for me verse 7 Lord set my Soul from Prison free To praise thy sacred Name And when the Righteous compass me Thy Bounties I 'le proclaim PSAL. clxiij verse 1 LOrd hear my Prayers accept my Cries In Truth and Righteousness verse 2 And let not Judgments sharp surprize Thy Servant's Soul oppress For when thy searching Eyes begin To try our fading Years Lord in thy sight o'rewhelm'd with Sin The purest Saint appears verse 3 My Soul pursu'd by cruel Foes My Life quite overthrown I ly in Darkness lost like those Who to their Graves are gone verse 4 For this my Spirit faints in me My Heart deserted mourns verse 5 And to my labouring Memory My happier Age returns On all thy Acts I daily muse Thy Works run daily o're verse 6 And as the parching Earth soft Dews So Thee my Hands implore verse 7 I faint ô quickly quickly hear Thy smiles dear Lord I crave Least I like dying Men appear Who just approach the Grave verse 8 Let me thy Mercies early gain For Lord I trust in Thee To Thee I lift my Soul make plain The way of Life to me verse 9 Save me from all my Foes who still To Thee for shelter fly verse 10 Teach me to do thy sacred Will My Lord my God most High O let thy Spirit lead me to The Land of Righteosness verse 11 My Soul with active Life renew And for thy Glory bless Just Lord from Troubles set me free And all my Foes destroy Thy Mercy and thy Help let me Thy Servant Lord enjoy PSAL. clxjv verse 1 BLest be the Lord my strength whose Care And whose victorious Might Instructs my ready Hands for War My Fingers for the Fight verse 2 My Goodness Fort my Raiser He My Saviour and my Shield In Him I trust thro' Him to Me My willing People yield verse 3 Lord what is Man what Man 's weak Race Own'd by the favouring Ey verse 4 Meer Vanity His Age his Grace Like Shadows swiftly fly verse 5 Lord bow thy Heavens come down divide The Hills the Hills shall smoke verse 6 Shoot Lightnings break destroy their Pride With one confounding stroke verse 7 Lord from above thy Arms extend And save and rescue Me From Headstrong Crouds my Crown defend And Forreign Tyranny verse 8 From such whose Lips and Hands in Lyes In Deed and Word agree verse 9 So I 'll new Songs new Tunes devise On Lute and Harp to Thee Part 2 verse 10 The Lord his strong Salvation's Guards On Royal Head bestows And from his Servant David wards The plotting Traitors blows verse 11 Save Me my God! ô rescue Me From Forreign Enemies Whose Words Actions all agree In Treachery And Lies verse 12 So shall our Sons like Plants alive In Water'd Gardens show And with a kindly vigour thrive And daily stronger grow Our Daughters like fair Marble Coines Smooth'd by some Currious hand On which the building sweetly joyns The Roofs securely stand verse 13 All kind of Grain shall largely flow And run our Garners o're Till none by Numbers force can know Our never ending store Our Flocks their Young by thousands near Our very Gates shall lay Ten thousands in the rolling Year About out Pastures play verse 14 Our Cattel to their Work be strong We no Invasions fear No Captives know no Cries among Our peaceful Dwellings hear verse 15 Happy the Tribes must needs become On whom such Favour flows But ô more happy those on whom Their God himself bestows PSAL. cxlv verse 1 THy Name my God my King I 'll raise Above the lofty Skyes verse 2 Each Day thy Holy Name I 'll praise And Psalms of thanks devise verse 3 Great is our Lord his Glory 's great No Bounds his Greatness knows verse 4 And Race to race his Acts repeat His wondrous Works disclose verse 5 I 'll all my serious Thoughts address To search thy wondrous ways verse 6 The World thy Terrors shall confess While I thy Greatness praise verse 7 Thy Righteous Truth the World adores To mind thy Goodness brings And all thy Loves unfailing Stores In grateful Anthems Sings verse 8 Our Lord 's Compassionate and kind To vengeance only slow verse 9 His Goodness all his Creatures find O're all his Mercies flow verse 10 Thee all thy Works ô God shall Praise And celebrate thy Name Thy Saints as gladly all their Days Thy glorious Might proclaim Part 2. verse 11 Thy Might thy Kingdom 's glorious State Thy Servants Talk shall show verse 12 Till all thy valiant Acts relate Thy awful Glories know verse 13 Beyond Times bounds thy Kingdom stands Thy Government endures verse 14 Thy Help supports the weak thy Hand Their timely Ease procures verse 15 To Thee all raise their longing Eyes From Thee they beg their Food verse 16 Thy Bounteous Hand their Wants supplies And satisfies with Good verse 17 How Just blest God how gentle all Thy Ways and Works appear verse 11 Kind to those Souls which on Thee call To those who seek Thee near verse 19 Thou grantst the pious Suppliants Prayers Thou seest thy Servants Tears Thy Hand relieves their Various Cares And Ends their Doubts and Fears verse 20 But all the wicked World shall find Thy Judgments dreadful weight To thy revenging Wrath resign'd And unrelenting Hate verse 21 Thy Name blest God my Songs shall raise Above the lofty Skyes And all to Thee shall pay their Praise Till Times last Moment dyes PSAL. cxlvj. verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord with praise my Soul Thy Maker's Glories raise verse 2 While Breath and Life are in me whole I 'll sing thy lofty Praise verse 3 On Kings on Men of mortal Birth For safety ne'r rely verse 4 Whose Breath goes out who turn to Earth And all whose Counsels dy verse 5 But happy 's He whose Hopes whose Aid On God his Lord depends verse 6 Who Seas Earth Heaven and all things made Whose Promise never ends verse 7 He for the Poor his Judgment shows When prest by Violence Does Prisoners free and Food to those Of Hungry Souls dispence verse 8 God to the Blind gives Sense and Eyes And with his healing Art Sets up the sinking Soul supplies With Love the faithful Heart verse 9 The Widows Orphans Stranger 's cause The Lord himself maintains But o're the Stubborn Sinner draws Destructions fatal Chains verse 10 Thy King thy Lord ô Sion reigns His Actions all record His Throne from Age to Age remains Praise ye ô Praise the Lord PSAL. cxlvij. verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord its good to Sing Our Mighty Maker's praise It s pleasant and a comely thing His Glorious Acts to blaze verse 2 The Lord poor Salem's Walls repairs Her wretched Dust removes And home her wandring Outcasts bears Fenced with his tenderest Loves verse 3 The Lord finds out with pittying Art What Man from Man conceals And gently binds the bleeding Heart Its wounds as gently Heals verse 4 He names the Stars which fill the Skies And all their Number
