and Exhort one another in Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord Col. 3.16 What sweeter foretaste of the Heavenly Everlasting Praises There is no Exercise that I had rather live and dye in than singing Praises to our Redeemer and Jehovah while I might in the Holy Assemblies and now when I may not as Paul and Silas in my Bonds and my dying pains which are far heavier than my Bonds Lord Jesus receive my Praise and Supplications first and lastly my departing Soul Amen What is the sum of my desires To KNOW and LOVE and LIVE TO GOD To PLEASE HIM and BE PLEAS'D IN HIM To long for Heaven and bear his Rod. Richard Baxter Mr. Baxter's PARAPHRASE ON THE PSALMS PSALM I. To the Tune of Old 100. 1 Blest is the man who doth avoid The Counsel of ungodly mates Who stands not in the sinners way Nor sitteth in the scorners seats 2 But in the holy Law of God Doth choose and place his chief delight And with sincere obedient heart Meditates in it day and night 3 We shall be like the prosp'ring tree That planted by a rivers side In season yieldeth plenteous fruit Whose leaf doth always green abide 4 The Lord will prosper this mans work But the ungodly are not so But like rejected worthless chaff Which every wind drives to and fro 5 Therefore th' ungodly shall not stand But fall when judgment gives their doom Nor sinners in the righteous mens Blessed assembly ever come 6 Because the way of righteous men The Lord with approbation knows But the way of ungodly men To their own just destruction goes PSALM II. 1 WHy do the rebel Nations rage And People hatch a vain design 2 The Kings of Earth do set themselves And wicked Rulers do combine Against God and his Christ they say Let us cast off and break the bands 3 And cast away those cords his Laws Which tye up hearts and tongues and hands 4 But he whose Glory is in Heaven Their Rebel Counsels shall deride Their purposes the Lord will scorn Their boasting tongues he will divide 5 Then shall he speak in wrath to those His gentle yoak who could not bear His sore displeasure shall them vex When they this Divine Sentence hear 6 Yet have I set my chosen King On Sion's Sacred Hill to reign His Kingdom 's Glory I 'le declare And God's decree I will proclaim 7 The Lord Almighty uttered it And he himself thus said to me Thou art my Son and this same day Have I rais'd and begotten thee 8 Ask me and I 'le the Heathen give For thy enlarg'd Inheritance And to possess the utmost parts Of all the earth I 'le thee advance 9 The Rebels with an Iron rod Thou shalt bruise and asunder shake Like brittle earthen vessels them Thou shalt dash and in pieces break 10 Be wise now O ye mortal Kings Learn all ye Judges of the earth 11 Serve God with true Religious fear Joyn awful trembling with your mirth 12 Now kiss the Son left in his wrath You die and perish from the way If once his anger kindled be Then all who trust him blest are they PSALM III. 1 LOrd how are they increas'd That are mine enemies Many there be that trouble me And do against me rise 2 Many say of my soul He hath no help in God 3 But thou my shield and glory art And liftest up my head 4 I with my mournful voice Unto the Lord did cry And he out of his holy place Did hear me graciously 5 I laid me down and slept I wak'd and rose again For it is God in whom I trust That doth me still sustain 6 And though ten thousand foes Were round about me laid While God is for me and my help Why should I be afraid 7 Arise and save me Lord My God the Cheek-bone strake Of all my foes and wicked mens Devouring teeth did break 8 To save his chosen doth Belong to God alone Thy blessing shall for evermore Thy people rest upon PSALM IV. 1 O Hear me when to thee I call God of my help and righteousness Have mercy on me hear my prayer Thou sav'dst me in my great distress 2 O sons of men how long will ye The great God's glory vilifie How long will ye love vanity And seek and trust a flatt'ring lie 3 But know that God doth for himself The Godly choose and set apart The Lord will hear when I to him Do call in faith with fervent heart 4 Fear God therefore Take heed of sin Use to consider with your hearts In secret silence of the night In bed when sleep from you departs 5 Offer to God the sacrifice Of Love and sincere righteousness And then put all your trust in him To save and help you in distress 6 Deceived men enquire for good But where to find it cannot tell Lord let the glory of thy face Shine forth on us and we are well 7 Thy Love and Grace into my heart Hath put more joy and solid peace Then all their wealth will them afford When Corn and Wine do most increase 8 I will both lay me down in peace And hope for quiet rest and sleep Trusting alone that thou Lord wilt Me and my dwelling safely keep PSALM V. 1 GIve ear unto my words O Lord My doleful meditation weigh 2 And hear my voice my King my God For unto thee I cry and pray 3 At Morning thou shalt hear my voice My Morning Prayer I 'le direct To thee O Lord and looking up Thy gracious answer will expect 4 For thou the Holy God dost not In any wickedness delight Neither shall evil dwell with thee 5 Or wicked fools stand in thy sight 6 Thou hatest wicked workers all And Lyars all thou wilt subvert The Lord abhorreth men of blood And the deceitful tongue and heart 7 In thine abundant mercies I Will in thy sacred house appear And tow'rd thy holy temple I Will worship thee in holy fear 8 Lead me Lord in thy righteousness Before my watchful envious foe Before my face do thou make strait The way wherein I ought to go 9 Their mouth no credit doth deserve Their inward part is wickedness Their throat is like an open grave Their tongues do flattering lies express 10 By their own Counsels let them fall Destroy them Lord and them expel In their abundant sins for they Against thee madly did rebel 11 Let all rejoyce and shout for joy Who firmly put their trust in thee For them thou keepest Let them that love Thy Holy Name still joyful be 12 For thou Lord wilt the righteous bless And with thy special favour own Thou as a shield wilt him defend And with thy loving kindness crown PSALM VI. 1 LOrd in thy wrath rebuke me not I earnestly do thee desire Though my great sin do it deserve Correct me not in burning ire 2 Lord pity me a feeble wretch Whom sin and dolour weakned hath O heal my pained
Nations then May humbled be and know themselves To be but feeble dying men PSALM X. 1 WHy standest thou Lord as far off And seem'st from us thy self to hide 2 In troublous times when wicked men Do persecute the poor in pride But let these proud and wicked men Themselves be taken and surpriz'd Even in the same destructive trap Which they in craft for us devis'd 3 The wicked of his hearts desire Doth boast in prosperous worldly state The covetous worldling he doth praise Whom yet the righteous Lord doth hate 4 The wicked puffed up with pride Is to such sottish folly brought That he disdains to seek the Lord God is not in his bruitish thought 5 Hurtfulness is in all his ways For thine are all above his sight All that he takes for enemies He puffs at with scorn and despight 6 He saith in his self-flattering heart Surely I never mov'd shall be My prosperous state shall not decay Nor shall I ever trouble see 7 His mouth 's with rage and cursing full And with deceit and guileful lies Under his wicked tongue is hatcht Mischief falshood and vanities 8 He lurks in Towns and Villages To catch and kill the innocent In secret his malicious eyes Against the helpless poor are benâ— 9 He Lion-like lurks in his den And waits the humbled poor to take And drawn into his own made net Him as his lawful prey doth make 10 He crowcheth low that so the poor In his strong cruel paws may fall 11 His heart saith God doth not regard But winks and will not see at all 12 Forget not humble men O Lord Lift up thy hand for them arise 13 Because they think thou 'lt not them judge Therefore the wicked thee despise 14 Mischief and spight thou dost behold And with thy hand wilt it repay The poor commits himself to thee Thou art the Orphans help and stay 15 Break thou the arm of wicked men And take down those that evil be Seek out their wickedness until Thou find none 's unreveng'd by thee 16 The Lord is King for evermore The heathen by his mighty hand And wicked all are perished And cast out of his holy land 17 The humble man's righteous desires O Lord thou graciously didst hear Thou wilt prepare and fix their hearts And thou wilt yield a hearing ear 18 To judge and help the fatherless And the opprest and humble poor That so these men of earth may vex And terrifie the just no more PSALM XI 1 IN God I put my trust Why then in scorn say ye To God for help as silly birds Unto your mountain flee 2 The wicked bend their bow Their arrows they prepare That in the dark they may them shoot At those that upright are 3 If by their violence Foundations be destroy'd What can the grieved righteous do The ruins to avoid 4 God in his Temple is The Lord's Throne is in Heaven His eyes behold his eye-lids try The sons of mortal men 5 The Lord the just man tries But he the wicked hates And him that loveth violence His soul abominates 6 Snares fire and brimstone he On wicked men will rain This is the portion and the cup That doth for them remain 7 For the just Lord doth love Just things as his delight And with a pleased countenance Beholdeth the upright PSALM XII 1 HElp Lord for upright godly men from us are taken hence away And from among the sons of men The faithful daily do decay 2 Unto his neighbour every one Dont speak with lies and vanity With a false double heart they talk And lips of fraud and flattery 3 God will cut off all flattering lips And the proud tongue that speaketh thus 4 Our word shall stand our tongue is ours What Lord is Ruler over us 5 For the oppression of the poor And needy's sighs I 'le now a rise And them in safety set saith God From those that them with scorn despise 6 The words of God are words most pure Like purest silver fully try'd In earthen furnace many times Refin'd and throughly purify'd 7 Lord thou wilt thine save and preserve For ever from this wicked race 8 The wicked then are bold and brisk When vile men get in highest place PSALM XIII 1 HOw long wilt thou forget me Lord O shall it thus for ever be How long wilt thou displeasedly Thus hide thy pleased face from me 2 How long shall thoughts disturb my soul And daily grief my heart assail How long shall cruel enemies By pow'r thus over me prevail 3 Pity my case O Lord my God Hear me and lighten thou mine eyes Left me as by fatal sleep Untimely feared death surprize 4 Left my triumphing foes should say We have prevail'd our work it 's done And those that trouble me rejoyce And boast when I am overthrown 5 But in thy tender mercy Lord My troubled soul her trust doth place O Let my raised hearty rejoyce In thy defence and saving grace 6 Because the Lord hath bounteously Dealt well with me in every thing To him my saved thankful soul Shall joyful endless praises sing PSALM XIV 1 THe hearts and lives of wicked fools Tell us they no God truly own Corrupt are they their works are vile Of them that do good there is none 2 Upon the worldly sons of men From Heav'n God lookt and searcht abroad To see if any understood And seriously sought after God 3 They wholly filthy are become They all from him aside are gone None of them liveth to do good Of all these wordly men not one 4 Have all these men of wicked works No wit or knowledge left at all Who eat my people up as bread On God they never truly call 5 Yet oft in sin they have great fear For God's among and for the just 6 They shame the counsels of poor Saints Because to God they seek and trust 7 O that our help from God were come When God brings back the Captives sad Then Jacob shall therein rejoyce And Israel shall in him be glad PSALM XV. 1 LOrd in thy Tabernacle Who shall inhabit still And whom wilt thou receive to dwell In thy most holy hill 2 He that walks uprightly And worketh righteousness And the truth which is in his heart Doth with his tongue express 3 He that backbiteth not Nor doth his neighbour hurt Nor yet against his neighbour doth Receive an ill report 4 In whose discerning eyes Vile persons are contemn'd But those that truly fear the Lord Doth honour and commend His righteous oath and word That keepeth faithfully Although he made his covenant so That he doth lose thereby 5 On hurtfull Usury His money hath not lent Nor taketh a reward or brib Against the innocent He that these things observes Which God would have be done Shall never be by fraud or force Moved and overthrown PSALM XVI 1 LOrd keep me for I trust in thee My refuge and my chosen part 2 My soul by thy command hath said That thou
