directly guide Lest envious Men who watch my steps should see me tread aside verse 12 Lord disappoint my cruel Foes defeat their ill desire Whose lying Lips and bloody Hands against my Peace conspire verse 13 I trusted that my future Life should with thy Love be crown'd Or else my fainting Soul had sunk with Sorrow compass'd round verse 14 God's Time with patient Faith expect who will inspire thy Breast With inward Strength do thou thy part and leave to him the rest PSALM XXVIII verse 1 O Lord my Rock to Thee I cry in Sighs consume my Breath O answer or I shall become like those that sleep in Death verse 2 Regard my Supplication Lord the Cries that I repeat With weeping Eyes and listed Hands before thy Mercy-seat verse 3 Let me escape the Sinners doom who make a trade of ill And ever speak the Person fair whose Blood they mean to spill verse 4 According to their Crimes extent let Justice have its course Relentless be to them as they have sinn'd without remorse verse 5 Since they the Works of God despise nor will his Grace adore His Wrath shall utterly destroy and build them up no more verse 6 But I with due Acknowledgment his Praises will resound From whom the Cries of my Distress a gracious Answer found verse 7 My Heart its confidence repos'd in God my Strength and Shield In him I trusted and return'd triumphant from the Field As he has made my Joys compleat t is just that I should raise The chearful Tribute of my Thanks and thus resound his Praise verse 8 His aiding Pow'r supports the Troops that my just Cause maintain T was he advanc'd me to the Throne t is he secures my Reign verse 9 Preserve thy chosen and proceed thine Heritage to bless With Plenty prosper them in Peace in Battel with Success PSALM XXIX verse 1 YE Princes that in Might excel your grateful Sacrifice prepare God's glorious Action loudly tell his wond'rous Pow'r to all declare verse 2 To his great Name fresh Altars raise devoutly due Respect afford Him in his holy Temple praise where he 's with solemn State ador'd verse 3 T is he that with amazing Noise the wat'ry Clouds in sunder breaks The Ocean trembles at his Voice when he from Heav'n in Thunder speaks verse 4 5 How full of Pow'r his Voice appears with what majestick Terror crown'd Which from their Roots tall-Cedars tears and strew their scatter'd Branches round verse 6 They and the Hills on which they grow are sometimes hurried far away And leap like Hinds that bounding go or Unicorns in youthful Play verse 7 8 When God in Thunder loudly speaks and scatter'd Flames of Light'ning sends The Forest nods the Desart quakes and stubborn Kadesi lowly bends verse 9 He makes the Hinds to cast their young and lays trie Beasts dark Coverts bare While those that to his Courts belong securely siig his Praifes there verse 10 11 God rules the angry Floods on high his boundless Sway shall never cease His Saints with Strength he will supply and bless his Own with constant Peace PSALM XXX verse 1 I 'LL celebrate thy Praises Lord who didst thy Pow'r employ To raise my drooping Head and check my Foes insulting Joy verse 2 3 In my Distress I cry'd to thee who kindly didst relieve And from the Grave 's expecting jaws my hopeless Life retrieve verse 4 Thus to his Courts ye Saints of his with Songs of Praise repair With me commemorate his Truth and providential Care verse 5 His Wrath has but a Moment's Reign his Favour no Decay Your Night of Gries is recompenc'd with Joy's returning Day verse 6 But I in prosp'rous days presum'd no sudden change I fear'd Whils't in my Sun-shine of Success no low'ring Cloud appeared verse 7 But soon I found thy Favour Lord my Empire 's only Trust For when thou hid'st thy Face I saw my Honour laid in Dust verse 8 Then as I vainly had presum'd my Error I consess'd And thus with supplicating Voice thy Mercy 's Throne address'd verse 9 What Profit is there in my Blood congeal'd by Death's cold Night Can silent Ashes speak thy Praise thy wond'rous Truth recite verse 10 Hear me O Lord in Mercy hear thy wonted Aid extend Do thou send Help on whom alone I can for Help depend