The Psalmes of David The King And Prophet, And Of other holy Prophets, paraphas'd in English: Conferred with the Hebrew Veritie, set forth by B. Arias Montanus, together with the Latine, Greek Septuagint, and Chaldee Paraphrase. By R. B. [i.e. Richard Brathwait] |
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Psal. 115. Non nobis.
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Not unto us, Lord, not to us,give glory to thy Name:
Proclaime it for thy Mercy thus,
thus for thy Truth proclaime.
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And wherefore should the Heathens crie,Where is their God forsooth?
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Our God is in the Heavens most hie,and what him pleaseth, doth.
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Their Idols silver are and gold,whose melted masse they serve;
Worke, which the hand of man doth mold,
and curious is to carve.
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A mouth they have, but speech none there,and eyes, but casements blind:
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And eares, but eares that cannot heare,nor scent their noses wind.
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Hands, where no sense of feeling found,feet, that foot never went;
Their senslesse trunkes at all no sound,
nor lungs, or throat to vent.
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Like stuffe to them their makers are,like drosse of divers dust:
Like Saints, like Servitors compare,
are all that in them trust.
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Trust in the Lord, O Israel,on him their hopes who build,
Their hopes are sure to speed them well,
he is their help and shield.
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Upon the Lord, O Aarons house,your hopes foundation build,
Such hopes find him auspicious,
he is their help and shield.
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O ye, in holy reverence,to feare the Lord that yeeld,
In whom ye feare, put confidence,
he is their help and shield.
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The Lord to us, remembring wellhis blessings to expresse,
Will blesse the house of Israel,
the house of Aaron blesse.
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Be it your state small meanes afford,sit ye in honours seat;
Young, old, that feare the Lord, the Lord
will blesse you, small and great.
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To adde to you, and to your race,the Lord will yet proceed,
To multiply on you his grace,
on you, and on your seed.
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The blessed of the Lord ye are,his blessings ye partake:
Your Maker, he makes you his care,
that Heaven and Earth did make.
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The Heavens, & Heavens supremest Heaven,the Lord alone commands:
The Earth to Adams sons hath given,
to serve him in all lands.
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And though the dead, Lord, of thy praise,no song in silence sing:
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To praise thee Lord, shall endlesse daiesour Halelu-jahs ring.
Halelu-jah.
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