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. 83. Deus, quis?
Canticum Psalmi Asaph.
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Cease not, as deafe, O God, so long,so long hold not thy peace:
In silence still keep not thy tongue,
O God, thy ceasing cease.
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For loe, thy foes a tumult make,their troupes against us lead;
And they that hate thee, for our sake,
have lifted up their head.
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Against thy people they discourse,in consultations:
Contriving fraud with open force,
against thy secret ones.
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Come, Let us cut them off (they said)that Nation never more,
Nor name of Israel decai'd,
remembring Age restore.
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For they have cast with one consent,and strooke a league in heart,
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against us to convert.
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The Tents of Edom, Ismaelites,with Moabs mis-borne breed:
The Hagarens, the Gebalites,
and peopled Ammons seed.
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With them doth Amalek conspire,with them Pelesheth runs:
Ashur, with them that dwell at Tyre,
arme Lots rebellious sons.
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Such end doe thou upon them bring,as Madian Princes tooke:
Like Sisara, like Jabin King,
that fell at Kishon brooke.
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Which perished on Endor plaine,where (monuments of shame)
In dust and bloud, their bodies slaine,
as dung on earth became.
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Let Oreb, and let Zeeb fore-telltheirs, and their Princes fall:
As Zebach, and Zalmunnah fell,
so fall their Princes all.
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Which said, “Our Houses to advance,Gods Houses let us take;
And heires of his Inheritance,
our heires succeeding, make.
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Make like a wheele, my God, the raceof their outragious lives;
Or, as the winds distemp'red face,
the withered stubble drives.
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As fire, that burneth up the wood,and bares the thickest hold;
Or, as the flame devoures for food
the Mountaines sulphur-mold.
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So with thy tempests wrath dismai'd,pursue them to the death;
And make them with thy storme afraid,
to draw their guilty breath.
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Their brazen faces, brands of shame,their soules, of sorrow, beare,
That they, O Lord, may seeke thy Name,
if not for love, for feare.
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Confusion sudden evermore,and trouble them torment;
And give their sinfull lives before,
a shamefull deaths event.
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That they may know, that thou alone,whose name is Eternall,
On earth thy foot-stoole, Heaven thy Throne,
Most-Hie art over all.
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