verse 11 T is done Thou hast my mournful Scene to Songs and Dances turn'd Invested me in Robes of State who late in Sack-cloath mourn'd verse 12 Exalted thus I 'll gladly sing thy Praise in grateful Verse And as thy Favours endless are thy endsess Praife rehearse PSALM XXXI verse 1 DEfend me Lord from Shame for still I trust in thee As Just and Righteous is thy Name from Danger fet me free verse 2 Bow down thy gracious Ear and speedy Succour send Do thou my stedfast Rock appear to shelter and desend verse 3 Since Thou when Foes oppress my Rock and Fortress art To guide me forth from this Distress thy wonted Help impart verse 4 Release me from the Snare which they have closely laid Since I O God my Strength repair to thee alone for Aid verse 5 To thee the God of Truth my Life and all that 's mine For thou preservdst me from my Youth I willingly resign verse 6 All vain Designs I hate of those that trust in Lies And still my Soul in ev'ry state to God for Succour slies PART II. verse 7 Those Mercies thou hast shown I 'll chearfully express For thou hast seen my Straits and known my Soul in deep Distress verse 8 When Keilah's treach'rous Race did all my strength enclose Thou gav'st my Feet a larger space to shun my watchful Foes verse 9 Thy Mercy Lord display and hear my just Complaint For both my Soul and Flesh decay with Grief and Hunger faint verse 10 Sad thoughts my Life oppress my Years are spent in Groans My Sins have made my Strength decrease and ev'n consum'd my Bones verse 11 My Foes my Suff'rings mock'd my Neighbours did upbraid My Friends at sight of me were shock'd and fled as Men dismay'd verse 12 Forsook by all am I as dead and out of mind And like a shatter'd Vessl lie whose Parts can ne'er be join'd verse 13 Yet sland'ring Words they speak and seem my Pow'r to dread Whilst they together Counsel take my guiltless Blood to shed verse 14 But stiti my stedfast Trust I on thy Help repose That thou my God are good and just my Soul with Comfort knows PART III. verse 15 Whate'er Events betide thy Wisdom times them all Then Lord thy Servant safely hide from those that seek his fall verse 16 The brightness of thy face to me O Lord disclose And as thy Mercies still increase preserve me from my Foes verse 17 Me from Dishonour save who still have call'd on Thee Let That and Silence in the Grave the Sinner's Portion be verse 18 Do thou their Tongues restrain whose Breath in Lies is spent Who false Reports with proud Disdain
against the Righteous vent verse 19 How great thy Mercies are to such as fear thy Name Which thou for those that trust thy care dost to the World proclaim verse 20 Thou keep'st them in thy fight from proud Oppressors free From Tongues that do in Strife delight they are preserv'd by Thee verse 21 With Glory and Renown God's Name be ever bless'd Whose Love in Keilah's well-fenc'd Town was wond'rously express'd verse 22 I said in hasty Flight I 'm banish'd from thine Eyes Yet still thou kept'st me in thy sight and heard'st my earnest Cries verse 23 O all ye Saints the Lord with eager Love pursue Who to the Just will Help afford and give the proud their due verse 24 Ye that on God rely couragiously proceed For he will still your hearts supply with Strength in time of need PSALM XXXII verse 1 HE 's blest whose Sins have Pardon gain'd no more in Judgment to appear verse 2 Whose Guilt Remission has obtain'd and whose Repentance is sincere verse 3 While I conceal'd the fretting Sore my Bones consum'd without Relief All Day did I with Anguish roar but no Complaints asswag'd my Grief verse 4 Heavy on me thy Hand remain'd by Day and Night alike distrest Till quite of vital Moisture drain'd like Land with Summer's drought opprest verse 5 No sooner I my Wound disclos'd the Guilt that tortur'd me within But thy Forgiveness interpos'd and Mercy 's healing Balm pour'd in verse 6 True Penitents shall thus succeed who seek thee whilst thou mayst be found They from the common Deluge freed shall fee remorsless Sinners drown'd verse 7 Thy Favour Lord in all distrest my Tow'r of Refuge I mus t own Thou shalt