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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. XXXVII.

[1]

For evil doers fret thou not

thy self, unquietly,
Nor do thou envy bear to those
that work iniquity.

2

For, even like unto the grasse,

soon be cut down shal they,
And, like the green and tender herb,
they wither shal away.

3

Set thou thy trust upon the Lord,

and be thou doing good.
And so thou in the land shalt dwel,
and verily have food.

4

Delight thy self in God, hee'l give

thine hearts desire to thee.

5

Thy way to God commit, him trust,



it bring to passe shall he.

6

And, like unto the light, he shal

thy righteousnesse display,
And hethy judgement shal bring forth
like noon-tide of the day.

7

Rest in the Lord, and patiently

wait for him: do not fret
For him, who prospering in his way,
successe in sin doth get.

8

Do thou from anger cease, and wrath

see thou forsake also:
Fret not thy self in any wise,
that evil thou should do.

9

For, those that evil doers are,

shal be cut off and fal:
But those that wait upon the Lord,
the earth inherit shal.

10

For, yet a little while, and then

the wicked shal not be:
His place thou shalt consider wel,
but it thou shalt not see.

11

But, by inheritance, the earth

the meek ones shal possesse:
They also shal delight themselves
in an abundant peace.

12

The wicked plots against the just,

and at him whets his teeth.

13

The Lord shal laugh at him, because

his day he coming seeth.

14

The wicked have drawn out the sword,

and bent their bow, to slay
The poor and needy, and to kil
men of an upright way.

15

But their own sword, which they have drawn,

shal enter their own heart,
Their bows, wch they have bent, shall break,
and into pieces part.

16

A little that a just man hath,

is more, and better far
Then is the wealth of many such
as lewd and wicked are.

17

For sinners arms shal broken be:

but God the just sustains.

18

God knows the just mans dayes, &

their heritage remains.

19

They shal not be asham'd, whē they stil

the evil time do see:
And when the dayes of famine are,
they satisfi'd shal be.

20

But wicked men, and foes of God,

as fat of lambs decay,
They shal consume; yea, into smoke
they shal consume away.

21

The wicked borrows, but the same

again he doth not pay:
Whereas the righteous mercy shows,
and gives his own away.

22

For such as blessed be of him,

the earth inherit shal;
And, they that cursed are of him,
shal be destroyed all.

23

A good mans footsteps by the Lord

are ordered aright:
And, in the way wherein he walks,
he greatly doth delight.

24

Although he fal, yet shal he not

be cast down utterly:
Because the Lord with his own hand
upholds him mightily.

25

I have been young & now am old:

yet have I never seen
The just man left, nor that his seed
for bread have beggers been.

26

He's ever merciful, and lends:

his seed is blest therefore.

27

Depart from evil, and do good:

and dwel for evermore.

28

For God loves judgement, and his saints

leaves not in any case,
They are kept ever: but cut off
shal be the sinners race.

29

The just inherit shall the land,

and ever in it dwel.

30

The just mans mouth doth wisdom speak:

his tongue doth judgement tel.

31

In's heart the Law is of his God,

his steps slide not away.

32

The wicked man doth watch the just,

and seeketh him to slay.

33

Yet him the Lord, wil not forsake,

nor leave him in his hands,
The righteous wil he not condemn,
when he in judgement stands.

34

Wait on the Lord, and keep his way,

and thee exalt shal he,
Th'earth to inherit: when cut off
the wicked thou shalt see.

35

I saw the wicked great in pow'r:

spread like a green bay-tree.

36

He past, yea, was not: him I sought,

but found he could not be.

37

Mark thou the perfect, and behold

the man of uprightnesse:
Because that surely of this man
the latter end is peace.

38

But those men that transgressors are

shal be destroy'd together,
The latter end of wicked men
shal be cut off for ever.

39

But the salvation of the just

is from the Lord above,
He, in the time of their distresse,
their stay & strength doth prove:

40

The Lord shal help, & them deliver

He shal them free and save
From wicked men, because in him
their confidence they have.