those Who trust in Them repose verse 19 His praise O ye from Iacob spring O house of Aaron sing verse 20 O house of Levi who profess His feare your Maker bless verse 21 From Sion let your blessings sound Your thankfull Songs abound Praise ye the Lord His mercies tell Who doth in Salem dwell PSAL. CXXXVI To the usuall Tune As Psalme 148. verse 1 GIve thanks unto the Lord Who doth all good afford verse 2 The God of Gods who swaies verse 3 Those Lords whom earth obeyes verse 4 Who hath alone Great wonders done His mercy sure Doth still endure verse 5 To Him who Heavens made verse 6 Earth 'bove the waters lay'd verse 7 To Him who form'd great lights To rule our daies and nights verse 8 The Sun at noone The Stars and Moone verse 9 Whose mercy sure Doth still endure verse 10 Who Egypts first-borne smote And Iacob from them brought verse 13 The Red Sea parted was verse 14 For Israel to pass verse 15 But Pharaoh's host In it was lost His mercy sure Doth still endure verse 16 Who His through desarts led Great Kings discomfited verse 19 Sihon the Amorite verse 20 And Og with Bashan's might verse 21 And gave their land verse 22 To Iacob's hand His mercy sure Doth still endure verse 23 Who our low state esteem'd verse 24 And from our foes redeem'd verse 25 Who to all flesh gives food His creatures fills with good verse 26 Your thanks O bring To Heavens King Whose mercy sure Doth still endure PSAL. CXXXVII Sing this as Psalme 119. verse 1 BY Babylons swift streames we sate Sad and disconsolate The teares as fast ran from our ey For Sions memory verse 2 Our harps untuned and unstrung Upon the Willowes hung verse 3 When those who did us captive bring Bid us in scorne to sing They who us spoil'd with sword and fire Did mirth of us require Sing us say'd They one of the Songs To Sion which belongs verse 4 But how shall we sing the Lords Song His Enemies among Or tune His Notes in strangers Land That cannot understand verse 5 O deare Ierusalem when I Forsake thy memory May my skill faile my right hand let Her cunning quite forget verse 6 Cleave to the roof O may my tongue When I not not mourne thy wrong Or if I not preferr thy mirth Above all joyes on earth verse 7 In thy remembrance Lord retaine Proud Edoms fierce disdaine Who 'gainst Ierusalem did cry Mocking hir misery Now she is fall'n nere may our eyes Againe behold hir rise Down with it their rude clamours sound Rase it ev'n to the ground verse 8 O Babylon which did'st us wast Thy self our woes must tast And in thy finall ruin we Sions revenge shall see Happy are They who to requite The measure of thy spight verse 9 Without all pitty 'gainst the stones Shall dash thy little ones PSAL. CXXXVIII verse 1 I Thee will praise with my whole heart My thankfull hymnes impart Before the Gods of Earth I 'le sing My praise to Heaven's King verse 2 I towards Thy Temple worship will And praises utter still Thy word and Name shall loudly sound Whose love and truth abound verse 3 When in my plaints to Thee I cry'd Thy love as soon reply'd My fainting spirit was renew'd With strength my soule endu'd verse 4 The Kings of earth Thy praise shall beare When they Thy words do heare verse 5 They in the waies of God shall sing The glory of their King verse 6 For though the Lord be very high Yet He cast's downe His eye The meek and lowly He respects But all the proud neglects verse 7 Though I in mid'st of trouble live Yet Thou wilt me revive Thy stretch'd out hand my wrathfull foes To ruin shall expose verse 8 The Lord my comforts will assure By mercyes which endure Cease not of me regard to take Nor Thine own works forsake PSAL. CXXXIX Sing this as Psalme 51. verse 1 LOrd thou hast throughly searched me I open am and know'n to Thee verse 2 My sitting downe and my up rise Are not concealed from Thine eyes Thou understand'st my distant thought Ere it to forme my self had brought verse 3 Thou circlest in my path and bed And hast my waies discovered verse 4 Thou hear'st each whisper from my tongue And ere 't was utter'd knew'st it long verse 5 By Thee I fashion'd am and made Thy hand each part in order lay'd verse 6 Yet can I not the knowledge gaine How I this being did attaine Which doth in wonder so excell 'T is easier to admire then tell verse 7 How shall I from Thy spirit fly Or Thy all present pow'r deny verse 8 If I climbe Heav'n 't is Thine own Shere If stoop to Hell lo Thou art there verse 9 If borne upon the mornings wing Far as the Sea doth swell or spring verse 10 Thy Right hand shall protect and lead Where ere my weary footsteps tread verse 11 If I pretend the darknes shall Upon me like a cov'ring fall Those heavy fogs those mists of night Will quickly cleare and turne to light verse 12 The thickest shade or blackest cloud Can nothing from thy knowledg shrow'd For darkness doth like Noon-tide shine Light'ned by brighter beams of Thine verse 13 My reines are Thine Thou mad'st the womb My bodies cloathing to become verse 14 I will give thanks to Thee O Lord Who was enlived by Thy word With awfull art and wond'rous forme Thou did'st Thy workmanship adorne My soule Their marvels must confess And for Thy favours daily bless verse 15 Though I was fashion'd in the dark Too secretly for man to mark There is no curious joynt or bone But was to Thy inspection know'n verse 16 Thou did'st upon my substance look And wrot'st each member in Thy book Thou saw'st how my imperfect frame By daily growth to figure came verse 17 O Lord how pretious O how deare Thy purposes and thoughts appeare verse 18 Which were they summ'd in my account They would the num'rous sands surmount These wonders alwaies presently Fixt in my thankfull memory And whil'st of them surveies I take My contemplation still must wake verse 19 O God! Thou shalt the wicked slay Ye bloody men depart away verse 20 For their fowle tongues Thy honour staine And take Thy sacred Name in vaine verse 21 Do not I hate and grieve at those Whose proud despight against thee rose verse 22 With perfect hate I them despise Accounting them mine enemies verse 23 Search me O Lord and prove my heart Who Judg of all my actions art Do Thou my faith to tryall bring My hidden thoughts examining verse 24 Look well and all my motions view If I persist in waies untrue And when Thou find'st my feet to stray Reduce me to Thy lasting way PSAL. CXL verse 1 SAve me from men to evill bent And from the violent verse 2 Which mischeif in their hearts devise In war and tumult rise verse 3 Their tongues are