my haughty Foes suppress and me with Songs of Triumph crown verse 8 In my Instruction then confide you that would Truth 's safe Path descry Your Progress I 'll securely guide and keep you in my-watchful Eye verse 9 Submit your selves to Wisdom's Rule like Men that Reason have attan'd Not like th' ungovern'd Horse and Mule whose Fury must be curb'd and rein'd verse 10 Sorrows on Sorrows multiply'd the harden'd Sinner shall confound But them who in his Truth confide blessings of Mercy shall surround verse 11 His Saints that have perform'd his Laws their Life in Triumphs shall employ Let them as they alone have cause in grateful Raptures shout for Joy PSALM XXXIII verse 1 LET all the Just to God with Joys their chearful Voices raise For well the Righteous it becomes to sing glad Songs of Praise verse 2 3 Let Harps and Psalteries and Lute in joyful consort meet And new made Songs of loud Applause the Harmony compleat verse 4 5 For faithful is the Word of God his Works with Truth abound He Justice loves and all the Earth is with his Goodness crown'd verse 6 By his almighty Word at first the heavenly Arch was rear'd And all the beauteous Hosts of Light at his Command appeare'd verse 7 The swelling Floods together roll'd he makes in heaps to lye And lays as in a Store-house safe the wat'ry Treasures by verse 8 9 Let Earth and all that dwell therein before him trembling stand For when he spake the Word t was made t was fix'd at his Command verse 10 He when the Heathen closely plot their Counsels undermines His Wisdom inessectual makes the People's rash Designs verse 11 Whate'er the mighty Lord decrees shall stand for ever sure The settled purpose of his Heart to Ages shall endure PART II. verse 12 How happy then are they to whom the Lord for God is known Whom he from all the World besides has chosen for his own verse 13 14 15 He all the Nations of the Earth from Heav'n his Throne survey'd He saw their works and view'd their thoughts by him their Hearts were made verse 16 17 No King is safe by mighty Hosts their Strength the Strong deceives No manag'd Horse by Force or Speed his Warlike Rider saves verse 18 19 T is God who those that trust in him beholds with gracious Eyes He frees their Soul from Death their Want in time of Dearth supplies verse 20 21 Our Soul on God with Patience waits our Help and Shield is He Then Lord let still our Hearts rejoyce because we trust in thee verse 22 The Riches of thy Mercy Lord do Thou to us extend Since we for all we want or wish on Thee alone depend PSALM XXXIV verse 1 THro' all the changing Scenes of Life in Trouble and in Joy The praises of my God shall still my Heart and Tongue employ verse 2 Of his Deliv'rance I will boast till all that are distrest From my Example Comfort take and charm their Griefs to rest verse 3 O magnifie the Lord with me with me exalt his Name verse 4 When in Distress to him I call'd He to my rescue came verse 5 Their drooping Hearts were soon refresh'd who look'd to him for Aid Desir'd Success in ev'ry Face a chearful Air displaid verse 6 Behold say they behold the Man whom Providence reliev'd The Man so dang'rously beset so wond'rously retriev'd verse 7 The Hosts of God encamp around the Dwellings of the Just Deliv'rance he affords to all who on his Succour trust verse 8 O make but Tryal of his Love experience will decide How bless'd they are and only they who in his Truth confide verse 9 Fear him ye Saints and you will then having nothing else to fear Make you his Service your Delight your Wants shall be his Care verse 10 While hungry Lions lack their Prey the Lord will Food provide For such as put their Trust in him and see their Needs supply'd PART II. verse 11 Approach ye piously dispos'd and my Instruction hear I 'll teach you the true Discipline of his religious Fear verse 12 Let him who length of Life desires and prosp'rous Days would see verse 13 From sland'ring Language keep his Tongue his Lips from Falshood free verse 14 The crooked Paths of Vice decline and Virtue 's Ways pursue Establish Peace where 't is begun and where 't is lost