THE PSALMS OF DAVID IN English Metre Translated from the ORIGINAL And Suited to all the TUNES now Sung in CHURCHES With the Additions of several NEW By LUKE MILBOURNE A Presbyter of the Church of England 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Adag Arab. Thus by the Streams the Spring is clearly shown And the Translation makes the Author known Lord Falkland None can condemn the Wish or Labour spent Good Matter in good Words to represent Bishop King to Mr. Sandys London Printed for W. Rogers at the Sun R. Clavill at the Peacock and B. Tooke at the Middle Temple Gate all in Fleet street J. Lawrence at the Angel in the Poultry and J. Tayler at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-yard 1698. TO His Highness THE DUKE OF GLOCESTER May it please Your Highness THis little Book wants a Protector And where could it find a Better than in Our other Hope Your Highness has here the greatest King and the best of Poets to excite Your Courage and enliven Your Devotion You have the Wit and Spirit of a Court without the Follies of the present Age Fineness of Thought without Loosness of Fancy Rapture without Extravagance and Piety without the Extreams of Superstition or Idolatry These Hymns contain nothing but what may adorn the Innocence of Youth and the Vigour of a Manly Age. The Masters of Musick may try their Skill here and sing God's Praises in as charming Notes as common and despicable Amours and advance the Love of their Redeemer above all the Atchievments of a fancied Hero From Your Highness's Hand this Work may be acceptable to His most Excellent Majesty and find Admission into the Closet of Your Royal Mother If read by Your Self it will be a Divine Monitor in Your Diversions a Companion in Your Privacy a Support under Uneasiness and a Security to Your Religion Those Holy Truths convey'd through the Channels smooth and easie Verse will with God's Blessing make You wiser than Your Enemies more knowing than any Earthly Teachers and more apprehensive than those of Elder Years May the God of Heaven bless Your Highness's Pregnant Youth with advancing Vertues and unfading Years May He crown You with Love and Honour here and with Love and Happiness hereafter Which is the most earnest Prayer of Your Highness's Most Humble and Most Obedient Servant Luke Milbourne To the Most Reverend Fathers in God the Archbishops the Right Reverend the Bishops and the Reverend Clergy of Great Britain and Ireland especially such as now do or hereafter may represent that whole Body in Convocation The Preface of Luke Milbourne Presbyter and Author of this Translation of the Psalms of David Most Reverend Right Reverend and Reverend Fathers and Brethren THat Psalmody was amongst the Jews a considerable Part of Divine Worship that Book of which this calls it self a Translation is a sufficient Evidence That it was used among Christians of old is unquestionable And perhaps it is no Disparagement either to the Jewish or the Christian Church that a great part of the old Heathen Worship consisted in Singing Hymns and Praises to their Gods There is somewhat so truly Divine and Charming in Well-set Notes and Vocal and Instrumental Harmony they are so apt to chear and revive languid and drooping Spirits so likely to make strong Impressions on the Memory and so extreamly affecting to the devout Soul that as the Agreeableness of their Numbers made Poets of old the sittest Treasures of Divine Knowledge so the Softness and Sweetness of their Notes may make the Masters of Sacred Musick among our selves were but their Lives as Heavenly as their Art the fittest Companions for happy Souls and Blissful Angels With respect to whom our excellent Waller says All that we know of those above Is that they sing and that they love What Thoughts our first Reformers in this Nation had of this part of Divine Worship is not easie to conjecture But whether they judged Singing of Psalms by the whole Congregation no necessary part of a Publick Liturgy or supposed that the Reading Psalms chaunted in Recitative or sung as at present in Cathedrals which seems favour'd by that Title they carry in our Common-Prayer-Book The Psalter or Psalms of David Pointed as they are to be Said or Sung in Churches was enough to answer that part of Worship 't is certain they took no Care for any Metrical Translation of those sacred Hymns for publick Use And though some pious and learned Men had taken pains to put them into Verse the setled Liturgy took no notice of the Matter Nor could I ever find any Authentick Allowance for singing them in publick However the Practice of Singing prvail'd here every Day in Imitation the Reformed abroad and certainly tened very much towards the advancing the Reformation it self but after all was only connived at or tolerated And after the Restauration of our Religion and our Government neve◠Authorised or so much as mentioned a◠a Part of our Publick Service And the present and constant Practice of our Cathedrals and Collegiate Churches and our Colleges not to mention the Chape◠Royal and other Places where Choir◠are fixed intimates that such Psalms were never design'd to be setled by Authority Prose-Anthems being there generally sung taken out of the Reading Psalms some short Parts of other Scriptural Hymns some of private Composure and by chance sometimes a Verse or two out of Sternhold and Hopkins as particularly out of the 68th Psalm Let God arise c. Set I think by Mr. Laws Now the Cathedrals being patterns to our Parochial Assemblies at least in the main parts of solemn Worship they having no Example of such a Nature from them could pretend to no Right of Singing Psalms in Verse by the entire Congregation Hence though the great Sir Philip Sidney translated the whole Book of Psalms into Rhyme and the pious Bishop Hall and the renouned Lord Bacon and it may be some others turn'd several particular Psalms into Verse more correct doubtless than the former yet there never was any Motion towards introducing them into Churches And since our Convocations to whom that Work properly belongs never took any such Cognizance of these or of the Ancient Version as to recommend them with the Liturgy to the Parliament our Common Psalmody remains a Matter of Liberty And it never yet was made an Article of Enquiry at any Episcopal Visitation Whether any Psalms were sung or what Versions of them were used in Parochial Churches On this Account it was that whereas no Man better understood his own Supremacy in Ecclesiastical Affairs than Charles the First of blessed Memory yet though he designed the utmost Honour to the Memory of his Father when the new Translation of King James the First was made publick he only allow'd and recommended it to common Use which as Experience shew'd was not enough to break in upon Inveterate Custom or to exclude that which had for so many Years gotten Possession of our Bibles and Common-Prayer-Books
