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. 140. Eripe me Domine.
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Psal. 140. Eripe me Domine.
Ad Præstantem, Psalmus Davidis.
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The evill man, the violent,from me, O Lord, keep farre:
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Whose heart on mischiefe wholly bent,they daily gather warre.
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They, like a Serpent, whet their tongue,beneath their lips beare stings;
With Aspes fell poyson to be stung,
lesse deadly danger brings.
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Lord, keep me from the wicked hand,and from the violent;
To thrust away my feet, which stand,
and study to prevent.
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For me the proud have hid a snare,with cords wide spread a net:
Way-laid my path at un-aware,
their grins for me have set.
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Thou to the Lord my God, I said,to heare this voice of mine,
A suitor to thy grace for aide,
thine eare, O Lord, encline.
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Lord God my strength, my strength to lead,my saving health from harmes:
Thou sett'st the Helmet on my head,
upon the day of Armes.
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Lord, wicked men encourage not,nor grant them their desire,
O further not his crafty plot,
lest further they aspire.
9
Upon my chiefest haters head,that compasse me about,
A covering of their lips to spread,
let mischiefe marke them out.
10
Let burning coales on them descend;hot fire on them let fall:
And into dungeons deep them send.
whence rise they never shall.
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A man of tongue shall never growestablish't in the land:
But evill, to his overthrow,
shall hunt the griping hand.
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I know, the Lord will Justice frame,the poore opprest to quit:
The Just shall sure confesse thy Name,
the right, before thee sit.
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