Now have I found and therefore say All men untrusty lyars be 12 What shall I render to the Lord For all his bounteous gifts to me 13 The joyful cup of saving health I oft and thankfully will take In God I 'le trust on him I 'le call When I my daily prayer make 14 The Vows which I did make to thee My God I thankfully will pay Before thy Church and people all Even now without fraud or delay 15 The death and sufferings of his Saints The Lord doth not slight or despise Whatever tempted men may think Their blood the Lord doth highly prize 16 Lord I thy willing servant am Truly thy service I profess Son of thine hand-maid thou hast loos'd The heavy bonds of my distress 17 To thee my offering shall be The sacrifice of thanks and praise And as my duty and my hope I 'le call on thee my God always 18 The Vows which I did make to thee My God I thankfully will pay Before thy Church and people all Even now without fraud or delay 19 Even in the Courts of God's own house And in the sight and midst of thee O glorious Jerusalem O all his Saints the Lord praise ye PSALM CXVII 1 O All ye Nations of the world Praise ye the Lord always And all ye people every where Set forth his glorious praise 2 For great his love and mercy is Which he doth us afford The Lord's Truth everlasting is Praise ye this glorious Lord. PSALM CXVIII 1 GIve thanks to God for he is good His mercy ever doth endure 2 Let all his Israel now say His mercy ever is most sure 3 Let all the house of Aaron say His mercy to us is for ever 4 Let them all say that fear the Lord That his great mercy faileth never 5 I called on the name of God In all my danger and distress The Lord did hear and brought me forth Into a free and spacious place 6 The mighty Lord is on my side Of men I will not be afraid Whatever mortal man can do At it why should I be dismay'd 7 The Lord himself doth take my part With them that help and succour me Therefore on those that do me hate His justice I shall shortly see 8 It 's better to trust in the Lord Than for to trust to man's defence 9 Better to trust in God than put In Princes any confidence 10 The nations did against me rise And did en compass me about But in the name of God I shall Destroy them all and root them out 11 Numbers did compass me about I say they compass'd me about But in the name of God I shall Cut them all down and cast them out 12 They compas'd me about like Bees But like a hasty thorny flame They quenched are for I shall them Cut down in God's own strength and name 13 They have thrust sore to make me fall But God my help did me relieve 14 The Lord is all my strength and song And will to me salvation give 15 In righteous mens dwellings there is The voice of health and melody For God's delivering right hand Doth always for them valiantly 16 The Lord 's right hand exalted is And valiantly for us it doth 17 I shall not die but live that so God's mighty works I may shew forth 18 The righteous God for my own sin Hath me chastised very sore But yet he did not me forsake But me from threatened death restore 19 Now set ye open unto me The beauteous gates of holiness And I will enter in by them God's publick praises to express 20 This is the gate of God by which The just with me shall enter in 21 I 'le praise thee for thou hast heard me And my help and salvation bin 22 That the head corner-stone is made Which foolish builders did despise 23 And this the Lord 's own doing is And it is wondrous in our eyes 24 This is the great and blessed day Which God himself for us hath made And in it we together will Rejoyce as made by him full glad 25 To save us now to thee we pray We thee beseech O gracious Lord That to thy humbled flock thou wilt Peace and prosperity afford 26 Blessed is he that in God's name Doth come to us with his sweet peace Out of the sacred house of God We do his faithful people bless 27 God is the Lord who hath to us Made his Divine light to arise Bind ye unto the Altar's horns With cords our offer'd sacrifice 28 Thou art my God I 'le thee exalt Thou art my God I will thee praise 29 Give thanks to God for he is good His mercy to us lasts always PSALM CXIX ALEPH 1. 1 BLessed are they that are sincere And pure in life and heart Who walk according to God's Law And not from it depart 2 Blessed are they that give themselves His statutes to observe Seeking the Lord with all their heart And never from him swerve 3 Such men go not so far astray As wickedly to live But to walk in God's holy way Themselves sincerely give 4 It is thy will and just command That with attentive heed Thy holy and divine Precepts We learn and keep indeed 5 O that my ways were so reform'd And guided all by thee That wholly thy statutes to keep I might addicted be 6 Then shall I not ashamed be Or lose my hop'd reward When to all thy Commands I have Obedient regard 7 Then will I praise with upright heart And magnifie thy name When I have learnt thy judgments just So as to keep the same Thy statutes I resolve to keep My Rule I will them make But I am weak let not thy grace Thy servant's soul forsake BETH 2. 