renew verse 15 The Lord from Heav'n beholds the Just with favourable Eyes And when distress'd his gracious Ear is open to their Cries verse 16 But turns his wrathful Look on those whom Mercy can'n reclaim To cut them off and from the Earth blot out their hated Name verse 17 Deliv'rance to his Saints he gives when his Relies they crave verse 18 He 's nigh to heal the broken Heart and contrite Spirit save verse 19 The Wicked oft but still in vain against the Just conspire verse 20 For under their Affliction 's weight he keeps their Bones entire verse 21 The Wicked from their wicked Arts their Ruine shall derive Whilst righteous Men whom they detest shall them and theirs survive verse 22 For God preserves the Souls of those who on his Truth depend To them and their Posterity his Blessings shall descend PSALM XXXV verse 1 A Gainst all those that strive with me O
and Staff defend and comfort me verse 5 In presence of my spiteful Foes he does my Table spread He crowns my Cup with chearful Wine with Oil anoints my Head verse 6 Since God does thus his wond'rous Love through all my Life extend That Life to him I will devote and in his Temple spend PSALM XXIV verse 1 THis spacious Earth is all the Lord's the Lord 's her fulness is The World and they that dwell therein by sov'reign Right are his verse 2 He fram'd and fix'd it on the Seas and his Almighty Hand Upon inconstant Floods has made the stable Fabrick stand verse 3 But for himself this Lord of All one chosen Seat design'd O who shall to that Sacred Hill defir'd Admittance find verse 4 The Man whose Hands and Heart are pure whose Thoughts from Pride are free Who honest Poverty prefers to gainful Perjury verse 5 This this is he on whom the Lord shall show'r his Blessings down Whom God his Saviour shall vouchsafe with Righteousness to crown verse 6 Such is the Race of Saints by whom the sacred Courts are trod And such the Proselytes that seek the Face of Jacob's God verse 7 Erect your Heads eternal Gates unsold to entertain The King of Glory fee he comes with his celestial Train verse 8 Who is this King of Glory who the Lord for Strength renown'd In Battel mighty o'er his Foes eternal Victor crown'd verse 9 Erect your Heads ye Gates unsold in state to entertain The King of Glory see he comes with all his shining Train verse 10 Who is this King of Glory who the Lord of Hosts renown'd Of Glory he alone is King who is with Glory crown'd PSALM XXV verse 1 2 To God in whom I trust I list my Heart and Voice O let me not be put to shame nor let my Foes rejoice verse 3 Those who on Thee rely let no disgrace attend Be that the shameful Lot of such as wilfully offend verse 4 5 To me thy Truth impart and lead me in thy way For thou art he that brings me Help on thee I wait all day verse 6 Thy Mercies and thy Love O Lord recall to mind And graciously continue still as thou wert ever kind verse 7 Let all my youthful Crimes be blotted out by-thee And for thy wond'rous Goodness sake in Mercy think on me verse 8 His Mercy and his Truth the righteous Lord displays In bringing wand'ring Sinners home and teaching them his ways verse 9 He those in Justice guides who his Direction seek And in his sacred Paths shall lead the humble and the meek verse 10 Through all the ways of God both Truth and Mercy shine To such as with religiously Hearts to his blest Will incline PART II. verse 11 Since Mercy is the Grace that most exalts thy Fame Forgive my heinous Sin O Lord and so advance thy Name verse 12 Whoe'er with Humble Fear to God his Duty pays Shall find the Lord a faithful Guide in all his righteous Ways verse 13 His quiet Soul with Peace shall be for ever blest And by his num'rous Race the Land successively possest verse 14 For God to all his Saints his secret Will imparts And does his gracious Cov'nant write in their obedient Hearts verse 15 To him I list my Eyes and wait his timely Aid Who breaks the strong and treach'rous Snare which for my Feet was laid verse 16 O turn and all my Griefs in Mercy Lord redrefs For I am compass'd round with Woes and plung'd in deep Distress verse 17 