Epithalamium, or Solomons Song Together with the Songs of Moses, Exod. 15 & Deut. 32. ... Digested into a known and familiar meeter, by Samuel Slater |
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DEUT. XXXII. |
 | Epithalamium, or Solomons Song |  |
DEUT. XXXII.
1.
Give ear to me, ye heavens high,and I will utter speech;
And hear O earth, attend unto
the words my mouth shal teach.
2.
My doctrine as the rain shall dropmy speech as dew shall pass;
As rain that's small, on tender herb,
as showers upon the grass.
3.
Because that I will utter forth,and publish all abroad
His name, who is the Lord, ascribe
ye greatness to our God.
4.
He is the rock, perfect his work,his ways all judgement be;
A God of truth, without all sin,
yea just and right is he.
5.
They have themselves corrupted yeathe spot which they do bear,
Is not his childrens spot, perverse
and crooked ones they are.
6.
And do ye in this sort requitethe Lord, O ye that are
A foolish people, and unwise,
so ye your selves declare?
Is not the Lord thy father? yea
and hath he not thee bought?
Oh hath he not thus wrought?
7.
Look back unto the days of old,do ye the same remember;
The many generations past,
do ye likewise consider.
Ask thou thy father, and enquire,
and he to thee will show;
Ask thou the Elders, they will tell,
and thou by them shalt know.
8.
When the most high divided tothe Nations their estate
For heritage, and Adam's sons
did likewise separate.
Then did he set the peoples bounds,
within the same to dwell,
According to the number of
the seed of Israel.
9.
For why? the Lord his people dothhis portion take to be:
The lot of his inheritance,
Jacob alone is he.
10.
Even in a dry and desart landhe found him to be cast;
And in the houling wilderness,
both desolate and wast.
He did him gently lead about
instruction also gave;
And as the apple of his eye
he did him keep and save.
11.
As Eagle stirreth up her nest,and flutters o're her young,
Spreads forth her wings, doth take & bear
them on her wings along.
12.
So did the Lord him lead & guideyea he himself alone;
And as for other stranger god,
with him there was not one.
13.
Upon high places of the earthhe made him ride, that he
Might eat of such increase as in
the fields abroad should be:
Yea from the rock he made him suck
honey, and thereon feed;
And likewise oyl, which did from hard
and flinty rock proceed.
14.
Butter of kine, and milk of sheep,was that whereon he fed;
Yea also fat of lambs and rams
that were in Bashan bred.
On goats he fed, yea with the fat
of kidneys of the wheat;
Yea and the pure blood o'th grape
thou drankest with thy meat.
15.
But Jesurun he waxed fat,and did begin to kick;
Even thou I say art waxen fat,
and likewise art grown thick.
Covered with fat; then he forsook
God which did him redeem,
The rock of his salvation
he lightly did esteem.
16.
With strange gods, unto jealousiethey did him much provoke;
And with abominations, they
his anger made to smoke.
17.
To divels (not to God) they didtheir sacrifice present;
their wicked heart was bent.
New gods (I say) whom they did serve
newly come up they were;
They were such gods as formerly
your fathers did not fear.
18.
Thou art unmindful of the rock,even him that thee begate;
Yea thou forgotten hast the God
that form'd thee to this state.
19.
And when the Lord saw this, they wereabhorr'd of him therefore,
Because his sons and daughters eke
provoked him so sore.
20.
And being thus provok'd, he saidI will now from them hide
My face, and likewise I will see
what end shall them betide.
For why, a generation
of froward ones they be;
Yea they are children in whose hearts
no faith at all I see.
21.
With that which is not god, they mademy jealousie to smoke:
To anger with their vanities,
they did me much provoke:
I will them move to jealousie,
their anger eke shall rise,
And be provok'd by such as are
no people, folk unwise.
22.
For in mine anger kindled isa fire, which I will shew;
Yea I will make it burn unto
the deeps of hell below.
consume and waste away;
Foundations it shall set on fire
whereon the mountains stay.
23.
Yea mischiefs I will multiply,by heaps upon them send;
The arrows also of my wrath
I will upon them spend.
24.
They shall be burnt with hunger, andalso a burning heat;
Bitter destruction shall devour
and eat them up like meat.
Yea I will send the teeth of beasts,
wherewith they shall be crusht
Together, with the poyson of
the serpents of the dust.
25.
The sword without, terror withinshall stroy, and shall not spare
Yongman, nor Virgin, sucking babe,
nor him that hath gray hair.
26.
I said that I would scatter them,and into corners chase;
And cause that their remembrance should
wth men have any place.
27.
Were it not for the enemythat I his wrath did fear,
And adversary should himself
strangely behave and bear;
And lest that they should speak & say
our hand full high it is,
And lifted up; as for the Lord,
he hath not done all this.
28.
For they are such a Nation, asis void of counsel sound,
in them for to be found.
29.
O that these men were wise, that theyhereto their minds would bend,
To understand this thing, and would
ponder their latter end.
30.
How should one chase a thousand menand two ten thousand put
To flight, except the Lord their rock
had sold and shut them up.
31.
For why, their rock, it is not likethe rock whereon we stay;
Our enemies themselves, if they
be judges, thus will say.
32.
Their vine of Sodom is the vine,and of Gomorrahs field,
Yea grapes of gall, and bitter are
the clusters which they yeild.
33.
As Dragons poyson, is the winethat doth thereout proceed;
Yea cruel venome of the Aspe,
even such it is indeed.
34.
Is not this laid in store with me,my treasures seal'd among:
35.
Vengeance & recompense, it dothof right to me belong.
Their foot shal slide even in due time
the day that shall them waste
It is at hand, the things that shall
come on them, do make haste.
36.
For God shall judge his folk, and shalrepent when he shall see
His servants power is gone, and that
shut up or left none be.
37.
And then the Lord himself shall speakyea on this wise shall say,
Where are their gods, their rock, in whom
they trusted, and did stay?
38.
Which of their sacrifices atethe fat, and drunk the wine
They offer'd? let them rise, and for
your safety now combine.
39.
See now that I, even I am he,and with me there is none,
No God with me, I kill, I make
alive, even I alone.
I wound, and I do heal again,
and surely there is none
That can deliver from my hand,
or rescue, no not one.
40.
For I lift up my hand on highto heaven, and then I give
This word, and of my self do say
for ever do I live.
41.
If I my bright & glittering swordshall go about to whet,
On judgement if my hand take hold,
and thereunto be set:
Vengeance I render will on them
mine enemies that are;
And eke they shall rewarded be,
to me a hate that bear.
41. [42.]
Mine arrows they shal drunken bewith blood, which shall be shed,
My sword also shall flesh devour,
therewith it shall be fed.
The blood I say even of the slain,
and them that captives be,
upon the enemy.
43.
Rejoyce then O ye nations withhis people, for he will
Avenge his servants blood upon
all them that do it spill.
Upon his adversaries he
the vengeance just will send,
But to his land and people he
his mercy will extend.
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