A New Uersion OF THE PSALMS OF DAVID, Fitted to the TUNES Used in CHURCHES.  
BY N. TATE and N. BRADY.  
LONDON: Printed by M. Clark: for the Company of Stationers. 1696.   

TO HIS Most Excellent Majesty WILLIAM III. OF Great-Britain, France, and Ireland KING, Defender of the FAITH, etc. THIS NEW VERSION OF THE PSALMS of DAVID Is most Humbly DEDICATED, BY His MAJESTY'S Most Obedient Subjects and Servants  
N. Brady, N. Tate.   

THE PSALMS OF DAVID.   

A New Version of the PSALMS, etc.  

PSALM I.  

1. HAppy the Man whom ill Advice  
From Virtue ne'er withdrew,  
Who ne'er with Sinners stood, nor ●a●  
Amongst the scoffing Crew:   

2. But makes the perfect Law of God  
His Business and Delight;  
Devoutly reads therein by Day,  
And meditates by Night.   

3. He, like a Tree by Rivers fed,  
With timely Fruit shall bend;  
His ●eaf shall flourish, and Success  
All his Designs attend.   

4. Ungodly M●n and their Attempts  
No lasting Roo● shall find;  
Untimely blasted and dispersed  
Like Cha●f before the Wind.   

5. The W●●k●d therefore shall no● stand  
Before their Judge's Face,  
Nor Hypocrites, who passed for Saints,  
Amongst the Just take place.   

6. God knows the ways of righteous Men,  
To Happiness they tend;  
But Sinners, and their vain Designs,  
Shall both in Ruin end.    

PSALM II.  

1. WIth restless and ungoverned Rage,  
Why do the Heathen storm?  
Why in such rash Attempts engage,  
As they can ne'er perform?   

2. The Great in Counsel and in Might,  
Their various Forces bring;  
Against the Lord they all unite,  
And his anointed King.   

3. Must we submit to their Commands?  
Puffed up with Pride, they say;  
No, let us break their slavish Bands,  
And cast their Chains away.   

4. But God, who sits enthroned on high,  
Who all things wisely guides,  
Does their conspiring Strength defy,  
Their empty Plots derides.   

5. Thick Clouds of Wrath divine shall break  
On his rebellious Foes;  
And in loud Thunder thus he'll speak  
To all that dare oppose.   

6. In spite of those who thwart my Will,  
The King that I approve,  
Whose Throne is fixed on Sion's Hill,  
Like that, shall never nove.   

7. Listen, O Earth, whilst I declare,  
God's uncontrolled Decree:  
Thou art my Son, this day my Heir  
Have I begotten thee.   

8. Ask and receive; thy just Commands  
The Heathen World shall sway,  
The utmost Limits of the Lands  
Shall thy dread Will obey.   

9 Thy powerful Sceptre thou shalt shake●  
And crush them every where;  
As massy Bars of Iron break  
The Potter's brittle Ware.   

10. Learn then, ye Princes, and give ear,  
Ye Judges of the Earth;   

11. Worship the Lord with holy Fear,  
Rejoice with awful Mirth.   

12. Appease the Son with due Respect,  
Your humble Homage pay;  
Lest he revenge the bold Neglect,  
Incensed by your Delay:   

13. If but in part his Anger rise,  
Who can endure its Flame?  
Then blessed are they whose Hope relies  
On his most holy Name.    

PSALM III.  

1. HOW numerous, Lord, of late are grown  
The Troublers of my Peace!  
And as their Factious Numbers rise,  
So does their Rage increase.   

2. Insulting, they my Soul upbraid,  
And him that I adore;  
The God in whom he trusts, say they,  
Shall rescue him no more.   

3. But thou, O Lord, art my Defence;  
On thee my Hopes rely;  
Thou art my Glory, and shalt yet  
Lift up my Head on high.   

4. Since, whensoe'er in like Distress  
To God I made my Prayer,  
He heard me from his holy Hill,  
Why should I now despair?   

5. Guarded by him, I laid me down  
My sweet Repose to take;  
For I through him securely sleep,  
Through him in safety wake.   

6. No Force nor Fury of my Foes  
My Courage shall confound,  
Were they as many Hosts as Men,  
That have beset me round.   

7. Arise, and save me, O my God,  
Who oft haste owned my Cause,  
And scattered oft these Foes to me,  
And to thy righteous Laws.   

8. Salvation to the Lord belongs,  
He only can defend;  
His Blessings he extends to all  
That on his Power depend.    

PSALM IU.  

1. O Lord, that art my righteous Judge,  
To my Complaint give ear;  
Thou still redeem'd'st me from Distress,  
Have mercy, Lord and hear.   

2. How long will ye, O Sons of Men,  
To blot my Fame devise?  
How long your vain Designs pursue,  
And spread malicious Lies?   

3. Consider, that the righteous Man  
Is God's peculiar Choice,  
And when to God I make my Prayer.  
He always hears my Voice.   

4. Then stand in awe of his Commands,  
Flee every thing that's ill;  
Commune in private with your Hearts,  
And bend them to his Will.   

5. The place of other Sacrifice  
Let Righteousness supply;  
And let your Hope, securely fixed,  
On God alone rely.   

6. Whilst worldly Minds impatient grow  
More prosperous Times to see,  
Still let the Glories of thy Face  
Shine brightly, Lord, on me.   

7. So shall my Heart overflow with Joy  
More lasting and more true,  
Than theirs, who stores of Corn and Wine  
Successively renew.   

8. Then down in peace I'll lay my Head,  
And take my needful Rest;  
No other Guard, O Lord, I crave,  
Of thy Defence possessed.    

PSALM V.  

1. LOrd, hear the voice of my Complaint,  
Accept my secret Prayer;   

2. To thee alone, my King my God,  
Will I for Help repair.   

3. Thou in the Morn my Voice shalt hear;  
And with the dawning Day  
To thee devoutly I'll look up,  
To thee devoutly pray.   

4. For thou the Wrongs that I sustain  
Canst never, Lord, approve,  
Who from thy sacred Dwelling-place  
All Evil dost remove.   

5. Not long shall hardened Fools remain  
Unpunished in thy sight.  
All such as act unrighteous things  
Thy Vengeance shall requite.   

6. The slandering Tongue, O God of Truth,  
By thee shall be destroyed,  
Who hat'st alike the Man in Blood  
And in Deceit employed.   

7. But when thy boundless Grace shall me  
To thy loved Court's restore,  
On thee I'll fix my longing Eyes,  
And humbly there adore.   

8. Conduct me by thy righteous Laws,  
For watchful is my Foe:  
Therefore, O Lord, make plain the way  
Wherein I ought to go.   

9 Their Mouth vents nothing but Deceit,  
Their Heart is set on Wrong;  
Their Throat is a devouring Grave,  
They flatter with their Tongue.   

10. By their own Counsels let them fall,  
Oppressed with Loads of Sin;  
For they against thy righteous Laws  
Have hardened Rebels been.   

11. But let all those who trust in thee,  
With Shouts their Joy proclaim;  
Let them rejoice whom thou preservest,  
And all that love thy Name.   

12. To righteous Men, the righteous Lord  
His Blessings will extend,  
And with his Favour, from their Foes,  
As with a Shield, defend.    

PSALM VI.  

1. THY dreadful Anger, Lord, restrain,  
And spare a Wretch forlorn;  
Correct me not in thy fierce Wrath,  
Too heavy to be born.   

2. Have Mercy, Lord, my Strength decays,  
Unable to endure  
The Anguish of my aching Bones,  
Which thou alone canst cure.   

3. My tortured Flesh infects my Mind,  
And fills my Soul with Grief;  
But, Lord, how long wilt thou delay  
To grant me thy Relief?   

4. Thy wont Goodness, Lord, repeat,  
And ease my troubled Soul;  
Lord, for thy wondrous Mercy's sake  
Vouchsafe to make me whole.   

5. For after death no more can I  
Thy glorious Acts proclaim;  
No Prisoner of the silent Grave  
Can magnify thy Name.   

6. Quite tired with Pain, with Groaning faint,  
No hope of Ease I see;  
The Night, that quiets common Griefs,  
Is spent in Tears by me.   

7. My Beauty fades, my Sight grows dim,  
My Eyes with Weakness close;  
Old Age o'ertakes me, whilst I think  
On my insulting Foes.   

8. Depart, ye Wicked, in my Harms  
Ye shall no more rejoice;  
For God, I find, accepts my Tears,  
And listens to my Voice.   

9, 10. He hears and grants my humble Prayer,  
And they that wish my Fall,  
Shall blush and rage, to see that God  
Protects me from them all.    

PSALM VII.  

1. O Lord, my God, as I have placed  
My Trust alone in Thee,  
From all my Persecutors Rage  
Do thou deliver me.   

2. Save me from my remorseless Foe,  
Lord, interpose thy Power;  
Lest, like a savage Lion, he  
My helpless Soul devour.   

3, 4. If I am guilty, or did e'er  
Against his Peace combine;  
Nay, if I have not spared his Life,  
Who sought unjustly mine;   

5. Let then to persecuting Foes  
My Soul become a Prey;  
Let them to Earth tread down my Life,  
In dust my Honour lay.   

6. Arise, and let thine Anger, Lord,  
In my Defence engage;  
Exalt thyself above my Foes,  
And their insulting Rage:  
Awake, awake in my behalf,  
The Judgement to dispense,  
Which thou hast righteously ordained  
For injured Innocence.   

7. So to thy Throne adoring Crowds  
Shall still for Justice fly!  
O! therefore for their suffering sakes,  
Do thou return on high.   

8. Impartial Judge of all the World,  
I leave my Cause to thee;  
O! judge me by thy Righteousness,  
And Heart's Integrity.   

9 Let Wickedness, and wicked Men,  
Together be o'erthrown;  
But fix the Just● thou God to whom  
The Hearts of both are known.   

10, 11. God me protects, nor only me,  
But all of Upright Heart;  
And daily lays up Wrath for those  
Who from his Laws depart.   

12. If they persist, he whets his Sword,  
His Bow stands ready bend;   

13. Even now with swift Destruction winged,  
His pointed Shafts are sent.   

14. Those treacherous Plots my Foe conceived  
Abortive are and vain;   

15. The Pit he digged has proved a Grave  
His Ruins to contain.   

16. On his own Head his Spite returns,  
Whilst I from Harm am free;  
The Violence is fallen on him,  
Which he designed for me.   

17. Therefore of Providence Divine,  
The Justice I'll proclaim;  
I'll sing the Praise of God most High,  
And celebrate his Name.    

PSALM VIII.  

1. O Thou to whom all Creatures bow  
Within this earthly Frame,  
Through all the World how great art Thou!  
How glorious is thy Name!  
In Heaven thy wondrous Acts are sung,  
Nor fully reckoned there;   

2. And yet thou mak'st the Infant Tongue  
Thy boundless Praise declare:  
Thro thee the Weak confound the Strong,  
And crush their haughty Foes;  
And so thou quell'st the wicked Throng  
That thee and thine oppose.   

3. When Heaven, thy beauteous Work on high,  
Employs my wondering Sight;  
The Moon, that nightly gilds the Sky,  
With Stars of feebler Light;   

4. Lord, what is Man that still thou lov'st  
To keep him in thy mind!  
Or what his Offspring that thou provest  
To him so wondrous kind!   

5. Him next in Power thou didst create  
To thy celestial Train;   

6. Ordained with Dignity and State  
O'er all thy Works to reign.   

7. They jointly own his potent Sway,  
The Beasts that prey or graze;   

8. The Bird that wings its airy way,  
The Fish that cuts the Seas.   

9 O Thou, to whom all Creatures bow  
Within this earthly Frame,  
Through all the World how great art Thou!  
How glorious thy Name!    

PSALM IX.  


1. TO celebrate thy Praise, O Lord,  
I will my Heart prepare;  
To all the listening World thy Works,  
Thy wondrous Works declare.   

2. The Thought o● them shall to my Soul  
Exalted Raptures bring;  
Whilst to thy Name, O thou most High!  
Triumphant Praise I sing.   

3. Thou mad'st my haughty Foes to turn  
Their backs in shameful Flight;  
Struck with thy Presence, down they fell,  
They perished at thy sight.   

4. Against insulting Foes advanced,  
Thou didst my Cause maintain;  
My right asserting from thy Throne,  
Where Truth and Justice reign.   

5. The Insolence of Heathen Pride  
Thou hast reduced to Shame;  
Their wicked Offspring quite destroyed,  
And blotted out their Name.   

6. Mistaken Foes! your Threats and you  
Are to a period come:  
Our Cities stand, designed by you  
Their slaughtered Owners Tomb,   

7, 8. The Lord endures, who has on high  
His righteous Throne prepared,  
Impartial Justice to dispense,  
To punish or reward.   

9 His Kindness is a sure Defence  
Against oppressing Rage;  
As Troubles rise, his needful Aids  
In our behalf engage.   

10. All those who have his Goodness proved,  
Will in his Truth confide;  
Whose Mercy ne'er forsaken the Man  
That on his Help relied.   

11. Sing Praises therefore to the Lord,  
From Si●n his abode;  
Proclaim his Deeds, till all the World  
Confess no other God.    

PART II.  

12. When he enquiry makes for Blood,  
He'll ●●ll their Case to mind;  
The injured humble Man's Complaint  
Relief from him shall find.   

13. Compassion on my Troubles take,  
That spiteful Foes create,  
Thou that hast rescued me so oft  
From Death's devouring Gate.   

14. In Zion then I'll sing thy Praise,  
To all that love thy Name;  
And with loud Shouts of grateful Joy  
Thy saving Power proclaim.   

15. Deep in the Pit they digged for me,  
The Heathen Pride is laid;  
Their guilty Feet to their own Snare  
Insensibly betrayed.   

16. Thus by the just Returns he makes  
The mighty Lord is known;  
While wicked Men by their own Plots  
Are shamefully o'erthrown.   

17. His injured Saints, when most distressed,  
He ne'er forgets to aid;  
Their Expectation shall be crowned,  
Tho for a time delayed.   

18. No single Sinner shall escape  
By Privacy obscured;  
Nor Nations from his just Revenge  
By Numbers be secured.   

19 Arise, O Lord, assert thy Power,  
And let no Man o'ercome;  
Descend to Judgement, and pronounce  
The guilty Heathens Doom.   

20. Strike Terror through the Nations round,  
Till by consenting Fear,  
They, to each other and themselves,  
But mortal Men appear.     

PSALM X.  


1. THY presence why withdraw'st thou, Lord?  
Why hidest thou now thy Face?  
When dismal Times of deep Distress  
Call for thy wont Grace.   

2. The Wicked swelled with lawless Pride,  
The Poor their Prey have made,  
O! let them fall by those Designs  
Which they for others laid.   

3. For straight they triumph, if Success  
Their thriving Crimes attend;  
And sordid Wretches whom God hates,  
In his despite commend.   

4. To own a Power above themselves  
Their haughty Pride disdains;  
And therefore in their stubborn Mind  
No thought of God remains.   

5. Oppressive Methods they pursue,  
And all their Foes they slight;  
Because thy Judgements, unobserved,  
Are far above their Sight.   

6. They fond think their prosperous State  
Shall unmolested be;  
They think their vain Designs shall thrive,  
From all Misfortunes free.   

7. Vain and deceitful is their Speech,  
With Curses filled and Lies;  
By which the Mischief they intent,  
They study to disguise.   

8. Near public Roads they lie concealed,  
And all their Art employ,  
The Innocent and Poor at once  
To ri●●e and destroy.   

9 Not Lions, couching in their Dens,  
Surprise their heedless Prey  
With greater Cunning, or express  
More savage Rage than they.   

10. Sometimes they act the Harmless Man,  
And humble Looks they wear;  
That, so deceived, the Poor may less  
Their sudden Onset fear.    

PART II.  

11. For God, they think, no notice takes  
Of their unrighteous Deeds;  
He never minds the suffering Poor,  
Nor their Oppression heeds.   

12. But thou, O Lord, at length arise;  
Stretch forth thy mighty Arm;  
And by the Greatness of thy Power  
Defend the Poor from Harm.   

13. No longer let the Wicked vaunt,  
And proudly boasting say,  
Tush, God regards not what we do,  
He never will repay.   

14. But sure thou saw'st, and all their Deeds  
Impartially dost try;  
The Orphan therefore and the Poor  
On thee for Aid rely.   

15. Defenceless let the Wicked fall,  
Of all their Strength bereft:  
Confound, O God, their dark Designs,  
Till no Remains are left.   

16. Assert thy just Dominion, Lord,  
Which shall for ever stand;  
Throug which the Heathen were expelled  
From this thy chosen Land.   

17. Thy humble Suppliants still thou hearest,  
That to thy Throne repair;  
Thou first preparest their Hearts to pray,  
And then accept'st their Prayer.   

18. Thou, in thy righteous Judgement, weighest  
The Fatherless and Poor;  
That so the Tyrants of the Earth  
May persecute no more.     

PSALM XI.  

1. SInce I in God have placed my Trust,  
A Refuge always nigh,  
Why should I, like a timorous Bird,  
To distant Mountains fly?   

2. Behold, the Wicked bend their Bow,  
And ready ●ix their Dart:  
Lurking in ambush to destroy  
The ●an of upright Heart.   

3. When once the firm Assurance fails  
Which public Faith imparts,  
'Tis time for innocence's to fly  
From such deceitful Arts.   

4. The Lord has both a Temple here,  
And righteous Throne above;  
Whence he surveys the Sons of Men,  
And how their Counsels move.   

5. If God, the Righteous whom he loves  
For Trial does correct;  
What must the Sons of Violence,  
Whom he abhors, expect?   

6. Snares, Fire, and Brimstone on their Heads  
Shall in one Tempest shower;  
This dreadful Mixture his Revenge  
Into their Cup shall pour.   

7. The righteous Lord will righteous Deeds  
With signal Favour grace;  
And on the upright Man reflect  
The brightness of his Face.    

PSALM XII.  

1. SInce Godly Men decay, O Lord,  
Do thou my Cause defend;  
For scarce these wretched times afford  
One just and faithful Friend.   

2. One Neighbour now can scarce believe  
What t'other does impart;  
With flattering Lips they all deceive,  
And with a double Heart.   

3. But Lips that with Deceit abound  
Can never prosper long;  
God's righteous Vengeance will confound  
The proud blaspheming Tongue.   

4. In v●in those foolish Boasters say,  
Our Tongues are sure our own;  
With doubtful Words we'll still betrays  
And be controlled by none.   

5. For God, who hears the Poor oppressed,  
And all their Sufferings knows,  
Will soon arise and give them rest,  
Inspite of all their Foes.   

6. The Word of God shall still abide,  
And void of Falsehood be:  
As is the Silver seven times tried  
From drossy Mixture free.   

7. The Promise of his aiding Grace  
Shall reach its purposed End;  
His Servants from his faithless Race  
He ever shall defend.   

8. Then shall the wicked be perplexed,  
Nor know which way to fly;  
When those whom they despised and vexed  
Shall be advanced on high.    

PSALM XIII.  

1. HOW long wilt thou forget me, Lord?  
Must I for ever mourn?  
How long wilt thou withdraw from me?  
Oh! never to return!   

2. How long shall anxious Thoughts my Soul,  
And Grief my Heart oppress?  
How long my Enemies insult,  
And I have no Redress?   

3. O hear! and to my longing Eyes  
Restore thy wont Light;  
wnd suddenly, or I shall sleep  
In everlasting Night.   

4. Restore me, lest they proudly boast  
'Twas their own Strength overcame;  
Permit not them that vex my Soul  
To triumph in my Shame.   

5. Since I have always placed my trust  
Beneath thy Mercy's Wing,  
Thy saving Health will come, and then  
My Heart with Joy shall spring,   

6. Then shall my Song, with Praise inspired,  
To thee my God ascend;  
Who to thy Servant in Distress  
Such Bounty didst extend.    

PSALM XIV.  

1. SUre wicked Fools must needs suppose  
That God is nothing but a Name,  
Corrupt and lewd their Practice grows;  
No Breast is warmed with holy Flame.   

2. The Lord looked down from Heaven's high Tower,  
And did the race of Mankind view;  
To see if any owned his Power,  
If any Truth or Justice knew.   

3. But all, he saw, were gone aside,  
All were degenerate grown and base;  
None took Religion for their guide,  
Not one of all the sinful Race.   

4. But can these Workers of Deceit  
Be all so dull and senseless grown?  
That they, like Bread, my People eat,  
And God's Almighty Power disown?   

5. How will they tremble then for Fear,  
When his just Wrath shall them overtake?  
For to the righteous, God is near,  
And never will their Cause forsake.   

6. In vain ungodly Men expose  
Those Methods which the Just pursue;  
Since God a Refuge is for those  
Whom his just Eyes with Favour view.   

7. Would he his saving Power employ.  
To break his People's servile Band!  
Then Shouts of universal Joy  
Should loudly echo through the Land.    

PSALM XV.  

1. LOrd, who's the happy Man that may  
To thy blessed Courts repair?  
Not, Stranger-like, to visit them,  
But to inhabit there?   

2. 'Tis he whose every Thought and Deed  
By Rules of Virtue moves;  
Whose generous Tongue disdains to speak  
The thing his Heart disproves.   

3. Who never did a Slander forge  
His Neighbour's Fame to wound;  
Nor hearkens to a false Report,  
By Malice whispered round.   

4. Who Vice, in all its Pomp and Power,  
Can treat with just Neglect;  
And Piety, though clothed in Rags,  
Religiously respect.   

Who to his plighted Vows and Trust  
Has ever firmly stood;  
And though he promise to his Loss,  
He makes the Promise good.   

5. Whose Soul in Usury disdains  
His Treasure to employ;  
Whom no Rewards could ever bribe,  
The Guiltless to destroy.   

The Man, who, by his steady Course,  
Has Happiness insured,  
When Earth's Foundations shake, shall stand,  
By Providence secured.    

PSALM XVI.  

1. PRotect me from my cruel Foes,  
And shield me, Lord, from Harm;  
Because my Trust I still repose  
On thy Almighty Arm.   

2. My Soul, all Help but thine does slight,  
All Gods but thee disown;  
Yet can no Deeds of mine requite  
The Goodness thou hast shown.   

3. But those that are of virtuous Note,  
Who love the thing that's right,  
To favour always and promote  
Shall be my chief Delight.   

4. How shall their Sorrows be increased,  
Who other Gods adore?  
Their bloody Offerings I detest,  
Their very Names abhor.   

7.. My Lot is fallen in the blessed Land  
Where God is purely served;  
He fills my Cup with liberal hand;  
My Right's by him preserved.   

6. In Nature's most delightful Scene  
My happy Portion lies;  
The place of my appointed Reign  
All other Lands outvies.   

7. Therefore my Soul shall bless the Lord,  
Whose Word's my Guide and Light;  
Who private Counsel does afford,  
In dark Afflictions Night.   

8. Nothing, I know, can lie concealed  
From his Allseeing Eye;  
And my firm Hope has never failed,  
Because he still is nigh.   

9 Therefore my Heart all Grief defies,  
My Glory does rejoice;  
My Flesh shall rest, in hope to rise,  
Waked by his powerful Voice.   

10. Thou, Lord, when I resign my Breath●  
My Soul from Hell wilt free;  
Nor let thy Holy One in death  
The least Corruption see.   

11. Thou shalt the Paths of Life display,  
Which to thy presence lead;  
Where Pleasures dwell without allay,  
And Joys that never fade.    

PSALM XVII.  


1. TO my just Plea, my sad Complaint  
Attend, O Righteous Lord,  
And to my Prayer, as 'tis unfeigned,  
A gracious Ear afford.   

2. As in ●hy Presence I'm approved,  
So let my Sentence be;  
And with impartial Eyes, O Lord,  
My upright Dealing see.   

3. For thou hast proved my Heart by day,  
And visited by Night;  
And on the strictest Trial found  
●ts secret Motions right.  
Nor shall thy Justice, Lord, alone  
My Heart's Designs acquit;  
For I have purposed that my Tongue  
Shall no Offence commit.   

4. I know, what wicked Men would do,  
Their Safety to maintain;  
But me thy just and mild Commands  
From bloody Paths restrain.   

5. That I may still, in spite of Wrongs,  
My Innocence secure;  
O! Guide me in thy righteous Ways,  
And make my Footsteps sure.   

6. Since heretofore I ne'er in vain  
To thee my Prayer addressed;  
O! now, my God, incline thine Ear  
To this my just request.   

7. The Wonders of thy Love and Care  
In my Defence engage,  
Thou, whose right Hand preserves thy Saints  
From their Oppressor's Rage.    

PART II.  

8, 9 O! keep me in thy tenderest Care,  
With sheltering Wings stretched out,  
From cruel and oppressing Foes,  
That compass me about.   

10. Overgrown with Luxury, enclosed  
In their own Fat they lie;  
And with a proud blaspheming Mouth  
Both God and Man defy.   

11. Well, may they boast; for they have now  
My Path encompassed round;  
Their Eyes at Watch, their Bodies bowed,  
And couching to the Ground.   

12. In Posture of a Lion set,  
When greedy of his Prey;  
Or a young Lion, when he lurks  
Within a Covert Way.   

13. Arise, O Lord, defeat their Plots,  
Their swelling Rage control;  
From the ungodly Man, thy Sword,  
Deliver thou my Soul.   

14. From worldly Men, thy sharpest Scourge,  
Whose Portion's here below;  
Who, filled with earthly Stores, aspire  
No other Bliss to know;   

15. Pleased with a numerous Race, to share  
Their Substance while they live;  
Successive Heirs, to whom they may  
The vast Remainder give.   

16. But, Lord, for me, I only crave  
The Treasure of thy Grace?  
And waking in my Soul to find  
The ●mage of thy Face.     

PSALM XVIII.  


1, 2. NO Change of Times shall ever shock  
My firm Affection, Lord, to thee?  
For thou hast always been a Rock,  
A Fortress and Defence to me.  
Thou my deliverer art, my God;  
My Trust is in thy mighty Power;  
Thou art my Shield from Foes abroad,  
At home my Safeguard and my Tower.   

3. To thee I'll still address my Prayer,  
(To whom all Praise we justly owe;)  
So shall I, by thy watchful Care,  
Be guarded from my Treacherous Foe.   

4, 5. By Floods of wicked Men distressed,  
With deadly Sorrows compassed round,  
With dire infernal Pangs oppressed,  
In Death's unwieldy Fetters bound.   

6. To Heaven I made my mournful Prayer,  
To God addressed my humble Moan;  
Who graciously inclined his Ear,  
And heard me from his lofty Throne.    

PART II.  

7. When God arose to take my part,  
The trembling Earth did quake for fear;  
From their firm Posts the Hills did start,  
Nor durst his dreadful Fury bear.   

8. Thick Clouds of Smoke dispersed abroad,  
Ensigns of Wrath, before him came;  
Devouring Fire around him glowed,  
That Coals were kindled at its Flame.   

9 He left the beauteous Realms of Light,  
Whilst Heaven bowed down its awful head;  
Beneath his feet, substantial Night  
Was, like a sable Carpet, spread.   

10. The Chariot of the King of Kings,  
Which Troops of harnessed Angels drew,  
On a strong Tempest's rapid Wings  
With most amazing Swiftness flew.   

11, 12. Black wat'ry Mists and Clouds conspired  
With thickest Shades his Face to veil;  
But at his Brightness soon retired,  
And fell in showers of Fire and Hail.   

13. Thro heavens wide Arch a thundering Peal,  
God's angry Voice did loudly roar;  
While Earth's sad Face, with heaps of Hail  
And flakes of Fire, was covered over.   

14. His sharpened Arrows round he threw,  
Which made his scattered Foes retreat;  
Like Darts, his nimble Light'ning ●lew,  
And quickly finished their Defeat.   

15. The Deep its secret Stores disclosed;  
The World's Foundations naked lay;  
By his avenging Wrath exposed,  
Which fiercely raged, that dreadful Day.    

PART III.  

16. The Lord did on my side engage,  
From Heaven (his Throne) my Cause upheld;  
And snatched me from the furious Rage  
Of threatening Waves that proudly swelled.   

17. God his resistless Power employed,  
My strongest Foes Attempts to break;  
Who else with ease had soon destroyed  
The Weak defence that I could make.   

18. Their subtle Rage had near prevailed,  
When I distressed and friendless lay;  
But still when other Succours failed,  
God was my firm Support and Stay.   

19 From Dangers that enclosed me round,  
He brought me forth, and set me free;  
For some just cause his Goodness found,  
That moved him to delight in me.   

20. Because in me no Gild remains,  
God does his gracious Help extend;  
My Hands are free from bloody Stains,  
Therefore the Lord is still my Friend.   

21, 22. For I his Judgements kept in sight;  
In his just Ways I always trod;  
I never did his Statutes slight,  
Nor vainly wandered from my God.   

23, 24. But still my Soul sincere and pure,  
Did even from darling Sins refrain;  
His Favours therefore yet endure,  
Because my Heart and Hands are clean.    

PART IU.  

25, 26. Thou suit'st, O Lord, thy righteous Ways  
To various Paths of Humankind;  
They who for Mercy merit Praise,  
With thee shall wondrous Mercy find.  
Thou to the Just shalt Justice show.  
The Pure thy Purity shall see;  
Such as perversely choose to go,  
Shall meet perverse Returns from Thee.   

27, 28. That he the humble Soul will save,  
And crush the Haughty's boasted Might.  
In me the Lord an Instance gave,  
Whose Darkness he has turned to Light.   

29. On his firm Succour I relied,  
And did over numerous Foes prevail;  
Nor feared, whilst he was on my side,  
The best defended Walls to scale.   

30. For God's Designs shall still succeed;  
His Word will bear the strictest Test:  
He's a strong Shield to all that need,  
And on his sure Protection rest.   

31. Who then deserves to be adored,  
But God, on whom my Hopes depend?  
Or who, except the mighty Lord,  
Can with resistless Power defend?    

PART V.  

32, 33. 'Tis God that girds my Armour on,  
And all my just Designs fulfils;  
Through him my Feet can swiftly run,  
And nimbly climb the steepest Hills.   

34. Lessons of War from him I take,  
And manly Weapons learn to wield;  
Strong Bows of Steel with ease I break,  
Forced, by my stronger Arms, to yield.   

35. The Buckler of his Saving Health  
Protects me from assaulting Foes;  
His Hand sustains me still; my Wealth  
And Greatness from his Bounty flows.   

36. My Goings he enlarged abroad,  
Till then to narrow Paths confined;  
And when in slippery ways ● trod,  
The Method of my Steps designed.   

37. Through him I numerous Foes defeat,  
And flying Squadrons captive make;  
Nor from my fierce Pursuit retreat,  
Till full Revenge of all I take.   

38. Covered with Wounds, in vain they try  
Their vanquished Heads again to rear;  
Spite of their boasted Strength they lie  
Beneath my Feet, and grovel there.   

39 God● when fierce Armies take the field,  
Recruits my Strength, my Courage warms;  
He makes my strong Opposers yield,  
Subdued by my prevailing Arms.   

40. Through him the Necks of prostrate Foes  
My conquering Feet in Triumph press;  
Aided by him, I root out those  
Who hate and envy my Success.   

41. With loud Complaints all Friends they tried,  
But none was able to defend;  
At length to God for Succour cried,  
But God would no Assistance lend.   

42. Like flying Dust which Winds pursue,  
Their broken Troops were scattered round:  
Their baffled Numbers forth I threw,  
Like loathsome Dust that clogs the Ground.    

PART VI.  

43. Our Factious Tribes, at Strife till now,  
At God's Appointment me obey;  
The Heathen to my Sceptre bow,  
And Foreign Nations own my Sway.   

44. Remotest Realms their Homage send,  
When my successful Name they hear;  
Strangers for my Commands attend,  
Charmed with Respect, or awed by Fear.   

45. All to my Summons tamely yield,  
Or soon in Battle are dismayed;  
For stronger holds they quit the Field,  
And still in strongest Holds afraid.   

46. Let the Eternal Lord be praised!  
The Rock on whose Defence I rest;  
O'er highest heavens his Name be raised,  
Who me with his Salvation blessed!   

47. 'tis God that still supports my Right,  
His just Revenge my Foes pursues;  
'Tis he, that with resistless Might,  
Fierce Nations to my Yoke subdues,   

48. My universal Safeguard, He!  
From whom my lasting Honour's flow●  
He made me Great, and set me free  
From my remorseless bloody Foe.   

49. Therefore to celebrate his Fame,  
My grateful Voice to Heaven I'll raise●  
And Nations, Strangers to his Name,  
Shall thus be taught to sing his Praise;   

50. God to his King deliverance sends;  
Shows his Anointed signal Grace?  
His Mercy evermore extends  
To David, and his promised Race.     

PSALM XIX.  


1. THE heavens declare thy Glory, Lord●  
Which that alone can fill;  
The Firmament and Stars express  
Their great Creator's Skill.   

2. Revolving Days, with every Dawn,  
Fresh Beams of Knowledge bring;  
From darkest Nights successive Rounds  
Divine Instructions spring.   

3. Their powerful Language to no Realm  
Or Region is confined;  
'Tis Nature's Voice, and understood  
Alike by all Mankind.   

4. Their Doctrines sacred Sense itself  
Through Earth's extent displays;  
Whose bright Contents the circ'ling Sun  
Around the World conveys.   

5. No Bridegroom, for his Nuptials dressed,  
Has such a cheerful Face;  
No Giant does like him rejoice,  
To run his glorious Race.   

6. From East to West from West to East,  
His restless Circuit goes;  
And through his Progress cheerful Light  
And vital Warmth bestows.    

PART II.  

7. God's perfect Law converts the Soul,  
Reclaims from false Desires;  
With sacred Wisdom his sure Word  
The Ignorant inspires.   

8. The Statutes of the Lord are just,  
And bring sincere Delight;  
His pure Commands, in search of Truth,  
Assist the feeblest Sight.   

9 His Fear is clean, his Worship fixed  
For ever to abide;  
His equal Judgements in the scale  
Of Truth and Justice tried.   

10. Of more esteem than Golden Mines,  
Or Gold refined with skill;  
More sweet than Honey, or the Drops  
That from the Comb distil.   

11. My trusty Counselors they are,  
And friendly Warnings give:  
Divine Rewards attend on those  
Who by thy Precepts live.   

12. But what frail Man observes, how of●  
He does from Virtue fall?  
O cleanse me from my secret Faults,  
Thou God who knowst them all.   

13. Let no presumptuous Sin, O Lord,  
Dominion have o'er me;  
That by thy Grace preserved, I may  
The great Trangression flee,   

14. So shall my Prayer and Praises be  
With thy Acceptance blest;  
And I, secure, on thy Defence,  
My Strength and Saviour, rest.     

PSALM XX.  

1. THE Lord to thy Request attend,  
And hear thee in Distress;  
The Name of Iacob's God defend,  
And grant thy Arms Success.   

2. To aid thee from on high repair,  
And Strength from Zion give;  
Remember all thy Offerings there,  
Thy Sacrifice receive.   

3. To compass thy own Heart's Desire  
Thy Counsels still direct;  
Make kindly all Events conspire  
To bring them to effect.   

4. To thy Salvation, Lord, for Aid  
We'll cheerfully repair,  
With Banners in thy Name displayed:  
The Lord accept thy Prayer.   

5. Our Hopes are now confirmed, the Lord  
Will by our sovereign stand;  
From Heaven the saving Strength afford  
Of his resistless Hand.   

6. Some trust in Steeds for War designed,  
On Chariots some rely;  
Against them all, we'll call to mind  
The Name of God most High.   

7. But from their Steeds and Chariots thrown,  
Behold them through the Plain,  
Disordered, broke, and trampled down,  
Whilst firm our Troops remain.   

8. Still save us, Lord, and still proceed  
Our rightful Cause to bless;  
Hear, King of Heaven, in times of need  
The Prayers that we address.    

PSALM XXI.  


1. THE King, O Lord, with Songs of Praise  
Shall in thy Strength rejoice;  
With thy Salvation glad shall raise  
To Heaven his cheerful Voice,   

2. For thou whatever his Lips request  
Not only didst impart,  
But hast with thy Acceptance blest  
The Wishes of his Heart.   

3. Thy Goodness and thy tender Care  
Have even his Hopes outgone;  
A Crown of Gold thou mak'st him wear  
And sett'st it firmly on.   

4. He prayed for Life, and thou, O Lord,  
Didst his short span extend;  
And graciously to him afford  
A Life that ne'er shall end.   

5. Thy sure Defence to Nations round  
Has spread his glorious Name;  
And his successful Actions crowned  
With Majesty and Fame.   

6. Eternal Blessings thou bestowest,  
And mak'st his Joy increase,  
Whilst thou to him unclouded showest  
The Brightness of thy ●ace.    

PART II.  

7. Because the King on God alone  
For timely Aid relies,  
His Mercy still supports his Throne,  
And all his Needs supplies.   

8. But, righteous Lord, thy stubborn Foes  
Shall feel thy heavy Hand;  
Thy vengeful Arm shall find out those  
That hate thy mild Command.   

9 When thou against them dost engage,  
Thy just but dreadful Doom  
Shall like a glowing Oven's Rage,  
Their Hopes and them consume.   

10. Nor shall thy furious Anger cease,  
Or with their Ruin end;  
But ravage all their guilty Race,  
And to their Seed descend.   

11. For all their Thoughts were set on ill,  
Their Hearts on Malice bend,  
(Though thou with watchful care didst still  
The ill Effects prevent.)   

12. In vain by shameful flight they'll try  
To scape thy dreaded Might;  
While thy swift Darts shall fa●ter fly,  
And gall them in their Flight.   

13. Thus, Lord, thy wondrous Strength disclose,  
And thus exalt thy Name;  
Whilst we loud Songs of Joy compose,  
And make thy Power the Theme.     

PSALM XXII.  


1. MY God, my God, why leav'st thou me  
When I with Anguish faint?  
O why so far from me removed,  
And from my loud Complaint.   

2. All day, but all the day unheard,  
To thee do I complain;  
With Cries implore Relief all night,  
But cry all night in vain.   

3. But thou art still the righteous Judge  
Of Innocence oppressed,  
And therefore Israel's Praises are  
Of right to Thee addressed.   

4, 5. On Thee our Ancestors relied,  
And thy deliverance found;  
With pious Confidence they prayed  
And with Success were crowned.   

6. But I am treated as a Worm,  
Like none of Woman born:  
Not only by the Great reviled,  
But made the Rabble's Scorn.   

7. With Laughter all the gazing Crowd  
My Agonies survey.  
They shoot the Lip, they shake the Head,  
And thus, deriding, say,   

8. In God he trusted, boasting oft  
That he was Heaven's Delight;  
Let God come down to own him now,  
And save his Favourite.    

PART II.  

9 Thou mad'st my teeming Mother's Womb  
A living Offspring bear;  
When but a Suckling at the Breast,  
I was th' Almighty's Care.   

10. My Guardian thou didst shield from Wrongs  
My helpless Infant days;  
Up from my Birth my God and Guide,  
Through Life's bewildered ways.   

11. Withdraw not then so far from me  
When Trouble is so nigh:  
O send me Help! thy Help, on which  
I only can rely.   

12. High pampered Bulls, a frowning Herd,  
From Basan Forests met,  
With Strength proportioned to their Rage,  
Have me around beset.   

13. They gape on me and every Mouth  
A yawning Grave appears;  
The ravening Lion's loudest Roar  
Less dreadful is than theirs.    

PART III.  

14. My Blood like Water's spilled, my Joints  
Distorted out of Frame;  
My Heart dissolves within my Breast,  
Like Wax before the Flame●   

15. My Strength like Potter's Earth is parched,  
My thirsty Tongue and Breath  
From Plaints restrained; my Life reduced  
Even to the Gates of Death.   

16. Like Blood hounds to surround me, they  
In packed Assemblies meet;  
They pierced my inoffensive Hands,  
They pierced my harmless Feet.   

17. My Body's racked till all my Bones  
Distinctly may be told:  
Yet such a Spectacle of Woe  
As Pastime they behold.   

18. As Spoil my Garments they divide,  
Lots for my Vesture cast;  
Therefore approach, O Lord, my Strength,  
And to my Succour haste.   

20. Deliver from their Sword my Soul,  
(Of all but Life bereft!)  
Nor let my Darling in the Power  
Of cruel Dogs be left.   

