A NEW VERSION OF THE PSALMS OF DAVID, Together with all the CHURCH-HYMNS, INTO METRE, Smooth, plain and easy to the Most ordinary Capacities: And yet as close to the Original Languages, and the last and best English Translation, as the Nature of such a Work will well permit.  
By SIMON FORD, D.D. and Rector of Old Swinford in Worcestershire.  
LONDON, Printed by J.H. for Brabazon Aylmer, and are to be sold by Samson Evans Bookseller in Worcester. MDCLXXXVIII.   

IMPRIMATUR.  
March 17. 1636. Jo. Batteley.   

TO THE Right Reverend FATHER in GOD, FRANCIS Lord Bishop of ELY.  
My Lord,  
IT would be an offence so unpardonable in the Judgement of all others, that I should never be able to forgive it to myself, if I should give way in my own thoughts to the lest apprehension, that these mean lucubrations of mine, in this Version of David's Psalms and the Church-Hymns (the last efforts of a faint and feeble Vein of Poetry, especially at such an Age as that of mine, wherein the floridness of fancy is want sensibly to whither even in such as have had far more of it than ever I durst pretend to) are any way qualified to lay the lest claim to your Lordship's acceptance (on, indeed to the favourable inspection of any Person of your Lordship's Character in this Church) on the account of any  value in the composure of them.  
But, though (in the great Apostles Phrase, as Erasmus, and Drusius, and other; Interpreters tender the original words. [〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉] Rom. 1. 14.) I cannot presume, to pretend to the payment of any Debt hereby to the Learned: Yet I may hope, that what I have done therein, will in some measure free me from the charge of dying in arrear to the Unlearned; whiles I thus endeavour to promote their Edification by furnishing them with smooth and plain Expressions for the assistance of their devotion in the praises they offer to God; which, I think I may say, I have, for the most part, so done, as to give no just occasion of nauseating any Person, either by the too much bluntness of the Phrases, or obsoleteness of the Words I have used; which were the faults ordinarily complained of, in the Metrical Translations in common use among us.  
And under this consideration only (my Lord) I embolden myself (yet with all humility) to offer the Work itself to the Test of your Lordship's judicious candour; and withal to beg your acceptance of its Dedication to you as its Patron: Which adventure of mine, I entreat you to interpret, as a small Testimony of the honour I have for your exemplary personal Piety and Devotion, which very much sets of your other Episcopal Qualities, together with your steady adherence, (at this Time especially,) to the true Interests of a Church for which you have always had so great affection and esteem, and wherein you now make so great a Figure: And withal, of the grateful sense I have of your Lordship's humble condescension to own a small Relation, (upon the account of one, who is now (I am strongly confident) singing Hymns to God in the Choir of Angels and Souls of just Persons made perfect) unto myself, who am,  
(My Lord) Your Lordship's most humble, 
 and most dutifully devoted Servant, 
 in the Lord's, our great Master's Service, 
 Simon Ford.   

A PREFACE TO THE READER.  
Christian Reader,  
IT hath been usual with most Persons who have formerly attempted any thing Poetically upon this Book of the Psalms, to preface something either concerning the great Antiquity, singular usefulness, and excellent advantage of that way of praising God, which is performed by tuneable voices, in sacred Songs, Psalms and Hymns; or else, concerning the great Serviceableness of the Art of Poetry to that noble end, both to assist the invention of the Composers, and the devotion of the Singers of them. Whose labours in this Argument, tender it the lesle needful for me to insist much upon those Heads, to prepare thee for the entertainment of what I here put into thy hands of that Nature: and therefore I design to say very little of either now; farther than it may serve for an introduction to what I am more especially obliged to acquaint thee with, in reference to this version of mine which follows.  
I think, (in the first place) that it needs no proof to any one that is but ordinarily conversant with ancient History, that the Praises of God, and famous Men, were the most Primitive Themes of Poetical composures: and that accordingly the Poetry of all Nations hath been most anciently employed, towards the assistance and improvement of that general inclination of mankind to admire and extol the divine, and human. Authors of any eminent good to them, in that way, with the most elevated Notions and Expressions.  
Nor is it (secondly) lesle clear to any considering Persons, that the declination and debasement of that noble Art, to the service of those propensions of human Nature which are more allied to sensuality, is a mere perversion, and notorious abuse of it; contrived and promoted by the Artifice of Satan, the sworn Enemy of God's Glory, and man's greatest good which in this life he is capable of (the entertaining of it with an exercise, and employment much of the same Nature with that of blessed Angels and glorified Saints,) with design to turn the stream of its noblest faculties out of that pure channel, into the foul and nasty Sinks and By-gutters, of lust and intemperance, flattery and malice; and every thing indeed, that tends to the immersing the human soul the more deeply into all manner of viciousness and debauchery, by the means of that pleasure and delight, which Poetical measures commonly contribute to those Arguments about which they are employed.  
Whence, (thirdly) it follows, (as a consequence of easy deduction from these Premises,) that there can be no better service done to God, or Man, in this World than that, of attempting to recover this Original inclination of mankind to its first perfection, by assisting its noblest affections in that which is their most proper and pleasurable entertainment; so, as that it may be reclaimed from vice, and reduced again to a love of God and Virtue, by a kind of holy guile: to wit, by supplanting and undermining its corrupt propensions by the right use of that Art, by the abuse whereof they were first engendered and nourished. And this I take to be the proper import and design of those Apostolical Exhortations of St. Paul to the Ephesians, and Colossians, 
Eph. 5.19. Col 3.16.  wherein they are stirred up, to speak to themselves, and to teach and admonish one another, in Psalms, and Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, making melody in their hearts to the Lord: as also of that of St. James, 
Jam. 5.13.  wherein he directs those that are merry, or cheerfully disposed, to vent their mirth in singing of Psalms.  
And to this end, it is not to be doubted, that the gift of Psalmody, whatever it were, was peculiarly bestowed on some Persons in the Apostolical Churches. For the Apostle Paul telling us (in 1 Cor. 14. 26.) that among the rest of the eminent Gifts of the Holy Spirit in those Times, that was one; and in his directions for the use of that, as well as the other there mentioned, appointing it to be managed so as might best promote Edification: it is hardly to be conceived, how that way of one gifted man's singing alone, could edify many, except, by excercising the birsk and airy inclinations of men's souls in an holy and spirtual manner, and turning those passions on which they are want to operate into their right channel, and thereby rendering them more spritual, heavenly, and divine.  
And this notion, 
Basil. Hom. de laudibus Psalm.  the great St. Basil had of the use of Psalms in the Church, many Ages since: and from him I have it. He takes it to be the special Artifice of the H Ghost, to endeavour the cure of the proneness of human nature to the charms of vicious pleasure, by inspiring holy men with sacred Poetical raptures, wherein they mix the delights of music, with the precepts of Religion and Virtue: that they might thereby tempt men (as we ordinarily do children to swallow unpalatable medicines, by tempering them with honey,) to admit into their minds and hearts the unpleasant Doctrines, which, conduce to the healing their souls, by the pleasure they found in the harmonious measures wherein they are conveyed to them.  
This is also, the reason, why our Church in all its services, mixeth singing, at convenient Periods, with the other offices of Liturgy: to wit, that thereby the tediousness of sacred Exercises, may, to the generality of men, be alleviated, by the mixing of that which pleaseth the ear, with that which conduceth to the sanctifying of the heart.  
And from the great usefulness of this sacred Exercise to edification in holiness and virtue, it is, that Divine Poems have been in all Ages of the Church so greatly esteemed: and especially the Psalms of David; which have therefore been always admitted, in large proportions, into all offices of public worship. And thence also, to make them more useful to that great end, divers great men have not contented themselves with the rendering them into the Languages of their own Countries, that so the matter of them might be understood by the Congregations where they were read; but they have endeavoured also, to reduce them to such kinds of Metre, as were most acceptable in their Times, that the spirit of them likewise might be diffused among Christians, and raise their affections by their harmonious composure: The advantage of which undertaking, was notably seen in the early days of the Church; in the diverting the natural inclinations of the younger sort to songs of a worse constitution, into that current, in which St. James before quoted, directs holy mirth to run. A great assistance whereunto, was, the facility of receiving into, and retaining in memory, those devout composures of holy Men, which were than in esteem in the Church, by means of Poetical Measures: So that they had generally at all times a stock of sacred Hymns stored up in their minds; and were thereby enabled to give vent to the gaiety of humour which their age and constitution furnished them withal, in a serious and holy manner. In so much, that St. Basil , in the same Homily, tells us, that the ordinary Christians in his time, sung David's Psalms, at home in their houses; and whenever they went abroad also, they muttered them to themselves, as the solitary entertainment of their minds, in their travels and other employments. 
Ren. Laurentius de la Bar  And the Romish Prefacer to the Commentary upon the Psalms attributed to Arnobius, speaks more largely concerning the Time of his Author, and tells his Reader, that the Psalms than, were sung by the Ploughman over his Plough, the Pilot at his Helm, the Rowers over their Oars, the Digger whiles he handled his Spade, the Weaver in his Loom, the Spinster at her Distaff, and very Infants that could not speak plain, upon their Nurse's Laps: and withal, makes a serious complaint of his Catholic Church, for being so far degenerated from the ancient usage in this particular, that this holy exercise was not only disused, but also, even disdained among them, which was, certainly, the Reason, why, when the Reformation began in divers parts of Europe, the vulgar People, who had been long used to no devotions, But such as they understood not, were so much taken with singing the Psalms of David, poetically translated into their own languages, as finding that inward warmth in that exercising of Religion, which they never felt in any before.  
And this, no doubt, upon the Reformation of this our Church, in particular, was one of the things which very much promoted it. For as the principal Instruments in that Reformation composed the Book of Common Prayer so, as to reduce all public offices therein to as near a conformity to the primitive Order as might be; and especially in making the whole worship intelligible to the vulgar, and taking care that not only the Scriptures appointed to be read, should be translated into English, but also the Psalms of David; and these last (though in Prose,) yet should be so pointed as that they might be sung, as they have been ever since in Cathedral, and Collegiate Churches, by all that can read: So divers Persons used the best skill which those times afforded, to diffuse that part of God's public service, more largely among the common people, by a second version of them into English verse, in that translation which ever since hath been bound up with our Bibles, and Common-Prayer Books, and is usually sung in Parochial Congregations to this day.  
Of the Persons, who than did the Church of England that remarkable service, I can give little account beyond their Names: and those, (as to three of them) the very Book informs me of, (viz.) Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and Robert Wisdom. Only, concerning the first of them (Tho. Sternhold) Mr. Fuller, in his Church History, tells, me was first, Groom of the Robes, to K. Henry the VIIIth. and afterwards, of the Privy-Chamber (as he says in one place, but in another of the Bedchamber) to Edw. VI. He had, (as appears by his Will) a Legacy given him by King Henry. He translated for his part, 37 Psalms, by Fuller's account; John Hopkins, 65; and the rest were done by W. W. W. K. R. W. (that is, Robert Wisdom) and others, whose Names deserved not to be lost in oblivion, nor their labours to be mentioned with so much scorn and contempt, as they are by too many Persons of a profane humour amongst us, for the baldness and flatness of the Style, and some Phrases which sound oddly in the ears of this Age, used to a sort of more refined English. It aught rather to be remembered to their honour, that they served the Church with the best they had, and probably, as well as the Poetry of that Age would afford: and that God hath received a great deal of praise, and the ordinary sort of Christians a great deal of Edification and Comfort, by the use of that Version of theirs, for above an hundred years in this Church.  
And therefore, though it be to be desired, that as both English, and Poetry, are very much improved since that time, so these holy Poems should partake also of that improvement, by being rendered more suitably to the Genius of this Age: yet it were (in my judgement) but decent, to bury that former Translation with honour, for the service it hath done, when ever it shall be, if ever it be, exchanged for a better.  
And now, having said so much in general, by I way of Preface to this Translation of mine; I think fit, in the next place, to descend to some particularities in reference thereunto, which I judge necessary the Reader should take notice of, in order to the Judgement be makes of the sutableness thereof, to the design aimed at by me therein.  
The design aimed at, by me in this version, was not to vaunt my skill in Poetry, for had that been my aim, I should have chosen a subject, wherein I might have given myself greater liberty both of fancy, and language, than the version of a book of Holy Scripture will allow me: nor was it, to entertain the devout inclinations of the more ingenious sort of Christians, with strains of elevated invention and expression, suited to their Genius; for this, I know is already done by many, better than I can ever hope to do, should I undertake it. But, that which I at first designed when I undertook this work, was merely to tender these pieces of holy writ, which are thought fit to be made parts of God's public worship, in such a tolerable manner, as they might be for the use of all Christians; gratifying the more ingenious and learned Parts of all Congregations, with that smoothness and cleanness of style, which might make them not to nauseate it; and the more ordinary sort of those holy societies with that easiness and clearness of expression, which might not shoot over their heads, whiles I endeavoured to affect their hearts in so religious a service.  
For I considered, that most of the versions extant in this kind (at lest, of those that I have seen) were peccant, either in the one, or the other, of two extremes: That is, either they were too Poetically done, above the reach of ordinary capacities, and adapted only to the gust of persons of scholastical breeding, who only are able to relish those high flights of fancy, and that elaborate richness of language with which divers of them are so luxuriantly endowed, as (it may be) is hardly to be found in any of the Translatours, either ancient, or modern, in any other Tongue, but the English: or else, performed (by those who have pretended to amend that fault) so flatly and slovenly, to accommodate their Versions to the cappcities of the vulgar, that how grateful soever they were to such palates, yet they as much disrelished those of all others, whose breeding had elevated their under stand above the ordinary level.  
Wherhfore, I thought it expedient, to attempt something in the middle, betwixt both these extremes; by avoiding those heights of fancy, or language, on the one side, as might tender the Translation unintelligible to persons of ordinary capacities; and also, all such flatness and dulness of invention, and expression, on the other, as might make it subject to disgust those of more learned palates in the use thereof.  
This, therefore, being my professed design, I must next acquaint those that are pleased to be my readers, what Course I have taken in pursuance of it.  
I. And (first) as to the Words and Phrases of this version, I endeavoured to keep as near to the New Translation of the Psalms, made in the Time, and by the command, of K. James I. as conveniently I could, sometimes taking its very expressions where they would handsomely fall into verse, and, where they would not, I laboured to give the full sense of them in other words; except now and than, where the Original words or Phrases had something of Emphasis in them, which I thought fit to comply withal. And this I did, both because that Tranflation is confessedly the best, which is extant in the English Tongue: and also, because it is now generally in the hands of all persons, and the other, by disuse (for the, most part) in a sort superannuated.  
Wherhfore, I judged it most expedient, not to give any occasion to any person of doubtful apprehensions concerning the meaning of any Psalm, or any verse of a Psalm, by variety of Interpretations. Which is also the true Reason, why, (though I think their labours of great use to those who expound the sacred Text in a way of instruction to other,) yet I have waved the senses given by the reverend and learned Dr. Hammond, and others: and chosen rather, in such Texts, as by reason of their difficulty, may admit of different expositions, to tender them in words expressing the strict literal sense of that Translation; than to expound them, either according to theirs, or mine own apprehensions; that so, those that shall sing any part of this version, where such Texts occur, may rather apply their own sense to what they sing, than be restrained, and confined to a determinate sense, in which, it may be, they are not satisfied.  
II. I have also declined all running out into Paraphrase, beyond what, either the Scope of any Text, compared with the context, or the general evident design of the Psalm, or the apparent occasion of penning it, or the Emphasis of the words themselves, or the reference they have to other Scriptures, wherein the things uttered in any Psalm briefly and obscurely, or it may be barely glanced at, are more largely, and professedly handled; or the like considerations, will well allow. So that, I think, I may safely aver, that this version, is as close to the Text it renders, as any of this kind extant; not excepting even those, whose Authors pretend to tie themselves the most strictly and even superstitiously to the words and phrases, either of the original Hebrew, or the English Prose-Translation. For even the exactest of those Authors, who, to the mangling the Syntax of words, to the making incoherent ruptures in the sense, and the destruction of Measures and Rhythm, have so fettered themselves: yet are feign, ever, and anon, to insert some such Particles, or Parentheses, or Synonymons expressions, as really make Paraphrases upon the Text, though they endeavour as much as may be to hid their so doing. And sure I am, it is closer a great deal to the Text which I tender, than that very version which hath been so long used in this Church: the Authors whereof (as might appear by several instances,) have often altered the Texts they paraphrased, into quite a different sense from what they naturally will afford: and made the holy Penmen speak what they never intended.  
III. As to the manner, wherein I have performed this work, take these particulars following, to enable you to make a clearer Judgement of it.  
(1.) That I have waved, (for the generality of this version) all learned words, other than such as are by common use make familiar to English ears: and I think, that it will be hard to found any particular Psalm, or verse of a Psalm throughout the Book, where I have overlooked any such in my review of it. As,  
(2.) On the other side, I have avoided all obsolete, course, and unhandsome words, or phrases, such as are beneath the dignity of the matter expressed, as also, all tautological expressions, or insignificant words, that are only serviceable to assist the Rhythm. Insomuch, that if there be any such, they have very narrowly escaped both mine own observation, and that of many others who have done me the favour, on that design, to examine the Copy, and to whom I have particularly made it my request, that they would mark all of that kind, and inform me thereof, that I might altar them.  
(3.) Next, I have denied myself, and mine own inclination, very much, in many places the use of those flights of elevated fancy, which offered themselves to me in the composure of the work; and since, upon frequent reviews of it, expunged many Words, and Phrases, which seemed to me too Poetical for ordinary capacities, to which height of fancy is as unintelligible, as learned language. And though in some Psalms, where, in the original language itself, there is more Poetry than ordinary, in the composure, suitable to the matters treated of in them; it seemed but equal to me, that there should be something of extraordinary in the rendering of them: yet I have endeavoured so to govern my invention, and language, in the translation of them, that, though there be more loftiness of style in them than in others, yet, I think, there is not a line difficult to be understood, even by the meanest, Person, that is not altogether a stranger to smooth and polite English.  
(4.) I have, (as I must ingenuously confess) contrary to the advice of divers of my learned and judicious friends, whom I consulted when I undertook this task, made use of Rhythm at lest twice in every four lines; whereof, I think myself obliged, to give them, and others, this short account. Those that dissuaded me from it, laid before me the danger of being too much fettered in my invention and expression by studying to make so frequent a chime of words, and the occasioning the drawing in of many useless and impertinent words for cadencies sake.  
But I was prevailed withal to act otherwise ' than they advised; by considering (on the other side) (1.) That our English Poetry for many Ages, hath been constantly (excepting some few instances of the contrary) managed in that manner. (2.) That the greatest Poets this Nation hath afforded, have made use of the frequent Rhythm as an ornament, rather than a disparagement to their Poems; and have been so happy in it, as that the most critical Readers, if they will speak truth, must confess, they cannot mend their conceits, (or language, so fettered.) in other expressions left at their own liberty. (3.) That there are divers peculiarities in the English Tongue (which, if this were a place for it, I could easily here assign) seeming to direct to the choice of such frequent Rhythms in our Poetry; and making it more easy to us to writ in that way, than can be done in most other languages. (4.) That English ears generally entertain it with great satisfaction and delight, and disrelish all Poetical compositions, (though never so excellent for all other ornamental requisites) that are without it. (5.) And lastly, that it affords a great assistance to memory (which in such Poems as are penned for devotional Uses, should be much regarded) whereby, when men have lost one part of a stanze, they are enabled more easily to recover it, by running over in their minds such words as chime to the periodical ones of that other, which they remember. These things, and the like, being taken into my consideration, I chose rather, to run the risk of the dangers, and disadvantages suggested, in the moderate use of Rhythm, than to take the contrary course I was advised to. I say, moderate use; because I judge the proportion I have generally made use of, to be so: whereas, the crowding it into shorter periods, as some have done, too much emasculates a grave Poem, by spreading the matter too thin, and occasioning indeed the drawing in many useless and impertinent words to perfect the chime, which my disswaders were afraid, (though I hope it will appear, causelessly) my using it at the distances I designed, would constrain me to. I must confess, the recurring of Rhythms so frequently, has given me some trouble in some Psalms, and Verses of others: But I persuade myself, that I have, in a competent measure, overcome it; at lest, that I can, in case any one will be so friendly, as to let me know in what particular Instances the Rhythm hath enervated the sense, with no great labour, amend it, and yet not vary from my intended measures in that particular.  
(5.) As to the Tunes, to which I have adapted each Psalm, they are such as are most in use among us. Such Psalms as are composed of eights and six, will fall into any of the ordinary Tunes, suited to that proportion of syllables, in the old Version. The rest of the Tunes that I have made choice of, are these. First that of the Old 100th. Ps [All people, etc.] To which all the Psalms that are composed of 4 eights to a stanze, may be sung; or (according to the matter of the Psalm) may be varied to that of Ps. 51. or the Lamentation, in the old Psalm Book. Than to the measures of Psal. 113. [The children, etc.] I have turned divers of mine; that being a Tune easily sung, and withal, sufficiently grave and solemn, as well as pleasant, and very musical. Among those that are rendered in that Tune, is the first Metre of Psalm 119. wherein, according to the measures therein required, every three lines make up a verse, which reduceth all of its Parts to an equality. I have not omitted that of the old 25th. Psalms; nor that of the 148th. to both which, divers of these are adapted. And some few are so ordered, as that they may be sung to the Tunes of the old 111th, 112th, and 127th. Psalms; but those have commonly others in easier Tunes to attend them.  
(6.) I have designedly, for the most part, suited the Matter of each Psalm, to proportionable Metre, and Tune. Heroical Psalms, (those I mean, whose matter is more lofty, and the style in which they are penned, more stately, and majestical, if I may so say, in the original Language,) I have not only endeavoured, as far as my designed plainness would permit, to fit with a suitable style in the English: but have also in the measures accommodated them with the gravest and most solemn Tunes. And the like I have done to the Penitential Psalms, and generally, to all such as are penned in a querulous and lamenting strain: which as I have endeavoured to express more pathetically, so have I suited them to such Tunes, as most aptly comply with the Passions delineated and represented in them.  
(7.) In most of the Psalms, which are commonly sung, in the old version, if they be tolerably there translated, I have waved the measures in which they are therein composed, and put them in this of mine into other Measures, and Tunes, that so, those that are used to sing them, may take their own choice of the one or the other: which I chose rather to do, than to undertake, in all, (as I have done for trials sake, in one, or two, of them) only, to amend the sense, and words, where they seemed most to need it, and let the main substance of them stand in my version: because I found it by experience, more easy to myself, and thought it would be more acceptable to my Readers, as well as more civil to the Authors of the former version, to raise a new frame altogether, than to patch up an old one with such pieces, as, when all was done, would not exactly suit with the building they were intended to beautify.  
(8.) I have made a double version of divers Psalms, some of them quite differing each from other; and some, by addition and subtraction, or alteration of some few words only: that so it may be at the choice of the singers, if they affect one of the Tunes, rather than the other, in such pairs, to take which of them they please.  
(9) I have subjoined to the Psalms of David, the rest of the Hymns used in our Church: to wit, that excellent one of St. Ambrose, usually called, Te Deum, etc. the Magnificat, or Song of the blessed Virgin, Mother of our Lord; those of Zacharias and Simeon, entitled, Benedictus, and Nunc Dimittis, etc. That of Gloria Patri, I have adapted to all the Tunes; that it may (at choice) be sung at the end of every Psalm. So that those, who cannot sing them in Prose, as in Cathedral and Collegiate Churches they do; may have them at hand for their use, in better verse, I hope, than that in which they are tendered to them in the Common Psalm-Book.  
(10.) Lastly, (for the different opinions of picus and learned Men engage me to a conclusive Apology in this matter) I have taken in the whole Book of Psalms into my version: and not confined myself (as some would have confined me) to some few Psalms, and parcels of Psalms, the Matter of which is of common concern to all Christians; because the reasons urged for such curtailing of them, seem not to me to he cogent; yea rather, I think, I have weightier grounds to move me to the contrary. For I know not, why those Psalms which express the troubles which David lay under; or the personal mercies which he received; or, refer to the particular political State of the Jews, or their peculiar Worship; or contain promises of such mercies as God determined to bestow on them, or Historical Relations of their miraculous preservations and deliverances; or (lastly) such as tax them for their infidelity, ingratitude, Idolatrous worship of false Gods, or Apostasy from the true God, etc. may not be sung with advantage by us, though they do not immediately or directly concern us. Considering, that (1.) the State of David, both as to his troubles and mercies, generally, was Typical, and bore relation to Christ, and his Circumstances: Especially, such of them, as he mentions in those remarkably Prophetical Psalms, which are accommodated to our Saviour, as being fulfilled in him, in divers Instances noted by the Evangelists. And (2.) the Jewish occurrences are by the Apostle Paul (1 Cor. 10. 6, 11.) said to befall them for examples to us: And (3.) their Rites, and Ceremonies, were notably significative of the spiritual worship of the Gospel; as the Epistle to the Hebrews every where shows us: And (4ly.) the Prophecies made to them, are eminently fulfilled to us: And (5ly) the miraculous deliverances wrought for them by God, are of use to encourage our faith in like cases; yea (last) the charges and aggravations of the sins charged on them are warnings (as we are told Heb. 4. 11.) to us, that we fall not after the same examples of unbelief or disobedience.  
And, as for those Psalms, which contain Imprecations against David's Enemies; the most of our People understand, that, as he was a Type of Christ, so, under his Enemy's names, Christ's Enemies are cursed, or prayed against, in the Psalms that are of that nature. And they are often told, that David himself allowed not himself to call for God's vengeance upon them, but only, as they were looked on by him, as Enemies to God rather, and more, than to him: and that those Imprecations themselves which he dischargeth against them, are rather Prophecies of what evil would befall them, than Prayers, that such evils might befall them. And as for the rest, that are properly imprecating, they are (secondarily, at lest) directed against Christ's Enemies, as well as God's, and David's. Of which nature, (for instance) are those against Doeg, and Achitophel; which are in the New Testament applied to Judas, and his Complices, the Betrayer, and Murderers of the Lord Jesus. And surely, it is not at all (whatever some imagine) unbecoming the Gospel-temper, for Christians, with holy rejoicing to repeat those fulfilled Imprecations: and curse the memories of Judas, and the Murderers of our Lord Jesus.  
Other Psalms there are, wherein David, indeed, prays against his Personal Enemies, as (for instance) against Saul, and Absalon: but than, the matter of his imprecations against them, only amounts to requests that God would divide, and infatuate their Counsels, and dissipate, and overthrew their forces, and convince, if not convert them, by the remarkable out-going of his providence against them. All which, surely, we may pray for also, without transgressing against the meekness and gentleness, which the Gospel Spirit begets in the hearts of Christians; whenever we have to do with professed Enemies of the same temper with them. So that, in sum, the evil of using such Psalms as these, lies only in the danger of misapplying them to such Persons, and in such cases;, wherein they suit not the Design of the Holy Ghost, in deriving them down to us; which we are to endeavour to prevent, by instructing our People, when occasion is offered, in the right use of them, and not to debar them the using of them altogether.  
Thus much may suffice for the particular Answers to the particular Topics of Argument, urged usually in this matter. But there is one consideration more, which reacheth to the full vindication of the lawfulness and expediency of Christians singing all the Psalms indifferently; which (because it is, to us of this Church, at lest unanswerable) I must not omit. And that is, that the Catholic Church, for so many Ages in all parts of the world, hath thus practised, without scruple, or contradiction, in its Public Congregations And our Church, in particular, makes tke Psalms indiscriminately, a part its daily Liturgy: Dividing them into such parcels, as, they may be said, or sung, interlocutorily, (as they are in Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, as well as other Congregations of eminent Note) throughout, once in each Month. And I know no warrant given to any one, that officiates or partakes of those devotions daily, to pick and choose, to use and omit or skip over, any Psalm or Psalms, upon any of the accounts before mentioned. Nor can I imagine, what good reason can be given, why they may not be sung in Metre, as indiscriminately, as the Church commands them to be in Prose.  
And now, Christian Reader, having given thee so large an account of my design, and the particulars of my performance in this undertaking; it is but meet, that I detain thee not longer in the Porch of the Edifice, but give thee free entrance into all the Rooms of it, and leave thee to pass thy Judgement upon the contrivance and furniture of them all. In the passing of which Judgement, I will embolden myself to presume so far upon thy candid Interpretation of my endeavours, as to reckon myself secure from that keen censure at thy hands which a great Poet of our own, (too Poetically, I think) Mr. Cowley passeth upon all the former Translatours of these Holy Poems, that they do their holy Author neither honour nor justice, and (to his thinking) revile him worse than Shimei. For all that I desire of thee, is, to consider, before thou pass too severe a sentence on this Work, that I designed not in this Translation: (what he requireth in such a Translation as he affecteth) to wit, to imitate, or represent to thee the true Genius and Spirit of that excellent vein of Poetry, with which the royal Psalmist wrote: But only to transcribe the Piety and Devotion of his heavenly Poems, in words proper, and meet to beget like religious sentiments to those which he felt when he wrote, in the hearts and souls of such as shall with well disposed minds vouchsafe to bear a part in these Divine Songs here tendered to them, by  
(Christian Reader) Their unworthy Author, 
 but thy servant for the 
 furthering of thy Edification. 
 S. F.   

Psalm I  
[To the Tune of the old 113. Psalms] The Children, etc.  

verse 1 THAT man's an happy man indeed,  
Whom ill advice doth not misled:  
Nor doth he in that way remain,  
Which men to sin accustomed beat:  
Nor sit, where haughty scorners treat  
Both God, and goodness, with disdain.   

verse 2 But the Lord's Law is his delight,  
Whereto with pleasure, day and night,  
His meditating Soul repairs.  
verse 3 Whence like the thriving tree, whose roots  
Are drenched by parted streams, he shoots,  
And kindly Fruit in season bears.   

And as that tree preserves its leaves,  
When drought all other trees bereaves:  
So all speeds well which this man does.  
verse 4 Thus doth not the ungodly thrive,  
But is like chaff, which from the five  
Is tossed by every wind that blows.   

verse 5 Wherhfore, when God as Judge shall sit,  
Th' ungodly he will not acquit;  
But sinners from the just divide.  
verse 6 For just men's ways the Lord will own;  
But those shall quite be overthrown,  
To which th' ungodly turn aside.    

[The same in other measures.]  

verse 1 THE man is blest, to ill advice  
Who hath not bend his ear:  
Nor made the sinner's way his choice,  
Nor sat in scorners chair.  
verse 2 But calls the Lord's pure Law his joy,  
And reads it with delight:  
So as, in studying it, t' employ  
His thoughts both day and night.   

verse 3 He shall be like the tree, that grows  
Where parted streams are near:  
Which seasonable fruit bestows  
On him that set it there.  
Whose leaf no weather makes to fall;  
In greatest storms it stands:  
So providence doth prospero all  
The works of this man's hands.   

verse 4 Whereas th' ungodlie's pains and care  
Shall never prospero so:  
He shall be like light chaff, in th' air  
By winds tossed to and from.  
verse 5 Therefore shall not the wicked men  
Stand in God's judgement clear:  
Nor shall rebellious sinners than  
Among the just appear.   

verse 6 For every just man's holy way  
Unto the Lord is known:  
But that wherein th' ungodly stray,  
Shall quite be overthrown.    

Psalm II.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 100] All people, etc.  

verse 1 WHY do the heathen nations rage?  
What madness fills their furious brain?  
Why do the people thus engage  
Their foolish thoughts in projects vain?  
verse 2 The earthly Kings and Rulers join  
Against the Lord with vile intent:  
And his Anointed t' undermine,  
Their plotting heads are wholly bend.   

verse 3 Shall we submit to them? (say they)  
Let's break their servile bonds asunder;  
And cast th' uneasy cords away,  
Wherewith they seek to keep us under.  
verse 4 But he that sits in heaven above,  
Shall laugh at their rebellious pride:  
Both what they plot, and how they move,  
He sees, and doth with scorn deride.   

verse 5 Than, from his breast with anger stirred,  
He shall at last his silence break;  
And with a voice, not only heard,  
But felt, will thus in anger speak.  
verse 6 Though mine Anointed you disown,  
And vainly strive against my will:  
I'll fix him an unshaken throne  
Upon my Zion's holy Hill.   

Part II.  

verse 7 Hark, what to me the Lord did say;  
What I proclaim, is his decree:  
Thou art my Son, and on this day  
Thy Father hath begotten thee.  
verse 8 Ask, and to thee, as lawful heir,  
The heathen lands I will assign:  
And where earth's utmost limits are,  
I'll give the Nations to be thine.   

verse 9 Thine iron rod shall sorely bruise  
Such Rebels as thy Law contemn:  
And, as men leaking pitchers use,  
So shalt thou knock and shatter them.  
verse 10 Now, therefore, O ye Kings, be wise,  
Mind that which is your true concern:  
All ye that judge the earth, advice,  
And from my mouth your duty learn.   

verse 11 Serve ye the Lord with awful love,  
And all your joys with fear alloy:  
verse 12 Kiss ye the Son, jest ye him move,  
And perish from his saving way.  
Stir not that wrath, whereof the lest  
Effects, will to your cost declare,  
That only they who on him rest,  
For ever truly blessed are.     

Psalm III.  

verse 1 AH, Lord, the troublers of my peace,  
How they do multiply?  
How those rebellious troops increase,  
That hate me mortally!  
verse 2 They grow in numbers every day  
Who scoffing fret me sore:  
And to my souls vexation say,  
God will him help not more.   

verse 3 But thou, O Lord, my glory art,  
Thy favour is my shield;  
My head, when men forsake my part;  
Is by thy arm upheld.  
verse 4 Unto the Lord I cried aloud,  
(For great my dangers were:)  
And from his holy Hill he bowed  
To me his gracious ear.   

verse 5 Securely than, I laid me down,  
And quietly I slept:  
And when I waked again, I found  
God had me safely kept.  
verse 6 Whence, though ten thousand mortal foes  
Should me alone surround;  
No fear should break my minds repose,  
Or make my sleeps unsound.   

verse 7 All my old foes have felt thy rod;  
Thou hast disarmed their jaws:  
Lord, still appear my saving God,  
And own my righteous cause.  
verse 8 'Tis proper to the Lord alone,  
In greatest straits to save:  
The people, whom thou call'st thine own  
Thy blessing, Lord, shall have.    

Psalm IU.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 100] All people, etc.  

verse 1 O God, that art my righteousness,  
Unto my call incline thine ear:  
Thou that hast freed me from distress,  
In mercy my petition hear.  
verse 2 O Sons of men, how long will ye  
Thus turn my glory into shame?  
How long shall lying vanity  
Your foolish hearts with love inflame?   

verse 3 Know ye, the Lord himself doth choose  
To take the godly to his care:  
To answer me he'll not refuse,  
When I to him present my prayer.  
verse 4 Within your bosoms let the dread  
Of him, all sinful motions kill:  
Consult your hearts upon your bed,  
And all tempestuous passions still.   

verse 5 The Sacrifices of the Just  
On the Lord's holy Altars lay:  
And on him with believing trust  
Your fearful souls securely stay.  
verse 6 This world's chief good, who'll show us? thus  
Do earthly-minded men inquire:  
But show thy pleased face to us;  
It's light alone, Lord, we desire.   

verse 7 For, when on me thy face doth shine,  
Moore solid joys my heart possess,  
Than e'er they felt from corn and wine,  
In the most fruitful years increase.  
verse 8 Than will I lay me down in peace,  
And with great soundness take my sleep:  
For thou alone in quietness  
My dwelling place, O Lord, shalt keep.    

Psalm V  

verse 1 THY gracious ear, O Lord, incline  
To my petition:  
And let thy heart, what comes from mine  
With favour think upon.  
verse 2 My King, and God, unto my cry  
Do thou attentive be:  
My prayer, on all occasions, I  
Will still direct to thee.   

verse 3 Each morning, Lord, with earnest cries,  
My prayer to thee I'll sand:  
And heav'n-ward my up-lifted eyes  
Shall my requests attend.  
verse 4 For wickedness to thee, O God,  
Can never pleasure bring:  
And where thou dwellest, there's no abode  
For any evil thing.   

verse 5 Ungodly fools before thine eye  
Shall never stand, O Lord:  
And all that work iniquity,  
By thee shall be abhorred.  
verse 6 To ruin, those that scatter lies,  
By thee shall be pursued:  
The Lord most perfectly defies  
Men of deceit and blood.   

verse 7 But I into thy house will go,  
Through thy abundant grace:  
And with most humble reverence bow  
Before thy holy place  
verse 8 In thy just paths conduct thou me,  
Because men watch me so:  
The straightest way that leads to thee,  
Lord, make me know, and go.   

verse 9 For there's no faith in what they say,  
False hearts within they have:  
And flatter, that they may betray;  
Their throat's an open grave.  
verse 10 Their wicked plots, O Lord, deseat,  
And take them of in sin:  
For frequent against thee, and great  
Have their rebellions been.  
verse 11 But may perpetual shouts proclaim  
Their joys who trust in thee;  
And glad may all that love thy Name  
In thy protection be.  
verse 12 For, Lord, upon the righteous, all  
Thy blessings shall descend:  
And, as a shield, thy favour shall  
On all sides them defend.    

Psalm VI.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 51. or, the Lamentation.] O Lord consider, etc.  

verse 1 LORD, when thy kindled wrath is hot,  
Let not its fury light on me:  
And thy poor servant chasten not,  
When sore displeasure stirreth thee.  
verse 2 Have mercy on a sinner, Lord,  
That under grievous weakness groans:  
And let my lost health be restored,  
For vexed with sickness are my bones.   

verse 3 My body's pain my soul dejects  
With grief, too much for me to bear:  
Long have I felt thy wrath's effects:  
When shall it long to thee appear?  
verse 4 Thine ancient kindness, Lord, revive,  
And let my soul delivered be:  
And, though I merit no reprieve,  
Advance thy grace in saving me.  
verse 5 For the forgetful state of death  
Keeps no remembrance of thy name:  
And in the silent Vaults beneath,  
What thankful tongue shall spread thy fame  
verse 6 Tired out with groaning, all the day,  
I hope for ease when night appears:  
But night doth not my grief alloy,  
For than my bed doth swim with tears.   

verse 7 I wept, and wept, until mine eyes  
Quite drained, not more tears could raise:  
Because of all mine enemies,  
My sight with very grief decays.  
verse 8 But now, sigh God doth kindly bend  
His ear unto my mournful cry:  
Hence, hence, say I, your triumphs end,  
Ye workers of iniquity.   

verse 9 The supplication I preferred  
To him, an hearing did obtain:  
And I'm assured I shall be heard,  
When I apply to him again.  
verse 10 Let all my foes though forth they came  
Swollen big with rage, and hopes as great;  
Be sent home quickly, vexed with shame  
Of disappointment and defeat.    

Psalm VII.  

verse 1 O Lord my God, sigh I do put  
Such confidence in thee:  
From those that do me persecute,  
Save and deliver me.  
verse 2 Left, while there is no Saviour, near,  
That can my foe control;  
He, like a cruel Lion, tear  
My poor and helpless Soul.   

verse 3 O Lord, my God, if ever I  
Have done so vile a fact:  
If such a foul iniquity  
My hands did ever act:  
verse 4 If him that lived with me in peace  
So ill I did requited:  
(Yea, that bad man did I release  
That bore me causeless spite.)   

verse 5 Than, I myself will own, 'tis just  
My life should be his prey:  
Yea, life, and honour both, in dust  
Let my pursuer lay.  
verse 6 O Lord, awake, thine anger rouse,  
Because my foes do rage:  
And, sigh thy Law my cause allows,  
With me do thou engage.   

verse 7 By devout crowds of holy men  
Than shalt thou be adored:  
That they may see thy glory than  
Return on high, O Lord.  
verse 8 Judge of all people, I present  
My cause before thy bar:  
Where, as thou findest me innocent,  
Or guilty, let me far.   

Part II.  

verse 9 Blast, Lord, bad men's unjust designs;  
But just men stay and guide:  
For by the righteous God, all reinss  
And hearts are throughly tried.  
verse 10 My buckler is God's Providence;  
'Tis he that doth me save:  
All upright hearts a sure defence  
In his protection have.   

verse 11 'Tis true, the Just feels now and than  
The righteous Judge's strokes:  
But against prospering wicked men  
God's anger daily smokes.  
verse 12 Except the wicked man repent,  
His sword th' Almighty whets:  
His bow for execution bent  
Inreadiness he sets.   

verse 13 To cut him of, he doth dispose  
The Instruments of death:  
Against the persecuting foes,  
His shafts he ordereth.  
verse 14 Behold, the heart where malice reigns  
Conceives iniquity:  
But, after all its trav'ling pains,  
It bringeth forth a lie.   

verse 15 Much pains his active malice spent,  
To dig a fatal pit;  
But fell himself (for those he meant,)  
Into the midst of it.  
verse 16 Thus, the destructive plots he laid,  
Fall on the plotters head:  
And wrong to him shall be repaid,  
From whom it did proceed.   

verse 17 I'll give unto the Lord the praise,  
Which he doth justly claim:  
And with my thankful song will raise  
The highest Lord's great fame.     

Psalm VIII.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 100] All people, etc.  

verse 1 O Lord, Our Lord, how excellent  
Through all the earth is thy great name!  
Yea th' heavens themselves of vast extent,  
Too narrow are, to bond thy fame.  
verse 2 The mouths of babes and sucklings, thou  
Inspired'st to defend thy cause:  
That thou mightst make those foes to bow,  
Who with despite oppose thy Laws.   

verse 3 When to thy heavens I lift mine eye,  
(The Palace thine own hands did rear:)  
And the bright Moon and Stars espy,  
Ordained by thee to sparkle there:  
verse 4 What's Man, that sorry thing, say I,  
That thou shouldst have him in thy mind?  
Or what is his posterity,  
That thou to them shouldst be so kind?   

verse 5 For next to Angels, in degree  
He is, by his creation, placed:  
With honour, and great dignity,  
By thy rich bounty is he graced.  
verse 6 Or all the works thy hands have made,  
He is, as thy Lieutenant, set:  
And all things, by thy gift, are laid,  
With low submission, at his feet.   

verse 7 Tame flocks, and herds, and beasts, that graze  
In th' open fields at liberty:  
verse 8 Fowls of the air, and fish, whose ways  
In the untrodden Seas do lie.  
verse 9 O Lord, our Lord, how excellent  
Do all these proofs declare thy name?  
Through all the spacious earth's extent,  
Thy noble works do spread thy fame.    

Psalm IX.  

verse 1 O Lord, my heart is wholly set  
Thy praises to declare:  
And show forth all thy works, how great  
And marvellous they are.  
verse 2 O God most high, with joyfulness  
Thy praise I will proclaim:  
And with my cheerful song express  
The glories of thy name.  
verse 3 My foes before thy presence shall  
Be quickly put to flight:  
And when their backs are turned, fall,  
And be destroyed quite.  
verse 4 For thou my righteous cause didst own  
When 'twas before thee tried:  
And seated on thy righteous throne,  
Gav'st sentence on my side.   

verse 5 The Heathen fallen, rebuked by thee,  
Destroyed the wicked were:  
So that in future memory  
Their names shall not appear.  
verse 6 And thou, proud foe, that hast subdued  
Great Cities heretofore,  
And jest it doubtful, where they stood,  
Henceforth shalt raze not more.   

Part II.  

verse 7 But evermore the Lord shall be,  
When Time itself is flown:  
And than, in Judgement sit shall he,  
On his prepared throne.  
verse 8 Before his bar th' whole world shall come.  
And he shall sentence pass;  
With Justice he each man shall doom,  
According to his case.   

verse 9 The Lord likewise shall be a fort,  
Oppressed men to save:  
To which in straits they may resort,  
And sure protection have.  
verse 10 Those, Lord, that know thy name, therefore,  
Shall thee their refuge make:  
Sigh those that do thy help implore,  
Thou never didst forsake.   

verse 11 Come, to the Lord your voices raise,  
Who dwells in Zion's Mount:  
Before all people to his praise  
Let us his deeds recount.  
verse 12 He will remember, whensoever  
He maketh search for blood,  
The meek and humble sufferer,  
Whose cries to him are loud.    

Part III.  

verse 13 In mercy, Lord, consider, how  
By mortal foes I'm grieved:  
(From gates of death, time was, when thou  
Didst raise me, and I lived:)  
verse 14 Than I, in Zion's Gates, O Lord,  
Will show forth all thy praise:  
The safety thou dost me afford,  
My joyful voice shall raise.   

verse 15 For me, the heathen digged a pit,  
Wherein themselves sunk down:  
They hide a net t'intrap my feet,  
Which justly caught their own.  
verse 16 Strong proofs the Lord's just Judgements are  
To prove him God most high:  
When wicked hands do twist the snare,  
Wherein entrapped they lie.  
verse 17 The wicked shall be sent to hell,  
The place for them assigned:  
And there shall all the nations devil,  
That keep not God in mind.  
verse 18 God will not still the poor forget,  
(Though often they so complain:)  
And though they seem quite perished, yet  
Their hopes shall not be vain.   

verse 19 Rise, Lord, do not thy servant leave,  
To be oppressed by might:  
And let thy heathenish foes receive  
Their judgement in thy sight  
verse 20 Put them in fear, O Lord: bring down  
Their daring pride; and than  
The nations of the world will own  
Themselves to be but men.     

Psalm X.  

verse 1 WHY standest thou, inour woeful case,  
So far, O Lord, from us?  
And wherefore dost thou hid thy face,  
Whiles we are troubled thus?  
verse 2 The wicked, proudly insolent,  
Do hunt the needy down:  
But, by the plots themselves invent,  
Let them be overthrown.   

verse 3 For of his ill designs success  
The wicked man doth boast;  
And covetous oppressors bless,  
Whom God abhorreth most.  
verse 4 He lifts his haughty looks so high,  
Even God he doth despise:  
And the eternal majesty  
Each thought of his denies.   

verse 5 His ways still grievous are, his sight  
Can't view thy Judgements high:  
With scornful puffs he thinks to fright  
Away each enemy.  
verse 6 His heart hath said, I am secure,  
Unmoved shall be my peace:  
To me adversity, I'm sure,  
Shall never found access.   

verse 7 With bitter cursing, in his mouth,  
Deceit, and fraud abound:  
Mischief, and lies instead of truth,  
Under his tongue are found.  
verse 8 In obscure hamlets close retreats  
He keepeth hushed, and still:  
Where, for poor innocents' he waits,  
To aim, and shoot, and kill.   

verse 9 The cruel Lion in his den  
Thus for his prey doth watch:  
As he lies closely lurking, when  
His net the poor doth catch.  
verse 10 He croucheth low on mischief bend,  
And doth close ambush lay;  
That he may catch the impotent,  
And make their lives his prey.  
verse 11 In his vile heart thus thinketh he;  
God doth not keep in mind,  
Or hides his eyes, as loath to see  
The actions of mankind.  
verse 12 Arise, O Lord, thou God of might,  
List up thy hand on high:  
And when the wronged sue for right,  
Forget not thou their cry.   

Part II.  

verse 13 Why should ungodly wretches thus  
Th' allseeing God despise?  
Saying in heart, God minds not us,  
Our deeds escape his eyes.  
verse 14 But thou malicious wrongs dost see.  
Which thy hand will requited:  
Thou Orphan's guardian, unto thee  
The poor themselves commit.   

verse 15 The wicked's power do thou suppress,  
That thus doth crush the poor:  
And search out all his wickedness,  
Till thou canst found not more.  
verse 16 The righteous Lord's exalted throne  
Eternally shall stand:  
Till of the heathen there be none  
Remaining in his land.   

verse 17 The humble their desires disclose,  
And thou, O Lord, dost hear:  
Their hearts to pray thou wilt dispose,  
And than incline thine ear.  
verse 18 The Lord will judge the fatherless,  
And doth ' oppressed right:  
That earthly men not more oppress  
The righteous cause by might.     

Psalm XI.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 100] All people, etc.  

verse 1 Sigh in the Lord my trust is placed,  
Vex not my soul with impious vaunts:  
Nor bid us to our Hill to haste,  
As birds fly to their secret haunts.  
verse 2 Say not the wicked bend their bow,  
Their arrow's ready on the string;  
That by an unexpected blow  
Their points the upright heart may sting,   

verse 3 Say not we groundless hopes retain,  
Hopes, whose foundation's undermined;  
Nor ask us, why we toil in vain;  
For where can just men shelter found?  
verse 4 Know ye, God's heavenly throne is free  
From plots which earthly Kings annoyed:  
And in his holy temple, we  
His gracious presence do enjoy:   

From whence he sees the secret mines  
Ungodly plotters hid from day:  
His eyelids try the close designs  
Which sons of men in darkness lay.  
verse 5 And that, when just men are oppressed,  
The Lord doth but their patience prove:  
But wicked men he doth detest,  
And those that violence do love.   

verse 6 On wicked men entrapping snares,  
And flaming brimstone he will rain;  
With horrid tempests: He prepares  
This cup his foes to entertain.  
verse 7 For, as the Lord most righteous is,  
So righteousness he doth affect:  
The upright he doth highly prize,  
And with his favour them protect.    

Psalm XII.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 113.] Ye children, etc.  

verse 1 HElp, Lord, for godly men are vanished,  
The faithful from the earth are banished;  
Amongst mankind few such are found:  
verse 2 Each, to his neighbour utt'reth lies,  
Which their deceitful hearts device,  
And with keen tongues they closely wound.   

verse 3 But flattering lips, and tongues that vaunt,  
And with proud words profanely taunt,  
The Lord will surely cut away:  
verse 4 Those tongues that say we will prevail:  
The lips are ours wherewith we rail;  
Who shall control us in our way?  
verse 5 Because the poor oppressed sighs,  
Now, faith the Lord, I will arise,  
And save him from th' insulting foes.  
verse 6 The Lord's word's pure, as silver tried,  
And by refiners purified,  
Which seven times through the furnace goes.   

verse 7 From such oppressors furious rage,  
In this, and every future age,  
The righteous thou, O Lord, shalt save:  
verse 8 For 'twill too often so be found,  
The bad in numbers will abound,  
When vilest men promotion have.    

Psalm XIII.  

verse 1 HOW long wilt thou forget me, Lord?  
Shall I ne'er minded be?  
How long, as if I were abhorred,  
Hidest thou thy face from me?  
verse 2 How long shall I sad counsel take,  
Oppressed with daily woes?  
How long shall they such triumphs make,  
Who are my mortal foes?   

verse 3 Hear, Lord, what thy poor servant saith,  
Think on my mournful cries:  
And, jest I steep the sleep of death,  
Enlighten thou mine eyes.  
verse 4 Jest my fall raise th' insulting voice  
Of my prevailing foe:  
And those that trouble me, rejoice  
To see my overthrow.   

verse 5 But, Lord, on thee my soul is stayed,  
I on thy mercy rest:  
When thou dost sand me saving aid,  
Great joys shall fill my breast.  
verse 6 Than with a thankful Song to thee  
Due praises I will give:  
For thy great bounty, Lord, to me,  
Hath kept me yet alive.    

Psalm XIV.  

verse 1 THE foolish man within his soul  
Hath said, no God I own:  
Vile thoughts! whence issue works as soul;  
But good is done by none.  
verse 2 The Lord upon corrupt mankind  
From heaven did cast his eye:  
One wise religious man to found,  
But none he could espy.   

verse 3 In vices stinking mud they wallow,  
And virtues paths forsake:  
None, not not one, its rules doth follow,  
Or better courses take.  
verse 4 Is reason with religion  
From all ill-livers fled;  
That whiles the Lord they call not on,  
They make my flock their bread?  
verse 5 Yet even where they act so high,  
Great fear their courage quells:  
For why? the heavenly majesty  
Among the righteous dwells.  
verse 6 In vain your scoffs have sought to shame  
The poor man when he prayed:  
As if his wisdom were to blame,  
For making God his aid.   

verse 7 Would God that doth in Zion devil,  
His people's prayers hear:  
So that from thence to Israel  
Salvation might appear!  
verse 8 For when the Lord shall set them free,  
That lie in bondage sad:  
His Jacobs seed shall joyful be,  
And Isr'el shall be glad.    

Psalm XV.  

verse 1 WHom in thy tent dost thou accounted  
Fit, Lord, to lodge with thee?  
Or, who shall on thy holy mount  
A constant dweller be?  
verse 2 The man that uprightly doth live,  
That worketh righteousness:  
And what he doth in heart conceive,  
Doth with his mouth express.   

verse 3 That spitefully backbiteth not,  
Nor doth his neighbour wrong:  
Nor takes up a reproach to blot  
His Neighbour with his tongue.  
verse 4 Who honours those that fear the Lord;  
But doth vile persons scorn:  
Who to his damage keeps his word,  
And hates to be forsworn.   

verse 5 Who to oppressing usury  
His money hath not lent:  
Nor can be bought by bribery,  
To wrong the innocent.  
verse 6 The man who thus his course doth steer,  
By God and men approved,  
Is in good case, and out of fear  
Of being ever moved.    

[The same, to the Tune of Ps. 100]  

verse 1 WHom in his Tabernacle will  
The Lord with welcome entertain?  
Or, who, upon his Holy Hill  
A constant dweller shall remain?  
verse 2 The man that uprightly doth live,  
That strictly worketh righteousness:  
And what in heart he doth conceive,  
Doth truly with his mouth express.   

verse 3 That spitefully backbiteth not,  
Whereby to do his neighbour wrong:  
Nor takes up a reproach to blot  
His neighbour with a slanderous tongue.  
verse 4 Who honours those that fear the Lord;  
But doth vile persons treat with scorn:  
Who, to his damage keeps his word,  
Nor is in any case forsworn.   

verse 5 Who to oppressing usury  
Hath not for gain his money lent:  
Nor can be bought by bribery,  
To wrong a man that's innocent.  
verse 6 The man that God approves, may be,  
By these, and such like tokens known,  
And who makes these his practice, he  
Is certain, ne'er to be overthrown.    

Psalm XVI.  

verse 1 WITH dangers when I am enclosed  
O Lord preserve thou me;  
For I have constantly reposed  
My confidence in thee.  
verse 2 Unto the Lord, my Soul professed,  
My sovereign Lord art thou:  
My goodness will not pay the lest;  
Of what to thee I owe.   

verse 3 But to the Saints on earth that devil  
That thought my love excites:  
And those in virtue that excel,  
Engross my Souls delights.  
verse 4 Thy vengeance with all sorts of woes  
Apostates shall pursue;  
Who a strange God make haste to choose,  
And quite renounce the true.  
The blood they shed in Sacrifice,  
To offer, I'll not join:  
My very Lips such Deities  
To mention, shall decline.  
verse 5 My portion is the Lord alone;  
My cup by him is filled:  
And whatsoever I call mine own,  
Is by thy hand upheld.   

Part II.  

verse 6 The place thou hast by lot assigned  
To me, contents me well:  
And in mine heritage I found  
All pleasures that excel.  
verse 7 I thank the Lord, who did direct  
My soul to choose aright:  
Whereon my secret thoughts reflect  
With comfort every night.   

verse 8 To set the Lord before my face,  
I do myself enure:  
At my right hand he takes his place;  
Whereby I rest secure.  
verse 9 Greatgladness thence shall fill my breast,  
My tongue its joys shall vent:  
My flesh likewise in hope shall rest,  
With death itself content.   

verse 10 For, Lord, my soul thou wilt not leave  
Where souls departed are:  
Nor quit thy Saint unto the grave,  
To see corruption there:  
verse 11 But shalt me raise to live with thee,  
Where full joy overflows:  
And I at thy right hand shall be,  
Where endless pleasure grows.     

Psalm XVII.  

verse 1 REgard my righteous plea, O Lord,  
My cry with pity hear:  
And audience to my prayer afford,  
Which comes from lips sincere.  
verse 2 My cause at thy tribunal try,  
And pass my sentence there:  
Judge thou, with thine impartial eye,  
What things most equal are.   

verse 3 Found in my heart no guilt there is,  
Though by thee nightly tried:  
My mouth too, not to speak amiss,  
My solemn purpose tied.  
verse 4 As others do so did not I;  
Thy word did me restrain:  
From the destroyer's paths, thereby,  
My feet I did refrain.   

verse 5 My go in thy holy ways  
Do thou support, and guide:  
For whiles thy grace thy servant stays,  
My footsteps shall not slide.  
verse 6 I heretofore have called on thee,  
Assured my God would hear:  
Now also, when I speak, to me  
Incline thy gracious ear.   

verse 7 Thy wondrous kindness, Lord, extend,  
As thou art want, to those  
That on thy saving hand depend:  
And save them from their foes.  
verse 8 Defend me, as thou wouldst descend  
The apple of thine eye:  
And over me thy wings extend  
To hid me secretly.   

Part II.  

verse 9 My wicked, and oppressing foes,  
That deadly hate my soul,  
Though round about they me enclose;  
Yet let thy power control.  
verse 10 As beasts with fatness wanton grow,  
Wealth makes them insolent:  
Out of their mouths proud speeches flow,  
And haughty things they vent.   

verse 11 They hunt as by the foot, and round  
Our ways they got hered are:  
Their eyes they still bend to the ground,  
To trace our footsteps there.  
verse 12 Each, like an hungry Lion is,  
That hunts, his prey to catch:  
Like a young Lion, which for his,  
In thickets close doth watch.  
verse 13 Arise, his greedy hopes deceive,  
And cast him down, O Lord:  
From bad men's plots my soul relieve,  
Who are, indeed, thy Sword.  
verse 14 From men that in this world are chief,  
But thy hand makes them so:  
Their portion in this present life  
On them thou dost bestow.   

