THE SONGS OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT IN MEETER:  
By M. ZACHARY BOYD Preacher of God's Word.  EPHES. 5. 18. 19 Be ye filled with the Spirit, &c. Speaking to yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual Songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. 
GLASGOW, Printed by the heirs of GEORGE ANDERSON. Anno 1648.   

The Songs of the Old and New Testament.  

THe Song of Songs, 1  
The Song of Moses at the red Sea. 2.  
The song of Moses a little before his death 3  
The song of Deborah. 4  
The song of Hannah. 5  
David's lamentations for: Saul and Jonathan. 6  
The song of David at the promise of Messiah. 7  
The song of Isaiah concerning the vineyard. 8  
Isaiah's song of thanks for God's mercies. 9  
Isaiah's song inciting to confidence in God. 10  
The song of Hezekiah. 11  
The Lamentations of Ierem●ah. 12  
The song of Jonah. 13  
The song of Habakktik. 14  
The song of Marie. 15  
The song of Zachari●s. 16  
The song of Simeon. 17    

To the right Reverend, the faithful Ministers of God's Word of the Church of Scotland.  
RIGHT REVEREND,  
IT pleased You in the general Assembly last, at Edinburgh, Anno 1647. to take to your consideration, the great utility the Church of GOD may have by the Songs contained in holy Scriptures; After due deliberation, it pleased You to ordain that I should labour in that work● In obedience unto You, I have endeavoured to come as near to the Text as was possible for me to do; And those my labours I in all humility offer to be considered, by the most learned and most judicious Brethren, that the Church having the use thereof, may in obedience to the Apostles precept Ephes. 5. 18. in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual Songs, make melody in their heart to the Lord, whom I entreat in all humility to direct You in all things by his holy Spirit; So I remain  
From Glasgow, the 27 of February, 1648. Your humble servant in the LORD, M. ZACHARY BOYD.   

THE SONG OF Solomon made in praise of Christ, and his Church.  

CHAPTER I.  The Church speaketh to Christ. 
LEt him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.  

LEt him with kisses of his mouth  
to kiss me now incline,  
For sure thy love far better is  
then is the finest wine.   
2 Because of the savour of thy good ointments, thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.  

2  
Because that of thine ointments ●ood  
the savour sweet doth prove,  
Thy Name as ointment forth is poured  
thee therefore virgins love.   
3 Draw me, we will run after thee: the King hath brought me into his chambers:  

3  
Do thou me draw and then anon  
we after thee will run:  
The King himself he hath me now  
his chambers brought within.   
We will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.  

We'll in thee glade be and rejoice,  
thy love also will we  
Remeber more then finest wine,  
the upright do love thee.   
4 I am black, but comely, (O ye daughters of Jerusalem) as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.  

4  
O Salem's daughters black I am,  
but yet a comely one  
As tents of Kedar, and even as  
curtains of Solomon.   
5 Look not upon me because I am black, because the Sun hath looked upon me.  

5  
Upon me look not ye, because  
I black do seem to be,  
Because the Sun hath with his beams  
long looked upon me.   
My mother's children were angry with me, they made me the keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept.  

My mother's children wroth with me  
the vineyards keeper made,  
But I myself have not at all  
so kept mine own vineyard.   
6 Tell me (O thou whom my soul loveth) where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon:  

6  
O thou, whom dearly loves my soul,  
I pray thee tell me soon  
Where thou dost feed, and where thou mak'st  
thy flock to rest at noon.   
For why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?  

For why should I be any way  
as one that turns aside  
By flocks of thy companions  
where e'er they do abide?   CHRIST. 
7 If thou know not, (O thou fairest among women) go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherd's tents.  

7  
O fairest one if thou not know,  
by the flocks footsteps go,  
And do thou feed thy kids beside  
the shepherd's tents also.   
8 I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.  

8  
My love unto a company  
I have compared thee,  
Of horses in the chariots  
that for King Pharo be.   
9 Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.  
10 We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.  

9  
With jewel rows thy cheeks are fair,  
with chains of gold thy neck:   

10  
Of gold we borders will thee make  
which silver studs do deck.   The Church. 
11 While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.  
12 A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me;  

11  
While at his table sits the King  
my spikenard sends it smell:   

12  
Of myrrh a bundle unto me  
is my beloved well.   
He shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.  
13 My beloved is unto me, as a cluster of Camphire, in the vineyards of Engedi.  

Betwixt my breasts he'll lie all night   

13  
My welbelou'ds to me  
As of Engedy's vineyards rare,  
the Camphires clusters be▪   CHRIST. 
14 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair, thou hast doves eyes.  

14  
O do behold, most fair thou art  
Even thou my love so rare,  
Behold of Doves the eyes thou hast,  
and thou art very fair.   The Church. 
15 Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea pleasant: also our bed is green.  
16 The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fire.  

15  
Lo, pleasant fair thou art my love,  
green also is our bed:   

16  
Beams of our house they cedars are,  
of fir our rafters made.    

CHAPTER II.  CHRIST. 
I Am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.  
2 As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.  

I'M Sharons' rose, the lily als'  
that valleys grows along:   

2  
As lilies among thorns, my love  
so daughters is among.   The Church. 
3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons.  

3  
As the apple tree among the trees  
is of the wood so throng,  
So likewise my Beloved is,  
the sons of men among.   
● I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.  

Under his shadow I sat down  
with great delight there placed,  
And there his fruit which pleasant is  
was sweet unto my taste.   
4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.  

4  
Unto the house of banqueting▪  
to come he did me move▪  
His banner that was over me  
was altogether love.   
5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples; for I am sick of love.  
6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.  

5  
Me sick of love with flagons stay,  
with apples me solace:   

6  
Under my head his left hand is,  
his right me doth embrace.   
7 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the Roes, and by the Hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love till he please.  

7  
By Roes, field Hindes, O Salem's maids,  
I charge you that ye cease  
●o stir or yet at all awake  
my love, until he please.   
8 The voice of my beloved! behold, he co●eth leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon ●●e hills.  

The voice of my beloved! behold!  
he cometh thus anon  
●pon the mountains leaping high  
and skipping hills upon.   
9 My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart: hold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh ●●th at the windows, showing himself through ●●e lattice.  

He's like a Roe or Hart that's young,  
he stands behind our wall,  
●t windows he looks forth, himself  
he shows through lattice all.   
10 My beloved spoke, and said unto me, ●se up my love, my fair one, and come away.  
11 For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over ●●d gone.  

Then my beloved said, Rise my love,  
away come my fair One:   

For lo the winter it is past,  
the rain is o'er and gone.   
12 The flowers appear on the earth, the time the singing of birds is come, and the voice of turtle is heard in our land.  

12  
The flowers upon the earth appear,  
of singing of the bird  
The time is come; the Turtles voice  
within our land is heard.   
13 The figtree putteth forth her green figs and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.  

13  
The fig tree her green figs puts forth,  
vines with grapes tender they  
Do sweetly smell; arise my love  
my fair one come away.   CHRIST. 
14 O my dove that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs,  

14  
O thou my dove that art even now  
in cliffs within the rock,  
Within the secret places of  
the stairs where thou dost lurk.   
Let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice, for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.  

Let thou me see thy countenance,  
thy voice let thou me hear,  
For sweet thy voice is, and also  
thy countenance is clear.   
15 Take us the Foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.  

15  
Do ye for us the foxes take,  
foxes that little be  
That spoil the vines, for tender grapes  
our vines have, as ye see.   The Church. 
16 My beloved is mine, and I am his: he ●eedeth among the lilies.  

16  
My well-beloved sure is mine,  
and I am his indeed,  
Among the lilies smelling sweet  
he pleasantly doth feed.   
17 until the day break, and the shadows ●lee away: turn my beloved, and be thou like a Roe, or a young Hart, upon the mountains of Bether.  

17  
Until day break and shades flee hence,  
turn my beloved, and be  
Thou like a Roe, or Hart that's young  
on Bethers mountains high.    

CHAPTER III.  
BY night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found ●im not.  

BY night I did upon my bed  
him seek with all my mind  
Whom my soul loveth; I him sought,  
but him I did not find.   
2 I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my Soul loveth:  

2  
I will now rise, and in the streets  
about the city move,  
And in the broad ways I will seek  
him whom my soul doth love.   
I sought him, but I found him not.  
3 The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my Soul loveth.  
I sought him, but I found him not,  

3  
The Cities watchmen me  
Did find; I said then did ye him  
whom my soul loveth see?   
4 It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my Soul loveth;  

4  
It but a little was that I  
from them did pass away,  
But I him whom my soul doth love  
did find without delay:   
I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.  

I held and would not let him go,  
Until that by me he  
Was to her house and chamber brought  
that had conceived me.   
5 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the Roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love till he please.  

5  
O Salem's daughters I you charge  
by Roes, field Hindes ye cease  
To stir or yet for to awake  
my love until he please.   
6 Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant.  

6  
Of smoke like pillars who is this  
that comes from wilderness,  
Perfumed with frankincense and myrrh,  
all merchands powders als'.   
7 Behold his bed, which is Solomons: threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.  

7  
Behold, his bed is Solomon's,  
threescore men valiant all  
About it are, of those that are  
the valiant of Israel.   
8 They all hold swords, being expert in war, Every man hath his sword upon his thigh, because of fear in the night.  

8  
Expert in war, they all do hold  
swords in their hands most bright,  
●ach man his sword hath on his thigh,  
because of fear by night.   
9 King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.  
10 He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold,  

9  
Of lebanons' wood Solomon  
himself a chariot made;   

10  
its pillars made of silver were,  
with gold the bottom laid:   
The covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.  

The covering of it purple was,  
the midst of it for them  
Was paved with love, that daughters were  
of his Jerusalem.   
11 Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold King Solomon,  

11  
Oye that Zion's daughters are  
do ye go forth anon,  
And do ye with great reverence  
behold king Solomon.   
With the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.  

With crown wherewith his mother him  
Crowned in his spousals day,  
And in the day his heart was filled  
with gladness every way.    

CHAPTER IV.  CHRIST. 
BEhold, thou art fair, my love, behold thou art fair, thou hast doves eyes within thy locks:  

BEhold my love thou art most fair▪  
behold fair is thy skin,  
The pure and chaste eyes of the Dove  
thou hast thy locks within:   
Thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear● from mount Gilead.  

Thy hair that is upon thy head,  
is also very near▪  
Like to a flock of goats that from  
mount Gilead do appear.   
2 Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep, that are even shorn which came up from the washing, whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.  

2  
Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep,  
Even shorn from washing gone,  
Whereof each one bare twins, and them  
among is barren none.   
3 Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a prece of a pomegranate within thy locks.  

3  
Thy speech is comely, and thy lips  
like scarlet thread we see,  
Within thy locks thy temples like  
piece of pomgranats be.   
4 Thy neck is like the tower of David, buil●ded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thou●sand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.  

4  
Thy neck is like King David's tower,  
built for an armoury,  
Whereon a thousand bucklers hang,  
Men's shields that mighty be.   
5 Thy two breasts are like two young Roe● that are twins, which feed among the lilies.  

5  
Thy breasts in number two are like  
unto two Roes indeed  
That young are, and are also twins  
which 'mong the lilies feed.   
6 until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mo●ntaine of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.  

6  
Until the day most clearly break  
and shadows flee from hence;  
I'll get me to thee mounts of myrrh,  
and hill of frankincense.   
7 Thou art all fair, my love, there is no spot in thee.  
8 Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon:  

7  
Thou art all fair my love, there is  
no spot at all in thee:   

8  
Spouse come with me from Lebanon  
from Lebanon with me   
Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lion's dens, from the mountains of the Leopards.  

Look from the tops of Amana,  
Shenir and Hermon high,  
From lion's dens, from mountains great  
where Leopards there be.   
9 Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse, thou hast ravished my heart, with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.  

9  
My heart thou ravished, sister, spouse,  
my heart thou in effect  
Hast ravished with one of thine eyes,  
with one chain of thy neck.   
10 How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse, how much better is thy love then wine? and the smell of thine ointments then all spices.  

10  
How fair's thy love, my sister spouse?  
how better much than wine  
Is this thy love! thine ointments smell  
more than all spices fine!   
11 Thy lips, O my spouse drop as the hooneycomb , honey and milk are under thy tongue, and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.  

11  
Thy lips, Spouse, drop as honey comb,  
the honey milk excel  
Under thy tongue; as Lebanon  
thy garments they do smell.   
12 A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse: a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.  

12  
My sister spouse a garden is,  
which is enclosed well,  
A spring shut up, a fountain als'  
whereon is set a seal.   
13 Thy plants are an orchard of Pomegranates, with pleasant fruits, Camphire, with Spikenard.  

13  
Thy plants an orchard are also  
Even of pomegranates rare,  
With pleasant fruits, the Camphire sweet  
and spikenard likewise are:   
14 Spikenard and Saffron, Calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, myrrh, and Aloes, with all the chief spices:  

14  
Spikenard, Saffron, and Calamus,  
and cinnamon with all,  
Trees of franklncense, Aloes, myrrh,  
all spices principal.   
15 A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.  

15  
A fountain for to water well  
the gardens all anon▪  
A well of living waters als'  
and streams from Lebanon.   The Church. 
16 Awake, O northwind, and come thou South, blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out;  

16  
O north wind, do thou now awake,  
and come thou south about,  
Upon my garden blow; that so  
its spices may flow out:   
Let my beloved come into his garden, and cat his plea●●nt fruits.  

