my moane Thou to that rock of strength shalt lead My care-oppressed head verse 3 Who art my shelter and defense Against all violence verse 4 Within Thy Tabernacle I Will dwell eternally Whilst my unshaken hopes endure Under Thy wing secure verse 5 For Thou O God hast heard my vow Thou my desire dost know From whom the heritages came To those that feare Thy Name verse 6 Thou shalt preserve the King in peace And give His yeares encrease verse 7 That He within Thy gratious sight May dwell in endlesse light Thy mercy and Thy truth prepare Which his preservers are verse 8 So to Thy Name Ile praises sing And vowes performed bring PSAL. LXII verse 1 MY soule doth wait on God alone Whence comes salvation verse 2 He is my Rock firm'd in His love I shall not greatly move verse 3 How long will mischiefe ye devise Swift death shall you surprise Ye shall be like a bowing wall Or tott'ring fences fall verse 4 For they consult to cast him downe Whom God lifts to renowne They blessings with their mouth impart But curses from their heart verse 5 My soule wait Thou on God alone My expectation verse 6 He is my Rock my safe defense I shall not move from hence verse 7 In God my health and glory rest My strength and refuge blest verse 8 Trust Him ye people and implore Your heart before Him powre verse 9 The sons of men both low and high Are lyes and vanity And all alike in ballance lay'd Weigh lighter then the shade verse 10 O never in oppression trust Nor robberies unjust If wealth encrease your heart nere set Upon the gaines you get verse 11 God once hath spoke and oft I heard His pow'r is to be fear'd verse 12 And that His Mercy doth dispense Each work its recompense PSAL. LXIII verse 1 O God Thou art my God to Thee My thoughts addressed be And early as the rising day I will before Thee pray My thirsting soule and longing flesh Beg Thou wilt them refresh In that dry land where fruits nere grow Nor streams of water flow verse 2 That in Thy Sanctuary I May see Thy Majesty And Thy bright glory may behold As I had seen of old verse 3 Thy loving kindnesse better is Then life or earthly blisse My lips shall therefore praises give verse 4 And blesse Thee whilst I live Thus unto Thee whose Name is fear'd My hands shall be up-reard verse 5 My soule is as with marrow cloy'd When thus my mouth 's employ'd verse 6 I Thee remember on my bed With crosses wearied And in the watches of the night Thy goodnesse I recite verse 7 Under the shadow of Thy wing To Thee my Help I sing verse 8 My soule on Thee alone depends Whose Right hand me defends verse 9 But those that would my Soule enslave Shall sinke into the grave verse 10 The killing sword their lives shall slay Or make them foxes prey verse 11 The King in God his joy shall beare With those that by Him sweare When all the mouthes of such as ly Stop'd and confounded dy PSAL. LXIV verse 1 MY voice in Pray'r O God intend My life from foes defend verse 2 Me from all wicked counsails shrowd swords And risings of the proud verse 3 Whose tongues full bent and whet like swords As darts shoot bitter words verse 4 That fearlesse and in secret they The perfect man may slay verse 5 In mischeife they encourage each Of snares make private speech Which when in secret lay'd They cry What eyes shall them descry verse 6 They both contrive and practise ill Most diligent to kill Which in their heart concealed deep Their thoughts in secret keep verse 7 But God shall with a suddaine dart Wound their malitious heart verse 8 So their own tongue betray them shall As causer of their fall Then those deride them shall that see And from their vengeance flee verse 9 All men shall feare and thence declare God's work these judgments are For wisely they consider on And ponder what is done verse 10 In God rejoyce then shall the just And glory in His trust PSAL. LXV verse 1 THy praise O God! in Sion flowes Where we performe our vowes verse 2 O Thou that hear'st our prayers summe To Thee all flesh shall come verse 3 My misdeeds Lord 'gainst me prevaile Thy mercies though nere faile Who our transgressions from thy sight Remov'st and purgest quite verse 4 Blest is the man Thou do'st admit Within Thy Courts to sit For with Thy Temples beauty he Shall satisfied be verse 5 O God of our salvation Thou Wilt dreadfull wonders show Thou hope of all earth's bounds containe Or far dilated Maine verse 6 Whose strength the mountaines setteth fast On their foundation plac't verse 7 Who doth the roaring Seas asswage And still the People's rage verse 8 They in earth's utmost parts that dwell Thy fearfull tokens tell Thou mak'st th' outgoings of the morne And nights thy praise adorne verse 9 Thou waterest the earth with raine Then giv'st hir store of graine Such plenty Gods full river yields T' enrich the thirsty fields verse 10 The setled furrowes soft with showres Take in Thy blessings stores verse 11 Thou do'st the year with goodnes crowne Thy clouds drop fatnesse downe verse 12 The barren deserts shall abound The hills with joy resound verse 13 The flocks be full the pastures spring With corne the vallies sing PSAL. LXVI verse 1 MAke unto God a joyfull noyse Ye lands lift up your voyce verse 2 Sing forth the honour of His Name Report His glorious fame verse 3 Say unto God how wond'rous are The works Thou dost prepare To Thee who in great pow'r do'st sit Shall all Thy foes submit verse 4 With Songs and adoration shall The earth before Thee fall verse 5 Come see His awfull works and might Shew'n in His children's sight verse 6 He turn'd the Sea into dry land Wher-on their foot did stand verse 7 He rules in pow'r His eye doth quell The Nations that rebell verse 8 O blesse our God so justly fear'd And cause His praise be heard verse 9 Who makes our soule in life abide Nor lets our feet to slide verse 10 Thou us O God hast prou'd try'd Like silver purify'd verse 11 Thou broughtest us into the suare Our loines afflicted are verse 12 Thou wicked men hast suffered To trample on our head We went through fire and water past Yet sav'dst Thou us at last verse 13 I will into thy Temple bring A thankfull Offering verse 14 The vow my lips in trouble made Devoutly shall be paid verse 15 I offer will burnt sacrifice Whilst clouds of Incense rise Rams Goats with Bullocks from the stall Shall at Thy Altar fall verse 16 O come and heare my words declare How large Gods favours are verse 17 When with my mouth on Him I call'd And with my tongue extoll'd verse 18 If wickednesse my heart regard I shall not then be heard verse 19
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
