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A15659	The songs of the Old Testament translated into English measures, preseruing the naturall phrase and genuine sense of the holy text: and with as little circumlocution as in most prose translations. To euery song is added a new and easie tune, and a short prologue also, deliuering the effect and vse thereof, for this profit of vnlearned readers. By George Wither. Cum priuilegio permissu superiorum.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1621 (1621)	STC 25923; ESTC S120880	31,876	85

who were disheartened through their ignorance in the iudgements and mercies of God For the Prophet in his first Chapter personated the weake members of the Church who were offended at the prosperity of the vngodly And hauing there brought them in complayning as if they feared all things would continually succeede better with their wicked oppressors then with them as it did for that present he in the next Chapter declared the LORDS answer to that ignorant complaint of theirs Shewing that vndoubtedly the pride couetousnesse cruelty drunkennesse and idolatry of the Chaldeans their tyrannizing enemies should be punished And afterward in this Song which is his third Chapter he first prayeth and prayseth God for that promised deliuerance secondly setteth forth the glorious Maiesty of the Deliuerer by excellent Allegories and Allusions to the manner of those former deliuerances which he had vouchsafed vnto the People the Iewes And lastly foretelling the miserable and horrible destruction of the Aduersary in his owne and in the person of all the Elect resolueth what euer happens to reioyce with confidence in the strength and fauour of God In briefe this Song hath foure parts In the first the Sauiour is prayed for according to the promise of God Jn the second the Maiesty of his comming is described Jn the third his victory with the ruine of Antichrist is declared And fourthly the ioy and confidence of the Church is foretold True it is that by reason of the many deepe Misteries herein contained this Song is to many very obscure Insomuch that the latter Hebrew Rabbins accounted it one of the most difficult places of holy Scripture And so shall we Christians find it yea and little pertinent to vs also if we looke thereon with their blinde eyes who could see no farther then the letter For they either thought this Prophecy had no further relation then to the temporall deliuery of the Iewes by destruction of the Chaldeans many ages past or else imagined as some a little infected with Iudaisme at this day teach that it had respect to a carnall and temporall restoring of that Nation now in these last ages of the World Whereas it hath indeede a more principall aime For though it shall not be denied that it had somewhat a respect to the Israelites deliuerance from the Babylonian seruitude yet if they should be vrged to shew vs how according to their meere litterall sence he that diliuered them may be said to come from Theman and Mount Paran how that maiesty expressed here may be applyed to him what plagues and fire went before him how he stood and measured the earth where mountaines trembled and were remoued how the Sun and Moone stood still c. I am perswaded it would trouble their best Expositor But if we will vnderstand it to haue principall respect as in truth it hath to the Churches deliuerance from the spirituall Babylon from the slauery of the Diuell and the rage of Antichrist by the first and second comming of our Sauiour Iesus Christ it will then be easie through the helpe of Gods holy Spirit to shew you that these Allegories and Aenigmaticall expressions which are so hard to the Iewes and some misbeleeuers are plainely vnridled to vs who beleeue Redemption by the Sonne of God This Song is to be sung historically in memory of our deliuerance by the first comming of Iesus Christ and prophetically for a comfortable remembrance of a perfect deliuery assured vs at 〈…〉 comming Both which commings to those who by the eyes of faith can apprehend the manner of them will appeare no lesse glorious then they are here described by way of Allusion But least Chusan and Midian being names of Nations sometime temporall enemies to the Iewes may seeme impertinent to these times you must know that all the Names of Persons or Places vsed in the old Testament were giuen for the sake of those things which they typified more then for their owne and do● therefore more properly expresse their natures So in this place Chusan signifying darke blacke or cloudy and Midian which is interpreted of condemnation or of iudgement better agrees to those spirituall Aduersaries whom they prefigured then to those people who were litterally so called For none are so fitly termed people of Darknes or Condemnation as the members of Anti-christ The Song LOrd thy answere did I heare And I grew therewith afraid When the times at fullest are Let thy worke be then declar'd When the times Lord full doe grow Then in anger mercy show The Almighty God came downe He came downe from Theman-ward The eternall holy One Selah From mount Paran forth appear'd Heau'n couering with his raies And earth filling