9 By what means may a young man best His life learn to amend If he well mark and keep thy Word And do thereto attend 10 Unfeignedly I have thee sought With a devoted heart O let me not from the right way Of thy Commands depart 11 Within my heart and secret thoughts Thy Word I have hid still That I might not at any time Offend thy holy will 12 Blessed art thou most glorious God We magnifie thy name Teach me thy statutes that I may Love and observe the same 13 All the pure judgments of thy mouth I have abroad declar'd My lips to publish thy true Word To others have not spar'd 14 In thy pure testimony 's ways I have rejoyced more Than if of all the wealth on earth I had the greatest store 15 On thy Precepts I never will To meditate neglect And ever to thy holy ways I will have chief respect 16 And in thy statutes true and just My great delight I 'le set I hope O Lord thy holy Word I never shall forget GIMEL 3. 17 According to thy bounty great Deal with thy servant Lord That I may live to do thy work And keep thy holy Word 18 Open the eyes of my dark mind By thy revealing light That thy
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
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
my Lord and Saviour art 3 My goodness cannot profit thee But it may reach to men on earth To such as are my great delight Thy precious Saints of heavenly birth 4 They that in any other trust Do their own sorrows multiply Their Idols service I detest Their names I hate and vilifie 5 The Lord my part and portion is He bounteously for me provides Thou doft maintain my happy lot Thou art my hope and none besides 6 The place which mercy for me chose To me hath good and pleasant been The heritage by grace assign'd Excels all that by eyes is seen 7 I thankfully do bless the Lord Who was my Counsellor and Light Whereby my reins and secret thoughts Instruct me in the silent night 8 I set the Lord before me still Because he is at my right hand In all assaults in lowest state I hope I shall unmoved stand 9 Therefore my heart in me is glad Joy's by my Glorying tongue exprest In hope and confidence on God My pain'd my dying flesh shall rest 10 Thou wilt not cast my soul to hell Nor shall the grave my life detain My Lord Corruption did not see Nor shall I there in still remain 11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life Full ness of Joy thy presence gives At thy right hand the blessed Church In ever lasting pleasures lives PSALM XVII 1 LOrd hear the right attend my cry Unto my humble suit give heed Which doth not from hypocrisie Or false and feigned lips proceed 2 And let my sentence in Judgment Come forth from thy own righteous mouth And let thine eye behold and judge All things in equity and truth 3 My heart thou many ways hast prov'd And visited in waking night Thou hast try'd me and nothing found I hope but what 's in men upright To keep my mouth left it transgress My watchful soul resolved hath 4 Thy word kept me from bad mens works And the destroyers hurtful path 5 Hold up my goings in thy paths Left that my sliding foot offend 6 I call'd on thee for thou wilt hear O God to my request attend 7 Shew me thy loving kindness great O thou that sav'st by thy right hand Those that do trust thee from the men That do against them rise and stand 8 Keep me as th' apple of the eye Hide me under thy shady wing 9 From wicked men that me oppress And deadly foes encompassing 10 They are inclos'd in their own fat Their boasting mouth doth speak proudly 11 Us they have compass'd in our steps Down-lookt to earth they set their eye 12 Like Lions greedy of their prey And like the lurking Lion's whelp 13 Rise Lord and disappoint these men Cast them down and be thou my help 14 Deliver thou my threatned life From those ill men that are thy sword Men of the world who are thy hand And can but do thy will O Lord. They have their portion in this life And seem with many Children blest Their bellies thy provision fills Dying their Children have the rest 15 But as for me in righteousness Thy pleased face I hope to see And with thy likeness when I wake I fully satisfy'd shall be PSALM XVIII 1 THee will I love O Lord my strength 2 The Lord is my strong Rock and Fort My God my Saviour and my Strength To whom by trust I will resort He is a buckler unto me It is alone by his great power That I am saved from all ill He is my high defending tower 3 Unto the Lord who worthy is Of all our praises I will cry And then I shall preserved be From every hurtful enemy 4 Floods of bad men made me afraid The pangs of death about me went 5 The fears of hell encompass'd me