The worldling walks in a vain show Turmoils himself for wealth in vain He heapeth up but doth not know To whom it after will remain 7 And now O Lord what wait I for My trust and hope is all on thee 8 Save me from all my sins lest I To wicked fools a scorn should be 9 As dumb I opened not my mouth Because I knew the scourge was thine 10 Remove from me thy heavy hand Under thy chastening stroke I pine 11 When with rebukes thou chastenest man Justly for his iniquity His strength dissolveth like a moth Thus every man is vanity 12 Lord hear my pray'r regard my cries And be not silent at my tears I sojourn and a stranger am On earth as all my fathers were 13 O spare me yet prolong my days My strength and peace do thou restore Before I go from hence by death And shall be seen on earth no more PSALM XL. 1 I Waited long seeking the Lord And patiently his hand did bear And he inclined unto me And did my cry and prayer hear 2 He took me from an horrid pit Out of the sordid miry clay And set my feet upon a Rock And safely stablished my way 3 He put a new song in my mouth Our God to praise and magnifie Many shall see and fear the Lord And shall by faith on him rely 4 O blessed is that man whose trust Upon the Lord alone relies Respecting not the proud nor such As turn aside from truth to lyes 5 O Lord my God how many are The wonders thou for us hast wrought By which thou hast made known to us The measures of thy gracious thoughts They cannot all be reckoned up By-us in order unto thee If I would mention them they 'r more Than numbered by man can be 6 Thou dost no bloody sacrifice Or offering of us desire Burnt-offering and sin-offering Thou dost not now of man require Mine ear thou openedst to thy call 7 Then said I to thee Loe I come For so of me it written is Even in thy sacred book 's Volumne 8 My God I come to do thy will It is my work and great delight My heart within the Tables is Where thou thy holy Law didst write 9 In the great Congregation I Thy truth and righteousness did preach Thou know'st Lord I did not refrain By sinful silence holy speech 10 I have not in my heart conceal'd Thy sacred truth and righteousness But openly I have declar'd Thy saving grace and faithfulness Thy loving kindness I declar'd I did it not from men conceal To thy great Congregations Thy holy truth I did reveal 11 Thy tender saving mercies Lord With hold not nor to me deny Let thy benignity and truth Keep me from ill continually 12 For I am compassed about With evils great and manifold I am not able to look up My sins on me do take such hold More than hairs on my head they are Therefore my failing heart 's dismaid Be pleased Lord to deliver me O Lord make hast to be my aid 14 Shame and confusion be to all That seek my guiltless blood to spill Let them be driven back and sham'd Who wish in heart my wrongful ill 15 For a reward of this their shame Then desolate let them all be Who in my hurt do cry Aha With scorn and triumph over me 16 Let all that truly seek thy face Joy and be ever glad in thee Let such a love thy grace still say Our God shall magnified be 17 I weak and poor and needy am But yet am not of God forgot Thou art my help and saviour My God O too long tarry not PSALM XLI 1 BLest is he who with mercy doth The poor and needy's case consider For in the troublous evil day The Lord will him keep and deliver 2 The Lord will him preserve alive And he will bless him in the land And thou wilt not deliver him Into his enemies will and hand 3 Upon his bed of languishing He shall by thee be strengthened And in his painful sickness thou For ease wilt make and turn his bed 4 I pray'd and said to thee my God O be thou merciful to me And heal my soul of guilt and woe That hath by sin offended thee 5 Mine enemies speak and wish me ill And say How long when will he dye That so his name may be forgot Or buried under slanders lye 6 Or if he come to visit me He speaketh lies and vanity His heart to tell it all abroad Gathers it self iniquity 7 Against me they whisper and plot Then all that are mine enemies Together they some hurt or ill Against me daily do devise 8 There cleaves to him say they with joy Some ill disease or mortal sore And now that he doth keep his bed Off it he shall rise up no more 9 Yea he with whom I liv'd in peace Who was my friend and confident Who of my bread did eat even he His scornful hee l against me bent 10 But thou O Lord be merciful To me and raise me up agen That I in justice may requite The doings of these wicked men 11 And by this I may know that I Am own'd and favoured by thee Because mine enemies do not still Thus boast and triumph over me 12 Thou me in mine integrity Upholdest by thy saving grace And wilt me set for evermore Before thy pleased glorious face 13 The Lord the God of Israel For ever prais'd and blessed be From age to age for evermore All Saints Amen Amen say ye PSALM XLII 1 AS the dry Hart for water-brooks In thirst doth fainting pant and bray So after thee my gracious God My thirsty soul
doth pant and pray 2 My soul for God the living God Doth thirst O when when shall I come And in his house before my God Appear with joy as I have done 3 My flowing tears have been to me As bitter food both night and day While with reproach continually To me where is thy God they say 4 My soul is poured out in me When this I sadly think upon How I with the glad multitude Unto God's sacred house have gone I went with them to worship God With joyned voice of joy and praise Even with the multitude that kept In peace God's solemn holy days 5 Why art thou so cast down my soul And why so troubled and dismaid Trust God for I shall yet praise him Whose face and favour is my aid 6 My God my soul 's cast down in me But yet remember thee I will From Jordan's land and Hermonites And from the place of Mizar hill 7 At thy great water-spout's loud noise Dreadful deep unto deep doth call Frightfully over me have gone Thy rowling waves and billows all 8 Yet will the Lord command for me His kindest love by lightsome day By night his song shall be with me To God my life in faith I 'le pray 9 I 'le say to God My Rock O why Am I of thee forgotten so Why by my foes oppression Thus mourning do I daily go 10 It 's as a sword within my bones When thus my foes do me upbraid When in reproach Where is thy God To me I hear it daily said 11 Why art thou cast down O my soul And why with grief so much opprest Why so disquieted in me In God still place thy hope and rest Yet surely I shall speak his praise Who is and still hath been to me My heart 's my countenances health My ever gracious God is he PSALM XLIII 1 O God be thou the Judge And plead my righteous cause Against a Nation of bad men Who violate thy Laws From false men of deceit Men of Iniquity Do thou the great and righteous God Save and deliver me 2 Thou Lord art all my strength Why do I mourning go As if I were cast off by thee Oppressed by my foe 3 Send out thy Light and Truth Let them conduct me still And bring me to thy Tabernacles Upon thy holy hill 4 I 'le to God's Altar go To God my greatest joy O God my God to sing thy praise My harp will I employ 5 Why art thou O my soul Cast down what grieveth thee Why art thou with distrustful thoughts Disquieted in me Still trust and hope in God For him I shall yet praise He 's the health of my countenance He 'll be my God always PSALM XLIV 1 WE with our ears have heard O God Our ancient fathers have us told What work thou in their days hast done Even in the famous times of old 2 How thou didst drive the heathen out And plant them in their pleasant land By thy own gift but didst afflict The heathen people with thy hand 3 Their own sword got not them the land Nor their own arm and strength them save But thy hand and light countenance All this thy love and favour gave 4 Thou art my King for Jacob Lord Deliverance do thou command 5 Through thee we shall push down our foes Even those that do against us stand We through thy name will tread them down Who rose and fought against us have 6 For in my bow I will not trust Nor shall my sword or strength me save 7 But thou hast sav'd us from our foes And all our haters put to shame 8 In God we all the day do boast And we will ever praise thy name 9 But now even thou hast cast us off And us to open shame hast put And when our armies have gone forth With them to war thou goest not out 10 Thou mak'st us from the enemy To fly in fear and turn our back And they who hate us for themselves Our wealth as spoil away do take 11 Thou scatterest us in heathen lands And givest us to them for meat 12 And sellest us for nought and dost No wealth or increase for us get 13 Thou makest us a meer reproach To all our neighbours that are near Derision and a scorn to them That round about us dwelling are 14 Among the heathen thou dost us A jeast and very by-word make The people in contempt and spight At us cast down their heads do shake 15 My great confusion and disgrace I as before me always see Of my reproached countenance The shame hath daily covered me 16 Because of the reproachers voice Which of thee speaketh blasphemy Because of the revenging rage Of this our cruel enemy 17 All this is come on us yet we O God have not forgotten thee Nor falsly from thy Covenant Apostatiz'd and gone have we 18 Our heart 's not turned back nor have Our going steps from thy ways stray'd 19 Though thou us among Dragons break'st And in death's covering shade hast lay'd 20 If we the Lord's name have forgot Or any help from Idols sought 21 Would not God search this out who knows The very secrets of our thought 22 We for thy sake are kill'd all day And counted but as slaughter-sheep 23 Rise Lord cast us not ever off Awake for us why dost thou sleep 24 Wherefore thus hidest thou thy face Forgetting this our great distress 25 And look'st not on our miseries Nor them that do our souls oppress 26 Our soul is bowed down to dust To earth our very bellies cleave Arise Lord for thy mercies sake And us do thou redeem and save PSALM XLV 1 THe good things of the King I speak My fervent heart doth it indite My tongue is as the pen of one That very readily doth write 2 Thou fairer art than sons of men Plenteous grace to thy lips doth flow Therefore great blessings evermore God doth and will on thee bestow 3 O thou that art the mighty one Thy warlike sword gird on thy thigh 4 In all thy glory excellent And in thy splendid majesty In state do thou ride prosperously For meekness truth and righteousness And dreadful things thy strong right hand Shall do and reach thee by success 5 Thine arrows are sharp in the hearts Of the King's hateful enemies Whereby the people under thee Shall fall that do against thee rise 6 For ever and for ever Lord Abides thy Royal Throne of might The Scepter of thy Kingdom is A Scepter that is just and right 7 Thou lov'st the right and hatest ill Therefore thy God doth and still shall With Oyl of gladness thee anoint Even much above thy fellows all 8 Of Aloes Myrrh and Cassia A pleasant smell thy garments had Out of the Ivory palaces Whereby they greatly made thee glad 9 Among thy women honourable Kings daughters waiting were at hand And on thy right hand did the Queen In precious gold of Ophir stand 10 Hearken O daughter and advise To me
beauty shall consume And it shall perish in the grave When carry'd from their houses they Shall their in dust their dwelling have 15 But God will sure redeem my soul From the hand of death and the grave For he my hope saviour is And he himself will me receive 16 Be not discouraged by fear When wicked men grow great and rich And when the glory of their house Their pomp and pow'r increaseth much 17 For he shall carry nothing hence When certain death his days shall end Nor shall his glory after him Into the loathsome grave descend 18 Though he his flatter'd soul did bless Whil'st he on earth in wealth did live And when thy courses prosperous are Worldly men will thee praises give 19 Yet shall he to his fathers go Who lived here on earth before And shall be laid among the dead Who here shall see the light no more 20 Man that in worldly honour lives And God's Word understandeth not Is nothing better than the beasts That die and in the grave do rot PSALM L. 1 THe Lord the mighty God Spake and the earth did call From the Sun-rising to the place Of its descent and fall 2 Out of holy Sion Beauty's perfection The Lord hath shined unto man 3 Our God shall surely come He shall not silent be Before him fire doth burn And round about he dreadful is By his tempestuous storm 4 And from the heav'ns above His pow'rful voice shall call And to the earth below that he May judge his people all 5 Together let my Saints To me assembled be Those that by sacrifice have made A Covenant with me 6 The heav'ns themselves then shall His righteousness declare For it is the great God himself By whom all judged are 7 My people hear my words And what I testifie Against thee sinful Israel God even thy God am I. 8 For want of sacrifice To me I judge thee not Nor because thy burnt-offerings were Neglected or forgot 9 I 'le take no calf or goats From house or fold of thine 10 The forest-beasts and cattle all On thousand hills are mine 11 The fowls on mountains high Are all to me well known Wild beasts which in the fields abide Are all of them my own 12 And if I hungry were I would not tell it thee For the whole world and Its fulness Doth all belong to me 13 I 'le not eat flesh of bulls Nor goats blood drink will I. 14 Offer true thanks to God and pay Thy vows to the most high 15 And call thou upon me In thy most troublous days And then will I deliver thee And thou shalt give me praise 16 But to the wicked man God saith My word of truth Should'st thou declare how dar'st thou take My Covenant in thy mouth 17 Sith thou instruction hat'st which should thy life direct And my commands behind thy back Dost cast and them reject 18 When thou a thief didst see With him thou then consent'st And with the foul adulterer Thou a partaker went'st 19 Thou giv'st thy mouth to ill Thy tongue deceit doth frame 20 Against thy brother thou dost speak Thy mothers son defame 21 Because I silence kept Whilst thou these things hast wrought That I was such a one as thou Was thine ungodly thought But I will thee reprove And set before thine eyes In order all thy sinful deeds And thine iniquities 22 Now you that God forget In time this well consider Lest I in pieces tear you all And none can you deliver 23 Whoso doth offer praise Doth rightly honour me And he that orders well his ways Shall God's salvation see PSALM LI. 1 AFter thy loving kindness Lord Some pity on a sinner take Blot out my hainous trespasses Good Lord for thy great mercies sake 2 O wash me throughly from my sin Cleanse me from mine iniquities 3 For my transgressions I confess My sin is still before mine eyes 4 Against thee O my God I sin'd And did this evil in thy sight And if I were therefore condemn'd Yet were thy judgments just and right 5 Thou know'st that in iniquity My shape and nature I receiv'd As guilty and defil'd by sin My sinful mother me conceiv'd 6 I know that which thou dost desire Is truth within the secret heart And wisdom thou wilt make me know Even in the hidden inward part 7 With sacred Hyssop purge thou me And then I shall be cleansed so Wash thou me in my Saviour's blood And I shall whiter be than snow 8 Of joy and gladness make thou me To hear again the welcome voice That so the bones which thou for sin Hast justly broken may rejoyce 9 From the beholding of my sin O turn away thy angry face And all my great iniquity Blot out and utterly deface 10 O God create in me a heart Clean and unspotted in thy sight And by thy grace in me renew A spirit sincere and upright 11 And from thy gracious presence Lord Do not this sinner cast away And of thy holy quickning spirit Deprive me not I humbly pray 12 Let the joy of thy saving grace To my sad soul restored be And with thy free enlarging spirit Uphold confirm and comfort me 13 Then I will teach thy holy ways To those that now transgressors be And so ungodly sinful men Shall be converted unto thee 14 O thou the God of all my hopes Deliver me from guilt of blood Then of thy saving righteousness My joyful tongue shall sing aloud 15 Open my lips which by my sin Now silenced and closed are And then shall my enlarged mouth Thy praises publickly declare 16 I know it is not sacrifice Which thou requirest I should bring Else would I give it Nor art thou Delighted with burnt-offering 17 The sacrifice which pleaseth God Is a repenting broken spirit O God thou never wilt despise A heart that 's broken and contrite 18 In thy good pleasure Lord do good To Sion and thy people all Of thy belov'd Jerusalem Do thou build up the broken wall 19 The sacrifice of righteousness Shall then be pleasing unto thee Better than whole burnt-offerings then Shall on thine Altar offered be PSALM LII 1 O Mighty man in wickedness Why boastest thou thy self with pride God's goodness to his people will Surely for evermore abide 2 Thy tongue speaks mischief which thy heart Plots and deviseth wickedly And like a sharpned rasor cuts And works by lies deceitfully 3 Thou lovest evil more than good And lying more than to speak right Thou false tongue all devouring words Thou lovest with cruel delight 4 God shall for ever cut thee down And he shall take thee quite away And pluck thee from thy dwelling-place And from among the living slay PSALM LIII 1 THe lives of fools do tell us that Their hearts no God do truly own Corrupt are they odious their works Of them that do good there is none 2 Upon the wicked sons of men From heav'n God lookt on earth abroad To see if any
