And Saints Thy praise shall celebrate verse 11 Their tongues Thy Kingdom's rule make know'n By them Thy glorious acts are show'n verse 12 That all the Sons of men may see Thy mighty pow'r and Majestie verse 13 Thy Kingdom doth for ever last When men decay and time is past verse 14 God doth uphold all such as fall And men cast downe from ruin call verse 15 The eyes of all on Thee attend Who in due season meat do'st send verse 16 Thy open hand when need requires Doth satisfie their just desires verse 17 The Lord is right in all His waies In Holiness His works He layes verse 18 The Lord is good and nigh to all Who faithfully upon Him call verse 19 He their desire will satisfie Who feare Him and regard their cry verse 20 Saves all that love Him from annoy But all the wicked will destroy verse 21 Therefore my mouth to speake His praise Shall lowd and thankfull accents raise And let all flesh whom He did frame For ever bless His Holy Name PSAL. CXLVI verse 1 TTo God my soule His praises give And bless Him whil'st I live verse 2 I will to Him my thankes up send Untill my being end verse 3 Put not in Princes any trust Nor in the Sons of dust Who nor themselves nor others save From the devouring grave verse 4 Soon as man breathless doth remaine He turnes to earth againe And as his time of life expires So perish his desires verse 5 O therefore happy he whose faith On God relyance hath Who makes the fear of Him his scope And object of his hope verse 6 He Heav'n and earth and Sea did frame With all that Those containe And when their frame is quite defac't His truth shall ever last verse 7 He doth the wronged help to right Who are opprest by might Feeds those that are to want expos'd And hath the Captives loos'd verse 8 He to the blind restores their eyes He makes the fall'n to rise He upon such bestowes his care Who just and faithfull are verse 9 The Lord all strangers doth receive And fatherless releive When wicked men are overthrowne And all their hopes cast downe verse 10 The Lord thy God O Sion reignes His glory still remaines Then to thy everlasting King Eternall praises sing PSAL. CXLVII verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord a pleasant thing It is His praise to sing verse 2 God ruin'd Salem doth repaire Whose out-casts gather'd are verse 3 He heales and binds the broken heart Relieves the wounded's smart verse 4 The sparkling Starres He numbers all And by their names doth call verse 5 Great is our Lord and strong His might His Wisdome infinite verse 6 He doth the meek exalt and crowne But cast's the wicked downe verse 7 To God the Lord so good so great Your thankfull hymnes repeat And to the Harpes melodious string His constant praises sing verse 8 Who heavens face with vapour shrowds And covers it with clouds Who powres his raine on earth below And makes the Mountaines grow verse 9 He gives his food unto the beast And from their airy nest When the young ravens to Him cry Feeds Them abundantly verse 10 He not delights in strength of horse Nor values humane force verse 11 But those who make His feare their scope And in His mercy hope verse 12 Ierusalem O praise the Lord Sion Thy God record verse 13 Who barres thy gates to give thee rest And hath thy children blest verse 14 He maketh in thy borders peace Fills thee with cornes increase verse 15 His wing'd commands most swiftly run And soon as said are done verse 16 He giveth like the wooll his snowes Hoare frost like ashes strowes verse 17 Casts forth his Ice like morsells roll'd Who can withstand His cold verse 18 He sendeth out His word and Law Which melts them to a thaw He causeth His strong wind to blow And makes the waters flow verse 19 His word He doth to Iacob shew Makes him His judgment know And to his chosen Israel He doth His Statutes tell verse 20 He with no Nation so did deale Nor thus His Love reveale Who nor His judgments knew nor word Therefore Praise ye the Lord PSAL. CXLVIII To the proper Tune verse 1 PRaise God from Heaven high Who sits above the sky verse 2 Ye glorious Angels all Ye Hosts Celestiall verse 3 Ye Sun and Moon Both Night and Noon Ye Stars of light His praise recite verse 4 Praise Him ye Heavens that move Ye waters them above verse 5 Praise Him whose pow'rfull Name Created This great frame He did command verse 6 Them fast to stand By His decree They lasting be verse 7 All that earth's bosome keeps Ye dragons and all deepes verse 8 Fire haile the falling snow The furious winds that blow Stormes that fulfill His sacred will And serve His word Praise ye the Lord verse 9 Mountaines that touch the sky Ye Hills which lower ly All trees that fruitfull are The Cedars tall and faire verse 10 Beasts which the field Or pastures yeild Each creeping thing And bird of wing verse 11 Kings which the earth do sway People who them obey Princes of royall birth And Judges of the earth verse 12 Young men and maids Old men and babes verse 13 Let them proclaime His awfull name His Name doth all excell In earth or Heaven that dwell verse 14 He will His People raise Of all His Saints the praise Ev'n Iacob deare His care most neare Joyn'd in accord Praise ye the Lord PSAL. CXLIX Sing this as Psalme 119. verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord New Anthems bring Which ye to God may sing And let the quire of Saints His praise In their assembly raise verse 2 Let Israel in Him rejoyce Who form'd him with his voyce Let all the Sons from Sion spring Be joyfull in their King verse 3 Let them with Dance and Pipe proclaime The glory of His Name Let them sing praises with the Harp With Timbrell shrill and sharp verse 4 For in His people He delights Who celebrate His Rites And those with meekness who abound Are with salvation crown'd verse 5 Let Saints with glory raise their heads And sing upon their beds verse 6 Let His high praise who rules the skies Their voices exercise And in their hand a Two-edg'd sword Be put to act His word verse 7 For judgment 'gainst the Heathen bent And peoples punishment