written be left on record They that hereafter shall be made Shall gladly serve and praise the Lord. 19 The Lord lookt down on all below Even from his high and holy place The earth unto the Lord of Heaven Is ever seen before his face 20 To hear the prisoners doleful groans And save men falsly judg'd-to die 21 God's name in Sion to declare Him there to praise and magnifie 22 When many people far and nigh Meet there to pray with one accord And when the Kingdoms shall consent To fear and serve the highest Lord. 23 My strength he weakened in the way As shortning my Life 's short day 24 I said By an untimely death Lord take me not in wrath away Through Ages all thou art the same 25 The solid Earth's Foundations laid Thou hast of old Heavens are the Work Which thy own Power and Hands have made 26 They perish shall but thou shalt stand As garments they shall all wax old Thou shalt them change as Men their Cloaths And as a Vesture them up fold 27 But thou art endlesly the same 28 Thy Servants Off-spring shall survive Their Seed established by thee Shall in thy blessed presence live PSALM CIII 1 MY Soul bless thou the glorious God Praise him and celebrate his Fame Let all my inward Powers concur To praise and bless his holy Name 2 Still bless the living Lord my Soul Never do thou sleight or forget Unthankfully his benefits So many undeserv'd and great 3 Thy many great provoking sins His Mercy freely doth forgive He thy Diseases and thy Pains Doth heal or ease and thee relieve 4 He did redeem thy forfeit Life And it from threatned death did free And with his loving kindness great And tender Mercies crowned thee 5 What hast thou wanted that is good To satisfie thy just desire Thy strength like Eagles he renew'd Reviving nature's languid fire 6 God will just Judgment execute For them by man oppress'd that are 7 To Moses and to Israel's seed His ways and acts he did declare 8 Gracious and merciful is God Great is his mercy high and deep 9 He 's slow to wrath he chides not still Nor doth his anger ever keep 10 He hath not dealt with us in wrath According to our hainous sin Nor strictly us rewarded hath As our guilt and deserts have bin 11 But as the great and glorious heav'ns Than this low earth far higher are God's mercy so transcendent is To all that do him truly fear 12 As far as East is from the West So far from us remov'd hath he Our hated and forsaken sin And our bewail'd iniquity 13 As loving Parents taught of God Pity to their dear Children bear The Lord of Love will pity them That serve him with true child-like fear 14 For he remembers flesh is dust Our frail and mortal frame he knows 15 And that the days of man on earth Are like the grass in field that grows 16 There flowers flourish but sharp winds Blast them and they are quickly gone And to the place which they persum'd And beautify'd they are unknown 17 But unto such as do him fear God's boundless mercy hath no end And his sure love and righteousness To Childrens Children doth extend 18 To such as keep his Covenant And his Commandments keep in mind And them sincerely do obey And therein their chief pleasure find 19 The Lord his Throne prepared hath In heaven where Saints his glory see And all the world his Kingdom is And Ruler over all is he 20 You mighty Angels great in strength Must bless the Lord with highest praise Your holiness fulfils his will And readily his voice obeys 21 All ye his great and glorious Hosts For ever bless and praise the Lord You serve the pleasure of his will And all as one obey his word 22 Let all his works through all the world To praise their glorious Lord accord And O my soul bear thou thy part And ever bless and praise the Lord. PSALM CIV 1 MY soul bless thou the living Lord Thou Lord my God art very great With honour and with majesty Thou cloathed art in glorious state 2 The fulgent light thy covering is Appearing in it as thy robes Thou like a curtain dost stretch out The Heavens with all their splendid globes 3 The beams of his great Chambers he Doth in the liquid waters lay The Clouds he makes his Chariots On winged Winds he takes his way 4 Blest Spirits he his Angels makes His Ministers a flaming fire 5 The Earth's Foundations firm he laid That nothing shall them ever stir 6 Like to a Garment with the deep The Earth by thee was covered The Waters stood above the Hills 7 But soon at thy rebuke they fled Thy thunders voice hasts them away 8 They go up by the mountain ground Down by the Valleys they go to The place which thou for them didst found 9 Thou unto them a bound hast set That over it they may not pass That the Earth again may not be drown'd By them as once for sin it was 10 He sends the Springs into the Vales They sweetly run between the Hills 11 They 're drink for all beasts of the Fields There his great thirst the wild Ass fills 12 By these sweet Streams the Fowls of Heav'n Do use to make their dwelling house For them and theirs They chirp and sing Among the pleasant shady Boughs 13 And from his cloudy Chambers he Doth water even the highest Hills And by his satisfying Works The Earth with plenteous fruit he fills 14 He for the Food of Cattle makes The tender Grass spring and suit forth And for Man's service various Herbs And so he brings food from the Earth 15 And Wine which doth exhilerate And Oil which doth smooth and refresh And Bread which strengtheneth Man's Heart And doth repair his wasting flesh 16 The Trees of God are full of Sap The stately Cedars which do stand In Lebanon and planted were Even by his own Almighty hand 17 The beauteous Birds among these Trees By Nature's skill their Nests do make As for the Stork the Firr-trees she Doth for her lofty dwelling take 18 The Mountains high for the wild Goats A place of secure refuge be The Conies in the craggy Rocks Dwell and for safety thither flee 19 The changing Moon he doth appoint The Seasons change to Man to shew The glorious Sun as taught by God Its time to rise and set doth know 20 The dismal darkness thou dost make And then the day gives place to night And in the Forests then come forth Wild beasts that shun Man and the Light 21 The hungry Lyons with their whelps Do then go roaring all abroad After their prey and fiercely seek Their sustenance assign'd from God 22 But when the shining Sun doth rise They get away together then For fear of Man and lay them down For rest and safety in their den 23 Then Man goes forth unto his work When he enjoys desired light His proper
