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The Psalmes Of David In Meeter

Newly translated, and diligently compared with the Originall Text, and former Translations: More plaine, smooth, and agreeable to the Text, then any heretofore. Allowed by the Authority of the Generall Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, and appointed to be sung in Congregations and Families [by Francis Rous]

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Another of the same.

[Lord, hear my pray'r, & let my cry]

Lord, hear my pray'r, & let my cry
Have speedie accesse unto thee.

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In day of my calamity

O hide not thou thy face from me:
Hear when I call to thee, that day
An answer speedily return:

3

My dayes like smoke consume away,

And, as an hearth, my bones do burn.

4

My heart is wounded very sore,

And withered, like to grasse, doth fade
I am forgetfull grown therefore
To take and eat my daily bread.

5

By reason of my smart within,

And voice of my most grievous groans
My flesh consumed is, my skin,
Al parcht, doth cleave unto my bones.

6

The Pelican of wildernesse,

The Owl in deserts I do match,

7

And Sparrow-like companionlesse,

Upon the houses top I watch.

8

I all day long am made a scorn,

Reproach'd by my malicious foes:
The mad men are against me sworn,
The men against me that arose.

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For I have ashes eaten up,

To me as if they had been bread;
And with my drink I in my cup
Of bitter tears a mixture made.

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Because thy wrath was not appeas'd

And dreadful indignation,
Therefore it was that thou me rais'd,
And thou again didst cast me down.

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My dayes are like a shade alway,

Which doth declining swiftly passe:
And I am withered away
Much like unto the fading grasse.

12

But thou, O Lord, shalt stil endure

From change and all mutation free,
And, to all generations, sure
Shal thy remembrance ever be.

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Thou shalt arise, and mercy yet

Thou to mount Zion shalt extend:
Her time for favour which was set,
Behold, is now come to an end.

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Thy saints take pleasure in her stons

Her very dust to them is dear.

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Al heathen lands & kingly thrones

On earth, thy glorious Name shal fear.

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God in his glory shal appear,

When Zion he builds and repairs.

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He shal regard and lend his ear

Unto the needies humble pray'rs.
Th'afflicteds pray'r he wil not scorn:

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All times this shal be in record,

And generations yet unborn
Shal praise and magnifie the Lord.

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He frō his holy place look'd down

The earth he view'd frō heav'n on hie

20

To hear the prisoners mourning groan,

And free them that are dam'd to die;

21

That Zion, and Jerusalem too

His Name and praise may wel record,

22

When people and the Kingdoms do

Assemble all to praise the Lord.

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My strength he weakned in the way

My dayes of life he shortened.

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My God, O take me not away

In mid-time of my dayes, I said;
Thy years throughout all ages last.

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Of old thou hast established

The earths foundation firm and fast:
Thy mighty hands the heav'ns have made

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They perish shal, as garments do,

But thou shalt evermore endure:
As vestures, thou shalt change them so
And they shal all be changed sure.

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But from all changes thou art free,

Thy endlesse years do last ay.

28

Thy servants, and their seed who be

Establish'd shal before thee stay.