verse 8 Their captive Kings in chaines confin'd With manacles to bind And their rebellious Nobles lead In iron fettered verse 9 To execute that heavy wrath His judgment threat'ned hath And in faire Characters engrave His Saints such honour have PSAL. CL verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord your Songs address To praise His Holynes O praise Him in His pow'rs extent Who rules the firmament verse 2 Praise Him for all His acts of might Our wonder which invite In praises due His greatness tell Which all things doth excell verse 3 Praise Him with Trumpets lofty sound With Cornets shake the ground His praise the Psaltery inspire With the melodious Lyre verse 4 Praise him with Timbrells and advance His honour in the Dance Praise Him with Organs Violls Flutes And the well-stringed Lutes verse 5 With Cymbals loud Him magnify Praise Him on Cymbals high verse 6 Let every creature that hath breath His Maker praise till death FINIS THis Tune which is proper to Psalme 119. serves for the 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.39.137 With any other of that Meter conteining Eight Lines in a Staffe This is for Psal. 8.15.19.20.21.23.24.26.28.29.32.41.42.45.47.48.52.69 With any others of that Meter conteining only Fowre lines in a Staffe But if the Former seemes more difficult or be lesse used in diverse Places This Tune will serve generally for all whose Meter is like the First Psalme This Tune is for Psal. 81.85.87.98.101 This For Psal. 25.67.134.143 Tune of Psalme 51. For the 17.68.80.118 With the others mentioned PSAL. LI. Lamentation Prayer after the Commandements PSAL. C. There be other Tunes which being not very usuall are not here set downe as Psal. 50.124.127 c. For which you are referred to the Psalmes Printed with the Bibles Some Errours of the Presse are thus amended PSal. 12. v. 7. Flatt'ring Psal. 25.16 To me Ps. 38.8 Thy heavy c. Psal. 42. v. 6. From Iordan yet and Hermons hill I Thee remember still Ps. 43. v. 5. Why droop'st thou O my soule c. Ps. 48. v. 11. Let Iudahs daughters c Ps. 49. v. 15. But God my soule c. Ps 67. v. 1. Upon Thy servants c. Ps. 73. v. 16. Hard to be c. Ps. 98.8 Let Hills c. Ps. 107. v. 40. Puts to scorne Ps. 105.2 Celebrate Ps. 114. v. 6. Ye little hills c. Ps. 125. v. 3. Vassalls v. 2. Salem sense Ps 139. v. 8. 'T is Thine own Sphaere v. 14. These marvels Ps. 146. v. 6. And when their Forme c. Figures of verses wanting Ps. 6. v. 10. at When their c. Ps. 30. deest 3. 7. at For Thou my Mountaine c. Ps. 134. The Tune is falsely referred as 51. for 25. FINIS August Epist. 118. ad Januarium de consuetud variis Regionum Vallem sitientem ob id ad fletum excitantem Vatablus Psal. 47.7 Histor. Concil. Tridentin Lib. 2 An. 1546
To Thy bright throne ascend on high verse 2 Hide not Thy face in time of need But answer my request with speed verse 3 For all my daies away consume Like to the smoak or rising fume My bones like fired brands became Burnt up scorch'd in sorrowes flame verse 4 My heart like grass is withered And I forget to eat my bread verse 5 I wast and pine in daily groanes That scarse my flesh cleaves to my bones verse 6 Like Pelicans remov'd from sight Or Owles in desarts shunning light verse 7 As sparrowes their lost mates bemoane So do I watch and sit alone verse 8 I with reproach all day am torne Of enemies against me sworne verse 9 I ashes eat instead of bread And drink the tears my sorrows shed verse 10 Which mischeifs from thy wrath are grow'n Since thou who rais'd hast cast me down verse 11 Thus like the dark declining shade Or dying flow'r I hourely fade verse 12 Yet thou O Lord dost still endure From times successive change secure verse 13 Thou therefore shalt in mercy rise And Sion help which ruin'd lies The time is come for hir repaire verse 14 Whose stones and rubbish prized are Thy servants pity hir neglect And on hir dust with sighs reflect verse 15 So shall the Heathen feare Thy Name And Kings Thy Majesty proclaime verse 16 When God shall Sions buildings reare And in His glory shall appeare verse 17 He will regard the poor man's suit And not despise the destitute verse 18 This shall be written for record That after Times may praise the Lord Second Part. verse 19 The Lord from high His beams display'd And out of Heaven earth survay'd verse 20 The Captives setters to unty And Pris'ners save condemn'd to dy verse 21 That so in Sions blessed hill And Salem which His wonders sill verse 22 They may His name and praise declare When all the people gather'd are verse 23 He hath my strength to weaknes brought My Short'ned dayes are come to nought verse 24 So that to God I thus did pray O take me not as yet away Nor cast me off from this lifes stage In prime of youth and mid'st of age For though My dayes be few and fraile Thy yeares O God will never faile verse 25 Thou Lord hast earth's foundation lay'd And by Thy hand the Heav'ns were made They all shall perish and decay And in their time consume away Like to a garment when grow'n old They shall nor use nor motion hold But though the world and they must fall Thy Being is perpetuall verse 27 Yea as a vesture worne and chang'd Is from it's gloss and forme estrang'd So Shalt Thou change this massy frame Yet still Thy selfe abide the same verse 28 And like Thy selfe from changes freed Thou wilt prolong Thy servants seed Whose children shall remaine with Thee And in Thy sight establisht be PSAL. CIII As Psalme 51. verse 1 MY Soul thy best devotion raise To bless the Lord and sing His praise verse 2 O never unremembred be The benefits He powr'd on thee verse 3 Whose pardon doth all sins release And keep thy body from disease verse 4 Who thee redeem'd to death cast downe And doth thy life with mercies crowne verse 5 Who with good things shall fill thy mouth And eagle-like renew thy youth verse 6 He by right judgment hath redrest All such as are by wrong opprest verse 7 His wayes have Know'n to Moses been The Israelites His works have seen verse 8 All which