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The Psalmes Of David In Meeter

Newly translated, and diligently compared with the Originall Text, and former Translations: More plaine, smooth, and agreeable to the Text, then any heretofore. Allowed by the Authority of the Generall Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, and appointed to be sung in Congregations and Families [by Francis Rous]

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PSAL. X.

[1]

Wherefore is it, that thou, O Lord

dost stand from us afar?
And wherefore hidest thou thy self,
when times so troublous are?

2

The wicked in his loftinesse

doth persecute the poor:
In these devices they have fram'd
let them be taken sure.

3

The wicked of his hearts desire

doth talk with boasting great;
He blesseth him that's covetous,
whom yet the Lord doth hate.

4

The wicked, throgh his pride of face

on God he doth not call;
And in the counsels of his heart
the Lord is not at all.

5

His wayes at all times griveous are;

thy judgements from his sight
Removed are: at all his foes
he puffeth with despight.

6

Within his heart he thus hath said,

I shall not moved be:
And no adversity at all
shall ever come to me.

7

His mouth with cursing, fraud, deceit,

is fill'd abundantly:
And underneath his tongue, there is
mischief and vanity.

8

He closely sits in villages:

he slayes the innocent:
Against the poor that passe him by
his cruel eyes are bent.

9

He Lyon-like lurks in his den:

he waits the poor to take:
And when he draws him in his net,
his prey he doth him make.

10

Himself the humbleth very low,

he croucheth down withall,
That so a multitude of poor
may by his strong ones fall.

11

He this hath said within his heart,

the Lord hath quite forgot:
He hides his countenance, and he
for ever sees it not.

12

O Lord, do thou arise; O God,

lift up thine hand on hie:
Put not the meek afflicted ones
out of thy memorie.

13

Why is it that the wicked man

thus doth the Lord despise?
Because, that God wil it require,
he in his heart denies.

14

Thou hast it seen, for thei mischief

and spite thou wilt repay:
The poor commits himself to thee,
thou art the orphans stay.

15

The arm break of the wickedman,

and of the evil one:
Do thou seek out his wickednesse
until thou findest none.

16

The Lord is King through ages all

ev'n to eternity:
The heathen people from his land
are perisht utterly.

17

O Lord, of those that humble are

thou the desire didst heare:
Thou wilt prepare their heart, & thou
to hear wilt bend thine eare:

18

To judge the fatherlesse, and those

that are oppressed sore,
That man, that is but sprung of earth
may them oppresse no more.