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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Lib. IIII.
Psal. 90. Domine, refugium.
Oratio Mosis Viri Dei.
1
Thou, Lord, hast bin our dwelling place,nor other refuge wee;
Nor other found our fathers race,
from Age to Age but thee.
2
Before the Mountaines borne were nam'd,of mother earth a part:
Before the earth or world were fram'd,
eternall God thou ART.
3
Man to his mold dissolv'd thou laistin dust of death, and then,
To fraile and contrite earth thou saist,
Returne ye sons of men.
4
For yeeres a thousand in thine eies,are but as yesterday;
When past it is, by night; so flies
the wing'd-foot watch a way.
5
Thou bearst them as a floud of sleep,that slides along the sand;
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that wait the Mowers hand.
6
Whose grasse the rising Sun sees green,and flowring fresh as day;
Which downe at evening mowne is seen,
a withered locke of hay.
7
For as thine anger waxeth great,so we consume withall;
And troubled at thy furies heat,
how sudden is our fall?
8
Our faults, that feare or shame would hide,before thee hast thou set;
And at thy faces light descri'd,
our secret sins are met.
9
For when thy wrath on us is brought,then all our daies decline:
Our yeeres consume we as a thought,
our blast of breath resigne.
10
Our daies are threescore yeeres and ten,fourscore, if strength supply,
Pride reapt with paine, and (wretched men)
how soon away we flie?
11
Who knowes what power thine anger hath,who hath the power to beare?
Sure, best the fury of thy wrath,
is measur'd by thy feare.
12
O teach us then to know our daies,their number so to try,
That taught by thee to wisedomes waies,
our hearts we may apply.
13
Returne, O Lord, how long? at last,O let it thee repent:
Of thy displeasures bitter blast,
against thy servants bent.
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14
And let thy mercies morning deaw,upon us downe distill;
So all our daies of life (a few)
shall joy and gladnesse fill.
15
Like joyfull daies, as while by theeafflicted we have been;
Good yeeres, like many, let us see,
as evill we have seen.
16
And what thy hand for us hath wrought,to us thy servants shew;
And what thy glory forth hath brought,
make thou our sons to know.
17
And, Lord our God, on us let stand,thy pleasing graciousnesse:
To prosper what we take in hand,
our handy worke to blesse.
Psal. 91. Qui habitat.
1
He that with him, that is Most-Hie,in secret shall abide,
Shall to th' Almighties shadow flie,
his safe-lodg'd head to hide.
2
With him: “My refuge, thou, my Fort,(say to the Lord will I;)
My God, with whom in safeties Port,
my hopes at anchor lie.
3
He, where the Fowler sets his snare,shall set thee free from thence;
And to preserve thee have a care,
from woefull Pestilence.
4
His wing, to over-shade thee spread,his plumes thy confidence:
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a buckler for defence.
5
Nor shall thee, terrour of the night,nor arrow shot by day:
6
Nor Plague, that walkes in darkness, smite,nor noon-tide-Keteb slay.
7
A thousand fall beside thee shall,yet thou not fall thereby:
Ten thousand at thy right hand fall,
yet thee no Plague come nie.
8
This onely shall thine eye behold,what payment for their paine:
For what reward their service sold,
what hire the wicked gaine.
9
Because thou, Lord (my hope hath said)my hope dost fortifie;
The Mansion of my hope is laid
in him, that is Most-Hie.
10
There shall no evill thee befall,thy Tent no Plague annoy:
11
Thy keepers, he his Angels shallin all thy waies employ.
12
And they, to beare thee up from ground,shall joyne their palmes in one:
Thy foot, lest lightly thou shouldst wound,
or dash against a stone.
13
Upon the Lion shalt thou tread,upon the Aspikes crowne:
The Lions whelp, the Dragons head,
thy foot shall trample downe.
14
Because on me he set his love,whence his deliverance came;
Him will I set his harmes above,
for he hath knowne my Name.
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15
His calling on me will I heare,and answer his entreat:
Be with him in distresse, set cleare,
and make his honour great.
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Long life on him will I bestow,and fill him full of daies;
And unto him the splendour shew
of my salvations rayes.
Psal. 92. Bonum est confiteri.
Ad diem Sabbathi.
1
To praise the Lord, is to presenta good and gracious thing;
And, O Most-Hie, a day well spent,
Psalmes to thy Name to sing.
