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. 68. Exurgat Deus.
Ad Præstantem, Davidis, Psalmus Cantici.
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Let God arise, and (disarai'd)his scattred foes give place:
And let his haters all dismai'd,
flie from before his face.
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Driven, as the smoake before the wind,as waxe, at fire, doth melt;
So perish let the wicked kind,
Gods awefull presence felt.
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But let the Just in him rejoyce,before Gods face expresse
Their joy of heart, with gladsome voice
shout out their joyes excesse.
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Sing, sing to God, his Name on hye,that rides through Deserts, raise:
Make JAH'S Name way, and joyfully
before his face sing praise.
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The Father of the fatherlesse,Judge of the widowes crie
Is God, whose Throne of Holinesse,
whose Mansion is on hie.
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God into housholds doth disposethe solitarie Cell:
The prisoners lock't in chaines sets loose,
in drought lets Rebells dwell.
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O God, when through the Desert-sands,thou went'st before thy flockes;
And taught'st their clay-worne feet and hands,
to climbe Arabian rockes.
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Earth shooke, Heav'ns swet, Mount Sinai fell,and shrunke, to give God place:
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shew'd forth his face: His face!
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Thou shedd'st, O God, a gracious Raine,and thine Inheritance,
Long languishing in thirsty paine,
thy deawes did re-advance.
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Therein the Congregation dwelt,this coast thy creatures shar'd:
Thus hath (O God) thy goodnesse dealt,
thus for the poore prepar'd.
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The Lord gave word, by women spread,through that great Army they
Sung, “Kings, with Armies fled; they fled,
The House-Dove shar'd the prey.
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Your beauty, though the pots have spilt,where (sooty) ye have line:
With silver wings, neckes parcell-gilt,
your Dove-like plumes shall shine.
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When God Almighty gave the blow,where Kings confounded fell:
Our Sion, shady-Tsalmons snow,
for whitenesse did excell.
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Gods Mountaine, as Mount Basan stands,Mount Basan, fertile, hie:
Whose crest, so many crests commands,
to Sion comes not nie.
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Insulting Hills, so high, so great,this Mountaine God loves well:
The Lord desires to make his seat,
for ever here to dwell.
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Myriads of Angels; Mighty Names,Gods Chariots, Millions fill;
In them the Lord, as Sinai's flames,
on Sions holy Hill.
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Thou art ascended up on hie,above the fiery heaven;
Hast captive led captivitie,
and gifts in man hast given.
With them (the more ingratefull they,
that faithlesse did rebell;
And but compell'd, would not obey)
that thou Lord God mightst dwell.
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The Lord be blest, throughout our land,whose boundlesse mynes of wealth,
With bounty daily load our hand,
the God, our saving health.
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God our salvations is become,our God, that gives us breath,
Eternall is, the Lord, to whom
the issues are of death.
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Sure, God will smite his haters heads,and wound the hairie skull
Of him, that life ungodly leads,
and sinne on sinne doth pull.
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The Lord said, I will bring againe,from Basans slaughtred King;
Thee, from the gulfes amid the Maine,
againe, my people, bring.
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Deep in the bloud of Tyrants shed,thy trampling foot to staine;
And of thy dogs the tongue die red,
where all thy foes lie slaine.
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What triumphs thee, O God, did bring,they saw it face to face;
Thy goings, O my God, my King,
within thy holy place.
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Before went singers, afte theyon Instruments that plai'd;
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that hand on Timbrell laid.
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In thine assembly let not thankesfrom God the Lord depart:
O Fountaine, clos'd in Israels bankes,
from fountaine of thy heart.
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There, little Benjamin set hie,with Judahs Royall race;
Of Zebulun, and Nephthali,
the Princes crown'd the place.
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Strength from his strength forth-issuing,thy Gods command hath brought;
Establish thou, O God, the thing,
that thou for us hast wrought.
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And for Jerusalems deare sake,and for thy Temple there;
To thee shall Kings their homage make,
and humbly presents beare.
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Rebuke the wild beasts of the reed,the Bulls incursions barre:
Whose calves on silver fragments feed,
disperse the friends of warre.
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Sultans shall from Canôpus come,Cush, from Cassumo's Sunne,
To God, on glad Ambassage home,
with hands out-stretch't shall runne.
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To God, on earth ye Kingdomes nie,to God like praises bring;
In Psalmes sing to the Lord Most-Hie,
your highest praises sing.
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To him that on the Heavens doth ride,the Heav'ns that were of old;
Loe, what he is, his voice hath tri'd,
a voice of strength hath told.
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To God give strength, that doth excell,from whom all strengths arise:
Whose glory over Israel,
whose strength is in the skies.
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How dreadfull is, O God, thy sight,thy Sanctuaries tell:
Blesse God, that gives his people might,
the God of Israel.
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