His will and nature shew To mercy swift to vengeance slow verse 9 He will not alwayes with us chide Nor let His anger long abide verse 10 Nor deales according to our sin Nor have our crimes rewarded bin verse 11 For high as Heav'n is earth above So large so boundless is his love verse 12 Removing all our sins as far As East and West divided are verse 13 Yea like a Father 's to his Son To us is his compassion verse 14 He knowes our frame too weak to trust Remembring that we are but dust verse 15 The daies of man like to the grass Or fading flow'r to nothing pass verse 16 Which blow'n and shaken by the wind Leave neither place nor print behind verse 17 His goodnes though confirm'd and sure To childrens children doth endure verse 18 Ev'n unto such whose cleare intents Walk after His Commandements verse 19 The Lord in heav'n prepares His throne And governs all the world alone O therefore bless that pow'rfull Lord Who made and rules us by His word verse 20 Ye Angels that in strength excell And never 'gainst His word rebell verse 21 Ye winged Ministers who still Prepared are to act His will Ye Heav'nly hosts and creatures all verse 22 Bless Him and at His foot-stool fall Lastly my Soul thy Maker praise And bless His goodnes all thy daies PSAL. CIV. As Psalme 51. verse 1 MY Soul the Lord for ever bless O God! Thy greatnesse all confess Whom Majesty and honour vest verse 2 In robes of Light eternall drest He Heaven makes his Canopy verse 3 His chambers in the waters ly His Chariot is the cloudy storme And on the wings of wind is borne verse 4 He Spirits makes His Angels quire His Ministers a flaming fire verse 5 He so did earth's foundations cast It might remaine for ever fast verse 6 Then cloath'd it with the spatious deep Whose wave out swells the mountaines steep verse 7 At Thy rebuke the waters fled And hid their thunder frighted head verse 8 They from the mountaines streaming flow And downe into the Vallies go Then to their liquid center hast Where their collected floods are cast verse 9 These in the Ocean met and joyn'd Thou hast within a bank confin'd Not suff'ring them to pass their bound Least earth by their excess be drown'd verse 10 He from the hills his Christall springs Down running to the vallies brings verse 11 Which drink supply and coolnes yield To thirsting beasts throughout the field verse 12 By them the fowles of heaven rest And singing in their branches nest verse 13 He waters from his clouds the Hills The teeming earth with plenty fills verse 14 He grass for Cattle doth produce And every Herbe for humane use That so He may His creatures feed And from the earth supply their need verse 15 He makes the clusters of the vine To glad the Sons of men with wine He oyle to cheere the face imparts And bread the strength'ner of their hearts Second Part. verse 16 The trees which God for fruit decreed Nor sap nor moyst'ning vertue need The lofty Cedars by His hand In Lebanon emplanted stand verse 17 Unto the birds these shelter yield And Storks upon the fir-trees build verse 18 Wild goats the hills defend and feed And in the Rocks the Conies breed verse 19 He made the changing Moone appeare To note the seasons of the yeare The Sun from Him his strength doth get And knows the measure of his Set.
those Who trust in Them repose verse 19 His praise O ye from Iacob spring O house of Aaron sing verse 20 O house of Levi who profess His feare your Maker bless verse 21 From Sion let your blessings sound Your thankfull Songs abound Praise ye the Lord His mercies tell Who doth in Salem dwell PSAL. CXXXVI To the usuall Tune As Psalme 148. verse 1 GIve thanks unto the Lord Who doth all good afford verse 2 The God of Gods who swaies verse 3 Those Lords whom earth obeyes verse 4 Who hath alone Great wonders done His mercy sure Doth still endure verse 5 To Him who Heavens made verse 6 Earth 'bove the waters lay'd verse 7 To Him who form'd great lights To rule our daies and nights verse 8 The Sun at noone The Stars and Moone verse 9 Whose mercy sure Doth still endure verse 10 Who Egypts first-borne smote And Iacob from them brought verse 13 The Red Sea parted was verse 14 For Israel to pass verse 15 But Pharaoh's host In it was lost His mercy sure Doth still endure verse 16 Who His through desarts led Great Kings discomfited verse 19 Sihon the Amorite verse 20 And Og with Bashan's might verse 21 And gave their land verse 22 To Iacob's hand His mercy sure Doth still endure verse 23 Who our low state esteem'd verse 24 And from our foes redeem'd verse 25 Who to all flesh gives food His creatures fills with good verse 26 Your thanks O bring To Heavens King Whose mercy sure Doth still endure PSAL. CXXXVII Sing this as Psalme 119. verse 1 BY Babylons swift streames we sate Sad and disconsolate The teares as fast ran from our ey For Sions memory verse 2 Our harps untuned and unstrung Upon the Willowes hung verse 3 When those who did us captive bring Bid us in scorne to sing They who us spoil'd with sword and fire Did mirth of us require Sing us say'd They one of the Songs To Sion which belongs verse 4 But how shall we sing the Lords Song His Enemies among Or tune His Notes in strangers Land That cannot understand verse 5 O deare Ierusalem when I Forsake thy memory May my skill faile my right hand let Her cunning quite forget verse 6 Cleave to the roof O may my tongue When I not not mourne thy wrong Or if I not preferr thy mirth Above all joyes on earth verse 7 In thy remembrance Lord retaine Proud Edoms fierce disdaine Who 'gainst Ierusalem did cry Mocking hir misery Now she is fall'n nere may our eyes Againe behold hir rise Down with it their rude clamours sound Rase it ev'n to the ground verse 8 O Babylon which did'st us wast Thy self our woes must tast And in thy finall ruin we Sions revenge shall see Happy are They who to requite The measure of thy spight verse 9 Without all pitty 'gainst the stones Shall dash thy little ones PSAL. CXXXVIII verse 1 I Thee will praise with my whole heart My