Their bellies thy hid stores do fill;  
They want nor wealth, nor heirs:  
Their Children spend on't what they will,  
And leave the rest to theirs.  
verse 15 As for me, in this world, my All  
In thy just favour lies:  
And when I wake, thy likeness shall  
Fill me with endless joys.     

Psalm XVIII.  
A Psalm of David in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his Enemies, and from the hand of Saul.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 100]  

verse 1 O Lord, that art my surest Fort,  
My dearest love I vow to thee:  
verse 2 The Lord's the rock of my resort,  
My fortress, that protecteth me:  
My God, and strength, to which I trust:  
The Horn, that saves me, when assailed:  
My shield, to break each mortal thrust;  
My Tower, never to be scaled.  
verse 3 I purpose on the Lord to call,  
Who worthy is all praise to have:  
For thus, his succour shall not fail  
Me from mine enemies to save.  
verse 4 Deaths doleful pangs, me round about,  
Close siege unto my vitals laid:  
And like a flood, th' ungodly rout  
Combining, made me sore afraid.   

verse 5 In sorrows, like to those of Hell,  
Bound fast, as with strong cords, I was:  
And into snares of death I fell,  
Before I knew my woeful case.  
verse 6 Upon the Lord, my God, aloud  
I called with distracted cries:  
His ears he from his Temple bowed,  
And set my case before his eyes.   

verse 7 Than trembling earth felt God was near;  
The very hills foundations shook:  
For, firmly rooted though they were,  
They could not bear his angry look.  
verse 8 His nostrils too, which wrath enlarged,  
A smoky cloud sent to the sky:  
Devouring flames his mouth discharged;  
That coals were set on fire thereby.   

verse 9 The Heavens, when their Lord came down  
Did in an humble posture bend:  
And for the foot-cloth of his throne,  
Vast darkness did itself extend.  
verse 10 His steed a glorious Cherub was,  
Whose wings did swiftly him convey;  
As swiftly, as the winds do pass,  
When through the air they source their way.   

Part II.  

verse 11 In darkness was his secret place;  
His Tent was in deep waters spread:  
With them encompassed round he was,  
And clouds that in the sky are bred.  
verse 12 Quick flashes than of lightnings bright,  
Before his brighter countenance went:  
The thick Clouds cracked, and with the light,  
Hailstones and Coals of fire did vent.   

verse 13 His voice the Lord did raise aloud;  
The Skies his claps of thunder rend:  
The bowels of each shattered Cloud,  
Hailstones and Coals of fire did vent.  
verse 14 Those piercing darts the Lord did cast,  
And scattered the affrighted band:  
His lightnings made them fly in haste;  
Before them not a man could stand.   

verse 15 The World's foundations than appeared;  
The floods did leave their Channels dry:  
At thy rebuke, their waters scared,  
Before thy Nostrils breath did fly.  
verse 16 He, for my rescue, from above  
To th' heavenly Hosts commission gave:  
He took hold of me, in his love,  
And did me from great waters save.  
verse 17 From my most mighty enemy,  
A Saviour he more mighty was:  
For I was hated mortally  
By those, whose strength did mine surpass,  
verse 18 Before I was prepared to fight,  
They charged me, in my woeful day:  
But, though surprised in such a plight,  
I found the Lord my mighty stay.    

Part III.  

verse 19 Me, from my lurking-holes be brought  
Into a large and spacious place,  
And for me great salvation wrought;  
For in me he delighted was.  
verse 20 The Lord my righteous cause regarded,  
And dealt with me accordingly:  
His bounteous goodness thus rewarded  
My hands untainted purity.   

verse 21 For from the Lord's most holy ways  
In all my straits I did not start:  
And wickedly, in worst of days,  
I did not from my God departed.  
verse 22 For I, to guide my life thereby,  
His judgements did before me lay:  
And his most righteous statutes, I  
Did never from me put away.   

verse 23 Before the Lord's allseeing eye,  
My uprightness I made appear:  
And from mine own iniquity  
I strictly kept my conscience clear.  
verse 24 My righteousness to recompense,  
When I was wronged, he did me right:  
For in my hands, pure innocence  
Appeared before his searching sight.   

verse 25 To him that's full of mercy, thou  
Wilt be found merciful, and kind:  
The upright man, with thee, I know,  
Like uprightness shall surely found.  
verse 26 Unto the pure thou wilt appear  
A God, that purity doth own:  
But with the men that froward are,  
Wilt wrestle, till thou cast them down.   

verse 27 For thou to them wilt mercy show,  
Who humbled by affliction are:  
But will't stout sinners overthrew;  
Whose pride their haughty looks declare.  
verse 28 My dying Candles feeble blaze,  
Thou shalt renew with brighter light.  
And thy pleased faces glorious rays  
To day shall turn my darkest night.    

Part IU.  

verse 29 By thy mere help, with victory,  
Through armed Troops I passed clear:  
And strongest Forts, though walled high,  
By thy assistance scaled were.  
verse 30 The Lord's clean way most perfect is:  
God's word, on trial, true is found:  
Of those, who trust him, none shall miss  
A shield to keep them sase and sound.  
verse 31 Who, but the Lord, is God indeed?  
That honour he imparts to none:  
And what God is a Rock in need?  
That name besits our God alone.  
verse 32 He is the God, that girdeth me,  
And strength unto to my Loins supplies:  
And, that my go perfect be,  
I own alone to his advice.   

verse 33 Feet, wherewithal my foes to chase,  
He gave me, like the hinds for speed:  
And upon every fenced place,  
Through him, victoriously I tread.  
verse 34 My hands by him are taught to War,  
So that my foes their force do feel:  
My arms by him so strengthened are,  
That they can break a bow of steel.   

verse 35 Thou, thy falvations mighty shield  
Before me dost in danger set:  
By thy right hand I am upheld:  
Thy condescension makes me great.  
verse 36 When difficulties compassed me,  
Thou didst before me clear my way:  
My foot, in battle fixed by thee,  
By sliding did me not betray.   

verse 37 My routed foes I chased amain,  
And overtook them in the flight:  
Nor did I ever turn again,  
Until they were consumed quite.  
verse 38 With deadly wounds I did them quell,  
That they could rise again not more:  
Under my conquering feet they fell,  
And there, lay weltering in their gore.    

Part V  

verse 39 For thou hast girded me with strength  
In battle to resist my foes:  
And made to bow to me at length,  
The men that up against me rose.  
verse 40 The necks of all that with me fought,  
Thou also hast to me subdued:  
And those that my destruction sought,  
Unto destruction I pursued.   

verse 41 They cried for help, but all denied  
In their great'st dangers them to save:  
Yea, even to the Lord they cried;  
But he to them no answer gave.  
verse 42 Before me, than, dispersed, they fled,  
Like dust by winds tossed to and from:  
And like the dirt on which men tread,  
Into the streets I did them throw.   

verse 43 Thou savedst me from the people's strife;  
And heathens, whom I did not know,  
To me submitted as their chief;  
My very name did fright them so.  
verse 44 And humble subjects they shall be,  
As soon as e'er they hear my name:  
E'en foreign nations unto me  
The awe thereof shall tender tame.  
verse 45 Strangers shall have no mind to fight,  
But their faint hearts shall them dismay:  
And all their forts of greatest height,  
Their want of courage shall betray.  
verse 46 To th' everlasting Lord be praise.  
Let God, my Rock still blessed be:  
And let my song his glories raise,  
Who from all dangers saved me.   

verse 47 Avenged by my God I am;  
None to me wrong securely does:  
He makes tumultuous subjects tame,  
And rescues me from deadly foes.  
verse 48 Above rebellious insolence,  
O Lord, thou hast advanced me:  
And from the man of violence  
Thy saving help hath set me free.   

verse 49 Therefore, among the heathens, I  
will thanksfully thy acts proclaim:  
And with my song continually  
Advance the glories of thy name.  
verse 50 And Lord doth great salvation bring,  
And gives rich mercies from his store,  
To David his anointed King,  
And to his seed for evermore.     

Psalm XIX.  
To the same Tune.  

verse 1 The heavens through out their vast extent  
Proclaim their great Creatour's praise:  
And the Star spangled firmament  
His wondrous workmanship displays.  
verse 2 Each day unto the next relates:  
His daily providences stories:  
Night likewise after night repeats  
Renewed prospects of his glories.   

verse 3  men converse by speech,  
Though various languages they use,  
These Preachers, understood by each,  
Nature's Religion do infuse.  
verse 4 Their line through all the earth is gone,  
And their words reach its utmost bounds:  
For in them dwells the glorious Sun,  
Whose constant light the world surrounds.   

verse 5 Each morning, like a Bridegroom trimmed,  
His golden beams adorn his face:  
And as a Giant strongly limbed,  
Rejoicing, he gins his race.  
verse 6 From th' Eastern point of Heaven bright,  
He makes his progress to the West:  
Scattering each where both heat, and light,  
With which all Creatures are refreshed.   

Part II.  

verse 7 The Lord's most perfect Law revives,  
And brings dead souls to life again:  
Sure rules his Testimony gives,  
Whereby true Wisdom fools attain.  
verse 8 The Statutes of the Lord are right,  
Pure joy from thence man's heart bedews:  
His pure Commandments, saving light  
Into blind Sinners eyes infuse.   

verse 9 Clean is the Lord's most holy fear,  
And endless blessedness bestows:  
Most perfect truth his judgements are,  
And Justice doth them all compose.  
verse 10 Than much fined Gold (which men so prise)  
Far more  they be:  
Lesle sweet the purest Honey is,  
When from the Combs it drops most free.   

verse 11 Moreover, these, as trusty friends,  
Thy servant faithful warnings give:  
And very great reward attends  
Those that by their directions live.  
verse 12 But who (Alas!) can fully know  
The errors of this life so frail?  
O purge me from those sins do thou,  
Which though I know not, I bewail.   

verse 13 And keep me, Lord, that over me  
Presumptuous sins no power gain:  
So, from the great transgression free,  
My uprightness I shall retain.  
verse 14 The words which from my mouth do flow,  
And thoughts conceived in my heart,  
With favour, Lord, accept; for thou  
My strength, and my Redeemer art.     

Psalm XX.  

verse 1 IN time of trouble, may the Lord  
Vouchsafe thee audience:  
May Jacob's God, O King, afford  
To thee, a sure defence.  
verse 2 May he, th' assistance of his grace,  
When e'er thou needest it, give:  
And thee, from Zion's holy place,  
With strengthening help relieve.   

verse 3 Each of thy offerings may he prise,  
And keep them all in mind:  
And when thou burnest a sacrifice,  
May it acceptance found.  
verse 4 What thou desirest, may he give,  
According to thy will:  
And what thy counsels do contrive,  
With good effect fulfil.   

verse 5 The banners which our hosts display,  
Our God's great name shall bear:  
And whiles we fight, our hearts shall say,  
Lord, the King's prayers hear.  
Thus shall we War successfully,  
And joyful triumphs have:  
verse 6 For now I know, the Lord most high  
Will his Anointed save.   

For from his holy heaven, he  
His gracious ear shall bend:  
And his right hand shall armed be,  
Strong help to him to sand.  
verse 7 On Chariots some for victory,  
And some on horse depend:  
But on our God do we rely,  
His name shall us defend.   

verse 8 Our foes, from falling to the ground,  
Those helps shall not secure:  
But we with victory are crowned;  
And stand from danger sure.  
verse 9 Lord, still do thou thy people save.  
And let our King be kind:  
And may his ear, to what we crave,  
Be graciously inclined.    

Psalm XXI  

verse 1 THE King, O Lord, shall joy, to see  
Thy strength his part to take:  
In the salvations wrought by thee,  
What triumphs shall he make?  
verse 2 Thou hast performed his heart's request;  
Not wish it spent in vain:  
And the desires his lips expressed,  
He did of thee obtain.   

verse 3 Yea, sometimes, were his very prayers  
Prevented by thy grace:  
The Crown of purest Gold he wears,  
That, on his head did place.  
verse 4 And when he asked but to live,  
Thy favour did extend  
His life to length of days; and give  
That too that ne'er shall end.   

verse 5 His glory is advanced high,  
By thy salvations aid:  
Both honour, and great Majesty,  
Upon him thou hast laid.  
verse 6 Thus. With endless blessings all his reign  
Most happy hast thou made:  
And whiles thy face on him doth shine  
His heart's exceeding glad.   

verse 7 For in the Lord the King doth place  
Assured confidence:  
And th' highest God's Almighty grace  
His throne shall strongly fence.  
verse 8 Thy foes, no shelter shall defend,  
O King, where e'er they are:  
But thy right hand shall apprehended,  
And justice smite them there.   

verse 9 They, by thy kindled wrath pursued,  
Shall in its flames be burned:  
As in the heated Oven, Wood  
Is into ashes turned.  
Yea, the Lord's wrath with thine combined,  
It's flames on them shall pour:  
Thus Earth and Heaven together joined,  
Shall wholly them devour.  
verse 10 Their fruit likewise thou shalt destroy,  
From th' whole earth's compass wide:  
Nor shall their seed a room enjoy,  
Where sons of men reside.  
verse 11 And justly too; for very ill  
Against thee they designed:  
But could not what they meant, fulfil,  
According to their mind.   

verse 12 Wherhfore, thine arrows on the string,  
So sore the rest shall fright:  
Their weapons from them they shall fling,  
And seek to 'scape by flight.  
verse 13 Let thine own strength, therefore, thy name  
O Lord, with glory raise:  
So shall our song thy power proclaim,  
And celebrated its praise.    

Psalm XXII.  
[To the Tune of Ps. 100] All people, etc. [Or the Lamentation.] O Lord in thee, etc.  

verse 1 O God, my God, why in this case  
Forsaken am I thus by thee?  
When, roaring, I implore thy grace,  
Why standest thou so far from me?  
verse 2 All the day long I cry, but found  
That thou, my God, to me art deaf:  
And all the night, I vent my mind  
In loud complaints without relief.  
verse 3 Yet, th' Holy one of Israel,  
Is still the name that makes thee known:  
And, as thou dost among us devil,  
So dost thou all our praises own.  
verse 4 Our Fathers trusted in thy aid,  
Nor was their confidence deceived:  
On thee, their greatest hopes they laid,  
And as they hoped they were relieved.   

verse 5 Whenever they to thee did cry,  
Salvation quick in answer came:  
Upon thy help they did rely,  
And never were repulsed with shame.  
verse 6 But I am trampled under foot,  
As if a worm, not man, I were:  
And, under public disrepute,  
I every man's reproaches bear.   

verse 7 A laughingstock to all am I,  
When e'er I meet them in their way  
They shake their heads, whiles they go by,  
And shooting out their lips, they say  
verse 8 He trusted in the Lord, that he  
In time of danger would him save:  
But if so dear to him he be,  
Now let him his assistance have.   

verse 9 But by thy hand was I released  
From the straight Womb to th' open air:  
And when I sucked my Mother's Breast,  
Thy arms her tender suckling bore.  
verse 10 Yea, ever since from her close Womb  
Thy providence did me enlarge:  
Thou didst my gracious God become,  
And took'st me for thy proper charge.   

Part II.  

verse 11 Stand not, therefore, at distance now,  
When grievous troubles are so near:  
For none to me, but only thou,  
O Lord, an helper doth appear.  
verse 12 With raging Bulls, in numbers great,  
On every side I'm compassed round:  
Yea, mighty Bulls do me beset,  
Such as are bred in Bashan's ground.   

verse 13 On me with bell'wing noise they came,  
Their mouths against me open were,  
As lions, when they hunt their game,  
The fearful beasts by roaring scare.  
verse 14 As weak as water is, I am,  
My trembling joints asunder start:  
And as the wax before the flame,  
So in me melts my fainting heart.   

verse 15 My tongue cleaves to my roof for drought,  
My strength is like a pot-sherd dried:  
To very dust thou hast me brought,  
Like those that long in grave reside.  
verse 16 For, as the prey by bloody hounds,  
So by th' ungodly I'm beset:  
Who tortured me with cruel wounds,  
And pierced with nails my hands and feet.  
verse 17 They strained my racked body so,  
My very bones might all be told:  
And, as a welcome sight, my woe  
With pleased eyes they did behold.  
verse 18 Than, my Tormentors, as their foe,  
My  among themselves divide:  
And whose my seamless coat shall be,  
By casting lots they do decide.   

verse 19 But do not thou from me in need  
At such a mighty distance stand:  
O Lord, my strength approach with speed  
And help me with thy saving hand.  
verse 20 O save me, left the bloody sword  
Should my beloved soul devour:  
Nor let the cruel dog, O Lord,  
Have my dear life within his power.   

verse 21 By lions mouths left I be torn,  
Out of their paws deliver me:  
For from the Unicorn's sharp horn,  
I have been heard, O Lord, by thee.  
verse 22 Unto my brethrens than will I  
With grateful voice declare thy name,  
Amidst th' assembled company  
I'll in thy Church thy praise proclaim.    

Part III.  

verse 23 Let all that serve the Lord, his praise  
With awful reverence declare:  
All Jacob's seed his glory raise,  
And every Isr'elite him fear.  
verse 24 For the poor man's afflicted case  
With scorn he never did despise:  
Nor ever from him hid his face;  
But bowed his ear unto his cries.   

verse 25 Before the congregation great  
Thy praises in my mouth shall be:  
And where men fearing God do meet  
I will perform my vows to thee.  
verse 26 My sacrifice shall fill the meek,  
So that their hearts shall ever live:  
And to the Lord, whoever him seek,  
Shall everlasting praises give.   

verse 27 Th' whole world these things to mind shall call,  
And to the Lord converted be:  
And all the Gentile's kindreds shall,  
O Lord, devoutly worship thee.  
verse 28 For to the Lord it doth belong,  
To th' earth's remotest ends to reign;  
And t' him, the government among  
All th' heathen Nations doth pertain.   

verse 29 All mighty Princes converts grown;  
To him, his heavenly food shall eat:  
And worshipping before his throne,  
His favour prostrate shall entreat.  
Yea, all that to the dust descend,  
Bowing to him, shall mercy crave:  
And, hopeless in themselves, commend  
Their parting souls to him to save.  
verse 30 T'his service too, they shall assign  
Their issue for an holy race:  
The Lord shall count them of his line,  
Whom he, for his, adopts by grace.  
verse 31 Yea, th' Ages yet to come, shall spread  
His justice with deserved fame:  
To people, yet not born, nor bred,  
What he hath done, they shall proclaim.     

[The same Psalm in other Metre.]  

verse 1 MY God, my God, in this sad case  
Why am I left by thee?  
Why, when I roar, for such a space  
Is thy help far from me?  
verse 2 Through all the day, my dearest God,  
I cry, but thou art deaf:  
And all night long my voice is loud  
But gains me no relief.   

verse 3 Yet dost thou still among us devil,  
Our Holy One's thy name;  
And all the praise of Israel,  
Exalts thy glorious fame.  
verse 4 Even in our ancient father's days,  
Thou hast been trusted on:  
And, to thy everlasting praise,  
Thou wast their Saviour known.   

verse 5 When they did call upon thy name  
deliverance they received:  
Nor ever were repulsed with shame,  
When on thee they believed.  
verse 6 But I, more like a worm, than man,  
Am trampled under foot:  
All with reproach me entertain,  
So vile they me repute.   

verse 7 To all men, in this case forlorn,  
A laughingstock am I:  
They all make mouths at me in scorn,  
And hold their heads awry.  
verse 8 He trusted in the Lord, (they jeer)  
In hope that he would save him:  
But, if to God he be so dear,  
Now let him save, and have him.   

verse 9 But thou art he, that graciously  
Me from the womb released:  
And wast my hope, even than, when I  
Hung on my mother's breast.  
verse 10 Yea, e'er since from her teeming womb  
Thou didst me first enlarge:  
To me thou didst a God become,  
And took'st me for thy charge.   

Part II.  

verse 11 Be not therefore, now, far from me,  
When troubl'ous times are near:  
Because from none, but only thee,  
Doth any help appear.  
verse 12 With raging bulls, in numbers great,  
I am encompassed round:  
Yea, mighty bulls do me beset,  
Fed fat in Bashan's ground.  
verse 13 On me with bell'wing noise they came,  
Their mouths wide opened were:  
As Lions, when they hunt their game,  
The beasts by roaring scare.  
verse 14 As weak as water is, I am;  
My joints all loosened are:  
And as wax melts before the flame,  
So melts my heart for fear.   

verse 15 To me a sherd like moisture hath;  
My tongue, for very drought,  
Cleaves to my jaws; to dust of death  
So near thou hast me brought.  
verse 16 For like a pack of bloody hounds  
Th' ungodly rout did meet:  
And barbarously with cruel wounds  
Did pierce my hands and feet.   

verse 17 They strained my tortured body so,  
My bones might all be told:  
And, as a welcome sight, my woe  
With pleasure did behold.  
verse 18 Than, my tormentors, as their fee,  
My garments did divide:  
And, whose my seamless coat should be,  
By lot they did decide.   

verse 19 But do not thou, from me in need,  
At so great distance stand:  
O Lord, my strength, do thou with speed,  
Extend thy helping hand.  
verse 20 O save me, jest the bloody sword  
My darling soul devour:  
Nor let the cruel dog, O Lord,  
Have it within his power.   

verse 21 Jest I by Lion's mouths be torn,  
From them deliver me:  
For, from the Unicorn's sharp horn,  
I have been heard by thee.  
verse 22 Unto my Brethrens, than aloud  
I will declare thy name;  
In midst of a religious crowd  
I will thy praise proclaim.    

Part III.  

verse 23 Let all that fear the Lord, with praise  
Exalt him every where:  
Let Jacob's seed his glory raise,  
And Israel's seed him fear.  
verse 24 For he ne'er scorned, nor did despise  
The poor's afflicted case:  
But kindly heard his doleful cries,  
And did not hid his face.   

verse 25 Where holy crowds assembled are,  
I'll utter praise to thee:  
And before all that God do fear,  
My vows performed shall be.  
verse 26 My sacrifice impart I will  
To fill the godly poor:  
Who seek the Lord, shall praise him still;  
And live for evermore.  
verse 27 All the world's ends, convinced, shall  
To the Lord turned be:  
And all the heathens kindreds fall  
Down low, and worship thee.  
verse 28 For to the Lord it doth belong  
In all the earth to reign:  
And he the government among  
All heathen Realms shall gain.   

verse 29 Yea, earthly Princes, converts grown,  
His heavenly food shall eat:  
And humbly prostrate, at his throne,  
His favour shall entreat.  
Yea, all that to the dust descend,  
His grace shall humbly crave:  
And, hopeless in themselves, commend  
Their souls to him to save.   

verse 30 And to God's service shall engage  
A consecrated race:  
Which he throughout each future age  
To his account shall place.  
verse 31 To him they shall approach, and spread  
His righteous works just fame:  
That people yet not born nor bred,  
May the Lord's acts proclaim.     

Psalm XXIII.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 113] Ye children, etc.  

verse 1 THE Lord my faithful shepherd is;  
Of nothing therefore can I miss,  
Which, to promote my good, I need;  
verse 2 In pastures fair he doth me place,  
All over spread with tender grass,  
Where to the full he doth me feed.   

He leads me by the water's side,  
Whose streams with pleasant smoothness glide;  
verse 3 He comforts me, when faint I am:  
And, jest at any time I stray,  
In every good and righteous way  
Guides me for th' honour of his name.   

verse 4 Yea, in the vale where death doth throw  
It's dismal shade, I fearless go;  
For thou art with me, even there;  
Thy rod and staff do comfort me.  
verse 5 Thou, (which my foes repining, see,)  
A table for me dost prepare.   

Thy oil anoints my head, and thou  
Makest my cup to overflow:  
verse 6 Mercy and goodness shall attend  
Me surely, whiles I here abide:  
And in thy house I will reside,  
Till parting breath my life shall end.   

[The same in other Metre.]  
verse 1 THE Lord my faithful shepherd is,  
A sheep of his am I:  
With all that may promote my bliss,  
He will my needs supply.  
verse 2 In pastures clothed with tender grass  
He makes me rest, and feed:  
Pastures, through which smooth streams do pass  
By which he doth me lead.   

verse 3 To strengthen me, when faint I am,  
Sound medicines he provides:  
And for the honour of his name,  
In righteous paths me guides.  
verse 4 Yea, though in death's black shade I live  
No evil will I fear:  
Thy Rod and Staff me comfort give,  
For thou art with me there.   

verse 5 In presence of my mortal foes  
My Table thou dost spread:  
Filled by thee, my cup o'er flows;  
Thy oil anoints my head.  
verse 6 Mercy, and goodness, all my days,  
Shall surely me attend:  
And in God's house, to sing his praise,  
My life I'll wholly spend.    

Psalm XXIV.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 100] All people, etc.  

verse 1 UNTO the Lord the earth belongs,  
And whatsoever it contains:  
The world, with all its busy throngs,  
Unto him only appertains:  
verse 2 For on the seas his mighty hand  
At first laid its foundations fast:  
And on the floods, by his command,  
It ever stands securely placed.   

verse 3 Unto the mountain of the Lord  
What Son of mortal man shall climb?  
And unto whom will he afford  
A constant dwelling-place with him?  
verse 4 That man, whose hands are innocent,  
Whose heart no heinous guilt defiles:  
Whose soul is not to Idols bend:  
Who by no cheating oath beguiles.   

verse 5 This is the man, whom every way  
The Lord undoubtedly will bless:  
Whom God his Saviour will repay,  
According to his righteousness.  
verse 6 For those that do these things, alone,  
Are branches of the holy race,  
Whom thou, O Jacob's God, wilt own  
For the true seekers of thy face.  
verse 7 Lift both thy heads, thou two-leaved Gate  
And yourselves of your hinges fling,  
Ye everlasting doors: In state  
So enter shall the glorious King.  
verse 8 Who is this glorious King? what right  
Hath he such entrance to demand?  
The Lord that doth excel in might;  
Whom none in Battle can withstand.   

verse 9 List both thy heads, thou two-leaved Gate  
And yourselves of your hinges fling,  
Ye everlasting doors: In state  
So enter shall the glorious King.  
verse 10 Who is this glorious King? what right  
Hath he such entrance to demand?  
This glorious King's the Lord of might,  
Who hath all Hosts at his command.    

Psalm XXV.  
[To the proper Tune.]  

verse 1 I Lift my soul to thee,  
verse 2 Lord, trusting in thy name:  
Let not my foes triumphant be,  
Whiles I am put to shame.  
verse 3 No one let shame befall  
That doth on thee attend:  
But make it the reward of all  
That causelessly offend.  
verse 4 Thy holy ways do thou,  
Lord, to thy servant show:  
Teach me the paths thou dost allow,  
That I in them may go.  
verse 5 Lord, lead me in thy truth,  
Teach me to keep its way:  
On thee, my God and Saviour, doth  
My soul wait all the day.   

verse 6 Thy mercies call to mind,  
And favours manifold:  
Remember, how thou hast been kind  
To us in days of old.  
verse 7 My youth's transgressions great  
Blot out of thy record:  
And in thy grace, I thee entreat,  
Remember me, O Lord.   

verse 8 Goodness and Justice joined  
In God, promote his praise  
Whence, to teach sinners he's inclined  
The knowledge of his ways.  
verse 9 To make a judgement true  
He will direct: the meek:  
And show them what they are to do,  
When they his guidance seek.   

verse 10 All the Lord's paths they found  
Made up of truth and grace;  
Who do his Testimonies mind,  
And Covenant embrace.  
verse 11 Lord, by great clemency,  
Thy names great honour spread:  
In pardoning my iniquity,  
Whose greatness doth exceed.   

Part II.  

verse 12 Who's he, that in his breast  
The Lord doth truly fear?  
In doubtful ways, to choose the best,  
He will his judgement clear.  
verse 13 An undisturbed rest  
Shall that man's soul attend:  
And th'earth shall be by them possessed  
That from his loins descend.   

verse 14 To those that do him fear  
The Lord his secrets tells:  
And all their inward doubts to clear,  
His Covenant reveals.  
verse 15 Unto the Lord I look,  
With eyes still on him fet:  
For he assuredly will pluck  
My feet out of the net.   

verse 16 Lord, turn to me in grace,  
And mercy to me show:  
For I'm in a forsaken case,  
And very full of woe.  
verse 17 The griefs which overcharge  
My heart, are much increased:  
Set thou my straitened spirit at large,  
That I be not oppressed.  
verse 18 Th' affliction I am in,  
Behold, with all my pain:  
And, by forgiving all my sin,  
It's sad effects restrain.  
verse 19 See, Lord, mine enemies,  
How numerous they be:  
And cruel projects they device,  
Such spite they bear to me.   

verse 20 Deliver thou my soul,  
That shamed I never be:  
Because with confidence I roll  
All my concerns on thee.  
verse 21 Let my heart's uprightness  
Me, and my cause protect:  
For from the Lord, in all distress  
Salvation I expect.   

verse 22 Unto thy people, Israel,  
O God, redemption sand:  
That all the troubles which they feel,  
May have a speedy end.  
Let Father, Son, and Spirit  
(Th' eternal three, and one)  
All glory now, and still inherit,  
As they have ever done.     

[The same. Psalms, to the Tune of Psalm 148] Give laud unto, &c  

verse 1 TO thee I lift my soul,  
verse 2 (Lord) trusting in thy name:  
My foes proud boasts control,  
By keeping me from shame.  
verse 3 Yea, none of all  
Those that on thee  
Attendant be,  
Let shame be fall.   

But let it poured be  
On those that break thy laws;  
And, by oppressing me,  
Transgress without a cause.  
verse 4 Lord, show me how  
Thy ways to tread:  
And where they lead,  
Teach me to go.   

verse 5 My saving God, to me  
Thy sacred truth display:  
And teach me; for on thee  
I wait throughout the day.  
verse 6 Thy mercy's mind:  
And as thou was't  
Through all times past,  
So, still be kind.   

verse 7 Mind not, I thee entreat,  
My youthful sins, O Lord:  
And my transgressions great  
Blot out of thy record.  
But to thy heart,  
Of thy great grace,  
Lay thou my case:  
For good thou art.   

Part II.  

verse 8 That God is just, and kind,  
Procures him double praise:  
Whence, men to sin inclined,  
He'll teach to keep his ways.  
verse 9 The meek he'll lead  
In judgement right  
And give him light,  
His paths to tread.   

verse 10 Who e'er his Covenant mind  
And what he bids them, do:  
In all his paths do found  
God, merciful, and true.  
verse 11 Great praise, Lord, get,  
By pardn'ing my  
Iniquity,  
For it is great.   

verse 12 Who's he, that in his breast  
The Lord doth truly fear?  
In doubts, to choose the best,  
He will his judgement clear.  
verse 13 His soul shall free  
From trouble rest:  
And th' earth possessed  
By his shall be.   

verse 14 To those that do him fear  
The Lord his secrets tells:  
And all their doubts to clear,  
His Covenant he reveals.  
verse 15 To him i'll look:  
For he my feet  
Out of the Net  
Shall kindly pluck.    

Part III.  

verse 16 Lord, turn to me in grace,  
And mercy to me show:  
For very sad's my case,  
And I am full of woe.  
verse 17 My heart in me  
Sore griefs oppress.  
From my distress  
Set thou me free.   

verse 18 Regard my grief, and pain,  
And pardon all my sin:  
verse 19 And all my foes restrain,  
Whose hatred is so keen.  
verse 20 My soul defend  
From sin, and shame:  
For on thy name  
Do I depend.   

verse 21 Let mine integrity  
From dangers me protect:  
For thy assistance I  
With patience do expect.  
verse 22 O God, set clear  
Thine Israel  
From what they feel,  
And what they fear.   

Gloria Patri.  
The Father, and the Son,  
And Spirit of Holiness,  
(Th' eternal three, and one,)  
We glorify, and bless.  
So 'twas before  
Time first began:  
And so remain  
Shall evermore.     

Pssalm XXVI.  

verse 1 LORD, judge me, for I ever loved  
The upright way to keep:  
My trust from God was ne'er removed,  
Therefore I shall not slip.  
verse 2 Lord, I submit me to thy test,  
Search thou me narrowly:  
To thee I open all my breast,  
Do thou its secrets try.   

verse 3 For still by me thy mercies are  
As constant motives eyed:  
And by thy truths most perfect square.  
I did my walkings guide.  
verse 4 With persons given to vanity  
By choice I never sat:  
Nor with dissembling company  
Will I be intimate.  
verse 5 Ill livers fellowship hath been  
My constant detestation:  
Nor shall I ever haunt with men  
Of evil Conversation.  
verse 6 Whence, when my hands I lift to thee,  
No guilt shall there be found:  
So, Lord, I one of them will be,  
That crowd thy Altar round,   

verse 7 That with my voice I may display  
Thy noble praises there:  
And that with thankfulness I may  
Thy wondrous works declare.  
verse 8 Thy house, O Lord, through all my days,  
've loved exceeding well:  
That Tabernacle, where thy praise  
Perpetually doth devil.   

verse 9 Let not my soul be gathered, than,  
With sinner's souls to share:  
Nor let me end my life with men  
That bloody-minded are.  
verse 10 Whose hands still act the villainy  
Contrived within their heart:  
And their right hands use bribery,  
Just judgement to pervert.   

verse 11 But I, all just and honest deeds  
Will constantly pursue:  
O save me than, in all my needs,  
And mercy to me show.  
verse 12 Than on a firm and even ground  
My foot shall safely rest:  
And, with thy Saints encompassed round,  
I'll say, the Lord be blest.    

Pssalm XXVII.  

verse 1 WHom should I fear? the Lord to me  
Salvation is, and light.  
My only strength of life is he;  
Who than shall me affright?  
verse 2 When wicked men, my deadly foes  
Combined my flesh to tear:  
They stumbled often; and in the close,  
Quite overthrown they were.   

verse 3 With an whole Host of enemies  
Encamped, i'll not be scared:  
My soul, should wars against me rise,  
This confidence should guard.  
verse 4 One thing my earnest wishes have,  
Petitioned God to give;  
Which I do still resolve to crave:  
Within his house to live.   

That I, within his Temple may  
Behold his beauteous face:  
Inquire of him, and to him pray,  
Within his holy place.  
verse 5 Than in most troublous times secure  
His Tent shall shelter me:  
I, in his Tabernacle sure,  
As on a rock, shall be.   

verse 6 And now shall my advanced head  
Be lifted up on high,  
Above my foes, whose numbers spread,  
And round about me lie.  
Whence, to his Tabernacle, I  
Offerings of joy will bring:  
And the Lord's name to magnify,  
My loudest voice shall sing   

Part II.  

verse 7 Lord, when my voice doth cry to thee,  
With listening ears attend:  
And let thy mercy unto me  
A speedy answer sand.  
verse 8 Seek ye my face, when thou didst say,  
My heart did thus reply:  
Sigh thou thus bid'st, Lord, I obey,  
For seek thy face will I   

verse 9 Hide nor that face far of, and in  
Wrath turn me not away:  
O God my Saviour, thou hast been  
My help, be still my stay.  
verse 10 When Father shall withdraw his love,  
And Mother me forsake:  
The Lord's kind bowels shall him move,  
The charge of me to take.  
verse 11 O Lord, let thy instruction make  
My soul thy ways to tread:  
And for my watchful enemy's sake  
In a plain path me lead.  
verse 12 Unto the will of enemies  
Let me not subject lie:  
For they against me witness lies,  
And breath out cruelty.   

verse 13 My fainting spirit had lost its hold,  
But faith assured me,  
That the Lord's goodness yet I should  
Among the living see.  
verse 14 Wait on the Lord, my soul, and be  
Of an undaunted heart:  
Wait on the Lord, and he to thee  
Shall quick'ning strength impart.     

Psalm XXVIII.  

verse 1 O Lord, my Rock, to thee I cry;  
Let thy voice answer mine:  
Left, if an answer thou deny,  
I to the grave decline.  
verse 2 Lord, to my loud requests attend,  
And grant what I entreat:  
When I my craving hands extend  
Toward thy mercy seat.   

verse 3 With men that wickedly combine,  
Lord, take me not away:  
Who, whiles they speak them fair, design  
Their neighbours to betray.  
verse 4 Those mischiefs which their hearts contrive  
Repay to them in kind:  
And the same measure that they give,  
Let evil workers found.   

verse 5 Because they value not at all  
What the Lord's hands have wrought;  
They ne'er shall thrive, but by him shall  
Be to destruction brought.  
verse 6 The Lord's most holy name by me  
Shall evermore be blest:  
For when I called upon him, he  
Gave ear to my request.   

verse 7 The Lord is still my strong defence,  
And my protecting shield:  
When in him I had confidence,  
I was by him upheld.  
Wherhfore my heart with largest joys  
Is plentifully filled:  
And, in a thankful Song, my voice  
Due praise to him shall yield.   

verse 8 Those that upon the Lord depend,  
His strong assistance have:  
The strength which he to him shall sand,  
Shall his Anointed save.  
verse 9 Save, Lord, thy chosen people, and  
Bless thine inheritance:  
Let thy care feed, and thy right hand  
For ever them advance.    

Psalm XXIX.  
To the Tune of Psalm 113.] Ye children, etc.  

verse 1 STrength to the Lord, and glory give,  
Ye that from mighty men derive  
The noble blood that fills your veins.  
verse 2 Due honours on his name bestow,  
And in his Sanctuary bow  
Where holiness with beauty shines.   

verse 3 The Lord of glory speaks aloud,  
When thunder tears the watery cloud,  
And hollow seas reflect the noise.  
verse 4 No power on earth like his is famed;  
No Majesty's so loud proclaimeed,  
As God is by his thundering voice.   

verse 5 When forth the Lord his voice doth sand,  
The mighty force thereof doth rend  
The Cedars into shivers small:  
Even Cedars firmly rooted on  
The lofty crags of Lebanon  
Before his powerful voice do fall.   

verse 6 Yea, th' hills themselves, on which they grow,  
(As wanton Calves skip to and from)  
From place to place are lightly born:  
Even Lebanon, and Syrion, too,  
Dance from the ground on which they grew,  
Like the young Foal of th' Unicorn  
verse 7 His voice the  flames doth spread:  
verse 8 And shakes the wilderness for dread,  
Even Kadesh— wilderness doth shake.  
verse 9 The Hinds miscarry with the fright,  
And where thick woods spread constant night,  
Those piercing flashes day do make.   

But most he's in his Temple famed,  
By every tongue he's there proclaimed:  
verse 10 He sovereign sits upon the seas.  
The Lord, as King, doth ever live;  
verse 11 He to his people strength will give,  
And bless them with assured peace.    

Psalm XXX.  

verse 1 I will exalt thee, Lord, for I  
Exalted am by thee:  
My foes thou didst not gratify  
With triumphs over me.  
verse 2 O Lord my God, my woeful cry  
Importuned thy relief:  
And thou thy help didst soon apply,  
To heal me of my grief.   

verse 3 Lord, from the confines of the grave,  
Thou didst my soul revive:  
Yea, from the pit thou didst me save,  
That I am yet alive.  
verse 4 Sing to the Lord, ye Saints of his:  
Bear thankfully in mind  
How great in holiness he is,  
How bountifully kind.   

verse 5 One moment doth his anger end;  
His grace doth life convey:  
Good men a night in tears may spend,  
But joy returns with day.  
verse 6 I once thought in a prosperous day,  
'Twould ne'er be night with me:  
My foolish heart was apt to say,  
I shall not moved be.   

verse 7 Not minding, that'twas from thy grace,  
That strong my mountain stood:  
Thou therefore, justly hidest thy face,  
And trouble soon ensued.  
verse 8 My Tune likewise I altered soon,  
And to the Lord I cried:  
With humble supplication  
His ears I daily plied.   

verse 9 What profit in my blood, (said I)  
When in the pit I am?  
Can silent dust thee glorify?  
Can it thy truth proclaim?  
verse 10 Incline thine ear, therefore, O Lord,  
And mercy on me have:  
Thy saving help to me afford,  
And keep me from the grave.   

verse 11 Than, didst thou change my mourning tone  
Into a dancing strain:  
And for my sackcloth didst put on  
My cheerful vest again.  
verse 12 That so my glory might with praise  
Express its thanks to thee:  
O Lord my God, throughout my days,  
My Song shall grateful be.    

Psalm XXXI.  

verse 1 O Lord, I do, in all distress  
Place all my trust in thee:  
O save me in thy righteousness,  
And cast no shame on me.  
verse 2 Thy gracious ear unto me bow,  
And quick deliverance sand:  
My castle on a rock be thou,  
Whose walls may me defend.   

verse 3 For thou my fortress art in need,  
The rock to which I fly:  
For thy name's sake me therefore lead,  
And guide me faithfully.  
verse 4 Pull me out of the net, which they  
Have closely laid for me:  
The strength on which myself I stay,  
Is wholly, Lord, in thee.   

verse 5 Lord God of truth, this spirit of mine  
I to thy hands commit:  
The spirit which is by purchase thine,  
For thou redeemed'st it.  
verse 6 Those that false Idol-vanities  
Esteem, I have abhorred:  
But whilst they rest themselves on lies,  
My trust is in the Lord.   

verse 7 I, in thy mercy will be glad.  
For thou didst take my part:  
Thou knewest my soul when it was sad,  
And laidst my grief to heart.  
verse 8 Nor didst thou leave me to become  
A prisoner to my foe:  
But on my feet a spacious room  
To walk in, didst bestow.   

Part II.  

verse 9 Lord, thy compassion let me found;  
For troubled sore am I:  
My spirits fail, my belly's pined,  
And grief consumes mine eye.  
verse 10 I waste my life and years in groans,  
To give my sorrows vent:  
My grief for sin so dries my bones,  
That all their moisture's spent.   

verse 11 Those that my mortal enemies were,  
Therewith reproached me sore:  
But chief they, who, dwelling near,  
Conversed with me the more.  
Yea, my familiar friends, for fear,  
Durst not their friend to own:  
They sneaked when e'er I did appear,  
And left me quite alone.  
verse 12 The dead that are quite out of mind,  
Yet are not more forgot:  
Not more regard from men I found,  
Than hath a broken pot.  
verse 13 For frequent slanders filled mine ears,  
By many tongues dispersed;  
And I was compassed round with fears  
Wherever I conversed.   

Among false Traitors every where  
Conspiracies were rife:  
And deep contrivances there were  
To take away my life.  
verse 14 But yet my faith, no whit dismayed,  
Firm on the Lord did stand:  
For still, Thou art my God, I said,  
verse 15 My times are in thy hand.   

Out of the hand of all my foes  
Deliver me therefore:  
And save me from the hand of those  
That persecute me sore.  
verse 16 Upon thy humble servant make  
Thy pleased face to shine:  
And for thy tender mercy's sake,  
To save me, Lord, incline.    

Part III.  

verse 17 From shame, O Lord, preserve thou me,  
For called on thee I have:  
Let wicked men be shamed by thee  
And silenced in the grave.  
verse 18 Let those false lips be ever tied  
Their silence not to break,  
Who grievous things in haughty pride  
Against the righteous speak.   

verse 19 How great for those that do thee fear,  
Thy mercy's treasures be!  
Wrought in the sight of men they are,  
For all that trust in thee.  
verse 20 Thy presence-Chamber from the pride  
Of men shall keep them sure:  
And in thy Tent they shall be hid  
From striving tongues secure.   

verse 21 The Lord be blest, in wondrous sorts  
Who love to medispensed:  
As in a Garrison, with forts  
And rampiers strongly fenced.  
verse 22 I am cut of before thine eyes,  
O Lord, in hast I said:  
Yet all my supplicating cries  
Thou heardest, when I prayed.   

verse 23 To love the Lord, let all Saints join;  
He doth the faithful guard:  
And justly to the proud assign  
A plentiful reward.  
verse 24 All ye whose hopes God's goodness stays,  
With courage cheer your heart:  
For he, your drooping spirits to raise  
Shall quick'ning strength impart.     

Psalm XXXII.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 100] All people, etc.  

verse 1 BLest is the man, whom God in grace  
From his transgression doth acquit:  
Whose sins he freely doth remit,  
And cover from his angry face  
verse 2 Blest is the man, upon whose score  
He chargeth no iniquity:  
And he that in Sincerity  
Resolved is to sin not more.   

verse 3 Whiles I my sin in silence hid,  
All the day long grief made me roar:  
The fire penned up, did burn the more,  
Wherewith my very bones were dried.  
verse 4 For on my Spirit, night and day,  
Thy hand an heavy burden bound;  
That, like the Summer-scorched ground,  
My moisture was quite drained away.   

verse 5 Than, by confession made to thee,  
My secret guilt I did reveal:  
I did not any one conceal,  
Of all the sins that troubled me.  
Thus I resolved, and thus I did.  
To God I said, I have transgressed:  
And of the sins that I confessed,  
Thy pardon was to none denied.  
verse 6 By my example heartened, all  
That Godly are, when guilt doth wound,  
Shall timely, whiles thou mayst be found,  
To thee, O Lord, for mercy call.  
Whence, each of them, when wrath divine  
Like mighty floods aloud shall roar,  
Or waves, when they assault the shore,  
Shall all its force untouched decline.   

Part II.  

verse 7 From troubles, thou, my hiding place,  
O Lord, shall keep me safe and sound:  
And joyful songs shall me surround,  
When thus delivered by thy grace.  
verse 8 Learn than, O sinful man, of me  
The way in which thou ought'st to tread:  
I will thee teach, and safely lead,  
And with mine eye i'll manage thee.   

verse 9 Be thou not like th' ungoverned Horse,  
Or Mule, which reason doth not lead;  
But bit and bridle both they need,  
And are from mischief kept by force.  
verse 10 A world of sorrows shall confounded  
The wicked man on every side:  
But those that in the Lord confided  
His saving mercy shall surround   

verse 11 Let just men, than, not more be sad,  
But let them in the Lord rejoice:  
And upright hearts with shouting voice,  
Proclaim his grace that made them glad.     

PSALM XXXIII.  

verse 1 WITH joyful hearts unto the Lord  
O let the righteous sing:  
For when th' upright God's praise record,  
It is a comely thing.  
verse 2 His praises on the Harp present,  
The well-tuned Psaltry bring:  
And on a ten-stringed Instrument  
His worthy praises sing.   

verse 3 In a song ne'er before this day  
Composed, exalt your voice:  
And with strings strained toth'highest key,  
Make a melodious noise.  
verse 4 For right in every part's his word,  
And rule of righteousness:  
And all the works done by the Lord,  
It's verity express.   

verse 5 He righteousness doth dearly love,  
And judgement just he wills:  
His plenteous mercy, from above,  
The earth all over fills.  
verse 6 The Lord did, by his word alone,  
Created the heavens above:  
His truth each Star fixed where it shone,  
And as he bade, they move.   

verse 7 The waters which the Sea compose,  
He gath'reth as an heap;  
And in his Storehouse doth enclose  
The streams that fill the deep.  
verse 8 Let all the earth, with fear devout,  
Worship the Lord therefore:  
And all that devil the world throughout,  
With reverence him adore.   

verse 9 For from his mouth not sooner broke  
The word, but all things were:  
And the commanding word he spoke,  
Fixed all things as they are.  
verse 10 The Heathens counsels unto naught,  
The Lord's great wisdom brings:  
Nor do their projects, as they thought,  
Effect designed things.   

verse 11 But the Lord's counccls ever stand,  
According to his mind:  
All Generations found, his hand  
Does what his heart designed.  
verse 12 To have him than for God, is the Crown  
Of any Nation's bliss:  
And whom he chooseth for his own,  
That people happy is.   

Part II.  

verse 13 The Lord, from of his heavenly throne,  
Hath all the earth in view:  
And of th' whole race of men, there's none  
That can his sight eschew,  
verse 14 The Lord, I say, from Heaven above,  
His piercing eye did throw.  
On Sons of Men, who live, and move  
On this poor spot below.   

verse 15 Their hearts alike he fashioneth,  
And therefore knows them all:  
And equally considereth  
The Works of great and small.  
verse 16 A King's not saved thereby, though he  
A numrous Army have:  
Yea, strength of limbs, though great it be,  
The mighty cannot save.   

verse 17 The steed, for safety trusted on,  
Will prove an empty thing;  
His Horses mighty strength to none  
Can hoped safety bring.  
verse 18 Behold, the Lord doth kindly eye  
All them that do him fear:  
To those that do on it rely,  
His mercy doth appear.   

verse 19 From cruel deaths destroying hand  
Their precious souls to save:  
And when the dearth lays waste the Land,  
To keep them from the grave.  
verse 20 Our soul doth on the Lord attend,  
Till he deliverance yield:  
To us, who on his help depend,  
He is an help and shield.   

verse 21 For our enlarged heart shall be  
In him exceeding glad:  
Because on's holy name have we  
Our firm affiance stayed.  
verse 22 To us thy mercy, Lord, dispense,  
And let it on us be;  
According as our confidence  
Is firmly fixed on thee.     

Psalm XXXIV.  

verse 1 IN this world's various changes, I  
The Lord will ever bless:  
And with my mouth continually  
His praise I will express.  
verse 2 My soul to his sole favour, all  
Her boastings shall confine:  
The humble, when they hear it, shall  
Their triumphs mix with mine.   

verse 3 Come, therefore, let us all combine,  
To spread the Lords great fame:  
And let us all our voices join,  
To magnify his name.  
verse 4 Unto the Lord, with fear oppressed,  
I humbly did complains:  
He heard me soon, and me released,  
And proved my terrors vain.   

verse 5 As many as to him did look,  
Their faces lightsome were:  
He shamed them not with a rebuke,  
But kindly took their prayer.  
verse 6 This poor man, whom you see, did cry  
Unto him, and was heard:  
And was delivered speedily  
From all the ill he feared.   

verse 7 God's guard of heavenly Sentinels  
Doth holy men surround:  
Which all their enemies repels,  
And keeps them safe, and found.  
verse 8 If any doubt, come, taste, and see,  
That the Lord gracious is:  
And those that true believers be,  
Are in a state of bliss.   

verse 9 O fear the Lord, all ye his Saints,  
And have your needs supplied:  
To make such happy, nothing wants;  
God doth it all provide.  
verse 10 Young Lions prey proves often scant,  
They pine for want of food:  
But none that seek the Lord, shall want  
Aught, that may do them good.   

Part II.  

verse 11 Come, Children, unto what I say,  
Lend an attentive ear:  
I will instruct you in the way,  
How ye the Lord should fear.  
verse 12 Where is, (yea, where is not,) the man,  
That doth desire to live?  
That would to length of days attain,  
And earth's good things receive.  
verse 13 Let him from me these counsels take,  
Thy Tongue from ill refrain;  
And, jest deceitful words they speak,  
Thy lips do thou restrain.  
verse 14 All lewd, and vicious ways decline,  
And honest actions do:  
Make seeking peace, thy great design,  
And ever it pursue.   

verse 15 The Lord's most favourable eyes  
Upon the righteous are:  
And unto such men's earnest cries  
Still open is his ear.  
verse 16 But against men that live amiss,  
He sets his angry face:  
Their very names, and memories,  
Out of the earth to raze.   

verse 17 When righteous men devoutly cry,  
The Lord his ear doth bend:  
And out of all adversity  
Doth them deliverance sand.  
verse 18 To them that  are,  
The Lord is ever nigh:  
He makes the contrite spirits his care,  
To save them speedily.   

verse 19 Many, and sore, the troubles be,  
That do the just besal:  
But the Lord's goodness sets him free,  
And saves him in them all.  
verse 20 And though for lighter harms he groan,  
God safeguards life and limb:  
He feels not any broken bone,  
For all are kept by him.   

verse 21 Ill livers, some unusual fate  
Shall hasten to their end:  
And those that do the righteous hate,  
Destruction shall attend.  
verse 22 His servants souls, in dangers great,  
The Lord doth still redeem:  
And no man shall be desolate,  
That puts his trust in him.     

Psalm XXXV.  

verse 1 A 'Gainst those, Lord, defend my right,  
That daily with me strive:  
And against those that with me fight,  
To me assistance give.  
verse 2 With shield, and buckler, Lord, appear;  
Thus armed, before me stand:  
verse 3 Extend likewise thy deadly spear,  
With thine Almighty hand:   

Against my persecuting foes,  
Lord stop thou up the way:  
And to my soul, when men oppose,  
I'm thy salvation, say.  
verse 4 Confounded, and put them all to shame,  
That would not let me live:  
And turn them back the way they came,  
That harm to me contrive.   

verse 5 As scattered chaff before the wind,  
Dispersed be they in haste:  
By th' Angel of the Lord, behind,  
And guilty terrors chased.  
verse 6 Let slippery ways, as dark as night,  
Increase their flying fear:  
Whiles th'Angel's sword, advanced to smite,  
Pursues them in the rear.   

verse 7 For causelessly their net they hide,  
To catch me in a pit:  
When, though no harm to them I did,  
For me they digged it.  
verse 8 Destruction seize him unperceived,  
From his own hidden toil:  
And let the mischief he contrived,  
Upon himself recoil.   

verse 9 Than, in the Lord's salvation, I  
In soul will joyful be:  
verse 10 And every bone of mine, shall cry,  
Lord, who is like to thee?  
Who workest deliverance for the poor,  
From those whose might exceeds:  
And from the spoiler dost secure  
The poor, and him that needs.   

Part II.  

verse 11 Unto my charge, things I ne'er knew,  
False witnesses did lay:  
verse 12 For good they paid me evil, who  
Would make my life their prey.  
verse 13 But I, when they were sick, did fast;  
In sackcloth too I mourned:  
And to my charitable breast  
My prayer for them returned.   

verse 14 No greater love could I have shown,  
Unto my dearest brother:  
I bowed down heavily, as one  
That mourneth for his mother.  
verse 15 But unto them, my halting day  
Made most delightful sport:  
To tell, and hear the good news, they  
Together did resort.   

Yea, very abjects here, and there,  
Did in close meetings plot:  
Where at their pleasure they did tear  
My name, and ceased not.  
verse 16 With hypocrites, who at their feasts  
To mock me took delight:  
And with their teeth amidst their jests,  
They gnashed at me for spite.   

verse 17 When wilt thou, Lord, assert my cause,  
And such foul deeds control?  
From these devouring lion's jaws  
Set free my darling soul.  
verse 18 Than, where thy Saints assemble, there,  
I will give thanks to thee:  
And where much people gathered are,  
Thy praise shall uttered be.   

verse 19 Let not my fall make mirth for those  
That hate me wrongfully:  
Nor let my unprovoked foes  
Wink with a scornful eye.  
verse 20 For nothing lesle they mean than peace,  
Though they speak wondrous fair:  
Against men loving quietness,  
Their heads still plotting are.    

Part III.  

verse 21 Yea, their black mouths they stretched wide,  
To wound with tongues most keen:  
Aha! aha! they fleering, cried,  
We know what we have seen.  
verse 22 This carriage too, Lord, thou hast seen,  
With thine all-searching eye:  
To break thy silence, than begin,  
And unto me come nigh.   

verse 23 Rouse up thyself, my Judge, awake,  
To judge me by thy Laws:  
My God, and Lord do thou partake  
In my most righteous cause.  
verse 24 According to thy righteousness,  
Let me receive my doom:  
And let not them their joy express,  
To see me overcome.  
verse 25 Within their hearts ne'er let them say,  
Aha! this likes us well:  
Nor that they have made me their prey,  
Let them their fellows tell.  
verse 26 May they, and all that take their parts,  
In shame together share;  
Whoever joyful in their hearts  
At my mischances are.   

Let them be clothed with disgrace,  
And compassed round with shame:  
That labour thus, me to debase,  
To get themselves a name.  
verse 27 But let all those who dare assert  
My righteous cause, rejoice:  
Let them the gladness of their heart  
Declare with shouting voice.   

Yea, let them say continually,  
Be the Lord's name extolled:  
Who loveth, in prosperity  
His Servant to behold.  
verse 28 And I, thy righteousness to raise,  
Will exercise my tongue:  
Whole days throughout i'll sing thy praise,  
And never think it long.     

Psalm XXXVI.  
[To the Tune of Ps. 100] All people, etc.  

verse 1 WHiles I behold the sinners ways,  
My heart convinced within me says,  
Though his tongue own a God, he lies:  
Not fear of him's before his eyes.  
verse 2 With hopes of secrecy, mean while,  
His flattering heart doth him beguile:  
Until some hateful wickedness  
Bewray what feign he would suppress.   

verse 3 His mouth doth vent iniquity,  
And in his talk deceit doth lie:  
He is of wisdom quite bereft,  
And all good deeds by him are left.  
verse 4 Upon his solitary bed,  
He forgeth mischief in his head:  
In no good way engaged he is;  
To him no evil comes amiss.   

verse 5 Thy mercy, Lord, that such forbears,  
heavens constant influence declares:  
Thy everlasting faithfulness  
The Clouds to all the world express.  
verse 6 Man's justice is by thine surpassed,  
As molehills are by mountains vast:  
Thy judgements are a mighty deep;  
Thy bounty man and beast doth keep.   

Part II.  

verse 7 O God, how great an height of bliss  
Th' attainment of thy favour is!  
Whence Sons of men their confidence  
Place in thy shad'wing wings defence.  
verse 8 For those that do so, shall be filled  
With dainties which thy house does yield:  
And all their thirsts shall quenched be  
With Rivers of delights from thee.   

verse 9 From thee, when creature-streams run low,  
Perpetual springs of life do flow:  
And though created light decay,  
Thy face shall make eternal day.  
verse 10 O let thy favour ever flow  
To cheer the souls that do thee know:  
Thy rigbteousness do thou impart  
To all that are upright in heart.   

verse 11 Let not the foot of haughty foes  
Advance to trouble my repose:  
Nor from the place wherein I stand,  
Let me be moved by wicked hand.  
verse 12 Lo, there; how God my cause doth own!  
There lie the wicked overthrown:  
Overthrown they are; and never more  
Their fallen interest can restore.     