Let him that my beloved is  
come to his garden sweet,  
That he his fruits that pleasant are  
may with contentment eat.    

CHAPTER V.  CHRIST. 
I Am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse, I have gathered my myrrh with my spice,  

MY sister and my spouse, I am  
my garden come into,  
I carefully have gathered  
my myrrh and spice also.   
I have eaten my honey comb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends, drink, yea drink abundantly, O beloved!  

I honey comb with honey ate,  
my wine, milk, drunk have I,  
Eat, O ye friends, drink O beloved;  
yea, drink abundantly.   The Church. 
2 I sleep, but mine heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying,  

2  
I sleep securely but my heart  
doth wake both night and day,  
It is the voice of my beloved  
that knocking thus doth say,   
Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.  

My Sister, Love, Dove, undefiled,  
now open to me right,  
For filled is my head with dew,  
my locks with drops of night.   
3 I have put off my coat, how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them?  

3  
I have put off my coat, how shall  
I put it on a while?  
I washed also have my feet  
how shall I them defile?   
4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole o the door, and my bowels were moved for him.  

4  
By of the door the hole his hand  
my well-beloved put in,  
And for him then my bowels all  
were moved me within.   
5 I rose up to open to my beloved, and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles o● the lock.  

5  
To open to my love I rose,  
my hands with myrrh did drop,  
My fingers with sweet smelling myrrh  
on handles of the lock.   
6 I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone:  

6  
To my beloved I oped then,  
but my beloved alone  
Withdrawn himself had far away,  
and from the door was gone:   
My soul failed: when he spoke I sought him but I could not find him: I called him, but he gave me no answer.  

My soul it failed when he spoke,  
I after him did crave,  
But could not find him, I him called,  
but he no answer gave.   
7 The watchmen that went about the city, found me, they smote me, they wounded me, the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.  

7  
The cities watchmen found me then,  
me smote, me wounded they,  
The keepers of the walls they took  
my veil from me away.   
8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.  

8  
O daughters of Jerusalem  
I charge you from above,  
If my beloved ye find, that ye  
him tell, I'm sick of love.   The Daughters of Jerusalem. 
9 What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?  

9  
O fairest, among women thou  
what's thy Beloved more?  
What is he more than others are,  
that thou dost charge so sore?   The Church. 
10 My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.  
11 His head is as the most fine gold, his looks are bushy and black as a raven.  

10  
Both white and rudy's my beloved,  
chief among thousands ten:   

11  
His head's as gold, his bushy locks  
are black as is a rau'n.   
〈◊〉 His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk and fitly set.  

12  
His eyes are as the eyes of doves  
that by the rivers sit,  
They washed also are with milk  
and they are fitly set.   
13 His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.  

13  
His cheeks are as the spices bed,  
as flowers that sweet excel,  
His lips like lilies drooping myrrh,  
that hath the sweetest smell.   
14 His hands are as gold rings set with the Berill: His belly is as bright ivory, overlaid with Saphires.  

14  
His hands as goldrings als are set  
with Berill richly made,  
His belly as bright ivory is  
with Saphires overlaid.   
15 His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the Cedars.  

15  
His legs like Marble pillars are,  
on fine gold sockers set;  
His countenance is as Lebanon,  
as Cedars passing great.   
16 His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely: This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.  

16  
Most sweet his mouth is, yea he is  
most lovely altogether:  
This my beloved, and this my Friend  
is, O thou Salem's daughter.    

CHAPTER VI.  The Daughters of Jerusalem. 
WHether is thy beloved gone? O thou fairest among women, whether is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.  

O Whither's thy Beloved gone,  
of women all most fair?  
O whither turned, that we with thee  
may seek him, now declare?   The Church. 
2 My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.  

2  
Into his garden my beloved  
to beds of spices rare,  
To feed in gardens is gone down  
to gather lilies there.   
3 I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mines be feedeth among the lilies.  

3  
My Welbeloveds I am all,  
and my beloved Indeed  
Is likewise mine: and now he doth  
among the lilies feed.   CHRIST. 
4 Thou art beautiful, O my love as Tirzah comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.  

4  
My love as Tirza beautiful  
as Salem comely so  
Thou art; as one host terrible  
that doth with banners go.   
5 turn away thine eyes from me for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.  

5  
From me thine eyes turn thou away,  
for they me overcome,  
Thy hair is as a flock of goats  
from Gilead that do come.   
6 Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them.  

6  
Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep,  
which go from washing throng:  
Eacl● one bears twins, and there is not  
one barren them among.   
7 As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.  

7  
The temples also of thine head  
within thy locks that lie,  
As of a pomegtanate a piece  
do seem right pleasantly.   
8 There are threescore Queens, and fourscore Concubines, and Virgins without number.  

8  
Though threescore of fair queens there be,  
and concubines fourscore,  
And virgin's als' them to attend,  
Even without number more.   
9 My dove, my undefiled is but one: she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her:  

9  
My Dove my undefild's burr one,  
she of her mother ●ale  
Is th'only one, and she the choice  
is of her that her bare.   
The daughters saw her, and blessed her▪ yea, the Queens and the Concubines and they praised her.  

The daughters of the land her saw,  
and blessed her likewise,  
Yea even the Queens and Concubines and they als' did her praise.   
10 Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?  

10  
Who's she as morning that looks forth,  
fair as the Moon, and clear  
As is the sun, and armies as  
that dreadful banners bear.   
11 I went down into the garden of nuts, to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.  

11  
I down to the Nut-garden went  
the valleys fruits to see:  
To see if vines were flouri●h'd, and  
pomegranates budded be.   
12 Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadab.  

12  
Or ever then I was aware,  
my soul i● at the last  
Like charets of Aminadab  
made me to make great haste.   
13 Return, return, O Shulamite, return, return, that we may look upon thee:  

13  
Return, return O Shulamite,  
return, return to me:  
That we with gladness great of heart  
may so now look on thee;   
What will ye see in the Shulamite? as it were the company of two armies.  

What will ye in the Shulamite  
with great contentment see?  
Even such a sight as if it were  
two Armies company.    

CHAPTER VII.  
HOw beautiful are thy feet with sho●es, O Princes daughter, the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cun●ing workman.  

HOw beautiful thy feet with shoes  
O Princes daughter are!  
Joints of thy thighs are jewels like  
wrought by a workman rare.   
2 Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat, set about with lilies.  

2  
Thy navel's like a goblet round,  
which liquour wanteth not:  
Thy belly's like an heap of wheat,  
with lilies set about.   
3 Thy two breasts are like two young Roes, that are twins.  
4 Thy neck is as a tower of ivory: thine eyes like the fish pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim:  

3  
Thy breasts are like two twin young Roes:   
As ivory tower is set  

4  
Thy neck, thine eyes like Heshbons' pools  
hard by Bathrabbims gate.   
Thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon, which looketh toward Damascus.  

Thy nose it is even like the tower  
that is in Lebanon,  
Which toward all the city of  
Damascus looketh down.   
5 Thine head upon thee is like Carmell, and the hair of thine head like purple, the King is held in the galleries.  

5  
Thy head on thee is Carmel like,  
als' of thine head the hair  
Is Purple like, the King is held  
in galleries most rare.   
6 How fair, and how pleasant art thou, O Love, for delights!  
7 This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.  

6  
O love how art thou for delights  
both pleasant and how fair!   

●  
Thy stature●'s like palm trees, thy breasts  
they like grapes clusters are.   
8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof,  

8  
I did then say that I go up  
unto the palm tree would,  
Yea of the boughs thereof I will  
with all my force take hold.   
Now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples.  

Now also shall thy breasts all be  
as clusters of the vine,  
And of thy nose the pleasant smell  
like apples that are fine.   
9 And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep, to speak.  

9  
Roof of thy mouth like best wine is  
that sweetly down doth go  
For my beloved, and sleepers lips  
doth cause to speak also.   The Church. 
10 I am my beloved's, and his desire is towards me.  
11 Come my beloved, let us go forth into the field:  

10  
Ay my beloved's am, and his  
desire is towards me,   

11  
Come my beloved, unto the field,  
let us forth going be,   
Let us lodge in the villages.  
12 Let us get up early to the vineyards, let us see if the vine flourish,  

12  
Let us lodge in the villages:  
Up early get to be  
At vineyards, if so that the vines  
do flourish let us see:   
Whether the tender grapesappear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.  

Even whether tender grapes appear,  
and pomegranates bud forth,  
There surely will I give to thee  
my loves of greatest worth.   
●3 The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old which I have laid up for thee, O my ●eloved.  

13  
The mandrakes smell, and at our gates  
all pleasant fruits there be,  
Both new and old, which I laid up,  
O my beloved for thee.    

CHAPTER VIII.  The believing Jews. 
O That thou wert as my brother that sucked the breasts of my mother, when I should find thee without,  

O That thou as my brother wert  
that of my mother kind  
Did suck the breasts, even at what time  
I thee without should find.   
I would kiss thee, yet I should not be despised.  
2 I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me:  

2  
I would thee kiss, yet not be loathed  
Yea I would thee conduct,  
And bring thee to my mother's house  
who would me there instruct.   
I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.  
3 His left hand should be under my head: ●nd his right hand should embrace me.  

3  
● would thee cause drink spiced wine  
of my pomegranates juice:  
Under my head his left hand laid,  
his right should me embrace.   
4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, ●hat ye stir not up, nor awake my love until he please.  

4  
O daughters of Jerusalem,  
I charge you that you cease  
To stir up or awake my love,  
and that until he please.   CHRIST. 
5 Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved?  

5  
Who is this from the wilderness  
that comes up by and by?  
And thus on her Beloved One  
doth leaning still rely?   
I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth, there she brought thee forth that bare thee.  

Under the apple tree I thee ●  
did raise up being there,  
Thy mother there thee did bring forth,  
she brought forth that thee bare.   Jewish Church. 
6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: For love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave:  

6  
Me as a seal upon thine heart  
as seal on arm m'ingrave:  
For love's as death strong, jealousy  
is cruel as the grave.   
The coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.  
7 Many waters cannot quench love, neith● can the floods drown it:  

7  
The coals there of are coals of fire,  
which hath a vehement flame:  
The waters great, love can not quench  
nor floods can drown the same.   
If a man would give all the substance of ● house for love, It would utterly be contemned  

If of his house the substance all  
a man for love to buy  
Would glad give, yet would it be  
contemned utterly.   
8 We have a little sister, and she hath 〈◊〉 breasts, what shall we do for our sister, in 〈◊〉 day when she shall be spoken for?  

8  
We have a little sister, which  
no breasts hath less or more,  
What shall we for her do the day  
she shall be spoken for?   CHRIST. 
9 If she be a wall, we will build upon her palace of silver: and if she be a door, we 〈◊〉 enclose her with boards of Cedar.  

9  
If ●he a wall be, we'll on her  
a palace build of silver;  
If she a door be, we her will  
Enclose with boards of Cedar.   The Church. 
10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers▪ than was I in his eyes as one that found favour.  

10  
I am a wall, my breasts they are  
like towers upon the ground,  
Then was I in his eyes as one  
that had his favour found.   CHRIST. 
11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon, he let out the vineyard unto keepers:  

11  
At Baal-Hamon a vineyard  
king Solomon had set;  
The vineyard unto keepers he  
for profit out had let.   
Every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.  

Of those his servants every one  
for the fruit of the vine  
A thousand pieces was to bring  
of silver that was fine.   
12 My vineyard which is mine, is before me: thou (O Solomon) must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof, two hundred.  

12  
My vineyard mine before me is,  
thou must O Solomon  
A thousand have; who keep its fruits  
two hundred live upon,   
13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions harken to thy voice, cause me 〈◊〉 hear it.  

13  
O thou that in the gardens fair  
most pleasantly dost dwell,  
Companions harken to thy voice,  
cause me to hear it well.   The Church. 
14 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou lik●●●to a Roe, or to a young Hart, upon the mountain● of spices.  

14  
Make haste my well-beloved, and be  
thou like unto a Ro,  
Or unto a young Hart that doth  
on hills of spices go.     

The Song of Moses at the Red Sea, after God had drowned Pharaoh and his whole host. EXODUS 15. 1.  
I Will sing unto the Lord, for he hath trium●phed gloriously; the horse and his rider h●●● he thrown into the sea.  

I To the Lord will sing, for he  
Triumphed hath gloriously;  
The horse he and his rider als'  
hath thrown into the sea.   
2 The Lord is my strength and song, and 〈◊〉 is become my salvation: he is my God, and I 〈◊〉 prepare him an habitation;  

2  
The Lord my strength is and my song,  
and he is my salvation,  
He is my God, and I'll prepare  
for him an habitation.   
My father's God, and I will exalt him.  
3 The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is●is Name.  

He is my father's God, and I  
will high exalt his fame:   

3  
The Lord he is a man of war,  
JEHOVAH is his Name.   
4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast ●nto the sea: his chosen captains also are drown●d in the Red sea.  

4  
He Pharos charets and his host  
hath cast into the sea:  
Now in the red sea also drowned  
his chosen captains be.   
5 The depths have covered them, they sank ●nto the bottom as a stone.  

The fearful depths they likewise have,  
them covered eachone,  
●nto the bottom headlongs they  
then sank as doth a stone.   
6 Thy right hand, O Lord is become glori●us in power; thy right hand, O Lord, hath dash●d in pieces the enemy.  