In our sight Now let his God deliver him If he in him delight 9 Thou took'st me from the womb Thou wast my hope and rest When I a seeble Infant hang'd Upon my mother's breast 10 I was cast on thy care Even from my birth till now And from the womb that did me bear My God and Guide art thou 11 Be not far off for grief Is near and no help found 12 Many Bulls compass me fat Bulls Of Bashan me surround 13 Their mouth they open'd wide Upon me gaped they Like to a Lion's ravening And roaring for his prey 14 My bones are out of joynt Like water I am spilt Among my pained Intestines My heart like wax doth melt 15 Like a potsherd my strength Is dry'd My tongue cleaveth Unto my jaws and thou hast brought Me to the dust of death 16 For dogs have compass'd me And the assembled bands Of wicked men enclosed me They pierc'd my feet and hands 17 I may count all my bones On me they look and stare 18 Upon my Vesture they cast lots My Cloaths among them share 19 Be not far from me Lord My strength to help me hast 20 My soul deliver from the sword Do not to Dogs me cast 21 Save me from lying mouths For thou hast oft heard me Even from the horns of Unicorns I have been sav'd by thee 22 Unto my brethren I Will yet declare thy name And with the Congregation great I 'le joyn to praise the same 23 Ye that fear God praise him His great name glorifie All Jacob's seed and fear ye him Israel's posterity 24 For he hath not despis'd Th' afflicted's misery Nor hid his face from him but heard When he to him did cry 25 In the Assemblies great My praise shall be of thee And before them that do thee fear My Vows perform'd shall be 26 The meek shall be suffic'd With food All praise shall give To God who him do truly seek Your hearts shall ever live 27 All lands remember shall And turn unto the Lord And by all kindreds of the earth Our God shall be ador'd 28 The Kingdom is the Lord's He governs Nations all All that on earth by him are fed Before him down shall fall 29 All shall before him bow That down to dust descend None can of all the sons of men His life from death defend 30 But still a holy seed The Lord shall truly serve And God will them his chosen flock Account and still preserve 31 They shall come and his work Of righteousness make known Unto a people yet unborn That this the Lord hath done PSALM XXIII 1 THe Lord himself my shepherd is Who doth me feed and safely keep What can I want that 's truly good While I am one of his own sheep 2 He makes me to lie down and rest In pleasant pastures tender grass He keeps and gently leadeth me Near the sweet streams of quietness 3 My failing soul he doth restore And lead in safe and righteous ways And all this freely that his grace And holy Name may have the praise 4 And though my daily walk do lie Through death's dark vale yet thou art there All being managed by thee Therefore no evil will I fear For in my lowest darkest state The Lord of Love is with me still Thy Rod and Staff shall comfort me And keep me from all deadly ill 5 Thy bounty doth my Table spread In presence of my envious foes My head refreshing Oyl anoints My plenteous cup still overflows 6 Goodness and mercy all my days Shall surely keep and follow me And in the house of God always My joyful dwelling-place shall be The same by Mr. George Herbert 1 THe God of Love my Shepherd is And he that doth me feed While he is mine and I am his What can I want or need 2 He leads me to the tender grass Where I both feed and rest Then to the streams that gently pass In both I have the best 3 And if I stray he doth convert And bring my mind in frame And all this not for my desert But for his holy name 4 And in death's shady black abode Well may I walk not fear For thou art with me and thy rod To guide thy staff to bear 5 Thou makest me to sit and dine Even in mine enemies fight My head with Oyl my cup with Wine Flows over day and night 6 Surely thy sweet and wondrous love Shall measure all my days And as it never shall remove So neither shall my praise PSALM XXIV 1 THe earth is all the Lord's Its fulness all is his The world with all that are therein His own creation is 2 For he the liquid Seas Hath its foundation made And it upon the water-floods Hath stablished and staid 3 Into God's sacred mount Who 's he that shall ascend And in his place of holiness Who shall accepted stand 4 Whose heart 's pure and hands clean And unto vanity He who hath not lift up his soul Nor sworn deceitfully 5 This man a blessing great From God shall surely have Righteous and gracious usage from The God that will him save 6 Of them that seek the Lord This is the holy race Such are the men of Jacob's God Who seek thy pleased face 7 Lift up your heads ye gates You lasting doors make way That so the great desired King Of Glory enter may 8 Who is this Glorious King Who may this Monarch be The strong and mighty God the Lord Mighty in war is he 9 Lift up your heads ye gates You lasting doors make way That so the great and mighty King Of Glory enter may 10 Who is he that is King Of Glory Who is this The Lord of Hosts and he alone The King of Glory is PSALM XXV 1 I Lift my heart to thee My God and guide most just 2 O let me never be asham'd For in thee do I trust Let not my foes rejoyce And triumph over me 3 And let not any be asham'd That trust and wait on thee But let them shamed be Who causelesly transgress 4 Shew me thy ways Lord teach thou me Thy paths of Righteousness 5 Direct me in thy truth And teach me I thee pray Thou art my God and Saviour On thee I wait alway 6 Remember O my God Thy mercies manifold And thy great loving kindnesses For they have been of old 7 My sins and faults of youth O keep not on record In mercy for thy goodness sake Remember me O Lord. 8 Perfectly good is God A sure and upright guide Therefore he 'll teach sinners his way That they go not aside 9 The humble he will guide Who do his Counsels seek And he will teach his way unto The lowly and the meek 10 For all the paths of God Are truth and mercy sure To them that do his Covenant keep And Testimonies pure 11 For thy names-sake O Lord I humbly thee intreat To pardon my iniquity For it is very great 12 Whoso doth fear the Lord The Lord
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
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