vex me cry As Birds afraid By Noises made Hence to the Mountains fly verse 2 For loe the Wicked bend their Bows Their Arrows on the strings dispose At Men upright In Woes dark Night They make their deadly Blows verse 3 Ill Men by Force and Art have thrown The Governments Foundations down Where then ô where Can those appear VVho Truth and Justice own verse 4 God in his Holy Temple reigns The Lord enthron'd on High remains And with His Eyes Severely tries VVhat Sins the Soul retains verse 5 Hee 'l try and vindicate the Just But His Eternal Vengeance must With Death pursue That Impious Crew Who dare in Rapine trust verse 6 Thick Snares hot Flames and Sulphur shall Like dismal Storms on Sinners fall Strange Terrors will Their Fancies fill And Fears confound them all verse 7 The righteous God in Actions Right Has ever fix'd his whole Delight Onely the Man Whd's Righteous can Procure his favouring sight PSAL. xij verse 1 O Help me Lord for Goodness now And Truth from Earth are flown None Honesty nor Mercy show They 'r all Deceiful grown verse 2 All double Hearts and Tongues employ When with their Friends they speak verse 3 But God will Lying-lips destroy And haughty Boasters break verse 4 Who say Come let our Tongues be free Our Words at Random fly And when we use that Liberty What Lord shall ask us why verse 5 But to relieve their misery To hear the Needy's cry I 'le rise says God and set him free From Scorn and Cruelty verse 6 And Lord Thy Promises are pure As Silver oft refin'd verse 7 And will thy happy Saints secure From Men to Vice enclin'd verse 8 The Wicked proudly stalks and swells But when Exalted high Grief on each Humane visage dwells And Blushes Crimson Dye PSAL. xiij verse 1 LOst in Oblivion Lord shall I No more behold thy Face verse 2 Must all my Thoughts distractedly And Woes my Heart embrace Still shall my Foes my strength assail And still above me rise verse 3 Lord hear me and e're Death prevail Unclose my failing Eyes verse 4 O never let my haughty Foes Presume they 've conquer'd me If they my smallest Trip disclose They 'l all Triumphant be verse 5 But in thy mercy Lord I trust Thy saving Health adore verse 6 And sing to Thee whose Bounty must My doubting Soul restore PSAL. xiv verse 1 THe wicked Fool 's misguided Heart The World 's great God denies Hence all from Ways of Virtue start And horrid Crimes devise verse 2 God from above the World surveys And Humane Actions reads To see who common Sense obeys And God or Goodness heeds verse 3 But all from God's pure Ways decline And in his Nostrils stink None None at all on Truth 's Divine Or sober Virtues think Their Throats like gaping Graves appear Exâ— Septuaginta Their oily Tongues deceive Their Lips more dealy Poisons bear Then biting Aspies leave Their Mouths with bitter Curses stor'd Their Feet to Murders fly Destruction all their Paths afford And certain Misery No Ways of Charity or Peace Their Pride or Malice knows And they as still their Crimes encrease No Fear of God disclose verse 4 But can the Sons of Sin so loose Their Understanding power That they like Bread my Saints abuse And all at once devour To God no Sense can make them pray verse 5 Tho' where no Ground appears Their Souls a thousand Terrors sway And causless senseless Fears But God who loves the Righteous Race Among the Just remains verse 6 And while Ill Men their Hope disgrace He still their Hope sustins verse 7 Oh whence sliall Israeâ—'s safety rise If God their mournful State Restore in Them the kind surprize Will boundless Joys create PSAL. XV. verse 1 HOw blest how glorious is the Place Where thy great Name resides How blest the Man whom there thy Grace From impious Crouds divides But Lord what Gifts can six him there What wondrous Virtues raise His Soul to love thy House and there To sing thy daily Praise verse 2 He only can with Hopes be blest Of that Coelestial State Who hides no Envy in his Breast Nor deadly lurking Hate But all his Thoughts are fix'd and true And all his Actions right Faith to his Word is always due His Lips in Truth delight No Falshood e'er perverts his Heart No Lyes defile his Tongue verse 3 Nor dares he with malicious Art Contrive his Neighbour's Wrong He scorns those Tales by Malice rais'd To blast his fragrant Name And all those senseless Scandals blaz'd Against his rising Fame Part 2. verse 4 That harden'd Wretch who proudly flights His great Creator's Laws Whose Wit against his Maker fights And backs a Godless Cause That vile that despicable Slave His nobler Thoughts despise But smiles the Good shall always have And Kindnefs in his Eyes No Loss no Gain his Justice bows His Words Assurance speak He 'll ne'er his Oaths nor sacred Vows Nor just Engagements break verse 5 Boundless and wide his Bounty flows And vile Extortion hates Large as Men's Wants his Mercy grows And all their Wealth creates He loves the Innocent and strives Their Vertues to protect From him no Bribe can buy their Lives Nor Falshood gain Respect Thus shall he reach thy holy Place There grow and flourish there And in the Glories of thy Face No Loss nor Dangers fear Another Metre as Mr. Sandys's 7th verse 1 BLess'd Lord how glorious is the Place Thy Altars grace How is that holy Temple bless'd By Thee possess'd But Ô what happy Man is he Who there a daily Guest may be verse 2 He 's only of that Bliss secure Whose Life is pure Who never lets Contagions Sin Prevail within For Right and Justice only cares And from his Heart the Truth declares verse 3 He 'll never slander never lye Nor will his Eye With Malice or an envious View His Friend pursue Nor to his Neighbour's Hurt proceed Or break his Peace by Word or Deed. verse 4 He will if Men in Sin delight Abhor their Sight And with a just Contempt despise Their shameless Lyes But Rev'rence and Respect afford To such as love and fear the Lord. If to his Neighbour's Profit e'er He kindly swear Though to himself a Prejudice From thence may rise Falshood on him shall ne'er prevail His Gain but not his Faith may fail verse 5 He 'll if Extortion rais'd it hate A vast Estate And won't for Bribes quit the Defence Of Innocence The Man whose Life is thus approv'd Shall ne'er by Fears or Pains be mov'd PSAL. xvj As the First verse 1 PReserve me Lord who trust in Thee verse 2 To God my thankful Heart has said Thou art my Lord but canst not be More bless'd by my Submissions made verse 3 I with unbounded Bliss delight In Saints in such as Goodness mind verse 4 But Sorrows multiply'd shall light On Men to other Gods inclin'd I 'll ne'er though kindly call'd partake Of their detested