2
When for my morning songs delight,I strike thy Mercies string:
Still-musicke, when to silent night,
thy faithfulnesse I sing.
3
To touch the ten-string'd Lute with art,on Psalterie to sound;
The meditation of my heart,
to make my Harp expound.
4
For thou, O Lord, hast made me glad,such worke thou bringst about;
And such successe thy hands have had,
that I for joy will shout.
5
Thine actions are, O Lord, how great?thy thoughts exceeding deep,
Whereof the brute hath no conceit,
the foolish takes no keep.
6
When, like the grasse, the wicked growes,to evill doers nie:
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thou Lord, for ever hie.
8
For, loe thy foes, Lord, loe thy foes,their ruines time attends;
And wicked workers worke the woes,
that worke them wofull ends.
9
But like the Unicorne's, my Horne,exalted shall appeare:
And with fresh Oyle, mine Age, unworne,
annointed, shall I beare;
10
With envious eyes, who me behold,their fall shall feed mine eyes,
Mine eyes shall heare their ruine told,
that up against me rise.
11
The Just shall like a Palm tree spread,what blast soever blowes,
And Cedar-like, lift up his head,
in Lebanon that growes.
12
The planted, where the Lord doth dwell,the plants there rooted deep;
Within the Courts shall prosper well,
where house our God doth keep.
13
Their graynesse fruit yet forth shall bring,no Ages grievance, seene:
Their Almond-tree, their Autumne-spring,
shall sprout out fat and greene.
14
That they may shew, and men may see,the Lord to be upright;
That no unrighteousnesse can be
in him, my Rocke of might.
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Psal. 93. Dominus regnavit.
1
The Lord raignes Soveraigne Governour,is cloth'd with glory bright:
The Lord is cloth'd in robes of power,
hath girt himselfe with might.
The world is also made so sure,
to be remov'd by none:
2
From then, establisht to endure,eternall is thy Throne.
3
The flouds up-rais'd, Lord, make a noise,with mouthes, like gaping graves,
The flouds have lifted up their voice,
the flouds lift up their waves.
4
When many waters voices crie,and winds raise mighty seas,
More mighty he that sits on hie,
the Lord can them appease.
5
Thy Testimonies are the summesof very faithfull sayes:
Thine House, Lord, Holinesse becomes,
to endlesse length of daies.
Psal. 94. Deus ultionum.
1
Lord God, to whom revenge belongs,set forth thy selfe thereto:
O God, avenger of all wrongs,
shew what thy power can doe.
2
Judge of the earth, lift up thy head,the proud lift up their hearts;
Upon the haughty-hearted tread,
reward them their deserts.
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3
How long insult, O Lord, how longshall wicked, wicked scorne,
Contriving, executing wrong,
with such delight be borne?
4
How long shall wicked workers speakethe language of disdaine;
And forth in such proud boastings breake
their mischiefes, bred with paine?
5
Thy people, Lord, they bruise, they bray,thine heritage oppresse:
The widow and the stranger slay,
strike dead the fatherlesse.
6
God shall not looke (say they) so nie,and who shall make him know?
7
The God of Jacob is too hie,to understand so low.
8
Unwise among the people heed,in time your selves advise,
Before too farre your pride proceed:
Fooles, when will ye be wise?
9
Shall he, whose hand did plant the eare,of hearing have no sense?
Nor sight, the eyes great Enginer,
that form'd their sevenfold fense?
10
He that whole Nations doth chastise,his censure who shall beare?
He that in knowledge schooles the wise,
his compasse who shall steere?
11
The Lord, he knowes mans thoughts (vaine foole)to vaine conclusions draw:
12
Blest (Lord) the man thou sett'st to schoole,and lesson'st in thy Law.
13
To give him, from the evill daies,in quiet rest to sit:
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untill be digg'd the pit.
14
His people want the Lord may make,yet will not leave them there;
Nor his Inheritance forsake,
howbeit, sometime forbeare.
15
But Judgement shall to Justice fall,to Righteousnesse revert;
And after it shall follow all
that are upright in heart.
16
Against the evill doers head,with me who lifts a hand?
Against iniquitie to plead,
on my part who will stand?
17
If from the Lord, that never failes,some help I had not felt,
My soule had then (that now prevailes)
almost in silence dwelt.