with his praise As the Sunns is was his light From his hands there did appeare Beaming rayes that shined bright And his power is shrouded there Plagues before his face he sent At his feet hot coles there went Where he stood he measure tooke Of the earth and view'd it well Nations vanish't at his looke Auncient hils to powder fell Mountaines old cast lower were For his waies eternall are Cushan tents I saw diseas'd And the Midian Curtaines quake Haue the flouds LORD thee displeas'd Did the flouds thee angry make Was it else the sea that hath Thus prouoked thee to wrath For thou rod'st thy horses there And thy sauing Charro'ts through Thou didst make thy bowe appeare And as hath beene by a vowe To the tribes agreed vnto Thou perform'dst thy promise so Selah Thou didst cleaue the earth and make Rifts through which did riuers flow Mountaines seeing thee did shake And away the flouds did goe From the deepe a voice was heard And his hands on high he rear'd Both the Sunne and Moone did stay And remou'd not in their spheares By thine arrowes light went they By thy brightly-shining speares Thou in wrath the land did'st crush And in rage the Nations thresh For thy peoples safe reliefe With thy Christ for ayd went'st thou Thou hast also pierst the Chiefe Of the sinfull houshold through And displaid them till that bare From the foot to necke they were Selah Thou with weapons of their owne Didst their armies Leader strike For against me they came downe To disperse me whirle-winde-like And they Ioy in nothing more Then vnseene to spoile the poore Through the Sea thou mad'st a way And did'st ride thy horses where Mighty heapes of waters lay I thereof report did heare And the voice my bowels shooke Yea my lippes a quiu'ring tooke Rottennesse my bones possest And a trembling ceazed me I that troublous day might rest For when his approches be Vp vnto the people made Then his troupes will them inuade Bloomelesse shall the fig-tree be And the vine no fruit shall yeeld Fade shall then the oliue tree Meat shall none be in the field Neither in the fold nor stall Flocke or heard continue shall Yet the LORD my icy shall be And in him I will delight In my God that saueth me God the LORD who is my ought And so guides my feet that I Hinde-like walke my places high FINIS

thereon shall tread Their way is right that righteous are Whose path thou well dost heed Vpon thy Course of iudgements wee Oh LORD attending were And to record thy Name and Thee Our soules desirous are On thee my minde with strong desires Is fixed in the night And after thee my heart enquires Before the morning light For when thy righteous Iudgements are Vpon the earth discern'd By those that doe inhabite there Vprighnesse should be learn'd Yet sinners for no terror will Iust dealing vnderstand But they continue doing ill Eu'n in the righteous land Vnto the glory of the LORD They will not heedfull be Thy hand aduanc't on high oh LORD They will not daigne to see But they shall see and see with shame That doe thy people spight Yea from thy foes shall rise a flame That will deuoure them quite Then LORD for vs thou wilt procure That wee in peace may be Because that eu'ry worke of our Is wrought for vs by thee And LORD our God though we are brought To other Lords in thrall Of thee alone shall be our thought Vpon thy name to call They are deceast and neuer shall A farther life obtaine They die and shall not rise at all To tyrannize againe For to that end thou visited And wide dispers't them hast Vntill their fame was perished And vtterly defac'st But LORD encrea'st thy people are Encrea'st they are by thee And thou art glorified as farre As any lands there be For LORD in their distresses when Thy chast'ning on them lay They vnto thee did hasten then And without ceasing pray As she with Childe is pain'd when as Her throwes of bearing be And cryes in pangs before thy face Oh LORD so fared We. We haue conceiu'd beene pain'd and all Was for a windie birth The world no safetie yeeld's nor fall The dwellers of the earth Thy dead shall liue they rise againe With my dead body shall Oh you that in the dust remaine Awake and sing you all For as the dewe doth hearbs renewe That buried seem'd before So earth shall through thy heau'nly dewe Her dead aliue restore My people to thy Chambers fare Shut close the dore to thee And stay a while a moment there Till past the furie be For loe the LORD doth now arise He commeth from his place To punish their impieties Who doe the world possesse And now the earth no longer shall The blouds in her conceale But shee shall be compelled all Her murthers to reueale THE Prayer of HEZEKIAH Esay 37.15 The Argument and the Vse IT is recorded in the 36. and 37. of Esay that Senacharib King of Asiria sent an army against Ierusalem and that Rabshakah his principall commander not onely threatned to take it but blasphemed also against the power of God Which when Hezekiah receiued notice of it is said he repaired vnto the house of the LORD and made this Prayer there Wherein hauing by the attributes there giuen him acknowledged how able God was to be auenged he desires the LORD both to heare him and to consider the blasphemy of his aduersarie