The songs of The Old Testament, Translated into English Measures preseruing the Naturall Phrase and genuine Sense of the holy Text: and with as little circumlocution as in most prose Translations. To euery Song is added a new and easie Tvne, and a short Prologue also, deliuering the effect and Vse thereof, for the profit of vnlearned Readers. By George Wither |
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THE Third Song of Esay.
Esay 26.
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The Song.
A citty now haue we obtain'd,
Where strong defences are,
And God saluation hath ordai'nd,
For was and Bulwarkes there.
Where strong defences are,
And God saluation hath ordai'nd,
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The gates thereof wide open set;
Those righteous people who
The Truths obseruers are, may get
Admittance thereinto.
Those righteous people who
The Truths obseruers are, may get
Admittance thereinto.
There, thou in peace wilt keepe him sure,
(Whose thoughts well grounded be)
In peace, that euer shall endure,
Because he trusted thee.
For-euermore vpon the LORD
Without distrust depend,
For in the LORD, th'eternall LORD,
Is strength that hath no end.
(Whose thoughts well grounded be)
In peace, that euer shall endure,
Because he trusted thee.
For-euermore vpon the LORD
Without distrust depend,
For in the LORD, th'eternall LORD,
Is strength that hath no end.
He makes the lofty City yeeld,
And her proud dwellers bow:
He layes it leuell with the field,
And with the dust below.
Their feet, who poore and needy are,
Their feet thereon shall tread:
Their way is right that righteous are
Whose path thou well dost heed.
And her proud dwellers bow:
He layes it leuell with the field,
And with the dust below.
Their feet, who poore and needy are,
Their feet thereon shall tread:
Their way is right that righteous are
Whose path thou well dost heed.
Vpon thy Course of iudgements wee,
Oh LORD attending were,
And to record thy Name, and Thee,
Our soules desirous are.
On thee, my minde with strong desires
Is fixed in the night,
And after thee my heart enquires,
Before the morning light.
Oh LORD attending were,
And to record thy Name, and Thee,
Our soules desirous are.
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Is fixed in the night,
And after thee my heart enquires,
Before the morning light.
For, when thy righteous Iudgements are
Vpon the earth discern'd
By those that doe inhabite there,
Vprighnesse should be learn'd.
Yet sinners for no terror will,
Iust dealing vnderstand:
But they continue doing ill,
Eu'n in the righteous land.
Vpon the earth discern'd
By those that doe inhabite there,
Vprighnesse should be learn'd.
Yet sinners for no terror will,
Iust dealing vnderstand:
But they continue doing ill,
Eu'n in the righteous land.
Vnto the glory of the LORD,
They will not heedfull be:
Thy hand aduanc't on high, oh LORD,
They will not daigne to see.
But they shall see, and see with shame,
That doe thy people spight:
Yea, from thy foes shall rise a flame,
That will deuoure them quite.
They will not heedfull be:
Thy hand aduanc't on high, oh LORD,
They will not daigne to see.
But they shall see, and see with shame,
That doe thy people spight:
Yea, from thy foes shall rise a flame,
That will deuoure them quite.
Then LORD, for vs, thou wilt procure,
That wee in peace may be:
Because that eu'ry worke of our,
Is wrought for vs, by thee.
And LORD our God, though we are brought,
To other Lords in thrall:
Of thee alone shall be our thought,
Vpon thy name to call.
That wee in peace may be:
Because that eu'ry worke of our,
Is wrought for vs, by thee.
And LORD our God, though we are brought,
To other Lords in thrall:
Of thee alone shall be our thought,
Vpon thy name to call.
They are deceast and neuer shall,
A farther life obtaine:
They die and shall not rise at all,
To tyrannize againe.
For to that end thou visited,
And wide dispers't them hast:
Vntill their fame was perished,
And vtterly defac'st.
A farther life obtaine:
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To tyrannize againe.
For to that end thou visited,
And wide dispers't them hast:
Vntill their fame was perished,
And vtterly defac'st.
But LORD, encrea'st thy people are,
Encrea'st they are by thee:
And thou art glorified as farre
As any lands there be.
For LORD, in their distresses, when
Thy chast'ning on them lay:
They vnto thee did hasten then,
And without ceasing pray.
Encrea'st they are by thee:
And thou art glorified as farre
As any lands there be.
For LORD, in their distresses, when
Thy chast'ning on them lay:
They vnto thee did hasten then,
And without ceasing pray.
As she with Childe is pain'd when as
Her throwes of bearing be:
And cryes in pangs; before thy face,
Oh LORD, so fared We.
We haue conceiu'd, beene pain'd, and all
Was for a windie birth:
The world no safetie yeeld's; nor fall,
The dwellers of the earth.
Her throwes of bearing be:
And cryes in pangs; before thy face,
Oh LORD, so fared We.
We haue conceiu'd, beene pain'd, and all
Was for a windie birth:
The world no safetie yeeld's; nor fall,
The dwellers of the earth.
Thy dead shall liue; they rise againe
With my dead body shall:
Oh you, that in the dust remaine,
Awake and sing you, all.
For as the dewe doth hearbs renewe,
That buried seem'd before:
So earth shall through thy heau'nly dewe,
Her dead aliue restore.
With my dead body shall:
Oh you, that in the dust remaine,
Awake and sing you, all.
For as the dewe doth hearbs renewe,
That buried seem'd before:
So earth shall through thy heau'nly dewe,
Her dead aliue restore.
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My people, to thy Chambers fare,
Shut close the dore to thee;
And stay a while (a moment there)
Till past the furie be.
Shut close the dore to thee;
And stay a while (a moment there)
Till past the furie be.
For loe, the LORD doth now arise;
He commeth from his place;
To punish their impieties,
Who doe the world possesse.
And now the earth no longer shall,
The blouds in her conceale:
But shee, shall be compelled all
Her murthers to reueale.
He commeth from his place;
To punish their impieties,
Who doe the world possesse.
And now the earth no longer shall,
The blouds in her conceale:
But shee, shall be compelled all
Her murthers to reueale.
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