18
When, Lord, I said my foot did move,thy mercy was my stay;
My soules delights (thy comforts) drove
my clouds of thoughts away.
19
Of Tyran-evills shall the thronehave fellowship with thee;
Whose shadow'd lusts, for law have gone,
of mischiefe make decree?
20
The Just mans soule they hunt by troupes,condemne the guiltlesse blood:
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My refuge yet, the Lord, my hopes,my God their Rocke, makes good.
22
On them the Lord shall cause to falltheir painfull wickednesse:
Suppresse them in their malice shall,
our God shall them suppresse.
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Psal. 95. Venite, exultemus.
1
Come to the Lord, sing joyfully,let us together flocke;
And shout aloud triumphantly,
in our Salvations Rocke.
2
His face with praise let us prevent,in him with Psalmes rejoyce:
Triumphant shouts to him present,
and make a cheerfull noise.
3
For why? the Lord our God is great,a mighty King he is:
Above all gods, the Soveraigne seat,
the power Imperiall his.
4
The deeps of earth are in his hand,his, is the strength of Hills:
The shore-bound sea, the dry-laid land,
his hand that form'd, fulfills.
5
O come, and let us then adore,due worship yeeld him all;
And prostrate on our knees, before
the Lord our Maker fall.
6
For in his folds and fields is heour God, that doth us keep:
The pasture his, his people we,
we of his hand the sheep.
7
To day his voice if ye will heare,then harden not your hearts:
In Meribah, like them that were,
in Massah's Desert parts.
8
That day your fathers faulty were,shooke off their former awe:
9
To tempt Me fell, to prove Me there,and yet my workes they saw.
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10
To whom (said I) with griefe deferr'd,full forty yeeres of daies,
This people in their heart have err'd,
and have not knowne my waies.
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To whom I swore it in my wrath,hot boiling in my brest:
If ever—: witnesse this mine oath,
they enter not my rest.
Psal. 96. Cantate Domino.
1
Sing to the Lord a new set song,that all the earth may sing;
That all, that to the Lord belong,
his praise aloud may ring.
2
Sing to the Lord, and blesse his Name,where-ever day doth dwell;
Good tidings day by day proclaime,
of his salvation tell.
3
Among the Heath'ns his glory shew,to Nations farre and neere;
His wonders let the people know,
with wondrous gladnesse heare.
4
For great the Lord, his greatnesse more,than can by praise be prais'd:
All other gods above, before,
his feare is to be rais'd.
5
For all the gods among the Heath'ns,are off-gods, Idols vaine:
The Lord is he that made the Heav'ns,
of Heav'ns, that holds the reine.
6
Before him beames of glory bright,and Majestie bowe downe:
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and beauteous glory crowne.
7
Ascribe unto the Lord, ascribeof every line that live;
Of all the people, every tribe,
all power and glory give.
8
Give to the Lord the honour'd Name,that with his glory sorts:
Take up an offring to the same,
and come into his Courts.
9
In honour of his Holy place,before the Lord appeare:
Bowe downe your selves, and at his face
stand all the earth in feare.
10
The Lord (so tell the Nations) raignes,establisht by his might:
That he, the world unmov'd containes,
shall judge the people right.
11
Let Heav'ns (the havens of joy) rejoyce,and let the earth be glad;
The sea set forth his roaring voice,
in all his plenty clad.
12
Field, and what ever clothes the field,shout out in speechlesse noise;
All trees, that Frith or Forrest yeeld,
before the Lord rejoyce.
13
Because he comes, because he comes,with Judgement in his mouth,
To judge the world with righteous doomes,
earths people with his Truth.
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Psal. 97. Dominus regnavit.
1
Rejoyce let earths whole Continent,it is the Lord that raignes:
Be glad, ye many Islands, pent
within the Maines demaines.
2
About him clouds and darknesse round,obscur'd the light that shone:
With Justice, Judgement laid the ground,
the Bases of his Throne.
3
Consuming fire before him goes,that flaming from on hie,
On every side pursues his foes,
them following where they flie.
4
His lightnings at the world shoot light,which bright, but dreadfull shines;
The earth lies trembling at the sight,
and from her hinge declines.
5
In presence when the Lord appear'd,like waxe, the Mountaines melt:
The Lord of all the earth they fear'd,
his presence (trembling) felt.