understood And seriously sought after God 3 But they all filthy are become They all from God are backward gone None of them lives in doing good Of all these wicked men not one 4 Have all these men of wicked works No wit or knowledge left at all Who eat my people up as bread On God they never truly call 5 By guilt and God's affrighting hand With fear they were greatly dismaid And fled in terror when no cause Was seen for them to be afraid For God their bones that thee besieg'd Hath justly scatter'd all abroad To shame thou hast put them because Despis'd they were and are of God 6 Let Israel's help from Sion come When God brings back the Captives sad His saved people shall rejoyce And his true Israel be glad PSALM LIV. 1 SAve me O God by thy great name And judge me by thy mighty strength 2 My prayer hear O God give ear Unto my suit and words at length 3 0ppressors seek after my life Strangers against me joyntly rise Because they have not set the Lord At all with fear before their eyes 4 But yet the Lord my helper is Therefore in him my soul is bold And with the just he taketh part Who do my soul help and uphold 5 He shall repay hurt to my foes Who me with hate watch and observe According to thy truth cut off These wicked men as they deserve 6 Then I 'le bring sacrifice to thee O Lord with chearful willingness And praise thy name for it is good Thy holy praises to express 7 When he hath me delivered Out of my great adversities And when my eyes his justice see On all my wicked enemies PSALM LV. 1 LOrd hear my suit hide not thy self From my intreating earnest voice 2 Attend and hear me in my plaint Regard my sad and mournful noise 3 Because of enemies slandrous voice And wicked mens oppression great On me they cast iniquity And me in cruel wrath they hate 4 My heart in me sore pained is Death 's shaking terrors on me fall 5 On me come trembling fear and dread Hath cover'd me o're whelm'd withall 6 O that I had wings like a dove Said I away then would I flee And seek out some retiring place Where I in quiet rest might be 7 Lo then would I wander far off And in the remote desart stay 8 From windy storms and tempests I Would for peace hast to scape away 9 Destroy thou them O Lord and let Their combin'd tongues divided be 10 For violence and hurtful strife I in the envious City see Day and night on the walls thereof They fiercely go about it round Contriv'd mischief and hurtfulness There in the midst of it are found 11 Even in the midst and chiefest part There dwells and reigneth wickedness And from her streets do not depart Guile falshood and deceitfulness 12 It was no foe that me reproach'd For this from such I could endure No known foe did against me rise Else hid from him I 'd me secure 13 But he mine equal and my guide And my familiar neighbour was 14 Together we sweet counsel took And to God's house conjoyn'd did pass 15 Let death seize on them let them go Down quick into the wicked's grave For in their dwellings wickedness They for their chosen business have 16 I 'le call on God he will me save I 'le pray to him aloud I 'le cry 17 Evening and morning and at noon My craving voice he 'll not deny 18 Against me when they raised war He did my soul keep and set free And he preserv'd me as in peace For through him many were with me 19 My God shall hear and them afflict Even God who is the same of old They fear not God because they have No changes but in sin are bold 20 Against them that with him had peace He hath put forth his treacherous hand The Covenant which he hath made By breaking falsly he prophan'd 21 Smoother than butter were his words While in his heart design'd was war His speeches were softer than Oyl But hurtful as drawn swords they are 22 Cast thou thy burden on the Lord And he shall surely thee sustain And by his grace the righteous men Unmoved ever shall remain 23 But thou Lord wilt these wicked men In justice judge and overthrow And in destruction's dismal pit Wilt shortly cast and lay them low The bloody and deceitful men Shall not live out one half their days But upon thee with confidence My God I will rely always PSALM LVI By W. Barton 1 HAve mercy Lord on me Whom man would make a prey Behold how he oppresseth me Contending every day 2 They that mine enemies be Would daily me devour For multitudes against me fight O thou of highest pow'r 3 What time soever Lord I am of such afraid Even then will I trust faithfully On thy assured aid 4 In God I 'le praise his word In God my trust shall be And secure there I will not fear What flesh can do to me 5 My words they utter wrong And wrest them every day Their thoughts are still to work me ill In whatsoe're they say 6 They altogether throng They hide themselves likewise They lie at catch my steps they watch My life for to surprize 7 Thall they escape so well In this their wicked path Upon them frown and Lord cast down This people in thy wrath 8 Thou dost my wandrings tell Let down thy bottle Lord And put in there each briny tear Are they not on record 9 When I shall cry to thee It puts to sudden flight My daunted foe and this I know For God defends my right 10 In God enabling me I will his word proclaim Yea in the Lord will I record His word 's due praise and fame 11 In God alone have I Repos'd my trust for aid Let mortal man do what he can I will not be afraid 12 Thy Vows upon me lye Lord I must pay the same And I always will render praise To thy most holy name 13 For thou my soul hast freed From death so near at had And wilt not thou uphold me now And make my feet to stand That I may still proceed To walk as in thy sight And spend my days unto thy praise With them that live in light PSALM LVII 1 BE merciful to me O God For mercy I in thee do trust Under thy wings I refuge seek Till this distress be over past 2 My cry I will cause to ascend Unto the Lord who is most high To God who doth all things for me Ever perform most faithfully 3 He shall send down from Heav'n and me From his unjust reproach defend That would devour me God his truth And saving mercy sorth shall send 4 My soul among fierce Lions is I burning fire-brands lie among Even men whose teeth are spears and darts A cutting sharp sword is their tongue 5 Above the highest Heav'ns O God Be thou in might exalted high And over all
the earth below Shew forth thy Glorious Majesty 6 They for my steps prepar'd a net My soul by them is bowed down They dig'd a pit for me in which Themselves are fallen and overthrown 7 My heart is fixt my heart is fixt O God I 'le sing thy joyful praise 8 My glory wake Psaltery and Harp My self for this I 'le early raise 9 Among the people I 'le thee praise With publick songs thee magnifie 10 Thy mercies great unto the heav'ns Thy truth unto the cloudy sky 11 Exalted be thy glorious name O God above the heavens high And over all the earth advance Thy glorious pow'r and majesty PSALM LVIII 1 DO you that are in Council met Speak and determine what is just And justly judge ye sons of men Indeed according to your trust 2 Yea in your hearts you wickedness Contrive plot and promote and then Out of the Judgment-seats your hands Weigh violence on earth to men 3 Bad men are from the womb estrang'd From every just and holy way As soon as they are born they are Inclin'd by lies to go astray 4 To serpent's poyson very like Their hurtful poyson doth appear And like the adder deaf they are That fast doth close and stop her ear 5 Lest she should hear the charmer's voice At all although the man should charm Never so wisely to inchant Her that she do no deadly harm 6 Break thou their poysonous teeth O God Yea from their mouth quite break them out Yea break the sharp devouring teeth Of Lions even the young and stout 7 Let them like waters melt away Which downward still do slide and flow In pieces cut his arrows all When he doth bend his unjust bow 8 Like to a snail that melts away Let them all pass and hence be gone That like the womb 's untimely birth They never see the shining sun 9 Before your pots can feel the thorns Away in wrath he shall them drive And with his whirlwind's angry storms Sweep them away from hence alive 10 The righteous shall rejoyce when he This just revenge from God shall see And in the blood of wicked men Even wash his conquering feet shall he 11 Then men shall say Truly there is For righteous men a great reward Surely there is a God that doth The earth judge and mens works regard PSALM LIX 1 DEliver me O God From all mine enemies Set me in safety from all them That do against me rise 2 Deliver me from them That work-iniquity Save me from men of blood who for My life in wait do lie 3 Against me the great men Have joyntly gathered bin But not for my transgression Lord Nor real guilt of sin 4 They run and do prepare Themselves without any crime Behold their course and now awake And help thou me betime 5 Awake to visit such Lord God of Israel And spare not those who against thee Do wickedly rebel 6 At evening they return Like dogs they make a noise And round about the City go With dogged snarling voice 7 Their mouths do belch out rage And in their lips are swords For still they do perswade themselves Thou hearest not their words 8 Thou Lord wilt them despise And all the heathen mock 9 His strength shall make me wait on thee Thou art my help and rock 10 The God of my mercies With help shall me prevent And let me see on these my foes His righteous punishment 11 Lest it should be forgot Scatter them all abroad And bring them down but slay them not O thou our shield and God 12 For the sin of their words Take thou them in their pride And for the curses and the lies Which from their lips do slide 13 In wrath consume them all That so they may not be That Jacob's God rules through the earth Let them all know and see 14 At even let them return And make like dogs a noise And round about the City go With discontented voice Let them wander about As wanting food to eat And pine and grudge through emptiness Not satisfy'd with meat 16 I of thy power will sing Early thy mercy praise Thou my defence and refuge wast In all my troublous days 17 Unto thee I will sing Who art my strength and power The God of all my mercies and My sure defence and tower PSALM LX. 1 LOrd thou of late hast cast us off And thou hast scattered us abroad Thou justly hast displeased been O turn again to us O God 2 Thou mad'st the earth it self to quake Thine heavy anger did it break O heal thou now its grievous breach For it as yet doth sorely shake 3 Unto thy people thou hard things Hast shew'd and sharply on them sent And thou hast caused them to drink The wine of great astonishment 4 And yet a banner thou hast given To them that do thee humbly fear That it by them because of truth Displayed may to all appear 5 That thy dearly beloved flock Sav'd and delivered may be Help O our God with thy right hand In mercy do thou answer me 6 I will rejoyce because the Lord Spake from his high and holy seat Sechem I will divide and will The fruitful Vale of Succoth mete 7 Gilead belongeth unto me Manasseh also mine shall be Ephraim is the strength of my head Judah rules and gives Laws for me 8 Moab my servile wash-pot is On Edom I will freely tread And the Philistine nation all I will in warlike triumph lead 9 Who is he that will bring me in The City strong and fortify'd And who will into Edom's land Me and my conquering armies guide 10 Even he that seem'd to cast us off And wilt not thou again O God Go forth before our warlike hosts When they to fight do march abroad 11 From trouble give us thy sure help For meerly vain is all mens aid 12 Through God we shall do valiantly Our foes God down for us will tread PSALM LXI 1 HEar thou my cries O God Unto my pray'r attend 2 Even from the ends of all the earth My cry to thee I send When my heart 's overwhelm'd With my perplexity Lead me to the defensive Rock That higher is than I. 3 For thou hast been to me A shelter by thy power And from the rage of enemies A strong defensive tower 4 I in thy Tabernacle For ever will abide Under the covert of thy wings With trust will I reside 5 For thou my solemn vows To thee my God didst hear And gavest me the heritage Of those thy name that fear 6 A life by thee prolong'd Thou to the King wilt give As many generations are The life that he shall live 7 For ever before God His dwelling he shall have Prepare thy mercy and thy truth Which him may ever save 8 So will I evermore Sing praises to thy name That having made my vows I may Daily perform the same PSALM LXII 1 MY soul in silence waits on God My only help and rock is he 2
My Saviour and my strong high place I shall not greatly moved be 3 How long will ye mischief devise You by the sword at last shall fall You stand but like a tottering fence And like a crazed bowing wall 4 Their consult is to cast him down That 's set by God in dignity They love to lie with mouth they bless But they hate and curse inwardly 5 My soul wait thou only on God For all my hope 's on him alone 6 He 's all my strength help and defence I shall not be mov'd and o'rethrown 7 All my salvation is in God My glory and my dignity He is the Rock of all my strength God is my refuge always nigh 8 At all times put your trust in him Ye people that indeed are his Pour out your hearts before him still For God our certain refuge is 9 Surely low men are vanity And high and great men are a lie Together in the ballance put They lighter are than vanity 10 Trust ye not in oppression then In theft and wrong become not vain Set not your hearts on wealth and on The increase of your worldly gain 11 This God hath spoken once and twice This certain truth I heard again That all disposing Ruling Power To God alone doth appertain 12 And to distribute Mercy doth Belong to thee O Lord alone For thou according to his work Rendrest in time to every one PSALM LXIII 1 O God thou art my God therefore Early I 'le seek near thee to be In an unwater'd weary land My heart and flesh doth thirst for thee 2 That I thy power may behold And see the glory of thy face As I have seen thee heretofore Within thy house and holy place 3 Because thy loving kindness is Better than life and length of days My joyful soul which thou hast sav'd And lips shall ever give thee praise 4 While thou continuest me in life Thus will I daily speak thy praise In worshipping thy holy name My heart and hands I will up raise 5 With thy fat-sweet delights my soul Shall fed and satisfied be My chearful heart with joyful lips Shall offer daily praise to thee 6 When on my quiet bed I thee Seek and remember with delight And when on thee I meditate In silent watches of the night 7 Because to me in all distress Thy helping hand still succour brings Therefore my soul shall still rejoyce Under thy safe and covering wings 8 My soul encourag'd by thy love Thus closely followeth after thee In all my dangers and distress Thy right hand still upholdeth me 9 But they that seek my life shall go Into earth's dark and lowest room 10 The sword let out their guilty souls And they the foxes prey become 11 But let the King rejoyce in God His faithful servants glory shall Who swear by him But God will stop The mouth of perjur'd lyars all PSALM LXIV 1 THe Prayer which to thee I make O God do thou vouchsafe to hear My life save thou from enemies And from all their perplexing fear 2 Hide me from their secret designs Who do live and plot wickedly From insurrection of those men That still do work iniquity 3 Who do their tongues with malice whet That they may cut like sharpned swords In whose bent bows are arrows set To shoot even false and bitter words 4 That they may at the perfect man In secret aim their cruel shot Suddenly do they shoot at him Harden'd in sin they fear it not 5 In ill encourage they themselves And commune how closely to lay Their snares for to entrap the just For who our plots shall see say they 6 They study for iniquity For it they use their greatest art Deep is their inward plotting thought And unknown is their wicked heart 7 God shall an arrow at them shoot And wound them deep and suddenly 8 Their tongues shall fall upon themselves All that see them away shall fly 9 And seeing this all men shall fear And shall God's dreadful works declare For wisely then they shall perceive That these his righteous doings are 10 The righteous shall rejoyce in God And in him wholly put their trust And all that be of upright heart In him shall boldly make their boast PSALM LXV 1 LOrd praise in Sion waits for thee The Vows made by us we 'll perform O thou that hearest sincere pray'r To thee all flesh for help shall come Injuries and iniquities Against me have had much success â—ut thou wilt purge away the sin And guilt of us who did transgress 4 Blessed is he whom thou dost choose To approach nigh to thee his God That in thy holy pleasant Courts He may have his constant abode Our souls shall satisfied be With the goodness and Divine grace Which in thy blessed house abounds Even in thy chosen holy place 5 Thy Justice will by dreadful things An answer to us waiting give God of our help the trust of all On earth or on the sea that live 6 The God of Power who by strength Set'st fast the great and massy hills 7 Who the great noise of sea and waves And raging people's tumult stills 8 Those that in utmost parts do dwell Are at thy dreadful signs afraid Mornings and evenings out-goings By thee sing and are joyful made 9 The earth thou visit'st watering it Enrich'd by thee with fruit to grow By God's full streams Thou Corn prepar'st Having for it provided so 10 Her ridges thou dost water well Her plowed surrows settlest With showers thou dost make it soft Her springing fruit by thee is blest 11 Thus thou the year from time to time Dost with thy bounteous goodness crown And thy high paths do from above On earth drop plenteous fatness down 12 They drop upon the pasture-grounds That lye even in the desart wide The little hills thereby refresh'd Rejoyce with fruit on every side 13 The pastures cloathed are with Flocks The vallies also covered be With Corn Thy blessing is their joy Their fruits sing praises unto thee PSALM LXVI 1 MAke ye a joyful noise to God All people of the spacious earth 2 Sing to the honour of his name His glorious praise do ye set forth 3 Say unto God How-terrible In all thy mighty works art thou Through thy great pow'r thy foes to thee Shall be constrain'd to crouch and bow 4 All men on earth shall worship thee Thy praise in songs shall they proclaim They shall sing Psalms of praise unto The honour of thy holy name 5 Come and the works which God hath wrought With fear and admiration see His doings towards the sons of men All great and very dreadful be 6 He turn'd the Sea into dry land And they thereby safe passage had All marching through the flood on foot There singing we in him were glad 7 He ever ruleth by his pow'r His eyes do all the Nations see The Rebels that exalt themselves By him full low shall humbled be 8 Ye people sound forth of our God