will him direct To choose that way and walk therein Where God will him accept 13 His soul preserv'd by God Shall dwell in holy peace His Covenant keeping seed shall here On earth enough possess 14 To such as fear the Lord He will his secret show And his true saving Covenant The Lord will make them know 15 Mine eyes upon the Lord Continually are set For it is he who shall bring forth My feet out of the net 16 Lord turn thee unto me On me thy mercy shew For I in grief am desolate And brought exceeding low 17 The troubles of my heart Are great and do increase O pity and deliver me Out of my sore distress 18 On my affliction look And on my grief and pain O Lord forgive me all my sins And make me whole again 19 Consider thou my foes That great and many are And what a causeless cruel hate They do against me bear 20 O safely keep my soul And still deliver me And let me never be asham'd Because I trust in thee 21 Let my integrity And uprightness defend And keep me for in faith and hope I do on thee depend 22 O gracious Lord redeem And bring thy people out Of all the dangers and distress That compass them about PSALM XXVI 1 JUdge me O Lord for I In uprightness abide And I have trusted in the Lord Therefore I shall not slide 2 Examine me O Lord My case now prove and try My reins and heart well known to thee Unto my self descry 3 Thy loving kindness is Ever before mine eyes Thy Truth and Righteousness have been My most beloved ways 4 With vain false persons I Have no Companion been With lyars and dissemblers I never will go in 5 Ill-doers company I have and still do hate With wicked and ungodly men I have not gone or sate 6 Guiltles of reigning sin I 'le wash my hands and so Unto thy sacred Altar Lord I then will boldly go 7 That I may publish there With voice of joy and praise The glory and the fame of all Thy wondrous works and ways 8 Thy worship in the house Lord I have loved well I much delighted in the place Where doth thine honour dwell 9 Crop not my life with mens Of wickedness and blood 10 Whose hands are fill'd with bribes and with Mischief against the good 11 But as for me I 'le walk In my integrity Be merciful and me redeem And set at liberty 12 My foot in an even place Doth stand with stedfastness And in the Congregations I The Lord will praise and bless PSALM XXVII 1 THe Lord my Light and Saviour is Whom therefore shall I need to dread The Lord is of my life the strength Of man why should I be afraid 2 When wicked men that are my foes Did all in rage against me come To eat my flesh they stumbled then And fell and were themselves o'rethrown 3 Though Hosts encampt against me lie Yet this my heart shall not much fear Though wars against me raised be I 'le confident be also there 4 One thing of God I have desir'd And that I will still seek and crave That in the Lord's house all my days I may a quiet dwelling have That there God's beauteous holiness I may with joy see and admire And for direction in my doubts May humbly of his will enquire 5 For he in times of trouble will Secure me by his saving grace In his own Tent and Tabernacle And on a Rock he shall me place 6 And now by him who is my strength My head shall highly lifted be Above my cruel enemies Who do about encompass me The sacrifice of joy will I Into his holy Temple bring I 'le sing aloud unto the Lord Yea I will joyful praises sing 7 Hear me O Lord when with my voice I mournfully to thee do cry Have mercy also upon me And grant thine answer graciously 8 When thou command'st seek ye my face My willing heart said unto thee Thy pleased face Lord I will seek 9 Hide not thy pleased face from me O put me not away in wrath Thou wast thou art my help alone Forsake not me who art the God Of my health and salvation 10 When my Father and Mother both Do me in greatest straits forsake Even then the Lord will gather me And up my fainting soul will take 11 Teach me thy righteous way O Lord And in a plain path lead thou me Because of those who are my foes And my watchful observers be 12 Leave me not to mine enemies will Many false witnesses arise Against me and malicious men Who breath out wrath and cruelties 13 My heart had fail'd unless I had Hope't and believed for to see Thy Goodness manifested yet On earth to them that living be 14 Wait on the Lord Couragious be And he shall help and and strength afford Unto thy heart I say again Still trust and wait upon the Lord. PSALM XXVIII 1 TO thee I cry O Lord my Rock Let me thy speedy answer have Lest by thy silence I become Like dead men buried in the grave 2 My earnest supplications hear When I to thee for help do cry When I my hands lift up towards Thy sacred Oracle on high 3 O draw me not away with those Who falsly act this wicked part Who speak unto their neighbour's peace While mischief 's in their treacherous heart 4 Give them according to their deeds After the evil which they meant According to their handy work Render to them their punishment 5 Since they regarded not God's works Nor what great things his hands have wrought He shall not build but pull them down Destroy and bring them all to nought 6 Blest be the Lord because he heard The earnest voice of my request 7 The Lord 's my strength my shield and help My heart on him alone shall rest Because he saveth me therefore My heart in him doth much rejoyce And with the songs of thanks and praise To him I will lift up my voice 8 The Lord is the defence and strength Of those that be indeed his own And his anointed's Saviour And strength is he and he alone 9 Lord save thy people and still bless Thy own chosen inheritance Them as their Shepherd rule and feed Save and for ever them advance PSALM XXIX 1 ALL ye that mighty are on earth Give all the glory to the Lord To God the glory and the strength Ascribe ye all with one accord 2 The glory due to God's great name Give to him and to all confess Publickly worship ye the Lord In solemn beauteous holiness 3 The Lord's voice on the waters is The God of strength and majesty Doth thunder and on waters great Doth sit and rule them all on high 4 The thundring dreadful voice of God Full of prevailing power is And full of Royal Majesty Is that great frightful voice of his 5 This voice of the Almighty doth The great tall Cedars break and tear The Lord doth thus the
Cedars break Which the Mount Lebanon doth bear 6 Yea he doth make the trembling hills Like a young Calf about to skip And Lebanon and Sirion Like the young Unicorns to leap 7 God's voice casts out the flames of fire This voice it makes the desarts quake 8 The Lord the great dry Wilderness Of Kadesh makes as mov'd to shake 9 God's voice doth make the Hinds to calve And makes the cover'd Forests bare And in his holy Temple all His glory do by praise declare 10 The Lord sits King on swelling floods His Rule and Kingdom never cease The Lord will give his people strength And he will bless them all with peace PSALM XXX 1 ALL thankful praise with heart and voice O gracious Lord I give to thee Who hast not made my foes rejoyce But hast sav'd and exalted me 2 O Lord my God to thee I cry'd In all my pain my fears and grief Thou soon didst hear and help provide And heal me with speedy relief 3 Lord thy great mercy did bring up My soul from death and hell to save Till now thou hast kept me alive From an untimely feared grave 4 O ye that are his holy ones Sing joyful praises to the Lord In memory of his holiness Give thanks to him with one accord 5 There 's but a moment in his wrath Endless life in his favour lies Though weeping be our evening's work Joy with us in the morn shall rise 6 In health and sweet prosperity My careless heart affected was As if I never should be mov'd And see what after came to pass 7 For thy great savour Lord did seem To make my present state secure My mountain of prosperity Did seem so setled strong and sure But when offended by my sin Thou hid'st from me thy pleased face My painful flesh and troubled soul Did quickly feel a changed case 8 Then did I cry to thee O Lord When pain and danger bid me pray I poured out before the Lord My earnest suit both night and day 9 I said what gain is in my blood If to the feared grave I go Doth silent dust there speak thy praise Doth it thy truth and mercy show 10 Hear gracious Lord a sinner's cries Who doth thy needful mercy crave Lord help me in this deep distress And from this feared danger save 11 Then didst thou turn my grief and moans Into a pleasant thankful voice My mourning garments thou took'st off And taught'st me to sing and rejoyce 12 That so my tongue may sing thy praise And never henceforth silent be O Lord my God for evermore I will give thanks and praise to thee The Old Metre lengthened 1 ALL laud and praise with heart and voice O Lord my God I give to thee Who didst not make my foes rejoyce But hast sav'd and exalted me 2 O Lord my God to thee I cry'd In all my woful pain and grief Thou gav'st an ear and didst provide To ease me with timely relief 3 Of thy good will thou hast call'd back My soul from death and hell to save Thou didst revive when strength did lack And sav'dst me from the feared grave 4 Sing praise ye Saints who prove and see The love and goodness of the Lord In memory of his Majesty Sing and rejoyce with one accord 5 For why his anger but a space Doth last and quickly slack again But in his favour and his grace Always doth blessed life remain 6 Though gripes and grief and pangs full sore Shall lodge with us all the dark night The Lord to joy shall us restore Betimes before the day be light 7 When I enjoy'd the Word at will Thus vainly would I boast and say Tush I am sure to feel no ill This health and wealth shall not decay 8 For thou O Lord of thy good grace Hadst sent me present strength and aid But when thou turn'dst away thy face My troubled mind was sore dismaid 9 Wherefore again yet did I cry To thee O gracious Lord of might My God with plaints I did apply And pray'd to him both day and night What gain is in my blood said I If hasty death destroy my days Doth dust declare thy Majesty Or yet thy grace and truth doth praise 10 Wherefore my God some pity take O Lord I humbly thee desire Do not this simple soul forsake My God of help I thee require 11 Then didst thou turn my grief and woe Into a glad and chearful voice The mournful weeds thou took'st me fro And mad'st me to sing and rejoyce 12 Wherefore my soul uncessantly Shall sing unto thy holy praise My Lord my God to thee will I Give laud and joyful thanks always PSALM XXXI 1 IN thee O Lord I put my trust Therefore let me not shamed be But in thy constant righteousness Do thou save and deliver me 2 Bow down thine ear to me with speed Vouchsafe me thy deliverance To save me by my Rock of strength My Fort and Castle of defence 3 For thou art in my strong Rock and thee I for my secure Fortress take Lead me therefore and keep me safe For thy own name and glory sake 4 Pull me out of the net which they For me in craft have closely laid Because thou only art my strength To which I trust and flie for aid 5 Into thy hand I do commit My spirit for thou alone art he Jehovah God of truth and grace Who hast in love redeemed me 6 Them that deceitful vanities Regard I shun and have abhor'd But my firm hope and confidence Is in my great and gracious Lord. 7 I in thy mercies will rejoyce Because my many miseries Thou weighest and hast known my soul In all my great adversities 8 Thou hast not left and shut me up Into my wrathful enemies hand Thou set'st my feet at liberty In a large and free room to stand 9 Have mercy on me O my God In my great trouble send relief Mine eye my belly and my soul Consumed are with pain and grief 10 My life is spent in grief my years In mournful sighs away do fly My strength doth fail my bones consume And this for mine iniquity 11 Among my foes I was a scorn And to my neighbours specially A fear to friends They that saw me Without away did from me fly 12 I am forgotten as a man That now a long time hath been dead And like a broken vessel cast Aside I am as perished 13 Many mens slanders I have heard Fear compass'd me about while they Against me did consult and plot By fraud to take my life away 14 But I did trust in thee O Lord When I by foes was under-trod This was my soul's support and rest I said Thou art my gracious God 15 My times are in thy hand and will Do thou save and deliver me From their hands who mine enemies And causeless persecutors be 16 On thine afflicted servant Lord Make thou thy pleased face to shine And save me for that mercies sake Which thou dost