6  
Thy right hand Lord it is become  
in power glorious all,  
Thy right hand Lord the enemy  
hath da●h'd in pieces small.   
7 And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee; thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.  

7  
Who 'gainst thee rose them thou ou'rthrew,  
in great excellency,  
Thy wrath thou sentest forth which them  
Consumed as stubble dry.   
8 And with the blast of thy nostrils, the waters were gathered together: the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.  

8  
The waters at thy nostrils blast,  
together gathered were:  
Floods stood as heaps, in heart of sea,  
the depths congealed were there.   
9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil: my lust shall be satisfied upon them:  

9  
The en'my said, I will pursue,  
I'll overtake anon,  
I'll part the spoil; my lust shall be  
them satisfied upon;   
I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.  
10 Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them, they sank as lead in the mighty waters.  

I'll draw my sword, my hand it shall  
destroy them all indeed:   

10  
Thy wind blew, seas them cov●●d, they in  
great waters sank as lead:   
11 Who is like unto thee, O Lord, amongst the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?  

11  
Who's like thee Lord among the gods  
who's like thee glorious  
In holiness, fearful in praise  
and doing wonders thus?   
12 Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.  
13 Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed:  

12  
Thy right hand than thou stretched out,  
earth swallowed them at last.   

13  
In mercy thou the folk ledst forth  
which thou redeemed haste:   
Thou hast guided them in thy strength unto ●hy holy habitation.  
14 The people shall hear, and be afraid: ●orrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.  
Thou hast them to thy holy house  
in thy strength guided well.  

14  
Men shall hear, fear, grief shall them seize  
in Palestine that dwell:   
15 than the dukes of Edom shall be amazed: the mighty men of Moah trembling shall take hold upon them: all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.  

15  
The Dukes of Edom then amazed,  
strong Moab trembling shall  
On them take hold, the Canaanites  
they melt away shall all.   
16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them, by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone, till thy people pass over,  

16  
By greatness of thine arm● strong  
fear, dread, shall on them fall,  
They shall be still even as a stone  
till pass thy people all.   
O Lord, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.  

O Lord till that the people do  
Pass ou're with great renown,  
Which thou by thine Almighty hand  
hast purchased as thine own.   
17 Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place O Lord, which thou hast made for thee to dwell. in.  

17  
In hill of thine inheritance  
Lord thou shalt bring them well,  
And plant them in the place which thou  
hast made for them to dwell.   
In the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hand● have established.  
18 The Lord shall reign for ever and ever.  

O Lord even in the Sanctuary  
which thy hand established all:   

18  
The Lord for ever and also  
for ever reign he shall.   
19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots, and with his horsemen into the sea, and the Lord brought again the waters of the sea, upon them:  

19  
For Pharos horse with charets went  
and horsemen in the sea,  
The Lord again sea waters brought  
upon them fearfully.   
But the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.  

But those that were the children then  
of Israel by descent,  
They in the midst of all the sea  
on dry land safely went.    

The Song of Moses a little before his death. DEUT. 32.  

The Preface.  
GIve ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.  

O Ye the heavens that are high  
do ye to me give ear,  
The words that from my mouth proceed  
O earth now do thou hear.   
2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass.  

2  
My doctrine as the rain shall drop,  
my speech as dew shall pass,  
As small rain on the tender herb,  
and showers upon the grass.   
3 Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.  

3  
Because I surely publish will  
the Name of God the Lord,  
Ye greatness to our God therefore  
ascribe with one accord.    

The first Part.  
4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgement: a God of truth, and without iniquity, just and right is he.  

4  
He is the rock, his work's perfect,  
his ways all judgement be;  
A God of truth, void of all sin,  
most just and right is he.   
5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are● perverse and crooked generation.  

5  
Their spot is not his children's spot,  
themselves corrupted they far,  
A crooked generation  
and a perverse they are.   
6 Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? is not be thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?  

6  
Unwise people, do ye requite  
the Lord thus? Is not he  
Thy father, buyer? Hath he not  
made and established thee?   
7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will show thee, thy elders, and they will tell thee.  

7  
Remember ye the days of old,  
Years past consider well;  
Thy father ask, he will thee show,  
thy Elders will thee tell.   
8 When the most high divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam,  

8  
When the most High to Nations did  
th' inheritance divide,  
When he the sons of Adam all  
did separate beside,   
He set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.  

He by his wisdom set the bounds  
then of the people all,  
According to the number of  
the children of Isra'l.   
9 For the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.  

9  
For to his portion hath the Lord  
his people without blot:  
And of his own inheritance  
his Jacob is the lot.   
10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness: he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.  

10  
In wilderness he found 〈◊〉, in  
wast howling desert dry:  
He led, instructed, and 〈◊〉 kept  
as th'●ple of his eye.   
11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings.  

11  
As th' Eagle stirreth up her nest,  
fluttreth her young upon,  
Her wings doth spread, and taketh them,  
and beareth them thereon.   
12 So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.  

12  
So by his might the Lord alone  
did lead him carefully,  
And no strange god there was at all  
with him in company.   
13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields, and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock.  

13  
On earth's high place he made him ride,  
fields increase for to eat,  
From flinty rocks he made him suck  
the oil and honey sweet.   
14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs and rams of the breed of Bashan,  

14  
Of Kine the butter, and of sheep  
the milk, for them in need,  
With fat of lambs, and also rams,  
that were of Bashans' breed.   
And goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat, and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.  

He gave them goats, with Kidneys fat  
of wheat that was right good,  
And thou also even of the grape  
didst drink the purest blood.    

The second Part.  
15 But Jesurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick,  

15  
But Jesurun then waxed fat,  
and he did also kick:  
Thou waxed art exceeding fat,  
thou art grown very thick,   
Thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the rock of his salvation.  

With fatness thou art cou'rd, he than  
God which him made forsook,  
And he of his salvations rock  
light estimation took.   
16 They provocked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.  

16  
They him provoked to jealousy  
with strange gods every way,  
Him with abominations  
to wrath provoked they.   
17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.  

17  
To deu'ls not God they sacrificed,  
to gods whom they not knew,  
New gods whom not your fathers feared,  
that were come up of new.   
18 Of the rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.  

18  
Thou art unmindful of the rock  
which once thee did beget,  
And God himself that formed thee  
thou likewise didst forget.    

The third Part.  
19 And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provocking of his sons, and of his daughters.  

19  
And when the Lord it saw, he did  
abhor them every one,  
Because of the provoking great  
of daughter and of son.   
20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.  

20  
He said, I'll hide from them my face,  
and I their end will see:  
For they a very froward race,  
and faithless children be.   
21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God, they have provoked me to anger with their vanities:  

21  
With that which is not God they have  
me moved to jealousy,  
To anger they have me provoked,  
Even with their vanity.   
And I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people, I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.  

And I'll them move to jealousy  
with such as are no flock,  
Them with a foolish nation  
to anger I'll provoke.   
22 For a fire is kindled in my anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.  

22  
For fire is kindled in my wrath,  
it burns to lowest hell,  
Earth's increase, hills foundations  
consum● and fire it shall.   
23 I will heap mischiefs upon them, I will spend mine arrows upon them.  

23  
Upon them likewise great mischiefs  
most surely heap I will,  
And in mine anger I will spend  
on them mine arrows ill.   
24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction:  

24  
They shall be altogether burnt  
with pain of hunger great,  
And with destruction bitter als'  
Devoured with burning heat:   
I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.  

I also will the teeth of beasts  
upon them fiercely thrust,  
Even with the poison that is of  
the serpents of the dust.   
25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of grey hairs.  

25  
The sword without, terror within,  
the young man shall destroy,  
The virgin, and the suckling als'  
with him whose hairs are grey.   
26 I said, I would s●atter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:  

26  
I said, that into corners I  
would them all scatter then,  
I would make their remembrance als'  
to cease from among men:   
27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strang●ly,  

27  
Yea were it not I feared the wrath  
of th' enemy they have,  
And lest that their adversaries  
should strangely them behave,   
And lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the Lord hath not done all this.  

And lest that they with haughty heart  
should say these words anon:  
Our hand now high is, and the Lord  
this work all hath not done.   
28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.  
29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end.  

28  
For of counsel a Nation void  
they are, nothing know they,   

29  
O that they wise this understood,  
and their last end would weigh.   
30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?  

30  
How should but one a thousand chase,  
and two chase thousands ten:  
●xcept their Rock thus had them sold,  
and them shut up had then.   
31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even ●ur enemies themselves being judges.  

31  
For in no way the rock that's theirs  
as our Rock mighty is,  
Our enemies themselves they are  
the judges even of this.   
32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom●●nd of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are●●apes of gall, their clusters are bitter.  

●2  
Of Sodom's vine and Gomors fields,  
their vine is surely all,  
Their clusters they most bitter are,  
their grapes are grapes of gall.   
33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.  
34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and●aled up among my treasures?  

●3  
Their wine of dragon's poison is,  
of asps the venom strong:   

●4  
4 Is not this laid in store with me  
my treasures sealed among?    

The fourth Part.  
35 To me belongeth vengeance, and re●mpence, their foot shall slide in due time:  

35  
Vengeance to me and recompense  
belongeth for their crime:  
Their foot shall slide assuredly  
in due appointed time.   
For the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.  

The day of their calamity  
it is now near at hand,  
And things that shall upon them come  
make haste, and shall not stand.   
36 For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants; when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.  

36  
For God shall his own people judge,  
and for his saints repent,  
When none shut up or left he sees  
but that their power is spent.   
37 And he shall say, where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted.  

37  
And he in his great wrath shall say,  
where are their gods now gone?  
Their stable rock in whom they all  
did put their trust alone.   
38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink-offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.  

38  
Which fat ate of their sacrifice,  
and drank drink offerings wine:  
Let them rise up now and you help,  
as your protection fine.   
39 See now that I, even I am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal:  

39  
See now that I am he, even I,  
no god there is with me:  
I kill, and make alive; I wound,  
and als' make whole to be.   
Neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.  
40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.  

Nor is there any now that can  
out of my hand deliver:   

40  
For I lift up my hand to heaven,  
and say, I live for ever.   
41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgement; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.  

41  
If hold my hand on judgement take,  
and glittering sword I whet,  
I'll render vengeance to my foes,  
and pay those that me hate.   
42 I will make mine arrows drunk wit● blood (and my sword shall devour flesh)  

42  
I also those mine arrows will  
make drunk with blood therefore,  
The flesh of all mine enemies  
my sword it shall devore.   
And that with the blood of the slain, and o● the captives, from the beginning of revenges upo● the enemy.  

With blood of those that have been slain  
and those that captives lie▪  
From the beginning of revenge  
upon the enemy.   
43 Rejoice, O ye nations with his people▪ for he will avenge the blood of his servants,  

43  
Rejoice ye nations with his folk,  
for he who doth not change,  
Will of his servants all the blood  
in his own time avenge.   
And will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.  

And will to his adversaries  
a vengeance render full,  
And to his people and his land  
he will be merciful.     

The Song of Deborah, and Barak, after the victory against the army of Jabin King of Canaan; who reigned in Hazor, whose captain was Sisera, whose head was cut off by Jahell, the wi●e of Heber. JUDGES 5. vers. 2.  
PRaise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves:  

FOr the avenging of Isra●l  
praise ye the Lord most hy,  
When as the people offered  
themselves most willingly.   
3 Hear, O ye kings, give ear, O ye princes; I, even I will ●ing unto the Lord, I will sing praise to the Lord God of Israel.  

3  
Hear Oye Kings, ye Princes als'  
give ear, ay, even I will  
Sing to the Lord, to Israel's God  
I will sing praises still.   
4 Lord when thou wentedst out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.  

4  
Lord when thou wentest out of Seir,  
and Marched from Edom field,  
The earth did tremble, heavens did drop,  
the clouds did water yield.   
5 The mountains melted from before the Lord, even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel.  

5  
The mountains melted from before  
the Lord God eternal,  
Even that Sinai from God before,  
the God of Israel.   
6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.  

6  
In days of Shamgar Anaths son  
of Jael in the days,  
The high ways were unoccupied  
men traveled through byways.   
7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I●Deborah arose that I arose a mother in Israel.  

7  
They ceased that dwelled in villages,  
in Israel they did cease,  
Till I Deborah in Israel  
a mother rose for peace.   
8 They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?  

They chose new gods, war seized their gates  
was there a shield or spear?  
That forty thousand men among  
in Israel did appear.   
9 My heart is toward the governors of ●rael, that offered themselves willingly among 〈◊〉 people: bless ye the Lord.  

My heart's to Israel's governors  
who t'offer did accord  
Themselves 'mong people willingly,  
O do ye bless the Lord.   
10 Speak ye that ride on white asses, ye that 〈◊〉 in judgement, and walk by the way.  

●0  
●0 Ye that do ride on asses white  
do ye together say;  
●e that do in the judgement sit  
and walk als' by the way.   
11 They that are delivered from the noise 〈◊〉 archers in the places of drawing water, there●all they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord,  

●1  
Who saved are from the archers noise  
where they did water draw,  
●here shall they of the Lord rehearse  
the righteous acts and law.   
Even the righteous acts towards the inha●itants of his villages in Israel: then shall the●●ople of the Lord go down to the gates.  

The righteous acts in Israel  
in villages there done:  
Then shall the people of the Lord  
unto the gates go down.   
12 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake utter a song, ariso Barak, and lead thy captivi●captive, thou son of Abinoam.  