and are great and strong And they are multiplyed much Who hate and hurt me to my wrong 20 And they that render ill for good Daily as enemies me use Not that I wrong them but because The thing that 's good I do and choose 21 Forsake me not O gracious Lord My God O be not far from me 22 Lord to my needful help make hast For my salvation is of thee PSALM XXXIX 1 I Said I will look to my ways Lest with my hasty words I sin While wicked men stand by my tongue I 'le bridle and with care keep in 2 With silence I became as dumb Resolv'd restraint did hold my peace Even from good talk and just defence Till stirred sorrows did increase 3 My heart within me then grew hot While troubled thus I mused long Till the restrained fire broke out Then thus I loos'd my bridled tongue 4 Lord make me to foreknow my end The shortness of my hastning days That I may know how frail I am And do my work without delays 5 Experience tells us Thou hast made Man's days to be but as a span Even as meer nothing before thee Is the short age of Mortal man Surely not one but every man Here in his setled fastest state Is altogether vanity His life is of so short a date 6 The worldling walks in a vain show Turmoils himself for wealth in vain He heapeth up but doth not know To whom it after will remain 7 And now O Lord what wait I for My trust and hope is all on thee 8 Save me from all my sins lest I To wicked fools a scorn should be 9 As dumb I opened not my mouth Because I knew the scourge was thine 10 Remove from me thy heavy hand Under thy chastening stroke I pine 11 When with rebukes thou chastenest man Justly for his iniquity His strength dissolveth like a moth Thus every man is vanity 12 Lord hear my pray'r regard my cries And be not silent at my tears I sojourn and a stranger am On earth as all my fathers were 13 O spare me yet prolong my days My strength and peace do thou restore Before I go from hence by death And shall be seen on earth no more PSALM XL. 1 I Waited long seeking the Lord And patiently his hand did bear And he inclined unto me And did my cry and prayer hear 2 He took me from an horrid pit Out of the sordid miry clay And set my feet upon a Rock And safely stablished my way 3 He put a new song in my mouth Our God to praise and magnifie Many shall see and fear the Lord And shall by faith on him rely 4 O blessed is that man whose trust Upon the Lord alone relies Respecting not the proud nor such As turn aside from truth to lyes 5 O Lord my God how many are The wonders thou for us hast wrought By which thou hast made known to us The measures of thy gracious thoughts They cannot all be reckoned up By-us in order unto thee If I would mention them they 'r more Than numbered by man can be 6 Thou dost no bloody sacrifice Or offering of us desire Burnt-offering and sin-offering Thou dost not now of man require Mine ear thou openedst to thy call 7 Then said I to thee Loe I come For so of me it written is Even in thy sacred book 's Volumne 8 My God I come to do thy will It is my work and great delight My heart within the Tables is Where thou thy holy Law didst write 9 In the great Congregation I Thy truth and righteousness did preach Thou know'st Lord I did not refrain By sinful silence holy speech 10 I have not in my heart conceal'd Thy sacred truth and righteousness But openly I have declar'd Thy saving grace and faithfulness Thy loving kindness I declar'd I did it not from men conceal To thy great Congregations Thy holy truth I did reveal 11 Thy tender saving mercies Lord With hold not nor to me deny Let thy benignity and truth Keep me from ill continually 12 For I am compassed about With evils great and manifold I am not able to look up My sins on me do take such hold More than hairs on my head they are Therefore my failing heart 's dismaid Be pleased Lord to deliver me O Lord make hast to be my aid 14 Shame and confusion be to all That seek my guiltless blood to spill Let them be driven back and sham'd Who wish in heart my wrongful ill 15 For a reward of this their shame Then desolate let them all be Who in my hurt do cry Aha With scorn and triumph over me 16 Let all that truly seek thy face Joy and be ever glad in thee Let such a love thy grace still say Our God shall magnified be 17 I weak and poor and needy am But yet am not of God forgot Thou art my help and saviour My God O too long tarry not PSALM XLI 1 BLest is he who with mercy doth The poor and needy's case consider For in the troublous evil day The Lord will him keep and deliver 2 The Lord will him preserve alive And he will bless him in the land And thou wilt not deliver him Into his enemies will and hand 3 Upon his bed of languishing He shall by thee be strengthened And in his painful sickness thou For ease wilt make and turn his bed 4 I pray'd and said to thee my God O be thou merciful to me And heal my soul of guilt and woe That hath by sin offended thee 5 Mine enemies speak and wish me ill And say How long when will he dye That so his name may be forgot Or buried under slanders lye 6 Or if he come to visit me He speaketh lies and vanity His heart to tell it all abroad Gathers it self iniquity 7 Against me they whisper and plot Then all that are mine enemies Together they some hurt or ill Against me daily do devise 8 There cleaves to him say they with joy Some ill disease or mortal sore And now that he doth keep his bed Off it he shall rise up no more 9 Yea he with whom I liv'd in peace Who was my friend and confident Who of my bread did eat even he His scornful hee l against me bent 10 But thou O Lord be merciful To me and raise me up agen That I in justice may requite The doings of these wicked men 11 And by this I may know that I Am own'd and favoured by thee Because mine enemies do not still Thus boast and triumph over me 12 Thou me in mine integrity Upholdest by thy saving grace And wilt me set for evermore Before thy pleased glorious face 13 The Lord the God of Israel For ever prais'd and blessed be From age to age for evermore All Saints Amen Amen say ye PSALM XLII 1 AS the dry Hart for water-brooks In thirst doth fainting pant and bray So after thee my gracious God My thirsty soul
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