the earth below Shew forth thy Glorious Majesty 6 They for my steps prepar'd a net My soul by them is bowed down They dig'd a pit for me in which Themselves are fallen and overthrown 7 My heart is fixt my heart is fixt O God I 'le sing thy joyful praise 8 My glory wake Psaltery and Harp My self for this I 'le early raise 9 Among the people I 'le thee praise With publick songs thee magnifie 10 Thy mercies great unto the heav'ns Thy truth unto the cloudy sky 11 Exalted be thy glorious name O God above the heavens high And over all the earth advance Thy glorious pow'r and majesty PSALM LVIII 1 DO you that are in Council met Speak and determine what is just And justly judge ye sons of men Indeed according to your trust 2 Yea in your hearts you wickedness Contrive plot and promote and then Out of the Judgment-seats your hands Weigh violence on earth to men 3 Bad men are from the womb estrang'd From every just and holy way As soon as they are born they are Inclin'd by lies to go astray 4 To serpent's poyson very like Their hurtful poyson doth appear And like the adder deaf they are That fast doth close and stop her ear 5 Lest she should hear the charmer's voice At all although the man should charm Never so wisely to inchant Her that she do no deadly harm 6 Break thou their poysonous teeth O God Yea from their mouth quite break them out Yea break the sharp devouring teeth Of Lions even the young and stout 7 Let them like waters melt away Which downward still do slide and flow In pieces cut his arrows all When he doth bend his unjust bow 8 Like to a snail that melts away Let them all pass and hence be gone That like the womb 's untimely birth They never see the shining sun 9 Before your pots can feel the thorns Away in wrath he shall them drive And with his whirlwind's angry storms Sweep them away from hence alive 10 The righteous shall rejoyce when he This just revenge from God shall see And in the blood of wicked men Even wash his conquering feet shall he 11 Then men shall say Truly there is For righteous men a great reward Surely there is a God that doth The earth judge and mens works regard PSALM LIX 1 DEliver me O God From all mine enemies Set me in safety from all them That do against me rise 2 Deliver me from them That work-iniquity Save me from men of blood who for My life in wait do lie 3 Against me the great men Have joyntly gathered bin But not for my transgression Lord Nor real guilt of sin 4 They run and do prepare Themselves without any crime Behold their course and now awake And help thou me betime 5 Awake to visit such Lord God of Israel And spare not those who against thee Do wickedly rebel 6 At evening they return Like dogs they make a noise And round about the City go With dogged snarling voice 7 Their mouths do belch out rage And in their lips are swords For still they do perswade themselves Thou hearest not their words 8 Thou Lord wilt them despise And all the heathen mock 9 His strength shall make me wait on thee Thou art my help and rock 10 The God of my mercies With help shall me prevent And let me see on these my foes His righteous punishment 11 Lest it should be forgot Scatter them all abroad And bring them down but slay them not O thou our shield and God 12 For the sin of their words Take thou them in their pride And for the curses and the lies Which from their lips do slide 13 In wrath consume them all That so they may not be That Jacob's God rules through the earth Let them all know and see 14 At even let them return And make like dogs a noise And round about the City go With discontented voice Let them wander about As wanting food to eat And pine and grudge through emptiness Not satisfy'd with meat 16 I of thy power will sing Early thy mercy praise Thou my defence and refuge wast In all my troublous days 17 Unto thee I will sing Who art my strength and power The God of all my mercies and My sure defence and tower PSALM LX. 1 LOrd thou of late hast cast us off And thou hast scattered us abroad Thou justly hast displeased been O turn again to us O God 2 Thou mad'st the earth it self to quake Thine heavy anger did it break O heal thou now its grievous breach For it as yet doth sorely shake 3 Unto thy people thou hard things Hast shew'd and sharply on them sent And thou hast caused them to drink The wine of great astonishment 4 And yet a banner thou hast given To them that do thee humbly fear That it by them because of truth Displayed may to all appear 5 That thy dearly beloved flock Sav'd and delivered may be Help O our God with thy right hand In mercy do thou answer me 6 I will rejoyce because the Lord Spake from his high and holy seat Sechem I will divide and will The fruitful Vale of Succoth mete 7 Gilead belongeth unto me Manasseh also mine shall be Ephraim is the strength of my head Judah rules and gives Laws for me 8 Moab my servile wash-pot is On Edom I will freely tread And the Philistine nation all I will in warlike triumph lead 9 Who is he that will bring me in The City strong and fortify'd And who will into Edom's land Me and my conquering armies guide 10 Even he that seem'd to cast us off And wilt not thou again O God Go forth before our warlike hosts When they to fight do march abroad 11 From trouble give us thy sure help For meerly vain is all mens aid 12 Through God we shall do valiantly Our foes God down for us will tread PSALM LXI 1 HEar thou my cries O God Unto my pray'r attend 2 Even from the ends of all the earth My cry to thee I send When my heart 's overwhelm'd With my perplexity Lead me to the defensive Rock That higher is than I. 3 For thou hast been to me A shelter by thy power And from the rage of enemies A strong defensive tower 4 I in thy Tabernacle For ever will abide Under the covert of thy wings With trust will I reside 5 For thou my solemn vows To thee my God didst hear And gavest me the heritage Of those thy name that fear 6 A life by thee prolong'd Thou to the King wilt give As many generations are The life that he shall live 7 For ever before God His dwelling he shall have Prepare thy mercy and thy truth Which him may ever save 8 So will I evermore Sing praises to thy name That having made my vows I may Daily perform the same PSALM LXII 1 MY soul in silence waits on God My only help and rock is he 2
Aloud the voice of his high praise 9 Who puts and holds our soul in life Our feet from hurtful sliding stays 10 For thou didst prove and try us Lord As men by fire do silver try 11 Brought'st us into the net and layd'st Bonds of grief on our loyns to lye 12 Over our heads thou mad'st men ride Through fire and water floods to pass But thou through all hast brought us out Into a water'd wealthy place 13 I 'le bring burnt-offerings to thy house And all my vows to thee I 'le pay 14 Which my lips uttered and mouth spake When I in grievous trouble lay 15 Burnt sacrifices of fat Rams With Incense I to thee will bring Of Bullocks and of Goats I will Present to thee an offering 16 Come now and hearken to my words All you that have God's holy fear And what he for my soul hath done To you I will forthwith declare 17 In my distress my mouth to him Sent forth my humble earnest cry And his great name I with my tongue With praise extolled fervently 18 I know if I do in my heart Iniquity love and regard When I to him my prayer make I shall not then by him be heard 19 But God did hear me readily And he did graciously attend Unto my praying voice and cry Which I to him did humbly send 20 And blessed be the Lord my God Who hath not from me turn'd away His mercy not deny'd my suit When I to him did seek and pray PSALM LXVII The old Metre Corrected by W. Barton 1 HAve mercy on us Lord And grant to us thy grace And unto us do thou afford The brightness of thy face 2 That all the earth may know The way to godly wealth And all the people here below May see thy saving health 3 Let all the world O God Give praise unto thy name O let the people all abroad Extoll and laud the same 4 Throughout the world so wide Let all rejoyce with mirth For thou shalt justly judge and guide The nations of the earth 5 Let all the world O God Give praise unto thy name And let the people all abroad Extoll and laud the same 6 Then shall the earth increase Great store of fruit shall fall And God our God shall grant us peace And greatly bless us all 7 Yea God shall bless us all And earth both far and near And people all in general Of him shall stand in fear The same by the Scots 1 LOrd unto us be merciful Do thou us also bless And graciously make shine on us The brightness of thy face 2 That so thy way upon the earth To all men may be known Also among the nations all Thy saving health be known 3 O Let the people praise thee Lord Let people all thee praise 4 And let the nations all be glad And sing for joy always For rightly thou shalt people judge And nations rule on earth 5 Let people praise thee Lord let all The folk praise thee with mirth 6 Then shall the earth yield her increase God our God bless us shall 7 God shall us bless and of the earth The ends shall fear him all PSALM LXVIII 1 LEt God arise and scattered Let all his daring enemies be And let all those that do him hate From his just face and presence flee 2 Drive them away as smoak is driven As wax melts at the burning fire Let wicked men before God's face So perish by his righteous ire 3 But let the righteous all be glad Greatly rejoycing in God's sight Let them addict themselves to joy And this express with all their might 4 Sing unto God his praises sing Extol him with your chearful voice That rides on Heav'n By his name JAH Before his gracious face rejoyce 5 A father of the fatherless And judge of helpless widows case Is God whom we adore and praise Even in his holy dwelling place 6 The barren God in families Doth set I he from iron bands The bound sets free while Rebels dwell In want in dry and barren lands 7 O God of old when thou went'st forth Before thy ransom'd peoples face And through the barren wilderness Thou didst as their Conductor pass 8 At God's presence the earth did shake From heav'n the dropping showers fell Sinai was at God's presence mov'd Before the God of Israel 9 O God thou healed'st the desart's drought Sending to it a plenteous rain Whereby thy weary heritage Thou didst confirm and own again 10 Thy Congregation then did make Their setled habitation there And of thy goodness for the poor O God