beneath They heavy stroak verse 9 O Lord Thou know'st my whole desire My hidden groanes to Thee aspire verse 10 My heart doth pant my vigour dies Of light deprived are mine eyes verse 11 My friends who late professed love Far from my sore themselves remove My kindred my converses shun Nor come to comfort but look on verse 12 They who my life seek to ensnare Intent upon my mischiefes are With foule reproaches and false lies My ruin daily they devise verse 13 But I as those nor heare nor speake Did never into passion breake verse 14 No angry murmur from me fell Which might my griefes impatience tell verse 15 For I in Thee my trust repose To heare my moane and quell my foes verse 16 Who when my foot amisse did goe Triumphed at my overthrow verse 17 With woes opprest I daily fall My sorrowes are continuall And whilst my faults are in my view They do as oft my paine renew verse 18 I therefore will those sins confesse And with contrition beg redresse I will the guilt of my offence Wash off with teares of penitence verse 19 O Lord mine enemies are strong And live to do me further wrong Each day their number doth encrease Who are the haters of my peace verse 20 They also have against me stood Who make returnes of ill for good Yet know no cause for their despight But that I follow what is right verse 21 Therefore my sad request I make That Thou wilt never me forsake My God! O never far depart Who my releife and comfort art verse 22 My sighs and sorrowes look upon Thou God of my salvation Afford thy help in time of need And to my reskue come with speed PSAL. XXXIX verse 1 I Said my wayes I will intend And least my tongue offend My mouth shall bownd and bridled bee Whilst I the wicked see verse 2 I dumb awhile and silent stood Ev'n ceasing to speak good Untill at last my grieved heart Was urg'd with sorrowes smart verse 3 So that my heated breast became For lack of vent a flame And then my tongue these words exprest Breath'd forth from my disrest verse 4 Lord Let me understand my end How farr my dayes extend That I may know how I am fraile Each moment apt to faile verse 5 Behold Thou mad'st the dayes of man No longer then a span His age as nothing is and he At best but vanitie verse 6 Man like a shadow walkes in vaine Wasting his time with paine He heapes up riches yet not knowes What heire shall them dispose verse 7 And now O Lord on whom shall I Whilst I stay here rely Truly my hope shall wait on Thee My joyes there treasur'd be verse 8 Deliver me when I transgresse And help me in distresse Let not the foolish me deride Or scorne me in their pride verse 9 Under Thy scourge I silent lay Prepared to obay I did not murmur at my paine Or of Thy hand complaine verse 10 Yet now Thy mercies I invoke To take away Thy stroke For I consume and my faint breath Is yeelding up to death verse 11 When Thou for sin dost man correct Rebuking his neglect Thou mak'st his beauty soone consume Like to the wandring fume Sicknesse destroyes him as a moath Corrodes and frets the cloath So vaine is man and quickly gone Into corruption verse 12 Lord heare my cry let not thine eares Be deaf unto my teares For I with Thee a stranger am And but to sojourne came verse 13 O spare my time a little length Till I recover strength Before I goe from this worlds shore And shall be seene no more PSAL. XL Sing this as Psalme 51. verse 1 I Patient did for God attend Who to my cry His eare did lend verse 2 From horror's pit He did me pluck And miry clay wherein I stuck And on the rock He set my feet From whence my goings nere should fleet verse 3 My mouth new songs of praises fill That men may feare and trust Him still verse 4 The man most happy is and blest Whose constant faith on God doth rest And never will the proud ones prize Nor such as turne aside to lies verse 5 Lord many are Thy wonders wrought And loving towards us is Thy thought If I would speak and them declare They more then can be numbred are verse 6 No sacrifice Thou did'st desire Nor sin-oblation burnt in fire Thou pierc'd and open'd hast mine eare To shew what gifts more pleasing were verse 7 Then said I Lo I come Of old The volume of the booke foretold verse 8 Lord I to do Thy will delight Yea in my heart Thy Law I write verse 9 Thy righteousnesse my lips did teach Thy truth in great assemblies preach verse 10 Thy word I hid not or conceal'd But unto men Thy love reveal'd verse 11 Thy tender mercies nere remove But still preserve me in Thy love verse 12 For more in number then my haires My sin-prest soule is vext with cares verse 13 Be pleas'd to save and keep me fast O Lord to give me help make hast verse 14 Let them confounded be with shame Who at my soules destruction aime Let them repulsed backe retire Who wish my fall or hurt desire verse 15 Let them be sham'd and desolate Who Fy upon thee say in