early after God 35 Then they remembred that the Lord Was their strong Rock that did them save And their Redeemer the high God Who unto them deliverance gave 36 Yet with their mouth they flatter'd him And spake all this deceitfully And they unto the God of truth With their unfaithful tongues did lie 37 For all this while their hearts within Were not found upright and sincere Nor in his holy Covenant Unchangeable and steadfast were 38 But full of pity he forgave Their sin and did not them destroy And did not stir up all his wrath But often turned it away 39 For he remembred that they were But flesh whose time is short and vain And like a wind which passing by Is gone and cometh not again They oft in th' desart him provok'd Displeased with what they had done 41 Yea they turned back and tempted God Limiting Israel's Holy One. 42 And they remembred not his hand Nor yet the former days when he From their oppressing enemy Had saved them and set them free 43 How he in Egypt wrought his signs And wonders great in Zoan field 44 And turn'd their Rivers into blood And floods that they no drink could yield 45 Among them he sent divers sorts Of flyes which did them much annoy And did devour their fruits and frogs He sent to vex them and destroy 46 Their increase by the caterpiller Their labour was by locusts lost 47 Their vines he did destroy with hail And their Sycamore trees with frost 48 He gave their cattle to the hail Their flocks by thunder-bolts were spent 49 Fierce wrath and trouble cast on them By evil Angels to them sent 50 He to his anger did make way And spared not their souls from death But to the wasting Pestilence He did give up their vital breath 51 All Egypt's first-born he smote down And in Ham's land their chiefest strength 52 He made them let his people go Like sheep he led them out at length He in the desart did them guide 53 And like a flock them safely led So that they were secur'd from fear But their foes the sea covered 54 He brought them to the borders where His sanctuary now doth stand Even to the sacred mountain which He purchased with his right hand 55 Before them cast the heathen out Their land to them he did divide And made the tribes of Israel In their tents to dwell and abide 56 Yet did they tempt the most high God Him by their sin provoked they And did not his commandements Unfeignedly keep and obey 57 But like their fathers turned back And dealt with God unfaithfully Like a deceitful warping bow Which turn'd aside doth shoot awry 58 They to displeasure him provok'd With Altars set in places high And with their graven Images They moved him to jealousie 59 When God heard this he was displeas'd And abhor'd Israel greatly then 60 So that he Shilo's place forsook The tent he placed among men 61 His peoples strength he captive gave His glory to the enemies hand 62 He gave his people to the sword And was wroth with his chosen land 63 The fire consumed their young men And their maidens no marriage had 64 Their Priests also fell by the sword Their wives no lamentation made 65 But then the Lord arose like one That doth from silent sleep awake And like a Giant that by wine Exhilerate a shout doth make 66 And on his enemies hinder parts He made his heavy strokes to fall And so upon them all he cast Reproach and shame perpetual 67 Moreover Joseph's Tabernacle And Ephraim's Tribe he did refuse 68 But the Mount Sion which he lov'd And Judah's Ruling Tribe did choose 69 His Sanctuary there he built Like to a Palace fair and high And like the earth which his hand hath Founded for perpetuity 70 His servant David he did choose And him his peoples Ruler make And from the governing of sheep To dignity he did him take 71 From following Ewes great with young He call'd and brought him up to feed Israel his own inheritance His servant Jacob's chosen seed 72 So after the integrity Of his heart they by him were fed And by his hands great skilfulness By him they were well governed PSALM LXXIX 1 O God the heathen do invade Thy heritage and now by them Thy Temple is defil'd On heaps They lay thy dear Jerusalem 2 The bodies of thy servants they Cast forth have given to be meat For ravenous fowls and thy Saints flesh Unto the beasts of th' earth to eat 3 Their blood about Jerusalem Like common water they have shed And there was none to bury them When they by them were cast out dead 4 To all our neighbours that hear this A jeast and meer reproach are we A sâ—orn and mocking-stock to those That dwelling round about us be 5 How long Lord O not evermore Shall this thine anger towards us last Shall thy provoked jealousie Like fire thus always burn and wa st 6 Upon the heathen pour thy wrath That have not known thee and thy fame And on the Kingdoms which have not Ador'd thy great and holy name 7 For these are they that Jacob have Slain and devoured cruelly And made his famous dwelling-place As ruinous and wa st to lye 8 O charge not on us former sins Thy tender pardoning mercies show Let them prevent us speedily For we are now brought very low 9 For thy name's glory help us Lord Who art and hast our Saviour bin For thy names-sake deliver us And purge away our guilt and sin 10 Why say the heathen Where 's their God Let him to them be better known When these that shed thy servants blood Are in our sight judg'd and o'rethrown 11 O let the prisoners sighs ascend Before thy righteous sight on high Preserve those by thy soveraign power That are by men design'd to dye 12 And to our neighbours let seven fold Reward in Judgment rendred be Even that reproach wherewith they have Falsly O God reproached thee 13 So we thy folk and pasture-sheep Will give thee joyful thanks always And to all ages yet to come We will shew forth thy glorious praise PSALM LXXX 1 O Israel's shepherd hear who dost Like a flock Joseph feed and guide Shine forth O thou that dost between The sacred Cherubims abide 2 In Ephraim's and Benjamin's And also in Manasseh's sight For our speedy salvation come Stir up and shew thy saving might 3 Turn us again and bring us home And upon us do thou vouchsafe O God to make thy face to shine And then we shall again be safe 4 Lord God of Hosts how long wilt thou Thus in thy burning anger smoak Against thy peoples humble prayer Who do thy sacred Name invoke 5 Instead of bread tears are their food Which now thou givest them to eat And tears thou givest them to drink And that in measure very great 6 Thou makest us a strife unto Our envious neighbours round about Our enemies among
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