thou didst relief prepare 11 The publick word of joy to us Was given out by thee O God Great was the company of them That quickly publisht it abroad 12 Kings of great armies terrify'd Were forc'd apare to flee away And she that tarryed at home Did share and distribute the prey 13 Though you have lien among the pots Like beauteous doves you shall appear Whose wings with silver and with gold Their yellow feathers cover'd are 14 When the Almighty scatter'd Kings As Salmon snow 't was over white 15 The hill of God's as Bashan hill As Bashan hill it is for height 16 Why leap ye you high hills This is The holy mount chosen by God Where he delights to dwell on which He 'll ever settle his abode 17 God's Chariots twenty thousand are His Angels many thousands be Among them as in Sinai mount So in his holy Temple 's he 18 Thou hast triumphing gloriously Ascended up to dwell on high And conquering in triumph led Captive even our Captivity Thou hast received gifts in Man And that for them that did rebel That as their reconciled God Among them thou in love might'st dwell 19 Blest be the Lord who with his gifts Of mercy doth us daily load Even he who ever was and is Of our defence and help the God 20 Our God is he that is the God Of all health and salvation The issues and defence from death Belong to none but him alone 21 But God shall surely wound the head Of all his harden'd enemies Their hairy scalp who shall go on In their belov'd iniquities 22 God said I 'le bring them back as I From Bashan did for them before And as from the depths of the sea I brought them safely to the shore 23 That thy feet may be dipt in blood Of these thy stain and bleeding foes And even thy dogs may dip their tongue In blood which from the wounded flows 24 Thy goings they have seen O God In all thy glorious majesty The goings of my God and King In his sublime Sanctuary 25 First went the fingers next to them Musicians follow'd in array Among them all the damsels were That do on sounding Timbrels play 26 Bless God in your Assemblies all Unto him joyful praises sing All you that of the blessed race From Israel's ancient fountain spring 27 Benjamin and his Ruler's there And Juda's Ruling Companies And with his
Princes Zebulon And with them also Naphtali's 28 Thy God commands thy strength O God Confirm what thou for us hast wrought 29 For thy house at Jerusalem King's Presents shall to thee be brought 30 Spear-men and people rude rebuke Till all of them submissive are And tribute pay scatter thou them That do delight in strife and war 31 Princes shall then submit to thee And hither come from Egypt lands And Ethiopia to God Shall soon stretch out her subject hands 32 Sing unto God adoring praise O all ye people of the earth Sing praises to the Lord our God With reverence and holy mirth 33 To him that on the heaven of heavens Which was of old doth ride rejoyce His voice he sendeth all abroad It is a mighty dreadful voice 34 Ascribe ye power unto God Who reigns on high o're Israel And his great strength and excellence Doth in the heav'ns in glory dwell 35 Dreadful out of his holy place Is Israel's God who doth afford Unto his people strength and pow'r Blessed therefore be God our Lord. PSALM LXIX 1 SAve me O God for rising floods Unto my fearful soul are come 2 I sink in deep unstable mire Deep waters have me overflown 3 I of my crying weary am My voice is hoarse my throat is dry'd My eyes also do fall while I Do waiting for my God abide 4 More than my hairs of head they be Who causeless hatred to me bear And my injurious enemies That would destroy me mighty are Then I restored that to them Which never taken was by me 5 O God thou know'st my foolishness And my sins are not hid from thee 6 Let not them for my sake be sham'd O Lord of Hosts that wait on thee Nor those that seek thee Israel's God For my own cause confounded be 7 For thy sake I have born reproach And shame hath covered my face 8 I to my brethren strange am grown An Alien to my mother's race 9 Because the zeal did eat me up Which to thy sacred house I bear And the reproaches cast on thee Upon me fallen for thy cause are 10 When I in tears with fasting lay This to my own reproach was turn'd A Proverb to them I became 11 When I in sackcloth cloathed mourn'd 12 The great men that sit in the gate Spake of me all the ill they think And I was made the song of them That are the drinkers of strong drink 13 But Lord in an accepted time My Prayer I send up to thee Lord in thy mercies multitude And in thy saving truth hear me 14 Deliver me out of the mire And me from sinking in it keep Save me from them that do me hate And out of all these waters deep 15 Let not the floods me overflow Nor let the deeps up swallow me And let not the pit's mouth below Upon me buryed closed be 16 Hear me O Lord for thy sure love And kindness is exceeding good Turn thou to me according to Thy tender mercies multitude 17 From thy servant hide not thy face In this my trouble soon attend 18 Draw nigh my soul and it redeem And from mine enemies me defend 19 To thee is my reproach well known My shame and my causeless disgrace My adversaries and their ways Are open all before thy face 20 Reproach hath broke my heart and grief Abounds in me I lookt for some To pity me but there was none True comforters I found not one 21 They gave me also bitter gall For food which they would have me eat They gave me vinegar to drink In scorn when as my thirst was great 22 Let their own Table be their snare Do thou to them in justice make Their welfare and posterity Become a trap themselves to take 23 And let their eyes so darkened be That pleasant light do them forsake And let their weakned Ioyns by thee Be made continually to shake 24 Thy dreadful indignation Pour out upon these wicked men And let thy hot displeasure and Thy heavy wrath take hold on them 25 And let their stately palaces Be left as desolate within Their tents without inhabitants Where these ill men have dwellers bin 26 Because him whom thou didst correct Yet they have persecuted more They talk unto the grief of those Whom thou didst strike and wound before 27 Add thou deserved punishment Unto their hainous wilful sin And to thy saying righteousness Let them not have admission in 28 Out of the book of living men Let them by death be blotted quite And with the just that blessed are Do not their names number and write 29 But I am poor and sorrowful Because of my adversity But let thy saving grace O Lord Yet raise and set me up on high 30 The Name of God I with a song Will praise and honour joyfully And with thanksgiving for his grace The Lord's name I will magnifie 31 This also shall a sacrifice More acceptable to him be Than Bull or Ox with hoof and horns If they were offered by me 32 The meek and humble shall be glad And greatly joy when this they see Your hearts shall live that seek the Lord And ever comfortable be 33 Because the Lord doth hear the poor When they to him do cry and pray And doth not neglect or despise Those that for him in prison lay 34 Let the high heav'ns and spacious earth Unto Jehovah praises give The Ocean deep and every thing Which therein doth but creep and live 35 For God will surely Sion save And Judah's Cities again build That men may them possess and dwell In houses plentifully fill'd 36 And they that are his servants seed Shall be possessors of the same And they shall have their dwelling there Who do sincerely love his name PSALM LXX 1 O God from my distress and fear Do thou vouchsafe to set me free Make hast O Lord do thou afford Thy speedy saving help to me 2 Let them confounded be and sham'd Who do my death seek and conspire Confound them all and turn them back That do my hurt in heart desire 3 Let shame be their reward Let them Fly and be turned back by thee Who triumphing in my distress Do say in scorn Aha to me 4 Let all that truly seek thy face With joy be ever glad in thee Let all that thy salvation love Say still the Lord God praised be 5 But I am poor and weak O God Make hast to me and do not stay Thou art my Saviour and help Help Lord and make no more delay PSALM LXXI 1 IN thee O Lord I put my trust Let me no hurtful shame befal 2 In justice save me from my foes By thee let me escape them all Incline thine ear and save thou me 3 Be thou my strength my rock and fort My dwelling unto which I may For help and refuge still resort My safety is thy own Command My rock and fortress thou wilt be 4 From wicked unjust cruel men Do thou my God deliver me 5 For upon thee
JOD 10. 73 Thy hands have made and fashioned me It 's thee by whom I live That thy Commandments I may learn Me understanding give 74 They that thy mercy to me see Who fear thee will be glad Encouraged because thy word My hope and trust I made 75 I know O Lord that thy judgments All good and righteous be And that in love and faithfulness Thou hast afflicted me 76 To me thy merciful kindness I pray thee now afford To comfort this thy Servant's Soul According to thy word 77 Thy tender mercies pour on me That I to thee may live For holy comfort and delight Thy Law to me doth give 78 Confound the proud who dealt with me Perversly without cause But still I 'll meditate upon And keep thy holy Laws 79 Let those that fear thee come to me And see what thou hast done And let them join in thanks that have Thy testimonies known 80 And in thy righteous Statutes all Let my heart still be sound And then no guilt or Mens reproach With shame shall me confound CAPH 11. 81 My Soul for thy Salvation faints Till I do it obtain But still thy sure and faithful word With hope doth me sustain 82 Mine eyes do fail while on thy word I wait and daily say When wilt thou comfort me O Lord O make no more delay 83 Like a dry'd bottle in the smoak With grief I am become Yet do I not thy sacred word Forget to think upon 84 How many are thy Servant's days O might I live to see That thou wilt judgment do on them That persecutors be 85 The proud malicious sort of men Who do oppose thy Law Have digged pits and laid their snares As if they thought none saw 86 Thy holy Laws which they oppose All faithful are and just They persecute me wrongfully Be thou my help and trust 87 Hunting and wasting me on earth They scarce alive me leave Yet I forsake not thy Precepts But ever to them cleave 88 After thy loving kindness yet Revive me and restore So shall I keep thy holy word And trust it more and more LAMED 12. 89 Thy word and thy decree O Lord For ever shall endure It s settled in the Heav'ns above Established and sure 90 Thy faithfulness to ages all Doth certainly extend Thou hast established the earth And it doth firmly stand 91 According to thine ordinance They all remain this day For all thy Works and Servants are And do thy will obey 92 Unless thy good and faithful word Had been my Soul's delight In my affliction I had sunk Despair'd and perisht quite 93 Thy holy Precepts never shall By me forgotten be For thou in my dejected state By them didst quicken me 94 By holy Covenant I am thine Therefore thy Servant save For with desire and diligence Thy Precepts sought I have 95 Ungodly men have lain in wait My Life for to destroy But I thy testimonies all Will think upon with joy 96 Of all that earth perfection calls I have perceived an end But thy Commandments to all time And places do extend MEM 13. 97 How greatly do I love thy Law It hath been all the day My serious Meditation And my delight and joy 98 Through thy Commandments thou didst make Me wiser than my foes Where ere I am what ere I do It ever with me goes 99 I greater understanding have Than all my Teachers far Because thy testimonies still My meditation are 100 In understanding I exceed Them that did older live Because in keeping thy Precepts Thou didst more Wisdom give 101 And I my feet refrained have From every evil way That I may keep thy holy word And ever it obey 102 From thy sure word and judgments just I never will depart For thou art he that teachest me And speakest to the Heart 103 How sweet unto my relish are Thy words of saving truth The sweetest honey never was So pleasant to my mouth 104 By serious study of thy word I understanding gat Which made me turn from Vanity And every false way hate NUN 14. 