The Sorrows of my Heart to mighty Sums increase O from this dark and dismal state my troubled Soul release verse 18 Do thou with tender Eyes my sad Afflictions see Acquit me Lord and from my Guilt intirely set me free verse 19 Consider Lord my Foes how vast their numbers grow What lawless Farce and Rage they use what boundless Hate they show verse 20 Protect and set my Soul from their fierce Malice free Nor let me be asham'd who place my stedfast Trust in thee verse 21 Let all my righteous Acts to full Persection rise Because my firm and constant Hope on thee alone relies verse 22 To Israel's chosen Race continue ever kind And in the midst of all their Wants let them thy Succour sind PSALM XXVI verse 1 JUdge me O Lord for I the Paths of Righteousness have trod I cannot fail who all my Trust repose on thee my God verse 2 3 Search thou my Heart whose Innocence will shine the more 't is try'd For I have kept thy Grace in view and made thy Truth my Guide verse 4 I never for Companions took the Idle or Prophane No Hypocrite with all his Arts could e'er my Friendship gain verse 5 I hate the busie Plotting Crew who make distracted Times And shun their wicked Company as I avoid their Crimes verse 6 I 'll wash my hands in Innocence and bring a Heart so pure That when thy Altar I approach my welcome shall secure verse 7 8 My thanks I 'll publish there and tell how thy Renown excels That Seat affords me most delight in which thy Honour dwells verse 9 Pass not on me the Sinners doom who Murder makes their Trade verse 10 Who others Rights by fecret Bribes or open Force invade verse 11 But I will walk in paths of Truth and Innocence pursue Protect me therefore and to me thy Mercies Lord renew verse 12 In spight of all assaulting Foes I still maintain my ground And shall survive amongst thy Saints thy Praises to resound PSALM XXVII verse 1 WHom should I fear since God to me is saying-Health and Light Since strongly he my Life supports what can my Soul assright verse 2 With fierce intent my Flesh to tear when Foes beset me round They stumbled and their losty Crests were made to strike the Ground verse 3 Through him my Heart undaunted dares with mighty Hosts to cope Through him in doubtful Straits of War for good Success I hope verse 4 Henceforth within his House to dwell I earnestly desire His wond'rous Beauty there to view and of his Will enquire verse 5 For there may I with Comfort rest in times of deep Distress And safe as on a Rock abide in that secure Recess verse 6 Whilst God o'er all my haughty Foes my lofty Head shall raise And I my joyful Tribute bring with grateful Songs of Praise PART II. verse 7 Continue Lord to hear my Voice whene'er to thee I cry In Mercy my Complaints receive nor my Request deny verse 8 When us to seek thy glorious Face thou kindly dost advise Thy glorious Face I 'll always seek my grateful Heart replies verse 9 Then hide not thou thy Face O Lord nor me in Wrath reject My God and Saviour leave not him thou didst so ost protect verse 10 Tho' all my Friends and Kindred too their helpless Charge forsake Yet thou whose Love excels them all wilt Care and Pity take verse 11 Instruct me in thy Paths O Lord my Ways
of Life is done shall keep thy upright Way SAMECH verse 113 Deceitful Thoughts and Practices I utterly detest But to thy Law Affection bear too great to be exprest verse 114 My Hidihg-place my Refuge-Tow'r and Shield art thou O Lord I firmly anohor all my Hopes on thy unerring Word verse 115 Hence ye that trade in Wickedness approach not my Abode For firmly I resolve to keep the Precepts of my God verse 116 According to thy gracious Word from Danger set me free Nor make me of those Hope 's asham'd that I repose on thee verse 117 Uphold me so shall I be safe and rescu'd from Distress To thy Decrees continually my just Respect address verse 118 The wicked thou hast trod to earth who from thy statutes stray'd Their vile Deceit the just Reward of their own Falshood made verse 119 The wicked from thy holy Land thou dost like Dross remove I therefore with such Justice charm'd thy Testimonies