Then to manifest the necessitie of assistance He vrgeth the power of that foe ouer those that serued not the true God And as it seemes desireth deliuerance not so much in regard of his owne safetie as that the blasphemer and all the world may know the difference betweene the power of the LORD and the arrogant braggs of Man This Prayer may be vsed by the Church whensoeuer her powerfull and open aduersarie the Turke or any other Aduersarie whom God hath suffered to preuaile against false worshippers shall thereupon growe proud and threaten Her also as if in despight of God he had formerly preuailed by his owne strength And the name of Senacharib may be mistically applied to any such enemy Moreouer it may serue any of vs Christians for a prayer against those secret blasphemies which the Deuill whispers vnto our soules Or when by temptations he seekes to make vs dispaire and threatens to be our ruine maugre our Redeemer laying before our eyes how many others he hath destroyed who seemed to be in as good estate as we For this is indeed the Enemie who hath ouerthrowne whole Countries and Nations and he doth at this day ruine many thousands with their gods euen the meanes whereby they trusted to be safe for strength temporall power riches superstitious worships the wisedome of flesh and bloud vnsanctified Moral vertues worldly policie Idols such like wherein many put their trust are the works of mens hands and may he rightly termed the gods which that misticall Asirian Prince and our aduersarie hath power to destroy The Song And Hez●kiah prayed vnto the LORD saying O Lord of hoasts and God of Isra-el Thou who betweene the Cherubins dost dwell Of all the world thou God alone art King And heau'n and earth vnto their forme did'st bring Lord bow thine eare to heare attentiue be Lift vp thine eyes and daigne oh LORD to see What words Senacharib hath cast abroad And his proud message to the liuing God Truth LORD it is that lands and kingdomes all Haue to the Kings of Ashur beene a thrall Yea they their Gods into the fire haue throwne For Gods they were not but of wood and stone Mens work they were men therfore spoil'd them haue Then from his power vs LORD our God now saue That all the kingdomes of the earth may see Thou art the LORD and onely thou art hee Hezekiahs song of Thanksgiuing Esay 38.10 The Argument and Vse WE finde this Song in the 38. Chapter of Esay where is set before it this Title The writing of Hezekiah King of Iuda when he had beene sicke and was recouered of his sicknesse By which you may perceiue the occasion of it And if you consider the Song it selfe many particular circumstances are remarkable whereby the Author sheweth Gods mercy to haue beene exceeding great vnto him First in respect that he should else haue beene cut off in the best of his Age and perhaps when his sinnes might haue made him ripe aswell for hell as the graue Secondly in regard he should neuer haue seene againe the Temple of the Lord to praise him there with the rest of his people Thirdly if he had beene then taken away His dwelling that is his posteritie had beene cut off for at that time he had no children and so he had not lost his life onely but the hope of the Messias his Redeemer Fourthly his disease was so violent and vnsufferable that he thought not to haue liued out one day Fiftly God deliuered him when he was not tormented in body onely but when he suffered also extreame agonies of the Soule Lastly the greatnesse of Gods mercy is here praised in that when be deliuered him from the terrors of death he forgaue him also his sinnes which were the cause of that sickenesse Then seeming to haue entered into a serious consideration of all this He confesseth who they are

downe into the Maine Did with his Charr'ots and his Horsemen goe The LORD the waues did then recall And brought the sea vpon them all Whil'st through the place where deepest waters lye The seed of Israel passed ouer drye THE Second Song of MOSES Deut. 32. The Argument and Vse THis Song is found in the 32. chap. of Deut. and was written by the commandement of God to be kept in the Arke of Couenant for a testimony against the people of Israel when they should forget Gods benefits and rebell against him As it is there fore-told and as appeares in the 31. Chap. of the foresaid booke Now the holy Prophet hauing after his Exordium wherein hee calleth heauen and earth to witnesse made a Narration of the Jewes peruersenesse Hee prophecieth of three principall things in this Hymne First of their future Idolatry with their punishment for it Secondly of their hatred to Christ with their finall Abiection And lastly of the grace which should be vouchsafed vnto the Gentiles And in this triple-prophecie there are also many particularities laid downe as considerable First how perfect how wise how faithfull and how iust God is in his owne nature Secondly how vnreasonably peruerse his people were Thirdly how neuerthelesse God was louing and heaped vpon them innumerable benefits some of which are here reckoned vp Fourthly how ingratefully and deuellishly they still requited him Fiftly how he punished them with grieuous plagues but forbare a while their