die And in the Pit's Destruction fall But I 'll on God rely PSAL. lvj verse 1 TO me thy Mercy Lord extend For Men wouâ—d me devour Against me all their Forces bend And press me ev'ry Hour verse 2 Each Day my cruel greedy Foes Design'd to swallow me And Armies which my Soul oppose Would my Destruction see verse 3 When-e'er I fear I 'll trust in Thee verse 4 Thy faithful Word I 'll praise Nor will I fear what Hurt to me Poor mortal Man can raise verse 5 Each Day they wrest my Words to work My Fall their Thoughts are bent verse 6 They meet they trace my Steps they lurk Against my Life intent verse 7 But shall they always scape in Sin In Wrath destroy them all verse 8 Thou know'st my dang'rous Flight hast seen My Tears which daily fall O let them ever in thy Sight In Books recorded lie verse 9 But all my Foes shall turn to Flight When I to God shall cry I know 't for God's my Patron dear verse 10 Through Him his Truth I 'll shew verse 11 I 'll trust in God and nothing fear Which mortal Men can do verse 12 To Thee dear God my Vows are made To Thee my Praise I 'll pay verse 13 Who sav'd'st me from Death's gloomy Shade When I in Danger lay And still I hope through God my Feet Shall ever firmly stand My Steps thy saving Favours meet And I possess the Land PSAL. lvij verse 1 MErcy to me Lord Mercy show My Soul depends on Thee Thy Wings till off this Danger blow Shall my Protection be verse 2 To God I 'll cry to God most High Who all my Wishes sends verse 3 Who me from his superior Sky From barbarous Men defends verse 4 His Truth and Mercy God applies To save my drooping Soul Which now with raging Lions lies Who would devour it whole I ly with fiery Men whose Words Like Spears and Darts appear Whose piercing Tongues than sharpest Swords A greater sharpness bear verse 5 Lord raise thy self exalt thy Name Above the lofty Skies And o're this Earths enlightned Frame Lord lift thy glorious Eyes verse 6 My Soul with sorrow sunk dismaid At fatal Nets prepar'd But now my Foes in Pit-falls made For me themselves are snar'd verse 7 My Heart dear Lord 's prepar'd my Heart Is fix'd thy Praise to sing verse 8 Awake my Pride my charming Art To praise thy gracious King verse 9 Awake my Lute my Harp awake And I 'le prevent the Day To God's great Name new Anthems make And to his Glory play verse 10 His Name his wondrous Works will I Among the Nations praise verse 11 And in my Songs above the Sky His Truth and Mercy raise verse 12 Lord raise thy self exalt thy Name Above the lofty Skies And o're this Earth's enlightned Frame O lift thy glorious Eyes PASL. lviij Psalm Iviij As the 100 or as Mr. Sandys's 14. verse 1 WHen you in private Council sit Are all your Consultations just May others your Decisions trust Their Lives to your pure Hands submit verse 2 No wretched Men your tainted Hearts Iniquities alone pursue Earth groans so long opprest by you Your bloody Hands and faithless Arts. verse 3 I long the wicked Race have known All Lyers from the Breasts and Womb. Lyes in then Infant-Souls have room In Lyes their Elder years are grown verse 4 Poor harmless things compar'd with these Black poisonous Toads and Serpents are Nor can the deafest Asp compare With their hard-hearted Policies verse 5 Asps scorn the curious Charmer's Arts And all his Magic Cant defy These won't admit the Sufferer's cry No Tears can move their stubborn Hearts Part 2. verse 6 Lord break their Teeth their dreadful Jaws Who with a brutish Force enrag'd Against weak Innocence engag'd Confound the Poor and Righteous Cause verse 7 As sliding Waters sink and fail So let their Malice quickly dy And when they let their Arrows fly Let neither Bows nor Shafts prevail verse 8 Let them like Snails when melting waste Or like untimely Births decay verse 9 And to thy stormy Wrath give way As Thorns before a fiery blast verse 10 The Righteous then shall droop no more But God's all-righteous Vengeanee view And all the Paths of Joy pursue And wash their Feet in impious gore verse 11 Then all the World convinc'd shall say The Just are Well rewarded now A God at last we must allow A God the lower World to sway Or thus verse 1 WHen you in private Councils sit Are all your Counsels just May Men to you their lives commit Or your Decisions trust verse 2 No wretched Men your tainted Hearts Iniquity pursue Your bloody Hands and faithless Arts Make Earth her Groans renew verse 3 I long their impious Race have known How from the Womb they ly'd Their Infant Years to Falshood prone Their Elder Age supply'd verse 4 Poor harmless things compar'd with these Black poisonous Serpents are With their hard-hearted Policies Deaf Adders can't compare verse 5 Adders defy the Charmer's Arts And all his Cant defy And these with unrelenting Hearts Throw off the Sufferer's cry verse 6 Lord break their Teeth their dreadful Jaws With brutish force enrag'd Against the Poor's afflicted Cause And Innocence engag'd verse 7 As sliding Waters sink and fall So let their Malice dy Nor Jet their shiver'd Bows prevail Or broken Arrow fly verse 8 Let them like Snails when melting waste Or hasty Births decay verse 9 Or as Thorns to a fiery Blast To thy fierce Wrath give way verse 10 The Righteous then shall droop no more But God's just Vengeance view And wash their Feet in impious Gore And joyful ways pursue verse 11 Then all Mankind convinc'd shall see The Just are well repaid A God to Rule the World must be And his Commands obey'd Another Metre As the old 126. proper Tune verse 1 THE Place was dark And far remov'd from fearching Eyes No chearful Light Could break th'impenetrable gloom No starry Spark Could there the dark Cabal surprize But sullen Night At once possess'd the dismal room These sate Sam 's Council there their Plots they said Their Souls more black than Nights prevailing shade Vile Men could you There in a righteous Ballance weigh The Sufferer's Cause And neither Love nor Pride nor Hate Nor Malice shew Did all impartial Justice sway Your equal Laws No Bribes an unknown Right create Did you in that obscure retreat conclude God's piercing Eye your Thoughts and Actions view'd verse 2 Alas 't was vain To look for facred Justice where Triumphant Sin With all its curs'd Attendance reign'd Where Hopes of Gain Could barbarous Violence endear And all had been By secret Wickedness maintain'd Yet such you all great Counsellers have been The Slaves of Tyrants and the Tools of Sin verse 3 When born at first To entertain the World you ly'd And Fraud and Lyes Your Thoughts and Words and Actious fill'd With Poisons nurst Your Looks the Basilisk out-vy'd Your baleful Eyes