Psalm XXXVII.  

verse 1 FRET not thyself when thou shalt see  
Ungodly men's success:  
And though ill-doers prosperous be,  
Thy envious thoughts suppress  
verse 2 For they shall quickly be cut down,  
As is the mowing grass:  
Whose moisture dries before the Sun,  
However green it was.  
verse 3 Trust in the Lord, and take in hand  
Each good and virtuous deed:  
So thou inhabit shalt the Land,  
And certainly be fed.  
verse 4 On him, likewise, thy whole delight  
Place thou continually:  
And every lawful appetite  
Of thine, shall he supply.   

verse 5 Thy ways unto the Lord resign,  
And to his care commend:  
And he shall bless each work of thine,  
With a desired end.  
verse 6 Before the world, thy questioned right  
He also shall display:  
And make thy judgement shine as bright  
As is the perfect day.   

verse 7 With patience on the Lord rely,  
Nor let thy spirit grieve,  
When prosperous iniquity  
Which bad men plot, doth thrive.  
verse 8 Within thee, let not anger rest;  
Thy wrathful thoughts restrain:  
At lest, when such thoughts haunt thy breast,  
From evil acts refrain.   

verse 9 For those shall come t' an evil end  
That live ungodly lives:  
But on the Lord when men attend,  
To them the earth he gives.  
verse 10 The wicked shall remain, at most,  
But for a little space:  
He and his name shall soon be lost  
From his own dwelling place.   

Part II.  

verse 11 But men of humble minds inherit  
The earth, and devil at ease:  
Their state is suited to their spirit;  
For both abound in peace.  
verse 12 The plotting wicked man contrives  
The just to overthrew:  
He gnasheth with his teeth, and grieves,  
To see him prospero so.   

verse 13 But at the ill he doth intent,  
The Lord in scorn doth smile:  
Because he knows his woeful end  
Is hastening all the while.  
verse 14 With their drawn sword, and bended bow,  
The wicked ambush lay:  
The poor and needy t' overthrew,  
And men of upright way,   

verse 15 But the same sword shall pierce their heart,  
Which they for others meant:  
So shall their bows to pieces start,  
And fail their cursed intent.  
verse 16 One just man's moderate estate  
Is, in true value, more,  
Than all the wealth, which many great  
And bad men have in store.  
verse 17 For wicked great men's potent arms  
The Lord shall surely break:  
But keep the just from fatal harms,  
Though he be ne'er so weak.  
verse 18 The time that upright men shall live,  
God's favour doth secure:  
The portion he to them doth give,  
For ever shall endure.   

verse 19 In worst of times they sefe shall stand,  
And blush at no defeat:  
And when sore famine pines the land,  
They to the full shall eat.  
verse 20 But wicked men, who have presumed  
The Lord's wrath to provoke:  
Like fat of lambs in flame consumed,  
Shall vanish into smoke.    

Part II.  

verse 21 The wicked borr'wing doth refuse  
His just debts to discharge:  
Whereas the righteous mercy shows,  
And is in bounties large.  
verse 22 ●…h as God doth bless, shall have  
The earth's inheritance:  
And those he curses, to their grave  
Shall come by sad mischance.   

verse 23 God doth the good man's steps dispose,  
So, that they're ordered right:  
And in the way wherein he goes,  
The Lord doth take delight.  
verse 24 He shall not wholly be cast down,  
Though he may sometimes slip,  
For him, from being overthrown,  
The Lord's right hand shall keep.   

verse 25 In all the time that I have been,  
From youth, to th' hoary head,  
The Just forlorn I ne'er have seen,  
Nor his seed beg their bread.  
verse 26 For he is always merciful,  
To men in want to lend:  
Whence benedictions plentiful  
Unto his seed extend.   

verse 27 Learn than, to fly whatever's ill;  
Lay up good works in store:  
For that's the way to prospero still,  
And devil for evermore.  
verse 28 For judgement still the Lord affects,  
His saints his grace defends:  
But bad men's seed, whom he rejects  
Come to untimely ends.    

Part IU.  

verse 29 The righteous, in the promised land,  
Inheritance obtains:  
His habitation there shall stand,  
As long as time remains.  
verse 30 The just man's mouth, when e'er he speaks,  
With wisdom overflows:  
And when his tongue its silence breaks,  
Great truths it doth disclose.  
verse 31 His God's most holy law within  
His heart the just man keeps:  
And so observes it, that therein  
He makes no sliding steps.  
verse 32 The wicked plotting, lies at catch  
Against the righteous man:  
And all advantages doth watch  
To slay him, if he can.   

verse 33 But the just Lord him will not leave  
To fall into his hands:  
Nor will against him sentence give,  
When at his bar he stands.  
verse 34 In the Lord's ways expecting, stand,  
And he shall raise thee high:  
For thou inherit shalt the land,  
And see the wicked die.   

verse 35 The wicked I myself have seen  
Advanced to high degree:  
He spread his boughs as fresh, and green,  
As is the laurel tree.  
verse 36 Yet, while I looked, away he rolled,  
And did not more appear:  
I sought him where he dwelled, but could  
Of him no tidings hear.   

verse 37 Mark well the perfect man, and mind  
The just at his decease:  
For who observeth him, shall found  
He ends his days in peace.  
verse 38 But wicked livers joined in sin,  
Joint-ruine shall attend:  
The bad man's life may fair begin,  
But very foul doth end.   

verse 39 But from the Lord all righteous men  
Salvation shall receive:  
And when they are in trouble, than  
His strength shall them relieve.  
verse 40 Their saving help, the Lord shall be,  
And them deliverance sand:  
From wicked hands he shall them free,  
S'ith they on him depend.     

Psaim XXXVIII.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 100] All people, etc.  

verse 1 Ogracious Lord, rebuke me not,  
When thy provoked wrath doth smoke;  
When thy displeasure waxeth hot,  
Let me not feel thy angry stroke.  
verse 2 For thy keen shafts in me stick fast;  
I cannot pull them out again:  
Those darts th' Almighty's hand did cast,  
Sore vex me with tormenting pain.   

verse 3 Thine anger doth inflame my wound,  
So that my flesh it putrifies:  
My wearied bones no rest have found;  
'Cause Sin unpardoned on me lies.  
verse 4 Like drowning billows, o'er my head  
My great iniquities are gone:  
And like a sinking weight of lead,  
My heavy sins do press me down.   

verse 5 My gangrened wounds afflict me sore;  
Their noisome stench I cannot bear:  
Whiles I my foolishness deplore,  
Which in such guilt did me ensnare,  
verse 6 My back for weakness greatly bends,  
Distorted by my malady:  
My strength continual mourning spends;  
No respite hath my weeping eye.   

verse 7 For, with a loathsome foul disease,  
My loins are full of grievous pain:  
My flesh throughout, its force doth seize,  
No part of it doth sound remain.  
verse 8 Enfeebled therewithal am I,  
And even to shivers broken sore:  
Whiles, in my heart's perplexity,  
I do, for very anguish, roar.   

verse 9 Lord, My desire to thee is known,  
To whom my bosom open lies:  
Nor need I, when I sigh, and groan,  
To tell thee, what my meaning is.  
verse 10 The beat of my panting breast,  
The tears that make my eyes to fail,  
So that their very sight is ceased;  
Sad symptoms are of what I all.   

Part II.  

verse 11 My lovers and my friends grew shy,  
For from my sore they stood aloof:  
And, as when men infection fly,  
My next of kin stood farthest of.  
verse 12 They also that my life do seek,  
Deceitful snares for me do lay;  
My foes of plotted mischief speak,  
And meditate deceits all day.   

verse 13 But I, thereof no notice took,  
As one that hard of hearing were:  
Like a dumb man that never spoke,  
To answer them I did forbear.  
verse 14 Thus did I let them talk their fill,  
And like a deaf man was unmoved;  
I kept resolved silence still,  
And they reviled me unreproved.   

verse 15 For on thee, Lord, my hope is placed,  
Not other help I do expcept:  
And thou, O Lord my God, at last,  
I know, wilt not my prayer reject.  
verse 16 For I before thee humbly laid  
The joys my fall in them would breed:  
And for my weakness, when bewrayed,  
How high they, would exalt their head.   

verse 17 For I to halt too ready am,  
My sorrow's constant in my view:  
verse 18 Whiles I my sin confess with shame,  
And thence my daily grief renew.  
verse 19 But brisk, and lively are my foes,  
And much increased in strength they be:  
Yea, numbers great there are of those  
That wrongful hatred bear to me.   

verse 20 Those also are mine enemies,  
Who kindness with ill deeds repay:  
Because whatever's good I prize,  
And virtues paths my constant way.  
verse 21 O stand not thou far of, I pray,  
My Lord, and God, don't thou me leave:  
verse 22 O Lord, my Saviour, make no stay,  
But let me thy quick help receive.     

Psalm XXXIX.  

verse 1 MY ways I'll watch, & with my tongue  
Speak naught but what is right:  
My mouth shall bridled be, as long  
As th' wicked are in sight.  
verse 2 Thus I resolved; and mute I stood;  
From speech I did refrain:  
I held my peace, even from good,  
But held my peace in pain.   

verse 3 My stifled thoughts within my breast  
So hot a flame did make:  
It would not longer be suppressed;  
Whence thus, at last, I spoke.  
verse 4 Good Lord, to me, thy servant, show  
The measure of my days:  
That I my frail life's end may know;  
And how long it delays.   

verse 5 The days thou dost to me assign,  
One hand-breadth doth comprise:  
Behold, mine Age, compared to thine,  
A very nothing is.  
Yea, surely, at a better rate  
No man's esteemed by thee:  
For every man, in his best state,  
Is perfect vanity.   

verse 6 And sure, ,a scene of vanity  
Is each man's course of life:  
Vain are all things, which he doth buy  
With so much vexing grief.  
He spends his time, to raise an heap  
Of wealth, he calls his own:  
But can't be certain, who shall reap  
The harvest he hath sown.   

Part II.  

verse 7 And now, O Lord, what may I here  
Hope for, to make me blest?  
My hopes in thee, Lord, only are,  
On thee my soul doth rest.  
verse 8 From sin (the worst of Vanities)  
In mercy set me free:  
That by my foolish enemies  
I may not scorned be.  
verse 9 What e'er I suffered for my sin,  
In silence I did bear:  
Because I saw thy hand therein,  
My passions calmed were.  
verse 10 Yet Lord, remove, I humbly pray,  
That stroke that grieves me so:  
Thy hand doth make my strength decay,  
So heavy is its blow.   

verse 11 When thou, O Lord, with thy rebukes  
Dost man correct for sin:  
He like a surrowed garment looks,  
Where sretting moths have been.  
Thus, while his beauty soon doth fly,  
And wrinkles take its place:  
The frailty shows the vanity  
Of all of human race.   

verse 12 Unto my prayer incline thine ears,  
And harken to my cry:  
To give an answer to my tears,  
Lord, do thou not deny.  
For as a stranger in thy land,  
I only sojourn here:  
Obliged to leave't at thy command,  
As all my Fathers were.   

verse 13 Yet, till I get more strength of grace,  
Turn me not out of door,  
Too suddenly into the place  
Whence I shall come not more.     

Psalm XL.  

verse 1 IN silent hope I did attend  
Upon the Lord for aid:  
And he to me his ear did bend,  
To hear me when I prayed.  
verse 2 He brought me from the horrid pit,  
Out of the mire and clay:  
My feet upon a rock he set,  
And did my go say.   

verse 3 New cause of song he gave me too,  
Which many, when they see;  
Shall give the Lord the sear that's due,  
And trust in him with me.  
verse 4 Who to the Lord his trust directs,  
A man most blessed is:  
And he who proud men disrespects,  
And such as turn to lies.   

verse 5 Thy wondrous works, O Lord, my God,  
To numbers great amount:  
And thy kind thoughts on us bestowed,  
Turn to a vast account,  
T' attempt an orderly discourse  
Of them to thee, were vain:  
If I should tried, they must, (of force)  
Still numberless remain.   

verse 6 Meat-offerings and sacrifice  
Thou didst not, Lord, desire:  
Sin-offerings thou didst not prize,  
Nor offerings made by fire.  
verse 7 But thou mine ear didst bore; and than,  
Lo, Lord, I come, said I:  
'Tis in thy sacred volume seen,  
I must their use supply.   

verse 8 And this thy will, my God, to me  
Doth inward joy impart:  
Yea, all thy Laws engraven be  
Upon my very heart.  
verse 9 In the great congregation, I  
Have righteousness declared:  
Lo, Lord, thou knowst in that employ,  
My lips I have not spared.   

verse 10 I have not kept thy righteousness  
Within my heart enclosed:  
Thy saving grace and faithfulness  
I have to all exposed.  
The truth thou hast unto me shown,  
At no time I concealed:  
And t' holy crowds that did thee own,  
Thy kindness I revealed.   

Part II.  

verse 11 Thy tender mercies from me, Lord,  
O do not thou restrain:  
Thy kindness and thy truth afford,  
Me ever to maintain.  
verse 12 For I, with evils numberless  
Am quite encompassed round:  
My sins do so my soul oppress,  
They sink me to the ground.   

Than all the hairs upon my head,  
In number they are more:  
And fill me with so great a dread,  
That my heart fainteth sore.  
verse 13 Of thy good will, O Lord, let me  
Some saving fruit receive:  
The help my needs require of thee,  
Lord, hasten thou to give.   

verse 14 Shame, and confusion them befall,  
To stay me who combine:  
Repulse, and shame betid them all,  
That ill to me design.  
verse 15 Desolate may all of them be,  
And shamefully retreat;  
Who, with proud scorn, Aha, to me.  
So frequently repeat.   

verse 16 Let pious men in thee rejoice,  
Who thy salvation love:  
Let them still say with cheerful voice,  
Praised be the Lord above.  
verse 17 The Lord kind thoughts to me doth bear  
Though I be poor, and need:  
My God, and my deliverer,  
To help me, than, make speed.     

Psalm XLI.  

verse 1 BLEST is the man, that keeps the poor  
And needy still in mind:  
In troublous times he shall be sure  
God's saving help to found.  
verse 2 That man alive the Lord will save,  
On earth he blest shall be:  
His foes shall not the pleasure have.  
Their wills on him to see.   

verse 3 When he's on's bed by sickness laid,  
The Lord shall him sustain:  
His bed shall so by thee be made,  
As best may ease his pain.  
verse 4 I once, in, that condition said,  
Have mercy, Lord, on me:  
Heal than my soul, I humbly prayed,  
That hath offended thee.   

verse 5 Mine enemies speak ill of me;  
When shall he die? (they say)  
That we, to our content may see.  
His very name decay.  
verse 6 Each visitor becomes a spy;  
Speaks kind, but means not so:  
His heart its falsehood doth descry,  
When he abroad doth go.   

verse 7 There, when they meet, they whisper close;  
That bear me no good will:  
In companies they do dispose  
Themselves, who wish me ill.  
verse 8 Men make (say they) the best of it,  
But a sore sickness 'tis:  
For he's so handled by his fit,  
From's bed he ne'er shall rise.   

verse 9 Yea, the familiar friend I fed,  
To whom I did reveal  
My secrets, made himself their head,  
And kicked me with his heel.  
verse 10 But let me still thy mercy found,  
My life from death reprieve:  
That unto them I may in kind  
A just requital give.   

verse 11 By this I certainly do know,  
I favoured am by thee:  
Because thou suff'rest not my foe  
To triumph over me.  
verse 12 And me in mine integrity  
Thou, Lord, dost still maintain:  
And settest me before thine eye,  
For ever to remain.   

verse 13 The Lord, the God of Isr'el, than,  
For ever blessed be:  
And let all people say, Amen,  
Forever blest be he.    

Psalm XLII.  

verse 1 SO pants the chased hart, to cool  
His heat with running brooks:  
As pants (O God,) my thirsty soul,  
Whiles after thee it looks.  
verse 2 TO ward God, the living God, I bear  
A thirsting appetite:  
O when shall I come, and appear,  
In his long wished sight!   

verse 3 My tears have been, both night, and day,  
My souls unchanged food.  
Whiles they continually do say  
To me, where is thy God?  
verse 4 When former times I call to mind,  
My soul with grief is spent;  
The times, when numbers well inclined  
With me together went.   

In troops the ready way we trod,  
With songs of joy and praise;  
Unto the sacred house of God,  
On stated holy days.  
verse 5 But soul, why dost dejected grow  
Within my troubled breast?  
Why do unruly passions so  
Disturb thy wont rest?   

Hope still in God, for yet, I know,  
In time I shall him praise,  
When's saving presence shall bestow  
Upon me better days.  
verse 6 Although (O God) within my breast  
I sore dejection found:  
Yet do I always think it best,  
On thee to six my mind.   

Part II.  

On thee from Jordan, call I will,  
In its adjoining field:  
From Hermons both, and Mizar's hill,  
Where yet I live exiled.  
verse 7 One deep, Lord, through thy water-falls,  
Into another goes:  
The upper, to the neither calls,  
Loud roaring while it flows.   

Betwixt them both, in woeful case  
Tossed up and down, I roll:  
Whiles all thy waves and billows pass  
Over my drowning soul.  
verse 8 Yet, will the Lord his saving grace  
Command for me by day:  
And all night, (mixing songs of praise,)  
To God my life I'll pray.   

verse 9 I'll say to God, my rock, wherefore  
Hast thou forgot me so?  
And why, by foes oppressed sore,  
Do I thus mourning go?  
verse 10 For their reproaches, day by day,  
Like swords pierce to the bone:  
Whiles of my God, they, taunting, say,  
Now, whither is he gone?   

verse 11 But, soul, why dost dejected grow,  
Within my troubled breast?  
Why do unruly passions so  
Disturb thy wont rest?  
On God thy hope unshaken place;  
For yet I shall him praise;  
Who is my God, whose smiling face  
My downcast looks shall raise.     

[The same Psal. to the Tune of the Lamentation.] O Lord consider, etc.  

verse 1 NO chafed hart can thirstier be,  
Whiles for the running streams he pants,  
Than is my soul, O God, for thee,  
Whiles it thy gracious presence wants.  
verse 2 For God, (the God, and spring of life,)  
An eager thirst my soul doth pain:  
O, when shall I, to ease my grief,  
Appear before his face again?   

verse 3 Throughout the night, as well as day,  
Drenched with salt tears is all my food:  
Whiles they continually say  
To me in scorn, where is thy God?  
verse 4 Time was, when to the house of God  
With devout multitudes I went:  
With joys and praises sounded loud,  
Our holy days we jointly spent.  
But the remembrace of that bliss,  
Compared with my present state,  
A very sad reflection is:  
And makes my soul disconsolate.  
verse 5 But soul, why art thou so dismayed?  
Why do such thoughts thy passions raise?  
Hope still in God, whose saving aid  
Shall yet afford me cause of praise.   

verse 6 'Tis true, O God, my soul in me,  
Doth under too much sorrow sink:  
Wherhfore, though thus I'm kept from thee,  
I'll yet on thee, at distance think.  
From Jordan's banks I'll mind thee still;  
And from the Coast to th' Hermons nigh;  
And from this Mizar's little hill;  
The places where I exiled lie.   

Part II.  

verse 7 'Twixt two deeps, in thy Water-falls,  
Overwhelmed with all thy waves I roll:  
Whiles th' one to th' other, roaring, calls,  
For help to sink my drowning soul.  
verse 8 Yet to his Grace, the Lord, by day,  
Concerning me commands will give:  
And in the night I'll sing, and pray,  
Unto the God by whom I live.   

verse 9 I'll say to God, my fortress, why,  
Why hast thou me forgotten so?  
And why oppressed by th' enemy,  
Do I thus sorely mourning go.  
verse 10 A sword that pierceth to the bone  
Mine enemy's reproaches be;  
Whiles daily, whither is he gone?  
They of my God examine me.   

verse 11 But, soul, why dost dejected grow,  
Within my sore-disturbed breast?  
Why do unruly passions so  
Deprive thee of thy wont rest?  
On God, thy hope unshaken place;  
For yet, I know, I shall him praise,  
Who is my God, whose smiling face  
Shall my dejected countenance raise.     

Psalm XLIII.  

verse 1 A 'Gainst a Nation merciless,  
Judge thou, O God, for me:  
From him that would with fraud oppress,  
Let me delivered be.  
verse 2 My God, and strength thou art, wherefore  
Dost thou reject me so?  
And why, by foes oppressed sore  
Do I thus mourning go?   

verse 3 O let thy light and truth attend  
Me to conduct, and guide;  
Whiles I that holy Hill ascend  
Whereon thou dost reside.  
verse 4 Than to God's Altar will I go,  
Who gives me plenteous Joy:  
O God, my God, thy praise to show,  
My harp will I employ.   

verse 5 Soul, why dost thou dejected grow,  
Within my troubled breast?  
Why do unruly passions so  
Disturb thy wont rest?  
On God thy hopes unshaken place;  
For yet I shall him praise,  
Who is my God, whose smiling face  
My downcast looks shall raise.    

Psalm XLIV.  

verse 1 WE with our ears, O Lord, have heard,  
What our forefathers told;  
Who unto us the works declared,  
Thou didst in days of old.  
verse 2 To plant them, how thou didst drive out  
The heathen with thy hand:  
Their numerous forces thou didst rout,  
And chase them from their land.   

verse 3 For their own sword got not the land  
Which we their seed possessed:  
Nor did their own arm from the hand  
Of foes procure them rest.  
But thy right hand, and arm, alone  
Did firmly fix them there;  
Because on them thy countenance shone,  
And loved of thee they were.   

verse 4 O God, thou art my King; of right  
That title thou hast gained:  
Deliverances by thy might,  
For Jacob than command.  
verse 5 Through thee, so shall we overthrew  
Our potent enemies;  
And through thy name we'll tread them low,  
That up against us rise.   

verse 6 For safety I will not depend  
Upon my bow, or sword:  
verse 7 For thou from foes didst us defend,  
And them confounded, O Lord.  
verse 8 In God we make our boast therefore,  
And glory all the day:  
And to thy name will evermore  
Deserved praises pay.   

Part II.  

verse 9 But thou, alas, hast now disclaimed  
Us thy poor people quite:  
Before our foes thou hast us shamed,  
Not leading us to fight.  
verse 10 Thou leavest us to take the foil;  
With turned backs we fly:  
And all we have, is made a spoil  
T' enrich our enemy.  
verse 11 Given up, as sheep designed for food,  
By thee to butcher's hands:  
We now lie scattered all abroad,  
Among the heathen lands.  
verse 12 And though, by thee, our owner, thus  
Sold unto them, we die:  
So small's the price that's set on us,  
Thou gettest naught thereby.   

verse 13 Thou makest us a reproach to those  
That next to us reside:  
And we are compassed round with foes,  
That us with scorn deride.  
verse 14 The heathens flouting at our case,  
Thereof a byword make:  
And barbarous people, as they pass  
By us, their heads do shake.   

verse 15 To see such carriage with mine eyes,  
Confounded I became:  
From my reproaching enemies,  
I hide my face for shame.  
verse 16 I could not them with patience hear,  
They did blaspheme thee so:  
Such insolence I could not bear,  
From the revengeful foe.    

Part III  

verse 17 Yet have we not forgotten thee,  
O Lord, Whatever we felt:  
Nor in thy Covenant have we  
Like traitors falsely dealt.  
verse 18 From thee, with a deceitful heart,  
We have not gone astray:  
Nor did our wand'ring steps departed  
From thy most holy way.   

verse 19 Though in the place where dragons feed,  
Piece-meal thou didst us tear:  
And with death's shadow covered,  
In case forlorn we were.  
verse 20 If we our God's most holy name  
Perfidiously forgot:  
Or, to the false Gods, where we came,  
Our hands we stretched out.   

verse 21 Shall not our God discover this,  
Sigh naught from him is hid?  
For in man's heart no secret is  
That's not by him descried.  
verse 22 Yea, Lord, our blood, for thy name's sake,  
All the day long is shed:  
As if for sheep men did us take,  
That are for slaughter fed.   

verse 23 'Cause thy long sleep at last to cease;  
And t' help us, Lord, awake:  
Nor do thou, in so great distress,  
For ever us forsake.  
verse 24 Why dost thou all this while from us  
Hid thy beloved face?  
Forgetting our oppression thus,  
And our afflicted case?  
verse 25 For groveling to the ground we fall;  
Our soul the dust doth lick:  
Prostrate to thee, till there with all  
To th' earth our bellies stick.  
verse 26 We pray thee, therefore, Lord, arise;  
Let us thy help partake:  
And save us from our enemies  
For thy great mercy's sake.     

Psalm XLV.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 113,] Ye Children, etc. Or 127. Except the Lord, etc.  

verse 1 MY heart enslamed with sacred fires,  
Designs a song most excellent:  
And (which great thoughts to it inspires)  
The Church's King's my Argument  
Whence my tongue vents what it endites  
As fast as nimblest penman writes.   

verse 2 Thou, to whom none of mortal race  
For beauty is to be compared:  
Thy lips inspired with heavenly grace,  
Speak words that ne'er from man were heard.  
The ever blessed God therefore  
Hath blessed thee for evermore.   

verse 3 O mighty Prince, gird on thy thigh  
That all-subduing sword of thine:  
And in thy glorious majesty,  
With beams that suit thy greatness, shine.  
verse 4 Thus ride thou on, and let renown  
Thy noble undertake crown.   

Thy meekness, truth, and righteousness,  
Where e'er thou comest, shall hearts subdue:  
And thy right hand, with great success,  
Wonders ne'er seen before, shall do.  
verse 5 Pierced with thy darts, thy foes shall die,  
And at thy feet shall nations lie.   

verse 6 O God, for ever stands thy throne,  
And right thy royal sceptre is:  
verse 7 For wickedness thou dost disown,  
And righteousness thy soul doth prize:  
Whence God, thy God, above all heads,  
On thine, his oil of gladness sheds.   

verse 8 With Cassia, Myrrh, and Aloes  
Perfumed, thy robes thy heart do cheer:  
When from the Ivory Palaces,  
verse 9 Kings daughters in thy train appear.  
And placed at thy right hand, thy Queen  
Adorned with gold of Ophir's seen.   

Part II.  

verse 10 Now, daughter, with thine ears inclined,  
And serious thoughts, my counsel hear;  
Bear thou, henceforth, not more, in mind  
Thy father's house, or country dear.  
verse 11 Thy Lord, and King, alone adore,  
And he shall love thy beauty more.   

verse 12 Than, in subjection, Presents great  
Tires daughter unto thee shall make,  
And richest nations shall entreat  
Thy favours humbly to partake:  
verse 13 Whiles richly clothed, as her befits,  
Within, the Princess royal sits.   

verse 14 In gold, and rich embroidery,  
Thence, to her Lord they shall her bring;  
Amidst the Virgin company,  
Attending her to thee, O King.  
verse 15 All ent'ring thus the Palace royal,  
With music loud, and shoutings loyal   

verse 16 And in forsaken Parents room,  
The seed that from thee take their birth,  
At thy appointment shall become.  
Princes in all the Realms on earth,  
verse 17 Thy name, all Chronicles shall fill,  
And numerous Nations praise thee still.     

[The same Psalm to the proper Tune,]  

verse 1 Inflamed with holy fires,  
My heart prepares to sing  
A noble song, which love inspires,  
In honour of the King.  
Words, full of richest sense,  
Shall from my tongue distil:  
And march, with flowing eloquence,  
The nimblest writers quill.   

verse 2 Thy lips with grace run o'er,  
O fairest of mankind:  
All blessings God to thee, therefore,  
For ever hath assigned.  
verse 3 Gird on thy mighty thigh  
That conquering sword of thine,  
And with such glorious Majesty,  
As suits thy greatness, shine.   

verse 4 And in that majesty  
Ride thou with great success;  
Because of thy humility,  
Thy truth, and righteousness.  
Thus, wonders yet unseen  
Thy mighty hand shall do:  
verse 5 In thy foes hearts thy shafts are keen,  
And make the nations bow.   

verse 6 Because thy royal hand  
A righteous sceptre sways;  
Thy throne, O God, shall therefore stand  
Beyond all date of days.  
verse 7 For perfect righteousness  
Thy royal heart doth prize:  
And equal hatred doth profess  
To all that wicked is.   

By God, thy God, therefore,  
Anointed is thy head  
With cheering oil, in richer store,  
Than is on others shed  
verse 8 Thy Ivory Palaces  
With fragrant spices filled;  
From Cassia, Myrrh, and Aloes,  
Most choice perfumes do yield.   

Their scent thy heart did cheer,  
So cordially they smell:  
verse 9 Whiles royal Virgins did appear,  
Thy nuptial train to swell.  
All, due attendance paid,  
Whiles thy most glorious Queen  
In robes with Ophir's Gold o'er laid,  
At thy right hand was seen.   

Part II.  

verse 10 Now with thine ears inclined,  
My counsel, daughter, hear:  
Thy Father's house bear not in mind.  
Nor yet thy people dear.  
verse 11 So shall the King affect  
Thy beauty far the more:  
For he's thy Lord, and doth expect,  
Thou shouldst him thus adore.   

verse 12 To thee shall stately Tyre,  
Than, royal Presents make:  
And welthy'st Nations shall desire,  
Thy favours to partake.  
The royal Bride within  
Sits glorious to behold,  
With robes, befitting such a Queen  
All over wrought with gold.   

verse 14 In robes with needle wrought,  
Conducted shall she be,  
By all her Virgin-train, and brought  
Thus, mighty King, to thee.  
verse 15 With shoutings, as they go,  
The Court aloud shall ring:  
Whiles they their entrance make into  
The Palace of the King.   

verse 16 Forsaken Parents room  
Shall thy wombs issue fill:  
And Princes in all lands become,  
Advanced at thy william.  
verse 17 And t' all successive days,  
I will record thy name:  
That devout people may thy praise  
For evermore proclaim.     

Psalm XLVI.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 113. Ye children, etc.]  

verse 1 GOD is our refuge and our fort,  
To which with safety we resort,  
Whenever troublous times appear:  
Whence, though the earth removed be,  
And Mountains hurled into the Sea;  
Yet will we live secure from fear.  
verse 3 Yea, though the Sea's proud waves do roar,  
And furiously assault the shore,  
So that the rocky Mountains shake:  
verse 4 With smoother-streams that river flows,  
That by God's holy City goes,  
And glad his dwelling place doth make.   

verse 5 In midst of her, the Lord resides:  
She's shaken with no swelling tides:  
For God to her gives early aid:  
verse 6 When heathens rage, and Kingdoms, shoved  
By fierce commotions, are removed;  
And at his voice th' whole earth's dismayed,   

verse 7 The Lord that doth all Hosts command,  
To guard us on our side doth stand:  
And our strong fort is Jacob's God.  
verse 8 Come than, and with admiring thought  
Consider what the Lord hath wrought:  
What waste his hands have made a broad,   

verse 9 He, through the earth makes wars to cease,  
And settles universal Peace.  
In sunder he the spear doth hue:  
Strong bows by him quite shivered are;  
And ratt'ling Chariots, armed for war,  
He into flaming fire doth throw.   

verse 10 Be still, and know that God I am:  
'Mongst Heathens Ill exalt my fame,  
And spread my praise on th'earth abroad.  
verse 11 The Lord that doth all Hosts command,  
To guard us, on our side doth stand:  
And our strong Fort is Jacob's God.    

Psalm XLVII.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 25.] I lift my heart, etc.  

verse 1 ALL people clap your hands  
And make a joyfull'noise:  
Shout ye to God in all your lands,  
With a triumphant voice.  
verse 2 Shout to the Lord most high,  
For terrible he is:  
Hereigneth in great majesty;  
And all the earth is his.   

verse 3 The people he shall quell,  
Till they to us submit:  
And nations, where soe'er they devil,  
Shall fall beneath our feet.  
verse 4 The portion that we have,  
He shall for us elect:  
A fair one he to jacob gave  
The man he did affect   

verse 5 God, to his holy Hill  
A cheerful shout attends:  
Thither, with sound of trumpets shrill,  
The Lord of Hosts ascends.  
verse 6 Unto our God sing praise,  
All sorts of praises sing:  
With praising songs his glory raise;  
Sing praises to our King.   

verse 7 For universal King  
Is God to all the earth:  
Whiles-praises, than, to him you sing,  
Let knowledge guide your mirth.  
verse 8 The Heathens do submit,  
And God their sovereign own:  
In midst of them the Lord doth sit,  
Upon his holy Throne.   

verse 9 The people's Princes too,  
Together are combineed:  
The Princes of the people who  
To Abrams God are joined.  
For unto God the shields  
Of all the earth pertain:  
He th' universal Sceptre wields,  
And doth all glory gain.    

Psalm XLVIII.  

verse 1 GReat is the Lord, and prajses great  
On him should be bestowed;  
From's holy Mount, and from the Seat,  
And City of our God.  
verse 2 Mount Zion's a delightful place,  
Renowned in all Lands:  
As thence toward the North you pass,  
The great King's City stands.   

verse 3 God in her stately Palaces  
Himself hath often shown:  
A certain refuge in distress,  
He's by experience known.  
verse 4 For lo, the Kings with mighty Hosts,  
Designed their journey thither:  
But when they met upon her coasts,  
They passed by together.   

verse 5 Within the view of it they came,  
Wondering at what they saw:  
But troubled sore, from thence, with shame,  
And haste, they did withdraw.  
verse 6 For very fear, their hearts did quake,  
With inward terrors seized:  
Such pains as trav'ling women take,  
Them suddenly surprised.   

verse 7 As Ships of Tarshish broken are,  
Which eastern winds do wrack:  
So all their forces shattered were,  
When thou didst drive them back.  
verse 8 Within our God's dear City, we  
Saw what we often were told:  
The Lord of Hosts her owned; and He  
Will ever her uphold.   

Part II.  

verse 9 With sense of thy abundant grace,  
O God, our mind's possessed:  
In midst of thy most holy place,  
It's thoughts do fill our breast.  
verse 10 In all the earth, O God, thy praise  
Is great, as is thy name,  
Thy right hand's filled with acts, that raise  
Thy justice high in fame.   

verse 11 Let therefore, holy Zion's Hill  
In joys triumphant be:  
Let gladness Judah's Daughters fill,  
When they thy judgements see.  
verse 12 Come, young ones, (with your ancient Sires  
Walk round the holy Mount:  
Let's on all sides survey her spires,  
And their just numbers count.   

verse 13 Lo, here, her bulwarks; mark them well;  
Her stately houses view:  
These wondrous sights that you may tell  
To ages that ensue.  
verse 14 For God, that saved them, we vow,  
For ever own will we:  
And he that did defend us now,  
Our guide to death shall be.     

[The same Psalm to the Tune of Pf. 100] All people, etc.  

verse 1 GReat is the Lord, and praises great  
He doth from his own City claim:  
And from his holy hill, the seat  
In which he chose to place his name.  
verse 2 Mount Zion, where the Lord resides,  
Stands in a fair and pleasant place:  
And doth in glory far surpass  
All places in the earth besides.   

On its north side, the City's seen,  
Which the great King for his dorh own  
verse 3 God in her Palaces hath been  
For their defence, a resuge known.  
verse 4 For lo, the Kings assembled were,  
They, altogether passed by:  
verse 5 Such wonders there they did espy,  
That they soon hasted thence for fear.   

verse 6 With fear, and pain together, racked,  
They were like women in their throws:  
verse 7 And like the Ships of Tarshrish, wracked,  
When th' east wind on them fiercely blows.  
verse 8 Within the Lord's dear City, we  
Have seen, what often we have been told:  
The Lord of Hosts doth her uphold,  
And still will her Protector be.   

Part II.  

verse 9 O God, th', experience of thy grace  
Doth in our grateful minds remain:  
And in thy holy Temples place,  
Therewith, our thoughts we entertain.  
verse 10 Great glory thy great name doth yield,  
Unto the earth's remotest ends:  
Thy right hand too, great praise attends,  
For it with righteousness is filled.   

verse 11 Let than, the voice of joy be heard,  
Throughout all Zion's holy Hill:  
And when thy judgements are declared,  
Letgladness Judah's daughters fill  
verse 12 Come, Children, view the holy Mount,  
Surrounding it with strict survey:  
View all her towers every way,  
And of their numbers take accounted.   

verse 13 Her bulwarks mark, where built, and how;  
Her Palaces consider well:  
That what you see with wonder now,  
To after-ages you may tell.  
verse 14 For throughout all posterity,  
The God that saved this glorious place,  
Shall be our God, till time shall cease;  
And he shall guide us till we die.     

Psalm XLIX.  

verse 1 A Trend all people, and give ear  
To what I am to tell:  
verse 2 High, low, rich, poor, who e'er you are,  
That in the world do devil.  
verse 3 My mouth such Doctrines shall declare,  
As tend to make you wise:  
In weighty points of knowledge rare,  
My heart I'll exercise.   

verse 4 The sacred Par'ble I rehearse,  
Shall my attention raise;  
Whiles on my harp, tuned to my verse,  
Dark things my song displays.  
verse 5 Why should I fear in evil days,  
When guilt my courage quells;  
And, to my grief, before me lays,  
The wander of my heels.   

verse 6 There are, who trust in stuffed bags,  
Stored up for such a season:  
And of their richeses make their brags,  
And think they do't with reason.  
verse 7 But such, alas, with all they have,  
A brother can't redeem:  
With God, to ransom from the grave,  
No wealth is in esteem   

verse 8 For none for life a price can give,  
(That traffic fails for ever:)  
verse 9 That always here a man should live,  
And see corruption never.  
verse 10 For death, both fools, and wisest men,  
Befalls, by equal lot:  
And both of them, to others, than,  
Must leave whatever they got.   

verse 11 They think their houses firm shall stand,  
To generations all:  
And, as entailed to theirs, their land  
By their own names they call.  
verse 12 Yet man that in great'st honour is,  
Therein continues not:  
But equally with beasts he dies,  
And is alike forgot.   

Part II.  

verse 13 Great folly surely doth appear  
In this fond way of theirs:  
Yet all their worldly say are  
Approved by their heirs.  
verse 14 Like sheep they're, folded in the grave,  
Where all together devil:  
Death feeds on them, and all they have,  
However they excel.   

And when th' eternal day shall set  
An end to deaths long night:  
The just o'er them that power shall get,  
Which they suppressed by might.  
verse 15 But when I to the grave descend,  
Though death my life bereave:  
God from its power shall me defend,  
And shall my soul receive.   

verse 16 Be not of any, than, afraid,  
Because his wealth o'rflows:  
Nor, at his house be thou dismayed,  
When it in glory grows.  
verse 17 For when he dies, to all he got,  
His title's at an end:  
And after him, his pomp shall not  
Into the grave descend.   

verse 18 Though, while he lived, himself he deemed  
The happiest man alive:  
(And they are always so esteemed,  
That know the way to thrive.)  
verse 19 He, at his death, shall thither go,  
Where such as he are gone:  
And lodge in those dark cells below,  
Where light yet never shone.   

verse 20 Thus man that in great honour is,  
And understandeth not:  
Lives like a beast, and so he dies,  
And is alike forgot.   

Gloria Patri.  
To Father, Son, and Spirit, One.  
True God, in Persons Three,  
How, as before the world begun,  
And ever, Glory be.     

Psalm L.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 100] All people, etc.  

verse 1 TH' Almighty God, the Lord of Hosts,  
Once, with his thundering voice did call:  
And summons gave to all the coasts,  
From the Sun's rising to his fall:  
verse 2 He called from Zion's stately Hill,  
Where strength with beauty is combined  
I heard his voice, and think on't still;  
For thence, therewith, his glory shined.   

verse 3 Thus (think I) he'll to judgement come,  
And thusth' awak'ning Trump shall found:  
Before him shall the fire consume,  
And dreadful tempests him surround.  
verse 4 From's glorious Throne, his voice shall be  
Through all th' inferior heavens heard:  
And publish to th' whole earth, that He  
To judge his people is prepared.   

verse 5 Let all my Saints assembled be,  
(The voice shall cry,) to this Assize:  
Let none be missed, who have with me  
A Covenant made by sacrifice.  
verse 6 Th' whole Court of Heaven, assembled there,  
God's just proceed shall express:  
For he himself shall Judge appear,  
To judge the world in righteousness.   

Part II.  

verse 7 I'll speak, and let my people hear,  
The mighty God, thy God, am I:  
O Isr'el, than, incline thine ear,  
Whiles I against thee testify.  
verse 8 I will not charge thee, for neglect  
Of sacrifice thou ought'st to pay:  
Nor for burnt-offerings defect,  
Which should be offered day by day.   

verse 9 No fatted bullock I'll receive  
For sacrifice, out of thy stall:  
Thy flocks entire to thee I'll leave,  
For one he-goat I will not call  
verse 10 For, as mine own, I justly claim  
All beasts within the Forest bred:  
And  too, both wild, and tame,  
That on a thousand hills are fed.   

verse 11 I know the daily haunt, and nest  
Of every bird each Mountain yields:  
And claim for mine, each savage beast,  
That rangeth in th' unbounded fields.  
verse 12 So that, if I could hunger feel,  
I need not tell thee, I would dine:  
Nor come to thee, to make a meal,  
Sigh th' earth, and all it holds, is mine.   

verse 13 That flesh of bulls should be my food,  
Have I an appetite like thee?  
Or is goats sacrificed blood  
A drink that's savoury to me?  
verse 14 Due thankfulness on God bestow,  
If thou wouldst give, what he will take:  
And pay the Highest, what thou dost own,  
When vows do thee his debtor make.    

Part III.  

verse 15 When trouble comes, their call on me,  
And let distress devotion raise:  
Than I from it will rescue thee,  
And thou to me shalt tender praise.  
verse 16 But God, (as one that's justly wroth,)  
Will say to every wicked wretch,  
What makes my Covenant in thy mouth?  
My Statutes what meanest thou to touch?   

verse 17 Sigh thou wilt not good counsel take,  
But dost all sound instruction hate:  
And throw'st my words behind thy back,  
In wicked courses obstinate,  
verse 18 Thou saw'st a thief, and at first sight,  
With him in robbery didst join:  
Adulterers did thee invite,  
And soon thou didst with them combine.   

verse 19 Thy mouth no evil words forbears:  
Thy tongue's still hammering deceit:  
verse 20 Thy brother's name it daily tears,  
That sucked with thee thy mother's teat.  
verse 21 These things thou didst, and I stood dumb,  
Until thou thought'st me wholly thine:  
But I will now reprove thee home,  
And set before thee all thy sin.   

verse 22 Now, think on these sad truths in time,  
All ye that cast God out of mind:  
For fear I tear you limb from limb,  
And no deliverer you found.  
verse 23 But I'll accept the good man's praise,  
As giving me the honour due:  
And t' him that walks in godly ways,  
Th' High God's salvation I will show.     

Psalm LIVELY  
A Psalm of David, when Nathan the Prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.  
[To the second Metre of Ps. 125.] Those that, etc. [Or the proper Tune of this Psalm.] O Lord, etc.  

verse 1 LET tender love  
Thy bowels move,  
O God, to show me saving grace:  
Thy mercy's store  
Lord, I implore,  
By them my heinous sins deface.  
verse 2 Wash me from my  
Iniquity:  
And purge out throughly every stain:  
O rinse my foul  
Be-leperd soul,  
That no one spot therein remain.  
verse 3 It is confessed,  
I have transgressed,  
Against thee, Father, oftentimes:  
Before mine eyes  
For ever lies  
Th' affrighting horror of my crimes.  
verse 4 I grieving see,  
My sin strikes thee;  
Th' affront is given to thee alone:  
This evil I  
Presumptuously  
Before thy very face have done.   

From whence, I must  
Pronounce thee just,  
Howe'er, as Judge, thou dealest with me:  
Nor too severe  
Wilt thou appear,  
Although I be condemned by thee.  
verse 5 In my first frame,  
Lo, I became  
Polluted with iniquity:  
And foul with sin  
Conceived within  
My sinful mother's womb was I.   

verse 6 Behold, to spy  
Sincerity,  
In th'inward man thou dost desire:  
Into my heart  
(My hidden part)  
True wisdom therefore thou'lt inspire.  
verse 7 With hyssop scour  
My soul, and pour  
A cleansing bath on leprous me:  
Than shall I grow  
So white, that Snow,  
Untrodden Snow, lesle white shall be.   

verse 8 Unto mine ear,  
That I may hear,  
Let thy voice joy and gladness speak:  
For by that voice  
Thou shalt rejoice  
Those bones thy heavy wrath did break.  
verse 9 Turn, turn away,  
I humbly pray,  
From all my sins thy searching eye:  
And cancel (Lord)  
That black record,  
That doth preserve their memory.   

Part II.  

verse 10 An heart within  
Me, clean from sin  
Do thou, my maker, now created:  
And, that in me  
Upright it be,  
My spirit do thou regenerate.  
verse 11 From thy dear sight  
Let me not quite  
A miserable exile be:  
Nor so forsake  
Me, as to take  
Thy holy spirit of grace from me.   

verse 12 That joy restore,  
Which heretofore  
To me thy saving mercy gave:  
Thy spirit free  
Vouchsafe to me,  
My soul from crusting falls to save.  
verse 13 Than those that stray  
From thy pure way,  
By my instruction I'll reclaim:  
And those that sin,  
Shall thence begin  
Their lives by stricter rules to frame.   

verse 14 My saving God,  
From guilt of blood,  
Ease to my soul by pardon bring:  
Than, to express  
Thy righteousness,  
My grateful tongue aloud shall sing.  
verse 15 My lips, that now  
Are shut, do thou  
Open, to sing thy praise, O Lord:  
The glorious fame  
Due to thy name  
My praising mouth shall than record.   

verse 16 For sacrifice  
Thou dost not prize;  
Else I great store of them would bring:  
Nor doth thy mind  
Contentment found  
In any whole burnt-offering.  
verse 17 An heart oppressed  
With sin's the best  
Of offerings valued in God's eyes:  
A Spirit contrite  
Yea, broken quite,  
Thou, gracious God, wilt not despise.   

verse 18 On Zion Hill,  
In thy good will,  
Refreshing drops of favour rain:  
And freely yield  
Thy help to build  
Jerus'lems broken walls again.  
verse 19 Than we'll present,  
With right intent,  
Those offerings which please thee most:  
Thy Altars fire  
Offerings entire  
Of fatted bullocks than shall roast.     

Another of the same.  
The first version varied, so as to suit any ordinary Tune of Eights and Six.  

verse 1 LET tender love  
Thy bowels move  
To show me saving grace.  
Thy mercy's store,  
Lord, I implore;  
By them, my sinsdeface.  
Wash me from my  
Iniquity,  
And purge out every stain:  
Orinse my soul  
Be-leperd soul,  
That not one spotremain.   

verse 3 It is confessed,  
I have transgressed  
Against thee, oftentimes:  
Before mine eyes  
For ever lies  
The horror of my crimes.  
verse 4 I grieving see,  
My sin strikes thee:  
Th'affront's to thee alone:  
This evil I  
Presumptuously  
Before thy face have done.   

Wherhfore I must  
Pronounce thee just  
Howe'er thou judgest me:  
Nor too severe  
Wilt thou appear,  
Though I condemned should be.  
verse 5 In my first frame,  
Lo, I became  
Stained with iniquity:  
And soul with sin  
Conceived within  
My mother's womb was I.   

verse 6 Behold, to spy  
Sincerity  
Within, thou dost desire:  
And thou, my heart  
(My hidden part,)  
With wisdom shalt inspire.  
verse 7 With hyssop scour  
My soul, and pour  
A cleansing stream on me:  
Than shall I grow  
So white, that Snow  
Untrod, lesle white shall be.   

verse 8 Unto my ear  
That I may hear,  
Lord, joy and gladness speak:  
For by that voice  
Thou shalt rejoice  
The bones that thou didst break.  
verse 9 Turn quite away,  
I humbly pray,  
From all my sins thine eye:  
And cancel (Lord,)  
That black record,  
That keeps their memory.   

Part II.  

verse 10 An heart within  
Me, clean from sin  
Do, thou anew created:  
And that in me  
Upright it be,  
My Spirit regenerate.  
verse 11 From thy dear sight  
Let me not quite  
A wretched exile be:  
Nor so forsake  
Me, as to take  
Thy holy Spirit from me.   

verse 12 That joy restore  
Which heretofore  
Thy saving mercy gave:  
Thy Spirit free  
vouchsafe to me,  
My soul from falls to save.  
verse 13 Than those that stray  
Out of thy way,  
By teaching I'll reclaim:  
And those that sin,  
Shall thence begin  
Their lives anew to frame.   

verse 14 My saving God,  
From guilt of blood  
Ease to my Spirit bring:  
Than, to express  
Thy righteousness,  
My tongue aloud shall sing.  
verse 15 My lips, that now  
Are shut, do thou  
Open, to praise thee, Lord,  
The glorious same  
Due to thy Name  
My tongue shall than record   

verse 16 For sacrifice  
Thou dost not prize:  
Else that I would thee bring:  
Nor doth thy mind  
Contentment found,  
In whole  offering.  
verse 17 An heart oppressed  
With sin, 's the best  
Of offerings in God's eyes:  
A Spirit contrite,  
Though broken quite,  
Lord, thou wilt not despise.   

verse 18 On Zion Hill  
In thy good will  
Some drops of favour rain:  
And freely yield  
Thy help, to build  
Jerus'lems walls again.  
verse 19 Than we'll present  
With right intent  
Offerings which please thee most  
The Altars fire  
Offerings entire  
Of fatted Bullsshall roast.     

Another of the same.  
[To the proper Tune of the old Ps. 51.] O Lord, etc. [Or that of the Lamentation] O Lord in, etc.  

verse 1 MErcy, O God, I mercy crave,  
As great, and large, as thou canst show.  
Many, and tender, mercies too,  
I need, my guilty soul to save.  
O blot my crimes out of thy mind,  
verse 2 And make me throughly clean again:  
From this iniquities soul stain,  
That no one spot remain behind.   

verse 3 For I, with deepest sorrow, own,  
That my trasgressions heinous are:  
And in my face doth ever stare  
The horrid face that I have done.  
verse 4 Against thee, Lord, and only thee,  
By this soul sin, have I rebelled,  
For, even whiles thine eyes beheld,  
This wicked deed was done by me.   

So that I well deserve to bear  
All curses in thy Law proclaim, d:  
And, if by thee I should be damned,  
My conscience must thy Justice clear.  
verse 5 My outward shape when I received,  
Deformed within, I did become:  
And even in my mother's womb,  
I was at first in sin conceived.  
verse 6 Behold, that part within me, where  
Thou look'st for truth, by sin was soiled;  
But, by thy saving Grace instilled,  
I hope, thou'lt teach me wisdom there.  
verse 7 With hyssop, dipped in purging blood,  
Purge me, and clean I than shall grow:  
Wash me, and I more white than Snow  
Shall be, whereon no foot hath trod.   

verse 8 'cause me to hear that cheering voice,  
Which pardon doth to sinners speak:  
Than shall the bones thy wrath did break,  
Healed by that precious balm, rejoice.  
verse 9 Hid from my sins thine angry face:  
which when I sinned I did despise:  
And all my soul iniquities  
Clean out of thy remembrance raze.   

Part II.  

verse 10 O God, created in me an heart  
Clean, and unspotted in thy sight:  
And that my Spirit may be right,  
To me renewing grace impart.  
verse 11 Let me not wholly banished be  
From thy dear face, by which I live:  
And th' holy Spirit whom I did grieve  
O take not quite away from me.   

verse 12 To my sad soul restore again  
The joys which thy salvation gave:  
And let me thy free Spirit have,  
Which may in goodness me sustain.  
verse 13 Than will I makes trasgressours know  
How sad it is thy ways to leave:  
And sinners counsel shall receive  
From me, to make them converts grow.   

verse 14 Fromth ' heinous guilt of stedding blood,  
O God, my Saviour, set me free:  
Than shall my tongue employed be,  
To sing thy righteousness aloud.  
verse 15 Set open, Lord, my lips, which now  
Are locked up by guilty shame:  
The praises of thy holy name  
Than my enlarged mouth shall show.   

verse 16 I should have given thee sacrifice,  
And offerings consumed by fire:  
But none of these thou didst desire,  
Or, when they were Presented, prize.  
verse 17 A broken Spirit in God's sight  
All sacrifices doth contain:  
For thou, O God, wilt not disdain  
The present of an heart contrite.   

verse 18 Let some kind marks of that esteem  
Thou bearest to Zion, on it fall:  
And graciously repair the wall  
Of thy belov'd Jerusalem.  
verse 19 Just sacrifices than we'll pay,  
And offerings which thou dost require:  
Yea, to be quite consumed by fire,  
Whole bullocks on thine Altar lay.     

Psalm LII.  

verse 1 WHy, man of might, with such proud boasts  
Vauntest thou in doing ill?  
The goodness of the Lord of Hosts  
To his, continues still.  
verse 2 Thy tongue is falsely taught to hid  
A malice most profound:  
As the keen rasour's ill employed,  
Which whiles it shaves, doth wound.   

verse 3 In stead of what is good, thou dost  
In evil take delight:  
And lying speech affects thee most,  
In stead of what is right.  
verse 4 All words that may to others do  
Irreparable wrong,  
Are dearly loved by thee, O thou  
False, and deceitful tongue.   

verse 5 God also shall out of thy place  
Thee totally destroy:  
With none alive of human race  
Shalt thou a room enjoy.  
verse 6 A fearful instance shall he be,  
To righteous lookers on:  
Although they laugh withal, to see  
In him, God's Justice shown.   

verse 7 Lo, shall they say, observe the end  
Of one, whose haughty pride  
To make the mighty God his friend,  
Still scornfully denied.  
Who placed his foolish confidence  
In his illgotten store:  
And took encouragement from thence  
Still to transgress the more.   

verse 8 But I, as a green Olive Tree,  
In th' house of God abide:  
And unto all Eternity  
Will in his grace confided.  
verse 9 And this thy work, Lord, to commend,  
A grateful song I'll writ:  
And on thy Name will I attend,  
Wherein thy Saint's delight.    

Psalm LIII.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 100] All people, etc.  

verse 1 THE fool hath said in's secret thought,  
The God, men talk of, I disown:  
Vile beasts! that works as vile have wrought,  
Whiles virtuous deeds are done by none.  
verse 2 The Lord upon corrupt mankind  
From heaven did cast his searching eye,  
One wise, religious man to found,  
But none among them could espy.   

verse 3 In vices stinking mud they wallow,  
And venues paths they all forsake:  
None, not, not one, its rules doth follow,  
Or any good course undertake.  
verse 4 Is Reason, with Religion,  
Thus wholly from ill-livers fled,  
That, whiles the Lord they call not on,  
They eat my people up like bread?   

verse 5 There, their affrighted hearts, surprised  
With self created terrors were:  
'Twas their own guilt their spirits seized,  
And scared them with ungrounded fear.  
For God, his bones who thee surrounded,  
O Zion, did disperse abroad:  
They fled away from thee confounded,  
Because they were despised of God.   

verse 6 Would God that doth in Zion devil  
His people's joint devotions hear:  
So that, from thence, to Israel  
Some way Salvation might appear!  
For when the Lord shall set them free,  
That yet do lie in bondage sad:  
His Jacobs seed shall joy full be,  
And Israel shall than be glad.    

Psalm LIV.  
A Psalm of David, when Ziphims came and said to Saul, doth not David hid himself with us?  

verse 1 LET th' honour of thy Name invite  
Thy help to rescue me:  
And by thy strength, O God of might,  
Let me defended be.  
verse 2 Do thou, OGod, with bended ear  
The prayer I utter, heed:  
And all the words with favour hear,  
Which from my mouth proceed.   

verse 3 For strangers up against me rise,  
Whiles Tyrants would me kill:  
Nor have they God before their eyes,  
Who seek my blood to spill.  
verse 4 But lo, my God doth give me aid,  
He is my help at hand:  
With those by whom my soul is stayed,  
The righteous Lord doth stand.   

verse 5 He will repay them in their kind,  
Who me with plots annoyed:  
Yea, Lord, the men that ill designed,  
For thy truth's sake destroy.  
verse 6 A voluntary sacrifice  
Than, Lord, I'll offer thee:  
And thy great Name, which I so prize,  
Shall be extolled by me.   

verse 7 For to the Lord, in all distress,  
My life its safety owes:  
And I have seen, with joyfulness,  
The scattering of my foes.    

Psalm LV.  

verse 1 UNto this servant prayer of mine  
Lend, Lord, thy listening ear:  
With turned face do not decline  
My just request to hear.  
verse 2 With heedfulness to me attend,  
And hear my crying voice;  
Whiles my complaints to heaven I sand,  
And make a mournful noise.   

verse 3 For th' enemy doth his munch enlarge:  
By bad men vexed am I:  
Who lay soul crimes unto my charge,  
And hate me wrathfully.  
verse 4 My heart within my troubled breast  
Is pained grievously:  
With sorrows I am sore oppressed,  
As one about to dye.   

verse 5 Through all my joints a trembling goes  
So scaring is my fright:  
Such dreadful horror me o'rflows,  
I'm overwhelmed quite.  
verse 6 With fruitless wish, I  did say,  
O that a Dove I were!  
Whose wings should carry me away,  
And lodge me safe from fear.   

verse 7 Lo, than, my flight I would not cease,  
Till I got. far from hence:  
And in some lonely wilderness  
Should be my residence.  
verse 8 Whiles winds that threaten storms, arise,  
I would make haste away:  
Nor, till the tempest me surprise,  
Would I my flight delay.   