105 Thy Word is unto me a Lamp And unto me a Light Through this dark and deceitful world To guide my way aright 106 I covenanted and vow'd to thee And it perform I will That I will keep thy righteous Laws And strive them to fulfil 107 My various afflictions Are very sharp and sore According to thy faithful word Revive and me restore 108 The free will offering of my mouth Accept I thee beseech And unto me thy Servant Lord Thy judgments clearly teach 109 My mortal life continually I carry in my hands Yet do I not in dangers great Forget thy just Commands 110 The wicked for my envy'd life Have laid a secret snare But I will not for fear or hope From thy Commandments err 111 Thy Statutes are the heritage Of which I have made choice To my last day for it is they That make my heart rejoice 112 My heart inclined by thy grace Doth fixedly intend Thy sacred Statutes to obey And keep unto the end SAMECH 15. 113 False thoughts and vanity I hate But love thy Statutes just 114 Thou art my shield and hiding place Upon thy word I trust 115 All ye that evil doers are Depart from me away For the Commandments of my God I purpose to obey 116 According to thy faithful word Uphold and stablish me That I may live and of my hope Never ashamed be 117 Hold thou me up and I shall be In peace and safety kept And to thy perfect guiding word I 'll ever have respect 118 All those who from thy Statutes err Thou treadest down as vile Their false deceits do but themselves And other men beguile Lewd men like dross thou casts away Therefore I love thy word 120 For fear of thee my flesh doth quake I dread thy judgments Lord. AIN 16. 121 I faithfully have practised Judgment and righteousness O leave me not to those mens wrath Who me by might oppress 122 Be surety for thy Servants good Let not the proud oppress 123 Mine eyes for thy Salvation fail And word of righteousness 124 According to thy Mercy great With me thy Servant deal And thy instructing Statutes all Clearly to me reveal 125 I am thy Servant Wisdom give That I thy Laws may know 126 Its time for thee O Lord to work For men make void thy Law 127 Therefore I love thy word and it In estimation hold Better than Gold and worldly Wealth Yea than the finest Gold 128 All that thy Law determineth I judge to be most right And all mens false deceiving ways Are hateful in my sight PE 17. 129 Wonderful are thy Testimonies My Soul keeps them with care 130 The entrance of thy word gives light To them that simple are 131 My thirsty Soul with strong desire Doth pant with open mouth Because I long'd to know and keep Thy words of saving Truth 132 Look on me and be merciful Bestow on me the same Which thou accustom'd
If into heav'n I could ascend Yet surely thou art present there Or if in hell I make my bed Or in the grave there thou art near 9 If on the morning's wings I fled And d'well the utmost Seas beyond 10 There by thy hand I shall be led And safely held by thy right hand 11 Or if I say The darkness sure Shall hide me from thy piercing sight The darkness even the most obscure About me shall be as the light 12 Yea darkness hideth not from thee But night doth shine as bright as day To thee the darkness and the light Indeed are both alike alway 13 For thou possessed hast my reins And thou didst form and cover me When I within my mother's womb Enclosed was and shap'd by thee 14 I 'le praise the Lord for fearfully And strangely made by thee I am Thy works are all unsearchable My soul convinc'd doth know the same 15 My substance was not hid from thee Though formed in a secret place In the low sordid earthly parts By thee I wisely fashion'd was 16 Thine eyes my unshap'd substance saw My parts were written in thy book And in continuance formed were When none as yet had fashion took 17 How precious also are the thoughts Of thee O gracious God to me How great their sum more than the sand 18 In number they if counted be I when I wake am still with thee 19 Surely thou wilt the wicked slay O God! Therefore to men of blood Depart ye far from me I 'le say 20 For they against thee wickedly Do speak with much prophane disdain Thy enemies blasphemously Do take thy holy Name in vain 21 Do I not hate them all O Lord Who are thy hating enemies And am not I grived with those That madly up against thee rise 22 I hate them with a perfect hate I count them for my chiefest foes 23 Search me O God and know my heart Try me and my hid thoughts disclose 24 And see if any hurtful way Of wilful sin be found in me And in thy everlasting way Let me always be led by thee PSALM CXL 1 LOrd from perverse and evil men Do thou grant me deliverance And let me be by thee preserv'd From cruel men of violence 2 Who in their hearts continually Contriving some great mischief are And altogether are combin'd In Plots for hurtfulness and war 3 Like Serpents their pernicious tongues Have they with venom sharpened The Adder's poyson and his sting Under their wicked lips is bred 4 Keep me O Lord from wicked hands And from the envious violent man Who have resolv'd to overthrow My blameless goings if they can 5 The proud for me have hid a snare With cords and they have spread a net By the way side where I must go They traps and grins for me have set 6 I went unto the Lord and said Thou art my God and help alone Lord hear my voice in mercy grant My humble supplication 7 O God thou only art the strength Which ever safely keepeth me My head in days of bloody war Was covered and sav'd by thee 8 The wicked mens hurtful desires Lord prosper not nor ever grant And further not their bad designs Lest of themselves they proudly vaunt 9 As for the leading head of those That fiercely compass me about Let the mischief of their own lips Cover them all and find them out 10 Let burning coals upon them fall Cast them into the wasting fire Into deep pits that they rise not Again to pursue their desire 11 Let not the false ill speaker be On earth fixt in prosperity Let evil hunting violent men Reach and o'rethrow them utterly 12 I know that God will yet maintain The cause of men that are distrest And will defend the poor mens right And such as are by men opprest 13 Surely the just shall to thy name Give thanks and of thy mercies tell And men of upright hearts and lives Shall ever in thy presence dwell PSALM CXLI 1 LOrd unto thee I cry O make thou hast to me Give ear unto my mournful voice When I cry unto thee 2 As incense let my pray'r Be set before thine eyes And the up-lifting of my hands As evening sacrifice 3 O Lord a constant watch Set thou my mouth before And of my lips left they offend Do thou still keep the door 4 To any evil thing Let not my heart incline To joyn in sin with wicked men Or of their pleasures dine 5 Let righteous men in love Smite me and me reprove This shall not break my head but as A precious Oyl shall prove In their distress I 'le pray 6 When in the stony street Their Judges are cast down they 'll hear My words will then be sweet 7 Our bones at the grave's mouth Are cast and scatter'd round As wood which men do cut and cleave Lies scattered on the ground 8 But Lord my God mine eyes Still look up unto thee In thee is all my trust Let not My soul forsaken be 9 Keep thou me from the snare Which they have laid for me And the entrapping grins of men That wicked workers be 10 Let men of ill designs Fall into their own trap Whilst from all their malicious plots Thy flock and I escape PSALM CXLII 1 I To the Lord in my distress With sad and mournful voice did cry My supplication I sent up Aloud unto the Lord most high 2 To him I pour'd out my complaint My trouble I to him did show 3 My spirit in me was o'rewhelm'd And all my danger thou didst know That in the way wherein I walk'd They closely laid for me a snare 4 I look'd on my right hand but none To know and help me did appear All humane refuge failed me None for my trembling soul did care 5 But then I cryed to the Lord That he my humble suit would hear I said Lord thou my refuge art The portion of my hope and choice While I am in the land of life Where living men in thee rejoyce 6 I am brought very low on earth O Lord attend unto my cry Me from my persecutors save Who stronger are by far than I. 7 And out of prison bring my soul Thy blessed name to magnifie The just shall flock to me because With me thou dealest bounteously PSALM CXLIII 1 LOrd hear my Prayer and unto My humble suit attentive be Thy justice and thy faithfulness Do thou employ to answer me 2 Thy sinful servant bring not thou In to strict judgment to be try'd For so no living man can stand Before thee clear and justify'd 3 The enemy doth hunt my soul My life to ground cast down doth tread In darkness he hath made me dwell Like those that have some time been dead 4 Therefore my spirit 's overwhelm'd My heart in me is desolate 5 Yet I think on the days of old Thy ancient works I meditate I muse on all thy handy works To thee I stretch my craving hands 6 My humbled soul
freely shew to thine 17 Let me not be asham'd O Lord For I did trust and call on thee Let wicked men be sham'd cut off In their graves silent let them be 18 To silence put the lying lips Which grievous things and false do say And hard reports in pride and scorn On righteous men do falsly lay 19 O how great is the goodness which Thou hast laid up and wrought for the◠Who fear thee and who trust in thee Even here before the sons of men 20 Thou in thy secret presence dost Hide them from cruel pride and wrongs Kept in thy close Pavilion From all the strife of lying tongues 21 All thanks and praise be to the Lord For he hath shewn and magnify'd His wondrous love to me within A City strong and fortify'd 22 I said in hast I am cut off And put even from before thine eyes Yet didst thou hear my praying voice And didst regard my mournful cries 23 O love the Lord all ye his Saints For still the Lord the faithful guards And proud Oppressors thô secure In time he plenteously rewards 24 Be of good courage and more strength He to your fainting hearts will send All ye whose hope and confidence Doth truly on the Lord depend PSALM XXXII 1 HE though a sinner blessed is Whose guilt and loath'd transgression God freely doth to him forgive Covering what he hath been and done 2 He 's blest to whom the Lord doth not Impute and charge iniquity And in whose spirit reigneth not Guile Falshood or Hypocrisie 3 While I in silence hid my sin And had not duly it confest My bones wax'd old and roaring pains All day allowed me no rest 4 Through painful weary days and nights I bare thy just and heavy hand My strength and moisture are consum'd Like Summers drought on scorched land 5 My sin I then acknowleding With humbling grief my self did blame I did confess it all to thee And did bewail my guilt and shame When my repenting soul resolv'd All to confess with grief to God Thou mercifully didst forgive And oft lay by thy chastening rod. 6 Such mercy shall encourage all The godly still in hope to pray And seek to thee in their distress In an accepted finding day Surely when waters great do swell And threatning floods cause me to fear Him that thus seeks and trusts in thee They shall not hurt or once come near 7 Thou art my help and hiding place Against all trouble fears and wrongs And thy deliverances shall cause Mine and thy peoples thankful songs 8 Saith God I 'le thee instruct and teach The righteous way where thou shalt go Mine eye shall always on thee be My guiding Counsels I 'le thee show 9 Be not like brutish Horse and Mule Which ruling understanding want But must be rul'd by bridling force And kept from