House the Sparrows find The Swallows build their Nests Where with their yet unfeather'd Kind The Dam in Safety rests But ah thine Altars wretched I Near them no more can sing While banish'd from thy House I sly Dear Lord my God my King verse 4 Ah happy Souls who in thy House Can live and praise thy Name verse 5 Whose Arms thy Heav'nly strength endows Whose Hearts thy Ways can frame verse 6 Though through the Vail of Tears they go Their Eyes with Sorrows drown'd Yet Blessings on their Teachers slow With Fruit their Pains are crown'd verse 7 From Strength to Strength from Grace to Grace Th' improving Learners go Till them the God of Gods embrace And Rest on them bestow Part 2. verse 8 My Pray'r great God of Hosts receive And kind Affistance bring verse 9 Consider O our Shie'd relieve Thy once anointed King verse 10 For in thy Courts one Day appears More bless'd more swoet to me Than could a Thousand Thousand Years At any Distance be I 'd rather keep thy Temple's Door And fiod thy Presence there Than in a Palace reign secure Where Sins uncheck'd appear verse 11 For God their Sun their Shield to those Will Grace and Glory give Who with his Laws sincerely close And on Obedience live verse 12 Happy ô happy that good Man Great Lord of Hosts must be Who through all Worldly Changes can Unmov'dly trust in Thee To Father Holy Ghost and Son Ono God in persons Three Be Glory paid and Homage done Through all Eternity PSAL. lxxxv verse 1 THY Favours Lord have kind at last To Israel's Captives been verse 2 And all thy People's Follies past And cover'd all their Sin verse 3 Thy gentler Thoughts with tender Love Thy Jealous Furies eas'd And He who pleads for us above Has all thy Wrath appeas'd verse 4 To us ô God our Saviour now From Anger kindly turn Some Limits to thy Wrath allow Which else would always burn verse 5 On us dear God new Life bestow To us new Vigour give verse 6 That we our Joys in Thee may show And in thy Favour live verse 7 To us thy Mercy Lord extend And thy Salvation show verse 8 What God shall answer I 'll attend Who will his Peace bestow On all his own His Saints shall find The Sweets of Heav'nly Peace When they from Sin 's foul Dross refin'd From careless Follies cease God's kind Salvation's always nigh The Wise who fear his Name That Glory o'er our Land may fly And raise our ancient Fame Kind Peace and Righteousness embrace And Truth and Mercy close Truth springs from Earth from Heav'n her Face Impartial Justice shows All Good on us shall God bestow Our Land shall fruitful prove And Justice with a wondrous Flow Before his Face shall move While we who err'd so oft before Bless'd with so sure a Guide From God shall never wander more But in his Paths abide Another Metre As the old 125th proper Tune BLess'd Lord thy kinder Thoughts at last Did Jacob's Captive-Tribes restore And all the People's Follies past Their Sins with Mercies cover'd o'er Thy Jealous Furies eas'd And all thy Wrath appeas'd To us ô God our Saviour now From thy tempestuous Anger turn Shall thy fierce Wrath no Bounders know But through Eternal Ages burn Us Lord again revive And in thy Joys we live To us thy Mercy Lord extend To us thy bless'd Salvation show To God's kind Answer I 'll attend For Peace he 'll on his Saints bestow His Servants shall have Peace When they from Follies cease verse 9 To pious Men Salvation's near That Glory may possess the Land verse 10 Mercy and Truth conjoin'd appear And Peace and Justice Hand in Hand verse 11 From Earth Truth from the Sky Fair Justice casts her Eye verse 12 Our God on us shall Good bestow Our happy Land shall fruitful prove verse 13 And Justice with a wondrous Flow Before his glorious Presence move And we with such a Guide Shall in his Paths abide PSAL. lxxxvj verse 8 LOrd to my Pray'r thine Ears incline For I 'm distress'd and poor verse 2 I'm wholly Lord and only thine Bless'd God my Soul secure verse 3 My God thy faithful Servant save Who hopes thy Grace to see Mercy thy Mercy Lord I crave And daily cry to Thee verse 4 To Thee alone my Heart I raise O make my Soul rejoice verse 5 Love Pardon Mercy are thy Ways Thou hearst my humble Voice verse 6 Lord hear my Pray'rs receive my Cry verse 7 In Woes address'd to Thee verse 8 Thy Might thy wondrous Works out-vye The Gods of Vanity All Nations whom thy Hands have made Shall fall before thy Face And with pure Worship duly pay'd Thy glorious Name embrace For Thou art God thy Works are great Thy self art God alone To me bless'd God thy Ways repeat And make thy Doctrines known I 'll walk in Truth then Lord unite My Heart to fear thy Name My Heart shall then thy Praise recite And all thy Praise proclaim Thy Mercy 's great to me from Hell Thou brought'st my sinking Soul Though Tyrants at me proudly swell And would my Life control No Sence of Thee the Rebels show But Pity Lord we see Grace Patience Mercy Truth we know In plenty dwells with Thee To me dear God with Mercy turn Thy Strength on me bestow To him who 's of thy Hand-maid born Thy kind Salvation show With me some Mark of Favour leave And shame my spiteful Foes When they thy Aid to me perceive And all thy Love disclose PSAL. lxxxvij as the 113 th WHen God in his All-searching Mind To fix his Church on Earth design'd Deep he her strong Foundations laid verse 2 But Sions Mount that sacred Place Tho' well He lov'd all Jacob's Race He his peculiar Darling made verse 3 How vastly wide how wondrous high Shall thy Immortal Glories fly Blest City of th' Eternal King verse 4 When AEgypt Assur Palestine And all th' Arabia's shall be thine And Vows to thy Protector bring Envy in Them no more shall reign But Saints to fill thy blissful Train Shall come from each converted Land verse 5 In Sion yet those Sons of Peace Shall more than other Lands encrease And in her God securely stand verse 6 When God shall all his Saints enrol The Gentiles Tribes shall fill the Scroul From Thee blest God! our Joy shall spirit verse 7 And all the Sons of Harmony Shall tune their chearful Strings to Thee And thy Eternal Praises sing PSAL. lxxxviij verse 1 BLest God of my Salvation I Call Day and Night to Thee verse 2 O hear my Prayer accept my Cry And kindly answer me verse 3 My Soul alas is fill'd with Woes The Grave attends my Fate verse 4 I 'me left by Life and Sense like those Just in a dying state verse 5 Among the slaughter'd dead I ly i th' Grave from Sorrows free Where Men thrust out from Memory Are cut from Earth by Thee verse 6 Down in the Pits