finall ouerthrow to await their repentance Sixtly how respectlesse they should be of all this fauour and what horrible inhumanities they should be guiltie of Seauenthly how mindefull the LORD would be of their obstinacy how suddainely hee would ruine them how safe they should be who professed the true God when his enemies were visited how vnable those should be to helpe them in whom they had trusted how seuere and irrecouerable the iudgement should be how certaine in regard the LORD had sworne it and how all this should turne to the aduantage of his Elect. The Vse which we are to make of this Song is to repeate it often in remembrance of Gods Iustice and Mercy and to put our selues in minde by the Iewes example how seuerely God will punish such as continue obstinate in their sinnes For euery man if he would consider it shall finde that he in his owne particular hath receiued as much fauour from his Redeemer and as vnthankefully requited it This Song ought also to stirre vs vp to a better consideration of our owne estate and as St. Paul counselleth If God hath not spared the naturall branches take wee heed lest he spare not vs. Rom. 11.21 Yea when we shall reade or sing this Hymne which is left as well for our vse as for the Iewes let vs as St. Paul aduiseth in the fore-named Chapter Meditate the goodnesse and seueritie of God on them which fell seuerity but towards vs goodnesse if we continue in his goodnesse and that otherwise wee shall be cut off The Song And Moses spake in the eares of all the Congregation of Jsrael the words of this Song vntill they were ended c. TO what I speake an eare O hea-uens lend And heare oh earth what words I vtter will Like drops of raine my speaches shall descend And as the dew my doctrine shall distill As doth the raine that showreth small on tender flow'rs And as vpon the grasse doe fall the greater show'rs For I the LORD' 's gre●t name will publish now Vnto our God the glory render you He is that Rock whose Workes perfection are For all his waies with Iudgement guided be A God of truth from all wrong-doing cleare A truly iust and righteous-One is He. Yet they with spots themselues defilde Vnlike his Sonnes And are a race of crooked wilde And froward ones Vnwise and foolish nation dost thou so Thy selfe vnto the LORD vngratefull show Thy Father and Redeemer is not he Hath he not made and now confirm'd thee fast Oh call to minde the dayes that older be And weigh the yeeres of many Ages past Thy Father will if thou desire Informe thee well Thy elders when thou shalt enquire Can also tell How the most high did Adams Sonnes diuide And shares for euery Kindred did prouide How he the Nations Limits did prepare In number with the Sonnes of Israel The LORD had in his people then his share And Iacob for his part allotted fell Them in a desert rude he found Possest of none A place of terrour and a ground Vast and vnknowne He taught them there he led them farre and nigh And kept them as the apple of his eye Eu'n as an Eagle to prouoke her young About her neast doth houer here and there Spread forth her wings to traine her birds along And sometime on her backe her younglings beare Right so the LORD conducted them Himselfe alone And for assistant there with him Strange God was none Them on the High-lands of the earth he set Where they the plenties of the fields might eate For them he made the Rocke with hony flowe They suckt out oyle from flints and they did feed On milke of sheepe on butter of the Cowe Fat lambs and goates and rammes of Bashan breed Of wheat he gaue them for their food The fullest feede And they did drinke the purest blood The grape did bleed But here-withall vnthankefull Israel Soone fat became and spurned with his heele They waxed fat and grosse and couer'd o're And then their God and Maker did forsake Their Rocke of health regarded was no more But with strange Gods him Iealous did they make Yea they with what was most abhor'd His wrath entis● To deuils not vnto the LORD They sacrifice To gods vnknowne that new inuented were And such as their fore-fathers did not feare They minded not the Rocke which them begat But haue forgot the God that form'd them hath Which when the LORD perceiu'd it made him hate His sonnes and daughters mouing him to wrath I will to marke their end saith he Obscure my face For they vnfaithfull Children be Of froward race My wrath with what was not a God they mou'd And haue mine anger with their follies prou'd But by a people without being yet Their Iealous wrath will I prouoke for this And by a foolish nation make them fret For in my wrath a fire enflamed is And to the depth of hell it shall Deuouring goe Earth with her fruits and mountaines all Consuming to In heapes I mischiefes will vpon them throw And shoot mine arrowes till I haue no moe With hunger parched and consum'd with heat I will enforce them to a bitter end The teeth of beasts vpon them I will set And the invenom'd dust-fed Serpent send The sword without and terrour grimme Within shall slay Young men and maides the babe and him Whose haire is gray Yea I had vow'd to spread them here and there Vntill that men forget they euer were But this the Foe compel'd me