21. Retrieve me from the Lion's Jaws  
As from the brandished Horns  
Thou rescued'st me, and from the Hoofs  
Of trampling Unicorns.   

22. Then to my Brethren I'll declare  
The Triumphs of thy Name,  
In Presence of assembled Saints  
Thy Glory thus proclaim,   

23. Ye Worshippers of Iacob's God,  
All you of Israel's Line,  
O praise the Lord, and to your Praise  
Sincere Obedience join.   

24. He ne'er disdained on low Distress  
To cast a gracious Eye;  
Nor turned from Poverty his Face,  
But hears its humble Cry.    

Part IU.  

25. Thus in thy Courts Religious Throng  
My Thanks I will express,  
In presence of thy Saints perform  
The Vows of my Distress.   

26. The Meek Companions of my Grief  
Shall find my Table spread,  
And all that seek the Lord shall be  
With Joys immortal fed.   

27. Then shall the Universe, convinced,  
To God their Homage pay;  
And scattered Nations of the Earth  
One sovereign Lord obey.   

28. 'Tis his supreme Prerogative  
O'er Subject-Kings to reign,  
'Tis just that he should rule the World,  
Who does the World sustain   

29. The Rich, who are with Plenty fed,  
His Bounty must confess;  
The Sons of Want, by him relieved,  
Their generous Patron bless.  
With humble Worship, to his Throne  
They all for Aid resort  
That Power which first their Being's gave,  
Can only them support.   

30, 31. Then shall a chosen spotless Race  
Devoted to his Name,  
To their admiring Heirs his Truth  
And glorious Acts proclaim.     

PSALM XXIII.  

1. SInce God does me, his worthless Charge,  
Protect with tender Care,  
As watchful Shepherds guard their Flocks,  
What can I want or fear?   

2. In shady Pastures fresh and green  
He makes me feed and lie;  
Then leads me on to silver Streams,  
That gently murmur by.   

3. My wandering Soul, by him restored,  
To his immortal Praise,  
He taught with humble Zeal to walk  
In his most righteous ways.   

4. Tho through Death's gloomy Vale I march,  
Yet safe and undismayed;  
His Presence cheers, his Rod and Staff  
Afford me constant Aid.   

5. By him, in sight of all my Foes,  
My Table's richly spread,  
My Cup overflows with generous Wine,  
With precious Oils my Head.   

6. Since God thus shows his wondrous Love  
Through all my Life's extent,  
My time to come shall, in his House,  
In Prayer and Praise be spent.    

PSALM XXIV.  

1. THis spacious Earth is all the Lord's,  
The Lord's her Fullness is;  
The World and its Inhabitants  
By sovereign Right are his.   

2. He framed and fixed it on the Seas,  
And with Almighty Hand  
Upon inconstant Floods he made  
Her stable Fabric stand.   

3. But for himself this Lord of All  
One chosen Seat designed;  
O who shall to that Sacred Hill  
Deserved Admittance find?   

4. The Man whose Hands and Heart are pure,  
Whose Thoughts were never vain,  
Had rather live despised and poor,  
Than thrive ●y perjured Gain.   

5. This, this is He on whom the Lord  
Shall shower his Blessings down,  
Whom God his Saviour shall vouchsafe  
With Righteousness to crown●   

6. Such is the Race of Saints, by whom  
Thy sacred Courts are trod;  
And such the Proselytes that seek  
The face of Iacob's God.   

7. Erect your Heads, eternal Gates,  
Unfold, to entertain  
The King of Glory: see he comes  
With his celestial Train.   

8. Who is this King of Glory? who?  
The Lord for Strength renowned,  
In Battle mighty, o'er his Foes  
Eternal Victor crowned.   

9 Erect your Heads, ye Gates, unfold  
In state to entertain  
The King of Glory: see he comes  
With all his shining Train.   

10. Who is this King of Glory? who?  
The Lord of Hosts renowned:  
Of Glory He alone is King,  
Who is with Glory crowned.    

PSALM XXV.  


1, 2. TO thee, the God in whom I trust  
I li●t my Heart and Voice;  
O let me not be put to shame,  
Nor let my Foes rejoice.   

3. Those who on Thee for Succour wait  
Let no Disgrace attend.  
Be that the shameful Lot of such  
As wilfully offend.   

4, 5. Thy Paths disclose, thy Truth impart  
And lead me in thy way,  
For thou art he that brings me Help,  
On Thee I wait all day.   

6. Thy Mercies and thy tender Love,  
O Lord, recall to mind,  
And graciously continue still,  
As thou wert ever kind.   

7. Let all my early youthful Crimes  
Be blotted out by thee;  
And for thy wondrous Goodness sake  
In Mercy think on me.   

8. His Mercy and his Justice both  
The righteous Lord displays,  
In bringing wandering Sinners home  
And teaching them his ways.   

9 All those in Judgement shall he guide  
Who his Direction seek;  
And in his sacred Paths shall lead  
The humble and the meek.   

10. Through all the equal ways of God  
Both Truth and Mercy shine,  
Towards them, that with religious Hearts  
To his blessed Will incline.    

PART II.  

11. Since Mercy is thy darling Grace,  
And most exalts thy Fame,  
Forgive my heinous Sin, O Lord,  
And so advance thy Name.   

12. Whoever to God with holy Fear  
His humble Duty pays,  
Shall find the Lord a faithful Guide  
In all his righteous Ways.   

13. His quiet Soul with inward Peace  
Shall be for ever blest,  
And by his numerous Race the Land  
Successively possessed.   

14. For God to such as fear his Name,  
His secret Will imparts,  
And does his gracious Covenant write  
In their obedient Hearts.   

15. To him I still will lift my Eyes,  
And wait his timely Aid,  
Who breaks the strong and treacherous snare  
Which for my Feet was laid.   

16. O turn again, and all my Griefs  
In mercy, Lord, redress;  
For I am compassed round with Woes,  
And plunged in deep Distress.   

17. The Sorrows of my pensive Heart  
To mighty Sums increase;  
O from this dark and dismal state  
My troubled Soul release!   

18. With tender Eyes and pitying Looks  
My sad Afflictions see;  
Acquit me, Lord, and from my Gild,  
Entirely set me free.   

19 Consider, Lord, my cruel Foes,  
How fast their Numbers grow!  
What lawless Force and Rage they use,  
What boundless Hate they show!   

20. O guard my life, and set my Soul  
From their fierce Malice free;  
Nor let me, Lord, be shamed, who place  
My steadfast Trust in thee.   

21. Let all my just and righteous Acts  
To full Perfection rise,  
Because my firm and constant Hope  
On thee alone relies.   

12. To Israel, Lord, thy chosen Race,  
Continue ever kind;  
And in the midst of all their Wants  
Let them thy Succour find.     

PSALM XXVI.  

1. JUdge me, O Lord, for I the Paths  
Of Righteousness have trod;  
I cannot fail, who all my Trust  
Repose on thee, my God.   

2, 3. Search, prove my Heart, whose Innocence  
Will shine the more 'tis tried;  
For I have kept thy Grace in view,  
Thy Truth my constant Guide.   

4. I never for Companions took  
The Idle or Profane,  
No Hypocrite with all his Arts  
My Friendship e'er could gain.   

5. I hate the Factious Plotting Crew  
Who make distracted Times.  
No more would share their Company,  
Than I'd partake their Crimes.   

6. I'll wash my Hands in Innocence;  
And bring a Heart so pure  
As shall when I approach thy Courts,  
My Welcome there secure.   

7, 8. My Thanks I'll publish there and tell  
How thy Renown excels:  
That Seat affords me most Delight,  
In which thy Honour dwells.   

9 Involve me not in Sinners doom,  
Who Murder make their Trade;   

10. Who other's Rights by secret Bribes,  
Or open Force invade.   

11. But I will walk in Paths of Truth,  
Integrity pursue;  
Protect me therefore, and on me  
Thy Mercies, Lord, renew.   

12. In spite of all my Foes Attacks  
I still maintain my ground:  
And shall survive, amongst thy Saints.  
Thy Praises to resound.    

PSALM XXVII.  


1. WHom should I fear, since God to me  
Salvation is and Light?  
Since strongly he my Life supports,  
What can my Soul affright?   

2. With ravenous Aims, my Flesh to tear  
When Foes beset me round,  
They stumbled, and their lofty Crests  
Were made to strike the Ground.   

3. Through him my Heart, undaunted, dares  
With numerous Hosts to cope;  
Through him, in dangerous Straits of War,  
For good Success I hope.   

4. Henceforth within his House to dwell  
I earnestly desire,  
His wondrous Beauty there to view,  
And his blessed Will inquire.   

5. For there may I with Comfort rest,  
In times of deep Distress,  
And safe as on a Rock abide  
In that secure recess.   

6. Whilst God above my haughty Foes  
My lofty Head shall raise,  
And I my joyful Offering bring,  
And sing glad Songs of Praise    

PART II.  

7. Continue, Lord, to hear my Voice,  
Whenever to thee I cry;  
In mercy all my Prayers receive,  
Nor my Request deny.   

8. When thou to seek thy glorious Face  
Dost graciously advise,  
Thy glorious Face I'll always seek,  
My grateful Heart replies.   

9 Then hide not thou thy Face, O Lord,  
Nor me in Wrath reject;  
My God and Saviour, leave not him  
Thou didst so oft protect.   

10. Tho all my Friends and nearest Kin  
Their helpless Charge forsake,  
Yet thou, whose Love excels them all,  
Wilt Care and Pity take.   

11. Instruct me in thy ways, O Lord,  
My Goings plainly guide,  
Lest envious Men, who watch my steps,  
Should see me tread aside:   

12. Defeat, O Lord, my cruel Foes,  
And thwart their ill Desire,  
Whose lying Lips and bloody Hands  
Against my Peace conspire.   

13. I trusted that my future Life  
Should with thy Love be crowned,  
Or else my fainting Soul had sunk  
With Sorrows compassed round.   

14. With patient Faith expect God's time,  
And he'll inspire thy Breast  
With inward Strength; do thus thy part.  
And leave to him the rest.     

PSALM XXVIII.  

1. O Lord, my Rock, to Thee I cry●  
In Sighs consume my Breath:  
O answer, or I shall become  
Like those that sleep in Death.   

2. Regard my Supplication, Lord●  
The Cries that I repeat,  
With weeping Eyes, and Hands stretched o●●  
Before thy Mercy-seat,   

3. Involve me not in Sinners doom,  
Who make a Trade of Ill,  
And ever speak the Person fair,  
Whose Blood they mean to spill.   

4. According to their Crimes extent  
Let Justice have its Course;  
Relentless be to them, as they  
Have sinned without Remorse.   

5. Since they the Works of God despise,  
Nor would his Grace adore,  
His Wrath shall utterly destroy,  
And build them up no more.   

6. But I, with due Acknowledgement,  
His Praises will resound,  
From whom the Cries of my Distress  
A gracious Answer found.   

7. My Herd reposed its Confidence  
In God, my Strength and Shield,  
In him I trusted, and returned  
Triumphant from the Field.  
As he has made my Joys complete,  
'Tis just that I should raise  
The cheerful Tribute of my Thanks,  
And thus resound his Praise.   

8. His aiding Power supports the Troops  
That my just cause maintain;  
'Twas he advanced me to the Throne,  
'Tis he secures my Reign.   

9 Preserve thy chosen, and proceed  
Thine Heritage to bless;  
With Plenty prosper them, in Peace;  
In Battle, with Success.    

PSALM XXIX.  

1. YE Princes that in Might excel,  
Devout Oblations straight prepare;  
God's glorious Actions loudly tell,  
To all his wondrous power declare●   

2. To his great Name fresh Altars raise,  
And due Respect with Care afford;  
Him in his holy Temple praise,  
Where he's with solemn State adored.   

3. 'Tis he that with amazing Noise  
The wat'ry Clouds in sunder brake;  
The Ocean trembled at his Voice,  
When he from Heaven in Thunder spoke.   

4, 5. How full of Power his Voice appears!  
With what majestic Horror crowned!  
Which from their Roots tall Cedars tears,  
And strews their scattered Branches round!   

6. They, and the Hills on which they grow,  
Are sometimes hurried far away;  
And leap, like Hinds that bounding go,  
Or Unicorns in youthful play.   

7, 8. When God in Thunder loudly speaks,  
And scattered Flames of Lightning sends,  
The Forest nods, the Desert quakes,  
And stubborn Kadesh lowly bends.   

9 He aids the Hinds with Pangs oppressed,  
And lays the Beasts dark Coverts bare,  
Whilst those that in his Temple rest,  
Securely sing his Praises there.   

10, 11. God rules the angry Floods on high;  
His boundless Sway shall never cease;  
His People he'll with Strength supply,  
And bless his own with constant Peace.    

PSALM XXX.  

1. I'll celebrate thy Praises, Lord,  
Who didst thy Power employ  
To lift my drooping Head above  
My Foes insulting Joy.   

2, 3. To Thee I cried in my Distress,  
Who kindly didst relieve,  
And from the Grave's expecting Jaws  
My hopeless Life retrieve.   

4. Thus to his Courts ye Saints of his  
With Songs of Praise repair,  
With me commemorate his Truth,  
And providential Care.   

5. His Wrath has but a Moment's reign,  
His Favour no Decay:  
Your Night of Grief is recompensed  
With Joys returning Day.   

6. But I in prosperous days presumed,  
No Revolution feared,  
Whilst in my Sunshine of Success  
No lowering Cloud appeared.   

7. But soon perceived thy Favour, Lord,  
My Empire's strongest Trust;  
Thou hidd'st thy Face, and straight I found  
My Honour laid in Dust.   

8. Then, as I vainly had presumed,  
My Error I confessed,  
And thus, with supplicating Voice,  
Thy Mercy's Throne addressed.   

9 What Profit is there in my Blood,  
Congealed by Death's cold Night?  
Can silent Ashes speak thy Praise,  
Thy wondrous Truth recite?   

10. Hear me, O Lord, in Mercy hear,  
Thy wont Aid extend;  
Be thou my Helper, on whose Help  
I only can depend.   

11. 'Tis done! Thou hast my mournful Scene.  
To Songs and Dances turned;  
In Robes of State invested me,  
Who late in Sackcloth mourned.   

12. My Glory therefore shall proclaim  
Thy Praise in grateful Verse;  
And, as thy Favours endless are,  
Thy endless Praise rehearse.    

PSALM XXXI.  


1. DEfend me, Lord, from Shame,  
For still I trust in Thee;  
As ●ust and Righteous is thy Name,  
From Danger set me free.   

2. Bow down thy gracious Ear,  
And speedy Succour send;  
Do thou my steadfast Rock appear,  
To rescue and defend.   

3. Since Thou, when Foes oppress,  
My Rock and Fortress art,  
To guide me forth from this Distress  
Thy usual Help impart.   

4. Release me from the Snare  
Which they have closely laid,  
Since I, O God my Strength, repair  
To thee alone for Aid.   

5. To Thee, the God of Truth,  
My Life, and all that's mine,  
(For thou preserv'dst me from my Youth)  
I willingly resign.   

6. All vain Designs I hate,  
Of those that trust in ●●es;  
Whilst my firm Hope, in every state,  
On God alone relies.    

PART II.  

7. The Mercies thou hast shown  
I'll cheerfully express;  
For thou hast viewed my Straits, and known  
My Soul in deep Distress.   

8. When Keilah's treacherous Race  
Did all my Strength enclose,  
Thou gav'st my Feet a larger space  
To shun my watchful Foes.   

9 Thy Mercy, Lord, display,  
Redress my just Complaint;  
For both my Heart and Flesh decay,  
With Grief and Hunger faint.   

10. Sad Thoughts my Life oppress,  
My Years are spent in Groans,  
My Sins have made my Strength grow less,  
And even consumed my Bones.   

11. My Foes insulting mocked,  
My Neighbours did upbraid;  
My Friends at sight of me were shocked,  
And fled as Men dismayed.   

12. By all I am forgot,  
As dead, and out of mind;  
And hopeless as a shattered Pot,  
Whose Parts can ne'er be joined.   

13. With slanderous Tongues they speak,  
And seem my Power to dread,  
Whilst they together Counsel take  
My guiltless Blood to shed.   

14. But still my steadfast Trust,  
I on thy Help repose;  
That thou, my God, art good and just,  
My Heart with Comfort knows.    

PART III.  

15. Whate'er Events betid  
Thy Wisdom times them all;  
Then, Lord, thy Servant safely hide  
From those that seek his Fall.   

16. The Brightness of thy Face  
To me, O Lord, disclose;  
And, as thy Mercies still increase,  
Preserve me from my Foes,   

17. Let me no Shame receive,  
Who still have called on Thee;  
Let That and Silence in the Grave,  
The Sinner's Portion be.   

18. Do thou their Tongues restrain,  
Whose Breath in Lie is spent;  
Who false Reports, with proud Disdain,  
Against the Righteous vent.   

19 How great thy Mercies are  
To such as fear thy Name!  
Which thou, for those that trust thy Care,  
Dost to the World proclaim.   

20. Thou shrowd'st them in thy Sight  
From Man's defeated Pride;  
From Tongues that do in Strife delight  
Thou dost them safely hide.   

21. With Glory and Renown  
God's Name be ever blessed;  
Whose Love in Keilah's well-fenced Town  
Was wondrously expressed!   

22. I said, in hasty Flight,  
" I'm banished from thine Eyes  
Yet still thou keptest me in thy Sight,  
And heard'st my earnest Cries.   

23. Let holy Men the Lord  
With eager Love pursue,  
Who to the Just will Help afford,  
And give the Proud their due.   

24. All that on God rely  
Courageously proceed  
For he will still your Hearts supply  
With Strength in time of need.     

PSALM XXXII.  

1. THrice blest, whose Sins have Pardon gained  
No more in Judgement to appear;   

2. Whose Gild Remission has obtained,  
And whose Repentance is sincere.   

3. Whilst I concealed the fretting Sore,  
My Bones consumed without Relief;  
All day with Anguish I did roar,  
But no Complaints assuaged my Grief.   

4. Heavy on me thy Hand remained,  
By Day and Night alike distressed,  
Till quite of vital Moisture drained,  
Like Land with Summer's drought oppressed.   

5. No sooner I my Wound disclosed,  
The Gild that tortured me within,  
But thy Forgiveness interposed,  
And Mercy's healing Balm poured in.   

6. True Penitents shall thus succeed,  
Who seek Thee whilst thou mayst be found,  
From Danger's common Deluge freed,  
See the lewd World about 'em drowned.   

7. Thy Favour, Lord, in last Distress,  
My Tower of Refuge I must own,  
Thou shalt my haughty Foes suppress,  
And me with Songs of Triumph Crown.   

8. To my Instruction then confide,  
You that would Truth's safe Path descry,  
Your Progress, I'll securely guide,  
And keep you in my watchful Eye.   

9 Submit yourselves to Wisdom's Rule,  
Like Men that Reason have attained;  
Not like th' ungoverned Horse and Mule,  
Whose Fury must be Curbed and Reined.   

10. Sorrows on Sorrows multiplied  
Obdurate Sinners shall confound,  
But them who in his Truth confide  
Blessings of Mercy shall surround.   

11. His Saints that have performed his Law●  
Their Life in Triumphs shall employ:  
Let then (as such alone have cause)  
The Heart that's Upright shout for Joy.    

PSALM XXXIII.  


1. LEt all the Just to God with Joy  
Their cheerful Voices raise,  
For well the Righteous it becomes  
To sing glad Songs of Praise.   

2, 3. Let Harps, and Psalteries, and Lutes,  
Be in one Consort met,  
And new-made Songs of loud Applause  
To skilful Notes be set.   

4, 5. For faithful is the Word of God,  
His Works with Truth abound;  
He Justice loves, and o'er the Earth  
Distils his Goodness round,   

6. By his Almighty Word at first  
heavens glorious Arch was reared;  
And all the beauteous Hosts of Light  
At his Command appeared.   

7. The swelling Floods together rolled,  
He makes in Heaps to lie,  
And lays, as in a Storehouse, safe,  
The wat'ry Treasures by.   

8, 9 Let Earth and all that dwell therein  
Before him trembling stand:  
For when he spoke the word, 'twas done,  
'Twas fixed at his Command.   

10. He, when the Heathen closely plot,  
Their Counsels undermines;  
His Wisdom ineffectual makes  
The People's vain Designs.   

11. But what the mighty Lord decrees  
Shall stand for ever sure;  
The settled purpose of his Heart  
To Ages shall endure.    

PART II.  

12. How happy then are they, to whom  
The Lord for God is known!  
Whom he from all the World besides  
Has chosen for his own!   

13, 14, 15. He all the Nations of the Earth  
From Heaven his Throne surveyed;  
He saw their Works, and viewed their Thoughts.  
By him their Hearts were made   

16, 17. No King is safe by numerous Host●,  
Their Strength the Strong deceives;  
No managed Horse, by Force or Speed,  
His Warlike Rider saves:   

18, 19 'Tis God, who those that trust in him  
Beholds with gracious Eyes:  
He frees their Soul from Death, their Wants  
In time of Dearth supplies.   

20, 21. Our Soul on God with Patience waits,  
Our Help and Shield is He!  
Then, Lord, let still our Hearts rejoice,  
Because we trust in Thee.   

22. The Riches of thy Mercy, Lord,  
Do Thou to us extend;  
Since we, for all we want or wish,  
On Thee alone depend.     

PSALM XXXIV.  


1. THrough all the changing Scenes of Life,  
In Trouble and in Joy,  
The Praises of my God shall still  
My Heart and Tongue employ.   

2. Of his deliverance I will boast,  
Till all that are distressed,  
From my Example Comfort take,  
And charm their Grief to rest.   

3. O magnify the Lord with me,  
With me exalt his Name:   

4. Distressed, to him I sought, he heard,  
And to my rescue came.   

5. Their drooping Hearts were soon refreshed,  
Who looked to him for Aid:  
Desired Success in every Face  
A cheerful Air displayed.   

6. Behold (say they) the Supplicant  
Whom Providence relieved,  
The Man so dangerously beset,  
So wondrously retrieved!   

7. His Angel Hosts encamp around  
The Dwellings of the Just;  
deliverance he affords to all  
Who on his Succour trust.   

8. O taste th' Experience of his Love;  
The Trial will decide,  
How blessed they are, and only they,  
Who in his Truth confide.   

9 Fear him, ye Saints, and you will then  
Have nothing else to fear;  
Fear him, make you his Service yours,  
He'll make your Wants his Care.   

10. When Hungry Rapine fails with Prey  
Young Lions to provide,  
All those that meekly fear the Lord  
Shall have their Wants supply'd●    

PART II.  

11. Approach, ye piously disposed,  
And my Instruction hear,  
I'll teach you the true Discipline  
Of his religious Fear.   

12. Let him who Length of Life desires,  
And prosperous Days would see   

13. From Slander's Venom keep his Tongue,  
His Lips from Falsehood free.   

14. The crooked Paths of Vice decline  
And Virtue's Ways pursue,  
Establish Peace where 'tis begun,  
And, where 'tis lost, renew.   

15. The Lord, from Heaven, beholds the Just  
With favourable Eyes,  
And when distressed, his gracious Ear  
Is opened to their Cries.   

16. But turns his wrathful Look on those  
Whom Mercy can't reclaim,  
To cut them off, and raze from Earth  
Their hated Race and Name.   

17. deliverance to his Saints he gives  
When his relief they crave:   

18. Still nigh to heal the broken Heart  
And contrite Spirit save.   

19 The Wicked oft, but still in vain,  
Against the Just conspire:   

20. For under their Af●liction's weight  
He keeps their Bones entire.   

21. The Wicked from their Wickedness  
Their Ruin shall derive;  
Whilst them their Malice, and their Names,  
The Righteous shall survive.   

22. The Lord redeems his Servants Souls,  
Who on his Trust depend,  
To them and their Posterity  
His Blessings shall descend.     

PSALM XXXV.  


1. AGainst all those that strive with me,  
O Lord, assert my Right;  
With such as War unjustly wage  
Do Thou my Battles sight.   

2. Thy Buckler take, and bind thy Shield  
Upon thy warlike Arm;  
Stand up, my God, in my defence,  
And keep me safe from Harm.   

3. Bring forth thy Spear, stop those that seek  
My guiltless Blood to spill;  
Say to my Soul, I am thy Health,  
And will preserve thee still.   

4. Whilst they with Shame are covered o'er  
That my Destruction sought;  
And such as did my Harm devise  
Are to Confusion brought.   

5. Then shall they fly, dispersed like Chaff  
That's scattered by the Wind;  
God's vengeful Minister of Wrath  
Shall follow close behind.   

6. And when through dark and slippery ways  
They strive thy Rage to shun,  
Thy vengeful Ministers of Wrath  
Shall goad them as they run.   

7. Since unprovok'd by any Wrong  
They hid their treacherous Snare;  
And for my harmless Soul a Pit  
Did without Cause prepare;   

8. Surprised by Mischiefs unforeseen,  
By their own Traps betrayed;  
Their Feet shall fall into the Net  
Which they for me had laid.   

9 Whilst my glad Soul shall God's great Name  
For his deliverance bless;  
And by his Saving Health secured,  
It's grateful Joy express.   

10. My very Bones shall say, O Lord,  
Who can compare with Thee?  
Who sett'st the poor and helpless Man  
From strong Oppressor's free.    

PART II.  

11. False Witnesses, with forged Complaints,  
Against my Truth combined;  
And to my Charge such things they laid  
As I had ne'er designed.   

12. The Good which I to them had done,  
With Evil they repaid;  
And, urged by Malice undeserved,  
Did even my Life invade.   

13. But as for me, when they were sick  
I did in Sackcloth mourn;  
I prayed and fasted, and my Prayer  
Did to myself return.   

14. Had they my Friends or Breth'rens been,  
I could have done no more;  
Nor with a Grief more sharp and true  
A Mother's Loss deplore.   

15. How differing has their Carriage proved,  
In times of my Distress;  
When they in Crowds together met,  
Did savage Joy express.  
The Rabble too, in numerous Throngs,  
By their Example came;  
And ceased not, with their sordid Taunts,  
To wound my spotless Fame.   

16. Sco●fers, that noble Tables haunt,  
And earn their Bread with Lies,  
Did gnash their Teeth, and slanderous Jests  
Maliciously devise.   

17. But, Lord, how long wilt thou look on●  
On my behalf appear;  
And save my guiltless Soul, which they  
Like savage Beasts would tear.    

PART III.  

18. So I, before the listening World,  
Shall grateful Thanks express;  
And where the great Assembly meets,  
Thy Name with Praises bless.   

19 Lord, suffer not my causeless Foes,  
Who me unjustly hate;  
With public Joy, or private Winks  
To mock my sad Estate.   

20. For they, with Hearts averse from Peace,  
Maliciously devise,  
Against the Men of quiet Minds  
To utter spiteful Lies:   

21. Nor with these private Arts content,  
With open Mouths they bawl,  
And say, at last we've found him out,  
Ourselves have seen it all.   

22. But Thou, who dost both them and me  
With righteous Eyes survey,  
Declare my Innocence, O Lord,  
And keep not far away.   

23. Stir up thyself, and freshly roused  
To Judgement, Lord, awake;  
Thy righteous Servant's Cause, O God,  
To thy Decision take.   

24. Lord, as my Heart has upright been,  
Let me thy Judgement find;  
Nor let my cruel Foes obtain  
The Triumph they designed.   

25. O let them not amongst themselves,  
In Boasting Language say,  
At length our Wishes are complete,  
At last he's made our Prey.   

26. Let such as in my Harm rejoiced  
For shame their Faces hide;  
And foul Dishonour wait on those  
That proudly me defied:   

27. Whilst they with Joy and Gladness shout,  
Who my just Cause befriend;  
And bless the Lord, who loves to make  
Success his Saints attend.   

28. So shall my Tongue, with Joy inspired,  
Thy Righteousness proclaim;  
And of my grateful Songs thy Praise  
Shall be the constant Theme.     

PSALM XXXVI.  

1. MY crafty Foe with flattering Art  
His wicked Purpose would disguise;  
But Reason whispers to my Heart,  
No Fear of God's before his Eyes.   

2. He soothes himself, retired from sight,  
And thinks secured his treacherous Game;  
Till his dark Plots exposed to Light,  
Their false Contriver brand with Sha●e.   

3. In Deeds he is my Foe confessed,  
Whilst, to destroy, he speaks me fair:  
True Wisdom's banished from his Breast,  
And Vice has sole Dominion there.   

4. His Malice spends the sleepless Night  
In forging mischievous Designs;  
His obstinate ungen'rous Spite  
No execrable Means declines.   

5. But, Lord, thy Mercy is my Hope,  
That heavens sublimest Orb transcends:  
O Lord, thy Truth's unmeasured Scope  
Beyond the spreading Skies extends.   

6. Thy Justice, like the Hills remains;  
Unfathomed Depths thy Judgements are;  
Thy Providence the World sustains,  
To Men and Beast's extends its Care.   

7. O, since thy Kindness all partake,  
With what Assurance should the Just  
Thy sheltering Wings their Refuge make,  
And Saints to thy Protection trust!   

8. Such Guests shall to thy Courts be led,  
To banquet on thy Love's Repast.  
And drink, as from a Fountain's head,  
Of Joys that shall for ever last.   

9 With Thee the Springs of Life remain,  
Thy Presence is eternal Day;   

10. O let thy Saints thy Favour gain;  
To upright Hearts thy Truth display.   

11. Let Pride's insulting Foot ne'er tread,  
Nor wicked Hand my Life surprise:   

12. Their Mischief turns on their own Head●  
Down, down they're fallen, no more to ris●    

PSALM XXXVII.  


1. THough wicked Men grow Rich or Great,  
Yet let not their successful State,  
Thy Anger or thy Envy raise:   

2. For they cut down like tender Grass,  
Or like young Flowers away shall pass,  
Whose blooming Beauty soon decays.   

3. Depend on God, and still live well;  
So Thou within the Land shalt dwell,  
Secure from Danger, and from Want:   

4. Make him thy only chief Delight,  
And He, thy Duty to requite,  
Shall all thy earnest wishes grant.   

5. In all thy ways trust thou the Lord,  
And he'll his needful Help afford  
To perfect every just Design:   

6. He'll make, like Light serene and clear,  
Thy clouded Innocence appear,  
And as a midday Sun to shine.   

7. With quiet Mind on God depend,  
And patiently for him attend;  
Nor let thy Anger fond rise,  
Tho wicked Men with Wealth abound,  
And with Success the Plots are crowned,  
Which they maliciously devise.   

8. From Anger cease, and Wrath forsake,  
Let no ungoverned Passion make  
Thy wavering Heart espouse their Crime;   

9 For God shall sinful Men destroy,  
Whilst only they the Land enjoy,  
Who trust on him and wait his time.   

10. How soon shall wicked Men decay!  
Their Place shall vanish quite away,  
Nor by the strictest search be found:   

11. Whilst humble Souls possess the Earth,  
Rejoicing still with godly Mirth,  
With Peace and Plenty always crowned.    

PART II.  

12. While Sinful Crowds with fell Design  
Against the righteous Few combine,  
And gnash their Teeth and threatening stand:   

13. God shall their empty Plots deride,  
And laugh at their defeated Pride;  
He sees their Ruin near at hand.   

14. They draw the Sword, and bend the Bow,  
The Poor and Needy to oe'rthrow,  
And Men of upright Lives to slay:   

15. But their strong Bows shall soon be broke,  
Their sharp-edged Weapon's mortal Stroke  
Through their own Hearts shall force its way.   

16. A little, with God's Favour blessed,  
That's by a Righteous Man possessed,  
The Wealth of many Bad excels:   

17. For God supports the righteous Cause,  
But as for those that break his Laws,  
Their ineffectual Power he quells.   

18. His constant Care the Upright guides,  
And over all their Days presides,  
Their Portion shall for ever last:   

19 They, when Distress overspreads the Earth,  
Shall be unmoved, and even in Dearth  
The happy Fruits of Plenty taste.   

20. Not so the wicked Men, and those  
Who proudly dare Gods will oppose;  
Destruction is their hapless share:  
Like Fat of Lambs, their Hopes and they  
Shall in an instant melt away,  
And vanish into Smoak and Air.    

PART III.  

21. While Sinners brought to sad Decay,  
Tho forced to borrow, can't repay,  
The Just have Will and Power to give:   

22. For such as God vouchsafes to bless,  
Shall peaceably the Earth possess;  
And those he curses shall not live.   

23. The good Man's way is God's Delight,  
He order all the Steps aright  
Of him that owns his dread Command●   

24. Tho he sometimes may be distressed,  
Yet shall he ne'er be quite oppressed,  
For God upholds him with his Hand.   

25. From blooming Youth till Age prevailed,  
I never saw the Righteous failed,  
Or Want overtake his numerous Race;   

26. Because Compassion filled his Heart,  
And he did cheerfully impart,  
God made his Offsprings Wealth increase.   

27. Ill Deeds with utmost Caution shun;  
In that that's good with Zeal go on,  
And so prolong your happy Days:   

28. For God who judgement loves, will still  
Preserve his Saints secure from Ill,  
While soon the wicked Race decays.   

29, 30, 31. The Upright shall possess the Land,  
His Portion there for Ages stand;  
His Mouth with Wisdom's stores supplied,  
His Tongue by Rules of Judgement moves,  
His Heart the Law of God approves,  
Which makes his Footsteps never slide.    

PART IU.  

32. In vain the watchful Sinner lies  
In wait, the Righteous to surprise;  
In vain his Ruin does decree;   

33. God will not him defenceless leave,  
To his Revenge exposed, but save,  
And when he's sentenced, set him free.   

34. Wait still on God, and keep his way,  
And thou, advanced the Land to sway,  
Thy firm possession ne'er shalt quit:  
With longing Eyes thou soon shalt see  
The Wicked's fatal Tragedy,  
And as a glad Spectator sit.   

35. The Wicked in great Power I've seen,  
And like a Bay-tree fresh and green  
That spreads its pleasant Branches round:   

36. But he was gone as swift as Thought,  
He disappeared, where e'er I sought,  
Nor could his smallest Track be found.   

37. Observe the perfect Man with Care,  
And mark all such as Upright are;  
For their calm days in Peace shall end:   

38. While still the latter end of those  
Who dare Gods sacred Will oppose,  
A common Ruin shall attend.   

39 God to the Just will Aid afford,  
Their only Safeguard is the Lord,  
Their Strength in time of Trouble, Herald   

40. Because on H●m they still depend,  
The Lord shall Help and Succour send,  
And from the Wicked set them free.     

PSALM XXXVIII.  


1. COrrect me not in Anger, Lord,  
Tho I deserve it all;  
Nor let at once on me the Storm  
Of thy Displeasure fall.   

2. In every wretched Part of me  
Thy Arrows deep remain:  
Thy heavy Hand's afflicting Weigh●  
I can no more sustain.   

3. My Flesh is one continued Wound,  
Thy Wrath so fiercely glows;  
Betwixt my Punishment and Gild  
My Bones have no Repose.   

4. My Sins are to a Deluge swelled  
My wretched Head to drown;  
And for my feeble Strength to bear  
Too vast a Burden grown.   

5. My Wounds with putrid Stench are filled,  
My Folly's just Return.   

6. With Trouble I am warped and bowed,  
For all the day I mourn.   

7. A Loathed Disease afflicts my Loins,  
Unsound in every Part;   

8. I'm feeble, broken, groan and roar  
Through Anguish of my Heart.    

PART II.  

9 But, Lord, before thy searching Eyes  
All my Designs appear;  
And sure my Groans have been too loud,  
Not to have reached thine Ear.   

10. My Heart's oppressed, my Strength decay'd●  
My Eyes deprived of Light:   

11. Friends, Lovers, Kinsmen gaze aloof  
On such a dismal Sight.   

12. Mean while the Foes that seek my Life,  
Their Snares to take me set;  
Vent Slanders, and contrive all day  
To forge some new Deceit.   

13. But I, as if both Deaf and Dumb,  
Nor heard, nor once replied:   

14. Quite Deaf and Dumb, like one whos● Tongu●  
With conscious Gild were tied.   

15. For, Lord, to Thee I do appeal  
My Innocence to clear;  
Assured that Thou, the Righteous God,  
My injured Cause wilt hear.   

16. Hear me, I said, lest they rejoice  
Who triumph in my Woe;  
Insulting if they see my Foot  
Once indirectly go.   

17. And, with continual Grief oppressed,  
To halt I now begin:   

18. For, Lord to Thee I will confess,  
To thee bewail my Sin.   

19 But whilst I languish my proud Foes  
Their Strength and Vigour boast;  
Who hate me without Cause, are grown  
A formidable Host.   

20. Even they whom I obliged, return  
My Kindness with Despite;  
Become my Enemies, because  
● choose the Path that's right.   

21. Forsake me not, O Lord my God,  
Nor far from me depart;   

22. Make haste to my Relief, O Thou●  
Who my Salvation art.     

PSALM XXXIX.  

1. Resolved to watch o'er all my Ways,  
My very Words to awe,  
I curbed my hasty Tongue, when I  
The prosperous Wicked saw.   

2. Like one that's dumb I Silence kept,  
And did my Tongue refrain  
From good Discourse; but that Constraint  
Increased my inward Pain.   

3. My Heart did glow, which waking Thoughts  
Did hot and restless make,  
And warm Reflections fanned the Fire,  
Till thus at length I spoke.   

4. Lord, let me know my term of days,  
How soon my Life will end;  
The numerous Train of Ills disclose  
Which this frail State attend.   

5. My Life, thou knowst is but a Span,  
A cipher sums my Years;  
And every Man in best estate  
But Vanity appears.   

6. Man, like a Shadow, vainly walks,  
With Fruitless Cares oppressed;  
He heaps up Wealth, but cannot tell  
By whom '●will be possessed.   

7. Why then should I for worthless Toys  
With anxious Care attend?  
On Thee alone my steadfast Hope  
Shall ever, Lord, depend.   

8, 9 Forgive my Sins, nor let me scorned  
By foolish Sinners be;  
For I was dumb, and murmured not,  
Because 'twas done by Thee.   

10. The dreadful Burden of thy Wrath  
In mercy, Lord, remove;  
Lest my frail Flesh too weak to bear  
The heavy Load should prove.   

11. For when thou chast'nest Man for Sin,  
Thou mak'st his Beauty fade,  
(So vain a thing is he!) like Cloth  
By fretting Moths decayed.   

12. Lord, hear my Cry, my Tears accept,  
And listen to my Prayer;  
Who sojourn, like a Stranger, here,  
As all my Fathers were.   

13. O spare me yet a little time,  
My Strength again restore;  
Before I vanish quite from hence,  
And shall be seen no more.    

PSALM XL.  


1. I Waited meekly for the Lord,  
Till he'd vouchsafe a kind Reply;  
Who did his gracious Ear afford,  
And heard from Heaven my humble Cry●   

2. Me from the dismal Pit he took,  
When foundered deep in miry Clay;  
He placed my Feet on solid Rock,  
And suffered not my Steps to strays   

3. The Wonders he for me has wrought  
Inspire me with new Songs of Praise;  
Whence Strangers shall his Fear be taught,  
And Hope of like deliverance raise.   

4. For Blessings shall that Man reward  
Who on th' Almighty Lord relies;  
Who treats the Proud with Disregard,  
And hates the Hypocrites Disguise.   

5. Who can the wondrous Works recount,  
Which thou, O God, for us hast wrought?  
Thy treasured Thoughts of Love surmount  
The Power of numbers, speech and thought.   

6. I've learned, that Thou hast not desired  
Offerings and Sacrifice alone;  
Nor Blood of guiltless Beasts required  
For Man's Transgression to atone.   

7. I therefore come,— come to fulfil  
The Oracles thy Books impart:   

8. 'Tis my Delight to do thy Will;  
Thy Law is written in my Heart.    

PART II.  

9 In full Assemblies I have told  
Thy Truth and Righteousness at large;  
Nor did, thou knowst, my Lips withhold  
From uttering what thou gav'st in charge.   

10. Nor kept within my Breast confined,  
Thy Justice, Faith, and saving Grace  
But preached thy Love and Truth (designed  
For All,) that All might them embrace.   

11. Then let those Mercies I declared  
To others, Lord, extend to me;  
Thy loving Kindness my Reward,  
Thy Truth my safe Protection be.   

