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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. LXXIV.

[1]

O God, why hast thou cast us off?

is it for evermore?
Against thy pasture sheep why doth
thine anger smoke so sore?

2

O call to thy rememberance

thy congregation,
Which thou hast purchased of old;
still think the same upon.
The rod of thine inheritance,
which thou redeemed hast,
This Sion hill, wherein thou hadst
thy dwelling in times past.

3

To these long desolations

thy feet lift, do not tarry;
For all the ills thy foes have done
within thy Sanctuary.

4

Amidst thy congregations

thine enemies do roar:
Their ensigns they set up, for signs
of triumph, thee before.

5

A man was famous, and was had

in estimation,
According as he lifted up
his axe thick trees upon.

6

But all at once with axes now

and hammers they go to,
And down the carved work thereof
they break, and quite undo.

7

They fired have thy Sanctuary,

and have defil'd the same,
By casting down unto the ground
the place where dwelt thy Name.

8

Thus said they in their hearts, Let us

destroy them out of hand:
They burnt up all the Synagogues
of God, within the land

9

Our signes we do not now behold;

there is not us among
A prophet more, nor any one
that knows the time how long.

10

How long, Lord, shall the enemy

thus in reproach exclaime?
And shal the adversary thus
alwayes blaspheme thy Name?

11

Thy hand, ev'n thy right hand of might,

why dost thou thus draw back?
O from thy bosome pluck it out,
for our deliverance sake.

12

For certainly God is my King,

ev'n from the times of old,
Working in midst of all the earth
salvation manifold.

13

The sea, by thy great pow'r to part

a sunder, thou didst make;
And thou the dragons heads, O Lord,
within the waters brake.

14

The Leviathans heads, thou brake

in pieces, and didst give
Him to be meat unto the folk
in wildernesse that live.

15

Thou clave the fountain & the floud

which did with streams abound:
Thou dry'dst the mighty waters up
unto the very ground.

16

Thine onely is the day, O Lord,

thine also is the night;
And thou alone prepared hast
the sun & shining light.

17

By thee the borders of the earth

were setled every where:
The summer and the winter both
by thee created were.

18

That th'enemy reproached hath,

O keep it in record;
And that the foolish people have
blasphem'd thy Name, O Lord.

19

Unto the multitude do not

thy turtles soul deliver;
The congregation of thy poor
do not forget for ever.

20

Unto thy covenant have respect:

for earths dark places be
Full of the habitations
of horrid crueltie.

21

O let not those that be opprest

return again with shame:
Let those that poor and needy are
give praise unto thy Name.

22

Do thou, O God, arise and plead

the cause that is thine own:
Remember how thou art reproacht
still by the foolish one

23

Do not forget the voyce of those

that are thine enemies:
Of those the tumult ever grows
that do against thee rise.