Word 5 There God hath placed Thrones of Power To judge his flock in righteousness The promis'd Thrones of David's house Which God 's own Government express 6 Pray for Jerusalem's true peace Lord prosper all her faithful friends 7 Her Courts bless with prosperity Let Peace within her walls defend 8 For my dear holy brethrens sake Who have my faithful comforts bin I 'le daily beg of God for thee Safety without and Peace within 9 And for the sake of God's own house Where we his name must praise and bless With all the powers of my soul I 'le seek thy real happiness PSALM CXXIII 1 LOrd in my lowest state To thee I lift mine eye Whose glorious dwelling is above Even in the heavens high 2 As servants eyes do look Unto their Master's hands And as a maiden doth expect Her Mistresses Commands So on the Lord our God Our eyes do still attend Until to our relief and help His mercy condescend 3 Have mercy on us Lord On us thy mercy show For we are filled with contempt From the insulting foe 4 Our souls fill'd with the scorn Of those that are at ease Are overwhelm'd with the contempt Of the proud foes of peace PSALM CXXIV 1 HAd not the Lord been on our side His Israel must now confess 2 Had not the Lord been on our side When men of blood sought our distress 3 Then they had swallow'd us alive When their hot wrath against us flam'd 4 The waters of their furious rage Over our sinking souls had stream'd 5 Then had these proud insulting waves O'rewhelm'd us with their cruel Laws 6 Blest be the Lord who made us not A prey unto their greedy jaws 7 Our soul like an entangled bird Escap'd out of the Fowler 's snare The snare our pow'rful Lord hath broke Our trembling souls escaped are 8 Our only help we find doth stand In the great name of our great Lord Whose power made the glorious heav'ns The earth and all things by his word PSALM CXXV 1 THey that in God put all their trust Shall firmly stand like Sion hill Which by no changes is remov'd But is the same and standeth still 2 And as about Jerusalem Mountains enclose that holy ground So will the Lord for evermore Himself his people compass round 3 For just mens rights and heritage Wicked men shall not still possess Lest righteous men should then put forth Their tempted hand to wickedness 4 Do good Lord to those that are good To men that are of upright heart But as for such as turn aside In crooked ways by sin pervert 5 The Lord shall lead them forth with those Who love and work iniquity But everlasting blessed peace On God 's true Israel shall be PSALM CXXVI 1 WHen God did lay aside his wrath And Captive Sion did redeem The great surprisal of our joy Made us like men that do but dream 2 Our mouth then fill'd with laughter did By singing our great joy express That God hath done great things for us The heathen enemies did confess 3 That God hath done great things for us We speak with glad and thankful mouth 4 Fully restore thy Captives Lord As streams refresh the scorched South 5 They that do sow in mournful tears Their water'd seed's not cast away But they a multiplyed crop Shall shortly reap with endless joy 6 He that in tears doth now go forth And cast his precious seed on earth With great increase in plenteous sheaves Shall come again with endless mirth PSALM CXXVII 1 EXcept the Lord do build house It 's but vain pains the builders take Except the Lord the City keep It 's but in vain the Watchmen wake 2 It 's vain for you betime to rise And late your selves from rest to keep To eat the bread of grief and care While God's beloved rest and sleep 3 Good Children are God's heritage The womb 's blest fruit is his reward 4 Children of youth like arrows are For Parents strength and joy prepar'd 5 Happy therein is he that hath His house his Quiver full of those For he unshamed in the gate Shall boldly speak unto his foes PSALM CXXVIII 1 BLest is each one that fears the Lord And walketh in his holy ways 2 For thou shalt of thy labour eat And happy shalt thou be always 3 As fruitful Vines by thy house-side So shall thy wife with fruit spring out Thy children like to Olive Plants Shall stand thy table round about 4 Behold the man that feareth God Blest visibly by him shall be 5 The Lord shall out of Sion give A plenteous blessing unto thee Jerusalem's good thou shalt see Whilst thou in life on earth dost dwell Thy Children's Children thou shalt see And promis'd peace on Israel PSALM CXXIX 1 MAny a time may Israel say With thankfulness to God in truth Have wicked men afflicted me Even from my prime and early youth 2 Many a time even from my youth Their cruel hands have me assail'd But for my wished overthrow They have not yet by rage prevail'd 3 The plowers plowing on my back Did long and bloody furrows make 4 But God is just and me preserv'd Their strongest cords he always brake 5 Let wicked men who Sion hate And all their plots confounded be Let them with shame be turned back And not their hop'd successes fee. 6 Let them be like the rootless grass Which grows a while on the house-tops And quickly withereth away Before they reach their wicked hopes 7 This grass fills not the mower's hand The binder finds no fruitful sheaves 8 Nor God nor man on such curs'd weeds A blessing either finds or leaves PSALM CXXX 1 OUt of the horrid woful deeps Where sin and wrath had cast me down To thee O Lord I poured forth My earnest suit and daily moan 2 O thou the Prayer-hearing God This humbled sinner's voice now hear To my loud cries and sad complaints Let pity grant a hearing ear 3 If in strict Justice thou should'st mark And charge on man iniquity Lord who shall stand at thy just bar Or who himself can justifie 4 But with thee there forgiveness is Thy word of grace doth this declare That sinful man may worship thee In joyful hope without despair 5 Therefore for thee O Lord I wait My soul doth daily wait on thee And on thy sure and faithful word My constant hope shall placed be 6 My soul more waiteth on the Lord Than they that watch for morning light More than the watchful man doth long To see a pleasant morning bright 7 O Israel still hope in the Lord Though low and broken be thy case For with the Lord still mercy is And we shall see his pleased face 8 Plenteous redemption with him is The Lord his chosen flock will bless He will redeem them from their sins And from their felt and fear'd distress PSALM CXXXI 1 LOrd I disclaim a haughty mind And an ambitious lofty eye I do not exercise my self In things for me