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
My soule to care and sorrow curst For God doth hourely thirst When shall I come Thy presence neare And in Thy sight appeare verse 3 But teares which day and night did fall I had no meat at all While they where is thy God do cry On whom thou dost rely verse 4 Remembring this my soule I powre And those glad times deplore When to Thy house we throng'd with praise To keep Thy Holy daies verse 5 Why O my soule art thou perplext My heart cast downe and vext Hope thou in God and praise Him still Whose help up-raise thee will verse 6 O God my soule cast downe with greife Within finds no releife But Jordans Land and Hermon hill I will remember still verse 7 One deep upon another calls At Thy loud Water-falls Thy waves and billowes highest run All over me have gone verse 8 The Lord yet sends His favours ray To shine on me by day And I my songs and Pray'rs all night Send to the God of light verse 9 To God I le say My Rock and strength Am I forgot at length Before my foes why do I mourne Oppressed and forlorne verse 10 At their reproach with scoffing mixt I am with swords trans-fixt Whilst flouting at my misery Where is Thy God they cry verse 11 Why O my soule art thou perplext My heart cast downe and vext Hope thou in God and praise Him still Whose help up-raise thee will PSAL. XLIII verse 1 IUdge me O Lord and plead my cause With them that know no Lawes Deliver me from the unjust In fraud and wrong that trust verse 2 Thou God! canst only me protect Why dost Thou me reject Why goe I thus in mourning drest By enemies opprest verse 3 O send Thy Glorious beams of light Thy truth to keep me right That of Thy holy dwellings I May make discovery verse 4 Then will I to Thy altar bring A joyfull offering And on the harp my ditties raise To celebrate Thy praise verse 5 Why droop'st thou then my Soule so fast Downe in thy sorrowes cast Or wherefore my afflicted heart Thou so disturbed art verse 6 Trust in the Lord for I will praise And thank Him all my dayes Who cures and crownes lifes short annoyes With never ending joyes PSAL. XLIV Sing this as the Lamentation verse 1 O God! our fathers have us told What Thou hast done in times of old verse 2 Thou drav'st out Nations by Thine hand got To plant Thy people in their land verse 3 'T was not their arme or sword which Those faire possessions for their lot But thy right hand thine arme of might Because in them Thou took'st delight verse 4 O glorious God! Thou art my King Deliverance to Iacob bring verse 5 Through Thee we will our enemies And those tread downe who 'gainst us rise verse 6 For in my bow I will not trust 'T is not my sword deliver must verse 7 But Thou hast sav'd us by Thy Name And all that hate us put to shame verse 8 In God all day we make our boasts And praise Thy Name great Lord of hoasts verse 9 But Thou hast left and cast us low Nor with our Armies forth dost goe verse 10 Thou makest us our backs to turne Whilst they which hate us spoile burne verse 11 Thou gav'st us to the Heathens pow'r Like sheep to scatter and devoure verse 12 Thou do'st Thy People sell for nought Not richer when to price is brought verse 13 Thou makest us our neighbours scorne Laugh'd at and with reproaches torne verse 14 We are a by-word all about The Heathen shake their head flowt verse 15 I ly confounded with disgrace And shame hath covered my face verse 16 By reason of their vengfull pride Who Thee blaspheme and me deride verse 17 All this we beare yet have we not Thy selfe or Covenant forgot verse 18 Our heart revolting turnes not back Nor do our feet Thy waies forsake verse 19 Though mongst the dragons broken sore And with death's shadow cover'd ore verse 20 If we our God forgotten have Or unto Idols worship gave verse 21 Shall not his search the sin impart Who knowes the secrets of each heart verse 22 Yea for Thy sake so ill we fare We all the day-long killed are Counted as sheep for shambles bred Fit only to be slaughtered verse 23 Awake O Lord why do'st Thou sleep Still wilt Thou us at distance keep verse 24 Why hidest Thou Thy face from those Who ly opprest and griev'd by foes verse 25 Our soule unto the dust is throw'n To earth our belly cleaveth downe verse 26 Arise our life from ruin take And save us for Thy mercies sake PSAL. XLV verse 1 MY heart good matter doth indite Which of the King I write And like a ready pen my tongue Frames hir triumphant song verse 2 Thou fairer art then humane race Thy lips are full of grace Therefore thy God on thee doth powre His blessings endlesse store verse 3 Gird on thy sword O great in might For Truth and Justice fight verse 4 That all the world may understand The terrour of Thy hand verse 5 Thy sharp'ned arrowes wound all those Who dare the King oppose Whereby subdued at Thy call The vanquisht people fall verse 6 Thy throne O God doth still endure Thy Scepter just and pure verse 7 Thou righteousnesse do'st value best And wickednesse detest Therefore thy God hath Thee preferr'd And by a love unheard The oyle of gladnesse on Thy head Above Thy fellowes shed verse 8 Myrrhe Aloës and Cassia's smell Upon Thy garments dwell Out of the Ivory Palaces Provided Thee to please verse 9 King's daughters were amongst Thy traine Nor to attend disdaine The Queen upon Thy right hand plac'd With gold of Ophir grac'd verse 10 Hearken O Daughter and give eare Forget thy parents deare verse 11 The King shall prize thy beauty more Whom as thy Lord adore verse 12 Rich Tyre with gifts and presents great Thy favour shall entreat verse 13 Who far above Thy beauties seen All glorious art within verse 14 Shee in a robe with needles wrought Shall to the King be brought The Virgins which upon hir wait Shall add unto Thy State verse 15 With joy and gladnesse they resort To enter the Kings Court verse 16 Thou shalt have sons in Father's stead And many Princes breed verse 17 In all succeeding times Thy Name Shall mention'd be with fame Whilst the glad people Thy renowne With endlesse praises crowne PSAL. XLVI Sing this as Psalme 51. verse 1 GOd is our refuge our defence Rests wholly on His providence Which still affords a present aid When greatest troubles us invade verse 2 Therefore we shall not need to feare Though the fixt earth removed were Or though the hills and mountaines steep Lay buried in the angry Deep verse 3 Although the roaring waters make The Mountaines with their swelling shake verse 4 Yet calmer rivers do embrace Gods City His faire dwelling place verse 5 Whose Tabernacles by
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