world In wealth and riches do increase 13 Then surely I have cleans'd my heart And wash'd my hands from sin in vain 14 For all day long have I been plagu'd And thy sharp rod each day sustain 15 But if these tempted sinful thoughts I own and utter with my tongue Thy Childrens generation all I should offend and greatly wrong 16 When this I thought to understand It was too high and hard for me 17 Till to God's holy place I went Then I their later end did see 18 Surely it is a slippery place In which these worldly men are set From whence thy hand doth cast them down At last into destruction great 19 How in a moment suddenly To utter ruine brought are they And with just terrors utterly From earth they are consum'd away 20 Even as a transient dream of men Who waking do from sleep arise So thou O Lord when thou awak'st Their lifeless Image wilt despise 21 Thus grieved was my tempted heart And me my pierced Reins opprest 22 So rude and ignorant was I And in thy sight too like a beast 22 Nevertheless continually O Lord with thee I do remain And the support of thy right hand Doth me always help and sustain 24 Thou with thy Counsel in thy way Wilt me direct and surely guide And unto Glory afterwards Thou wil t receive me to abide 25 Whom have I in the heav'ns above To trust but thee my God alone And whom on earth do I desire And seek besides thee there is none 26 My flesh and heart do faint and fail But God upholds my sinking heart God is my Rock of strength and he For ever is my chosen part 27 For they shall surely perish all That are gone far away from thee They that from thee a whoring go Shall all at last destroyed be 28 I know that it is best for me My God still to draw and dwell near I trust in thee Lord God that I May all thy wondrous works declare PSALM LXXIV 1 O God why hast thou cast us off Shall it be thus for evermore Against thy pasture-sheep why doth Thy heavy anger smoak so sore 2 Think on thine ancient flock which thou Hast purchas'd for thy chosen lot Mount Sion where thou dwelled'st so long By thee redeem'd forsake thou not 3 The desolations long repair Arise and do not longer tarry All that thy wicked foes have done Within thy chosen sanctuary 4 Amidst the Congregations Cruel foes roar outragiously And their Ensigns they have set up As signs of prophane Victory 5 This sacred building formerly Did skilful workmen famous make 6 But now with axes and hammers The carved work they down do break 7 Thy Temple they have burnt with fire And it defil'd by casting down Unto the ground the dwelling place Where thy great Name and praise was known 8 They said Now let us break them all With our destroying potent hand They burn up all the Synagogues Of God that were throughout the Land 9 Our signs and all our Prophets cease Now there is none left us among That can the end of this fore-see And tell thy suffering flock how long 10 How long Lord shall the enemy Thee by reproach scorn and prophane And shall the adversaries thus Always blaspheme thy holy name 11 Pluck out and shew forth thy right hand Why dost thou it so long with-hold 12 Salvation in the earth was wrought By God our glorious King of old 13 The flowing Sea divided was By force of thy potent command The heads of Dragons in the floods Thou also brakest by thy hand 14 The heads thou didst in pieces break Of the Leviathan so great To them that in the desart dwell Thou gav'st him also to be meat 15 Fountains out of the cloven rocks Thou brought'st forth for us plenteously The mighty stream of Jordon flood For us thou caused'st to be dry 16 Thine and in thy hand only is The day and so is the dark night It 's thou alone that hast prepar'd The Sun and its clear daily light 17 Thou all the borders of the earth Hast set by thy potent decree The Summer and the Winter's course Made and distinguish'd are by thee 18 O Lord let it remembred be How great prophane reproach and shame Thy foes have dar'd to cast on thee And fools blaspheme thy holy name 19 Thy turtle-dove's soul do not thou Unto the wicked croud deliver The Congregation of thy poor O do not thou forget for ever 20 Unto thy Covenant have respect For now the earth 's dark places be Full of the habitations Of wicked mens great cruelty 21 O let not those that are opprest Return again with grief and shame But let the poor and men distress'd Give praises to thy holy name 22 Arise O Lord plead and maintain The Cause that is indeed thine own Remember how thou art reproach'd Even daily by the foolish one 23 Forget not thou the voice of those That are thy wicked enemies Their rage and tumults do increase Who do as foes against thee rise PSALM LXXV 1 ACcept O God the thanks we give To thee we truly thankful are For that thy name to us is near Thy wondrous works do all declare 2 When I th' Assembly do receive An upright Judge to all I 'le be 3 The earth and dwellers are dissolv'd Her shaken Pillars rest on me 4 To the unquiet fools I said Deal not stilt thus so foolshly And to malignant wicked men Lift not your threatning horn on high 5 Do not presumptuous horns advance Speak not stiff-neck'd with haughty mouth 6 Promotion doth not come by chance From East or West or from the South 7 But God is judge he puts down one And he doth set another up 8 In the revenging hand of God Of blood-red wine there is a cup. It 's full of mixture he pours out The same and makes the wicked all Wring out the bitter dregs thereof And they all surely drink it shall 9 But I for ever will declare With Psalms I Jacob's God will praise 10 The wicked's horns will I cut off But just mens heads and power will raise PSALM LXXVI 1 IN Judah God is known his name In his own Israel is great In Salem is his Tabernacle In Sion is his dwelling seat 3 There he the hurtful arrows brake The shield the sword and bloody war 4 More glorious than the hills of prey And excellent art thou by far 5 The stout and valiant men are spoil'd And by the sleep of death they fall No men of might could find their hands In need to help themselves withal 6 When thy rebuke O Jacob's God Had once against them spoke and past With them both Horse and Chariot were Into a fatal dead sleep cast 7 Thou and thou only glorious God Art he that all should greatly fear And who can stand before thy face If once but angry thou appear 8 Thou didst make Judgment heard from heaven The subject earth was still with fear 9
themselves At us do daily laugh and flout 7 Turn us again O Lord of Hosts And upon us do thou vouchsafe To make thy pleased face to shine And then we shall again be safe 8 Thou hast a Vine from Egypt brought By thy out-stretched mighty hand And thou the heathen didst cast out And plant it in their promis'd land 9 Before it thou prepared'st room And mad'st it therein take deep root Till it did spread and multiply And so did fill the land throughout 10 Through its increase the hills about Were cloath'd and covered with its shade And like the lofty Cedar trees Her spreading branches were display'd 11 And she as far as to the sea Her prosperous fruitful boughs did send And to the bounding river's side Her out-spread branches did extend 12 Why hast thou then her fencing hedge Thus greatly broken and cast down So that all passengers her fruit Do pluck and take even as their own 13 It rooted up and wasted is By the unclean boar of the wood And all the wild beasts of the field Devour it as their proper food 14 O God of Hosts we thee beseech With help return yet unto thine With mercy look from heav'n behold And visit this thy wasted Vine 15 The Vineyard which inclosed by thee Thy right hand set and planted young And that chief branch which for thy self In it thou mad'st so high and strong 16 It is as fuel now cut down And burnt up by the raging fire They perish when thy countenance Rebuketh them with burning ire 17 Let thy defending hand be on The chosen man of thy right hand The son of man whom for thy self Thou madest strong to Rule and stand 18 So will we not go back from thee Nor from our promis'd duty fall Quicken and raise us up and we Upon thy Name will trust and call 19 Turn us again Lord God of Hosts And upon us do thou vouchsafe To make thy pleased face to shine And then we shall be ever safe PSALM LXXXI 1 UNto the glorious God our strength Sing all aloud with raised voice And unto Jacob's mighty God In praise make all a joyful noise 2 Take ye a Psalm the Timbrel bring To help our joyful melody The pleasant Harp and every string We 'll use with the sweet Psaltery 3 In the new Moon the Trumpet blow The time which God whom we obey Appointed us this use to keep Even on our solemn feast ing day 4 A statute this for Israel was A Law which Jacob's God had sent 5 To Joseph made a testimony When he from Egypt saved went He heard a speech not understood 6 The heavy burdens he did bear I from his shoulders took his hands From making pots delivered were 7 Thou call'dst in fear I saved thee And from the secret thundring sky I answer'd and at Meribah Thy wavering trust in me did try 8 Hear O my people and my mind I 'le shew and testifie to thee O Israel if thou wilt obey And truly hearken unto me 9 Then know that no strange God at all In thee I ever will allow Nor shalt thou to any strange God By way of worship kneel and bow 10 For I the Lord thy God am he Who thee from Egypt's bondage led Open thy mouth wide and thou shall By me be plentifully fed 11 But this my people would not hear This statute which to them I spake And Israel would have none of me But this my great Commandment brake 12 So to their hardened hearts and lusts I left them and so far forsook And in their own wrong way they walkt And their own foolish counsel took 13 O that my people had receiv'd My Word and Law which I thus made And Israel had walked in My righteous Laws and me obey'd 14 I should then quickly have subdu'd To them their feared enemies And turn'd my hand against all those That did as foes against them rise 15 The haters of the Lord to him Should have submission made or feign'd But as for them their prosp'rous time Should surely ever have remain'd 16 He should have fed them with the fat And finest flower of the Wheat And made the Rock with honey flow That thou thereof thy fill might'st eat PSALM LXXXII 1 IN the Assembly of the great'st The Lord o're all himself doth stand As Judge among those called Gods The mortal Rulers of the land 2 How long will ye unjustly judge And favour unjust wicked men Accepting their persons to shew That you your selves are like to them 3 Defend the poor and fatherless To all the poor oppress'd do right 4 The poor and needy ones set free Rid them from bad mens hand and might 5 They know not nor will understand In wilful darkness they walk on All the foundations of the earth Are mov'd and almost overthrown 6 I call'd you Gods for ruling power Honour'd sons of the Highest all 7 But you shall die like men and like To other mortal Princes fall 8 Arise O Lord and judge the earth And bring unjust oppressors down For thou all nations shall possess And rule them justly as thine own PSALM LXXXIII 1 LOrd do not silence keep Nor longer hold thy peace Seem not these doings to neglect And bear with wickedness 2 For now thine enemies Do rage tumultuously And they that hate thee are set up And lift their heads on high 3 They crafty Counsel take Against thy people all And against thine own hidden ones They plot and seek their fall 4 They say Let 's cut them off That they no Nation be And that the name of Israel come No more in memory 5 Together they consult With one consenting hate Even against thee thy peoples strength They are confederate 6 Edom and Ishmaelites Moab and Hagarens 7 Gebal Ammon and Amalek Tyre and the Philistines 8 Assur is with them joyn'd Lot's Children to assist 9 Do them as the Midianites And as to Sisera's host And as at Kison brook To Jabin who did fall 10 At Endor who became as dung To soil the earth withal 11 Make thou their Nobles all Like Oreb and Zeeb Let their Princes as Zeba be And as Zalmunna dead 12 Who said Let 's to our selves The houses of God take 13 My God like rowling wheels or chaff Before the wind them make 14 As fire burns wood and flame The mountains sets on fire 15 Chase and affright them with the storms And tempests of thine ire 16 With shame their faces fill That they may seek thy name 17 Let them confounded be and vext And perish in their shame 18 That men may know that thou Whom we Jehovah call In all the earth art supream Lord And highest over all PSALM LXXXIV 1 HOw lovely is thy dwelling-place O Lord of Hosts to me The tabernacles of thy grace How pleasant Lord they be 2 My thirsty soul doth long and faint The Courts of God to see My heart and even my flesh cry out O living God for thee 3 The sparrow