love verse 120 Yet with that love they make me dread left I should offend When on Transgreffors I behold Thy Judgments thus descend AIN verse 121 Judgment and Justice I have lov'd O therefore Lord engage In my Defence nor give me up to my Oppressors Rage verse 122 Do thou be Surety Lord for me and so shall this Distress Prove good for me nor shall the Proud my guiltles Soul oppress verse 123 My Eyes alas begin to fail in long expectance held 'Till thy Salvation they behold and righteous Word fulfill'd verse 124 To me thy Servant in distress thy wonted Grace display And discipline my willing Heart thy Statutes to obey verse 125 On me devoted to thy Fear thy sacred Skill bestow That of thy Testimonies I the full extent may know verse 126 'T is time high time for thee O Lord thy Vengeance to employ When Men with open Violence thy sacred Law destroy verse 127 Yet their Contempt of thy Commands but makes their Value rise In my esteem who purest Gold compar'd with them despise verse 128 Thy Precepts therefore I account in all respects diving They teach me to discern the right and all false Ways decline PE. verse 129 The Wonders which thy Laws contain no Words can represent Therefore to learn and practise them my zealous Heart is bend verse 130 The very entrance to thy Word celestial Light displays And Knowledge of true Happiness to simplest Minds conveys verse 131 With eager Hopes I waiting stood and fainted with Desire That of thy wise Commands I might the sacred Skill acquire verse 132 With Favour Lord look down on me who thy Relief implore As thou art wont to visit those who thy blest Name adore verse 133 Directed by thy heav'nly Word let all my Footsteps be Nor Wickedness of any kind Dominion have o'er me verse 134 Release intirely set me free from persecuting Hands That unmolested I may learn and practise thy Commands verse 135 On me devoted to thy Fear Lord make thy Face to shiine Thy Statutes both to know and keep my Heart with Zeal incline verse 136 My Eyes to Weeping Fountains turn whence briny Rivers flow To see Mankind against thy Laws in bold defiance go TSADHI verse 137 Thou art the righteous Judge in whom wrong'd Innocence may trust And like thy self thy Judgments Lord in all respects are just verse 138 Most just and true those Statutes were which thou didst first decree And all with Faithfulness perform'd succeeding times shall see verse 139 With Zeal my Flest consumes away my Soul with Anguish frets To see my Foes contemn at once thy promises and Threats verse 140 Yet each neglected Word of thine howe'er by them despis'd Is pure and for eternal Truth by me thy Servant priz'd verse 141 Brought for thy sake to low Estate Contempt from All I find Yet no Affronts or Wrongs can drive thy Precepts from my Mind verse 142 Thy Righteousness shall then endure when Time it self is past Thy Law is Truth it self that Truth which shall for ever last verse 143 Tho' Trouble Anguish Doubts and Dread to compass me unite Beset with Danger still I make thy Precepts my Delight verse 144 Eternal and unerring Rules thy Testimonies give Teach me the Wisdom that will make my Soul for ever live KOPH verse 145 with my whole Heart to God I Call'd Lord hear my earnest Cry And I thy Statues to perform will all my Care apply verse 146 Again more servently I pray'd O save me that I may Thy Testimonies throughly know and stedfastly obey verse 147 My earlier Pray'r the dawning Day prevented while I cry'd To him on whose engaging Word my Hope alone rely'd verse 148 With Zeal have I awak'd before the midnight-Watch was set That I of thy mysterious Word might perfect Knowledge get verse 149 Lord hear my supplicating Voice and wonted Favour shew O quicken me and so approve thy Judgments ever true verse 150 My persecuting Foes advance and hourly nearet draw What Treatment can I hope from them who violate thy Law verse 151 Tho' they draw nigh my comfort is thou Lord art yet more near Thou whose Commands are righteous all thy promises sincere verse 152 Concerning thy Divine Decrees my Soul has known of old That they were true and