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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. CXXXIX.

[1]

O Lord, thou hast me search'd & known

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Thou knowst my sitting down,

And rising up; yea, all my thoughts
afar to thee are known.

3

My footsteps, and my lying down

thou compassest alwayes.
Thou also most intirely art
acquaint with all my wayes.

4

For in my tongue, before I speak,

not any word can be,
But altogether, lo, O Lord,
it is wel known to thee,

5

Behinde, before, thou hast beset,

and laid on me thine hand.

6

Such knowledge is too strange for me,

too high to understand.

7

From thy sp'rit whither shal I go?

or from thy presence fly?

8

Ascend I heav'n, lo, thou art there;

there, if in hel I ly.

9

Take I the mornings wings, & dwel

in utmost parts of sea:

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Ev'n there, Lord, shal thy hand me lead,

thy right hand hold shal me.

11

If I do say, that darknesse shal

me cover from thy sight,
Then surely shal the very night
about me be as light.

12

Yea, darknesse hideth not from thee

but night doth shine as day:
To thee the darknesse and the light
are both alike alway,

13

For thou possessed hast my reins,

and thou hast covered me,
When I within my mothers womb
inclosed was by thee,

14

Thee wil I praise, for fearfully

and strangely made I am;
Thy works are marvelous, & rightwel
my soul doth know the same.

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My substance was not hid frō thee

when as in secret I
Was made, and in earths lowest parts
was wrought most curiously.

16

Thine eyes my substance did behold

yet being unperfite,
And in the volumn of thy book
my members all were writ,
Which after in continuance
were fashion'd every one,
When as they yet all shapelesse were,
and of them there was none,

17

How precious also are thy thoughts

O gracious God, to me?
And in their summe how passing great
and number lesse they be:

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If I should count them, then the, sand

they more in number be:
What time soever I awake,
I ever am with thee.

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Thou, Lord, wilt lure the wicked slay:

hence from me bloudy men.

20

Thy foes against thee, lewdly speak,

and take thy Name in vain.

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Do not I hate all those, O Lord

that hatred bear to thee?
With those that up against thee rise
can I but grieved be?

22

With perfect hatred them I hate,

my foes I them do hold.

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Search me, O God, and know my heart

try me, my thoughts unfold:

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And see if any wicked way

there be at all in me;
And in thine everlasting way
to me a leader be.