12  
Wake, wake, wake, wake, Deborah sing●  
thou Barak rise anon,  
Thy captive lead captivity  
thou Abinoams son.   
13 than he made him that remaineth hav● dominion over the nobles among the people: the Lord made me have dominion over the mighty.  

13  
Him that remains dominion● than  
he o'er the Nobles gave  
'Mong people; God dominion made  
me o'er the mighty have.   
14 Out of Ephraim was there a root 〈◊〉 them against Amalek, after thee Benjamin, amon● thy people:  

14  
Of Ephraim 'gainst Amalek  
there was a worthy root:  
And after thee, was Benjamin,  
among thy people great.   
Out of Machir came down governors, an● out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of 〈◊〉 writer.  

And out of Machir als' came down  
thy governors, and then  
They did come out of Zebulon  
that handle writers pen.   
15 And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah: even Issachar,  

15  
And the most mighie Princes there  
of Issachar that day,  
Were with Deborah in the field,  
Even Issachar I say,   
And also Barak, he was sent on foot into the ●alley: for the divisions of Reuben, there were●reat thoughts of heart.  

Als Barack to the valley sent  
on foot, did soon depart:  
For Reuben his divisions  
thee were great thoughts of heart.   
16 Why abodest thou among the sheep folds, ●o hear the bleatings of the flocks? for the divisions of Reuben, there were great searchings of heart.  

16  
Why in sheep folds abodest thou  
to hear flocks bleet apart?  
For Reuben his divisions  
were searchings great of heart.   
17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.  

17  
Beyond the Jordan Gilead' bod,  
why Dan in ships remained;  
Asher continued on sea shore,  
within his breaches trained,   
18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death, in the high places of the field.  

18  
Than Zebulon and Naphtali  
were people that did yield  
Their lives to jeopard unto death,  
in high parts of the field,   
19 The kings came and fought, then fough● the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the water● of Megiddo, they took no gain of money.  

19  
Kings came and fought, in Taanah fough●  
the Kings of Canaan than  
They by Megiddos' waters fought,  
of money took no gain.   
20 They fought from heaven, the stars i● their courses fought against Sisera.  

20  
Together against Sisera  
they fought from heavens hy,  
The Stars als' in their courses all  
did fight then by and by.   
21 The river of Kishon swept them away, the ancient river, the river Kishon: O my sou● thou hast trodden down strength.  

21  
The river Kishon, Kishon old  
away them swept eachone,  
O thou my soul thou surely hast,  
great strength now trodden down.   
22 Then were the horse hooves broken, by the means of the prancings, the prancings of ●heir mighty ones.  

22  
Then were the hooves of horses strong  
all broken with their bones,  
Even by the means of pransings● great,  
Prancings of mighty ones.   
23 Curse ye Meroz, (said the angel of the Lord) curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof:  

●3  
Curse ye the men of Meros all,  
said th' Angel of the Lord:  
Curse ye th'inhabitans thereof  
most bitterly by word;   
Because they came not to the help of the Lord, 〈◊〉 the help of the Lord against the mighty.  

Because that they came not all  
their help for to afford  
●nto the Lord, 'gainst mighty men  
they did not help the Lord.   
24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wise ●f Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.  

24  
Jael of Heber Kenite wife  
'bove women blessed shall be,  
Above all women in the tent  
a blessing shall she see.   
25 He asked water, and she gave him milk she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.  

25  
He water asked, and she gave  
him milk of sweet relish,  
She also to him butter brought  
forth in a lordly dish.   
26 She put her hand to the nail, and h● right hand to the workmen's hammer: and wi●● the hammer she smote Sisera,  

26  
Her right hand to the hammer there  
unto the nail she put  
Her hand, and with the hammer then  
there Sisera she smote▪   
She smote of his head, when she had pierce and stricken through his temples.  

When she th●● through his temples both  
had stricken in great speed,  
And pierced him, thereafter she  
did there smite off his head.   
27 At her feet he bowed, he sell, he 〈◊〉 down: at her feet he bowed, he fell; where 〈◊〉 bowed, there he fell down dead.  

27  
He at her feet did bow, he fell,  
and he lay down anon,  
He at her feet bowed, fell, where bowed,  
there he even dead fell down.   
28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, why is his chariot so long in coming?  

28  
Than Sis'ras mother looked out  
at windows, and did cry  
Through lattice, what can be the cause  
his charets thus do stay?   
Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?  
29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,  

Why tarry thus his chariot wheels?   

29  
Her ladies wise did say,  
Yea she unto herself returned  
an answer on this way,   
30 Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey, to every man a damsel or two?  

30  
Have they not sped? and have they not  
the wealthy prey also  
Divided unto every man  
a damosel or two?   
To Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needle work,  

To Sisera a prey that they  
of diverse colours make,  
Of diverse colours even a prey  
that is of needle work.   
Of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?  

Of diverse colours on both sides  
of needle work they make,  
Which for the neck of them is meet,  
that thus the spoil do take.   
31 So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord but let them that love him, be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might.  

31  
Lord let thy foes so perish all;  
but who him love upright,  
Let them be as the Sun, when as  
he forth goeth in his might.    

The Song of Hannah, which she sang to God when she had born Samuel, after long barrenness. 1 SAM. 2. vers. 1.  
MY heart rejoiceth in the Lord, mine horn is exalted in the Lord, my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies: because I rejoice in thy salvotion.  

MY heart in God doth joy, in God  
my horn's raised: ou're my foes  
My mouth enlarged is, for I  
do in thy health rejoice.   
2 There is none holy as the Lord: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.  

2  
There is none holy as the Lord,  
for none is thee beside:  
Nor is there any rock that doth  
like to our God abide.   
3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly, let not arrogancy come out of your mouth:  

3  
See that henceforth ye do no more  
exceeding proudly talk,  
Nor let your tongue within your mouth  
with arrogancy wall●.   
For the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.  

Because the Lord he is a God▪  
of knowledge as we see,  
And by him in a balance just  
all actions weighed be.   
4 The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled, are girt with strength.  

4  
The bows even of the mighty men  
are broken all at length,  
And they that stumbled here and there  
are well now girt with strength.   
5 They that were full, have hired out themselves for bread, and they that were hungry, ●eased:  

5  
They that very full now have  
Hired out themselves for bread,  
And they that also hungry were,  
did cease from having need:   
So that the barren hath born seven, and she that hath many children, is waxed feeble.  

So that she that still barren was,  
hath born seven great and small,  
And she that many children hath  
is waxed feeble all.   
6 The Lord killeth, and maketh alive, 〈◊〉 bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.  

6  
The Lord almighty doth both kill  
and als' alive doth save,  
He bringeth up, and likewise he  
brings down unto the grave.   
7 The Lord maketh poor, and maketh ri●● he bringeth low, and lifteth up.  

7  
The Lord is he that maketh poor  
and also maketh rich,  
He bringeth very low, and he  
up lifteth to a pitch.   
8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, an● lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to se●them among princes,  

8  
He raiseth from the dust the poor,  
the beggar from dunghill▪  
He lifteth up, them for to set  
among the Princes still.   
And to make them inherit the throne of glory: ●●r the pillars of the earth are the Lords, and 〈◊〉 hath set the world upon them.  

Of glories' Throne to make them heirs,  
for that the Lords alone  
Of earth the pillars are, and he  
the world set them upon.   
9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the ●icked shall be silent in darkness; for by ●●ength shall no man prevail.  

●  
He of his saints will keep the feet,  
the wicked all at length  
● dark shall silent be, for none  
Prevail shall by his strength.   
10 The adversaries of the Lord shall be bro●●n to pieces: out of heaven shall he thunder ●●no them:  

10  
The Lords adversaries they shall  
in pieces broken be,  
●ut of the heaven upon them  
a thundering make shall he.   
The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth, ●●d he shall give strength unto his king, and ex●● he horn of his anointed.  

Ends of the earth the Lord shall judge,  
and strength give to his King,  
The horn of his Anointed One  
he shall exalt to reign.    

The lamentations of David for the death of Saul and Jonathan, slain upon the mountain of Gilboah.  2 SAM. 1. vers. 19 
THe beauty of Israel is slain upon thy hi● places: how are the mighty fallen.  

OF Israel is the beauty slain  
upon thy places hy,  
How is it that thy mighty men  
are fallen shamefully!   
2 Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in 〈◊〉 streets of Askelon: lest the daughters of 〈◊〉 Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the 〈◊〉 circumcised triumph.  

2  
Tell't not in Gath nor Askelon,  
lest Philistines rejoice,  
Lest daughters of th' uncircumcisde  
triumph with shouting voice.   
3 Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be 〈◊〉 dew, neither let there be rain upon you, nor fiel● of offerings:  

3  
Ye of Gilboah mountains high  
O let there be no dew,  
Let neither fields of offerings,  
nor rain be upon you,   
For there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.  

For of the mighty is the shield,  
there cast away as vile,  
The shield of Saul as he had not,  
anointed been with oil.   
4 From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty.  

4  
From blood of slain, from mighties' fate  
the bow of Jonathan  
Did not turn back, the sword of Saul  
Returned not empty then.   
5 Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided.  

5  
Saul, Jonathan, both lovely were  
and pleasant in their lives,  
And in their death at last they not  
divided were likewise.   
They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.  

Then Eagles that are swift in flight  
they were both swifter far,  
Yea they both stronger were also  
then fiercest lions are.   
6 Ye daughters of Israel weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.  

6  
Ye Israel's daughters, weep o'er soul  
who with delights eachone  
In scarlet clothed, who ornaments  
of gold your clothes put on.   
7 How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine bigh places.  

7  
How in midst of the battle do  
the mighty fallen lie!  
O Jonathan thou wast even slain  
upon thy places hy.   
8 I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me:  

8  
My brother Jonathan, I am  
distressed ●ore for thee,  
For very pleasant thou hast been  
at all times unto me:   
Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.  
9 How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished.  

Thy love to me was wonderful,  
all womens' love it past:   

9  
How fell the mighty, and of war  
were all the weapons lost!    

The Song of David, which he sang to give thanks after that Nathan had promised him benefits and blessings, but chiefly the Messiah to come of his seed. 2 SAM. 7. vers. 18.  
WHo am I, O Lord God? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?  

O Lord my God, now who am I  
that thou on me hast thought?  
What is my house that thou in love  
me hitherto hast brought?   
2 And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord God; but thou hast spoken also of thy servants house for a great while to come,  

2  
And this O Lord God in thy sight,  
a small thing was in sum;  
But of thy servants house thou spak'st  
for a great while to come.   
And is this the manner of man, O Lord God?  
3 And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord God, knowest thy servant.  

Lord God, is this the manner of man?   

3  
What David more thee to  
Can say? for thou O Lord my God  
dost me thy servant know.   
4 For thy words sake, and according to thine own heart hast thou done all these great things; to make thy servant know them.  

4  
For thy words sake, according to  
thine own heart hast thou done  
All those great things, for them to make  
unto thy servant known.   
5 Wherefore thou art great, O Lord God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any god beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.  

5  
Thou Lord art great, like thee is none,  
no God is thee beside,  
According to all things that we  
with our own ears have tried.   
6 And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself,  

6  
And what one Nation in the earth  
doth like thy people seem,  
Like Israel whom to himself,  
God went for to redeem,   
And to make him a name, and to do for you great things, and terrible for thy land,  

Even for a people, and a Name  
to make him, and to do  
For you great things and terrible,  
for this thy land also,   
Before thy people which thou redeemdst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?  

Before thy people which thou hast▪  
redeemed unto thee  
From Egypt, from the Nations,  
and these their gods that be.   
7 For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever● and thou, Lord, art become their God.  

7  
For to thyself thou Isra'l hast  
Confirmed to thee for ay  
A people; and thou art, O Lord,  
become their God always.   
8 And now, O Lord God, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, establish it for ever, and do as thou hast said.  

8  
What of thy servant and his house  
thou Lord hast spoken now,  
Do as thou saidst, and so for ay  
establish it do thou.   
9 And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying; The Lord of hosts is the God over Israel:  

9  
And let thy Name that's glorious  
be magnified for ay,  
The Lord of hosts he is the God  
that's over Israel, say;   
And let the house of thy servant David he established before thee.  
10 For thou, O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant,  

Let David's house thy servant be  
before thee established well:   

10  
Thou Lord of hosts, israls' God didst  
to thy servant reveal:   
Saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee.  

Thou saidst I will thee build an house,  
therefore thy servant he  
Hath in his heart found for to pray  
this prayer unto thee.   
11 And now, O Lord God, thou art that God, and thy words he true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant.  

11  
And now, O Lord, that God thou art,  
thy words are very true,  
And thou this goodness promised haste  
unto thy servant now.   
12 Therefore now let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee:  

12  
Therefore be pleased for to bless  
thy servant's house always,  
That it may so continue still  
before thee fast for ay.   
For thou O Lord God, hast spoken it, and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever.  

For thou Lord God hast spoken it,  
with blessings come from thee  
O do thou let thy servant's house  
for ever blessed be.    

The Song of Isaiah, concerning the vineyard, wherein God's people is reproved for their barrenness in good works, notwithstanding of all the pains were taken by the Prophets. ISAIAH▪ 5. vers. 1.  
NOw will I sing to my well-beloved, a song, of my beloved touching his vineyard: my well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill.  

TO my Beloved of his vine  
a song now sing I will:  
My well-beloved a vineyard hath  
in a most fruitful hill.   
2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and bult a tower in the midst of it.  