12. For I with Troubles am distressed  
Too vast and numberless to bear;  
Nor less with Loads of Gild oppressed  
That plunge and sink me to Despair.   

As soon, alas! I may recount  
The Hai●s on this afflicted Head,  
My vanquished Courage they surmount  
And fill my drooping Soul with Dread.    

PART III.  

13. But, Lord, to my Relief draw near,  
For never was more pressing Need!  
For my deliverance, Lord, appear,  
And add to that Deliverance Speed.   

14. Confusion on their Heads return  
Who to destroy my Soul combine;  
Let them, defeated, blush and mourn,  
Ensnared in their own vile Design.   

15. Their Doom let Desolation be,  
With Shame their Malice be repaid,  
Who mocked my Confidence in Thee,  
And Sport of my Affliction made.   

16. While those who humbly seek thy Face  
To joyful Triumphs are upraised;  
And all who prize thy Saving Grace  
Ever resound, The Lord be praised.   

17. Thus wretched though I am and poor,  
Of me th' Almighty Lord takes care.  
Thou, God, who only canst restore,  
To my Relief with Speed repair.     

PSALM XLI.  

1. HAppy the Man, whose tender Care  
Relieves the poor Distressed;  
Whenever by Troubles compassed round,  
The Lord shall give him Rest.   

2. The Lord his Life, with Blessings crowned,  
In Safety shall prolong;  
And disappoint the Will of those  
That seek to do him wrong.   

3. If he in languishing estate  
Oppressed with Sickness lie;  
The Lord will make his easy Bed,  
And inward Strength supply.   

4. Secure of This, to thee● my God,  
I thus my Prayer addressed;  
Lord, for thy Mercy heal my Soul,  
Tho I have much transgressed.   

5. My cruel Foes, with slanderous words,  
Attempt to wound my Fame.  
When shall he die, (say they) and M●n  
Forget his very Name?   

6. Suppose they formal Visits make,  
'Tis all but empty show;  
They gather Mischief in their Hearts,  
And vent it where they go.   

7, 8. With private Whispers, such as these,  
My Foes my Hurt devise;  
A sore Disease afflicts him now,  
He's fallen, no more to rise.   

9 My own familiar Bosom Friend  
On whom I most relied,  
Has me, whose Bread he daily eat,  
With open Scorn defied.   

10. But thou, my sad and wretched State,  
In Mercy, Lord, regard;  
And raise me up, that all their Crimes  
May meet their just Reward.   

11. By this, I know, thy gracious Ear  
Is open when I call;  
Because thou sufferest not my Foes  
To triumph in my Fall.   

12. Thy tender Care secures my Life  
From Danger and Disgrace;  
And thou vouchsaf'st to set me still  
Before thy glorious Face.   

13. Let therefore Isr'el's Lord and God  
From age to age be blessed;  
And all the People's glad Applause  
With loud Amens expressed.    

PSALM XLII.  

1. AS pants a Hart for cooling Streams  
When heated in the Chase,  
So pants my Soul, O God, for thee  
And thy refreshing Grace.   

2. For thee, my God, the living God,  
My thirsty Soul doth pine;  
O when shall I behold thy Face,  
Thou Majesty Divine!   

3. Tears are my constant Food, while thu●  
Insulting Foes upbraid,  
Deluded Wretch, where's now thy God?  
And where his promised Aid?   

4. I sigh, when recollecting Thoughts  
Those happy Days present,  
When I with Troops of pious Friends  
Thy Temple did frequent.   

When I advanced with Songs of Praise,  
My solemn Vows to pay,  
And led the joyful sacred Throng  
That kept the Festal Day.   

5. Why restless, why cast down my Soul?  
Trust God, and he'll employ  
His Aid for thee; convert these Sighs  
To thankful Hymns of Joy.   

6. My Soul's cast down. O God, but thinks  
On thee and Zion still;  
From Iordan's Banks, from Hermon's Heights,  
And Missar's humble Hill.   

7. One Trouble calls another on,  
And bursting o'er my Head,  
Fall spouting down, till round my Soul  
A roaring Deluge spread.   

8. But when thy Presence, Lord of Life,  
Has once dispelled this Storm,  
To thee I'll midnight Anthems sing,  
And midnight Vows perform.   

9 God of my Strength, how long shall I  
Like one forgotten mourn?  
Forlorn, forsaken, and exposed  
To my Oppressor's Scorn.   

10. My Heart is pierced, as with a Sword,  
Whilst thus my Foes upbraid  
Vain Boaster, where is now thy God?  
And where his promised Aid.   

11. Why restless, why cast down my Soul?  
Hope still, and thou shalt sing  
The Praise of him, who is thy God,  
Thy Health and Safety's Spring.    

PSALM XLIII.  

1. AGainst my wicked Rebel-Foes,  
Just Judge of Heaven, assert my Right●  
O set me free, my God, from those  
That in Deceit and Wrong delight.   

2. Since thou art still my only Stay,  
Why leav'st thou me in deep Distress?  
Why go I mourning all the day,  
Whilst proud insulting Foes oppress?   

3. Let me with Light and Truth be blest,  
Be these my Guides and lead the way;  
Till on thy holy Hill I rest,  
And in thy sacred Temple pray.   

4. Then will I there fresh Altars raise  
To God, my chief my only Joy;  
And well tuned Harps with Songs of Praise  
Shall all my grateful Hours employ.   

5. Why then art thou, my Soul, so much  
Cast down and pressed with anxious Care,  
O trust in God, for he, as such,  
My low dejected Head shall rear.    

PSALM XLIV.  


1. O Lord, our Fathers oft have told  
In our astonished Ears,  
Thy Wonders in their days performed,  
And elder Times than theirs:   

2. How Thou, to plant them here, didst drive  
The Heathen from this Land●  
Dispeopled by repeated Strokes  
Of thy avenging Hand.   

3. For, not their Courage nor their Sword  
To them Possession gave;  
Nor Strength, that from unequal Force  
Their fainting Troops could save;  
But thy Right Hand and powerful Arm,  
Whose Succour they implored,  
Thy Presence with the chosen Tribes  
Who thy great Name adored.   

4. As Thee, O God, our Father's owned,  
Thou art our sovereign King;  
O therefore, as to them thou didst,  
To us deliverance bring.   

5. Through thy victorious Name our Arms  
The proudest Foe shall quell,  
And crush 'em with repeated Strokes  
Presuming to rebel.   

6. I'll neither trust to Bow nor Sword,  
when I in Fight engage;   

7. But Thee, who hast our Foes subdued,  
And shamed their spiteful Rage●   

8. To Thee the Triumph we ascribe,  
From whom the Conquest came;  
In God rejoicing all the day,  
And ever bless his Name●    

PART II.  

9 But thou hast cast us off, and now  
Most shamefully we yield;  
For thou no more vouchsaf'st to lead  
Our Armies to the Field.   

10. Since when, to every upstart Foe  
We turn our Backs in Fight;  
And with our Spoil their Malice feast  
Who bear us ancient Spite.   

11. To Slaughter doomed, we fall like Sheep  
Into their Butch'ring Hands;  
Or (what's more wretched yet) survive  
Dispersed through Heathen Lands.   

12. Thy People thou hast sold for Slaves,  
And set their Price so low,  
That not thy Treasure by the Sale  
But their Disgrace might grow.   

13, 14. Reproached and scofft by Nations round,  
The Heathen's Byword grown,  
Whose Scorn of us is both in Speech  
And mocking Gestures shown.   

15. Confusion strikes me blind, my Face  
In conscious shame I hide,   

16. While we are scoffed, and God blasphemed  
By their licentious Pride.    

PART III.  

17. On us this Mass of Woes is fallen,  
All this we have endured;  
Yet have not, Lord, renounced thy Name;  
Nor Covenant abjured.   

18. But kept in Paths, by Thee prescribed,  
Our Heart and Steps with Care;   

19 Tho shattered, mangled and reduced  
To Confines of Despair.   

20. Could we th' Almighty's Name forget  
And other Gods adore,   

21. And not the Searcher of all Hearts  
The treacherous Crime explore?   

22. Thou seest how for thy sake all day  
We Martyrdom sustain;  
All slaughtered, or reserved like Sheep  
Appointed to be slain.   

23. Wake, Lord, arise; let seeming Sleep  
No longer thee detain;  
Nor we, thy faithful Supplicants,  
For ever sue in vain!   

24. O wherefore hidest thou thy Face  
From our afflicted state?   

25. Whose Souls and Bodies sink to Earth  
With Grief's oppressive Weight.   

26. Arise, O Lord, and timely Speed  
To our deliverance make;  
Redeem us, Lord,— if not for Ours,  
Yet ●or thy Mercies sake.     

PSALM XLV.  


1. WHile I the King's loud Praise rehearse,  
Indicted by my Heart,  
My Tongue is like the Pen of one  
That writes with ready Art.   

2. How matchless is thy Form, O King!  
Thy Mouth with Grace overflows;  
Because fresh Blessings, God, on thee  
Eternally bestows.   

3. Gird on thy Sword, most mighty Prince,  
And clad in rich array,  
With glorious Ornaments of Power,  
Majestic Pomp display.   

4. Ride on in state, and still protect  
The Meek, the Just, and True;  
Whilst thy Right-hand with fell Revenge  
Does all thy Foes pursue.   

5. How sharp thy Weapons are to them  
That dare thy Power oppose!  
Down, down they fall, while through their Heart  
The feathered Arrow goes.   

6. But thy firm Throne, O God, is fixed  
For ever to endure;  
Thy Sceptre's sway shall always last,  
Through righteous Laws secure.   

7. Because thy Heart, by Justice steered  
Did upright ways approve,  
And hated still the crooked Paths  
Where wandering Sinners rove.   

Therefore did God, thy God, on thee  
The Oil of Gladness shed;  
And has above thy Fellows round  
Advanced thy lofty Head.   

8. With Cassia, Aloës and Myrrh  
Thy Royal Robes abound;  
Which from thy stately Wardrobes brought  
Spread grateful Odours round.   

9 Among thy honourable Train  
Did Princely Virgins wait,  
The Queen was placed at thy Right-hand,  
In Golden Robes of State.    

PART II.  

10. But thou, O Royal Bride, give ear  
And to my Words attend;  
Forget thy Native Country now,  
And every former Friend.   

11. So shall thy Beauty charm the King,  
Nor shall his Love decay;  
For he is now become thy Lord,  
To him due reverence pay.   

12. The Tyrian Ladies rich and proud  
Shall humble Presents make;  
And all the wealthy Nations sue  
Thy Favour to partake:   

13. The King's fair Daughter's beauteous Soul  
All inward Grace's fill;  
Her Raiment is of purest Gold,  
Adorned with costly skill.   

14. She, in her nuptial Garments dressed,  
With Needles richly wrought,  
Attended by her Virgin Train,  
Shall to the King be brought.   

15. With all that State of solemn Joy  
The Triumph moves along,  
Till with wide Gates the Royal Court  
Receives the pompous Throng.   

16. Thou, in thy Royal Father's Room,  
Must princely Sons expect;  
Whom thou to different Realms mayst send  
To govern and protect:   

17. Whilst this my Song to future times  
Transmits' thy Glorious Name;  
And makes the World, with joint consent,  
Thy lasting Praise proclaim.     

PSALM XLVI.  

1. GOD is our Refuge in Distress,  
A present Help when Troubles press;  
In him undaunted we confide:   

2, 3. Tho Earth were from her Centre tossed,  
And Mountains in the Ocean lost,  
Torn piece-meal by the roaring Tide.   

4. A Gentler Stream with Gladness still  
The City of our Lord shall ●ill,  
Imperial Seat of God most High:   

5. God dwells in Zion, whose fair towers  
Shall mock th' Assaults of Earthly Powers,  
While his Almighty Aid is nigh.   

6. In Tumults when the Heathen raged,  
And Kingdoms War against us waged,  
He thundered and dissolved their Powers:   

7. The Lord of Hosts conducts our Arms,  
Our Tower of Refuge in Alarms,  
Our Father's Guardian-God and ours.   

8. Come, see the Wonders he hath wrought,  
On Earth what Desolation brought,   

9 And crushed to Peace the jarring World;  
In shivers broke the Spear and Bow,  
With them their thundering Chariots too  
Into devouring Flames were hurled.   

10. Submit to God's Almighty Sway  
For Him the Heathen shall obey,  
And Earth her sovereign Lord confess.   

11. The God of Hosts conducts our Arms,  
Our Tower of Refuge in Alarms,  
As to our Fathers in Distress.    

PSALM XLVII.  

1, 2. O All ye People clap your hands,  
And with triumphant Voices sing;  
No Force the mighty Power withstands,  
Of God, the universal King.   

3, 4. He shall opposing Nations quell,  
And with Success our Battles fight;  
Shall point the place where we must dwell,  
The Pride of jacob, his Delight.   

5, 6. God is gone up, our Lord and King,  
With Shouts of Joy and Trumpet's Sound;  
To him repeated Praises sing,  
And let the cheerful Song go round.   

7, 8. Your utmost Skill in Praise be shown;  
For him that all the World commands.  
Who sits upon his Holy Throne,  
And spreads his Sway o'er Heathen Lands.   

9 Our Chiefs and Tribes, that far from hence  
T' adore the God of Abr'am came,  
Found him their constant sure defence.  
How great and glorious is his Name!    

PSALM XLVIII.  

1. THE Lord is great, and o'er the Gods  
Sublimely to be praised;  
In Zion, on whose happy Mount  
His sacred Throne is raised.   

2. Her towers, the Joy of all the Earth,  
With beauteous Prospect rise:  
On her North side th' Almighty King's  
Imperial City lies.   

3. God in her Palaces is known,  
His Presence is her Guard.   

4. confederate Kings withdrew their Siege,  
And of Success despaired.   

5. They viewed her Walls, admired and fled,  
With Grief and Terror struck,   

6. Like Women whom the sudden Pangs  
Of Travel had overtake.   

7. No wretched Crew of Mariners  
Appear like them forlorn,  
When freighted Fleets from Tarshish shore  
By Eastern Winds are torn.   

8. In Zion we have seen performed  
A Work that was foretold,  
In pledge that God, for times to come,  
His City will uphold.   

9 Not in our Fortresses and Walls  
Did we, O God, confide,  
But on the Temple fixed our Hopes,  
In which thou dost reside.   

10. Thy Name i●, Lord of Hosts, supreme  
Whose Fame through Earth extends;  
Thy pow'ful Arm, as Justice guide's,  
Chastises or defends.   

11. Let Sion's Mount with Joy resound,  
Her Daughters all be taught  
In Songs his Judgements to extol,  
Who this deliverance wrought.   

12. Walk round her Walls in solemn Pomp,  
Your Eyes about her cast,  
Recount her towers, if by the Siege  
You find a Stone displaced.   

13. Her Forts and Palaces survey,  
Observe their Order well.  
That with Assurance to your Heirs,  
This Wonder you may tell.   

14. This God is ours, and will be ours,  
Whilst we in him confide;  
And, as he has preserved us now,  
Till Death will be our Guide.    

PSALM XLIX.  


1, 2. LET all the listening World attend,  
And my Instructions hear;  
Let High and Low, and Rich and Poor  
With joint Consent give ear.   

3. My Mouth, with sacred Wisdom filled,  
Shall good Advice impart,  
The sound Result of prudent Thoughts,  
Digested in my Heart.   

4. To Parables of weighty Sense  
I will my Ear incline;  
Whilst to the tuneful Harp I sing  
Dark Words of deep Design.   

5. Why should my Courage fail in times  
Of Danger and of Doubt?  
When Sinners that would me supplant  
Have compassed me about?   

6. Those Men that all their Hope and Trust  
In Heaps of Treasure place,  
And boast and triumph when they see  
Their ill-got Wealth increase.   

7. Are yet unable from the Grave  
Their dearest Friend to free;  
Nor can by force of costly Bribes  
Reverse God's firm Decree.   

8, 9 Their vain Endeavours they must quit,  
The Price is held too high;  
No Sums can purchase such a Grant,  
That Man should never die.   

10. Not Wisdom can the Wise exempt,  
Nor Fools their Folly save;  
But both must perish, and in Death  
Their Wealth to others leave.   

11. For though they think their stately Seats  
Shall ne'er to Ruin fall;  
But their remembrance last, in Lands  
Which by their Names they call;   

12. Yet shall their Fame be soon forgot,  
How great soever their State,  
With Beasts their Memory and They  
Shall share one common Fate.    

PART II.  

13. How great theri Folly is who thus  
Absurd Conclusions make!  
And yet their Children, unreclaimed,  
Repeat the gross Mistake.   

14. Like Sheep, the Prey of ravenous Death,  
Within the Grave they're laid;  
And there, whilst Righteous Men rejoice,  
Shall all their Beauty fade.   

15. But God will yet redeem my Soul,  
And from the greedy Grave  
His greater Power shall set me free,  
And to himself receive.   

16. Then fear not Thou, when worldly Men  
In envied Wealth abound,  
Nor tho their prosperous House increase,  
With lofty Honours crowned.   

17. For when they're summoned hence by Dea●●  
They leave all this behinds  
No Shadow of their former Pomp  
Within the Grave they find:   

18. And yet they thought their State was blest,  
Caught in the Flatterers Snare,  
Who praises those that slight all else,  
And of themselves take care.   

19 In their Forefathers Steps they tread;  
And when, like them, they die,  
Their wretched Ancestors and they  
In endless Darkness lie.   

20. For Man, how great soever his state,  
Unless he's truly wise,  
As like a sensual Beast he lives,  
So like a Beast he dies.     

PSALM L.  

1, 2. THE Lord hath spoke, the mighty God  
Hath sent his Summons all abroad,  
From dawning Light till Day declines:  
The listening Earth his Voice has heard,  
And he from Zion has appeared,  
Where Beauty in Perfection shines.   

3, 4. Our God shall come, and keep no more  
Misconstrued Silence as before,  
But wasting Flames before him send:  
Around shall Tempests fiercely rage,  
While he does Heaven and Earth engage  
His just Tribunal to attend.   

5, 6. Assemble all my Saints to me  
(Thus runs the Great Divine Decree)  
That in my lasting Covenant live,  
And Offerings bring with constant Care;  
(The Heavens his Justice shall declare,  
For God himself shall Sentence give.)   

7. Attend, my People; Isr'el, hear;  
Thy strong Accuser I'll appear;  
Thy God, thy only God am I;   

8. 'Tis not of Offerings I complain,  
With which you did, both burnt and slain,  
My sacred Altar still supply.   

9 Will this alone Atonement make?  
No Bullock from thy Stall I'll take,  
Nor He-goat from thy Fold accept:   

10. The Forest Beasts that range alone,  
The cattle too are all my own,  
That on a thousand Hills are kept.   

11. I know the Fowls, that build their Nests  
In craggy Rocks; and savage Beasts,  
That loosely haunt the open Fields.   

12. To thee, if Hunger did oppress,  
I need not tell my sad Distress,  
Since the World's mine, and all it yields.   

13. Think'st thou that I have any need  
On slaughtered Bulls and Goats to feed,  
To eat their Flesh, and drink their Blood?   

14. The sacrifice by me required,  
Is Hearts with grateful Love inspired,  
And Vows with strictest Care made good.   

15. In time of Trouble call on me,  
And I will set thee safe and free;  
And Thou returns of Praise shalt make:   

16. But to the Wicked thus saith God,  
How dar'st thou teach my Laws abroad,  
Or in thy Mouth my Covenant take?   

17. For stubborn thou, confirmed i● Sin,  
Hast proof against Instruction been,  
And of my Word didst lightly speak:   

18. When thou a subtle Thief didst see,  
Thou gladly didst with him agree,  
And with adulterers didst partake.   

19 Vile Slander is thy constant Theme,  
And thou thy Mouth and Tongue dost frame  
Vile and deceitful Words to spread:   

20. Thou dost with hateful Scandals wound  
Thy Brother, and with Lies confound  
The Offspring of thy Mother's Bed.   

21. These things thou didst, whom still I strove  
To gain with Silence and with Love;  
Till thou didst wickedly surmise,  
That I was such a one as thou;  
But ●'ll reprove and shame thee now,  
And set thy Sins before thine Eyes.   

22. Ye wicked Fools, mark this with Care,  
Lest I should you in pieces tear,  
Whilst none shall dare your Cause to own.   

23. Who praises me due Honour gives;  
And to the Man that justly lives  
My strong Salvation shall be shown.    

PSALM LI.  


1. MY God, as thou hast always been,  
Continue ever kind;  
Let me, oppressed with Loads of Gild,  
Thy wont Mercy find.   

2, 3. O wash me from my foul Offence,  
And cleanse me from my Sin;  
For I confess my Crime, and see  
How great my Gild has been.   

4. Against Thee only, Lord, have I,  
And in thy Sight transgressed;  
Whose Words and Judgements, pure and just,  
Will bear the strictest Test.   

5. In Gild each several part was formed  
Of all this sinful Frame;  
In Gild I was conceived, and born  
The Heir of Sin and Shame.   

6. Yet thou, O God, whose searching Eye  
Does inward Truth require,  
In secret didst with Wisdom's Laws,  
My tender Soul inspire.   

7. O then with Hys●op purge my Soul,  
And so I shall be clean;  
In pity wash me, and I shall  
More white than Snow remain.   

8. Make me with Joy and Gladness hear  
Thy kind forgiving Voice;  
That so the Bones which thou hast broke,  
With Comfort may rejoice.   

9, 10. Blot out my Sins, nor let thine Eyes  
My Fault in Anger view;  
Create in me a Heart that's clea●,  
A virtuous mind renew.    

PART II.  

11. Withdraw not thou thy Presence, Lord,  
Nor ca●t me from thy sight;  
Nor let thy Holy Spirit take  
It's everlasting Flight:   

12. The Joy which thy Salvation gives  
Let m● again obtain;  
And thy free Spirit's firm Support  
My staggering Soul sustain.   

13. So I thy just and righteous Ways  
To Sinners will impart,  
Whilst my Advice shall wicked Men  
To thy just Laws co●vert.   

14. Do Thou my Gild of Blood remove,  
My Saviour and my God;  
And my glad Tongue shall loudly tell  
Thy righteous Acts abroad.   

15. Let thy Free Grace unlock my Lips,  
With Sorrow closed and Shame;  
So shall my Mouth thy Wondrous Praise  
To all the World proclaim.   

16. Could Victims for my Gild atone,  
Whole Hecatombs should die;  
But on such Offerings thou disdainest  
To cast a gracious Eye:   

17. A broken Spirit is the Gift  
By God most highly prized;  
By him a broken contrite Heart  
Shall never be despised.   

18. Let Zion, Lord, thy Favour find,  
Of thy Good Will assured;  
And thy own City flourish long,  
By lofty Walls secured.   

19 The● shall the Righteous Offerings bring,  
And pleasing Tribute pay;  
And Sacrifice of choicest kind,  
Upon thy Altar lay.     

PSALM LII.  

1. IN vain, O Man of matchless Might,  
Thou boast'st thyself in Ill;  
Since God, whose Power is much more great,  
Vouchsafes his Favour still.   

2. Thy wicked Tongue does slanderous Tales,  
Maliciously devise;  
And like a Razor sharply set,  
Does wound with treacherous Lies.   

3, 4. Thy Thoughts are more on Ill than Good,  
On Lies than Truth employed,  
Thy Tongue delights in Words by which  
The Guiltless are destroyed.   

5. God shall for ever blast thy Hopes,  
And snatch thee soon away;  
Nor in thy Dwelling-place permit,  
Nor in the World to stay.   

6. The Just with pious Fear shall see  
The downfall of thy Pride;  
Shall at thy sudden Ruin laugh,  
And thus thy Fall deride:   

7. See there the haughty Man that was,  
Who proudly God defied,  
Who trusted in his Wealth, and still  
On wicked Arts relied.   

8. But like those Olive-Plants am I,  
That shade God's Temple round;  
And hope with his indulgent Grace  
To be for ever crowned.   

9 So shall my Soul with Praise, O God,  
Extol thy wondrous Love;  
And on thy Name with Patience wait;  
For this thy Saints approve.    

PSALM LIII.  

1. THE wicked Fools must sure suppose  
That God is but a Name;  
This their lewd Practice plainly shows,  
Since Virtue all disclaim.   

2. The Lord looked down from heavens high Tower  
And did all Mankind view;  
To see if any owned his Power,  
Or Truth or Justice knew.   

3. But all, he saw, were backwards gone,  
degenerate grown and base;  
None for Religion cared, not One  
Of all the sinful Race.   

4. But are those Workers of Deceit  
So dull and senseless grown,  
That they like Bread my People eat,  
And God's just Power disown?   

5. Their causeless Fears shall strangely grow;  
And they, despised by God,  
Shall soon be foiled; his hand shall throw  
Their shattered Bones abroad.   

6. Would he his saving Power employ,  
To break our servile Band,  
Loud Shouts of universal Joy  
Should echo through the Land.    

PSALM LIV.  

1, 2. LOrd, save me, for thy Glorious Name,  
And in thy Strength appear  
To judge my Cause: accept my Prayer,  
And to my Words give Ear.   

3. Mere Strangers, whom I never wronged,  
To ruin me designed;  
And cruel Men, that fear no God,  
Against my Soul combined.   

4, 5. But God takes part with all my Friends,  
And he's the surest Guard;  
The God of Truth shall slay my Foes,  
Their Falshood's just Reward.   

6. While I my grateful Offerings bring,  
And Sacrifice with Joy;  
And in his Praise my time to come  
Delightfully employ.   

7. From dreadful Danger and Distress  
The Lord has set me free;  
Through him shall I of all my Foes  
The wished Destruction see!    

PSALM LV.  


1. GIve ear, thou Judge of all the Earth,  
And listen when I pray;  
Nor from thy humble Suppliant turn  
Thy glorious Face away.   

2. Attend to this my sad complaint,  
And hear my grievous Moans;  
Whilst I my mournful Case declare  
With artless Sighs and Groans.   

3. Hark! how the Foe insults aloud,  
How fierce Oppressor's Rage!  
Whose slanderous Tongues with wrathful Hate  
Against my Fame engage.   

4, 5. My Heart is racked with Pain, my Soul  
With deadly Frights distressed;  
With Fear and Trembling compassed round  
With Horror quite oppressed.   

6. How often wished I then, that I  
Swift Dovelike Wings could get;  
That I might take my speedy Flight,  
And seek a safe Retreat!   

7, 8. Then would I wander far from hence,  
And in wild Deserts stray,  
Till all this furious Storm were spent,  
This Tempest past away.    

PART II.  

9 Destroy, O Lord, their ill Design's,  
Their Counsels all divide;  
For my grieved Eyes in every Stree●  
Have Strife and Rapine spied.   

10. By Day and Night on every Wall  
They walk their constant Round;  
And in the midst of all her Strength,  
Are Grief Mischief found.   

11. Whoever through every Part shall roam,  
Will fresh Disorders meet;  
Deceit and Guile their constant posts  
Maintain in every Street.   

12. For 'twas not any open Foe  
That did my Faults upbraid;  
For than I could with ease have bor●  
The bitterest things he said:   

'Twas none who Hatred had pro●est  
That did against me rise;  
For than I had withdrawn myself  
From his malicious Eyes.   

13, 14. But 'twas even thou, my Guide, my Friend,  
Whom tenderest Love did join;  
Whose swe●t Advice ● valued most,  
Whose Prayers were mixed with mine.   

15. Sure Vengeance, equal to their Crimes,  
Such Traitors must surprise;  
And Sudden Death requite those Ills  
They wickedly devise!   

16, 17. But I'll still call on God, and he  
Shall in my Aid appear;  
At Morn, and Noon, and Night I'll pray,  
And he my Voice shall hear.    

PART III.  

18. God has released my Soul from those  
That in fierce Fight contend;  
And made a numerous Host of Friends  
My righteous Cause defend.   

19 For He who was my Help of old,  
Shall my Petition hear;  
And punish them whose prosperous State  
Makes them no God to fear.   

20. Whom can I trust, if faithless Men  
Perfidiously devise  
To ruin me, their peaceful Friend,  
And break the strongest Ties!   

21. Tho smooth as Butter are their Words,  
Their Hearts with War abound;  
Their Speeches are more soft than Oil,  
And yet like Swords they wound.   

22. Do thou, my Soul on God depend,  
And He shall thee sustain,  
He aids the Just, whom to remove  
The Wicked strive in vain.   

23. Thou, Lord● shal● soon destroy my Foes;  
While those who trust in Lies,  
And trade in Blood, untimely fall,  
My Soul on God relies●     

PSALM LVI.  

1. DO Thou, O God, in Mercy help,  
For Man my Life pursues;  
To crush me with repeated Wrongs,  
He daily Strife renews.   

2. Each Day, all Day, invet'ra●e Foes  
To ruin me combine;  
Thou see'st, who sittest enthroned on high,  
What mighty Numbers join.   

3. But, though sometimes surprised by Fear,  
(On Danger's first Alarm)  
For Succour I repose my Trust  
On thy Almighty Arm.   

4. God's Word I shall hereafter praise,  
On which I now rely:  
In God ● trust, and trusting him,  
The Arm of Flesh defy.   

5. They rack my harmless Words to speak  
A Sense they never meant:  
Their Thoughts are all, with restless Spite,  
On my Destruct on bent.   

6. In close Assemblies they combine,  
And wicked Projects lay.  
They watch my Steps and lie in wait,  
To make my Soul the● Prey.   

7. Shall such Injusticce still escape?  
O Righteous God a●●e;  
Let thy just Wrath (●oo ●●ng provoked)  
This impious Race chastise.   

8. My Wand'ring Thou, and Sufferings know'st  
Since first compelled to flee:  
My very Tears are treasured up,  
And regist'red by Thee.   

9 When therefore I invoke thy Aid,  
My Foes ●hall be o'erthrown;  
For I am well assured that God  
My righteous cause will own.   

10, 11. I'll bless God's Word, trust him, nor fear  
The Force that Man can raise:   

12. To Thee, O God, my Vows are due,  
To Thee I'll render Praise.   

13. Thou hast retrieved my Soul from Death;  
And Thou wilt still secure  
The Life thou hast so oft preserved,  
And make my Footsteps sure;  
That thus protected by thy Power,  
I may this Light enjoy,  
And in the Servi●e of my God  
My lengthened Days employ.    

PSALM LVII.  

1. THY Mercy, Lord, to me extend,  
On thy Protection I depend;  
And to thy Wing for shelter haste,  
Till this outrageous Storm is past.   

2. To thy Tribunal, Lord, I fly,  
Thou sovereign Judge and God most high;  
Who Wonders hast for me begun,  
And wilt not leave thy Work undone.   

3. From Heaven Thou'●t save me by thine Arm,  
Bring those to shame who seek my Harm;  
To aid me, forth thy Mercy send,  
And Truth, on which my Hopes depend.   

4. Condemned, as to a Lion's Den,  
I lie among more savage Men;  
Whose Teeth are pointed Spears, their Words  
Envenomed Darts and two-edged Swords.   

5. Be thou, O God, exalted high;  
And, as thy Glory fills the Sky,  
So let it be on Earth displayed,  
Till thou art here, as there, obeyed.   

6. To take me they their Net prepared,  
And had almost my Soul ensnared,  
But fell themselves, by just Decree,  
Into the Pit they delved for me.   

7. O God my Heart is fixed, 'tis bent  
It's thankful Tribute to present,  
And with my Heart, my Voice I'll raise  
To Thee, my God, in Songs of Praise.   

8. Awake my Glory; Harp and Lute,  
No longer let your Strings be mute;  
Awake his Praises to pursue,  
As I myself will early do.   

9 Thy Praises, Lord, I will resound  
To all the listening Nations round:   

10. Thy Mercy highest Heaven transcends,  
Thy Truth beyond the Clouds extends.   

11. Be Thou, O God, exalted High;  
And as thy Glory fills the Sky,  
So let it be on Earth displayed,  
Till thou art here, as there, obeyed.    

PSALM LVIII.  

1. SPeak, O ye Judges of the Earth,  
If just your Sentence be,  
Or, must not Innocence appeal  
To Heaven from your Decree?   

2. Your wicked Hearts and Judgements are  
Alike by Malice swayed:  
Your covetous Hands by weighty Bribes  
To Violence betrayed.   

3. Estranged from Virtue from the Womb,  
Their Infant-steps went wrong:  
They prattled Slander, and in Lies  
Employed their lisping Tongue.   

4. No Serpent of parched Africk's breed  
Does ranker Poison bear;  
The drowsy Adder will as soon  
Unlock his sullen Ear.   

5. To Counsel obstinately deaf  
As Adders they remain;  
From whom the skilful Charmer's Voice  
Can no Attention gain.   

6. Defeat, O God, their threatening Rage,  
And timely break their Power:  
Disarm these growing Lion's Jaws,  
E'er practised to devour,   

7. Let now their Insolence at height,  
Like ebbing Tides be spent;  
Their splint'ring Darts deceive their Aim  
When they their Bow have bend.   

8. Like Snails let them dissolve to Slime;  
Abortive Births become,  
Unworthy to behold the Sun  
And buried in the Womb.   

9 E'er Thorns can make the fleshpots boil,  
Tempestuous Wrath shall come  
From God, and Living snatch them hence,  
To their eternal Doom.   

10. The Righteous shall rejoice to see  
Their Crimes such Vengeance meet,  
And Saints in Persecutors Blood,  
Wash their victorious Feet.   

11. Transgressor's then with Grief shall see  
Just men Rewards obtain;  
And own a God that strictly will  
The guilty Earth arraign.    

PSALM LIX.  

1. DEliver me, O Lord my God,  
From all my spiteful Foes:  
In my Defence oppose thy Power  
To theirs who me oppose,   

2. Preserve me from a wicked Race  
Who make a Trade of Ill;  
Protect me from remorseless Men  
Who seek my Blood to spill.   

3. They lie in wait, and mighty Powers  
Against my Life combine:  
Implacable; yet, Lord, thou know'st,  
For no Offence of mine.   

4. In hurry they set watch and ward  
My guiltless Life to take:  
Look down, O Lord, on my Distress,  
And to my Help awake!   

5. Thou, Lord of Hosts and Isr'el's God,  
Their Heathen Rage suppress:  
Relentless Vengeance take on those  
Who stubbornly transgress.   

6. At Evening to beset my House  
Like growling Dogs they meet;  
While others through the City roam,  
And ransack every Street.   

7. Their Throats belch Slanders, from their Mouths  
They brandish sharpened Swords;  
Who hears (say they) or hearing, dares  
Reprove our lawless Words?   

8. But from thy Throne thou shalt, O Lord,  
Their bassled Plots deride;  
To Scorn and Infamy expose  
Insulting Heathen's Pride.   

9 On Thee I wait, 'tis on thy Strength  
For Succour I depend,  
'Tis Thou, O God, art my Defence,  
Who only canst defend.   

10. Thy Mercy, Lord, shall first prevent  
And me from Danger free;  
Then crown my Wishes, and subdue  
My Haughty Foes to me.   

11. Destroy 'em, Lord, but not entire,  
Nor at a single Blow,  
Lest we, ingratefully, too soon  
Forget their Overthrow.   

But Vagabonds through sundry Realms  
Disperse 'em by thy Power;  
Do Thou bring down their haughty Pride,  
O Lord, our Shield and Tower.   

12. Now, in the Height of all their Pride,  
Their Arrogance chastise;  
Whose Tongues have sinned without Restraint  
And Curses joined with Lies.   

13. Nor till thou hast consumed their Race  
Thine Anger, Lord, suppress,  
That outmost Lands, by their just Doom,  
May Isr'el's God confess.   

14. At Evening let them still persist  
Like growling Dogs to meet,  
Still traverse all the City round,  
And ransack every Street.   

15. Then, as for Malice now they do,  
For Hunger let 'em stray,  
And yell their vain Complaints aloud,  
Defeated of their Prey.   

16. Whilst early ● thy Mercy sing,  
Thy wondrous Power confess;  
For thou hast been my sure Defence  
My Refuge in Distress.   

17. To Thee with never-ceasing Praise,  
O God, my Strength, I'll sing;  
For thou hast always been the Rock  
From whence my Comforts spring.    

PSALM LX.  

1. O God who hast our Troops dispersed,  
Forsaking them forsook Thee first,  
As we thy just Displeasure mourn,  
To us in Mercy, Lord, return.   

2. Our Strength, that firm as Earth did stand,  
Is rend by thy avenging Hand;  
O heal the Breaches thou hast made,  
We shake, we fall, without thy Aid!   

3. Our Folly's sad Effects we feel,  
For drunk with Discords Cup we reel.   

4. But now for them who thee revered,  
Thou hast thy Truth's bright Banner reared.   

5. Let thy Right-hand thy Saints protect,  
Lord hear the Prayers that we direct!   

6. The Holy God has spoke; and I  
On his firm Word, overjoyed, rely.   

To Thee in Portions I'll divide  
Fair Sichem's Soil, Samaria's Pride,  
To Sichem, Succoth next I'll join,  
And measure out her Vale by Line.   

7. Manasseh, Gilead, both subscribe  
To my Commands, with Ephraim's Tribe;  
Ephraim by Arms supports my Cause,  
And judah by religious Laws.   

8. Moab my Slave and Drudge shall be,  
Nor Ed●m from my Yoke get free;  
Proud Palestine's imperious State  
Shall humbly on our Triumph wait.   

9 But who shall quell these mighty Powers  
And me possess of Edom's towers?  
Or through her guarded Frontiers tread  
The Path that does to Conquest lead?   

10. Even thou, O God, who hast dispersed  
Our Troops, (for we forsook Thee first)  
Whom in just wrath thou didst forsake,  
Atoned, thou wilt victorious make.   

11. Do thou our fainting Cause sustain,  
For humane Succours are but vain.   

12. Fresh Strength and Courage God bestows,  
'Tis He treads down our proudest Foes.    

PSALM LXI.  

1. LOrd, hear my Cry, regard my Prayer,  
Which I, oppressed with Grief,   

2. From Earth's remotest Parts address  
To thee for kind Relief.  
O lodge me safe beyond the Reach  
Of persecuting Power,   

3. Thou who so oft from spiteful Foes,  
Hast been my shelt'●●g Tower.   

4. Within thy sacred Co●rts I shall  
Secure from Danger lie:  
Beneath the Covert of thy Wings,  
All future Storms de●ie●   

5. In sign my Vows are heard, once more  
I o'er thy Chosen reign:   

6. O bless with long and prosperous Life  
The King thou didst ordain.   

7. Confirm his Throne, and make his Reign  
Accepted in thy sight;  
And let thy Truth and Mercy both  
In his Defence unite.   

8. So shall I ever sing thy Praise,  
Thy Name for ever bless;  
Devote my prosperous Days to pay  
The Vows of my Distress.    

PSALM LXII.  

1, 2. MY Soul for Help on God relies,  
From him alone my Safety flows:  
My Rock, my Health, that Strength supplies,  
To bear the shock of all my Foes.   

3. How long will ye contrive my Fall?  
Which will but hasten on your own  
You'll totter like a bowing Wall,  
Or fence of uncemented Stone.   

4. To make my envied Fortunes less  
They strive with Lies their chief Delight;  
For they, though with their Mouths they bless,  
In private curse with inward Spite.   

5, 6. But thou, my Soul, on God rely;  
On him alone thy Trust repose;  
My Rock and Health will strength supply,  
To bear the Shock of all my Foes.   

7. God does his saving Health dispense,  
And flowing Glories largely send;  
He is my Fortress and Defence,  
On him my Soul shall still depend.   

8. In h●m, ye People, always trust,  
B●●or● his Throne pour out your Hearts;  
Fo● God, the Merciful and Jus●,  
His timely Aid to us imparts.   

9 Sure High and Low in balance laid  
With vain Conceits and Lies abound;  
And if with Vanity they're weighed,  
Lighter than that they'll both be found.   

10. Then trust not in oppressive Ways,  
By Spoil and Rapine grow not vain;  
Nor let your Hearts, if Wealth increase,  
Be set too much upon your Gain.   

11. For God has oft his Will expressed;  
And I this Truth have fully known;  
To be of boundless Power possessed  
Belongs of right to God alone.   

12. Tho Mercy is his Darling Grace,  
In which he chiefly takes delight.  
Yet will he all the Human Race  
According to their Works requi●e.    

PSALM LXIII.  