by his skilfull conduct led PSAL. LXXIX Sing this as the Lamentation verse 1 O God the Heathen us invade Thine heritage a prey is made Thy Holy Temple they defile And Salem make their ruins pile verse 2 The bodies of thy servants ly To gorge the fowles through heav'n that fly The carkasses of Saints are feasts To glut and feed devouring beasts verse 3 Their bloud like water hath been shed And none would see them buryed verse 4 We are become our neighbours flowt Reproach'd and laugh'd at round about verse 5 How long Lord shall thy jealous ire Consume us like unquenched fire verse 6 Let thy fierce anger those devoure Who neither feare thy Name or pow'r verse 7 Let those at length thy judgments tast Whose furious rage lay'd Iacob wast verse 8 Remember not our former sin Nor how rebellious we have bin Let speedy mercies us prevent Who languish through thy punishment verse 9 Save us O God for thy great Name Forgive our sins remove our shame verse 10 Why should in scorne the Heathen say Where is the God whom we obay O let the value of our blood In thy revenge be understood verse 11 And let the pris'ners groanes and sighes Up to thy throne of mercy rise Deliver those are mark't to dy By their blood-thirsting cruelty verse 12 Let seven-fold vengeance them reward Who nor thy Church nor thee regard And may those tongues which thee blaspheme Become themselvs reproaches theme verse 13 So we thy People and the sheep Which thine own Fold Pastures keep Wil thank thy goodnes all our daies And to succession sing thy praise PSAL. LXXX verse 1 GReat Shepheard who dost Israel keep And leadest Ioseph like a sheep Give eare and shine with glorious light O thou that dwell'st 'twixt Cherubs bright verse 2 Before thy Tribes now Captives made Stir up thy selfe and bring us aid Manasses Ephraim behold And Benjamin to bondage sold verse 3 Turne us againe O God of might And shew to us thy comforts light Thy favour to thy servants deigne And then we shall be whole againe verse 4 How long wilt thou displeased be With those who daily worship thee How long thy closed eare exclude Their Prayers who to Thee have su'd verse 5 Thou feedest Them with sorrowes bread And teares for drink are measured verse 6 We are through strife and envy torne Our neighbours spoile our haters scorne verse 7 Turne us againe great God of might And shew to us thy comforts light Thy favour to Thy servants deigne And then we shall be whole againe verse 8 Thou didst a Vine from Aegypt bring Thy hand which planted made it spring verse 9 And that it might have room to spred The Heathen were discomfited I'ts root Thou caused'st fast to stand And with faire branches fill the land verse 10 The Hills were cover'd with Hir shade Hir boughes like goodly Cedars made verse 11 Hir Armes did from the River reach Unto the Swelling Oceans beach verse 12 Why ha'st Thou then broke downe hir fense Exposing hir to violence That all who passe along hir place Pluck off hir grapes hir stock deface verse 13 The Mountaine beasts the Forrest Boare Root up hir planes devoure hir store verse 14 Returne O God! from heaven shine Visit Thy now despised Vine And what thy right hand once did plant O never may thy blessing want verse 15 Let all hir branches flourish long Which for thy self thou mad'st so strong verse 16 For though cut down and burnt she lyes Thy beames of love shall make hir rise verse 17 Thy people strengthen and protect Whom for thy self Thou did'st elect verse 18 So will we not goe back from Thee Whose name shall still invoked be verse 19 Turne us again O God of might And shew to us Thy comforts light Thy favour to thy servants deigne And then we shall be whole againe PSAL. LXXXI verse 1 TO God our strength lift up your voyce And make a joyfull noyse verse 2 Let Timbrell Psalme the pleasant Lyre With Psaltery conspire verse 3 The Trumpet in the New Moone blow In solemne triumph goe verse 4 Which God did as a Law ordaine For Iacob to retaine verse 5 This He to Ioseph did command In the Egyptian land Where I a language heard unknow'n And understood by none verse 6 His shoulder I from burthens eas'd From making bricks releas'd verse 7 Thou didst on me in trouble call Who ransom'd thee from thrall In thunder from the breaking cloud I answer'd thee alowd And at the waters where you strove In Meribah did prove verse 8 Heare O my people I will tell To Thee O Israel verse 9 No Heathen Gods shalt Thou adore Nor worship them before verse 10 I am thy God who freedome wrought And Thee from Egypt brought Thy mouth enlarg'd and open'd wide By me shall be supply'd verse 11 But they my precepts did neglect And Iacob Me reject verse 12 So left I them to Iusts unknow'n And counsells of their own verse 13 O that my people would have hear'd And from my wayes not errd verse 14 Their foes then had I soon subdu'd And with my hand pursu'd verse 15 No place God's haters should secure But they should still endure verse 16 I fed them had with finest wheat And hony for their meat PSAL. LXXXII Sing this as the Prayer after the Commandements verse 1 GOd in the great assembly sits To Kings and Judges judgment sits verse 2 How long the right will ye reject And persons of the bad respect verse 3 The poor and fatherlesse defend Justice to men opprest extend verse 4 Deliver those in need that stand And save them from the wicked's hand verse 5 They will not understand nor know But in the mists of darknes go Earths bases all are out of course Whil'st justice failes and Law wants force verse 6 I said that Kings are Gods on earth And sons deriv'd from highest birth verse 7 But ye like other men shall dy And with the fallen Princes ly verse 8 O God! whose pow'r doth all comprise In judgment on the earth arise For all the nations scatter'd far Thy lot and Tributaries are PSAL. LXXXIII verse 1 DO not O God Thou silence keep Nor let Thy vengeance sleep verse 2 Thy hatefull foes lift up their head In tumults gathered verse 3 With craft and counsailes of deceit They plot and ly in wait How they Thy People may annoy And Thine elect destroy verse 4 Come let us say this furious rout Their Nation quite root out And let the name of Israel be Lost to all memory verse 5 In consultations full of hate 'gainst Thee confederate verse 6 Edom with Ishmael combine Moah with Hagars line verse 7 Gebal and Ammon 'gainst us fight With the Amalekite The Philistines arm'd bands conspire With those that dwell at Tyre verse 8 And Ashur runs in to their aid Prepared to invade They strengthen Lots incestuous race Our dwellings to deface verse 9 But Thou