9 Before his Seat of Holiness Let all devoutly bow And Fear before his Face express And to his service vow verse 10 Among the Nations round proclaim The great Jehovah reigns Through Him the World's establish'd frame Unmov'd and Firm remains Hee 'l Judge the People righteously verse 11 Then let the Skys rejoice Let Earth be glad the Ocean high Exalt its roaring Voice verse 12 Let all the Flocks and Fields their Joys Express in various ways And Forrests with a murmuring Noise Their great Creator praise verse 13 He flys to judge the Earth He slies To make the World confess All Justice in His Bosom lies And Truth and Righteosness PSAL xcvij. As the 100th verse 1 THE Lord the Great Messiah reigns No more to Jewish Bounds confin'd Since all the World the Blessing gains Let all express a grateful Mind O let that spacious Continent Which Adam's num'rous Heirs possess And all the Isles with sweet Consent Their Saviour's wond'rous Love consess verse 2 Thick Clouds and gloomy Darkness hide The God from Faithless curious Eyes On Judgment too by Justice try'd His Throne 's Eternal Pillars rise verse 3 Bright Flames before his Prefence fly And melt the Hearts of angry Foes verse 4 His Beams the World with Light supply And trembling Earch its Master knows verse 5 Vain Men blown up with lofty Pride Like Wax before his Flames appear And those whose Thoughts their God defy'd The mighty God of Nature fear verse 6 His Righteousness the bending Skies Aloud with wond'rous Signs declare His glorious Works before the Eyes Of all th' astonish'd Nations are verse 7 Shame be their Lot who Images Adore and in their Idols boast Our God with humblest Worship please Bow to Him all ye Heav'nly Host verse 8 Ziou's and Judah's Daughters true With Joys thy Judgment Lord embrac'd verse 9 The Earth her mighty Maker knew With more than Angel-Glorys grac'd verse 10 O ye who love our Saviour hate All Sin for Him in each Degree He 'll Safety for his Saints create And from the Wicked set them free verse 11 Light 's largely for the Righteous sown And Joys for upright Hearts prepar'd In Him ô let our Joys be shown His Holiness with Thanks declar'd Another Metre verse 1 THE Lord the great Jehovah reigns Let all the Earth rejoice Let all those Isles the Sea contains Exalt a chearful Voice verse 2 Thick Clouds and heavy Darkness hide Our God from Humane Eyes On Righteousness by Justice try'd His Throne 's Supporters rise verse 3 Fierce Flames before his dreadful Face Consume his angry Foes verse 4 His Lightnings fright the World His Place The Earth with trembling shows verse 5 The Hills before Earth's mighty Lord Like Wax dissolving flow verse 6 The Heav'ns declare his righteous Word And All his Glory know verse 7 Shame be their Lot who Gods can make And in their Idols boast But for your God our Saviour take Ye bright Angelick Host verse 8 Zion's and Judah's Daughters heard Thy Judgments Lord with Joy verse 9 For Thou above the Gods art fear'd O'er Earth exalted high verse 10 O ye who love the Lord with Hate All wicked Works pursue For He 'll secure his Servants State From all the sinful Crew verse 11 For upright Hearts true Joys and Light Are sown Ye Righteous all Rejoice and God's All-sacred Might With grateful Thoughts re-call Another Metre to the Notes of the 114 th as translated by Mr. Cowley verse 1 THE Lord a King triumphant reigns Let all the Earth around The Isles with Joys resound God alone a King remains verse 2 Thick Clouds and heavy Darkness round him fly Justice severe and Judgment waiting by His glorious Throne prepare verse 3 Bright Flames before his Face With dreadful Flashes rake the Air And all his Foes malignant Race With all their impious Works one burning Pile embrace verse 4 See how the pointed Lightnings roll With what a dismal Glare They fill the glowing Air Soaring tow'rd the frighted Pole Shock'd with the Vision trembling Nature quakes The shatter'd Earth a strong Convulsion shakes verse 5 The lofty Mountains melt Like Wax before the Fires Whate'er his scorching Fury felt Before the World's great Lord retires And by his awful Frown dissolv'd at once expires verse 6 The Heav'ns his Righteousness declare And all the People see His glorious Majesty How it fills the Purpled Air. verse 7 May Shame deserv'd and dark Confusion seize Those Fools whose Thoughts their empty Idols Fools who absurdly boast In Gods themselves can frame please But ô ye bright Angelick Hosts Adore our Great jehovah's Name And on your bended Knees the God of Gods proclaim verse 8 His Condescensions Sion heard And judah's Daughters too And at the wondrous Shew Extasy'd with Joys appear'd Thy Goodness then before the Nations shone Thy sacred Judgments through the World were known verse 9 But though so lowly now Thy glorious Godhead still Makes all the World submisly bow Bless'd Angels thy Commands fulfil And All Subjection yield to thy Immortal Will verse 10 Ye who the Great Jehovah love With God-like Hatred due All wicked Works pursue Fix your happy Souls above He like a Father guards his faithful Souls And all their Foes and all their Force controls verse 11 But Mirth and Light to all The Just and Good shall shine verse 12 O then your ancient Joys re-call In your Jehovah's Praise combine And all his holy Acts record in Songs Divine PSAL. xcviij verse 1 THE Lord who wondrous Works hath wrought With Anthems new proclaim His Hand his holy Arm hath brought Himself the Conqu'ror's Name verse 2 He makes his great Salvation known To give the Nations Light His Righteousness the Lord hath shown In all the People's Sight verse 3 His Mercies he hath call'd to mind His Truth to Israel's Race And all those Bounds which Earth consin'd His Saving Health embrace verse 4 Sing to the Lord ô Earth aloud Sing chearful Notes around The Lord among the grateful Croud The Lord 's just Praise resound verse 5-6 To God with Harps your Voices raise And Trumpets Martial Sound With ecchoing Cornets let the Praise Of God the King be crown'd verse 7 Let Seas with all their Fulness roar The World and all its Host verse 8 In Him each River's sounding Shoar And lofty Mountain boast verse 9 For now the Lord to Judgment 's near And Earth its Doom shall know His Righteousness the World shall hear His Truth and Justice show Another Metres as Mr. Sandys's 13th verse 1 O Sing to God the Lord His wond'rous Works record Sing sing an Anthem new Return his Praises due Whose Hand whose holy Arm Dissolv'd Hell's fatal Charm Whom we triumphant see And crown'd with Victorie verse 2 The Lord's Salvation Is now more clearly known His Truth and Justice He Makes all the Nations see verse 3 But with his Israel His Mercies ever dwell And though a while a Cloud His Truth and Mercy shroud From their expecting Eyes