thankfull hymnes impart Before the Gods of Earth I 'le sing My praise to Heaven's King verse 2 I towards Thy Temple worship will And praises utter still Thy word and Name shall loudly sound Whose love and truth abound verse 3 When in my plaints to Thee I cry'd Thy love as soon reply'd My fainting spirit was renew'd With strength my soule endu'd verse 4 The Kings of earth Thy praise shall beare When they Thy words do heare verse 5 They in the waies of God shall sing The glory of their King verse 6 For though the Lord be very high Yet He cast's downe His eye The meek and lowly He respects But all the proud neglects verse 7 Though I in mid'st of trouble live Yet Thou wilt me revive Thy stretch'd out hand my wrathfull foes To ruin shall expose verse 8 The Lord my comforts will assure By mercyes which endure Cease not of me regard to take Nor Thine own works forsake PSAL. CXXXIX Sing this as Psalme 51. verse 1 LOrd thou hast throughly searched me I open am and know'n to Thee verse 2 My sitting downe and my up rise Are not concealed from Thine eyes Thou understand'st my distant thought Ere it to forme my self had brought verse 3 Thou circlest in my path and bed And hast my waies discovered verse 4 Thou hear'st each whisper from my tongue And ere 't was utter'd knew'st it long verse 5 By Thee I fashion'd am and made Thy hand each part in order lay'd verse 6 Yet can I not the knowledge gaine How I this being did attaine Which doth in wonder so excell 'T is easier to admire then tell verse 7 How shall I from Thy spirit fly Or Thy all present pow'r deny verse 8 If I climbe Heav'n 't is Thine own Shere If stoop to Hell lo Thou art there verse 9 If borne upon the mornings wing Far as the Sea doth swell or spring verse 10 Thy Right hand shall protect and lead Where ere my weary footsteps tread verse 11 If I pretend the darknes shall Upon me like a cov'ring fall Those heavy fogs those mists of night Will quickly cleare and turne to light verse 12 The thickest shade or blackest cloud Can nothing from thy knowledg shrow'd For darkness doth like Noon-tide shine Light'ned by brighter beams of Thine verse 13 My reines are Thine Thou mad'st the womb My bodies cloathing to become verse 14 I will give thanks to Thee O Lord Who was enlived by Thy word With awfull art and wond'rous forme Thou did'st Thy workmanship adorne My soule Their marvels must confess And for Thy favours daily bless verse 15 Though I was fashion'd in the dark Too secretly for man to mark There is no curious joynt or bone But was to Thy inspection know'n verse 16 Thou did'st upon my substance look And wrot'st each member in Thy book Thou saw'st how my imperfect frame By daily growth to figure came verse 17 O Lord how pretious O how deare Thy purposes and thoughts appeare verse 18 Which were they summ'd in my account They would the num'rous sands surmount These wonders alwaies presently Fixt in my thankfull memory And whil'st of them surveies I take My contemplation still must wake verse 19 O God! Thou shalt the wicked slay Ye bloody men depart away verse 20 For their fowle tongues Thy honour staine And take Thy sacred Name in vaine verse 21 Do not I hate and grieve at those Whose proud despight against thee rose verse 22 With perfect hate I them despise Accounting them mine enemies verse 23 Search me O Lord and prove my heart Who Judg of all my actions art Do Thou my faith to tryall bring My hidden thoughts examining verse 24 Look well and all my motions view If I persist in waies untrue And when Thou find'st my feet to stray Reduce me to Thy lasting way PSAL. CXL verse 1 SAve me from men to evill bent And from the violent verse 2 Which mischeif in their hearts devise In war and tumult rise verse 3 Their tongues are
uselesse as a broken pot verse 13 For I their slander heard and strife Who counsaile took against my life verse 14 But Lord my trust in Thee is lay'd Thou art my God my help I said verse 15 My fleeting times are in Thy hand Whose short-liv'd date by Thee is span'd Me never to the pow'r expose Or hand of persecuting foes verse 16 On me O let Thy favour shine To save me through Thy grace incline verse 17 Thy servant let no shame befall Who daily on Thy Name doth call Let wicked men confusion have Put downe to silence in the grave verse 18 And shut the lying lips that use The just by slanders to traduce verse 19 O how great goodnesse hast thou wrought For those thee fear whose faith thee sought verse 20 Them shalt Thou in Thy presence hide Kept safe from mens insulting pride And from the tongues malitious strife As in a tow'r defend their life verse 21 Blessed be God whose love endures Whose strong protection me secures verse 22 I said though in my hast unwise I am cut off before Thine eyes Yet hast Thou not my suit deny'd When in my Pray'r to Thee I cry'd verse 23 O Love the Lord who His regards And with revenge the proud rewards verse 24 Be bold since He such grace imparts To strengthen both your hopes hearts PSAL. XXXII verse 1 BLessed is he whose wickednesse To pardon finds accesse Whose sin with all he did amisse Forgot and cover'd is verse 2 Blest is the man to whom The Lord Imputes no crime abhord Whose spirit right whose heart is streight And harbours no deceit verse 3 When I my tongue from speech refrain'd I was with anguish pain'd My bones wax't old through discontent My dayes in moanes were spent verse 4 Thy hand upon me heavy lay Not resting night or day My Moisture was to nothing brought Like fields in Summers drought verse 5 Then I to Thee my sin reveal'd And no offence conceal'd And soon as my confession said My peace with Thee was made verse 6 For this to Thee shall prayer sound What time Thou may'st be found Nor shall the floods which highest goe Thy servants overflow verse 7 Thou art a refuge me to hide From dangers troubled tide With Songs of Thy delivery I shall encompast ly verse 8 I will enforme thy life and teach How thou this blisse shalt reach And with mine eye I thee will guide Least thou