hate verse 16 Let all that seek thy glorious Name Their joyes and comforts loud proclame Let all who Thy salvation love Say alwayes Prais'd be God above verse 17 Though poore and needy I am brought Thou not exclud'st me from Thy thought Thou my redeemer art stay My God! O make no long delay PSAL. XLI Sing this as the Prayer after the Commandments verse 1 BLessed is he the poor who minds He help from God in trouble finds verse 2 The Lord preserves and life supplies Nor gives him up to enemies verse 3 When languishing upon his bed By God he shall be strengthened By Thee when weak and lowest layd His bed is in his sicknesse made verse 4 I said my soule in mercy save For Lord 'gainst Thee I sinned have verse 5 My foes thus speak When shall he dy And loose both Name and Memory verse 6 Even those to see me who resort When gone traduce me in report verse 7 My haters whisper and devise To hurt me in their calumnies verse 2 Sick of a fowle disease he lies Say they and never more shall rise verse 9 Yea my near friend who eat my bread Lifts up his heel to spurne my head verse 10 Lord raise me from this wofull plight That I their malice may requite verse 11 I shall in this Thy favour know If not triumphed by my foe verse 12 Thou do'st my innocence sustaine And in Thy presence me retaine verse 13 Blest be the God of Iacob then Through all enduring times Amen PSAL. XLII verse 1 AS the chas'd Hart distrest with heat Flies to the Brookes retreat O God! my soule pursu'd and faint So after Thee doth pant verse 2
the proper Tune verse 1 HAve mercy O my God! on me Who thus dejected fly to Thee According to Thy boundlesse love The weight of mine offence remove verse 2 From Thine un-wasted pitties spring Thy wonted streames of pardon bring O wash my leprous soule againe And cleanse me from this bloody staine verse 3 In sad repentance I confesse The knowledge of this wickednesse verse 4 Against Thee have I sinn'd alone Who art my Judge for what is done I cannot hide the blood I spilt Nor will excuse my secret guilt That at Thy bar when I am try'd Thy sentence might be justify'd verse 5 Brought forth I was to Parents scorne In sin conceiv'd with sorrow Borne And have emprov'd by act and thought Those spots which to the world I brought verse 6 But Thou dost inward truth require And only can'st that grace inspire Thou therefore shalt who wisdome art With understanding fill my heart verse 7 Purge me with Hyssop then my soule Shall cleansed be though nev'r so foule Wash me and my black crimes will grow More white then is the falling snow verse 8 Make me to hear Thy mercies voice So shall my broken bones rejoyce verse 9 Turne from my sinnes Thy face away Nor let them in remembrance stay verse 10 Create O God! a cleansed heart Renew my soule chast thoughts impart verse 11 Me from Thy presence never drive Nor of thy guiding grace deprive verse 12 Restore Thy comfort yet at last And let Thy spirit keep me fast verse 13 Then wicked men thy wayes I le teach And sinners shall conversion reach verse 14 Deliver me from guilt of blood O God Thou Authour of my good verse 15 Open my lips enlarge my tongue And then thy prayses shall be sung verse 16 Thou do'st not sacrifice desire Or any offring made by fire verse 17 The sacrifices God delight Are broken hearts and soules contrite verse 18 O cast thy favourable eye On Sions low calamity Build up neglected Salems wall Whose Structures now to ruin fall verse 19 Then shalt Thou be when once appeas'd With our devout oblations pleas'd Who heapes of Incense up will fling And bullocks to Thine Altar bring PSAL. LII verse 1 WHy boasting Tyrant dost thou threat Thou canst do mischeife yet Gods constant goodnesse will prevent Thy murtherous intent verse 2 Thy tongue suggestions doth devise Like rasors cut thy lyes verse 3 Thou evill more then goodnesse lov'st Deceit not truth approv'st verse 4 Thy words false tongue mens lives devour But God shall by His pow'r verse 5 Pluck thee from earth thy dwelling place Thy name from heaven rase verse 6 The just these judgments see and feare Which wicked ones must beare And all their malice vainly try'd With laughter shall deride verse 7 Lo this is he who God not chose For his assur'd repose But strong in violence and stealth Rely'd upon his wealth verse 8 Yet I within God's house shall be Like a green Olive tree And on Thy mercy all my daies My confidence will raise verse 9 I for this preservation will My praises offer still And on Thy saving Name await Which Saints must celebrate PSAL. LIII verse 1 THe fool whose heart doth truth upbraid There is no God hath said Corrupted is with sin their mind And none to good enclin'd verse 2 God His survay from Heaven took And downe on men did look To see if any Him would know Or seek His truth below verse 3 But now revolted every one To filthinesse is gone His Law by none is understood There is not one doth good verse 4 Will they all knowledge thus defy That work iniquity Who eat my people up as bread Nor God have worshipped verse 5 He by false fear and vaine affright Their bones hath scatter'd quite Through Gods just vengeance and despise In shame their glory lies verse 6 O that from Sion help were sent To end our banishment For Iacobs Off-spring then in peace Should joy in their release PSAL. LIV. verse 1 SAve me O God and by Thy might With judgment do me right Be Thou to my request attent verse 2 My words in sorrow sent verse 3 For 'gainst my soule Oppressors rise Strangers who thee despise verse 4 But thou my help and champion art For those that take my part verse 5 With sure revenge He shall repay And cut my foes away verse 6 Free off'rings then