hurt by mans restraint 10 To all self-flattering wicked men Their self-made sorrows do abound But him that trusteth in the Lord Mercy shall save and compass round 11 Ye righteous in the Lord be glad With thankful hearts in him rejoyce All ye that are of upright hearts Aloud sing praise with joyful voice PSALM XXXIII 1 YE righteous in the Lord rejoyce For chearful praise becometh Saints 2 Praise God with Psaltery Harp and Voice And with sweet ten-string'd Instruments 3 Play skilfully with a loud noise And sing to him a song that 's new 4 For all the Word of God is right And all his works are sure and true 5 God greatly loveth righteousness And judgment well ad ministred And with the goodness of the Lord The earth's richly replenished 6 By the Almighty Word of God The vast and glorious Heav'ns were made And by the spirit of his mouth Their whole host all their being had 7 The waters of the Sea he keeps On heaps confined by the shore He layeth up the liquid deeps As Treasures in a house of store 8 Let all the people of the earth The Lord Almighty serve with fear And all the world's inhabitants To him due awe and reverence bear 9 He spake but the creating word And it was done and all things made He did but potently command And it stood faft as firmly stay'd 10 The Counsels of the Nations rude The Ruling Lord doth bring to nought He doth defeat the multitude Of their device and wicked thought 11 But all the counsels of the Lord Do stand unchang'd for ever sure And all the purposes of God Beyond all ages do endure 12 That Nation blessed is to whom The Lord as their own God is known And those whom as an heritage He loves and chooseth for his own 13 The Lord looks down from Heav'n and sees All done by men of humane birth 14 And from his habitation views Even all the dwellers of the earth 15 He fashioneth their hearts alike And all their doings he observes 16 No King is saved by an Host Much strength no Mighty man preserves 17 A horse of war is a valn thing To save a man in time of fight Nor shall deliver any man Either by swiftness or by might 18 But upon those that do him fear The Lord doth set his gracious eye On those that on his mercy do With hope and confidence rely 19 To save them from a pining death In Famine food and life to yield 20 Our soul still waiteth for the Lord He is our help and only shield 21 Because his holy name we trust Our hearts in him shall joyful be 22 Lord let thy mercy be on us As we do place our hope in thee PSALM XXXIV 1 AT all times I will magnifie And bless the Lord with tongue and heart His joyful praises never shall Out of my thankful mouth depart 2 My soul in her preserving Lord Her boasting boldly shall express And humble men shall hear thereof And joyn therein with joyfulness 3 O magnifie the Lord with me We 'll joyntly all exalt his name 4 In all my fears I sought the Lord He heard and sav'd me from the same 5 They that to him did look for help Of light and comfort did partake Their confidence in him did not Their face at all ashamed make 6 This poor man cryed in distress The Lord to him a hearing gave And him from all his troubles did Effectually help and save 7 About all them that fear the Lord Encamped Angels always lye To save and to deliver them From every hurtful enemy 8 O taste and see that God is good Blest are all they that in him trust 9 Fear God ye Saints no hurtful want Befalls the upright walking just 10 Even Lion's young ones hungry are And often want desired food But they that seek the Lord shall not Want any thing that 's truly good 11 Teachable Children come to me My sure and tryed Counsel hear And I will teach you faithfully The true way of God's holy fear 12 What man desireth length of life And his own good doth wisely seek 13 From evil keep thy
My Saviour and my strong high place I shall not greatly moved be 3 How long will ye mischief devise You by the sword at last shall fall You stand but like a tottering fence And like a crazed bowing wall 4 Their consult is to cast him down That 's set by God in dignity They love to lie with mouth they bless But they hate and curse inwardly 5 My soul wait thou only on God For all my hope 's on him alone 6 He 's all my strength help and defence I shall not be mov'd and o'rethrown 7 All my salvation is in God My glory and my dignity He is the Rock of all my strength God is my refuge always nigh 8 At all times put your trust in him Ye people that indeed are his Pour out your hearts before him still For God our certain refuge is 9 Surely low men are vanity And high and great men are a lie Together in the ballance put They lighter are than vanity 10 Trust ye not in oppression then In theft and wrong become not vain Set not your hearts on wealth and on The increase of your worldly gain 11 This God hath spoken once and twice This certain truth I heard again That all disposing Ruling Power To God alone doth appertain 12 And to distribute Mercy doth Belong to thee O Lord alone For thou according to his work Rendrest in time to every one PSALM LXIII 1 O God thou art my God therefore Early I 'le seek near thee to be In an unwater'd weary land My heart and flesh doth thirst for thee 2 That I thy power may behold And see the glory of thy face As I have seen thee heretofore Within thy house and holy place 3 Because thy loving kindness is Better than life and length of days My joyful soul which thou hast sav'd And lips shall ever give thee praise 4 While thou continuest me in life Thus will I daily speak thy praise In worshipping thy holy name My heart and hands I will up raise 5 With thy fat-sweet delights my soul Shall fed and satisfied be My chearful heart with joyful lips Shall offer daily praise to thee 6 When on my quiet bed I thee Seek and remember with delight And when on thee I meditate In silent watches of the night 7 Because to me in all distress Thy helping hand still succour brings Therefore my soul shall still rejoyce Under thy safe and covering wings 8 My soul encourag'd by thy love Thus closely followeth after thee In all my dangers and distress Thy right hand still upholdeth me 9 But they that seek my life shall go Into earth's dark and lowest room 10 The sword let out their guilty souls And they the foxes prey become 11 But let the King rejoyce in God His faithful servants glory shall Who swear by him But God will stop The mouth of perjur'd lyars all PSALM LXIV 1 THe Prayer which to thee I make O God do thou vouchsafe to hear My life save thou from enemies And from all their perplexing fear 2 Hide me from their secret designs Who do live and plot wickedly From insurrection of those men That still do work iniquity 3 Who do their tongues with malice whet That they may cut like sharpned swords In whose bent bows are arrows set To shoot even false and bitter words 4 That they may at the perfect man In secret aim their cruel shot Suddenly do they shoot at him Harden'd in sin they fear it not 5 In ill encourage they themselves And commune how closely to lay Their snares for to entrap the just For who our plots shall see say they 6 They study for iniquity For it they use their greatest art Deep is their inward plotting thought And unknown is their wicked heart 7 God shall an arrow at them shoot And wound them deep and suddenly 8 Their tongues shall fall upon themselves All that see them away shall fly 9 And seeing this all men shall fear And shall God's dreadful works declare For wisely then they shall perceive That these his righteous doings are 10 The righteous shall rejoyce in God And in him wholly put their trust And all that be of upright heart In him shall boldly make their boast PSALM LXV 1 LOrd praise in Sion waits for thee The Vows made by us we 'll perform O thou that hearest sincere pray'r To thee all flesh for help shall come Injuries and iniquities Against me have had much success â—ut thou wilt purge away the sin And guilt of us who did transgress 4 Blessed is he whom thou dost choose To approach nigh to thee his God That in thy holy pleasant Courts He may have his constant abode Our souls shall satisfied be With the goodness and Divine grace Which in thy blessed house abounds Even in thy chosen holy place 5 Thy Justice will by dreadful things An answer to us waiting give God of our help the trust of all On earth or on the sea that live 6 The God of Power who by strength Set'st fast the great and massy hills 7 Who the great noise of sea and waves And raging people's tumult stills 8 Those that in utmost parts do dwell Are at thy dreadful signs afraid Mornings and evenings out-goings By thee sing and are joyful made 9 The earth thou visit'st watering it Enrich'd by thee with fruit to grow By God's full streams Thou Corn prepar'st Having for it provided so 10 Her ridges thou dost water well Her plowed surrows settlest With showers thou dost make it soft Her springing fruit by thee is blest 11 Thus thou the year from time to time Dost with thy bounteous goodness crown And thy high paths do from above On earth drop plenteous fatness down 12 They drop upon the pasture-grounds That lye even in the desart wide The little hills thereby refresh'd Rejoyce with fruit on every side 13 The pastures cloathed are with Flocks The vallies also covered be With Corn Thy blessing is their joy Their fruits sing praises unto thee PSALM LXVI 1 MAke ye a joyful noise to God All people of the spacious earth 2 Sing to the honour of his name His glorious praise do ye set forth 3 Say unto God How-terrible In all thy mighty works art thou Through thy great pow'r thy foes to thee Shall be constrain'd to crouch and bow 4 All men on earth shall worship thee Thy praise in songs shall they proclaim They shall sing Psalms of praise unto The honour of thy holy name 5 Come and the works which God hath wrought With fear and admiration see His doings towards the sons of men All great and very dreadful be 6 He turn'd the Sea into dry land And they thereby safe passage had All marching through the flood on foot There singing we in him were glad 7 He ever ruleth by his pow'r His eyes do all the Nations see The Rebels that exalt themselves By him full low shall humbled be 8 Ye people sound forth of our God