Lord God to whom alone Final revenging doth belong Shew men that Justice is thy work And surely God avengeth wrong 2 Lift up thy self thou Judge of all The proud do thou check and reward 3 How long shall wicked men triumph Even they that do not God regard 4 Shall they still speak false and hard things And their tongues utter cruelty How low shall they triumph and boast Who plot and work iniquity 5 Thy people they in pieces break Thy heritage do they afflict 6 Widows strangers and fatherless They murder or by wrong deject 7 Yet say they God doth not this see Nor doth he it regard and know 8 Ye brutish people understand Ye fools when will ye wiser grow 9 Shall he not hear who made the ear Nor all things see that form'd the eye 10 He that the heathen doth chastise Shall judge and correct righteously He that all knowledge teacheth man What can from him concealed be 11 The Lord knows all the thoughts of man He sees that they are vanity 12 O blessed is the man who is In love chastis'd by thee O Lord And thou effectually dost teach Withal out of thy holy Word 13 That thou may'st give him rest from times Of sad and sharp adversity Until the pit be dig'd for them That still do work iniquity 14 God who corrects will not cast off His flock nor his sure Covenant break Nor his belov'd inheritance Will ever utterly forsake 15 Judgment shall Righteousness restore And Truth â—â— earth return again And all shall follâ—w after it Who upright hearted do remain 16 Who will rise up for me against The wicked doer's cruel band The workers of iniquity Who will against them for me stand 17 Unless the Lord had been my help I had dwelt quickly in the grave 18 But whâ—â— I said My foot doth slip O Lord my mercy did me save 19 And in the croud and multitude Of troubling thoughts that in me roul Within me thy sweet comforts dwell And do delight my troubled soul 20 Shall the Throne of iniquity Have any fellowship with thee Which frameth mischief by a Law And pleads its own unjust decree 21 They all conspire against the lives Of the most righteous men and good And by their Law ujustly do Condemn and shed the guiltless blood 22 But God alone against them all Is my secure defence and stay The Lord my God my refuge is My rock of strength and trust alway 23 The Lord our God shall bring on them Their own works of iniquity In their own sin he 'll cut them off The Lord he 'll do it certainly PSALM XCV 1 O Come let us unto the Lord Lift up aloud our singing voice And to our Rock and Saviour Make a triumphant joyful noise 2 Before his presence let us all Appear with joy and thankfulness And with the joyful noise of Psalms The praise of our great God express 3 Great is the Lord a mighty King Above all pow'rs and Gods alone 4 The earth 's great depths are in his hands The mountains strength is all his own 5 The Sea and all therein is his It 's he that did it make and form The dry land also he did make And it replenish and adorn 6 O come and let us worship him And to him let us bow down all And on our knees before the Lord Our maker let us humbly fall 7 He only is our God and we The sheep of his own pasture are The flock which his own hand doth lead Of whom he taketh special care 8 To day if you will hear his voice Then longer harden not your hearts As you did tempt and strive with God When led and try'd in the desart 9 Your fathers did me tempt and prove When they my wondrous works did see 10 Even forty years that sinful race Often provok'd and grieved me 11 I said This peoples hearts do err My will and ways they will not know To whom in wrath I sware that to My promis'd Rest they should not go PSALM XCVI 1 O Sing ye now unto the Lord New framed songs with joy and mirth Sing praises to the Lord our God All people of the spacious earth 2 Sing to the Lord and bless his name And daily his salvation show 3 His Glory to the heathen tell Make all the world his wonders know 4 For great and glorious is our God And greatly to be prais'd is he And he above all Gods and Powers By all must fear'd and praised be 5 The feigned Gods are Idols all Which the blind heathen Nations fear It is our God alone by whom The heav'ns and all created were 6 In honour and in majesty His holy presence doth excel And strength with glorious beauty in His Sanctuary always dwell 7 All nations that on earth do dwell Ye people of each land and tribe Give glory to our glorious Lord Glory and strength to him ascribe 8 Give to God's Name the glory due To 's Courts come and your off'ring bring 9 In splendid beauteous holiness Worship the Lord our supream King Fear ye before him all the earth 10 Tell heathens all the Lord doth reign The world shall be established And shall not be remov'd again He all men righteously shall judge 11 Let earth be glad and heav'n rejoyce The great sea and its fulness all Praise God even with its roaring noise 12 Let the fields prosper and rejoyce And all that 's on and from the earth The woods and all the trees shall sing And flourish as it were with mirth 13 Before the Lord For lo he comes He comes the earth to judge and try The world he 'll judge with righteousness And people all with equity PSALM XCVII 1 GOd reigneth Let the earth be glad And let the Isles rejoyce each one 2 Darkness and clouds encompass him In truth and judgment dwells his throne 3 Fire goes before him and his foes It wasts and burns up round about 4 His Lightnings lightened the world The earth it saw and shook throughout 5 And at the presence of the Lord The mighty hills like wax did melt When of the Lord of all the earth The dreadful presence they had felt 6 The glorious heav'ns his righteousness To all do manifestly show His Glory so resplendent is That all men willing may it know 7 They that serve graven Images Sham'd and confounded all shall be And they that of their Idols boast All called Gods him worship ye 8 Sion heard this and did rejoyce And Judah's daughters all were glad For all thy judgments Lord of which The sight or notice they have had 9 For thou the glorious Lord art high Extoll'd above the earth by far All that are called Gods by men Thy creatures and thy subjects are 10 Hate evil ye that fear the Lord The souls of Saints that do him serve He keepeth out of wicked hands And will them all save and preserve 11 For righteous men though now in grief Future light is prepar'd and
written be left on record They that hereafter shall be made Shall gladly serve and praise the Lord. 19 The Lord lookt down on all below Even from his high and holy place The earth unto the Lord of Heaven Is ever seen before his face 20 To hear the prisoners doleful groans And save men falsly judg'd-to die 21 God's name in Sion to declare Him there to praise and magnifie 22 When many people far and nigh Meet there to pray with one accord And when the Kingdoms shall consent To fear and serve the highest Lord. 23 My strength he weakened in the way As shortning my Life 's short day 24 I said By an untimely death Lord take me not in wrath away Through Ages all thou art the same 25 The solid Earth's Foundations laid Thou hast of old Heavens are the Work Which thy own Power and Hands have made 26 They perish shall but thou shalt stand As garments they shall all wax old Thou shalt them change as Men their Cloaths And as a Vesture them up fold 27 But thou art endlesly the same 28 Thy Servants Off-spring shall survive Their Seed established by thee Shall in thy blessed presence live PSALM CIII 1 MY Soul bless thou the glorious God Praise him and celebrate his Fame Let all my inward Powers concur To praise and bless his holy Name 2 Still bless the living Lord my Soul Never do thou sleight or forget Unthankfully his benefits So many undeserv'd and great 3 Thy many great provoking sins His Mercy freely doth forgive He thy Diseases and thy Pains Doth heal or ease and thee relieve 4 He did redeem thy forfeit Life And it from threatned death did free And with his loving kindness great And tender Mercies crowned thee 5 What hast thou wanted that is good To satisfie thy just desire Thy strength like Eagles he renew'd Reviving nature's languid fire 6 God will just Judgment execute For them by man oppress'd that are 7 To Moses and to Israel's seed His ways and acts he did declare 8 Gracious and merciful is God Great is his mercy high and deep 9 He 's slow to wrath he chides not still Nor doth his anger ever keep 10 He hath not dealt with us in wrath According to our hainous sin Nor strictly us rewarded hath As our guilt and deserts have bin 11 But as the great and glorious heav'ns Than this low earth far higher are God's mercy so transcendent is To all that do him truly fear 12 As far as East is from the West So far from us remov'd hath he Our hated and forsaken sin And our bewail'd iniquity 13 As loving Parents taught of God Pity to their dear Children bear The Lord of Love will pity them That serve him with true child-like fear 14 For he remembers flesh is dust Our frail and mortal frame he knows 15 And that the days of man on earth Are like the grass in field that grows 16 There flowers flourish but sharp winds Blast them and they are quickly gone And to the place which they persum'd And beautify'd they are unknown 17 But unto such as do him fear God's boundless mercy hath no end And his sure love and righteousness To Childrens Children doth extend 18 To such as keep his Covenant And his Commandments keep in mind And them sincerely do obey And therein their chief pleasure find 19 The Lord his Throne prepared hath In heaven where Saints his glory see And all the world his Kingdom is And Ruler over all is he 20 You mighty Angels great in strength Must bless the Lord with highest praise Your holiness fulfils his will And readily his voice obeys 21 All ye his great and glorious Hosts For ever bless and praise the Lord You serve the pleasure of his will And all as one obey his word 22 Let all his works through all the world To praise their glorious Lord accord And O my soul bear thou thy part And ever bless and praise the Lord. PSALM CIV 1 MY soul bless thou the living Lord Thou Lord my God art very great With honour and with majesty Thou cloathed art in glorious state 2 The fulgent light thy covering is Appearing in it as thy robes Thou like a curtain dost stretch out The Heavens with all their splendid globes 3 The beams of his great Chambers he Doth in the liquid waters lay The Clouds he makes his Chariots On winged Winds he takes his way 4 Blest Spirits he his Angels makes His Ministers a flaming fire 5 The Earth's Foundations firm he laid That nothing shall them ever stir 6 Like to a Garment with the deep The Earth by thee was covered The Waters stood above the Hills 7 But soon at thy rebuke they fled Thy thunders voice hasts them away 8 They go up by the mountain ground Down by the Valleys they go to The place which thou for them didst found 9 Thou unto them a bound hast set That over it they may not pass That the Earth again may not be drown'd By them as once for sin it was 10 He sends the Springs into the Vales They sweetly run between the Hills 11 They 're drink for all beasts of the Fields There his great thirst the wild Ass fills 12 By these sweet Streams the Fowls of Heav'n Do use to make their dwelling house For them and theirs They chirp and sing Among the pleasant shady Boughs 13 And from his cloudy Chambers he Doth water even the highest Hills And by his satisfying Works The Earth with plenteous fruit he fills 14 He for the Food of Cattle makes The tender Grass spring and suit forth And for Man's service various Herbs And so he brings food from the Earth 15 And Wine which doth exhilerate And Oil which doth smooth and refresh And Bread which strengtheneth Man's Heart And doth repair his wasting flesh 16 The Trees of God are full of Sap The stately Cedars which do stand In Lebanon and planted were Even by his own Almighty hand 17 The beauteous Birds among these Trees By Nature's skill their Nests do make As for the Stork the Firr-trees she Doth for her lofty dwelling take 18 The Mountains high for the wild Goats A place of secure refuge be The Conies in the craggy Rocks Dwell and for safety thither flee 19 The changing Moon he doth appoint The Seasons change to Man to shew The glorious Sun as taught by God Its time to rise and set doth know 20 The dismal darkness thou dost make And then the day gives place to night And in the Forests then come forth Wild beasts that shun Man and the Light 21 The hungry Lyons with their whelps Do then go roaring all abroad After their prey and fiercely seek Their sustenance assign'd from God 22 But when the shining Sun doth rise They get away together then For fear of Man and lay them down For rest and safety in their den 23 Then Man goes forth unto his work When he enjoys desired light His proper
them and deliverance gave 11 The waters overwhelm'd their foes Not one of them was left alive 12 And then they did believe his word And praise in joyful songs did give 13 They soon forgat his works and for His Counsels did not wait with trust 14 But in the desart tempted God And there provokingly did lust 15 He granted them their own request But to their souls he leanness sent 16 They envy'd Moses in the Camp And Aaron the Lord 's chosen Saint 17 The open'd earth Dathan devour'd Cover'd Abiram's company 18 A fire among them kindled was The wicked were burnt up thereby 19 In Horeb they did form a Calâ— The molten Image worshipped 20 To the shape of a grazing Ox Their God their Glory they changed 21 Their God and Saviour who had done Great things in Egypt they forgat 22 Wondrous works in the land Ham By the Red-Sea dreadful and great 23 Therefore he said he 'd them cut off Had not lest he should them destroy His chosen Moses in the breach Stood for to turn his wrath away 24 Yea they despis'd the pleasant land And did not yet believe his word 25 But often murmur'd in their Tents And heard not the voice of the Lord. 26 In desart them to overthrow He therefore did lift up his hand 27 Abroad to make their seed to fall And scatter them in every land 28 They joyn'd themselves to Baal-Peor Sacrifice of the dead they eat 29 Thus they provoked him to wrath Their vile-inventions were so great 30 Then did the plague upon them break But Phinehas stood up to slay And execute Judgment on some And so the wasting Plague did stay 31 This so pleas'd God that he to him Imputed it for righteousness And all his generations For this he promised to bless 32 And at the waters where they strove God into just displeasure brake So that even Moses felt his part And was rebuked for their sake 33 Because their provocations great His patient spirit so much stirr'd That he in passion with his lips Did speak an unadvised word 34 Nor as the Lord commanded them Did they the wicked Nations slay 35 But with the heathen mingled were And learnt their wicked works and way 36 And they the heathen's Idols serv'd Which were to them a deadly snare 37 By them their sons and daughters then To Devils sacrificed were 38 In their own Childrens guiltless blood Their guilty hands they did embrew Whom unto Canaan's Idols they For bloody Sacrifices slew So was the land defil'd with blood 39 And they with their own sinful way And with their own inventions thus From God a whoring went astray 40 Therefore against his people then God's wrath was justly kindled more So that his own inheritance He loathed and did it abhor 41 He gave them to the heathen's power Their wicked foes did them command 42 Their enemies them oppress'd who were Before subjected to their hand 43 Many times he deliver'd them But they again provok'd him so By their own Counsels and their crimes That they were brought exceeding low 44 Yet he regarded their distress And heard when they to him did cry 45 His ancient Covenant also he For them did call to memory And he repenting pity'd them After his mercies manifold 46 And made them pityed be of those Who did them as their Captives hold 47 Save us O Lord and gather us The wicked heathens from among To give thanks to thy holy name And praise thee with triumphing song 48 Blest be Jehovah Israel's God Henceforth to all eternity Let all the people joyntly say Amen Praise ye the Lord most high PSALM CVII 1 GIve thanks to God for he is good His mercies everlasting be 2 Let God's redeemed ones say so Whom from their foes hands he set free 3 And gathered them out of the lands From North and South from East and West 4 In pathless desart wandred they And found no City where to rest 5 Hungry and thirsty their souls saint When want and streights do them oppress 6 They in their trouble cry to God He saves them out of their distress 7 He led them forth by the right way And in the desart did them guide That they might to a City go Where quietly they might abide 8 O that all men would praise the Lord For his great goodness to us shewn And for the wondrous works which he For us the sons of men hath done 9 He satisfies the longing soul The hungry soul with good is fill'd 10 Such as in darkness and death's shade Do sit in painful Irons held 11 Because against the words of God They often sin'd rebelliously And the just Counsels did contemn Of him that 's over all most high 12 Their hearts with labour he brought down And they from man no help could have 13 They in their trouble cry'd to God From their distress he did them save 14 From darkness and the shade of death He in compassion did them take And their afflicting Captive bonds In pity he asunder brake 15 O that all men would praise the Lord For his great goodness to us shewn And for the wondrous works which he For us the sons of men hath done 16 For the enthralling gates of brass In pieces he for them did tear And by his hands the Iron bands Asunder also broken were 17 Fools for their own transgressions And for their sins afflicted are 18 Their soul abhors all sorts of meat They to the gates of death draw near 19 They in their trouble cry to God From their distress he doth them save 20 He sent his Word and healed them From danger he deliverance gave 21 O that all men would praise the Lord For his great goodness to us shewn And for the wondrous works which he For us the sons of men hath done 22 And let them sacrifice to him The sacrifice of thankfulness And his great works declare to all And with singing their joy express 23 They that in ships go to the Sea And in great waters business do 24 These see the dreadful works of God And in the deep his wonders view 25 He doth but give out his Command And powerful stormy winds do rise Which makes the Sea in waves to rage And to mount up toward the skies 26 Passengers toss'd up as to heav'n And to the deep cast down again Their troubled Soul in them doth melt While fear doth keep their hearts in pain 27 They reel and stagger to and fro Tost about like to drunken men And in this their distress and fear All their own wit doth fail them then 28 They in their trouble cry to God And he from their distress them saves 29 He makes the storm become a calm And presently doth still the waves 30 Then they with gladness do rejoice Because their danger seemeth past And unto their desired port He safely bringeth them at last 31 O that all men would praise the Lord For the great goodness he hath shown And for