to thee shall flame And I will praise Thy Name verse 7 His goodnesse me from trouble saves And gives them timelesse graves Mine eye on those sees his desire Who did my fall conspire PSAL. LV Sing this as the Lamentation verse 1 1 GIve eare O God unto my pray'r From my request not hidden far verse 2 Attend to me with crying faint Who lowdly mourne in my complaint verse 3 Because my foes injurious voyce Mine innocence decryes with noyse And bad oppressors That impute Which doth their wrath and hatred suit verse 4 My heart within me sore with paine Death's falling terrours doth sustaine verse 5 Cold feare and trembling me dismay'd Orewhelm'd with horrour thus I said verse 6 O that I were with wings possest Like doves to fly and be at rest verse 7 Lo then far off I wander might And to the desart take my flight verse 8 I from the windy storme would hast And this fierce tempest ' scape at last verse 9 Destroy O Lord their tongues divide For in the City strife I spy'd verse 10 Both day and night the walls they round Wherein all mischeifes do abound verse 11 In midst whereof foule sins do meet Deceit and guile in ev'ry street verse 12 No open foe did me traduce For then I could have borne th' abuse No publicke hate 'gainst me reveal'd Then should I have my selfe conceal'd verse 13 But it was Thou my friend my guide In equall conversation try'd verse 14 We in sweet counsail daies had spent And to Gods house togither went verse 15 O let some unexpected death Strange as unlook't for seize their breath Let them go down alive to hell For wickednesse with them doth dwell verse 16 But I upon the Lord will call Who saves me from their plotted fall verse 17 At ev'ning morning and mid-day To Him that heares me will I pray verse 18 He resku'd hath in peace my life Deliver'd from their bloody strife Who were in battail opposite For many then for me did fight verse 19 Afflictions shall on them lay hold By God impos'd who ' bides of old Because they in no changes were They grow secure and God not feare verse 20 He hath put forth his hand 'gainst These Who were enleagu'd with him in peace His friendly vow he did recant And break his solemne Covenant verse 21 His speeches smooth as butter are But in his heart is cruell war More soft then Oyle his flatt'ring words Yet were they sharper then draw'n swords verse 22 Upon the Lord thy burden cast Who shall sustaine and keep thee fast verse 23 But
cast verse 16 He me from many waters tooke verse 17 My too strong foes with vengeance strook verse 18 They me in day of trouble seiz'd But God my stay those sorrowes eas'd verse 19 He brought me to a spacious place Deliv'ring me through His free grace verse 20 He did my righteousnesse regard And cleannesse of my hands reward verse 21 For I the wayes of God have kept Nor wickedly His precepts left verse 22 His judgments I and statutes prize Still placing them before my eyes verse 23 I perfect was and innocent Nor to ungodly courses bent verse 24 Therefore as guiltlesse and upright I am rewarded in His sight Second Part. verse 25 Thou to the mercifull art kind verse 26 And pure where Thou dost purenesse find verse 27 But with the froward art perverse Dost save the poor the proud disperse verse 28 For thou my candle wilt make bright And turne my darknesse into light verse 29 By Thee I made a Troop to fall And through my God leap'd ore a wall verse 30 God's way is perfect His word try'd Doth as a shield the faithfull hide verse 31 Who can like Him a Saviour be Or who a Rock to us but He verse 32 T is God that girdeth me with might And keepes me in my wayes upright verse 33 My feet like Hind's He maketh swift And to high places doth me lift verse 34 T is He doth teach my hands to warre Steel bowes by them now broken are verse 35 Thou wast my shield Thy hand sustain'd I through Thy favour greatnesse gain'd verse 36 My feet enlarged have not fail'd verse 37 'gainst foes pursuit my hands prevail'd verse 38 Whose pride now quite confounded lies Wounded and fall'n no more to rise verse 39 Thou girdest me with strength for fight And hast subdu'd the rebells might verse 40 Their captive necks below me bend And in deserv'd destruction end verse 41 They cry'd for safety 'midst their feare But God nor help them would nor hear verse 42 Like dust blow'n up so did I beat And tread them downe in their retreat verse 43 From mutiny and peoples strife O Lord Thou resku'd hast my life My head ore Nations Thou dost crowne Those serve me whom I have not know'n verse 44 Soone as they heare they me obay And strangers stoop unto my sway verse 45 The aliens away shall fade And their close places leave dismai'd verse 46 Blest be my Rock who ever lives Exalt Him who Salvation gives verse 47 T is God whose vengeance doth pursue And people under me subdue verse 48 He saves me from mine enemies And lifts me up 'bove those that rise He is my reskue my defence From men of blood and violence verse 49 Therefore will I to Thee O Lord My thanks Eternally record Amongst the Heathen speake Thy fame And praises sing unto Thy Name verse 30 He great deliverance doth bring In love to His annointed King His mercies doth on David powre And on his seed for evermore PSAL. XIX verse 1 THe Heavens high declare the fame Of God who did them frame verse 2 One day another tels and night His wonders doth recite verse 3 They have no language yet they teach Without or tongue or speech verse 4 And through the earth their sound is gone To every Nation God in the Circle of those spheares A Tabernacle reares In which the swift unweary'd Sun His daily course may run verse 5 Who as a Bridegroome freshly deckt Doth on the world reflect