should'st tread aside verse 9 Be ye not like the horse or mule Whom reason cannot rule Whose stubborne mouths the bit and reine From fury must restreine verse 10 Great plagues and paines that never end For wicked men attend But those in God their trust who place Sure mercies shall embrace Be glad ye righteous and rejoyce Who make the Lord your choice With shouts alowd your joy impart All ye upright in heart PSAL. XXXIII verse 1 YEe righteous in the Lord delight For praise becomes th' upright verse 2 Let Harpe and Psaltery's consent The ten-string'd instrument verse 3 New Songs record unto the voyce With their melodious noise verse 4 For just Gods promise is to you And all His workes are true verse 5 He righteousnesse and judgment wills All earth his goodnesse fills verse 6 The Heav'ns bright host and all beneath He formed with His breath verse 7 He doth the waters of the deep Heap'd in His store house keep verse 8 Let men and all which earth doth beare Of Him then stand in feare verse 9 He spake and at His free commands The world unmoved stands verse 10 Mens counsailes and devises wrought The Lord will bring to nought verse 11 Yet through all ages His decree And thoughts unchanged be verse 12 Blest is the People He protects And for His Lot elects verse 13 The Lord from Heav'n His dwelling place verse 14 Beheld all humane race verse 15 Their hearts He fashion'd whose each thought And worke to light is brought verse 16 No King is sav'd by multitude Nor man with might endu'd verse 17 As vaine for safety is the horse To reskue by his force verse 18 Who feare and on Gods love relye Are ever in his Eye verse 19 Their Soule to reskue from the grave And life from famine save verse 20 Our soule doth wait for God our sheild verse 21 Glad hopes on Him we build verse 22 Lord let Thy mercy on us be As we beleive in Thee PSAL. XXXIV verse 1 I Will at all times blesse the Lord His praises still record verse 2 And whilst my soule of God makes choice The humble shall rejoyce verse 3 The Lord with me O magnifie Exalt His Name on high I sought Him who my prayer heard And sav'd from all I fear'd verse 5 They look'd to Him and light'ned were No shame their faces beare verse 6 For God did at the poor man's cry Relieve his misery verse 7 His Angell those environs round Who in His fear are sound verse 8 O tast and see how good is Hee To such as faithfull be verse 9 O fear the Lord yee Saints of His For such no blessings misse verse 10 Young Lions often lacking prey With hunger pine away But those that seek His Covenant No good thing ever want verse 11 Come children hearken to my speech I you His feare will teach verse 12 What man is he long life doth crave Or happy dayes would have verse 13 Keep thou thy tongue from wicked wile Thy lips from speaking guile verse 14 Depart from ill in good encrease Pursue and seek for peace verse 15 For on the just God casts His eyes His eares admit their cryes verse 16 Against the bad He sets his face To cut them from their place verse 17 The righteous cry and God attends In trouble safety sends verse 18 He doth in broken hearts delight And saveth soules contrite verse 19 Great troubles on the righteous fall But He releives in all verse 20 He keeps the number of each bone Nor broken shall be one verse 21 Transgressors their own mischeifs slay And with just vengeance pay All such as doe the righteous hate Shall soone be desolate verse 22 For God His servants soules redeems And deare their faith esteems PSAL. XXXV As Psalme 51. verse 1 PLead Lord my cause with striving foes Against them fight who me oppose verse 2 The shield for my Protection weare Draw out Thy all-subduing speare Stop Thou my persecutors way Soule I am thy salvation say verse 4 Let them drove back with shame retire Who to procure my hurt conspire verse 5 Like chaffe before the Whirlwinds blast Let them be by God's Angell chas'd verse 6 Darke be their way their steps untrue And let His Angel them pursue verse 7 For without cause they hid their snare And for my soule did pits prepare verse 8 But let themselves surprised all In their contriv'd destruction fall verse 9 My soule in God shall joyfull be verse 10 My bones all say who 's like to Thee
I complain'd And then said I This is mine own infirmity But I remember will the yeares Thy right hand kept from want or feares verse 11 The wonders which Thou did'st of old Shall with my thankfull tongue be told verse 12 My heart Thy works Shall meditate My words Thy noble acts relate verse 13 Thy wayes O God! most holy are Who with Thy greatnes may compare verse 14 In miracles and wond'rous signes Thy strength among the People shines verse 15 Thou with that high victorious hand Not all the Nations could withstand The Sons of Iacob did'st redeeme And Iosephs off-spring wilt esteeme verse 16 O God the waters at Thy sight Unto their depths retir'd with fright The billowes of the troubled maine Shrunk downe and hid themselves againe verse 17 The melting cloud discharg'd in showres Like to a falling tempest powres Whilst sounds of horrour teare the sky And through the aire thine arrowes fly verse 18 Loud thunder from the heavens strook Thy lightnings shone earths fabrick shook verse 19 In the great waters lyes Thy path Which where Thou go'st no footsteps hath verse 20 Thy people Thou like sheep ha'st led Sav'd from the Sea in deserts fed And brought'st them to their promis'd land By Moses and by Aarons hand PSAL. LXXVIII Sing this as Psalme 51. verse 1 HEare O my people and encline Your eare unto my Lawes divine verse 2 I will dark Parables unfold verse 3 Which we have heard from fathers told verse 4 We will not from succession hide His works in praises magnifi'd verse 5 Who gave a Law to Israel Which Parents must to Children tell verse 6 That generations yet unborne Might know their duty to performe verse 7 That they their hope in God may set And not His workes or Law forget verse 8 Nor like their fathers rebells prove With hearts unstedfast in His love verse 9 