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 | The Psalter of David newely translated into English metre in such sort that it maye the more decently, and wyth more delyte of the mynde, be reade and songe of al men, wherunto is added a note of four partes, wyth other thynges, as shall appear in the Epistle to the Reader [by Robert Crowley] |  |
The .lxxvj. Psalme.
In
Iuda God is surely knowē, and eke in Israell:
Hys holy name is had in price, and men lyke it full well.
Hys holy name is had in price, and men lyke it full well.
Hys tabernacle and his tent, is in Salem pytched:
And in Sion his holy seate and dwellynge is builded.
Ther hath he broken the arrowes that came forth of the bowe:
The shyld, the swerd, & all the raye, he brake also I knowe.
The shyld, the swerd, & all the raye, he brake also I knowe.
O Lorde thou art much more noble, and more magnificent:
Then are the robbars of the hylles that to spoylynge are bent.
Then are the robbars of the hylles that to spoylynge are bent.
The men that were of haute courage, are nowe become a praye:
They are slayne and haue slept theyr slepe, so slender was theyr staye.
They are slayne and haue slept theyr slepe, so slender was theyr staye.
All men that were stronge and myghtie & able for to fyght:
Haue not by strenght optayned ought, but are turned to flyght.
Haue not by strenght optayned ought, but are turned to flyght.
When thou rebukest men that fyght on horsse or in charet:
Then are they caste into slumber, and do thēselues forget.
Then are they caste into slumber, and do thēselues forget.
For thou (O Iacobes God I saye) arte terrible in dede:
And who can abyde in thy syght, when thy wrath is moued?
And who can abyde in thy syght, when thy wrath is moued?
Once thy iuste iudgment was shewed downe from heauen vpon man:
Then shoke the earth & great silēce through out the same began.
Then shoke the earth & great silēce through out the same began.
This thynge was done when God arose to minister iudgment:
And to saue them that on the earth were weake and impotent.
And to saue them that on the earth were weake and impotent.
For when thou doest punish one man and plageste his furie:
Then doest thou put the rest in feare to deale so cruelly.
Then doest thou put the rest in feare to deale so cruelly.
Make and performe vowes to your God, all you that nygh him be:
Loke that ye brynge gyftes vnto him, for terrible is he.
Loke that ye brynge gyftes vnto him, for terrible is he.
He stoppeth the breath of rulars, and causeth them to die:
And the myghtie kynges of the earth feare him excedyngly.
And the myghtie kynges of the earth feare him excedyngly.
| The Psalter of David newely translated into English metre in such sort that it maye the more decently, and wyth more delyte of the mynde, be reade and songe of al men, wherunto is added a note of four partes, wyth other thynges, as shall appear in the Epistle to the Reader [by Robert Crowley] | |