the wondrous works which he For us the Sons of Men hath done 32 And when the people congregate Let them his Name in triumph raise And in the Elders assemblies Let all there celebrate his praise 33 To Desarts he the Rivers turns And water springs into dry ground 34 A fruitful land to barrenness When wickedness doth there abound 35 He desarts turns to water-pools And dry ground into water springs 36 And there he makes the hungry dwell And them to build a City brings 37 To sow the fields and plant vineyards Which may yield them fruit of increase 38 He blesseth them they multiply Their flocks preserveth from decrease 39 But yet in this unconstant state They are diminished again And for their sins they are brought low Opprest afflicted and in pain 40 On Princes he doth pour contempt And wandring causeth them to stay In desart places for their sin Where desolate they find no way 41 Yet setteth he the poor on high From their contempt and miseries And like to great increasing flocks Giveth them prosperous families 42 All this the righteous shall perceive And shall rejoice these things to see And the mouth of iniquity Shall ever stopt and silent be Who so is wise and will these things Observe and in their minds record They shall well understand and taste The loving kindness of the Lord. PSALM CVIII 1 O God my heart is fixt I will sing and give praise 2 My Glory Psaltery Harp and self For this I 'll early raise 3 Among the people all I 'll praise thy name O God Thy praises I will sing among The Nations all abroad 4 For great thy mercy is Above the Heavens high Thy truth and faithfulness doth reach Above the cloudy Skie 5 Above the Heavens O God Be thou exalted high And over all the spacious earth Thy Glory magnifie 6 That thy beloved Ones Delivered may be O save them with thine own right hand And hear and answer me 7 I will rejoice for God Spake from his holy Seat Shechem I will divide and will The Vale of Succoth mete 8 Gilead is only mine Manasseh mine shall be Ephraim is the strength of my Head Juda gives Laws for me 9 Moab my washpot is On Edom I will tread And the Philistine-Nation all In triumph I will lead 10 Who will bring me into The City fortify'd And who will into Edom's Land My conquering Army guide 11 Even he that cast us off And wilt not thou O God Again go forth before our Hosts When â—hey do march abroad 12 From trouble give us help For vain is all Mens aid 13 Through God we shall do valiantly Our Foes he down will tread PSALM CIX 1 O Thou that art God of my praise Neglect me not hold not thy peace 2 For Mouths of wicked lying Men To speak against me do not cease The Mouths of false deceitful Men Against me widely opened be And with a false and lying Tongue Thou knowest they have accused me 3 They did beset me round about With bitter words of hateful spight And though I gave to them no Cause Against me they did speak and fight 4 They for my love became my foes But I did give my self to pray 5 They me with ill for good reward And hatred for my love repay 6 Set over him a wicked Man Let Satan stand at his right hand 7 And let his Prayer become sin Let him when judged be condemn'd 8 Let his days be but few and short His Office let another take 9 Let his Children be Fatherless His Wife do thou a Widow make 10 Let his Children wander and beg And seek their Bread in Desert soil 11 The Extortioner caâ—ch all he hath Let Strangers all his Labours spoil 12 Let none to him Mercy extend Nor pity to his Orphans show 13 Let his Off-spring be quite cut off And the next Age his name not know 14 Let God his Father's Wickedness In Justice to remembrance call Let unto him his Mother's sin Be never blotted out at all 15 But let their sins and them be seen Before the Lord continually That he may cut off from the Earth Their very Name and Memory 16 Because he did not Mercy show But persecute the Weak and Poor That such as were of broken heart He might destroy or break yet more 17 As he in cursing did delight Upon himself so let it come In blessing he delighted not So him let it be still far from 18 As he with cursing cloath'd himself As garments cloath adorned ones As water let it on him come And like to oil into his bones 19 As garments to him let it be Even as his covering and array And as a girdle on his loins Wherewith he girded is alway 20 From God let this be the reward To him that is mine enemy And of them that against my Soul Do evil speak maliciously 21 But for thy own name sake O Lord Do thou in mercy deal with me Thy mercies good therefore O Lord By it let me delivered be 22 I poor and needy am my heart Wounded in me hath comfort lost 23 Like the declining shadow sunk And like the flitting Locust tost 24 My knees with fasting are grown weak My fatness and my flesh are worn 25 To them that see me a reproach They shake their heads at me in scorn 26 Help me O Lord my God and let Thy mercy my deliverance bring 27 That they may know it is thy hand And that the Lord hath done the thing 28 Bless thou whenever they do curse When they rise let them shamed be But let thy faithful Servants all Be glad and still rejoice in thee 29 And let my causless enemies Be cloathed with shame and disgrace And let confusion mantle like Become the covering of their face 30 But with my mouth I daily will Declare the praises of the Lord And among the great multitude His praises I 'll speak and record 31 For he shall stand at the right hand Of the oppressed to controul Their foes and save them from those Men who do condemn the guiltless Soul PSALM CX 1 THE Lord to my Lord said Sit thou at my right hand Till I thy foes a foot stool make Subject to thy command 2 God will from Sion send The rod of thy great power In midst of all thine enemies Be thou the Governour 3 A willing people in Thy reign shall come to thee In holy joys from mourning's womb Thy youth like dew shall be 4 The Lord himself hath sworn And will repent it never Of the order of Melchizedeck Thou art a Priest for ever 5 The great and glorious Lord Who is at thy right hand Shall in his day of wrath strike through Kings who do thee withstand 6 The heathen he shall judge And graves fill with the dead And over many Countries he Shall wound their proudest head 7 He shall drink of the brook That runneth in the way Therefore shall he lift up the head In his triumphing day
PSALM CXI 1 PRaise ye the Lord with my whole heart With joy I will God's praise declare Where upright men assembled be And holy Congregations are 2 The works of God are very great And manifest his glorious might The fruitful study of all them Who do therein place their delight 3 All his work honourable is All glorious steadfast and sure His truth and perfect righteousness Unchang'd for ever do endure 4 His wondrous works he made for man To mind and meditate upon The Lord is very gracious Full he is of compassion 5 To all that do him fear and serve He daily gives convenient food He always true and mindful is His holy Covenant to make good 6 The power of his wondrous works He did unto his people show That heathens land and heritage As his he might on them bestow 7 His hand-work Truth and Judgment are All his Commands are just and sure 8 All done in truth and uprightness They shall from age to age endure 9 His people he redemption sent His Covenant ever is the same Which he commanded which declares To us his holy reverend Name 10 God's fear Wisdom's beginning is Their understanding's sound and sure Who his Commandments truly keep His glorious praise doth still endure PSALM CXII 1 PRaise ye the Lord Blest is that man Who lives in fear as in God's sight To know and practice his Commands Who always greatly doth delight 2 His seed on earth shall be advanc'd The upright Off-spring God will bless 3 His house shall have sufficient store Endless shall be his righteousness 4 In their dark state rejoycing light God to just upright men will raise Gracious and pitiful are such Righteous and true in all their ways 5 A good man's ready to do good And kindly lends to him that needs And he with wise discretion doth Manage affairs and guide his deeds 6 His standing's sure He never shall Be mov'd and brought to misery His precious name shall be preserv'd In sweet and endless memory 7 Whatever evil tidings come He shall not greatly be afraid His steadfast heart by fixed trust Upon the mighty Lord is slay'd 8 His heart is firmly stablished And shall not sink and be dismay'd Till his malignant enemies He sees God's Justice hath repay'd 9 He hath abroad dispers'd his seed And largely given to the poor God shall with honour him advance His righteousness shall ever dure 10 This shall the wicked see and grieve Gnash with his teeth for grief he shall His wealth and he shall melt away His flat'ring hopes shall perish all PSALM CXIII 1 PRaise ye the Lord his servants all Praise our great God with one acoord With joyful hearts and chearful voice Praise the name of the world 's great Lord. 2 Blest be the Lord's renowned name Ever his praise continue shall 3 From East to West through all the world God's Name is to be prais'd of all 4 The Lord in Glory dwells on high And over all the Nations reigns His glory is above the heav'ns No place no limits him contains 5 O who is like to our great God Who from high Glory looketh forth 6 To heav'n and its inhabitants And minds what 's done below on earth 7 He from the dust doth raise the poor And needy from the dunghill brings 8 That he like Princes may them make Even Princes with his people's Kings 9 He to the barren woman doth A numerous family afford A joyful mother maketh her Of many Children Praise the Lord. PSALM CXIV 1 WHen Israel out of Egypt went And Jacob's House by God's strong hand From under those strange Task-masters Whose speech they did not understand 2 Judah he did his Sanctuary And Israel his Dominion make 3 The Sea did see and fled away And Jordan's stream was driven back 4 Like Rams the mountains and like Lambs The little hills skipt to and fro 5 O Sea what made thee thus to flee Jordan why didst thou backward go 6 Ye mountains great what was the cause That made you thus to skip like Rams Ye little hills wherefore was it That you did skip like playing Lambs 7 Tremble O earth before the Lord When Jacob's God his presence shows 8 Which turn'd the Rock to water-pools By whom the flint like fountains flows PSALM CXV 1 NOt unto us Lord not to us But do thou all the glory take To thy great name for thy own truth And for thy saving mercies sake 2 Why should the heathen people say To us where is their mighty God 3 But our God is in heav'n and doth What ever to him seemeth good 4 Their Idols are silver and gold The work of workmen's hands they be 5 They have mouths but they do not speak 6 And eyes have they but do not see Ears have they but they do not hear Noses but smell or savour not 7 Hands feet but handle not nor walk Nor speak they through their mouth or throat 8 Their makers are like them and all Their trust for help on them that build 9 O Israel trust in the Lord He is their only help and shield 10 O house of Aaron trust in God He only is their help and shield 11 You that fear God trust in the Lord Your shield who certain help will yield 12 The Lord hath mindful been of us And he will surely bless us still The house of Israel he will bless Aaron's house also bless he will 13 Both small and great that fear the Lord The Lord will always surely bless 14 You and your Children more and more The Lord will bless and still increase 15 You are the blessed of the Lord Who made both all the earth and heav'n 16 The heav'n of heav'ns is his but earth He to the sons of men hath given 17 The dead who down to silence go Do not in dust God's praise record 18 But we henceforth for ever will Bless our great God Praise ye the Lord. PSALM CXVI 1 I Love the Lord who did my voice And earnest supplication hear 2 While I have life I 'le call on him Who bow'd to me his gracious ear 3 The sorrows of expected death My flesh and heart did compass round The pains of Hell took hold on me Trouble and grievous pain I found 4 Upon the name of God my help Then did I daily call and say Deliver thou my grieved soul O Lord I do thee humbly pray 5 Our God is merciful and just Yea very gracious is the Lord 6 He saves the meek I was brought low And he did speedy help afford 7 My soul distrust thy God no more Return by faith to him thy Rest Who largely in thy great distress To thee his bounty hath exprest 8 For my afflicted soul from death Safely delivered was by thee Thou didst mine eyes from mourning tears My feet from dangerous falling free 9 Among the living I will walk By faith as still before the Lord 10 When greatly I afflicted was I did believe and spake this word 11
Law 's wondrous mysteries May be as in my sight 19 I am a stranger in this earth And need a certain guide Thy true and just commandements Let nothing from me hide 20 The daily longings of my soul Do make it pant and break That thy just judgments I may know And of their light partake 21 Proud wicked men thou hast rebuk'd They justly cursed are Who from thy true and righteous Laws Maliciously do err 22 Contempt and false reproach of men Do thou from me remove Because thy Testimonies pure I do observe and love 23 Princes against me falsly spake When they in Counsel sate But I thy servant did upon Thy statutes meditate 24 My comfort and my great delight Thy Testimonies be And they in all my doubts and streights Are Counsellors to me DALETH 4. 25 My life down to the dust declines So that I scarcely live According to thy holy Word Do thou my strength revive 26 I open'd all my ways to thee Thou didst to me attend Teach me thy statutes that I may My sinful ways amend 27 The way of thy divine Precepts Make me to understand That all thy great and wondrous works May my discourse command 28 My soul with grief and heaviness Doth melt and drop away Be thou according to thy word My strength support and stay 29 The way of lying and deceit Lord far from me remove Graciously grant that thy true Law I may believe and love 30 The way of undeceiving truth My fixed choice I made Thy judgments sure to be my guide Before me I have laid 31 It is to thy just Testimonies That constantly I cleave To wicked men's unjust reproach Do not thy servant leave 32 The way of thy Commandements I 'le â—â—n with chearful speed When my restrained streighten'd heart Thou hast enlarg'd and freed HE. 5. 33 Instruct me Lord to understand Thy Precept's righteous ways That through thy grace I may observe And keep them all my days 34 Give me an understanding heart To keep thy Law aright And I shall strictly it observe With all my heart and might 35 In the right paths of thy Precepts Thy conduct I require They are the pleasure of my soul Which I do most desire 36 Incline my heart thy testimonies To love and still observe From wordly covetous desires Turn it and me preserve 37 Govern and turn away mine eyes From sights of vanity And quicken thou my backward heart In thy most holy way 38 Stablish that blessed word of thine Which thou hast bid me hear Unto thy servant who is fast Devoted to thy fear 39 Turn by the slanders and reproach Of which I am afraid For thou wilt justly judge for them Who on thy Word are stay'd 40 Thou know'st how greatly I have long'd Thy judgments to enjoy Quicken me in thy righteousness That I may them obey VAU 6. 41 Thy mercies great and manifold Let me obtain O Lord Thy saving health let me enjoy According to thy word 42 So shall I stop the slandrous mouths Of lewd men and unjust For in thy sure and sacred Word I place my hope and trust 43 And never let the word of Truth Out of my mouth depart For in thy judgments I have set My only hope and heart 44 And while it pleaseth thee on earth My frail life to preserve Even while I have a day to live Thy Law will I observe 45 Enlarged from restraints and fears I 'le walk at liberty Because to know and keep thy Laws My heart I do apply 46 Thy Testimonies I will plead And daily them proclaim Unto the face of mortal Kings Without all fear or shame 47 Thy sure and just Commandements Guiding my ways aright Which I have dearly lov'd and kept Shall be my great delight 48 To thy belov'd Commandements My hands I 'll elevate And in thy sacred Status I Will daily meditate ZAIN 7. 49 Thy promise to thy Servant made O never do forget For upon it thou caused'st me My hope and trust to set 50 In all my various sufferings My comfort this shall be Thy holy Spirit by this word Renew'd and quicken'd me 51 The proud and such as God contemn Have made me long their scorn Yet did I not thy Law forsake Nor service have forborn 52 I lookt back on the days of old Thy judgments I did mind In this review of former things I did great comfort find 53 Horror hath taken hold on me When I mens evil saw How obstinately wicked men Hate and forsake thy Law 54 The World hath been my pilgrimage And as I past along Thy sure conducting Statutes were My guide my joy and song 55 Thy name I have remembred Lord By night instead of sleep And meditated in thy Law Which I resolve to keep 56 This sweet employment and delight By thee I did enjoy Because to mind and keep thy Laws I did my Soul employ CHETH 8. 57 My chosen portion and my lot Thou only art O Lord I have resolved and profest That I will keep thy word 58 My Soul did earnestly intreat Thy face to shine on me Give me according to thy word Thy mercies great and free 59 I did consider seriously My ways I thought upon I to thy testimonies turn'd In which I since have gone 60 When once convinc'd I did make haste And did no longer stay To keep all thy Commandements I did no more delay 61 The troups of wicked militants Did rob me at their will But thy supporting holy love I did remember still 62 At midnight I will wake and rise To render thanks to thee Because thy word and judgments all So good and righteous be 63 I choose the company of such As fear thee in their heart Who neither will for love or fear From thy Commands depart 64 O Lord thy mercies rich and great The earth throughout do fill O teach me to believe and do Thy statutes and thy will TETH 9. 65 Thy dealings with thy servant have Been always good O Lord For all have proved good to me And have made good thy word 66 Teach me with skill and jugdment how My ways I order must For I in thy Commandements Place my belief and trust 67 Before affliction call'd me back I err'd and went astray But now I keep thy holy word And by it guide my way 68 Thou art essential Love and Good All good proceeds from thee Thy Statutes to believe and keep O throughly teach thou me 69 The proud and wicked men have forg'd Against me many a lye But I with my whole heart will keep Thy Precepts constantly 70 Their hearts are fat with pride and wealth They live in mirth and ease But in thy Law do I delight And thee my God to please 71 It proved very good for me That thou didst me correct To understand and keep thy Law Thy rod did me direct 72 The good word of thy mouth to me Is better manifold Then Worldlings wealth and thousands be Of Silver and of Gold