1. O God, my gracious God, to Thee,  
My Morning Prayers s●all offered be;  
For Thee my thirsty So●l does pant;  
My fainting Flesh implores thy Grace,  
Within this dry and barren Place,  
Where I refreshing Waters want.   

2. O to my longing Eyes once more  
That View of glorious Power restore,  
Which thy majestic House displays:   

3. Because to me thy wondrous Love  
Than Life itself does dearer prove,  
My Lips shall always speak thy Praise●   

4. My Life, while I that Life enjoy.  
In blessing God I'll still employ,  
With lifted Hands adore his Name:   

5. My Soul's Content shall be as great,  
As theirs who choicest Dainties eat,  
While I with Joy his Praise proclaim,   

6. When down I lie sweet Sleep to find,  
thou'rt always present to my Min●,  
And when I wake in dead of Night:   

7. Because thou still didst Succour bring,  
Beneath the Shadow of thy Wing  
I'll rest with Safety and Delight.   

8. My Soul, when Foes would me devour  
Cleaves fast to Thee, whose matchless Power  
In her Support is daily shown:   

9 But those the Righteous Lord shall slay  
That my Destruction wish; and they  
That seek my Life shall lose their own,   

10, 11. They by untimely Ends shall die,  
Their Flesh a Prey to Foxes lie:  
But God shall fill the King with Joy.  
Who swears by him shall still rejoice,  
Whilst the false Mouth and lying Voice  
The Lord shall silence and destroy.    

PSALM LXIV.  

LOrd, hear the Voice of my Complaint,  
And to my Prayer give ear;  
Preserve my Life from cruel Foes,  
And free my Soul from Fear.   

2. O hide me with thy tenderest Care  
In some secure Retreat,  
From Sinners that against me rise,  
And their close Plots defeat.   

3. See how intent to work my Harm,  
They whet their Tongues like Swords;  
And bend their Bows to shoot their Darts,  
Sharp Lies and bitter Words!   

4. In private lurking, at the Just  
They take their secret Aim;  
And suddenly at him they shoot,  
Quite void of Fear and Shame.   

5. To carry on their ill Designs,  
They mutual Help supply,  
They speak of laying private Snares,  
And think that none shall spy.   

6. With utmost Diligence and Care  
Their wicked Plots they lay;  
The private Thoughts of all their Hearts  
With deep Designs betray.   

7. But God, to Anger justly moved,  
His dreadful Bow shall bend,  
And on his flying Arrows point  
Shall swift Destruction send.   

8. Sharp Slanders, which their Tongues did vent,  
Upon themselves shall fall;  
Their Friends that see't shall them forsake,  
Despised and shunned by All.   

9 The World shall then God's Power confess  
And Nations trembling stand,  
Convinced that 'tis the mighty Work  
Of his avenging Hand.   

10. Whilst righteous Men by God secured  
In him shall gladly trust;  
And all the listening Earth shall hear  
Loud Triumphs of the Just.    

PSALM LXV.  


1. FOR Thee, O God, our constant Praise  
In Zion waits, thy chosen Seat;  
Whilst there we promised Altars raise,  
We'll all our zealous Vows complete.   

2. O Thou, who to my humble Prayer  
Didst always bend thy listening Ear,  
To Thee shall all Mankind repair,  
And at thy gracious Throne appear.   

3. In vain of Sins a numerous Train  
To stop thy flowing Mercies try;  
Whilst thou o'erlook'st the Guilty Stai●●  
And washest out the Crimson Dye.   

4. Blessed is the Man, who, near Thee plac●d.  
Within thy Sacred Dwelling lives!  
Whilst we at humbler Distance taste  
The vast delights thy Temple gives.   

5. By wondrous Acts, O God, most jus●,  
Have we thy gracious Answer found;  
In Thee remorest Nations trust,  
And those whom stormy Waves surround.   

6, 7. God, by his Strength, sets fast the Hills,  
And does his matchless Power engage,  
With which the Seas loud Waves he s●ills,  
And angry Crowds tumultuous Rage.    

PART II.  

8. Thou, Lord, dost barbarous Lands dismay  
When they thy dreadful Tokens view:  
With Joy they see the Night and Day  
Each other's Track by turns pursue.   

9 From out thy unexhausted Store  
Thy Rain relieves the thirsty Ground●  
And makes the Earth, quite parched befo●●●  
With Corn and useful Fruits abound.   

10. On rising Ridges down it pours,  
And all the furrowed Valleys fills●  
Thou mak'st them soft with gentle Showers,  
In which a blessed Increase distils.   

11. Thy Goodness does the circling Year  
With fresh Returns of Plenty Crown;  
And where thy glorious Paths appear,  
Thy fruitful Clouds drop Fatness down.   

12. They drop on barren Forests changed  
By them to Pastures fresh and green;  
The Hills about in order ranged,  
In beauteous Robes of Joy are seen.   

13. Large Flocks with fleecy Wool adorn  
The cheerful Downs; the Valleys bring  
A plenteous Crop of full-eared Corn,  
And seem for Joy to shout and sing.     

PSALM LXVI.  


1, 2. LET all the Lands with Shouts of Joy  
To God their Voices raise.  
Sing Psalms in Honour of his Name,  
And spread his glorious Praise.   

3. And let them say, how dreadful, Lord,  
In all thy Works art thou!  
To thy great Power thy stubborn Foes  
Shall all be forced to bow.   

4. Through all the Earth the Nations round  
Shall Thee their God confess;  
And with glad Hymns their awful Dread  
Of thy great Name express.   

5. O come, behold the Works of God,  
And then with me you'll own,  
That he towards all the Sons of Men  
Has wondrous Judgements shown.   

6. He made the Sea become dry Land,  
And through the Flood they walked;  
Whilst to each other of his Might  
With Joy his People talked.   

7. He by his Power for ever rules;  
His Eyes the World survey;  
Let no Presumptuous Man rebel  
Against his sovereign Sway.    

PART II.  

8, 9 O all ye Nations, bless our God,  
And loudly tell his Praise;  
Who keeps our Soul alive and still  
Confirms our steadfast Ways.   

10, 11. For thou hast tried us, Lord, as Fir●  
Does try the precious Ore●  
Thou brought'st us to the Net, where w●  
Oppressing Burdens bore.   

12. By Thee permitted, Men did us  
Through Fire and Water chase;  
But yet at last thou brought'st us forth  
Into a wealthy place.   

13, 14. Burnt-offerings to thy House I'll b●ing,  
And there my Vows I'll pay,  
Which I with solemn Zeal did make  
●n that disastrous day.   

15. Then shall the richest Incense smoke,  
The fattest Rams shall fall;  
The choicest Goats from out the Fold,  
And Bullocks from the Stall.   

16. O come all ye that fear the Lord,  
Attend with heedful Care;  
Whilst I what God has done for me,  
With grateful Joy declare.   

17, 18. As I before his Aid implored,  
So now I praise his Name;  
Who, if my Heart had harboured Sin,  
Would all my Prayers disclaim.   

19 But God to me whenever I cried  
His gracious Ear did bend;  
And to the Voice of my Request  
With constant Love attend.   

20. Then blessed for ever be my God,  
Who never, when I pray,  
Withholds his Mercy from my Soul,  
Nor turns his Face away.     

PSALM LXVII.  

1. TO bless thy chosen Race,  
In Mercy, Lord, incline;  
And cause the Brightness of thy Face  
Upon us all to shine.   

2. That so thy wondrous Ways  
May through the World be known;  
Whilst distant Lands glad Tribute pay,  
And thy Salvation own.   

3. Let differing Nations join  
To celebrate thy Fame;  
Let all the World, O Lord, combine  
To praise thy glorious Name●   

4. O let them shout and sing,  
Dissolved in pious Mirth,  
For Thou, the righteous Judge and King,  
Shalt govern all the Earth.   

5. Let differing Nations join  
To celebrate thy Fame;  
Let all the World, O Lord, combine  
To praise thy glorious Name.   

6. Then shall the teeming Ground  
A large Increase disclose;  
And we with Plenty shall abound,  
Which God, our God, bestows.   

7. Then God upon our Land  
Shall constant Blessings shower;  
And all the World in awe shall stand  
Of his resistless Power.    

PSALM LXVIII.  


1. LET God, the God of Battle rise,  
And scatter his presumptuous Foes;  
Let shameful Rout their Host surprise,  
Who spitefully his Power oppose.   

2. As Smoke in Tempest's Rage is lost,  
Or Wax into the Furnace cast,  
So let their sacrilegious Host  
Before his wrathful Presence waste,   

3. But let the Servants of his Will  
His Favour's gentle Beams enjoy;  
Their upright Heart let Transports ●ill,  
And cheerful Songs their Tongue employ●   

4. To him your Voice in Anthems raise,  
Iehovah's powerful Name he bears:  
●n him rejoice, extol his Praise,  
Who rides upon high-rowling Spheres.   

5. Him, from his Empire of the Skies,  
Down, down to Earth Compassion draws  
The Orphan's Claim to patronise,  
And judge the injured Widow's Cause.   

6. 'Tis God who, from a foreign Soil,  
Restores poor Exiles to their Home,  
Makes Captives free, and fruitless Toil  
Their Proud Oppressors righteous Doom's   

7. 'Twas so of old, when thou, O God,  
In Person leddest our Armies forth,  
Strange Terrors through the Desert spread,   

8. Convulsions shook th' astonished Earth.  
When Lightning's made the Skies distil,  
And heavens high Arches shaken with Fear,  
How then should Sinai's humble Hill  
Of Israel's God the Presence bear?   

9 Thy Hand at famished Earth's Complaint,  
Relieved her from celestial Stores;  
And when thy Heritage was faint  
Refreshed the Drought with plenteous show'rs●   

10. Where Savages had ranged before  
At Ease thou mad'st our Tribes reside;  
And in the Desert, for the Poor,  
Thy generous Bounty did provide.    

PART II.  

11. Thou gav'st the Word, we sallied forth,  
And in that powerful Word overcame;  
While Virgin-Troops with Songs of Mirth  
In state our Conquest did proclaim.   

12. Vast Armies by such Generals led,  
As yet had ne'er received a Foil,  
Forsook their Camp with sudden Dread,  
And to our Women left the Spoil.   

13. Tho Egypt's Drudges you have been,  
Your Army's Wings shall shine more bright  
Than Doves in golden Sunshine seen,  
Or silvered over with paler Light.   

14. 'Twas so when God's Almighty Hand  
O'er scattered Kings the Conquest won;  
Our Troops, drawn up on Iordan's Strand,  
High Salmon's glittering Snow out-shone.   

15. From thence to Iordan's farther Coast  
And Bashan's Hill we did advance:  
No more her Height shall Bashan boast,  
But that she's God's Inheritance.   

16. But wherefore (though the Honour's great)  
Should this, ye Mountains swell your Pride?  
For Zion is his chosen Seat,  
Where he for ever will reside.   

17. His Chariot's numberless, his Powers  
Are Angel-Hosts that wait his Will;  
His Presence now fills Sion's towers,  
●s once i● honoured Sinai's Hill.   

18. Ascending high, in Triumph Thou  
Captivity hast Captive led,  
And on thy People didst bestow  
The Spoil of Armies once their Dread.   

Even Rebels shall partake thy Grace,  
And humble Proselytes repair  
To worship at thy Dwelling-place,  
And all the World pay Homage there.   

19 For Benefits each Day bestowed  
Be daily his great Name adored;   

20. Who is our Saviour and our God,  
Of Life and Death the sovereign Lord●   

21. But Justice, for his hardened Foes  
Proportioned Vengeance has decreed,  
To wound the grizly Head of those  
Who in presumptuous Crimes proceed.   

22. The Lord has thus, in Thunder, spoke;  
As I subdued proud Bashan's King,  
Once more I'll break my People's Yoke,  
And from the Deep my Servant's bring.   

23. Their Feet shall in a Crimson Flood  
Of slaughtered Foes be covered over,  
Nor Earth receive such impious Blood,  
But leave for Dogs th' unhallowed Gore.    

PART III.  

24. When entering to thy blessed Abode,  
The wondering Multitude surveyed  
Thy pompous State, my King and God,  
In Robes of Majesty array'd●   

25. Sweet-singing Levites led the Van,  
Loud Instruments brought up the Rear;  
Between both Troops a Virgin-Train  
With Voice and Timbrel charmed the Ear.   

26. This was the Burden of their Song,  
In full Assemblies bless the Lord,  
All, who to Israel's Tribes belong,  
The God of Israel's Praise record.   

27. Nor little Benjamin alone  
From neighbouring Bounds did there attend,  
Nor only Iudah's nearer Throne,  
Her Counselors in state did send;   

But Zebulon's remoter Seat,  
And Nephthalis more distant Coast  
(The grand Procession to complete)  
Sent up their Tribes, a Princely Host.   

28. Thus God to Strength and Union brought  
Our Tribes, at Strife till that blessed Hour:  
This Work which thou, O God, hast wrought,  
Confirm, with fresh Recruits of Power.   

29. To visit Salem, Lord, descend,  
And Zion thy terrestrial Throne;  
Where Kings with Presents shall attend,  
And there with offered Crowns atone.   

30. Break down their spearmen's Ranks tha● threat  
Like pampered Herds of Savage Might,  
Their Silver-armoured Chiefs defeat  
Who in destructive War delight.   

31. To God shall Egypt then stretch forth  
Her Hands, and Africa Homage bring:   

32. The scattered Kingdoms of the Earth  
Their common Sovereign's Praises sing.   

33. Who mounted on the loftiest Sphere  
Of ancient Heaven, sublimely rides;  
From whence his dreadful Voice we hear,  
Like that of warring Winds and Tides.   

34. Ascribe ye Power to God most High,  
Of humble Israel he takes Care;  
Whose Strength from out the dusky Sky  
Darts shining Terrors through the Air.   

35. How dreadful are the sacred Courts  
Where God has fixed his earthly Throne!  
His Strength his feeble Saints supports:  
To God give Praise and him alone.     

PSALM LXIX.  

1. SAve me, O God, from Waves that roll,  
And press to overwhelm my Soul.   

2. In Mire my found'ring Footsteps tread,  
And Deluges overflow my Head.   

3. With restless Cries my Spirits faint,  
My Voice is hoarse with long Complaint,  
My Sight decays with tedious Pain,  
Whilst for my God I wait in vain.   

4. My Heads unnumbered Hairs are few,  
Compared to Foes that me pursue  
With groundless Hate, grown now of might  
To execute their lawless Spite.  
They force me guiltless to resign  
As Rapine, what by right was mine.   

5. Thou Lord my Innocence dost see,  
Nor are my Sins concealed from Thee.   

6. Lord God of Hosts take timely care,  
Lest for my sake thy Saint's despair;   

7. Since I have suffered, for thy Name,  
Reproach, and hid my Face in shame.   

8. A Stranger to my Country grown,  
Nor to my nearest Kindred known;  
A Foreigner, exposed to Scorn,  
By Brethren of my Mother born.   

9 For Zeal to thy loved House and Name  
Consumes me like devouring Flame,  
Concerned at their Affronts to Thee  
Beyond their Slanders cast on me.   

10. My very Tears and Abstinence  
They construe in a spiteful sense;   

11. When clothed with Sackcloth for their sake,  
They me their Jest and Proverb make.   

12. Their Judges make my Wrongs their Jest,  
Those Wrongs they ought to have redressed!  
How shall I then expect to be  
From Libels of Lewd Drunkards free?   

13. But, Lord, to Thee I will repair  
For Help, with humble timely Prayer;  
Relieve me from thy Mercies store,  
Display thy Truth's preserving Power.   

14. O save me yet from Dangers Brink,  
Nor suffer me in Mire to sink;  
From spiteful Foes in Safety keep,  
And snatch me from the raging Deep.   

15. Control the Deluge e'er it spread,  
And roll its Waves above my Head;  
Nor deep Destruction's yawning Pit  
To close her Jaws on me permit.   

16. Lord, hear the humble Prayer I make,  
For thy transcending Kindness sake;  
Relieve thy Suppliant once more  
From thy abounding Mercies store.   

17. Nor from thy Servant hide thy Face;  
Make speed, for desperate is my Case:   

18. Thy timely Succour interpose,  
And shield me from remorseless Foes.   

19 The Slanders, Infamy and Scorn  
I from my Enemies have born  
Thou know'st, nor has their open Spite  
Or secret Plots escaped thy Sight.   

20. Reproach and Grief have broke my Heart,  
I looked for some to take my part,  
To pity or relieve my Pain,  
But looked (alas!) for both in vain!   

21. With Hunger pined for Food I call,  
Instead of Food they give me Gall;  
And when with Thirst my Spirits sink,  
They give me Vinegar to drink.   

22. Their Table therefore to their Health  
Shall prove a Snare, a Trap their Wealth:   

23. Perpetual Darkness seize their Eyes,  
And sudden Blasts their Hope surprise.   

24. On them and theirs thy Fury pour,  
And in tempestuous Wrath devour:   

25. Their House dis-people to a Cell,  
Till none remain therein to dwell.   

26. For new Afflictions they procured  
For him who had thy Stripes endured;  
And made the Wounds thy Scourge had torn  
To bleed afresh with sharper Scorn.   

27. Let Sin to Sin their steps betray,  
Till they to Truth have lost the Way.   

28. From Life's bright List exclude their Soul,  
Nor with the Just their Names enrol.   

29. But me, however distressed and poor,  
Thy strong Salvation shall restore:   

30. Thy Power with Songs I'll then proclaim,  
And celebrate with Thanks thy Name.   

31. Our God shall this more highly prize  
Than Hecatombs of Sacrifice:   

32. Which humble Saints with Joy shall see,  
And hope for like Redress with me.   

33. For God regards the Poor's Complaint,  
Sets Prisoners free from close Restraint:   

34. Let Heaven, Earth, Sea their Voices raise,  
The Universe resound his Praise.   

35. For God will Sion's Walls protect,  
Fair Iudah's Cities He'll erect,  
Till all her scattered Sons repair  
To undisturbed possession there;   

36. Enjoy for Life, and at their Death  
To their religious Heirs bequeath;  
And they to endless Ages more,  
On such as his blessed Name adore.    

PSALM LXX.  

1. O Lord, to my Relief draw near,  
For never was more pressing Need!  
For my deliverance, Lord, appear,  
And add to that Deliverance Speed.   

2. Confusion on their Heads return  
Who to destroy my Soul combine;  
Let them, defeated, blush and mourn,  
Ensnared in their own vile Design.   

3. Their Doom let Desolation be,  
With Shame their Malice be repaid,  
Who mocked my Confidence in Thee,  
And Sport of my Affliction made.   

4. While those who humbly seek thy Face  
To joyful Triumphs are upraised;  
And all who prize thy Saving Grace  
Ever resound, The Lord be praised.   

5. Thus wretched though I am and poor,  
Of me th' Almighty Lord takes care.  
Thou, God, who only canst restore,  
To my Relief with Speed repair.    

PSALM LXXI.  


1, 2. IN Thee I put my steadfast Trust,  
Defend me, Lord, from Shame;  
Incline thine Ear, and save my Soul,  
For righteous is thy Name.   

3. Be thou my strong abiding Place,  
To which I may resort;  
'Tis thy Decree that keeps me safe,  
Thou art my Rock and Fort.   

4, 5. From cruel and ungodly Men  
Protect and set me free,  
For from my earliest Youth till now  
My Hope has been in Thee.   

6. Thy constant Care did safely guard  
My tender Infant days;  
Thou tookest me from my Mother's Womb  
To sing thy constant Praise.   

7, 8. While some with Wonder on me gaze●  
Thy Hand supports me still;  
Thy Honour therefore and thy praise  
My Mouth shall always fill.   

9 Reject not then thy Servant, Lord,  
When freezing Age prevails;  
Forsake me not, when spent with years  
My manly Vigour fails.   

10. My Foes against my Fame, and me  
With crafty Malice speak●  
Against my Soul they lay their Snares,  
And mutual Counsel take.   

11. His God, say they, forsakes him now,  
On whom he did rely;  
Pursue and take him, whilst no Hope  
Of timely Succours nigh.   

12, 13. But thou, my God, withdraw not far●  
For speedy Help I call;  
To Shame and Ruin bring my Foes  
That seek to work my Fall.   

14. But as for me, my steadfast Hope  
Shall on thy Help depend,  
And I in grateful Songs of Praise  
My time to come will spend.    

PART II.  

15. Thy righteous Acts and saving Health  
My Mouth shall still declare:  
Unable yet to count ●hem all,  
Tho summed with utmost Care●   

16. By God supported I'll go on,  
And in his Strength proceed,  
And show how far his Righteousness  
All others does exceed.   

17. Thou, Lord, hast taught me from my Youth  
To praise thy glorious Name;  
And ever since thy wondrous Works  
Have been my constant Theme.   

18. Then now forsake me not when I  
Am grey and feeble grown,  
Till ● to these and future times,  
Thy Strength and Power have shown.   

19 How high thy Justice soars, O God  
How great and wondrous are  
The mighty Works which thou ha●t done!  
Who may with Thee compare!   

20. Me whom thy Hand has sorely pressed  
Thy Grace shall yet relieve;  
And from the lowest Depth of Woe  
With tender Care retrieve.   

21. Through Thee my time to come shall be  
With Power and Greatness crowned,  
My future Years shall all rejoice.  
With Comfort compassed round.   

22. Therefore with Psaltery and Harp  
Thy Truth, O Lord, I'll praise;  
To Thee, the God of Iacob's Rac●,  
My Voice in Anthems raise.   

23. Then Joy shall fill my Mouth, and Songs  
Employ my cheerful Voice;  
My grateful Soul, by Thee redeemed  
Shall in thy Aid rejoice.   

24. My Tongue thy just and righteous Acts  
Shall all the day proclaim;  
Because thou didst confound my Foes  
And brought'st them all to shame.     

PSALM LXXII.  


1. LOrd, let thy just Decrees the King  
In all his Ways Direct;  
And let his Son throughout his Reign  
Thy righteous Laws respect.   

2. So shall he s●ill thy People judge  
With pure and upright Mind,  
Whilst all the helpless Poor in him  
A just Protector find.   

3. Then Hills and Mountains shall bring forth  
The happy Fruits of Peace;  
Which all the Land shall own to be  
The Work of Righteousness:   

4. Whilst he the poor and needy Race  
Shall rule with gentle Sway;  
And from their humble Necks shall take  
Oppressive Yokes away.   

5. In every Heart thy awful Fear  
Shall then be rooted fast,  
As long as Sun and Moon endure,  
Or Time itself shall la●t.   

6. He shall descend like Rain that cheers  
The Meadows second Birth,  
Or like warm Showers, whose gentle Drops  
Refresh the thirsty Earth.   

7. In his blessed days the just and good  
Shall be with Favour crowned,  
The happy Land shall every where  
With endless Peace abound.   

8. His uncontrolled Dominion shall  
From Sea to Sea extend,  
Begin at proud Euphrates Streams,  
At Nature's Limits end.   

9 To him the savage Nations round  
Shall bow their servile Heads,  
His vanquished Foes shall lick the Dust  
Where he their conqueror treads.   

10. The Kings of Tarshish and the Isles  
Shall costly Presents bring;  
From haughty Persia Gifts shall come,  
And from Arabia's King.   

11. To him shall every King on Earth  
His humble Homage pay,  
And differing Nations gladly join  
To own his righteous Sway.   

12. For he shall set the Needy free,  
When they for Succour cry;  
Shall save the Helpless and the Poor,  
And all their Wants supply.    

PART II.  

13. His Eye the humble patient Man  
Indulgently shall spare;  
And over his defenceless Life  
Shall watch with tender Care.   

14. He shall preserve and keep their Souls  
From Fraud and Rapin● free,  
And in his sight their guiltless Blood  
Of mighty Price shall be.   

15. Therefore shall God his Life and Reign  
To many Years extend,  
Whilst Eastern Prince's Tribute pay,  
And golden Presents send.  
For him shall constant Prayers be made,  
And all his prosperous Days,  
His just Dominion shall afford  
A lasting Theme of Praise.   

16. Through all the Land, of useful Grain  
Great Plenty shall appear;  
A Handful sown on Mountain Tops  
A mighty Crop shall bear:  
Its Fruit, like Cedars shook by Winds,  
A rattling Noise shall yield;  
The City too shall thrive, and vie  
For Plenty with the Field.   

17. To endless Ages shall endure  
His great and glorious Name;  
As bright and lasting as the Sun,  
Shall shine his spotless Fame:  
In him the Nations of the World  
Shall be completely blest,  
And his unbounded Happiness  
By every Tongue confe●t.   

18. Then blest be God, the mighty Lord,  
The God whom Israel fears;  
Who only wondrous in his Works,  
Beyond Compare appears.   

19 Let Earth be with his Glory filled;  
For ever bless his Name:  
Whilst to his Praise the listening World  
Their glad assent proclaim.   

20. [With this exalted Hymn of Praise  
The Prayers and Praises end,  
Which holy David, Iesse's Son,  
In pious Raptures penned.]     

PSALM LXXIII.  


1. AT length, by certain proofs 'tis plain  
That God will to his own be kind●  
That all, whose Hearts are pure and clean,  
Shall his indulgent Favour find,   

2, 3. But my unwary Feet before  
And staggering Steps had almost failed;  
With Pain I viewed the Sinner's store,  
And envied when the Fools prevailed.   

4, 5. They to the Grave in peace descend,  
And whilst they live are hail and strong;  
No Plagues or Troubles them offend,  
Which ●till to other Men belong.   

6, 7. With Pride as with a Chain they're held,  
And Rapine is their Robe of State;  
Their Eyes stand out, with Fatness swelled,  
They grow, beyond their Wishes, great.   

8, 9 With Hearts corrupt, and lofty Talk,  
Oppressive Methods they defend;  
Their Tongue thro' all the Earth does walk,  
Their Blasphemies to Heaven ascend.   

10. And yet admiring Crowds are found  
Who servile Visits duly make,  
Because with Plenty they abound,  
Of which their pampered Slaves partake.   

11. Their fond Opinions these pursue,  
Till they with them profanely cry,  
How should the Lord our Actions view,  
Can he perceive who dwells on high?   

12. Behold the Wicked! these are they  
Who openly their Sins profess;  
And yet their Wealth's increased each day●  
And all their Actions meet Success.   

13, 14. Then have I cleansed my Heart (said I)  
And washed my Hands from Gild in vain,  
If all the Day oppressed I lie,  
And every Morning suffer Pain.   

15. Thus did I once to speak intend;  
But if such things I rashly say,  
Thy Children, Lord, I must offend,  
And basely should their Cause betray.    

PART III.  

16, 17. To fathom This my Thoughts I bent,  
But found the Case too hard for me,  
Till to the House of God I went,  
Then I their End did plainly see.   

18. How high soe'er advanced, they all  
In slippery Places tottering stand;  
Thence into Ruin headlong fall,  
Cast down by thy avenging Hand.   

19, 20. How dreadful and how quick their Fate!  
Despised by Thee when they're destroyed;  
As waking Men with Scorn do treat  
The Fancies that their Dreams employed.   

21, 22. Thus was my Heart with Grief oppressed  
My Reins were racked with restless Pains,  
So foolish was I, like a Beast,  
In whom no Thought or Sense remains.   

23, 24. And yet thy Presence cheered me still●  
And thy Right-hand did always save;  
Thou first didst guide me with thy Skill,  
And to thy Glory then receive.   

25. Whom then in Heaven, but Thee alone●  
Have I, whose Favour I require?  
And over all the Earth there's none  
That I besides Thee can desire.   

26. My trembling Flesh and aching Heart  
May often fail to succour me;  
But God shall inward Strength imparts  
And my Eternal Portion be.   

27. For they that far from Thee remove●  
Shall into sudden Ruin fall;  
If after other Gods they rove,  
Thy Vengeance shall destroy them all.   

28. But as for me, 'tis good and just  
That I should still to God repair;  
In him I always put my Trust,  
And will his wondrous Works declare.     

PSALM LXXIV.  


1. WHY hast thou cast us off, O God;  
Must we no more return?  
O why, against thy chosen Flock,  
Does thy fierce Anger burn?   

2. Think on thy ancient Purchase, Lord,  
The Land that is thy own,  
By Thee redeemed, and Sion's Mount  
Where once thy Glory shone.   

3. O come and view our ruin'd state!  
How long our Troubles last!  
See! how the Foe with wicked Rage  
Has laid thy Temple waste!   

4. Thy Foes blaspheme thy Name, where late●  
Thy zealous Servants prayed;  
Their Banners all, as conquering Signs,  
With haughty Pomp displayed.   

5, 6. Those curious Carving which did once  
The Workmen famous make,  
With Axes and with Hammers now  
They all in pieces break.   

7. Thy Holy Temple have they burnt;  
And what escaped the Flame,  
Has been profaned and quite pulled down  
Tho sacred to thy Name.   

8. Together to destroy us all  
Maliciously they aimed;  
And all the sacred Places burned  
Where we thy Praise proclaimed:   

9 Yet of thy Presence thou vouchsaf'st  
No tender Signs to send;  
We have no Prophet now that knows  
When this sad state shall end.    

PART II.  

10. But, Lord, how long wilt thou permit  
Th' insulting Foe to boast?  
Shall all the Honour of thy Name  
For evermore be lost?   

11. Why hold'st thou back thy strong Right-hand?  
And on thy patient Breast  
When Vengeance calls to stretch it forth,  
So calmly lettest it rest?   

12. Thou heretofore, with Kingly Power,  
In our Defence hast fought;  
For us, throughout the wondering World,  
Hast great Salvation wrought.   

13. 'Twas Thou, O God, that didst the Sea  
By thy own Strength divide;  
Thou break'st the watery Monster's Head,  
The Waves overwhelmed their Pride.   

14. The greatest, fiercest of them all,  
That seemed the Deep to sway;  
Was by thy Power destroyed, and made  
To savage Beasts a Prey.   

15. Thou clav'●t the solid Rock, and badst  
The Waters largely flow;  
Again, Thou mad'st, through dried up Streams  
Thy wondering People go.   

16. Thine is the cheerful Day, and thine  
The black Return of Night;  
Thou hast prepared the glorious Sun,  
And every feebler Light.   

17. By Thee the Borders of the Earth  
In perfect order stand;  
The Summer's Warmth and Winter's Co●●  
Attend on thy Command.    

PART III.  

18. Remember, Lord, how scornful Foes  
Have daily urged our Shame;  
And how the foolish People have  
Blasphemed thy holy Name.   

19 O free thy mourning Turtledove,  
By sinful Crowds beset;  
Nor the Assembly of the Poor  
For evermore forget.   

20. Thy ancient Covenant, Lord, regard,  
And make thy promise good;  
For now each Corner of the Land  
Is filled with Men of Blood.   

21. O let not the Oppressed return,  
With Sorrow clothed and Shame;  
But let the Helpless, and the Poor  
For ever praise thy Name.   

22. Arise, O God, in our behalf,  
Thy Cause and ours maintain;  
Remember how insulting Fools  
Each day thy Name profane!   

23. Make Thou the Boastings of thy Foes  
For ever, Lord, to cease;  
Whose haughty Rage and furious Threats  
Still more and more increase.     

PSALM LXXV.  

1. TO Thee, O God, we render Praise,  
To Thee with Thanks repair;  
For, that thy Name to us is nigh  
Thy wondrous Works declare.   

2. In Israel when my Thron● is fixed  
With me shall Justice reign:   

3. The Land with Discord shakes, but I  
The tottering Frame sustain.   

4. Deluded Wretches I advised  
Their Errors to redress,  
Presumptuous Sinners warned that they  
Their Swelling Pride suppress.   

5. Bear not yourselves so high, as if  
No Power could yours restrain;  
Submit your stubborn Necks, and learn  
To speak with less Disdain.   

6. For that Promotion, which to gain,  
Your vain Ambition strives,  
From neither East nor West, nor yet  
From Southern Climes arrives.   

7. For God the great Disposer is  
And sovereign Judge alone,  
Who casts the Proud to Earth, and lifts  
The Humble to a Throne.   

8. His Hand holds forth a dreadful Cup,  
With purple Wine 'tis crowned;  
Filled with Ingredients which his Wrath  
Deals out to Nations round.  
Of This his darling Saints may taste,  
But Wicked Men shall squeeze  
The baleful Dregs, and be condemned  
To drink the very Lees.   

9 His Prophet, I to all the World  
This Message will relate;  
The Justice then of Iacob's God●  
My Song shall celebrate.   

10. The Wicked's Pride I will reduce,  
Their Cruelty disarm;  
Exalt the Just, and seat him high,  
Above the Reach of Harm.    

PSALM LXXVI.  

1. IN judah the Almighty's known,  
(Almighty there by Wonders shown)  
His Name in jacob does excel:   

2. His Sanctuary in Salem stands,  
The Majesty that Heaven commands  
In Zion condescends to dwell.   

3. He broke the Bow and Arrows there  
The Shield, the tempered Sword and Spear,  
There slain the mighty Army lay;   

4. Whence Sion's Fame through Earth is spread  
Of greater Glory greater Dread,  
Than Hills where Robbers lodge their Prey.   

5. Their valiant Chiefs, who came for Spoil,  
Themselves met there a shameful Foil,  
Securely down to sleep they lay.  
But, waked no more; their stoutest Ba●d  
Ne'er lifted one resisting Hand  
against his that did their Legions slay.   

6. When Iacob's God began to frown  
Horse, Horsemen, Chariots were o'erthrown,  
Together hushed in endless Night:   

7. When Thou, whom Earth and Heaven revere,  
Dost once in wrathful Looks appear,  
What Mortal Power can stand thy sight●   

8. Pronounced from Heaven, Earth heard its Doom,  
Grew hushed with Fear, when Thou didst come   

9 To Judgement, and the Meek restore:   

10. The Wrath of Man shall yield Thee Praise  
Its proud Reserves but serve to raise  
The Triumphs of Almighty Power.   

11. Vow to the Lord, ye Nations, bring  
Vowed Presents to th' eternal King;  
Thus to his Name due reverence pay,   

12. Who proudest Potentates can quell,  
To Earthly Kings more terrible  
Than to their trembling Subjects They.    

PSALM LXXVII.  

1. TO God I sent my mournful Cry,  
Who graciously did hear;   

3. In Trouble's dismal Day I sought  
My God with humble Prayer.  
All Night my festering Wound did run,  
No Medicine gave Relief;  
My Soul no Comfort would admit,  
My Soul indulged her Grief.   

3. I thought on God, and Favours past,  
But that increased my Pain●  
I found my Spirit more oppressed  
The more I did complain.   

4. Through every watch of tedious Night  
Thou keep'st my Eyes awake;  
My Grief is swelled to that Excess  
I sigh but cannot speak.   

5. I call to mind the Days of old  
With signal Mercy crowned,  
Those famous years of ancient Times  
For Miracles renowned.   

6. By Night I recollect my Songs  
On former Triumphs made,  
Then search, consult and ask my Heart  
Where's now that wondrous Aid?   

7. Has God for ever cast us off,  
Withrawn his Favour quite?   

8. Are both his Mercy and his Truth  
Retired to endless Night?   

9 Can his long-practised Love forget  
Its wont Aids to bring?  
Has he in Wrath shut up and sealed  
His Mercy's healing Spring?   

10. I said my Weakness hints these Fears,  
But I'll my Fears disband;  
I'll yet remember the most High,  
And Years of his Right-hand.   

11. I'll call to mind his Works of old,  
The Wonders of his Might;   

12. On them my Heart shall meditate,  
My Tongue shall them recite.   

13. Safe lodged from humane Search on high  
O God thy Counsels are!  
Who is so great a God as Ours?  
Who can with him compare?   

14. Long since a God of Wonders Thee  
Thy rescued People found;   

15. joseph and Israel's Seed thy Arm  
With strong deliverance crowned.   

16. When Thee, O God, the Waters saw  
The frighted Billows shrunk;  
The troubled Depths themselves, for Fea●,  
Beneath their Channels sunk.   

17. The Clouds poured down, while with their Noise  
The rending Skies conspire;  
Thy Arrows all abroad were sent,  
Winged with avenging Fire.   

18. Heaven with thy Thunder's Voice was torn  
Whilst all the lower World  
With Lightnings blazed; Earth shook and seemed  
From her Foundations hurled.   

19 Through rolling Seas Thou findest thy Way,  
Thy Paths in waters lie;  
Thy wondrous passage, where no Sight  
Thy Footsteps can descry.   

20. Thou leddest thy People like a Flock,  
Conducted by the Hand  
Of Moses and of Aaron, safe  
To Canaan's promised Land.    

PSALM LXXVIII.  


1. HEar, O my People; to my Law  
Devout Attention lend;  
Let the Instruction of my Mouth  
Deep in your Hearts descend.   

2. My Tongue, by Inspiration taught,  
Shall Parables unfold,  
Dark Oracles, but understood,  
And known for Truths of Old;   

3. Which we from sacred Registers  
Of ancient Times have known,  
Which our Forefathers pious Care  
To Us has handed down.   

4. We will not hide them from our Sons;  
Our Offspring shall be taught  
The Praises of the Lord, whose Strength  
Has Works of Wonder wrought.   

5. With jacob He this League ordained,  
This Law with Israel made,  
With Charge to be from Age to Age,  
From Race to Race convey'd●   

6. That Generations yet to com●  
Should to their unborn Heirs  
Religiously transmit the same,  
And they again to theirs.   

7. To teach 'em that in God alone  
Their Hope securely stands;  
That they should ne'er his Works forge●,  
But keep his just Commands.   

8. Lest, like their Fathers, they might prov●  
A stiff rebellious Race,  
Falsehearted, fickle to their God,  
Unsteadfast in his Grace.   

9 Such were revolting Ephraim's Tribe●  
A Tribe to Warfare bred,  
Who, armed with Bows and Archers skilled,  
From Field ignobly fled.   

10, 11. They falsified their League with God,  
His Orders disobeyed;  
Forgot his Works and Miracles  
Before their Eyes displayed.   

12. Nor Wonders, which th●ir Father's s●●●  
Did they in Mind retain;  
Prodigious things in Egypt done,  
And Zoan's fertile Plain.   

13. He cut the Seas to let 'em pass,  
Restrained the pressing Floo●●  
While piled in Heaps, on either ●ide,  
The wondering Waters stood.   

14. He led 'em by a Prodigy  
Composed of Shade and Light;  
A sheltering Cloud it proved by Day,  
A leading Fire by Night.   

15. With Drought afflicted, where no Stream  
The Wilderness supplied,  
He cloven the Rock, whose flinty Breast  
Dissolved into a Tide.   

16. Streams from the solid Rock he brought,  
Which down in Rivers fell,  
That, traveling with their Camp, each day  
Renewed the Miracle.   

17. Yet there they sinned against him more,  
Provoking the Most High,  
In that same Desert where he did  
Their fainting Souls supply.   

18. They first incensed him in their Hearts  
That craved for stronger Meat,  
Not moved by Hunger, but their Lust  
Luxuriously to treat.   

19 Then uttered their blaspheming Doubts,  
Can God, said they, prepare  
A Table in the Wilderness,  
Set out with various Fare?   

20. He smote the Flinty Rock ('tis true)  
And gushing Streams ensued,  
But can He Corn and Flesh provide  
For such a Multitude?   

21. The Lord with Indignation heard;  
From Heaven avenging Flame  
On jacob fell, consuming Wrath  
On thankless Israel came.   

22. Because their unbelieving Hearts  
In God would not confide,  
Who had from heavens own Granary  
Their Wants so oft supplied.   

23. Tho he had made his Clouds discharge  
Provisions down in Showers;  
And, when Earth failed, relieved their Needs  
From his celestial Stores.   

24. Tho tastful Manna had reigned down  
Their Hunger to relieve.  
Tho from the Stores of Heaven they did  
Sustaining Corn receive.   

25. And thus with Angels sacred Food  
Ingrateful Man was fed,  
Not sparingly, for still they found  
A plenteous Table spread.   

26. From Heaven he made an East-Wind blow  
And next the South commands   

27. To rain down Flesh like Dust, and Fowls  
Like Seas unnumb'red Sands.   

28. Within their Trenches he let fall  
The luscious easy Prey,  
And all around their spreading Camp  
The feathered Booty lay.   

29. They fed, were filled, he gave 'em leave  
Their Appetites to feast;   

30, 31. Yet still their wanton Lust gorged on,  
Nor with their Hunger ceased.   