Part II.  

verse 9 Divide their tongues, O Lord, and date  
Their City's ruin thence:  
For 'tis, notorious for debate,  
And full of violence,  
verse 10 About its walls both day and night;  
They range as sentinels:  
And in the very midst of it  
Mischief with sorrow, dwells.   

verse 11 Her inward parts are all possessed  
With wickednesses vile:  
And still within her streets do rest  
Deceitfulness, and guile.  
verse 12 For 'twas no open enemy  
That did reproach me so:  
Such carriage better bear could I,  
In a professed foe.   

verse 13 Nor did the man, whose haughty pride.  
Dealt thus, his hatred own:  
For than, fore warned, I could have hid  
Myself some where unknown:  
But 'tman, whom I to make  
My equal did descend:  
And often for my guide did take  
As my dear bosom friend.   

verse 14 In close consults both spoke our minds  
With mutual content:  
And to God's House, like dearest friends,  
In company we went.  
verse 15 Let sudden death them seize: to hell  
That they may quick be thrown:  
For in the places where they devil,  
Foul wickedness is done.    

Part III.  

verse 16 But with my voice exalted, I  
God's speedy help will crave:  
Assured that he will hear my cry,  
And readily me save.  
verse 17 Whene'r the Sun doth for, or rise,  
Or reach his mid day line:  
I'll pray to him with earnest cries,  
And he'll his ear incline.   

verse 18 Without the loss of life, or limb,  
He brought me of the field:  
For many (so disposed by him)  
Their help to me did yield.  
verse 19 Th' Eternal God my foes doth hear,  
And them afflict he will:  
For therefore him they do not fear,  
Because they prospero still.  
verse 20 He stretched out's hands to fight with those  
Who were with him at peace:  
Against most sacred leagues he chose  
Profanely to tranfgress.  
verse 21 When's heart contrived war, he soothed  
His foes with flattering words:  
Words, as with oil, and butter smoothed,  
But mere unsheathed swords.   

verse 22 Thy burden with the Lord intrust,  
And he shall thee. sustain:  
So that, propped up by him, the just  
Shall still unmoved remain.  
verse 23 But as for these, my foes declared  
The Lord shall bring them down:  
In a destructive pit enshared,  
They shall be. overthrown.   

The men that study to deceive,  
And bloody-minded be,  
Not half their natural life shall live;  
But I will trust in thee.     

Psalm LVI.  
Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath.  

verse 1 ME with thy grace, O God, befriend,  
For man would me devour:  
Who daily doth with me contend,  
To crush me with his power.  
verse 2 My foes with open throat design  
Each day to swallow me:  
And numbers vast, that thus combine  
With me to fight, there be.   

verse 3 But in thee is my confidence,  
O thou most high, for aid:  
When their malicious violence:  
Doth make me most afraid.  
verse 4 In God, I'Il praise his promise true:  
In God, my faith doth rest:  
Whence against all that flesh can do,  
I'll fearlessly contest.   

verse 5 My harmless words, from day to day,  
They wrist to ill intent:  
And for my hurt vile plots to lay,  
Their thoughts are ever bend.  
verse 6 In counsel frequently they meet,  
And very close they are:  
They set a watch upon my feet,  
Who would my soul ensnare.   

Part TWO  

verse 7 O God, shall wicked plots defend  
The plotting heads from thee?  
By thee let all that ill intent,  
Cast down in anger be.  
verse 8 My wanderings all thou knowst by tale;  
Bottle my tears, O Lord:  
Each drop which from mine eyes doth fall,  
Doth not thy book record?  
verse 9 When I to thee devoutly cry;  
My foes are turned back:  
This I foretell assuredly,  
For God my part doth take.  
verse 10 In God, my faith shall praise his word,  
Which I have found so true:  
Unto the word of God the Lord  
I'll tender praises due.   

verse 11 On God, with fixed confidence,  
I do depend for aid;  
Wherhfore man's utmost violence  
Shall ne'er make me. afraid;  
verse 12 O God, as I am bound by vow,  
To thee I'll tender praise:  
verse 13 For when I was near dying, thou  
To life my soul didst raise.   

And shall not than, thy strengthening grace  
My feet frorm, falls defend,  
That I my life's remaining space  
May in thy service spend?     

Psalm LVII.  

verse 1 BE merciful, O God, I pray,  
Be merciful to me:  
For my afflicted soul doth stay  
Itself on, none but thee.  
Yea, in thy wings protecting shade  
My resuge I have placed:  
Till these calamities so sad,  
Be fully over past.   

verse 2 Unto the highest God I will  
Present my earnest cries:  
The God, that for me doth fulfil  
The things that I device.  
verse 3 In my distrels, his saving aid  
From heaven he shall sand:  
His mercy, and his truth, displayed  
From thence, shall me. defend.   

He shall defend me from the tongue  
Of my reproaching foe:  
Who not content my name to wrong,  
Designs my overthrow.  
verse 4 For I do live with Lions fierce,  
That hunt, me as their prey:  
With fiery men I do converse  
That cruel rage, bewray.   

A sort of men they are that through  
Their teeth shoot bitter words:  
Out doing spears and arrows too,  
With tongues like whetted swords.  
verse 5 Do thou exalt thyself, O God,  
Above the heavens high:  
And show to all the earth abroad.  
Thy glorious Majesty.   

verse 6 They pitch a net to catch me, where  
My feet have often gone:  
And my soul, tangled in their snare,  
Was almost overthrown.  
But though they just before me placed  
A closely digged pit:  
Yet are they fallen themselves at last,  
Into the midst of it.   

Part II.  

verse 7 My heart is fixed to sing thy praise,  
My heart is fixed, O God:  
The glories of thy name to raise,  
My song shall be bestowed.  
verse 8 Awake my glory, and awake  
My Harp and Psaltery:  
And in the consort to partake,  
Betimes awake will I   

verse 9 I'll utter praise, O Lord, among  
The people to thy name:  
And to the nations, with my song,  
Thy glories I'll proclaim.  
verse 10 For to the spacious firmament  
Thy mercy large doth stretch:  
So is thy truth of vast extent,  
Which to the Clouds doth reach.   

verse 11 Do thou exalt thyself, O God,  
Above the heavens high:  
And show to all the earth abroad,  
Thy glorious Majesty.     

Psalm LVIII.  

verse 1 DO you, when you assembled are,  
Indeed, speak righteously?  
You mortal Judges, is't your care  
Each cause aright to try?  
verse 2 Yea, under forms of Justice, you  
Act plotted wickedness:  
You seem to hold its balance true,  
But sway it to oppress.   

verse 3 Justice to them a stranger is  
Even from their birth, become:  
They learned to speak, and do amise,  
Even from their mother's womb.  
verse 4 The venom that their tongues contain,  
T' a serpent's likeness bears:  
And to make wholesome counsels vain,  
Like Asps they stop their ears.   

verse 5 Like Asps, which no enchanters tongue  
Can keep from doing harm:  
Because they will not hear his song,  
Though cunningly he charm.  
verse 6 Break the sly serpent's teeth, because  
They venomously by't:  
Yea, Lord, disarm th' young Lion's jaws,  
That crush the just by might.   

verse 7 Let them, as running streams do flow,  
So melt continually:  
And let the arrows on their bow,  
Into small shivers fly.  
verse 8 As wasting snails, that turn to slime,  
So let them melt, and run:  
Like births that come before the time,  
And never see the Sun.   

verse 9 E'er blazing thorns can heat the pot,  
God's wrath shall them surprise:  
The whirlwind of his anger hot  
Even living, shall them seize.  
verse 10 Than shall the just, with triumphs meet  
See the revenge of God:  
And with a righteous Zeal, their feet  
Wash in the wicked's blood.   

verse 11 And men shall say, Io, verily,  
The righteous, God rewards:  
Verily, there's a Judge on high,  
That justice here regards.    

Psalm LIX.  
Michtam of David, when Saul sent and they watched the House to kill him  

verse 1 MY God, in my defence engage,  
Against mine Enemies:  
Do thou protect me from their rage,  
That up against me rise.  
verse 2 From those that work iniquity,  
I thy salvation crave:  
From th' undeserved cruelty  
Of bloody men me save.   

verse 3 For with great craft, a close design  
Against my soul they lay:  
Yea, mighty men together join,  
To take my life away.  
Yet can they charge me with no crime,  
As thou, O Lord, dost know:  
Nor by transgressing, any time,  
Have I provoked them so.   

verse 4 With active malice armed they are,  
To ruin guiltless me:  
Awake, and see, what they prepare,  
And my desender be.  
verse 5 Lord God of Israel, that hast  
All hosts at thy dispose:  
Awake for my defence at last,  
And visit all my foes.   

Visit all th' heathens, that to me  
Express such cruelty:  
Nor let those men found grace from thee,  
That sin presumptuously.  
verse 6 Each evening here, and there, with noise,  
They range the city round:  
As dogs in consort join their voice,  
And make an hideous sound.   

verse 7 From their lipsissue whetted swords,  
So keen their Speeches are:  
Yea, their mouths belch blasphemous words  
For who, (say they,) doth hear?  
verse 8 Yet thou, (Lord) hearest, all the while  
And laughest at their pride:  
All th' heathens thou, with scornful smile  
Most justly shalt deride.   

Part II.  

verse 9 Because I have a mighty foe,  
That is too strong for me:  
I'll wait on God, for he (I know)  
My strong defence will be.  
verse 10 The God who hath to me been kind,  
He shall prevent me still:  
My God shall let me have my mind  
On those that wish me ill.   

verse 11 Slay them not quite, O Lord our shield,  
Jest we should it forget:  
Let thine Arm rout them in the field  
And cast them at our feet.  
verse 12 Because their mouths and lips to lies,  
And cursing, they employ:  
Let sudden vengeance them surprise,  
And in their pride destroy.   

verse 13 Whiles slowly they to ruin pine,  
From them confession wring:  
That God, who doth in Jacob reign,  
To th' whole earth's ends is King.  
verse 14 May they each night with doleful voice  
The City's streets surround:  
Searching for food with howling noise,  
As doth the hungry hound.   

verse 15 Let them, with greedy appetite,  
Range up and down for meat:  
And wander whining all the night,  
Without a scrap to eat.  
verse 16 But I, the assistance of thy might  
Will with a song proclaim:  
And, waking with the morning light,  
Exalt thy mercies fame.   

For the defence thou didst afford  
From dangers, was my screen:  
And in my day of trouble, Lord,  
Thou hast my refuge been.  
verse 17 O thou that art my strength, to thee  
I'll sing with all my skill:  
For God is my defence, and he  
Will show me mercy still.     

Psalm LX.  
Michtam of David, to teach, when he strove with Aram-naharaim, and with Aram-zobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the Valley of Salt Twelve Thousand.  

verse 1 WE have been scattered, ever since  
Thou left'st us in disdain:  
At us, O God, thou took'st offence:  
O turn to us again.  
verse 2 Thy. wrath did 'cause the Earth to quake  
That it was broken sore:  
The breaches that thy hand did make,  
O let thy hand restore.   

verse 3 The people that thou ownest for thine,  
Sore burdens made to shrink:  
A cup of most amazing wine  
Thou gavest us to drink;  
verse 4 Yet thou, on them that reverence thee,  
A banner hast bestowed:  
In thy religions cause, to be  
By them displayed abroad.   

verse 5 Forsafety of thy servant dear,  
Thy right hands power extend:  
And to his prayer thy hearing ear  
With wont mercy bend.  
verse 6 In strength of th' Oracle divine,  
My triumphs shall be great:  
For Shechem I'll divide by line,  
And Succoth's Valley meet.   

verse 7 Gilead is mine, Manasseh mine;  
Ephr'im suppprts my cause:  
To royal Judab, I'll assign  
The power to give them Laws.  
verse 8 Moab I'll make my washing Pot,  
O'er Edom throw my shoe:  
The coast of the Philistines stout  
Shall yield me triumphs too.   

Part II.  

verse 9 But who will me conduct into  
The City sortified?  
And into Edom's Country, who  
Will me with sasety guide?  
verse 10 Will't not thou do't for me, O God,  
That didst us once forsake?  
Thou that to lead our hosts abroad  
Refused'st t' undertake?   

verse 11 When troubles make us sore asraid,  
Let us thy help obtain:  
For in sad times, to give us aid,  
All human help is vain.  
verse 12 Through God, when he our helper is,  
We valiant acts shall do:  
For he shall all our Enemies  
Under our feet subdue.     

Psalm LXI.  

verse 1 WHen unto thee, O God, I cry,  
Do thou in mercy hear:  
And to my prayer, attentively  
Vouchsafe to bend thine ear.  
verse 2 From the lands end, I'll cry to thee,  
When e'er my heart's oppressed:  
To that high rock conduct thou me,  
Where I may safely rest.  
verse 3 For in past dangers, for my screen,  
Thy help did interpose:  
And my strong Tower hast thou been,  
To save me from my foes.  
verse 4 Within thy holy Tent, I will  
For evermore reside:  
Thy wings I'll make my covert still,  
Wherein I will me hid.   

verse 5 The vows that did my Soul engage,  
Thou, O my God, didst hear:  
And gavest me the heritage  
Of those that do thee fear.  
verse 6 The King thou wilt in life maintain,  
And late receive him home:  
His years extended shall remain  
To ages long to come.   

verse 7 Before the Lord's well pleased face,  
For ever shall he stay:  
Prepare for him thy truth and grace,  
To keep him from decay.  
verse 8 So, to thy holy Name I will  
Eternal praises pay:  
That unto thee I may fulfil  
My vows from day to day.    

Psalm LXII.  
[To the Tune of Pf. 113.] Ye children, etc. Or 127. Except the Lord, etc.  

verse 1 TRuly my soul on God attends,  
From him alone's my expectation:  
And from him cometh my salvation.  
verse 2 'Tis he alone, that me defends:  
My rock and my strong place is He:  
Whence, greatly moved I ne'er shall be.   

verse 3 How long, whiles ye my death design,  
Seek you your own? for you are all  
A tottering sense, and bowing wall.  
verse 4 My honour only t' undermine,  
With studied lies they bend their force:  
Their mouths me bless, but hearts do curse.   

verse 5 Wait than, my soul, on God alone;  
For from him is my expectation,  
And from him cometh my salvation.  
verse 6 Him only, as my rock I own:  
My only sure defence is he:  
Whence I shall never moved be.   

verse 7 My safety; and my glory, too,  
Is placed in God my fortress high:  
And I to his protection fly.  
verse 8 All people, trust in him do you:  
With hearty prayer upon him call:  
He's a sure refuge for us all.  
verse 9 Surely, mean men are vain; a Lie  
The greatest are: against them all  
Vanities self will turn the scale.  
verse 10 Trust not in wrong; let robbery  
Raise no man's hopes: when richeses flow,  
Let none his heart on them bestow.   

verse 11 For God once spoke a weighty word,  
Yea, twice this speech I heard him own,  
That power belongs to him alone.  
verse 12 Yea, mercy's also thine, O Lord,  
And Justice too: for at thy bar  
All mortals, as they do, shall far.    

Psalm LXIII.  
[To the Tune of Ps. 25.] I lift my heart, etc.  

verse 1 O God, my God thou art.  
I'll early seek thy face.  
My soul, and flesh, cry, Lord impart  
To me thy saving grace.  
In this scorched Wilderness,  
Wherein no waters be,  
My body's thirst afflicts me lesle,  
Than does my soul's for thee.   

verse 2 Thy power and glory, I  
Desirous am to see:  
As in thy holy Sanct'ary  
've had a view of thee.  
verse 3 For life itself is worth  
Lesle than thy kindness dear:  
Therefore to show thy praises forth,  
My lips prepared are.   

verse 4 Thus, whiles I live, my praise  
Thy goodness shall proclaim:  
And when in prayer my hands I raise,  
I'll call upon thy Name,  
verse 5 As men with marrow filled,  
My soul sufficed shall be:  
And my rejoicing lips shall yield  
Due praises unto thee.   

verse 6 Whiles on my ' lonely bed  
To mind thee I delight:  
And exercise my wakeful head,  
To muse on thee by night.  
verse 7 Because thy saving aid  
I have so often tried;  
In thy spread wings protecting shade  
I'll joyfully reside.   

verse 8 My soul doth follow thee,  
With restless diligence:  
For thy right hand, upholding me,  
Vouchsafes me sure defence.  
verse 9 But those that do bestow  
Such pains my blood to shed,  
Into th'earth's lower parts shall go,  
To devil among the dead.  
verse 10 They by the sword shall fall,  
And be the fox's food:  
verse 11 Whereas the King preserved, shall  
Rejoice himself in God.  
Yea, all shall joy, that swear  
Devoutly by his Name,  
When lying mouths thus stopped are,  
That sland'rously defame.    

Psalm LXIV.  

verse 1 O God, unto my voice give ear,  
And with my prayer comply:  
To keep my life secure from fear  
Of my strong Enemy.  
verse 2 From wicked men that closely lurk,  
And cruel things device:  
Who make iniquity their work,  
Whiles they against me rise.   

verse 3 Their wounding Tongues as keen they whet,  
As men do whet their swords:  
Their mouths like bended bows, they set,  
To shoot out bitter words.  
verse 4 To shoot in secret they combine  
At him that is sincere:  
His sudden hurt they do design,  
And voided they are of fear.  
verse 5 Whiles to lay snares that none may spy,  
Their minds they jointly bend:  
Fear not, they each to other cry,  
Who knows what we intent?  
verse 6 They spare for neither pains, nor art,  
To search iniquities:  
And in the bottom of their heart  
Their deep contrivance lies.   

verse 7 But God, his arrow on the string  
To shoot them too, prepares:  
And whiles they think of no such thing,  
Shall wound them unawares.  
verse 8 Their fall shall so remarkably  
From their own tongues proceed:  
That all mankind from them shall fly,  
Who see how ill they speed.   

verse 9 Yea, all shall tell, what God hath done,  
With a religious sense:  
As those who wisely think upon  
His righteous providence.  
verse 10 The righteous in the Lord withal,  
Shall both rejoice, and trust:  
And all the upright-hearted shall  
Thence gather triumphs just.    

Psalm LXV.  
[To the Tune of Ps. 113.] Ye children, etc. Or 127. Except the Lord, etc.  

verse 1 O God, on thee, in Zion Hill,  
Are, praising crowds attendant still:  
Who there to thee their vows fulfil.  
verse 2 Yea, sigh thou art acknowledged there,  
To be a God that heareth prayer,  
All flesh shall unto thee repair.   

verse 3 And though our sins might often stay  
Thy mercies from us, when we pray:  
Yet shalt thou purge them quite away.  
verse 4 Whence, blest is he, whom thou bring'st near,  
Before thee in thy Courts t' appear,  
And gain a constant dwellinig there.   

Thus nigh to thee when we reside;  
Out of thy Temples stores supplied,  
With good we shall be satisfied.  
verse 5 Yea, thou, our God, for our defence,  
By righteous acts of providence,  
Shalt give amazing Answers thence.   

Thou 'rt he, on whom each one depends,  
That dwells in th' earth's remotest ends,  
As far as th' utmost Sea extends.  
verse 6 'Tis God, that girt with power, hath placed  
On firm foundations mountains vast;  
Whereon his strength hath set them fast.   

Part II.  

verse 7 God stills the noise of roaring Seas,  
Quelling the raging Waves with ease:  
And people's tumults doth appease.  
verse 8 Even to the World's remotest bound,  
Where e'er inhabitants are found,  
Thy tokens make thy fear to sound.   

Both in the Coasts whence morning springs,  
And those where evening spreads its wings,  
Thy praise in farthest Countries rings.  
verse 9 Thou visit'st th' Earth when it is dry,  
And send'st. thy river from the Sky,  
To quench its thirst abundantly.   

Whereby the corn that men do throw  
Thereon, prepared is to grow;  
When it by thee is mellowed so.  
verse 10 The ridges which are raised high,  
Therewith are washed plenteously;  
And all their furrows fixed thereby.   

And where stiff clods choke sprouting grains,  
Thou break'st them small, with softening rains,  
So that each spire free passage gains.  
Thy blessing thus outdoes our hopes,  
verse 11 And crowns the year with plenteous crops,  
Each path of thine such fatness drops.  
verse 12 The Wilderness, that's dry and bore,  
Doth in those fattening droppings share;  
Which turn its sands to pastures fair.  
The little hills with grass abound;  
And cheerful flocks do them surround,  
Whose Shepherds do thy praises sound.   

verse 13 Well fleeced flocks do overspread  
The pasture grounds where they are fed;  
And vales with Corn are covered.  
To shouts and songs all strain their voice,  
And (as partaking in man's joys)  
The echoing earth reflects the noise.     

Another Metre.  

verse 1 GReat praising crowds in Zion Hill,  
O God, attend on thee:  
To thee their vows they do fulfil,  
Whereof they debtors be.  
verse 2 Sigh thou a God, for hearing prayer  
Renowned, amongst us art:  
All flesh shall readily repair  
To thee, from every part.   

verse 3 For though our guilt against us cries;  
To stop our prayers success:  
Yet us from our iniquities  
Thy mercy shall release.  
verse 4 In happiness he doth excel,  
Whom thou bring'st near to thee:  
Whom, in thy courts thou tak'st to devil  
Most happy than are we.   

Happy are we, there to reside,  
Where what thy House doth yield,  
Is richly unto us supplied  
And all with good are filled.  
verse 5 Thou shalt to our Petitions, thence  
Amazing answers sand:  
When on thy saving providence  
O God, we do depend.   

For unto thee, men seek for aid,  
From th' earth's most distant ends:  
And all men's hopes on thee are laid,  
Where th' utmost Sea extends.  
verse 6 'Tis God, who, girt with power, hath placed  
So firm the mountains high;  
That their foundations fixed fast,  
In th' earth's deep bowels lie.   

verse 7 He doth the roaring Seas assuage,  
And all their billows lay:  
And quells tumultuous people's rage,  
That swells as high as they.  
verse 8 The tokens of thy wrath affright  
The world's remotest bounds:  
Each evening's shade, and morning's light,  
O Lord, thy praise resounds.   

Part II.  

verse 9 Thou visit'st th' earth with moyst'ning shoewrs,  
When it is parched and dry:  
Thy heavenly river richeses pours,  
Thereon abundantly.  
Earth's womb, there with, thou dost prepare,  
And fit for fruitful seed:  
From which, thus nourished by thy care,  
Springs corn that yields us bread.   

verse 10 Thou soak'st its ridges plenteously,  
It's furrows thou dost stay:  
And break'st the clods that do deny  
The sprouting grain a way.  
verse 11 Thy blessing thus, in plenteous crops,  
Doth th' year with goodness crown:  
And every cloud from heaven drops  
Abundant fatness down,   

verse 12 The wilderness that's dry, and bore,  
Those fatt'ning drops make green:  
And the small hills, on all sides, are  
Fresh, like the vales between.  
verse 13 Pastures, with well fleeced flocks o'rspred,  
Joy to the shepherd bring:  
Ploughed fields, with corn are covered,  
And make the Ploughman sing.     

Psalm LXVI.  

verse 1 ALL men wherever you reside  
Your cheerful voices raise  
verse 2 That God's name may be glorified,  
Aloud proclaim his praise.  
verse 3 Say ye to God, how terrible  
In all thy works art thou?  
Thy foes, convinced by miracle,  
To thee shall humbly bow.   

verse 4 The worship that to thee belongs,  
Th' whole earth shall give to thee:  
And by their often repeated songs,  
Thy name shall praised be.  
verse 5 Come, see the works that God hath done,  
And thence his power know:  
Works full of terror he hath shown  
To sons of men below.   

verse 6 He the read Sea dry land did make;  
On foot men through it went:  
And there to him a song we spoke,  
To give our joys a vent.  
verse 7 His eyes all Nations still behold;  
His power ever sways:  
Let no proud rebels than be bold  
Their heads aloft to raise.   

verse 8 O let the people bless the name  
Of our Almighty God:  
And with exalted voice proclaim  
His praises all abroad.  
verse 9 Who doth our soul in life maintain,  
By his supporting hand:  
Our feet through him such things do gain,  
That they unmoved stand.   

Part II.  

verse 10 For we, O God, through trials great,  
Laid on by thee, have gone:  
As silver into melting heat  
Is, for its trial, thrown.  
verse 11 Into the net thou didst us cast,  
When captives we were ta'en:  
And on our feeble loins thou hast  
Laid an afflicting chain.   

verse 12 Thou madest men most insolent  
Over our heads to ride:  
And we through fire and water went,  
With patience doubly tried.  
But after thou hadst tried us so,  
Thou showd'st us ample grace:  
Thou brought'st us thence, and didst bestow  
On us a wealth place.   

verse 13 Therefore, within thy holy house,  
 offerings give will I:  
And to perform to thee my vows,  
I will myself apply.  
verse 14 The vows, wherein with lips devout  
I bond my soul to thee:  
Which with my mouth I poured out,  
When trouble was on me.    

Part III.  

verse 15  offerings of my fattest flocks  
To thee I will allow:  
I'll spare no ram, nor goat, nor ox,  
But each on thee bestow.  
verse 16 Come, pious souls, and from me hear,  
What did to me betid:  
I'll tell all men that God do fear,  
What for my soul he did.   

verse 17 I did my voice unto him raise,  
And make a doleful cry:  
But soon my Tongue, in songs of praise,  
His name exalted high.  
verse 18 If any close Iniquity  
I did in heart regard;  
The Lord (that hates hypocrisy)  
My prayer would ne'er have heard.   

verse 19 But sure, God knew me innocent;  
For he my voice did hear:  
And when my prayer I did present,  
He bowed his gracious ear.  
verse 20 Blessed be God, that did me heed,  
When I to him did pray:  
Nor did he from me, in my need,  
His mercy turn away.     

Psalm LXVII.  

verse 1 HAve mercy on us, Lord,  
And bless us of thy grace:  
To shine on us do thou accord,  
With thy well-pleased face.  
verse 2 That thy most holy way  
May to the earth be shown:  
And that thy saving Doctrine may  
Be to all Nations known.   

verse 3 Let heathen tongues, O God,  
Thy noble praise proclaim:  
And let all Nations spread abroad  
The glory of thy name.  
verse 4 O Let the people vie  
With songs to vent their mirth:  
For thou shalt justly rule and try  
The Nations on the earth.   

verse 5 Let heathen Tongues, O God,  
Thy noble praise proclaim:  
And let all Nations spread abroad  
The glory of thy name.  
verse 6 Than shall the fruitful ground  
Afford us great increase:  
And God that is among us owned  
Shall us with plenty bless.  
verse 7 God shall his blessings sand  
To us his people dear:  
And unto th' earth's remotest end  
All nations shall him fear.  
Let Father, Son, and Spirit,  
(Th' Eternal Three, and One,)  
All glory now, and still inherit,  
As they have ever done.    

[The same To the Tune of Ps 148.] Give laud, etc.  

verse 1 MAY God's abundant grace  
And blessing on us light:  
And may we see his face  
Upon us shining bright.  
verse 2 Reveal thy way  
Lord, to each Nation;  
And thy Salvation  
To all display.   

verse 3 Let all to give thee praise,  
With one consent agreed:  
verse 4 Let them their voices raise,  
And gladly sing to thee.  
For thy just Laws,  
Shall righteously  
Rule th'earth, and try  
Each person's cause.   

verse 5 Let all the people yield  
Joint-praise, O God, to thee:  
verse 6 With plenty from the field  
Than shall we blessed be.  
verse 6 God shall us bless  
And men his fear  
Shall every where  
Through th' earth profess.   

The Father, and the Son,  
And Spirit of holiness,  
(Th' Eternal, Three, and One,)  
We glorify and bless.  
So 'twas before  
Time first began:  
And so remain  
Shall evermore.    

Psalm LXVIII.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 100] All people, etc.  

verse 1 LET God arise, and let his foes  
At his appearance scattered be:  
And all that spitefully oppose  
Themselves to him, before him flee.  
verse 2 As smoke's dispersed, which winds do chase,  
And wax doth melt, when fire is nigh:  
So, when God shows his angry face,  
Lee wicked men disperse, and die.   

verse 3 But let the just with gladness great  
At God's appearance filled be:  
Yea, let them often their joys repeat,  
When they his gracious presence see.  
verse 4 Sing unto God, his praise proclaim,  
Who rides upon the heavens high:  
Extol the Lord, by JAH, his name,  
And joy before him plenteously.   

verse 5 God, in his holy dwelling place  
Is Father to the Fatherless:  
And in the helpless Widow's case,  
Will judgement pass with righteousness.  
verse 6 From single folk whole Tribes he spreads,  
He looseth Captives from their chains:  
But rebels, when they lift their heads,  
In parched lands he still retains.   

Part II.  

verse 7 When thou didst, for thy people's sake,  
Vouchsafe, O God, to be their guide,  
And a long march didst undertake  
Before them through the desert wide,  
verse 8 The earth did shake; yea, th' heavens too  
Did at God's awful presence melt:  
When israel God appeared in view,  
Even Sinai great commotions felt.   

verse 9 From heaven, O God, thou shookest out  
Most plenteous drops of fattening rain:  
Whereby, when it did faint for drought,  
Thine heritage revived again.  
verse 10 And in the Land, wherein, O God,  
Thy Congregations dwellings were,  
Thy goodness thus dispersed abroad,  
Did plenty for the poor prepare.  
verse 11 His word the Lords mouth uttered,  
To raise his fainting people's hearts,  
And soon by multitudes 'twas spread  
Into the world's remotest parts.  
verse 12 The Kings that numerous Armies led,  
Discouraged, left the field for fear:  
And the spoils scattered when they fled,  
Women that stayed at home, did share.   

verse 13 Though ye among the pots have rolled,  
Yet shall you like a Dove be decked,  
Whose wings and feathers, purest gold  
And Silver, from the light reflect.  
verse 14 When Kings dispersed were in it,  
By force of God's Almighty hand:  
Like Salmon's Snow, in Garments white  
Arrayed was the joyful Land.   

verse 15 The hill that God's great name doth bear;  
Is like fat Bashans' hill renowned:  
Yea, even for height it may compare  
With any hill in Bashans' ground.  
verse 16 But why for's height, should any hill  
With Zion strive for preference?  
This hill God's love preferreth still,  
And honours with his residence.    

Part III.  

verse 17 Armed Chariots, a thousand score,  
The Lord of Hosts hath still at hand:  
Yea, many, many thousands more  
Of Angels march at his command.  
In midst of them, continually,  
In's holy place he doth appear:  
As when his glorious Majesty  
On Sinai's mount he did declare.   

verse 18 Attended with that heavenly train,  
Thoudid'st in triumph mount the Sky:  
And leddest those foes bound in a chain,  
Which held man in captivity.  
Great gifts thou hast received too,  
For men, even such as did rebel:  
Which thou upon them didst bestow,  
That the Lord God with them might devil.   

verse 19 Blest be the Lord, the gracious God,  
From whom all saving mercies come:  
Who with his bounties doth us load,  
So that each day augments the sum.  
verse 20 The God, whose name we call upon,  
He, and no other God, can save:  
And unto God the Lord alone,  
Belong the issues from the grave.   

verse 21 But mortally our God shall wound  
The head of all his wilful foes:  
Yea, th' hairy scalp (though ne'er so sound)  
Of each, that on, transgressing, goes.   

verse 22 I'll save again, (so saith the Lord)  
My people from Og's mighty hand:  
And from proud Pharaoh's cruel sword,  
Through Seas I'll bring them safe to land.  
verse 23 That with the blood of foes again  
Thy foot, O Isr'el, may be read,  
And even thy dogs their tongues may slain  
In tearing th' entrailss of the dead.  
verse 24 When we with solemn pomp did bring  
Thy Ark into its holy place,  
That march of thine, my God, and King,  
A most delightful prospect was.   

verse 25 First, sacred singers tuned a song,  
Followed by Instruments well set:  
With whom fair Damsels went along,  
Who skilfully did timbrels beaten.  
verse 26 Blessed be God, (the choir did sing,)  
His praise in all Assemblies tell:  
Bless ye the Lord, who ever spring  
From th' ancient stock of lsrael.   

verse 27 Both little Benjamin, with's Head,  
And Judah's Prince, with's company;  
Are present there: and all that lead  
Zebuluns' Tribe, and Napthali.   

verse 28 The God that hath thy battles fought,  
(O Jacobs seed) doth strength command:  
O God, for us, what thou hast wrought,  
Support with thine almighty hand.    

Part IU.  

verse 29 Because Jerusalem's the place  
O God, wherein thy Temple stands:  
Kings therefore shall implore thy grace  
With presents brought from foreign lands.  
verse 30 Let spearmen troops though ne'er so fierce,  
At thy rebuke, therefore, be scared:  
The people's calves do thou disperse,  
With all the bulls that lead the Herd.   

Till every one of them submit  
With silver coined t' acknowledge thee:  
And all that do in war delight,  
Let them before thee scattered flee.  
verse 31 Than shall Egyptian Princes own  
Themselves the subjects of our God:  
And Ethiopian Nations, soon  
Their hands before him spread abroad.  
verse 32 Advance ye God in praising songs,  
Ye earthly Kingdoms every where:  
The praise that to the Lord belongs,  
Let their exalted voice declare.  
verse 33 Sing praise to God, that hath of old  
Upon the highest heavens sat:  
His voice, a mighty voice, behold,  
He utt'reth from his Throne of state.   

verse 34 Ascribe ye might to God most high,  
Whose glory rests on Israel:  
Whose strength that rends the cloudy Sky,  
All creature-forces doth excel.  
verse 35 Thy holy places dreadful be,  
O God, that Israel dost own:  
His people's mighty strength is he;  
Blessed, therefore, be God alone.     

Psalm LXIX.  

verse 1 FRom swelling floods of dangers great  
Save me, O God, I pray:  
For on all sides they me beset  
To take my life away.  
verse 2 I sink, and sink, in yielding mud,  
And feel no solid ground:  
Whiles by an overflowing flood  
I'm likely to be drowned.   

verse 3 My throat grows hoarse whiles I do strain  
My voice for help to call:  
And while I look to God in vain;  
My very eyes do fail.  
verse 4 My foes that hate me causelessly,  
In multitude exceed:  
For number, with the hairs they vie,  
That grow upon my head.   

Their power too, than mine was more,  
Who me designed to slay:  
Than (forced by might) I did restore  
What I ne'er took away.  
verse 5 The follies which they charge on me,  
(If any such there were,)  
Or, if of sins I guilty be,  
To thee they do appear.   

verse 6 O Lord of Hosts, because of me  
Let none of thine be blamed:  
Nor let one soul that worships thee,  
On my account be shamed.  
verse 7 Because, (O God of Israel)  
For thee I bear disgrace,  
And for thy sake, that shame befell  
Me, that now clouds my face.   

verse 8 My next of kin, upon that score,  
My kindred did disclaim:  
And to my mother's sons, therefore,  
An alien I became.  
verse 9 For to thy house such zeal I bear,  
That it consumes me quite:  
And what reproaches levelled are  
At thee, on me do light.   

Part II.  

verse 10 They jeered me, when my soul I did  
With tears and fasting tame:  
verse 11 About me, when I sackcloth tied,  
Their byword I became.  
verse 12 The Elders sitting in the gates,  
Against me evil spoke:  
And every drunkard, with his mates,  
On me lewd songs did make.   

verse 13 But, Lord, in a well-timed prayer  
Thy saving help I'll crave:  
In thy abundant mercy hear,  
And in thy truth me save.  
verse 14 Out of the miry pit me pull,  
My feet from sinking keep:  
Save me from hearts of malice full,  
And from the waters deep.   

verse 15 Let not the floods me overtop,  
Nor the deeps me devour:  
Let not the pits mouth shut me up,  
As one within its power.  
verse 16 Hear me, O God, for very good  
Thy tender love I found;  
And in thy mercy's multitude,  
Be thou to me inclined.   

verse 17 And do not hid thy lightsome face  
From me thy servant clear:  
But in my troubles, let thy grace  
Move thee with speed to hear.  
verse 18 Near my afflicted soul approach;  
To it redemption sand:  
And jest my foes on me encroach,  
Thy saving help me lend.    

Part III.  

verse 19 All my reproach, disgrace, and shame,  
O Lord, are known to thee:  
And all my foes that me defame,  
Thou perfectly dost see.  
verse 20 My heavy heart reproaches broke,  
But I'm bemoaned by none:  
For some to comfort me I look,  
But cannot light on one.  
verse 21 In stead of Cordials, on the Tree  
To eat, they gave me gall:  
And Vinegar they tendered me,  
To quench my thirst withal.  
verse 22 May plenteous tables prove a snare,  
To them who thus me treat:  
And may the wholsom'st things that are,  
Prove traps to catch their feet.   

verse 23 Until their sight be perished, make  
Thick darkness seize their Eyes:  
And that their loins may ever shake  
A palsy them surprise.  
verse 24 A flood of indignation great  
Do thou upon them sand:  
And in thine angers scorching heat,  
Do thou them apprehended.   

verse 25 Let total desolation waste  
The place where they reside:  
And let all dwellers thence be chased,  
That none therein abide.  
verse 26 For whom thy heavy rod doth smite,  
They persecute the more:  
And fret with speeches full of spite  
The wounds thou mad'st before.   

verse 27 Let them, by adding sum to sum,  
Their guilts accounts increase,  
And by repentance never come  
Into thy righteousness.  
verse 28 Out of the book of living souls  
Let them be dashed clear:  
And where the Lord the just enrolls,  
Let not their Names appear.    

Part IU.  

verse 29 But in a sad afflicted case,  
And sorely grieved am I:  
O God, vouchsafe thy saving grace,  
To set me up on high.  
verse 30 Than will I in a song of praise  
Exalt God's holy Name:  
And with my thankful verse I'll raise  
His most deserved fame.   

verse 31 And such, the Lord will more, from me  
Than Ox, or Bullock, prize:  
Though proved by horn, and hoof, to be  
Of age for sacrifice.  
verse 32 This welcome sight great cause shall give  
Of gladness to the meek:  
And all your drooping hearts revive  
Who God devoutly seek.   

verse 33 For, that the Lord doth poor men hear,  
My case doth make it plain:  
And who foe'r his prisoners are  
He will them not disdain.  
verse 34 Let heaven than, with earth combine  
His praises to declare:  
The Sea likewise, and all therein  
That moves, a part shall bear.  
verse 35 For God will save his Zion still,  
And Judah's Cities rear:  
His Servants shall its houses fill,  
And buy possessions there:  
verse 36 Possessions, which they shall derive  
To the succeeding race:  
Where, they that love his name, shall live  
In a sure dwelling-place.     

Psalm LXX.  
[To the Tune of Ps. 25.] I lift my heart, etc.  

verse 1 WITH haste, O God, appear  
To rescue me, I pray:  
Lord, loose no time, when danger's near,  
Help, help, without delay.  
verse 2 Just shame may they acquire,  
Who me to slay combine:  
Let them disgracefully retire,  
That do my hurt design.   

verse 3 May they repulsed be,  
And shamefully retreat;  
Who often, Aha, Aha, to me  
With scornful pride repeat.  
verse 4 That all who seek thy face  
May ever joy in thee:  
And those that love thy saving grace,  
Still say, God praised be.  
verse 5 But I am poor, and need;  
O God, make haste, I pray:  
Lord, my deliverer, make speed;  
Let not thy help delay.    

Psalm LXXI.  

verse 1 LOrd, sigh I put my trust in thee,  
Thy promised help I claim:  
Let not my hopes defeated be,  
Jest I be put to shame.  
verse 2 As thou art just, to me afford  
A kindly bended ear:  
And 'cause me to escape, O Lord,  
The evil which I fear.   

verse 3 Be thou my Tower always at hand,  
To which I may resort:  
I'm safe, if thou shalt so command,  
Who aft my rock and fort.  
verse 4 From th' evil man that seeks my bane,  
My God, do thou me free:  
Nor let th' unjust and cruel man  
Lay violent hands on me.   

verse 5 For, from thee, Lord, I hope for aid,  
With fixed confidence:  
On whom from youth my faith is stayed,  
Not to be moved thence.  
verse 6 I'll never cease to give thee praise,  
To whom my birth I own:  
And whose protection, all my days,  
Hath held me up, till now.   

verse 7 As when some monster strange is shown,  
The crowd about me throng:  
But I thy sole protection own;  
Thou art my fortress strong.  
verse 8 Vouchsafe me, Lord, occasion still,  
Thy glories to display:  
And let thy worthy praises fill  
My mouth throughout the day.   

Part II.  

verse 9 O do not cast me of, at length,  
When age doth me assail:  
Forsake me not, when vigorous strength  
My withered limbs doth fail.  
verse 10 For my malicious enemies  
Hard things against me speak:  
And often together they advice,  
Who my destruction seek.   

verse 11 They cry, (to keep their troops in heart)  
Now, now, fall on, and take him:  
For there is none to take his part;  
Both God, and man, forsake him.  
verse 12 O God, my God, let not thine aid  
Be far from me in need:  
Let not my hopes belong delayed,  
But rescue me with speed.  
verse 13 Confounded, and consumed be those  
That would not let me live:  
Reproach and shame befall my foes  
That harm to me contrive.  
verse 14 But I resolve on thee to stay  
My soul throughout my days:  
And still improve my skill to pay  
The tribute of thy praise.   

verse 15 Thy righteous acts, and saving grace,  
I daily will declare:  
Though all account their numbers pass;  
For numberless they are.  
verse 16 Thy strength, O Lord my God, shall speed  
All works I set upon:  
And I'll proclaim, when they succeed,  
Thy righteousness alone.    

Part III.  

verse 17 O God, thy holy discipline  
Did guide my youthful days:  
And hitherto, thy works divine  
live published to thy praise.  
verse 18 Don't than, the hoary head forsake,  
Which thy old servant wears:  
Nor let thy care for him grow slack,  
Now, as he grows in years.   

Spare me at lest, until my pen  
Have wrote of all thy praise:  
And made thy strength and power be seen  
To these, and future days.  
verse 19 Thy righteousness is very high:  
And when thy works I see,  
Astonished, and amazed I cry,  
O God, who's like to thee?   

verse 20 Knowledge of troubles great, and sore,  
Thy providence me gave:  
But thou shalt me again restore  
Even from the gaping grave.  
verse 21 My greatness too, increased by thee,  
Shall grow from day today:  
And with thy comforts I shall be  
Surrounded every way.   

verse 22 Thy truth likewise, by me, O God,  
Shall in a song be shown:  
My lute, and harp shall sound aloud,  
To israels holy one.  
verse 23 My soul by thee redeemed, shall through  
My lips express its joys;  
Which thence into my song shall flow,  
And raise my singing voice.   

verse 24 My Tongue likewise, throughout the day,  
Thy justice shall proclaim:  
For they that me designed to slay,  
By thee are brought to shame.     

Psalm LXXII.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 100] All people, etc.  

verse 1 UPon the King, O Lord, bestow  
The grace to govern by thy Laws:  
And teach his royal Son to show  
Just favour to each righteous cause.  
verse 2 Than shall he righteous Judgement pass,  
When men to his Tribunal come:  
And in the poorest subjects case  
Pronounce an uncorrupted doom.   

verse 3 The mountains than shall people bless  
With all the blessings peace can give:  
And little hills, by righteousness,  
Like happy fruits to men derive.  
verse 4 Poor people shall he rescue than,  
And do their helpless Orphans right:  
Breaking to pieces potent men,  
Who their inferiors crush by might.   

verse 5 Thy worship too, in's royal line  
Shall last as long as human race:  
Maintained by it, whiles Sun doth shine,  
Or Moon appear with various face.  
verse 6 Like rain that falls on grass new mown  
Or showers that soak the parched ground:  
All sorts of blessings shall come down,  
And from his government redound.  
verse 7 The righteous greatly shall increase,  
As long as he the sceptre sways:  
And all his realm abound in peace,  
Till the moons borrowed light decays.  
verse 8 From sea to sea, shall he extend  
The limits of his Empire wide:  
And from the River to the end  
Of all the earth, where men reside.   

verse 9 The dwellers in the wilderness  
Shall bow before; his Majesty:  
And all that enmity profess,  
Licking the dust, shall prostrate lie.  
verse 10 Each Prince to him shall presents bring  
From Tarshish, and its Islands too:  
Sheba's on him, and Seba's King,  
Shall royal Donatives bestow.   

verse 11 Yea, by all earthly Kings, shall He  
In humblest postures be adored:  
And by all Nations shall he be  
Obeyed, as their sovereign Lord.  
verse 12 For when to him the needy cries,  
From violence he shall him save:  
The poor oppressed man likewise,  
Who can no other helper have.   

Part II.  

verse 13 The poor and needy he shall spare,  
verse 14 Whose souls by him shall be redeemed:  
When fraud and force them overbear:  
And precious shall their blood b' esteemed  
verse 15 Long shall he live, and often receive  
Presents of Sheba's purest gold:  
Men daily praise to him shall give,  
And by their prayers his Crown uphold.   

verse 16 Great profit they that sow their seed,  
Even from the mountains tops shall make:  
Each handful shall such plenty breed,  
It's crop like Lebanon shall shake.  
Yea, Zion's Citizens shall grow  
Thick, as the great that hides the ground:  
verse 17 Whiles his great name, that blest them so,  
Continues ever more renowned.   

A name his issue shall possess,  
Whiles the Sun's motion governs Time:  
For every nation shall him bless,  
And every one be blest in him.  
verse 18 Blest be the Lord, th' Almighty God,  
The God that Israel doth own:  
The wonders wrought in th' earth abroad  
Who worketh by himself alone.   

verse 19 And blessed be his holy name,  
When time itself no more is found:  
May th' earth be filled with his fame,  
And all Amen, Amen, resound.  
The Father Son, and Spirit one  
Eternal God, in Persons three:  
As was before the world begun,  
Now, and for ever honoured be.     

Psalm LXXIII.  

verse 1 IN the main point I'm settled well,  
(Not more objections start:)  
That God is good to Israel,  
Even all the pure in heart.  
verse 2 Though for a while (I freely own)  
My faith with doubts was tried:  
My feet were almost overthrown;  
So sorely did they flide.   

verse 3 For I with envious thoughts was grieved,  
The foolish prospered so:  
And, seeing how the wicked thrived,  
I did uneasy grow.  
verse 4 They live a life from sickness free,  
And quit it easily:  
Nor, racked with pains, as others be,  
Feel they themselves to die.   

verse 5 The troubles other men do bear,  
Concern nor them at all:  
Yea, plagues, which rarely others spare,  
Do rarely them befall.  
verse 6 Whence, clothed with violence, and scorn,  
They look as big and bold:  
As they that do themselves adorn  
With robes, and chains of gold.   

verse 7 Their very eyes out of their heads  
For fatness seem to start:  
And their prosperity exceeds  
The wishes of their heart.  
verse 8 Lives horribly debauched, they live,  
And talk most impiously:  
They boast how they by rapine thrive,  
And th' highest God defy.   

verse 9 Against his heavens their mouths discharge  
Volleys of wicked talk:  
And quite throughout the earth, at large,  
Their Tongues unbounded walk.  
verse 10 His people hereby gained upon,  
Often in their herd delight:  
Till in large draughts they swallow down  
Their impious errors quite.   

verse 11 And ask, (in their new master's strain)  
How doth the highest know?  
Or how can God such notice gain,  
Of what is done below?  
verse 12 These men, whom we ungodly call,  
Lo, in the world they thrive:  
Vast richeses to their share do fall,  
Beyond the most alive.   

Part II.  

verse 13 Sigh things go thus, I once did say,  
My heart 've cleansed in vain:  
And from my hands have washed away  
Every unrighteous stain.  
verse 14 For I, as long as day did last,  
God's heavy strokes did bear:  
Each morning under lash I passed,  
When he did others spare.   

verse 15 But soon the words I did revoke,  
Which hasty passion bred:  
Because they laid a stumbling block  
Before thy righteous seed.  
verse 16 But yet, the more this knotty case  
My reason did revolve:  
The more I found, too hard it was,  
For reason to resolve.   

verse 17 Till I in th' holy place of God  
For counsel did attend:  
And there informed, I understood  
The wicked's fearful end.  
verse 18 That, set by thee in lofty place,  
But slippery withal;  
From thence, deserted by thy grace,  
They caught a deadly fall.  
verse 19 How have I seen them swept away  
By death, as quick as thought?  
With dreadful circumstances, they  
Were to destruction brought.  
verse 20 Even as a dream despised is,  
When men from sleep arise:  
So when thou wakest, their painted bliss  
O Lord, thou shalt despise.    

Part III.  

verse 21 Whiles such tentations me assailed,  
They wrought me grievous pains:  
The thought, they had so far prevailed,  
Did sorely sting my reinss.  
verse 22 With so great folly, Lord, was I,  
And ignorance possessed:  
That in thy sight deservedly  
I owned myself a beast.   

verse 23 Yet, (thou to me such favour haste)  
Still in thy sight I stay:  
By my right hand thou hold'st me fast,  
From falling quite away.  
verse 24 Yea, by thy counsel, while I live,  
Shalt guide me faithfully:  
And my departing soul receive  
To glory, when I die.   

verse 25 What friend in heaven, to make me blest  
Have I, but thee alone?  
And my desires on earth, can rest  
Excepting thee, on none.  
verse 26 My heart doth often want support,  
And frail my body is:  
But God's my hearts assured Fort,  
And my eternal bliss.   

verse 27 For lo, whoever at distance be  
From thee, do ruin seek:  
Thou wilt destroy all those, with thee  
Who marriage-faith do break.  
verse 28 But I'll draw near to God, of choice,  
My faith is settled there:  
That I, O Lord, with thankful voice,  
May all thy works declare.     

Psalm LXXIV.  
[To the Tune of the Lament.] O Lord in thee, etc. Or Psalm 51. O Lord consider, &.  

verse 1 O God, why dost thou us disclaim,  
As if thou wouldst ne'er own us more!  
Against the flock that bears thy name,  
Why doth thine anger smoke so sore?  
verse 2 Thine ancient people call to mind,  
Th' inheritance, that cost thee dear:  
To this mount Zion, Lord, be kind,  
For thou hast long resided here.   

verse 3 Lift up thy feet, and march in haste;  
Our endless ruins crave thy aid:  
See, how thy foes a fearful waste  
Within thy holy place have made,  
verse 4 Where once, thy Congregations met,  
With shouts their impious throats they tear:  
Their standards on thy walls are set,  
Sad tokens who are masters there.   

verse 5 Of old, with axes lifted high,  
men's strength in felling trees was known:  
verse 6 But now, with Axe, and Sledg, they vie,  
In breaking sacred carvings down.  
verse 7 In th' holy place, by throwing brands,  
They kindled a devouring flame:  
And razed with polluted hands  
The seat devoted to thy name.   

verse 8 Their hearts did say, come, out of hand,  
Let's kill them, and root out their race:  
And all God's houses through the Land,  
At once they did with fire deface.  
verse 9 Our sacrad signs not more are seen;  
Nor dost thou us one Prophet sand:  
So that, there's none can tell us, when  
These doleful times will have an end.   

Part II.  

verse 10 O God, how long, how long, with shame  
Shall we their vile reproaches hear?  
Wilt thou, whiles they blaspheme thy name,  
Triumphing foes for ever bear?  
verse 11 Thy right hand, so renowned for strength,  
Why hidest thou thus, as loathe to smite?  
Out of thy bosom, Lord, at length,  
O let it lose, to do thee right.   

verse 12 From ancient times, Almighty God,  
My sovereign Lord, and King hath been;  
Whose works throughout the earth abroad,  
Have made his saving power seen.  
verse 13 The parted Sea on banks did stand  
'Twixt which thy strength a path did make,  
And in its waves thy powerful hand  
The heads of mighty Dragon's brake.   

verse 14 Th'heads of Leviathan the great  
In pieces broken were by thee:  
Whom thou bestow'd'st on them for meat,  
Who dwellers in the desert be.  
verse 15 At thy command, the Rocks were cleft,  
To make new springs a passage plain:  
And mighty streams their Channels left,  
Retreating to their springs again.   

verse 16 The day is thine, and thine the night.  
For this, thou didst from that, divide:  
When thou prepared hadst the light,  
Thou mad'st it in the Sun reside.  
verse 17 The bounds of earth's remotest coasts  
Were fixed by thee, where now they are:  
Both summer-heats and winter-frosts,  
Thou dost appoint to part the year.   

Part III.  
verse 18 Do thou, O Lord, in memory  
The enemy's reproaches bear:  
And how with impious blasphemy  
Thy name the foolish people tear.  
verse 19 Unto the brutish rabble's sword  
Thy turtles soul relinquish not:  
And let not thy poor flock, O Lord,  
By thee for ever be forgot.   

verse 20 Thy covenant recall to mind,  
For though in earth's obscurest cells  
We hid for safety, yet we found  
Even there, all cruel'rapine dwells.  
verse 21 When they thy saving help implore,  
Let notth ' oppressed return with shame:  
But give to thy afflicted poor,  
Occasion, yet, to praise thy name.   

verse 22 Arise, O Lord, that cause maintain,  
Wherein thine own concern doth lie:  
Remember, how the foolish man  
Reproaches thee continually.  
verse 23 Forget not the insulting voice  
Of thy blasphemous enemies:  
For. still to thee ascends the noise  
Of those that up against thee rise.     

Psalm LXXV.  

verse 1 GReatly obliged, O Lord, to thee,  
To thee, we thankful are:  
Because thy mighty name to be  
Near us thy works declare.  
verse 2 I purpose, when enthroned I am  
A righteous Judge to be:  
verse 3 Though all this world's disordered frame  
Laid all its weight on me.   

verse 4 I'll say, to foolish sinners, nay,  
Deal not so foolishly:  
And to the wicked. I will say,  
Lift not your horn so high.  
verse 5 I'll say, forbear with insolence  
To lift your horn so high:  
Nor with stiff necks Gods providence,  
And Sovereignty deny.   

verse 6 For from no quarter of the Sky  
Do winds promotion blow:  
verse 7 But God the Judge, lifts one man high,  
And lays another low.  
verse 8 For in the hand of God above  
There is a cup of wine:  
The wine is read, its spirits move,  
And mix themselves therein.   

From thence, he fills for every man,  
What shall to him befall:  
But all the wicked men shall strain  
It's dregss, and drink them all.  
verse 9 But I to Jacob's God, with praise,  
Will sing continually;  
verse 10 And saw of wicked men's, hut raise  
All just men's horns on high.    

Psalm LXXVI.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 113.]. Ye children, etc.  

verse 1 IN Judah's holy Land alone,  
Th' Almighty God is truly known:  
His name is great in Israel:  
verse 2 Jerusalem's the place, in which  
He did his Tabernacle pitch,  
And there he doth in Zion devil.   

verse 3 He broke the bows and arrows there  
There all that shields and swords did bear,  
Were routed, and made haste away:  
verse 4 Thou, Zion, art a famous place;  
Thy glory doth all mounts surpass,  
Where th' earth's great robbers lodge their prey.   

verse 5 The valiant men a spoil were made,  
A Lethargy did them invade;  
Their very hands did seem misplaced.  
verse 6 At thy rebuke, O Jacob's God,  
Chariot, and Horse, unmoved stood;  
A fatal sleep on both was cast,  
verse 7 Thou, even thou, deservest fear:  
For in thy sight who may appear,  
When once thine anger kindled is?  
verse 8 Th' astonished earth itself did quake,  
When thou thy Judgements known didst make,  
In dreadful thunders from the Skies.   

verse 9 When God to save the meek arose,  
And through the earth against their foes  
Their cause in judgement did maintain,  
verse 10 Surely, the wrath by men expressed,  
Procures thee praise: and all the rest,  
That would break forth, thou shalt restrain.   

verse 11 Vow to the Lord your God, and bring  
Vowed presents to the dreadful King  
All ye that round, his coasts remain:  
verse 12 Who takes away great Princes lives;  
And terrible examples gives,  
To all that in the earth do reign.    

Psalm LXXVII.  
[To the Tune of the Lament.] O Lord in thee, etc.  

verse 1 I Yet remember well the time,  
When with my voice to God I cried,  
With a loud voice I cried to him,  
And he to me his ear applied.  
verse 2 Sore troubles, like a running grief,  
My Spirits all night long did waste:  
Not cordials gave my soul relief,  
For I all comforts from me chased.   

verse 3 I thought on God, my mind to ease,  
But thoughts of God me sorely pained:  
O'rwhelming grief my Spirit did seize,  
And seife me most, when I complained.  
verse 4 Mine eyes in slumbers often I close,  
But those short slumbers thou dost break:  
My trouble so oppressive grows,  
It even chokes me when I speak.   

verse 5 Upon the ancient times I thought,  
On times that have been vanished long:  
verse 6 And former nights, wherein I brought  
Ease to my spirit by a song.  
Thus, from all company retired,  
Discourse with mine own heart I had:  
And, (as my present case required,)  
A diligent enquiry made.   

Part II.  

verse 7 Will the Lord quite cast out of mind  
His people, that his aid implore?  
Will he, that was so very kind,  
Show them no favour any more?  
verse 8 Is all his mercy so far banished,  
As ne'er to be recalled again?  
For ever is his promise vanished?  
And shall all ages found it vain?  
verse 9 Hath he disused his grace so long,  
As to forget all use of it?  
And is his Anger waxed so strong,  
As to lock up his mercies quite?  
verse 10 At last I said, these doubts, and fears,  
Are my disease. I'll therefore heed  
What miracles in former years  
The right hand of the highest did.   

verse 11 The mighty works the Lord hath wrought,  
In faithful memory I'll hold:  
And often revolve with grateful thought,  
The wonders thou hast done of old.  
verse 12 Of all thy acts to meditate,  
Shall my sad heart's diversion be:  
And with my tongue I will relate  
What praise thy deeds have purchased thee.    