to come and speak with so great concernedness about Prosperity and Adversity here and especially that he saith so much through almost all the Book against his Enemies and the Oppression and Cruelties of wicked men and his great danger of them and sufferings by them even cursing them and their Posterity Answ As to this it must be considered 1. That it is most certain that not only David but the Jews generally except the Sadducees believed the Immortality of the Soul and the Rewards and Punishments of the other Life And many passages in the Psalms prove it And so do the Histories of Enoch and Elias and Saul's seeking to dead Samuel and the raising of divers dead men and Herod thought that John was risen and others that Christ was one of the old Prophets All which had been impossible had not the soul survived He that ask'd Christ what he should do to inherit eternal Life spake but on the Principle of the Jews Faith 2. But the future state of souls being not near so fully revealed under the Law as it was after by Christ who brought life and immortality more to light by the Gospel God saw it meet to give men under the Law more motives to Obedience and against Sin both by his word and works from outward Mercies and Punishments than under the Gospel which much more teacheth us the Doctrine of the Cross. 3. And David was a King whose concerns therefore were publick even the Churches and Kingdoms as well as his own And all Christians must be greatly affected with publick Church concerns And as he was a Type of Christ his Enemies are cursed as Christ's Enemies which yet he seemeth oft to do but Prophetically 4. And it must be noted that it is not their damnation that is his usual curse and wish though he foretel it of the impenitent but their destruction on earth for the Churches deliverance by the utter extirpation of them and their Posterity 5. And though Christ teach us to love our enemies and bless them that curse us and pray for them that hate and persecute us yet he forbids us not to desire deliverance from them nor to hate their Diabolical Lying Malignity and Cruelty and Enmity to the Gospel and to Obedience to God It 's a great Duty to note the universal War in all Lands and Ages between the Serpent's and the Woman's seed and to know that Brutishness first and Cainism and Diabolism next are the Serpent's Progency as naturally prospering in corrupted graceless men as Maggots in a Carkass And they that live in an Age and Land where these prevail and are in power will have a sensible Commentary of David's Psalms And in Prisons and in Wars and Fields of Blood and Torments many have confessed that now they understood the Psalms of David which they never soundly understood before 6. Lastly Though David say not so much of the Life to come as we could wish he saith very much of the way to it and the necessary means He knew that Heaven is ready for us if we be but ready for it And all that must be done for it by us is in this short hasty life And as a Traveller doth not all the way talk and think so much of his Journeys end as of all passages in his way and yet doth all this for the end so a good Christian that layeth out his care and labour in obeying God's Word and avoiding sin and doing all the good he can in the World and this in faith and hope of Heavenly Felicity doth better than be that neglecteth present means on pretence of only contemplating the end We are all in our Baptism listed in Christ's Army as Cross-bearers against the Devil World and Flesh And he that lamenteth not the successes of Satan and the greatness of his Kingdom the vastness of the Dominions of Heathens and Infidels the fewness of Christians the greater paucity of those that are Christians indeed sincere and serious that are more for Heaven than for Earth and mortifie the Lusts of the Flesh by the Spirit and how wofully Satan hath prevailed to make Hypocritical Nominal Christians more false malignant and blood-thirsty than many Turks and Heathens and how lamentably in many Christian Nations he hath so far got Power and Ministry on his side as to be the most effectual hinderers of the serious Practice of that Christian Religion which themselves profess I say he that is not sensible of this is not a genuine Disciple of Christ and a skilful Souldier in his Army And he that is will understand David's Psalms but yet Christ will teach him that it is by Faith and Patience that Christians must be more than Conquerours while they are killed all the day long and counted as sheep to the slaughter while nothing can seperate them from the love of God § 5. Quest But are not the Psalms sufficiently by Translation and Metre already fitted to the Churches use What need any more help of yours Answ I am not so vain as to expect that my Version should be of publick Church-use Others have done well in several respects I delight to read them and love and honour all the Authors I wrote for my own use not intending any Publication and that in my Restraint when my soul 's great Concerns made it my chief and necessary Employment When it was my interest and daily work to speak to God And I found the Psalms so fitted to my use as if they had been purposely made for me When I used not to sleep one minute is many Nights through pain and disturbance these Psalms were my recreation And when Meditations of the same things still grow customary and dull Psalms especially of Praise revived and exhilerated my Soul both Night and Day And we are bound while we we have time to do good to all men and Grace as well as Nature is communicative And Charity to Souls is more excellent than to Bodies I have no hope of reaching the Seraphick strain of Mr. George Sandys especially on Job But he hath not fitted his Metres to the usual Tunes so that to the Vulgar they are almost useless Bishop King's are very good but the unusual-way of making the Rythme of the next Verse meet maketh it by disuse unpleasant to the most Mr. White 's the Scots and Mr. Row's his Second are an excellent Translation of the Hebrew Text But the ear desireth greater melody than their strict Versions will allow Mr. William Barton hath done excellently of whom I have made much use But his great labour for Rythmes hath made it though more excellent to some yet less grave and less taking to many others Mr. Woodford's and Sandy's and Patrick's and Davision's and some others that have taken a larger Paraphrastical liberty than I have done are much more pleasant and useful to many But when I perused all these and others for my own daily devotion and delight I found none of them that
