A Prayer of Moses, the Man of God.
1 Lord, thou hast evermore to us
a Habitation been,
From one Age to another Age,
sweetly protecting us.
2 Before the Mountains were brought forth
or thou hadst formed the Earth,
and World, even from Age to Age,
Thou art the Mighty God.
3 Thou to destruction doest reduce
poor miserable Man;
and then thou fall, O Children of
Adam, Return again.
4 Because a thousand of years,
they do appear unto thine eyes
But as a yesterday when past;
and as a watch by Night.
5 Thou sweep’st them off
as with a Flood;
they’re like unto a sleep;
they’re in the morning like the grass.
6 In the morning flourishing;
they grow; in the evening
They are cut down, and withered.
7 For we are by thine anger
consumed, and by thy wrath
are we terrified.
8 Thou hast set our iniquities
before thee; our secret sins
in the light of thy Countenance.
9 For all our days
are passed away in thy wrath;
We spend our years as a tale
that is told.
10 The days of all our years,
in them there are but Seventy years;
or if they are in doubled strength
then they are Fourscore years.
But yet their power which is our
pride, 'tis labour and 'tis pain;
Because that it is soon cut off,
and so we fly away.
11 Who so considers as to know
what power thine anger has?
yea, even according to thy fear,
so is thy flaming wrath.
12 For the right numbering of our days
Do thou give the skill;
and unto wisdom we shall then
apply this heart of ours.
13 Return, O Thou ETERNAL God;
How long yet shall it be?
And O be thou appeased
for them who’re servants unto thee.
14 O satisfy us early with
thy kind benignity;
so we shall all our days
rejoice and be exceeding glad.
15 According to the days wherein
thou hast afflicted us,
And the years wherein we have
seen ill, now do thou make us glad.
16 To them that are thy Servants now
O let thy work be seen;
thy glory also unto those
that are thy Children here.
17 And let the lovely brightness of
the Lord who is our God,
with a convictions lustre
be seen upon us;
And the work of our hands,
do thou establish upon us;
yea, the work of our hands
do thou firmly establish it.
1 He who dwells in the secret place
of Him who’s the most High,
Under the Almighty One
shall lodge and forever be secure.
2 I’ll say to the ETERNAL God,
Thou art my Security,
and thou art my tower,
my God in whom I place my confidence.
3 Surely He shall deliver thee
out of the Fowler’s snare;
He shall deliver thee from
the malignant pestilence.
4 He with His wings shall cover thee,
and thou shalt be secure
under His wings; His truth
shall be a buckler and a shield.
5 Of what’s the terror of the night
thou shalt not be afraid;
nor of the arrow which by day
does make a swifter flight.
6 Not of the pestilence which does
in darkness take its walk,
nor of such a destruction
as does at the noon-day waste.
7 A thousand at thy side shall fall
and close at thy right hand
Shall fall ten thousand;
unto thee it shan’t come nigh at all.
8 Thou only shalt considerately
behold with thine eyes;
and thou shalt see the recompense
dispensed to wicked men.
9 Because Thou, O ETERNAL God
art my security.
So hast thou gone to the most High
as to thy dwelling place.
10 There shall not any evil thing
happen to thee at all:
nor shall there any plague
near to thy habitation come.
11 For He shall to His Angels give
a charge concerning thee,
that they in all thy ways
may have thee in their custody.
12 They like to tender nurses shall
in both hands carry thee
Lest that thou shouldest dash thy foot
against some hurtful Stone.
13 Thou shalt victorious tread on
the black serpent and the asp;
the dragon and great dragon
thou shalt trample underfoot.
14 Because he hath so loved me,
therefore I’ll rescue him;
because that he hath known my Name,
I will set him on high.
15 On me he’ll call; and Him I’ll hear;
when he’s in trouble, then I’ll be
with him; I’ll rescue him,
and I will honour him.
16 I’ll fully satisfy him
with extended length of days;
when upon my Salvation
I shall cause him for to look.
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm. A Song for the Sabbath Day.
1 It is a good thing to celebrate
with Praise the ETERNAL God;
and to Sing Praise unto thy Name,
O Thou that art most high.
2 In every Morning to declare
Thy kind Benignity;
and in the darkness of the Nights
declare thy faithfulness.
3 Upon an Instrument that has
Ten strings to furnish it;
and on the Psaltery;
and with a Song upon the Harp.
4 For, O ETERNAL God,
Thou in Thy Work,
hast made me glad;
In the works of thy Hands
I do make my triumphant songs.
5 O Thou ETERNAL God,
Thy works, how very great are they!