Part III.  

verse 13 Thy ways within thy holy place,  
Where thou resid'st, O God, are known:  
What God is there, or ever was,  
For greatness, like the God we own?  
verse 14 Thou art the God, whose mighty deeds  
Thy God heads evidences are:  
For that thy strength all Gods exceeds,  
In all men's view thou didst declare.   

verse 15 When thou thy people didst redeem,  
Thy mighty Arm thou didst extend;  
Thy people sprung from Joseph's stem,  
With all from Jacob that descend.  
verse 16 Thee, O my God, the waters saw,  
Thou to the waters didst appear:  
Thy frightful presence did them awe,  
The depths themselves so troubled were.   

verse 17 The clouds with struggling vapours rend,  
Upon the earth discharged their load:  
The Skies did thundering noises vent,  
And scatter killing shafts abroad.  
verse 18 Thy thundering voice from heaven was heard,  
Thy lightnings lent the world its light,  
When day was thence by tempests scared:  
And th' earth did tremble at the fright.   

verse 19 Through the read Sea, thou mad'st a way,  
Where none before had ever gone.  
Through mighty waves thy passage lay,  
By no remaining foot steps known.  
verse 20 As great Sheep-masters lead their sheep,  
By shepherds under their command:  
Thou leddest thy people through the deep,  
By Moses his, and Aaron's hand.     

Psalm LXXVIII.  

verse 1 UNto my Law with careful heed  
My people bend your ear:  
And what shall from my mouth proceed,  
With due attention hear.  
verse 2 My mouth by way of Parable,  
Dark say shall unfold:  
Which We have heard, and know them well,  
Concerning times of old.   

verse 3 That which our Ancestors thought meet  
Unto us to reveal,  
verse 4 We, from their children think not fit,  
Or just, we should conceal.  
That th' after-age may understand  
The strength the Lord hath shown:  
And all the wonders of his hand  
May, to ' his praise be known.   

verse 5 For he ' did all of Jacob's seed  
By testimony bind;  
And all that were of Isr'el bred  
By Law he so enjoined.  
verse 6 Our Fathers all he did command  
Their seed those works to teach;  
Whereby (conveyed from hand to hand)  
They might all ages reach.   

verse 7 Their hopes in God that they might set,  
And all his Laws obey:  
Nor any of his words forget,  
Nor choose their Father's way.  
For they a rotten-hearted race  
Of stubborn Re'bels were:  
A race, whose spirit unsettled was  
In God's most holy fear.  
verse 9 Whence Ephraim's posterity  
Though armed with sword, and bow;  
At the first brush, to th' enemy  
Their turned backs did show.  
verse 10 God's Covenant they did not keep;  
But disobeyed his Law:  
verse 11 And suffered out of mind to slip  
His wonders which they saw.   

Part II.  

verse 12 In Egypt, in their Father's eyes,  
Great miracles he wrought:  
But chief, in the field, that lies  
Great Zoan round about.  
verse 13 Through the divided Sea he made  
The way by which they passed:  
The waters on an heap he laid,  
Like to a mountain vast.   

verse 14 A Cloud he spread, whiles day was bright,  
Before their hosts to go:  
And to give light to them by night,  
A cloudy pillar too.  
verse 15 Within the scorched wilderness  
The solid rocks he clavae:  
Whence, drink, to help them in distress,  
As from the deep, he gave.   

verse 16 He jikewise made the rock to yield  
Great streams for their supply:  
Streams, which like mighty rivers swelled,  
They ran so plenteously.  
verse 17 But in that very wilderness  
Moore sinful yet they were:  
And by provoking him t'excess  
The highest God did dare.   

verse 18 For to the God that did them feed,  
Their heart's tentation gave:  
Whiles, for their lust, not for their need,  
They meat of him did crave.  
verse 19 Yea, wicked words, to the disgrace  
Of God, they uttered:  
For, can he, in this desert place,  
(Said they) a Table spread?   

verse 20 Behold, the stony rock he smote  
With an effectual blow;  
So that the Waters gushed out  
And streams did overflow.  
But can he make th' obedient rock  
Supply us, too, with bread?  
Or thence, with such another stroke,  
With flesh his people feed?   

verse 21 The Lords hot wrath, when this he heard,  
Did against Jacob swell:  
And in his breast fierce anger stirred  
Against his Israel.  
verse 22 Because on God they had denied  
To fix their confidence:  
And would not trust, though they had tried  
Almighty Providence.    

Part III.  

verse 23 Though from the clouds abundant stores  
For their supply he sent:  
And fling wide open heavens doors,  
To give his bounty vent.  
verse 24 Manna from thence on them he reigned,  
heavens corn, for them to eat:  
verse 25 With Angel's food were men sustained;  
So filled he them with meat.   

verse 26 The Eastern wind he made to blow  
Beneath the heaven wide:  
The Southern wind he loosed too  
From its accustomed side.  
verse 27 A shower of flesh he sent so thick  
That scattered dust's not more:  
And feathered fouls, in number, like  
The sand on th' Ocean shore.   

verse 28 Among their tents, and round about  
The Camp where they did devil;  
They took them without net, or shot,  
God bade them, and they fell.  
verse 29 Thus greedily they eaten their fill  
Of what they lusted for:  
verse 30 But yet their lust continued still,  
For filled, they longed for more.  
They ate, but scarce had time to chew,  
verse 30 For while they eaten, they fell:  
God's wrath the fattest of them slew,  
Even th' youth of Israel  
verse 32 But after so severe a blow,  
Far more they sinned yet:  
And greater Infidels did grow,  
For all his wonders great.    

Part IU.  

verse 33 Therefore, their days he made them spend  
In vain, by sitting still:  
Or, tired with travel to no end,  
They did their years fulfil.  
verse 34 He often slew them, and as often  
They prayed, and did repent:  
And after God betimes they sought,  
As truly penitent.   

verse 35 Thy called to mind, and minded him,  
He was their fortress known:  
And he that Isr'el did redeem,  
Was th' highest God alone.  
verse 36 Yet, whiles their mouths thus spoke him fair,  
'Twas all but flattery:  
And though their tongues thus sugared were,  
They did their hearts belly.   

verse 37 For in their spirits full of guile,  
They uprightness did want:  
Nor were they steadfast all the while,  
Unto his Covenant.  
verse 38 But filled with compassion, he  
His mercy did employ,  
To pardon their iniquity,  
And did not them destroy.   

Yea, turned his anger many times  
Into another path:  
Nor did he, for their heinous crimes,  
Excite his utmost wrath.  
verse 39 For he recalled unto his mind  
That flesh their matter was,  
Endowed with breath, which like the wind,  
Nor to return, doth pass.    

Part V  

verse 40 How often did that rebellious race  
To him displeasure give?  
And in that wild and desert place,  
How often did they him grieve?  
verse 41 Yea, often to tempting God they fell,  
When, with presumption great,  
To th' holy one of Israel  
Their fancied bounds they set.   

verse 42 They lost the thankful memory  
Of what his hand had wrought:  
When therewith he from th' enemy  
To them salvation brought.  
verse 43 What signs with his Almighty hand  
In Egypt he had shown.  
What wonders in th' adjoining land  
To Zoan he had done.   

verse 44 How he had turned to noisome blood  
Their rivers, till they stank:  
Yea, loathsome gore filled every floods  
That none their waters drank.  
verse 45 By his command, all sorts of flies  
Did sorely them annoyed:  
And frogs, in numerous companies,  
Did all the land destroy.   

verse 46 To Caterpillars teeth he gave  
The fruits for which they toiled:  
And what they laboured hard to save,  
Devouring locusts spoiled.  
verse 47 With hail their tender Vines he killed,  
That all their fruit was lost:  
Their fruitful figtrees too were spilled  
With an untimely frost.   

verse 48 The massy hail their  seized,  
As to destruction doomed:  
And all their flocks, abroad surprised.  
By  he consumed.  
verse 49 Among them evil Angels came  
(A troop sent out from Hell:)  
And through their hands, the hottest flame  
Of anger on them fell.   

verse 50 He to his Anger made a path,  
Their lives he did not spare:  
But through life's passage, sent them death,  
In pestilential Air.  
verse 51 All the first born in Egypt died,  
Where the destroyer came;  
The strength of all that did reside:  
Within the Tents of Ham.    

Part VI.  

verse 52 But thence he led his people dear,  
As sheep kind shepherds do:  
And did his flock conduct with care  
The howling desert through.  
verse 53 He did them thence in safety lead,  
Secure from cause of fear:  
But their pursuers covered  
With the Sea-waters were.   

verse 54 And to his Sanctuaries bound  
He led them through the Land:  
Even to the holy Hill, whose ground  
He gave with mighty hand.  
verse 55 The Heathens he expelled and brought  
The Tribes of Isr'el in:  
Their tents, and lands, he set them out  
By the dividing line.   

verse 56 Yet there, they tempted God most high,  
And did him angry make:  
To keep his Testimonies they  
Not carefuil heed did take.  
verse 57 But, like their fathers, turned back  
With a deceitful heart:  
Like a false bow which strength doth lack,  
And fails the shooters Art   

verse 58 For they provoked him in excess,  
With Altars built on high:  
And with their graven Images  
Inflamed his jealousy.  
verse 59 When God heard this, his wrath did swell  
So greatly in his breast,  
That his beloved Israel  
Thenceforth he did detest   

verse 60 His Tent in Shilo pitched, than,  
He could not more abide:  
Where once he chose to devil wirh men,  
He loathed to reside.  
verse 61 His strength into Captivity  
He did permit to go:  
And into th' hand of th' enemy  
resigned his glory too.   

verse 62 And angry with his heritage,  
His people so abhorred;  
That he did leave them to the rage  
Of the destroying sword.  
verse 63 Their young men with the fire were killed,  
Their maids unmarried lived:  
verse 64 Their Priests were slaughtered in the field,  
Nor were their widows grieved.   

Part VII.  
verse 65 As one that's out of sleep alarmed,  
Than did the Lord arise:  
And champion like, whom wine hath warmed,  
He charged his enemies.  
verse 66 In th' hinder parts, he did them smite,  
There, they were sorely pained:  
Whence, when the pain was vanished quite,  
Perpetual shame they gained.   

verse 67 Besides, he did in Joseph's ground  
His rifled Tent refuse:  
And Ephr'im's Tribe which once he owned,  
Thenceforth he did not choose.  
verse 68 But in dislike of them, at last,  
To Judah he removed:  
And his fixed seat in Zion placed,  
The mountain which he loved,   

verse 69 And there his glorious house did raise.  
A lofty Palace 'twas,  
Firm as the earth, which never strays  
From its appointed place.  
verse 70 Young David too, he did promote,  
(A servant of his own;)  
And from his sorry shepherd's cote,  
Removed him to a throne.   

verse 71 Big-bellyed Ewes he followed,  
When God did him advance,  
His people Israel to feed,  
His own inheritance.  
verse 72 So he, obeying God's command,  
With faithful spirit did;  
And managed them with skilful hand:  
Both ways, an able guide.     

Psalm LXXIX.  
[To the Tune of the Lament.] O Lord in thee, etc. Or Ps. 51. O Lord consider, etc.  

verse 1 O God, the Heathen seized stand  
Of that dear Land which thou dost own;  
Thy holy House they have profaned;  
Jerusalem on heaps is thrown.  
verse 2 The bodies of thy servants dead  
They give to ravenous birds to eat:  
And all devouring beasts they feed  
With Saints flesh as their daily meat.   

verse 3 Their precious blood, like water, round  
Thy holy City, spilt they have:  
And no kind hearted man is found,  
To give to one of them a grave.  
verse 4 By all the Nations dwelling nigh,  
We're scost at, as by thee forlorn:  
And all that round about us lie,  
Our miseries deride, and scorn.   

verse 5 How long, O Lord, wilt thou retain  
Thine anger? shall it ne'er expire?  
Whiles any fuel doth remain,  
Shall jealousy in thee be fire?  
verse 6 To glut thy wrath on, rather choose  
Heathens, to whom thou art not known:  
And Gentle Kingdoms, that refuse  
Thy holy name to call upon.   

Part II.  

verse 7 For all thy Jacob's holy race  
With open throat they swallow down:  
And his delightful dwelling place,  
With wrathful hands have overthrown.  
verse 8 Do not, O God, recall to mind,  
Th' iniquities of ancient date:  
But speedily to us be kind;  
Before thy kindness come too late.   

verse 9 For in our low estate, we call  
On thee, our saving God, to save:  
Raise thy names glories from our fall,  
That still thou may'st that Title have;  
And purge our heinous sins away,  
To make thy pardoning mercy known:  
verse 10 For why should heathen Nations say,  
Whither's the God of Isr'el go?   

For shedding of thy servants blood,  
Let us on them thy vengeance see,  
Amongst the heathen foes aloud  
Thus may our God proclaimed be.  
verse 11 The captives sighs, we humbly crave,  
Lee into thy remembrance come:  
And let thy mighty power save,  
Those whom to cruel deaths they doom.   

verse 12 Into our neighbour's laps repay  
Even sevensold disgrace, and shame:  
For the reproaches, Lord, which they.  
Have cast upon thy holy Name.  
verse 13 So we thy people, and the flock  
Thou feedest, will ever give thee praise:  
And leave in memory, a stock,  
To yield thee more in after days.     

Psalm LXXX.  
[To the same Tune.]  

verse 1 THou Herd that Israel dost keep,  
And leadest Joseph's seed like sheep,  
Betwixt the Cherubins appear,  
(For there thou dwellest) and thence us hear,  
verse 2 To Ephr'im and Manassch too,  
With Benjamin, thy glory show:  
Stir up thy wont strength, and where  
We need it, let thy help appear.   

verse 3 Restore us to a better case,  
And repossess us of thy grace:  
For, if on us thy face do shine,  
All our salvations couched therein  
verse 4 Lord God of Hosts, how long shall we  
Signs of thy smocking Anger see?  
So that, (for that doth most us grieve)  
Thy people's prayers thou'lt not receive.   

verse 5 Mixed with salt tears is all their meat;  
And tears they drink in measure great,  
verse 6 Our neighbour's strife, (so made by thee,)  
And all our foes joynt-scorn are we.  
verse 7 Restore us to a better case,  
O God of Hosts, and clear thy face:  
For, if on us thy face do shine,  
All our salvations couched therein.   

Part II.  

verse 8 A noble vine, from Egypt's Land  
Thou broughtest with thy mighty hand:  
And hence thou didst the heathens throw  
To plant it, where they long did grow.  
verse 9 And as thou mad'st it room to sprout,  
In depth of earth thou layd'st its root;  
Till thus manured, it greatly spread,  
And all the Land replenished.   

verse 10 A covering for the hills it made,  
Which it resreshed with its shade:  
And its large boughs (so big they were)  
With goodly Cedars might compare.  
verse 11 Those boughs to such a length she stretched,  
That to the midland-sea they reached:  
Her branches too extended wide,  
Even to the famous River's side.  
verse 12 Why than, whilst thou break'st down her fence,  
Lies she exposed to violence?  
Eeach Traveller makes that his way,  
And takes her grapes for lawful prey.  
verse 13 The forest-Boars devouring snout  
Makes bore, and undermines her root:  
And all the Beasts the field doth breed,  
Upon her tender branches feed.    

Part III.  

verse 14 Return than, Lord of Hosts, we pray;  
From heaven cast a look this way:  
And let thy tender heart incline,  
To visit thy forsaken vine.  
verse 15 That noble Plant with favour own,  
Which thy right hand did set alone:  
And keep that royal stem from wrong,  
Which for thyself thou mad'st so strong.   

verse 16 But now, alas, 'tis hewed down,  
And into flaming fire 'tis thrown:  
And all its branches are defaced  
By thy displeasures killing blast.  
verse 17 The man, whom thy right hand did raise,  
O let that hand support always:  
And save that son of man from wrong,  
Whom for thyself thou mad'st so strong.   

verse 18 So will we never turn our back,  
Nor any more our God forsake:  
Revive us, and thy holy Name,  
By calling on it, we'll proclaim.  
verse 19 Restore us to a better case,  
Lord God of Hosts, and clear thy face:  
For when that face on us doth shine,  
Our sasety is secured therein.     

Psalm LXXXI.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 25.] I lift my, etc.  

verse 1 TO God our strength, aloud  
Exalt your singing voice:  
And to the praise of Jacob's God  
Let's make a joyful noise.  
verse 2 The timbrel hither bring,  
And tune it to a song:  
Unto the Pseltry let us sing,  
And th' harp that's sweetly strung.   

verse 3 The new Moon doth appear,  
Blow up the Trumpet shrill:  
This solemn feast from year to year.  
Must be observed still.  
verse 4 For this a Statute is,  
That doth all Isr'el bind:  
The holy God of Jacob this  
Hath for a Law enjoined.   

verse 5 This holy ceremony  
In's way through Egypt's Land,  
To Joseph for a Testimony  
He strictly did command.  
Within that land, my ear  
An uncouth language filled:  
A language I was forced to hear,  
Wherein I was not skilled.   

verse 6 His shoulders I did free  
From loads that on them lay:  
And set his hands at liberty  
From moulding potters clay.  
verse 7 In trouble thou didst call.  
Entreating me to save:  
I saved thee: but therewithal  
My law in charge I gave.   

From thence I did it give,  
Whence frightful thunders fly:  
And at the stream, where thou didst strive  
With me, I did thee try.  
verse 8 My people, give an ear,  
To what your God doth say:  
O Israel, if thou wilt hear  
My precepts, and obey:   

verse 9 Thou shalt not than, receive  
A foreign God to thee:  
Nor any sacred worship give  
To a strange Deity.  
verse 10 Sigh I, the Lord thy God,  
From Egypt did thee save:  
Thou shalt be to the full allowed  
Whatever thou canst crave.   

Part II.  

verse 11 But ah, alas, my voice  
My Isr'el would not hear:  
And when I put it to their choice,  
Refused me to fear.  
verse 12 Than justly I resigned  
Them to their sinful will:  
And they, as their own hearts inclined  
It's counsels did fulfil.   

verse 13 O that with my advice  
My people had complied;  
That Israel had been so wise,  
As to make me their guide.  
verse 14 Than all that them oppose,  
I should have tamed soon:  
And turned my hand against their foes,  
Till they were overthrown.   

verse 15 Than all that hate the Lord,  
Had flattered them, at lest:  
And they their happy days restored  
For ever had possessed:  
verse 16 With flower of finest wheat  
By him they had been filled:  
And honey for their constant meat,  
The rocks should have, distilled.     

Psalm LXXXII.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 122.] I did in, etc.  

verse 1 AMong the mighty men,  
God stands in Court unseen,  
With earthly Gods he judgeth there:  
verse 2 How long therefore, will ye  
Partial in judgement be:  
And the unrighteous cause prefer?   

verse 3 Permit no man t' oppress  
The poor and fatherless;  
And help th' oppressed to their right:  
verse 4 Rescue the needy Poor,  
And let them be not more  
The wrongful prey of men of might.   

verse 5 But they will nothing know,  
But on in darkness go;  
And th' earth's foundations remove  
verse 6 I soid, my name ye bear,  
Deputed Gods ye are,  
And all the Sons of God above.   

verse 7 But, as the poor man dies,  
So must your Deities:  
Thus, greatest Princes still have done.  
verse 8 Rise, than, O God of might,  
And judge the earth with right:  
For all its Nations are thine own.    

[Another Vers. of it, To Ps. 100] All people, etc.  

verse 1 GOD stands among the mighty men,  
When they in Court assembled are:  
Among the Gods he sits unseen,  
When they their Judgements do declare.  
verse 2 How long will ye your power abuse,  
Unjustly to subvert the Laws?  
And where the wicked great man sues,  
Respect the person, not the cause?   

verse 3 The poor and fatherless defend,  
And give th' oppressed man his right:  
verse 4 The poor and helpless man befriend,  
And save him from the oppressors might.  
verse 5 They know not, nor for knowledge care;  
But blindly judge without remorse;  
So that, all th' earth's foundations are,  
By them removed out of course.   

verse 6 I said, deputed Godsye are,  
And all the Sons of God most high:  
verse 7 But your true State shall death declare,  
For Princes must, like others, die.  
verse 8 Rise than, O God, and judge again  
Through th' earth, what men have judged wrong:  
For o'er all Realms, to thee, to reign,  
Does by inheritance belong.    

Psalm LXXXIII.  

verse 1 DO not, O God, in our distress,  
Thyself to rest compose:  
And do not always hold thy peace,  
But check thy haughty foes.  
verse 2 For lo, thine enemies, O Lord,  
Do rage tumultuously:  
And those by whom thou art abhorred,  
Lift their proud heads on high.   

verse 3 In crafty counsel they are joined  
Against thy people dear:  
Against thy hidden ones, combined  
In secret plots they are.  
verse 4 Come, let's, with one consent, said they,  
Quite root the Nation out:  
That th'odious Name of Isr'el, may  
For ever be forgot.   

verse 5 For with a cursed unity  
They manage their debates:  
Against thy holy Majesty  
They are confederates.  
verse 6 The Tents of spiteful Edomites,  
And Ishmaels' savage line,  
Do with malicious Moabites,  
And Hagar's seed, combine.   

verse 7 Gebal's, and Ammon's forces, knit  
With Amalek, conspire:  
And Philistines themselves unite  
With them that devil at Tyre.  
verse 8 Th' Assyrian too, is of the knot,  
And doth with them contrive;  
Whiles to th' incestuous race of Lot  
He doth assistance give.   

Part II.  

verse 9 As Midian's forces perished,  
So let it far with them:  
As Sisera's and Jabin's sped  
Near Kishon's ancient stream.  
verse 10 At Endor in a total rout,  
Whose numerous troops were killed:  
And their dead bodies, spread about  
Like Dung, manured the field.   

verse 11 Let Zeeb's and Oreb's fate attend  
Their Nobles, as their doom:  
To Zeba's and Zalmunna's end  
Let all their Princes come.  
verse 12 Thus may these wicked Leaguers fall,  
Who proudly boasting said,  
Throughout the land God's Houses shall  
Unto our own be laid.   

verse 13 Make them, O God, like turning wheels,  
And let them never stay:  
Or like the chaff, which wind dispels,  
And scatters every way.  
verse 14 As when fire's kindled in a brake,  
There's not a bush escapes sree:  
Or flames on woody mountains take,  
And do not leave a tree.   

verse 15 So let thy wrath pursue them hard,  
Like a tempestuous blast:  
So let them with thy storm be scared,  
And never stand, for haste.  
verse 16 Let their defeated enterprise  
So fill their face with shame:  
That turned from heathen vanities,  
Lord, they may seek thy name.   

verse 17 Or else, by sore confusion seized,  
With endless griess be spent;  
And let them be with shame surprised,  
And perish in th' event.  
verse 18 That men may know, the God, whom we  
Alone, Jehovah call;  
The whole earth's sovereign Lord to be,  
And highest over all.     

Psalm LXXXIV.  
[To the Tune of Ps 113.] Ye children, etc.  

verse 1 O Lord of Hosts, how lovely be  
Thy Tabernacles unto me!  
verse 2 My soul doth long, yea, faint for grief,  
Driven from thy Courts whiles I remain,  
My heart, and flesh cry out for pain,  
Whiles absent from the God of life.  
verse 3 Yea, whiles in undisturbed nests,  
Each sparrow there, and swallow rests,  
And near thine Altar lays her young,  
Enjoyed by me is their abode,  
O Lord of Hosts, my King, and God,  
Whiles I am kept from thence so long.   

verse 4 O happy men, who dwelling near  
Thy holy house, are daily there,  
Still sounding forth thy glorious praise!  
verse 5 Yea, happy he, whose strong desire  
To see thee, will not let him tyre,  
Nor feel the length of toy I some ways.   

verse 6 Where passengers, their thirst: to quell,  
In Baca's valley sink a well:  
And rain from heaven their pits doth fill.  
verse 7 Till travelling from strength to strength,  
In presence of their God, at length,  
They all appear on Zion Hill.   

Part II.  

verse 8 Lord God of Hosts, my prayer hear,  
And lend to me thy gracious Ear;  
Thou God that Jacob's seed dost own:  
verse 9 Behold, O God our mighty shield,  
And thine anointed's countenance yield  
In wont grace to look upon.   

verse 10 For one day spent within thy Courts,  
Where thy religious flock resorts,  
Unto my soul more comfort gives,  
Than do a thousand spent elsewhere:  
May I be but a Porter there,  
I'll envy no man's bliss that lives.   

The richest Tents of wicked men  
Would yield me no Tentation than;  
Though I might them as Lord, possess.  
verse 11 For God the Lord, both Sun, and shield,  
Will comfort and protection yield,  
When griefs and dangers me oppress.   

Both grace, and glory, will he give  
To such as do uprightly live;  
And no good thing to them deny.  
verse 12 Wherhfore, O Lord of Hosts, they are  
The blessed men beyond compare,  
Who firmly do on thee rely.     

Psalm LXXXV.  

verse 1 THY favour once did visit, Lord,  
Thy fore afflicted Land;  
And Jacob's captived seed restored  
From cruel Master's hand.  
verse 2 Thy pardon did thy flock acquit  
From their provoking sin:  
And thy indulgence did remit  
The errors they were in.  
verse 3 Thou madest all thy wrath to cease,  
And into kindness turn:  
Thy Anger's heat thou didst suppress,  
And wouldst not let it burn.  
verse 4 Do for us, yet, the like again,  
O God of our salvation:  
Turn us to thee, and than restrain  
Thy wrathful indignation.   

verse 5 Shall wrath conceived against us, rage  
For ever in thy breast?  
Shall Anger reach from Age to Age,  
And never be suppressed?  
verse 6 Thy people wilt thou ne'er restore,  
That they may joy in thee?  
verse 7 By thy sole grace, which we implore,  
Lord, let us saved be.   

Part II.  

verse 8 I'll hear, what God the Lord will say;  
For he'll speak words of peace  
To all his Saints: Provided, they  
Abstain from foolishness.  
verse 9 Sure, his salvation is at hand  
To such as do him fear:  
To plant his glory in our Land,  
Still to inhabit there.   

verse 10 Mercy and Truth have once again  
There fixed their meeting place:  
And righteousness and peace therein  
Each other do embrace.  
verse 11 Truth amongst men on earth shall grow,  
As if'twere planted there:  
And righteousness to men below,  
From heaven shall appear.   

verse 12 Yea, with each good and useful thing,  
God shall our Nation bless:  
And our improved ground shall bring  
A plentiful increase.  
verse 13 But when God puts us in this state,  
Justice shall go before:  
And teach us how to imitate  
The object we adore.     

Psalm LXXXVI.  

verse 1 LOrd, bend to me thy gracious ear,  
For very poor am I:  
verse 2 Preserve my soul, thy servant dear,  
Lord, doth on thee rely.  
verse 3 To thee, Lord, daily do I cry;  
Be merciful to me:  
verse 4 Rejoice thy servants soul, for I  
Do lift it up to thee.   

verse 5 For thou, O Lord, art good, and prove  
Forgiveness to bestow:  
Thy plenteous grace to every one  
That begs it, thou wilt show.  
verse 6 When ever I devoutly pray,  
Lord, listen unto me:  
verse 7 I'll call on thee in th' evil day,  
For thou wilt answer me.   

verse 8 O Lord, among the heathen Gods,  
To thee none equal are:  
Betwixt their works, and thine, the odds  
Is great, beyond compare.  
verse 9 All Nations shall appear before  
Thee, Lord, who didst them frame:  
Devoutly they shall thee adore,  
And glorify thy name.   

verse 10 For thou in greatness dost exceed,  
And thou art God alone:  
Yea, every great and wondrous deed  
Is by thy power done.  
verse 11 Teach me, O Lord, thy truth, and by  
Its rules my life i'll frame:  
Unite my heart to thee, that I  
May fear thy holy name.   

Part II.  

verse 12 O Lord, my God, most hearty  
To thee, i'll tender praise:  
And unto all eternity,  
Thy names due glory raise.  
verse 13 For thy great mercies showed to me,  
To a vast bulk do swell:  
My soul delivered by thee  
Was from the lowest hell.  
verse 14 O Lord, the proud and violent  
In great assemblies rise;  
To seek my life: but never meant  
T' have thee before their Eyes.  
verse 15 But thou, O Lord, art pitiful,  
And graciously kind:  
In truth and mercy plentiful,  
And not to wrath inclined.   

verse 16 O turn thy face to me, and on  
Thy servant mercy have:  
Thy handmaids sore distressed Son  
Employ thy strength to save.  
verse 17 Some token show for good to me,  
To put my foes to shame;  
When they behold, that helped by thee,  
And comforted I am.     

Psalm LXXXVII.  
[To the Tune of Ps. 100] All people, etc.  

verse 1 Founded on th' holy hills doth stand  
The Temple built by God's command:  
verse 2 His Zion's gates therefore, above  
All Jacob's dwellings have his love.  
verse 3 Whence, glorious things are told abroad  
Of thee, thou City of our God,  
verse 4 To those that know me, I'll proclaim  
Rahab's, and Babylon's great Name.  
Tyre, Ethiopia, Palestine,  
With all men's praises want not mine:  
Of each of whom it may be said,  
His birth therein some great man had.  
verse 5 But 'tis of none but Zion said,  
The highest its foundations laid:  
And none so many men of fame  
As call her mother, e'er could claim.   

verse 6 Yea, when he nations counts, the Lord  
Her Sons with honour shall record;  
And to each name his pen shall add,  
This man his birth in Zion had.  
verse 7 In sum, his presence there inspires  
His praises sung in holy Quires:  
And all the springs that furnish me  
With holy songs, in Zion be.    

Psalm LXXXYIII.  

verse 1 O God my Saviour, day and night  
My cries to thee ascend:  
verse 2 Admit my prayer into thy sight,  
And to my cries attend.  
verse 3 For full of troubles is my soul,  
My life draws nigh the grave:  
verse 4 Among the dead men me enrol,  
No strength at all I have.  
verse 5 Among the dead, by thy hand slain,  
Who in the pit do lie:  
So lost, that thou dost naught retain  
Of them, in memory.  
verse 6 In depths, beneath the lowest graves,  
Thou layest me far from light:  
verse 7 Where overwhelmed with all thy waves  
I feel thy anger's weight.   

verse 8 Thou in close prison lock'st me fast  
Admitting none that knew me:  
Yea, made me so abhorred thou hast,  
That even they eschew me.  
verse 9 Mine eyes are ever drenched in tears,  
(Such, Lord, my sorrows be:)  
And with outstretched hands, my prayers  
I daily make to thee.   

Part II.  

verse 10 Will't thou show wonders to the dead?  
Shall they thy glory raise?  
verse 11 Or shall the grave thy mercies spread?  
Thy truth destruction praise?  
verse 12 How shall thy wondrous works be shown,  
Where naught but night doth devil?  
How shall thy righteousness be known  
In dark oblivions cell?   

verse 13 But, Lord, into thy gracious ears  
My earnest cries I vent:  
And every day, in servant prayers,  
My earlyest thoughts are spent.  
verse 14 Wherhfore dost thou, Lord, when I pray,  
Reject my soul's request?  
Why dost thou turn thy face a way,  
And leave me thus distressed?   

verse 15 Even from my youth, I'm like to die,  
With great afflictions racked,  
Thy terrors so upon me lie,  
They do my mind distracted.  
verse 16 Thy fierce wrath o'er my head doth go,  
It's current bears me down:  
Thy terrour's deluge sinks me so,  
I drown, dear God, I drown.   

verse 17 For day by day, like waters great,  
They made a mighty tide:  
And with united strength beset  
My soul on every side.  
verse 18 Thou hast sent far away all those  
That loved me cordially:  
And my acquaintance, covered close,  
In dark concealment lie.     

[Another Version to the Tune of the Lamentation.] O Lord in thee, etc.  

verse 1 O Lord, the God that dost me save,  
Thy help I never ceased to crave!  
With mournful cries, both day and night,  
I have appeared before thy sight.  
verse 2 Whiles humbly I implore thy grace,  
Let me behold thy pleased face:  
And let thine ear to me be bowed,  
When e'er I raise my voice aloud.   

verse 3 For with great troubles much oppressed,  
My sinking spirit finds no rest:  
And those few dregss of life, I have  
Remaining yet, draw near the grave.  
verse 4 I'm counted a companion fit  
For men descending to the pit:  
And like a sick man I appear  
Whose strength no cordials can repair.   

verse 5 Enrolled among the slain am I,  
Who in the grave forgotten lie:  
Yea, even by thee forgot they are,  
Whole hand cut of, and laid them there.  
verse 6 Into the lowest pit beneath,  
(The most retired room of death,)  
Into the depths thou hast me thrown,  
So dark, that light there never shone.   

verse 7 My soul, with all the strength it hath,  
Can't bear the burden of thy wrath:  
With all thy billows overflown,  
Into those depths I sink, and drown.  
verse 8 Thou hast from me removed far  
All that of my acquaintance are:  
Made me abhorred by them thou hast,  
And in close prison locked me fast.   

Part II.  

verse 9 I much bewail with weeping eye  
Th' afflicted state wherein I lie:  
And with outstretched hands, I pray,  
And call on thee, Lord, day by day.  
verse 10 Will't thou, (say I,) before the dead  
Thy miracles of mercy spread?  
Or shall dead men rise up, and raise  
Their voice on earth to sound thy praise?   

verse 11 How shall thy loving kindness have  
Just honours from the silent grave?  
Or, who thy faithfulness shall tell  
To those, that in destruction devil?  
verse 12 Who shall thy wonders bring to light  
In the dark regions of the night?  
And who thy goodness shall declare  
Where all things else forgotten are?   

verse 13 But I have cried, O Lord, to thee;  
And still resolve, with bended knee,  
My morning prayers, whiles I present,  
All other suitors to prevent.  
verse 14 why dost thou, Lord, in great disdain,  
Reject my soul, and slight my pain?  
Why, when I so implore thy grace,  
Hidest thou from me thy smiling face?   

verse 15 For, from my youth, afflicted I,  
Have ever ready been to die:  
And whiles I'm scared by them, I found,  
Thy terrors e'en distracted my mind.  
verse 16 So fierce thy swelling wrath still grows,  
That o'er my drowning head it flows:  
Thy terrors so affrighting be,  
They even make an end of me.   

verse 17 For they about me, day by day,  
On every side close siege do lay:  
As drowning waves together met,  
The sinking vessel overset.  
verse 18 My friends, by whom I am beloved,  
Far of, mean while, thou hast removed:  
And those to whom I best was known,  
Concealed in darkness, me disown.     

Psalm LXXXIX.  

verse 1 TO sing the mercies of the Lord,  
My mouth shall never cease:  
And to all Ages I'll record  
Thy tried faithfulness:  
verse 2 For mercy, I have said, shall last  
Unto all Ages sure:  
Thy faithfulness thou fixed haste,  
With th' heavens to endure.   

verse 3 I with my chosen servant, have  
(said's thou) a Covenant made:  
To David too, my oath I gave,  
Confirming all I said.  
verse 4 Thy seed will I establish still,  
To wear their Father's crown:  
And t'all succeeding times, I will  
Raise thee a lasting Throne.   

verse 5 Yea, th' heavens shall speak the praises great  
Of wonders wrought by thee:  
And praised, where thy Saints do meet,  
Thy faithfulness shall be.  
verse 6 For who, within the heaven's vast space,  
May with the Lord compare?  
Or who, of all the mightie's race,  
To him resemblance bear?   

verse 7 Where Saints assemble, greatest fear  
Of God, should all possess:  
And all that round about him are,  
Deep reverence should express.  
verse 8 Lord God of Hosts, what God may be  
For strength, thy equal found?  
Or in what God, alike to thee,  
Doth fairhfulness abound?   

verse 9 The mighty Sea, when it doth rage,  
Is governed by thy will:  
The waves thereof thou dost assuage,  
And all their fury still.  
verse 10 Quite crushed by thee, th' Egyptians were  
And fell among the dead:  
Before thy mighty Arm, for fear  
Thy foes dispersed, fled.   

Part II.  

verse 11 The glorious heavens above, are thine;  
So is the Earth thine own:  
The world, and all that is therein,  
Thy hand did found alone.  
verse 12 The northern, and the southern coast,  
Thou both of them, didst frame:  
Tabor, and Hermon too, shall boast  
Of thy most glorious Name.   

verse 13 Lord, in thine Arm all power dwells,  
Thy hand in strength exceeds:  
Yea, thy right hand all hands excels,  
For doing mighty deeds  
verse 14 Justice and Judgement, on thy Throne;  
Have fixed their dwelling place:  
Mercy and truth, are ever known  
To go before thy face   

verse 15 Blessed are they that understand  
Thy silver Trumpets alarms:  
For whiles they march at thy command,  
Their hearts thy favour warms.  
verse 16 Whence, in thy name throughout the day,  
They triumph mightily:  
And in thy righteousness, shall they  
Be lifted up on high.  
verse 17 For in thy help, their forces place  
Their hopes to purchase praise;  
And we, assured of thy grace,  
Our horn aloft will raise.  
verse 18 For in the highest Lord alone,  
All our protection lies;  
And Israel's most holy one  
Our royal sovereign is.    

Part III.  

verse 19 Once saidst thou to thy holy one,  
In visions of the night:  
Sufficient help 've laid upon  
A Saviour full of might.  
verse 20 One chosen from the people, I  
Have to my work appointed;  
With oil out of my Sanctuary  
I David have anointed.   

verse 21 My potent hand shall constantly  
Establish him with might:  
And my strong Arm shall him supply,  
With help to keep his right.  
verse 22 So that no powerful enemy  
With power shall him oppress:  
Nor shall he be afflicted by  
The Sons of wickedness.   

verse 23 Yea, all his foes before his eyes  
My power shall subdue:  
And all his spiteful enemies,  
My vengeance shall pursue.  
verse 24 My mercy and fidelity  
Shall guard him all his days:  
And his victorious horn on high  
My glorious name shall raise.   

verse 25 By my appointment his command  
Into the Sea shall stretch:  
And the success of his right hand  
O'er greatest rivers reach.  
verse 26 Thou art my Father, he shall cry;  
A God thou art to me:  
And for my safety I will fly  
Unto no rock, but thee.   

verse 27 All Kings in this he shall excel,  
That he's my firstborn termed:  
verse 28 Still in my favour shall he devil,  
By Covenant confirmed.  
verse 29 His seed shall be continued still,  
To wear their Father's Crown:  
And as the days of heaven, I will  
Fix him a lasting Throne.    

Part IU.  

verse 30 If those that come of David's line,  
My righteous Law forsake:  
If they my Judgement shall decline  
For rules of life to take.  
verse 31 If by th'ill courses they pursue  
My Statutes be profaned;  
And if they shall neglect to do  
The things that I command:   

verse 32 Than for their sin I'll make them bear  
My rod's severity:  
And visit them with stripes severe,  
For their iniquity.  
verse 33 Yet will I ne'er dissolve the love  
I did to him entail:  
Nor like them, will I fickle prove,  
Or 'cause my faith to fail.   

verse 34 My Covenant I will not yield  
On any terms to break:  
Nor shall that ever be repealed,  
Which once my lips did speak.  
verse 35 To David, by my holiness,  
Once firmly sworn was I:  
My oath was in these terms express;  
To David I'll not lie.   

verse 36 Before me shall his royal line  
For evermore remain:  
Yea, till the Sun shall cease to shine,  
His Throne will I maintain.  
verse 37 Though, as the Moon, it often change face,  
It shall not be suppressed:  
Whiles she in heaven keeps her place,  
This truth she shall attest.    

Part V  

verse 38 But from thy presence thou hast chased  
Thine own anointed King:  
And in displeasure, hast him cast  
Of, as a loathsome thing.  
verse 39 Thou hast that Covenant disowned,  
By which thy servant reigned:  
And, throwing it upon the ground,  
Thou hast his crown profaned.   

verse 40 All hedges thou hast broken down  
That did his State assure:  
His Castles thou hast overthrown  
That did his Realm secure.  
verse 41 There's not a passenger goes by,  
But spoils him as he goes:  
And every one that dwelleth nigh,  
On him reproaches throws.   

verse 42 The right hand of his haughty Foes  
Thou hast advanced high:  
And given great triumphs to all those  
That hate him mortally.  
verse 43 The edge of his victorious sword  
Is blunted quite by thee:  
And in the day of battle, Lord,  
Thou suff'redst him to flee.  
verse 44 His glory that so brightly shone,  
Is now by thee defaced:  
And leveled his royal Throne  
Unto the ground thou hast.  
verse 45 From thee, amidst his youthful days  
Old Age upon him came:  
And thou extinguished hast his praise,  
And covered him with shame.    

Part VI.  

verse 46 How long thy face, Lord, wilt thou veil?  
Shall thy wrath ne'er expire?  
Shall it burn on, till fuel fail,  
Like a consuming fire?  
verse 47 O call to mind, how soon our span  
Of life must have an end:  
Why hast thou form every man  
His days in vain to spend?   

verse 48 Where is the living man, that may  
From death exemption have?  
Can he preserve his life, one day,  
From the devouring grave?  
verse 49 Where is thy former kindness? where,  
Lord, is it now withdrawn?  
Which, unto David thou didst swear,  
And laidst thy truth to pawn.   

verse 50 Remember, Lord, how grievously  
Reproached thy servants are:  
How the great men's reproaches, I  
Within my bosom bear.  
verse 51 The foul reproaches which have been  
Cast on us by thy foes:  
Whereby they blast the ways, wherein  
Thine own anointed goes.   

verse 52 Unto the Lord that is most high,  
All blessing given be:  
From henceforth to Eternity;  
Amen, Amen, say we.     

Psalm XC.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 113.] Ye children, etc.  

verse 1 FRom Age to Age, thy constant grace  
Hath been to us, Lord, as a place,  
That yields a safe and sure abode:  
verse 2 Before thou gav'st the hills their birth,  
Or mad'st this habitable Earth;  
Thou was't, as still thou wilt be, God.   

verse 3 But men's frail Sons, when thou dost say  
Return to dust, must haste away,  
verse 4 Though they should live a thousand years:  
For all that time before thy sight,  
Like a three hours short watch by night,  
Or yesterday, when past, appears.   

verse 5 As men asleep born by the tide,  
To death insensibly we slide.  
Our change in that of Grass is shown,  
verse 6 Whiles in the morning of our day,  
We flourish: but e'er night decay,  
Whither, and are, like it, cut down.   

verse 7 For thy fierce Anger wastes us quite,  
Whence troubles sore upon us light,  
verse 8 When thou dost secret sins behold:  
verse 9 By it, pursued, our days we spend,  
And all our years do quickly end,  
And vanish like a tale that's told.   

Part II.  

verse 10 Our days are threescore years, and ten;  
Fourscore, perhaps, live strongest men:  
And yet is such men's firmest strength  
Naught else, indeed, but grief, and pain.  
And cannot long itself sustain:  
For Age alone will kill at length.   

verse 11 Thine Anger's source who knows? for such days,  
It is, as none can fear too much.  
verse 12 Than teach our hearts to count our  
That they may be to wisdom bend;  
verse 13 And for thy servant's sakes, repent,  
And turn to them without delays.   

verse 14 Thy speedy grace to us apply,  
And make us joyful till we die,  
verse 15 With joy that some proportion bears  
Unto the days wherein thou hast  
Afflicted us in Ages past,  
And th' evils felt in former years.   

verse 16 Thy work unto thy servants show,  
And let their feed thy glory know:  
Let the Lord's beauty on us shine;  
verse 17 And th' actions which in hand we take  
Lord, establish thou: and stable make  
What e'er we virtuously design.     

Psalm XCI.  

verse 1 WHoever in the secret place  
Of th' highest doth reside;  
Protected by th' almighty's grace,  
In safety shall abide.  
verse 2 He is my refuge, and my fort,  
I, of the Lord, will say:  
My God, to whom I will resort,  
My faith on him to stay.   

verse 3 From fowler's snares his providence  
Shall surely shelterthee:  
And from the noisome Pestilence  
Thou shalt preserved be.  
verse 4 Under his sheltering wings concealed,  
Safe shalt thou lie, and warm:  
His truth shall like a buckler, shield  
Thy breast from mortal harm.  
verse 5 The dreadful terrors of the night  
Shall not thy heart dismay:  
Nor shall the arrow thee affright  
Which flies in open day.  
verse 6 The pestilence thee shall not scare,  
Whose walk in darkness lies:  
Nor that sad evil shalt thou fear,  
Which at high Noon destroys.   

verse 7 When at thy side a thousand fall,  
And dead at thy right hand  
Ten thousand lie: th' infection shall  
From theeat distance stand.  
verse 8 Thine eyes alone employed shall be,  
To view the slaughter made:  
And wicked men's reward to see,  
By heaven's just Judgement paid.   

Part II.  

verse 9 Because thou hast the Lord most high  
Thy habitation made:  
(The Lord my sort, to which I fly,  
When dangers me invade:)  
verse 10 At no time, therefore, shalt thou be  
Jest in an evil case:  
Nor shall one plague, to seize on thee,  
Approach thy dwelling place.   

verse 11 For he, whose servants Angels are,  
Shall thee to them commend:  
And in all ways of thine, with care,  
Their charge they shall attend.  
verse 12 Their hands shall under thee be put,  
To bear thee up on high:  
Jest any stone should hurt thy foot,  
That in thy walk doth lie.   

verse 13 Thou th' Adder, and the Lion strong,  
Shalt boldly tread upon:  
The Dragon, and the Lion young  
Thy foot shall trample down.  
verse 14 Because my love doth him inflame,  
Deliver him will I:  
And sigh he knows my holy Name,  
I will advance him high.   

verse 15 I'll answer him whenever he calls,  
And never him forsake:  
I'll save, when trouble him befalls,  
And his name glorious make.  
verse 16 His own desires, in length of days  
Shall fully answered be:  
And my salvation, while he stays,  
He shall with pleasure see.     

Psalm XCII.  

verse 1 IT's fit we should most thankfully  
The Lord's deserts proclaim:  
And with our voice, O God most high,  
Sing praises to thy Name.  
verse 2 That we thy kindness should expraess  
As soon as morning's light:  
And celebrated thy faithfulness,  
At the approach of night.   

verse 3 That to the ten-stringed Instrument  
We should our voices raise:  
And on the harp, and psaltry vent  
God's meditated praise.  
verse 4 For, whiles thy work I think upon,  
Much gladness I conceive:  
And the great acts thy hands have done,  
To me great triumphs give.   

verse 5 How great, O Lord, thy works appear!  
Deep do thy counsels lie:  
verse 6 To brutish men unknown they are,  
Fools cannot them espy.  
verse 7 They can't conceive that wicked men  
When like the grass they spring,  
And evil doers, when most green  
They grow, and flourishing;   

By means of that prosperity  
For ever are undone:  
verse 8 But thou O Lord art placed high  
On thine Eternal throne.  
verse 9 Forlo, thy foes, destroyed by thee,  
For lo, thy foes shall die:  
And all those men shall scattered be  
That work iniquity.   

Part II.  

verse 10 But as the Unicorns, by thee,  
My horn advance shall I:  
And with fresh oil my lg shall be  
Anointed plenteously.  
verse 11 Mine ears the news, the prospect shall  
Delight my pleased eyes:  
Whiles wicked adversaries fall,  
Who up against me rise.   

verse 12 But, as the palm grows under weight,  
The just, oppressed, shall flourish:  
And with the Cedars strive for height,  
Which Lebanon doth nourish.  
verse 13 Trees planted in the holy place  
Where God the Lord doth devil:  
Still watered with the dews of grace.  
Shall thrive and prospero well.   

verse 14 Yea, even (when natures strength decays)  
In age much fruit shall bring:  
And in the winter of their days  
Grow fat and flourishing.  
verse 15 Great prooss, that God's just providence  
For righteous men takes care:  
And that the rock of my defence  
Is from injustice clear.     

Psalm XCIII.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 100] All people, etc.  

verse 1 THE might Lord doth reign on high,  
And decks himself with Majesty:  
The Lord doth gird himself with might,  
In battle to maintain his right.  
Whereby the world doth stand secure  
And doth unmovably endure.  
verse 2 Thy throne's of equal Age with thee  
Who never didst begin to be.   

verse 3 The floods, O Lord, the floods do roar,  
Their swelling waves assault the shore:  
verse 4 But whiles the highest Lord doth reign,  
The mighty waves do roar in vain.  
verse 5 Thy Testimonies firm and sure  
Our faith against all storms secure:  
And in thy house, Lord, holiness  
Is ever, the most comely dress.    

Psalm XCIV.  

verse 1 O God, the God, by whom all wrongs  
justly requited are:  
O God, to whom revenge belongs,  
In majesty appear.  
verse 2 Thou Judge of all the Earth, arise,  
To do thy people right:  
And their insulting Enemies,  
As they deserve, requited.   

verse 3 How long, O Lord, shall wicked men  
Exalt themselves in pride?  
How long shall wicked men be seen  
In triumph thus to ride?  
verse 4 How long shall they speak haughtily,  
Hard things, too hard to bear?  
And all that work Iniquity,  
Their lgs with triumph rear?   

verse 5 They crush thy people, Lord, at will;  
Thy portion they oppress:  
verse 6 Widows and Stranger's blood they spill,  
And slay the fatherless.  
verse 7 And whiles they play the tyrants thus,  
The Lord sees not they cry:  
Neither shall Jacob's God on us  
Cast a regarding Eye.   

verse 8 But, O ye brutes in shape of men,  
From reason take advice:  
The foolishest of people, when,  
O when, will ye be wise?  
verse 9 Must not his hearing perfect be,  
Who planted th' hearing Ear?  
And, if he gave us Eyes to see,  
Must not his sight be clear?   

verse 10 He that the heathens doth correct,  
Can he not still do so?  
Is want of knowledge his defect,  
Who teacheth man to know?  
verse 11 No, not, the Lord's most piercing sight  
Man's secret thoughts descries:  
And knows them to be vain and slight,  
When they conceit them wise.   

Part II.  

verse 12 He's blest, whom thy correcting hand,  
O Lord, doth keep in awe:  
And causeth him to understand  
His duty from thy Law.  
verse 13 That by thy grace, in stormy times,  
His soul a calm may have:  
Whiles Justice, for his heinous crimes,  
Doth dig the wicked's grave.   

verse 14 For sure, the Lord will not reject  
His chosen people quite:  
Th' inheritance he will protect,  
Which is his own by right.  
verse 15 But judgement unto righteousness  
Shall yet return again:  
And all that upright hearts possess,  
Shall follow in its train.   

verse 16 Who will appear my champion when  
Ill doers me opptess?  
Or stand with me against the men  
That work unrighteousness?  
verse 17 Surely, unless the Lord had shown  
Himself, my soul to save:  
E'er this time long, it had gone down  
Into the silent grave.    

Part III.  

verse 18 My foot did slip, and I, afraid,  
Myself for lost did yield:  
When, Lord, thy mercies timely aid  
My falling soul upheld.  
verse 19 Crowds of sad thoughts within my mind  
Often up and down do roll:  
But than, thy comforts still I found,  
Delight my troubled soul.   

verse 20 For shall (said I) injustice dare  
Claim fellowship with thee:  
Yea, though it mount the Throne, and there  
Mischievous Laws decree?  
verse 21 For they combine against the good,  
With murderous intent:  
Judicially to shed the blood  
Of persons innocent.   

verse 22 But in the highest Lord alone,  
My sure protection lies:  
And God, that takes me for his own,  
My rock of refuge is.  
verse 23 The Lord, their own, by other men's  
Injustice will repay:  
Yea, by our God, even in their sins,  
They shall be snatched away.     

Psalm XCV.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 25.] I lift my, etc.  

verse 1 COme, let's with one accord  
Advance our singing voice:  
To our salvations rock (the Lord)  
Let's make a joyful noise.  
verse 2 With songs of thankfulness  
Before him let us go:  
And in rejoicing Psalms express  
How much to him we owe.   

verse 3 Because the Lord alone  
A God most mighty is:  
Yea, King of Gods: For God there's none,  
Whose greatness equals his.  
verse 4 The things which lie most deep  
In th' earth, are in his hand:  
And all the strength of mountains steep,  
He hath at his command.   

verse 5 No other owner knows  
The Sea, for he it made:  
The dry Land too, 's at his dispose,  
Who its foundations laid.  
verse 6 Adoring let us come,  
With bodies bended low:  
And kneel before the Lord, to whom  
Our very selves we owe.  
verse 7 For he's our God, and we  
Fed by his bounty are:  
His sheep are we, our shepherd's he,  
Who takes of us the care.  
He calls to us, To day,  
Whiles yet 'tis at your choice;  
With hardened hearts let none delay  
To harken to my voice.   

verse 8 Act not again the crimes,  
(For fear of like success,)  
Of those provoking tempting times,  
Within the Wilderness.  
verse 9 Your father's tempting me,  
Than tried what I could bear:  
And where they did my wonders see;  
They proved my patience there.   

verse 10 With grief, full forty years,  
They forced me to say,  
Alas! in heart this people errs;  
They have not known my way.  
verse 11 Till I grew sorely wroth,  
And all my kindness ceased:  
And I excluded them by oath  
Out of my promised rest.    

Psalm XCVI.  

verse 1 LET us the praises of the Lord  
In a new song declare:  
And let the spacious Earth accord  
With us its part to bear.  
verse 2 Sing we unto the Lord, I say,  
And bless his holy Name:  
His saving grace, from day to day,  
Let our joint-song proclaim.   

verse 3 Among the heathens let us show  
His excellent renown:  
And from us let all people know,  
What wonders he hath done.  
verse 4 For infinitely great's the Lord;  
And such his praise should be:  
With holy fear to be adored  
Above all Gods, is he.   

verse 5 For all the Gods the Nations own,  
Are only such in Name:  
But 'tis the Lord, that's God alone,  
For he the heaven did frame.  
verse 6 Honour and Majesty appear  
Before his glorious face:  
Beauty, and sStrength, united are  
Within his holy place.   

Part II.  

verse 7 Let every family, and tribe,  
Give God the honour due:  
Unto the Lord, let them ascribe  
Both strength and glory too.  
verse 8 Give him the glory, which of right  
Unto his Name belongs:  
With presents come into his sight,  
Amidst religious throngs.   

verse 9 Within his beauteous holy Place,  
With reverence appear:  
Yea, let th' whole earth before his face,  
Adore, with awful fear.  
verse 10 Among the heathens be it told,  
The Lord doth reign above:  
'Tis he, that doth the world uphold,  
That nothing it remove.   

The people he shall judge with right,  
verse 11 Let heaven and earth rejoice:  
Let Seas their roaring waves unite,  
To make a joyful noise.  
verse 12 Let all the fields, with their increase,  
A sense of gladness show:  
And all the trees shall do not lesle;  
Which in the woods do grow.   

verse 13 Such universal triumphs shall  
The Lord at's coming meet:  
For he's at hand, the earth to call  
Before his judgement seat.  
On the whole world, he is prepared  
His righteousness to show:  
And by his Law of truth declared,  
Shall all men's trials go.     

Psalm XCVII.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 113.] Ye children, etc.  

verse 1 Rejoice, O earth, the Lord doth reign;  
Let all thy Islands entertain  
The welcome news with joyfulness:  
verse 2 With clouds and darkness he's surrounded,  
Upon a throne that's firmly founded  
On Judgement, and on righteousness.   

verse 3 A flaming fire, before his face,  
To burn his enemies, doth pass;  
Which doth devour them every where:  
verse 4 His lightnings shot a dreadful light,  
Which did the gazing World affright;  
The earth it saw, and shook for fear.   

verse 5 The hills, like wax before the flame  
Did melt, where e'er his presence came:  
For Lord of all the earth is he.  
verse 6 To him too th' heavens witness bear,  
Whiles they his righteousness declare,  
And make all men his glory fee,  
verse 7 Confusion Idol-servers seize,  
That boast of graven Images;  
And by all Gods be ours adored:  
verse 8 Such tidings Zion joyful made,  
And rendered Judah's Daughters glad,  
When they beheld thy Judgements, Lord.   

verse 9 For thou, O Lord, art raised high,  
Above all earthly Majesty,  
Yea, dost all Gods excel by far:  
verse 10 Let than all evil be abhorred,  
Of every one that fears the Lord,  
By whom Saints souls protected are.   

From wicked hands he'll, set them free.  
verse 11 Sown for the righteous light shall be,  
Which upright hearts shall reap with joys:  
verse 12 Joy than, ye righteous, in the Lord;  
His holiness in mind record,  
And thank him with a cheerful voice.    

Psalm XCVIII.  
[To the Tune of Ps. 100] All people, etc.  

verse 1 SIng to the Lord a new made song,  
For he hath acted wondrously:  
His holy Arm, and right hand strong,  
Have gotten him the victory.  
verse 2 His mighty works hold forth a light,  
Wherein his saving power is known:  
His Justice in the heathens sighed  
He hath displayed with great renown.   

verse 3 His grace and truth to Israel  
He hath at last recalled to mind:  
To all that in the earth do devil  
Hath our great God's salvation shined.  
verse 4 Let than th' whole earth, with joy full noise,  
Unto the Lord their voices raise:  
Let loudest shouts express their joys,  
And well-tuned songs advance his praise.   

verse 5 Unto the Lord with utmost skill  
Tune all your voices Psalms to sing:  
verse 6 With Trumpets loud, and Cornets shrill,  
Rejoice before the Lord the King.  
verse 7 Let deepest Seas together swell,  
And breaking, make one roaring noise:  
Let all that in the world do devil,  
Join throats and raise one shouting voice.   

verse 8 From all parts let all rivers meet,  
And with clapped hands together found:  
Let ecch'ing hills each other greet,  
And those joynt-joys at once rebound  
verse 9 Before the Lord; for he is near  
The earth with righteousness to try:  
And judge the people every where,  
Throughout the world, with equity.    