my God alone My trust and hope do all depend Even from my raw and feeble youth It 's thou that didst me still defend 6 Thou hast sustain'd me from the womb It 's thou that safely didst take me From mother's bowels All my thanks And praise shall always be to thee 7 A wonder I to many am But thou art still my refuge strong 8 With thy praise let my mouth be fill'd And with thy honour all day long 9 Cast me not off now when old age And feebleness on me is come O do not me forsake at last When failing strength is almost gone 10 For those that are mine enemies Against me speak with bitter hate And they together counsel take Who for my life lay daily wait 11 They say His God in whom he trusts Doth wholly now this man forsake There 's none to save him now let us Him persecute and boldly take 12 O God in time of my distress Be not thou far from me away My God who art my only help Now help thou me without delay 13 Confound consume them all that are To my soul causeless enemies Let them be cloathed all with shame Who do my hurt seek and devise 14 But I will wholly trust in thee And hope in thee continually And yet with praises more and more Thy great name I will magnifie 15 Thy righteousness and saving help My mouth abroad shall daily show For I of all thy mercies great The numbers do not cannot know 16 In all my duty I 'le go on In thy strength only O my Lord And only thy own righteousness To men I 'le mention and record 17 Even from my tender youth O God By thee it is I have been taught And hitherto I have declar'd The wonders all which thou hast wrought 18 Now Lord forsake me not when I Old feeble and grey-headed grow Till to this age and all to come I shall thy strength and power show 19 High is thy righteousness O God And very great things thou hast done Lord who may be compar'd with thee Surely there is not any one 20 Thou Lord who troubles great and sore Didst bring on me and make me know Shalt quicken and bring me again Even from the depth of earth below 21 Yea thou my greatness shalt increase Thy blessings on me shall abound And with thy comforts and sweet peace Thou safely wilt enclose me round 22 I 'le use the pleasant Psaltery To make thy praises further known And with the Harp I 'le sing to thee O Israel's most Holy One. 23 My lips shall my great joy express When singing I thy praises sound My soul which thou redeemed hast Shall with her holy joy abound 24 And of thy righteousness my tongue Shall talk with joy all the day long For they confounded are with shame Who sought my hurt and-death with wrong PSALM LXXII 1 LOrd give thy judgments to the King And to his son thy righteousness 2 With right he shall thy people judge Thy poor with truth and uprightness 3 Then shall the mountains great and firm Bring to the neighbour people peace So also shall the little hills By pleasant fruits of righteousness 4 The poorest people he shall judge And he shall save the poor and weak And those that their oppressors are Cast down he shall in pieces break 5 And even from age to age shall they Reverence thy name and fear thy might As long as Sun doth shine by day Or as the Moon doth shine by night 6 He shall come down like fruitful rain Upon the grounds of late mown grass And as for watering the dry earth Refreshing showers from heav'n do pass 7 Just men shall flourish in his days And all shall have abundant peace And this continued shall be Until the Moon to shine doth cease 8 His great and blest dominion shall Widely from Sea to Sea extend And from the River it shall reach To the earth's remote utmost end 9 Those that dwell in the wilderness Humbly bow down before him must And they that are his enemies Must crowch and lick the very dust 10 The Kings of Tarshish and the Isles To him shall costly Presents bring The King of Sheba and Seba Shall send their gifts and offering 11 Yea all the greatest Kings on earth Shall prostrate down before him fall The many nations of the world Shall also humbly serve him all 12 The weak and needy he will save When they for help to him do call Also the poor and forlorn man That hath no humane help at all 13 Those that are low and indigent He shall in tender mercy spare And not oppress but save the souls Of them that weak and needy are 14 Their souls from fraud and violence His pow'r and mercy shall redeem Their blood he shall not vilifie But it as precious shall esteem 15 He shall live and to him shall be Presented Sheba's finest gold He shall be pray'd for constantly And daily be his praise extoll'd 16 The corn that grows on mountain tops Prosp'ring the reaper's hand shall fill The fruit thereof shall wave and shake Like trees on woody Lebanon hill His City shall be flourishing With store of Citizens abound Even as the green and plenteous grass Doth flourish on the fertile ground 17 His name shall last His father's name By him his son continue shall And men in him shall blessed be All nations him shall blessed call 18 And blessed be his holy name For ever by all living men 19 And with his glory let the earth Be wholly fill'd Amen Amen PSALM LXXIII 1 YEt surely God is ever good To all his Israel and to them Whose hearts are purify'd and clean And that are upright hearted men 2 But yet my weakness was so great In my time of temptation That my foot-steps had well-nigh slipt My stumbling feet were almost gone 3 For at the fools who flourished I grudg'd and looked enviously When as I saw how wicked men Do live in great prosperity 4 For there are no bands in their death Their strength shews they are fully fed 5 Other mens troubles they escape And are not like them chastened 6 Therefore with pride as with a chain About they all encompass'd are And covered with violence It as a garment they do wear 7 Their eyes stand out with fat they have More than their very hearts can wish 8 They are corrupt their wicked speech Oppressing lofty and pâ—oud is 9 They set their mouth against the Heav'ns In their prophane blaspheming talk And their reviling lavish tongue At large throughout the earth doth walk 10 And hereupon his people do Hither themselves return agen And waters of a vessel full Are drawn and wrung out unto them 11 And thus they say How can it be That God all this doth note and know And that there is in the most high Knowledge of things done here below 12 Behold these the ungodly are Who live in health and fleshly ease Who prosper in the present
hath found out a house The swallow found a nest Where she may lay her young and where Her self and they may rest Even near thy holy Altars they May make their safe abode And why not I seeing thou art My King and only God 4 Blest are they in thy house that dwell They always give thee praise 5 Blessed is he whose strength 's in thee In whose heart are thy ways 6 Who passing as through Bala's vale Make it a place of wells And the descending plenteous rain The pools with water fills 7 Unwearied they forward go Marching from strength to strength Till all in Sion do appear Before the Lord at length 8 Lord God of Hosts my prayer hear O Jacob's God give ear 9 O God our shield look on the face Of thine anointed dear 10 Because one day within thy house Is better to abide Than in another place to stay A thousand days beside Much rather would I keep a door In the house of my God Than in the tents of wickedness To take up mine abode 11 For the Lord God our Sun and Shield Will grace and glory give And no good thing from them with-hold Who uprightly do live 12 O thou that art the Lord of Hosts That man is surely blest Who by a stedfast confidence On thee alone doth rest PSALM LXXXV 1 THou hast been favourable O Lord unto thy land And Israel's sad Captivity Thou brought'st back by thy hand 2 Thy people thou forgav'st The guilt that they were in And by thy free and plenteous gracâ— Didst cover all their sin 3 Thy wrath thou took'st away And didst to mercy turn Even from thine anger terrible That did against us burn 4 O God our Saviour Turn us unto thy peace And cause thine anger that 's gone forth Against us for to cease 5 Shall thy displeasure last Against us without end And to all generations Wilt thou thy wrath extend 6 Wilt thou not us restore And quicken us that we Who are thy people evermore In thee may joyful be 7 Shew us thy mercy Lord Which may thy flock relieve And thy salvation unto us In season freely give 8 I 'le hear what God to us Will speak It will be peace To all his Saints But let not them Return to foolishness 9 Surely to all those who In fear of God do stand His help is nigh that Glory may Dwell always in our land 10 Mercy and truth shall meet And no more parted be And Peace with Righteousness shall greet And blessedly agree 11 Truth here even on this earth Shall spring and prosper well And righteousness from heav'n descend And here among us dwell 12 The Lord shall give what 's good Our land shall yield increase 13 Justice to set us in his way Shall go before his face PSALM LXXXVI 1 BOw down thine ear O Lord Hear me for I am poor 2 And in distress Yet I am thine Preserve my soul therefore My God thy servant save Who doth on thee rely 3 Be merciful to me O Lord Who daily to thee cry 4 Rejoyce thy servant's soul For unto thee O Lord Do I lift up my soul in hope That thou wilt help afford 5 For thou O Lord art good And ready to forgive And rich in mercy and all those That seek thee dost relieve 6 Give ear to my request My praying voice attend 7 I 'le call on thee when troubles come For thou wilt answer send 8 Among the Gods O Lord None may with thee compare Neither among the works they do Any like thy works are 9 All nations made by thee Shall come and reverently Worship before thee our great God And thy name magnifie 10 For thou art high and great And wondrous things hast done Besides thee there 's no other God For thou art God alone 11 Teach me thy truth and way And I 'le walk in the same Unite my heart Lord unto thee To fear thy holy name 12 My God with all my heart To thee will I give praise And I the glory will ascribe Unto thy name always 13 For thy mercy to me In greatness doth excel Thou hast delivered my soul Both from the Grave and Hell 14 The proud against me rise Terrible men are met In troops that seek my life but thee Before them have not set 15 But full of pity Lord And gracious thou art found Thou art long-suffering and in truth And mercy dost abound 16 O turn thee unto me And mercy on me have Strengthen thy servant and the Son Of thine own handmaid save 17 Shew me some sign for good That all my foes may see And be asham'd because thou Lord Dost help and comfort me PSALM LXXXVII 1 UPon the sacred hills He his foundation sets 2 More than all Jacob's dwellings else God loveth Sion gates 3 Great things are said of thee O City of the Lord. 4 Rahab's and Babel's case to those That know me I 'le record It 's said of famous Tyre And land of Palestine And of the Ethiopian land This man was born therein 5 Of Sion't shall be said This man and that man there Was born and he that highest is Himself shall stablish her 6 When God recites their names Who his own people are To their great honour he shall count That this man was born there 7 Singers and those that play On musick there shall be Yea all my springs of holy peace And comfort are in thee PSALM LXXXVIII 1 O God who art my hope and help To thee I cryed night and day 2 Let my cries have access to thee Incline thine ear when I do pray 3 My soul with troubles doth abound My life draws nigh unto the grave 4 Like one that to be buryed goes I am as those that no strength have 5 As a companion of the dead Like those that slain in grave do lye Whom thou hast cut off by thy hand And dost put out their memory 6 Thou lay'st me in the lowest pit And as in deep and darksom caves 7 Thy wrath lyes hard on me and thou Afflictest me with all thy waves 8 My friends thou hast put far from me To them as burdensome I grow In sorrows I am so shut up That forth from thence I cannot go 9 My eye through my affliction mourns I call on thee from day to day To thee O Lord I have stretch'd out My craving hands to thee I pray 10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead Shall the dead rise and praise thee here 11 Is thy love praised in the grave Doth death thy faithfulness declare 12 Are thy great works known in the dark Or is thy truth and righteousness Remembred and mention'd in The land of deep forgetfulness 13 But unto thee O Lord I cry My morning's pray'r shall thee prevent 14 Lord why dost thou cast off my soul Why is thy face against me bent 15 Even from my early youth I was Afflicted and as near to die While I thy terrors do endure I almost as distracted lie