undertake PSAL. XCI verse 1 WHo so in God's protection dwell Abide secure and well For shadow'd by th' Almighties care Both soul and body are verse 2 I therefore to the Lord will say Thou art my hope and stay Thou art my refuge my strong hold Who do'st my faith embold verse 3 He shall preserve Thee from the net Which cunning hunters set Protecting thee by His defense In times of Pestilence verse 4 He over thee His wings shall spread With safety covered And least temptation make thee yield His truth shall be thy shield verse 5 The gastly terrours of the night Shall not thy peace affright Nor arrowes which by day do kill Thy life with slaughter spill verse 6 No tainted aire or noysome Pest Thy dwelling shall infest No perills which at noon destroy Thy safety shall annoy verse 7 Though Thousands or ten thousands dy'd Thick falling by thy side Thou shalt unhurt and guarded stand From sicknesse on each hand verse 8 Thine eye the wicked shall behold Unto destruction sold verse 9 Yet them nor feares nor dangers shake Who God their refuge make verse 10 No evill hap shall Thee distast Nor plague thy dwelling wast verse 11 For He his Angels shall command Thy Centinells to stand verse 12 In all thy wayes they shall thee keep Whither thou wake or sleep And least a stone thy foot should hurt Their hands shall thee support verse 13 No Basilisk nor Adders sting Thy life in danger bring Thou shalt upon the Lion tread And bruise the Dragons head verse 14 Because his love is set on me I will his guardian be Since he acknowledg'd hath My name I will exalt his fame verse 15 When ere he calls I will him heare In trouble and in feare I will to honour him advance And send deliverance verse 16 With length of life and happy daies I will his comforts raise And when his time on earth is done Give him salvation PSAL. XCII Sing this as Psalme 51. verse 1 IT is a good and blessed thing Praise to Thy Name most High to sing verse 2 Thy kindnes 'fore the morning light To shew Thy faithfulnes each night verse 3 Upon a ten-string'd instrument With Psalteries well-tun'd concent And on the solemne sounding Lyre Where all harmonious notes conspire verse 4 For Thou O Lord my heart hast made Through all Thy hands atchieuements glad Who in Thy works which earth do fill Rejoyce and alwayes triumph will O Lord how great Thy actions are Deep are Thy thoughts and hidden far The brutish doe not this attend Nor will the fooles it apprehend verse 7 When like the Grasse or flow'rs which spring The wicked men are flourishing Ev'n then their quick destruction hasts verse 8 But Lord Thy glory ever lasts verse 9 For lo throw'n downe and scatter'd all Thine enemies before Thee fall verse 10 How ere Thou wilt exalt my horne Like to the stately Unicorne With freshest oyle and balme new shed Thou wilt annoint my conqu'ring head verse 11 Mine eye shall see its just desire On those who 'gainst my life conspire And for those wicked enemies Who to my safeties hazard rise Mine eares shall heare them come to nought By Thy revenge to ruin brought verse 12 The righteous like the Palme shall grow Or Cedars on the mountaines brow verse 13 Who in Gods House emplanted be Within His courts we prosper see verse 14 In their old age they fruit shall bring Continue fat and flourishing verse 15 To shew the Lord my Rock is just With whom no wicked harbour must PSAL. XCIII verse 1 THe Lord our God doth reigne on high Cloathed with Majesty He vested is with glorious light And girds Himselfe with might The world created by His hand Established doth stand So fast and firme upon its base It moves not from the place verse 2 Yet far more stable and more old Thy Throne O Lord shall hold Which when earth's fabrick melts and wasts Like Thee for ever lasts verse 3 The floods O Lord lift up their voice In uproare and in noyse The swelling waves up-lifted rise To band against the skies verse 4 Yet is the Lord more mighty far Then those proud waters are And stronger then the Oceans wave Which winds enchafed have verse 5 Thy Testimonies true and sure Eternally endure And holynes becomes O God! The house of Thine aboad PSAL. XCIV verse 1 O God! who just revenge dost take Now let Thy vengeance wake verse 2 Great Judge of earth arise from hence The proud to recompence verse 3 How long Lord shall their wicked host How long triumph and boast verse 4 How long shall their insulting tongue Joy in Thy servants wrong verse 5 They break Thy people Lord in rage Afflict Thine heritage verse 6 They widowes slay the poor oppress And kill the fatherless verse 7 Yet hard'ned in presumption they The Lord not sees us say Great Iacobs God doth not regard Nor will the sin reward verse 8 Take heed yee brutish and unwise Who thus your crimes disguise Yee foolish people of the land When will yee understand verse 9 Think ye that he who plants the eare Unable is to heare Or shall not he who form'd the eye Your wickednes descry verse 10 Shall he who Nations overthrew Not know to punish you verse 11 To whose all-searching view is brought The vainnes of mans thought verse 12 Blessed O Lord and happy he Who chast'ned is by Thee Whom Thou in mercy do'st correct And in Thy Law direct verse 13 That though with crosses over-prest He may in patience rest Till for transgressors ruin he A pit prepared see verse 14 For God his people not rejects Nor his own choise neglects verse 15 But judgement all their wrongs shall right And comfort the upright verse 16 Who will with me against those rise Who work iniquities verse 17 But from the Lord my help was seen My soule had silenc'd been verse 18 When I my slipping foot complain'd Thy mercy me sustain'd verse 19 When thoughts my grieved soul excite Thy comforts hir delight verse 20 Wilt Thou support the wicked's throne Or joyne it with Thine owne Who under Laws and Reason's name Their acts of mischief frame verse 21 Whose meetings and whose plots are bent The just to circumvent Who sit in Counsaile soules to kill And guiltles blood to spill verse 22 But yet the Lord is my defense God is my confidence My Rock my refuge and my tow'r To save me by His pow'r verse 23 He on their heads the ills shall bring Which from themselves did spring And in their sins God's vengfull hand Shall cut them from the land PSAL. XCV verse 1 O Come and let us to the Lord Our cheerfull Songs record Unto our Rock lift up our voice And make a joyfull noyse verse 2 Let us with praise sent up on high Approach His presence nigh With Psalmes and Anthems glad expresse Our bounden thankfulnes verse 3 He is the God and King whose hand The spatious