art to give To those that love thy Name 133 Let all my steps by thy just word Exactly ordered be That no iniquity may have Dominion over me 134 Save me from mine oppressours all And I will keep thy word 135 O let thy face upon me shine Thy Statutes teach me Lord. 136 Rivers of water from mine eyes Ran down when as I saw How wicked men go on in sin And will not keep thy Law TZADDI 18. 137 Righteous art thou O Lord and all Thy judgments upright be 138 Righteous and faithful are thy Laws Which thou commandest me 139 My zeal hath even consumed me Because mine enemies Thy holy Word forgotten have And thy just Laws despise 140 Because thy word is try'd and pure Thy Servant loveth it 141 Small and despis'd I am but yet Thy Laws do not forget 142 Thy righteousness most steadfast is And ever doth endure Thy holy Law is truth it self Confirmed truth and sure 143 Trouble and anguish have me found And taken hold on me Yet in this trouble my delight Thy just Commandments be 144 Thy testimonies righteousness Even everlasting is Cause me to know them that they may Bring me to life and bliss KOPH 19. 145 With my whole heart I poured forth My cries to thee O Lord Hear and deliver me that I May keep thy holy word 146 In trouble I do cry to thee Thy Servant hear and save And then to keep thy testimonies Fully resolv'd I have 147 The dawning of the morning I Prevented with my cry For on thy true and faithful word My hope did all rely 148 My waking eyes betime prevent The watches of the night That in thy comfortable word Then meditate I might 149 After thy loving kindness hear My voice and answer give In mercy great with quick'ning grace Do thou my Soul revive 150 The wicked hunters do draw nigh Who after mischief run Thy holy Law they do forsake And far from it are gone 151 But thou O Lord art alway nigh Their mischiefs to repel And all thy word thou wilt make good Which doth in truth excel 152 As for thy testimonies all Of old I know full sure That thou hast firmly founded them For ever to endure RESH 20. 153 Consider my affliction great And me in safety set By thy deliverance for I Thy Law do not forget 154 Plead my just cause and it defend Deliver me O Lord Revive and comfort me again According to thy word 155 Salvation's far from wicked men It 's far from their intents To seek it in the only way Of thy Commandements 156 Many and very great O Lord Thy tender mercies be According to thy Judgments just Restore and quicken me 157 Many my persecutors are And foes who do combine Yet from thy testimonies pure My soul doth not decline 158 When I beheld transgressors ways I grieved and abhorr'd Their opposition to thy Laws Who would not keep thy word 159 Consider how on thy Precepts My heart with love is set Quicken me Lord according to Thy loving kindness great 160 From the beginning all thy word Hath been most true and sure And all thy righteous judgments shall For evermore endure SCHIN 21. 161 Princes have persecuted me Unjustly without cause But thy authority and word My heart and Conscience awes 162 I in thy word rejoice as one That findeth riches great 163 I love thy Laws but Lying all I do abhor and hate 164 Seven times a day in holy praise My Soul ascends to thee Because thy judgments and thy ways All good and righteous be 165 Great peace have these confirmed Souls Thy Laws who truly love No fears or scandal shall these men From God and Truth remove 166 For thy Salvation I have hop'd And thy Commandments done 167 My Soul thy Testimonies kept And lov'd them every one 168 Thy Testimonies and Commands I kept with constant care For all my ways and works I know Before thee open are TAU 22. 169 O Let my daily suit and cry Before thee come O Lord To me sound understanding give According to thy word 170 And let my supplication Before thee daily come My fears according to thy word Deliver thou me from 171 From a full heart my thankful lips Shall utter joyful praise When thou hast made me know and keep Thy statutes and thy ways 172 My tongue shall of thy word discourse Its goodness I 'll express Because all thy Commandements Are truth and righteousness 173 In all streights let thy mighty hand With succour me relieve For I by choice have made thy Laws The Rule by which I live 174 Lord for thy sure salvation My soul doth daily long Thy Law is still my heart's delight Its praises are my song 175 O let my drooping soul yet live And it shall give thee praise And let thy judgments succour me And be my help always 176 I like a lost sheep went astray Thy servant seek and find I yet forget not thy Commands Still print them on my mind PSALM CXX 1 IN my distress unto the Lord I poured out my mournful cry His ear attended my request He heard and help'd me speedily 2 From lying lips deliver me Lord and from the deceitful tongue 3 What shall be given and done to thee False mouth that causeth others wrong 4 Sharp arrows from a mighty hand With burning coals of Juniper 5 Woe 's me that I in Meshech stay And dwell in the Tents of Kedar 6 My soul hath too long dwelt with them That haters are of quiet peace 7 I am for peace but when I speak To war they soon themselves address PSALM CXXI 1 UNto the hills from whence my help Doth come I will lift up mine eyes 2 In God who made both heaven and earth My only help and succour lies 3 He will not let thy foot be mov'd Nor slumbers who thee always keeps 4 Behold he that keeps Israel He slumbers not nor ever sleeps 5 The mighty Lord thy keeper is And he doth always by thee stand To be a shade and a defence Daily to thee at thy right hand 6 The scorching Sun in Summer heat Shall not by day thee hurt or smite Nor the Moon 's hurtful influence Annoy thee in the darksome night 7 The Lord shall keep thee from all ill Thy soul he shall keep safe and sure 8 Thy going out and coming in The Lord shall still to thee secure PSALM CXXII 1 WHen in the willing crouding flock I heard that pleasant welcome voice Come let us go up to God's house It made my longing heart rejoyce 2 Our feet in God's Jerusalem Shall stand even in her Gates and Courts When those who were dispers'd by men Shall thither flock in great resorts 3 God's City is not a rude heap But built in comely form exact In great diversity of parts In order all are well compact 4 Thither the several Tribes go up The Tribes in Covenant with the Lord With thanks to celebrate his Name His Mysteries and holy
Eternally 15 But overwhelm'd and lost Was proud King Pharaoh With all his mighty Host And Chariots there also For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 16 To him who powerfully His chosen Israel led Even through the desart dry And in that place them fed For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 17 To him great Kings who smote For his grace hath no bound 18 Who slew and spared not Kings famous and renown'd For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 19 Sihon the Amorites King For his grace lafteth ever 20 Og also who did reign The land of Bashan over For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 21 Their land by lot he gave For his grace faileth never That Israel might it have An heritage for ever For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 22 Who hath remembred us 23 In all our low estate 24 And us delivered From foes that did us hate For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 25 Who to all flesh gives food For his grace faileth never 26 Give thanks to God most good To God of Gods for ever For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally The same By W. Barton 1 O Render thanks to God For he is very good His mercies sure do still endure And have for ever stood 2 The God of Gods proclaim With praises to his name His mercies sure do still endure Eternally the same 3 The Lord of Lords most high With praises magnifie His mercies sure do still endure To all eternity 4 To him who wrought alone Great wonders many a one His mercies sure do still endure To ages all made known 5 To him who skilfully Compos'd the heavens high His mercies sure do still endure To perpetuity 6 That did the earth extend The seas to comprehend His mercies sure do still endure And never have an end 7 To him whose power divine Did make great Lights to shine His mercies sure do still endure Not subject to decline 8 The Sun to rule and sway The motions of the day His mercies sure do still endure And never fall away 9 The Moon and Stars of light He made to rule the night His mercies sure do still endure For they are infinite 10 To him your praise devote Who Egypt's first-born smote His mercies sure do still endure Of everlasting note 11 Who from among them all Brought Israel out of thrall His mercies sure do still endure And are perpetual 12 With strong out-stretched hand And arm at his command His mercies sure do still endure And shall for ever stand 13 To him that did divide The Red-sea on each side His mercies sure do still endure And evermore abide 14 And Israel did transmit Even through the midst of it His mercies sure do still endure And never fail a whit 15 But on the Red-sea coast Smote Pharaoh and his host His mercies sure do still endure Unto the uttermost 16 To him that led his own Through desarts all unknown His mercies sure do still endure As permanent alone 17 To him that smote and slew Great Kings and famous too His mercies sure do still endure And ever so shall do 18 King Sihon he did smiâ—e That Giant Amorite His mercies sure do still endure Continuing day and night 19 And Og Bashan's great King He did to ruin bring His mercies sure do still endure An unexhausted spring 20 He did their land engage To be an heritage His mercies sure do still endure Out-wearing time and age 21 Their heritage befel His servant Israel His mercies sure do still endure Times constant parallel 22 Who thought on our estate When low and desolate His mercies sure do still endure And bear eternal date 23 Redeeming us from those That were our mortal foes His mercies sure do still endure A Spring that overflows 24 Who still provideth meat Whereof all flesh may eat His mercies sure do still endure For ever full and great 25 The God of heav'n therefore With thankful hearts adore His mercies sure do still endure Henceforth for evermore PSALM CXXXVII 1 IN Babylon's Captivity We sadly by their rivers sate When Sion we remembred there We wept as men disconsolate 2 On Willows in the midst thereof We hang'd our silent Harps unstrung For they who had us Captives made In scorn requir'd of us a Song 3 They that had made our Country wast To make sport of us talked thus Now sing us one of Sion's songs Said they insulting over us 4 How shall we sing God's sacred songs Thus Captives in a foreign land 5 If I Jerusalem forget Let Musick skill forsake my hand 6 Let my tongue dumb cleave to my jaws If belov'd Sion I forget And if above my chiefest joy I do not Sion always set 7 Remember Edom's Off-spring Lord Who in thy peoples woful day Cry'd Rase it Rase it to the ground This hated City level lay 8 O Babylon to destruction judg'd That conquering hand shall honour'd be Which just as thou hast used us A just reward shall give to thee 9 That Victor's hand shall honour'd be That fiercely takes thy little ones Not we but foes in bloody war Will dash them dead against the stones PSALM CXXXVIII 1 WIth my whole heart I will thee praise Before the Gods thy praise I 'le sing 2 I 'le tow'rd thy holy Temple bow And praise thy name O glorious King Even for thy loving kindness great And for thy holy truth O Lord Above all thy instructing name Thou hast advanc'd thy sacred word 3 In my sad days thou answered'st me When I to thee did pray and cry And thou my feeble soul with strength Didst kindly strenghthen inwardly 4 All Kings on earth shall praise the Lord When they shall hear and know thy word And singing shall walk in thy ways So great 's thy fame and glory Lord. 5 The God that 's infinitely high The lowly men he doth respect But knows the proud as afar off And with disdain doth them reject 6 Though I in midst of trouble walk Thou wil t revive me and extend Thy hand against mine enemies wrath And thy right hand shall me defend 7 All that my welfare doth concern The Lord at last will perfect make O Lord thy mercy endless is Do not thy handy work forsake PSALM CXXXIX 1 O Lord thou hast me search'd and known 2 Thou know'st my daily sitting down And mine uprising All my thoughts Even a far off to thee are known 3 Thou fift'st and compassest my path And seest me when down I lye And art with all my works and ways Always acquainted perfectly 4 No word is in my tongue O Lord But it is fully known to thee 5 Thou hast beset me round about And thou hast laid thy hand on me 6 This knowledge high's above my reach It is too wonderful for me 7 Whither shall I go from thy face Or whither from thy spirit flee 8
If into heav'n I could ascend Yet surely thou art present there Or if in hell I make my bed Or in the grave there thou art near 9 If on the morning's wings I fled And d'well the utmost Seas beyond 10 There by thy hand I shall be led And safely held by thy right hand 11 Or if I say The darkness sure Shall hide me from thy piercing sight The darkness even the most obscure About me shall be as the light 12 Yea darkness hideth not from thee But night doth shine as bright as day To thee the darkness and the light Indeed are both alike alway 13 For thou possessed hast my reins And thou didst form and cover me When I within my mother's womb Enclosed was and shap'd by thee 14 I 'le praise the Lord for fearfully And strangely made by thee I am Thy works are all unsearchable My soul convinc'd doth know the same 15 My substance was not hid from thee Though formed in a secret place In the low sordid earthly parts By thee I wisely fashion'd was 16 Thine eyes my unshap'd substance saw My parts were written in thy book And in continuance formed were When none as yet had fashion took 17 How precious also are the thoughts Of thee O gracious God to me How great their sum more than the sand 18 In number they if counted be I when I wake am still with thee 19 Surely thou wilt the wicked slay O God! Therefore to men of blood Depart ye far from me I 'le say 20 For they against thee wickedly Do speak with much prophane disdain Thy enemies blasphemously Do take thy holy Name in vain 21 Do I not hate them all O Lord Who are thy hating enemies And am not I grived with those That madly up against thee rise 22 I hate them with a perfect hate I count them for my chiefest foes 23 Search me O God and know my heart Try me and my hid thoughts disclose 24 And see if any hurtful way Of wilful sin be found in me And in thy everlasting way Let me always be led by thee PSALM CXL 1 LOrd from perverse and evil men Do thou grant me deliverance And let me be by thee preserv'd From cruel men of violence 2 Who in their hearts continually Contriving some great mischief are And altogether are combin'd In Plots for hurtfulness and war 3 Like Serpents their pernicious tongues Have they with venom sharpened The Adder's poyson and his sting Under their wicked lips is bred 4 Keep me O Lord from wicked hands And from the envious violent man Who have resolv'd to overthrow My blameless goings if they can 5 The proud for me have hid a snare With cords and they have spread a net By the way side where I must go They traps and grins for me have set 6 I went unto the Lord and said Thou art my God and help alone Lord hear my voice in mercy grant My humble supplication 7 O God thou only art the strength Which ever safely keepeth me My head in days of bloody war Was covered and sav'd by thee 8 The wicked mens hurtful desires Lord prosper not nor