But whilst in their luxurious Mouths.  
They did their Dainties chew,  
The Wrath of God smote down their Chiefs,  
And Israel's chosen slew.    

PART II.  

32. Yet still they sinned, nor would affor●  
His Miracle Belief;   

33. Therefore through fruitless Travels, he  
Consumed their Lives in Grief.   

34. When some were slain, the rest returned  
To God with early Cry;   

35. Own him the Rock of their Defence,  
Their Saviour, God most High.   

36. But this was feigned Submission all  
Their Heart their Tongue belied;   

37. Their Hearts were still perverse, nor would  
Firm in his League abide.   

38. Yet, full of Mercy, he forgave,  
Nor did with Death chastise;  
Oft turned his kindled Wrath aside.  
Or suffered not to rise.   

39 For he remembered they were Flesh  
That could not long remain;  
A murmuring Wind that's quickly passed  
And ne'er returns again.   

40. How oft did they provoke h●m there,  
How oft his Patience grieve,  
In that same Desert where he did  
Their fainting Souls relieve?   

41. They tempted him by turning back,  
And gracelesly repined,  
When Israel's God refused to be  
By their Desires confined.   

42. Nor called to mind the Hand and Day  
That their Redemption brought;   

43. His Signs in Egypt, wondrous Works  
In Zoan's Valley wrought.   

44. He turned their Rivers into Blood  
That Man and Beast forbore,  
And rather chose to die of Thirst  
Than drink the putrid Gore.   

45. He sent devouring Swarms of Flies,  
Hoarse Frogs annoyed their Soil;   

46. Locusts and Caterpillars reaped  
The Harvest of their Toil.   

47. Their Vines with battering Hail, with Frost  
The Tender Figtree dies;   

48. lightning and Hail made Flocks and Herds  
One gen'ral Sacrifice.   

49. He turned his furious Anger lose,  
No time prescribed to cease;  
And, with their Plagues, ill Angels sent  
Their Torments to increase.   

50. He opened a Passage to his Wrath,  
To ravage uncontrol'd;  
The Murrain on their Firstlings seized  
In every Field and Fold●   

51. From Beast to Man the deadly Pest,  
From Field to City came;  
It slew their Heirs● their eldest Hopes,  
Through all the Tents of Ham.   

52. But his own Tribes● like folded Sheep,  
He brought from their Distress,  
And, like a Flock, conducted through  
The pathless Wilderness.   

53. He led 'em on, and in their way.  
No cause of Fear they found;  
But marched securely through those Deeps  
In which their Foes were drowned.   

54. Nor ceased his Care till them he brought  
Into his promised Land,  
His Sanctu'ry and Mount, the Prize  
Of his victorious Hand.   

55. To them the Out-cast Heathen's Land  
He did by Lot divide;  
And safe in their abandoned Tents  
Made Israel's Tribes reside.    

PART III.  

56. Yet still they tempted, still provoked  
The Wrath of God most High;  
Nor would to practise his Commands  
Their stubborn Hearts apply.   

57 But in their faithless Father's Steps  
Perversely chose to go;  
They turned aside, like Arrows shot  
From some deceitful Bow.   

58. For him to Fury they provoked,  
With Altars set on high;  
And with their graven Images  
Inflamed his Jealousy.   

59 When God heard this, on Israel's Tribes  
His Wrath and Hatred fell;   

60. He quitted Shilo and the Tents  
Where once he chose to dwell.   

61. To vile Captivity his Ark,  
His Glory to Disdain,   

62. His People to the Sword he gave,  
Nor would his Wrath restrain.   

63. Destructive War their ablest Youth  
Untimely did confound;  
No Virgin was to th' Altar led,  
With nuptial Garlands crowned.   

64. In Fight the Sacrificer fell,  
The Priest a Victim bled;  
Widows, that should their funerals mourn,  
Themselves of Grief were dead.   

65. Then, like a Giant fresh from Sleep,  
Or Wine's inspiring Charms,  
The Lord awaked, and shouting loud  
The trembling Foe alarms.   

66. He smote their Host, that home from Field  
A scattered Remnant came,  
With Wounds, imprinted on their Backs,  
Of everlasting Shame.   

67. With Conquest crowned, He, Ioseph's Tents  
And Ephraim's Tribe forsook;   

68 But judah chose, and Sion's Mount  
For his loved Dwelling took.   

69. His Temple He erected there,  
Whose Head confronts the Skies,  
While deep and fixed, as that of Earth,  
The strong Foundation lies.   

70. His faithful Servant David too  
He for his Choice did own,  
And from the Sheepfolds him advanced  
To sit on Iudah's Throne.   

71. From tending on the teeming Ewes  
He brought him forth to feed  
His own Inheritance, the Tribes  
Of Israel's chosen Seed.   

72. Exalted thus, the Monarch proved  
A faithful Shepherd still.  
He fed them with an Upright Heart,  
And guided them with Skill.     

PSALM LXXIX.  

1. BEhold, O God, the Heathen have  
On thy Possession seized;  
Thy sacred House have they defiled,  
Thy holy City razed.   

2. The mangled Bodies of thy Saints  
Abroad unburied lay;  
Their Flesh exposed to savage Beasts,  
And ravenous Birds of Prey.   

3. Quite through Ierus'lem was their Blood  
Like Common Water shed;  
And none were left alive to pay  
Last Duties to the Dead.   

4. The neighbouring Lands our small Remains  
With loud Reproaches wound;  
We're made a Laughingstock and Scorn  
To all the Nations round.   

5. How long wilt Thou be angry, Lord,  
Must we for ever mourn?  
Shall thy devouring jealous Rage  
Like Fire, for ever burn?   

6. On Foreign Lands, that know not Thee,  
Thy heavy Vengeance shower,  
Those sinful Kingdoms let it crush  
That have not owned thy Power.   

7. For they their greedy Throats have gorged  
With Iacob's chosen Race.  
And to a barren Desert turned  
Their fruitful Dwelling-place,   

8. O think not on our former Sins,  
But speedily preven●  
Thy Suffering People's utter Loss,  
Almost with Sorrow spent.   

9 O God our Saviour, help and save,  
And free our Souls from blame;  
So shall our Pardon and Defence  
Exalt thy glorious Name.   

10. Let Infidels, that scoffing say,  
Where is the God they boast?  
In Vengeance for thy slaughtered Saints  
Perceive thee to their Cost.   

11. Lord, hear the sighing prisoner's moan,  
And as thy Power is great;  
Preserve the Wretches doomed to die,  
From that untimely Fate.   

12. On our oppressive Neighbours let  
Our Sufferings be repaid;  
Make their Confusion seven times more  
Than what on us they laid.   

13. So we thy People and thy Flock  
Shall ever praise thy Name;  
And with glad Hearts our grateful Thanks  
From Age to Age proclaim.    

PSALM LXXX.  


1. O Israel's Shepherd, Iacob's Guide,  
Whom like a Sheep thou lead'st, give ear;  
Thou that dost on the Cherubs ride,  
Again in solemn State appear.   

2. Behold, how Benjamin expects,  
With Ephraim and Manasseh joined,  
In our deliverance the Effects  
Of thy resistless Strength to find.   

3. Do thou convert us, Lord, do thou  
The lustre of thy Face display;  
And all the Ills we suffer now  
Like scattered Clouds shall pass away.   

4. O Thou, whom heavenly Hosts obey,  
How long shall thy fierce Anger burn?  
How long thy suffering People pray,  
And yet their Prayers meet no Return.   

5. Thou, when we're hungry mak'st us drench  
Our scanty Food in Floods of Woe;  
When dry, our raging Thirst we quench  
With Streams of Tears that largely flow.   

6. For us the Heathen Nations round  
As for a certain Prey, contest;  
Our Foes with spiteful Joy abound  
And at our lost Condition jest.   

7. Do thou convert us Lord, do thou  
The Lustre of thy Face display;  
And all the Ills we suffer now,  
Like scattered Clouds shall pass away.    

PART II.  

8. Thou brought'st a Vine from Egypt's land;  
And casting out the Heathen Race,  
Didst plant it with thy own Right-hand,  
And firmly fix it in their Place.   

9 Before it thou prepar'dst the Way,  
And mad'st it take a lasting Root,  
Which blest with thy indulgent Ray  
O'er all the Land did widely shoot.   

10, 11. The Hills were covered with its Shade,  
Her goodly Boughs did Cedars seem;  
Her Branches to the Sea were spread,  
And reached to proud Euphrates Stream.   

12. Why then hast Thou its Hedge overthrown,  
Which thou hadst made so firm and strong?  
Whilst all its Grapes, defenceless grown,  
Are plucked by those that pass along.   

13. See how the brist'ling Forest Boar  
With dreadful Fury lays it waste;  
Hark how the savage Monsters roar,  
And to their helpless Prey make haste,    

PART III.  

14. To Thee, O God of Hosts, we pray:  
Thy wont Goodness, Lord, renew:  
From Heaven, thy Throne, this Vine survey,  
And her sad State with Pity view.   

15. Behold the Vineyard, made by Thee,  
Which thy Right-hand did guard so long;  
And keep that Branch from Danger free,  
Which for thyself thou mad'st so strong.   

16. To wasting Flames 'tis made a Prey,  
And all its spreading Boughs cut down;  
At thy Rebuke they soon decay,  
And perish at thy mortal Frown.   

17. Crown thou the King with good Success,  
By thy Right-hand secured from Wrong;  
The Son of Man in Mercy bless  
Whom for thyself thou mad'st so strong.   

18. So will we still continue free  
From whatsoever deserves thy blame;  
And if once more revived by Thee  
Will always praise thy holy Name.   

19 Do thou convert us, Lord, do thou  
The Lustre of thy Face display;  
And all the ●lls we suffer now  
Like scattered Clouds shall pass away.     

PSALM LXXXI.  


1. TO God our never-failing Strength,  
With loud Applauses sing;  
And jointly make a cheerful Noise  
To Iacob's awful King.   

2. Compose a Hymn of Praise, and touch  
Your instruments of Joy;  
Let Psalteries and pleasant Harps  
Your grateful skill employ.   

3. Let Trumpets at the Great New-moon  
Their joyful Voices raise,  
To celebrate th' appointed time,  
The solemn Day of Praise.   

4. For this a Statute was of old,  
Which Iacob's God decreed  
To be with pious Care observed  
By Isr'el's chosen Seed.   

5. This He for a Memorial fixed  
When freed from E●ypt's Land,  
Strange Nations barbarous Speech we heard,  
But could not understand.   

6. Your burdened Shoulders I relieved,  
(Thus seems our God to say)  
Your servile Hands by me were freed  
From labouring in the Clay.   

7. With Troubles quite oppressed, on me  
Your Ancestors did call;  
With Pity ● their Sufferings saw,  
And set them free from all.  
In Thunder from my secret Place  
My frequent Answers came;  
And I their Faith and Duty tried,  
At that contentious Stream.    

PART II.  

8. While I my solemn Will declare,  
My chosen People, hear;  
If thou, O Isr'el, to my Words  
Will't bend thy listening Ear;   

9 Then shall no God besides myself  
Within thy Coasts be found;  
Nor shalt thou worship any God  
Of all the Nations round.   

10. The Lord thy God am I, who thee  
Brought forth from Egypt's Land;  
'Tis ●, that all thy just Desires  
Supply with liberal Hand.   

11. But they, my chosen Race, refused  
To hearken to my Voice,  
Nor would rebellious Isr'el's Sons  
Make me their happy Choice.   

12. So I, provoked by their Neglect,  
To all their Lusts gave way,  
And in their own perverse Designs,  
I suffered them to stray:   

13. O that my People wisely would  
My just Commandments heed!  
And Isr'el in my righteous ways  
With pious care proceed!   

14. Then should my heavy Judgements fall  
On all that them oppose,  
And my avenging Hand be turned  
Against their numerous Foes.   

15. The Haters of the Lord should all  
Before his Footstool bend;  
But as for them, their happy State  
Should never know an end.   

16. All parts with Plenty should abound;  
And I with ●inest Wheat,  
And Honey from the Rock, would them  
In great abundance treat.     

PSALM LXXXII.  

1. GOD in the great Assembly stands  
Where his impartial Eye  
In state surveys the Earthly Gods,  
And does their Judgements try.   

2, 3. How dare you then unjustly judge,  
Or be to Sinners kind?  
Defend the Orphans and the Poor,  
Let such your Justice find.   

4. Protect the humble helpless Man,  
That's plunged in deep Distress,  
And let not him become a Prey  
To such as would oppress.   

5. They neither know nor will they learn,  
But blindly rove and stray;  
Justice and Truth, the World's great Props,  
Through all the Land decay.   

6. Well then may God in anger say,  
I've called you by my Name,  
I've said you're Gods the Sons and Heirs  
Of my immortal Fame.   

7. But ne'ertheless your unjust Deeds  
To strict account I'll call;  
You all shall die like common Men,  
Like other Tyrant's fall.   

8. Arise, and thy just Judgements, Lord,  
Throughout the Earth display;  
And all the Nations of the World  
Shall own thy righteous Sway.    

PSALM LXXXIII.  


1. HOld not thy peace, O Lord our God,  
No longer silent be;  
Nor with consenting quiet Looks  
Our Ruin calmly see!   

2. For ●o! the Tumults of thy Foes  
O'er all the Land are spread;  
And they which hate thy Saints and Thee  
Lift up their threatening Head.   

3. Against thy zealous People, Lord,  
They craftily combine;  
And to destroy thy chosen Saints  
Have laid their close Design.   

4. Come, let us cut them off, say they,  
Their Nation quite deface;  
That no remembrance any more  
May be of Isr'el's Race.   

5. Thus they against thy People's Peace  
Consult with one Consent;  
And differing Nations jointly leagued  
Their common Hatred vent.   

6. The Ishm'elites that dwell in Tents  
With warlike Edom joined,  
And Moab's Sons our Ruin vow  
With Hagar's Race combined:   

7. Proud Ammon's Offsprings Gebal too,  
With Amalek conspire;  
The Lords of Pal●estine, and all  
The wealthy Sons of Tyre:   

8. All these the strong Assyrian King  
Their firm Ally have got,  
Who with a powerful Army aids  
Th' incestuous Race of Lot,    

PART II.  

9 But let such Vengeance come to them  
As once t● ●●idian came,  
To jabin and proud Sisera  
At Kishon's fatal Stream.   

10. When thy Right-hand their numerous Hosts  
Near Endor did confound,  
And their Dead Bodies, left for Dung,  
Manured the neighbouring Ground.   

11. Let all their mighty Men the Fate  
Of Zeb and Oreb share;  
As Zebah and Zalmunnah, so  
Let all their Princes fare.   

12. Who with the same Design inspired,  
Thus vainly boasting spoke,  
In firm possession for ourselves  
Let us God's Houses take.   

13. O make them all like Wheels, my God,  
Which downwards swiftly move;  
Like Chaff that's tossed by Winds, let all  
Their scattered Forces prove.   

14, 15. As Flames consume dry Wood, or Heath  
That on parched Mountains grows,  
So let thy fierce pursuing Wrath  
With Terror strike thy Foes.   

16, 17. Lord, shrowded their Faces with Disgrace  
That they may own thy Name;  
Or, quite confounded, Victims fall  
At once to Grief and Shame.   

18. That so the wondering World may know,  
That Thou whose Name alone  
jehovah is, o'er all the Earth  
Hast raised thy lofty Throne.     

PSALM LXXXIV.  

1. O God of Hosts, the mighty Lord,  
How lovely is the Place  
Where Thou, enshrined in Glory, show'st  
The Brightness of thy Face!   

2. My longing Soul faints with Desire,  
To view thy blessed abode;  
My panting Heart and Flesh cry out  
For Thee the living God.   

3. The Birds, more happy far than I,  
About thine Altar's rest;  
There lay their little Young, and there  
Securely build their Nest.  
O Lord of Hosts, my King and God,   

4. How highly blest are They,  
Who in thy Temple always dwell,  
And there thy Praise display!   

5. Thrice happy they, whose Choice has Thee  
Their sure Protection made;  
Who long to tread the sacred ways  
That to thy Dwelling lead!   

6. Who pass through Baca's thirsty Vale,  
Yet no Refreshments want;  
Their Pools being filled with Rain, which Thou  
At their Request dost grant.   

7. Thus with unwearyed Strength and Pains  
They still approach more near;  
Till all on Sion's holy Mount,  
Before their God appear.   

8. O Lord, the mighty God of Hosts  
My just Request regard;  
Thou God of jacob, let my Prayer  
Be still with Favour heard.   

9 Behold, O God, for thou alone  
Dost timely Aid dispense;  
On thy anointed Servant look,  
Be Thou his strong Defence.   

10. For in thy Courts one single Day  
'Tis better to attend;  
Than any other where besides,  
A thousand Days to spend.   

Much rather would I in God's House  
The meanest Office take,  
Than in the Tents of Wickedness  
My constant Dwelling make.   

11. For God is both our Sun and Shield,  
He'll Grace and Glory give;  
And no good thing will he withhold  
From them that justly live.   

12. O God, whom heavenly Hosts obey.  
How highly blest is he  
Whose constant Trust, securely placed  
Is still reposed on Thee!    

PSALM LXXXV.  

1. LOrd, thou hast granted to thy Land  
The Favours we implored;  
And faithful Iacob's captive Race  
Hast graciously restored.   

2, 3. Thou hast forgiven thy People's Sins  
And all their Gild defaced;  
Thou hast not let thy Wrath flame on,  
Nor thy fierce Anger last.   

4. O God our Saviour, all our Hearts  
To thy Obedience turn,  
That so thy Rage, extinguished now,  
Again may never burn.   

5, 6. For why shouldst Thou be angry still,  
And Wrath so long retain?  
O soon revive us that thy Saints  
May speedy Comfort gain!   

7. Thy gracious Favour, Lord, display,  
Which we so long implored;  
And for thy wondrous Mercies sake  
Thy wont Aid afford.   

8. God's Answer patiently I'll wait,  
For he his Saints will bless  
(●f they no more to Folly turn)  
With Peace and good Success.   

9 To all that fear his holy Name  
His sure Salvation's near;  
That in its former happy state  
Our Nation may appear.   

10. For Mercy now with Truth is joined;  
And Righteousness and Peace,  
Like kind Companions absent long,  
With friendly Arms embrace.   

11, 12. Truth from the Earth shall spring, from Heaven  
Shall Streams of Justice pour;  
And God, from whom all Goodness flows,  
Shall endless Plenty shower.   

13. Be●ore him Righteousness shall march●  
And his just Paths prepare;  
Whilst we his holy Steps pursue,  
With constant Zeal and Care.    

PSALM LXXXVI.  


1. TO my Complaint, O Lord my God,  
Thy gracious Ear incline;  
Hear me, distressed and destitute  
Of all Relief but thine●   

2. Do Thou, O God, preserve my Soul  
That does thy Name adore.  
Thy Servant keep, and him, whose Trust  
Relies ●n Thee, restore.   

3. To me● who daily Thee invoke,  
Thy Mercy, Lord extend:   

4. Rejoice thy Servant's Soul, a Soul  
That does on Thee depend.   

5. Thou, Lord, art good, nor only good,  
But prompt to pardon too;  
Of plenteous Mercy to all those  
Who ●or thy Mercy sue.   

6. To my repeated Suppliant Prayer,  
O Lord, attentive be!   

7. In Trouble on thy Name I'll call,  
For Thou wilt answer me.   

8. Among the Gods is none like Thee,  
O Lord, alone divine!  
To Thee as much Inferior they,  
As are their Works to thine.   

9 Therefore their great Creator Thee  
The Nations shall adore,  
Their long misguided Prayers and Praise  
To thy blessed Name restore.   

10. All shall confess Thee great, and gre●●  
The Wonders thou hast done:  
Confess Thee God, the God supremer  
Confess Thee God alone.    

PART II.  

11. Teach me thy way, O Lord, and I  
From Truth shall ne'er depart;  
In reverence to thy sacred Name  
Devoutly fix my Heart.   

12. Thee will I praise, O Lord my God,  
Praise Thee with Heart sincere;  
And to thy everlasting Name  
Eternal Trophies rear.   

13. Thy boundless Mercy shown to m●  
Transcends my Power to tell,  
For Thou hast oft redeemed my Soul  
From lowest depths of Hell.   

14. O God, the Proud are risen, the Sons  
Of Strife my soul have sought;  
Regardless of thy Power, that oft  
Has my deliverance wrought.   

15. When they remorseless were, Thou, Lord,  
Didst full Compassion bring;  
Of Patience, Mercy, and of Truth,  
Thou everlasting Spring!   

16. O turn to me; thy Grace and Strength  
To me thy Servant show;  
Thy kind Protection, Lord, on me  
Thy Handmaid's Son bestow.   

17. Some Signal give, which my proud Foes'  
May see with Shame and Rage,  
Because Thou, Lord, for my Relief  
And Comfort dost engage.     

PSALM LXXXVII.  

1. GOD's Temple crowns the Holy Mount;  
The Lord there condescends to dwell:   

2. His Sion's Gates, in his Account,  
Our Israel's fairest Tents excel.   

3. Fame glorious things of Thee shall sing,  
O City of th' almighty King!   

4. The Fame of Rahab I will raise,  
In Babylon's Applause conspire;  
Nor derogate from the just Praise  
Of AE●hiop, Pal●stine and Tyre;  
Among● 'em such a Person born,  
His Age and Country did adorn.   

5. But still of Zion I'll aver  
That many such from her proceed●  
Th' Almighty shall establish her.   

6. His gen'ral List shall show, when read,  
That such a Person there was born,  
And such did such an Age adorn.   

7. He'll Zion find with Numbers filled  
Of such as merit high Renown;  
For Hand and Voice Musicians skilled,  
And (her transcending Fame to crown)  
Of such she shall Successions bring,  
Like Waters from a living Spring.    

PSALM LXXXVIII.  

1. TO Thee my God and Saviour I  
By day and night address my Cry●   

2. Permit my mournful Voice access,  
Incline thine Ear to my Distress.   

3. For Seas of Trouble me invade,  
My Soul draws nigh to Death's cold s●a●●●   

4. Like one whose Strength and Hopes are ●le●  
They number me among the Dea●.   

5. Like those who shrouded in the Grave,  
F●om Thee no more Remembrance have;  
Ca●t down from thy sustaining Care   

6. To lowest Depths of dark Despair.   

7. Thy Wrath has hard upon me lain,  
Afflicting me with restless Pain;  
Me all thy Mountain Waves have pre●●●●,  
Too weak alas to bear the lea●t.   

8. Removed from Friends, I sigh alone,  
In a loathed Dungeon laid, where none  
A Visit will vouchsafe to me,  
Confined past Hopes of Liberty.   

9 My Eyes from weeping never cease,  
They waste, but still my Griefs increase!  
Yet daily, Lord, to Thee I've prayed,  
With outstretched Hands invoked thy Aid.   

10. Wilt thou by miracle revive  
The Dead whom thou forsook'st Alive?  
From Death restore thy Praise to sing,  
Whom thou from Prison wouldst not bring?   

11. Shall the mute Grave thy Love confess?  
A mold'ring Tomb thy Faithfulness;   

12. Thy Truth and Power Renown obtain,  
Where Darkness and Oblivion reign?   

13. To Thee, O Lord, I cry, forlorn,  
My Prayer prevents the early Morn?   

14. Why hast thou, Lord, my Soul forsook,  
Nor once vouchsafed a gracious Look?   

15. Prevailing Sorrows bear me down,  
Which from my Youth with me have grown,  
Thy Terrors past distract my Mind,  
And Fears of blacker Days behind.   

16. Thy Wrath has burst upon my Head,  
Thy Terrors fill my Soul with Dread;   

17. Environed as with Waves combined,  
And for a gen'ral Deluge joined.   

18. My Lovers, Friends, Familiars, all  
Removed from sight and out of call;  
To dark Oblivion all retired,  
Dead, or at least to me expired.    

PSALM LXXXIX.  


1. THY Mercies, Lord, shall be my Song●  
My Song on them shall ever dwell;  
To Ages yet Unborn my Tongue  
Thy never-failing Truth shall tell.   

2. I have affirmed, and still maintain,  
Thy Mercy shall for ever last;  
Thy Truth, that does the heavens sustain,  
Like them shall stand for ever fast.   

3. Thus spak'st Thou, by thy Prophet's voice,  
With David I a League have made,  
To him, my Servant and my Choice,  
By solemn Oath this Grant conveyed,   

4. While Earth, and Seas, and Skies endure  
Thy Seed shall in my sight remain;  
To them thy Throne I will ensure;  
They shall to endless Ages reign.   

5. For such stupendious Truth and Love  
Both Heaven and Earth just Praises owe,  
By Choirs of Angels sung above,  
And by assembled Saints below.   

6. What Seraph of celestial Birth  
To vie with heavens Supreme shall dare?   

7. Or who, among the Gods of Earth,  
With our Almighty Lord compare?   

8. Lord God of Armies, who can boast  
Of Strength or Pow'r● like thine, renown'd?  
Of such a numerous faithful Host,  
As that which does thy Throne surround?   

9 Thou dost the lawless Sea control,  
And change the Prospect of the Deep;  
Thou mak'st the sleeping Billows roll,  
Thou mak'st the rolling Billows sleep.   

10. Thou break'st in pieces Rahab's Pride,  
And didst oppressing Power disarm;  
Thy scattered Foes have dearly tried  
The Force of thy resistless Arm.   

11. In Thee the sovereign Right remains  
Of Earth and Heaven; Thee, Lord, alone  
The World, and all the World contains,  
Their Maker and Preserver own.   

12. The Poles on which the Globe does rest  
Were formed by thy creating Voice;  
T●bor and Hermon, East and West,  
In thy sustaining Power rejoice.   

13. Thy Arm is mighty, strong thy Ha●d●  
Yet, Lord, thou dost with Justice reign;   

14. Possessed of absolute Command,  
Thou Truth and Mercy dost maintain.   

15. Happy, thrice happy they who hear  
Thy sacred Trumpet's joyful Sound;  
Who may at Festivals appear,  
With thy most glorious Presence crown'd●   

16. With Triumph they shall be overjoyed  
Who on thy sacred Name rely.  
And, in thy Righteousness employed,  
Above their Foes exalted high.   

17. For in thy Strength they shall advance,  
Their Conquests from thy Favour spring●   

18. The Lord of Hosts is our Defence,  
And Israel's God our Israel's King.   

19 Thus spak'st Thou, by thy Prophet's voice,  
A mighty Champion I will send,  
From Iudah's Tribe have I made choice  
Of one who shall the rest defend.   

20. My Servant David I have found,  
With holy Oil anointed him;   

21. Him shall the Hand support that crowned,  
And guard, that gave the Diadem.   

22. No Prince from him shall Tribute force,  
Nor Son of Violence annoy;   

23. Before his Face will I disperse,  
And all his spiteful Foes destroy.   

24. My Truth and Grace shall him sustain,  
His Arms through my auspicious Beams,   

25. Shall conquer, from the Tyrian Main  
To Tigris and Euphrates Streams.   

26. Me for his Father he shall take,  
His God and Rock of Safety call;   

27. And him my firstborn Son I'll make,  
The Kings of Earth his Subjects all.   

28. My Mercy shall to him secure,  
My Covenant stand for ever fast;   

29. His Seed for ever shall endure,  
His Throne till Heaven dissolves shall last;    

PART II.  

30. But if his Heirs my Law forsake,  
And from my sacred Precepts stray,   

31. If they my righteous Statutes break,  
Nor strictly my Commands obey,   

32. Their Sins I'll visit with a Rod,  
And for their Folly make them smart;   

33. Yet will not cease to be their God,  
Nor from my Truth, like them, depart●   

34. My Covenant I will ne'er revoke,  
But in remembrance fast retain;  
The thing that once my Lips have spoke  
Shall in eternal Force remain.   

35. Once have I sworn, but once for all,  
And made my Holiness the Tie,  
That I my Grant will ne'er recall,  
Nor to my Servant David lie.   

36. Whose Throne and Race the constant Sun  
Shall, like his Course, established see;   

37. Of this my Vow, thou conscious Moon,  
In Heaven my faithful Witness be.   

38. Such was thy gracious Promise, Lord,  
But thou alas hast now forsaken.  
Thy own Anointed haste abhorred,  
And turned on him thy wrathful Look.   

39 Thou hast repealed, and rendered void  
The Covenant with thy Servant made,  
His Crown and Dignity destroyed,  
And in the Dust his Honour laid.   

40. Of Strong-holds thou hast him bere●t,  
Reduced his Bulwarks to decay,   

41. His Frontier-Coasts defenceless left,  
A public Scorn and common Prey.   

42. His Ruin does glad Triumphs yield  
To Foes advanced by Thee to Might;   

43. Thou hast his conquering Sword unsteeled,  
His Valour turned to shameful Flight.   

44. His Glory is to Darkness fled,  
His Throne is levelled with the Ground:   

45. His Youth to wretched Bondage led,  
With Shame overwhelmed & Sorrow drowned.   

46. How long shall we thy Absence mourn?  
Wilt thou for ever, Lord retire?  
Shall thy consuming Anger burn  
Till that and we at once expire?   

47. Consider, Lord, how short a space  
Thou dost for Mortal Life ordain;  
No Method to prolong the Race,  
But loading it with Grief and Pain?   

48. What Son of Nature can control  
Strict Death's unalterable Doom?  
Or rescue from the Grave his Soul?  
The Grave that must Mankind entomb.   

49. Lord, where's thy Love, thy boundless Grace,  
The Oath to which thy Truth did seal,  
Consigned to David and his Race,  
The Grant which Time should ne'er repeal?   

50. See how thy Servants treated are  
With Infamy, Reproach and Spite;  
Which in my Silent Breast I bear  
From Nations of licentious Might;   

51. How They, reproaching thy great Name  
Make ●hy Anointed's Hope their Jest:   

52. Yet thy ju●t Praises we'll proclaim,  
And ever sing, The Lord be Blest.   
Amen, Amen.    

PSALM XC.  


1. O Lord, the Saviour and Defence  
Of us thy chosen Race,  
From Age to Age thou still hast been  
Our sure Abiding-place.   

2. Before thou brought'st the Mountains forth,  
Or Earth and World didst frame,  
Thou always wert the mighty God,  
A●d ever art the same.   

3. Thou turnest Man, O Lord, to Dust,  
Of which he first was made;  
And when thou speak'●t the word, Return,  
'Tis punctually obeyed.   

4. For in thy sight a thousand Years  
Are like a Day that's past,  
Or like a Watch in dead of night,  
Whose Hours unminded waste.   

5. Thou with a Torrent sweep'st them off,  
They vanish like a Dream,  
At first they grow like Grass that feels  
The Sun's reviving Beam.   

6. But howsoever fresh and fair  
Its Morning Beauty shows;  
'Tis all cut down and withered quite  
Before the Evening's close.   

7, 8. For by thine Anger we're consumed,  
And by thy Wrath dismayed;  
Our public Crimes and secret Sins  
Are in thy presence laid.   

9 Beneath thy Anger's sad Effects  
Our drooping Days we spend;  
Our unregarded Years break off,  
Like Tales that quickly end.   

10. Our Stint of Time is seventy Years●  
And longer few survive;  
But if, with more than common Strength,  
To eighty we arrive;  
Yet than our boasted Strength decays,  
To Sorrow turned and Pain;  
So soon the slender Thread is c●t,  
And we no more remain.    

PART II.  

11. But who thy Anger's dread Effects  
Does as he ought revere?  
And yet thy Wrath does fall or rise;  
As more or less we fear.   

12. So teach us, Lord, of our short Days  
The trifling Sum to mind:  
That to true Wisdom all our Hearts  
May ever be inclined.   

13. O to thy Servants, Lord, return,  
And speedily relent!  
As we of our Misdeeds, do thou  
Of our just Doom repent.   

14. To satisfy and cheer our Souls  
Thy early Mercy send;  
That all our Days to come we may  
In Joy and Gladness spend.   

15. Let joyful Times, with large amends  
Dry up our former Tears;  
Or equal, at the least, the Term  
Of our afflicted Years.   

16. To all thy Servants, Lord, let this  
Thy wondrous Work be known,  
And to their Sons thy Glorious Power  
Abundantly be shown.   

17. Let thy bright Rays upon us shine,  
And give our Work Success;  
Whatever Work we undertake  
With thy Assistance bless.     

PSALM XCI.  

1. HE that has God his Guardian made,  
Shall, under the Almighty's Shade●  
Secure and undisturbed abide.   

2. With grateful Joy of him I'll say,  
He is my Fortress and my Stay,  
My God in whom I'll still confide.   

3. His tender Love and watchful Care  
Shall free thee from the Fowler's Snare,  
And from the noisome Pestilence:   

4. He over thee his Wings shall spread,  
And cover thy unguarded Head;  
His Truth shall be thy strong Defence.   

5. No Terrors that surprise by Night  
Shall thy undaunted Courage fright,  
Nor deadly Shafts that fly by Day;   

6. Nor Plague of unknown Rise that kills  
In Darkness, nor infectious Ills  
That in the hottest Season slay.   

7. A thousand at thy side shall die,  
At thy Right-hand ten thousand lie,  
While thy firm Health untouched remains,   

8. Thou only shalt look on, and see  
The Wicked's deserved Tragedy,  
And count the Sinner's mournful Gains.   

9 Because with well-placed Confidence,  
Thou mak'st the Lord thy sure Defence,  
And on the Highest dost rely;   

10. Therefore no Ill shall thee befall,  
Nor to thy healthful Dwelling shall  
Any infectious Plague draw nigh.   

11. For he, throughout thy happy Days,  
To keep thee safe in all thy ways,  
Shall give his Angels strict Commands,   

12. And they, lest any time thou meet  
A rugged Stone to wound thy Feet,  
Shall bear thee safely in their Hands.   

13. Dragons and Asps that thirst for Blood,  
And Lions roaring for their Food,  
Beneath his conquering Feet shall lie.   

14. Because he placed his Love on me,  
And owned my Name, I'll set him free  
And fix his glorious Throne on high.   

15. He'll call; I'll answer when he calls,  
And rescue him when ill befalls;  
Till full of Honour and of Wealth.   

16. When he with undisturbed Content  
A long and happy Life has spent,  
His end I'll crown with saving Health.    

PSALM XCII.  

1. HOW good and pleasant must it be  
To thank the Lord most high;  
And with repeated Hymns of Praise  
His Name to magnify.   

2. With every Morning's early dawn,  
His Goodness to relate;  
And of his constant Truth each Night.  
The glad effects repeat.   

3. To ten-stringed Instruments we'll sing,  
With tuneful Psalt'ry's joined;  
And to the Harp, with solemn Sounds,  
For sacred use designed.   

4. For through thy wondrous Works, O Lord,  
Thou mak'st my Heart rejoice.  
The Thoughts of them shall make me glad,  
And shout with cheerful Voice.   

5, 6. How wondrous are thy Works, O Lord!  
How deep are thy Decrees!  
Whose private Tracks in secret laid  
No stupid Sinner sees.   

7. He little thinks, when wicked Men  
Like Grass look fresh and gay,  
How soon their short-lived Splendour must  
For ever pass away.   

8, 9 But God for ever is most High;  
And all his lofty Foes  
Who thought they might securely sin,  
Shall be overwhelmed with Woes.   

10. Whilst thou exalt'st my Horn of Power,  
And makest it largely spread;  
And with refreshing Oil anoint'st  
My consecrated Head.   

11. I soon shall see my stubborn Foes  
To utter Ruin brought;  
And hear the dismal Fate of such  
As have against me fought.   

12. But righteous Men, like fruitful Palms,  
Shall make a glorious Show;  
As Cedars that in Lebanon  
With stately Verdure grow.   

13, 14. These planted in the House of God,  
Within his Courts shall thrive;  
Their Vigour and their Lustre both  
Shall in old Age revive.   

15. Thus w●ll the Lord his Justice show:  
And God, my strong Defence,  
Shall due Rewards to all the World  
Impartially dispense.    

PSALM XCIII.  

1. WIth Glory ●lad, with Strength arrayed,  
The Lord that o'er all Nature reigns,  
The World's Foundations strongly laid,  
And the firm Globe unmoved sustains.   

2. How surely established is thy Throne!  
Which still maintains its ancient State!  
And yet no length of Time is known,  
That measures thy eternal Date.   

3, 4. The Floods, O Lord, lift up their Voice,  
And toss the troubled Waves on high;  
But God above can still their Noise  
And make the angry Sea comply.   

5. Thy Promise, Lord, is ever sure;  
And they that closely wait on Thee,  
To make their Happiness secure,  
Must always pure and spotless be.    

PSALM XCIV.  


1, 2. O God, to whom Revenge belongs,  
Let us thy Vengeance view;  
Arise, thou Judge of all the Earth,  
And give the Proud their due.   

3, 4. How long, O Lord, shall sinful Men  
Their solemn Triumphs make?  
How long their wicked Actions boast?  
And insolently speak?   

5, 6. They, not alone thy Saints oppress,  
But unprovok'd they spill  
The Widows and the Stranger's Blood,  
And helpless Orphans kill.   

7. And yet the Lord shall ne'er perceive,  
(Profanely thus they speak:)  
Nor any notice of our Deeds  
The God of jacob take.   

8. At length, ye stupid Fools, your Wants  
Endeavour to discern.  
In Folly will you still proceed,  
And Wisdom never learn?   

9 Shall not that God who made the Ear,  
Your Speeches hear and mind?  
The Lord, by whom the Eye was framed,  
Shall he be counted blind?   

10. Shall he, whose Judgements awe the World,  
To punish Sinners fear?  
Or he, from whom all Wisdom flows,  
Himself unwise appear?   

11. He the most dark and secret Thoughts  
Of all Mankind does see;  
His piercing Eye surveys them all,  
How very vain they be.    

PART II.  

12. Blessed is the Man, whom thou, O Lord,  
In kindness dost chastise;  
And by thy sacred Rules to walk  
Dost lovingly advise.   

13. He, in the days of deep Distress,  
Shall Rest and Safety find;  
While Sinners in the Snare are caught,  
Which was for them designed.   

14. For God will never from his Saints  
His Favour wholly take;  
His own Possession and his Lot,  
He will not quite forsake.   

15. But all his Actions shall appear  
In Truth and Justice done;  
And those that walk in upright ways,  
Shall in those Paths go on.   

16. Who will appear in my behalf,  
When wicked Men invade?  
Or who, when Sinners would oppress,  
My righteous Cause shall plead?   

17, 18, 19 My Soul had now in Silence dwelled,  
But that the Lord was near.  
He held me when I slipped, when sad,  
He did my Sorrows cheer.   

20. Wilt thou, who art a God most just,  
The sinful Throne defend;  
Which makes the Law a fair Pretence,  
To gain its wicked End?   

21. Against the Lives of righteous Men  
They lay their close Design;  
And how to spill the guiltless Blood  
They wickedly combine.   

22. But my Defence is firmly placed  
In God the Lord most High;  
He is my Rock to which I may  
For Refuge always fly.   

23. The Lord shall cause their ill Designs  
On their own Heads to fall;  
He in their Sins shall cut them off,  
Our God shall slay them all.     

PSALM XCV.  

1. O Come, loud Anthems let us sing  
Loud Thanks to our Almighty King,  
For we our Voices high should raise,  
When our Salvation's Rock we praise.   

2. Into his Presence let us haste,  
To thank him for his Favours past;  
To him address in joyful Songs  
The Praise that to his Name belongs.   

3. The Depths of Earth are in his Hand,  
Her Centre's Wealth at his Command;  
The Strength of Hills that threat the Skies  
Subjected to his Empire lies.   

4. The rolling Ocean's vast Abyss  
Her Maker's liquid Empire is;  
'Tis moved by his Almighty Hand,  
That formed and fixed the solid Land.   

5. O let us to his Courts repair,  
And bow with Adoration there,  
Down on our Knees devoutly All  
Before the Lord our Maker fall.   

6. For he's our God, our Shepherd he,  
His Flock and Pasture-sheep are we;  
If then you'll (like his Flock) draw near,  
To day if you his voice will hear,   

7. Let not your hardened Heart renew  
Your Father's Crimes and Judgements too;  
Nor here provoke my Wrath as they  
In desert Plains of Meribah;   

8. When through the Wilderness they moved  
And me with fresh Temptations proved,   

9 Even then through Unbelief rebelled,  
While they my wond'rons Works beheld.   

10. Full forty years, from place, to place,  
They grieved my Patience, mocked my Grace,  
Then,— 'Tis a faithless Race, I said,  
Whose Heart from me has always strayed;  
They ne'er will tread my righteous Path;  
Therefore to them, in settled Wrath,  
Since they despised my Rest, I swore  
That they should never enter there.    