me With humble Tribute gladly meet verse 10 Whoe'l me thro' Cities fortify'd Or Edom's rocky Frontiers lead verse 11 Lord let thy Help so long deny'd At last our fainting Armies head verse 12 Up Lord in times of Danger aid For Humane Helps are only shows verse 13 And valiant thro'thy Influence made Wee 'l trample o're our vanquish'd Foes PSAL. cix verse 1 O Thou dear God of all my Praise No longer silent go verse 2 For sinful Men in sinful Ways And Traitors bolder grow Against me-they their Rage excite Their Tongues with Falshood whet verse 3 And me with Words of deadly spite And causeless Hate beset verse 4 They for my kindness prove my Foes But I in silence pray verse 5 Malice to Goodness they oppose And Love with Hate repay verse 6 Make Him some wicked Tyrant's slave Let Satan bind his hands verse 7 And Sins severest Sentence have When He in judgment stands verse 8 Nay let his very Prayers be Sin verse 9 His Days be dark and few That Office fix another in Which to himself was due No Father let his Children see His widow'd Wife go mourn verse 10 His Off-spring common Vagrants be Expos'd to Want and Scorn Their Bread from cruel Hands intreaty verse 11 The Griping-Usurers trade Seize all his Wea'th and every Cheat His Pains and Gains invade verse 12 No Mercy let his Cries engage Nor all his Orphan race verse 13 But sink'um all in one short Age Their very Names deface Part 2. verse 14 In God's revenging Presence let Their Father's Crimes remain No length of Time or Years forget Their Mother's viler stain verse 15 Let them God's sleeping Vengeance move Their Memory to destroy verse 16 Since Grace could ne'er his Soul improve Not Love his Thoughts employ But the dear Man to Sorrows born With humblest Thoughts inclu'd The broken Heart with Anguish torn His bloody Hate pursu'd verse 17 Cursing and hellish Words he lov'd His Lot may Curses be His Heart no Blessings e'er approv'd Let him no Blessing see verse 18 He Curses for a Garment us'd And with their poisonous draught His Bowels washt like Oil diffus'd Quite thro' his Bones they wrought verse 19 May He no other Garments wear But Curses closely bound And Curses for a Girdle bear To gird him duely round verse 20 Be this the Just reward of those From God's revenging Hand Whose spiteful Words my Life oppose And who against me stand verse 21 But Lord for thy Names sake appear My Party kindly own Thy Mercy 's Goo'd ô let it here To vescue Me be shown Part 3. verse 22 For wretched and afflicted I With inward Wounds decay verse 23 And like an Evening Shadow fly Or Locusts hurld away verse 24 My Knees with tedious Fastings fail And all my Leanness see verse 25 My Foes with brutish scorn assail And shake their Heads at me verse 26 Help ô My God! ô save Me show Thy farmer Mercies now verse 27 That all thy Love to me may know Thy Helps dear Lord allow verse 28 Then let them Curse me stil on me Thy Blessings Lord bestow Let Them their own Confusion see But me thy gladness know verse 29 When great they seem like some large Cloke Let Shame be round them roul'd verse 30 And I 'le thy Name in Crouds invoke Thy Praise at large unfold verse 31 For God still by the Poor Mans side With sure assistance stands His Soul with saving Wings to hide From partial Judges Hands PSAL. CX verse 1 SIT here on my Right Hand the Lord Thus to my Lord has said Till thou shalt see thy Foes abhor'd Beneath thy Footstool lay'd verse 2 From Sions Hill thy regal claime Thy Scepter first shall rise Thence Reign and with thy awful Name Command thy Enemies verse 3 When thy Prodigious Might appears Thy ready Armies move And Preach those happy gladsome years The Reign of boundless Love Tho' at a mighty distance now The careless People stand To Thee they'I then as swiftly flow And own thy ruling Hand Wash'd from their Crimes and snowy white Their Tempers undefild And cloth'd with Innocence and Light And like their Matter mild These Conquests first belong'd to Thee E're dewy Mornings rose Or Time cou'd thro' Eternity Thy sacred Birth disclose verse 4 Then by himself thy Father swore And shook his awful Throne And when swift Time shall be no more He'el that Engagement own Thou' rt an Eternal Priest to Thee There 's no succeeding Heir And like Melchisedes shalt be And Crown and Miter wear verse 5 The Lord shall in his angry Day Rebellious Kings destroy verse 6 Among the Gentiles fierce'y sway And fill his own with Joy But where bo'd Opposition reigns The slughter'd Corpses round And dying Kings shall spread the Plains And stain the purple Ground verse 7 But he before the Conquest gain'd The Rage of Thirst shall know With Sorrow's streams be entertain'd And drink of deadly Woe Till all those Difficulties past His Glory 's largely spread And all shall see the Crown at last On his victorious Head PSAL. cxj. O Praise the Lord my Heart prepare To praise the mighty Lord Where-e'er his bless'd Assemblies me Will I his Name record verse 2 Great are his Works and earnestly By Men of Wisdom sought verse 3 His Works are all with Majesty And comely Beauty wrought His Righteousness eternally Shall with his Works endure verse 4 In grateful Minds his Clemency And his Compassions sure verse 5 For those who fear his sacred Name The Lord at large provides His ancient Covenant the same Still in his Thoughts abides verse 6 The Might where with his Works are wrought He to his People shows And Portions from the Gentiles brought On them at large bestows verse 7 His Works in Truth and Judgment done His Precepts just and sure verse 8 As first in Righteousness begun Through ev'ry Age endure verse 9 The Lord his People once redeem'd And gave them lasting Laws And still his holy Name esteem'd Our Veneration draws verse 10 True Wisdom springs from Godly Fear An Understanding pure Will in Obedience best appear And its just Praise endure PSAL. cxij. O Praise the Lord All Blessings wait On him who fears his Name In whom his just Commands create Pure Love's immortal Flame verse 2 Mighty on Earth his Seed shall be His Generation bless'd verse 3 His Righteousness shall last and he In Wealth and Plenty rest verse 4 To Men of upright Hearts the Light Through gloomy Darkness shines Mercy 's the righteous Man's Delight To Love his Soul inclines verse 5 He 's pitiful to Men distress'd And lends to those in Need In Judgment from his milder Breast No cruel Words proceed verse 6 He ne'er shall move his Memory Shall ever sweetly last verse 7 From Fear through heavy Tidings free His Heart in God be fast verse 8 His Heart from cold Despair secur'd Can on his God repose Till of the Down-fall he 's assur'd Of all his angry Foes