beauty shall consume And it shall perish in the grave When carry'd from their houses they Shall their in dust their dwelling have 15 But God will sure redeem my soul From the hand of death and the grave For he my hope saviour is And he himself will me receive 16 Be not discouraged by fear When wicked men grow great and rich And when the glory of their house Their pomp and pow'r increaseth much 17 For he shall carry nothing hence When certain death his days shall end Nor shall his glory after him Into the loathsome grave descend 18 Though he his flatter'd soul did bless Whil'st he on earth in wealth did live And when thy courses prosperous are Worldly men will thee praises give 19 Yet shall he to his fathers go Who lived here on earth before And shall be laid among the dead Who here shall see the light no more 20 Man that in worldly honour lives And God's Word understandeth not Is nothing better than the beasts That die and in the grave do rot PSALM L. 1 THe Lord the mighty God Spake and the earth did call From the Sun-rising to the place Of its descent and fall 2 Out of holy Sion Beauty's perfection The Lord hath shined unto man 3 Our God shall surely come He shall not silent be Before him fire doth burn And round about he dreadful is By his tempestuous storm 4 And from the heav'ns above His pow'rful voice shall call And to the earth below that he May judge his people all 5 Together let my Saints To me assembled be Those that by sacrifice have made A Covenant with me 6 The heav'ns themselves then shall His righteousness declare For it is the great God himself By whom all judged are 7 My people hear my words And what I testifie Against thee sinful Israel God even thy God am I. 8 For want of sacrifice To me I judge thee not Nor because thy burnt-offerings were Neglected or forgot 9 I 'le take no calf or goats From house or fold of thine 10 The forest-beasts and cattle all On thousand hills are mine 11 The fowls on mountains high Are all to me well known Wild beasts which in the fields abide Are all of them my own 12 And if I hungry were I would not tell it thee For the whole world and Its fulness Doth all belong to me 13 I 'le not eat flesh of bulls Nor goats blood drink will I. 14 Offer true thanks to God and pay Thy vows to the most high 15 And call thou upon me In thy most troublous days And then will I deliver thee And thou shalt give me praise 16 But to the wicked man God saith My word of truth Should'st thou declare how dar'st thou take My Covenant in thy mouth 17 Sith thou instruction hat'st which should thy life direct And my commands behind thy back Dost cast and them reject 18 When thou a thief didst see With him thou then consent'st And with the foul adulterer Thou a partaker went'st 19 Thou giv'st thy mouth to ill Thy tongue deceit doth frame 20 Against thy brother thou dost speak Thy mothers son defame 21 Because I silence kept Whilst thou these things hast wrought That I was such a one as thou Was thine ungodly thought But I will thee reprove And set before thine eyes In order all thy sinful deeds And thine iniquities 22 Now you that God forget In time this well consider Lest I in pieces tear you all And none can you deliver 23 Whoso doth offer praise Doth rightly honour me And he that orders well his ways Shall God's salvation see PSALM LI. 1 AFter thy loving kindness Lord Some pity on a sinner take Blot out my hainous trespasses Good Lord for thy great mercies sake 2 O wash me throughly from my sin Cleanse me from mine iniquities 3 For my transgressions I confess My sin is still before mine eyes 4 Against thee O my God I sin'd And did this evil in thy sight And if I were therefore condemn'd Yet were thy judgments just and right 5 Thou know'st that in iniquity My shape and nature I receiv'd As guilty and defil'd by sin My sinful mother me conceiv'd 6 I know that which thou dost desire Is truth within the secret heart And wisdom thou wilt make me know Even in the hidden inward part 7 With sacred Hyssop purge thou me And then I shall be cleansed so Wash thou me in my Saviour's blood And I shall whiter be than snow 8 Of joy and gladness make thou me To hear again the welcome voice That so the bones which thou for sin Hast justly broken may rejoyce 9 From the beholding of my sin O turn away thy angry face And all my great iniquity Blot out and utterly deface 10 O God create in me a heart Clean and unspotted in thy sight And by thy grace in me renew A spirit sincere and upright 11 And from thy gracious presence Lord Do not this sinner cast away And of thy holy quickning spirit Deprive me not I humbly pray 12 Let the joy of thy saving grace To my sad soul restored be And with thy free enlarging spirit Uphold confirm and comfort me 13 Then I will teach thy holy ways To those that now transgressors be And so ungodly sinful men Shall be converted unto thee 14 O thou the God of all my hopes Deliver me from guilt of blood Then of thy saving righteousness My joyful tongue shall sing aloud 15 Open my lips which by my sin Now silenced and closed are And then shall my enlarged mouth Thy praises publickly declare 16 I know it is not sacrifice Which thou requirest I should bring Else would I give it Nor art thou Delighted with burnt-offering 17 The sacrifice which pleaseth God Is a repenting broken spirit O God thou never wilt despise A heart that 's broken and contrite 18 In thy good pleasure Lord do good To Sion and thy people all Of thy belov'd Jerusalem Do thou build up the broken wall 19 The sacrifice of righteousness Shall then be pleasing unto thee Better than whole burnt-offerings then Shall on thine Altar offered be PSALM LII 1 O Mighty man in wickedness Why boastest thou thy self with pride God's goodness to his people will Surely for evermore abide 2 Thy tongue speaks mischief which thy heart Plots and deviseth wickedly And like a sharpned rasor cuts And works by lies deceitfully 3 Thou lovest evil more than good And lying more than to speak right Thou false tongue all devouring words Thou lovest with cruel delight 4 God shall for ever cut thee down And he shall take thee quite away And pluck thee from thy dwelling-place And from among the living slay PSALM LIII 1 THe lives of fools do tell us that Their hearts no God do truly own Corrupt are they odious their works Of them that do good there is none 2 Upon the wicked sons of men From heav'n God lookt on earth abroad To see if any