The snares of death did me prevent 6 In my distress I call'd on God I cry'd and he my voice did hear Out of his Temple and my cry Before him came into his ear 7 The earth then as affrighted shook And trembling great upon it seiz'd The hills foundations shook as mov'd Because he was wroth and displeas'd 8 Up from his nostrils went a smoak And from his dreadful mouth there came Devouring fire and coals by it Were kindled into burning flame 9 He bow'd the Heav'ns and did come down Under his feet thick darkness was 10 He flying on a Cherub rode On the wind 's wings did flying pass 11 He made darkness his secret place Even his Pavilion round about Were waters dark and thickned clouds Which passed all the skies throughout 12 At the bright lightnings which brake forth And on before his presence went His thick clouds also passed on Hail-stones and coals of fire were sent 13 The Lord also from Heav'n above Frightfully thundred as in ire The Highest gave his dreadful voice Hail-stones and burning coals of fire 14 His piercing arrows he sent out And speedily them scattered His Lightnings he shot abroad And quickly them discomfited 15 The water's Channels then were seen The world's foundations opened were At thy rebuke Lord at thy blast Of nostrils breath they were laid bare 16 But from above he did send down And took me from these storms below From many waters great and deep That me they might not overflow 17 And from my potent enemy He saved me and set me free And from all them which did me hate Because they were too strong for me 18 They me prevented by their speed Unfurnisht in my troublous day But God who always is at hand Was my defence and constant stay 19 He brought me forth into a place That very spacious is and free Because in me he did delight He saved and delivered me 20 According to my righteousness The righteous Lord did me regard After the cleanness of my hands His recompense did me reward 21 For I have kept the ways of God And turn'd not from him wickedly 22 His judgments all before me were His Statutes I did not cast by 23 I uprightly before him walkt Kept me from mine iniquity 24 He judg'd me as my cause was just And innocent before his eye 25 Thou gracious to the gracious art To upright men thou'lt upright be 26 Pure to the pure but striv'st with them That froward are and strive with thee 27 For thou wilt the afflicted save But bring down him that looketh high 28 My candle thou wilt light God will By light my darkness clarifie 29 By thee through armed troops I brake And have discomfited them all And by the strength of Thee my God I scal'd and leapt over the wall 30 Most perfect is the way of God His Word is as refin'd and try'd He is a buckler to all those Who faithfully in him confide 31 For who is God except the Lord Who but our God's a rock and stay 32 He 's God that girdeth me with strength And guides and perfecteth my way 33 He makes my feet as swift as Hinds And sets me up on high from harms 34 My hands he doth instruct
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
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
my God alone My trust and hope do all depend Even from my raw and feeble youth It 's thou that didst me still defend 6 Thou hast sustain'd me from the womb It 's thou that safely didst take me From mother's bowels All my thanks And praise shall always be to thee 7 A wonder I to many am But thou art still my refuge strong 8 With thy praise let my mouth be fill'd And with thy honour all day long 9 Cast me not off now when old age And feebleness on me is come O do not me forsake at last When failing strength is almost gone 10 For those that are mine enemies Against me speak with bitter hate And they together counsel take Who for my life lay daily wait 11 They say His God in whom he trusts Doth wholly now this man forsake There 's none to save him now let us Him persecute and boldly take 12 O God in time of my distress Be not thou far from me away My God who art my only help Now help thou me without delay 13 Confound consume them all that are To my soul causeless enemies Let them be cloathed all with shame Who do my hurt seek and devise 14 But I will wholly trust in thee And hope in thee continually And yet with praises more and more Thy great name I will magnifie 15 Thy righteousness and saving help My mouth abroad shall daily show For I of all thy mercies great The numbers do not cannot know 16 In all my duty I 'le go on In thy strength only O my Lord And only thy own righteousness To men I 'le mention and record 17 Even from my tender youth O God By thee it is I have been taught And hitherto I have declar'd The wonders all which thou hast wrought 18 Now Lord forsake me not when I Old feeble and grey-headed grow Till to this age and all to come I shall thy strength and power show 19 High is thy righteousness