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 First song of Moses.
Exod. 15.
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The Song.
Then sang Moses and the Children of Israel this Song vnto the LORD, and spake, saying:
Now to the Lord my song of praise shall be,
Who hath a most renowned triumph woone:
For in the sea, the horse and horseman he,
Hath both at once together ouerthrowne.
This is the Lord that makes me strong,
Hee is my safety and my song;
My God for whom I will a house prepare,
My Fathers God whom I on high will reare.
Who hath a most renowned triumph woone:
For in the sea, the horse and horseman he,
Hath both at once together ouerthrowne.
This is the Lord that makes me strong,
Hee is my safety and my song;
My God for whom I will a house prepare,
My Fathers God whom I on high will reare.
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Well knowes the LORD to war what doth pertaine;
And for that reason is the LORD his name:
He, Pharo'hs Charr'ots, and his armed Traine,
Amid the Sea ore'-whelming overcame.
He, in the Ruddy-sea hath drown'd,
His Captaines that were most renownd:
The deeps a couering ouer them hath throwne,
And to the bottome sunke they, like a stone.
And for that reason is the LORD his name:
He, Pharo'hs Charr'ots, and his armed Traine,
Amid the Sea ore'-whelming overcame.
He, in the Ruddy-sea hath drown'd,
His Captaines that were most renownd:
The deeps a couering ouer them hath throwne,
And to the bottome sunke they, like a stone.
LORD by thy power thy right hand's famous grow'n,
Thy right hand LORD, thy foe destroyed hath;
Thou by thy glorie hast thy Foes ore-thrown;
And stuble-like, consum'st them in thy wrath.
Thou by thy nostrils angry blast,
The waters backward driuen hast
And (rowl'd on heapes,) the billowes and the sloud,
In middle of the Sea, congealed stood.
Thy right hand LORD, thy foe destroyed hath;
Thou by thy glorie hast thy Foes ore-thrown;
And stuble-like, consum'st them in thy wrath.
Thou by thy nostrils angry blast,
The waters backward driuen hast
And (rowl'd on heapes,) the billowes and the sloud,
In middle of the Sea, congealed stood.
I will pursue them (thus the Foe did crye)
I will ore'take them and the spoile enioy;
My pleasure on them, now fulfill will I;
With sword vnsheath'd my hand shall them destroy.
Then with thy breath thou didst but blow;
And ouer them the Sea did flow:
Where they, the mighty waters sanke into,
As we may see a peece of lead will doe.
I will ore'take them and the spoile enioy;
My pleasure on them, now fulfill will I;
With sword vnsheath'd my hand shall them destroy.
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And ouer them the Sea did flow:
Where they, the mighty waters sanke into,
As we may see a peece of lead will doe.
LORD, who like thee among the gods is there?
In holinesse, so glorious who may be?
Whose praises, so exceeding dreadfull are?
Or who in doing wonders is like thee?
Thy right hand thou aloft didst reare,
And in the earth they swallow'd were:
Whil'st thou, didst by thy mercy, forward lead,
This people, whose redemption thou hast paid.
In holinesse, so glorious who may be?
Whose praises, so exceeding dreadfull are?
Or who in doing wonders is like thee?
Thy right hand thou aloft didst reare,
And in the earth they swallow'd were:
Whil'st thou, didst by thy mercy, forward lead,
This people, whose redemption thou hast paid.
Them, by thy strength, thou hast been pleas'd to bear
Vnto a holy dwelling place of thine:
The Nations at report thereof shall feare,
And they shall grieue, who dwell in Palestine.
On Edoms Dukes will horror fall;
Yea Moabs mightie Princes shall
With trembling shake, when they of this heare tell:
And they shall faint that doe in Canaan dwell.
Vnto a holy dwelling place of thine:
The Nations at report thereof shall feare,
And they shall grieue, who dwell in Palestine.
On Edoms Dukes will horror fall;
Yea Moabs mightie Princes shall
With trembling shake, when they of this heare tell:
And they shall faint that doe in Canaan dwell.
By that great power, which in thine Arme thou hast,
Let feare and terrour vpon them be brought:
Stone-quiet make them till thy people passe;
LORD, till this people pas, which thou hast bought.
Then, to thy hill, let them repaire,
LORD plant them there, where thou art heire:
Eu'n where thy place of dwelling is prepar'd,
That holy place, which thine own hands haue rear'd
Let feare and terrour vpon them be brought:
Stone-quiet make them till thy people passe;
LORD, till this people pas, which thou hast bought.
Then, to thy hill, let them repaire,
LORD plant them there, where thou art heire:
Eu'n where thy place of dwelling is prepar'd,
That holy place, which thine own hands haue rear'd
The LORD shall euer, and for euer raigne,
No ending, shall his large dominion know;
For, when as Pharaoh downe into the Maine
Did with his Charr'ots and his Horsemen goe,
The LORD the waues did then recall,
And brought the sea vpon them all;
Whil'st, through the place where deepest waters lye,
The seed of Israel passed ouer drye.
No ending, shall his large dominion know;
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Did with his Charr'ots and his Horsemen goe,
The LORD the waues did then recall,
And brought the sea vpon them all;
Whil'st, through the place where deepest waters lye,
The seed of Israel passed ouer drye.
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