Thy exquisite Contrivances, how very deep are they!
6 A Man grown stupid like a Brute,
is one who does not know;
and he that is a fool
does not well understand this Thing.
7 When like the Herb, the Wicked
flourish, and all the Workers of
what’s evil, flourish;
'Tis that they may be destroyed forever.
8 But Thou who art the ETERNAL God,
JEHOVAH is Thy Name?
shalt be exalted very High
to all Eternity.
9 For, lo Thy Foes, ETERNAL God,
For, lo, Thy hateful Foes
shall perish, and all Workers of
Evil shall be destroyed.
10 But thou wilt like unto the Reem
exalt my horn on high;
and I shall be anointed
with a very grateful oil.
11 My Eyes shall also look
with thought upon my enemies;
my ears shall hear of wicked men
that rise to do me hurt.
12 The righteous one shall flourish
as the Palm-Tree use to do;
he shall grow like the Cedar-Tree
that is in Lebanon.
13 They who are planted in the House
of the ETERNAL God;
there shall still flourish in the Courts
of Him that is our God.
14 They even in old age
shall still be yielding of their Fruit;
they shall continue in good case,
and keep their verdure still.
15 To shew the equity
of the ETERNAL God;
He is my rock and there is no
iniquity in Him.
1 The ETERNAL God is now the King
all High Glory He puts on;
The ETERNAL God does now put on
a mighty fortitude.
He girds Himself, ready to act;
The habitable World is likewise
so established, that it shall be
moved no more.
2 Thy Throne, it is established
from of old;
who can tell the term?
Thou art still what thou art from an unknown Eternity.
3 The floods lift up, ETERNAL God,
the floods lift up their voice;
the floods have lifted upon high
their hideous dashing noise.
4 The ETERNAL God, who is on high,
is mightier than the noise
of many Waters, mightier than
mighty waves of the Sea.
5 Thy testimonies unto us
are very faithful ones;
Holiness does adorn thy house,
ETERNAL God forever.
1 O ETERNAL God,
The God to whom revenge belongs
Shine forth conspicuously,
O God to whom revenge belongs.
2 O thou Judge of the Earth,
Do thou exalt thy self on high:
a retribution render
to the haughty ones.
3 O Thou ETERNAL God,
How long shall very impious ones
How long shall very impious ones
make their triumphant boast?
4 How long shall they still belching out,
talk what is very hard?
How long shall all they boast
themselves that work iniquity?
5 Thy People, O ETERNAL God,
they break to pieces quite;
and they unto thine heritage
humbling affliction cause.
6 The Widow and the Stranger,
these with laughter they destroy;
and them that are the Fatherless
they murder barbarously.
7 And this is that which they have said,
JAH will not see at all;
nor will the God of Jacob
take a cognizance of it.
8 O ye most brutish ones among
the People, understand;
But O ye foolish ones, when comes
the time that you’l be wise?
9 He who with skill did plant the Ear,
think you, that He’ll not hear?
It is He that formed the Eye,
think you, that He’ll not see?
10 He that instructs the Nations, What?
shall He not argue right?
'Tis He who does communicate
all knowledge unto Man.
11 But the ETERNAL God
does know the thoughts of earthly Man;
He knows, that they are nothing
but meer foolish vanity.
12 O blessed the Man, whom thou,
O JAH, with chastening doest instruct;
and doest out of thy law
bestow a teaching upon him!
13 That thou from days of evil
mayst afford a rest to him;
Whillst that a pit is digged for
him that’s the wicked Man.
14 For the ETERNAL God
will not cast His own People off;
neither will He forsake
what is His own inheritance.
15 But judgment shall anon return
even to righteousness;
and all that are upright in heart
shall follow after it.
16 Who will rise up for me
against him who does evil things?
Who will stand up for me
against workers of vanity?
17 Unless that the ETERNAL God
had given help to me,
my Soul had quickly dwelt
in the sad silence of the Grave.
18 When I did say, my foot
is on the slip, thy mercy,
O ETERNAL God,
was what sustained me.
19 When I’ve a multitude of thoughts,
mixed in the midst of me,
then do thy comforts make my Soul
glad with repeated joys.
20 Shall the Throne of things tyrannous
have fellowship with thee?
That which enacts into a Law
what’s a mischievous wrong?
21 They raise their troops against
the Soul of every righteous one;
and they condemn to death
the blood of him that’s innocent.
22 But the ETERNAL God
becomes the tower for my defence;
and He that is my God
becomes the Rock in which I trust.