2  
He did it fence, and gathered out  
the stones thereof eachone,  
He planted it with choicest vine,  
a tower he built thereon.   
And also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.  

He a vine-press made als' therein,  
and looked it should bring forth  
Good grapes, but forth at last it brought  
wild grapes of nothing worth.   
3 And now; O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwix● me and my vineyard.  

3  
And now, O ye inhabitants  
of Salem, and als ye  
Of Judah men, judge, I you pray,  
twixt my vineyard and me.   
4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?  

4  
What could I my vineyard unto  
do more than I have done?  
Wherefore when for good grapes I looked,  
did wild grapes grow thereon?   
5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard, I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up:  

5  
And now go to; I'll tell you what  
I'll to my vineyard do,  
I'll take away its hedge, and it  
shall be up eaten so:   
And break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down.  
6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged,  

And I'll break down the wall thereof,  
and it trod down shall be:   

6  
I'll lay it wast, none pruned shall  
nor yet it digged see,   
But there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.  

But briars and thorns there shall come up:  
I also will anon  
Command the clouds that they no rain  
shall rain the same upon.   
7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant.  

7  
For vineyard of the Lord of hosts  
the house of Israel is,  
The men of Judah also are  
the plasant plant of his.   
And he looked for judgement, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.  

And he did then for judgement look,  
but lo oppression hard;  
For righteousness, but O behold,  
a cry then there was heard.    

A Song of thanks for the mercies of God. ISA. 12. vers. 1.  
O Lord, I will praise thee, though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.  

I Will thee praise, O Lord, though thou  
with me most angry wast,  
Thine anger turned is away,  
thou me comforted haste.   
2 Behold, God is my salvation: I will trust, and not be afraid; for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song, be also is become my salvation.  

2  
Behold, God's my salvation.  
I'll trust, and will not fear●  
For Lord Jovah's my strength and song,  
he's my salvation near.   
3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water ●t of the wells of salvation.  
4 And in that day shall ye say,  

●  
Therefore ye of salvation,  
with joy shall in that day,  
Out of the wells draw water als',   

4  
Ye in that day shall say,   
Praise the Lord, call upon his name, declare ●is doings among the people, make mention that ●is name is exalted.  

Praise ye the Lord▪ call on his Name,  
the doings that are his  
Show to his people, mention make  
that's Name exalted is.   
5 Sing unto the Lord; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.  

5  
Do ye now sing unto the Lord;  
because that he hath done  
The things that be most excellent;  
this in all earth is known.   
6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the holy one of Israel in the midst of thee.  

6  
Of Zion thou inhabitant,  
cry out, and shouting be:  
For of Isra●l the holy One  
is great in midst of thee,    

A Song inciting to confidence in GOD. Isa. 26. vers. 1.  
WE have a strong city, salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.  

We have a city that is strong,  
the Lord salvation so  
He will appoint for mighty walls  
and bulwarks strong also.   
2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.  

2  
Open ye the gates, that so  
the righteous Nation  
Which constantly the truth doth keep  
may enter in anon.   
3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.  

3  
Assuredly thou wilt him keep  
in perfect peace to be,  
Whose mind is still upon thee stayed, because he trusts in thee.   
4 Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength.  

4  
For ever trust ye in the Lord,  
for ye shall feel at length,  
That in the Lord JEHOVAH is  
an everlasting strength.   
5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on ●igh, the lofty city he layeth it low, he layeth it 〈◊〉, even to the ground, he bringeth it even to ●e dust.  

For dwellers high he doth bring down,  
the city proud lays low,  
He lays it low, to ground it brings  
Even to the dust below.   
6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet 〈◊〉 the poor, and the steps of the needy.  
7 The way of the just is uprightness: thou oft upright, dost weight the path of the just.  

The foot, poors feet and needies' steps  
shall tread it in the way:   

Upright's the jousts way, thou upright,  
the just man's path dost weigh.   
8 Yea in the way of thy judgements, O Lord, ●ve we waited for thee; the desire of our soul to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.  

Yea in thy judgements way, O Lord,  
we waited have for thee,  
●ur souls desires unto thy Name,  
and thy remembrance be.   
9 With my soul have I desired thee in the ●ght, yea with my spirit within me will I seek 〈◊〉 early.  

I with my soul desired have  
thee in the time of height,  
Yea with my spirit within me I  
will seek thee early right:   
For when thy judgements are in the earth the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.  

For when the judgements that thou sends  
upon the earth do press,  
Than all the world's inhabitants  
will learn thy righteousness.   
10 Let favour be showed to the wicked, y● will he not learn righteousness:  

10  
Let unto him that wicked is  
be favour showed not small,  
Yet for the same he righteousness  
will not then learn at all:   
In the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of 〈◊〉 LORD.  

Even in the land of uprightness  
he will unjustly deal,  
And of the Lord the Majesty  
behold no way he will.   
11 Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, the will not see: but they shall see, and be asham● for their envy at the people,  

11  
Lord, when thy hand is lifted up,  
they will not see; but they  
Shall see, and be ashamed, because  
the people they envy.   
Yea the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.  
12 Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for ●hou also hast wrought all our works in us.  
Yea them thy foes fire shall devore,  

12  
Lord thou wilt ordain thus  
Firm peace for us, for thou als' haste  
wrought all our works in us.   
13 O Lord our God, other lords besides ●eo have had dominion over us: but by thee ●nly will we make mention of thy name.  

●3  
●3 Lord God, besides thee other gods  
O'er us dominion had:  
We'd only of thy Name, by thee  
will mention to be made.   
14 They are dead, they shall not live; they●re deceased, they shall not rise:  

14  
Henceforth these wicked shall not live  
who are now dead and slain,  
●t last they all deceased are,  
they shall not rise again.   
Therefore hast thou visited and destroyed 〈◊〉, and made all their memory to perish.  

Therefore thou hast them visited,  
and them destroyed always,  
●nd als' haste made their memory  
to perish quite away.   
15 Thou hast increased the nation, O Lor● thou hast increased the nation, thou art glorified thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.  

15  
Thou hast increased the nation, Lord  
thou hast increased its worth,  
Thou'rt glorified; thou it removed  
Far to all ends of earth.   
16 Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, the poured out a prayer when thy chastening wa● upon them.  

16  
Lord, when they were in trouble they  
did visit thee anon,  
They prayers poured out when was  
thy chastening them upon.   
17 Like as a woman with child that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, an● cryeth out in her pangs; so have we been in the sight, O Lord.  

17  
As she that is with child draws near  
to her delivery;  
In pain is, and cries in her pangs,  
so in thy sight were we.   
18 We have been with child, we have bee● in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind  

18  
We surely all have been with child,  
we in great pain of mind  
Have all been, we have as it were  
brought forth the very wind:   
We have not wrought any deliverance in the ●rth, neither have the inhabitants of the world ●llen.  

●e have not a deliverance wrought  
on earth, as we perceive,  
●or yet the world's inhabitants  
at all down fallen have.   
19 Thy dead men shall live, together with dead body shall they arise:  

Thy men that dead are they shall live  
together well they all  
●ith my dead body even revive,  
and als' arise they shall:   
Awake and sing ye that dwell in dust: for thy 〈◊〉 is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall ● out the dead.  

●ake, sing ye in dust that dwell,  
as dew of herbs indeed  
is thy dew, and als the earth  
shall cast out all her dead.   
Come, my people, enter thou into thy cham●●●s, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thy 〈◊〉 as it were for a little moment, until the ●ignation be overpast.  

My people, to thy chambers come  
doors shut about thee fast,  
〈◊〉 thou thee for a moment hide,  
till wrath be overpast.   
21 For behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity:  

21  
For lo, the Lord out of his place  
doth come most speedily  
To punish earth's inhabitants,  
for their iniquity.   
The earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.  

The earth shall als' disclose the blood,  
that in it did remain,  
And shall no more the means afford,  
to cover close her slain.    

The Song of Hezekiah, after God had healed him of his sickness. &c. ISA. 38. vers. 10.  
I Said in the cutting off of my days, I shall g● to the gates of the grave: I am deprived o● the residue of my years.  

IN cutting off my days I said,  
to gates of grave I'll go:  
Of those my years the residue  
I am deprived so.   
2 I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world,  

2  
In livings land the Lord, the Lord,  
I said, I shall not see:  
I shall no more see man with those  
on earth that dwellers be.   
3 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me, as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life:  

3  
Departed is mine age, and is  
Removed from me with strife  
As shepherd's tents; I weaver like  
have thus cut off my life.   
He will cut me of with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.  

That I may wholly be cut off,  
he'll pining sickness send,  
From day even unto night wilt thou  
so of me make an end.   
4 I reckoned till monrning, that as a lion so will he break all my bones: from day even to ●ight wilt thou make an end of me.  

4  
I reckoned until morn, that as  
a lion so will he  
Break all my bones; from day to night  
thou'lt make an end of me.   
5 Like a cran or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove,  

5  
Even like a cran in my distress,  
or as a swallow sad  
So did I chatter: as a dove  
a heavy mourning had.   
Mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, undertake for me.  

Mine eyes they long with looking up  
now very failed be,  
O Lord, I am oppressed sore,  
do undertake for me.   
6 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.  

6  
What shall I say? He spoken hath,  
and als' hath done no less,  
I shall go softly all my years  
in my soul's bitterness.   
7 O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.  

7  
Lord by those things men live, in them  
my spirit life doth take,  
And so thou wilt recover me,  
and me to live wilt make.   
8 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness; but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption:  

8  
O do behold, how for my peace  
I had great bitterness,  
But thou in love hast saved my soul  
from pit of rottenness.   
For thou hast cast all my sins behind thy 〈◊〉  
9 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the ●it cannot hope for thy truth.  
My sins thou cast behind thy back:  

9  
For neither grave nor death  
Can praise thee, they that go to pit  
cannot hope for thy truth.   
10 The living, the living, he shall praise ●hee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.  

10  
The living, yea the living shall  
thee praise, as I this day:  
The father to the children shall  
make known thy truth always.   
11 The Lord was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments, all the days of our life, in the house of the LORD.  

11  
The Lord was ready me to save,  
we'll while we live accord  
My songs to stringed instruments  
in the house of the Lord.    

THE LAMENTATIONS OF Jeremiah.  

CHAPTER. 1.  
HOw doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people? how is she become as a widow?  

HOw is it that the City doth  
sit solitary still?  
How is she as a Widow now,  
that people much did fill?   
She that was great among the nations, and Princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary.  

She that among the Nations  
was great, and Princess made  
Among Provinces, how is she  
thus tributary tread?   
2 She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her,  

2  
She weepeth very sore by night,  
and on her cheeks are tears;  
'Mong all her Lovers she hath none  
for comfort in her fears.   
All her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.  
3 Judah is gone into captivity, because of affliction,  

Her friends all have dealt treacherously  
with her, and turned her foes;  
Judah's gone to captivity,  
because of many woes;   
And because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all ●r persecutors overtook her between the straits.  

●nd for the servitude that's great:  
'mong heathen she doth dwell,  
●e finds no rest, her took in straits  
her persecutors fell.   
4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none me to the solemn feasts: all her gates are solate:  

The ways of Zion they do mourn,  
because there is none that  
●ome to the solemn feasts, yea all  
her gates are desolate.   
Her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, 〈◊〉 she is in bitterness.  

●er Priests they in great trouble sigh,  
her Virgins more and less  
●re grievously afflicted all,  
and she's in bitterness.   
5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies ●sper: for the Lord hath afflicted her.  

These that are her adversaries,  
the chief above her be;  
Her enemies prosper, for the Lord  
afflicted her hath he.   
For the multitude of her transgressions, her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.  

And also for the multitude  
of her transgressions high,  
Her children before th' en'my are  
gone in captivity.   
6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like hearts that find no pasture,  

6  
From her that Zion's daughter is,  
the beauty all is gone,  
Her Princes are become like hearts,  
that pasture do find none.   
And they are gone without strength before the pursuer.  
7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction.  

Before the fierce pursuer they  
without all strength are gone.   

7  
Salem remembered in the days  
of her affliction,   
And of her miseries, all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old,  

And in time of her miseries  
things pleasant to behold,  
That she had in possession  
Even in the days of old,   
When her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her, the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.  

When fell in hands of enemies  
the people of her stock,  
And none her helped, the foes it saw,  
and did her Sabbaths mock.   
8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned: therefore she is removed: all that honoured her, despise her,  

8  
Jerusalem sinned greivously,  
she is removed therefore:  
They all together her despise,  
that honour●d her before:   
Because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth and turneth backward.  

Because that they her nakedness  
have seen while she did mourn,  
Yea, she doth sigh most heavily,  
and backward als' doth turn:   
9 Her filthiness is in her skirts, she remembreth not her last end, therefore she came down wonderfully:  

9  
Her filthiness is in her skirts,  
her last end she not on  
At all remembreth, therefore she  
came wonderfully down.   
She had no comforter: O Lord, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.  

No comforter she had; O Lord,  
see my affliction,  
For that the enemy himself  
hath magnified alone.   
10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen  

10  
The adversary hath spread out  
his hand on what had been  
All her things pleasant on the earth,  
for she hath clearly seen   
That the heathen entered into her Sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.  