PSALM XCVI.  

1. SIng to the Lord a new made Song;  
Let Earth, in one assembled Throng,  
Her common Patron's Praise resounds   

2. Sing to the Lord, and bless his Name,  
From day to day his Praise proclaim  
Who us has with Salvation crowned.   

3. To Heathen Lands his Fame rehearse,  
His Wonders to the Universe.   

4. For great is He, nor can we rai●e  
Proportioned to his Power our Praise,  
The Dread of other Deities:   

5. For Pageantry and Idols all  
Are they whom Gods the Heathen call;  
He only rules who made the Skies.   

6. With Majesty and Honour crowned,  
Beauty and Strength his Throne surrounds   

7. Be therefore Both to him restored  
By you who have false Gods adored,  
Ascribe due Honour to his Name;   

8. Peace-Off'rings on his Altar lay,  
Before his Throne your Homage pay,  
Which He, and He alone, can claim.   

9 To worship at his sacred Court  
Let all the trembling World resort.   

10. Proclaim aloud, jehovah reigns,  
Whose Power the Universe sustains,  
And banished Justice will restore;   

11. Let therefore Heaven new Joys confess,  
And Earth celestial Transport bless,  
Her loud Applause the Ocean roar;  
Her mute Inhabitants rejoice,  
And for this Triumph find a Voice.   

12. For Joy let fertile Valleys sing,  
The Meads their flowing Tribute bring,  
The Groves winged Choristers awake,   

13. To welcome great Messiah's Day:  
For lo! the Lord is on his way,  
His Circuit through the Earth to take;  
From Heaven to judge the World he's come,  
With Justice to reward and doom.    

PSALM XCVII.  

1. IEhovah reigns, let all the Earth  
In his just Government rejoice;  
Let all the Isles, with sacred Mirth,  
In his Applause unite their Voice.   

2. Darkness and Clouds of awful shade  
His dazzling Glory shroud in state;  
Justice and Truth his Guards are made,  
And fixed by his Pavilion wait.   

3. Devouring Fire before his Face  
His ●oes around with Vengeance struck;   

4. His Lightnings set the World on blaze.  
Earth saw it, and with Terror shook.   

5. The proudest Hills his Presence felt,  
Their Height nor Strength could● Help afford,  
The proudest Hills like Wax did melt  
In presence of Earth's sovereign Lord.   

6. The heavens, his Righteousness to show,  
With Storms of Fire our Foes pursued;  
And all the trembling World below,  
Have his descending Glory viewed.   

7. Confounded be their impious Host  
Who make the Gods to whom they pray;  
All who of Pageant-Idols boast:  
To him ye Gods your Worship pay.   

8. Glad Zion of thy Triumph heard,  
And Iudah's Daughters were overjoyed;  
Because thy Righteous Judgements, Lord●  
Have Pagan Pride and Power destroyed.   

9 For thou, O Lord, art seated high,  
Above Earth's Potentates enthroned;  
Thou Lord, unrivalled, in the Sky,  
Supreme by all the God's art owned.   

10. You who to serve this Lord aspire,  
Abhor what's ill, and Truth esteem:  
He keeps his Servants Souls entire,  
And will from wicked Hands redeem.   

11. For Seeds are sown of glorious Light,  
A future Harvest for the Just;  
And Gladness for the Heart upright,  
To recompense its pious Trust.   

12. Rejoice ye Righteous, in the Lord;  
Memorials of his Holiness  
Deep in your Faithful Breasts record,  
And with your thankful Tongues confess.    

PSALM XCVIII.  

1. SIng to the Lord a new-made Song,  
Who wondrous things has done;  
With his Right-hand and holy Arm  
The Conquest he has won.   

2. The Lord has through th' astonished World  
Displayed his saving Might,  
His Righteousness shown openly,  
Before the Heathens sight.   

3. Of Israel's House his Love and Truth  
Have ever mindful been:  
Wide Earth's remotest Parts the Power  
Of Israel's God have seen.   

4. Let therefore Earth's Inhabitants  
Their cheerful Voices raise,  
With Universal Jubilee  
Mankind resound his Praise.   

5. With Harp and Hymns soft Melody  
Into the Consort bring   

6. The Trumpet and shrill Cornet's Sound,  
Before th' Almighty King.   

7. Let the loud Ocean roar her Joy,  
With all that Seas contain;  
The Earth and her Inhabitants  
Join consort with the Main.   

8. With Joy let rivulets swell to Streams,  
To joyful Torrents they;  
And echoing Vales, from Hill to Hill,  
Redoubled Shouts convey;   

9 To welcome the great Judge of Earth  
Who does with Justice come;  
And with impartial Equity  
Both to reward and doom.    

PSALM XCIX.  

1. IEhovah reigns, let therefore all●  
The guilty Nations quake;  
On Cherubs Wings he sits enthroned:  
Let Earth's Foundations shake●   

2. On Sion's Hill he keeps his Court,  
His Palace makes her towers;  
Yet thence his Sovereignty extends  
Supreme o'er Earthly Powers.   

3. Let therefore all with Praise address  
His great and dreadful Name;  
And with his unresisted Might,  
His Holiness proclaim.   

4. For Truth and Justice, in his Reign,  
Of Strength and Power take place;  
His Judgements are with Righteousness  
Dispensed to Iacob's Race.   

5. Therefore exalt the Lord our God,  
Before his Footstool fall;  
And with his unresisted might,  
His Holiness extol.   

6. Moses and Aaron thus of old●  
Among his Priests adored;  
Amongst his Prophets Samuel thus  
His sacred Name implored,   

Distressed upon the Lord they called,  
Who ne'er their Suit denied,  
But, as with reverence they invoked,  
He graciously replied.   

7. For, with their Camp, his Oracle  
The cloudy Pillar moved.  
They kept his Laws, and to his Will  
Obedient Servants proved.   

8. Thou answer'dst them, forgiving oft,  
Thy People for their sake,  
And such as against them conspired  
Didst sad Examples make.   

9 With Worship at his sacred Courts.  
Exalt our God and Lord;  
For He, who only holy is,  
Alone should be adored.    

PSALM C.  

1. BE joyful all ye Realms of Earth,  
Praise God, to whom your Praise belongs  
Serve ye the Lord with awful Mirth,  
Before his Presence come with Songs.   

2. The Lord, ye know, is God alone,  
Who us, without our Aid, did make;  
Us for his Flock vouchsafes to own,  
And for his Pasture-Sheep to take.   

3. O enter then with Thanks sincere  
His Temple Gates, his Courts with Praise,  
To bless his Name devourly there  
Your grateful Hearts and Voices raise.   

4. For He's the Lord, supremely good,  
His Mercy shall for ever last;  
His Truth has always firmly stood,  
And so shall stand for ever fast.    

PSALM CI.  

1. OF Mercy's never-failing Spring,  
And steadfast Judgement I will sing;  
And, since they both to Thee belong,  
To Thee, O Lord, address my Song.   

2. When, Lord, thou shalt with me reside,  
Wise Discipline my Reign shall guide;  
With blameless Life myself I'll make  
A Pattern for my Court to take.   

3. No ill Design will I pursue,  
Nor those my favourites make tha● do●   

4. Who to Reproof bears no regard,  
Him will I totally discard.   

5. The private Slanderer shall be  
In public Justice doomed by me●  
From haughty Looks I'll turn aside,  
And mortify the Heart of Pride;   

6. But Honesty call from her Cell,  
In Splendour at my Court to dwell:  
Who Vir●ue's Practice make their Care,  
Shall have the first Preferments there●   

7. No Politics shall recommend  
His Country's Foe to be my Friend:  
None e'er shall to my Favour rise  
By Flattering or Malicious Lies.   

8. All those who wicked Courses take  
An early Sacrifice I'll make;  
Cut off, destroy, till none remain  
God's holy City to profane.    

PSALM CII.  

1. WHen I pour out my Soul in Prayer,  
Do thou, O Lord, attend;  
To thy Eternal Throne of Grace  
Let my sad Cry ascend.   

2. O hide not thou thy glorious Face  
In times of deep Distress,  
Incline thine Ear, and when I call  
My Sorrows soon redress.   

3. Each cloudly Portion of my Life  
Like scattered Smoke expires;  
My shriv'led Bones are like a Hearth  
That's parched with constant Fires.   

4. My Heart, like Grass that feels the Blast●  
Of some infectious Wind,  
Is withered so with Grief, that scarce  
My needful Food I mind.   

5. By reason of my sad Estate  
I spend my Breath in Groans;  
My Flesh is worn away, my Skin  
Scarce hides my starting Bones.   

6. I'm ●●ke a Pelican become,  
That does in Deserts mourn;  
Or like an Owl that sits all day  
On barren Trees forlorn,   

7. In Watchings or in restless Dreams  
I spend the tedious Night;  
Like Sparrows, that on Houses tops  
To sit alone delight.   

8. All day by railing Foes I'm made  
The Object of their Scorn;  
Who all, inspired with furious Rage,  
Have my Destruction sworn.   

9 In dust I lie, and all my Bread  
With Ashes mixed appears;  
Whenever I quench my burning Thirst,  
My Drink is dashed with Tears.   

10. Because on me with Double weight  
Thy heavy Wrath do lie;  
For thou to make my Fall more great  
Didst lift me up on high.   

11. My Days are like the Evening Shade  
That hastily declines●  
My Beauty too, like withered Grass,  
With faded Lustre pines:   

12. But thy eternal State, O ●ord,  
No length of Time shall waste;  
The memory of thy wondrous Works,  
From Age to Age shall last.   

13. Thou'lt soon arise and Zion view  
With an unclouded Face;  
For now her Time is come, thy own  
Appointed Day of Grace.   

14. Thy Saints, with Tenderness and Love,  
Her scattered Ruins spy;  
And grieve to see her lofty Spires  
In Dust and Rubbish lie.   

15, 16. The Name and Glory of the Lord  
All Heathen Kings shall fear;  
When he shall Zion build again,  
And in full state appear.   

17, 18. When he regards the Poor's Request,  
Nor slights their earnest Prayer;  
His Praise for this recorded Grace,  
Shall future Times declare.   

19 For God, from his Abode on high,  
His gracious Beams displayed;  
The Lord, from Heaven his lofty Throne●  
Has all the Earth surveyed.   

20. He listened to the Captives Moans,  
He heard their mournful Cry,  
And freed by his resistless Power  
The Wretches doomed to die.   

21. That they in Zion, where he dwells,  
Might celebrate his Fame,  
And through the holy City sing  
Loud Praises to his Name.   

22. When all the Tribes, together met,  
Their solemn Prayers address,  
And neighbouring Lands, with glad Consent,  
The Lo●d their God confess.   

23. But e'er my Journey ends, my Strength  
Through his ●ier●e Wrath decays;  
He has, when all my Wishes bloomed,  
Cut short my hopeful Days●   

24. Lord, end not thou my Life, said I,  
When half is scarcely passed;  
Thy Years from earthly Changes free,  
To endless Ages last.   

25. The strong Foundations of the Earth  
Of old by Thee were laid;  
Thy Hands the beauteous Arch of Heaven  
With wondrous Skill have made:   

26, 27. Whilst thou for ever shalt endure,  
They soon shall pass away;  
And, like a Garment often worn,  
Shall tarnish and decay.   

Like that, when thou their Change ordain'st,  
To thy Command they bend;  
But Thou continu'st still the same,  
Nor have thy years an End.   

28. Thou to the Children of thy Saints  
Shalt lasting Quiet give;  
Whose happy Race, securely fixed,  
Shall in thy Presence live.    

PSALM CIII.  

1, 2. MY Soul, inspired with sacred Love,  
God's holy Name for ever bless;  
Of all his Favours mindful prove,  
And still thy grateful thanks express.   

3, 4. 'Tis He that all thy Sins forgives,  
And after Sickness makes thee sound.  
Thy Life from Danger He retrieves,  
By him with Grace and Mercy crowned.   

5, 6. He with good things thy Mouth supplies,  
And Eaglelike thy Youth renews;  
He when the guiltless Sufferer cries,  
His Foe with just Revenge pursues.   

7. God made of old his righteous Ways  
To Moses and our Father's known●  
His Works, to his eternal Praise,  
Were to the Sons of jacob shown.   

8. The Lord abounds with tender Love,  
And unexampled Acts of Grace,  
His wakened Wrath does slowly move,  
His willing Mercy flows apace.   

9, 10. God will not always harshly chide,  
But with his Anger quickly parts;  
And loves his Punishments to guide  
More by his Love than our Deserts.   

11. As high as Heaven its Arch extends,  
Above this little Spot of Clay;  
So much his boundless Love transcends  
The small Respects that we can pay.   

12, 13. As far as 'tis from ●ast to West,  
So far has he our Sins removed;  
Who with a Father's tender Breast  
Has such as fear him always loved.   

14, 15. For God, who all our Frame surveys,  
Considers that we are but Clay;  
How fresh soever we seem, our Days  
Like Grass or Flowers must fade away.   

16, 17. Whilst they are nipped with sudden Blasts,  
Nor can we find their former place;  
God's faithful mercy ever lasts,  
To those that fear him, and their Race.   

18. This shall attend on such as still  
Proceed in his appointed way●  
And who not only know his Will,  
But just obedience to it pay.   

19, 20. The Lord, the universal King,  
In Heaven has fixed his lofty Throne:  
To him, ye Angels, praises sing  
In whose great Strength his Power is shown,   

Ye that his just Commands obey,  
And hear and do his sacred Will;   

21. Ye Hosts of his, this Tribute pay,  
Who still what he ordains fulfil.   

22. Let every Creature jointly bless  
The mighty Lord: and thou, my Heart,  
With grateful Joy thy Thanks express;  
And in this Consort bear thy part.    

PSALM CIV.  


1. BLess God my Soul; Thou Lord alone  
Possessest Empire without Bounds●  
With Honour thou art crowned, thy Throne  
Eternal Majesty surrounds.   

2. With Light thou dost thyself enrobe,  
And Glory for a Garment take:  
Heaven's Curtains stretch beyond the Globe  
Thy Canopy of State to make.   

3. He builds on liquid Air, and forms  
His Palace-Chambers in the Skies;  
The Clouds his Chariot are, and Storms  
The swift-winged Steeds with which he flies.   

4. Spirits he made his heavenly Choir,  
With speed his Orders to fulfil;  
His Ministers a flaming Fire,  
To execute his dreadful Will.   

5, 6. Earth, on her Centre fixed, he set,  
Her Face with Waters overspread;  
Nor proudest Mountains dared, as yet,  
To lift above the Waves their Head.   

7. But when thy awful Face appeared,  
Th' insulting Waves dispersed; they fled  
When once thy Thunder's Voice they heard,  
And by their haste confessed their Dread.   

8. Thence up, by secret Tracks they creep,  
And, gushing from the Mountain's side,  
Through Valleys travel to the Deep,  
Appointed to receive their Tide.   

9 There hast thou fixed the Ocean bounds,  
Her threatening Surges to repel;  
That she no more o'erpass her Mounds,  
Nor to a second Deluge swell.    

PART II.  

10. Yet thence, in smaller Parties drawn,  
The Sea recovers her lost Hills;  
And starting Springs from every Lawn,  
Surprise the Vales in plenteous Rills.   

11. The Fields tame Beasts are thither led,  
Weary with Labour, faint with Drought;  
And Asses on wild Mountains bred,  
Have sense to find these Currents out.   

12. There shady Trees, from scorching Beams,  
Yield shelter to the feathered Throng;  
They drink● and to the bounteous Streams  
Return the Tribute of their Song.   

13. His Rains from Heaven, parched Hills recruit,  
That soon transmit the liquid Store;  
Till Earth is burdened with her Fruit,  
And Nature's Lap can hold no more.   

14. Grass, for our Cattle to devour,  
He makes the Growth of every Field;  
Herbs, for Man's use, of various Power,  
That either Food or Physic yield.   

15. With clustered Grapes he crowns the Vine,  
Whose Nectar mortal Cares subdues;  
Gives Oil, that makes our Face to shine;  
And Corn, that wasted Strength renews.    

PART III.  

16. The Trees of God without the Care  
Or Art of Man with Sap are fed;  
The Mountain Cedar looks as fair  
As those in Royal Gardens bred.   

17. Safe in the lofty Cedars Arms  
The wanderers of the Air may rest.  
The hospitable Pine from harms  
Protects the Stork her pious Guest.   

18. Wild Goats the craggy Rock ascend,  
Its towering Heights their Fortress make,  
Whose Cells in Labyrinths extend  
Where feebler Creatures Refuge take.   

19 The Moon's inconstant Aspect shows  
Th' appointed Seasons of the Year;  
Th'instructed Sun his Duty knows,  
His Hours to rise and disappear.   

20, 21. Darkness he makes the Day to shroud,  
When Forest-Beasts securely stray;  
Young Lions roar their Wants aloud  
To Providence that sends 'em Prey.   

22. They range all Night, on Slaughter bend,  
Till summoned by the rising Morn,  
To sculk in Dens with one consent  
The conscious Ravagers return.   

23. Forth to the Tillage of his Soil,  
The Husbandman securely goes,  
Commencing with the Sun his Toil,  
With him returns to his Repose.   

24. How various, Lord, thy Works are found  
For which thy Wisdom we adore!  
The Earth is with thy Treasure crowned,  
Till Nature's Hand can grasp no more.    

PART IU.  

25. But still thy vast unfathomed Main  
Of Wonders a new Scene supplies,  
Whose Depths inhabitants contain  
Of every Form and every Size.   

26. Full-freighted Ships from every Port,  
There cut their unmolested way;  
Leviathan, whom there to sport  
Thou mad'st, has compass there to play.   

27. These various Troops of Sea and Land,  
In sense of common Want agree;  
All wait on thy dispensing Hand●  
And have their daily Alms from Thee.   

28. They gather what thy Stores disperse,  
Without their Trouble to provide;  
Thou op'st thy Hand, the Universe,  
The craving World is all supplied.   

29. Thou for a moment hidest thy Face,  
The numerous Ranks of Creatures mourn:  
Thou tak'st their Breath all Nature's Race  
Forthwith to mother Earth return.   

30. Again thou send'st thy Spirit forth  
T'inspire the Mass with vital Seed,  
Nature's restored, and Parent Earth  
Smiles on her new-created Breed.   

31. Thus through successive Ages stands  
Firm fixed thy Providential Care;  
Pleased with the Work of thy own Hands,  
Thou dost the Wastes of Time repair.   

32. One Look of thine, one wrathful Look,  
Earth's panting Breast with Terror sills;  
One Touch from Thee, with Clouds of Smoke,  
In Darkness shrouds the proudest Hills.   

33. In praising him, while he prolongs  
My Breath, I will that Breath employ;   

34. And join Devotion to my Songs,  
Sincere, as is in him my Joy.   

35. While Sinners from Earth's Face are hurled,  
My Soul, praise thou his holy Name,  
Till, with thy Song, the listening World  
Join consort, and his Praise proclaim,     

PSALM CV.  


1. O Render Thanks, and bless the Lord,  
Invoke his sacred Name:  
Acquaint the Nations with his Deeds,  
His matchless Deeds proclaim.   

2. Sing to his Praise, in lofty Hymns  
His wondrous Works rehearse;  
Make them the Theme of your Discourse,  
And Subject of your Verse.   

3. Boast in his sacred Name, a Name  
Alone to be adored;  
And let their Heart overflow with Joy  
That humbly seek the Lord.   

4. Seek ye the Lord, his saving Strength  
Devoutly still implore;  
And, where he's ever present, seek  
His Face for evermore.   

5. The Wonders that his Hands have wrought  
Keep thankfully in mind;  
The righteous Statutes of his Mouth,  
And Laws to us assigned.   

6. Know ye his Servant Abr'am's Seed,  
And Iacob's chosen Race,   

7. He's still our God, his Judgements still  
Throughout the Earth take place.   

8. His Covenant he has kept in mind  
For numerous Ages passed,  
That yet, for thousand Ages more,  
In equal Force shall last.   

9 First signed to Abr'am, next by Oath  
To Isaac made secure;   

10. To jacob and his Heirs a Law  
For ever to endure.   

11. That Canaan's Land should be their Lot,  
When yet but few they were;   

12. But few in number, and those few  
Unfriended Strangers there.   

13. In Pilgrimage from Realm to Realm  
Uninjured they removed;   

14. Whilst proudest Monarches for their sakes,  
Severely he reproved.   

15. These mine Anointed are, said he,  
Let none my Servants wrong,  
Nor treat the poorest Prophet ill  
That does to me belong.   

16. A Dearth at last, by his Command,  
Did far and near prevail;  
Till Corn, the chief Support of Life,  
Sustaining Corn did fail.   

17. But his indulgent Providence  
Had joseph sent before,  
Sold into Egypt, but their Lives  
Who sold him to restore.   

18. His Feet with heavy Chains were crushed,  
With Calumny his Fame;   

19 Till God's appointed Time and Word  
To his Acquittal came.   

20. The King his sovereign Orders sent,  
And rescued him with speed.  
Whom private Malice had confined,  
The People's Ruler freed.   

21. His Court and Realm, Revenues, all  
Subjected to his Will;   

22. His Princes to control, and teach  
His Politicians Skill.    

PART II.  

23. To Egypt then, invited Guests,  
Half-famisht Israel came;  
And jacob held, by Royal Grant,  
The fertile Soil of Ham.   

24. Th' Almighty there with such Increase  
His People multiplied,  
Till, both for Strength and Number, they  
Their envious Foes defy'd.   

25. His People's Growth Egyptian Hearts  
With jealous Anger fired,  
Till they his Servants to destroy  
By treacherous Arts conspired.   

26. His Envoy Moses then he sent,  
His chosen Aaron too;   

27. Empowr'd with Signs and Miracles  
To prove their Mission true.   

28. He called for Darkness, Darkness came,  
Nature his Summons knew.   

29. Each Stream and Lake, transformed to Blood,  
Their scaly Offspring slew.   

30. In putrid Floods, throughout the Land,  
The Pest of Frogs was bred;  
From noisome Fens preferred to croak  
At Pharaoh's Board and Bed.   

31. He gave the Signal, Swarms of Flies  
Came down in cloudy Hosts;  
Whilst Earth's enlivened Dust below  
Bred Lice through all their Coasts.   

32. He sent 'em battering Hail for Rain,  
And Fire for cooling Dew.   

33. He smote their Vines, their Forest-Plants,  
And Gardens Pride o'erthrew.   

34. He spoke the word and Locusts came,  
With Caterpillars joined,  
They preyed upon the poor Remains  
The S●orm had left behind.   

35. From Trees to Herbage they descend;  
No verdant thing they spare;  
But naked, as the fallowed Field,  
Leave all the Pastures bare.   

36. From Memphis Soil to Memphis Sons,  
Commissioned Vengeance flew,  
One fatal Struck their eldest Hopes  
And Strength of Egypt slew.   

37. He brought 'em forth, each one enriched  
With Egypt's borrowed Wealth;  
And, what transcends all Treasures else,  
Enriched with vigorous Health.   

38. Egypt rejoiced, in hopes to find  
Her Plagues with them removed;  
Taught dearly now to fear worse Ills  
By those already proved.   

39 Their shrouding Canopy by day  
A journeying Cloud was spread;  
A fiery Pillar all the night  
Their Desart-marches led.   

40. They longed for Flesh; with Ev'ning-Quails  
He furnished every Tent;  
From heavens own Granary, each Morn,  
The Bread of Angels sent.   

41. He smote the Rock; her flinty Breast  
A gushing Tide poured out,  
Whose following Stream, wherever they marched,  
Relieved the desert's Drought.   

42. For still he did on Abr'am's Faith  
And ancient League reflect;   

43. He brought his People forth with Joy,  
With Triumph his Elect.   

44. Extirpating their Heathen Foes,  
From Canaan's Fertile Soil,  
To them in cheap possession gave  
The Fruit of others Toil.   

45. That they his Statutes might observe,  
His sacred Laws obey.  
For Benefits so vast let us  
Our Songs of Praise repays     

PSALM CVI  


1. O Render Thanks to God above,  
The Fountain of eternal Love;  
Whose Mercy firm through Ages past  
Has stood, and shall for ever last.   

2. Who can his mighty Deeds express,  
Not only vast but numberless;  
What Mortal Eloquence can raise  
His Tribute of immortal Praise   

3. Happy are they, and only they  
Who from thy Judgements never stray;  
Who know what's right, nor only ●o,  
But always practise what they know.   

4. Extend to me that Favour, Lord,  
Thou to thy chosen dost afford;  
When thou returnest, to set them free,  
Let thy Salvation visit me.   

5. O may I worthy prove to see  
Thy Saints in full Prosperity!  
That I that joyful Choir may join.  
And count thy People's Triumph mine●   

6. But ah can we expect such Grace,  
Of Parents vile the viler Race,  
Who their Misdeeds have acted over,  
And with new Crimes increased the Score●   

7. Ingrateful, they no longer thought  
On all his Works in Egypt wrought;  
The Red-Sea yet is scarce in view,  
When they their base Distrust renew.   

8. Yet He, to vindicate his Name,  
Once more to their deliverance came,  
To make his sovereign Power be known,  
That He is God, and He alone.   

9 To right and left, at his Command,  
The parting Deep disclosed her Sand;  
Where firm and dry the Passage lay,  
As through some parched and Desert way,   

10. Thus saved from fronting Seas they were,  
And Foes that pressed upon their Rear,   

11. Whose Rage pursued 'em to those Waves  
That proved the rash Pursuers Graves.   

12. The pendant Waters sudden Fall  
O'erwhelms proud Pharaoh, Host and all:  
This Proof did stupid Israel raise  
To trust God's Word, and sing his Praise.    

PART II.  

13. But soon relapsed, they all forgot  
Nor on his Providence would wait;   

14. But lusting in the Wilderness,  
Their God with fresh Temptations press.   

15. Strong Food at their Request he sent,  
But made their Sin their Punishment.   

16. God's Envoy Moses they oppose,  
And Aaron whom the Lord had chose.   

17. But Earth, the Quarrel to decide,  
Her vengeful Jaws extending wide,  
Rash Dathan to her Centre drew.  
With proud Abirams factious Crew.   

18. Bold Korah, who did next aspire  
To kindle wild Sedition's Fire,  
With all his impious Train became  
Ju●t Victims to devouring Flame.   

19 Near Horeb's Mount, a Calf ●hey made,  
And to the ●olt●n Image prayed;  
The Law their God in Thunder spoke  
From Sinai, they near Sinai broke:   

20. Adoring what their Hands did frame,  
They changed their Glory to their Shame,  
Into the Likeness made it pass  
Of a brute Ox that feeds on Grass.   

21. Their God and Saviour they forgot,  
And all his Works in Egypt wrought;   

22. His Terrors shown through Egypt's Coast,  
And where proud Pharaoh's Troops were lost.   

23. Thus urged, and from his Promise freed,  
Their total Ruin he decreed;  
His Hand for Execution reared:  
But Moses in the Breach appeared;   

His Favourite Moses intercedes,  
And to revoke their Sentence pleads:  
Heaven heard its faithful Servant pray,  
And turned its kindled Wrath away.   

24. Yet they his pleasant Land despised,  
Nor his repeated Promise prized;   

25. But in their Tents repining stayed,  
Nor the Almighty's Voice obeyed.   

26. This sealed their Doom without Redress,  
To perish in the Wilderness;   

27. And who escaped the Desert Sands,  
To live dispersed through Heathen Lands.    

PART III.  

28. The next, but more degenerate Race,  
Baal Peor's Worship did embrace;  
Became his impious Guests, and said  
On Sacrifices to the Dead.   

29. Thus they persisted to provoke  
God's Vengeance to the final Stroke:  
'Tis come:— the deadly Pest is come  
To execute their gen'ral Doom.   

30. It spreads; till Phineah's Zeal and Sword  
A stronger Antidote afford;  
Two guilty Persons timely Fall,  
Atonement makes and ransoms all.   

31. As his Seraphic Zeal had moved,  
So Heaven the generous Act approved,  
To him confirming and his Race  
The Priesthood he so well did grace.   

32. At Meribah God's Wrath they moved,  
Who Moses for their sakes reproved;   

33. Whose patient Soul they did provoke,  
Till rashly the meek Prophet spoke.   

34. Nor when possessed of Canaan's Land,  
Did they perform their Lords Command,  
Nor his commissioned Sword employ  
The guilty Nations to destroy.   

35. Nor only spared the Pagan Crew,  
But, mingling, learned their Vices too;   

36. Their Idols served, the fatal Snare  
Of which so oft forewarned they were.   

37, 38. To Hell's dark Powers they Sacrifice  
Their Children with relentless Eyes,  
Approach their Altars through a Flood  
Of their own Sons and Daughters Blood●   

No cheaper Victims will appease  
Canaan's remorseless Deities;  
No Blood her Idols reconcile  
But that which does the Land defile.    

PART IU.  

39 Nor yet will Canaan's Deities  
Apostate Israel's Tribes suffice;  
For lusting after More they went,  
And did new Gods and Crimes invent.   

40. But Sins of such infernal Hue  
God's Wrath against his People drew,  
Till he, their once indulgent Lord,  
His own Inheritance abhorred.   

41. To Heathen Hands he them subjects,  
Their guilty Friendships just Effects,  
To rue and mourn too late, when they  
Must those, who hate them most, obey.   

42. Nor thus his Indignation ceased,  
Their List of Tyrants he increased,  
Till they, who God's mild Sway declined.  
Were made the Vassals of Mankind.   

43. Yet when, distressed, they did repent,  
His Anger did as oft relent,  
But, rescued, they his Wrath provoke,  
Renew their Sins, and he their Yoke.   

44. Nor yet implacable he proved,  
Nor heard their wretched Cries unmoved,   

45. But did to mind his Promise bring,  
And Mercy's inexhausted Spring:   

46. Surprising Pity too imparts  
Even to their Foes obdurate Hearts;  
Compassion for their Sufferings bred  
In those who them as Captives led.   

47. Still save us, Lord, and Israel's Bands  
Together bring from Heathen Lands,  
Our Thanks in thy blessed Name to raise,  
And ever triumph in thy Praise.   

48. Let Israel's God be ever blest,  
His Name eternally addressed;  
And all his Saints, with full Accord,  
Sing loud Amens.— Praise ye the Lord.     

PSALM CVII.  


1. TO God your grateful Voices raise,  
Who still to us did gracious prove;  
And let your never-ceasing Praise  
Keep pace with his eternal Love.   

2, 3. Let those give thanks, whom he from Bands  
Of proud oppressing Foes released;  
And brought them back from distant Lands,  
From North and South and West and Ea●t.   

4, 5. Through lonely Desert Ways they strayed,  
Nor could a peopled City find;  
With Thirst and Hunger quite dismayed,  
Their fainting Soul within them pined.   

6. Then soon to God's indulgent Ear  
Did they their mournful Cry address;  
Who graciously vouchsafed to hear,  
And freed them from their deep Distress●   

7. From crooked Paths he led them forth,  
And in the certain way did guide,  
To wealthy towers of great resort,  
Where all their Wants were well supply●d.   

8. O then that all the Earth with me  
Would God for this his Goodness praise!  
And for the mighty Works which he  
Throughout the wondering World displays!   

9 For he from Heaven the sad estate  
Of longing Souls with Pity Eyes;  
And hungry Souls that pa●t for Meat,  
With envied Plenty He supplies.    

PART II.  

10. Those that with darkness compassed round,  
Sat down in Death's most dismal Shade;  
Or lie with weighty Fetters bound,  
By pressing Cares more heavy made;   

11, 12. Because God's Counsel they defy'd,  
And proudly scorned his holy Word;  
He them with these Afflictions tried  
They fell, and none could Help a●●ord●   

13. Then soon to God's indulgent Ear,  
Did they their mournful Cry address;  
Who graciously vouchsafed to hear,  
And freed them from their deep Distress.   

14. From dismal Dungeons dark as Night,  
And Shades as black as Death's Abode;  
He brought them forth to cheerful Light,  
And welcome Liberty bestowed.   

15. O then that all the Earth with me,  
Would God for this his Goodness praise!  
And for the mighty Works which he  
Throughout the wondering World displays.   

16. For he with his almighty Hand  
The Gates of Brass in pieces broke;  
Nor could the massy Bars withstand,  
Or tempered Steel resist his Stroke.    

PART III.  

17. Remorseless Wretches, void of Sense  
With bold Transgressions God defy;  
And, for their multiplied Offence,  
Oppressed with sore Diseases lie:   

18. Their Soul, a Prey to Pain and Fear,  
Abhors to taste the choicest Meats,  
And they by faint Degrees draw near  
To Death's uncomfortable Gates.   

19 Then straight to God's indulgent Ear  
Do they their mournful Cry address;  
Who graciously vouchsafes to hear,  
And frees them from their deep Distress.   

20. He all the●● sad Distempers heals,  
His Word both Health and Safety gives;  
And when all humane Succour fails,  
From near Destruction them retrieves.   

21. O then that all the Earth, with me,  
Would God for this his Goodness praise!  
And for the mighty Works which he  
Through all the wondering World displays!   

22. With Offerings let the Altars flame,  
Whilst they their grateful Thanks express!  
And with loud Joy his holy Name  
For all his wondrous Actions bles●!    

PART IU.  

23, 24. They that in Ships with Courage bold,  
O'er swelling Waves their Trade pursue;  
Do God's amazing Works behold,  
And in the Deep his Wonders view.   

25. No sooner his Command is past,  
But forth a dreadful Tempest flies,  
Which sweeps the Sea with rapid Haste,  
And makes its stormy Billows rise:   

26. Sometimes the Ships, tossed up to Heaven,  
On Tops of mounting Waves appear;  
Then down the vast Abyss are driven;  
Whilst every Soul dissolves with fear.   

27. They reel and stagger to and fro,  
Like Men with Fumes of Wine oppressed;  
Nor do the skilful Seamen know  
Which way to steer, what Course is best.   

28. Then straight to God's indulgent Ear  
They do their mournful Cry address;  
Who graciously vouchsafes to hear,  
And frees them from their deep Distress.   

29, 30. The stormy Tempest he allays,  
And makes the Billows calm and still;  
With Joy they see their Fury cease;  
And he conducts them where they will.   

31. O then that all the Earth, with me,  
Would God for this his Goodness Praise!  
And for the mighty Works which he  
Throughout the wondering World displays!   

32. Let them, where all the Tribes resort,  
Advance to Heaven his glorious Name,  
And in the Elders sovereign Court,  
With one consent his Praise proclaim!    

PART V.  

33, 34. A fruitful Land, where Streams abound,  
God's just Revenge, if People sin,  
Will turn to dry and barren Ground,  
To punish those that dwell therein.   

35, 36. The parched and desert Heath he makes  
To flow with Streams and springing Wells;  
Which for his Lot the Hungry takes,  
And in strong Cities safely dwells.   

37, 38. He sows the Fields, and Vineyards plants,  
Which all his Toil with Interest pay;  
Nor can, whilst God his Blessing grants,  
His fruitful Seed or Stock decay.   

39 But when his Sins heavens Wrath provoke,  
He quickly fades and falls away;  
He feels th' Oppressor's galling Yoke,  
Of Care and Grief the wretched Prey.   

40. The Prince, that slights God's just Commands,  
Exposed to scorn, must quit his Throne;  
And over wild and desert Lands,  
Where no Path offers, stray alone,   

41. Whilst God, from all Afflicting Cares,  
Sets up the humble Man on high;  
And causes his increasing Heirs,  
With his abounding Flocks to vie.   

42, 43. Then Sinners shall have nought to say,  
The just a decent Joy shall show;  
The Wise the strange Events shall weigh,  
And thence God's Goodness fully know.     

PSALM CVIII.  

1. O God, my Heart is fully bend,  
To magnify thy Name;  
And of my cheerful Songs thy Praise  
Shall be the glorious Theme.   

2. Awake, my Lute; nor thou my Harp,  
Thy warbling Notes delay;  
Whilst I with early Hymns of Joy,  
Prevent the dawning Day.   

3. To all the listening Tribes, O Lord,  
Thy wondrous Works I'll tell;  
And to those Nations sing thy Praise  
That round about us dwell:   

4. Because thy Mercy's boundless Height  
The heavens themselves transcends;  
And far beyond th' aspiring Clouds  
Thy faithful Truth extends.   

5. Be thou exalted, Lord, by them,  
Above the Starry Frame;  
O let the World, with one Consent,  
Confess thy glorious Name.   

6. That all thy chosen People Thee  
Their Saviour may declare.  
Let thy Right-hand protect me still,  
And answer thou my Prayer.   

7. Since God, the God of Truth hath spoke,  
My Arms shall sure prevail;  
With Joy I Shechem shall divide:  
And measure Succoth's Vale:   

8. Gilead is mine, Manass●h too;  
And Ephraim owns my Cause:  
Their Strength my Regal Power supports,  
And judah gives my Laws.   

9 Moab I'll make my servile Drudge,  
On vanquished Edom tread;  
And o'er the proud Philistine Lands  
Advance my lofty Head.   

10. By whose Support and Aid shall I  
Their well-fenced Towns invade?  
Who will my conquering Troops conduct,  
And into Edom lead?   

11. Lord, wilt not thou assist our Arms,  
Tho late thou didst forsake?  
And wilt not thou, of these our Hosts,  
The happy Guidance take?   

12. O to thy Servants in Distress  
Thy speedy Succour send:  
For vain it is on humane Aid  
For Safety to depend.   

13. Then valiant Acts shall we perform,  
If thou thy Power disclose;  
For God it is, and God alone,  
That treads down all our Foes.    

PSALM CIX.  


1. O God, whose former Mercies make  
My constant Praise thy Due,  
Hold not thy peace, but my sad State  
With wont Favour view.   

2. For sinful Men, with lying Lips,  
Deceitful Speeches frame,  
And with their studied Slanders seek  
To wound my spotless Fame.   

3. Their envious Hatred prompts them still  
Malicious Lies to spread;  
And all against my Life combine,  
By causeless Fury led.   

4. Those whom with tenderest Love I used,  
My chief Opposers are;  
Whilst I, of other Friends bereft,  
Resort to Thee by Prayer.   

5. Since Mischief, for the Good I did,  
Their strange Reward does prove;  
And Hatred's the Return they make  
For undissembled Love.   

6. Their guilty Leader shall be made  
To some bad Man a Slave;  
And when he's tried, his mortal Foe  
For his Accuser have.   

7. His Gild, when Sentence is pronounced,  
Shall find a dreadful Fate;  
Whilst his rejected Prayer but serves  
To make his Crime more great.   

8. He, snatched by some untimely Fate,  
Sha'ned live out half his Days;  
Another, by divine Decree,  
Shall on his Office seize.   

9, 10. His Seed shall Orphans be, his Wife  
A Widow plunged in Grief;  
His vagrant Children beg their Bread,  
Where none can give Relief.   

11. His ill-got Fortune shall be made  
To Usurers a Prey;  
The Fruit of all his Toil and Care  
By Strangers born away.   

12. None shall be found, that to his Wants  
Their Mercy shall extend,  
Or to his helpless Orphan Seed  
The least Assistance lend.   

13. A swift Destruction soon shall seize  
On his unhappy Race;  
And the next Age his hated Name  
Shall utterly deface.   

14. The Vengeance of his Father's Sins  
Upon his Head shall fall;  
God on his Mother's Crimes shall think,  
And punish him for all.   

15. All these, in horrid Order ranked,  
Before the Lord shall stand,  
Till his fierce Anger quite cuts off  
Their Memory from the Land.    

PART II.  

16. Because he never Mercy showed,  
But still the Poor oppressed;  
And sought to slay the helpless Man,  
With heavy Woes oppressed;   

17. Therefore the Curse he loved to vent,  
Shall his own Portion prove;  
And Blessing, which he always loathed,  
Shall far from him remove.   

18. Since Cursing was his constant Pride,  
●ike Water it shall spread  
Through all his Veins, and stick like Oil,  
With which his Bones are fed.   

19 This like a poisoned Robe, shall still  
His constant Covering be,  
Or an envenomed Belt, from which  
He never shall be free.   