23 And He’ll to them repay
their wrong, yea, He will cut them off
in their crime; the ETERNAL God,
our God will cut them off.
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm. A Song of David.
1 O come, and let us sing with joy
to the ETERNAL God;
O jubilate unto the Rock
whence our Salvation comes.
2 Quickly let us before His face,
with due confession come;
and make with Psalms
to Him the praise of a glad Jubilee.
3 For the ETERNAL God,
He is a God who’s very great;
and He is a great Sovereign,
placed above all the God’s.
4 'Tis in whose hand
are the deep recesses of the Earth;
the weary tops of mountains
too do all belong to Him.
5 He is to whom the Sea belongs;
He created it;
His hands were also
those that formed the Earth
now dried from it.
6 O come, let us prostrate
our selves and let us humbly bow;
before the ETERNAL God
who is our Maker, let us kneel!
7 For He’s our God,
and woe of His Pasture the People are,
and the Sheep of His hands;
if ye will hear His voice to day.
8 O harden not your hearts,
as they in the Contention did;
as in the desert on the day
of the Temptation there.
9 The day, wherein your Fathers
did tempt me so sinfully:
A trial they did make of me,
and they beheld my work.
10 Forty years was grieved with
this race of Men, and said;
The People, they wander in heart,
and have not known my ways.
11 For this cause I have made an Oath
in my incensed wrath,
That they by no means
ever shall enter into my Rest.
1 O sing unto the ETERNAL God
a New Song; O sing to the
ETERNAL God, All that are
on the Earth.
2 O sing to the ETERNAL God:
to His Name bow the knee;
Evangelize from day to day
of His Salvation still.
3 Of His bright Glory
an account unto the Nations give;
among all People give account
of His most wondrous works.
4 For the ETERNAL God is great,
and greatly to be praised;
He above all the Gods
is to be had in reverence.
5 For Idols vain are all the gods
the People do adore;
But the ETERNAL God
is He who did create the Heav’ns.
6 Before His face is to be seen
Honour and Majesty;
and in His sanctuary are
strength and a diadem.
7 O Families of Peoples,
Bring to the ETERNAL God;
Bring ye to the ETERNAL God
glory and fortitude.
8 Bring, ye to the ETERNAL God
the glory of His Name;
present ye an oblation,
and so come into His Courts.
9 Worship the ETERNAL God
in the beauty of holiness;
tremble before His face,
O all ye dwellers on the Earth.
10 Proclaim this very thing abroad
among the Nations all;
That the ETERNAL One
doeth fit a King upon His Throne.
The World shall be now established;
it shall not be moved;
He’l judge the People
with the things that are forever right.
11 O let the Heavens now rejoice,
and let the Earth be glad;
Let the Sea lift it’s roaring voice,
and what it’s filled withal.
12 Let the Field have triumphant joy,
and all that is therein;
Then the Trees of the wood
shall all make a loud shout for joy.
13 Let them do this before the face
of the ETERNAL God;
Because He comes;
because He comes
that He may judge the Earth.
The habitable World He will
now judge in righteousness;
and He will judge the People
in His Ready faithfulness.
1 The ETERNAL God does reign,
O let the Earth rejoice,
And let the many Isles thereof
shine with a cheerful joy.
2 A cloud and a dense darkness
doeth encompass Him about;
Justice and Judgment
are the firm foundation of His Throne.
3 Fire goes before His face
and burns all round His Enemies.
4 His lightnings fill the World with light;
the Earth sees it and shakes.
5 Like melting wax the mountains are
dissolved before the face
of the ETERNAL God;
before the Lord of all the Earth.
6 O let the Heavens now declare
abroad His righteousness;
and of His radiant glory
let all People have a view.
7 Confusion be to all those who
serve graven Images;
who do in Idols boast themselves.
Worship Him all ye God’s!
8 Zion heard and was bright with joy;
And Judah’s daughters were
for the sake of thy Judgments glad,
O thou ETERNAL God.
9 For, O ETERNAL God,
Thou art High above all the Earth;
Thou art exalted very high
above all the Gods.
10 O ye who love the ETERNAL God,
Hate ill; He keeps the Souls
of His gracious ones;
He saves from them the wicked’s hand.
11 There’s for the righteous one
a light sown as an hidden seed;
and for them who’re upright in heart
there is a joy reserved.
12 You that are righteous ones,
Rejoice in the ETERNAL God;
and when you do commemorate
His Holy One, give thanks.
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm. A Song.
1 O sing to the ETERNAL God
a new Song; for He hath
Done wonders; His right hand
has Him helped, and His holy Arm.