6
His Justice, as the Heavens declare,whose Ministers they be;
On earth how great his glories are,
so all the people see.
7
Graven Images all they that serve,confusion stands before;
That boast of Idols, whom they carve,
him, all ye gods, adore.
8
This Sion heard, and joy'd to heare,that such successe they had;
Thy Judgements, Lord, with reverend feare,
made Judah's daughters glad.
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9
For thou, O Lord, far higher art,than all the earth is hie;
No height, to thy heights lowest part,
of all the gods comes nie.
10
Hate evill, ye that love the Lord,who for his Saints doth stand;
His servants favour'd-soules restor'd,
to free from wicked hand.
11
A light is for the Just one sowne,whose crop shall come to light:
From whence shall sheaves of joy be mow'n,
by men in heart upright.
12
Ye Just then in the Lord rejoyce,your musicke make his praise:
His Holinesse, with thankfull voice,
remembring to up-raise.
Psal. 98. Cantate Domino.
1
Sing to the Lord a new-set song,for wonders hath he done:
With holy Arme, whose right hand strong,
hath his Salvation wonne.
2
His saving health the Lord made knowne,the Nations eyes beheld:
His Justice to the people shewne,
hath he himselfe reveal'd.
3
His Truth and Mercy, mindfull friendsto Israels house have been;
And of the earth, have all the ends,
our Gods Salvation seen.
4
Shout to the Lord a cheerfull cry,let all the earth up-raise:
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in joyfull Psalmes sing praise.
5
Sing Psalmes with Harp, with Harp & Voice,Psalmes to th' Eternall sing:
6
With Trumpets sound, with Cornets noise,before the Lord the King.
7
Roare sea, and all that sea full fills,world, and world-dwellers all:
8
High-rising rivers, high-borne Hills,clap hands, to shouting fall
9
Before the Lord: for he in sight,to judge the earth is come:
To give the world his judgements right,
the peoples equall doome.
Psal. 99. Dominus regnavit.
1
The Lord is King, though peoples fits,his raigne (in rage) reprove:
Between the Cherubims he sits,
let earths foundations move.
2
The Lord is great in Zions fame,above all people hie:
3
Great, fearfull, holy is his Name,let their confession crie.
4
Strength-strengthning Judgement loves the King,of Righteousnesse his Throne:
With Justice Judgement stablishing,
in Jacob hast thou done.
5
The Lord our God, as it is meet,exalt, and prostrate all;
Before the footstoole of his feet,
(for he is Holy) fall.
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6
With Moses, Aarons Priests enstall'd,and Samuel, on his Name,
With them that call, on JAH they call'd,
the Lord then answer'd them.
7
He from the cloudy Pillar spoke,they in obedience have
His Testimonies kept unbroke,
the Law to them he gave.
8
Thou Lord our God didst answer make,their pardoning-God thou wert;
Yet did thy vengeance overtake,
and their inventions thwart.
9
Exalt the Lord our God, beforehis holy Mountaine all;
(For Holy is our God) therefore
bowe downe your selves, and fall.
Psal. 100. Jubilate Deo.
Psalmus, ad Confessionem.
1
Sing loud unto the Lord a song,that all the earth may ring:
2
With gladnesse serve the Lord among,before him come and sing.
3
Know that the Lord is God, that he,not we our selves did make:
His pasture-sheep, his people, we
from him our being take.
4
Goe in his gates, your thankes proclaime,his praise within his Courts:
To praise him, and to blesse his Name,
make thither your resorts.
5
For good and gracious is the Lord,his Mercy never ends:
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to Age and Age extends.
Psal. 101. Misericordiam & Judicium.
Davidis Psalmus.
1
What Mercy, and what Judgement say,Lord, I will sing to thee:
2
And wisely take the perfect way,when thou shalt come to mee.
3
My selfe will good example give,to walke with upright heart;
And others, as I live, to live,
amidst my house convert.
3
I will not in mine eyes, abidea word of Belial:
I hate their worke, that turne aside,
nor cleave to me it shall:
4
A froward heart, an evill man,from me unknowne depart:
5
Detractors tongue, nor beare I can,proud looke, nor large of heart.
6
The faithfull of the Land mine eyessort out with me to sit;
In perfect way, whose walking lies,
for me is servant fit.
7
Within mine house deceitfull wightthere shall not any dwell;
Nor be establisht in my sight,
whose lips doth leasings tell.