the wondrous works which he For us the Sons of Men hath done 32 And when the people congregate Let them his Name in triumph raise And in the Elders assemblies Let all there celebrate his praise 33 To Desarts he the Rivers turns And water springs into dry ground 34 A fruitful land to barrenness When wickedness doth there abound 35 He desarts turns to water-pools And dry ground into water springs 36 And there he makes the hungry dwell And them to build a City brings 37 To sow the fields and plant vineyards Which may yield them fruit of increase 38 He blesseth them they multiply Their flocks preserveth from decrease 39 But yet in this unconstant state They are diminished again And for their sins they are brought low Opprest afflicted and in pain 40 On Princes he doth pour contempt And wandring causeth them to stay In desart places for their sin Where desolate they find no way 41 Yet setteth he the poor on high From their contempt and miseries And like to great increasing flocks Giveth them prosperous families 42 All this the righteous shall perceive And shall rejoice these things to see And the mouth of iniquity Shall ever stopt and silent be Who so is wise and will these things Observe and in their minds record They shall well understand and taste The loving kindness of the Lord. PSALM CVIII 1 O God my heart is fixt I will sing and give praise 2 My Glory Psaltery Harp and self For this I 'll early raise 3 Among the people all I 'll praise thy name O God Thy praises I will sing among The Nations all abroad 4 For great thy mercy is Above the Heavens high Thy truth and faithfulness doth reach Above the cloudy Skie 5 Above the Heavens O God Be thou exalted high And over all the spacious earth Thy Glory magnifie 6 That thy beloved Ones Delivered may be O save them with thine own right hand And hear and answer me 7 I will rejoice for God Spake from his holy Seat Shechem I will divide and will The Vale of Succoth mete 8 Gilead is only mine Manasseh mine shall be Ephraim is the strength of my Head Juda gives Laws for me 9 Moab my washpot is On Edom I will tread And the Philistine-Nation all In triumph I will lead 10 Who will bring me into The City fortify'd And who will into Edom's Land My conquering Army guide 11 Even he that cast us off And wilt not thou O God Again go forth before our Hosts When â—hey do march abroad 12 From trouble give us help For vain is all Mens aid 13 Through God we shall do valiantly Our Foes he down will tread PSALM CIX 1 O Thou that art God of my praise Neglect me not hold not thy peace 2 For Mouths of wicked lying Men To speak against me do not cease The Mouths of false deceitful Men Against me widely opened be And with a false and lying Tongue Thou knowest they have accused me 3 They did beset me round about With bitter words of hateful spight And though I gave to them no Cause Against me they did speak and fight 4 They for my love became my foes But I did give my self to pray 5 They me with ill for good reward And hatred for my love repay 6 Set over him a wicked Man Let Satan stand at his right hand 7 And let his Prayer become sin Let him when judged be condemn'd 8 Let his days be but few and short His Office let another take 9 Let his Children be Fatherless His Wife do thou a Widow make 10 Let his Children wander and beg And seek their Bread in Desert soil 11 The Extortioner caâ—ch all he hath Let Strangers all his Labours spoil 12 Let none to him Mercy extend Nor pity to his Orphans show 13 Let his Off-spring be quite cut off And the next Age his name not know 14 Let God his Father's Wickedness In Justice to remembrance call Let unto him his Mother's sin Be never blotted out at all 15 But let their sins and them be seen Before the Lord continually That he may cut off from the Earth Their very Name and Memory 16 Because he did not Mercy show But persecute the Weak and Poor That such as were of broken heart He might destroy or break yet more 17 As he in cursing did delight Upon himself so let it come In blessing he delighted not So him let it be still far from 18 As he with cursing cloath'd himself As garments cloath adorned ones As water let it on him come And like to oil into his bones 19 As garments to him let it be Even as his covering and array And as a girdle on his loins Wherewith he girded is alway 20 From God let this be the reward To him that is mine enemy And of them that against my Soul Do evil speak maliciously 21 But for thy own name sake O Lord Do thou in mercy deal with me Thy mercies good therefore O Lord By it let me delivered be 22 I poor and needy am my heart Wounded in me hath comfort lost 23 Like the declining shadow sunk And like the flitting Locust tost 24 My knees with fasting are grown weak My fatness and my flesh are worn 25 To them that see me a reproach They shake their heads at me in scorn 26 Help me O Lord my God and let Thy mercy my deliverance bring 27 That they may know it is thy hand And that the Lord hath done the thing 28 Bless thou whenever they do curse When they rise let them shamed be But let thy faithful Servants all Be glad and still rejoice in thee 29 And let my causless enemies Be cloathed with shame and disgrace And let confusion mantle like Become the covering of their face 30 But with my mouth I daily will Declare the praises of the Lord And among the great multitude His praises I 'll speak and record 31 For he shall stand at the right hand Of the oppressed to controul Their foes and save them from those Men who do condemn the guiltless Soul PSALM CX 1 THE Lord to my Lord said Sit thou at my right hand Till I thy foes a foot stool make Subject to thy command 2 God will from Sion send The rod of thy great power In midst of all thine enemies Be thou the Governour 3 A willing people in Thy reign shall come to thee In holy joys from mourning's womb Thy youth like dew shall be 4 The Lord himself hath sworn And will repent it never Of the order of Melchizedeck Thou art a Priest for ever 5 The great and glorious Lord Who is at thy right hand Shall in his day of wrath strike through Kings who do thee withstand 6 The heathen he shall judge And graves fill with the dead And over many Countries he Shall wound their proudest head 7 He shall drink of the brook That runneth in the way Therefore shall he lift up the head In his triumphing day