And as a Giant strong in might Darts forth his piercing light verse 6 He breaking from the Easterne skies Doth from his Chambers rise And till his beames declining set Nothing can shun his heat verse 7 Gods Law is incorrupt and whole Converting every Soule His faithfull promise never dies And makes the simple wise verse 8 The Statutes of the Lord are right And drooping hearts delight Both pure and perfect His command Gives light to understand verse 9 Most unpolluted is His feare Eternall and sincere The judgments of the Lord are fixt With Truth and Justice mixt verse 10 More to be wish'd then golden mines When them the test refines And more then hony that distills The mouth with sweetnesse fills verse 11 By These Thy servant warned is Oft as he goes amisse Which yeeld a plentifull reward To all that Them regard verse 12 Who knowes how often he offends How far his sin extends Lord cleanse my Soule from crimes conceal'd To none but Thee reveal'd verse 13 Keep me that no presumptuous staine May ore Thy Servant reigne Then shall I walke in innocence Free from the great offence verse 14 O Lord my only strength and tow'r Who sav'st me by Thy pow'r Let all my words and thoughts by Thee Heard and accepted be PSAL. XX verse 1 THe Lord in thy afflictions day Give eare when thou dost pray The Name of Iacob's God defend On whom thy hopes depend verse 2 Help from His Sanctuary send And strength from Sion lend verse 3 Thy Gifts in His remembrance prize Accept thy sacrifice verse 4 4 May He who comforts doth inspire Grant thee thy heart's desire Make thee enjoy thy wishes still Thy counsailes all fulfill verse 5 With thankfull and triumphant voyce We in Thy help rejoyce And in Thy Name our banners reare Who wilt thy servants heare verse 6 Now know I God who power gave Doth His Annointed save He heares from Heav'n and His right hand Makes him in safety stand verse 7 Some in their armed Chariots force Some put their trust in horse But we remember will the Lord Whose Name doth strength afford verse 8 They are brought down and fall'n in war We rays'd in triumph are verse 9 O save us Lord great Heavens King Heare those requests we bring PSAL. XXI verse 1 THe King shall in Thy strength be glad Through Thee with safety clad verse 2 Thou gav'st him all his heart desir'd And what his lips requir'd verse 3 Thou didst no good from him withhold Crownd'st him with purest gold verse 4 He asked life and Thou didst give Him endlesse dayes to live verse 5 Great Majesty doth him invest Through Thy Salvation blest Thou giv'st him joy and lasting grace The favour of Thy face verse 7 The King on God his trust hath plac't Whose Mercy keeps Him fast verse 8 Thy right hand all Thy foes shall find Whose hate 'gainst Thee combin'd verse 9 Thy wrath shall those who Thee forsake A fiery Oven make The Lord shall swallow them in ire By His revenges fire verse 10 Their fruit shalt Thou destroy from earth Root out their childrens birth verse 11 For they 'gainst Thee did ill invent Though fayl'd in their intent verse 12 When at their face Thine arrowes aime They turn their back with shame verse 13 O Lord Thy strength and glory raise So we Thy pow'r will praise PSAL. XXII Sing this as the Lamentation verse 1 MY God My God upon me look O wherefore hast Thou me forsook
Why help'st Thou not when I implore Nor hear'st when I through anguish roare verse 2 O God by day to Thee I cry But Thou Thy audience dost deny And in the night when I should sleep My sorrowes will not silence keep verse 3 But Thou in Holinesse dost dwell O Thou the praise of Israel verse 4 Our Fathers plac'd their trust in Thee And Thy deliverance set them free verse 5 They cry'd to Thee surpriz'd with feare And from Confusion saved were verse 6 But I a worme and no man am Reproach of men and peoples shame verse 7 7 Beholders Me their pastime make Shoot out their lip their head they shake verse 8 He trusted God that He would save See if from him he safety have verse 9 But Thou didst take me from the womb And ever since my hope become verse 10 On Thee when on the breast I hung And from the birth my care was flung verse 11 When trouble 's neare O be not far Since left to me no helpers are verse 12 For many bulls with bellowing sound Strong bulls of Bashan girt me round verse 13 They gape like Lions Me about verse 14 I am like water powred out My bones disjoynted torture crackes My heart within me melts like Waxe verse 15 My strength is like a Pot-sheard dry'd My tongue up to my Palate ty'd verse 16 Thou brought'st me down unto the grave For dogs my life encompast have Assemblies of the wicked meet They pierced have my hands and feet verse 17 My bones stick out consum'd and bare Whil'st they remorselesse on me stare verse 18 They now to part my garments hast And Lots upon my vesture cast verse 19 But be not far from me O Lord verse 20 My soule deliver from the sword verse 21 My darling save from rav'ning jawes Of dogs and from the Lions pawes For thou hast heard me from the hornes Of fierce assayling Unicornes verse 22 I to my brethren will proclaime The Praises due to Thy great Name verse 22 Yee that fear God all Iacobs line And Israëls seed in Prayses joyne verse 24 Th' afflicted He did nere despise Nor hid His face but heard their cries verse 25 My praise and vowes devout to Thee Shall in thy Church performed be verse 26 He to the meeke will plenty give The hearts that seek Him ever live verse 27 Far as the world extends it 's bound Religious Converts shall be found They shall remember and implore And ev'ry Kindred Him adore verse 28 For God's the Kingdome is whose sway All Nations of the Earth obay verse 29 The