O God And very great things thou hast done Lord who may be compar'd with thee Surely there is not any one 20 Thou Lord who troubles great and sore Didst bring on me and make me know Shalt quicken and bring me again Even from the depth of earth below 21 Yea thou my greatness shalt increase Thy blessings on me shall abound And with thy comforts and sweet peace Thou safely wilt enclose me round 22 I 'le use the pleasant Psaltery To make thy praises further known And with the Harp I 'le sing to thee O Israel's most Holy One. 23 My lips shall my great joy express When singing I thy praises sound My soul which thou redeemed hast Shall with her holy joy abound 24 And of thy righteousness my tongue Shall talk with joy all the day long For they confounded are with shame Who sought my hurt and-death with wrong PSALM LXXII 1 LOrd give thy judgments to the King And to his son thy righteousness 2 With right he shall thy people judge Thy poor with truth and uprightness 3 Then shall the mountains great and firm Bring to the neighbour people peace So also shall the little hills By pleasant fruits of righteousness 4 The poorest people he shall judge And he shall save the poor and weak And those that their oppressors are Cast down he shall in pieces break 5 And even from age to age shall they Reverence thy name and fear thy might As long as Sun doth shine by day Or as the Moon doth shine by night 6 He shall come down like fruitful rain Upon the grounds of late mown grass And as for watering the dry earth Refreshing showers from heav'n do pass 7 Just men shall flourish in his days And all shall have abundant peace And this continued shall be Until the Moon to shine doth cease 8 His great and blest dominion shall Widely from Sea to Sea extend And from the River it shall reach To the earth's remote utmost end 9 Those that dwell in the wilderness Humbly bow down before him must And they that are his enemies Must crowch and lick the very dust 10 The Kings of Tarshish and the Isles To him shall costly Presents bring The King of Sheba and Seba Shall send their gifts and offering 11 Yea all the greatest Kings on earth Shall prostrate down before him fall The many nations of the world Shall also humbly serve him all 12 The weak and needy he will save When they for help to him do call Also the poor and forlorn man That hath no humane help at all 13 Those that are low and indigent He shall in tender mercy spare And not oppress but save the souls Of them that weak and needy are 14 Their souls from fraud and violence His pow'r and mercy shall redeem Their blood he shall not vilifie But it as precious shall esteem 15 He shall live and to him shall be Presented Sheba's finest gold He shall be pray'd for constantly And daily be his praise extoll'd 16 The corn that grows on mountain tops Prosp'ring the reaper's hand shall fill The fruit thereof shall wave and shake Like trees on woody Lebanon hill His City shall be flourishing With store of Citizens abound Even as the green and plenteous grass Doth flourish on the fertile ground 17 His name shall last His father's name By him his son continue shall And men in him shall blessed be All nations him shall blessed call 18 And blessed be his holy name For ever by all living men 19 And with his glory let the earth Be wholly fill'd Amen Amen PSALM LXXIII 1 YEt surely God is ever good To all his Israel and to them Whose hearts are purify'd and clean And that are upright hearted men 2 But yet my weakness was so great In my time of temptation That my foot-steps had well-nigh slipt My stumbling feet were almost gone 3 For at the fools who flourished I grudg'd and looked enviously When as I saw how wicked men Do live in great prosperity 4 For there are no bands in their death Their strength shews they are fully fed 5 Other mens troubles they escape And are not like them chastened 6 Therefore with pride as with a chain About they all encompass'd are And covered with violence It as a garment they do wear 7 Their eyes stand out with fat they have More than their very hearts can wish 8 They are corrupt their wicked speech Oppressing lofty and pâ—oud is 9 They set their mouth against the Heav'ns In their prophane blaspheming talk And their reviling lavish tongue At large throughout the earth doth walk 10 And hereupon his people do Hither themselves return agen And waters of a vessel full Are drawn and wrung out unto them 11 And thus they say How can it be That God all this doth note and know And that there is in the most high Knowledge of things done here below 12 Behold these the ungodly are Who live in health and fleshly ease Who prosper in the present