ever grant And further not their bad designs Lest of themselves they proudly vaunt 9 As for the leading head of those That fiercely compass me about Let the mischief of their own lips Cover them all and find them out 10 Let burning coals upon them fall Cast them into the wasting fire Into deep pits that they rise not Again to pursue their desire 11 Let not the false ill speaker be On earth fixt in prosperity Let evil hunting violent men Reach and o'rethrow them utterly 12 I know that God will yet maintain The cause of men that are distrest And will defend the poor mens right And such as are by men opprest 13 Surely the just shall to thy name Give thanks and of thy mercies tell And men of upright hearts and lives Shall ever in thy presence dwell PSALM CXLI 1 LOrd unto thee I cry O make thou hast to me Give ear unto my mournful voice When I cry unto thee 2 As incense let my pray'r Be set before thine eyes And the up-lifting of my hands As evening sacrifice 3 O Lord a constant watch Set thou my mouth before And of my lips left they offend Do thou still keep the door 4 To any evil thing Let not my heart incline To joyn in sin with wicked men Or of their pleasures dine 5 Let righteous men in love Smite me and me reprove This shall not break my head but as A precious Oyl shall prove In their distress I 'le pray 6 When in the stony street Their Judges are cast down they 'll hear My words will then be sweet 7 Our bones at the grave's mouth Are cast and scatter'd round As wood which men do cut and cleave Lies scattered on the ground 8 But Lord my God mine eyes Still look up unto thee In thee is all my trust Let not My soul forsaken be 9 Keep thou me from the snare Which they have laid for me And the entrapping grins of men That wicked workers be 10 Let men of ill designs Fall into their own trap Whilst from all their malicious plots Thy flock and I escape PSALM CXLII 1 I To the Lord in my distress With sad and mournful voice did cry My supplication I sent up Aloud unto the Lord most high 2 To him I pour'd out my complaint My trouble I to him did show 3 My spirit in me was o'rewhelm'd And all my danger thou didst know That in the way wherein I walk'd They closely laid for me a snare 4 I look'd on my right hand but none To know and help me did appear All humane refuge failed me None for my trembling soul did care 5 But then I cryed to the Lord That he my humble suit would hear I said Lord thou my refuge art The portion of my hope and choice While I am in the land of life Where living men in thee rejoyce 6 I am brought very low on earth O Lord attend unto my cry Me from my persecutors save Who stronger are by far than I. 7 And out of prison bring my soul Thy blessed name to magnifie The just shall flock to me because With me thou dealest bounteously PSALM CXLIII 1 LOrd hear my Prayer and unto My humble suit attentive be Thy justice and thy faithfulness Do thou employ to answer me 2 Thy sinful servant bring not thou In to strict judgment to be try'd For so no living man can stand Before thee clear and justify'd 3 The enemy doth hunt my soul My life to ground cast down doth tread In darkness he hath made me dwell Like those that have some time been dead 4 Therefore my spirit 's overwhelm'd My heart in me is desolate 5 Yet I think on the days of old Thy ancient works I meditate I muse on all thy handy works To thee I stretch my craving hands 6 My humbled soul
thirsts after thee As do for rain the thirsty lands 7 Hear me with speed my spirit fails Lord do not hide from me thy face Lest I untimely as the dead Go to the dreaded burying-place 8 O let me with the morning light Thy loving kindness hear and see For in my lowest state I place My confidence alone in thee The way which thou wouldst have me go Clearly do thou make known to me For I for thy conduct and help Lift up my craving soul to thee 9 Lord save me from mine enemies For still with thee my self I hide 10 Teach me to do thy holy will Thou art my God and surest guide Thy spirit and his work is good Safely lead thou my soul in peace Through this false wicked world into The land of truth and uprightness 11 Revive and quicken me O Lord For thy great name and mercies sake And for thy truth and righteousness My humbled soul from trouble take 12 And of thy mercy let those foes Cut off subdu'd and humbled be Who do afflict and persecute Me and thy flock for serving thee PSALM CXLIV 1 FOr ever blessed be the Lord He is my only Rock and might Which taught my hands the skill of war And taught my fingers how to fight 2 My Goodness Fortress my high Tower My Saviour and my shield is he In whom I trust who doth subdue My foes and people under me 3 Lord what is man that thou of him Dost so much mindful notice take Or what 's the son of man that thou Of him so much account dost make 4 Man is like vanity his days Away like passing shadows fly 5 Lord bow the heav'ns come down and shew To man thy awful Majesty The mountains touch and they will smoak 6 Cast forth thy frightful Lightening Scatter them shoot thine arrows out Them to deserv'd destruction bring 7 Send from above thy pow'rful hand Do thou rid and deliver me From waters great and from the hands Of envious strangers set me free 8 Such whose deceitful mouth doth speak Hurtful untruth and vanity And their right hand doth execute Falshood and cruel treachery 9 A new song I to thee will sing Lord on the pleasant Psaltery On a ten-stringed instrument I will sing joyful praise to thee 10 It 's he that Victory to Kings And their desir'd salvation sends His servant David he preserves And from the hurtful sword defends 11 Save me from wicked strangers hands Whose faithless mouth speaks vanity And their right hand doth execute Falshood and their own treachery 12 That grown up in their youth like plants Sons be that are unto us born Our daughters like to polish'd stones May be that Palaces adorn 13 That to afford all kind of store Our garners may be alway fill'd That thousands and ten thousands more Sheep in our streets increas'd store yield 14 That strong our Oxen be to work That on us no Invasion come No flying out that in our streets With us be no complaining moan 15 Those are a happy people here Who are in such a case as this Happy indeed those people are Whose God our great Jehovah is PSALM CXLV 1 MY God and King I 'le thee extol And bless thy holy name always 2 I 'le magnifie thee every day And thy name will for ever praise 3 Great is the Lord and greatest praise Is due from all to him alone His greatness is unsearchable And to us men but little known 4 One age of mortals shall transmit His praise to that which next succeeds They shall declare thy famous works And celebrate thy mighty deeds 5 The glory of thy Majesty And honour I will daily speak And of thy great and wondrous works My tongue shall frequent mention make 6 It shall be mens delight to tell How great and dreadful thy works are And my employment it shall be Thy boundless greatness to declare 7 The mention of thy goodness great Shall largely exercise their tongues Thy Truth and Righteousness shall be The matter of their daily songs 8 The Lord is very gracious Tender compassions in him flow His mercy is exceeding great He 's unto anger very slow 9 That unto all the Lord is good His common mercies do declare And over all his other works His great and tender mercies are 10 Lord all thy works shew forth thy praise Thy Saints thy holy name shall bless 11 Thy Kingdom 's glory they shall speak Their tongues shall thy great power express 12 To make known to the sons of men His many strange and mighty deeds And that in glorious Majesty His Kingdom all our praise exceeds 13 Thy Kingdom everlasting is A Kingdom firm unchang'd and sure Thine absolute Dominion Doth through each age the same endure 14 The Lord of mercy them upholds Who sink and fall into distress And riseth those that are cast down And doth their wrongs and griefs redress 15 The eyes of all do wait on thee Thy bounteous hand doth them relieve And unto all sufficient food In time and measure thou dost give 16 Thou openest thy liberal hand To maintain all enough it gives To satisfie the just desire Of every thing by food that lives 17 The Lord is just in all his ways Holy in all the works he doth 18 He 's nigh to all that call on him That humbly call on him in truth 19 He will fulfil the just desire Of those who do him fear and serve He 'll hear their cry in their distress And them from threatned hurt preserve 20 The God of Love will safely keep All those that do him truly love But all the hateful wicked race Dreadful destruction shall remove 21 With thankful heart my mouth shall speak The praises of the glorious Lord And let all flesh from age to age To bless his holy name accord PSALM CXLVI 1 PRaise ye the Lord most high My soul speak thou his praise I 'le praise him constantly And bless him all my days 2 Even whilst I live And being have God who this gave I 'le praises give 3 In Princes put no trust Nor any son of man Impotent and unjust None of them help us can 4 He life resigns Returns to dust And then he must Cease his designs 5 He is the happy man Whom God doth help afford Who own and trust God can Whose hope is in the Lord. 6 Who all things made Heav'n Earth and Sea His truth and they Do never fade 7 God food to th' hungry gives Judgment doth execute Th' oppress'd loose and relieves Prisoners and destitute 8 To blind gives sight Dejected men He raiseth them Loves the upright 9 God strangers doth defend Orphans and widows knows Ways which to mischief tend Utterly overthrows 10 God King shall be Sion's God shall Still reign o're all The Lord praise ye PSALM CXLVII 1 PRaise ye the Lord for it is good Praise to our glorious God to sing It is a sweet and pleasant work And praise to God a comely thing 2 God buildeth
his Jerusalem Where he as God is truly known He the dispers'd of Israel In time doth gather into one 3 The broken-hearted he doth heal Their wounds up he doth gently bind 4 He tells the number of the stars Calls all things by their names and kind 5 Great is our God and of great power His knowledge hath no end or bound 6 The meek he lifteth up but casts The proud and wicked to the ground 7 Sing forth the praises of the Lord With thankful heart and chearful tongue Let Harp and pleasant melody Be joyned with your praising song 8 He covereth the heav'ns with clouds And for the earth prepareth rain The barren mountains doth refresh That grass on them may grow again 9 He gives the beasts their food and feeds Young Ravens which for food do cry 10 His pleasure not in horses strength Nor in the strong man's legs do lye 11 But in all those who do him fear The Lord himself doth pleasure take And those that in his mercy hope His love and grace will not forsake 12 Jerusalem shall praise the Lord Sion thy God with praise confess 13 Thy bars and gates he strengtheneth Thy Children in thee he doth bless 14 Thy borders he with peace doth bless And fills thee with Wheat 's finest flower 15 His word goes forth through all the earth And swiftly prospers by his power 16 Hoar frost like ashes scattereth he On earth like wool he snow doth give 17 Like morsels he casts forth his ice Who in his extream cold can live 18 He sendeth out his word of power And quickly melteth them again He makes his wind to blow and then The waters flow with plenteous rain 19 The Doctrine of his Holy Word To Jacob he doth clearly show His statutes and his judgments he Makes his own Israel to know 20 He with no nation thus hath dealt His judgments and his holy word To none of them are thus made known Ye therefore praise the glorious Lord. PSALM CXLVIII 1 PRaise ye our glorious Lord Who dwells in heav'n on high Let him be still ador'd Above the starry sky 2 Ye Angels bright And all his host Throughout heav'ns coasts In praise delight 3 Praise him both Sun and Moon And every shining Star 4 Ye Heav'ns which are his Throne His glorious praise declare His praise forth show Ye waters high In clouds that fly And fall below 5 Let all these praise the Lord And magnifie his name He did but speak the word And thereby all things frame He plac'd them fast 6 By his decree They fixed be And ever lasts 7 Praise God on earth below Ye Dragons and all deeps 8 Fire hail clouds wind and snow Which in command he keeps 9 Mountain and hill Fruitful trees all And Cedars tall Praise ye him still 10 All beasts both wild and tame And every creeping thing Praise ye God's glorious name And every bird of wing All men on earth 11 Kings and Judges Greatest Princes Of highest birth 12 Young men and maidens all Praise ye the Lord's great name Old men and children small Let all his praise proclaim O're all the world 13 God's Name alone And Glory known Shall be extoll'd 14 His people he will raise And them exalt on high All his Saints shall him praise And bless continually He is ador'd By Israel Who near him dwell Praise ye the Lord. PSALM CXLIX 1 PRaise ye the Lord and sing A new rejoycing song Praise ye our glorious King His holy ones among Where they do meet In holy throngs To sing these songs Sacred and sweet 2 Let Israel rejoyce In him that did them make With chearful heart and voice Let Sion's sons partake And to their King Who them directs And still protects This off'ring bring 3 And let them praise his name With dances grave and meet Yea let them praise the same With Harp and Musick sweet For the upright 4 His people true Whom he fore-knew Are his delight With his salvation he The meek will beautifie 5 Let them all joyful be In his and their Glory To their great King Their resting head Shall on their bed His praises sing 6 Let the high praise of God Be ever in their mouth And let them wield abroad The two-edg'd-sword with truth 7 On heathens all And wicked men God's Judgments then Shall surely fall 8 With chains to bind their Kings Their Lords with iron bands 9 To execute the things On them which God commands God by his Word This honour grants To all his Saints Praise ye the Lord. PSALM CL. 1 PRaise God Prise him where faithful men Do in his holy place draw near Praise him in the high firmament Where his great power doth appear 2 Praise him for all his mighty acts Their glory in his praises tell His Greatness and Perfection praise Which doth all creatures reach excel 3 With Trumpets and shrill Cornet's noise Sound forth his glorious praise on high Praise him with the melodious harp And with the pleasant Psaltery 4 Praise him with Timbrel and with Flute With Organs and string'd Harpsicals With joyful and well-tuned hearts 5 Praise him upon the loud Cymbals On the loud Cymbals praise ye him 6 Let every living thing accord That breath enjoys to give God praise All joyn to praise our glorious Lord. Chap. 3. Lamentations 1 I Am the miserable man Selected by my righteous God To see days of calamity And feel his wrath and chastening Rod. 2 He hath me led and brought into The dismal darkness of the night He doth deny my grieved soul The comforts of the pleasant light 3 Surely against me he is turn'd All day his hand wrings out my groans 4 My wasted flesh my skin made old By tiring pain he breaks my bones 5 His batteries he against me built With gall and travel compass'd me 6 In darkness he hath shut me up Like those that dead and buryed be 7 His chastening hand doth hedge me in And my escape by flight restrains My feeble flesh and galled limbs He fetters with his heavy chains 8 And when thus prest with pain and grief To him I daily cry and shout He seems to turn away his ear And shut my fervent prayer out 9 With hewen stone he hath me enclos'd Led me into a crooked way 10 And he hath us'd me in his wrath As Bears and Lions do their prey 11 He turn'd me from the pleasant way Tore me and made me desolate 12 He bends his bow makes me the mark Which piercing arrows level at 13 The shafts which from his quiver come Enter into and pierce my reins 14 I daily am the peoples song Which me with mocks and scorn disdains 15 With bitterness he filled me With wormwood he hath made me drunk 16 With gravel-stones he brake my teeth My flesh's in ashes roll'd and shrunk 17 Thou set'st my soul so far from peace That I almost all good forgat 18 I said My strength and hope in God Hath fail'd and left me desolate