rich who on Earth's fatnesse feed Ev'n to the Soule that dies for need All from the throne unto the dust Before Him bow and worship must verse 30 All these shall serve Him in their seed And sons to God adopted breed verse 31 Who to succession shall proclaime His righteousnesse and awfull Name PSAL. XXIII verse 1 THe Lord my Shepheard is and guide I shall no want abide verse 2 He makes me lye in fruitfull meads And by stil waters leads verse 3 My Soule to danger given ore He doth againe restore And guides me in the righteous path His Name elected hath verse 4 Yea though in vale of darknesse lay'd Or death's more ghastly shade I feare no ill Thy rod and staffe Direct and keep me safe verse 5 Thou dost for me a plenteous fare Before my foes prepare Thou dost with oyle annoint my head My flowing Cup doth shed verse 6 Thy mercy sure shall me attend Untill my Life doth end And in the House of God will I Remaine Eternally PSAL. XXIV verse 1 EArth is the Lords with hir encrease And all that there have place verse 2 He founded it upon the Seas And made the floods hir base verse 3 Who in God's Holy Place shall stand Or on His Hill appeare verse 4 He who is pure in Heart and hand Nor to deceive doth sweare verse 5 He blessings shall from God receive And righteousnesse from high verse 6 This is their race who God believe And to His sight are nigh verse 7 Lift up yee Gates lift up your head Yee Doores Eternall spread The King of Glory shall come in And his approach begin verse 8 Who is the Great and Glorious King Of whom our Praises sing The Lord in Battaile mighty This The King of Glory is verse 9 Lift up yee Gates lift up your Head Yee Doores Eternall spread The King of Glory shall come in And his approach begin verse 10 Who is the Great and Glorious King Of whom our Praises sing The Lord in Battell mighty This The King of Glory is PSAL. XXV verse 1 WIth Thoughts lift up to Thee O God my Soule doth flee verse 2 To shame O never me expose Nor triumph of my foes verse 3 Let those be free from shame Who wait upon Thy Name But let them feele it who Thy Lawes Transgresse without a cause verse 4 Thy wayes unto me shew Teach me Thy truth to know verse 5 Thou art the God do'st me defend On Thee I still depend verse 6 Thinke on Thy mercies Lord Thy ancient love record verse 7 Remember not my sins of youth But save me in Thy truth verse 8 Good is the Lord His ways To sinners He displaies verse 9 The meek He will in judgment guide Who in His precepts bide verse 10 His paths with truth abound Great mercies there are found Which He unto all such doth grant Who keep his Covenant verse 11 O for Thy Names sake Lord Pardon to me afford And with my heinous crime dispense For great is mine offence verse 12 To him that feares He shewes The way which he shall chuse verse 13 His Soule shall dwell at ease his race Shall long on earth have place verse 14 To them who God do feare His secret shall appeare He will His Covenant declare To such as faithfull are verse 15 Mine eyes on God are set Who plucks me from the net verse 16 O Lord to we in mercy turne Afflicted forlorne verse 17 My heart's distresse is large O Thou my woes discharge verse 18 Looke on the paine wherein I live And all my sins forgive verse 19 Thinke on my many foes Whose hate most cruell growes verse 20 O keep my soule from scandall free Who put my trust in Thee verse 21 Let Justice me defend Who on Thy grace attend verse 22 Thy Israël O God release And all his troubles ease PSAL. XXVI verse 1 IUdge me O God for in Thy path My foot insisted hath My trust hath on Thee Lord rely'd Therefore I shall not slide verse 2 Examine me O Lord and try My reines and heart descry verse 3 Thy mercy still is in my sight Thy truth hath kept me right verse 4 I have not with vaine persons sate Or those that use deceit verse 5 Ill congregations I detest Nor am the sinners guest verse 6 In innocence I le wash my hand So at Thine Altar stand verse 7 That I may
publish in my Song What thankes to Thee belong verse 8 O Lord devoutly I affect The House Thou dost Elect. I Love the honour of that Place Thy presence deignes to grace verse 9 Shut not my soule nor judge my life With men of blood and strife verse 10 Whose arme it selfe in mischiefe lifts Whose hand is fill'd with gifts verse 11 In mine integrity I goe Save me and mercy show verse 12 So will I Praise Thee when my feet Within Thy Temple meet PSAL. XXVII Sing this as Psalme 51. verse 1 GOd my Salvation is and Light What terrour then shall me affright My life 's sole strength He is and aid Of whom then shall I be afraid verse 2 When wicked men mine enemies Conspiring did against me rise When they approach'd my flesh to eat They stumbling fell in their retreat verse 3 Although an host encamped were My heart their numbers shall not feare And though a War against me rise My confidence shall them despise verse 4 One thing of God I have desir'd That I unto His House retir'd Might spend my dayes there grow old His Temples beauty to behold verse 5 For He when times of trouble threat Will me in his Pavilion seat Within His Tabernacle hide And safety on a rock provide verse 6 And now my head up-lifted shall Behold my foes encircling fall Therefore glad Songs and sacrifice With praises to Thy throne shall rise verse 7 Heare O my Lord and when I cry In mercy to my voyce reply verse 8 When Thou command'st Seek ye my face My heart O Lord seek Thee saies verse 9 Hide not Thy face from me in ire Nor leave me helplesse I desire verse 10 Who when my Parents me forsake Wilt me unto Thy favour take verse 11 Teach me O Lord Thy wayes to tread In pathes of truth and plainnesse lead verse 