To Thy bright throne ascend on high verse 2 Hide not Thy face in time of need But answer my request with speed verse 3 For all my daies away consume Like to the smoak or rising fume My bones like fired brands became Burnt up scorch'd in sorrowes flame verse 4 My heart like grass is withered And I forget to eat my bread verse 5 I wast and pine in daily groanes That scarse my flesh cleaves to my bones verse 6 Like Pelicans remov'd from sight Or Owles in desarts shunning light verse 7 As sparrowes their lost mates bemoane So do I watch and sit alone verse 8 I with reproach all day am torne Of enemies against me sworne verse 9 I ashes eat instead of bread And drink the tears my sorrows shed verse 10 Which mischeifs from thy wrath are grow'n Since thou who rais'd hast cast me down verse 11 Thus like the dark declining shade Or dying flow'r I hourely fade verse 12 Yet thou O Lord dost still endure From times successive change secure verse 13 Thou therefore shalt in mercy rise And Sion help which ruin'd lies The time is come for hir repaire verse 14 Whose stones and rubbish prized are Thy servants pity hir neglect And on hir dust with sighs reflect verse 15 So shall the Heathen feare Thy Name And Kings Thy Majesty proclaime verse 16 When God shall Sions buildings reare And in His glory shall appeare verse 17 He will regard the poor man's suit And not despise the destitute verse 18 This shall be written for record That after Times may praise the Lord Second Part. verse 19 The Lord from high His beams display'd And out of Heaven earth survay'd verse 20 The Captives setters to unty And Pris'ners save condemn'd to dy verse 21 That so in Sions blessed hill And Salem which His wonders sill verse 22 They may His name and praise declare When all the people gather'd are verse 23 He hath my strength to weaknes brought My Short'ned dayes are come to nought verse 24 So that to God I thus did pray O take me not as yet away Nor cast me off from this lifes stage In prime of youth and mid'st of age For though My dayes be few and fraile Thy yeares O God will never faile verse 25 Thou Lord hast earth's foundation lay'd And by Thy hand the Heav'ns were made They all shall perish and decay And in their time consume away Like to a garment when grow'n old They shall nor use nor motion hold But though the world and they must fall Thy Being is perpetuall verse 27 Yea as a vesture worne and chang'd Is from it's gloss and forme estrang'd So Shalt Thou change this massy frame Yet still Thy selfe abide the same verse 28 And like Thy selfe from changes freed Thou wilt prolong Thy servants seed Whose children shall remaine with Thee And in Thy sight establisht be PSAL. CIII As Psalme 51. verse 1 MY Soul thy best devotion raise To bless the Lord and sing His praise verse 2 O never unremembred be The benefits He powr'd on thee verse 3 Whose pardon doth all sins release And keep thy body from disease verse 4 Who thee redeem'd to death cast downe And doth thy life with mercies crowne verse 5 Who with good things shall fill thy mouth And eagle-like renew thy youth verse 6 He by right judgment hath redrest All such as are by wrong opprest verse 7 His wayes have Know'n to Moses been The Israelites His works have seen verse 8 All which His will and nature shew To mercy swift to vengeance slow verse 9 He will not alwayes with us chide Nor let His anger long abide verse 10 Nor deales according to our sin Nor have our crimes rewarded bin verse 11 For high as Heav'n is earth above So large so boundless is his love verse 12 Removing all our sins as far As East and West divided are verse 13 Yea like a Father 's to his Son To us is his compassion verse 14 He knowes our frame too weak to trust Remembring that we are but dust verse 15 The daies of man like to the grass Or fading flow'r to nothing pass verse 16 Which blow'n and shaken by the wind Leave neither place nor print behind verse 17 His goodnes though confirm'd and sure To childrens children doth endure verse 18 Ev'n unto such whose cleare intents Walk after His Commandements verse 19 The Lord in heav'n prepares His throne And governs all the world alone O therefore bless that pow'rfull Lord Who made and rules us by His word verse 20 Ye Angels that in strength excell And never 'gainst His word rebell verse 21 Ye winged Ministers who still Prepared are to act His will Ye Heav'nly hosts and creatures all verse 22 Bless Him and at His foot-stool fall Lastly my Soul thy Maker praise And bless His goodnes all thy daies PSAL. CIV. As Psalme 51. verse 1 MY Soul the Lord for ever bless O God! Thy greatnesse all confess Whom Majesty and honour vest verse 2 In robes of Light eternall drest He Heaven makes his Canopy verse 3 His chambers in the waters ly His Chariot is the cloudy storme And on the wings of wind is borne verse 4 He Spirits makes His Angels quire His Ministers a flaming fire verse 5 He so did earth's foundations cast It might remaine for ever fast verse 6 Then cloath'd it with the spatious deep Whose wave out swells the mountaines steep verse 7 At Thy rebuke the waters fled And hid their thunder frighted head verse 8 They from the mountaines streaming flow And downe into the Vallies go Then to their liquid center hast Where their collected floods are cast verse 9 These in the Ocean met and joyn'd Thou hast within a bank confin'd Not suff'ring them to pass their bound Least earth by their excess be drown'd verse 10 He from the hills his Christall springs Down running to the vallies brings verse 11 Which drink supply and coolnes yield To thirsting beasts throughout the field verse 12 By them the fowles of heaven rest And singing in their branches nest verse 13 He waters from his clouds the Hills The teeming earth with plenty fills verse 14 He grass for Cattle doth produce And every Herbe for humane use That so He may His creatures feed And from the earth supply their need verse 15 He makes the clusters of the vine To glad the Sons of men with wine He oyle to cheere the face imparts And bread the strength'ner of their hearts Second Part. verse 16 The trees which God for fruit decreed Nor sap nor moyst'ning vertue need The lofty Cedars by His hand In Lebanon emplanted stand verse 17 Unto the birds these shelter yield And Storks upon the fir-trees build verse 18 Wild goats the hills defend and feed And in the Rocks the Conies breed verse 19 He made the changing Moone appeare To note the seasons of the yeare The Sun from Him his strength doth get And knows the measure of his Set.