them and deliverance gave 11 The waters overwhelm'd their foes Not one of them was left alive 12 And then they did believe his word And praise in joyful songs did give 13 They soon forgat his works and for His Counsels did not wait with trust 14 But in the desart tempted God And there provokingly did lust 15 He granted them their own request But to their souls he leanness sent 16 They envy'd Moses in the Camp And Aaron the Lord 's chosen Saint 17 The open'd earth Dathan devour'd Cover'd Abiram's company 18 A fire among them kindled was The wicked were burnt up thereby 19 In Horeb they did form a Calâ— The molten Image worshipped 20 To the shape of a grazing Ox Their God their Glory they changed 21 Their God and Saviour who had done Great things in Egypt they forgat 22 Wondrous works in the land Ham By the Red-Sea dreadful and great 23 Therefore he said he 'd them cut off Had not lest he should them destroy His chosen Moses in the breach Stood for to turn his wrath away 24 Yea they despis'd the pleasant land And did not yet believe his word 25 But often murmur'd in their Tents And heard not the voice of the Lord. 26 In desart them to overthrow He therefore did lift up his hand 27 Abroad to make their seed to fall And scatter them in every land 28 They joyn'd themselves to Baal-Peor Sacrifice of the dead they eat 29 Thus they provoked him to wrath Their vile-inventions were so great 30 Then did the plague upon them break But Phinehas stood up to slay And execute Judgment on some And so the wasting Plague did stay 31 This so pleas'd God that he to him Imputed it for righteousness And all his generations For this he promised to bless 32 And at the waters where they strove God into just displeasure brake So that even Moses felt his part And was rebuked for their sake 33 Because their provocations great His patient spirit so much stirr'd That he in passion with his lips Did speak an unadvised word 34 Nor as the Lord commanded them Did they the wicked Nations slay 35 But with the heathen mingled were And learnt their wicked works and way 36 And they the heathen's Idols serv'd Which were to them a deadly snare 37 By them their sons and daughters then To Devils sacrificed were 38 In their own Childrens guiltless blood Their guilty hands they did embrew Whom unto Canaan's Idols they For bloody Sacrifices slew So was the land defil'd with blood 39 And they with their own sinful way And with their own inventions thus From God a whoring went astray 40 Therefore against his people then God's wrath was justly kindled more So that his own inheritance He loathed and did it abhor 41 He gave them to the heathen's power Their wicked foes did them command 42 Their enemies them oppress'd who were Before subjected to their hand 43 Many times he deliver'd them But they again provok'd him so By their own Counsels and their crimes That they were brought exceeding low 44 Yet he regarded their distress And heard when they to him did cry 45 His ancient Covenant also he For them did call to memory And he repenting pity'd them After his mercies manifold 46 And made them pityed be of those Who did them as their Captives hold 47 Save us O Lord and gather us The wicked heathens from among To give thanks to thy holy name And praise thee with triumphing song 48 Blest be Jehovah Israel's God Henceforth to all eternity Let all the people joyntly say Amen Praise ye the Lord most high PSALM CVII 1 GIve thanks to God for he is good His mercies everlasting be 2 Let God's redeemed ones say so Whom from their foes hands he set free 3 And gathered them out of the lands From North and South from East and West 4 In pathless desart wandred they And found no City where to rest 5 Hungry and thirsty their souls saint When want and streights do them oppress 6 They in their trouble cry to God He saves them out of their distress 7 He led them forth by the right way And in the desart did them guide That they might to a City go Where quietly they might abide 8 O that all men would praise the Lord For his great goodness to us shewn And for the wondrous works which he For us the sons of men hath done 9 He satisfies the longing soul The hungry soul with good is fill'd 10 Such as in darkness and death's shade Do sit in painful Irons held 11 Because against the words of God They often sin'd rebelliously And the just Counsels did contemn Of him that 's over all most high 12 Their hearts with labour he brought down And they from man no help could have 13 They in their trouble cry'd to God From their distress he did them save 14 From darkness and the shade of death He in compassion did them take And their afflicting Captive bonds In pity he asunder brake 15 O that all men would praise the Lord For his great goodness to us shewn And for the wondrous works which he For us the sons of men hath done 16 For the enthralling gates of brass In pieces he for them did tear And by his hands the Iron bands Asunder also broken were 17 Fools for their own transgressions And for their sins afflicted are 18 Their soul abhors all sorts of meat They to the gates of death draw near 19 They in their trouble cry to God From their distress he doth them save 20 He sent his Word and healed them From danger he deliverance gave 21 O that all men would praise the Lord For his great goodness to us shewn And for the wondrous works which he For us the sons of men hath done 22 And let them sacrifice to him The sacrifice of thankfulness And his great works declare to all And with singing their joy express 23 They that in ships go to the Sea And in great waters business do 24 These see the dreadful works of God And in the deep his wonders view 25 He doth but give out his Command And powerful stormy winds do rise Which makes the Sea in waves to rage And to mount up toward the skies 26 Passengers toss'd up as to heav'n And to the deep cast down again Their troubled Soul in them doth melt While fear doth keep their hearts in pain 27 They reel and stagger to and fro Tost about like to drunken men And in this their distress and fear All their own wit doth fail them then 28 They in their trouble cry to God And he from their distress them saves 29 He makes the storm become a calm And presently doth still the waves 30 Then they with gladness do rejoice Because their danger seemeth past And unto their desired port He safely bringeth them at last 31 O that all men would praise the Lord For the great goodness he hath shown And for
art to give To those that love thy Name 133 Let all my steps by thy just word Exactly ordered be That no iniquity may have Dominion over me 134 Save me from mine oppressours all And I will keep thy word 135 O let thy face upon me shine Thy Statutes teach me Lord. 136 Rivers of water from mine eyes Ran down when as I saw How wicked men go on in sin And will not keep thy Law TZADDI 18. 137 Righteous art thou O Lord and all Thy judgments upright be 138 Righteous and faithful are thy Laws Which thou commandest me 139 My zeal hath even consumed me Because mine enemies Thy holy Word forgotten have And thy just Laws despise 140 Because thy word is try'd and pure Thy Servant loveth it 141 Small and despis'd I am but yet Thy Laws do not forget 142 Thy righteousness most steadfast is And ever doth endure Thy holy Law is truth it self Confirmed truth and sure 143 Trouble and anguish have me found And taken hold on me Yet in this trouble my delight Thy just Commandments be 144 Thy testimonies righteousness Even everlasting is Cause me to know them that they may Bring me to life and bliss KOPH 19. 145 With my whole heart I poured forth My cries to thee O Lord Hear and deliver me that I May keep thy holy word 146 In trouble I do cry to thee Thy Servant hear and save And then to keep thy testimonies Fully resolv'd I have 147 The dawning of the morning I Prevented with my cry For on thy true and faithful word My hope did all rely 148 My waking eyes betime prevent The watches of the night That in thy comfortable word Then meditate I might 149 After thy loving kindness hear My voice and answer give In mercy great with quick'ning grace Do thou my Soul revive 150 The wicked hunters do draw nigh Who after mischief run Thy holy Law they do forsake And far from it are gone 151 But thou O Lord art alway nigh Their mischiefs to repel And all thy word thou wilt make good Which doth in truth excel 152 As for thy testimonies all Of old I know full sure That thou hast firmly founded them For ever to endure RESH 20. 153 Consider my affliction great And me in safety set By thy deliverance for I Thy Law do not forget 154 Plead my just cause and it defend Deliver me O Lord Revive and comfort me again According to thy word 155 Salvation's far from wicked men It 's far from their intents To seek it in the only way Of thy Commandements 156 Many and very great O Lord Thy tender mercies be According to thy Judgments just Restore and quicken me 157 Many my persecutors are And foes who do combine Yet from thy testimonies pure My soul doth not decline 158 When I beheld transgressors ways I grieved and abhorr'd Their opposition to thy Laws Who would not keep thy word 159 Consider how on thy Precepts My heart with love is set Quicken me Lord according to Thy loving kindness great 160 From the beginning all thy word Hath been most true and sure And all thy righteous judgments shall For evermore endure SCHIN 21. 161 Princes have persecuted me Unjustly without cause But thy authority and word My heart and Conscience awes 162 I in thy word rejoice as one That findeth riches great 163 I love thy Laws but Lying all I do abhor and hate 164 Seven times a day in holy praise My Soul ascends to thee Because thy judgments and thy ways All good and righteous be 165 Great peace have these confirmed Souls Thy Laws who truly love No fears or scandal shall these men From God and Truth remove 166 For thy Salvation I have hop'd And thy Commandments done 167 My Soul thy Testimonies kept And lov'd them every one 168 Thy Testimonies and Commands I kept with constant care For all my ways and works I know Before thee open are TAU 22. 169 O Let my daily suit and cry Before thee come O Lord To me sound understanding give According to thy word 170 And let my supplication Before thee daily come My fears according to thy word Deliver thou me from 171 From a full heart my thankful lips Shall utter joyful praise When thou hast made me know and keep Thy statutes and thy ways 172 My tongue shall of thy word discourse Its goodness I 'll express Because all thy Commandements Are truth and righteousness 173 In all streights let thy mighty hand With succour me relieve For I by choice have made thy Laws The Rule by which I live 174 Lord for thy sure salvation My soul doth daily long Thy Law is still my heart's delight Its praises are my song 175 O let my drooping soul yet live And it shall give thee praise And let thy judgments succour me And be my help always 176 I like a lost sheep went astray Thy servant seek and find I yet forget not thy Commands Still print them on my mind PSALM CXX 1 IN my distress unto the Lord I poured out my mournful cry His ear attended my request He heard and help'd me speedily 2 From lying lips deliver me Lord and from the deceitful tongue 3 What shall be given and done to thee False mouth that causeth others wrong 4 Sharp arrows from a mighty hand With burning coals of Juniper 5 Woe 's me that I in Meshech stay And dwell in the Tents of Kedar 6 My soul hath too long dwelt with them That haters are of quiet peace 7 I am for peace but when I speak To war they soon themselves address PSALM CXXI 1 UNto the hills from whence my help Doth come I will lift up mine eyes 2 In God who made both heaven and earth My only help and succour lies 3 He will not let thy foot be mov'd Nor slumbers who thee always keeps 4 Behold he that keeps Israel He slumbers not nor ever sleeps 5 The mighty Lord thy keeper is And he doth always by thee stand To be a shade and a defence Daily to thee at thy right hand 6 The scorching Sun in Summer heat Shall not by day thee hurt or smite Nor the Moon 's hurtful influence Annoy thee in the darksome night 7 The Lord shall keep thee from all ill Thy soul he shall keep safe and sure 8 Thy going out and coming in The Lord shall still to thee secure PSALM CXXII 1 WHen in the willing crouding flock I heard that pleasant welcome voice Come let us go up to God's house It made my longing heart rejoyce 2 Our feet in God's Jerusalem Shall stand even in her Gates and Courts When those who were dispers'd by men Shall thither flock in great resorts 3 God's City is not a rude heap But built in comely form exact In great diversity of parts In order all are well compact 4 Thither the several Tribes go up The Tribes in Covenant with the Lord With thanks to celebrate his Name His Mysteries and holy