shall their Truth to endless Ages hold RESCH. verse 153 Cosider my Affiction Lord and me from Bondage draw Think on try Servant in Distress who ne'er Forgets thy Law verse 154 Plead thou my cause to that and me thy timely Aid afford With Beams of mercy quicken me according to thy Word verse 155 From hard'ned Sinners thou remov'st Salvatien far away 'T is just should'st withdraw from them who from thy Statutes stray verse 156 Since great thy tender mercies are to all who thee adore According to thy Judgments Lord my fainting Hopes restore verse 157 A num'rous Host of spiteful Foes against my life combine But all too few to force my Soul thy Statutes to decline verse 158 Those bold Transgressors I beheld and was with grief opprss'd To see with what audacious Pride thy Cov'nant they transgress'd verse 159 Yet while they slight consider Lord how I thy Precepts love O therefore quicken me with Beams of mercy from above verse 160 As from the Birth of Time thy Truth has held through Ages past So shall thy righteous Judgments firm to endless Ages last SCHIN verse 161 Tho' mighty Tyrants without cause conspire my Blood to shed Thy sacred Word Has Pow'r alone to fill my Heart with dread verse 162 And yet that Word my joyful Breast with heav'nly Raptur warms Nor Conquest nor the Spoils of War have such transporting Charms verse 163 Perfidious Practises and Lies I utterly detest But to thy Laws affection bear too vast to be exprest verse 164 Sev'n times a day with grateful voice thy Praises I resound Because I find thy Judgments all with Truth and Justice crown'd verse 165 Secure substantial Peace have they who truly love thy Law No smiling Mischief them can tempt
my time to come delightfully employ verse 7 From dreadful Danger and Distress the Lord has set me free Through him shall I of all my Foes the just Destruction see PSALM LV. GIve ear thou Judge of all the Earth and listen when I pray Nor from thy humble Suppliant turn thy glorious Face away verse 2 Attend to this my sad complaint and hear my grievous Moans Whilst I my mournful Case declare with artless Sighs and Groans verse 3 Hark! how the Foe insults aloud how fierce Oppressors rage Whose sland'ring Tongues with wrathful hate against my Fame engage verse 4 5 My Heart is rack'd with Pain my Soul with deadly Frights distrest With Fear and Trembling compass'd round with Horror quite opprest verse 6 How often wish'd I then that I the Dove 's swift Wings could get That I might take my speedy Flight and seek a safe Retreat verse 7 8 Then would I wander far from hence and in wild Desarts stray Till all this surious Storm were spent this tempest past away PART II. verse 9 Destroy O Lord their ill Designs their counsels soon divide For through the City my griev'd Eyes have Strise and Rapine spy'd verse 10 By Day and Night on ev'ry Wall they walk their constant Round And in the midst of all her Strength are Grief and Mischief found verse 11 Whoe're through ev'ry Part shall roam with fresh Disorders meet Deceit and Guile their constant posts maintain in ev'ry Street verse 12 For'twas not any open Foe that false Reflections made For then I could with ease have born the bitter things he said 'T was none who hatred had profest that did against me ris For then I had withdrawn my self Friend from his malicious Eyes verse 13 14 But'twas ev'n thou my Guide my whom tend'rest Love did join Whose sweet Advice I valu'd most whose Pray'rs were mixt with mine verse 15 Sure Vengeance equal to their Crimes such-Tray tors must surprize And sudden Death requite those Ills they wickedly devise verse 16 17 But I will call on God who still shall in my Aid appear At Morn and Noon and Night I 'll pray and he my voice shall hear PART III. verse 18 God has releas'd my Soul from those that did winh me contend And made a numerous Host of Friends my righteous Cause defend verse 19 For he who was my Help of old shall now his suppliant hear And punish them whose prosp'rous State makes them no God to fear verse 20 Whom can I trust if faithless Men perfidiously devise To ruin me their peaceful