2 The ETERNAL God has caused
His Salvation to be known;
In the eyes of the Nations
He hath shown His righteousness.
3 He minds His mercy and His truth
to the house of Israel;
All the ends of the Earth
they have our God’s Salvation seen.
4 O Jubilate now all the Earth
to the ETERNAL God;
O raise your voice, and sing aloud,
and celebrate with Psalms.
5 O sing to the ETERNAL God,
with a well-tuned harp;
Do it with a ten-stringed harp,
and the voice of the Psalm.
6 With trumpets which assemble troops,
and with the found of horn,
O Jubilate before the King
who is the ETERNAL God.
7 Let the Sea make its thundring noise,
and that which filleth it;
So let the habitable World
and its inhabitants.
8 Let the floods clap their hands
for joy with acclamations loud;
Together with them also let
the mountains make their shouts.
9 Let them do this before the face
of the ETERNAL God;
because that He is coming forth
that He may judge the Earth.
The habitable World He will
now judge in righteousness;
and He will judge the People
with things most exactly right.
1 The ETERNAL God now reigns
as King; O let the People quake;
He sits between the Cherubim;
O let the Earth be moved.
2 In Zion the ETERNAL God
is greatly magnified;
and above all the Peoples
He is now advanced on high.
3 O let them celebrate thy Name
with thanks, that it is great,
and is terrible; Holy
is He.
4 The King's strength also
judgment loves; right things
Thou doest prepare; In Jacob
thou doest execute judgment and righteousness.
5 Exalt ye the ETERNAL God,
even Him who is our God;
and at His footstool worship
ye; He is the holy One.
6 Moses and Aaron eminent
among His Ministers;
and Samuel eminent among
them that call on His Name.
These did their invocation make
on the ETERNAL God;
and He then granted unto them
a gracious audience.
7 He in the pillar of the cloud
gave Oracles to them;
they kept His testimonies,
and the Law He gave to them.
8 Thou heard’st them, O ETERNAL God,
our God; Thou wast a God
that spared them;
and thou didst revenge the things designed for them.
9 Exalt the ETERNAL God,
our God; and at His holy hill
Worship; for the ETERNAL God,
Our God’s the Holy One.
A Psalm of Praise.
1 O unto the ETERNAL God
make you the joyful shouts
all ye who dwell on Earth.
2 Yield service with a shining joy
to the ETERNAL God;
with joyful acclamations
come ye in before His face.
3 Know, That the ETERNAL God,
He’s God; He made us,
and we’re His; we are His People,
and we are the Sheep which He does feed.
4 With due confessions enter
ye His gates, His courts with Praise;
make due confessions unto Him;
speak ye well of His Name.
5 For the ETERNAL God is good;
His mercy is for ever;
And unto Generations
doth His faithfulness endure.
A Psalm of David.
1 Of Mercy and of Judgment
both I will now make my Song;
Unto Thee, O ETERNAL God,
I will now sing a Psalm.
2 I’ll in a perfect way be wise;
When wilt thou come to me?
In the midst of my house I will
walk with a perfect heart.
3 I will not set before mine eyes
a thing of Belial;
I hate the work of wanderers:
it shall not cleave to me.
4 An heart that is perversely bent,
it shall depart from me;
and I will take no notice of
one that’s a wicked man.
5 I'll cut off him that slandereth
his neighbour secretly;
One high in looks and proud in heart,
I will not bear with him.
6 I'll eye the faithful of the Land,
that they may dwell with me;
He that walks in a perfect way,
He’l be my Officer.
7 In the midst of my house
none shall dwell who does work deceit:
before my eyes, who does work deceit,
shall be one who tells lies.
8 I as the mornings do recur,
with close confinement will
destroy all of the wicked ones
that are upon the Earth.
And this, that from the City of
Him who’s the ETERNAL God,
I may extirpate all them
who work iniquity.
A Prayer of the Afflicted when that he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his sad Complaint before the ETERNAL God.
1 O Thou ETERNAL God,
Do Thou hear my Supplication;
and my loud Cry made in Distress,
let it arrive to Thee.
2 In the Day of my Trouble,
Oh! Hide not thy Face from me;
Bow thine Ear to me;
in the Day I call, soon answer me.
3 For as the Smoke does pass away
so my Days consumed;
and as the Wood laid on the Hearth
my Bones are burned up.
4 My Heart is smitten like the Grass,
and it is withered up;
Insomuch that I do forget
to eat my daily Bread.
5 By reason of the Voice
that is by my sad Groaning made;
my bones do evidently cleave
unto my wasted skin.