12 Nor leave me to their cruell will Who raise false witnesse me to kill verse 13 I fainted had but for beleife In endlesse life to find releife Wait on the Lord of courage be O wait on Him will strengthen Thee PSAL XXVIII verse 1 TO Thee O Lord my Rock I cry Forbeare not to reply Least I be if Thou silence keep Like those in death that sleep verse 2 Heare Thou the voyce of my request In accents lowd exprest When I with lifted hands entreat Before thy Mercy seat verse 3 O draw me not with sinners hence Whose works are Thy offence Who when their hearts would mischiefe wreake Peace to their neighbour speake verse 4 Give them according to their deeds And wicked labours seeds And in the workes they did invent Render their punishment verse 5 Because Gods works they set at nought And what His hand hath wrought He cast them to destruction shall Nor build them when they fall verse 6 Blessed be God who when I pray'd Became my shield and aid verse 7 Therefore my heart in Songs of Praise With joy His fame shall raise verse 8 He His Annointed doth defend Strength to His Servants send verse 9 Thy people save Thine Heritance To endlesse blisse advance PSAL XXIX verse 1 YEe Mighty in your Race and Tribe Glory to God ascribe verse 2 In beauty of His holinesse His Name adore and blesse verse 3 The Lord by His commanding voyce Brings downe the Waters noyse The Glorious God the Thunder makes Which earth's foundation shakes verse 4 He rules the Sea with pow'r from high Dreadfull in Majesty verse 5 His voyce when He in fury speakes The lofty Cedars breaks verse 6 Like sporting Calves the Mountaines skip Great Lebanon doth leap And Syrion by his Motion borne Like a young Unicorne verse 7 His voyce the flames of fire divides From clouds when Lightning glides verse 8 At His rebuke the desart quakes And barren Kadesh shakes verse 9 Bring forth He makes the frighted Hinds Rends forrests with His Winds And all His glory must declare Who in His Temple are verse 10 God sits above the Watry maine Doth King for ever reigne verse 11 He will His peoples strength encrease And blesse them long with peace PSAL. XXX Sing this as the Lamentation verse 1 O Lord I Thee will magnifie For Thou hast lifted me on high Nor madest me a scorne to those Who were my lifes professed foes verse 2 O Lord my God I cry'd to Thee Who hast in mercy healed me My Soule Thou broughtest from the grave And from the pit of Hell didst save verse 4 O all ye Saints your voyces raise To sing your Makers endlesse praise Remember still with thankes to blesse And magnifie His Holinesse verse 5 For but a Moment lasts His wrath His favour life restored hath Our weeping may endure a night But joy comes with the morning light verse 6 In my prosperity I said My bases are for ever lay'd I shall not from my place remove But stand supported by Thy love No change of times or fortunes hate Can overthrow my happy state For thou my Mountaine mad'st so strong I shall on earth continue long Yet whilst exalted in my thought I was to suddaine trouble brought And soon as Thou didst hide Thy face My comforts vanish'd hence apace verse 8 Then unto Thee O Lord did I With humble supplication cry I did to God my plaint addresse Thus powring forth my heavinesse verse 9 O Thou most Glorious most Good What profit is there in my blood What triumph canst Thou gaine by it When I goe downe into the pit Shall silent dust or darknesse have A tongue to praise Thee in the grave Or those in earth who closed are From their low Cells Thy truth declare verse 10 O Lord Thine eare of mercy lend And from Thy dwelling succour send verse 11 For Thou the cause for which I mourn'd Hast into Songs and Dances turn'd My Sack-cloath Thou didst off me take And cheerfull robes of gladnesse make verse 12 That I Thy praises might renew To whom incessant thankes are due PSAL. XXXI Sing this as the Lamentation verse 1 IN Thee O Lord I put my trust Save me from shame as Thou art just verse 2 Bow downe Thy gratious eare with speed Be Thou my strong defence at need verse 3 For Thou my Rock do'st me protect O for Thy Names sake me direct verse 4 Pull me from out the dang'rous net Which they for me have closely set verse 5 My spirit I to Thee commit For Thou O God did'st purchase it verse 6 I hate all those love vanities But on the Lord my trust relies verse 7 I joy in Thy compassion show'n Who hast my Soule in trouble know'n verse 8 Thou didst from hostile hands discharge To liberty my feet enlarge verse 9 Have mercy Lord and send reliefe Mine eye and soule both wast with griefe verse 10 Through sin I sigh away my dayes My bones consume my strength decayes verse 11 My foes reproach my neighbours fright I am whilst friends avoid my sight verse 12 Like to the dead I sit forgot And
Sing this as the Lamentation verse 1 GOd of my praise nor silent be Nor unattentive unto me verse 2 For wicked mouths me falsely wrong And wound me with their lying tongue verse 3 They compass me with words of hate And causeless vex me with debate verse 4 For all my friendship they are foes But I my grief in pray'r disclose verse 5 My good with evill they requite And my affection pay with spight verse 6 Let wicked rulers him command And Satan stand at his right hand verse 7 Let him when judg'd receive his doome And let his pray'r his sin become verse 8 His daies both few and irksome make His office let another take verse 9 May fatherless his children live His wife forlorne a widow grieve verse 10 Like vagrants let them want their bread And where they beg it not be fed verse 11 Let him be made extortions spoyle And strangers reap his harvests toyle verse 12 None him their pitties