Psalm XCIX.  

verse 1 BEcause the Lord Almighty reigns,  
Let heathen Nations quake:  
He sits between the Cherubins;  
Let th' earth's foundations shake.  
verse 2 The Lord in Zion doth appear,  
Clothed with great Majesty:  
Advanced above all people, there,  
His Throne is set on high.   

verse 3 Let than all people, Lord, thy fame  
In songs of praise express:  
For full of terror is thy Name,  
And great in holiness.  
verse 4 Our King in Judgement doth delight:  
Thou settlest equity:  
Thou settest all things in Jacob right,  
By judging righteously.   

verse 5 Exalt the Lord our God alone:  
And with devotion due  
Approach the footstool of his throne,  
For that is holy too.  
Thus Moses did, and Aaron, when  
Among his Priests they came:  
And Samuel, in the crowd of men  
That called upon his Name.   

Upon the Lord, with reverence,  
They did devoutly call:  
He heard them from his seat, and thence  
He gave them answers all.  
verse 7 His seat the cloudy Pillar was,  
From whence to them he spoke:  
The Testimonies and the Laws  
He gave, they never broke.   

verse 8 Thou answerd'st them, O Lord, our God,  
In pardons oftentimes:  
Even when thou hadst advanced thy rod,  
To scourge us for our crimes.  
verse 9 Let, than, our God, the mighty Lord,  
By all exalted be:  
And on his holy hill adored:  
For greatly holy's he.    

Psalm C.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 148.] Give laud, etc.  

verse 1 IN loud songs to the Lord  
Let's vent our holy mirth:  
With joy be he adored,  
By all that devil on earth.  
verse 2 Before his sight  
Come, let's express  
Our thankfulness  
With all our might.   

verse 3 Him for our God let's own,  
Who us of nothing made:  
He did the work alone,  
And had from us no aid.  
His flock we are,  
His pasture sheep:  
Whom he doth keep  
And feed with care.   

verse 4 Let's speak our thanks aloud,  
When into's gates we go:  
And when his Courts we crowd,  
Pay him the praise we owe.  
Our thankfulness  
Let's there proclaim;  
And his great Name  
For ever bless.   

verse 5 For good's the Lord, and we  
His goodness ever taste:  
And when time fails to be,  
His mercy still shall last.  
His verity  
Our faith secures:  
For it endures  
Eternally.    

Psalm CI.  

verse 1 MErcy and Judgement in my song  
United, Lord, shall be:  
And, (sigh they both to thee belong,)  
I'll sing of both to thee.  
verse 2 I'll wisely walk by rules severe,  
(Such as thou likest best:)  
And guide my house with heart sincere:  
When wilt thou be my guest!   

verse 3 I'll carry on no bad design,  
Nor join with them that do:  
Their works, who virtues paths decline,  
With hatred I'll eschew.  
verse 4 Whom discipline will not amend,  
Him will I quite discard:  
Not wicked man will I befriend,  
Or, in the lest, regard.   

verse 5 Who sland'reth others privily,  
Shall have no dwelling here:  
And him, whose heart and looks are high,  
Nigh me, I will not bear.  
verse 6 The faithful of the Land alone,  
My favour shall enjoy:  
And, but strict livers, I will none  
In my affairs employ.   

verse 7 Within my house shall no man devil,  
That practiseth deceit:  
And him that useth lies to tell,  
I'll banish from my sight.  
verse 8 Of wicked men, with speedy care,  
The land throughout I'll rid:  
And in God's City none shall dare  
Hereafter to abide.    

Psalm CII.  
[To the Tune of P. 51.] O Lord consider, etc. Or the Lamentation. O Lord in thee, etc.  

verse 1 LOrd, hear my prayer, admit my cry  
Into thy presence speedily:  
verse 2 Nor let thy face than hidden be,  
When times of trouble seize on me.  
But when I call, do thou attend,  
And a kind answer quickly sand.  
verse 3 For my sad days resemblance bear  
To clouds of smoke, dissolved to air.   

And as the fire burns furnace-stones;  
So doth continual grief my bones.  
verse 4 My heart like hay, is withered;  
And I forget to eat my bread.  
verse 5 My flesh is worn with groaning, thin,  
So that my bones cleave to my skin;  
verse 6 Like th' Owl, and Pelican am I,  
That in the howling deserts cry.   

verse 7 The bird that wakes on th' house alone,  
So spends his nights as I have done;  
verse 8 My foes, as long as day doth last,  
Upon me foul reproaches cast:  
And they that are quite mad with rage,  
Against my life by oath engage.  
verse 9 For in my food, whenever I fed,  
I tasted ashes more than bread:  
And if I drank, my tears filled up  
The emptied space within my cup.  
verse 10 Because with indignation great,  
And kindled wrath thou didst me treat.  
For when thou hadst advanced me, thou  
With the same hand didst lay me low.  
verse 11 My days are like an evining shade,  
And I, like withered grass do fade.   

Part II.  

verse 12 But thou, O Lord, for ever free  
From all decay, or change shalt be:  
And thy great works in memory  
Shall live through all Posterity.  
verse 13 Thou shalt arise, and mercy show  
To Zion laid in ruins low:  
For th' utmost time thyself didst set  
To favour her, is now complete.   

verse 14 Thy servants therefore in the sight,  
Even of her hopeful stones, delight:  
And look on with compassion just,  
Each smallest handful of her dust.  
verse 15 Than shall so great a mercies fame  
Make heathen Nations dread thy name:  
And all crowned heads on earth, comply  
With thy most glorious Majesty.   

verse 16 When Zions' walls the Lord shall rear;  
And in his glory shall appear;  
verse 17 He shall regard the poor forlorn,  
And not reject their prayers with scorn.  
verse 18 A mercy, which shall justly be  
Recorded to posterity:  
That so the Lord's deserved praise  
The children, yet unborn, may raise.   

verse 19 For from his holy place on high,  
He cast his favourable eye:  
From heaven, where his Throne is set,  
He viewed the earth beneath his feet.  
verse 20 When the afflicted captive groans,  
To hear his lamentable moans:  
And set poor slaves at liberty,  
By cruel masters doomed to die.   

verse 21 That gratefully they may proclaim.  
In Zion's gates, the Lord's great Name:  
And in Jerusalem declare  
How worthy praise his actions are.  
verse 22 When holy crowds of Nations great  
In acts of solemn worship meet:  
And Kingdoms come, with joint accord,  
To do their homage to the Lord.    

Part III.  

verse 23 He weakened in the way my strength,  
And did contract my Ages lengch:  
verse 24 Than, in the midst of life's short day,  
O take me not, said I, away:  
Thy years, dear God, when mine are past,  
Throughout all generations last.  
verse 25 Thou, when old time had first its birth,  
Laidst the foundations of this earth.   

And the vast heaven's didst spread aloft,  
Which thine Almighty hands had wrought:  
verse 26 Yet they in time shall pace away,  
Whereas no time can thee decay:  
Yea, they shall all become at last  
Like garments quite by Age defaeed.  
And as a vesture changed by thee,  
Shall at thy pleasure modelled be.   

verse 27 Whiles thou the same (both God, and friend)  
Enjoyest an Age without an end:  
verse 28 And shalt thy faithful servants race  
Establish still before thy face.     

Psalm CIII.  
[To the Tune of 113.] Ye children, etc.  

verse 1 Blessed he the Lord, my soul, by thee:  
And all the powers that are in me,  
Excite to bless his name will I:  
verse 2 My soul, bless thou the living Lord,  
And with a grateful care, record  
His bounties in thy memory.   

verse 3 Who all thy heinous sins forgives,  
And heals whatever disease thee grieves:  
verse 4 Who doth redeem thy life from death.  
Whose kindness so to thee abounds,  
That on all sides it thee surrounds;  
And grace thy head encompasseth.   

verse 5 Who satisfies thy craving mouth,  
With plenteous goodness; and thy youth  
Like th' Eagles, is renewed again.  
verse 6 The righteous Lord doth justice do,  
And executeth judgement true,  
When men oppressed of wrong complain.   

verse 7 He made his servant Moses know  
His ways, and did great wonders show  
Before the seed of Israel.  
verse 8 The Lord abundant is in grace,  
His anger is but slow of pace:  
And in him doth rich mercy devil.   

verse 9 With us he will not always chide,  
Nor doth his kindled wrath abide  
For ever burning in his heart:  
verse 10 The recompense our sins did crave  
He never yet unto us gave:  
Nor paid us after our desert.   

verse 11 To those that him sincerely fear  
As vastly large his mercies are,  
As is the space 'twixt earth and skies.  
verse 12 Our heinous sins his mercy great  
Hath from us at like distance set,  
As from the west, th' east quarter lies.   

Part II.  

verse 13 What pity tender Parents bear  
By nature, to their Children dear:  
The Lord, to all that fear him, shows.  
verse 14 For he that us created, can  
Best understand the frame of man:  
And that we are but dust, he knows.   

verse 15 Mans fleeting days of life (alas!)  
Resemblance bear to fading grass,  
Which doth with fragrant flower grow:  
verse 16 But when the blasting wind thereon  
doth sharply blow, is quickly gone:  
Nor doth its place, it longer know.   

verse 17 But the Lord's mercy ever stays,  
Not subject to the lest decays,  
With them that him devoutly fear.  
His righteousness that never ends,  
To childrens children he extends,  
Who from their loins descended are.   

verse 18 This none of them shall ever want,  
If they observe his Covenant,  
And mind his precepts to obey:  
verse 19 The Lord's eternal Majesty  
Hath fixed his throne on th' heavens high,  
And o'er all Kingdoms beareth sway.   

verse 20 Ye Angels that are clothed with light,  
And do excel in power and might,  
Join all your throats the Lord to bless:  
Ye, who before his presence stand,  
Ready prepared at the command,  
T' obey his word with cheerfulness:   

verse 21 Bless ye your Lord, and General,  
His mighty hosts, and servants all,  
Who do his will with joynt-accord:  
verse 22 Yea, bless the Lord all works of his,  
Where e'er his vast Dominion lies,  
And (Soul) with them, bless thou the Lord.     

The same Psalm,  
[To the Tune of Ps. 148.] Give laud, etc.  

verse 1 MY soul I thee enjoin  
God's praises to proclaim:  
Let all thy powers combine  
To bless his holy Name.  
verse 2 His praises sound:  
And bear in mind,  
How wondrous kind  
Thou hast him found.   

verse 3 Who all thy sins forgives,  
And heals what e'er thee ails,  
Whose mercy thee relieves,  
When death thy life assayls.  
verse 4 Whose love thee crowns,  
Whiles every where  
With kindness dear  
He thee surrounds.   

verse 5 Who doth good things infuse  
Into thy craving mouth:  
And Eagle like, renews  
The vigour of thy youth.  
verse 6 The Lord with right  
Doth judge for all  
That on him call,  
When crushed by might.   

verse 7 To Moses face to face  
His ways he did reveal:  
And mighty acts of grace  
He showed to Israel.  
verse 8 The Lord great store  
Of mercy hath:  
And slow to wrath  
Is evermore.   

verse 9 He chides not every day,  
Nor still keeps anger keen:  
verse 10 He did us not repay,  
As our deserts have been.  
Nor any time  
Did he requited  
Us, as he might,  
For any crime.   

verse 11 For those that fear him, found  
How great his mercies are:  
All those of human kind  
They do excel by far.  
As far indeed,  
As doth the height  
Of heaven bright  
The earth exceed.   

verse 12 Yea, our transgressions, we,  
By his abundant grace  
Removed from us do see,  
At the most distant space:  
As heaven's side  
Towards the East,  
Is from the West  
Removed wide.   

Part II.  

verse 13 The pity Parents kind  
Toward their children bear,  
Those constantly do found  
From God, who do him fear.  
For, surely, he  
Well knows our mould,  
And mind, untold,  
That dust we be.   

verse 15 For like the flow'ring grass,  
Are man's uncertain days:  
Which when sharp winds do pass  
Upon it, soon decays.  
verse 16 Away 'tis gone,  
And to the place  
Where once it was,  
Not more is known.   

verse 17 But the Lord's mercies are  
To those that fear him sure:  
And as they ever were,  
For ever they endure.  
His righteousness  
To their next seed,  
And those they breed,  
He doth express.   

verse 18 To those that faithfully  
His Covenant fulfil;  
And mindful hearts apply  
To do his holy william.  
verse 19 The Lord's fixed throne  
In heaven stands,  
Whence his commands  
All Kingdoms own.   

verse 20 Ye Angels bless the Lord  
Who do excel in might:  
Who to his holy word  
Still harken with delight:  
And ready stand  
Always to do  
What he to you  
Gives in command.   

verse 21 Bless him his armed hosts,  
Who serve him faithfully:  
verse 22 Throughout all lands and coasts,  
Where his Dominions lie,  
Let all him bless;  
And with them join,  
Thou soul of mine,  
His praise t' express.     

Psalm CIV.  
[To the Tune of the Old 100 Ps.] All people, etc.  

verse 1 BLess, O my soul, the Lord most high.  
My God, thou art exceeding great:  
Thou cloath'st thyself with Majesty,  
Such as beseems thy royal seat.  
verse 2 With not to be approached light  
Thou art encompassed round about:  
And the vast roof of heaven bright  
Thou like a curtain stretched'st out.   

verse 3 The Lord his chambers beams hath laid  
On waters hanging in the Air:  
The clouds he hath his Chariot made,  
Whose wheels the winged winds do bear.  
verse 4 Swift spirits are his Angels, and  
His servants fiery flame surround:  
verse 5 Unmoveable the earth doth stand,  
By him to its fixed centre bound.   

verse 6 Wrapped up at first, within the deep,  
As in a garment, lay the land:  
Above the tops of mountains steep,  
Did the surrounding waters stand:  
verse 7 Till, checked by thy almighty voice,  
They fled, and durst not disobey:  
Thy rattling thunder's frightful noise  
Made them in haste to post away.   

verse 8 The mountains than, their tops displayed;  
And furrowed vales descending low,  
A way for th' ebbing waters made,  
Into the place thou sentest them to.  
verse 9 There, hast thou fixed their certain bounds,  
Such as they never must exceed:  
Nor, may they ever pass those mounds,  
The earth again to overspread.   

Part II.  

verse 10 Through vales he cut the springs a way,  
Which run with noise among the hills:  
verse 11 Where all wild beasts their thirst alloy,  
And untamed Asses drink their fills.  
verse 12 Near these, each bird of every wing,  
Doth build her artificial Nest:  
There, with their well tuned throats they sing,  
And on the shady branches rest.   

verse 13 Yea, on the hills, by nature dry,  
He from his chambers moistness drops:  
Thy works effects th' whole earth supply,  
Whereof all parts reap proper crops.  
verse 14 He brings forth grass for Catrels' food,  
And wholesome herbs which man doth need:  
Earth's Issue, thus, he thought it good,  
Out of their Mother earth to feed.   

verse 15 He gives man thence the cheerful wine,  
Which from sad hearts doth banish grief:  
And oil, to make his face to shine,  
With bread, the staff of human life.  
verse 16 Even Trees, which God doth set alone,  
(Quite unmanured by human care,)  
The Cedars in dry Lebanon,  
Yet full of vital moisture are.   

verse 17 Each little bird her dwelling house  
Within those lofty Cedars makes:  
And in the streight-limbed Fir-trees boughs,  
The grateful Stork her lodging takes.  
verse 18 Wild goats, the highest hills do choose,  
Whose craggy tops their Castles are:  
And hollow rocks the Coneys use,  
And fortify their dwelling there.    

Part III.  

verse 19 The Moon that often shifts her face,  
Doth her appointed seasons own:  
And when the Sun hath run his race,  
He knows his time of going down.  
verse 20 In darkness thou dost shroud the light,  
And than, do all the beasts of prey  
Under the covert of the night,  
Forsake the dens they kept by day.  
verse 21 Young Lions, than, range here and there,  
And boldly hunt their food abroad:  
But when they found no prey to tear,  
They roar, and call for meat to God.  
verse 22 But when the Sun renews the day,  
And darkness flies his rising light:  
They all together haste away,  
And lurk in dens as dark as night.   

verse 23 Than man awakened leaves his bed;  
And busily abroad employed,  
Till evening shades on earth are spread;  
Pursues his labours un annoyed.  
verse 24 What various arguments afford  
Thy works? for with admired skill,  
Thou hast performed them all, O Lord;  
And with thy wealth th' whole earth dost fill.   

verse 25 This Sea, too, vastly wide, and deep,  
Is stored with creatures great and small:  
Which in such multitudes there creep,  
No number can comprise them all.  
verse 26 There, mighty ships the billows plough,  
And swiftly pass from port to port:  
And there's Leviathan, whom thou  
Hast made, therein himself to sport.    

Part IU.  

verse 27 These various troops of Sea, and Land,  
Wait all on thee for timely food:  
verse 28 Thy gifts they gather; and thy hand  
Supplies them all with what is good.  
verse 29 But when thou dost thy help deny,  
In trouble, pined with want, they mourn:  
Thou tak'st away their breath, they die,  
And to their mother-dust return.   

verse 30 Thy spirit than thou send'st abroad,  
Which, soon creates another race:  
Renewed they are, by thee, O God,  
And th' earth puts on another face.  
verse 31 Eternally the Lord's renowned,  
And in his works rejoiceth much:  
verse 32 With's very look he shakes the ground,  
And fires the mountains with a touch.   

verse 33 Whiles I my vital breath enjoy,  
The Lord's praise shall be sung by me:  
And when I cease from that employ,  
At the same time i'll cease to be.  
verse 34 The sweetest thoughts that e'er I have,  
Are those, which on my God I spend:  
And in that service, to my grave,  
Great cheerfulness shall me attend.   

verse 35 On sinners let destruction fall;  
Let them not more th' earth's burden be:  
But soul, praise thou the Lord, and call  
On all good men to join with thee.  
To Father, Son, and Spirit, (one  
Eternal God, in Persons three;)  
As 'twas before the world begun,  
Now, and for ever glory be.     

Psalm CV.  

verse 1 O thank the Lord, and join in prayer  
To call upon his name:  
Among the people, let's declare  
His deeds of glorious fame.  
verse 2 Your gratitude to him profess  
In Songs, and Psalms of praise:  
And all the miracles express  
He did in ancient days.   

verse 3 That ye his holy name do bear,  
Proclaim with boasting voice:  
And let their hearts, who e'er they are,  
That seek the Lord, rejoice.  
verse 4 Seek ye the Lord, his aid implore,  
Before his Ark of might:  
And with devotion evermore  
Appear before his sight.   

verse 5 Remember ye, with due regard,  
The wonders he hath done:  
The judgements which his mouth declared  
Devoutly think upon.  
verse 6 Ye seed of Abraham, that was  
His servant, and his friend:  
And you his chosen Jacob's race,  
That from his loins descend.  
verse 7 He is the Lord, whose judgements sound  
Through all the earth abroad:  
Who hath, by solemn Cornant, bound  
Himself to be our God.  
verse 8 That Covenant he in mind retained,  
Through all the ages past:  
Which in full force, by his command,  
A thousand more, must last.   

Part II.  

verse 9 This Covenant with Abraham,  
He first of all, did make:  
Next, t' Isaac to perform the same,  
A solemn oath did take.  
verse 10 To Jacob too, that gracious grant  
He did by law assure:  
And t' Isr'el by his Covenant  
For ever did secure.   

verse 11 All Canaan's Land (therein said he)  
To thee I do assign:  
To theedivided shall it be,  
By the surveigher's Line.  
verse 12 When yet, within that promised land,  
Few, very few, they were:  
Nor could one foot of it command,  
For they were strangers there.   

verse 13 Whiles nation, after nation, they  
As Pilgrims, visited:  
And took one Kingdom in their way,  
As to the next it led.  
verse 14 He suffered them no wrong to take,  
Where e'er they did reside:  
And even Kings, for their dear sake,  
He did not spare to chide.   

verse 15 My dear anointed ones, said he,  
Touch not to do them wrong:  
Nor any Prophet injure ye,  
That doth to me belong.  
verse 16 Moreover, on that fruitful Land  
He for a famine called:  
And bread (life's staff,) by his command,  
Throughout it wholly failed.    

Part III.  

verse 17 But the Egypt, whence they bought their food,  
Before them Joseph went:  
Whom for a slave they sold, but God  
Him on his errand sent.  
verse 18 Him in afflicting fetters bound,  
Th' Egyptians did detain:  
And did his tender ankles wound  
With a straight Iron chain:   

verse 19 Until the things he prophesied,  
By th' issue true appeared:  
By God's word long he had been tried,  
But at the last was cleared.  
verse 20 The King, who ruled in the Land,  
Than sent, to set him free:  
verse 21 And trusted all he had in's hand,  
Both Realm, and Family.  
verse 22 With full commission, at his will,  
His Princes to chastise:  
And teach his Senators the skill  
In Council to advice.  
verse 23 From famished Canaan, Israel,  
At last, to Egypt came:  
And Jacob for a whiledid devil  
Within the tents of Ham.    

Part IU.  

verse 24 In Egypt, God his servant's seed  
wondrously multiplied:  
So that in strength they did exceed  
Those that their growth envied.  
verse 25 To whom, he gave occasion thence,  
To hate them inwardly;  
And to contrive, on that pretence,  
To waste them craftily.   

verse 26 Than he his servant Moses sent,  
And Aaron whom he chose:  
And they from him to Pharaoh went,  
His message to propose.  
verse 27 Great signs from God, as they were bid  
They showed, when there they came:  
And wondrous miracles they did,  
Within the Land of Ham.   

verse 28 Against their sovereign Lord's command,  
They never did rebel:  
He darkness sent upon the Land,  
And darknese on it fell.  
verse 29 Their streams he turned to blood, which choked  
The fish that there did breed:  
verse 30 In rooms of state frogs crawled, and croaked,  
No place from them was freed.   

verse 31 He spoke, and lice with various flies,  
Into all Egypt came:  
verse 32 For rain, he sent them from the skies,  
Hail mixed with sulphurous flame.  
verse 33 With other Trees, throughout their coasts,  
It vines, and Figtrees broke:  
verse 34 Locusts, and Caterpillars hosts  
Marched, at the word he spoke.   

verse 35 They camein numbers infinite;  
Their teeth, no herb did spare:  
And through the Land, where they did light,  
They peeled the Country bore,  
verse 36 All the Firstborn that Egypt bred,  
Fell by the Angel's hand:  
Their lustiest youths were smitten dead,  
The strength of all the Land.    

Part V  

verse 37 With gold and silver, (paid for brick,)  
God thence his people. sent;  
Not one in all their Tribes, was sick,  
Nor any impotent.  
verse 38 Glad Egypt was, when rid of those  
Whose stay had cost them dear:  
To hire them to be gone, they chose,  
Of whom they lived in fear.   

verse 39 O'er them; by day a cloud he spread,  
When the hot Sun shone bright:  
And with a fiery pillar led  
Them in their march by night.  
verse 40 They asked, and he with numbers great  
Of quails the people fed:  
And, whiles they had a mind to eat,  
From heaven sent them bread.   

verse 41 He smote the rock, and whence apace  
The waters gushed out:  
And in that dry and thirsty place,  
Like rivers ran about.  
verse 42 For he, on's holy promise, made  
To's servant Abr'am, thought:  
verse 43 And forth from Egypt, very glad  
His chosen people brought.   

verse 44 And freely gave to them, and theirs,  
The heathens fruitful soil:  
And made them th' unexpected heirs,  
To all their sweat, and toil  
verse 45 That they might strictly keep his Laws  
And statutes all their days:  
Wherhfore, as he gives you the cause,  
Give ye the Lord his praise.     

Psalm CVI  

verse 1 O Thank the Lord, and give him praise,  
For very good is he:  
His mercy too, from all decays,  
Remains for ever free.  
verse 2 Where is the man, that can express  
The Lord's most mighty deeds?  
'Gan any praise notmake him lefs,  
Whose worth all praise exceeds?   

verse 3 Blest are the men, who judgements line,  
Observe, and never stray:  
Whose footsteps at no time decline  
The just and righteous way.  
verse 4 Among thy people's chosen race,  
O Lord, remember me:  
And let me, through thy saving grace,  
Be visited by thee.   

verse 5 Thy chosen Nation's happiness  
Let me with gladnese see:  
And with the triumphs they express,  
Let mine united be.  
verse 6 Our fathers have great sinners been,  
And done Iniquity:  
And we, their followers in sin,  
Have acted wickedly.   

verse 7 Thy wonders done in Egypt's Land,  
And many mercies there,  
Because they did not understand,  
By them forgotten were.  
But at the Sea, (where in their need  
They had his help bespoke,)  
At the read Sea, they murmured  
And did his wrath provoke.   

verse 8 Yet than, and there, he did them save,  
Concerned for his own name:  
A great deliverance he gave,  
To raise his power's same.  
verse 9 The read Sea likewise did he chide,  
Which did before him fly:  
And through the depths he did them guide,  
As through the desert dry:   

verse 10 And saved them from the hand of those,  
Whose hatred was extreme:  
And from the power of their foes  
Their lives he did redeem.  
verse 11 The waves their foes so covered,  
Not one was left alive:  
verse 12 And than his word they credited,  
And praise to him did give.   

Part TWO  

verse 13 His works, as soon as they were passed  
They suddenly forgot:  
And for his counsel, (in their haste,)  
They did resuse to wait.  
verse 14 But in the barren wilderness  
They lusted greedily:  
And tempted God, with rude address  
Their long to supply   

verse 15 Who granted than (With anger just,)  
Whereto they had a mind:  
But whiles they, fed their craving Just,  
They surfeited, and pined.  
verse 16 They grudged at Moses in their breast,  
And in than camp rebelled:  
And against Aaron th' holy Priest  
Of God, their envy swelled.   

verse 17 Th'earth opened than, at God's command,  
And Dathan swsllowed:  
And covered the rebellious band  
His mate Abiram led.  
verse 18 A fire likewise from heaven came,  
Among the factious crew:  
And as they sacrified, the flame  
Th' usurping Levites slew.   

verse 19 In Horeb of collected Gold,  
An Idol God they made:  
And to a calf cast in a mould,  
Religious worship paid.  
verse 20 Their brutish folly thus they showed;  
God, who their glory was,  
They changed, to the similitude  
Of th' Ox that eateth grass   

verse 21 And did unkindly God forget,  
Who had their Saviour been:  
Although they had the wonders great,  
He wrought in Egypt, seen.  
verse 22 Nor only those, which in the land  
Of Ham were newly shown:  
But tbose amazing things, his hand  
At the read sea had done.   

verse 23 In just displeasure, than he said,  
He would destroy them quite:  
And had, if Moses had not stayed  
His hand, advanced to smite.  
'Twas he, that stood in th' open breach,  
God's anger to alloy:  
And prevalently did beseech  
His wrath to turn away.    

Part III.  

verse 24 Yea, they the pleasant land defied,  
And trusted not his word:  
verse 25 But grumbling in their Tents, denied  
To harken to the Lord.  
verse 26 Therefore, with hand extended high,  
By oath he did profess,  
He would destroy them utterly  
In that wide Wilderness.   

verse 27 Among the nations too, he swore,  
To nmke their feed to fall:  
Till through all regions, far, and near,  
He had dispersed them all.  
verse 28 With Baal-Peor's shame, likewise,  
They shamelessly complied:  
And feasted on the sacrifice  
Of dead men deified.   

verse 29 Thus with their own inventions  
His wrath they did provoke:  
Till in, upon them all at once,  
The plague with fury broke,  
verse 30 And than did Pbinehas Justice do,  
With righteous Zeal possessed:  
He th' impudent offenders slew,  
And than th' infection ceased.   

verse 31 To him, by God, this zealous deed  
Was counted righteousness:  
And by all Ages he decreed  
It should be thought not lesle.  
verse 32 And at the waters where they chode,  
They did him angry make:  
So that even Moses checked by God,  
Ill fared for their sake.   

verse 33 For vexed by them, (though wondrous meek  
His constant temper was:)  
He unadvisedly did speak  
In that provoking case.  
verse 34 The heathen Nations they did spare,  
Which God forbade to do:  
verse 35 For with those heathens mixed they were,  
And learned their manners too.   

verse 36 Yea, served their Idols, till thereby  
Great mischiess them surprised:  
verse 37 And made their Sons and Daughters die,  
To Devils saerificed.  
verse 38 Their childrens blood they offered  
To Canaan's Idols vain:  
Which blood of Innocents', so shed,  
The very Land did slain.    

Part IU.  

verse 39 From the foul ways wherein they strayed,  
Much guilt they did contract:  
And with the Idols, which they made,  
Did filthy whoredoms act.  
verse 40 Against his people than, the Lord  
Did with fierce wrath engage:  
So that he grievously abhorred  
His chosen heritage:   

verse 41 And justly gave them for a prey  
Into the heathens hand:  
Their mortal foes they did obey,  
Who had them at command.  
verse 42 Their cruel Lords did them oppress,  
Yet they were forced to bear;  
And could themselves no way redress,  
For slaves to them they were:   

verse 43 Ost God them sev'd, but ill advice  
They took, and vexed him often:  
Till, for their great iniquities,  
They very low were brought.  
verse 44 Yet cried they in their low Estate  
Unto him, and he heard:  
And with an heart compassonate,  
Their sorrows did regard.   

verse 45 And when his Covenant of old  
He did recall to mind:  
His love, and mercies manifold,  
To pity him inclined.  
verse 46 Nor did he pity them alone,  
Himself; but all their foes  
Under whose bondage they did groan,  
To pity did dispose.   

verse 47 O Lord our God, from heathenish coasts,  
Once more, do thou us bring:  
To thank thy Name, and make our boasts  
Of thee, whoise praise we sing.  
verse 48 The Lord, the God by Isr'el owned,  
Be blest eternally:  
Amen, let aithe people sound;  
Praise ye the Lord most high.     

Psalm CVII  
[To the Tune of the old 100 P salm] All people, etc.  

verse 1 THank we the Lord, for good to us,  
And ever merciful is he:  
verse 2 Let the Lord's purchased one's, say thus,  
Thus, we have found him still to be.  
verse 3 Those whom he rescued from the hands  
of enemies who them oppressed:  
And gathered from the heathen Lands,  
From North to South, from East to West.   

verse 4 Often they, as strangers, up and down  
Wandered within the desert wide:  
In paths untrod, and found no Town,  
Or City, where they might abide.  
verse 5 Their bellies were with hunger pined,  
And parcnt with thirst their throats were dry:  
Not sustenance they there could found,  
But ready were to faint and die.   

verse 6 Than to the Lord with woeful cry  
Their. doleful case they did express:  
And he did hear them readily,  
And save them out of all distress  
verse 7 And by a strait and ready way,  
He did conduct them, as their guide:  
That there they roight not longer stray,  
But found a City where t' abide.   

verse 8 O that the Lord might never loose  
His praise, when men his goodness found;  
And see the wondrous works he does,  
When to starved travellers he's kind!  
verse 9 For his kind providence supplies  
Their hungry appetites with food:  
And bountifully satisfies  
The longing soul with what is good.   

Part II.  

verse 10 Some, in afflicting Irons laid  
In the dark shades of death reside:  
verse 11 Because his word they disobeyed,  
And th' high God's counsels did deride.  
verse 12 Therefore, with great calamities  
He humbled their rebellious hearts:  
Till plunged in helpless miseries,  
In vain all helpers took their parts.   

verse 13 Than, to the Lord, with mournful cry,  
Their woeful case they did express:  
And he did hear them readily,  
And save them out of all distress.  
verse 14 He from the dark and dismal cave,  
And shade of death they laboured under,  
To them desired freedom gave,  
And broke their iron bands in sunder.   

verse 15 O that the Lord might never loose  
His praise, when men have found him kind;  
And seen the wonders that he does,  
For those whom cruel fetters bind.  
verse 16 For the close Prisons brazen gates  
Wide open fly, at his command:  
And the strong bars of iron grates  
Are cut in sunder by his hand.    

Part III.  

verse 17 Foolhardy sinners, oftentimes,  
Transgressing sore, provoke their God:  
When, in sore sickness, for their crimes,  
He lays on them his smarting rod.  
verse 18 Than do they loathe all delicates,  
Even those, that liked them most before:  
And drawing near death's dismal gates,  
Despair of living any more.   

verse 19 But, when unto the Lord they cry,  
With sorrow for their past excesses:  
He doth his ready help apply,  
To save them out of their distresses.  
verse 20 And heals them with a gracious word,  
When Drugs and Doctors cannot save:  
That passed their hopes, they are restored,  
And rescued from the gaping grave.   

verse 21 O that such men the Lord would praise,  
And ever keep in grateful mind,  
The wondrous works he does to raise  
The weak and sick, of human kind.  
verse 22 Let them to him such offerings bring,  
As do their gratitude express:  
Psalms, to his honour let them sing,  
And spread his works with joyfulness.    

Part IV  

verse 23 They that into the briny floods  
Of the vast Sea, in ships descend;  
And both their persons, and their goods,  
To the great waters trust commend;  
verse 24 Beyond all mortals, if they please,  
See the Lord's works displayed there:  
For often in the deepest Seas,  
His greatest wonders acted are.   

verse 25 There, stormy wind, when he doth bid,  
With a tempestuous fury raves:  
And from the bottom which they hide,  
Into vast mountains swells the waves.  
verse 26 On them, swift vessels climb amain,  
Until they seem to touch the sky:  
But visit soon those vaults again,  
Where the wide-yawning deep doth lie.   

verse 27 Poor saylours' hearts than melt for woe,  
On the uncertain billows tossed:  
As drunkards stagger to and from;  
And all the Pilots skill is lost.  
verse 28 Than to the Lord, with woeful cries,  
Their hopeless state they recommend:  
And he his ready help applies,  
Which doth their sad distresses end.   

verse 29 The stormy winds he lays to rest,  
And calmeth the disturbed Seas:  
So that their waves by him suppressed,  
Do their tumultuous swell cease.  
verse 30 Than, when their scaring frights are past,  
With joyful hearts they shout, and sing:  
And have a prosperous gale at last,  
Them to their wished Port to bring.   

verse 31 O may the Lord's due praises sound,  
Where ever men his goodness found:  
And be his wondrous works renowned,  
Wherein he is to Sea men kind.  
verse 32 Let them therefore his glory raise,  
Amidst the congregations great:  
And let them celebrated his praise,  
Where the assembled Elders meet.    

Part V  

verse 33 A soil, where streams and springs abound,  
He turns into a wilderness:  
verse 34 And barren makes the fruitful ground,  
For the possessors wickedness.  
verse 35 Again, he sendeth pools, and springs,  
Into the dry and desert field:  
verse 36 And thither hungry planters brings,  
That they may there a City build.   

verse 37 Where, sowing Lands, and planting Vines,  
Their wealth by industry ' sincreast:  
verse 38 With plenteous issue from their loins,  
And fruitful  they are blest.  
verse 39 And when, again, they are decreased,  
And into low condition thrown,  
By cruel Tyrants force oppressed;  
And under grievous troubles groan.   

verse 40 He doth contempt on Princes throw,  
Whose might the poor doth over-bear:  
And makes them wander to, and from,  
In Deserts where no paths appear.  
verse 41 But he doth set the poor on high,  
Out of his troubles sore and deep:  
And spreads his large posterity,  
In families, like flocks of sheep.   

verse 42 The righteous shall rejoicing, see,  
These various turns of providence:  
And wicked mouths shall stopped be,  
As destitute of all pretence.  
verse 43 Who than, is wise, and seriously  
To heed these things addicts his mind?  
For every such assuredly  
Shall the Lord's lovingkindness found.     

Psalm CVIII.  
[To the same Tune.]  

verse 1 MY heart is fixed to sing thy praise,  
With cheerful readiness, O God:  
The glories of thy name to raise,  
I'll with my glory sing aloud.  
verse 2 Awake, my well-tuned Harp, awake,  
To praise the Lord, my Psaltery:  
And, in the consort to partake,  
(Right early too) awake will I   

verse 3 I'll utter praises, Lord, among  
The people to thy holy Name:  
And to the Nations, with my song  
Thy glorious praise I will proclaim.  
verse 4 For to the spacious firmament  
Doth thy large spreading mercy stretch:  
Thy truth likewise of vast extent,  
Unto the lofty Skies doth reach.   

verse 5 Do thou exalt thyself, O God,  
And raised above the heavens high,  
Show forth to all the World abroad,  
The glories of thy Majesty.  
verse 6 The power of thy right hand extend,  
To rescue me thy servant dear:  
Unto my prayer an answer sand,  
And make thy saving strength appear.   

Part II.  

verse 7 In strength of th' Oracle Divine  
My joyful triumphs shall be great:  
For Shechem I'll divide by line,  
And Succoths fruitful valley meet.  
verse 8 Gilead is mine, Manasseh mine,  
Ephraim shall support my cause:  
To royal Judah I'll assign  
The power to give the Nations Laws.  
verse 9 Moab I'll make my washing pot;  
I'll over Edom cast my shoe:  
The coasts of the Philistines stout,  
Shall yield me glorious triumphs too.  
verse 10 But who will me conduct into  
The City strongly fortified?  
And into Edom's Country, who  
My forces shall with safety guide?   

verse 11 Will't thou not do't for me, O God,  
Who didst in anger us forsake?  
And to conduct our hosts abroad,  
Wilt thou refuse to undertake?  
verse 12 When troubles make us sore afraid,  
Let us thy saving health obtain:  
For in sad times to give us aid,  
We found all human help is vain.   

verse 13 But when our God our helper is,  
We valiant acts through him shall do:  
For he shall all our Enemies  
Under our conquering feet subdue.     

Psalm CIX.  

verse 1 O God that dost deserve from me  
All praise I can express:  
Whiles wicked mouths wide opened be,  
O hold not thou thy peace.  
verse 2 For wicked and deceitful men  
Talk with large liberty:  
Against me whiles they vent their spleen,  
They use their Tongues to lie.   

verse 3 They likewise did beset me round  
With words of bitter spite:  
And though no cause in me they found,  
They did against me fight.  
verse 4 For my good will they were my foes;  
Yet I for them did pray:  
verse 5 Thus, good with ill, and love they chose  
With hatred to repay.   

verse 6 O'er him a cruel Tyrant set,  
To have him at command:  
And at's right hand, to charge him, let  
Accusing Satan stand.  
verse 7 When he in judgement shall appear,  
Let him be cast therein:  
And when he mercy begs, his prayer  
Be turned into sin.   

verse 8 His office let another take,  
And short'ned be his life:  
Do thou his children Orphans make,  
And widowed be his wife.  
verse 10 And let those children range abroad,  
And wand'ring beg their bread:  
When in their desolate abode;  
They can not more be fed.   

verse 11 Let the extorting creditor  
Snatch all his goods away:  
A Stranger be's his Executor,  
And on his labours prey,  
verse 12 Yea, while such men are merciless,  
Let no man else be kind:  
And let his Orphans in distress,  
Not where compassion found.   

Part II.  

verse 13 Be none with living Issue blest  
Of all that from him came:  
And in the third descent, at lest,  
Extinguished be his Name.  
verse 14 Let all his father's wickedness  
Be minded by the Lord:  
And how his mother did transgress,  
Still be it on record.   

verse 15 Yea, in God's sight continually  
Let that record appear:  
Till earth have lost the memory  
That e'er such persons were.  
verse 16 For mercy he forgot to show,  
For needy men's relief:  
But those to death he did pursue,  
Whose hearts were cracked with grief.   

verse 17 Sigh he did cursing most affect,  
Give thou him what he loved:  
And blessing, which he did reject,  
Be far from him removed.  
verse 18 Curse, wherewith he clothed was,  
Let on himself recoil:  
Through him may they like water, pass,  
And pierce his bones, like oil.   

verse 19 As Garments, covering every side,  
So let them him surround:  
And as his girdle's straight tied,  
Let them on him be bound.  
verse 20 Thus may the Tighteous Lord, the wrongs  
Done by my foes repay:  
Those that employ malicious Tongues,  
My life to take away.    

Part III.  

verse 21 But thou, O Lord, do good to me,  
By thy great Name inclined:  
And let my rescue come from thee,  
Because thy mercy's kind.  
verse 22 For in great need, O Lord, am I,  
With poverty oppressed:  
My heart is Wounded grievously,  
Within my pained breast.   

verse 23 Like to the shadow I am gone,  
When it draws near to night:  
And locust-like, tossed up and down,  
I know not where to light.  
verse 24 Through fasting very much, and often,  
My knees are feeble grown:  
So very low my flesh is brought,  
That all its fat is gone.  
verse 25 Yet in this lamentable case,  
Reproaches have I born:  
My foes beheld my pined face,  
And shaked their heads with scorn.  
verse 26 O Lord, in mercy me relieve,  
My God deliver me:  
verse 27 Yea, do't so, that they may perceive  
IT was done by none but thee.   

verse 28 Bless thou, and curse they, how they will,  
And when they rise to fight,  
Whiles conquering joys thy Servant fill,  
Put them to shameful flight.  
verse 29 Ashamed of the course they took,  
Be my subdued foes:  
And in confusion like a cloak,  
Let them themselves enclose.   

verse 30 My mouth, the Lord to magnify,  
Shall sing triumphant songs:  
Yea, give him ample praise will I,  
Amongst rejoicing throngs.  
verse 31 For when the poor is judged here,  
The Lord himself stands by:  
And by just Providence doth clear  
Whom men have doomed to die.     

Psalm CX.  
[To the Tune of the Old 100 Psalm.] All people, etc.  

verse 1 THE Lord, unto my Lord, thus spoke;  
At my right hand take thou thy seat:  
Till I thine Enemies shall make  
A stool, whereon to set thy feet.  
verse 2 A mighty Rod, from Zion hill,  
The Lord shall put into thy hand:  
Wherewith (though much against their will)  
Amidst thy foes thou shall command.   

verse 3 And all thy subjects, from the day  
Whereon thy royal head is crowned,  
Shall willingly thy Laws obey:  
In holiness such beauty's found!  
Nor shall such converts than be few,  
Born of thy words immortal seed:  
But numberlest, like drops of dew,  
Which early morning's womb doth shed,   

verse 4 The Lord his word will never break,  
Which he irrevocably swore:  
By the order of Melchisedeck,  
I'll make thee Priest for evermore.  
verse 5 Th' Almighty Lord at thy right hand,  
Who armed, for, thee appears to fight:  
Through mighty Kings who thee withstand,  
Stirred up by righteous wrath shall smite.  
verse 6 The heathen shall he judge, and spread  
The bloody field with bodies slain:  
And smite down those among the dead,  
Who over many countries' reign.  
verse 7 Deep shall he drink out of the stream  
That's offered to him in his race:  
Wherhfore with dignity supreme  
The Lord his raised head shall grace.    

Psalm CXI.  

verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord, with all my heart,  
I'll join, to do the same;  
Where th' upright meet, I'll bear my part,  
To glorify his Name.  
verse 2 The works th' Almighty God hath wrought,  
Are works of great renown:  
To those that jove to search them out,  
They shall be clearly known.   

verse 3 Honour and Glory to his Name,  
Each work of his procures:  
And in records of endless same  
His righteousness endures.  
verse 4 The Lord his mighty acts hath done;  
Still to be kept in mind:  
He's full of great compassion,  
And graciously kind.   

verse 5 To those that fear him food to eat  
He did in plenty grant;  
Nor will he any time forget  
His holy Covenant.  
verse 6 Great works which did his strength engage  
He made his people know;  
That th' heathen Nation's heritage  
He might on them bestow.   

verse 7 The works of his Almighty hands  
Are truth and judgement tried:  
And all the; things that he commands,  
Steadfast, and sure abide.  
verse 8 His established Laws, immutably  
Do all men, always bind:  
For uprightness, and verity  
In their whole frame are joined;   

verse 9 His people he redeemed, and gave  
Them his eternal Law:  
Whence, for his holy Name they have  
A reverential awe.  
verse 10 God's fear the rise of wisdom is;  
For it prescribes the ways,  
Wherein, who walks, is truly wise;  
And ever lasts his praise.    

Psalm CXII.  

verse 1 I PRaise ye the Lord. That man is blest  
Of him that stands in awe:  
And feels true pleasure in his breast,  
Whiles he observes his Law.  
verse 2 The uprighr man's successful seed  
On Earth shall mighty grow:  
To all that from his loins are bred,  
All sorts of blessings flow.   

verse 3 His wealth shall plenteously increase,  
And fill his house with store:  
And in its fruits, his righteousness  
Shall last for evermore.  
verse 4 To th' upright in his darkest state,  
Rejoicing light shall rise:  
Who, merciful, compassionate,  
And charitable is.   

verse 5 A friendly heart the good man bears,  
And ready is to lend:  
Whiles yet he doth his own affairs  
With prudent care attend.  
verse 6 An unremoved prosperity  
The righteous here attains:  
And in eternal memory  
When he's gone hence, remains.   

verse 7 Sad tidings, which all others scare,  
Shall not make him afraid:  
His heart is fixed against all fear,  
For on the Lord 'tis stayed.  
verse 8 Established his heart shall be,  
No fright shall it surprise:  
Till his desire performed he see  
Against his Enemies.  
verse 9 His richeses scattered to the poor  
Shall yield him endless praise,  
And th' honour he doth thence procure,  
His Horn aloft shall raise.  
verse 10 The wicked man shall grieve, and grin,  
To see the just prevail:  
For very envy shall he pine,  
Because his wishes fail.    

Psalm CXIII  
[To the Tune of Psalm 148.] Give laud, etc.  

verse 1 YE Servants of the Lord,  
Your master's praise proclaim:  
And all with one accord  
Give praises to his Name,  
verse 2 His holy Name  
This day let's bless,  
And never cease  
To do the same.   

verse 3 From the Suns rise in th' East,  
His praises should extend  
To the remotest West,  
Where he his race doth end.  
verse 4 Above all men  
The Lord is high:  
Beyond the Sky  
His glory's seen.  
verse 5 Who to the the Lord our God  
Is like, or ever was?  
Aloft is his abode;  
verse 6 And yet he doth debase  
Himself, to spy  
How all things go  
In th' earth below,  
And heavens high.   

verse 7 The poor, who all his days  
The dunghill did embrace,  
He from the dust doth raise  
With Princes him to place  
verse 8 With Princes great,  
Upon the throne  
Among God's own  
Dear people set.   

verse 9 To her that never bars,  
He gives a fruitful women!  
And she that did despair,  
A Mother doth become.  
With children stored:  
And full of joys,  
She tunes her voice,  
To praise the Lord.    

Psalm CXIV.  
[To the Tune of Ps 113.] Ye children, etc.  

verse 1 WHen Isr'el Egypt did forsake,  
And Jacob's seed left those that spoke  
A Language that did grate their Ear:  
verse 2 God's Presence Judah sanctified,  
And chose in Isr'el to reside;  
To set up his Dominion there.   

verse 3 The Sea beheld him, and the fright  
Turned it, two ways at once, to flight,  
And Jordan did in haste retreat:  
verse 4 The losty mountains skipped like rams,  
And little hills like little lambs:  
Their fear was so exceeding great.   

verse 5 What was't, O Sea, that did thee fright?  
And, Jordan, what put thee to flight,  
That in such haste thou didst retreat?  
verse 6 Why did ye mountains skip like rams,  
And ye small hills like little lambs?  
Of such great fear, the cause was great.   

verse 7 Yea, tremble still, thou earth, when e'er  
The Lord, that made thee, doth appear;  
And Jacob's, God his face doth show:  
verse 8 For he from Rocks a lake doth bring,  
And flints dissolved, into a spring,  
Whenever he commands, do flow.    

Psalm CXV.  

verse 1 NOt for our own praise, Lord, but thine,  
We fight our heathen foes:  
Thy, not our own praise, we design,  
When we do them oppose.  
Whiles than in war thou helpest us,  
Thy truth and grace renown:  
verse 2 For why should they reproach us thus,  
Whither's your God now flown?   

verse 3 But let them know, our God resides  
In heaven his glorious throne:  
And well we know, what us betides,  
He, as he pleased, hath done.  
verse 4 But their God's Idols are, by man  
Of gold and silver wrought:  
verse 5 With eyes, and mouths; but neither can  
Behold, or utter aught.   

verse 6 Fair ears to them the workman gave,  
Which hear not them that call:  
And comely noses too they have,  
But do not smell at all.  
verse 7 With th' hands they have, they handle not,  
Their feet do never walk:  
And through the hole bored for a throat,  
They neither breath, nor talk.   

verse 8 And senseless things, like them, are those  
That set them up for Gods:  
'Twixt men that trust in such repose,  
And them, there's little odds.  
verse 9 But thou, O Isr'el, in the Lord,  
Repose thy confidence:  
To such as trust him he'll afford  
Both help, and sure defence.   

Part II.  

verse 10 Trust in the Lord let Aaron's seed;  
He is their help and shield:  
Trust in him all, that do him dread,  
Like help to such he'll yield.  
verse 12 The Lord hath had us in his mind,  
And he will bless us still:  
To Isr'el's house he will be kind,  
And it with blessings fill.   

To Aaron's house, that bless us all,  
His blessings he'll afford:  
verse 13 And he will bless both great and small  
Of them that fear the Lord.  
verse 14 Increase you more and more, shall he,  
And your Posterity:  
verse 15 The blessed of that Lord are ye,  
Who made the earth and sky.   

verse 16 Heaven, yea, the heavens, every one,  
Belong unto the Lord:  
But earth, (the footstool of his throne,)  
To man he doth afford.  
verse 17 Those that the silent grave possess,  
Praise not the Lord; but we  
verse 18 Henceforth for ever will him bless.  
For ever praised be he.     

Psalm CXVI.  

verse 1 THE Lord deserves my dearest love,  
And he shall have it all:  
Because his goodness did him move  
To hear when I did call.  
verse 2 Because he did attention give,  
And my request fulfil:  
The longest day I have to live,  
I'll call upon him still.   

verse 3 When the sore pangs of dying men  
Did my faint heart enclose:  
When hellish pains me seized, and when  
My soul was full of woes:  
verse 4 Upon the Lord I called for aid,  
And urged him by his Name:  
Deliver, Lord, my soul, I said,  
And soon deliverance came   

verse 5 Grace in the Lord, and righteousness  
Do equally abound:  
Yea, from our God, in man's distress  
Is store of mercy found  
verse 6 The Lord to plain well meaning men  
Will a Protector be:  
I was in low condition, when  
His mercy helped me.  
verse 7 Now, since (my soul) thy sorrow's past,  
Return unto thy rest:  
Sigh thus to thee, the Lord, at last,  
His bounty hath expressed.  
verse 8 For, Lord, thou didst, in mercy great,  
My soul from death recall;  
Dry up my tears, and stay my feet,  
When I was like to fall.   

verse 9 Before the Lord's most holy face  
I'll order all my ways,  
Amongst the living whiles his grace  
Shall lengthen out my days.  
verse 10 For though I was afflicted sore,  
And sad complaint did make:  
Yet I believed; and t'him, therefore,  
With good success I spoke.   

Part II.  

verse 11 I said in haste, all men will lie;  
Not one doth truth retain:  
verse 12 For all his favours, how shall I  
Requited the Lord again?  
verse 13 The cup, wherein, at holy feasts,  
We God's salvations own,  
I'll take, and with the holy guests,  
His name I'll call upon.   

verse 14 The vows with which my soul I bond,  
Unto the Lord I'll pay:  
Whiles all his people me surround,  
Now, on this solemn day.  
verse 15 The life of every Saint of his  
The Lord doth value high:  
But sets by far the greatest price,  
Upon them, when they die.   

verse 16 Unto thy servicc, me, her seed,  
Thy handmaid did consign:  
Yea, by thee, Lord, from bondage freed  
I'm rendered doubly thine.  
verse 17 I'll give thee a thank-offering,  
Such as thy favours claim:  
And when I call on thee, will sing  
The praises of thy Name.   

verse 18 The vows wherewith my soul I bond,  
Unto the Lord I'll pay:  
Whiles all his people me surround,  
Now, on this solemnday.  
verse 19 In the Lord's Courts I will them pay;  
Yea, in the midst of thee,  
Of thee, Jerusalem, I'll say  
Praise ye the Lord with me.     

Psalm CXVII.  
[To the Tune of Ps. 148.] Give laud, etc.  

verse 1 ALL Nations where so e'er  
Ye devil in th'earth abroad:  
Sing praises every where  
Unto the Lord our God.  
And (as ye are bound)  
Ye people all,  
Both great and small;  
His praises sound.   

verse 2 For towards us his grace  
He daily doth extend:  
His love no measure has,  
His saving truth no end.  
For to his word  
He's ever true  
To us, and you;  
Praise ye the Lord.    

Psalm CXVIII.  

verse 1 O Thank the Lord, for good is he,  
His mercy ever lasts:  
verse 2 Let Israel now say, we see,  
His mercy never wast's.  
verse 3 Now let the house of Aaron say,  
His mercy never ends:  
verse 4 Now let all those that fear him, say,  
No age his mercy spends.   

verse 5 Unto the Lord, in my distress  
I called for helping grace:  
Who answered, and did me release  
Into a spacious place.  
verse 6 Because the Lord takes part with me,  
I will not be afraid:  
For how can man successful be,  
To hurt, whom he will aid?   

verse 7 The Lord doth on my side engage,  
My helpers he befriends:  
Whence I shall see, what I presage,  
My haters feanfull ends.  
verse 8 'Tis better trustihg in the Lord,  
Than in man's mortal seed:  
verse 9 'Tis better trusting on the Lord,  
Than Princes, in our need.   

verse 10 All Nations round about me came,  
And did me sore annoyed:  
But in the Lord's Almighty name,  
I will them all destroy.  
verse 11 About me, more than once, they came,  
And my destruction sought  
But in the Lord's Almighty name  
I'll bring them all to naught.   

verse 12 Round me like angry Bees, they swarmed  
But like a feeble flame  
Of thorns, I'll quickly quench them, armed  
With God's Almighty Name.  
verse 13 And thou, proud foe, that thought's to kill  
Me, with a mortal pass;  
Hast found, thou couldst not have thy will;  
For God my helper was.   

Part II.  

verse 14 My strength is from the Lord, to whom  
My song I do direct:  
And he my Saviour doth become,  
When I his help expect.  
verse 15 The voice of joy and safety dwells,  
Where righteous men reside:  
The Lord's right hand their foes repels,  
With valour often tried.   

verse 16 The right hand of the Lord excels,  
And is exalted high:  
All his insulting foes it quells  
And conquers valiantly.  
verse 17 I shall not yet resign to death,  
What e'er my dangers are:  
But live, and with my vital breath,  
The Lord's great works declare.   

verse 18 The Lord, indeed, hath scourged me sore,  
With his correcting hahd:  
But yet, he hath not given me o'f,  
To be at death's command.  
verse 19 Set open (ye that keep the Keys)  
The gates of nighteousness:  
That I the Lord's deserved praise  
May in his house express.   

verse 20 This Gate, the Lord's most holy Gate,  
Into his house doth lead:  
The righteous must go in thereat,  
His holy Courts to tread.  
verse 21 Among those righteous ones, I'll be,  
And praise on thee bestow:  
For thou hast heard me, and to thee  
I all my safety owe.    

Part III.  

verse 22 The stone, which, when they looked thereon,  
The bvilders did disclaim:  
Is now become th' head corner stone,  
And strength of all the frame  
verse 23 This work, the Lord's Almighty hand  
Hath brought to pass alone:  
And wein great amazement stand,  
To view what he hath done.   

verse 24 The day on which this work was wrought,  
The Lord hath holy made:  
And we thereon, will, (as we aught)  
With holy mirth be glad.  
verse 25 Now, Lord, thy people humbly crave,  
Us with salvation bless:  
Now, Lord, let all our actions have  
A prosperous success.   

verse 26 Upon that King God's blessings rest,  
Who Cometh in his Name:  
From the Lord's Sanctuary blest  
Be you that him proclaim.  
verse 27 From God the Lord those beams are shed,  
Whose light doth us surround:  
Let's than to th' horns of th' Altar, lead  
Our sacrifices bound.   

verse 28 Thou art my God; and I'll proclaim  
Thy everlasting praise:  
Thou art my God, whose holy Name  
My grateful song shall raise.  
verse 29 O Let us thank the Lord, whom we  
Still found so good a friend:  
Whose mercies never lessened be,  
Nor ever have an end.     

Psalm CXIX.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 113.] Ye children, etc.  

verse 1 IN a most blessed state are they,  
Who eat defilements in their way,  
And by God's Law direct their pace:  
verse 2 They're blest who by those rules do live,  
Which his just testimonies give;  
And with their whole heart seek his face.   

verse 3 Such also do the practice fly thence.  
Of any known iniquity:  
And keep his ways, ne'er straggling  
verse 4 Thus, all of us, by thy command,  
Obliged to keep thy precepts stand,  
With utmost care and diligence.  
verse 5 O that, by thy assisting grace  
Thy Statutes with a constant pace  
To walk in, thou wouldst me direct!  
verse 6 Than shall no guilty shame befall  
Thy servant, when alike to all  
Commands of thine he bears respect.   

verse 7 And when thou hast thus learned me,  
How righteous all thy Judgements be,  
I'll praise thee with an upright heart:  
verse 8 To keep thy statutes, I'll apply  
My utmost care and industry,  
O do not quite from me departed.   

Part II.  

verse 9 The sins to youth most incident,  
How may a man in youth prevent?  
To heed thy words his only way.  
verse 10 'Tis after that, that I inquire,  
And seek thee with an heart entire:  
From thy commands ne'er let me stray.   

verse 11 The treasure of thy holy word  
've hidden in my heart, O Lord,  
To keep me from offending thee.  
verse 12 Most blessed in thyself thou art,  
And lov'st thy blessedness t' impart:  
Thy statutes therefore teach thou me.  
verse 13 Of all the Judgements of thy mouth,  
(The Oracle of perfect truth,)  
To talk, hath been my business still.  
verse 14 Thy testimonies are a path,  
Wherein my soul like pleasure hath  
To theirs, who have all wealth at william.   

verse 15 My thoughts to meditation bend  
Upon thy precepts shall be spent:  
And on thy ways my heart I'll set.  
verse 16 Yea, whiles my mind I thus employ,  
Thy statutes shall me fill with joy;  
And I will not thy word forget.    

Part III.  

verse 17 Thy servant lives to keep thy word.  
Thy favour than to him afford,  
That he prolonged life may gain:  
verse 18 Clear thou the dimness of mine eyes,  
Thy Law to look into, and prize  
The wonders which it doth contain.   

verse 19 A stranger on the earth am I;  
O do not than to me deny  
The light which thy commandments give:  
verse 20 Thy Judgements t' understand aright,  
I have a longing appetite;  
No time without them can I live.   

verse 21 Those that presumptuously stray,  
Not making thy commands their way,  
Rebuked, and cursed are by thee.  
verse 22 Sigh than thy Testimonies kept  
I have, and ne'er besides them stepped;  
Remove reproach and scorn from me.   

verse 23 Great Princes close in Council set,  
Did to destroy thy servant, treat:  
But I thy Statutes thought upon,  
verse 24 Thy testimonies only are  
The counsel to which I repair:  
And my delight's in them alone.    

Part IU.  

verse 25 My soul adhereth to the dust.  
Perform thy word whereon I trust:  
And from all dangers set me free.  
verse 26 My ways to thee I did declare,  
And thou to me didst bend thine ear:  
Thy holy Statutes teach thou me.   

verse 27 The way thy Precepts do command,  
Lord, make thou me to understand:  
Thy wonders so shall I declare.  
verse 28 My soul for grief doth melt away;  
But my impaired strength's decay  
According to thy word repair.   

verse 29 The way of lies from me remove;  
And out of thy abundant love,  
To me thy laws sound knowledge give.  
verse 30 The way of truth by choice I took,  
And on thy Judgements still did look,  
To teach me how I aught to live.   

verse 31 Thy testimonies constantly  
Have been the rule I walked by:  
Whence let me ne'er with shame departed.  
verse 32 The race which thy commands enjoin,  
I'll run, and never thence decline,  
When e'er thou shalt enlarge my heart.    

Part V  

verse 33 Thy Statutes, Lord, teach me to know,  
That I in their strait way may go:  
And to the end I'll it pursue.  
verse 34 Give me to understand, and I  
Shall keep thy law: yea, I'll apply  
My heart entirely thereunto.   

verse 35 Where thy Commands chalk out my path,  
Make me to go: for therein hath  
My ravished soul delights entire.  
verse 36 Thy testimonies still to mind  
Lord, tender thou my heart inclined:  
And freed from worldly wealth's desire.   

verse 37 Jest vanity my heart surprise,  
From all vain objects turn mine eyes:  
And in thy way enliven me.  
verse 38 Thy word unto thy servant dear,  
Who is devoted to thy fear,  
Let, by th' effect, established be.  
verse 39 Help me, with reputation clear,  
T' escape the foul reproach I fear:  
For thy good Judgements I confess.  
verse 40 Behold, thy Precepts do excite  
In me a longing appetite:  
Quicken me in thy righteousness.    

Part VI.  

verse 41 As thou to me thy word hast passed,  
Lord, let thy saving mercies haste  
To bring my sorrows to an end.  
verse 42 So shall I have an answer clear,  
To give to him that doth me jeer,  
When on thy word I do depend.   

verse 43 And silence not my mouth, when I  
Pled thy words certain verity:  
For in thy Judgements hoped I have.  
verse 44 So shall thy law observed be  
With constant diligence by me:  
Not part thereof I'll ever wave.   

verse 45 Yea, thus to be obliged, still,  
I count true liberty of will:  
For I from love thy Precepts seek.  
verse 46 In presence, too, of mighty Kings,  
Thy testimonies are the things  
Of which I'll never blush to speak.   

verse 47 For seeing with affection great  
My heart on thy Commands is set,  
Great pleasure thence to me accrues.  
verse 48 Yea, I'll extend my craving hands,  
To grasp thy dearly loved commands;  
And on thy Statutes ever muse.    

Part VII.  

verse 49 Thy word of truth, which doth thee bind  
Unto thy servant, call to mind:  
For thou hast made me hope therein.  
verse 50 This, in affliction have I found  
My consolations surest ground,  
And often thereby revived have been.   

verse 51 With great derision have I met,  
From proud and scornful men: but yet  
I did not from thy law departed.  
verse 52 Thy Judgements, Lord, I thought upon,  
Unto our ancient Fathers shown,  
And cheered with them my drooping heart.   

verse 53 Though horrors hold on me did take,  
For those ungodly wretch's sake,  
Who from thy laws obedience fell.  
verse 54 Thy Statutes have I made my songs,  
To cheer me under griefs and wrongs,  
Whiles I on earth a stranger devil.   

verse 55 I kept thy Law, O Lord, and often  
By night, upon thy Name have thought;  
Repaid, thereby, for want of sleep.  
verse 56 These great advantages I made:  
And more than I can utter, had;  
Because I did thy Precepts keep.    

Part VIII.  

verse 57 My ample portion, Lord, thou art,  
Whence I'm resolved in my heart,  
That I will keep thy words, with care.  
verse 58 With heart entire I sought thy face;  
Extend to me thy saving grace,  
Which in thy word thou dost declare.   

verse 59 Unto thy Testimonies I  
My wandering footsteps did apply,  
When I reviewed my former ways.  
verse 60 To do the things thou didst command,  
I did not long debating stand:  
But hastened to't without delays.   

verse 61 Upon my goods, the spoiling bands  
Of robbers laid unrighteous hands:  
But I have not forgot thy law.  
verse 62 At midnight will I rise to pay  
The thanks to thee; which every day  
Thy righteous judgements from me draw.   

verse 63 I choose for my companions dear,  
All such, as thee sincerely fear;  
And do not from thy precepts stray.  
verse 64 Thy mercies do themselves extend  
To fill the earth from end to end,  
Teach me thy statutes to obey.    

Part IX.  

verse 65 Thou hast to me been faithful, Lord:  
For, as thou didst engage thy word,  
Thy servant favour hath received.  
verse 66 The duty which to thee I own,  
With saving relish make me know:  
For thy commands I have believed.   

verse 67 When I was from affliction free,  
I fond went astray from thee:  
But to thy word keep closer now.  
verse 68 Lord, in thy nature good thou art,  
And goodness dost to man impart:  
Thy statutes than, teach me to know.   

verse 69 The proud against me forged a lie.  
But my whole heart I will apply  
Thy precepts to observe aright.  
verse 70 A brawny fat their hearts doth fence,  
Excluding all religious sense:  
But in thy law do I delight.   

verse 71 I now perceive, 'twas for my good,  
That I so smartly felt thy rod:  
Thy statutes thence I learned to prize.  
verse 72 For now thy law I dearer hold,  
Than bags of silver coined or gold,  
Although their sum ten thousands rise.    

Part X.  

verse 73 I'm made, and fashioned by thy hands.  
The knowledge, than, of thy commands  
Enable me to comprehend.  
verse 74 Than, those that fear thee, glad shall be,  
When e'er they cast their eyes on me:  
Sigh on thy word my hopes depend.   

verse 75 I know, O Lord, thou righteous art;  
And when thy judgements made me smart,  
Thou chast'nedst me with faithfulness.  
verse 76 Let thy kind mercies, now, I pray,  
Thy servants heart with comfort stay,  
Who pleads for it thy word express.   

verse 77 To me thy tender mercies sand,  
Jest I my life in sorrows end:  
For in thy law delight I found.  
verse 78 Confounded the proud, who would subvert  
Me utterly without desert;  
And I will still thy precepts mind.   

verse 79 Let all that thy religion own,  
And all that taught by thee, have known  
Thy Testimonies, turn to me.  
verse 80 Still may my heart by such be found  
In love unto thy statutes sound;  
That I may ne'er ashamed be.    

Part XI.  

verse 81 Whiles thou to save me dost delay,  
My soul, through sorrow, faints away;  
But in thy word my hope is placed.  
verse 82 Mine eyes with looking long, decay,  
Whiles on thy word I think; and say,  
To comfort me, when wilt thou haste.   

verse 83 For like a bottle in the smoke,  
Quite parched, and dried with grief I look:  
And yet in mind thy Statutes bear.  
verse 84 How long yet shall thy servant live,  
Expecting, till thou judgement give,  
On those that my pursuers are?   

verse 85 The proud for me have digged pits;  
Whereas thy law no man permits,  
Such false and treacherous acts to do.  
verse 86 All thy commands are faithfulness.  
Than help thou me in my distress,  
For wrongfully they me pursue:   

verse 87 They had almost so far prevailed,  
That all my earthly succours failed:  
Thy Precepts yet, I ne'er declined.  
verse 88 In tender kindness me revive,  
And I shall keep whiles I'm alive,  
Thy testimonies in my mind.    

Part XII.  

verse 89 In heaven, where thou dost reside,  
Forever doth thy word abide:  
Unmoveable, as is thy seat.  
verse 90 Thy faithfulness no age decays:  
'Tis firm as earth itself, which stays,  
Where thou at first didst fix it, yet.   

verse 91 Both heaven and earth, this day remain,  
As at the first thou didst ordain:  
For all things servants are to thee.  
verse 92 Had I not pitched my whole delight  
Upon thy law I'd perished quite,  
When thou so fore afflictedst me.   

verse 93 I'll mind thy Precepts while I live;  
For they alone did me revive,  
When I to gates of death was brought.  
verse 94 Myself to thee I do resign.  
O save a servant, Lord, of thine,  
For I thy Precepts still have sought.   

verse 95 My wicked foes in ambush lay,  
Prepared to take my life away:  
But I thy testimonies mind.  
verse 96 Compleatest creatures, I have found,  
Have limits set: but th' utmost bound,  
Of thy commads, ne'er hope to found.    

Part XIII.  

verse 97 O how unalterable is  
The love, wherewith thy Law I prize!  
On it I think throughout the day.  
verse 98 By thy commands thou mad'st me wise,  
Beyond my crafty'st Enemies:  
And with me still those lessons stay.   

verse 99 All those that teach me, I outgo  
In knowledge, since my thoughts to know  
Thy testimonies were inclined.  
verse 100 Moore understanding have I gained,  
Than all my Elders have attained:  
For I thy Precepts kept in mind.   

verse 101 I kept my feet, jest they should stray  
From thee, to any evil way:  
That strictly keep thy words I might.  
verse 102 Thy Judgements I did not desert,  
With an unsound, backsliding heart:  
For thou instructedst me aright.   

verse 103 How sweet to my souls palate, are  
Thy heavenly words! more sweet by far,  
They be, than honey to my mouth.  
verse 104 Taught by thy saving Precepts, I  
Get knowledge; and therefore defy  
All ways that disagree with truth.    

Part XIV.  

verse 105 Thy word's a lamp that shineth bright,  
And yields my feet a certain light,  
Whereby my path I clearly see.  
verse 106 Thy righteous Judgements keep I william.  
For I have sworn, and will fulfil  
The solemn oath I made to thee.   

verse 107 I'm very much afflicted, Lord:  
According to thy faithful word,  
O quicken thou my soul again.  
verse 108 Those offerings kindly, Lord, receive,  
Which with my mouth I freely give;  
And make to me thy Judgements plain.   

verse 109 My soul is ever in mine hand,  
I so exposed to dangers stand:  
Yet do I not thy law forget.  
verse 110 For me the wicked snares did lay,  
Yet never did I from the way  
Thy Precepts taught me, turn my feet.   

verse 111 Thy testimonies me engage  
To take them for my heritage,  
For ever, with a joyful heart.  
verse 112 To do thy Statutes, I designed;  
And thereunto my heart inclined,  
With purpose never thence to start.    

Part XV.  

verse 113 All thoughts of sin and vanity,  
With perfect hatred I defy:  
But dearly do thy law affect.  
verse 114 To me, an hiding-place, and shield,  
Let thy divine protection yield:  
For from thy word I help expect.   

verse 115 Ye wicked men from me departed:  
For I'm resolved, I'll never start,  
From what my God commandeth me.  
verse 116 Uphold me, and my life defend;  
For I upon thy word depend;  
Nor let my hopes defeated be.   

verse 117 Do thou, by thy support, assure  
My soul, and it shall be secure:  
And I'll respect thy Statutes still.  
verse 118 All those that from thy Statutes stray,  
Thou trampledst under feet like clay:  
Their false designs thus prospered ill.   

verse 119 No wicked man in th' earth shall stay;  
Like dross thou puttest them all away:  
Whence I thy testimonies love:  
verse 120 When thus thy justice sinners dooms,  
Upon my flesh a trembling comes:  
Such fear in me thy Judgements move.    

Part XVI.  

verse 121 My actions have been just and right,  
To wicked men's oppressing might,  
Do not therefore abandon me.  
verse 122 For my security engage:  
And let not proud oppressors rage  
Trample down him that serveth thee,   

verse 123 My very Eyesight is decayed,  
With looking for thy saving aid;  
Whiles thy just word is unfulfilled.  
verse 124 In mercy with thy servant deal,  
(For I to that aloneappeal,)  
And make me in thy Statutes skilled,   

verse 125 I do myself thy servant own,  
Make, than, thy testimonies known  
To me, that I may serve thee right.  
verse 126 'Tis time, that thou, Lord, interpose,  
To stop the progress of thy foes:  
For they thy Law have voided quite.   

verse 127 Thy dear commands therefore, above  
Treasures of Gold itself, I love,  
Of gold, refined with utmost care.  
verse 128 And all thy Precepts I profess,  
To be throughout, all righteousness:  
And t' all false ways just hatred bear.    

Part XVII.  

verse 129 Thy testimonies I admire.  
Wherhfore my soul with strong desire,  
Them to observe exactly, strives.  
verse 130 Thy word, at its first entrance, streams  
Into man's mind with lightsome beams:  
And knowledge to the simple gives.   

verse 131 I panted much, and gaped wide,  
Till thy commands me satisfied:  
For love to them did me inflame.  
verse 132 Look on me than, with gracious eyes,  
Such, as thy goodness ne'er denys,  
To those that love thy holy Name.   

verse 133 My steps within thy word retain,  
And let no sinful habit gain,  
A reigning power over me.  
verse 134 Thy Precepts strictly keep will I:  
From man's oppressing cruelty,  
If thou in mercy shalt me free.   

verse 135 Dart on thy servant, (of thy grace)  
The beams of thy well-pleased face:  
And teach me what thy Statutes say.  
verse 136 Salt tears, like Rivers, overflow  
My watered cheeks: it grieves me so,  
That thy just Laws men disobey.    

Part XVIII.  

verse 137 Most righteous in thyself thou art:  
And to thy judgements dost impart  
The image of thy righteousness  
verse 138 Thy testimonies too, by thee  
To us commanded, righteous be:  
And do abound in faithfulness.   

verse 139 Consumed I am with zealous heat,  
To see mine Enemies forget  
Thy words, that should their lives direct.  
verse 140 Thy word is by thy servant tried;  
And does the strictest test abide:  
Whence dearly he doth it affect.   

verse 141 Small, and despised much am I:  
Yet am I not induced thereby  
Thy righteous precepts to decline.  
verse 142 An everlasting righteoushess  
Thou in thy nature dost possess:  
And there's no law for truth like thine.   

verse 143 Trouble and grief have seized my heart;  
But thy commands, to me impart  
Delights, that rich amendss do give.  
verse 144 Thy testimonies do comprise  
A righteousness that never dies:  
Than teach me them, and I shall live.    

Part XIX.  

verse 145 With my whole heart I cried to thee.  
Incline thine ear, O Lord, to me:  
And from thy Statutes I'll not swerve:  
verse 146 I earnestly to thee did cry.  
Deliver me, I said, and I  
Thy testimonies will observe.   

verse 147 I cried before the dawning light,  
And chased the shadows of the night,  
Upon thy word my hope is placed:  
verse 148 Yea, e'er the nights last watch came on,  
Sleep from my wakeful eyes was gone:  
The thinking on thy word, it chased.   

verse 149 Lord, let thy ever tender love  
To hear my voice thy bowels move:  
After thy Judgements quicken me.  
verse 150 Near unto me pursuers draw,  
And act designs far from thy Law,  
For very mischievous they be.   

verse 151 But thou, O Lord, art near me too:  
And all those promises are true,  
Which are annexed to thy commands.  
verse 152 Thy testimonies I do know;  
And from them learned it long ago,  
That their soundation ever stands.    

Part XX.  

verse 153 Lay my affliction to thy heart,  
And safety unto me impart;  
For I retain thy law in mind.  
verse 154 Pled thou my cause, and save me, Lord;  
And, as thou hast engaged thy word,  
Let me thy quickening mercy found.   

verse 155 Salvations distant, out of ken,  
From the whole race of wicked men,  
Who do not by thy Statutes live.  
verse 156 Great are thy tender mercies, Lord,  
Mixed with thy Judgements in thy word:  
O think on them, and me revive.   

verse 157 My persecuting foes increase;  
Yet do not I one jot the lesle  
Thy testimonies (Lord) obey.  
verse 158 Transgressors I beheld, and grieved,  
To see how opposite they lived,  
To what thy holy word doth say.   

verse 159 Think, Lord, how I thy precepts love;  
And let thy loving kindness move  
Thy tender heart me to restore.  
verse 160 No falsehood e'er thy word could stein,  
And all thy Judgements do remain  
Righteous, and firm for evermore.    

Part XXI.  

verse 161 Princes, to whom no cause I gave;  
Unjustly me pursued have:  
But thy pure word doth awe my heart.  
verse 161 Such joy doth in my soul abound,  
As he possesseth who hath found  
Great spoils in which none else hath part.   

verse 163 All sorts of lies I do detest:  
But great affection in my breast  
I bear thy true and holy Law.  
verse 164 Not lesle than seucn times a day,  
Just praises to thy name I pay;  
Which thy just Judgements from me draw.   

verse 165 Those heart's with ample peace are blest,  
In which thy Laws true love doth rest:  
They shall by nothing be dismayed.  
verse 166 That thy salvation I might gain,  
Thy promise did my hopes sustain:  
Whiles thy commandments I obeyed.   

verse 167 Kept by my soul with strictest care  
Thy holy testimonies were:  
To them my love so strong hath been.  
verse 168 I've kept thy testimonies, and  
The Precepts which thou didst command:  
For all my ways by thee are seen.    

Part XXII.  

verse 169 O let my cry to thee come near;  
And give me understanding clear,  
According to thy word, O Lord.  
verse 170 Let my just supplication have  
Admittance unto thee; and save  
Him that depends upon thy word   

verse 171 When in thy Statutes I shall be  
Instructed thoroughly by thee,  
My lips thy praises shall express.  
verse 172 Thy word shall exercise my tongue,  
And its commands shall be my song,  
For all of them are righteousness.   

verse 173 To give me seasonable aid,  
Extend thy hand; for I have made  
Thy Precepts my continual choice.  
verse 174 An earnest longing, Lord, I have  
Expecting when thou wilt me save;  
And in thy Law I do rejoice.   

verse 175 Do thou preserve my soul alive.  
Due praise to thee, than will I give:  
And let thy Judgements give me aid.  
verse 176 O seek thy servant, who has not  
Thy just commandments quite forgot;  
Like a lost sheep though often I strayed.     

[Another Version of the 119 Ps To the usual Tune.] Blessed are they, etc.  

Part I  

verse 1 Blessed men are they that heedful are  
To eat foul ways of sin:  
Who the Lord's Law with constant care  
Observe to walk therein:  
verse 2 Who from his testimonies take  
The ru'es that guide their pace:  
And their whole hearts whole business make  
The seeking of his face.   

verse 3 Such men can never with design  
One wicked action do:  
His ways, which wandering lusts confine,  
They constantly pursue.  
verse 4 In duty bound, and conscience,  
By thy Command are we,  
That kept with strictest diligence  
By us thy Precepts be.   

verse 5 O that (thy grace assisting) I  
My ways so strait could lay:  
That from thy Statutes, wilfully,  
My steps might never stray!  
verse 6 So shall I all the shame decline  
Which doth lose lives pursue;  
Whiles unto all Commands of thine  
A like respect I show.  
verse 7 From an heart filled with love unfeigned  
Thy praise I will declare:  
When, taught by thee, I understand  
How just thy Judgements are.  
verse 8 With fixed purpose of my heart  
Thy Statutes keep will I:  
And leave me utterly.    

Part II.  

verse 9 What may an youthful person do,  
To cleanse his way, O Lord?  
Let him take constant heed thereto,  
According to thy word.  
verse 10 My heart entire, with full design  
To seek thee, I applied:  
From that which thy commands enjoin  
Let me not wander wide.   

verse 11 Thy word most faithfully within  
My heart laid up have I:  
That awed by it, I might not sin  
Against thy Majesty.  
verse 12 Blest art thou, Lord, and blessing is  
Derived to us from thee:  
That I may know the way to bless,  
Thy Statutes than teach me.   

verse 13 Of all the Judgements, from above,  
By thine own mouth declared,  
My lips (inspired with holy love)  
To speak have never spared.  
verse 14 Whiles in thy Testimonies I  
Walk with an heart most glad,  
It's joy abounds, and runs as high,  
As if all wealth I had.   

verse 15 My meditating thoughts unto  
Thy Precepts I'll direct:  
And, stead fastly in them to go,  
Thy ways I will respect.  
verse 16 Upon thy righteous Statutes, I  
My whole delight will set:  
Nor shall my faithless memory  
Thy holy Word forget.    

Part III.  

verse 17 Thy loving kindness unto me  
Thy servant so afford,  
That my frail life prolonged may be,  
To keep thy holy word.  
verse 18 The veil that hides mine eyes, withdraw,  
That so I may behold  
Th' amazing wonders, which thy Law  
In figures doth enfold.   

verse 19 Whiles upon earth I do reside,  
I'm but a stranger there:  
O let not thy commands be hid  
From me, my course to steer.  
verse 20 My soul with long and strong desire  
Sore broken is, and pained:  
After thy Judgements to inquire  
No time hath it refrained.   

verse 21 Rebuked by thee, and cursed they stand,  
Who, swollen with haughty pride,  
From what thou giv'st them in command,  
Profanely turn aside.  
verse 22 Thy testimonies kept with care  
Have ever been by me:  
From the reproach and scorn I bear,  
Do thou than, set me free.   

verse 23 Great Princes too, consulting sat,  
Thy servants blood to spill:  
But I, mean while, did meditate  
Thy Statutes to fulfil.  
verse 24 Thy testimonies too, I'll make  
My souls entire delight:  
And from them daily counsel take,  
To guide my life aright.    

Part IU.  

verse 25 My fainting soul unto the dust  
Cleaves fast through grief, and pain:  
Perform thy word, on which I trust,  
And quicken me again.  
verse 26 My past ways when I did declare,  
My voice thine ear did reach:  
That I their errors may repair.  
To me thy Statutes teach.  
verse 27 The way, wherein thy Precepts lead,  
Make me to know, and walk:  
Than all thy wondrous works to spread,  
My tongue shall freely talk.  
verse 28 My Soul with heaviness oppressed,  
Consumes, and melts away:  
O let thy word, on which I rest,  
Repair my strengths decay.   

verse 29 All lying ways what e'er they be,  
From me do thou remove:  
And thy Laws knowledge unto me  
Grant of thy tender Love.  
verse 30 The certain way of saving truth  
By choice mine own I made:  
And all the Judgements of thy mouth  
Before mine Eyes I laid.   

verse 31 Unto thy testimonies, I  
Did constantly adhere:  
The shame of foul Apostasy,  
Lord, let me never bear.  
verse 32 I'll run the way with cheerful pace  
By thy Commands enjoined:  
Whereto I found my heart (thy grace  
Enlarging it) inclined.    

Part V  

verse 33 O Lord, instruct me in the way  
Thy Statutes recommend:  
And I from it will never stray,  
But keep it to the end.  
verse 34 Grant me to understand thy Law,  
And I shall keep it still:  
Yea, my whole heart, possessed with awe  
Thereof, shall it fulfil.   

verse 35 Assist me by thy grace, to do  
What thy Commands enjoin:  
For in that path I joy to go,  
Whereto they me confine.  
verse 36 Thy testimonies to affect,  
Do thou incline my heart:  
And let no worldly wealth's respect  
From them my love divert.   

verse 37 From tempting objects turn my sight,  
Too apt on them to stay:  
And quicken me with more delight  
To travel in thy way.  
verse 38 Thy word of promise establish thou,  
Unto thy servant dear,  
Who hath himself by solemn vow  
Devoted to thy fear.   

verse 39 Turn from me the reproach and shame  
Which I so greatly dread:  
For (though bad men thy Judgements blame,)  
In goodness they exceed.  
verse 40 Behold, with longing earnestness  
Thy Precepts I have sought:  
Quicken me in thy righteousness,  
T' obey them as I aught.    

Part VI.  

verse 41 As thou thy faithful Word hast passed  
Me from my foes to save:  
So, Lord, dispatch to me with haste  
The mercies which I crave.  
verse 42 So shall I give an answer just  
Unto my scornful foes,  
Who me reproach, because my trust  
I in thy word repose.   

verse 43 And give my mouth still cause to pled  
In thy true words defence:  
For on thy Judgements I have laid  
My hope, and confidence.  
verse 44 So, what thy Law enjoineth, I  
Will, in no case, omit:  
But, unto all eternity  
Observe, and practise it.   

verse 45 And whiles it doth me most confine,  
I'll count it liberty:  
For every precept, Lord, of thine  
Seek out with care do I  
verse 46 Thy testimonies too ' I'll own,  
Even where Kings present are:  
Nor will I, daunted with their frown,  
To speak of them forbear.  
verse 47 And sigh on thy Commands my heart  
It's dearest love hath set:  
Their study shall to me impart  
Delights exceeding great.  
verse 48 My hands likewise I will extend  
To each divine command:  
And, moved by love, my studies bend  
Thy Statutes t' understand.    

Part VII.  

verse 49 Recall to mind the word by thee  
Unto thy servant passed:  
On which (thy grace enabling me)  
My hope is firmly placed.  
verse 50 From it, in my affliction, I  
Most solid comfort have:  
For when I was about to die,  
Reviving strength it gave.   

verse 51 With insolence exceeding great  
The proud did me deride:  
But from thy Laws strict measures, yet,  
I have not turned aside.  
verse 52 Thy Judgements, Lord, of ancient days  
To mind I did recall:  
From whence I did great comfort raise,  
To cheer my heart withal.   

verse 53 Great horror, mixed with pity, seized  
Upon me, when I saw  
How proudly wicked men despised,  
And quite forsook thy Law.  
verse 54 Amidst the many griess, and wrongs,  
I, as a stranger, bore  
In this life's pilgrimage; my songs  
Thy holy Statutes were.   

verse 55 To think (O Lord) upon thy Name,  
By night I broke my sleep;  
And thereby kept my Soul in frame,  
Thy holy Law to keep.  
verse 56 These great advantages I made,  
(And more than I can speak;)  
Because such constant care I had,  
Thy precepts not to break.    

Part VIII.  

verse 57 Thou hast thyself by promise made  
To be my portion, Lord:  
And, with full purpose, I have said,  
That I would keep thy word.  
verse 58 With earnest fervency, my heart  
In prayer did seek thy face:  
According to thy word, impart  
To me thy saving grace.   

verse 59 Unto thy testimonies, I  
My wandering footsteps turned;  
When I my former ways did try,  
And for their errors mourned.  
verse 60 I did not long debating stand,  
But laid delays avide:  
And unto what thou didst command,  
My heart with haste applied.   

verse 61 Whole troops of wicked men combined,  
To make my goods their prey:  
Yet still I kept thy Law in mind,  
That I might it obey.  
verse 62 At midnight from my bed I'll rise,  
To tender thanks to thee:  
For greatly I thy Judgements prize,  
Because they righteous be.   

verse 63 Each one that doth thy precepts mind,  
And liveth in thy fear;  
I own for my beloved friend,  
And my companion dear.  
verse 64 Thy mercies, Lord, abundantly  
The earth throughout do fill:  
Thy Statutes than teach me, that I  
May from them know thy william.    

Part IX.  

verse 65 Most favourably thou hast dealt  
With me thy servant, Lord:  
For I th' effects thereof have felt,  
According to thy word.  
verse 66 Sound knowledge of all truth's divine  
Do thou unto me give:  
For I do all commands of thine  
With firm belies receive.  
verse 67 When from affliction I was freed,  
Out of thy ways I stepped:  
But ever since, with greater heed,  
Thy holy word I kept.  
verse 68 Exceeding good thou art, and dost  
All that is good bestow:  
Than teach thou me, how good, and just,  
Thy Statutes are, to know.   

verse 69 Foul things unto my charge to lay,  
The proud did lies invent:  
But I thy precepts to obey,  
My heart have wholly bend.  
verse 70 Their stupid hearts in brawny fat  
Enclosed, all sense have lost:  
But thy most holy Law is that  
Which me delighteth most.   

verse 71 That thou afflicted'st me for good,  
I clearly now discern:  
That, scourged by thy chastening rod;  
I might thy Statutes learn.  
verse 72 The holy Law thy mouth enjoined,  
I now do value more,  
Than sums of gold and silver coined,  
When heaped in greatest store.    

Part X.  

verse 73 Thy workmanship, O Lord, I am,  
And fashioned by thy hands:  
Instruct me than, how I may frame  
My life by thy Commands.  
verse 74 Who ever fear thee, will be glad  
To see my troubles end:  
Because upon thy word for aid  
My hopes did still depend.   

verse 75 O Lord, when thou dost Judgements sand,  
I know, they righteous be:  
And thou dealt'st like a faithful friend,  
When thou afflicted'st me  
verse 76 Extend, I pray, thy tender love,  
To ease thy servants pain:  
And let thy faithful word thee move  
To comfort me again.   

verse 77 O let thy tender mercies draw  
Near me, my life to save:  
For in the study of thy Law  
A great delight I have.  
verse 78 Shamed be the proud, without desert,  
Who me perversely use:  
But on thy Precepts I my heart  
Engaged have to muse.   

verse 79 My cause, let all that love thee, own,  
And unto me repair:  
With every one, to whom well known  
Thy testimonies are.  
verse 80 Let me thy Statutes with a sound  
And honest heart affect:  
So shall no crime in me be found,  
Nor shame on me reflect.    

Part XI.  

verse 81 My fainting soul with grief doth droop,  
Until thou do me save:  
Supported, only, by the hope  
Which in thy word I have.  
verse 82 Ours eyes, whiles they long look to see  
Thy word fulfilled, decay:  
And often, when wilt thou comfort me?  
My earnest wishes say.   

verse 83 For like a bottle parched in smoke,  
Do wrinkled I appear:  
Yet do I not forget to look  
Into thy Statutes dear.  
verse 84 How many days must I, expect  
The aid thy grace bestows?  
When wilt thou Judgement execute  
On my pursuing foes?   

verse 85 Whiles my insulting Enemies  
To take me, digged pits,  
They dealt with me far otherwise,  
Than thy just Law permits.  
verse 86 Strengthened with thy fidelity,  
All thy Commandments be:  
They persecute me wrongfully;  
Help than, and rescue me.  
verse 87 Almost of all that e'er I had,  
On earth by them bereavest;  
(To help me in a case so sad,)  
I ne'er thy precepts left.  
verse 88 In tender mercy me revive;  
And carefully I'll heed  
Those testimonies while I live,  
Which from thy mouth proceed.    

Part XII.  

verse 89 In heaven, where thy Throne, O Lord,  
For ever standeth fast,  
With equal firmness thou thy word  
For ever settled haste.  
verse 90 And thy unshaken faithfulness  
Abides from race to race:  
As earth unmoved doth still possess  
It's first appointed place.   

verse 91 Thine ordinances placed them there,  
Where, at this day they stand:  
For all of them thy servants are,  
And under thy command.  
verse 92 Unless thy Law alone had been  
My souls entire delight;  
I had in mine affliction, than,  
With sorrow perished quite.   

verse 93 Thy precepts in my memory  
I'll evermore retain:  
By which, when I was like to die,  
Thou quick'ned'st me again.  
verse 94 Devoted unto thee am I;  
Thine own vowed servant save:  
For I enquired constantly  
After thy precepts have.   

verse 95 My wicked foes my life to spill,  
Have waited me to take:  
But I thy testimonies will  
My daily study make.  
verse 96 The bounds of all that's excellent  
In creatures, I have spied:  
But thy commands, in their extent,  
Do spread exceeding wide.    

Part XIII.  

verse 97 O what exceeding love I pay  
Unto thy Law most dear?  
My meditations all the day  
On it employed are.  
verse 98 By thy commands which in my breast  
For ever fixed remain,  
Of greater wisdom I'm possessed,  
Than e'er my foes could gain.   

verse 99 Thy studied testimonies made  
Me understand much more,  
Than all the teachers which I had,  
E'er understood before.  
verse 100 Men, far my elders, I exceed  
By far, in knowledge deep:  
Because I do thy precepts heed,  
And diligently keep.   

verse 101 That I might keep thy word in mind,  
Ne'er from its rules to stray;  
My feet I thereunto confined,  
And shunned each evil way.  
verse 102 Thy Judgements I did not desert,  
Nor in my duty failed:  
The Lessons which thou on my heart  
Hadst printed, so prevailed.   

verse 103 How sweetly taste, thy words of truth  
To my enlightened mind?  
A lesle sweet relish doth my mouth  
In purest honey found.  
verse 104 An understanding pure, and clear,  
I through thy precepts get:  
Wherhfore, the hatred which I bear  
To all false ways, is great.    

Part XIV.  

verse 105 Thy word, to guide my feet aright,  
A Candle is to me:  
And yields a clear and certain light,  
Whereby my path I see.  
verse 106 By solemn oath myself I tied,  
And will perform it too:  
That what thy righteous Judgements bid,  
I will observe, and do.   

verse 107 I long have undergone, O Lord,  
Afflictions great, and sore:  
According as thy gracious word  
Doth bind thee, me restore.  
verse 108 Those offerings kindly, Lord, receive,  
(I humbly thee beseech,)  
Which with my vowing mouth I give;  
And me thy Judgements teach.   

verse 109 My soul is ever in my hand,  
Exposed to dangers great:  
Not dangers yet, wherein I stand,  
Make me thy Law forget,  
verse 110 The wicked an entrapping'gin  
To take my feet, have laid:  
Yet from no precept, Lord, of thine  
To eat it, have I strayed.   

verse 111 Thy testimonies do I take,  
And with unalter'd choice,  
Mine heritage for ever make:  
For they my heart rejoice.  
verse 112 With steadfast purpose of my will,  
My heart I wholly bend,  
To keep thy righteous Judgements, till  
My days in death shall end.    

Part XV.  

verse 113 To thoughts that sinful are, and vain  
Great hatred do I bear:  
But for thy Law I do retain  
A Love exceeding dear.  
verse 114 To me an hiding-place thou art,  
And a protecting shield:  
And jest my hopes from thee should start)  
Thy word hath them upheld.   

verse 115 Departed from me, who e'er ye are  
That work iniquity:  
For I my God's commands declare  
That I'll keep faithfully.  
verse 116 According to thy word to me,  
Make thou thy grace my prop:  
That I may live, and never be  
Ashamed of my hope.   

verse 117 Whiles thy supporting grace me stays,  
Secure shall I remain:  
And to thy Statutes all my days  
Firm love I will retain.  
verse 118 All those, who from thy Statutes strayed,  
Thou troddest to the ground:  
So that the treacherous plots they laid,  
False to themselves were found.   

verse 119 All wicked men, like dross from gold,  
From th' earth thou dost remove:  
Whence I, their ends, when I behold,  
Thy testimonies love.  
verse 120 My very flesh with trembling seized,  
For fear of thee, doth quake:  
Thy Judgements, when thou art displeased  
My courage so doth shake.    

Part XVI.  

verse 121 My deal towards other men,  
Were ever just and right:  
O do not me abandon, than,  
To be oppressed by might.  
verse 122 Whiles with thy servant men contest,  
Do thou for him engage:  
And let me never be oppressed  
By their insulting rage.   

verse 123 Mine eyes with long expecting fail,  
Whiles thy salvation stays:  
So many fears my faith assail,  
Because thy word delays!  
verse 124 According to thy mercy deal  
With him that serveth thee:  
And, of thy special grace, reveal  
Thy Statutes unto me.   

verse 125 Sigh I thy servant am, I say,  
Do thou on me bestow  
Such understanding, that I may  
Thy testimonies know.  
verse 126 'Tis time for thee to show thy might,  
And therewith, Lord, to awe  
Bold sinners who, endeavour quite  
T' annul thy sacred Law.   

verse 127 Thy dear commands I love therefore,  
So, that to me they are  
Of value, more, than gold, yea more  
Than finest gold can bear.  
verse 128 Hence, all thy Precepts I esteem,  
In every thing they say,  
Most right; and do, for love of them,  
Hate every erring way.    

Part XVII.  

verse 129 Thy holy testimonies are  
Filled full with wonders deep:  
My soul therefore, with greatest care,  
Doth them resolve to keep.  
verse 130 The entrance to thy word doth give  
Dark souls a saving light:  
The simple thence the grace receive,  
To know their duty right.   

verse 131 My craving mouth I opened wide,  
And panted earnestly:  
Such longing, to be satisfied  
With thy commands, had I  
verse 132 With smiling countenance me view;  
Not other grace I claim,  
Than thou, O Lord, art want to show  
To those that love thy Name.   

verse 133 My ordered steps do thou within  
Thy words just rules restrain:  
And suffer no habitual sin  
Within my heart to reign.  
verse 134 From the unjust oppressing hand  
Of men, set thou me free:  
So, what thy Precepts do command,  
Shall be observed by me.   

verse 135 Cause thou thy pleased face to shine  
Upon thy servant dear:  
And what thy Statutes do enjoin,  
Make plain to me, and clear.  
verse 136 Down my drenched cheeks, from weeping eyes,  
Rivers of tears do glide;  
When I behold, how men despise  
To make thy Law their guide.    

Part XVIII.  

verse 137 In thee, (I, to thy praise confess,)  
All righteousness doth devil:  
And thine, (O Lord) for uprightness,  
All Judgements do excel.  
verse 138 Thy testimonies t' us enjoined,  
In righteousness abound:  
And are to all that are inclined  
To keep them, faithful found.  
verse 139 I'm even wasted with the heat  
Of zeal, stirred up by grief,  
To see my foes thy words forget,  
That should direct their life.  
verse 140 Thy word, like metal tried in fire,  
So very pure doth prove:  
That therefore with a strong desire,  
Thy servant doth it love.   

verse 141 Small in this world, and mean am I,  
And men with scorn me treat:  
Yet am I not induced thereby,  
Thy precepts to forget.  
verse 142 An everlasting righteousness  
Doth in thy nature devil:  
And that'tis truth itself, not lesle  
Doth make thy Law excel.   

verse 143 Such troubles as me sorely grieve.  
Upon my soul have seized:  
But thy commands such pleasures give,  
By which all griefs are eased.  
verse 144 A righteousness that ne'er decays,  
Thy testimonies have:  
Give me to understand thy ways,  
And I shall scape the grave.    

Part XIX.  

verse 145 With all my heart I cried aloud,  
Lord, harken to my cry:  
And from due sense of gratitude,  
Thy Statutes keep will I  
verse 146 O save thou me, I crying said,  
Out of my dangers deep:  
Than will I, rescued by thy aid,  
Thy testimonies keep.   

verse 147 With early prayers, I did prevent  
The dawning of the day:  
Which, whiles I did to thee present,  
Thy word my hopes did stay.  
verse 148 To me, the night's last watch seemed late,  
Sleep, earlier left mine eyes:  
I, on thy word to meditate  
Before 'twas set, did rise.   

verse 149 O let thy tender mercy move  
Thee, Lord, to hear my voice:  
Judge thou my cause, and in thy love,  
My drooping soul rejoice.  
verse 150 Near me, upon a bad design,  
My persecutor draw:  
But in so doing, they decline  
The farther from thy Law.   

verse 151 And thou too, Lord, art near at hand,  
To save, whom they would kill:  
And, doing what thou dost command,  
Thy truth shall keep me still.  
verse 152 Thy testimonies known to me  
Have been for time long passed:  
And founded, as they are, by thee,  
I know, they still shall last.    

Part XX.  

verse 153 On my affliction think, and thence  
At liberty me set:  
For I, through wilful negligence,  
Thy Laws do not forget.  
verse 154 Appear, my righteous cause to pled,  
That I discharged may be:  
And, as thy word hath promised,  
In mercy quicken me.   

verse 155 Salvation is removed far  
From all the wicked crew,  
Because they so neglectful are  
Thy Statutes to pursue.  
verse 156 Great are thy tender mercies, Lord,  
And just thy Judgements be:  
Inclined by them both, afford  
Thy quick'ning grace to me.   

verse 157 My persecutors many are,  
And many foes I have:  
Yet, do I not, (induced by fear)  
Thy testimonies wave.  
verse 158 When the transgressors I did view,  
Who did thy word forsake;  
Oppressed with grief, and pity too,  
My tender heart did ache.  
verse 159 Mind, Lord, with what a tender love  
Thy precepts I embrace:  
And let thy righteousness thee move,  
To give me quick'ning grace.  
verse 160 Thy word, through all time past, and gone,  
From the beginning's sure:  
And thy just Judgements every one,  
For ever shall endure.    

Part XXI.  

verse 161 Princes my Persecutors were  
Who never gave them cause:  
But yet thy words most holy fear  
My heart from sinning awes.  
verse 162 Thy word creates a joyfulness  
In me, as large each way,  
As doth the heart of him possess,  
Who findeth ample prey.   

verse 163 I hate, and perfectly detest  
All lies of every kind:  
But for thy Law, within my breast,  
A perfect love I found.  
verse 164 Not lesle than seven times a day,  
Thy praises I declare:  
This duty I thy Judgements pay,  
For very just they are.   

verse 165 Great is the peace, which all of those  
Who love thy Law attends:  
Their hearts enjoy such sweet repose,  
That nothing them offends.  
verse 166 Looked with firm hope, O Lord, have I  
For thy salvations aid:  
And thy Commandments faithfully  
Have, whiles I hoped, obeyed.   

verse 167 I to thy testimonies bear  
A love that doth exceed:  
Whence in my soul, an earnest care  
To keep them all, is bred.  
verse 168 Thy holy testimonies, and  
Thy precepts I obeyed:  
For all my ways, I understand,  
Before thy face are laid.    

Part XXII.  

verse 169 O let the cry I make to thee,  
Come near before thee, Lord:  
Sound understanding give thou me,  
According to thy word.  
verse 170 And let my supplication have  
To thee a free access:  
According to thy word, me save,  
Out of my great distress.   

verse 171 Thy Statutes when thou hast me taught,  
(So just they are, and good:)  
My lips, with thy due praises fraught,  
Shall utter them aloud.  
verse 172 Thy holy word, my tongue shall be  
Most ready to confess:  
For all commands which come from thee,  
Are perfect righteousness.   

verse 173 Do thou extend thy mighty hand,  
From dangers me to save:  
For what thy precepts do command,  
I freely chosen have.  
verse 174 Thy saving aid, Lord, I desired  
With longing appetite:  
And what from me thy Law required,  
I did with great delight.   

verse 175 My soul thy praise shall ever spread,  
Preserve it than alive:  
And let thy Judgements in my need,  
To me assistance give.  
verse 176 Thy servant seek, when, like a sheep,  
He strays with wandering feet:  
For thy commands, even than, to keep,  
I do not quite forget.     

Psalm CXX.  

verse 1 UNto the Lord I cried aloud,  
When I was in distress:  
And unto me his ear he bowed,  
And did me thence release.  
verse 2 From lips that are enured to lie,  
O Lord, my life defend:  
And from the false-tongned Enemy  
To me deliverance sand.   

verse 3 What profit can redound to thee,  
By doing others wrong?  
Or, how shalt thou rewarded be  
O thou deceitful tongue?  
verse 4 Sharp arrows shot by mighty Arms  
Shall all thy wounds return:  
And thee, that didst such lasting harms,  
Juniper coals shall burn.   

verse 5 Ah, woe is me, that with the race  
Of Meshech I abide!  
And have a loathsome dwelling place,  
Where Kedar's Sons reside!  
verse 6 My soul hath long been forced to devil  
With him that peace defies:  
verse 7 I am for peace: but when I tell  
Them so; to war they rise.    

Psalm CXXI.  
[To the tune of Ps. 25.] I lift my, etc.  

verse 1 I'LL lift expecting eyes  
To th' Hills that sand me aid:  
verse 2 My aid doth from the Lord arise,  
Who earth and heaven made.  
verse 3 Thy foot confirm will he  
That it shall never slide:  
His wakeful eye that keepeth thee,  
No slumbering nod shall hid.   

verse 4 Behold, his wakeful eyes  
That Israel doth keep,  
No slumber ever doth surprise;  
Nor ever can he sleep.  
verse 5 The Lord at thy right hand,  
As often as foes invade,  
Doth like a valiant Champion stand:  
And hides thee like a shade.   

verse 6 Whence, thee with heat at noon,  
The Sun shall never smite:  
Nor shall the cold, and wat'ry Moon,  
Distemper thee by night.  
verse 7 The Lord shall keep thee, so,  
Thy soul shall fear no ill:  
verse 8 Thou in, and out, secure shalt go,  
By him protected still.    

Psalm CXXII.  
[To the Tune of the 100 Psalm.] All people, etc.  

verse 1 WHen men said to me, come, let's get  
Up to God's House, I joyed therein:  
verse 2 Our feet, (Jerusalem) we'll set  
Within those sacred gates of thine.  
verse 3 Jerusalem is well compact;  
Each part on other doth depend,  
A City built in form exact,  
verse 4 Thither, the holy Tribes ascend.   

Thither, the Lord's twelve Tribes ascend,  
(For Isr'el's Testimony's there:)  
That on the Lord they may attend,  
And gratefully his Name declare.  
verse 5 Yea, there are Thrones of Judgement seen,  
Thrones fixed for David, and his seed:  
verse 6 Pray we, that peace may devil therein:  
For well shall all that love her, speed.   

verse 7 Let all the good comprised in peace,  
Within thy walls for ever devil:  
And may thy stately Palaces  
In all prosperity excel.  
verse 8 My brethrens, and companions dear,  
By wishing peace to thee, I bless:  
verse 9 Yea, sigh our Gods fair house is there,  
I will promote thy happiness.    

Psalm CXXIII.  
[To the Tune of the Old 120 Ps.] In trouble, etc.  

verse 1 TO thee I lift mine eyes,  
O thou, above the Skies  
Who hast thy fixed seat:  
verse 2 As on their master's hand  
Their servants looking stand,  
Some favour thence to get.  
And as the maiden stands,  
And looketh on her hands  
On whom she doth attend:  
The Lord our God, so we  
Do look unto, till he  
His mercy t' us extend.   

verse 3 Have mercy on us, Lord:  
Some mercy t' us afford.  
For none we found elsewhere.  
No time are we exempt  
From very great contempt,  
Which from our foes we bear.   

verse 4 Our soul is filled with scorn,  
Which daily we have born  
From those that, quiet sat:  
And haughty Enemies  
Do very much despise  
Our very mean estate.    

[The same. To the Tune of Ps. 25.] I lift my, etc.  

verse 1 TO thee I lift mine eyes  
Thy favour to entreat,  
Who far above; the lofty Skies  
Hast fixed thy royal seat.  
verse 2 Behold, as servants stand,  
And wishtly look upon  
Their mistresses or master's hand  
To get some gracious boon  
With longing looks, so we  
Our wishes upward sand,  
Unto the Lord our God, till he  
His grace to us extend.  
verse 3 Have mercy, Lord, we cry  
Some favour to us yield:  
For with contempt, exceedingly  
We, by our foes are filled.   

verse 4 By those that sit at ease  
Filled with contempt we are:  
And proud men's scornful usages  
With great regret we bear.    

Psalm CXXIV.  
[To the Tune of the Old 100 Ps.] All people, etc.  

HAD not the Lord been on our side,  
May rescued Israel now say;  
verse 2 Or had the Lord his help denied,  
When men combined us to slay:  
verse 3 Than, had they swallowed us alive,  
Their wrath to such an height was grown:  
The floods with such a force did drive,  
The strong tide had our soul o'rflown.   

verse 4 Than had our soul o'rwhelmed been,  
When the proud waves swelled to a Sea:  
verse 5 But though their greedy teeth were keen,  
(The Lord be blest they missed their prey.  
verse 6 The bird that breaks the foulers snare,  
And thence escapes with joyful flight,  
Resembles us: for thus we are  
From broken snares escaped quite.   

verse 7 Our help, (we thankfully declare)  
Is in the Lord's most holy name:  
For he alone did break the snare,  
Whose hand the heaven and earth did frame,   

Gloria Patri.  
To Father, Son, and Spirit; one  
Eternal God in Persons three,  
As was before the, world begun,  
Now, and for ever, glory be.    

Psalm CXXV.  

verse 1 WHO make the Lord their confidence  
Shall be as Zion Hill:  
Which cannot be removed thence,  
But keeps its station still.  
verse 2 As th' Hills surround Jerusalem;  
So doth the providence,  
Wherewith the Lord environs them,  
His people ever fence.   

verse 3 For wicked foes oppressing scourge  
From just men's lots shall cease:  
Jest them continual sufferings urge  
To practise wickedness.  
verse 4 To good and holy men do thou  
Thy mercy, Lord, impart:  
And let all those thy goodness know,  
Who are of upright heart.   

verse 5 But perverse sinners, who, of choice  
Forsake true virtue's way;  
And in the crooked ways of vice  
Impenitently stray:  
The Lord shall sand unto the place,  
Where evil-doers devil:  
Whiles he vouchsafes eternal Peace  
Unto his Israel.    

Psalm CXXVI.  
[To the tune of Ps. 25.] I list my, etc.  

verse 1 WHen Zion's captive state  
The Lord did turn again:  
Not idle dream which men relate,  
To us could seem more vain.  
verse 2 But when it did appear  
To be a real thing:  
Our mouths with laughter filled were,  
And loud our tongues did sing.   

The Lord great things hath done  
For them, even heathens said;  
verse 3 Yea, he hath wrought for us, we own,  
Great things our hearts to glad.  
verse 4 Full may we, Lord, return,  
Like streams in southern Fields.  
verse 5 The seed; which while men sow, they mourn,  
Glad harvest often yields.   

verse 6 Who weeping goeth out,  
To sow his seed in tears;  
Shall joyfully bring home, (no doubt,)  
His sheaves with filled ears.    

Psalm CXXVII.  
[To the Tune of the Old 100 Ps] All people, etc.  

verse 1 IN vain men build the house, except  
The Lord vouchsafe his helping hand:  
In vain, by guards the City's kept,  
Except the Lord those guards command.  
verse 2 Vain is your late and early care,  
To purchase hardly earned bread:  
When those that God affecteth, are  
Within such sleepless labour, fed.   

verse 3 The Lord gives children too, to those  
Whom he will favour with increase:  
And 'tis a mercy he bestows,  
When the wombs fruit doth Parents bless.  
verse 4 Such, as, in youthful strength begot,  
The houses they increase, support:  
As arrows by a Giant shot,  
Against the foe, maintain the Fort.  
verse 5 Happy's the man, whose quiver filled  
With such keen shafts, doth him defend:  
To's enemy he shall not yield,  
Who in the Gate with him contend.    

Psalm CXXVIII.  
[To the Tune of Ps. 148.] Give laud, etc.  

verse 1 THat man God's blessing hath,  
Whose heart his fear doth awe:  
That walketh in the path  
Prescribed by his Law.  
verse 2 For thou shalt feast  
Upon the gains  
Thou earn'st with pains,  
In plenty blest.   

verse 3 Thy wife, as thick shall breed,  
As grapes on wall-vines found:  
Like olive-plants, thy seed  
Thy Table shall surround  
verse 4 With blessings stored  
Lo, thus shall he  
On all sides be,  
That fears the Lord.   

verse 5 The Lord from Zion Hill,  
His blessing shall thee give:  
And, whiles thou livest, still  
Jerusalem shall thrive.  
verse 6 Thy seed's increase  
Shall please thee well;  
Whiles Israel  
Abounds in peace.    

Psalm CXXIX.  
[To the tune of Psalm 113.] Ye children, etc.  

verse 1 FRom my youth up, full many a day,  
May Isr'el now, delivered, say,  
Afflicting foes have me assailed.  
verse 2 Full often they, even from my youth,  
Afflicted me, to choke my growth;  
But hitherto have not prevailed.   

verse 3 Full often did the plowers make  
Large furrows on my walled back,  
(Sad marks of grievous slavery:)  
verse 4 But righteous is the highest Lord,  
Who cut in sunder every cord,  
That served the wicked's cruelty.   

verse 5 With shame confounded still be those,  
That are God's Zion's spiteful foes;  
And let them all be backward turned.  
verse 6 Blasted, and withered be their hopes,  
Like corn that grows on houses tops,  
Which before harvest comes, is burned.  
verse 7 Wherewith no reapers hand is filled;  
Nor doth it to the binder yield  
Enough to make a sheaf withal:  
verse 8 Nor do the travelers on the way,  
Salute the harvest men, and say,  
God's blessing on your labours fall.    

Psalm CXXX.  
[To the tune of the Old 100 Ps.] All people, etc.  

verse 1 OUT of the depths of anguish, I  
To thee, O Lord, aloud do cry.  
verse 2 With an attentive patiented ear  
The voice of my entreaties hear.  
verse 3 If thou shouldst mark iniquities,  
Who, Lord, can stand before thine eyes?  
verse 4 But, that thou kindly feared may'st be,  
There is forgiving grace with thee.   

verse 5 My soul doth wait upon the Lord:  
It's hope is fixed on his word.  
verse 6 Moore waits my soul for him, than they  
That watch to see the dawning day.  
Yea, more it waits for him, I say,  
Than those that wait for dawning day.  
verse 7 Hope in the Lord, O Israel;  
For with the Lord doth mercy devil.  
And plentiful redemption is  
With him; for men that do amiss.  
verse 8 And with redeeming mercy, he  
From all their sins shall Isr'el free.    

Psalm CXXXI.  
[To the tune of Psalm 25.] I lift my, etc.  

verse 1 I Have no haughty mind,  
O Lord, nor scornful eye:  
Nort' undertake, am I inclined  
Things for my reach too high  
verse 2 But as the little child  
Weaned from the mother's breast:  
As the weaned babe, is meek, and mild,  
At her will fed, and dressed:   

So, surely, I demeaned  
Myself, O Lord, to thee:  
And did with quietness attend,  
How thou wouldst manage me:  
verse 3 And so let Israel  
Upon the Lord depend;  
And all distrustful thought repel,  
Henceforth, till time shall end.    

Psalm CXXXII.  

verse 1 KIng David, and his vexing care,  
O Lord, remember thou  
verse 2 How unto Jacob's God he swore,  
And made this solemn vow.  
verse 3 I'll in my house take no repose  
Nor shall my bed me ease:  
verse 4 No slumber shall my eyelids close,  
No sleep my eyes shall seize:   

verse 5 Until I found a fixed abode,  
Wherein the Lord may devil:  
A settled house for Jacob's God,  
That doth in might excel.  
verse 6 In Ephratas adjoining Field  
There of we heard a sound:  
And after search, the place beheld,  
Within its woody ground.   

verse 7 Into his holy Tent, therefore,  
Devoutly will we go:  
And at his footstool we'll adore,  
With bodies prostrate low.  
verse 8 Rise, Lord, (we'll say) into the place  
Where thou may'st rest at length:  
And with thy constant presence grace  
Thy Ark of mighty strength.   

verse 9 Let all thy Priests with righteousness  
Be clothed round about:  
And let thy Saints their joy express  
In a triumphant shout.  
verse 10 Unto thy servant David's line  
Extend thy promised grace:  
And 'cause thy favour still to shine  
On thine Anointed's face.   

Part II.  

verse 11 The Lord the oath to David sworn  
Will never tender voided:  
By th' Issue of thy body born,  
Thy Throne shall be enjoyed.   

verse 12 If those that from thy loins proceed,  
My Covenant keep with care:  
If they my testimonies heed,  
Which I to them declare:  
To those too, that from them shall spring,  
Like favour shall be shown:  
That there shall never want a King  
Of them, to fill thy Throne.   

verse 13 For Zion is the chosen Hill,  
Whereon the Lord will devil:  
verse 14 I'll there, (said he,) inhabit still,  
Because I like it well.  
verse 15 So largely will I bless her store,  
That she shall nothing need:  
And with sufficient bread her poor  
My providence shall feed.  
verse 16 He vested round about,  
Shall with salvation be:  
And all her Saints aloud shall shout,  
That joyful sight to see.   

verse 17 There, David's horn I'll make to sprout,  
And there I have appointed  
A Lamp, (that never shall go out,)  
To give to mine Anointed.   

verse 18 Deserved shame shall all of them  
That are his foes, surround:  
But with a crown of great esteem  
His head shall still be crowned.     

Another of the same.  
[To the tune of the Old 100 Ps] All people, etc.  

verse 1 THY servant David, Lord, with all  
His troubles to remembrance call,  
verse 2 How to the Lord he swore, and how  
To Jacob's God he thus did vow:  
verse 2 Within my house, I will not tread,  
Nor rest myself upon my bed;  
verse 4 Mine eyes to sleep I'll not compose,  
No slumbering nod my lids shall close:   

verse 5 Until I have a place descried,  
Wherein the Lord may still reside:  
A fixed seat, wherein may devil  
The mighty God of Israel.  
verse 6 Fame told us, that near Ephrata,  
The place by God appointed, lay.  
And in th' adjoining woody ground,  
At last, by search, the spot we found.   

verse 7 Within his Tabernacle, where  
He now resides, we'll, than, appear:  
And with our bodies bowed, before  
His holy footstool, we'll adore.  
verse 8 Rise, Lord, (we'll say) we thee entreat;  
And enter on thy fixed seat:  
Rest there, from all removes at length,  
Thou, and thy holy Ark of strength.   

verse 9 Let all thy Priests that make address  
To thee, be clothed with righteousness:  
And all thy Saints, with shouts of joy,  
To welcome thee, their throats employ.  
verse 10 Unto thy servant David's race.  
Vouchsafe t' extend thy promised grace:  
So that none of them, when they pray  
Therein, with shame be turned away.   

Part TWO  

verse 11 This, oath the Lord to David past,  
And will observe it to the last:  
The children that thou dost beget,  
Inherit shall thy royal seat:  
verse 12 And if my Covenant they observe,  
And never from my Doctrine swerve:  
Those, also, that from them descend,  
Shall fill thy Throne till time shall end.  
verse 13 For of all places, Zion Hill,  
The Lord did choose of mere good will:  
That's the beloved seat, on which  
He, for a dwelling place, did pitch.  
verse 14 And, on that Mount, he hath professed  
Shall be my everlasting rest  
There will I devil, and not remove  
For I thereon have fixed my love.   

verse 15 I'll make all plenty thither flow  
And bless the plenty I bestow:  
None of her poor stall ever need  
For I will fill them all with bread.  
verse 16 The holy Priests that there are found  
With my salvation I'll surround  
And all her Saints with shouting voice  
In all these blessings shall rejoice.   

verse 17 From those of David's line there born,  
I'll raise up my salvation's Horn:  
For in my Counsel 've appointed  
A Lamp from thence for mine Anointed.  
verse 18 I'll  with shame whatever foes  
Shall him with fraud or force oppose:  
But on his head, his royal crown  
Shall ever flourish with renown.     

Psalm CXXXIII.  
[To the tune of Psalm 25.] I lift my heart, etc.  

verse 1 BEhold, how great delights  
And profits thence arise;  
When those whom Brotherhood unites,  
True love together ties.  
verse 2 It comforts, like the scent  
By that sweet ointment spread:  
Which was in his anointing, spent  
On holy Aaron's head.   

There onelyed did not rest;  
But his beard drenched through:  
And the upper border of his vest,  
From thence it did bedew.  
verse 3 It profits, like the drops  
That fall on Hermon Hill:  
Or those which heaven on the tops  
Of Zion doth distil.   

Where a most blessed dew  
The Lord on such men sends,  
Throughout this life, and after, too,  
In that that never ends.    

A Second Version.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 148.] Give laud, etc.  

verse 1 BEhold, how great delights,  
And profits do accrue,  
When brotherhood unites  
Men linked in friend ship too.  
verse 2 Delightful 'tis,  
As th'ointment shed  
On A'ron's head,  
Of richest price.   

That sacred head alone  
Engrossed not its smell:  
But from it trickling down,  
Upon his herd it fell.  
Nor did it rest,  
Till its sweet dew  
Descended, to  
The bordering vest.   

verse 3 It profits, like the drops  
Which fall on Hermon's Hill:  
Or those on Zion's tops,  
Which fatt'ning clouds distil.  
Where God such friends  
With life doth bless,  
And happiness,  
That never ends.    

Psalm CXXXIV.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 148.] Give laud, etc.  

verse 1 YE servants of the Lord  
Who are at his command,  
Bless him with one accord  
Whiles in his house ye stand,  
For its defence,  
Throughout the night,  
Till morning light  
Discharge you thence.   

verse 2 Lift up in holiness  
Your hands to God on high:  
And say, the Lord we bless,  
Who made the Earth and Sky.  
verse 3 And may he still  
Thee, (Isr'el) bless  
With happiness,  
From Zion Hill.    

A Second Version.  

verse 1 YE Levite-servants of the Lord  
Your voices jointly raise:  
And all with one content accord,  
His holy name to praise.  
Yea, whiles in courfes, by command,  
Ye in his house attend;  
Each night wherein on watch you stand,  
In holy worship spend.  
verse 2 With hands before him stretched out  
To him make your address:  
And rev'rendly, with hearts devout,  
Say ye, the Lord we bless:  
verse 3 And add, the Lord who this vast frame  
Of heaven and earth did rear,  
From Zion (where he placed his name)  
Bless thee, his people dear.    

Psalm CXXXV.  
[To the Tune of the Old 100 Ps.] All people, etc.  

verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord; and on his name  
Bestow its well deserved Praise,  
Ye servants of the Lord proclaim  
Your master, and his glory raise.  
verse 2 Ye that within that house do stand,  
Wherein the Lord keeps his abode:  
Who in his Courts are near at hand,  
To do the service of our God:   

verse 3 The Lord's deserved praises sound,  
And to his names just honour sing:  
For goodness doth in him abound,  
And praising God, 's a pleasant thing.  
verse 4 For Jacob, of his mere good pleasure,  
The Lord hath chosen for his own:  
And Isr'el, as his proper treasure,  
He keeps unto himself alone.  
verse 5 For, that the Lord is very great,  
I, by undoubted proofs, do know:  
Our Lord from his Imperial Seat,  
Looks, on all Gods, as much below.  
verse 6 The Lord, whatever did him please,  
Accordingly, hath brought to pass:  
In heaven, earth, seas, in each of these,  
His power doth reach the deepest place.   

verse 7 To swell the clouds, his Sun doth drain  
Steams from the earth's remotest ends:  
He makes, by lightnings, way for rain,  
And winds out of his treasure sends.  
verse 8 All the firstborn in Egypt's Land  
With one almighty stroke he flew:  
The weight of his destroying hand  
Fell on the men, and cattles too.   

verse 9 Tokens, and wonders he did show,  
O Egypt, in the midst of thee:  
Even Pharaoh felt what he could do,  
And all his Court, as well as he.  
verse 10 Great Realms he smote, and great Kings too,  
verse 11 Sihon, who th' Am'rites did command,  
He killed and Og of Bashan too,  
And all that reigned in Canaan's, Land.   

verse 12 And all the Lands where they did devil,  
Did for an heritage dispose,  
An heritage to Israel,  
Whom he for his own people chose.  
verse 13 For ever, Lord, thy mighty name  
The honour it bathe got, retains:  
And the memorial of thy fame,  
Through each successive Age remains.   

Part II.  

verse 14 For when his people suffer wrong,  
The Lord will judge them innocent:  
And though he let them suffer long,  
Yet will he, at the last relent.  
verse 15 The heathen Idols are, by man,  
Of melted gold, and silver, wrought:  
verse 16 Have eyes, and mouths, but neither can  
With them behold, or utter aught.   

verse 17 Bored ears to them their founder gave,  
Which hear not those that on them call;  
Organs of breath they seem to have;  
But through them never breathe at all.  
verse 18 And just such senseless things are those  
That make, and set them up, for Gods:  
'Twixt them, and all that do repose  
Their trust in them, there's little odds.   

verse 19 O House of Isr'el, bless the Lord.  
May Aaron's issue do the same  
verse 20 Let Levi's Tribe his praise record,  
And all that fear him, bless his name.  
verse 21 Into the City of our God,  
Sound the Lord's praise from Zion hill:  
And through the place of his abode,  
Let every mouth his praises fill.     

Psalm CXXXVI.  
[To the proper Tune.]  

verse 1 O Thank the Lord, because  
His goodness you have tried:  
verse 2 O thank the God that awes  
All other Gods beside.  
For we are sure,  
When all times past,  
His mercy vast  
Will still endure.   

verse 3 The Lord, whom all Lords own,  
Pay we our thanks unto:  
verse 4 Thank him, whose hands alone  
Amazing wonders do.  
For we are sure, etc.   

verse 5 Thank him, whose skilful hand  
Did frame the heavens wide:  
verse 6 Who stretched out the Land,  
Above the swelling tide.  
For we are sure, etc.   

verse 7 Who in the firmament  
Did make great lights to shine:  
verse 8 Who the days government  
Did to the Sun assign.  
For we are sure, etc.  
verse 9 Who did the Sky adorn  
With Moon and Stars by night:  
verse 10 Who all that first were born  
In Egypt's Land, did smite.  
For we are sure, etc.   

verse 11 And Israel he brought  
From that oppressing Land:  
verse 12 And their deliverance wrought  
With stretched-out Arm, and hand.  
For we are sure, etc.   

Part II.  

verse 13 On him bestow your thanks,  
Who did the Sea divide:  
verse 14 And 'twixt two liquid banks,  
His Israel did guide.  
For we are sure, etc.   

verse 15 But drowned with its tide,  
Proud Pharaoh, and his bands:  
verse 16 And safe his Flock conveyed  
Through pathless deserts sands.  
For we are sure, etc.   

verse 17 Who Princes overthrew,  
That out against them came:  
verse 18 Who valiantly slew  
Great Kings of mighty fame.  
For we are sure. etc.  
verse 19 Sihon, that did command  
The mighty Amorite:  
verse 20 And Og, that ruled the Land  
Of Bashan, he did smite.  
For we are sure, etc.   

verse 21 And did the Realms assign  
Wherein they once did devil,  
verse 22 An heritage by line  
To's servant Israel.  
For we are sure, etc.   

verse 23 Who kindly on us thought,  
When we were very low:  
verse 24 And our redemption wrought,  
From th' hands of every foe.  
For we are sure, etc.   

verse 25 Who necessary food  
Unto all flesh doth give.  
verse 26 Thank we therefore the God  
Of heaven, by whom we live.  
For we are sure  
When all time's past,  
His mercy vast,  
Will still endure.     

Psalm CXXXVII.  
[To the Tune of the Lamentation.] O Lord in tnee, etc.  

verse 1 BY th' hated streams of Babylon,  
As we poor Captives sitting were;  
We Zion's ruins thought upon,  
And with each thought, we dropped a tear.  
verse 2 Upon the willows growing nigh,  
Our harps, to us now useless, hung:  
(Those harps to whose sweet melody  
We formerly God's praises sung.)   

verse 3 We hung them by, in great disdain;  
For they who had us captives made,  
When they were in a merry vein,  
Come play, and sing, insulting, said.  
Quite out of season, they that cast  
Our walls on heaps, our Temple, fired,  
And laid our native country waste,  
Of us a Zion song required.   

verse 4 Can we, (we said,) command our hands  
To play, with hearts so full of woes?  
Sing Zion's songs in foreign Lands?  
Or the Lord's Hymns to cheer his foes?  
verse 5 If I, Jerusalem, of thee  
So slight a memory retain,  
May my right hand forgetful be,  
Ever to touch a string again.  
verse 6 Or if, whiles thou liest waste, I sing,  
For greatest cause of private joy:  
My tongue unto my palate cling,  
Whiles, in that sort, I it employ.  
verse 7 Remember, Lord, the Edomite,  
Who in Jerusalem's sad day,  
Cried, down, down with it, raze it quite:  
And its foundations open lay.   

verse 8 And thou, (whose turn will come to fall)  
O Daughter of proud Babylon:  
Blest be the man that pays thee all  
The mischief thou to us hast done.  
verse 9 Yea, blessed shall be that righteous hand,  
That snatcheth up thy little ones;  
And, while their mother's wailing stand,  
Knocks out their brains against the stones.    

[Another Version of the same Psalm.]  

verse 1 NEar the swift streams of Babylon,  
Where we were captives kept,  
We sat, and Zion thought upon;  
And whiles we thought, we wept.  
verse 2 Our sacred Harps, (with broken strings,  
To suit our mourning,) were  
Hung up by us, as useless things,  
On willows growing there.   

verse 3 When they that had us captives made,  
(To add to all our wrongs.)  
Come, play, and sing, insulting, said,  
One of your Zion songs.  
verse 4 How can poor slaves, at your commands,  
Said we, forget our woes?  
Sing Zion's Hymns in foreign Lands,  
God's songs to cheer his foes?   

verse 5 If I, (Jerusalem) of thee  
Such slender thoughts retain:  
May my right hand forgetful be  
To touch a string again.  
verse 6 Or if, whilst thou liest waste, I sing  
For greatest private joy:  
My tongue unto my palate cling,  
Whiles thus I it employ.   

verse 7 Remember, (Lord) the Edomite,  
Who, when we ruin'd were,  
Said of jerusalem, raze it quite;  
Lay its foundations bore.  
verse 8 And thou, (whose turn will come to fall)  
Daughter of Babylon;  
Blest be the man, that pays thee all  
The mischiefs to us done.   

verse 9 Yea, that just hand shall sure be blest,  
That takes thy little ones,  
And tears them from their mother's breast,  
To dash against the stones.    

Psalm CXXXVIII.  

verse 1 MY heart entire, with thy just praise,  
Lord, shall supply my tongue:  
Whiles, before th' earthly Gods, I raise  
Thine honour with a song.  
verse 2 Towards thy holy Temple, I  
Will prostrate worship thee:  
And thy great name to magnify,  
I will employed be.   

But chief, for thy tender love,  
And truth, I'll spread thy fame:  
For thou, thy word hast raised above  
All else, that makes thy name.  
verse 3 When I did cry, that very day,  
Thou answer'd'st me again:  
And when my soul did faint away,  
Thy strength did it sustain.   

verse 4 All earthly Kings, O Lord, shall give  
To thee deserved praise;  
When from thy mouth they shall receive  
The knowledge of thy ways.  
verse 5 Yea, in the Lord's revealed ways  
They shall rejoice, and sing:  
For great's his glory, and great praise  
It to his name shall bring.   

verse 6 Although the Lord be high, yet he  
To th' humble favour shows:  
Whereas, the men that lofty be,  
A great way of he knows.  
verse 7 Though I with troubles very great  
Encompassed round, do live:  
Yet, when I'm most disconsolate,  
Thou shalt my soul revive.   

Thy mighty hand thou shalt extend  
Against my wrathful foes:  
And thy right hand shall me defend,  
From them that me oppose.  
verse 8 The Lord will perfect, what his word  
For me did undertake:  
Thy mercy's endless: do not, Lord,  
Thy handy work forsake.    

Psalm CXXXIX.  
[To the tune of the Old 100 Ps.] All people, etc.  

verse 1 BY search, O Lord, thou hast me known,  
verse 2 Both rising up, and lying down:  
Thou, what I think to take in hand,  
Long e'er I think, dost understand.  
verse 3 Thy piercing eye surrounds my bed,  
And compasseth the paths I tread:  
Asleep, awake, at home, abroad,  
Thou knowest all my ways, O God.   

verse 4 Each word, winch with my tongue I vent,  
Thou understand'st, when 'tis but meant:  
verse 5 Before, behind, beset by thee,  
Thy grasping hand I cannot flee.  
verse 6 Such knowledge full of wonders, I  
With all my search cannot descry:  
So high it is, the thought were vain,  
To fancy I could it attain.   

verse 7 To what part of the world can I  
Go from thy Spirits company?  
Or, whither can I take my flight,  
To hid me from thy piercing sight?  
verse 8 If up to heaven: there art thou.  
Or, if my bed I make below,  
Where outer darkness shrouds me round;  
Yet even there, thou wilt be found.   

Part II.  

verse 9 If rising mornings wings I take,  
And th' utmost Seas my dwelling make:  
verse 10 Thy hand, that led me thither, should  
Even there, thy flying prisoner hold.  
verse 11 If, with design to hid me close,  
The shades of darkest night I choose:  
Though all things else were wrapped in night,  
Yet round about me, 'twould be light.   

verse 12 No darkness hides, what thou wilt spy:  
Midnight turns noon, before thine eye:  
Darkness, and light, in this agreed,  
That they are both alike to thee.  
verse 13 My secret reinss thou knowst, for thine  
They were, before thou mad'st them mine:  
Within the womb thou cover'd'st me,  
Yet didst through its close covering see.   

verse 14 I'll, to my maker's praise proclaim  
Th' amazing skill that did me frame:  
Though all thy works great wonders are,  
I'm sure, with that, none may compare.  
verse 15 Not one small thread escaped thine eye  
Of all that rich embroidery,  
Where with I was throughout composed,  
Though in th' obscurest cell enclosed.   

verse 16 When yet my substance was unshaped,  
Not dust of me, thy sight escaped:  
Not joint was lost, not one misplaced,  
As if th' account by book were cast.  
No shape, at first, my matter bore,  
Nor was this, here, and that part, there;  
But time gave each, proportion due,  
And made it, what I wondering view.   

verse 17 Thy daily thoughts, likewise, to me  
Of how great price, O Lord, they be!  
And if their number I would count,  
To what a sum must they amount!  
verse 18 The sum would surely rise to more,  
Than all the sands on th' Ocean's shore:  
Thee, whensoever I awake,  
Lord, privy to them all I make.    

Part III.  

verse 19 Sure, thou, th' all seeing God, wilt slay  
The wicked: whence, to such I say,  
Hence, bloody minded men; for none,  
That are by God abhorred, I'll own.  
verse 20 For wickedly they thee blaspheme;  
Reproaching thee, 's their daily Theme:  
And all thy foes with mouth profane,  
Do take thy holy name in vain.   

verse 21 Don't I, (say, Lord, who knowest me,)  
Hate those, that haters are of thee?  
And doth not grief my heart surprise,  
When wicked men against thee rise.  
verse 22 Yea, just abhorrence fills my breast,  
So perfectly I them detest:  
And count them enemies to me,  
Who foes professed are to thee.   

verse 23 Search me, O God, and throughly know  
my heart, if it be thus, or no:  
Search every thought, and see, if I  
Falsely pretend sincerity.  
verse 24 Search throughly, if thou canst me found  
To any wicked way inclined.  
And if thou fee'st me apt to stray,  
Led me in th' everlasting way.     

Psalm CXL.  

verse 1 From him that is on mischief bend,  
O Lord, deliver me:  
And from th' oppressor violent,  
preserved let me be.  
verse 2 From those, who in their hearts prepare  
A mischievous design:  
Those, who to raise unrighteous war  
Against me, do combine.   

verse 3 Whose sharpened tongues, like serpents, hiss,  
And are with poison swelled:  
The Adders deadly venom is  
Within their lips concealed.  
verse 4 From wicked hands, and violent,  
O Lord, my life assure:  
Who have, with cruel purpose, meant  
My downfall to procure.   

verse 5 The proud a snare for me have hid,  
With cords to draw the net,  
Which they have spread by th' high ways side;  
Wherein to catch my feet.  
verse 6 Than to the Lord, in prayer I said,  
Thou art my God, by choice:  
Hear the requests, which I have made  
With supplicating voice.   

verse 7 O Lord, the God, whose saving might  
So strongly rescued me:  
My head, upon the day of fight  
Hath covered been by thee.  
verse 8 Th' unjust desires, Lord, do not grant,  
Which wicked men pursue:  
Jest they in their successes vaunt,  
Their crafty'st plots undo.   

verse 9 As for the chiefest of all those  
That thus beset me round;  
Let the false tales which they compose,  
On their own heads rebound.  
verse 10 Shower burning coals upon them all;  
Let fiery wrath them seize:  
And into deep pits may they fall,  
Whence they may never rise.   

verse 11 Let none that spiteful lies in vent,  
Firm on the earth abide:  
Mischief shall hunt the violent,  
Until he be destroyed.  
verse 12 The Lord will righteously maintain  
(So I myself assure:)  
The cause of each afflicted man,  
And right of helpless poor.   

verse 13 Surely, the righteous thanks unfeigned  
Unto thy name shall pay:  
And upright men, by thee sustained,  
Shall in thy presence stay.    

Psalm CXLI.  

verse 1 IN haste thine ear to me apply,  
For I complain to thee:  
When with my voice to thee I cry,  
Lord, harken thou to me.  
verse 2 My prayers which to heaven ascend,  
Do thou as incense prize:  
And th' hands, which I with them extend,  
As th' evening sacrifice.   

verse 3 My mouth, whence sin too often slips,  
Lord, watch thou with thy grace:  
And keep the portal of my lips,  
That thence no evil pass.  
verse 4 To no ill let my heart incline:  
Nor let me e'er comply  
With wicked men, to practise sin,  
Although they treat me high.   

verse 5 Let righteous men me rather smite,  
For that I'll kindly take:  
Their just reproof shall fall so light,  
My head it shall not break.  
But as an oil of great esteem  
I shall it ever prize:  
And in requital pray for them,  
In their calamities.   

part II.  

verse 6 whenever their Judges overthrown  
In stony places are:  
My words sweet relish they shall own,  
And them with pleasure hear.  
verse 7 Our bones about the gaping grave  
On all sides scattered lie:  
As when on th' earth men would do cleave,  
The chips dispersed fly.   

verse 8 But unto thee, O God, the Lord  
Mine eyes do I direct:  
My trust is fixed on thy word,  
Don't thou my soul reject.  
verse 9 But help me, that I may escape  
The snare that's laid for me:  
And from the evil doers trap  
Let me preserved be.   

verse 10 Into the nets, themselves have placed,  
Let wicked hunters fall:  
And guide my feet, till I am passed  
The danger of them all.     

Psalm CXLII.  
[To the tune of psalm 25] I lift my heart, etc.  

verse 1 UNto the Lord I prayed,  
To him my voice did cry:  
Entreating him, my soul to aid,  
My voice I strained high.  
verse 2 In a complaining prayer,  
My case I did present:  
And unto him I did declare  
The grief I underwent.   

verse 3 Overwhelmed my spirit was,  
But thou didst guard my way:  
When men, where I was want to pass,  
A privy snare did lay.  
verse 4 I looked on my right hand,  
But none would know me there:  
Voided of all refuge did I stand,  
None for my soul would care.   

verse 5 Than, Lord, to thee I cried,  
Thou shalt my refuge be:  
And all the time I here reside,  
My portion lies in thee.  
verse 6 Unto my cry attend,  
For I do much decline:  
From my pursuers me defend,  
Whose strength exceedeth mine.   

verse 7 My soul from prison free,  
That I may praise thy name:  
Than shall the righteous compass me,  
Whiles I thy grace proclaim.    

Psalm CXLIII.  
[To the Tune of the 100 Ps] All people, etc. Or Lamentation. O Lord in thee, etc.  

verse 1 THine ear to my devout address  
And humble supplications bend:  
To me in truth, and righteousness,  
A quick and gracious answer sand.  
verse 2 And let not thy poor servant be  
By thee in rigorous Justice tried:  
For none that lives, may hope, that he  
Shall, on its terms, be justified.   

verse 3 For, by my persecuting fees  
My life unto the ground is thrown:  
And shut up in the dark, with those  
That to the grave long since are gone.  
verse 4 With overwhelming grief oppressed,  
My spirits safety's desperate:  
And with amazement, in my breast,  
My very heart is desolate.   

verse 5 Wherhfore, to draw some comfort thence,  
The days of old, I think upon:  
And all the works of providence,  
The wonders which thy hands have done.  
verse 6 To thee I stretch my craving hands,  
With servant importunity:  
My soul thirst's for thee, as the Lands  
Do gape for rain, when parched and dry.   

Part II.  

verse 7 My spirit fails. O Lord, attend;  
And do not hid thy face from me:  
Jest, like to those that do descend  
Into the silent grave, I be.  
verse 8 Glad tidings early let me hear,  
From thee, on whom myself I roll:  
And let me see my duty clear,  
For unto thee I list my soul.   

verse 9 Deliver me out of the hands  
Of such as are my mortal foes:  
My help in thy protection stands,  
Wherein my trust I do repose.  
verse 10 Do thou that art my God, instruct  
Me, in my life thy will t' express:  
Thy spirit is good, let it conduct  
Me to the Land of uprightness.   

verse 11 To raise the honour of thy name,  
With quick'ning grace revive thou me:  
That I thy Justice may proclaim,  
Set thou my soul from trouble free.  
verse 12 And in thy mercy, Lord, to me,  
All foes that do my soul oppress,  
Do thou cut of; for unto thee  
Myself a servant I profess.     

Psalm CXLIV.  
[To the Tune of the 100 psalm.] All people, etc.  

verse 1 BLest be the Lord, my rock of might,  
By whom, in every righteous war,  
My unskilled hands instructed are:  
And who my fingers taught to fight.  
verse 2 My goodness, and my fort, is he;  
My Tower that saves me from my foes:  
My shield, wherein I trust repose:  
Who quell's mies people under me.   

verse 3 What's man, that thou dost not disdain  
Such notice of him, Lord, to take:  
Or, what's his Son, that thou shouldst make  
Account of any thing so vain?  
verse 4 Man, doth resemble vanity;  
(A thing that next to nothing is:)  
His days do vanish in a trice,  
As quick as empty shadows fly.   

verse 5 Lord, bow thy heavens, and descend;  
The mountains touch, and they shall smoak:  
verse 6 Disperse them with thy lightnings stroke,  
And kill shafts upon them spend.  
verse 7 Sand from above, thy mighty hand;  
And rescue me from waters great,  
Which me on every side beset:  
From children of a foreign Land,  
verse 8 Whose promises, when e'er they treat,  
Proceed from mouths most vain and light:  
And, when with them their faith they plight,  
In their right hands they hid deceit.  
verse 9 A new song, than, to thee; O God,  
I'll on the Psaltery present;  
And on a ten stringed instrument,  
Thy praises will I sing aloud.   

Part II.  

verse 10 It's God alone, that doth afford  
Salvation to the greatest Kings:  
Who to his servant David brings  
deliverance from the hurtful sword.  
verse 11 Rid me, O Lord, and rescue me,  
From children of a foreign Land;  
Whose mouth speaks lies, and their right hand  
Is full of fraud, and treachery.   

verse 12 That like to plants in fruitful, soil,  
So flourish may our youthful Sons:  
Our Daughters be like corner stones,  
Carved to adorn a princely Pile.  
verse 13 That our stuffed granaries may hold  
Abundance of all sorts of grain:  
That in our streets our sheep may ean,  
And multiply ten thousand fold.   

verse 14 Our Oxen be to labour strong:  
Our Land invaded by no foe:  
That out of it none captive go;  
Or in our streets complain of wrong.  
verse 15 Happy's the people, that is found  
In such a thriving case as this:  
Yet, happier far, that people is,  
Which by the Lord their God is owned.     

Psalm CXLV.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 148.] Give laud, etc.  

verse 1 O Lord, my God, and King,  
Thy glory I will raise:  
And evermore I'll sing  
Thy names deserved praise.  
verse 2 Each day, will I  
Thy praise proclaim:  
And bless thy name  
Eternally.   

verse 3 The Lord is great, and he  
Great praise deserveth well:  
His greatness, all that we  
Can search out, doth excel.  
verse 4 Thy works of fame  
Each, shall engage  
The following age,  
Still to proclaim.   

verse 5 Thy glorious Majesty  
With honour I'll declare:  
And thy works magnify,  
So full of wonders rare.  
verse 6 And men shall treat  
Of th' acts of might  
Which I recite,  
With terror great.   

verse 7 They shall abundantly  
What they observe, impart:  
To keep in memory  
How very good thou art.  
And with their tongues,  
They shall express  
Thy righteousnest,  
In grateful songs.   

Part II.  

verse 8 In grace the Lord excels,  
And great compassions hath:  
Much mercy in him dwells;  
And slow he is to wrath.  
verse 9 His tender love  
His creatures all,  
In general,  
Do daily prove.   

verse 10 Lord, all things by thee made,  
Some ways thy praise express:  
But by thy Saints 'tis paid  
With greatest willingness.  
verse 11 Thy shall recite  
Thy Kingdoms glories:  
And tell the stories  
Of all thy might.   

verse 12 To show the sons of men  
The mighty Acts of God:  
And make the glory seen  
With which he reigns abroad.  
verse 13 Thy throne stands fast.  
It's roval state  
All age's date  
Shall quite outlast.    

Part III.  

verse 14 Those that to fall are prove,  
The Lord in mercy stays:  
And such as are bowed down  
His gracious hand doth raise.  
verse 15 All look to thee,  
When they would eat:  
And filled with meat  
In season be.   

verse 16 Thy opened hand them giveth  
What all their wants supplies;  
And every thing that lives,  
It fully satisfies.  
verse 17 Each path of his,  
God's Justice shows:  
And all he does,  
Most holy is.  
verse 18 To all that on him call  
The gracious God is near:  
He's near, I say, to all,  
That pray with hearts sincere.  
verse 19 Those that him fear,  
But ask, and have:  
And them to save,  
Their cry he'll hear.   

verse 20 The Lord will those maintain  
Whose love to him, is true:  
But every wicked man  
To ruin he'll pursue.  
verse 21 I'll speak his praise:  
And let all flesh  
Concur to bless  
His name always.     

Psalm CXLVI.  
[To the tune of Psalm 113.] Ye children, etc.  

verse 1 GIve ye the Lord his praises due:  
And what thou callest others to,  
The same be done, my soul, by thee.  
verse 2 My song to God shall praises give,  
The longest day I have to live:  
Yea, till I wholly, cease to be.   

verse 3 Trust not in King's beneficence,  
Nor in men's Sons put confidence,  
Whose strength cannot themselves defend:  
verse 4 Who, when their breath departs, that day  
Return to senseless lumps of clay,  
And all their fine devices end.   

verse 5 That man alone's possessed of bliss  
Who makes the God of Jacob his;  
And trusts for help upon the Lord  
verse 6 Who heaven and earth, and th' ocean wide,  
With all that doth therein reside,  
Framed out of nothing by his word.   

Who keepeth truth for evermore,  
verse 7 And doth oppressed men restore,  
By righteous judgement, to their own:  
The Lord on famished men bestows  
The food they want: and he doth lose  
Men into loathsome Prisons thrown.   

verse 8 The Lord doth give the blind their sight:  
And makes the cripples stand upright,  
Who are by weakness bowed down.  
The Lord the righteous doth affect:  
verse 9 And helpless foreigners protect,  
In countries where they are not known.   

The mournful widows he relieves,  
And sustenance to Orphans gives:  
But overturn's the wicked's ways.  
verse 10 The Lord, thy God, O Zion, reigns.  
And through all age's King remains.  
Give him therefore Eternal praise.    

Psalm CXLVII.  
[To the tune of the Old 100 Ps.] All people, etc.  

verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord: for on our God  
IT is good, all praise should be bestowed:  
Yea, cheerfully his praise to sing,  
Is both a good and Comely thing.  
verse 2 Jerusalem, laid waste, and bore,  
The Lord doth graciously repair:  
And from strange lands wherein they devil,  
Gathers th' outcasts of Israel.   

verse 3 He broken hearts to health restores,  
And gently bindeth up their sores.  
verse 4 He, by its name each star doth call  
And knows the number of them all  
verse 5 Great is the Lord, and great his might.  
His understanding's infinite.  
verse 6 The Lord the meek aloft doth raise,  
And on the ground the wicked lays.   

verse 7 Unto the Lord our God exprese  
In cheerful songs your thankfulness:  
And to the harp's well-tuned string,  
With raised voice his praises sing.  
verse 8 He cavers th' heaven with clouds, and there  
Rain for the earth he doth prepare.  
And on each barren mountain's brow,  
In plenty causeth grass to grow.  
verse 9 All beasts with meat he doth supply:  
And feeds th' young Ravens, when they cry  
verse 10 The bold and warlike Horse's might,  
Unto the Lord yields no delight.  
Not man's swift legs him joyful make.  
When flying foes they overtake.  
verse 11 But he's rejoiced, when on his grace  
Men fearing him their hopes do place.   

Part II.  

verse 12 The praises of the Lord's great name,  
Do thou, Jerusalem, proclaim:  
And let thy Gods due honours fill  
(O Zion,) all thy sacred Hill.  
verse 13 Who on thy bars that strength bestows  
Wherewith thy gates repel thy foes:  
Thy children too, with blessings, he  
Doth prospero in the midst of thee.   

verse 14 Whose safe protection thee surrounds,  
And settles peace in all thy bounds:  
Who makes thee to the full to eat  
The fatness of the finest wheat.  
verse 15 His word throughout the earth doth run:  
And what he bids, is quickly done.  
verse 16 His snow, whereof each ditch is full,  
He spreadeth on the earth like wool.   

And hoar-frosts, sprinkled every where  
Like scattered ashes doth appear.  
verse 17 Rain, t' icy morsels turned, and thrown  
By him on th' earth, skips up and down.  
And who can found the man so bold,  
That dares outstand his piercing cold.  
verse 18 Yet all of these obey his Law,  
And soon are melted by a thaw.   

He causeth his warm wind to blow,  
And makes the ice bound waters flow.  
verse 19 His statutes he to Jacob shows;  
His word, and judgements Isr'el knows.  
verse 20 No nation in the world, beside  
His favour hath thus dignifyed.  
His Judgements only you have known,  
Wherhfore praise ye the Lord, alone.     

Psalm CXLVIII.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 25.] I life my heart, etc.  

verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord most high:  
From heaven his praises sound:  
Yea, from above the starry sky,  
Let his loud praise rebound.  
verse 2 I et all his Angels join  
Their voices, him to praise:  
And all the heavenly hosts combine,  
His glorious name to raise.   

verse 3 Praise him ye Sun, and Moon,  
That rule the day, and night:  
And be to him like honour done,  
By all the stars of light.  
verse 4 Ye heavens, praise his name,  
Which all heavens else, exceed:  
And all ye waters, do the same,  
Above the heavens spread.   

verse 5 Let them extol the Lord,  
And spread his glorious fame:  
For by his all creating word  
They, what they are, became,  
verse 6 For ever fixed hath he  
Each of them in its place:  
And he hath made a firm decree,  
Which none must ever pass.   

Part II.  

verse 7 Let the Lord's praises sound  
Through all the earth below:  
Ye whales, and all ye seas profound,  
His worthy praises show.  
verse 8 Fire, hail, and fleecy snow,  
And vapours, praise the Lord:  
And all ye stormy winds, that blow  
According to his word.   

verse 9 Mountains of greatest height,  
With hills, and hillocks, all  
Fruitbearing trees, which bend with weight,  
And cedars strait and tall.  
verse 10 Wild beasts, and  tame,  
With every creeping thing:  
Birds, of whatever kind, and name,  
That exercise the wing.   

verse 11 Both Kings, and Princes high,  
And people that obey:  
Sage Judges, that with equity  
The people's causes weigh.  
verse 12 Young, men, and maidens fair,  
O'd men, and children small:  
verse 11 Let the Lord's name, who e'er you are,  
Have praises from you all.   

For there's no other name  
So excellent as his  
Above th' whole earth, and heavens frame  
His glory raised is.  
verse 14 He also very high  
His people's horn will raise:  
Who e'er excel in sanctily,  
From him inherit praise.   

Those who their pedigree  
From Israel derive:  
That near to him related be;  
To him due praises give.     

Psalm CXLIX.  

verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord. To him let's sing  
A new composed song:  
Let's make his worthy praises ring,  
Amidst the holy throng.  
verse 2 Let all the seed of Israel  
Unto their maker sing:  
And all that in mount Zion devil,  
Be joy full in their King.   

verse 3 Let them to th' harp and timbrel dance,  
In praise unto his name:  
And their melodious voice advance,  
His honour to proclaim.  
verse 4 For all the Lord's delight is placed  
Upon his people dear:  
The meek, with his salvation graced  
Most glorious shall appear.   

verse 5 Yea, let the Saints with greatest joys  
This honour entertain:  
And on their beds their singing voice,  
To sound his praises strain.  
verse 6 Let their rejoicing throats be filled  
With praises to the Lord:  
And let their hands with courage wield  
A sharp two-edged sword.   

verse 7 To pay the heathen in the kind,  
And measure that they gave:  
verse 8 Their Kings in iron chains to bind,  
And nobles to enslave.  
verse 9 To execute God's sentence past.  
Wherein upon record,  
This honour on all Saints is cast.  
Wherhfore praise ye the Lord.    

Psalm CL.  
[To the tune of the Old 100 Ps.] All people, etc.  

verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord. God's praise present  
Before him in his holy place:  
Praise him in his strong firmament,  
Whose Arch includes so vast a space.  
verse 2 Praise him for all his acts of might,  
Give him, whose greatness hath no bound,  
Praise, like himself, praise infinite.  
verse 3 Praise him, with warlike Trumpets sound.   

His praise with Harp, and Psalt'ry, sing  
verse 4 Praise him with timbrel, and with dance;  
With th' Organ, and well tuned string,  
verse 5 And cymbals loud, his praise advance.  
Praise him with cymbals sounding high.  
verse 6 Let every thing that breathes accord  
The Lord's great name to magnify.  
Praise, praise for ever, praise the Lord.   
The End of the Psalms.   

CHURCH-HYMNS Appointed to be read or sung at Morning and Evening Prayer.  

Te Deum Laudamus. The excellent Hymn of St. Ambrose.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 100] All people, etc.  

WE give thee praise, O God most high  
We own thee for our sovereign Lord;  
O Father, from Eternity  
Who art through all the earth adored.  
The heavens, and all powers therein  
Of Angels blest, their voices raise:  
Both Cherubin, and Seraphin,  
Eternally do sound thy praise.   

They, holy, holy, holy cry,  
Lord God, that dost all Army's sway:  
Who dost thy glorious majesty  
Throughout all heaven and earth display.  
Th' Apostles glorious company  
Enthroned with thee, do praise thy name:  
The glorified society  
Of holy Prophets, do the same.   

The martvr's noble Army, gives  
Thee praise, from whom they have their crowns:  
Thy holy Church, where e●… it lives  
Dispersed throughout the world, thee owns.  
Infinite, as thou art, dost shine;  
They all adore, and glorify.  
With thah true, only, Son of thine.   

That Son, to whom thou hast ordained  
All, as to thee, should honour give:  
With th' Holy Ghost; at whose command  
Those comforts are, which us revive;  
To thee, O Christ, all glory be:  
(The King, to whom it doth pertain:)  
Begat, before all time began.   

Yet, when lost man thou cam'st to save,  
And for that end didst man become:  
Thou didst thy native glories wave,  
And not abhor the Virgin's womb.  
When thou death's pangs hadst triumphed o'er,  
From heaven long thou didst not stay:  
But, ent'ring there thyself, before,  
For all believers mad'st a way.   

Thou, with the Father's glory decked,  
At God's right hand dost take thy place:  
From whence, as Judge, we thee expect;  
Whose sentence on us all must pass.  
Thy servants therefore, bought by thee,  
With thy most precious blood, thee pray;  
Help them, that they may quitted be,  
In the strict Judgement of that day.   

Among the Saints their names record,  
Who are with endless glory crowned:  
Bless all thine heritage, O Lord;  
And keep thy people safe, and found.  
Them govern, and advance for ever,  
Who, day by day thy praise Proclaim:  
And whiles the world endures, will never;  
Omit the worship of thy name.   

Lord, keep us through the present day,  
That we be not overcome by sin:  
Have mercy on us, Lord, we pray,  
upon us, let they mercy shine.  
And let th' effects thereof descend  
On those, who place their trust in thee:  
And, seeing I on thee depend,  
Lord, let me ne'er confounded be.    

The Canticle, Benedicite; or the Song of the Three Children (as it is called.)  
[To the Tune of Psalm 148.] Give laud, etc.  

O Bless the Lord on high,  
All ye his works most rare.  
Extol his majesty,  
Who made you what you are.  
Advance all praise:  
Advance his same:  
And make his name  
Renowned always.   

Blest may the Lord by you  
His mighty Angels, be:  
Ye heavens bless him too,  
Which we, admiring, see.  
Above all praise, etc.   

Bless him ye waters bred  
Above th' exten'ded skies:  
Bless him, his forces, spread  
Through all his royalties.  
Above all praise, etc.   

Bless him, thou glorious Sun,  
And Moon that give us light:  
The like by you be done,  
Ye Stars of heaven bright.  
Above all praise, etc.   

O all ye soaking showers,  
And gentle drops of dew,  
Bless him, that blessings pours  
Upon the earth by you.  
Above all praise, etc.   

Ye winds that do beget  
Those fatt'ning drops, him bless:  
With wasting fire; and heat  
Producing fruitfulness.  
Above all praise, etc.   

Him let cold winter bless,  
And scorching summer too.  
Bless him, ye frosts, which dress  
Th' earth's plants with hoary dew.  
Above all praise, etc.   

Bless him, ye piercing colds,  
And frosts, that lock the ground:  
With snow, and ice, that holds  
The swiftest rivers bound.  
Above all praise, etc.   

Bless him, both day and night,  
That measure out our years:  
Bless him, refreshing light,  
And darkness, big with fears.  
Above all praise, etc.   

Bless him, ye clouds of th' air  
With frightful thunders swelled:  
And lightnings, which us scare  
From thundering clouds expelled.  
Above all praise, etc.   

The Lord be blessed by  
Th' earth, which his mercies fill.  
Bless him, ye mountains high,  
With every little hill.  
Above all praise, etc.   

Bless him, all growing things  
Which th' earth in green do :  
Bless him, ye wells, and springs  
Conducing to their growth.  
Above all poise, etc.   

Let every sea and flood  
Bless the great Lord above:  
Great whales, with all the crowd  
Which in the waters move.  
Above, all praise, etc.   

Let all the fouls that fly,  
Join notes to bless his name:  
Bless ye his majesty,  
All beasts too, wild, and same.  
Above all praise etc.   

Bless ye the Lord, who e'er  
From human loins are bred:  
Bless him, his people dear,  
From Isr'el who proceed.  
Above all praise, etc.   

Bless him, ye Priests, ordained  
To feed his Altars fire:  
And all, who waiting stand  
To serve, as they require.  
Above all praise, etc.   

Bless him, just spirits departed,  
And entered into peace:  
Yea, let all humble-hearted,  
And holy men him bless.  
Above all praise etc.   

O bless him Ananias.  
Let Misael him bless.  
And, with both, Azarias,  
Bless him, whom all confess.  
Above all praise, etc.    

Benedictus. Or the Song of Zacharias.  

THE Lord, the God of Isr'el, be  
By us, his people, blest:  
By whose redeeming visit, we  
Secure from danger, rest.  
Who our Salvation's mighty Horn;  
(Foretold in ancient days)  
Of's servant David's lineage born,  
Hath now thought fit to raise   

According as his promise ran,  
Proclaimed by holy men,  
Who, ever since the world began,  
Inspired by him have been.  
That we from all our mortal foes  
By him should saved be:  
And from the cruel hands of those  
That hate us, should be free.   

He called to mind his gracious grant  
To our fore father's past:  
And his most holy Covenant  
He hath performed at last.  
The sacred oath, which solemnly  
To Abraham he gave:  
That from the hands of th' Enemy  
He would his people save:   

That freed from fear of men, in peace,  
His work we might attend;  
In holiness, and righteousness,  
Until our lives should end.  
And with his Prophets, th' highest God  
(Dear child) shall reckon thee:  
Before the Lord, to clear his road,  
Thou shalt employed be.   

The Doctrine of Salvation, thou,  
Shalt to his people preach:  
That he'll forgive their sins, and how,  
Thou shalt them truly teach.  
Proclaiming God's most tender love,  
Which amply he declares;  
In that the dayspring from above.  
To sinful men appears.   

T' enlighten those dark souls that lay  
Where death it's shadow casts:  
An guide our feet into the way  
Of pence that ever lasts.    

Magnificat. Or the Song of the Blessed Virgin.  

HIgh thoughts of thee, O Lord most high,  
Within my soul I have:  
And in my Spirit glad am I,  
In God that doth me save.  
For to his handmaid's meanness, he  
Such great regard expressed:  
That, by all following Ages, she  
Shall be Pronounced bless.   

For he whose power is infinite,  
(To make me great in fame)  
Hath shown in me his glorious might;  
And holy is his name.  
And ever does he Acts of Grace  
For such as do him fear:  
Great instances whereof, from race,  
To race, he makes appear.   

His mighty Arm he stretcheth out,  
And haughty men subverts:  
Disabling them to bring about  
The projects of their hearts.  
The mighty, from their lofty seat,  
Flat to the ground he lays:  
And humble men to honours great  
His gracious hand doth raise.   

The hungry, he doth richly fill,  
With what his needs supplies:  
But to the rich man's craving will,  
What he desires, denies  
He holp his Isr'el in their need,  
As once he did assure  
Our Father Abr'am, and his seed,  
For ever to endure.    

Nunc Dimittis. Or Simeon's SONG.  
[To the Tune of the 100 Psalm.] All people, etc.  

THY weary Servant, now, O Lord,  
Hopes thou wilt give him his release:  
That so according to thy word,  
He may departed this world in peace.  
My life by thee prolonged hath been,  
Till I thy Jesus might behold  
But now, since him mine eyes have seen,  
Their love to all sights else, is cold.   

For that blessed Jesus, long prepared  
To save lost souls of human race;  
Now, at the last, thou hast declared,  
And shown before all people's face:  
A glorious light, in open view,  
To Gentiles, that in darkness devil:  
Whence greatest glory doth accrue  
Unto thy people Israel.    

The Hymn of Gloria in Excelsis, at the End of the Communion Service.  
[To the Tune of Psalm 100] All people, etc.  

ALL Glory be to God above,  
With Peace on all the Earth below:  
And may all streams of grace, and love,  
To all mankind from heaven flow.  
Thanks, blessing, glory, worship, praise,  
Great, as thy glory, we present,  
To thee, the King that heaven sways,  
O Father, God omnipotent.   

O Jesus Christ our Lord, and God,  
The Father's sole begotten Son,  
Pure Lamb of God that bar'st the load  
Of sin for all the World, alone.  
Thou whose sufficient sacrifice  
Forth ' wholeWorld's sins did satisfy:  
Who pay'd'st the meritorious price,  
Which all the World was ransomed by.   

Thou, who, (exalted from the grave,)  
Dost at the Father's right hand sit:  
On us poor sinners mercy have,  
And to thine ears, our prayers admit.  
For to thee, only, Lord, we bow,  
Thou, Christ, art, th' only holy one;  
And in the Father's glory, thou,  
With th' Holy Ghost, dost reign alone.    

Gloria Patri.  
Suited to all the former Tunes, both of Psalms, and Hymns. [To the Tune of Psalm 100] All people, etc.  

TO Father, Son, and Spirit, (One  
Eternal God in Persons Three:)  
As was, before the world begun,  
Now, and for ever, glory be.    

[To the tune of Ps. 113.] Ye children, etc. To supply the want of a Stanza, when the Singers shall think fit to break any Part of a Psalm set to that Tune, so, as to make it incomplete without it.  

UNto th' Eternal Three and One;  
The Father, with his only son,  
And th' Holy Ghost, all glory be:  
So 'twas, before all Time begun,  
Now is, and when Times glass is run,  
Shall be to all Eternity.    

The same Hymn adapted,  
To the Tune of Ps. 25. I lift my Heart, etc.  

LET Father, Son, and Spirit,  
(Th' Eternal Three and One:)  
All glory now, and still inherit,  
As they have ever done.    

The same  
to any ordinary Tune, used in PSALAMS composed of EIGHTS, and SIX.  

To Father Son, and Spirit, (One  
True God in Persons Three:)  
Now, as before the world begun,  
And ever, Glory be.    

The same Hymn,  
[To the Tune of Ps. 148.] Give laud, etc.  

THE Father, and the Son,  
And Spirit of Holiness,  
(TH. Eternal Three and One)  
We glorify and bless.  
So 'twas, before  
Time first began,  
And so remain  
Shall evermore.     

A POSTSCRIPT, TO THE Christian Reader.  
Christian Reader.  
IN the Preface, I acquainted thee, that [where ever this version of mine runs out into Paraphrase, (let me add here, or seems to do so,) it is occasioned either by the Context of the verse Paraphrased; or the general design of the whole Psalm; or the Emphasis of the original words, and Phrases: or the reference of any Passage to other Scriptures.] Now, that thou mayst be the better able to judge, how I have kept to these measures: I think it not amiss to give thee, as to each of these particulars, a few Instances.  
1. As first, for the Context: confer Ps. 2. 4, 6, 9 and 2, 3. Ps. 11.2, 3. with v. 1. Ps. 48. 12, 13 Ps. 73. 1 l. 1, 2. with v. 3, 4, 5. As also, v. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. Ps. 75. 2. with v. 4, 5, etc.  
And to this Head, may be reduced, those Emphatical Epithets, amplifying the subjects to which they are applied, where the matter treated of, seemed to require them: and several pregnant Phrases spread larger, to make them more intelligible, and affecting.  
2 For the Design of the Psalm Confer the Title of Ps 18. with several expressions in it. And the Titles of other Psalms, or the Contents, by our Translatours prefixed to them, with the Psalms to which they are prefixed.  
3. For Emphatical Words or Phrases in the original; he that understands that will see reason, for the rendering, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ps. 1. 3. parted Streams: 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Ps. 5. 8. men watch me: 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ps. 18. 5. strong cords: 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, v 26. will't wrestle: so also, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Ps. 19 10. drops most free. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ps. ps. 29. 1. ye that from mighty men derive etc. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ps. 35. 15. halting day: 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ps. ps. 40. 6.— didst boar: 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Ps. 55. 20 profanely transgress: 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Ps. 74. 23. Ascends: 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Ps. 78. 47 Pig-trees, seeing that word, in the masculine Termination, is so interpreted, Ps 105. 33. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Ps 89 31 profaned: 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Ps. 148 7. lastly, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the shorter stanze, so often repeated, in the Benedicite, Above all praise And many other Instances I might add of the same nature, but that this Postscript would thereby become too large. ●… 4. As to the Scriptures related to. Confer Ps. 8. 2. & Mat. 21. 16. & Luk. 10. 21. Ps. 18. 19 & 1. Sam. 22. 1. 23. 19 24. 3. Ps 22. 16. & Mat. 27. 35. v. 18. & foh. 19 23, 24. Ps. 24 6. & 1 King. 6. 32, 34. Ps. 40. 6. & Exod. 21. 6 Heb. 10. 5. v 7. & Heb. 10. 9, 14. Ps. 45. 2. & Job 7046. Ps. 51. 7. & Levit. 14. 6. Ps. 68 18. & Eph. 4. 8. Ps. 69. 21. & Mat. 27. 48. Mark. 15. 23. Ps. 78. 48. & Exod. 9 19, 20: v. 52. & Deut. 32. 10 Ps 83. 9 & Judge 5. 21. Ps 104. 2. & 1 Tim. 6. 16. Ps. 105. 6. & If. 41. 8. Ps. 106. 18. & Num. 16. 35. v. 28. & Hos. 9 10 v. 30. & Num. 25. 6, 7, 8. v. 33. & Num. 20. 3, 12. Ps. 110. 3. & 1 Pet 1. 28. Ps. 118. 26. & Luk. 19 38. Ps. 134. 1. & 2 Chron. 8 14. v. 3 & I King. 14. 21. Num. 6. 24. etc. To which the candid Reader may add (from his own experimental acquaintance with the Phrase of the Scriptures) many others of like nature: by which he will be able to justify many allusive expressions, wherein I see cause to recede from the Phrase of the Prose Translation, to comply with the Text alluded to; as more emphatically, and significantly answering the genius, scope, or texture of the Psalms wherein they are made use of by me in this Version.  
To conclude. I have through the long stay of this Book in the Press, had the liberty of taking a more strict review of it, in the sheets as they were sent me: and in that review, have noted. some things which I saw cause to desire had been altered in the original Copy before it was put into the Printer's hands. But seeing a great part of it was wrought of without my knowledge: I am feign to take the occasion of this Postscript, to add some of the chief alterations here, and adventure them, to the candid Judgement of the Reader, to take, or leave them as he sees cause. For instance. Ps. I. I some Persons suggesting their thoughts to me, that it had been better, if I had there observed and kept to the very Terms of [walking, standing, sitting, ungodly, sinners, scornful:] as also [counsel, way, seat,] as having all of them an Emphatical Climax, much heightening the sense: in compliance with them; (though I think the versision as now it stands every jot as good for substance, yet I offer this alteration of the whole verse, Ps. 1.  
V 1. GReat happiness that man betides,  
Who walks not where th' ungodly guides:  
Nor in the way by sinners worn,  
Securely stands: nor takes his seat,  
Where proud men stretch their wits to treat  
Both God, and godliness with scorn.  
Ps. 17.2. [Tribunal] being a word not readily understood by ordinary persons, altar line 1. thus,  
[Before thy judgement seat me try]  
Ps. 18.38. read [Before my feet they conquered fallen.]  
Ps. 29.9. l. 3. [Bright day those piercing flashes—]  
Ps. 32.2. [He's blest to whom the Lord atoned  
Imputeth not iniquity:  
And he, by whom hypocrisy  
Is, from his very heart disowned]  
Ps. 34.15. read [And, t' harken to their earnest cries,  
He never doth forbear.]  
Ps. 37 26. [For he, to needy men to lend,  
Is readily inclined:  
Whence those who from his loins descend  
Great store of blessings found.]  
V 32. l. 1, 2. [The wicked lays sly plots to catch  
The just and holy man]  
Ps. 40.9, 10. [Lo, Lord, thyself canst testify,  
My lips I never spared.  
Thy justice I did not suppress  
Within my heart enclosed:  
Thy saving Grace, and faithfulness  
I have to all proposed.]  
Ps. 45 (2 Version.) Sons born of thee etc.  
v. 16. l. 2. read  
Ps. 48. v. 2. (2 Version) [The Lord abides.]  
Ps. 51. v. 5 (3 Version.) [From my motherswomb,  
Together, sin, and life, derived.]  
Ps. 52.9. [Thy Work for ever to commend,  
My song shall it recite:]  
Ps. 55.13. [But 'twas thou, one, whom—]  
V 20. [With outstretched hand he fought—]  
Ps. 59.11. [Slay them not quite, jest (Lord our shield)  
My people it forget.]  
Ps. 102.7, 8, 9 altar thus.  
The bird that on th' house tops alone  
Spends wakeful night, like me doth moan,  
8. Yea, all day long no joy I see,  
Tired out with foes reproaching me.  
Foes, that like men quite mad, etc.  
Against my life, etc.  
9 Whence my food, etc.  
Ps. 119 162 l. 1. altar thus.  
Thence doth such joy in me abound.  
Ps 123.2. l. 1, & 2. thus As servants looking stand Unto their master's hand,  
Ps. 126.6. l. 2. thus. And sow's choice seed in tears:  
Thus far, the Press had prevented me, before I could make, the last review which I intended, of the original Copy: but from thence forward I have taken care to prevent it, by sending up beforehand, the amendments and alterations to be inserted in the Text itself: as also all second versions of any of the remaining Psalms, except one of Ps. 117. which here I sender thee; Ps. 117. [To the tune of Ps. 100] All people, etc.  
[Let all mankind express their mirth  
unto the Lord in joyful songs:  
And pay him from all Lands on earth  
The praise that unto him belongs.  
For, from his plenteous mercy's store,  
Great kindness he doth us afford:  
His truth, likewise, lasts evermore.  
For ever, therefore, praise the lord]  
And now, I have no more to desire of thee, Christian Reader, but, that before thou readest, thou wilt correct the Errata of the Press, as thou art here directed; except; where thou findest them corrected to thy hands which labour (in the grossest, at lest;) I hope, by the care of a friend, thou wilt be in a great measure prevented in.  
FINIS.   

ERRATA.  
IN the Preface p. 13. l. 13. r. made. Psalm 17. 11. line I. read, us .. Ps. 22. 18. (Version 1.) l. 1. r. see. Ps. 38. Title, r. [To the Tune of Ps. 51. O Lord, consider, etc. or the Lamentation, O Lord in thee, etc.] Ps. 41. 4. l. 3. r. thou. Ps. 48. 4. (Vers. 2) l. 2. r. altogether. v. 9 l. 3. r. Temples holy place. Ps. 50. 2. l. 2. r. combined, v. 16. l. 4. r. teach. Ps. 51. v. 10. l. 3. (Vers. 1) r. new created. Ps. 66. 9 l. 3r. strength. v. 15. l. 3. r. nor ram. Ps. 68 32. l. 4. r. your. Ps. 71. 18. l. 1. r. don't. 1. 6. r. wrought of. Ps. 72. 17. l. 2. r. evermore. Ps. 77. 16. l. 4. r. sore. Ps. 78. 7. l. 3. works. v. 35. 1. 1. r. they. v. 54. l. 4. r. gained. Ps. 88 v. 3. l. 4. r. envied. Ps. 92. 12. r. But as Palmtree grow. Ps. 104. 4. r. flames. Ps. 109. 11. l. 3. deal his. Ps. 115. 1. l. 5. r. Against them, than, by aiding us .. Ps. 118. 13. r. thought'st. Ps. 119. (1. Verse) v. 9 r. word, ' s.u. 62. l. 2. r. due v. 72. l. 3. r. to. v. 147. for, and chased, read had chased; or rather, dispersed. (Verson 2.) v. 12. l. 3. r. bliss. v. 82. l. 1. r. mine. v. 84. l. 3. r. When shall thy Judgements take effect v. 120. l. 4. r do Ps. 126. 5. l. 2. r. harvests. Ps. 127. v. 2. l. 4. r. without. Ps. 129. 2. l. 2. r. check. of. 131. 3. l. 3. r. thoughts Ps. 132. v. 16. l. 1. (1 Version) r. Her Priests invested. Ps. 136. 1. l. 6. r. time's. Postscript P. 455 l. 4. r. version.   

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