those Who trust in Them repose verse 19 His praise O ye from Iacob spring O house of Aaron sing verse 20 O house of Levi who profess His feare your Maker bless verse 21 From Sion let your blessings sound Your thankfull Songs abound Praise ye the Lord His mercies tell Who doth in Salem dwell PSAL. CXXXVI To the usuall Tune As Psalme 148. verse 1 GIve thanks unto the Lord Who doth all good afford verse 2 The God of Gods who swaies verse 3 Those Lords whom earth obeyes verse 4 Who hath alone Great wonders done His mercy sure Doth still endure verse 5 To Him who Heavens made verse 6 Earth 'bove the waters lay'd verse 7 To Him who form'd great lights To rule our daies and nights verse 8 The Sun at noone The Stars and Moone verse 9 Whose mercy sure Doth still endure verse 10 Who Egypts first-borne smote And Iacob from them brought verse 13 The Red Sea parted was verse 14 For Israel to pass verse 15 But Pharaoh's host In it was lost His mercy sure Doth still endure verse 16 Who His through desarts led Great Kings discomfited verse 19 Sihon the Amorite verse 20 And Og with Bashan's might verse 21 And gave their land verse 22 To Iacob's hand His mercy sure Doth still endure verse 23 Who our low state esteem'd verse 24 And from our foes redeem'd verse 25 Who to all flesh gives food His creatures fills with good verse 26 Your thanks O bring To Heavens King Whose mercy sure Doth still endure PSAL. CXXXVII Sing this as Psalme 119. verse 1 BY Babylons swift streames we sate Sad and disconsolate The teares as fast ran from our ey For Sions memory verse 2 Our harps untuned and unstrung Upon the Willowes hung verse 3 When those who did us captive bring Bid us in scorne to sing They who us spoil'd with sword and fire Did mirth of us require Sing us say'd They one of the Songs To Sion which belongs verse 4 But how shall we sing the Lords Song His Enemies among Or tune His Notes in strangers Land That cannot understand verse 5 O deare Ierusalem when I Forsake thy memory May my skill faile my right hand let Her cunning quite forget verse 6 Cleave to the roof O may my tongue When I not not mourne thy wrong Or if I not preferr thy mirth Above all joyes on earth verse 7 In thy remembrance Lord retaine Proud Edoms fierce disdaine Who 'gainst Ierusalem did cry Mocking hir misery Now she is fall'n nere may our eyes Againe behold hir rise Down with it their rude clamours sound Rase it ev'n to the ground verse 8 O Babylon which did'st us wast Thy self our woes must tast And in thy finall ruin we Sions revenge shall see Happy are They who to requite The measure of thy spight verse 9 Without all pitty 'gainst the stones Shall dash thy little ones PSAL. CXXXVIII verse 1 I Thee will praise with my whole heart My thankfull hymnes impart Before the Gods of Earth I 'le sing My praise to Heaven's King verse 2 I towards Thy Temple worship will And praises utter still Thy word and Name shall loudly sound Whose love and truth abound verse 3 When in my plaints to Thee I cry'd Thy love as soon reply'd My fainting spirit was renew'd With strength my soule endu'd verse 4 The Kings of earth Thy praise shall beare When they Thy words do heare verse 5 They in the waies of God shall sing The glory of their King verse 6 For though the Lord be very high Yet He cast's downe His eye The meek and lowly He respects But all the proud neglects verse 7 Though I in mid'st of trouble live Yet Thou wilt me revive Thy stretch'd out hand my wrathfull foes To ruin shall expose verse 8 The Lord my comforts will assure By mercyes which endure Cease not of me regard to take Nor Thine own works forsake PSAL. CXXXIX Sing this as Psalme 51. verse 1 LOrd thou hast throughly searched me I open am and know'n to Thee verse 2 My sitting downe and my up rise Are not concealed from Thine eyes Thou understand'st my distant thought Ere it to forme my self had brought verse 3 Thou circlest in my path and bed And hast my waies discovered verse 4 Thou hear'st each whisper from my tongue And ere 't was utter'd knew'st it long verse 5 By Thee I fashion'd am and made Thy hand each part in order lay'd verse 6 Yet can I not the knowledge gaine How I this being did attaine Which doth in wonder so excell 'T is easier to admire then tell verse 7 How shall I from Thy spirit fly Or Thy all present pow'r deny verse 8 If I climbe Heav'n 't is Thine own Shere If stoop to Hell lo Thou art there verse 9 If borne upon the mornings wing Far as the Sea doth swell or spring verse 10 Thy Right hand shall protect and lead Where ere my weary footsteps tread verse 11 If I pretend the darknes shall Upon me like a cov'ring fall Those heavy fogs those mists of night Will quickly cleare and turne to light verse 12 The thickest shade or blackest cloud Can nothing from thy knowledg shrow'd For darkness doth like Noon-tide shine Light'ned by brighter beams of Thine verse 13 My reines are Thine Thou mad'st