object make Nor on his feed compassion take verse 13 His name from earth and Off-spring blot In the succeeding age forgot verse 14 And ever let the Lord retaine His Fathers sin and Mothers staine verse 15 15 Still let them stand before His ey To cut from earth his memory verse 16 Who merciless the poor pursu'd And wounds of broken hearts renew'd verse 17 Feele he those curses which he lou'd All blessings be from him remov'd verse 18 As curses cloath'd him round about So seize they him within without Like water through his bowels flow'd Or oyle into his bones bestow'd verse 19 So let them cloath and gird him fast Returning on himself at last verse 20 Thus let the Lord reward my foes Who to reproach my soul expose verse 21 But for the mercies of Thy Name Deliver me O Lord from shame verse 22 For I am poor and prest with need My wounded heart doth inward bleed verse 23 I like the falling shadow go As puffs of wind the Locusts throw verse 24 My feeble knee through fasting failes And faintnes ore my flesh prevailes verse 25 I am their scorne and laughter bred They looking on me shake their head verse 26 Help me O Lord who mercy crave verse 27 That they may know thy hand can save verse 28 Bless when they curse their pride confoūd But let me live with gladnes crown'd verse 29 Lord let my shamed enemy In sharp confusion cloathed ly verse 30 So shall Thy praises with my tongue Be in the full assembly sung verse 31 For God will at the poor's right hand By His protection ready stand To save his innocence from them Who wrongfully his soul condemne PSAL. CX verse 1 THe Lord whose pow'r all things doth sway Unto my Lord did say Sit at my right hand till thou see Thy foes Thy foot-stool be verse 2 The Lord Thy Scepter shall extend And strength from Sion send That all Thine enemies below May to Thy Kingdome bow verse 3 The people in great numbers shall That day before Thee fall Whose glorious Birth and youthfull hue Is as the morning dew verse 4 The Lord hath sworne who not repents His long decreed intents Thou do'st from great Melchisedek Thy Royall Priest-hood take verse 5 God at Thy right hand Kings shall wound And Nations strong confound verse 6 Whose countries shall be overspread With Bodies of their dead verse 7 He of the River in the way Shall drink his thirst to stay And his victorious head advance In our Deliverance PSAL. CXI To the usuall Tune verse 1 PRaise God with heart and tongue The Quire of Saints among His praises shall be sung verse 2 The works of God are great All those will them repeat Whose thoughts on Him are set verse 3 His actions glorious are Renown'd and honour'd far Nor can His truth empaire verse 4 His wonders fill our thought Who hath compassion wrought And pitty shewes when sought verse 5 He hath His servants fed Giv'n those that fear Him bread His Cov'nant stablished verse 6 His pow'r to them exprest And made His people rest Where Heathen late possest verse 7 What ever wrought His hands In truth and judgment stands And sure are His Commands verse 8 They all for ever last By His decree kept fast Till fleeting time is past verse 9 He did His people save Whom Tyrants did enslave His sacred Cov'nant gave Renowned is His fame And reverend His Name Which all the world proclaime verse 10 God's fear true wisdome brings The knowledg of good things From that beginning springs They understand aright Who make His Lawes their light And still His praise recite PSAL. CXII verse 1 BLest is the man that feares the Lord Delighting in His word verse 2 His seed on earth shall mighty be Blest his posteritie verse 3 His house wich riches shall abound His life with plenty crown'd His righteous dealing clear as sure For ever shall endure verse 4 In shades of darknesse to th' upright There riseth up a light He gracious is and free from hate His heart compassionate verse 5 A good man mercy shewes and lends Nor in his words offends verse 6 He shall not move but placed be In lasting memorie verse 7 He of ill tidings not afraid Hath God his refuge made Thus fix'd his heart shall never faile verse 8 But 'gainst his foes prevaile verse 9 With liberall hand unto the poor He hath disperst his store His righteousnesse shall still remaine And lasting honour gaine verse 10 The wicked man when this he seeth For spight shall gnash his teeth And melted by his envies fire Perish in his desire PSAL. CXIII To the usuall Tune verse 1 THe Lord O ye His servants praise To His great Name your ditties raise verse 2 Which blest and sacred be alwaies verse 3 Ev'n from the rising of the Sun Till to the West his course be run Nis Name is to be prais'd alone verse 4 The Lord above all Nations high Is seated in great Majesty And in the Heav'ns His glories ly verse 5 What pow'r created parallells The Lord our God who thus excells And far above the Heaven dwells verse 6 Who humbling downe himselfe doth bow Not only things in heaven to know But what is done in earth below verse 7 To him that did in dust deplore He joyfull comforts doth restore And from the dunghill lifts the poore verse 8 That set with Princes of the earth And persons of a Royall birth His sorrows may be chang'd to mirth verse 9 The barren woman when implor'd His bounty hath with children stor'd O therefore praise this gratious Lord PSAL. CXIV verse 1 WHen Israel from Egypt went Free from his banishment And Iacob came from that strange land Conducted by God's hand verse 2 The house of Iudah which did passe His Sanctuary was And Israel the chosen throne Of his dominion verse 3 The Sea saw that and did disperse Iordan his course reverse verse 4 The Mountaines skip'd like sporting rams The little hills like