Friend and break the strongest Ties verse 21 Tho soft and melting are their Words their Hearts with War abound Their Speeches are more smooth than Oyl and yet like Swords they wound verse 22 Do thou my Soul on God depend and He shall thee sustain He aids the Just whom to supplant the Wicked strive in vain verse 23 My Foes that trade in Lies and Blood shall all untimely die Whilst I for Health and Length of Days on Thee my God rely PSALM LVI DO Thou O God in Mercy help for Man my Life pursues To crush me with repeated Wrongs he daily Strife renews verse 2 Continually my spiteful Foes to ruin me combine Thou seest who sit'st enthron'd on high what mighty Numbers join verse 3 But tho' sometimes surpriz'd by Fear on Danger 's first Alarm Yet still for Succour I depend on thy Almighty Arm. verse 4 God's faithful Promise I shall praise on which I now rely In God I trust and trusting him the Arm of Flesh defy verse 5 They wrest my Words and make 'em speak a Sense they never meant Their Thoughts are all with restless Spite on ray Destrucion bent verse 6 In close Assemblies they combine and wicked Projects lay They watch my Steps and lie in wait to make my Soul their Prey verse 7 Shall such Injustice still escape O Righteous God arise Let thy just Wrath too long provok'd this impious Race chastise verse 8 Thou numbrest all my Steps lince first I was compell'd to flee My very Tears are treasur'd up and regist'red by Thee verse 9 When therefore I invoke thy Aid my Foes shall be o'erthrown For I am well assr'd that God my righteous cause will own verse 10 11 I 'll trust God's Word and so despise the Force that Man can raise verse 12 To thee O God my Vows are due to Thee I 'll render Praise verse 13 Thou haft retriev'd my Soul from Death and Thou wilt still secure The Life thou hast so oft preserv'd and make my Footsteps sure That thus protected by thy Pow'r I may this Light enjoy And in the Service of my God my length'ned Days employ PSALM LVII THY Mercy Lord to me extend on thy Protection I depend And to thy wing for shelter haste Till this outragious Storm is past verse 2 To thy Tribunal Lord I fly Thou Sov'reign Judge and God most high Who Wonders hast for me begun And wilt not leave thy Work undone verse 3 From Heav'n protect me by thine Arm And shame all those who seek my Harm To my Relief thy Mercy send And Truth on which my Hopes depend verse 4 For I with salvage Men converse Like hungry Lions wild and fierce With men whose teeth are spears their words Invenom'd Darts and two-edgM Swords verse 5 Be thou O God exalted high And as thy Glory fills the Sky So let it be on Earth displaid Till thou art here as there obey'd verse 6 To take me they'their Net prepar'd And had almost my Soul ensnar'd But fell themselves by just Decree Into the Pit they made for me verse 7 O God my Heart is fix'd 't is bent Its thankful Tribute to present And with my Heart my Voice I 'll raise To thee my God in Songs of Praise verse 8 Awake my Glory Harp and Lute No longer let your Strings be mute And I my tuneful Part to take Will with the early Dawn awake verse 9 Thy Praises Lord I will resound To all the list'ning Nations round verse 10 Thy Mercy highest Heav'n transcends Thy Truth beyond the Clouds extends verse 11 Be Thou O God exalted High And as thy Glory fills the Sky So let it be on Earth displaid Till thou art here as there obey'd PSALM LVIII SPeak O ye Judges of the Earth if just your Sentence be Or most not Innocence appeal to Heav'n from your Decree verse 2 Your wicked Hearts and Judgments are alike by Malice fway'd Your griping Hands by weighty Bribes to Violence betray'd verse 3 To Virtue Strangers from the Womb their Insant-steps went wrong They prattled Slander and in Lies employ'd their lisping Tongue verse 4 No Serpent of parch'd Asrick's breed does ranker Poyson bear The drowsy Adder will as soon unlock his fullen Ear. verse 5 Unmov'd by good Advice and deaf as Adders they remain From whom the skilful Charmer's Voice can no Attention gain verse 6 Deseat O God their threat'ning Rage and timely break their Pow'r Disarm