That heathen men had thus into  
her Sanctuary gone,  
Whom thou wouldst not to enter in  
thy Congregation.   
11 All her people sigh, they seek bread, they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul:  

11  
Her people sigh, they all seek bread,  
and also they did give  
Their things that pleasant are for mear,  
their soul for to relieve.   
See, O Lord, and consider, for I am become ●ile.  
12 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold and see,  
See Lord: consider, for I'm vile,  

12  
Is it nothing to you  
All passers by? See and also  
this well consider now,   
If there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me, in the day of his fierce anger.  

If any sorrow be like mine  
done to me, every way  
Wherewith the Lord afflicted me  
in his fierce anger's day.   
13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them:  

13  
He from above into my bones  
sent fire me to assail,  
And it in a most fearful way  
against them doth prevail:   
He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath ●urned me back: he hath made me desolate, and faint all the day.  

He turned me back, and for my feet  
a net spread in the way;  
He hath als' made me desolate,  
and faint even all the day.   
14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my n●c●:  

14  
The yoke of my transgressions is  
bound by his hand alone,  
They wreathed are, and also they  
come up my neck upon:   
He hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.  

He hath my strength made for to fall,  
the Lord hath me likewise  
Delivered into their hands  
from whom I cannot rise.   
15 The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me,  

15  
God under foot in midst of me  
hath trod my mighties all,  
In midst of me; he against me  
did an assembly call   
To crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in ● winepress.  

So for to crush my young men all;  
the Lord hath with distress  
The virgin Judah's daughter trod,  
Even as in a winepress.   
16 For these things I weep, mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul, is far from me:  

16  
For this I weep, with water down  
mine eye doth run, mine eye,  
For the comforter that my soul  
should save, is far from me:   
My children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.  
17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her:  

Because the enemy prevailed  
my sons are spoiled eachone   

17  
Zion she spreadeth forth her hands,  
to comfort her there's none,   
The Lord hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.  

Concerning Jacob God ordained  
his foes about him round;  
Among them is Jerus'lem as  
a menstruous woman found.   
18 The Lord is righteous, for I have rebel●ed against his commandment: hear I pray you, ●ll people, and behold my sorrow:  

18  
The Lord is righteous, for I have  
Rebelled against his will:  
I pray you people all to hear.  
and see my sorrow still:   
My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.  
19 I called for my lovers but they deceived me;  

My Virgins and my young Men are  
gone in captivity▪   

19  
I for my lovers then did call,  
but they deceived me.   
My priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.  

My Priests, yea and mine Elders als'  
then up the ghost did give,  
While meat they in the city sought  
their souls for to relieve.   
20 Behold, O Lord, for I am in distress; my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me, for I have grievously rebelled:  

20  
See Lord, my bowels troubled are,  
for in distress am I:  
Mine heart's turned in me, for I have  
rebelled grievously,   
Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.  
21 They have heard that I sigh, there is none to comfort me:  

Abroad the sword bereaves, at home  
there is as death we see:   

21  
They have all heard that I do sigh  
there's none to comfort me:   
All mine enemies have heard of my trouble, they are glad that thou hast done it▪ thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called,  

Mine enemies all my trouble heard,  
that thou the same hast done  
They are right glade; thou'lt bring they day  
that thou hast called anon,   
And they shall be like unto me.  
22 Let all their wickedness come before thee, and do unto them,  
And they shall be like unto me:  

22  
Do thou now let therefore  
Even all their grievous wickedness  
come clearly thee before.   
And do thou unto them as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions, for my sigh● are many and my heart is faint.  

As thou to me for all my faults  
hast done, do them unto,  
For now my sighs they many are,  
my heart is faint also.    

CHAPTER II.  
HOw hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel,  

HOw Zion's daughter hath the Lord  
Cou'rd with a cloud in wrath?  
And unto earth from heaven cast down  
Israel's beauty hath?   
And remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger?  
2 The Lord swallowed up the habitations of Jacob:  

And in the day of's wrath did not  
to mind his footstool call?   

2  
The Lord the habitations hath  
of Jacob swallowed all,   
And hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah:  

And he them hath not pitied:  
he in his wrath so sad  
Thrown down by force hath the strong holds  
that Judah's daughter had:   
He hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.  

He by his might unto the ground  
hath made them all to fall:  
The kingdom he polluted hath,  
and Princes there of all,   
3 He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy,  

3  
Of Israel all the horn cut off  
in his fierce wrath hath he,  
He hath drawn back his right hand from  
before the enemy:   
And ●e burned against Jacob like a flaming fire which devoureth round about.  
4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy:  

'Gainst Jacob he like flaming fire  
did burn which wastes about:   

4  
He hath his bow bent, like unto  
an enemy most stou●.   
He stood with his right hand as an adversary▪ ●nd slew all that were pleasant to the eye, in the ●bernacle of the daughter of Zion:  

●s an adversary he stood,  
what pleasant was to th' eye  
●ith his right hand within the tent  
of Zion all slew he:   
He poured out his fury like fire.  
5 The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces:  
His fury he poured out like fire,  

5  
God was as enemy:  
He swallowed Israel, he devoured  
he palaces so hy:   
He hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.  

His strong holds he destroyed hath,  
and hath increased anon  
In Judah's daughter mourning great,  
and lamentation.   
6 And he hath violently taken away●his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden, he hath destroyed his places of the assembly:  

5  
He violently removed his tent,  
as't of a garden were,  
He of th' assembly hath destroyed  
the places that are there:   
The Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and ●abbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.  

God caused in Zion sol●mn feasts  
and sabbaths be forgot,  
In his wrath's indignation he  
King, Priest, regarded not.   
7 The Lord hath cast off his altar: he hath abhorred his sanctuary: he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces;  

7  
The Lord his altar hath cast off,  
and loathed his Sanctuary:  
Her palace walls he in the hand  
gave of the enemy,   
They have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as in the day of a solemn feast.  

Within the house that is the Lords  
a noise als' made have they,  
As if it for a solemn feast  
had been a joyful day.   
8 The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; he hath stretched out a line: he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying:  

8  
The Lord hath purposed to destroy  
his Zion's daughters wall  
He stretched a line, he not withdrew  
his hand from wasting all.   
Therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament, they languished together.  
9 Her g●●es are sunk into the ground;  

Therefore he made the rampart so  
and wall for to lament;  
They languished together then;   

9  
Her gates to ground they went:   
He hath destroyed and broken her bars; her king and her princes are among the Gentiles; the law is no more,  

He hath destroyed, and broke her bars,  
her King and Princes thus,  
Among the Gentiles scattered are,  
the law no more's for us.   
Her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.  
10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground and keep silence:  

Her Prophets also from the Lord  
at all no vision found,   

10  
Of Zion's daughter th'elders als'  
sit silent on the ground;   
They have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth;  

In this their grief they have cast up  
the dust their heads upon,  
And they themselves have also girt  
with sackcloth every one;   
The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.  
11 Mine eyes do fail with tears; my bowels are troubled;  

And Salem's virgins hang their heads  
down to the ground right far,   

●1  
Mine eyes they now do fail with tears:  
my bowels troubled are,   
My liver is poured upon the earth, for the de●●ruction of the daughter of my people, because ●e children and the suckling's swoon in the ●e●ts of the city.  

●y liver is poured on the earth  
for the destruction  
●f people mine, because in streets  
young children sucklings swoon.   
12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn ●d wine? when they swooned as the wounded in ●e streets of the city,  

●2  
They to their mothers said, Where is  
corn, wine for to be found?  
●hen as within the cities streets  
as wounded men they swooned,   
When their soul was poured out into their ●thers bosom.  

●'n at the same time when their soul  
the city all throughout  
to their mother's bosom was  
with sorrow poured out.   
13 What thing shall I take to witness for ●e? what thing shall I liken to thee? O ●●ghter of Jerusalem?  

13  
What thing for thee to witness now  
shall taken be by me?  
O Salem's daughter what shall I  
now liken unto thee?   
What shall I equal to thee, that I may for't the●, O virgin daughter of Zion? fo● breach is great like the sea;  

O Virgin Zion's daughter dear  
that I may comfort thee,  
What shall I equal thee unto?  
thy breach great's like the sea.   
Who can heal thee?  
14 Thy prophets have seen vain and f●●hings for thee,  
Who is he that well can thee heal?  

14  
Thy prophets they have seen  
Such things for thee as merely vain  
and foolish als' have been,   
And they have not discovered thine iniq●●urn away thy captivity; but have seen fo● false burdens, and causes of banishment.  

Thy sin they not discovered,  
thy thrall to turn away  
But burdens false, of banishment  
the causes seen have they.   
15 All that pass by, clap their ha● thee; they hiss and wag their head at the d●●er of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city,  

15  
All that pass by clap hands at thee  
they hiss and wag their head  
At Salem's daughter, saying thus,  
is this the town indeed,   
That men call the perfection of beauty, the ●oy of the whole earth?  
16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth:  

That men beauties perfection call  
of the whole earth the joy,   

16  
'Gainst thee thy foes their mouth make wide,  
Hiss, gnash their teeth do they:   
They say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for: we have found, we have seen it.  

They say we have her swallowed up  
this surely is the day  
We looked for; we have it found,  
we have it seen always.   
17 The Lord hath done that which he had devised: he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old:  

17  
The Lord hath done what he devisd,  
Fulfilled he hath by sword,  
That in the days that were of old  
he did command by word.   
He hath thrown down, and hath not pitied and he hath caused thine enemies to rejoice o● thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversari●▪  

He down did throw and pitied not  
he caused thine enemies  
To joy o'er thee, the horn he raised  
of thine adversaries.   
18 Their heart cried unto the Lord, O w● of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down li● a river day and night:  

18  
Their heart did cry unto the Lord,  
O Zion's daughter's wall,  
Let tears down still both day and night  
Even like a river fall.   
Give thyself no rest, let not the appl● 〈◊〉 thine eyes cease.  
19 Arise, cry out in the night:  

Give to thyself no rest, let not  
cease th' apple of thine eye   

19  
Do thou arise, and in the night  
cease thou not out to cry:   
In the beginning of the watches pour 〈◊〉 thine heart like water before the face of the Lor●▪  

See that in the beginning of  
the watches thou pour out  
Thine heart before the face of God,  
like water round about.   
Lift up thy hands towards him, for the life of ●y young children, that faint for hunger in the ●p of every street.  

●hy hand to him lift for the life  
of thy young children all:  
●hat in the top of every street  
for hunger fainting fall.   
20 Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom ●ou hast done this: shall the women eat their ●uit, and children of a span long?  

●0  
Lo. Lord, consider to whom thou  
hast done this us among:  
● shall the women eat their fruit  
and babes of a span long?   
Shall the Priest and the Prophet be slain in 〈◊〉 sanctuary of the Lord.  
21 The young and the old lie on the ground 〈◊〉 the streets:  

●hall Priest and Prophet thus be slain  
in God's own Sanctuary?   

●1  
The young and old both on the ground  
within the streets do lie:   
My virgins and my young men are fallen by 〈◊〉 sword: thou hast slain them in the day of ●y anger, thou hast killed and not pitied.  

●ly Virgins, young men fell by sword,  
thou hast them slain at last,  
●v'n in the day of thy fierce wrath  
thou killed, not pitied haste.   
22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the Lords anger none escaped  

22  
Thou hast as in a solemn day  
my terrors round about  
Called so, that in God's day of wrath  
none hath escaped out,   
Nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up, hath mine enemy consumed.  

Nor yet remained hath alive.  
those that I swaddled have,  
And als brought up, mine enemy  
Consumed hath in the grave.    

CHAPTER III.  
I Am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.  
2 He hath led me and brought me into darkness, but not into light.  

I Am the man that grief hath seen  
by rod of his own wrath.   

2  
Now into darkness, not to light  
me led, and brought he hath.   
3 Surely against me is he turned, he turneth his hand against me all the day.  

3  
Surely against me every where  
he turned is always:  
He in his wrath doth turn his hand  
against me all the day▪   
4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old, he 〈◊〉 broken my bones.  
5 He hath builded against me, and compas●● me with gall and travel.  

My flesh and skin he hath made old,  
and bones hath broken small:   

He 'gainst me built, and compassed me  
with travel and with gall.   
6 He hath set me in dark places, as they 〈◊〉 be dead of old.  
7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot 〈◊〉 out: he hath made my chain heavy.  

He hath me in dark places set,  
as who of old be dead:   

He hedged me, out I can not get,  
my chain he heavy made.   
8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out ●y prayer.  
9 He hath enclosed my ways with hewe● one: he hath made my paths ●ro●ked.  

When also I do cry and shout,  
my prayer out shuts he:   

He with hewn stone my ways enclosed,  
my paths made crooked to be.   
10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, ●nd as a lion in secret places.  

●0  
He was unto me as a Bear,  
that lying is in wait,  
And as a lion that is in  
the places most secret.   
11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pu●led me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.  

11  
He turned hath aside my ways,  
and also more than that  
He hath me pulled in pieces all,  
he made me desolate.   
12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.  
13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.  

12  
He bent his bow, he as a mark  
for th'arrow set me so.   

13  
He hath his quivers arrows caused  
to pierce my reins into.   
14 I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.  
15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.  

14  
I to my people scorn, and song  
all day was made to be:   

15  
He hath me filled with bitterness,  
with wormwood drunk made he.   
16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.  

16  
He also broken hath my teeth  
with gravel stones in wrath,  
And likewise in his rage he me  
with ashes covered hath.   
17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forga● prosperity.  
18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord.  