20. Thus shall the Lord reward all those  
That Ill to me design;  
That with malicious false Reports  
Against my Life combine.   

21. But for thy glorious Name, O God,  
Do thou appear for me,  
And for thy gracious Mercy's sake,  
Preserve and set me free.   

22. For I a poor and helpless Wretch  
Am void of all Relief;  
My Heart is wounded with Distress,  
And quite pierced through with Grief.   

23. ay, like an Evening Shade, am gone,  
Which vanishes apace;  
Like Locusts up and down I'm tossed,  
That have no certain place.   

24, 25. My Knees with Fasting are grown weak,  
My Body lank and lean;  
All that behold me shake their Heads,  
And treat me with Disdain.   

26, 27. But for thy Mercy's sake, O Lord,  
Do thou my Foes withstand;  
That all may see 'tis thy own Act,  
The Work of thy Right-hand.   

28. Then let them curse, if thou but bless;  
Their Portion shall be Shame,  
When they against me rise; but I  
With Joy shall praise thy Name.   

29. Thus shall my Foe be clothed with Shame,  
And spite of all his Pride,  
His own Confusion, like a Cloak,  
The guilty Wretch shall hide.   

30. But I to Heaven, in grateful Thanks,  
My cheerful Voice will raise;  
And where the great Assembly meets,  
Set forth God's noble Praise.   

31. For him the Poor shall always ●ind,  
His sure and constant Friend;  
And he shall from unrighteous Dooms  
His guiltless Soul defend.     

PSALM CX.  

1. THE Lord said to my Lord, Sat thou  
At my Right-hand, till I subdue  
And all thy Foes thy Footstool make●   

2. Supreme in Zion thou shalt be,  
And thence extend thy Sovereignty  
O'er all who thy just Rights would take.   

3. Thee, in thy Powers triumphant Day,  
The willing Nations shall obey,  
And when thy rising Beams they view,  
Redeemed from Superstition's Night,  
To Thee shall be assembled, bright  
And numberless as Morning Dew.   

4. The Lord has sworn, nor sworn in vain,  
That, like Melchizedech's, thy Reign  
And Priesthood ●●all no Period know●   

5. No proud Competitor to sit  
At thy Right-hand will he permit;  
But in his Wrath Crowned Heads overthrow.   

6. The sentenced Heathen he shall slay,  
And fill with Carcases his way,  
Till he has struck Earth's Tyrants dead:   

7. But in the Highway Brook shall first,  
Like some poor Pilgrim slack his Thirst,  
And then in Triumph lift his Head.    

PSALM CXI.  

1. PRaise ye the Lord; our God to praise  
My Soul her utmost Powers shall raise,  
Amongst private Friends, and in the Throng  
O● Saints, his Praise shall be my Song.   

2. His Works, for Greatness though renowned,  
His wondrous Works with Ease are found  
By those who seek for them aright,  
And in the pious Search delight.   

3. Glory and Majesty attend  
On every Work he takes in hand;  
His Truth, confirmed through Ages past,  
Shall to eternal Ages last.   

4. By Precept he has us enjoined,  
To keep his wondrous Works in mind,  
And to Posterity record,  
That good and gracious is our Lord,   

5. Whose Bounty's everflowing Tide  
Their Wants, who feared his Name, supplied;  
For ever he will keep in mind  
His Covenant with our Fathers signed.   

6. At once astonished and overjoyed,  
They saw his matchless Power employed,  
Whereby the Heathen were suppressed,  
And we their Heritage possessed.   

7. Just are the Dealings of his Hands  
●mmurable are his Commands.   

8. By Truth and Equity sustained,  
And for eternal Rules ordained.   

9 deliverance to his Saints has sent,  
And ratified his Covenant,  
For ever to remain the same:  
Awful and sacred is his Name.   

10. God's Fear is Wisdom's Source: good skill  
Have they obtained who do his Will;  
This only can true Bliss procure,  
And Praise that always shall endure.    

PSALM CXII. HALLELVIAH.  

1. THat Man is blest who stands in awe  
Of God, and loves his sacred Law:   

2. His Seed on Earth shall be renowned,  
And with successive Honours crowned.   

3. His House, the Seat of Wealth, shall be  
An inexhausted Treasury;  
Their Father's Justice shall avail,  
And Blessings on his Heirs entail.   

4. The Soul that's filled with virtue's Light,  
Shines brightest in Affliction's Night:  
To pity the Distressed inclined,  
As well as just to all Mankind.   

5. His liberal Favours he extends,  
To some he gives, to others lends:  
Yet what his Charity impairs  
Recruits by Prudence in Affairs.   

6. The Storm of Angry Fate may threat,  
But ne'er displace him from his Seat,  
The sweet Memorial of the Just  
Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust.   

7. Ill Tidings can't with Fear surprise  
His Heart that, fixed, on God relies:   

8. On Safety's Rock he sits and sees  
The Ship-wreck of his Enemies.   

9 His Hands, while they his Alms bestowed,  
His Glory's future Harvest sowed,  
Whence he shall reap Wealth, Fame, Renown,  
A temp'ral and eternal Crown.   

10. The Wicked shall his Triumph see,  
And gnash their Teeth in Agony,  
While their unrighteous Hope's decay,  
And vanish, with themselves, away.    

PSALM CXIII.  

1. YE Saints and Servants of the Lord,  
The Triumphs of his Name record,   

2. His sacred Name for ever bless.   

3. Where e'er the circling Sun displays,  
His rising Beams or setting Rays,  
Due Praise to his great Name address.   

4. The Lord o'er Earth bears sovereign Sway,  
The Regions of eternal Day  
Reflections of his Glory are.   

5. To Him, whose Majesty excels,  
Who made the Heaven in which he dwells,  
Let no created Power compare.   

6. Affairs of highest Heaven to know,  
In him does Condescension show,  
Yet he extends his Care to Earth.   

7. The Poor and Needy from their Cell,   

8. Prefers in Palaces to dwell  
With Princes of high Rank and Birth.   

9 When Childless Families despair,  
He sends the Comfort of an Heir,  
To rescue their exspiring Fame;  
Grants her that barren was to bear,  
And joyfully her Fruit to rear.  
Praise ye the Lord's almighty Name.    

PSALM CXIV.  

1. WHen Isr'el, by th' Almighty led,  
(Enriched with their Oppressors Spoil)  
From Egypt marched; and Iacob's Seed  
From Bondage in a foreign Soil.   

2. jehovah, for his Residence,  
Chose out imperial Iudah's Tent,  
His Mansion-Royal, and from thence  
Through Israel's Camp his Orders sent.   

3. The distant Sea with Terror saw,  
And from th' Almighty's Presence fled;  
Old Iordan's Streams, surprised with Aw,  
Retreated to their Fountain's Head.   

4. The taller Mountains skipped, like Rams,  
When Danger near the Fold they spy;  
To see their Fright, the Hills, like Lambs,  
Leaped after them, not knowing why.   

5. O Sea, what made your Tide withdraw,  
And naked leave your oozy Bed?  
Why Iordan ● against Nature's Law,  
Recoil'dst thou to thy Fountain's Head?   

6. Why Mountains did you skip like Rams●  
When Danger does approach the Fold?  
Why after you the Hills like Lambs  
When they their Leaders Flight behold?   

7. Earth tremble on; well may'st thou fear,  
Thy Lord and Maker's Face to see;  
When Iacob's awful God draws near,  
'Tis time for Earth, and Seas to flee.   

8. To flee from God, who Nature's Law  
Repeals and cancels at his Will;  
Who Springs from flinty Rocks can draw,  
And thirsty Vales with Water fill.    

PSALM CXV.  

1. LOrd, not to us, we claim no Share,  
But to thy sacred Name  
Give Glory, for thy Mercy's sake,  
And Truth's eternal Fame.   

2. Why should the Heathen cry, where's now  
The God whom we adore?   

3. Convince 'em that in Heaven thou art,  
And uncontrolled thy Power.   

4. Their Gods but Gold and Silver are,  
The Work of mortal Hands:   

5. With speechless Mouth, and sightless Eyes  
The molten Idol stands.   

6. The Pageant-thing has Ears and Nose,  
But neither hears nor smells.   

7. Hands, Feet, but neither feels nor moves;  
No Breath within it dwells.   

8. Such senseless Stocks, that to compare  
With them we nothing find,  
But those who on their Help rely,  
And them for Gods designed.   

9 O Isr'el, make the Lord your Trust,  
Who is your Help and Shield;   

10. Priests, Levites trust in him alone  
Who only Help can yield.   

11. Let all who fear the Lord, for Aid,  
On him they fear, rely;  
Who them in Danger can defend,  
And all their Wants supply.   

12, 13. Of us he oft has mindful been,  
And Isr'el's House will bless,  
Priests, Levites, Proselytes, even All  
Who his great Name confess.   

14. On you, and on your Heirs, increase  
Of Blessings he will bring;   

15. Thrice happy you, who favourites are  
Of this Almighty King.   

16. heavens highest Orb of Glory, He  
His Empire's Seat designed;  
And gave this lower Globe of Earth  
A Portion to Mankind.   

17. They who in Death and Silence sleep  
To him no Praise afford:   

18. But we will bless for evermore  
Our everliving Lord.    

PSALM CXVI.  

1. MY Soul with Ecstasies of Love  
Entirely is possessed,  
Because the Lord has deigned to hear  
The Voice of my Request.   

2. Since he has now his Ear inclined,  
I never will despair,  
But, while my Life shall last, to him  
Address my humble Prayers   

3. With deadly Sorrows compassed round,  
With hellish Pangs oppressed,  
When Grief and Anguish filled my Heart,  
And heaved my throbbing Breast;   

4. On God's Almighty Name I called,  
And thus to him I prayed;  
Lord, I beseech thee save my Soul,  
With Sorrow quite dismayed.   

5, 6. How just and merciful is God  
How gracious is the Lord!  
Who saves the Simple, and to me  
Does timely Help afford.   

7. Then, free from racking Cares, my Soul,  
Resume thy wont Rest;  
For God has wondrously to thee  
His bounteous Love expressed.   

8. He, when Death threatened, soon removed  
My Dangers and my Fears;  
My Feet from falling he secured,  
And dried my Eyes from Tears.   

9 The whole remaining Stock of Life  
Which he to me has lent,  
Shall therefore in his Service be  
With grateful Duty spent.   

10, 11. In God I trusted, and of him  
In greatest straits did boast;  
(For in my Flight all hopes of Aid  
From faithless Man were lost:)   

12, 13. Then what Return to him shall I  
For all his Goodness make●  
I'll praise his Name, and with glad Zeal  
The Cup of Blessing ●ake.   

14, 15. The Vows I made to God, I'll pay  
In all his People's sight.  
Because by him his Servant's blood  
Was never counted light.   

16. Lord, by how many Ties must I  
To thy Obedience bow?  
Before, thy humble Handmaid's Son,  
Thy ransomed Captive now!   

17, 18. To Thee I'll Offerings bring of Praise;  
And whilst I bless thy Name,  
The just performance of my Vows  
To all thy Saints proclaim.   

19 They, in thy holy City met,  
And in thy House shall join,  
With one Consent thy Name to bless,  
And mix their Praise with mine.    

PSALM CXVII.  

1. WIth cheerful Notes let all the Earth  
To Heaven their Voices raise;  
Let all, inspired with godly Mirth,  
Sing solemn Hymns of Praise:   

2. God's ●ender Mercy knows no bound,  
His Truth shall ne'er decay;  
Then l●t the willing Nations round,  
This grateful Tribute pay.    

PSALM CXVIII.  

1, 2. O Praise the Lord, for he is good,  
His Mercies ne'er decay:  
That his kind Favours ever last,  
Let thankful Isr'el say.   

3, 4. Their Sense of his eternal Love  
Let Aaron's House express;  
And that it never fails, let all  
That fear the Lord confess.   

5. To God I made my humble Moan  
With Troubles quite oppressed;  
And he released me from my Straits,  
And granted my Request.   

6. Since therefore God does on my side  
So graciously appear,  
What Man against me can contrive  
I never need to fear.   

7. Since God with those that aid my Cause  
Himself a Party makes;  
I need not doubt, on all my Foes  
A just Revenge to take.   

8, 9 For better 'tis to trust in God,  
And have the Lord our Friend,  
Than on the greatest humane Power  
For Safety to depend.   

10, 11. Tho many Nations, closely leagued  
Did oft beset me round;  
Yet, by his boundless Power sustained,  
I did them all confound.   

12. They swarmed like Bees, and yet their Rage  
Was but a short-lived Blaze;  
For whilst on God I still relied,  
I vanquished them with Ease.   

13. When All together pressed me hard,  
In hopes to make me fall;  
The Lord vouchsafed to take my part  
And saved me from them all.   

14. The Honour of my strange Escape  
To him alone belongs;  
He is my Saviour and my Strength,  
The Theme of all my Songs.   

15. The Just's Abode resounds with Joy,  
By him preserved from Harm;  
For wondrous things are brought to pass  
By his almighty Arm.   

16. He, by his vast resistless Power,  
Has endless Honour won;  
The saving Strength of his Right-hand  
Amazing Works has done.   

17. God will not suffer me to fall  
But yet prolong my Days;  
That by declaring all his Works,  
I may advance his Praise.   

18. The Lord has chastened me in Love  
And great Afflictions laid;  
But has not given me over to those  
That did my Life invade.   

19 Then open wide the Temple-Gates  
To which the Just repair;  
That I may enter in and praise  
My great deliverer there●   

20, 21. Within those Gates of God's abode  
To which the Righteous press;  
Since thou hast heard and set me safe,  
Thy holy Name I'll bless.   

22, 23. That Stone is now the Corner's Head,  
Which Builders did despise;  
This is the Lord's amazing Act,  
And wondrous in our Eyes.   

24, 25. This is God's Day; let all the Land  
Exalt their cheerful Voice:  
Lord, we beseech thee save us now,  
And make us still rejoice.   

26. Him that approaches in God's Name,  
Let all th' Assembly bless;  
We that belong to God's own House,  
Have wished you good Success.   

27. God is the Lord, through whom we all  
Both Light and Comfort find;  
With Cords unto the Altar's Horns,  
The destined Victim bind.   

28. Thou art my Lord, O God, and still  
I'll praise thy holy Name;  
Because Thou only art my God,  
I'll celebrate thy Fame.   

29. O then, with me, give Thanks to God,  
Who still does gracious prove;  
And let the Tribute of our Praise  
Be endless as his Love.    

PSALM CXIX.  

ALEPH.  

1. HOW blest are they who always keep  
The pure a●d perfect way!  
Who never from the sacred Road  
Of God's Commandments stray!   

2. Thrice blest! who to his righteous Laws  
Have still obedient been!  
And warmly urged by hearty Zeal  
His Favour seek to win!   

3. Such Men, averse from Ill, abhor  
To do a wicked Deed;  
But in the Path which he prescribes  
With constant Care proceed.   

4. But 'tis to thy Commands, O Lord,  
This Happiness we ow.  
Thou bid'st us keep those upright Laws  
From which such Comforts flow.   

5. O then that thy most holy Will  
Might o'er my Ways preside!  
And I the course of all my Life  
By thy Directions guide!   

6. Then should I walk erect and bold,  
From all Confusion free;  
Convinced, with Joy, that all my Ways  
With thy Commands agree.   

7. My upright Heart shall my glad Mouth  
With cheerful Praises fill;  
When, by thy righteous Judgements taught,  
I fully learn thy Will.   

8. So to thy sacred Laws shall I  
All due observance pay;  
O then forsake me not, my God,  
Nor cast me quite away.    

BETH.  

9 How shall the young preserve their Ways  
From vile Pollutions free?  
By making all their Course of Life  
With thy Commands agree.   

10. With hearty Zeal, for Thee I seek,  
To Thee for Succour pray;  
O suffer not my careless Steps  
From thy just Precepts stray.   

11. Safe in my Heart, and closely hid  
Thy Word, my Treasure, lies;  
And ready waits with timely Aid,  
When sinful Passions rise.   

12. Secured by that, my grateful Soul  
Shall ever bless thy Name:  
O ●each me then my Life to come  
By thy just Laws to frame.   

13. My Lips, unlocked by pious Zeal,  
To others have declared,  
How much the Judgements of thy Mouth  
Deserve our high Regard.   

14. Whilst in the Way of thy Commands  
More solid Joy I found,  
Than had I been with vast Increase  
Of envied riches crowned.   

15. Therefore thy just and upright Laws,  
Shall always fill my Mind;  
And those sound Rules which thou prescrib'st  
All due Respect shall find.   

16. To keep thy Statutes undefaced  
Shall be my constant Joy;  
The strict Remembrance of thy Word●  
Shall all my Thoughts employ.    

GIMEL.  

17. Be gracious to thy Servant, Lord,  
Do thou my Life defend;  
That I, according to thy Word,  
My Time to come may spend.   

18. Enlighten both my Eyes and Mind,  
That so I may discern  
The wondrous things which they behold  
Who thy just precepts learn.   

19 Tho, like a Stranger in the Land●  
From place to place I stray,  
Thy righteous Judgements from my sig●●  
O hide thou not away.   

20. My fainting Soul is almost pined,  
With earnest Longing spent;  
Whilst always on the eager Search  
Of thy just Will, intent.   

21. Thy sharp Rebuke shall crush the Proud,  
Whom still thy Curse pursues;  
Who in thy righteous Paths to walk●  
Presumptuously refuse.   

22. But far from me do thou, O Lord,  
Contempt and Shame remove;  
For I thy sacred Laws affect  
With undissembled Love.   

23. Tho Princes oft, in Council met,  
Against thy Servant spoke;  
Yet I, thy Statutes to observe,  
My chiefest Business make.   

24. For thy Commands have always been  
My Comfort and Delight;  
By them I learn with prudent Care,  
And guide my Counsels right.    

DALETH.  

25. My Soul's oppressed with deadly Care,  
And to the Dust does cleave;  
Revive me, Lord, and let me now  
Thy promised Aid receive.   

26. To thee I still declared my Ways,  
And thou inclin'dst thine Ear:  
O teach me then my future Life  
By thy just Laws to steer.   

27. If thou wilt make me know thy Laws,  
And by their Guidance walk,  
The wondrous Works which thou hast done  
Shall be my constant Talk.   

28. But see my Soul within me sinks,  
Pressed down with weighty Care;  
O make thy Promise good, and soon  
My wasted Strength repair.   

29. For far from me be all false Ways  
And lying Arts removed!  
But kindly grant I still may keep  
The Path by thee approved.   

30. Thy faithful Ways, thou God of Truth,  
My happy Choice I've made;  
Thy Judgements, as my Rule of Life,  
Before me always laid.   

31. My Care has been to make my Life  
With thy just Laws agree;  
O then preserve thy Servant, Lord,  
From Shame and Ruin free.   

32. So in the Ways of thy Commands  
Shall I with Pleasure run,  
And with a Heart enlarged with Joy  
Successfully go on.    

HERALD  

33. Instruct me in thy Statutes, Lord,  
Thy righteous Paths display;  
And I from them, through all my Life,  
Will ne'er perversely stray.   

34. If thou true Wisdom from above  
Wilt graciously impart,  
To keep thy perfect Laws, I'll still  
Apply my zealous Heart.   

35. Direct me in the sacred Ways  
To which thy Precepts lead;  
Because my chief Delight has been  
Thy Righteous Paths to tread.   

36. Do thou to thy most just Commands  
Incline my willing Heart;  
Let no Desire of Worldly Wealth  
From them my Thoughts divert.   

37. From those vain Objects turn my Eyes  
Which this false World displays;  
But active Life and Vigour give  
To keep thy righteous Ways.   

38. Confirm the Promise which thou mad'st,  
And give thy Servant Aid,  
Who to transgress thy sacred Laws  
Is awfully afraid.   

39 The foul Disgrace I've cause to fear  
In mercy Lord remove;  
For all the ●udgments thou ordain'st  
Are full of Grace and Love.   

40. Thou knowst how, after thy Commands,  
My longing Heart does pant;  
O then make haste to raise me up,  
And promised Succour grant.    

VAV.  

41. Thy constant Blessing, Lord, bestow,  
To cheer my grateful Heart;  
To me according to thy Word,  
Thy saving Health impart.   

42. So shall I, when my Foes upbraid,  
This ready Answer make;  
In God I trust, who never will  
His faithful Promise break.   

43. Then let not quite the Word of Truth  
Be from my Mouth removed;  
Since still my ground of steadfast Hope  
Thy just Decrees have proved.   

44. So I to keep thy righteous Laws  
Will all my Study bend;  
From Age to Age, my time to come  
In their Observance spend.   

45. E'er long I trust to walk at large,  
From all Encumbrance free;  
Because I aimed to make my Life  
With thy Commands agree.   

46. Thy Laws shall be my constant Talk;  
And Princes shall attend,  
Whilst I the Justice of thy Ways  
With Confidence defend.   

47. My longing Heart and ravished Soul  
Shall both overflow with Joy;  
When in thy loved Commandments I  
My happy Hours employ.   

48. Then will I to thy loved Decrees  
Lift up my willing Hands;  
My Care and Business then shall be  
To study thy Commands.    

ZAIN.  

49. According to thy promised Grace,  
Thy Favour, Lord, extend.  
Make good to me the Word, on which  
Thy Servants Hopes depend.   

50. That, only Comfort in Distress  
Did all my Griefs control;  
Thy Word, when Troubles hemmed me round,  
Revived my fainting Soul.   

51. Insulting Foes did proudly laugh,  
And all my Hopes deride;  
Yet from thy Law, not all their Taunts  
Could make me turn aside.   

52. Thy Judgements, Lord, of ancient date  
I then recalled to mind.  
And, with such Thoughts refreshed, my Soul  
Did constant Comfort find.   

53. Sometimes I stand amazed, like one  
With deadly Horror struck,  
To think how all my sinful Foes  
Have thy just Laws forsaken.   

54. But I thy Statutes and Decrees  
My cheerful Anthems made;  
Whilst through strange Lands and desert wild's  
I like a Pilgrim strayed.   

55. Thy Name, that cheered my Heart by day,  
Has ●ill'd my Thoughts by night;  
I then resolved by thy just Laws,  
To guide my Steps a right.   

56. That Peace of Mind, which has my Soul  
In deep Distress sustained,  
By strict Obedience to thy Will  
I happily obtained.    

ch.  

57 O Lord, my God, my Portion thou  
And sure possession art;  
Thy Words I steadfastly resolve  
To treasure in my Heart.   

58. With all the strength of warm Desires  
I did thy Grace implore;  
Disclose, according to thy Word,  
Thy Mercies boundless store.   

59 With due Reflection and strict Care  
On all my Ways I thought;  
And so reclaimed to thy just Paths  
My wandering Steps I brought.   

60. I lost no time, but made great haste,  
Resolved, without delay,  
To watch, that I might never more  
From thy Commandments stray.   

61. Tho numerous Troops of sinful Men  
To rob me have combined;  
Yet I thy pure and righteous Laws  
Will ever keep in mind.   

62. In dead of night will I arise,  
To sing thy solemn Praise;  
Because convinced how much I aught  
To love thy righteous Ways.   

63. To such as fear thy holy Name  
Myself I'll closely join;  
To all who their obedient Wills  
To thy Commands resign●   

64. O'er all the Earth thy Mercy; Lord,  
Abundantly is shed;  
O make me then exactly learn,  
Thy sacred Paths to tread.    

TETH.  

65. With me, thy Servant, thou hast dealt  
Most graciously, O Lord,  
Repeated Benefits bes●ow'd,  
According to thy Word.   

66. Teach me the sacred Skill, by which  
Right Judgement is attained,  
Who in belief of thy Commands  
Have steadfastly remained.   

67. Before Affliction stopped my Course,  
My Footsteps went astray;  
But I have since been disciplined  
Thy Precepts to obey.   

68 Thou art, O Lord, supremely good,  
And all thou dost is so;  
On me, thy Statutes to discern,  
The saving Skill bestow.   

69. The Proud have forged malicious Lies  
My spotless Fame to slain:  
But my fixed Heart, without Reserve,  
Thy Precepts shall retain.   

70. While pampered they, with prosperous Ills,  
In sensual Pleasures live,  
My Soul can relish no Delight  
But what thy Precepts give.   

71. 'Tis good for me that I have felt  
Severe Affliction's Rod,  
That I may duly learn and keep  
The Statutes of my God.   

72. The Law that from thy Mouth proceeds  
Of more esteem I hold,  
Than untouched Mines, than thousand Mines  
Of Silver and of Gold.    

IOD.  

73. To me, who am the Workmanship  
Of thy almighty Hands,  
The Heavenly Understanding give  
To learn thy just Commands.   

74. My Preservation to thy Saints  
Strong Comfort will afford,  
To see Success attend my Hopes  
That trusted in thy Word.   

75. That right thy Judgements are, I now  
By sure Experience see,  
And that in Faithfulness, O Lord,  
Thou hast afflicted me.   

76. Let thy kind Mercy Comfort bring  
For all my Griefs at last,  
According to thy gracious Word  
To me thy Servant past.   

77. To me thy saving Grace restore,  
That I again may live;  
Whose Soul can relish no Delight  
But what thy Precepts give.   

78. Defeat the Proud, who unprovok'd,  
To ruin me have sought,  
Who only on thy sacred Laws  
Employ my harmless Thought.   

79. Let those that fear thy Name espouse  
My Cause and those alone  
Who have by strict and pious Search  
Thy Testimonies known.   

80. In thy blessed Statutes let my Heart  
Continue ever sound,  
That Gild and Shame, the Sinners Lo●,  
May never me confound.    

CAPH.  

81. My Soul with long Expectance faints  
To see thy saving Grace;  
Yet still on thy unerring Word,  
My Confidence I place.   

82. My very Eyes consume and fail  
With waiting for thy Word;  
Thy Comfort and long promised Aid  
O when wilt thou afford?   

83. My Flesh like shriv'led Parchment shows  
That long in Smoke is set;  
Yet no Affliction me can force  
Thy Statutes to forget.   

84. How many are thy Servant's Days?  
When wilt thou Lord redress  
My Wrongs? and Judgement execute  
On them who me oppress?   

85. The proud have digged a Pit for me,  
Who have no other Foes,  
But who are Reprobates to Thee  
And thy just Laws oppose.   

86. All thy Commandments are composed  
Of Truth and Equity:  
Men persecute me without Cause,  
Thou, Lord, my Helper be.   

87. To snatch me from the Face of Earth  
Their Spite almost prevailed;  
Yet to thy righteous Precepts I  
My Duty never failed.   

88 Thy wont Kindness, Lord, restore,  
My drooping Heart to cheer;  
That by thy Testimonies, I  
My Life's whole Course may steer●    

LAMED.  

89. For ever and for ever, Lord,  
Thou dost the same remain.  
In Heaven thy Word established is,  
And does that Heaven sustain.   

90. Thro circling Ages, Lord, thy Truth  
immovably shall stand  
As Earth, whose Fabric is upheld  
By thy almighty Hand.   

91. All things the Course by Thee ordained  
Even to this day fulfil;  
They are thy faithful Subjects all,  
And Servants of thy Will.   

92. Unless thy sacred Law had been  
My Comfort and Delight,  
I must have fainted and expired  
In dark Affliction's Night.   

93. Thy Precepts therefore from my Thoughts  
Shall never, Lord, depart;  
For Thou, by them, hast to new Life  
Restored my dying Heart.   

94. As I am thine, entirely thine,  
Protect me, Lord, from Harm;  
Who have thy Precepts sought to know,  
And carefully perform.   

95. The Wicked have their Ambush laid  
My guiltless Life to take;  
But in the midst of Danger I  
Thy Word my Study make.   

96. I've seen an end of what we call  
Perfection here below,  
But thy Commandments, like thyself,  
No Change or Period know.    

MEM.  

97. The Love that to thy Law I bear  
No Language can display;  
They with fresh Wonders entertain  
My ravished Thoughts all day.   

98. Thro thy Commands I wiser grow  
Than all my subtle Foes;  
For they are with me to direct  
And all my Ways dispose.   

99 From me my former Teachers now  
May abler Counsel take;  
Because thy Testimonies I  
My constant Study make.   

100 In Understanding I excel  
The Sages of our days;  
Because by thy unerring Rules  
I order all my ways.   

101. My Feet with Care I have refrained  
From every sinful way,  
That to thy sacred Word I might  
Entire Obedience pay.   

102. I have not from thy Judgements strayed,  
By vain Desires misled;  
For, Lord, thou hast instructed me  
Thy righteous Path to tread.   

103. How sweet are all thy words to me;  
O what divine Repast!  
How more delicious to my Soul  
Than Honey to my Taste.   

104. Taught by thy sacred Precepts, I  
With Heavenly Skill am blest,  
The treacherous ways of Sin to shun,  
And utterly detest.    

NUN.  

105. Thy Word is to my Feet a Lamp  
The way of Truth to show;  
A Watch-light to point out the Path,  
In which I ought to go.   

106. I swore, and to my solemn Oath  
Resolve to prove sincere,  
That to thy righteous Judgements I  
Will steadfastly adhere.   

107. Since I with Griefs am so oppressed  
That I can bear no more,  
According to thy Word, do thou  
My fainting Soul restore.   

108. Let the Oblations of my Praise  
With Thee Acceptance find,  
And in thy righteous Judgements, Lord,  
Instruct my willing Mind.   

109. Tho Death and Danger me surround,  
My Soul they cannot awe,  
Nor with continual Terrors keep  
From thinking on thy Law.   

110. My wicked and inveterate Foes  
For me their Snares have laid;  
Yet I have kept the upright Path,  
Nor from thy Precepts strayed.   

111. Thy Testimonies I have made  
My Heritage and Choice;  
For they, when other Comforts fail,  
My drooping Heart rejoice.   

112. My Heart thy Statutes to perform  
With early Zeal begun,  
And shall continue the same Course  
Till that of Life is run.    

SAMECH.  

113. Deceitful Thoughts and Practices  
I utterly detest;  
But for thy Law Affection bear  
Too great to be expressed.   

114. My Hiding-Place, my Refuge-Tow●r  
And Shield art thou, O Lord,  
I firmly anchor all my Hopes  
On thy unerring Word.   

115. Hence ye that trade in Wickedness,  
Approach not my Abode;  
For firmly I resolve to keep  
The Precepts of my God.   

116. According to thy gracious Word,  
From Danger set me free,  
Nor make me of those Hopes ashamed  
That I repose on Thee.   

117. Uphold me, so shall I be safe;  
And, rescued from Distress,  
To thy Decrees continually  
My just Respect address.   

118. The wicked thou hast trod to Earth,  
Who from thy Statutes strayed;  
Their vile Deceit the Recompense  
Of their own Falsehood made.   

119. The Wicked from thy holy Land  
Thou dost, like Dross, remove,  
Charmed with such Justice, therefore I  
Thy Testimonies love.   

120. Yet with that Love they make me dread  
Lest I should so offend,  
When on Transgressor's I behold  
Thy Judgements thus descend.    

AIN.  

121. Judgement and Justice I have wrought,  
O therefore, Lord, engage  
In my Defence, nor give me up  
To my Oppressor's Rage.   

122. The Surety for thy Servant be,  
Converting this Distress  
To Good for me; nor let the Proud  
My guiltless Soul oppress.   

123. My Eyes, alas! begin to fail,  
In long Expectance held,  
Till thy Salvation they behold,  
And righteous Word fulfilled.   

124. To me, thy Servant, in Di●●ress  
Thy wont Grace display,  
And discipline my willing Heart  
Thy Statutes to obey.   

125. On me, devoted to thy Fear,  
The sacred Skill bestow,  
That of thy Testimonies I  
The full extent may know.   

126. 'Tis time, high time for Thee, O Lord,  
Thy Vengeance to employ,  
When Men with open Violence  
Thy sacred Law destroy.   

127. Yet their Contempt of thy Commands  
But makes their Value rise  
With me, who Gold, refined with skill,  
Compared with them despise.   

128. Thy Precepts therefore I esteem  
In all respects divine,  
By them instructed to detest  
And all false Ways decline.    

PE.  

129. Who can express how wonderful  
Thy Testimonies are?  
Which therefore to perform my Soul  
Employs her utmost Care.   

130. The very Entrance to thy Word  
Celestial Light displays;  
The Knowledge of true Happiness  
To simplest Minds conveys.   

131. With open Mouth I waiting stood,  
And panted with Desire,  
That of thy wise Commands I might  
The sacred Skill acquire.   

132. With Favour, Lord, look down on me  
Thy Mercy who implore,  
As thou art wont to visit them  
Who thy blessed Name adore.   

133. Directed by thy heavenly Word  
Let all my Footsteps be;  
Nor Wickedness of any kind  
Dominion have o'er me.   

134. Release, entirely set me free  
From persecuting Hands,  
That, unmolested, I may learn,  
And practise thy Commands.   

135. On me, devoted to thy Fea●,  
Lord make thy Face to shine,  
Thy Statutes both to know and keep  
My Heart with Zeal incline.   

136. My Eyes to weeping Fountains turn,  
Whence briny Rivers press,  
To see Mankind, without Remorse,  
Thy sacred Law transgress.    

TSADE.  

137. Thou art the righteous Judge, on whom  
Wronged Innocence may trust;  
And, like thyself, thy Judgements, Lord,  
In all respects are just.   

138. As just those Testimonies were,  
Which thou didst ●irst decree,  
So all with Faithfulness performed  
Succeeding Times shall see.   

139. With Zeal my Flesh consumes away,  
My Soul with Anguish frets,  
To see my Foes contemn, at once,  
Thy Promises and Threats.   

140. Yet each neglected Word of thine,  
(Howe●er by them despised,)  
Is pure, and for eternal Truth  
By me, thy Servant prized.   

141. Brought, for thy sake, to low Estate,  
Contempt from All I find;  
Yet no Affronts or Wrongs can drive  
Thy Precepts from my Mind.   

142. Thy Righteousness shall then endure,  
When Time itself is past;  
Thy Law is Truth it ●elf, that Truth  
Which shall for ever last.   

143. Tho Trouble, Anguish, Doubts and Dread  
To compass me unite,  
Beset with Danger, still I make  
Thy Precepts my Delight.   

144. Eternal and unerring Rules  
Thy Testimonies give:  
Teach me the Wisdom that will make  
My Soul for ever live.    

KOPH.  

145. With my whole Heart to God I called,  
Lord h●ar my earne●t Cry;  
And I, thy Statutes to perform,  
Will all my Care apply.   

146. Again more fervently I prayed,  
O save me, that I may  
Thy Testimonies throughly know  
And steadfastly obey.   

147. My earlier Prayer the dawning Day  
Prevented, while I cried  
To Him on whose engaging Word  
My Hope alone relied.   

148. With Zeal have I awaked before  
The Midnight Watch was set,  
That I, of thy mysterious Word,  
May perfect Knowledge get.   

149. Lord, hear my supplicating Voice.  
And wont Favour show;  
O quicken me, and so approve  
Thy Judgements ever true.   

150. My persecuting Foes advance  
And hourly nearer draw;  
What Treatment can I hope from them  
Who violate thy Law?   

151. Tho they draw nigh, my Comfort is  
Thou, Lord, art yet more near,  
Thou, whose Commands are righteous all,  
Thy Promises sincere.   

152. Concerning thy divine Decrees  
My Soul has known of old●  
How true they were, and shall their Truth  
To endless Ages hold.    

RESCH.  

153. Consider my A●●li●tion, Lord,  
And me from Bondage draw;  
Think on thy Servant in Distress,  
Who ne'er forgets thy Law.   

154. Plead Thou my Cause; to that and me  
Thy timely Aid afford;  
With Beams of Mercy quicken me  
According to thy Word.   

155. From hardened Sinners thou remov'st  
Salvation far away;  
'Tis just thou shouldst withdraw from them  
Who from thy Statutes stray.   

156. As great thy tender Mercies are  
To those who Thee adore;  
According to thy Judgements, Lord,  
My fainting Hopes restore.   

157. A numerous Host of spiteful Foes  
Against my Life combine;  
But all too few t'inforce my Soul  
Thy Statutes to decline.   

158. Those bold Transgressor's I beheld,  
And was with Grief oppressed,  
To see with what audacious Pride  
Thy Covenant they transgressed.   

159. Yet while they slight, consider, Lord,  
How I thy Precepts love;  
O therefore quicken me with Beams  
Of Mercy from above.   

160. As from Time's Birth thy Word's firm Truth  
Has held through Ages past,  
Thy righteous Judgements shall, entire,  
To endless Ages la●t.    

SCHIN.  

161. Tho mighty Tyrants, without Cause,  
Conspire my Blood to shed,  
Thy sacred Word has only Power  
To strike my Heart with Dread.   

162. Yet that same Word my Breast with Beams  
Of joyful Rapture warms;  
Not Conquest, Spoil and Triumph have  
More bright transporting Charms.   

163. Perfidious Practices and Lies  
I utterly detest;  
But to thy Laws affection bear  
Too vast to be expressed.   

164. seven times a day, with Voice and Heart,  
Thy Praises I resound,  
Because I find thy Judgements all  
With Truth and Justice crowned.   

165. Secure, substantial Peace have they  
Who truly love thy Law;  
No smiling Mischief them can tempt,  
Nor frowning Danger awe.   

166. For thy Salvation I have hoped,  
And though so long delayed,  
With cheerful Zeal and strictest Care  
All thy Commands obeyed.   

167. Thy Testimonies I have kept,  
More dear to me than Light;  
So loved and prized, they were at once  
My Duty and Delight.   

168. I kept thy Laws in view, lest I  
Thy Precepts should decline.  
Thy Ways observing, as I knew  
Strict watch thou kepst on mine.    

TAV.  

169. To my Request and earnest Cry  
Attend, O gracious Lord;  
Inspire my Heart with heavenly Skill,  
According to thy Word.   

170. Let my repeated Prayer at last  
Before thy Throne ascend;  
According to thy plighted Word  
To me deliverance send.   

171. Then shall my grateful Lips return  
The Tribute of their Praise,  
When Thou thy Counsels hast revealed,  
And taught me they just Ways.   

172. My Tongue the Praises of thy Word  
Shall thankfully resound,  
Because thy Promises are all  
With just performance crowned.   

173. Let thy Almighty Arm appear  
And bring me timely Aid;  
Protect me as thy Precepts I  
My Heart's free Choice h●ve made.   

174. My Soul has waited long to see  
Thy saving Grace restored;  
Nor Comfort knew, but what thy Laws,  
Thy heavenly Laws afford.   

175. Prolong my Life, that I may sing  
My great Restorer's Praise;  
My Soul, that guiltless is oppressed,  
Let thy just Judgements raise.   

176. Like some lo●t Sheep, I've strayed so long  
Till I despair to sinned  
My homeward Way; thy Servant seek,  
Who keeps thy Laws in Mind.     

PSALM CXX.  

1. Distressed, I oft have cried  
To God, who ne●er denied  
To rescue me from Wrongs:   

2. Once more deliverance send,  
From lying Lips defend,  
And from the stand'ring Tongue.   

3. What Profit can accrue?  
What Punishment is due,  
Perfidious Tongue, to thee?   

4. Thy Sting on thee shall turn;  
Of Flames, that fiercely burn,  
The Fuel thou shalt be.   

5. How wretched is my Doom,  
A Sojourner become,  
In Mesech's desert Soil!  
With Kedar's Tents enclosed,  
To Savages exposed,  
Who live on Theft and Spoil.   

6. My Dwelling is with thos●  
Who are to Peace sworn Foes,  
And Pleasure take in Harms;   

7 Sweet Peace is all I seek,  
But when of Peace I speak;  
They straight call out to Arms.    

PSALM CXXI.  

1. TO Sion's Hill I lift my Eyes,  
From thence expecting Aid;   

2. From Sion's Hill and Sion's God,  
Who Heaven and Earth has made.   

3. Thy Throne and Person both are safe,  
Thy Guardian will not sleep;   

4. His Watchful Care that Isr'el guards  
Will Isr'el's Monarch keep.   

5. Sheltered beneath th' Almighty's Wings,  
Thou shalt securely rest,   

6. Where Noonday Suns nor Midnight Moons  
With Heat or Cold molest.   

7. From common Accidents of Life  
His Care shall guard thee still:  
F●om the blind Strokes of Chance, and Foes  
That ●●e ●n wait to kill.   

