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. 105. Confitemini Domino.
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Confessing to the Lord, give thankes,and call upon his Name:
Make knowne among the peoples rankes,
his powerfull acts proclaime.
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Sing ye to him, to him sing praise,a Psalme that shall excell:
His praise-excelling workes up-raise,
of all his wonders tell.
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His holy Name your glory make,and let their heart rejoyce,
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to seeke him set their choice.
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O seeke the Lord with zealous mind,his Oracle of grace;
His Arke of strength enquire to find,
seeke evermore his face.
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His marvels done, his wonders heed,his mouths expressions:
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O ye his servant Abrams seed,his chosen Jacobs sons.
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He is the Lord our God, whose carein us hath speciall right:
In all the earth his Judgements are,
in every Nations sight.
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His Covenant he doth ever mind,his words command fore-past;
That childrens childrens seed should find
a thousand ages last.
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This Covenant he with Abram strooke,to Isaac swore to pay:
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To Jacob for a Law betooke,to Israel for aye.
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Thine off-spring (saying) to advanceI Cana'n land will give,
The line of thine Inheritance,
wherein thy seed shall live.
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When few of number, meanes bereft,they strangers in the land:
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One Nation for another left,as Kingdomes came to band.
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To doe them wrong, he suffred none,even Kings for them he charm'd:
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“Of mine Annointed touch not one,nor see my Prophets harm'd.
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He call'd a famine on the Land,so long with plenty fed:
To weaken their ingratefull hand,
brake all the staffe of bread.
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Before them, for the dearth fore-told,he sent a man at last;
Young Joseph, for a servant sold,
and into prison cast.
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His feet in fetters fast they pent,where wrung, and wrested long,
His soule, into the iron went,
into his soule, the wrong.
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Untill his cause for sentence cri'd,his innocence to scan:
Untill by word the Lord had tri'd,
what worth was in the man.
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The King would his discharger be,for his deliverance sent:
The peoples Ruler set him free
from fault, from punishment.
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Lord of his house he him assign'd,his substance to assise:
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His Princes to his soule to bind,and make his Elders wise.
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So Israel into Egypt came,from Cana'ns better clime;
And Jacob in the land of Cham,
did sojourne for a time.
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His people mightily encrease,then their oppressors made
A Nation more secure for peace,
and stronger to invade.
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Yet Egypts heart averse was felt,his people they did hate;
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unjustly held debate.
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His servant Moses then he sent,and Aarons chosen head:
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Words of his signes among them spent,in Cham his wonders spread.
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His Word in darknesse cloth'd the light,three daies continued they
In darknesse, darker than the night,
and did not disobey.
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He turn'd their waters into bloud,their fish flung dead on shore;
Chang'd Nilus to a noisome flood,
her silver streames to gore.
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Their land in legions brought forth frogs,in field, in house, in hall:
In Kings bed-chambers, as in bogs,
the loathsome Paddockes crawle.
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He spake the word, and in a trice,a cloud of Vermine arm'd,
Wing'd-Flies, and Infantries of Lice,
in all their quarters swarm'd.
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For showers of raine from gentler hand,he flung them stones of haile;
And flames of fire, that made their land,
of flocke and fruit to faile.
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With storme their Vine, their Fig-tree strook,most fruitfull, most of all;
Of Trees throughout their border broke
the highest, soonest fall.
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Of Grashoppers a mighty presse,his word inspir'd with pow'r;
And Caterpiller numberlesse,
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All herbes and fruit devoure.208
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In Egypt all their eldest borne,with hand of death he smote;
The prime of all their fleece was shorne,
their strongest men of note.
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He brought them forth (these wonders done)with silver and with gold:
Among their Tribes there was not one,
a feeble person told.
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At their departure Egypt glad,was of their stay affraid:
So lately to forsake them, sad,
now loth to see them stai'd.
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A covering of a cloud he spread,to shade the heat of day:
Of fire by night, a lamp to lead,
and light them on their way.
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Of Quaile, he brought at their requesta showre, that downe did raine;
And with the bread of Heaven them blest,
suffic'd with Angels graine.
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The Rocke of stone made open flie,with waters stor'd the land,
That rivers ran in places drie,
where late lay Desert sand.
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His holy promise held so fast,from time it first began;
To Abraham his servant past,
in his remembrance ran.
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With joy his people forth he brought,his chosen with a shout:
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And gave them lands, and labours wroughtof Heath'ns, for them cast out:
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Observe his Statutes, that they might,and of his holy Word
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to practise: Praise the Lord.
Halelu-jah.
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