8
The wicked all out of the land,my morning search shall shut,
That from Gods City may my hand
all evill doers cut.
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Psal. 102. Domine, exaudi.
Oratio afflicti, cùm obruitur, & effundit coram Domino meditationem suam.
1
In my distresse to comfort me,yet heare, O Lord, my praier;
And let the crying unto thee
of my complaint repaire.
2
Hide not thy face from me this day,when trouble tells my need:
Incline thine eare, and heare me pray,
to answer me make speed.
3
For here my daies consum'd on earth,away like smoake are gone:
My bones are burnt up, like an hearth
of fire-out-eaten stone.
4
My heart is smitten downe for dead,and withred as the grasse;
That I, to eate my daily bread,
forgetfull, overpasse.
5
My breast, my sorrowes uncouth Inne,breathes forth such broken groanes,
My flesh but knits up with my skinne,
a sacke of saplesse bones.
6
So mournes the Wildernesses Foule,the Hermit-Pellican:
In Desert shades so shriekes the Owle,
portending spells of bane.
7
I watch the widow'd Sparrowes watch,on houses ridge alone,
That of (her better halfe) her match,
bewailes the comfort gone.
8
Reproaches bitter gall, my foescast daily in my dish;
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the measure of their wish.
9
For I, when faintnesse would be fed,and thirst no longer beares,
Have eaten ashes as my bread,
and blent my drinkes with teares.
10
Thine angry threat so sore doth lie,so fierce thy wrath doth grow;
Thy hand but heav'd me up so hie
to hurle me downe as low.
11
The shadow of my daies declin'd,my light in darknesse spends;
Like withred grasse my breath resign'd,
the house of death attends.
12
But thou, O Lord, one and the same,for ever dost reside;
And this Memoriall of thy Name,
shall age and age abide.
13
Thou to thy mercies seat shalt climbe,and bring thy Sion home:
For now of mercy is the time,
(the time appointed) come.
14
Now, though thy servants nought relieve,delight her stones yet move:
To see her in the dust they grieve,
and yet her dust they love.
15
Thy Name, O Lord, the Heath'ns shall feare,to find what thou hast done;
And all the Kings on earth, to heare
what glory thou hast wonne.
16
When Sion up the Lord to build,in glory shall appeare:
17
He to the lowlies praier shall yeeld,nor them despise to heare.
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18
This writing shall remaine un-worne,when after-age shall live;
And praise, the people yet un-borne,
unto the Lord shall give.
19
For from his Sanctuaries height,he downe did cast his looke:
The Lord from Heaven did vaile his sight,
when earths survey he tooke.
20
To heare the heavie groanes of those,that draw imprison'd breath;
From chimes of iron chaines to loose
the eldest sonnes of death.
21
That of the Lord their tongues the Namein Sion may declare;
And in Jerusalem proclaime
his praises what they are.
22
When Nations, from their farthest home,together gathred meet:
To serve the Lord, when Soveraignes come,
and Kingdomes kisse his feet.
23
My strength, when able strength began,he weakned in my waies:
Cut off my pilgrimages span,
and shorter made my daies.
24
I said, my God, post not my Sunneat noone to mid-nights stage;
My race of daies is halfe to runne,
thy yeeres are Age and Age.
25
The earths foundations, on their weight,thou Lord hast laid of old:
Those lamps of Heaven, their orbes, their height,
thy fingers did enfold.
26
When they shall perish, thou shalt holdthe Centre of thy yeeres:
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as chang'd, a vesture weares.
27
But thee, for evermore the same,no compasse comprehends;
And of thy yeeres eternall frame,
the circle never ends.
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Thy servants children shall succeed,to stand before thee fast;
And last-succeeding times, their seed
succeeding, shall out-last.
Psal. 103. Benedic anima.
Davidis.
1
My soule, and every secret part,within my bodies frame,
To praise the Lord assist my heart,
to blesse his holy Name.
2
To blesse the Lord, let nothing letmy soule thy ready way:
No benefit of his forget,
with praises to repay.
3
Which pardoning all thy sins fore-past,wish thee in mercy deales;
To cure thy frailties doth fore-cast,
and all thy sicknesse heales.
4
Which frees thy life from going downeinto corruptions Pit;
His Mercies and Compassions Crowne
upon thine head doth fit.