Sing this as the Lamentation verse 1 GOd of my praise nor silent be Nor unattentive unto me verse 2 For wicked mouths me falsely wrong And wound me with their lying tongue verse 3 They compass me with words of hate And causeless vex me with debate verse 4 For all my friendship they are foes But I my grief in pray'r disclose verse 5 My good with evill they requite And my affection pay with spight verse 6 Let wicked rulers him command And Satan stand at his right hand verse 7 Let him when judg'd receive his doome And let his pray'r his sin become verse 8 His daies both few and irksome make His office let another take verse 9 May fatherless his children live His wife forlorne a widow grieve verse 10 Like vagrants let them want their bread And where they beg it not be fed verse 11 Let him be made extortions spoyle And strangers reap his harvests toyle verse 12 None him their pitties object make Nor on his feed compassion take verse 13 His name from earth and Off-spring blot In the succeeding age forgot verse 14 And ever let the Lord retaine His Fathers sin and Mothers staine verse 15 15 Still let them stand before His ey To cut from earth his memory verse 16 Who merciless the poor pursu'd And wounds of broken hearts renew'd verse 17 Feele he those curses which he lou'd All blessings be from him remov'd verse 18 As curses cloath'd him round about So seize they him within without Like water through his bowels flow'd Or oyle into his bones bestow'd verse 19 So let them cloath and gird him fast Returning on himself at last verse 20 Thus let the Lord reward my foes Who to reproach my soul expose verse 21 But for the mercies of Thy Name Deliver me O Lord from shame verse 22 For I am poor and prest with need My wounded heart doth inward bleed verse 23 I like the falling shadow go As puffs of wind the Locusts throw verse 24 My feeble knee through fasting failes And faintnes ore my flesh prevailes verse 25 I am their scorne and laughter bred They looking on me shake their head verse 26 Help me O Lord who mercy crave verse 27 That they may know thy hand can save verse 28 Bless when they curse their pride confoūd But let me live with gladnes crown'd verse 29 Lord let my shamed enemy In sharp confusion cloathed ly verse 30 So shall Thy praises with my tongue Be in the full assembly sung verse 31 For God will at the poor's right hand By His protection ready stand To save his innocence from them Who wrongfully his soul condemne PSAL. CX verse 1 THe Lord whose pow'r all things doth sway Unto my Lord did say Sit at my right hand till thou see Thy foes Thy foot-stool be verse 2 The Lord Thy Scepter shall extend And strength from Sion send That all Thine enemies below May to Thy Kingdome bow verse 3 The people in great numbers shall That day before Thee fall Whose glorious Birth and youthfull hue Is as the morning dew verse 4 The Lord hath sworne who not repents His long decreed intents Thou do'st from great Melchisedek Thy Royall Priest-hood take verse 5 God at Thy right hand Kings shall wound And Nations strong confound verse 6 Whose countries shall be overspread With Bodies of their dead verse 7 He of the River in the way Shall drink his thirst to stay And his victorious head advance In our Deliverance PSAL. CXI To the usuall Tune verse 1 PRaise God with heart and tongue The Quire of Saints among His praises shall be sung verse 2 The works of God are great All those will them repeat Whose thoughts on Him are set verse 3 His actions glorious are Renown'd and honour'd far Nor can His truth empaire verse 4 His wonders fill our thought Who hath compassion wrought And pitty shewes when sought verse 5 He hath His servants fed Giv'n those that fear Him bread His Cov'nant stablished verse 6 His pow'r to them exprest And made His people rest Where Heathen late possest verse 7 What ever wrought His hands In truth and judgment stands And sure are His Commands verse 8 They all for ever last By His decree kept fast Till fleeting time is past verse 9 He did His people save Whom Tyrants did enslave His sacred Cov'nant gave Renowned is His fame And reverend His Name Which all the world proclaime verse 10 God's fear true wisdome brings The knowledg of good things From that beginning springs They understand aright Who make His Lawes their light And still His praise recite PSAL. CXII verse 1 BLest is the man that feares the Lord Delighting in His word verse 2 His seed on earth shall mighty be Blest his posteritie verse 3 His house wich riches shall abound His life with plenty crown'd His righteous dealing clear as sure For ever shall endure verse 4 In shades of darknesse to th' upright There riseth up a light He gracious is and free from hate His heart compassionate verse 5 A good man mercy shewes and lends Nor in his words offends verse 6 He shall not move but placed be In lasting memorie verse 7 He of ill tidings not afraid Hath God his refuge made Thus fix'd his heart shall never faile verse 8 But 'gainst his foes prevaile verse 9 With liberall hand unto the poor He hath disperst his store His righteousnesse shall still remaine And lasting honour gaine verse 10 The wicked man when this he seeth For spight shall gnash his teeth And melted by his envies fire Perish in his desire PSAL. CXIII To the usuall Tune verse 1 THe Lord O ye His servants praise To His great Name your ditties raise verse 2 Which blest and sacred be alwaies verse 3 Ev'n from the rising of the Sun Till to the West his course be run Nis Name is to be prais'd alone verse 4 The Lord above all Nations high Is seated in great Majesty And in the Heav'ns His glories ly verse 5 What pow'r created parallells The Lord our God who thus excells And far above the Heaven dwells verse 6 Who humbling downe himselfe doth bow Not only things in heaven to know But what is done in earth below verse 7 To him that did in dust deplore He joyfull comforts doth restore And from the dunghill lifts the poore verse 8 That set with Princes of the earth And persons of a Royall birth His sorrows may be chang'd to mirth verse 9 The barren woman when implor'd His bounty hath with children stor'd O therefore praise this gratious Lord PSAL. CXIV verse 1 WHen Israel from Egypt went Free from his banishment And Iacob came from that strange land Conducted by God's hand verse 2 The house of Iudah which did passe His Sanctuary was And Israel the chosen throne Of his dominion verse 3 The Sea saw that and did disperse Iordan his course reverse verse 4 The Mountaines skip'd like sporting rams The little hills like