Soul divide verse 21 Thy Judgments break the cursed Proud Who from thy Precepts stray verse 22 Me Lord from flouting Scorners shroud For I thy Words obey verse 23 Great Kings in Council curst my Name But I thy Statutes chose verse 24 Thy Statutes all my Joys enflame My Counsels all compose verse 25 My Soul Lord for thy Promise spare In Dust which prostrate lies verse 26 Thou hear'st how I thy Ways declare O teach and make me wise verse 27 O Make me know thy Precepts so I 'le spread thy Works the more verse 28 My Heart with melting Cares brought low Lord by thy Word restore verse 29 From me all lying Ways remove To me thy Laws impart verse 30 For all the Paths of Truth I love Thy Judgments fill my Heart verse 31 I to thy Laws adhere dear God From Shame my Life discharge verse 32 I 'le run the Ways thy Saints have trod If thou my Heart enlarge He 5. Vau 6. verse 33 Lord teach me thy commanded way And I 'le observe it still verse 34 My Heart let Understanding sway Thy Laws my Heart shall fill verse 35 By thy Commands ô make me tread For them I dearly love verse 36 Let no false Lusts my Heart mislead While by thy Rules I move verse 37 From Vanity ô turn my Eyes And make me live to Thee verse 38 Thy Word on which my Soul relies And fears make good to me verse 39 Reproach from me and Scandal take But Lord thy Judgments give verse 40 I for thy Precepts long ô make Me by thy Justice live verse 41 Thy Mercy thy Salvation too As promis'd Lord bestow verse 42 So shall I hush the scornful Crew And yet more faithful grow verse 43 Never ô never Lord withdraw Thy Word and Truth from me verse 44 So thy just Judgments and thy Law My constant Guides shall be verse 45 My happy Course at last I 'le steer In thy Commands secure verse 46 Thy Testimonies Kings sha'l hear Yet I no shame endure verse 47 I 'le in thy lov'd Commands delight For them my Hands I 'le raise verse 48 Thy Statutes study Day and Night And thy Commandments praise Zain 7. Cheth 8. verse 49 Thy Word once pass'd remember Lord In which thou mad'st me trust verse 50 Thy Word my dropping Soul restor'd verse 51 The scoffing Proud my Soul deride Yet I thy Laws pursue verse 52 With me thy Judgments pass'd abide And all my Joys renew verse 53 I trembled at their dreadful Fate Who from thy Precepts stray'd verse 54 But them I in my banish'd State My daily Musick made verse 55 Lord on thy Name I muse by Night And keep thy Righteous Laws verse 56 Such Blessings from thy favouring Sight A just Obedience draws verse 57 Thou' rt all my Portion Lord I said I 'de keep thy sacred Word verse 58 And for thy Grace devoutly pray'd Thy Grace Dear Lord afford verse 59 I weigh'd my Works and so thy Ways My careful Footstop trac'd verse 60 And that I might thy Laws obey I flew with winged haste verse 61 Tho' impious Bunds my Wealth surprize I can't forget thy Ways verse 62 But I when I at Midnight rise Thy rightéous Judgments praise verse 63 I love their Company who fear Thy Name and keep thy Word verse 64 Thy Mercies round the World appear Thy Statutes teach me Lord Teth 9. Jod 10. verse 65 Lord from thy Hands I Good receive For all thy Words are true verse 66 Teach me since I thy Laws believe Good Sense and Knowledge too verse 67 I sinn'd till by Affliction taught Thy sacred Words to know verse 68 For me all Good thy Hands have wrought To me thy Statutes show verse 69 The Proud assau't my Soul with lies But I sincerely move verse 70 And while their Hearts with Fatness rise Thy Laws entirely love verse 71 Lash'd by thy Rod my Heart enclines To keep thy Laws with Care verse 72 Those Laws which richer far than Mines Of Gold and Silver are verse 73 Thy Hands have made and fashion'd me Thy Judgments make me know verse 74 So thy pleas'd Saints my Care shall see While in thy Paths I go verse 75 I know thy Judgments Lord are just Thy Love afflicted me verse 76 Make good thy Word my Comfort must Alone descend from Thee verse 77 Lord send thy Mercys quickned so I 'le in the Laws delight verse 78 Let shame thy treacherous Proud o're-throw But I 'le thy Laws recite verse 79 O let thy Saints who know thy Will With me as Friends appear verse 80 When my sound Heart thy Statutes fill I no Disgrace can fear Caph 11. Lamed 12. verse 81 Thy Health my longing Soul desires And on thy Promise waits verse 82 And while thy Comforts it requires My Sight with Woes abates verse 83 Dry'd up with Grief my strength appears Yet I thy Laws retain verse 84 How many are thy Servant's days O now my Foes restrain verse 85 The Proud for me their Pitts have made Against thy righeous Law verse 86 Me from their Wrongs by thy kind Aid And Faithful Precepts draw verse 87 Lord They'd consum'd me quite but I Ne're from thy Precepts went verse 88 In Goodness raise my Soul I 'le try To keep thy Testament verse 89 Firm Lord as Heaven thy Promise stands verse 90 Thy Truth from Age to Age The Earth form'd by thy mighty Hands Stands by thy Patronage verse 91 All by thine Ordinance ensur'd To Thee their Service pay verse 92 But Woes rny Ruine had procur'd But that I kept thy Way verse 93 I 'le ne're forget thy Precepts kind Since oft by them reviv'd verse 94 I'm thine ô save me for my Mind Has on thy Precepts liv'd verse 95 The Wicked watch'd to ruine me But I thy Statutes read verse 96 And th' end of all Perfection see But those all Bounds exceed Mem 13 Nun 14. verse 97 Lord how I love thy Laws by those My serious Studies move verse 98 By them I far above my Foes In Wisdom's Rules improve verse 99 Thy Testimonies teach me more Than all my Teachers know verse 100 I by thy Statutes wise before My reverend Elders grow verse 101 My Feet all wicked Ways declin'd To keep thy sacred Word verse 102 Thy Judgments duly uâ—'d my Mind With Heavenly Wisdom stor'd verse 103 Honey to those pure Sweets must yield With which thy Words are blest verse 104 So I with thy wise Precepts fill'd All lying Ways detest verse 105 Thy glorious Words my Footsteps guide And fill my Paths with Light verse 106 I've sworn and as by Oath I 'm tied I 'le keep thy Judgments right verse 107 I 'me much distrest ô by thy Word My fainting Soul revive verse 108 Accept my willing Praises Lord To me thy Judgments give verse 109 Tho' in my Hands my Life I bear I can't forget thy Law verse 110 Nor can the Sinners crafty Snare From that my Soul withdraw verse 111 Thy Will 's th' Inheritance