the womb My bodies cloathing to become verse 14 I will give thanks to Thee O Lord Who was enlived by Thy word With awfull art and wond'rous forme Thou did'st Thy workmanship adorne My soule Their marvels must confess And for Thy favours daily bless verse 15 Though I was fashion'd in the dark Too secretly for man to mark There is no curious joynt or bone But was to Thy inspection know'n verse 16 Thou did'st upon my substance look And wrot'st each member in Thy book Thou saw'st how my imperfect frame By daily growth to figure came verse 17 O Lord how pretious O how deare Thy purposes and thoughts appeare verse 18 Which were they summ'd in my account They would the num'rous sands surmount These wonders alwaies presently Fixt in my thankfull memory And whil'st of them surveies I take My contemplation still must wake verse 19 O God! Thou shalt the wicked slay Ye bloody men depart away verse 20 For their fowle tongues Thy honour staine And take Thy sacred Name in vaine verse 21 Do not I hate and grieve at those Whose proud despight against thee rose verse 22 With perfect hate I them despise Accounting them mine enemies verse 23 Search me O Lord and prove my heart Who Judg of all my actions art Do Thou my faith to tryall bring My hidden thoughts examining verse 24 Look well and all my motions view If I persist in waies untrue And when Thou find'st my feet to stray Reduce me to Thy lasting way PSAL. CXL verse 1 SAve me from men to evill bent And from the violent verse 2 Which mischeif in their hearts devise In war and tumult rise verse 3 Their tongues are
like a Serpents whet Their lips in poyson set verse 4 Lord keep me from the raging foe That would my feet orethrow verse 5 The proud have hidden nets prepar'd To take my life ensnar'd verse 6 But I Thou art my God have said O heare and send me aid verse 7 O God my Lord the strength alone Of my salvation In day of battaile Thou my head Hast safely covered verse 8 Grant not O Lord their bad desire Least then their pride aspire verse 9 Let suddaine mischeif cover those Who would my life enclose verse 10 Let quenchless fire upon them raine Nor let them rise againe verse 11 No violent man nor evill tongue On earth be stablish'd long verse 12 I know the Lord will them maintaine Who have afflicted lay'n Their cause regards and doth delight To help the poor to right verse 13 For this unto Thy Name the just Their thanks acknowledg must And those who live upright and well Shall in Thy presence dwell PSAL. CXLI verse 1 TO Thee I cry O Lord make hast To heare my voice at last verse 2 Let my request like Incense rise Or ev'ning sacrifice verse 3 Set Thou a watch my mouth before And keep my speeches doore verse 4 Incline not unto ill my heart With sinners to take part Let me not eat of that delights Their wicked appetites verse 5 But let the righteous me reprove And smite me in his love Like pretious balmes or odours shed Such stroaks not break my head And in my pray'rs I shall them bless In midst of their distress verse 6 When wicked Judges overthrow'n Ly dash'd against the stone They shall with much contentment heare My words which comfort beare verse 7 Disperst and scatter'd on the grave Our bones no value have As fallen trees cut downe and cleft Are in their splinters left verse 8 But though in darknes clos'd I ly On Thee I fix mine eye Thou wilt not leave me in the dust In whom my soul doth trust verse 9 O keep me from the cruell net Which wicked men have set verse 10 Let them be snar'd in their own trap But let my soul escape PSAL. CXLII verse 1 WIth low'd-voic'd cries to God I came And my request did frame verse 2 I powred out my sad complaint And shew'd Him my restraint verse 3 Thou when my soul was drown'd in woe My way and path did'st know Yet in that walk my feet did tread Close snares for me were spread verse 4 I did upon my right hand look But no man knowledg took My soul of help was quite bereft And had no refuge left verse 5 I therefore cry'd to Thee O Lord And said this faithfull word Thou do'st my Help and Portion stand In the Eternall Land verse 6 Consider then my great distress Brought low with heaviness From persecuters me defend Unable to contend verse 7 My soule out of the prison bring That I Thy praise may sing And for this bounty shew'd to me The just shall honour Thee PSAL. CXLIII As Psalme 25. verse 1 O Lord my Prayer heare Presented in Thy feare With mercy answer my request In humblest words exprest verse 2 Weigh not in judgments scales Thy servants daily failes For no man living in Thine eye Himself shall justify verse 3 My foes which do pursue My soule by waies undue Make me in darkness hide my head Like those have long been dead verse 4 My Spirit faint and worne Is by my griefes oreborne My heart within me desolate Through my dejected state verse 5 Yet I the daies of old In my remembrance hold Thy wonders past I meditate And all Thy