early after God 35 Then they remembred that the Lord Was their strong Rock that did them save And their Redeemer the high God Who unto them deliverance gave 36 Yet with their mouth they flatter'd him And spake all this deceitfully And they unto the God of truth With their unfaithful tongues did lie 37 For all this while their hearts within Were not found upright and sincere Nor in his holy Covenant Unchangeable and steadfast were 38 But full of pity he forgave Their sin and did not them destroy And did not stir up all his wrath But often turned it away 39 For he remembred that they were But flesh whose time is short and vain And like a wind which passing by Is gone and cometh not again They oft in th' desart him provok'd Displeased with what they had done 41 Yea they turned back and tempted God Limiting Israel's Holy One. 42 And they remembred not his hand Nor yet the former days when he From their oppressing enemy Had saved them and set them free 43 How he in Egypt wrought his signs And wonders great in Zoan field 44 And turn'd their Rivers into blood And floods that they no drink could yield 45 Among them he sent divers sorts Of flyes which did them much annoy And did devour their fruits and frogs He sent to vex them and destroy 46 Their increase by the caterpiller Their labour was by locusts lost 47 Their vines he did destroy with hail And their Sycamore trees with frost 48 He gave their cattle to the hail Their flocks by thunder-bolts were spent 49 Fierce wrath and trouble cast on them By evil Angels to them sent 50 He to his anger did make way And spared not their souls from death But to the wasting Pestilence He did give up their vital breath 51 All Egypt's first-born he smote down And in Ham's land their chiefest strength 52 He made them let his people go Like sheep he led them out at length He in the desart did them guide 53 And like a flock them safely led So that they were secur'd from fear But their foes the sea covered 54 He brought them to the borders where His sanctuary now doth stand Even to the sacred mountain which He purchased with his right hand 55 Before them cast the heathen out Their land to them he did divide And made the tribes of Israel In their tents to dwell and abide 56 Yet did they tempt the most high God Him by their sin provoked they And did not his commandements Unfeignedly keep and obey 57 But like their fathers turned back And dealt with God unfaithfully Like a deceitful warping bow Which turn'd aside doth shoot awry 58 They to displeasure him provok'd With Altars set in places high And with their graven Images They moved him to jealousie 59 When God heard this he was displeas'd And abhor'd Israel greatly then 60 So that he Shilo's place forsook The tent he placed among men 61 His peoples strength he captive gave His glory to the enemies hand 62 He gave his people to the sword And was wroth with his chosen land 63 The fire consumed their young men And their maidens no marriage had 64 Their Priests also fell by the sword Their wives no lamentation made 65 But then the Lord arose like one That doth from silent sleep awake And like a Giant that by wine Exhilerate a shout doth make 66 And on his enemies hinder parts He made his heavy strokes to fall And so upon them all he cast Reproach and shame perpetual 67 Moreover Joseph's Tabernacle And Ephraim's Tribe he did refuse 68 But the Mount Sion which he lov'd And Judah's Ruling Tribe did choose 69 His Sanctuary there he built Like to a Palace fair and high And like the earth which his hand hath Founded for perpetuity 70 His servant David he did choose And him his peoples Ruler make And from the governing of sheep To dignity he did him take 71 From following Ewes great with young He call'd and brought him up to feed Israel his own inheritance His servant Jacob's chosen seed 72 So after the integrity Of his heart they by him were fed And by his hands great skilfulness By him they were well governed PSALM LXXIX 1 O God the heathen do invade Thy heritage and now by them Thy Temple is defil'd On heaps They lay thy dear Jerusalem 2 The bodies of thy servants they Cast forth have given to be meat For ravenous fowls and thy Saints flesh Unto the beasts of th' earth to eat 3 Their blood about Jerusalem Like common water they have shed And there was none to bury them When they by them were cast out dead 4 To all our neighbours that hear this A jeast and meer reproach are we A sâ—orn and mocking-stock to those That dwelling round about us be 5 How long Lord O not evermore Shall this thine anger towards us last Shall thy provoked jealousie Like fire thus always burn and wa st 6 Upon the heathen pour thy wrath That have not known thee and thy fame And on the Kingdoms which have not Ador'd thy great and holy name 7 For these are they that Jacob have Slain and devoured cruelly And made his famous dwelling-place As ruinous and wa st to lye 8 O charge not on us former sins Thy tender pardoning mercies show Let them prevent us speedily For we are now brought very