Lambs verse 5 What ay'ld thy waters O thou Sea That they so fled from thee Iordan what did thy current lack That thou wast driven back What Miracle did then prevaile That both your streams should faile verse 6 You Mountaines that ye skip'd like rams Yet little hills like Lambs verse 7 Tremble thou earth when Iacobs God Commands thee with his rod verse 8 Who from the Rock did waters bring And made the flint a spring PSAL. CXV Sing this as Psalme 51. verse 1 NOt unto us O Lord but Thee Thy Name Thy Truth the glory be verse 2 Why should the heathen Thee defy Whilst Where is now their God they cry verse 3 Our God in heaven doth remaine And acts what ere he did ordaine Their Idols Silver are and Gold The work which hands of men did mould verse 5 Mouths have they yet they speechlesse be And they have eyes but cannot see verse 6 They ears possesse which nothing heare And noses not for smelling beare verse 7 Their hands not touch their feet not walk Nor through their throat resounds their talk verse 8 Who make them are as vaine as they And so are all that to them pray O Israel O Aarons line verse 11 O yee that in His feare combine Trust ye in God who is your shield Protection He and help doth yield verse 12 He mindfull still of our redresse Will Israel and Aaron blesse verse 13 Who feare Him small or great are blest verse 14 And in their race shall be encreast verse 15 You are the blessed of the Lord Who heaven fram'd and earth hath stor'd verse 16 He in the Heav'n of Heavens lives But earth unto mans children gives verse 17 The dead Thy praises cannot shew Nor those who downe to silence go verse 18 But we the Lord through all our daies Will blesse The Lord for ever praise PSAL. CXVI verse 1 I Love the Lord and am well pleas'd He hath me heard and eas'd verse 2 Whilst therefore life continue shall I will upon Him call verse 3 The snares of death about me dwelt And paines of Hell I felt Disturbed thoughts and heavinesse My conscience did oppress verse 4 Then to the Lord my plaint I made And thus unto Him said O Lord my soule from falling save And lift me from the grave verse 5 The Lord is gracious and just To those His mercy trust verse 6 His Hand the simple doth protect When crosses them deject verse 7 Turne then my soule unto thy rest God's favours have thee blest He bountifully doth reward And thee from dangers guard verse 8 Thou keep'st my soule from death's pale feares My drooping eyes from teares And did'st my wand'ring steps recall When I was apt to fall verse 9 My feet before the Lord shall stand In His eternall land verse 10 I therefore pray'd and thus believ'd Yet still my heart was griev'd For in my foes successe I fail'd Till faith at last prevail'd verse 11 Then I all men for Lyars knew And God alone for true verse 12 What retribution shall I give To him by whom I live Or what acknowledgment apply For His benignity verse 13 Salvations sacred Cup I 'le take And humble prayers make verse 14 Before His people shall be pay'd The vowes which I have made verse 15 For those that live like Saints upright And in the Lord delight Are living dear unto His eye And pretious when they dy verse 16 Lord I Thy faithfull servant am And still adore Thy Name Thou loosed hast my heavy yoak My bonds in sunder broke verse 17 Therefore my praises unto Thee Shall daily offer'd be My gratitude and pray'r shall rise Like thankfull sacrifice verse 18 The vowes shall be which I have made Before the people pay'd verse 19 Who in Thy house and sacred Courts To praise Thy Name resorts PSAL. CXVII verse 1 O All ye Nations record The Praises of the Lord Ye people through the Universe Your Makers praise rehearse verse 2 For He to us great kindness shewes And Mercies large bestowes His constant Truth no time decaies The Lord for ever praise PSAL. CXVIII verse 1 O Thank the goodness of our God Whose mercy knowes no period verse 2 Let Israel their voices joyne verse 3 Let those who come from Aarons loyne verse 4 Let all who feare the Lord confesse His mercies everlastingnesse verse 5 I call'd upon Him when distrest Who me enlarged and releast verse 6 The Lord Himselfe is on my side I fearlesse mans attempts abide verse 7 He takes their part who succour me I shall my haters ruin'd see verse 8 'T is bettet in the Lord to trust Than leane on man who is but dust verse 9 Better rely on His defense Then put in Princes confidence verse 10 All Nations me encompass'd round But His great Name shall them confound verse 11 They closely set against me came But I destroy'd them in His Name verse 12 Like bees they thick about me swarm'd Yet through His Name I was unharm'd As kindled Thorns which blazing dy They quenched in their ashes ly verse 13 Though pressing foes my fall assay'd The Lord Himself became may aid verse 14 God is my health my strength my song verse 15 Lowd joyes the Righteous are among verse 16 For God's Right hand 's lift up on high His Right hand acts most valiantly verse 17 I shall not dy but live to praise And speake His wonders all my daies verse 18 Although the Lord me chast'ned sore He unto death not gave me ore verse 19 Open His sacred Gates that I With praise the Lord may glorify verse 20 This is the Gate through which the just And righteous Persons enter must verse 21 Thee wil I thank who heard'st my voice And mak'st me in Thy help rejoyce verse 22 That stone the builders from them lay'd The Head is of the Corner made verse 23 This is Gods act which in our eyes Religious wonder multiplies verse 24 This is the day the Lord hath made We will rejoyce in it be glad verse 25 Save now and prosper we intreat O Lord who art as good as great verse 26 He blessed be comes in His Name We blessings from God's house proclaime verse 27 God is the Lord whose light hath shin'd Pure Off'rings to His Altar bind verse 28 Thou art my God I Thee will praise And in my Song Thine honour raise O thank the goodnesse of our God Whose mercy knowes no period PSAL. CXIX ALEPH. verse 1 BLessed are They who undefil'd Nor in their waies beguil'd verse 2 God's Lawes obay His statutes keep And with their whole heart seek verse 3 No wicked act seduc'd them hath Or turn'd them from His path verse 4 For Thou command'st that from Thy Law We never should withdraw verse 5 O that my waies were so upright I keep Thy statutes might verse 6 Thou wilt not me with shame reject Who Thy commands respect verse 7 My heart to praise Thee will delight When taught Thy judgments right
display'd verse 6 The Sun by day thee shall not smite Nor vapours of the Moon by night verse 7 The Lord shall Thee preserve from harme Thy soule against temptations arme verse 8 Thy going out and comming in For evermore His care have bin PSAL. CXXII verse 1 I Was right glad and joyfull made When They unto me said Let us unto God's House repaire And worship Him with pray'r verse 2 O blest Ierusalem our feet Within Thy Gates shall meet verse 3 Who builded like a City art United in each part verse 4 To Thee the Tribes of God ascend Their praises to commend And by their zeale the rest enflame To blesse their Makers Name verse 5 There are the great Tribunals plac't By publick justice grac't There is the Palace and the Throne Which David sits upon verse 6 O pray for Salems lasting peace That it may nere decrease They still shall prosper from whose love These happy wishes move verse 7 With peace thy wals encircled be Sweet concord dwell in Thee And let thy Palaces abound With fullest plenty crown'd verse 8 I for my brethrens sake will pray Peace may within thee stay verse 9 And for the House of Gods aboad Will ever seek Thy good PSAL. CXXIII verse 1 I Unto Thee lift up mine eyes O thou who rul'st the skies And in the highest Heav'ns dost dwell Whose brightness none can tell verse 2 As servants wait their Lords command And Maids their mistresse hand On God so do our eyes depend Till He his mercy send verse 3 O Lord some pity on us shew To end our painfull woe For we reproached and unpriz'd Are utterly despis'd verse 4 Our soule afflicted daily mournes Fill'd with excessive scornes Whil'st those who live in ease and pride Our wretched state deride PSAL. CXXIV To the proper Tune verse 1 NOw Israel This truth may gladly tell But that the Lord Did help to us afford verse 2 If He our side With strength had not supply'd When banding foes Against our safety rose verse 3 Their kindled ire Had swallow'd us like fire verse 4 The angry flood Had then above us stood Who by the streame Quite overwhelm'd had been verse 5 And swelling waves Become our timeless graves Whil'st ore our soule The billowes proudly rowle verse 6 Blest be His aid Who us their prey not made verse 7 Our resku'd soules Like late-entangled fowles Escaped are Out of the deadly snare Broke is the net And we at freedom set verse 8 In His great Name Who Heav'n and earth did frame Our ruin stay'd And help on Him is lay'd Another of the same verse 1 NOw Israel may truly say In honour of this day Had not the Lord our quarrell took All help had us forsook verse 2 Yea had not God our battailes fought When men our ruin sought And when our close conspiring foes Against our safety rose verse 3 The wrath which in their breasts did strive Had buried us alive Consuming both our Place and Name In their revenges flame verse 4 Our Life and what we most esteem Had perisht in this stream verse 5 And in the furious billowes womb Beheld our glories comb verse 6 But let our God be alwayes prais'd Who thus from death us rais'd Nor made us subject to their pow'r Who sought us to devour verse 7 From danger resku'd is our soule Like some net scaping fowle So broken is the bloody snare And we deliver'd are verse 8 Our present help and hopes of aid In God alone are lay'd 'T is He who made both Heav'n and earth That gave our comforts birth PSAL. CXXV verse 1 WHo God their hope and trust account Are like faire Sions Mount Whose head unmoved and unshook Abides the tempests stroak verse 2 As rising Mountaines Salem's fense By their circumference So God His people guards throughout And circles them about verse 3 The wicked shall not by their pow'r The righteous Lot devour Least they the heathens sins partake Who them their vassall make verse 4 Do good O Lord unto the just Who in Thy goodnes trust And those that are in heart upright Continue in Thy sight verse 5 But as for such who turn'd aside To crooked waies back-slide The Lord their judgments shall encrease But Iacob blesse with peace PSAL. CXXVI verse 1 WHen God did cast a gratious eye On Sions misery And did his captiv'd Peoples state To liberty translate This unexpected safety wrought On us such wonder brought Our freedome like a vision seem'd And we like them that dream'd verse 2 Joy fill'd our mouth triumphant Songs Did exercise our tongues That Heathens with amazement said God hath This gladness made verse 3 The Lord who crownes His servants faith Great things effected hath And makes us publish through the earth The causes of our mirth verse 4 Lord turne our bondage end our woe Let Thy full mercyes flow As waters from the fountaines mouth Or Rivers in the South verse 5 They who before in teares have sow'n And only sorrowes know'n Shall so their future hopes employ That they may reap in joy verse 6 He who good seed in weeping beares And water'd with his teares Shall doubtless find return'd with gaine What here he sow'd in paine A blessed harvest shall ensue His comforts to renew Long joyes shall spring from his short grief And from each graine a sheaf PSAL. CXXVII Sing this as the Lords Prayer verse 1 EXcept the Lord the house sustaine The builders labour is in vaine Except the City He defend And to the dwellers safety send In vaine are Centinels prepar'd Or armed watchmen for the guard verse 2 You vainly with the early light Arise or sit up late at night To find support and dayly eat Your bread with sorrow earn'd and sweat When God who His beloved keepes This plenty gives with quiet sleepes verse 3 Lo children and the fruitfull womb Are blessings which from Heaven come verse 4 As arrowes in a strong mans hand So children are in youth obtain'd verse 5 Who hath his quiver full of those Shall never feare upbraiding foes PSAL. CXXVIII verse 1 BLessed is he who God doth fear And holds His precepts deare verse 2 Thou shalt have plenty in thy meat And of thy labours eat verse 3 Thy Wife shall like the loving vine Which doth thy walls entwine With fruits enrich thy dwelling place And multiply thy race Thy Children shall like branches shew Which from the Olive grow And round about thy table stand As blessings to thy land verse 4 These favours shall the man obtaine Whose hopes in God remaine verse 5 The Lord shall thee from Sion bless With all earthes happiness Thine eyes Hierusalem shall see Fill'd with prosperitie And whil'st thy dayes of life endure Hir gloryes shall be sure verse 6 Thou Childrens Children shalt behold Spring up when thou art old And added to thine own encrease See Israel in peace PSAL. CXXIX Sing this as Psalme 119. verse 1 OFt vext me from my Youth have they
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