17  
I good forgot, my soul thou hast  
from peace removed far:   

18  
I said that from the Lord my strength  
and hope als' perished are.   
19 remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.  
20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.  

19  
Remembering mine affliction,  
gall, wormwood, misery;   

20  
My soul doth still remember them,  
and humbled is in me.   
21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.  
22 It is of the Lord's mercy that we are not consumed,  

21  
This I do to my mind recall,  
therefore I hope in thee,   

22  
It's of the mercies of the Lord  
We not consumed be,   
Because his compassions fail not.  
32 They are new every morning: great is the faithfulness.  

Because that his compassions  
fail not in any case:   

23  
They eury-morning still are new,  
great is thy faithfulness.   
24 The Lord is my portion, saith my soul, therefore will I hope in him.  
25 The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.  

24  
The Lord's my portion, saith my soul,  
I'll hope in him therefore:   

25  
God's good to them that wait for him  
to souls that him adore.   
26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.  

26  
It's good that both a man should hope,  
and also quietly  
For the salvation of the Lord  
wait on continually.   
27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.  
28 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath born it upon him.  

27  
It's good in's youth man bear the yoke,   

28  
He sitteth so alone,  
And silence keeps, because that he  
hath born it him upon.   
29 He putteth his mouth in the dust: if so 〈◊〉 there may be hope.  
30 He giveth his cheek to him that smi●et●●im, he is filled full with reproach.  

●9  
His mouth he putteth in the dust,  
if so there hope may be:   

30  
He to the smiter▪ gives his cheek,  
Filled with reproach is he,   
31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever.  
32 But though he cause grief, yet will he ●ave compassion according to the multitude of his ●●ercies.  

31  
For God for ay will not cast off:   

32  
Though grief he cause, yet good  
He'll pity have according to  
his mercy's multitude.   
33 For he doth not afflict willingly; nor grieve the children of men.  
34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,  

33  
For willingly he not afflicts,  
nor doth men's children grieve:   

34  
Under his feet all prisoners  
to crush on earth that live.   
35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most high.  
36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord ●ppro●eth not.  

35  
To turn aside man's right before  
the face of the most high,   

36  
God to subvert man in his cause  
approves not willingly.   
37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not.  

37  
Who is he that saith, and it then  
to pass comes in the land,  
When as the Lord in any way  
did not the same command?   
38 Out of the mouth of the most high proceedeth not evil and good.  
39 Wherefore doth a living man complain,  

38  
Out of the most Highs mouth doth not  
both good and ill proceed,   

39  
Wherefore thus doth a living man  
complain in any need?   
A man for the punishment of his sins?  
40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.  
A man for his sins punishment.  

40  
Let us to search attain  
And try our ways, and to the Lord  
let us now turn again.   
41 Let us lift our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.  
42 We have transgressed and have rebelled, thou hast not pardoned.  

41  
Let us lift up our heart and hands  
to God in heaven at last:   

42  
We have transgressed and rebeled  
and thou not pardoned haste.   
43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast stain, thou hast not pitied.  

43  
Thou persecuted haste, and us  
with anger cou'rd at last,  
Thou hast us by our enemies slain.  
and thou not pitied haste.   
44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud that our prayer should not pass through.  
45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.  

44  
Thou with a cloud thee cou'rd, that through  
our suit pass should not thus.   

45  
Th' offscouring and refuse thou mad'st  
in midst of people us.   
46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.  
47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.  

46  
Against us opened have their mouths  
our enemies eachone:   

47  
Destruction, desolation, fear,  
and snares come us upon.   
48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.  

48  
With rivers even of water great  
still runneth down mine eye,  
Even for destruction that doth on  
my people's daughter lie.   
49 Mine eye trickleth down and ceaseth not, without any intermission:  
50 ●ill the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.  

49  
Mine eye down trickleth, without cease  
or intermission:   

50  
Till that the Lord from heaven behold,  
and us look down upon.   
51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart, because of all the daughters of my city.  
52 Mine enemies chased me sore like a bird, without cause.  

51  
Mine eye affects▪ my heart, even for  
my cities daughters all:   

52  
Me without cause sore chased my foes  
like to a bird that's small.   
53 They have cut of my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.  
54 Waters flowed over mine head, than I said, I am cut off.  

53  
In dungeon they cut off my life,  
and cast on me a stone;   

54  
The waters o'er my head did flow,  
I said, cut off I'm gone.   
55 I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon.  
56 Thou hast heard my voice, hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.  

55  
Out of the dungeon low, O Lord,  
on thy Name called I,   

56  
Thou heardst my voice, hide not thine ear  
while I do breath and cry.   
57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.  
58 O Lord, thou hast plead●d the causes of my soul, thou hast redeemed my life.  

57  
Thou near drewest when I called on thee,  
thou saidst, Let fear be past,   

58  
Thou pleadest the causes of my soul,  
my life redeemed thou hast.   
59 O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong, judge thou my cause.  
60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance, and all their imaginations against me.  

59  
O Lord, do thou now judge my cause  
my wrong all seen thou hast,   

60  
Thou their imaginations sawst  
and vengeance 'gainst me hast.   
61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me.  

61  
Thou hast most clearly heard, O Lord,  
how their reproach did fall,  
And their imaginations  
that were against me all.   
62 The lips of those that rose up against me and their device against me all the day.  

62  
The lips of those that up did rise  
against me every way,  
And their device mischievous all  
against me all the day.   
63 Behold their sitting down and their rising up, I am their music.  

63  
Behold their sitting down, and als  
their rising up for ill:  
I in this case most surely am  
become their music still.   
64 Render unto them a recompense, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.  

64  
Unto them in thy fury great  
O thou, the mighty Lord,  
According to their handy work  
a recompense afford,   
65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.  
66 Persecute and destroy them in anger, from under the heavens of the Lord.  

65  
Unto them sorrow give of heart,  
thy curse unto them render,   

66  
From under the Lord's heavens destroy,  
them persecute in anger.    

CHAPTER IV.  
HOw is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.  

HOw is the gold thus dim become?  
how's fine gold changed f●rre?  
The temples stones out in the top  
of each street poured are.   
2 The precious sons of Zion, compareable to fine gold, how are they esteemed to earthen pillars, the work of the hands of the potter!  

2  
The precious sons of Zion like  
to fine gold in the lands,  
How are they as earth's pitchers thought  
the work of potter's hands?   
3 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, ●hey give suck to their young ones: the daughter ●f my people is become cruel, like the ostriches ●n the wilderness.  

●  
● Sea monsters even draw out the breasts  
their young ones suck to give,  
My people's fierce like ostritches  
in wilderness that live.   
4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth ●o the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.  

4  
The sucking child his tongue for thirst  
to his mouths roof cleaves so,  
The children young ask bread, and none  
it breaketh them unto.   
5 They that did feed delicately, are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet, embrace dunghills.  

5  
They that did delicately feed  
in streets are desolate?  
They that in scarlet were brought up  
dunghills embrace for that:   
6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people, is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom,  

6  
Of sins my people's daughter did  
the punishment is more  
Than of the sin of Sodom was  
the punishment before.   
That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.  
7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk,  

That in a moment was ou'rthrown,  
no hands did stay on her;   

7  
Her Nazarites more pure than snow,  
Than milk they whiter were.   
They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their ●olishing was of sapphire.  
8 Their visage is blacker than a coal: they are not known in the streets:  

Then rubies they more ruddy were,  
as polished sapphire drawn:   

8  
Their visage black's than a coal,  
in streets they are not known,   
Their skin cleaveth to their bones: it is withered, it is become like a stick.  
9 They that be slain with the sword, are better than they that be slain with hunger:  

Their skin it cleaveth to their bones,  
it like a stick doth wither:   

9  
The slain with sword are better than  
they that be slain with hunger.   
For these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.  

For piece and piece those pine away,  
before to death they yield,  
They strike through are for the want  
of fruits that fill the field.   
10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children, they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.  

10  
The hands of women pitiful  
their children sodden have,  
My folk in their destruction  
for meat them did receive.   
11 The Lord hath accomplished his fury, he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.  

11  
His fury God accomplished hath,  
his wrath he out did power;  
In Zion he put fire which there  
its groundworks did devour.   
12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world would not have believed, that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.  

12  
Kings of the earth and dwellers in  
the world would not believe,  
That th' enemy into Salem's gates  
to enter should get leave.   
13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her;  

13  
For sins of all her prophets vile  
and priests iniquities,  
That of the just have shed the blood  
in midst of her that lies.   
14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted th●mselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.  

14  
As blind they wandered in the streets,  
themselves polluted much  
They have with blood, even so that men  
could not their garments touch.   
15 They cried unto them, Depart ye, it is unclean, depart, depart, touch not, when they fled away and wandered:  

15  
They cried unto them, Depart,  
unclean it is, we say,  
Depart, depart, touch not, when thus  
they wandering fled away:   
They said among the heathen, they shall no more sojourn there.  
16 The anger of the Lord hath divided them,  

They said among the heathen, there  
no more sojourn they shall.   

16  
The anger of the mighty Lord  
divided hath them all.   
He will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.  

he'll have no more regard to them:  
of priests the persons they  
Respected not, they favoured not  
the elders any way.   
17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.  

17  
For us, our eyes for our vain help  
as yet th●y f●iled have,  
We in our watching watched for  
a Nation could not save.   
18 They hunt our steps that we cannot go i● our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled, for our end is come.  

18  
They hunt our steps, that we can not  
go in our streets ou'rcome,  
Our end is near, our days fulfilled  
are, for our end is come.   
19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.  

19  
Our persecutors swifter are  
then heavens Eagles, thus  
On hills they us pursued, and wait  
in desert laid for us.   
20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointe● of the Lord was taken in their pits, of whom we said,  

20  
Likewise of our nostrils the breath  
th' Anointed of the Lord,  
Was apprehended in their pits  
of whom we said this word,   
Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.  
21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Vz.  

Under his ●●addow we shall live  
among the heathen thus,   

21  
Rejoice, O E●oms daughter that  
Dwellest in the land of Uz.   
The cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.  

The cup also shall pass even through  
till it come unto thee:  
Thou shalt thyself all naked make,  
and thou shalt drunken be.   
22 The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion, he will no more carry thee away into captivity.  

22  
The punishment accomplished is  
of thine iniquity,  
O Zion's daughter he'll no more  
as captive carry thee.   
He will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he will discover thy sins.  

O thou that Edom's daughter art  
he surely visit still  
Wilt thine iniquity, and he  
thy sins discover will.    

CHAPTER V.  
REmember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.  

REmember now, O Lord our God,  
what is come us upon,  
Consider also our reproach,  
and it behold anon.   
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.  
3 We are Orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.  

2  
To strangers turn's our heritage,  
our house to aliens far:   

3  
We Orphans are and fatherless,  
our mother's widows are.   
4 We have drunken our water for money, our wood is sold unto us.  
5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour and have no rest.  

4  
For money we our water drink,  
our wood is sold to us:   

5  
Our necks under affliction are  
we restless labour thus.   
6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.  

6  
We unto the Egyptians  
have given the hand in need,  
And to th' Assyrians, for to be  
but satisfied with bread.   
7 Our fathers have sinned and are not, and ●e have born their iniquities.  
8 Servants have ruled over us: there is●ne that doth deliver us out of their hand.  

Sinned have our fathers, and are not,  
and born their sins we have,   

O'er us ruled servants, and none doth  
out of their hand us save.   
9 We got our bread with the peril of our 〈◊〉, because of the sword of the wilderness.  

With peril of our lives we got  
our bread in great distress,  
●ecause of the most bloody sword  
that was in wilderness.   
10 Our skin was black like an oven, because the terrible famine.  
11 They ravished the women in Zion, and●●maids in the cities of Judah.  

●●  
Our skin for famine terrible  
like as ●ne oven was black,   

They Zion's women, Judah's maids  
by ravishing did take.   
12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the ●es of elders were not honoured.  

12  
Up by their hand most cruelly  
the Princes hanged are there,  
The faces of the Elders als'  
by no man honoured were   
13 They took the young men to grind, an● the children fell under the wood.  
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.  

13  
They took the young men for to grind  
Boys under wood did fall,   

14  
The Elders ceased from the gate,  
from music young men all.   
15 The joy of our heart is ceased, our da●● is turned into mourning.  
16 The crown is fallen from our head: 〈◊〉 unto us that we have sinned.  

15  
Joy of our heart it ceased is,  
our dance to mourning's t●rned,   

16  
The crown is fallen from our head,  
woe's us that we have sinned.   
17 For this our heart is faint, for these thi● our eyes are dim.  
18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which desola●e, the foxes walk upon it.  

17  
For this our heart is faint, our eyes  
are dim for things so done,   

18  
For Zion's hill that's desolate,  
it foxes walk upon.   
19 Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever: thy ●●rone from generation to generation.  

19  
Thou who art the most mighty Lord  
Remainest for ever fast:  
●hy Throne from generation doth  
to generation last.   
20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, ●●d forsake us so long time?  
21 Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we ●●ll be turned:  

●●  
〈◊〉 Why us forgettest thou still and als  
●so long forsakest us all:   

Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord,  
and turned be we shall:   
〈◊〉 Renew our days as of old.  
22 But thou hast utterly rejected us: thou art 〈◊〉 wroth against us.  
〈◊〉 as of old renew our days:  

22  
But utterly thou both  
〈◊〉 us rejected, and thou art  
with us exceeding wroth.     

The Song of Jonah, for his deliverance out of the belly of the Whale. Jonah. 2. vers. 2.  
●●●ryed by reason of mine affliction unto the ●ord, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell 〈◊〉 I, and thou heardest my voice.  