high Let Peace abound on earth below To men Divine benignity Or Glory be to our glorious God Whose dwelling's in the highest heaven Let Peace come down on earth below Love and good will to men be given Or Glory to the Eternal God In heav'n which is his glorious place Let Peace on earth make her abode Let men receive his love and grace The Hymn called the Benedicte of Shadrach Meshach and Abednego Paraphrased Christian Philosophy 1 LEt this great wondrous frame And all God's works therein On which his glorious name Inscrib'd is clearly seen Jehovah bless To magnifie The Lord most high His praise express 2 Ye holy Angels bright Who see Jehovah's face Where his Life Love and Light Make heav'n a glorious place The Lord still praise His Majesty Still magnifie Bless him always 3 Ye heav'ns so high and great In glory which excel The blessed holy seat Where Christ and Angels dwell His praise shew forth Him magnifie More gloriously Than we on earth 4 Ye unseen Powers above Which mortals little know Who under God do move And rule the things below Praise ye God's name As all his will Ye do fulfil Bless ye the same 5 Let the great glorious Sun Earth's mover life and light And the resplendent Moon Which shines to us by night God's Glory show Praise and declare Him whose ye are To us below 6 Ye numerous Stars of light Great Orbs and glorious all Though here to Mortals sight By distance ye seem small Your wondrous frame So great and high Doth magnifie The Lord's great name 7 Ye clouds and showers of rain And earth-refreshing dew Which do its store maintain And all its fruits renew To all mens sense Of us God's care You do declare And providence 8 Ye unseen winds that blow When and where God commands Moving the air below Both over sea and lands The Lord most high Your unknown course And potent force Do magnifie 9 God's wondrous work call'd FIRE Whose substance near and great We know not but admire Its motion light and heat Doth intimate What spirits are God's praise declare And celebrate 10 Winter 's and Summer's course The year 's revolving times Keep still by Divine force In their prescribed lines Each day and hour Do glorifie The Lord most high And praise his power 11 The sharp congealing cold The Frost the Ice and Snow We feel and do behold But not their secrets know These praise the Lord Who doth command Both Sea and Land And all the World 12 The glorious Heav'n-born light Earth's beauty joy and guide Black darkness silent night When men in rest abide Both nights and days Bless our great Lord Obey his word And speak his praise 13 Lightnings and Tempests fierce Make sinful mortals quake Thunders the mountains pierce God makes the earth to shake All these proclaim And dreadfully Do magnifie The Lord's great name 14 In this great fruitful earth Though small to all the rest Where mortals have their birth God's greatness is exprest It s numerous train Doth bless our God and all abroad His praise proclaim 15 Ye mountains vast and tall Even with the cloudy sky Whence all below seem small Which in the Valleys lye You to man's eye The power of God Shew all abroad And magnifie 16 The fields and fruitful ground Each plant and beauteous flower Where God's sweet gifts abound Which shew his love and power All this rich store High praises gives To him that lives For evermore 17 Fountains and pleasant springs Sweet streams that never rest Food health and pleasure brings Refreshing man and beast These always flow Praising God's love Which from above Feeds all below 18 The Ocean deep and wide Is in God's eye and hand And Rivers all that glide To it from every land God's wonders there Which dreadfully Him magnifie To all appear 19 Great Whales dwell in this deep The fish in wondrous store God there doth feed and keep And brings for man to shore Out of man's sight These glorifie The Lord most high And praise his might The fowls that fly in air And sweetly sing on earth God's chore that praise him are And shew his glory forth To our Great King All these rejoyce With chearful voice And to him sing 21 The beasts of divers sorts The wild servile and tame God makes feeds and supports To glorifie his Name To this design'd The Lord they bless His praise express Each in his kind 22 O man to whom all these Thy God hath servants made This God to LOVE and PRAISE Should be thy life and trade Learn and be wise Will only ye The Rebels be And God despise 23 Return man to thy Lord Follow not vanity Trust and obey his word And trust not to a lye He is thy God Now seek his face Obey his grace Prevent his Rod. 24 O ye his chosen flock Brought near him by his love His Church built on the Rock Redeem'd for Joys above Your God adore Your voices raise And sing his praise For evermore 25 Ye sacred Priests of God Whose worship ye attend Whose house is your abode Your days there sweetly spend Unweariedly Spread ye his fame His holy name There sanctifie 26 All ye that serve the Lord Devoted to his will Rul'd by his holy word Trust and obey him still In him rejoyce And magnifie The Lord most high With heart and voice 27 Ye spirits of the just Advanc'd by saving grace Who here in Christ did trust And now behold his face In heav'n above You joyfully There magnifie The God of Love 28 All Saints in heav'n and earth In whom Love's holy fire Kindled in the new birth Towards God doth still aspire Spend life and days Redeem'd for this The work of bliss The Lord to praise 29 With these Lord number me Let love draw up my soul From all its bonds set free Let nothing it controul That I to please And magnifie The Lord most high May never cease 30 One God in Trinity Let heaven and earth adore From all Eternity The same for evermore All Glory 's his Who needing none Himself his own Perfection is The Hymn of St. Ambrose called Te Deum c. 1 MOst Glorious God we here present Our joyful praise to thee The only God the Lord of all Confessing thee to be 2 Th' eternal Father Lord of all Thy works do thee proclaim For all are made to honour thee And glorifie thy name 3 Thee the blest Angels magnifie The Heav'ns and Powers thee praise Cherubs and all the glorious spirits Do cry to thee always 4 Most Holy Holy Holy God The universal Lord Thy present glorious Majesty Fills heaven and all the world 5 The glorify'd Apostles there Praise thee continually With them the blessed Prophets joyn Thy name to magnifie 6 There are the Martyrs noble hosts Employed in thy praise Thy holy Church in heav'n and earth Acknowledge thee always 7 Father in greatness infinite Thy One True Glorious Son The Holy Ghost the
Comforter Christ's Advocate with Man 8 O Christ thou art of Glory King And thee we all confess The Father's everlasting Son His Image most express 9 When to save lost and sinful man Man's Nature thou wouldst choose To take flesh in a Virgin 's womb Thy love did not refuse 10 When thou for sinners suffered'st death Conquered'st and rose agen Heaven's Kingdom thou didst open set To all true faithful men 11 Into the heaven's ascended now Thou sit'st at God's right hand And in the Father's Glory dost Both Heaven and Earth command 12 With all the faithful we believe Thou wilt in Glory come To be our Judge and on all men To pass the final doom 13 Now therefore help thy servants Lord Whom thou redeemed hast So dearly with thy precious blood And let them not be lost 14 O let us with the blessed Saints In Glory numbred be And with them everlastingly Sing praises unto thee 15 Save thou thy chosen people Lord Bless thine inheritance Rule and preserve them and with thee In glory them advance 16 It is our daily sacred work Thy Name to glorifie World without end we would thee praise And ever magnifie 17 Vouchsafe us Lord thy grace this day Our souls from sin to save Have mercy on us sinners Lord It 's mercy which we crave 18 Lord let thy mercy fall on us In it confide we must Lord let not me confounded be For in thee do I trust The Doxologie TO Father Son and Holy Ghost One God in Trinity As ever was and as now is All Glory ever be Or To Father Son and Holy Ghost One God in Persons three Or One undivided three Or One consubstantial three Or One coeternal three All humble thanks and joyful praise Or All highest praise and humble thanks Now and for ever be Or For ever rendred be Or All Glory to the Blessed Three One ever-living Lord As at the first still shall he be Belov'd Obey'd Ador'd Or All Glory Honour Power and Praise To God that 's One in Three As it in the beginning was Is now and still shall be Or All Glory to the Blessed Three All Honour Power and Praise As at the first shall ever be Beyond the end of days Or To Father Son and Holy Ghost All Praise and Glory be therefore As in beginning was is now And shall be henceforth evermore Or Glory to thee O Lord One God in Persons Three To Father Son and Holy Ghost One equal Glory be Directions for the Vse and Tuning of the Psalms c. I. THese Psalms are set to the commonest Measures and Tunes of the Old Metre of the Psalms Psal 84.117.119 Te Deum II. To The Tune of the Old 100 Psalm or the Old 51 are 1.18.78.89.100.106.107.109.114.135.150.57.69.88 Note That the Tune of the Old 51st best agreeeth with the sadder sort of Psalms and the Tune of the Old 100. with the laudatory Psalms III. To the Tune of the Old 25 are set Psal 3.15.20 21 22.24 25.28.43.50.56.59.61.65.67.70.83.85 86 87.100.110.123.136.141 IV. To the Tune of the Old 148 are set these laudatory Psalms 47.98.136.146.148 149. and the Benedicite c. V. All the rest are set to the longer and shorter Measures and Tunes indifferently That is If you leave out the words written in a different Character they are fitted to any of the commonest shorter Tunes which are very many But if you take in the words of different Character they are fitted to the longer Tunes of the Old 51st or 100th As for instance Psalm 2. Why do the Rebel-Nations rage And People hatch a vain design The Kings of earth do set themselves And wicked Rulers do combine But if you leave out the words of a different Character in Crotchets thus then you may use any of the Common Tunes As for Instance of the same Psalm Why do the Rebel-Nations rage And hatch a vain design The Kings of earth do set themselves And Rulers do combine The reason why I so-ordered them is 1. Because Nature weary of the same is recreated with variety of Tunes And some are more for one and some for another 2. Because when brevity causeth obscurity the additional words are seen by them that use the Books as explicatory of the rest when they be not spoken And the great difference of the Letters makes it no stop to the Readers Though this was never done by any other that I know of and though it sometime make the Verse more rough I hope the benefit will compensate all this Note That some few select Psalms most fitted to mens ordinary state Humbling Deprecatory Supplicatory or Gratulatory and Laudatory should by most be learnt without Book to be ready night and day as various Occasions make them useful And times of Calamity Danger Oppression and Persecution will render men capable of a sensible understanding of the greatest part of the Psalms otherwise hardly understood which aggravate the furious Rage Malignity Violence Bloodiness and Diabolical Nature Designs and Attempts of the wicked enemies of Truth Piety and Holy Peace and teach us to fly to God only for help from these wicked and unreasonable men And it will thereby confute our offence at David's so much aggravating his and the Churches Enemies wickedness and bloody cruelty If we consider that it is not their eternal damnation that he prayeth for but publick Justice by God the universal Soveraign who hath made Justice a necessary part of Government Divine and Humane and the ordinary means of repressing Wickedness encouraging Obedience and protecting and delivering the Church and State FINIS
too great and high 2 Thou know'st I have behav'd my self In quietness as low and mild As a child weaned from the breast My soul 's even as a weaned child 3 Upon the Lord let Israel With fullest trust and hope rely Not only now but from henceforth Even un to all Eternity PSALM CXXXII 1 REmember David's troubles Lord 2 Who vow'd to Jacob's mighty God 3 And sware I 'le not come to my house Nor go for rest unto my bed 4 I 'le give mine eyes no sleep until 5 I find a holy place to dwell A habitation for the Lord The mighty God of Israel 6 At Shiloh's place in Ephraim We heard God's holy Ark once stood We found it also in the fields And in the City of the wood 7 We 'll go into his Tabernacle And humbly at his foot-stool bow 8 Arise O Lord unto thy rest Thy holy Ark of strength and Thou 9 Let righteousness be to thy Priests Their cloathing and their comely dress And let thy Saints that worship thee Even shout aloud for joyfulness 10 And for thy servant David's sake With shame turn not away the face Of him whom thou anointed hast And chosen freely by thy grace 11 The Lord to David sware in truth And surely will not turn from it Upon the Throne of Majesty Thy body 's Off-spring I will set 12 My Covenant if thy sons will keep And Laws which I to them make known Their Children also then shall sit For ever on thy Royal Throne 13 For Sion the Lord chosen hath And there to dwell he liketh best 14 This is my chosen dwelling-place This is my worship's fixed rest 15 I her provisions will maintain And it will bless abundantly And I her poor and needy ones With daily bread will satisfie 16 And I her sacred Priests will cloath With my preserving saving grace Her Saints shall shout aloud for joy Before my shining pleased face 17 There I 'le make David's horn of Power To bud forth and afresh to spring And there I have ordain'd a lamp For my anointed sacred King 18 His enemies I will subdue And with just shame I 'le cloath them all But on him and his faithful seed His Royal Crown still flourish shall PSALM CXXXIII 1 BEhold and try how good it is What holy pleasure it doth give When holy brethren serving God In love and unity do live 2 It perfumes like the precious Oyl Which poured was on Aarons head Which down his beard and garments all It s sacred fragrant odour spread 3 As fruitful dews from Hermon hill Which waters all the lower ground And streaming showers from Sion's Mount Make the low Vales with fruit abound So on his flock by Love and Peace God doth his fruitful grace entail Even the fore-taâ—â—e of that blest life Where Love and Peace shall never fail PSALM CXXXIV 1 SEe that ye bless the Lord Ye that his servants are Who in his house by night do stand To serve and praise him there 2 Lift up your hearts and hands To him with one accord In his appointed holy place There glorifie the Lord. 3 The Lord that made the heav'ns The earth and all that live His blessing out of Sion shall Plenteously to you give PSALM CXXXV 1 PRaise ye the Lord Praise his great name All ye his servants Praise your God 2 All you that in the Lord's house stand And in his Courts have your abode 3 Praise ye the Lord for he is good Sing praises to his holy name For it is sweet to be employ'd His holy praises to proclaim 4 He to himself hath Jacob chose And Israel his own treasure made 5 I know the Lord our God is great Above all Gods in honour had 6 In heav'n and earth the Lord hath done Whatever his own will did please And also in the deeps below And in the great and swelling Seas 7 From the earth's ends it 's he that makes The vapours upward to ascend He doth make Lightnings for the rain And Winds out of his treasure send 8 Egypt's first-born both man and beast He smote and wondrous tokens he 9 On Pharaoh and his servants sent O Egypt in the midst of thee 10 He smote great Nations slew great Kings 11 Sihon who was of Heshbon King And Og of Bashan and to nought All Canaan's Kingdoms he did bring 12 And gave their Land a heritage Unto his people Israel 13 Thy name Lord everlasting is For ever 's thy memorial 14 For God for his own people will To judge and save them yet arise And will turn and repent himself Of all his servants miseries 15 The Idols which are worshipped Abroad in all the Heathen lands They are of gold and silver made The meer work of the Craftsmens hands 16 A mouth they have but do not speak Eyes have they but they never saw 17 They have ears but they do not hear And mouths which never breath did draw 18 Their makers are even like to them And all that do on them rely 19 Bless ye the Lord O Israel's house Bless God O Aaron's family 20 His servants all of Levi's house Continually bless ye the Lord All every where that do him fear Daily bless God with one accord 21 In Sion God's own chosen place Bless him and there his praise record Who dwelleth at Jerusalem In holiness praise ye the Lord. PSALM CXXXVI The Scots Version 1 PRaise God for he is good His mercy lasts for aye 2 Give thanks with heart and mind To God of Gods alway For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 3 The Lord of Lords praise ye Whose mercies still endure 4 Great wonders only he Doth work by his great power For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 5 Which God Omnipotent By might and mercies high The Heav'ns and Firmament Did frame as you may see For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 6 To him who did out-stretch This earth so great and wide Above the waters reach Making it to abide For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 7 Great Lights he made to be For his grace lafteth aye 8 Such as the Sun we see To rule the lightsome day For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 9 Also the Moon so clear Which shineth in our sight The Stars that do appear To guide the darksome night For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 10 To him that Egypt smote Who did his message scorn And in his anger hot Did kill all their first-born For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 11 Thence Israel out he brought For his grace lafteth ever 12 With a strong hand he wrought And stretch'd-out arm deliver For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 13 The Sea he cut in two For his grace lasteth still 14 And through the midst to go Made his own Israel For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure