26 My fiefh, and eke my heart doth 12 Why doft thou draw thy hand a fail, but God doth fail me never: For of my health God is the strength my portion eke for ever. 27 And lo all fuch as thee forfake, thou fhalt deftroy each one: And thofe that truft in any thing faving in thee alone." 28Therefore I will draw neer toGod, and ever with him dwell: In God alone I put my trust, his wonders will I tell. PSAL LXXIIII. I. H. WHy art thou (Lord) fo long from in all thefe dangers deep? (us, Why doth thine anger kindle thus, at thine own pasture sheep? 2 Lord, call thy people to thy thought, which have been thine fo long. The thou haft redeem'd & brought from bondage fore and strong. 3 Have mind therefore and think remember it full well: (upon, The pleafant place, thy mount Sion, where thou waft wont to dwell: Lift up thy foot and come in hafte, and all my foes deface, Which now at pleasure rob & wafte, within thy holy place. 5 Amidft the Congregation all, thine enemies roar, O God: They fet as figns on every wall, their banners fplayd abroad.. As men with axes hew down trees, that on the hills do grow: So fhine the bils, & fwords of thofe, within thy Temple now. (boords, The feeling faw'd, the carved the goodly graven ftones, With axes,hammers,bils.and fwords, they bent them down at once. Thy places they confume & flame. and eke in all this toil, The houfe appointed to thy Name, they rafe down to the foil.. And thus they fay within their difpatch them out of haud, (heart, Then burnt they up in every part, Gods houfes through the land. O Yet thou no fign of help doft fend, our Prophets all are gone, (end, To tell when this our plague fhall among us there is none. When wilt thou (Lord Jonce end this fhame, and ceafe thine enemies strong. Shall they alwayes blafpheme thy and rail on thee fo long? (Name, and hide it in thy lap? (backs O! pluck it out, and be not flack, to give thy foes a rap. The Second part. 13 O God,thou art our King & Lords and evermore haft been; Yea, thy good grace throughout the world for our good help hath feen. 14 The Seasy are fo deep and dead, thy might did make them dry: And thou didst break the Serpents that he therein did die. (head, 15 Yea, thou didft break te heards fo of whales that are fo fell: (great And gav'ft them to thy folk to eat, that in the defert dwell, (to rife 16Thou mad'ft a fpring with streams from rocks that be fo high: And eke thy hand had made likewife, deep rivers for to dry. 17 Both day and eke the night are by thee they were begun; (thine, Thou setst to serve us their fhine, the Moon and eke the Sun. 18 Thou doft appoint the ends and of all the earth about: (coafts, Both fummer heat,and winter frofts, thy hand hath found them out. 19 Think on,O Lord,no time forget, thy foes that thee defame; And how the foolish folk are fet, to rail upon thy Name. 20 Olet no cruel beaft devour, thy Turtle that is true; Forget not alwayes in thy power, the poor that much do rue. 21 Regard thy covenant, and behold, thy foes poffefs the land; All fad and dark, forworne and old, our Realm as now doth ftand. 22 Let not the fimple go away, nor yet return with fhame; But let the poor and needy aye, give praife unto thy Name. 23 Rife, Lord, let be by thee main the caufey is thine own: (tain'd Remember how y thou blafphem'd art by the foolish one. 24 The voyce forget not of thy foes, for the prefumption high, Is more and more increaft in thofe, that hate thee spightfully. PSAL. LXXV. I.H. Nto thee God, will we give thanks, we will give thanks to thee Sith thy Name is fo near, declare thy wondrous works will we 2 I will 2 I will upright judge, when get fet not your horns on high. I faid unto them, fet not up, your raised horns on high; And fee that you do with stiff neck, not speak prefumptuously. s For neither from the Eastern part, nor from the Weftern fide; Nor from forfaken wilderneffe, promotion doth proceed. 6 For why the Lord our God he is, the righteous God alone; He putteth down the one, and fets another in the room. For whyta cup of mighty wines is in the hand of God; And all the mighty wine therein himself doth powre abroad. 8 As for the lees and filthy dregs, that do remain ofit: The wicked of the earth fhall drink, and fuck them every whit. 9 But I will talk of God, I say, of Jacobs God therefore; And will not cease to celebrate ] his praife for evermore. 10 In funder break the horn of all ungodly men will I; But then the horns of righteous men fhall be exalted high. Gloria Patri. 11 To Father, Son and Holy Ghoft, all glory be therefore; As in beginning was, is now, and fhall be evermore. PSAL. LXXVI. I. H. TO all that now in Jury dwell, the Lord is clearly known; His Name is great in Ifrael, a people of his own. 2 At Salem he his tent hath pight, to make his dwelling-place. 3 And there he brake both shaft and bow, the fword, the fpear, and fhield, And brake the ray, to overthrow in battel in the field. 4 Thou art more worthy honour, Lord, more might in thee doth lie, Then in the ftrongest of the world. that rob on mountains high. fpoil 5 But now the proud are fpoil'd through thee, and they are fall'n on fleep: Through men of war no help can be, themselves they could not keep. 6 Vt thy rebuke, O Jacobs God, when thou didst them reprove; As half on fleep their chariots stood, no horfemen once did move, For thou art dreadful, Lord indeed, what man the courage hath: To hide thy fight, & doth not dread, when thou art in thy wrath? 8 When thou doft make thy judgements heard from heaven through ground; Then all the earth full fore afraid, in filence shall be found. (ftand 9 And that when thou, O Lord, doft in judgements for to speak, To fave th afflicted of the land, on earth that are full weak. 10The fury that on earth doth raign, fhall turn unto thy praife, Hereafter (Lord) do thou reftrain I their wrath and threats alwayes. 11 Make vows and pay them to our ye folk that nigh him be; (God, Bring gifts all ye that dwell abroad, for dreadfull fure is he ; 12For he doth take both life & might from princes great of birth, And full of terrour is his fight, to all the kings on earth. PSAL. LXXVII. 1.H. With my voyce to God did cry, with heart and hearty chear; My voyce to God I lift on high, and he my fuit doth hear. 2 In times of grief, I fought to God, by night no reft I took; But ftretcht mine hand to him amy foul comfort forfook. (broad, 3 When I to think of God intend, my trouble then is more, Ifpake, but could not make an end, my breath was stopt fo fore. 4 Thou holdft mine eyes alwayes from reft, J my speech did me forfake. The dayes of old in mind I caft, and oft did think upon The times and ages that are paft, full many years agon. 6 By night my fongs I call to mind once made thy praife to fhow; And with my heart much talk I find, my fpirits do fearch to know. 7 Will God, faid I, at once for all, caft off his people thus ? So that henceforth no time he shall be friendly unto us? 8 What?is his goodness clean decai'd for ever, and a day? Or in his promise now delai'd? and oth his truth decay? 9 And will the Lord our God forget his mercy manifold; Or fhall his wrath increafe fo hot, his mercy to withhold? to At laft I faid my weakness is the caufe of this niftruft; Gods mighty hand can hell all this, and change it when he luft. The fecond part. 11 I will regard and think upon the working of the Lords Of all the wonders paft and gone, I gladly will record. 12 Yea, all his works I will declare. and what he did devife ; To tell his facts I will not fpare, and eke his counfel wife. (right. 13 Thy works (O Lord) are all up 2 My mouth fhall fpeak ftrange pa rables and fentences divine. (learn'd 3 Which we our felves have heard & even our fathers old; And which for our inftructions, our fathers have us told. 4Becaufe we fhould not keep it close, from them y fhould come after; Who fhouldGods power to their race praife, and all his works of wonder. To Jacob he commandement gave, how Ifrael fhould live: Willing our fathers Hould the fame, unto their children give. 6 That they and their posterity, that were not fprung up tho: Should have the knowledge of law, and teach their feed alfo. 7 That they may have ŷ better hope; in God that is above; And not forget to keep his laws, 8 and his precepts in love. Not being as their fathers were, rebelling in Gods fight; (hearts and holy all abroad; (might And would not frame their wicked What one hath ftrength to match the of thee. O Lord our God? (thew,) 14 Thou art a God that do'ft forth thy wonders every hour: And fo doft make the people know thy vertue and thy power.(fend, 5 And thine own folk thou doft dewith ftrength and ftretched arm; The fons of Jacob that defcend, and Jofephs feed from harm. 16 The waters(Lord) perceived thee, the waters faw thee well: And they for fear away did flee, the depth on trembling fell. 17 The clouds that were both thick and black did run full plenteously; The thunder in the air did flie. the fhafts abroad did fie. 18 Thy thunder in the air was heard, thy lightnings from abole : With flashes great made men afraid, the earth did quake and move, 19 Thy wayes within the Sea do lie, thy paths in waters deep; Yet none can there thy steps efpie, nor know thy paths to keep. 20 Thou lead'ft thy folk upon yland, as fheep on every fide; (hand, Through Wofes,and through Aarons thou didst them fafely guide. PSAL. LXXVIII. T.S.. ATend my people to my Law, and to my words incline; to know their God aright. How went the people of Ephraims their neighbours for to fpoil, Shooting their darts the day of war, and yet they took the foil. For why? they did not keep with God, the covenant that was made; Nor yet would walk or lead their lives, according to his trade, 11 But put into oblivion, his counsel and his will; And all his works moft magnifique, which he declared ftill. The fecond part. 12 What wonders to our forefathers, did he himself difclofe; In Egypt-land within the field, That called is Thaneos? 13 He did divide, and cut the fea,that they might paffe at once; And made the waters ftand as still, as doth a heap of ftones. 14 He led them fecret in a cloud, by day when it was bright; And in the night when dark it was, with fire he gave them light. 15 He brake the rock and wilderness, and gave the people drink, As plentiful as when the deeps, do flow up to the brink. 16 He 16 He drew out rivers out of rocks, that were both hie and hard; Of fuch abundance that no floods, to them might be compar'd. 17 Yet for all this against the Lord their fins they did increase: And stirred him that is moft high to wrath in wildernesse, 18 They tempted him within their like people of mistrust; (hearts, Requiring fuch a kind of meat, as ferved to their luft. 19 Saying with murmuration in their unfaithfulneffe; What? can this God prepare for us a feast in wilderneffe? 20 Behold, he strake the ftony rock, and floods forthwith did flow, But can he now give to his folk both bread and flesh alfo?(wroth 22 Because they did not faithfully and fowls as thick as fand: and all men had their fills; Yet more and more they did defire to ferve their lufts and wills. 30 But as y meat was in their mouth, his wrath upon them fell; 31 And flew the flower of all their and choife in Ifrael. (youth, 32 Yet fell they to their wonted fin, and ftill they did him grieve; For all the wonders that he wrought, they would not him believe. 33 Their days therefore be fhortened, and made their honour vain, Their years did wear and paffe away with terrour and with pain. 34 But ever when he plagued them, they fought him by and by i 35 Remembring that he was their ftrength, their help and God moft hie. 36 Though in their mouths they did but glofe, and flatter with the Lord, And with their tongues and in their diffembling every word, (hearts, The fourth pars. 37For why?their hearts were nothing to him nor to his trade; (bent Nor yet to keep or to perform the covenant that was made. 38 Yet was he ftill fo mercifull, 41 when they deferv'd to die: That he forgave them their mifdeeds and would not them destroy. Yea,many a time he turn'd his wrath, and did himself advise, And would not fuffer all his whole displeasure to arise. 39Confidering that they were but and ever as a wind; (flesh, That paffe away, and cannot well return by his own kind. 40 How oftentimes in wilderneffe, did they the Lord provoke; How did they move and ftir y Lord, to plague them with his stroke? Yet did they turn again to fin; and tempted God eft-foon, Prefcribing to the holy Lord, what things they would have done? 42Not thinking of his hand & power nor of the day when he, Delivered them out of the hands, of their fierce enemy. 43 Nor how he wrought his miracles (as they themselves beheld) In Egypt, and the wonders that he did in Zoan field. 44 Nor how he turned by his power, their waters into bloods That no man might receive his drink at river nor at flood. (Alies, 45. Nor how he sent them fwarms off which did them fore annoy: And fild their countrey full of frogs, which did their land destroy. The fifth part. 46 Nor how he did commit their unto the Caterpillar : (fruit, And all the labour of their hands he gave to the grafhopper.(vines 47With hailftones he deftroy'd their fo that they were all loft, And not fo much as wild fig-trees, but he confum'd with frost And yet whail-ftones once again the Lord their cattel fmote: 48 And 64 And with the fury Priefts allo did perish every one, And not a widow left alive, And all their focks and hearts like- the man and eke che beast. he did preferve and keep: And car ied them through wildereven like a flock of fheep. (nefs, $3 Without all fear both fafe and found, he brought them out of thrall; Whereas their foes with rage of feas were overwhelmed all. 54 And brought them out into the of his own holy land; (coafts Even to the mount which he had got by his ftrong arm and hand. 55 And there caft out y heathen folk, and did their land divide; And in their tents he fet the tribe, of Ifrael to abide. (high, 56 Yet for all this their God moft they ftirrd'ft and tempted ftill: And would not keep his Teftament, nor yet obey his will: 57 But as their fathers turned back, even fo they went aftray: Much like a bow that would not bend but flip and start away. The fixth part. SS And' griev'd him with their hillwith offering and with fire; (tars, And with their idols vehemently, provoked him to ire; 59 There with his wrath began again he did fo much deteft. their death for to bemoan. 66 With emerods in the hinder-parts 67 Then he the tent and Tabernacle 68 he would in no wife chufe. But chofe the tribe of Jehuda, whereas he thought to dwell Even the noble mount Sion, which he did love fo well. 69 Whereas he did his Temple build. both sumptuously and fure; Like as earth which he hath made for ever to endure. 70 Then chofe he David him to ferve, his people for to keep; 71 Whom he took up and brought away, and his inheritance. 72 Then David with a faithfull heart, his flock and charge did feed, And prudently with all his pow'r, did govern them indeed. PSAL. LXXIX. I.H. God, the Gentiles do invade, thine heritage to spoil; Jerufalem an heap is made, thy Temple they defile. 2 The bodies of thy Saints most dear, abroad to birds they caft; The flesh of them that do thee fear, the beaft devour and waft. 3 Their blood throughout Jerufalem, as water fpilt they have; So that there is not one of them, to lay their dead in grave. 4Thus are we made a laughing-stock, almoft the world throughout The enemies at us jeft and mock, wich dwell our coafts about. (er, 5 Wilt thou, O Lord, thus in thine ire, of Shilo where he was, Right converfant with earthly men, even as the dwelling-place. 61 Then fuffered he his might & powin bondage for to fiand; And gave the honour of his Ark into his enemies hand ?( fword, 62 And did commit them to the wroth with his heritage. (fire, 63 Their young men were devour'd maids had no marriage. |