Like those revolters Ephraim bred Who armed from the battell fled verse 10 They Gods command and Pact refus'd verse 11 His works forgate and pow'r abus'd verse 12 When Egypts land and Zoans field Such marvailes to their sight did yield verse 13 For then divided He the deep The floods contracting to an heap verse 14 By day the Cloud their guide became At night He led them with a Flame verse 15 He Rocks in barren desarts clave Which drink like swelling rivers gave verse 16 He caus'd full streams from drought to grow And waters made like torrents flow verse 17 Yet they by sinning Him forsook And in the desart did provoke verse 18 They tempted God by asking meat Which they for lust not hunger eat verse 19 Yea thus against their God they spake Can He in desarts diet make verse 20 The Rock He did in streames divide But can He bread or flesh provide verse 21 When God heard this His just mov'd ire 'gainst Iacob kindled like a fire verse 22 Because their God they faithles griev'd And His salvation not believ'd verse 23 Though his command the clouds had try'd The doores of heaven open'd wide verse 24 He rain'd downe Manna for their meat And gave them corne from heav'n to eat verse 25 Thus man with Angels food was fed For to the full He gave them bread verse 26 He caus'd the Eastern wind to blow And made the South His plenty throw verse 27 He flesh as dust upon them rain'd The fowles like heaps of Sand remain'd verse 28 They 'midst their Camp with food were cloy'd verse 29 And all they could desire enjoy'd verse 30 But whil'st Their mouth the meat in took verse 31 God's wrath their best choicest strook verse 32 For all this Israel sinned still His wonders slight neglect His will Second Part. verse 33 Therefore their daies they vainely spend And all their yeares in trouble end verse 34 Yet when He slew them then they sought And God to their remembrance brought They turn'd and from their sin retir'd And early after God enquir'd verse 35 Then God They for their Rock esteem'd Remembring He had them redeem'd verse 36 Yet with their flatt'ring mouth they ly'd verse 37 Their heart His Covenant deny'd verse 38 Though full of pitty He forgave Restrain'd His wrath and Them did save verse 39 For He remembred They were fraile Whose lusts above His Laws prevaile As passing winds so light and vaine Which breathing out nere come againe verse 40 Oft did they grieve Him oft rebell verse 41 Tempting the God of Israel verse 42 They thought not on His pow'rfull arme Which kept them safe from hostile harme verse 43 How He His signes in Egypt wrought His wonders over Zoan brought verse 44 And turn'd their rivers into blood They could not drink the crimsin flood verse 45 He sent strange flies which them annoy And frogs their plenty to destroy verse 46 Their fruits the Caterpillars eat And Locusts reap'd the ploughman's sweat verse 47 With haile their swelling vines were lost Their Sycamores destroy'd with frost verse 48 Their herds by tempest came to nought Their flocks the furious thunder smote verse 49 His fiercest wrath on them was spent Bad Angels were among them sent verse 50 Their soules not spared were from death Disease and plagues depriv'd their breath verse 51 The first borne He through Egypt slew The chief which Ham or Nilus knew verse 52 But He His people led like sheep And did His flock in desarts keep Third Part. verse 53 He brought them safe and free from fear When their pursuers drowned were verse 54 And to His Sanctuary led The Mount His hand had purchased verse 55 The Heathen He before them drave Their land by line to Iacob gave And made their tribes in tents to dwell verse 56 Who tempting God againe rebell verse 57 They like their fathers backward slide As bowes deceitfull turn'd aside verse 58 High places Him provoke and prove His jealousie their Idols move verse 59 When God heard this He waxed wroth And Israel did greatly loath verse 60 His Tabernacle He forsook And no delight in Shiloh took verse 61 Their strength He gave to captive bands His Glory to the Heathens hands He left His people to the sword His kindled wrath His Lot devour'd verse 63 Their young men were consum'd by fire Their maids in marriage none require verse 64 Their Priests were unto slaughter sent Nor did their widowes them lament verse 65 Then did the Lord from sleep awake From wine as Giants spirit take verse 66 Upon His flying foes He came And put them to perpetuall shame verse 67 He Ioseph's Tent did then refuse Nor would the Tribe of Ephraim chuse verse 68 But Iudahs Tribe He did elect Mount Sion which His thoughts affect verse 69 His Sanctuary high He plac't Like earth which stands for ever fast verse 70 His choyce did then on David looke And from amongst the Sheepfolds took verse 71 From following Ewes he made him feed His chosen People Iacob's seed verse 72 Whom with a perfect heart he fed And
by his skilfull conduct led PSAL. LXXIX Sing this as the Lamentation verse 1 O God the Heathen us invade Thine heritage a prey is made Thy Holy Temple they defile And Salem make their ruins pile verse 2 The bodies of thy servants ly To gorge the fowles through heav'n that fly The carkasses of Saints are feasts To glut and feed devouring beasts verse 3 Their bloud like water hath been shed And none would see them buryed verse 4 We are become our neighbours flowt Reproach'd and laugh'd at round about verse 5 How long Lord shall thy jealous ire Consume us like unquenched fire verse 6 Let thy fierce anger those devoure Who neither feare thy Name or pow'r verse 7 Let those at length thy judgments tast Whose furious rage lay'd Iacob wast verse 8 Remember not our former sin Nor how rebellious we have bin Let speedy mercies us prevent Who languish through thy punishment verse 9 Save us O God for thy great Name Forgive our sins remove our shame verse 10 Why should in scorne the Heathen say Where is the God whom we obay O let the value of our blood In thy revenge be understood verse 11 And let the pris'ners groanes and sighes Up