works of late verse 6 To Thee I stretch my hands Like as the thirsty Lands The fruitfull raines desire to see So thirsts my soul for Thee verse 7 Heare me O Lord with speed My fainting spirit heed Least if Thou frowne I prove like those The pit of Death doth close verse 8 O let my longing eare Betimes Thy kindnes heare In Thee I trust reveale that Path Thy truth prescribed hath verse 9 Lord save me from their spight Who in my wrongs delight To Thee my soul for shelter flies Against hir enemies verse 10 Teach me to do Thy will That I may please Thee still Let Thy good spirit me direct To live with Thine elect verse 11 Lord quicken me againe Cleanse Thou my sinfull staine For Thy great Name and justice sake My soul from trouble take verse 12 I am Thy servant Lord My comfort is Thy word Then of Thy goodnes those destroy Who in my sorrowes joy PSAL. CXLIV verse 1 BLest be the Lord my strength my might Who taught my hands to fight verse 2 My rock my shield and helper true My people to subdue verse 3 Lord what is man or what his race Thy notice should him grace verse 4 Who is so vaine his daies do fade Like to the passing shade verse 5 O Lord the arched Heavens bow Come downe to earth below Touch their proud tops and then thy stroak Shall make the mountains smoak verse 6 From Thy full clouds quick lightning cast And them by scatt'ring wast Let Thy sharp arrowes 'gainst them shot Destruction make their lot verse 7 Send from above Thine hand to save Me from the swelling wave verse 8 From children strange whose mouth speaks hate Whose right hand acts deceit verse 9 Then I new Songs will sing to Thee Upon the Psalterie And on the ten-string'd Instrument Ditties of praise invent verse 10 For God salvation gives to Kings His help to David brings From perill of the Sword and grave He doth His servant save verse 11 Deliver me from strangers hands Whose mouth against Thee bands Whose right hand falshood doth defend Whose deeds in rapine end verse 12 Our Sons like plants then fresh in growth Shall flourish in their youth Our daughters like faire columnes be Which we in Temples see verse 13 Our garners shall be fill'd with store Our sheep bring thousands more verse 14 Our Oxen strong nor shall restraint Cause in our streets complaint verse 15 Happy that people and that place Which is in such a case Yea blessed are and happy they Who God their Lord obey PSAL. CXLV Sing this as Psalme 100. verse 1 I Thee extoll my God and King And of Thy Name for ever sing verse 2 I Thee will bless through all my daies And yield Thy Name eternall praise verse 3 Great is the Lord prais'd and admir'd His greatness is by none exquir'd verse 4 Each generation shall declare How mighty His achievements are verse 5 I will Thy glory celebrate Thy wond'rous works Majestick State verse 6 Thy acts of terrour and of fame All men shall speak and I proclaime verse 7 They shall abundantly profess Thy goodness and Thy righteousness verse 8 Whose grace and full compassions flow To mercy swift to anger slow verse 9 God's goodness every where extends His mercy all His works transcends verse 10 All things O Lord Thou did'st create
uselesse as a broken pot verse 13 For I their slander heard and strife Who counsaile took against my life verse 14 But Lord my trust in Thee is lay'd Thou art my God my help I said verse 15 My fleeting times are in Thy hand Whose short-liv'd date by Thee is span'd Me never to the pow'r expose Or hand of persecuting foes verse 16 On me O let Thy favour shine To save me through Thy grace incline verse 17 Thy servant let no shame befall Who daily on Thy Name doth call Let wicked men confusion have Put downe to silence in the grave verse 18 And shut the lying lips that use The just by slanders to traduce verse 19 O how great goodnesse hast thou wrought For those thee fear whose faith thee sought verse 20 Them shalt Thou in Thy presence hide Kept safe from mens insulting pride And from the tongues malitious strife As in a tow'r defend their life verse 21 Blessed be God whose love endures Whose strong protection me secures verse 22 I said though in my hast unwise I am cut off before Thine eyes Yet hast Thou not my suit deny'd When in my Pray'r to Thee I cry'd verse 23 O Love the Lord who His regards And with revenge the proud rewards verse 24 Be bold since He such grace imparts To strengthen both your hopes hearts PSAL. XXXII verse 1 BLessed is he whose wickednesse To pardon finds accesse Whose sin with all he did amisse Forgot and cover'd is verse 2 Blest is the man to whom The Lord Imputes no crime abhord Whose spirit right whose heart is streight And harbours no deceit verse 3 When I my tongue from speech refrain'd I was with anguish pain'd My bones wax't old through discontent My dayes in moanes were spent verse 4 Thy hand upon me heavy lay Not resting night or day My Moisture was to nothing brought Like fields in Summers