5
With good things, to thy hearts desire,which satiates thy mouth;
And, Eagle-like, renewes the fire,
in embers of thy youth.
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6
To Justices the Lord gives light,he guides the ballance best;
And Judgements executes aright,
to all that are opprest.
7
His waies he made to Moses knowne,the limits of his Law:
His wondrous actions, all his owne,
the sons of Israel saw.
8
Compassion from the Lord doth flow,for clemencie none such;
Of suffrance long, to anger slow,
his tender mercy much.
9
His censure checkes not each offence,he will not alwaies chide;
Nor keep his anger in suspense,
for ever to abide.
10
He hath not, as our sins require,with us severely dealt;
Nor our iniquities like hire,
to our deserts have felt.
11
But, as the Heavens unmeasur'd height,above the earth is hie;
Such is his Mercies matchlesse might,
to them that feare him, nie.
12
As far as where the Sunne begins,to where he sets the day;
So farre hath he remov'd our sins,
and rid his wrath away.
13
As with compassion on his sons,a fathers bowells melt;
So in the Lord compassion runs,
by them that feare him, felt.
14
For to the mold he knowes we must,whereof our masse was made:
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our Harbinger, the spade.
15
The daies of man, as of the grasse,attend the sithe of death:
As flower in field, his flower doth passe,
and withreth with a breath.
16
A blast of wind upon it blew,and then it ceast to grow;
Then ceast to be, and where it grew,
the place no more did know.
17
To them the Lord is ever kind,that to his feare doe cleave:
Them shall the childrens children find,
his Justice shall not leave.
18
On them, that to his Covenant bindtheir hearts observance strait;
And his Commandments beare in mind
to practise, Mercies wait.
19
The Lord hath firmly for his stallin Heav'ns prepar'd his Throne:
His Kingdomes Scepter over all
hath Soveraigntie alone.
20
O ye his Angels, blesse the Lord,ye that in strength excell;
That doe his Word, and of his Word
attend the voices spell.
21
Blesse ye the Lord, all ye his Hosts,his Armies at his will;
His Cursitors in all his coasts,
his pleasure to fulfill.
22
All ye his workes, that where he reignes,all places may afford:
To blesse the Lord employ your paines,
my soule, blesse thou the Lord.
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Psal. 104. Benedic anima.
1
Sing to the Lord, my soule, sing praise;Thou Lord my God art wondrous great,
Whose vestures golden-circled raies,
With beauteous glory crowne thy seat.
2
Which deck'st thy selfe, as with a robe,With light, that never eye attain'd;
Which for thy vaile about earths globe,
The Canopie of Heaven hast strain'd.
3
His roofes with starre-set seas he seeles,Their beames in plates of waters binds,
Ascends the clouds, his chariot wheeles,
And walkes upon the long-wing'd winds.
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He makes his Angels messengers,And with his Spirit their spirits inspires;
Sends forth his Judgements ministers,
The lightning-sooted flames of fires.
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The earth upon her Bases laid,To one so equall point he drove,
To one so stedfast Center weigh'd,
As never weight her weight might move.
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As with a garment, with the deep,Thou coveredst earth: the Maine stop'd-flat,
Maine sea above the Mountaines steep,
Above the Mount of Ararat.
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At thy rebuke the waters fled,Thy thunders voice them rid away.
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The Hills un-heald, held up their head,The Vallies, where thou laidst them, lay.
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The Waters bound didst thou ordaine,Bound, which they should not dare to passe,
Nor ever more returne againe,
To drowne the earth, as once it was.
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He into Vallies sends his springs,To dye their dusty mantles green;
From Rock-rent heads their current brings,
To walke the Mountaine veines between.
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Whose channels having cheer'd the field,And to the earth given moisture first,
To all the wild Beasts beaverage yeeld,
There breake the Onagers their thirst.
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The Foules of heaven their housholds bring,And there in notes of Natures choice,
Their Makers Halelu-jahs sing;
Between the branches give the voice.
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Upon the Mountaines garden-land,His deawes are from his Limbecks still'd:
With store, without mans helping hand,
(Fruit of thy workes) the earth is fill'd.
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For cattell makes he grasse to grow,And herbe for use of earthly man,
Whose simples, who so wise, that know
As well for meat, as medicine can.