8. At home, abroad, in Peace, in War,  
Thy God shall thee defend;  
Conduct thee through Life's Pilgrimage  
Safe to thy Journey's End.    

PSALM CXXII.  

1. O 'Twas a joyful Sound to hear  
Our Tribes devoutly say,  
Up Isr'el, to the Temple haste,  
And keep your Festal Day.   

2. At Salem's Courts we must appear  
With our united Powers;   

3. In strong and beauteous Order ranged  
Like her compacted towers.   

4. 'Tis thither, by divine Command  
The Tribes of God repair,  
Before his Ark to celebrate  
His Name with Praise and Prayer.   

5. Tribunals s●and erected there;  
Where Equity takes place;  
There stand the Courts and Palaces  
Of royal David ●s Race.   

6. O, pray for Salem's Peace, all you  
That happy wish to be,  
For they shall prosper best who bear  
Most cordial Love to Thee.   

7. May Peace within thy sacred Walls  
A constant Gue●t be f●●nd,  
With Plenty and Prosperity  
Thy Palaces be crowned.   

8. For my dear Brethren's sake, and Friends  
No less than Brethren dear,  
I'●l pray,— May Peace in Salem's Tow'●s  
A constant Guest appear.   

9 But most of all I'll seek thy Good,  
And ever wish thee well,  
For Zion and the Temple's sake,  
Where God vouchsafes to dwell.    

PSALM CXXIII.  

1. TO Thee, who dwellest above the Skies,  
I lift my supplicating Eyes;   

2. As Servants watch their Master's Hands,  
And Maids th●ir Mistresses Commands.   

Even so, on our Almighty Lord,  
Wait we till Mercy he afford.   

3. Have mercy, Lord, on us, chastised,  
Nor only wretched but despised.   

4. Our Soul no longer can sustain  
The double Load of Scorn a●d Pain,  
While they grow proud by our distress  
And roll in Ea●e who us oppress.    

PSALM CXXIV.  

1. LET Isr'el say, had not the Lord  
Been pleased to interpose,   

2. Had God himself not took our Part  
When Men against us rose.   

3, 4, 5. Their Wrath had swallowed us alive,  
Devoured without control;  
Their Spite and Pride's united Flood  
Had quite overwhelmed our Soul.   

6. But praised be our eternal Lord,  
Who rescued us that Day●  
Nor to their savage Jaws gave up  
Our threatened Lives a Prey.   

7. Our Soul is like a Bird escaped  
From out the Fowler's Net;  
The Snare is broke, their Hopes are crossed  
And we at Freedom set.   

8. Secure in his Almighty Name,  
Our Confidence remains,  
Who, as he made both Heaven and Earth,  
Of both sole Monarch reigns.    

PSALM CXXV.  

1. WHO place on Sion's God their Trust,  
Like Sion's Rock shall stand.  
Like her unmovably be fixed  
By his Almighty Hand.   

2. Look how the Hills of Solyma  
jerusalem enclose,  
So stands the Lord around his Saints  
To guard 'em from their Foes.   

3. The Wicked may afflict the Just,  
But ne'er too long oppress,  
Nor force him by Despair to seek  
Base means for his Redress.   

4. Be good, O righteous God, to thos●  
Who Righteousness affect;  
The Heart that Innocence retains  
Let Innocence protect.   

5. Who turn aside to crooked Paths,  
The Lord shall them destroy;  
Cut off th' Unjust, but crown the Sain●s  
With lasting Peace and Joy●    

PSALM CXXVI.  

WHen Sion's God her Sons recalled  
From long Captivity,  
It seemed at first a pleasing Dream  
Of what we wished to see.   

2. But soon with unaccustomed Mirth  
Our Voice we did employ,  
And fung our great Restorer's Praise  
In thankful Hymns of Joy.   

Our Heathen Foes repining stood,  
Yet were compelled to own  
That great and wondrous was the Work great  
Our God for us had done.   

3. 'Twas great, say they; 'twas wondrous  
Much more should we confess;  
The Lord has done great things, whereof  
We reap the glad Success.   

4. To us bring back the Remnant, Lord,  
Of Isr'el's Captive Bands,  
More welcome than refreshing Showers  
To parched and thirsty Lands.   

5. That we, whose Work commenced in Tears,  
May see our Labours thrive,  
Till finished with Success, to make  
Our drooping Hearts revive.   

6. Tho he despond that sows his Grain,  
Yet doubtless he shall come  
To bind his full-eared Shea●es, and sing  
A joyful Harvest-home.    

PSALM CXXVII.  

1. WE build with fruitless Cost, unless  
The Lord the Pile sustain,  
Unless the Lord the City keep,  
The Watchman wakes in vain.   

2. In vain we rise before the Day,  
And late to Rest repair,  
Allow no Respite to our Toil,  
And eat the Bread of Care:   

Supplies of Life, with little Pains,  
He on his Saints bestows;  
He crowns their Labour with Success,  
Their Nights with sound Repose.   

3. So Children are an Heritage  
Sent from th' Almighty Lord,  
A teeming Womb, his Favour's Gift,  
And virtuous Life's Reward.   

4. As Arrows in a Giant's Hand  
With dreadful Grace appea●,  
Even so the Sons of vigorous Youth  
Their Parent's Glory are.   

5. Happy the Man whose Quiver's filled  
With these defensive Arms;  
He need's not fear to meet his Foe,  
At War or Law's Alarms.    

PSALM CXXVIII.  

1. THE Man is blest who fears the Lord,  
Nor Worship only pays,  
But keeps his Steps confined with Care,  
To his appointed Ways.   

2. Thou shalt upon the sweet Returns  
Of thy own Labour feed;  
Without Dependence live, and see  
Thy Wishes all succeed.   

3. Thy Wife, like a domestic Vine;  
Her generous Fruit shall bring;  
Thy Children, like young Olive-plants,  
About thy Table spring:   

4. Who fears the Lord shall thus be blest;   

5. From Zion God shall bless,  
And grant him all his Days to see  
Ierusalem's Success.   

6. Survive till Heirs of Heirs from him  
Descend with vast Increase:  
Twice blest; in his own prosperous State,  
And more in Isr'el's Peace.    

PSALM CXXIX.  

1. UP from my Youth, may Isr'el say,  
They oft have me assailed,   

2. Reduced me oft to heavy Straits,  
But never yet prevailed.   

3. They oft have ploughed my patient Back  
With Furrows deep and long,   

4. But our just God has broke their Chains,  
And rescued us from Wrong.   

5. Defeat, Confusion, shameful Rout●  
Be still the Doom of those,  
Their righteous Doom, who Zion hate,  
And Sion's God oppose.   

6. With too much Heat, and want of Root,  
Untimely let 'em fade,  
Like Corn upon our Houses Tops,  
That withers in the Blade.   

7. With which no Reaper fills his Arms,  
But unregarded leaves;  
Nor Hinder thinks it worth his Pains  
To fold it into Sheaves.   

8. No Traveller that journeys by  
Vouchsafes a Minute's Stop  
T' afford it one kind Look, or w●sh  
heavens Blessing on the Crop.    

PSALM CXXX.  

1. FRom lowest Regions of Despair,  
To God I sent my Cry,   

2. Lord, hear my supplicating Voice  
And graciously reply.   

3. Shouldst thou severely mark our Faults,  
Who can the Trial bear?   

4. But thou forgiv'st, lest we despond,  
And quite renounce thy Fear.   

5. My Soul does with Impatience wait  
For Thee the living Lord;  
My Hopes are on thy Promise built,  
Thy never-failing Word.   

6. For Thee I look with longing Eyes,  
Impatient of Delay;  
Even more than Watchmen of the Night  
To spy the dawning Day.   

7. Let Isr'el on the Lord depend,  
No Bounds his Mercy knows;  
The plenteous Source and Spring from whence  
Eternal Succour flows●   

8. Whose friendly Currents kind supplies  
To us in Want convey;  
A healing Spring, a Spring to cleanse,  
And wash our Gild away.    

PSALM CXXXI.  

1. O Lord, I am not proud of Heart,  
Nor cast a scornful Eye;  
Nor my aspiring Thoughts employ  
In things for me too high.   

2. With Infant-Innocence, thou knowst  
I have myself demeaned;  
Lulled into Quiet like a Babe,  
That from the Breast is weaned.   

3. Like me let Isr'el hope in G●d  
His Aid alone implore;  
Both now and ever trust in him  
Who lives for evermore.    

PSALM CXXXII.  

1. LET David, Lord, a constant Place  
In thy Remembrance find;  
Let all the Sorrows he endured  
Be ever in thy mind.   

2. Remember what a solemn Oath  
To Thee, his Lord, he swore;  
How to the mighty God he vowed,  
Whom Iacob's Sons ado●e.   

3, 4. I will not go into my House,  
Nor to my Bed ascend;  
No soft Repose shall close my Eyes  
Nor Sleep my Eyelids ben●;   

5. Till for the Lord's designed Abode  
I mark the destined Ground;  
Till I a decent place of Rest  
For Iacob's God have found.   

6. Th' appointed Place, with Shouts of ●oy,  
At Eph●atah we found,  
And made the Fields, throughout the Wood,  
Our glad Applause resound.   

7. O with due reverence let us then  
To his Abode repair;  
And prostrate a● his Footstool fallen  
Pour out our humble Prayer.   

8. Arise, O Lord, and now possess  
Thy constant Place of Rest,  
Be that, not only with thy Ark,  
But with thy Presence blest.   

9, 10. Cloth thou thy Priest with Righteousness.  
And make thy Saints rejoice;  
For David's sake, thy Servant, hear  
Thy own Anointed's Voice.   

11. God swore to David in his Truth,  
(Nor shall his Oath be vain)  
One of thy Offspring after thee  
Upon thy Throne shall reign:   

12. And if thy Seed my Covenant keep,  
And to my Laws submit;  
Their Children too upon thy Throne  
For evermore shall sit.   

13, 14. For Sion's God's peculiar Choice,  
By him approved of well;  
His place of everlasting Rest,  
Where he desires to dwell.   

15, 16. Her Store, says he, I will increase,  
Her Poor with Plenty cloy;  
I'll with Salvation clothe her Priests,  
Her Saints shall shout for Joy.   

17. There David's Horn shall bud and breed  
A long successive Line,  
And my anointed Servants there  
Shall with fresh Lustre shine.   

18. The Faces of his vanquished Foes  
Confusion shall overspread;  
Whilst blest with good Success, his Crown  
Shall flourish on his Head.    

PSALM CXXXIII.  

1. HOW vast must their advantage be!  
How great their Pleasure prove!  
Who live like Brethren, and consent  
In Offices of Love!   

2. Friendship is like that precious Oil  
Which, poured on Aaron's Head,  
Ran down his Beard, and o'er his Robes  
It's costly Moisture shed.   

3. Like cool refreshing Dew, which does  
On Hermon's Top distil;  
Or like the early Drops that fall  
On Sion's fruitful Hill.   

For God to all, whose friendly Hearts  
With mutual Love abound;  
Has firmly promised length of Days  
With constant Blessings crowned.    

PSALM CXXXIV.  

1. Bless God, ye Servants that attend  
Upon his solemn State;  
That in his Temple night by night  
With humble reverence wait:   

2, 3. Within his House lift up your hands,  
And bless his Holy Name;  
From Zion bless thy Isr'el, Lord,  
Who Earth and Heaven didst frame.    

PSALM CXXXV.  

1. O Praise the Lord with one Consent  
And magnify his Name;  
Let all the Servants of the Lord  
His worthy praise proclaim.   

2. All ye that in the House of God  
Attend with constant Care;  
With those that to his outmost Courts  
With humble Zeal repair.   

3. For this our truest Interest is,  
Glad Hymns of Praise to sing;  
And with loud Songs to bless his Name's  
A most delightful thing.   

4. For God his own peculiar choice  
The Sons of jacob makes;  
And Isr'el's Offspring for his own,  
As precious Treasure takes.   

5. For oft have we, that God is great,  
By glad Experience found;  
And seen how he with wondrous Power  
Above all Gods is crowned.   

6. For he with unresisted Strength  
Performs what e'er he will,  
In Heaven and Earth and wa●ry Stores  
That Earth's deep Caverns fill.   

7. He raises Vapours from the Ground,  
Which poised in liquid Air,  
Fall down at last in Showers, through which  
His dreadful Lightnings glare:  
He from his Storehouse brings the Winds;   

8. And he, with vengeful Hand,  
The Firstborn slew of Man and Beast,  
Through Egypt's mourning Land.   

9 He dreadful Signs and Wonders ●hew'd  
In Egypt's stubborn Coasts;  
Not Pharaoh could his Plagues escape,  
Nor all his numerous Hosts.   

10, 11. 'Twas he that various Nations smote,  
And mighty Kings oppressed;  
Sihon and Og, and all besides  
That Canaan's Land possessed.   

12, 13. He for his People of their Lands  
A firm possession made;  
For which his Fame shall always last,  
His glory never fade.   

14. For God shall soon his People's Cause  
With tender Favour weigh;  
Repent him of his Wrath, and turn  
His kindled Rage away.   

15. Those Idols, whose false Worship spreads  
O'er all the Heathen Lands,  
Are made of Silver and of Gold,  
The Work of humane Hands.   

16, 17. They speak not with fictitious Tongues,  
Nor see with polished Eyes;  
Nor hear with fashioned Ears; no Breath  
Their empty Mouth supplies.   

18. As senseless as themselves are they  
That all their Skill apply  
To make them, or in dangerous Times,  
On them for Aid rely.   

19 Their just Returns of Thanks to God,  
Let grateful Isr'el pay;  
Nor let the Priests of Aaron's Stock  
To bless the Lord delay;   

20. Their Sense of his unbounded Love  
Let Levi's House express;  
And let all those that fear the Lord  
His Name for ever bless:   

21. Le● all with Thanks his wondrous Works  
In Sion's Courts proclaim,  
And in Ierus'lem, where he dwells,  
Exalt his Holy Name.    

PSALM CXXXVI.  

1. TO God, the mighty Lord,  
Your joyful Thanks repeat  
To him due Praise afford  
As good as he is great:  
For he will prove  
Our constant Friend,  
No time shall end  
His boundless Love.   

2, 3. To him whose wondrous Power  
All other Gods obey,  
Whom earthly Kings adore,  
This grateful Homage pay:  
For he will prove  
Our constant Friend,  
No Time shall end  
His boundless Love.   

4, 5. By his Almighty Hand  
Amazing Works are wrought;  
The heavens by his Command  
Were to perfection brought.  
For he will prove  
Our constant Friend,  
No Time shall end  
His boundless Love.   

6. He spread the Ocean round,  
About the spacious Land;  
And made the rising Ground  
Above the Waters stands  
For he will prove  
Our constant Friend,  
No Time shall end  
His boundless Love.   

7, 8, 9 His matchless Power displays  
The great and lasting Lights;  
The Sun to rule by Days,  
The Moon and Stars by Nights.  
For he will prove  
Our constant Friend,  
No Time shall end  
His boundless Love.   

10, 11, 12. He struck the Firstborn dead  
Of Egypt's stubborn Land;  
And thence his People led  
With his resistless Hand.  
For he will prove  
Our constant Friend,  
No Time shall end  
His boundless Love.   

13, 14. By him the raging Sea,  
As if in pieces rend,  
Disclosed a middle way  
Through which his People went.  
For he will prove  
Our constant Friend,  
No Time shall end  
His boundless Love.   

15. Where soon he overthrew  
Proud Pharaoh and his Host,  
Who seeking to pursue  
Were in the Billows lost.  
For he will prove  
Our constant Friend,  
No Time shall end  
His boundless Love.   

16, 17, 18. Through Deserts vast and wild  
He led the chosen Seed;  
And famous Princes foiled,  
And made great Monarches bleed.  
For he will prove  
Our constant Friend,  
No Time shall end  
His boundless Love.   

19, 20. Sihon, whose potent Hand  
Great Ammon's Sceptre swayed,  
And Og, whose stern Command  
Rich Bashan's Land obeyed.  
For he will prov●  
Our constant Friend;  
No Time shall end  
His boundless Love.   

21, 22. And of his wondrous Grace,  
Their Lands, whom he destroyed,  
He gave to Isr'el's Race,  
To be by them enjoyed.  
For he will prove  
Our constant Friend,  
No Time shall end  
His boundless Love.   

23, 24. He, in our depth of Woes,  
On us with Favour thought;  
And from our cruel Foes  
In Peace and Safety brought.  
For he will prove  
Our constant Friend,  
No Time shall end  
His boundless Love.   

25, 26. By him the Food is given  
On which all Creatures live:  
To God who reigns in Heaven  
Eternal Praises give.  
For he will prove  
Our constant Friend,  
No Time shall end  
His boundless Love.    

PSALM CXXXVII.  

1. WHen we, our wearied Limbs to rest,  
Sat down by proud Euphrates Stream,  
We wept, with doleful Thoughts oppressed,  
And Zion was our mournful Theme.   

2. Our Harps, that when with Joy we sung,  
Were wont their tuneful Parts to bear,  
With silent Strings neglected hung  
On barren Trees that withered there.   

3. Mean while our Foes' with Pride inspired,  
The Authors of our slavish Wrongs,  
Music and Mirth of us required,  
" Come, sing us one of Sion's Songs.   

4. How shall we tune our Voice to sing?  
Or touch our Harps with skilful Hands?  
Shall Hymns of Joy to God our King,  
Be sung by Slaves in foreign Lands?   

5. jerusalem, our happy Seat!  
When I of thee forgetful prove,  
Let then my trembling Hand forget  
The speaking Strings with Art to move!   

6. If I forget thee, let my Tongue  
To my parched Roof, quite useless cleave;  
Or if I count not thee among  
The chiefest Joys I can receive!   

7. Remember, Lord, how Edom's Race,  
In thy own City's fatal Day,  
Cried out, It's stately Walls deface,  
And with the Ground quite levelly lay.   

8. Proud Babel's Daughter, against whom  
God's stern Decrees severely run;  
Blest shall he be that pays thee home,  
The Ills which thou to us hast done!   

9 Thrice blest, who, by just Fury led,  
Shall from the Breast thy Children take,  
And, with proud Rage, their tender Head,  
Against the rugged Pavement break.    

PSALM CXXXVIII.  

1. WIth my whole Heart, my God and King,  
Thy Praises I'll proclaim;  
Before the Gods with Joy I'll sing,  
And bless thy holy Name.   

2. I'll worship towards thy sacred Seat;  
And● ravished with thy Love,  
The Praises of thy Truth repeat,  
Which thou dost most approve.   

3. Thou graciously inclin'd'st thine Ear,  
When I to thee did cry;  
And, when my Soul was pressed with Fear●  
Didst inward Strength supply.   

4. Therefore shall every earthly Prince  
Thy Name with Praise pursue,  
Whom these admired Events convince  
That all thy Works are true.   

5. They, walking in his ways, the Lord  
With cheerful Songs shall bless;  
And all his glorious Acts record,  
And his great Power confess.   

6. For God, though he's enthroned on high,  
Does thence the Poor respect;  
The proud far off, his scornful Eye  
Beholds with just neglect.   

7. Tho I'm with Troubles compassed round,  
Yet he will me revive,  
Thy Hand shall all my Foes confound,  
And keep my Soul alive.   

8. The Lord, whose mercies ever last,  
Shall fix my happy state;  
And mindful of his favours past,  
Shall his own work complete.    

PSALM CXXXIX.  

1, 2. THou, Lord, by strictest search hast known  
My rising up and lying down;  
My secret Thoughts are known to Thee,  
Known long before conceived by me.   

3. Thine Eye my Bed and Path surveys,  
My public Haunts and private Ways;   

4. Thou knowst what 'tis my Lips would vent,  
My yet unbuttered Words intent.   

5. B●set by Thee, before, behind,  
On every side thy Hand I sinned.   

6. O Skill, for human reach too high!  
Too dazzling bright for mortal Eye!   

7. O could I so perfidious be  
To think of once deserting Thee,  
Where, Lord, could I thy Influence shun,  
Or whither from thy presence run?   

8. If up to Heaven I take my flight●  
'Tis there Thou dwellest enthron'd in Light:  
Or dive to Hell's infernal Plains,  
'Tis there Almighty Vengeance reigns.   

9 If I the Morning's Wings could gain,  
And fly beyond the Western Main,   

10. Thy nimbler Hand would fir●t arrive  
And there arrest thy Fugitive.   

11. Or should I sculk to shun thy sight  
Beneath the sable Wings of Night;  
One glance from Thee, one piercing Ray  
Would kindle Darkness into Day.   

12. The Veil of Night is no Disguise,  
No Umbrage to allseeing Eyes;  
Through midnight Shades thou findest thy way,  
As in the blazing Noon of Day.   

Thou knowst the labyrinths of my Hear●,   

13. My Reins and every vital part;  
Thou cloath'dst 'em early, or the Womb,  
Where Life they took, had proved their Tomb,   

14. I'll praise Thee from whose Hands I came,  
A work of such stupendious Frame!  
That Wonders Thou in me hast shown  
To my admiring Soul is known.   

15. Thine Eyes my Substance did survey  
While yet a lifeless Mass it lay,  
How curiously in secret wrought  
E'er on the World's great Stage 'twas brought.   

16. Thou didst the shapeless Embryo see,  
Its Parts were registered by Thee;  
Thou saw'st the daily growth they took,  
Formed by the Model of thy Book.   

17. Let me acknowledge too, O God,  
That since this Maze of Life I trod,  
Thy thoughts of Love to me surmount  
The Power of Number's t● recount   

18. For sooner could I reckon o'er  
The Sands upon the Ocean's shore:  
Each Morn revising what I've done,  
I find th'Account but new begun.   

19 The wicked shalt thou slay, O God:  
Depart from me, ye Men of Blood,   

20. Whose Tongues heavens Majesty profane,  
And take th' Almighty Name in vain.   

21. Lord, hate I not their impious Crew  
Who Thee with Enmity pursue?  
And does not Grief my Heart oppress,  
When Reprobates thy Laws transgress?   

22. Who practise Enmity to Thee  
Shall utmost Hatred have from me,  
Such Men I utterly detest  
As if they were my Foes professed.   

23, 24. Search, try, O God, my Thoughts and Heart  
If Mischief lurks in any part;  
Correct me where I go astray,  
And guide me in thy perfect way.    

PSALM CXL.  

1. PReserve me, Lord, from cruel Foes  
Of villainous intent,   

2. Whose Hearts on mischievous Designs  
With restless Spite are bend.   

3. Their sharpened Tongue the Serpent's sting  
In Virulence exceeds;  
Between their Lips the Gaul of Asps  
And Adders Venom breeds.   

4. Preserve me, Lord, from wicked Hands  
Nor leave my Soul forlorn;  
A Prey to Sons of Violence  
Who have my Ruin sworn.   

5. The proud for me have laid their Snare,  
And spread their wily Net,  
With Traps and Gins where e'er I move,  
I find my Steps beset.   

6. But thus environed with Distress  
Thou art my God, I said,  
Lord● hear my supplicating Voice  
That calls to Thee for aid.   

7. O Lord, the God whose saving Strength  
Kind Succour did convey,  
And covered my adventurous Head,  
In Battle's doubtful Day:   

8. Permit not their unjust Designs,  
But disappoint th●ir Rage;  
Lest prosperous Wickedness their Pride  
In bolder Crimes engage.   

9 Let first their Chiefs the sad effects  
Of their Injustice mourn;  
The blast of their envenomed Breath  
Upon themselves return.   

10. Let them who kindled first the Flame  
Its Victims ●irst become;  
The Pit they digged for me be made  
Their everlasting Tomb.   

11. Though Slander's Breath may raise a Storm  
It quickly will decay;  
Their Rage does but the Torrent swell  
That bears themselves away.   

12. God will assert the poor Man's Cause,  
Relief to th' injured give:  
The just shall celebrate his Praise  
And in his Presence live.    

PSALM CXLI.  

1. TO thee, O Lord, my Cries ascend,  
O ha●t to my relief:  
And with accustomed Pity hear  
The Accents of my Grief   

2. Without Oblations let my Pray'●  
Like Morning Incense rise;  
My innocent up-lifted Hands  
Like Evening Sacrifice.   

3. From rash Efforts restrain my Tongue  
With constant watch and ward,  
And keep the Portal of my Lips  
With wary silence barred.   

4. From wicked Deeds and wicked Men  
My Heart and Hands restrain;  
Nor let me in the Booty share  
Of their unrighteous Gain.   

5. Let righteous Men reprove my Faults  
And I ●hall think 'em kind,  
Like Balm that heals a wounded Head  
I their Reproof shall ●ind;  
And, in return, my fervent Prayer  
On their behalf address,  
When they are tempted and reduced  
Like me to sore Distress.   

6. When skulking in Eng●ddi's Rock  
(I to themselves appeal)  
If one reproachful Word I spoke,  
When in my power to kill.   

7. Yet us they persecute to Death,  
Our scattered Ruins lie  
As thick as from the Hewer's A●  
The severed Splinters fly.   

8. But, Lord, to Thee I still direct  
My supplicating Eyes,  
O leave not destitute my Soul,  
Whose Trust on Thee relies.   

9 Preserve me from the Snares and Gin●  
That wicked Hands have laid;  
Let them in their own Nets be caught,  
While my Escape is made.    

PSALM CXLII.  

1. TO God with mournful Voice  
In deep distress I prayed;   

2. Made him the Umpire of my Cause,  
My Wrongs before him laid.   

3. Thou knewest my way to escape  
When my grieved ●oul despaired;  
For where I thought to walk secure,  
They had their Gins prepared.   

4. I looked, but found no Friend  
To own me in Distress;  
All Refuge failed, no Man vouchsafed  
His Pity or Redress.   

5. To God at last I prayed,  
Thou, Lord, my Refuge art,  
My Portion in the Land of Life,  
Till Life itself depart.   

6. Lord, hear my Cry, redn●'d  
To last extremity!  
Save me from Persecutors Rage's  
Too powerful grown for me.  
That I may praise thy Name,   

7. My Soul from Prison bring;  
Whilst of thy bounteous Care to me  
Assembled Saints shall sing.    

PSALM CXLIII.  

1. LORD, hear my Prayer, and to my Cry  
Thy wont Audience lend;  
In thy accustomed Faith and Truth  
A gracious Answer send.   

2. Nor at thy strict Tribunal bring  
Thy Servant to be tried;  
For in thy sight no living Man  
Can e'er be justified.   

3. The Foe pursues my Life, a Life  
Whose Comforts all are f●ed;  
To Darkness chased and fo●c'd to seek  
A Mansion with the Dead.   

4. My Spirit therefore is o'er-whelmed,  
And sinks within my Breast;  
My Vitals fails my Heart itself  
That should support the rest.   

5. I call to mind the Days of old;  
The Wonders thou hast wrought  
For my deliverance heretofore  
Employ my musing Thought.   

6. To Thee my supplicating Hands  
Are eagerly stretched out;  
My Soul for thy Refreshment thirsts  
Like Land oppressed with Drought.   

7. Hear me with speed; my Spirit fails,  
Thy Face no longer hide,  
Lest I become forlorn like them  
That in the Grave reside.   

8. Thy Kindness early let me hear,  
Whose Trust on Thee depends;  
Teach me the way where I should go:  
My Soul to Thee ascends   

9 Thou art my God, Thy righteous Will  
Instruct me to obey:  
Let thy good Spirit conduct and keep  
My Soul in thy right way.   

10. For thy Name's sake with quick'ni●g Grace,  
From Mercy's healing Spring  
Revive me, and for thy Truth's sake  
My Soul from Trouble bring.   

11. In pity to my Sufferings, Lord,  
Reduce my Foes to Shame;  
Stay them that persecute a Soul  
Devoted to thy Name.    

PSALM CXLIV.  

1. FOrever blest be God the Lord,  
Who does his needful Aid impart,  
At once both Strength and Skill afford  
To wield my Arms with warlike Art.   

2. His Goodness is my Fort and Power,  
My strong Deliverer and Shield;  
In him I trust whose matchless Tower  
Makes to my sway fierce Nations yield.   

3. Lord, what's in Man that Thee should move  
Such tender Care of him to take?  
Or what's Man's Son that thou shouldst love  
Such great account of him to make?   

4. The Life of Man does quickly fade,  
His Thoughts but empty are and vain;  
His Days are like a flying Shade,  
Of which, when past, no Signs remain.   

5. In solemn state, O God, descend,  
Whilst Heaven its lofty Head inclines;  
The smoking Hills asunder rend,  
Of thy approach the awful Signs.   

6. Discharge thy dreadful Lightnings round,  
And make my scattered Foes retreat;  
Them with thy martial Arrows wound,  
And their Destruction soon complete.   

7, 8. Do thou, from Heaven above engage  
Thy boundless Power my Foes to quell;  
And snatch me from the stormy Rage  
Of threatening Waves that proudly swell.  
Fight thou against my foreign Foes  
Whose Mouth vent Speeches false and vain,  
Who, though in solemn Leagues they close,  
That firm Engagement ne'er maintain.   

9 So I to Thee, the King of Kings,  
In joyful Hymns my Voice shall raise  
And Instruments of various Strings  
Shall help me thus to sing thy Praise:   

10. God does to Kings his Aid afford,  
To them his sure Salvation sends  
'Tis he that from the hurtful Sword  
His Servant David still defends.   

11. Fight thou against my foreign Foes,  
Whose Mouths vent Speeches false and vain,  
Who, though in solemn Leagues they close,  
Their firm Engagement ne'er maintain.   

12. Then our young Sons like Trees shall grow  
Well planted in some fruitful place;  
Our Daughters shall like Pillars show,  
Designed some Royal Court to grace.   

13. Our Garners, filled with various Store,  
Shall us and ours with Plenty feed,  
Our Sheep, increasing more and more,  
Shall thousands and ten thousands breed.   

14. Our labouring Oxen strong may grow,  
Nor in their constant Labour faint,  
Whilst we no War nor Slavery know,  
And in our Streets hear no Complaint.   

15. Thrice happy is that People's Case,  
Whose various Blessings thus abound,  
Who God's true Worship s●ill embrace,  
With his Protection always crowned.    

PSALM CXLV.  


1, 2. THEE I'll extol, my God and King,  
Thy endless Praise proclaim;  
This Tribute daily I will bring  
And ever bless thy Name.   

3. Thou, Lord, beyond compare art great,  
And highly to be praised;  
Thy Majesty, with boundless Height,  
Above our Knowledge raised.   

4. Renowned for mighty Acts, thy Fame  
To future Times extends;  
From Age to Age thy glorious Name  
Successively descends.   

5, 6. Whilst I thy Glory and Renown,  
And wondrous Works express;  
The World with me thy Might shall own,  
And thy great Power confess.   

7. The Praise that to thy Love belongs  
They shall with Joy proclaim;  
Thy Truth of all their grateful Songs  
Shall be the constant Theme.   

8. The Lord abounds with Acts of Grace,  
Which Pity still supplies;  
His Anger moves with leisure pace:  
His willing Mercy flies.   

9, 10. Thou, Lord● art good to all; thy Love  
To all thy Works expressed;  
By them still praised thy Name shall prove,  
And by thy Servants blest.   

11. They, with the glorious Prospect fir'd,  
Shall of thy Kingdom speak;  
And thy great Power, by all admired,  
Their lofty Subject make.   

12. God's glorious Works of ancient date  
Shall thus to all be known;  
And thus his Kingdom's Royal State,  
With public Splendour shown.   

13. His steadfast Throne, from Changes free,  
Shall stand for ever fast;  
His boundless Sway no end shall see,  
But Time itself outlast.    

PART II.  

14, 15. The Lord does them support that fall,  
And makes the prostrate rise;  
For his kind Aid all Creatures call,  
Who timely Food supplies.   

16. What e'er their frequent Wants require  
With open hand he gives;  
And so fulfils the just Desire●  
Of every thing that lives.   

17, 18. How holy is the Lord, how just!  
How righteous all his Ways!  
How nigh to him, who with firm Trust,  
For his Assistance prays.   

19 He'll grant the full Desires of those  
Who him with Fear adore;  
And all their Troubles soon compose  
When they his Aid implore.   

20. The Lord preserves all those with Care  
Whom grateful Love employs;  
But Sinners who his Vengeance dare,  
With furious Rage destroys.   

21. My Time to come in Praises spent,  
Shall celebrate his Fame:  
And all Mankind with one Consent  
Shall ever bless his Name●     

PSALM CXLVI.  

1, 2. O Praise the Lord, and thou, my Soul,  
For ever bless his Name:  
His wondrous Love, while Life shall last●  
My constant Praise does claim.   

3. On Kings, the greatest Sons of Men,  
For Succour ne'er rely;  
They can't defend in dangerous times,  
Nor timely Help apply.   

4. Formed out of Dust, their Breath once gone  
Again in Dust they lie;  
And all their Thoughts and vain Designs  
Together with them die.   

5. Then happy he, who Iacob's God  
For his Protector takes;  
Who still, with well-placed Hope, the Lord  
His constant Refuge makes.   

6. The Lord, who made both Heaven and Earth  
And all that both contain,  
Will never quit his steadfast Truth,  
Nor make his promise vain.   

7. The poor oppressed, from all their Wrongs,  
Are eased by his Decree;  
He gives the Hungry needful Food,  
And sets the Prisoners free.   

8. By him the Blind receive their Sight,  
The weak and fallen he rears:  
With kind Regard, and tender Love  
He for the righteous cares.   

9 The Strangers he preserves from Harm,  
The Widow kindly treats,  
He guards the Orphan, and the Wiles  
Of wicked men defeats.   

10. The God that does in Zion dwell,  
Is our eternal King:  
From Age to Age his Reign endures.  
Let all his Praises sing.    

PSALM CXLVII.  

1. O Praise the Lord with Hymns of Joy,  
And celebrate his Fame;  
For pleasant, good, and comely 'tis  
To praise his Holy Name.   

2. His holy City God will build,  
Tho levelled with the Ground;  
And bring his People back, dispersed  
O'er all the Nations round.   

3, 4. He kindly heals the broken Hearts,  
And all their Wounds does close;  
He tells the Number of the Stars  
Their several Names he knows.   

5, 6. Great is the Lord, and great his Power;  
His Wisdom knows no Bound.  
The meek he raises and throws down  
The Wicked to the Ground.   

7. To God, the Lord, a Hymn of Praise  
With grateful Voices sing;  
To Songs of Triumph tune the Harp,  
And strike each warbling string.   

8. He covers Heaven with Clouds, and thence  
Refreshing Rain bestows,  
Through him, on Mountain-tops, the Grass  
With wondrous Plenty grows.   

9 He, savage Beasts, that loosely range  
With timely Food supplies.  
He feeds the Raven's tender Brood,  
And stops their hungry Cries.   

10. He values not the warlike Steed,  
Nor in his Strength delights;  
The nimble Foot, that swiftly runs,  
With just Disdain he slights.   

11. But he, to him that fears his Name,  
His tender Love extends;  
To him that on his boundless Grace  
With steadfast Hope depends.   

12, 13. Let Zion and Ierus'lem then,  
To God their Praise address;  
Who fenced their Gates with massy Bars,  
And does their Children bless.   

14, 15. He makes in all their Borders Peace,  
With finest Wheat they're fed,  
He speaks the Word, and what he wills  
Is done as soon as said.   

16. Large Flakes of Snow, like fleecy Wool,  
Descend at his Command;  
And Hoary Frost, like Ashes spread,  
Is scattered o'er the Land.   

17. When he does, joined to these, his Ice  
In little Morsels break,  
Who can against his piercing Cold  
Secure Defences make?   

18. He sends his Word, and straight it melts;  
He makes his Wind to blow,  
And soon the Streams, congealed before  
In plenteous Currents flow.   

19 By Him his Statutes and Decrees  
To Iacob's Sons were shown;  
And still to Isr'el's chosen Seed  
His righteous Laws are known.   

20. No other Nation this can boast,  
Nor did he e'er afford  
To heathen Lands his Oracles,  
And Knowledge of his Word.  
Hallelujahs    

PSALM CXLVIII.  

1. YE boundless Realms of Joy  
Exalt your Maker's Fame;  
His Praise your Song employ  
Above the starry Frame:   

2. Your Voices raise,  
Ye Cherubims  
And Seraphims  
To sing his Praise.   

3, 4. Thou Moon, that rul'st the Night,  
And Sun that guid'st the Day,  
Ye glittering Stars of Light  
To him your Homage pay:  
His Praise declare  
Ye heavens above  
And Clouds that move  
In liquid Air.   

5, 6. Let them adore the Lord,  
And praise his holy Name,  
By whose Almighty Word  
They all from Nothing came.  
And so shall last,  
From Changes free,  
His firm Decree  
Stands ever fast.   

7, 8. Let Earth her Tribute pay;  
Praise him, ye dreadful Whales,  
And Fish that through the Sea  
Glide swift with glittering Scales.  
Fire, Hail, and Snow,  
And misty Air,  
And Winds that, where  
He bids them, blow.   

9, 10. By Hills and Mountains (all  
In grateful Consort joined)  
By Cedars stately tall,  
And Trees for Fruit designed.  
By every Beast,  
And creeping thing,  
And Fowl of Wing,  
His Name be blest.   

11, 12. Let all of Royal Birth,  
With those of humbler Frame,  
And Judges of the Earth,  
His matchless Praise proclaim.  
In this Design  
Let Youths with Maids,  
And hoary Heads  
With Children join.   

13. United Zeal be shown,  
His wondrous Fame to raise,  
Whose glorious Name alone  
Deserves our endless Praise.  
Earth's utmost Ends  
His Power obey:  
His glorious Sway  
The Skies transcends.   

14. His chosen Saints to grace  
He sets their Horn on high,  
And favours Isr'el's Race  
Who still to him are nigh.  
O therefore raise  
Your grateful Voice  
And still rejoice  
The Lord to praise.    

PSALM CXLIX.  

1, 2. O Praise ye the Lord,  
prepare your glad Voice  
His Praise in the great  
Assembly to sing.  
In our great Creator  
let Isr'el rejoice,  
And Children of Zion  
be glad in their King.   

3, 4. Let them his great Name  
extol in the Dance;  
With Timbrel and Harp  
his Praises express,  
Who always takes pleasure  
his Saints to advance,  
And with his Salvation  
the Humble to bless.   

5, 6. With Glory adorned  
his People shall sing  
To God, who their Beds  
With Safety does shield;  
Their Mouth filled with Praises  
of him their great King;  
Whilst a twoedged Sword  
in their Hand they shall wield,   

7, 8. Just Vengeance to take  
for Injuries past;  
To punish those Lands  
that know not his Mind;  
With Chains, as their Captives,  
to tie their Kings fast,  
With Fetters of Iron  
their Nobles to bind.   

9 Thus shall they make good,  
when them they destroy,  
The dreadful Decree  
which God does proclaim:  
Such Honour and Triumph  
his Saints shall enjoy.  
O therefore for ever  
exalt his great Name.    

PSALM CL.  

1. O Praise the Lord in that blessed Place,  
From whence his Goodness largely flows,  
Praise him in Heaven where he his Face  
Unveiled in perfect Glory shows.   

2. Praise him for all the mighty Acts  
Which he in our behalf has done;  
His Kindness this Return exacts,  
With which our Praise should equal run.   

3. Let the Shrill Trumpet's warlike Voice  
Make Rocks and Hills his Praise rebound;  
Praise him with Harp's melodious Noise,  
And gentle Psaltry's silver Sound.   

4. Let Virgin-Troops soft Timbrels bring,  
And some with graceful Motion dance;  
Let Instruments of various Strings,  
With Organs joined, his Praise advance●   

5. Let them who joyful Hymns compose  
To Cymbals set their Songs of Praise;  
Cymbals of common Use, and those  
That loudly sound on solemn Days.   

6. Let all things with glad Zeal contend  
The Breath he does to them afford  
In just Returns of Praise to spend;  
Let every ●reature praise the Lord.    
The END of the PSALMS.   

Gloria Patri, etc.  

Common Measure.  
To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,  
The God whom we adore,  
Be Glory, as it was, is now,  
And shall be evermore.   

As Psalm 100, etc.  
To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,  
The God whom Earth and Heaven adore,  
Be Glory, as it was of old,  
Is now, and shall be evermore.   

As Psalm 25, etc.  
To God the Father, Son,  
And Spirit, Glory be,  
As 'twas, and is, and shall be so  
To all Eternity.    

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