low 9 For thy name's glory help us Lord Who art and hast our Saviour bin For thy names-sake deliver us And purge away our guilt and sin 10 Why say the heathen Where 's their God Let him to them be better known When these that shed thy servants blood Are in our sight judg'd and o'rethrown 11 O let the prisoners sighs ascend Before thy righteous sight on high Preserve those by thy soveraign power That are by men design'd to dye 12 And to our neighbours let seven fold Reward in Judgment rendred be Even that reproach wherewith they have Falsly O God reproached thee 13 So we thy folk and pasture-sheep Will give thee joyful thanks always And to all ages yet to come We will shew forth thy glorious praise PSALM LXXX 1 O Israel's shepherd hear who dost Like a flock Joseph feed and guide Shine forth O thou that dost between The sacred Cherubims abide 2 In Ephraim's and Benjamin's And also in Manasseh's sight For our speedy salvation come Stir up and shew thy saving might 3 Turn us again and bring us home And upon us do thou vouchsafe O God to make thy face to shine And then we shall again be safe 4 Lord God of Hosts how long wilt thou Thus in thy burning anger smoak Against thy peoples humble prayer Who do thy sacred Name invoke 5 Instead of bread tears are their food Which now thou givest them to eat And tears thou givest them to drink And that in measure very great 6 Thou makest us a strife unto Our envious neighbours round about Our enemies among
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
16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me Thy terrors kill and cast me out 17 Like floods they daily on me come Gather and compass me about 18 My dearest friends that did me love Thou hast removed far from me Those that my old acquaintance were Into the dark are cast by thee PSALM LXXXIX 1 OF the great mercies of the Lord I will perpetually sing The notice of thy faithfulness To ages all my mouth shall bring 2 For I have said that mercy shall Be built for ever to endure And in the very heav'ns thou wilt Thy faithfulness establish sure 3 I to my chosen servant have My self by my own Covenant ty'd Even unto David and to him By oath I have it ratify'd 4 That I thy seed establish will That it for evermore endure And to all generations Thy throne will build and settle sure 5 The praises of thy wonders Lord The heav'ns shall gloriously express The Congregations of thy Saints Shall praise thy truth and faithfulness 6 For in the heav'ns themselves who may With thee the only Lord compare Who may be liken'd to the Lord Of all their sons that mighty are 7 God greatly to be feared is Th' assemblies of the Saints throughout And to be had in reverence Of all that him attend about 8 O thou that art the Lord of Hosts What Lord like thee with strength is crown'd Who 's like to thee in faithfulness Which doth thy Throne encompass round 9 When as the swelling Sea doth rage Thou over it dost rule and reign And when the waves thereof arise Thou quickly stillest them again 10 Rahab in pieces thou didst break As one that slain on the earth lies And with thy own Almighty arm Thou scattered hast thine enemies 11 The heav'n and earth the world is thine Their fulness all Thou foundest them 12 Thou mad'st the North and South Tabor And Hermon glory in thy name 13 Strong is thine arm high thy right hand 14 Justice and Judgment are the place Where thy Throne dwells Mercy and Truth Shall ever go before thy face 15 That people truly blessed is The joyful sound and call that know In the light of thy countenance O Lord they onward still shall go 16 In thy great name that people shall Rejoyce all day exceedingly And in thy perfect righteousness Shall they exalted be on high 17 Thou art the glory of their strength Thy love doth exaltation bring 18 Thou Lord alone art our defence And Israel's Holy One our King 19 In vision to thy Holy One Thou said'st I have laid help upon One that is strong and out of all I did exalt a chosen one 20 David my servant I have found With holy Oyl did him anoint 21 With whom my hand shall stablish'd be My arm shall strength to him appoint 22 His foes shall not exact on him Wicked men shall not him afflict 23 His foes before him I 'le beat down His haters I 'le with plagues correct 24 My mercy and my faithfulness Shall keep him and be with him still And while he trusteth in my name His horn of Power exalt I will 25 I 'le set his hand upon the sea And on the rivers his right hand 26 He 'll cry My Father and my God The Rock on which my help doth stand 27 Also I 'le make him my first-born Higher than Kings of any land 28 Mercy I 'le ever keep for him With him my Covenant fast shall stand 29 His seed I 'le make still to endure And as the days of heav'n his Throne 30 If his Children my Law forsake My Judgments do not keep and own 31 If they my