to thy throne of mercy rise Deliver those are mark't to dy By their blood-thirsting cruelty verse 12 Let seven-fold vengeance them reward Who nor thy Church nor thee regard And may those tongues which thee blaspheme Become themselvs reproaches theme verse 13 So we thy People and the sheep Which thine own Fold Pastures keep Wil thank thy goodnes all our daies And to succession sing thy praise PSAL. LXXX verse 1 GReat Shepheard who dost Israel keep And leadest Ioseph like a sheep Give eare and shine with glorious light O thou that dwell'st 'twixt Cherubs bright verse 2 Before thy Tribes now Captives made Stir up thy selfe and bring us aid Manasses Ephraim behold And Benjamin to bondage sold verse 3 Turne us againe O God of might And shew to us thy comforts light Thy favour to thy servants deigne And then we shall be whole againe verse 4 How long wilt thou displeased be With those who daily worship thee How long thy closed eare exclude Their Prayers who to Thee have su'd verse 5 Thou feedest Them with sorrowes bread And teares for drink are measured verse 6 We are through strife and envy torne Our neighbours spoile our haters scorne verse 7 Turne us againe great God of might And shew to us thy comforts light Thy favour to Thy servants deigne And then we shall be whole againe verse 8 Thou didst a Vine from Aegypt bring Thy hand which planted made it spring verse 9 And that it might have room to spred The Heathen were discomfited I'ts root Thou caused'st fast to stand And with faire branches fill the land verse 10 The Hills were cover'd with Hir shade Hir boughes like goodly Cedars made verse 11 Hir Armes did from the River reach Unto the Swelling Oceans beach verse 12 Why ha'st Thou then broke downe hir fense Exposing hir to violence That all who passe along hir place Pluck off hir grapes hir stock deface verse 13 The Mountaine beasts the Forrest Boare Root up hir planes devoure hir store verse 14 Returne O God! from heaven shine Visit Thy now despised Vine And what thy right hand once did plant O never may thy blessing want verse 15 Let all hir branches flourish long Which for thy self thou mad'st so strong verse 16 For though cut down and burnt she lyes Thy beames of love shall make hir rise verse 17 Thy people strengthen and protect Whom for thy self Thou did'st elect verse 18 So will we not goe back from Thee Whose name shall still invoked be verse 19 Turne us again O God of might And shew to us Thy comforts light Thy favour to thy servants deigne And then we shall be whole againe PSAL. LXXXI verse 1 TO God our strength lift up your voyce And make a joyfull noyse verse 2 Let Timbrell Psalme the pleasant Lyre With Psaltery conspire verse 3 The Trumpet in the New Moone blow In solemne triumph goe verse 4 Which God did as a Law ordaine For Iacob to retaine verse 5 This He to Ioseph did command In the Egyptian land Where I a language heard unknow'n And understood by none verse 6 His shoulder I from burthens eas'd From making bricks releas'd verse 7 Thou didst on me in trouble call Who ransom'd thee from thrall In thunder from the breaking cloud I answer'd thee alowd And at the waters where you strove In Meribah did prove verse 8 Heare O my people I will tell To Thee O Israel verse 9 No Heathen Gods shalt Thou adore Nor worship them before verse 10 I am thy God who freedome wrought And Thee from Egypt brought Thy mouth enlarg'd and open'd wide By me shall be supply'd verse 11 But they my precepts did neglect And Iacob Me reject verse 12 So left I them to Iusts unknow'n And counsells of their own verse 13 O that my people would have hear'd And from my wayes not errd verse 14 Their foes then had I soon subdu'd And with my hand pursu'd verse 15 No place God's haters should secure But they should still endure verse 16 I fed them had with finest wheat And hony for their meat PSAL. LXXXII Sing this as the Prayer after the Commandements verse 1 GOd in the great assembly sits To Kings and Judges judgment sits verse 2 How long the right will ye reject And persons of the bad respect verse 3 The poor and fatherlesse defend Justice to men opprest extend verse 4 Deliver those in need that stand And save them from the wicked's hand verse 5 They will not understand nor know But in the mists of darknes go Earths bases all are out of course Whil'st justice failes and Law wants force verse 6 I said that Kings are Gods on earth And sons deriv'd from highest birth verse 7 But ye like other men shall dy And with the fallen Princes ly verse 8 O God! whose pow'r doth all comprise In judgment on the earth arise For all the nations scatter'd far Thy lot and Tributaries are PSAL. LXXXIII verse 1 DO not O God Thou silence keep Nor let Thy vengeance sleep verse 2 Thy hatefull foes lift up their head In tumults gathered verse 3 With craft and counsailes of deceit They plot and ly in wait How they Thy People may annoy And Thine elect destroy verse 4 Come let us say this furious rout Their Nation quite root out And let the name of Israel be Lost to all memory verse 5 In consultations full of hate 'gainst Thee confederate verse 6 Edom with Ishmael combine Moah with Hagars line verse 7 Gebal and Ammon 'gainst us fight With the Amalekite The Philistines arm'd bands conspire With those that dwell at Tyre verse 8 And Ashur runs in to their aid Prepared to invade They strengthen Lots incestuous race Our dwellings to deface verse 9 But Thou