drought verse 5 Then I to Thee my sin reveal'd And no offence conceal'd And soon as my confession said My peace with Thee was made verse 6 For this to Thee shall prayer sound What time Thou may'st be found Nor shall the floods which highest goe Thy servants overflow verse 7 Thou art a refuge me to hide From dangers troubled tide With Songs of Thy delivery I shall encompast ly verse 8 I will enforme thy life and teach How thou this blisse shalt reach And with mine eye I thee will guide Least thou should'st tread aside verse 9 Be ye not like the horse or mule Whom reason cannot rule Whose stubborne mouths the bit and reine From fury must restreine verse 10 Great plagues and paines that never end For wicked men attend But those in God their trust who place Sure mercies shall embrace Be glad ye righteous and rejoyce Who make the Lord your choice With shouts alowd your joy impart All ye upright in heart PSAL. XXXIII verse 1 YEe righteous in the Lord delight For praise becomes th' upright verse 2 Let Harpe and Psaltery's consent The ten-string'd instrument verse 3 New Songs record unto the voyce With their melodious noise verse 4 For just Gods promise is to you And all His workes are true verse 5 He righteousnesse and judgment wills All earth his goodnesse fills verse 6 The Heav'ns bright host and all beneath He formed with His breath verse 7 He doth the waters of the deep Heap'd in His store house keep verse 8 Let men and all which earth doth beare Of Him then stand in feare verse 9 He spake and at His free commands The world unmoved stands verse 10 Mens counsailes and devises wrought The Lord will bring to nought verse 11 Yet through all ages His decree And thoughts unchanged be verse 12 Blest is the People He protects And for His Lot elects verse 13 The Lord from Heav'n His dwelling place verse 14 Beheld all humane race verse 15 Their hearts He fashion'd whose each thought And worke to light is brought verse 16 No King is sav'd by multitude Nor man with might endu'd verse 17 As vaine for safety is the horse To reskue by his force verse 18 Who feare and on Gods love relye Are ever in his Eye verse 19 Their Soule to reskue from the grave And life from famine save verse 20 Our soule doth wait for God our sheild verse 21 Glad hopes on Him we build verse 22 Lord let Thy mercy on us be As we beleive in Thee PSAL. XXXIV verse 1 I Will at all times blesse the Lord His praises still record verse 2 And whilst my soule of God makes choice The humble shall rejoyce verse 3 The Lord with me O magnifie Exalt His Name on high I sought Him who my prayer heard And sav'd from all I fear'd verse 5 They look'd to Him and light'ned were No shame their faces beare verse 6 For God did at the poor man's cry Relieve his misery verse 7 His Angell those environs round Who in His fear are sound verse 8 O tast and see how good is Hee To such as faithfull be verse 9 O fear the Lord yee Saints of His For such no blessings misse verse 10 Young Lions often lacking prey With hunger pine away But those that seek His Covenant No good thing ever want verse 11 Come children hearken to my speech I you His feare will teach verse 12 What man is he long life doth crave Or happy dayes would have verse 13 Keep thou thy tongue from wicked wile Thy lips from speaking guile verse 14 Depart from ill in good encrease Pursue and seek for peace verse 15 For on the just God casts His eyes His eares admit their cryes verse 16 Against the bad He sets his face To cut them from their place verse 17 The righteous cry and God attends In trouble safety sends verse 18 He doth in broken hearts delight And saveth soules contrite verse 19 Great troubles on the righteous fall But He releives in all verse 20 He keeps the number of each bone Nor broken shall be one verse 21 Transgressors their own mischeifs slay And with just vengeance pay All such as doe the righteous hate Shall soone be desolate verse 22 For God His servants soules redeems And deare their faith esteems PSAL. XXXV As Psalme 51. verse 1 PLead Lord my cause with striving foes Against them fight who me oppose verse 2 The shield for my Protection weare Draw out Thy all-subduing speare Stop Thou my persecutors way Soule I am thy salvation say verse 4 Let them drove back with shame retire Who to procure my hurt conspire verse 5 Like chaffe before the Whirlwinds blast Let them be by God's Angell chas'd verse 6 Darke be their way their steps untrue And let His Angel them pursue verse 7 For without cause they hid their snare And for my soule did pits prepare verse 8 But let themselves surprised all In their contriv'd destruction fall verse 9 My soule in God shall joyfull be verse 10 My bones all say who 's like to Thee
the proper Tune verse 1 HAve mercy O my God! on me Who thus dejected fly to Thee According to Thy boundlesse love The weight of mine offence remove verse 2 From Thine un-wasted pitties spring Thy wonted streames of pardon bring O wash my leprous soule againe And cleanse me from this bloody staine verse 3 In sad repentance I confesse The knowledge of this wickednesse verse 4 Against Thee have I sinn'd alone Who art my Judge for what is done I cannot hide the blood I spilt Nor will excuse my secret guilt That at Thy bar when I am try'd Thy sentence might be justify'd verse 5 Brought forth I was to Parents scorne In sin conceiv'd with sorrow Borne And have emprov'd by act and thought Those spots which to the world I brought verse 6 But Thou dost inward truth require And only can'st that grace inspire Thou therefore shalt who wisdome art With understanding fill my heart verse 7 Purge me with Hyssop then my soule Shall cleansed be though nev'r so foule Wash me and my black crimes will grow More white then is the falling snow verse 8 Make me to hear Thy mercies voice So shall my broken bones rejoyce verse 9 Turne from my sinnes Thy face away Nor let them in remembrance stay verse 10 Create O God! a cleansed heart Renew my soule chast thoughts impart verse 11 Me from Thy presence never drive Nor of thy guiding grace deprive verse 12 Restore Thy comfort yet at last And let Thy spirit keep me fast verse 13 Then wicked men thy wayes I le teach And sinners shall conversion reach verse 14 Deliver me from guilt of blood O God Thou Authour of my good verse 15 Open my lips enlarge my tongue And then thy prayses shall be sung verse 16 Thou do'st not sacrifice desire Or any offring made by fire verse 17 The sacrifices God delight Are broken hearts and soules contrite verse 18 O cast thy favourable eye On Sions low calamity Build up neglected Salems wall Whose Structures now to ruin fall verse 19 Then shalt Thou be when once appeas'd With our devout oblations pleas'd Who heapes of Incense up will fling And bullocks to Thine Altar bring PSAL. LII verse 1 WHy boasting Tyrant dost thou threat Thou canst do mischeife yet Gods constant goodnesse will prevent Thy murtherous intent verse 2 Thy tongue suggestions doth devise Like rasors cut thy lyes verse 3 Thou evill more then goodnesse lov'st Deceit not truth approv'st verse 4 Thy words false tongue mens lives devour But God shall by His pow'r verse 5 Pluck thee from earth thy dwelling place Thy name from heaven rase verse 6 The just these judgments see and feare Which wicked ones must beare And all their malice vainly try'd With laughter shall deride verse 7 Lo this is he who God not chose For his assur'd repose But strong in violence and stealth Rely'd upon his wealth verse 8 Yet I within God's house shall be Like a green Olive tree And on Thy mercy all my daies My confidence will raise verse 9 I for this preservation will My praises offer still And on Thy saving Name await Which Saints must celebrate PSAL. LIII verse 1 THe fool whose heart doth truth upbraid There is no God hath said Corrupted is with sin their mind And none to good enclin'd verse 2 God His survay from Heaven took And downe on men did look To see if any Him would know Or seek His truth below verse 3 But now revolted every one To filthinesse is gone His Law by none is understood There is not one doth good verse 4 Will they all knowledge thus defy That work iniquity Who eat my people up as bread Nor God have worshipped verse 5 He by false fear and vaine affright Their bones hath scatter'd quite Through Gods just vengeance and despise In shame their glory lies verse 6 O that from Sion help were sent To end our banishment For Iacobs Off-spring then in peace Should joy in their release PSAL. LIV. verse 1 SAve me O God and by Thy might With judgment do me right Be Thou to my request attent verse 2 My words in sorrow sent verse 3 For 'gainst my soule Oppressors rise Strangers who thee despise verse 4 But thou my help and champion art For those that take my part verse 5 With sure revenge He shall repay And cut my foes away verse 6 Free off'rings then to thee shall flame And I will praise Thy Name verse 7 His goodnesse me from trouble saves And gives them timelesse graves Mine eye on those sees his desire Who did my fall conspire PSAL. LV Sing this as the Lamentation verse 1 1 GIve eare O God unto my pray'r From my request not hidden far verse 2 Attend to me with crying faint Who lowdly mourne in my complaint verse 3 Because my foes injurious voyce Mine innocence decryes with noyse And bad oppressors That impute Which doth their wrath and hatred suit verse 4 My heart within me sore with paine Death's falling terrours doth sustaine verse 5 Cold feare and trembling me dismay'd Orewhelm'd with horrour thus I said verse 6 O that I were with wings possest Like doves to fly and be at rest verse 7 Lo then far off I wander might And to the desart take my flight verse 8 I from the windy storme would hast And this fierce tempest ' scape at last verse 9 Destroy O Lord their tongues divide For in the City strife I spy'd verse 10 Both day and night the walls they round Wherein all mischeifes do abound verse 11 In midst whereof foule sins do meet Deceit and guile in ev'ry street verse 12 No open foe did me traduce For then I could have borne th' abuse No publicke hate 'gainst me reveal'd Then should I have my selfe conceal'd verse 13 But it was Thou my friend my guide In equall conversation try'd verse 14 We in sweet counsail daies had spent And to Gods house togither went verse 15 O let some unexpected death Strange as unlook't for seize their breath Let them go down alive to hell For wickednesse with them doth dwell verse 16 But I upon the Lord will call Who saves me from their plotted fall verse 17 At ev'ning morning and mid-day To Him that heares me will I pray verse 18 He resku'd hath in peace my life Deliver'd from their bloody strife Who were in battail opposite For many then for me did fight verse 19 Afflictions shall on them lay hold By God impos'd who ' bides of old Because they in no changes were They grow secure and God not feare verse 20 He hath put forth his hand 'gainst These Who were enleagu'd with him in peace His friendly vow he did recant And break his solemne Covenant verse 21 His speeches smooth as butter are But in his heart is cruell war More soft then Oyle his flatt'ring words Yet were they sharper then draw'n swords verse 22 Upon the Lord thy burden cast Who shall sustaine and keep thee fast verse 23 But
unto ruin cast verse 19 How are their glories quick as thought To desolation brought They in a moment turn'd to teares Consume by their own feares verse 20 God as a dreame when one awakes Their Image vanish makes Causing their late admirers eyes Them now as much despise verse 21 Thus was my heart perplex'd with paines And anguish prick'd my reines verse 22 So foolish in my thoughts disrest Am I so like a beast verse 23 Yet I by Thee am still sustain'd Held up by Thy Right hand verse 24 Thy counsail here shall me direct Then crown with Thine Elect. verse 25 Whom have I in the heav'ns but Thee Who can my Saviour be And through the spacious earth I none Desire but Thee alone verse 26 My drooping heart doth daily faile My flesh corrupt and fraile But Thou the strength'ner of my heart And lasting portion art verse 27 Who far from Thee revolting fly Shall perish utterly For Thou destroy'st and castest low Such as to Idols bow verse 28 But it is good with holy feare That I to God draw neare To Thee my hopes entrusted are Who will Thy works declare PSAL. LXXIV Sing this as the Lamentation verse 1 WHy art Thou absent Lord so long Regardlesse of Thy Servants wrong Or wherefore doth Thy kindled ire Thy sheep and Pastures burne like fire verse 2 O think upon Thy chosen Lot Nor let Mount Sion be forgot And may the tribe thou did'st redeeme Be ever deare in Thy esteeme verse 3 Lift up Thy feet bring those to nought Who 'gainst Thy Church Have evill wrought verse 4 Thine adversaries roar and shout They hang in scorne their banners out verse 5 The carved workes whose art and cost Thy Temples building once did boast verse 6 Are into pitty'd ruin throw'n And with their hammers broken down verse 7 Thy Holy Place they turne to flame Defile the dwelling of Thy Name And in their wicked hearts designe Hir glories quite to undermine verse 8 With generall havock let us rase The Sanctuaries hallow'd place Gods Houses thus in ashes lay'd Are wofull heaps of rubbish made verse 9 We see no Signe nor Miracle No Prophet have who can foretell Not one hath knowledge to forecast How long these miseries shall last verse 10 O God! still shall the foe blaspheme And make Thy Name dishonours theme verse 20 11. Thy vengefull hand no longer hide But stretch it forth to strike their pride verse 12 For God is my all pow'rfull King From whom earths help safety spring verse 13 Thou did'st restraine the rising tide And with Thy strength the Sea divided Thou brak'st th' Eegyptian Dragons head And left'st him on the waters dead verse 14 Leviathan that sports the flood Thou gavest for Thy peoples food verse 15 Thou from the rock mad'st fountaines flow And swelling Seas dry land to grow verse 16 Thine is the day the Suns faire light Thine are the courses of the night verse 17 The borders which the earth confine Are set and bounded by Thy line The Summers heat and winters cold From Thee their yearly seasons hold verse 18 Remember Lord Thy House defil'd Thy Name by blasphemies revil'd verse 19 O give not up Thy Turtles life A spoile to adversaries strife Let not Thy Congregation mourne Reproach'd by Them of Thee forlorne verse 20 Look on the Covenant and see Earth dark'ned by their crueltie verse 21 Let not th' opprest returne with shame But let the needy praise Thy Name verse 22 Arise O God! maintaine Thy cause Thy Temples honour and Thy Lawes Remember their blaspheming noise Thine enemies insulting voice verse 23 Their insolence who Thee despise Doth still encrease and higher rise PSAL. LXXV verse 1 TO Thee O God with gratefull heart To Thee we thanks impart How neare and helpfull is Thy Name Thy wond'rous works proclaime verse 2 When I advanc'd to Judah's throne Shall rule the Nation In justice will I take delight And judge the peoples right verse 3 The earth with hir inhabitants Through feare dissolves and faints Yet of hir loose declining frame The Pillars I sustain verse 4 I said unto the foolish men Deale not so madly then And unto those Gods precepts scorne Exalt not you the horne verse 5 Lift not your selves against His check Nor speak with a stiffe neck verse 6 Promotion comes not from the east Nor South nor from the West verse 7 But God as Judge our fortune guides Our lot of life divides He one man lifts unto the Crowne And puts another downe verse 8 He holds a cup whose wine is red Full mixt and tempered For wicked ones the dreg and lee Wrung out to drink shall be verse 9 I will in Songs of praise declare The God of Iacobs care verse 10 The hornes of Pride cut off will I But lift the Just on high PSAL. LXXVI Sing this as the Prayer after the Commandements verse 1 IN Iudah God is know'n His Name The Israelites for Great proclaime verse 2 His Tabernacles Salem grace And Sion is His dwelling place verse 3 There He the Bow and arrowes broke And Battailes to confusion shooke The glittering sword the guarding shield Could not resist nor safety yield verse 4 Thou of more honour art then they Who rove upon the Hills of prey verse 5 For They whose pride did us embroile Are now themselves become a spoile A lasting sleep shuts up their eyes And all their strength in weaknes dyes verse 6 At Thy rebuke the barbed horse And armed Chariots loose their force verse 7 Thou Lord art fear'd who may withstand The fury of Thy pow'rfull hand verse 8 From Heaven we Thy Judgments heard The trembling earth was still and fear'd verse 9 When God the meek and humble saves But gives the proud untimely graves verse 10 He on their fall his fame doth raise And turnes their malice to His praise verse 11 Vow to the Lord your God and bring To Him your promis'd offering verse 12 He Princes spirits can restraine And Kings of earth with terrour chaine PSAL. LXXVII Sing this as the Lamentation verse 1 I Cry'd to God with accents shrill To God that heares my prayer still verse 2 When into times of trouble brought I unto Him for succour sought All night my anguish did not cease My soule no comfort found nor ease verse 3 I think on God amidst my paines My vexed spirit to Him complaines verse 4 My sleeples eyes Thou hold'st awake My tongue perplexed nothing spake verse 5 The daies of old I meditate The antient times expired date verse 6 I to remembrance call my Song My wonted mirth omitted long All night I commune with my heart My spirits search to ease my smart verse 7 Will God for ever us reject Nor by His favour us protect Is His compassion lost and gone His promises not thought upon verse 9 Hath God His pitty now forgot Or must destruction be our lot Or will His wrath by sin renew'd His tender mercies quite exclude verse 10 Thus
I complain'd And then said I This is mine own infirmity But I remember will the yeares Thy right hand kept from want or feares verse 11 The wonders which Thou did'st of old Shall with my thankfull tongue be told verse 12 My heart Thy works Shall meditate My words Thy noble acts relate verse 13 Thy wayes O God! most holy are Who with Thy greatnes may compare verse 14 In miracles and wond'rous signes Thy strength among the People shines verse 15 Thou with that high victorious hand Not all the Nations could withstand The Sons of Iacob did'st redeeme And Iosephs off-spring wilt esteeme verse 16 O God the waters at Thy sight Unto their depths retir'd with fright The billowes of the troubled maine Shrunk downe and hid themselves againe verse 17 The melting cloud discharg'd in showres Like to a falling tempest powres Whilst sounds of horrour teare the sky And through the aire thine arrowes fly verse 18 Loud thunder from the heavens strook Thy lightnings shone earths fabrick shook verse 19 In the great waters lyes Thy path Which where Thou go'st no footsteps hath verse 20 Thy people Thou like sheep ha'st led Sav'd from the Sea in deserts fed And brought'st them to their promis'd land By Moses and by Aarons hand PSAL. LXXVIII Sing this as Psalme 51. verse 1 HEare O my people and encline Your eare unto my Lawes divine verse 2 I will dark Parables unfold verse 3 Which we have heard from fathers told verse 4 We will not from succession hide His works in praises magnifi'd verse 5 Who gave a Law to Israel Which Parents must to Children tell verse 6 That generations yet unborne Might know their duty to performe verse 7 That they their hope in God may set And not His workes or Law forget verse 8 Nor like their fathers rebells prove With hearts unstedfast in His love verse 9 Like those revolters Ephraim bred Who armed from the battell fled verse 10 They Gods command and Pact refus'd verse 11 His works forgate and pow'r abus'd verse 12 When Egypts land and Zoans field Such marvailes to their sight did yield verse 13 For then divided He the deep The floods contracting to an heap verse 14 By day the Cloud their guide became At night He led them with a Flame verse 15 He Rocks in barren desarts clave Which drink like swelling rivers gave verse 16 He caus'd full streams from drought to grow And waters made like torrents flow verse 17 Yet they by sinning Him forsook And in the desart did provoke verse 18 They tempted God by asking meat Which they for lust not hunger eat verse 19 Yea thus against their God they spake Can He in desarts diet make verse 20 The Rock He did in streames divide But can He bread or flesh provide verse 21 When God heard this His just mov'd ire 'gainst Iacob kindled like a fire verse 22 Because their God they faithles griev'd And His salvation not believ'd verse 23 Though his command the clouds had try'd The doores of heaven open'd wide verse 24 He rain'd downe Manna for their meat And gave them corne from heav'n to eat verse 25 Thus man with Angels food was fed For to the full He gave them bread verse 26 He caus'd the Eastern wind to blow And made the South His plenty throw verse 27 He flesh as dust upon them rain'd The fowles like heaps of Sand remain'd verse 28 They 'midst their Camp with food were cloy'd verse 29 And all they could desire enjoy'd verse 30 But whil'st Their mouth the meat in took verse 31 God's wrath their best choicest strook verse 32 For all this Israel sinned still His wonders slight neglect His will Second Part. verse 33 Therefore their daies they vainely spend And all their yeares in trouble end verse 34 Yet when He slew them then they sought And God to their remembrance brought They turn'd and from their sin retir'd And early after God enquir'd verse 35 Then God They for their Rock esteem'd Remembring He had them redeem'd verse 36 Yet with their flatt'ring mouth they ly'd verse 37 Their heart His Covenant deny'd verse 38 Though full of pitty He forgave Restrain'd His wrath and Them did save verse 39 For He remembred They were fraile Whose lusts above His Laws prevaile As passing winds so light and vaine Which breathing out nere come againe verse 40 Oft did they grieve Him oft rebell verse 41 Tempting the God of Israel verse 42 They thought not on His pow'rfull arme Which kept them safe from hostile harme verse 43 How He His signes in Egypt wrought His wonders over Zoan brought verse 44 And turn'd their rivers into blood They could not drink the crimsin flood verse 45 He sent strange flies which them annoy And frogs their plenty to destroy verse 46 Their fruits the Caterpillars eat And Locusts reap'd the ploughman's sweat verse 47 With haile their swelling vines were lost Their Sycamores destroy'd with frost verse 48 Their herds by tempest came to nought Their flocks the furious thunder smote verse 49 His fiercest wrath on them was spent Bad Angels were among them sent verse 50 Their soules not spared were from death Disease and plagues depriv'd their breath verse 51 The first borne He through Egypt slew The chief which Ham or Nilus knew verse 52 But He His people led like sheep And did His flock in desarts keep Third Part. verse 53 He brought them safe and free from fear When their pursuers drowned were verse 54 And to His Sanctuary led The Mount His hand had purchased verse 55 The Heathen He before them drave Their land by line to Iacob gave And made their tribes in tents to dwell verse 56 Who tempting God againe rebell verse 57 They like their fathers backward slide As bowes deceitfull turn'd aside verse 58 High places Him provoke and prove His jealousie their Idols move verse 59 When God heard this He waxed wroth And Israel did greatly loath verse 60 His Tabernacle He forsook And no delight in Shiloh took verse 61 Their strength He gave to captive bands His Glory to the Heathens hands He left His people to the sword His kindled wrath His Lot devour'd verse 63 Their young men were consum'd by fire Their maids in marriage none require verse 64 Their Priests were unto slaughter sent Nor did their widowes them lament verse 65 Then did the Lord from sleep awake From wine as Giants spirit take verse 66 Upon His flying foes He came And put them to perpetuall shame verse 67 He Ioseph's Tent did then refuse Nor would the Tribe of Ephraim chuse verse 68 But Iudahs Tribe He did elect Mount Sion which His thoughts affect verse 69 His Sanctuary high He plac't Like earth which stands for ever fast verse 70 His choyce did then on David looke And from amongst the Sheepfolds took verse 71 From following Ewes he made him feed His chosen People Iacob's seed verse 72 Whom with a perfect heart he fed And