statutes do prophane And keep not my Commandements 32 Their sins I 'le visit with the rod And their misdeeds with chastisements 33 Yet I 'le not take from him my love Nor will my faithful promise break 34 My Covenant I 'le not violate Nor alter what of him I spake 35 Once by my Holiness I sware And unto David will not lye 36 His seed and throne shall as the Sun Before me last perpetually 37 And it shall be established For ever and like to the Moon Which as a witness in the heav'ns My steady faithfulness makes known 38 But now thou dost him so forsake As if cast down thou dost him loath And with this thine anointed one Thou dealest as in heavy wrath 39 Thy servant's Covenant hast made void And on the ground prophan'd his Crown 40 His strong holds thou to ruin brought'st And hast broke all his hedges down 41 All spoil him that pass by the way To neighbours a reproach is he 42 And thou hast set up their right hand That his great adversaries be Thou hast made all his foes rejoyce 43 The edge of his sword in his hand Thou turned hast and hast not him Made able in the fight to stand 44 His glory thou hast made to cease His Throne down to the ground hast cast 45 His days of youth hast shortened And him with shame thou covered hast 46 How long Lord shall it ever be That thou wilt hide thy self in ire And shall thy wrath unreconcil'd Consume and burn us up as fire 47 Remember how short is the time That I must here on earth remain Wherefore hast thou all mortal men Made to live here as meerly vain 48 What man is he that liveth here And fatal Death shall never see And who is he that from the grave Can his own life save and set free 49 The former loving kindnesses Which thou O Lord to him didst bear Where are they now Which in thy truth Thou unto David then didst swear 50 Remember Lord the great reproach Which we thy servants daily bear How in my bosom I receive The scorn of them that mighty are 51 The scorn wherewith thine enemies Have thee reproach'd Lord think upon Even that wherewith they have reproach'd The steps of thine anointed One. 52 Blessed and magnified be For evermore our glorious Lord Let all thy Church resound with me Amen Amen with one accord PSALM XC 1 LOrd thou hast been our dwelling-place In all the Changes we have past Unto thy wandring people thou A certain guide and safety wast 2 Before the mountains were brought forth And thou the earth and world didst frame In and to all Eternity Thou art true God and still the same 3 Thou dost dissolve this frame of MAN By wasting age and chastning pain And say'st unto them Now return You mortal sons of men again 4 The long time of a thousand years Appeareth in thy boundless sight As yesterday when it is past And as a hasty watch by night 5 From whence thou carryest them away As things a speedy torrent doth They are asleep and like the grass Which is but of one morning's growth 6 In that morning it flourisheth It quickly grows up and is green And in the evening it 's cut down And dead and withered is seen 7 For by thine anger for our sin We are from earth consum'd
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
sown And gladness is by God design'd For every upright hearted one 12 Ye righteous in the Lord your God Rejoyce with hearty thankfulness The honourable memory Keep of his perfect holiness PSALM XCVIII 1 SIng a new song to God The things which he hath done Are great and marvellous And make his Greatness known His right hand high And holy arm Did well perform His victory 2 His great salvation The Lord hath well made known And in the heathens sight His righteousness hath shown 3 Toward Israel He mercy hath And his firm truth Remembred well All the ends of the earth God's saving works and ways Have with their eyes beheld 4 With joy sound forth his praise Let all men raise Their loudest voice In him rejoyce And sing his praise 5 Sing to God with the Harp With Psalms and Musick 's voice 6 Trumpets and Cornets sound Make ye a joyful noise Before the Lord The World 's great King With praises sing With sweet concord 7 Let the great Ocean roar Its waves and fulness swell 8 Let all the world praise God And they that therein dwell Let floods applaud And hills rejoyce As with one voice The Lord to laud. 9 God's presence all attend For he is coming forth With truth and righteousness To judge all men on earth The world will he To judgment call And judge men all With equity PSALM XCIX 1 TRemble ye people of the world The righteous Lord doth reign above He sits between the Cherubims The earth below shall quake and move 2 The Lord in Sion is extoll'd He is above all people high 3 His holy great and dreadful name Let all men fear and magnifie 4 Judgment lov'd is the strength of Kings Thou settlest truth and equity Just judgment thou dost execute And rulest Jacob righteously 5 Exalt the Name of God