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The earth to bring forth bread and wine,The wine, with joy that swells the veines,
With oile, that makes mans face to shine,
And bread, that strength of heart sustaines.
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The trees of God are fill'd with sap,The Cedar trees of Lebanon,
Which he hath planted on the lap
Of earth, for them to feed upon.
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That there their nests the Birds may build,The kind-love Storke, in Pine-tree grove,
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High Mountaine cliffes the Roe-deere wild,Safe-sheltring Rockes the Conies love.
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The Moon he made for certain tides,Constant in her inconstant face:
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Of his dismounting knowes the place.
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Thou puttest darknesse, darknesse, night;Then all the woods wild Beasts forth creep,
By prey that live, and love not light,
(Then harmfull wake, when harmlesse sleep.)
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Fierce Lions roaring for their prey,Their food of life from God request:
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The Sun gets up, they get away,And in their dens couch downe to rest:
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Then out goes man, to take in handHis worke, till night his travell end,
With toiling Beast from labour'd land,
Till evening home him weary send.
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Thy workes, O Lord, how many are,In wisedome hast thou made them all,
The earths abundance is thy care,
Whose riches thee Creatour call.
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This sea, so great wide-handed deep,Thou foundedst, fathom'st, fillst the seat,
Where kinds innumerable creep,
Lords of the finne, both small and great.
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There ships their course by compasse can,And cut the Maine, to make their way:
There walkes the vast Leviathan,
Whom thou therein hast form'd for play.
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These all on thee attentive looke,That thou in season give them food;
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Thou giv'st, they take, and having tooke,From thy free hand are fill'd with good.
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Thou hid'st from them thy faces day,They at so sudden trouble mourne;
Their spirit thou tak'st (their breath) away,
They to their dust againe returne.
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Againe, thou sendest forth thy Spirit,Whence they created, take their birth,
Which (by traduction) they inherit.
As thou renew'st the face of earth.
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The glory of the Lord shall shineFor ever in eternall light:
Which length of time shall not confine,
The Lord shall in his workes delight.
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The earth stands trembling at his looke,Unable to endure his sight:
Let him but touch, the Mountaines smoake,
And clothe the earth in clouds of night.
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Sing to the Lord will I so long,As life in mee leaves any breath:
Sung to the Lord shall be my song,
Untill my being be in death.
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My Muse on him shall sweetly call,And in the Lord rejoyce with me:
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Consum'd from earth let sinners fall,And wicked men no more let be.
Psal. 105. Confitemini Domino.
1
Confessing to the Lord, give thankes,and call upon his Name:
Make knowne among the peoples rankes,
his powerfull acts proclaime.
2
Sing ye to him, to him sing praise,a Psalme that shall excell:
His praise-excelling workes up-raise,
of all his wonders tell.
3
His holy Name your glory make,and let their heart rejoyce,
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to seeke him set their choice.
4
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:
6
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.
8
His Covenant he doth ever mind,his words command fore-past;
That childrens childrens seed should find
a thousand ages last.
9
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.
11
Thine off-spring (saying) to advanceI Cana'n land will give,
The line of thine Inheritance,
wherein thy seed shall live.
12
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.
21
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.
Psal. 106. Confitemini.
Halelu-jah.
1
The Lord is good, with thankes confesse,his Mercy hath no end:
2
The Lords great powers who can expresse?who all his praise commend?
3
What blessings kept for them remaine,that Judgements keepers are!
For him, that Justice to maintaine,
at all times sets his care!
4
Remember, Lord, I numbred bewith them thou tak'st to grace:
With thy Salvation visit me,
with thy choice people place.
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To see what blessings by thy choice,thy chosen flocke have got:
And with thy Nations joy rejoyce,
and glory in their lot.
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We, with our fathers sinfullytransgrest have every one;
Committed like iniquitie,
as wickedly have done.
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Thy wonder-passing wonders past,which Egypts plagues could find,
Our fathers did not wisely cast,
nor compasse in their mind.
Thy many Mercies held no plea,
from their remembrance fell;
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(the red sea) did rebell.
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Yet for his Names sake, not the lesse,was he their Saviour:
His Mercy, as they must confesse,
to make them know his power.
9
The red seas course he backe did keep,and with rebuke represse:
He led them dry-foot through the deep,
as through the wildernesse.
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And so he set them all on land,in safety from the foe;
And from their haters harmfull hand
redeem'd, and let them goe.