BY reason of my trouble I  
to God who heard me cried,  
Out of hell's belly did I cry,  
thou heardst my voice I tried.   
2 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in 〈◊〉 midst of the seas, and the floods compassed me 〈◊〉 bout, all thy billows and thy waves passed over 〈◊〉  

2  
For thou hadst cast me in the deep,  
in midst even of the sea,  
Floods compassed me, thy billows all  
and waves past over me.   
3 than I said, I am cast out of thy sig●● yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.  

3  
Then said I, I out of thy sight  
am cast with great disdain,  
Yet to thy holy temple I  
at last will look again.   
4 The waters compassed me about eve●● the soul: the depth closed me round about, 〈◊〉 weeds were wrapped about my head.  

4  
The waters compassed me about  
Even to the soul indeed,  
The depth me closed about, and weeds  
were wrapped about my head.   
5 I went down to the bottoms of the 〈◊〉 ●ains; the earth with her bars was abo●● for ever:  

Even to the bottoms I went down  
of mountains high that be,  
●ikewise the earth was with her bars  
for ever about me.   
Yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.  

●et thou who art the Lord my God,  
now by thy power alone  
●y life in danger great hast brought  
up from corruption.   
6 When my soul fainted within me, I re●●mbred the Lord, and my prayer came in unto ●ee, in thine holy temple.  

The Lord I did remember when  
my soul did faint in me,  
●●to thy holy Temple came  
my prayer unto thee▪   
7 They that observe lying vanities, forsake ●●eir own mercy.  

They that do lying vanities  
observe in any way.  
the mercy then that is their own  
they do forsake always.   
8 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the ●●ice of thanksgiving, I will pay that that I have ●●wed: salvation is of the Lord.  

But I to thee with voice of thanks  
will sacrifice afford,  
I will what I have vowed pay;  
salvation's of the Lord.    

The Song and prayer of Habbakkuk, upon Sigionoth. HABAK. 3. vers. 2.  
I Have heard thy speech and was afraid,: 〈◊〉 Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the year● in the midst of the years make known; in wr●●● remember mercy.  

I Heard thy speech, and was afraid,  
in midst of years on earth,  
Revive thy work, Lord make it known  
on mercy think in wrath.   
2 God came from Teman, and the holy 〈◊〉 from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covere● the heavens, and the earth was full of his prai●●  

2  
From Teman and from Paran mou●●  
came God the holy One, Selah.  
His glory cou'rd the heavens, his praise  
Filled all the earth anon,   
3 And his brightness was as the light, he 〈◊〉 horns coming out of his hand, and there w●● the biding of his power.  

3  
His brightness als' was as the light,  
out of his hand moreover  
He horns had coming, and there was  
the hiding of his power.   
4 Before him went the pestilence, and burn●ng coals went forth at his feet.  
5 He stood and measured the earth:  

4  
Before him went the pest, and coals  
went burning from his feet;   

5  
He stood and also measured  
the earth as was most meet:   
He beheld and drove asunder the ●ations, and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the per●●ctuall hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.  

He looked and sunder nations drove,  
old mountains scattered were,  
The hills perpetual did bow,  
his ways eternal are.   
6 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.  

6  
The tents of Cushan I did see  
under affliction;  
The curtains of the Midian land  
did tremble every one.   
7 Was the Lord displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers?  

7  
Was the displeasure of the Lord  
made 'gainst the rivers fall?  
Or was thine anger that is great  
against the rivers all?   
Was thy wrath against the sea, that tho● didst ride upon thine horses, and thy chariots o● salvation?  

Or was thy wrath against the sea  
that thou didst ride upon▪  
Thine horses and the chariots  
of thy salvation?   
8 Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word, Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.  

8  
Thy bow was made quite naked as  
thou oaths to tribes didst give,  
Even thine own word; thou also didst  
the earth with rivers cleave.   
9 The mountains saw thee, and they trembled; the overflowing of the water passed by● the deep uttered his voice, and lift up his hands on high.  

9  
The hills thee saw, and trembled all,  
great waters passed by,  
The deep his voice did utter then,  
and lift his hands on hy.   
10 The Sun and Moon stood still in their habitations: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear,  

10  
The Sun and Moon stood where they dwelled,  
of those thine arrows clear,  
They at the sight went, and the shine  
of thy most glittering spear.   
11 Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.  

11  
Thou in thine indignation  
through all the land didst press,  
And als the heathen people thou  
didst in thine anger thresh.   
12 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed,  

12  
Thou of thy people wentest forth  
for the salvation:  
Yea even for the salvation great  
with thine Anointed One,   
Thou woundest the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.  

Out of the house of wicked men  
thou didst wound the head,  
Discovering the foundation  
unto the neck with speed. Selah.   
13 Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me:  

13  
Thou through his village heads didst strike  
with staves of his that be,  
They as a whirlwind did come out,  
and that to scatter me:   
Their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.  
14 Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses through the heap of great waters.  

Their joy it was as to devore  
the poor man secretly:   

14  
Through heaps of water great thou walkest  
with horses through the sea.   
15 When I heard, my belly trembled: my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones,  

15  
My belly trembled when I heard.  
and at the voice anon  
My lips did quiver, rottenness  
did enter in my bone:   
And I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.  

I trembled in myself, that I  
might rest in days most sad,  
When he up to the people comes  
with troops he'll them invade.   
16 Although the figtree shall not blosso●● neither shall fruit be in the vines, the labou● of the olive shall fail,  

16  
Though that the figtree blossom not  
nor fruit in vines shall be,  
The labour of the olive fa●  
shall fail as all shall see.   
And the fields shall yield no meat, the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:  

The fields shall not yield any meat,  
the flock als' from the fold  
Shall be cut off, there shall no herd  
in stalls be young or old.   
17 Yet will I rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.  

17  
Yet I in him will now rejoice  
who is the Lord alone,  
I also joy will in the God  
of my salvation.   
18 The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places.  

18  
The Lord my God he is my strength,  
he'll make my feet to be  
Like feet of Hindes, he'll make me walk  
upon my places high.    

The Song of Mary, after Elizabeth told he● that at her salutation the child in her wo●● leaped for joy. Luk. 1. 46.  
MY soul doth magnify the Lord, 2 And my spirit hath rejoiced in Go● my Saviour.  

MY soul now with all gladness fill'●  
the Lord doth magnify,   

2  
My spirit rejoiced hath in God  
a Saviour for me.   
3 For he hath regarded the low estate of h● handmaiden: for behold, from henceforth all g●●nerations shall call me blessed.  

3  
For of his handmaid he did so  
regard the state so small,  
For lo, all generations me  
from henceforth blessed shall call.   
4 For he that is mighty hath done to me grea● things, and holy is his name.  
5 And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.  

4  
He mighty did great things to me,  
and holy is his Name:   

5  
They that him fear from race to race,  
his mercy have on them.   
6 He hath showed strength with his arm, h● hath scattered the proud, in the inmagination o● their hearts.  

6  
He with his arm hath showed strength,  
the proud he in all parts  
In the imagination  
hath scattered of their hearts.   
7 He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.  

7  
He hath put down even from their seats  
those that most mighty be,  
And also he exalted hath  
them of a low degree.   
8 He hath filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he hath sent empty away.  

8  
Them that are hungry he hath filled  
with good things every way,  
And those that rich are also he  
hath empty sent away.   
9 He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy.  
10 As he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.  

9  
He helped his servant Israel,  
he mercy did remember,   

10  
As he unto our fathers spoke;  
t'T'abr'am and's seed for ever.    

The Song of Zacharias after he had been nine months dumb for not believing the angel Gabriel. Luk. 1. vers. 68  
BLessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he hath visited and redeemed his people,  

THe Lord the God of Israel  
for ever blessed be,  
For that his people visited  
and als redeemed hath he.   
2 And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us, in the house of his servant David.  

2  
And of salvation he for us  
hath raised up on hy  
A glorious horn in David's house,  
who served him faithfully.   
3 As he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began.  

3  
As by the mouth of those that were  
his holy prophets then,  
Which have among his people been  
Even since the world began.   
4 That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us.  

4  
That from those that our enemies are  
we should be saved here;  
And likewise from the hand of all  
that hatred to us bear.   
5 To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant.  

5  
The mercies promised to perform  
unto our fathers ever,  
And als his holy Covenant  
made with them to remember.   
6 The oath which he swore to our father Abraham,  
7 That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hands of our enemies,  

6  
The oath which unto Abraham  
our father than he swore:   

7  
That he would grant that we from those  
Saved that our enemies are,   
Might serve him without fear.  
8 In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.  
Without all fear so might him serve,  

8  
In holiness always  
And righteousness before him als'  
of our life all the days   
9 And thou child shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord, to prepare his ways;  

9  
And thou O child shalt called be  
the Highests prophet rare.  
For thou before the Lord shalt go,  
his ways for to prepare.   
10 To give knowledge of salvation unto 〈◊〉 people, by the remission of their sins.  

10  
That so he might the knowledge give  
of his salvation  
Unto his people, by their sins  
most free remission.   
11 Through the tender mercy of our God whereby the dayspring from on high hath vi●sited us,  

11  
Even through the mercy of our God  
that tender is, whereby  
Us on the earth hath visited  
the dayspring from on hy.   
12 To give light to them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death, to guide ou● feet into the way of peace.  

12  
To light them that in darkness sit,  
and in death shade abide,  
Into the way of holy peace  
our feet there for to guide.    

The Song of SIMEON. Luke 2. vers. 29.  
LOrd now lettest thou thy servant depart 〈◊〉 peace, according to thy word.  

NOw in thy mercy lettest thou  
thine own servant O Lord  
At last by death in peace depart,  
according to thy word.   
2 For mine eyes have seen thy salvation:  
3 Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people,  

2  
For thy salvation mine eyes  
have seen for great and small,   

3  
Which thou prepared haste before  
the face of people all.   
4 A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.  

4  
A precious light to lighten all  
the Gentiles far and near,  
And als the glory of Israel  
that is thy people dear.   
FINIS.   

Georgii Buchanani hymnus Matutinus ad Christum.  
PRoles parentis optimi,  
Et par parenti maximo,  
De luce verâ vera lux;  
Verusque de Deo Deus:  
En nox recessit jam nitet  
Aurora luce praeviâ  
Coelum solumque purpurans:  
Et clausa tenebris detegens;  
Sed fuscat ignorantiae  
Caligo nostra pectora,  
Et nubilis erroribus  
Mens penè cedit obruta.  
Exurge sol purissime,  
Diemque da mundo suum:  
Nostramque noctem illuminans  
Erroris umbram discute.  
Dissolve frigus horridum,  
Arvumque nostri pectoris,  
Calore lampadis tuae,  
Humore purganoxio:  
Ut irrigetur coelitus  
Roris beati nectare,  
Et centuplo cum foenore  
Coeleste semen proferat.   

A Morning hymn for CHRIST.  

O Day spring from on hy  
'cause pass away our night,  
Clear first our morning sky,  
And after shine thou bright:   

2  
Of lights thou art the Light  
Of righteousness the Sun,  
Thy beams they are most bright,  
Through all the world they run:   

3  
The day thou hast begun,  
Thou wilt it clearer make,  
We hope to see this Sun  
High in our zodiac.   

4  
And there he beams shall shake,  
Of a most golden hew,  
Which fading flowers shall make  
Their colours to renew.   

5  
O make thy morning dew  
To fall without all cease,  
Do thou such favour show  
As unto Gideon's fleece.   

6  
O do thou never cease,  
To make that dew to fall  
The dew of grace and peace,  
And joys celestial.   

7  
This morning we do call  
Upon thy Name divine,  
That thou among us all  
Cause thine Aurora shine.   

8  
Let shadows all decline  
And wholly pass away,  
That light which is divine.  
May bring to us our day.   

9  
A day to shine for ay,  
A day that is most bright;  
A day that never may  
Be followed with a night.   

10  
O of all lights the light,  
The light that is most true,  
Now banish thou our night,  
And still our light renew.   

11  
Thy face now to us show,  
O Son of God most dear,  
O Morning Star most true  
Make thou our darkness clear.   

12  
Nothing at all is here  
That with thee can compare,  
● unto us draw near,  
And us thy children spare.   

13  
Thy mercies they are rare  
●f they were understood,  
●rath due to us thou bare  
And for us shed thy blood.   

14  
Like beasts they are most rude,  
Whom reason cannot move;  
Who do not for thy good  
Thee most entirely love.   

15  
Make us mind things above,  
Even things that most excel,  
Of thine untainted love  
Give us the sacred seal.   

16  
In mercy with us deal,  
And all our sins remove,  
Thyself to us reveal,  
And this our song approve,   

17  
Us in thy mercy move  
To walk still in thy way  
First make us sick of love,  
And then with flagons stay.   

18  
Let us not go astray  
To wander far from thee,  
Thou art the only way  
To joys that lasting be,   

19  
O that we light could see.  
That shineth in thy face,  
So at the last should we  
To glory go from grace;   

20  
Within thy sacred place,  
Is only true content,  
Where God's seen face to face  
Above the firmament.   

21  
O that our hours were spent  
Among the sons of men,  
To praise th' Omnipotent!  
Amen, yea, and Amen.   
FINIS.