verse 20 Thou mak'st the darkness of the night When beasts creep forth that shunn'd the light verse 21 Young Lions roaring after prey From God their hunger must allay verse 22 When the bright Sun casts forth his ray Down in their Dennes themselvs they lay verse 23 Man's labour with the morne begun Continues till the day be done verse 24 O Lord what wonders hast thou made In providence and wisedome layd The earth is with Thy riches crown'd verse 25 And Seas where creatures most abound verse 26 There go the ships which swiftly fly There great Leviathan doth ly Who takes his pastime in the flood verse 27 All these do waite on Thee for food verse 28 Thy bounty is on them distill'd Who are by Thee with goodnes fill'd verse 29 But when thou hid'st Thy face they dy And to their dust returned ly verse 30 Thy spirit all with life endues The springing face of earth renewes verse 31 Gods glory ever shall endure Pleas'd in His works from change secure verse 32 Upon the earth He looketh downe Which shrinks trembles at His frowne His lightnings touch or thunders stroak Wil make the proudest mountains smoak verse 33 To Him my Ditties whil'st I live Or being have shall praises give verse 34 My Meditations will be sweet When fixt on Him my comforts meet verse 35 Upon the earth let sinners rot In place and memory forgot But thou my soul thy Maker bless Let all the world His praise express PSAL. CV verse 1 O Thank the Lord invoke His Name His deeds to all proclaime verse 2 With Psalmes His praises eelebrate His wond'rous works relate verse 3 Glory in Him ye whose desires And heart for God enquires verse 4 Seek ye the Lords all-pow'rfull might His faces glorious light verse 5 The works of wonder He hath done And Judgments think upon verse 6 Ye who from faithfull Abraham And chosen Iacob came verse 7 He is the Lord whose judgments show'n Through all the earth are know'n verse 8 He Cov'nant keeps in word and deed To thousands that succeed verse 9 To Abraham and Izaak both He promis'd with an oath verse 10 And for a Law His sacred pact To Iacob did enact verse 11 In which He vow'd that Israel In Canaans Land should dwell verse 12 When they in number weak and few Nor place nor people knew verse 13 When they much time in travailes spent Through divers Nations went verse 14 All those that wrong'd them He remov'd And Kings for them reprov'd verse 15 To whom He said by His command That none should them withstand 'gainst mine Anointed lift no arme Nor do my Prophets harme verse 16 A famine through the land He spread Which brake their staffe of bread verse 17 Yet He by Ioseph had decreed He would His people feed verse 18 Whose feet when into bondage sold They did in fetters hold verse 19 Till God ordained his release And gave his triall ease verse 20 The King sent from Captivitie To loose and set him free verse 21 He made him all His house command Cheife Ruler of the Land verse 22 Yea he such Sov'raigne pow'r resign'd He might his Princes bind And tutor'd by His counsailes wise His Senators advise Second Part. verse 23 Then Jacob into Egypt came A Sojourner in Ham verse 24 Where his encreased people growes Much stronger then their foes verse 25 Whose heart He turn'd their name to hate And use them with deceit verse 26 Till Moses for their succour sent With chosen Aaron went verse 27 They most prodigious wonders shew'd And signes in Hams aboad verse 28 Where darkness blacker then their nights In midst of noone affrights The foggs and vapours Him obey By putting out the day verse 29 Fish in their waters turn'd to blood Were smother'd in the Flood verse 30 Now Egypt frogs abundant brings In chambers of their Kings verse 31 He spake and swarmes of Flies arise Their coasts are fill'd with Lice verse 32 For raine He haile and tempest powres And flames of fire for showres With storme their Vines and Fig-trees shook Through all their land were broke verse 34 Locusts and caterpillers bred Not to be numbered verse 35 All herbs and fruits that could be found Devoured on the ground verse 36 Their first-borne He through Egypt slew Their cheifest strength orethrew verse 37 But brought His People forth with wealth Not one decay'd in health verse 38 Egypt was glad and quit of feare When They departed were verse 39 Whose guide by day the cloud became And in the night a Flame verse 40 On quailes His longing people fed From Heav'n He gave them bread verse 41 He from the rock made waters flow Springs in dry places grow verse 42 To Abraham His promise made He in remembrance had verse 43 He brought with joy His people thence Secur'd by His defense verse 44 And gave Them for their lot a soyle Enrich'd by others toyle verse 45 That in His Statutes they might live To him all praises give PSAL. CVI. Sing this as Psalme 51. verse 1 O Praise and thank our gratious God Whose mercy knowes no period verse 2 Who can His mighty acts declare Or shew how due His praises are verse 3 They blessed are who judg aright And alwayes in the Truth delight verse 4 Lord think on me with Thine Elect Let Thy salvation me protect verse 5 Me to Thy Chosen's joyes aduance The bliss of Thine inheritance verse 6 Our sins with sorrow we confess Who like our Fathers still transgress verse 7 Thy works in Egypt they forgot Thy mercies there remembred not But at the Sea did Him provoke verse 8 Who yet their safety not forsook verse 9 The Red Sea he rebuk'd and dry'd Whose waters wall'd them on each side And through its depths uncovered As safe as through the desart led verse 10 Sav'd them from foes that did pursue verse 11 All which the waters overthrew verse 12 Then they beleev'd and praises gave verse 13 Though soon forgat who them did save verse 14 They lusted in the wildernes And God by their temptations press verse 15 Who was to their request attent Into their soules though Ieannes sent verse 16 They Moses in the Camp envy'd And Aaron's office vilify'd verse 17 For which earth open'd to devour Abiram's Troops and Dathan's pow'r verse 18 Then kindled was a furious fire Which burnt up those that did conspire verse 19 Their hands a Calfe in Horeb made And to the Molten Image pray'd verse 20 His glory thus who them releast Was now converted to a beast verse 21 And Egypts wonders the Red Sea verse 22 Or Land of Ham forgotten be verse 23 Then God He would destroy them said Till Moses intercession made Who in the deadly breach did stand To turn away His vengfull hand verse 24 His promis'd Land they now despise verse 25 And murmurs in their tents arise verse 26 That in the Desart He decreed verse 27 To scatter them and all their seed