11
Their troublers, by the waters fall,were all of life bereft;
The waters overwhelm'd them all,
not one of them was left.
12
With them his words then credit got,they sung his praise to height:
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But all in haste his workes forgot,his counsells would not wait.
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So in the wildernesse, at last,upon them came their lust;
And in the Desert, Gods fore-cast
they tempted with distrust.
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And food he gave them at their call,above their lusts content:
But loathing leannesse therewithall
into their soule he sent.
15
They weari'd Moses with complaint,in their envious mood;
And Aaron, of the Lord, the Saint,
within the Camp withstood.
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The mother-earth that Rebells hates,an open grave did rive;
Where Dathan and Abirams Mates
were swallowed up alive.
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And fire from Heaven that kindled cameon their rebellious crew;
Burnt up the wicked in the flame,
their furious treasons due.
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They made a Calfe in Choreb Mount,ador'd a molten Masse:
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Their glories type, to base account,turn'd Oxe, that eateth grasse.
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And God their Saviour they forgate,his Armes remembrance gone,
That had so mighty things of late
for them in Egypt done.
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Workes wondrous, for a world of graves,in Chams un-peopled coast;
And fearfull, for the red sea waves,
that sav'd, that drown'd, an host.
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And to destroy them in his mood,flew out his wrathfull speech,
Had not his chosen Moses stood
before him in the breach.
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His milder temper, mixt with zeale,Gods wrath, so hot that burn'd;
With hard entreaty did congeale,
and from corrupting turn'd.
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They of desire despis'd the land,beleeving not his word;
But in their tents in tumult stand,
and will not heare the Lord.
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Against them therefore urg'd, alofthe lifted up his hand,
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in that forsaken land.
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Among the Nations, not their owne,to fell their rootlesse seed;
And in the lands, to them unknowne,
to fanne their exil'd breed.
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And to Baal Phegors Idoll-head,they joyn'd themselves amaine,
The offrings eating of the dead,
to powers Infernall slaine.
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Thus they to anger him provoke,with Rites that they invent;
And in the plague upon them broke,
their follies punishment.
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Then stood up Phineas in pursuitof Cosbies carnall sin;
His hand did Judgement execute,
so was the plague call'd in.
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The Author of so just a deed,his Justice did commend:
From age to age that shall succeed,
whose praise shall never end.
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They vext him at the flouds of strife,with Moses ill it went:
For them he had a weary life,
and for their sakes was shent.
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Because his spirit they did provoke,and him to murmure prest;
That unadvisedly he spoke,
and with his lips transgrest.
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The Nations did they not destroy,of whom the Lord had said,
Nor land, nor life let them enjoy,
his charge they disobey'd.
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But mingled with the Heath'ns they were,to learne their workes tooke care:
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To serve their Idolls well could beare,which were to them a snare.
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The bloud of sons and daughters slaine,on Divels Altars stood:
Of Innocents the bloudy staine
of sons and daughters bloud.
Whose limbes their Divellish-led desire
with murthrous hand had pil'd;
To Cana'n-Idolls burnt with fire,
the Land with bloud defil'd.
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With works their own thus were they stain'd,on them their zeale they spent:
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As their Inventions entertain'd,a whoring thus they went.
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The fury therefore of the Lordagainst his people burn'd:
His owne Inheritance abhorr'd,
his love to loathing turn'd.
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He gave them up to Tyran's law,into the Heathens hand;
That whom they hated held in awe,
and Lord-like might command.
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By enemies, with humbling strokes,opprest and bow'd they were:
Whose hand on them laid heavie yokes,
above their strength to beare.
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Them many a time did he redeem,but they eftsoon begin;
And of their counsells more esteem,
though humbled for their sin.
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Yet when he saw their hard restraint,how their afflictions grew;
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his chastisement withdrew.
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His Covenant did he beare in mind,that he with them had strooke;
On them his many mercies kind,
repentant pity tooke.
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He gave them to the tender eareof their Commanders will:
Made them, to whom they captives were,
their eyes with favours fill.
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Proceed, O Lord our God, to save,from Heath'ns our heads to raise,
That praise thy holy Name may have,
we glory in thy praise.
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The Lord the God, of Israel King,be blest eternally:
Amen, let all the people sing,
all Halelu-jah cry.
Finis Libri quarti.
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