the Lord And at his foot-stool humbly fall He 's holy in true holiness Worship him O ye people all 6 Moses and Aaron with his Priests Samuel and other such as have Call'd on him when to him they pray'd He heard and gracious answer gave 7 Within the cloudy Pillar he Spake unto them his word and will His testimony they receiv'd And kept his holy precepts still 8 Thou answer'dst them O Lord our God And often didst their sins forgive Though oft also thou took'st revenge Of what they did amiss contrive 9 Exalt the name of our Lord God And at his chosen holy hill Worship him in true holiness For God our Lord is holy still PSALM C. 1 ALL people that do dwell Abroad on all the earth Make to the Lord a joyful noise Praise him with holy mirth 2 O serve our glorious Lord With gladness and with joys Before his holy presence come With chearful singing voice 3 Know that the Lord is God It 's he that did us make Not we our selves us as his flock And people he doth take 4 Enter his gates with thanks Into his courts with praise Be truly thankful unto him And bless his name always 5 For God our Lord is good His mercies ever sure And to all generations His truth shall still endure The Old Metre 1 ALL people that on earth do dwell Sing to the Lord with chearful voice 2 Him serve with fear his praise forth tell Come ye before him and rejoyce 3 The Lord ye know is God indeed Without our aid he did us make We are his flock he doth us feed And for his sheep he doth us take 4 O enter then his gates with praise Approach with joy his courts unto Praise laud and bless his name always For it is seemly so to do 5 For why the Lord our God is good His mercy is for ever sure His truth at all times firmly stood And shall from age to age endure PSALM CI. 1 MErcy and Judgment are my song Of these O Lord I 'le sing to thee 2 I 'le wisely walk in perfect way O Lord when wilt thou come to me I 'le walk within my house and place With a just mind and perfect heart 3 All that is wicked and prophane Shall from before my eyes depart I hate their works that turn aside To me it shall not come or cleave 4 I will not know a wicked man A froward heart I 'le shun and leave 5 I 'le cut him off who slandereth His righteous neighbour secretly I 'le not endure men of proud hearts Nor him that scorns and looketh high 6 Mine eyes shall look to faithful men That they may always dwell with me He that walks in a perfect way My welcome servant he shall be 7 He that is bent to use deceit In my house shall not with me dwell Nor shall he tarry in my sight Who lyes doth use himself to tell 8 The wicked of the land I will Soon root out and their works deface That from the City of the Lord I may cut off their wicked race PSALM CII A Prayer of the afflicted when he is overwhelmed And poureth out his complaint before the Lord. 1 LOrd hearken to my fervent prayer And let my cry come un to thee 2 And now when I in trouble am Hide not thy gracious face from me Bow thine ear to me when I call Hear me and answer speedily 3 My days consumed are like smoak My very bones are burnt and dry 4 My heart within me smitten is And like to grass it 's withered So swallow'd up with grief that I Do even forget to eat my bread 5 By reason of my groaning voice My bones cleave to my withered skin 6 I like mournful Pelican Of the sad wilderness have bin I like an Owl in desart am Who nightly there doth streech and moan 7 I watch and like a sparrow am That sits on the house-top alone 8 My persecuting enemies All day do me reproach and scorn And they that mad against me are Are all against me set and sworn 9 Ashes I eaten have like bread And mingled have my drink with tears 10 Because thine indignation hot And wrath doth cause my pains and fears In mercy thou didst lift me up But thou hast cast me very low 11 My days like shadows do decline And like the wither'd grass I grow 12 But thou art the eternal God And ever dost endure the same Beyond all generations is The memory of thy glorious name 13 Thou wilt arise On Sion thou Wilt timely shew thy mercy great The time to favour her is come The time foretold which thou hast set 14 For in her very ruin'd stones Thy faithful servants pleasure take They love the very dust thereof And therefore for her prayers make 15 So shall the very heathens fear The mighty Lord 's most holy name And all the Kings on earth shall dread Thy glorious Majesty and fame 16 When God his Sion shall build up In glory he 'll to us appear 17 Distress'd mens prayers he 'll regard And not despise but gently hear 18 This for the ages yet to come Shall
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
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
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
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
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