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. 58. Si verè utique.
Ad Præstantem. Ne corrumpas. Davidis.
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And call ye this (O men of Might)pronouncing sentence just?
And call ye this to judge upright,
O eldest sons of dust?
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Yea, wickednesse ye worke in heart,and under faire pretence:
Where through the earth ye hold your Mart,
your hands weigh violence.
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The wicked, from their mothers wombeestrang'd, from goodnesse flie;
And erring, from the belly come,
no sooner speake, but lie.
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The poysoning Serpent poyson beares,lesse deadly than their sting:
With like deafe eare the Python heares
the wise Enchanter sing.
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Their teeth, O God, breake in their mouth,the Lions tuskes out-root:
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Like waters, Lord, shrinke up their growth,cut off the shafts they shoot.
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As Snaile consum'd within the shell,all out in slime is runne:
Abortive as the birth that fell,
so see they not the Sunne.
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Before your pots perceive the thorne,or feele the brambles heat,
Let whirling-fury tempest-borne,
their counsells crude defeat.
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So shall the Just rejoyce a good,to see the vengeance raigne;
And wash his feet in reeking bloud
of wicked doers slaine.
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So say shall men of mortall kind,fruit for the just there is:
There is a God, the earth shall find,
and judgement (doubtlesse) his.
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