6 I am made like the Pelican
that’s in the Wilderness;
I am like to the Bittern
which affecteth Solitudes.
7 I pass the weary Nights
without enjoying any Sleep;
and like the Sparrow I am on
the top of the House alone.
8 My Enemies do call on me
Reproaches every Day;
they that are mad against me
do form cursing Oaths from me.
9 For truly, as, and in my Bread
Affliction is what I eat;
and my Drink I have mingled with
the Tears that I have shed.
10 From the view of thy Anger,
and of thy boiling Wrath;
Because that thou hast lift me up,
and cast me down again.
11 My days are like a shadow
which is now on the Decline;
and like unto a parched Herb,
even so I withered am.
12 But, O ETERNAL God,
Thou doest endure forevermore;
and thy Remembrance from one Age
unto another Age.
13 Thou wilt arise,
and now thou wilt to Zion
Mercy show, because the time
to favour her, yea, the set Time is come.
14 Inasmuch as thy Servants do
take wondrous pleasure in
the Stones thereof,
and they are kind unto the dust thereof.
15 So the Name of the ETERNAL God
the Nations now will fear;
and thy conspicuous glory
all the Kings upon the Earth.
16 When the ETERNAL God
shall build the Zion that is fallen,
He shall most visibly appear,
in His bright Glory there.
17 He will have a respect
to the Prayer of the humble shrub;
and on their Supplications
He will not cast a contempt.
18 This shall be written for the Age
hereafter to come on;
A People yet for to be formed
shall also Praise the Lord.
19 For He hath looked down
from the heighth of His Holiness;
From Heaven the ETERNAL God,
exactly views the Earth.
20 It is that He may hear the groan
of him that lies in bonds;
that He may set at liberty
such as are sons of death.
21 In Zion to declare the Name
of the ETERNAL God;
and to declare His glorious Praise
in both Jerusalems.
22 When that united Peoples
shall their Congregations form;
and Kingdoms do agree
to serve Him who’s the ETERNAL God.
23 But in the midst of the way
unto the Glorious Things,
He sorely hath afflicted me;
He hath cut off my days.
24 I said, my God, Take me not up
in the midst of my days;
Thy Years a Generation to,
yea, Generations last.
25 In the beginning thou hast laid
Foundations for the Earth;
the Heavens also of thy hands
are the rare Workmanship.
26 They shall perish,
but thou shalt endure;
yea, like a garment they
shall all wax old;
Thou shalt change them as a robe,
and they’l be changed.
27 But as for Thee, Thou ever
doest continue what thou art;
and thy years, they are such
as will not ever be consumed.
28 The Children of thy Servants
shall have a fixed dwelling place;
and their Offspring before thy face
shall be established.
Of David.
1 My awakened Soul, Do thou
Bless the ETERNAL God;
and all my inward powers
the Name of His pure holiness.
2 O my awakened Soul,
Do thou Bless the ETERNAL God;
and O forget not any one
of all His precious benefits.
3 'Tis He who gives a pardon to
all thy most vile iniquities;
'Tis He who gives an healing to
all thy most sad infirmities.
4 'Tis He who doeth redeem thy Life
from the dark Grave;
'Tis He who thee with Mercy
doeth and with tender compassions crown.
5 'Tis He who with the thing
that’s good doeth satisfy thy craving mouth;
thy Youth it is renewed;
Then like the soaring Eagle shalt thou be.
6 The ETERNAL God is ever
One who doeth most righteous things
to all; and Judgments He doeth execute
for all that are oppressed ones.
7 A revelation of His ways
He did to Holy Moses make;
and He revealed His works
unto the happy sons of Israel.
8 The ETERNAL God is merciful;
and He is full of clemency;
to anger slow, and plenteous
in all benignity.
9 He won’t dispense rebukes
in wrath to lasting perpetuity;
He will not have it in reserve
unto endless Eternity.
10 His dealings have not been
with us according to our Sins;
nor hath He recompensed us
according to our heinous crimes.
11 Because that as the Heavens are
in heighth raised up above the Earth,
so upon them that fear Him
doeth His matchless mercy ever come.
12 Even as far as is the East
removed in distance from the West,
our trespasses He makes to be
distant so very far from us.
13 At the rate that a Father
to Children is pitiful,
the ETERNAL God, for them
who do fear Him has pity too.
14 For He is well acquainted
with the feeble frame wherein
were made, He very well remembers
this, that we are very sorry dust.
15 For soon-forgotten Man,
his days are like unto the fading grass;
As the flow're that is in the field,
so 'tis He flourishes.
16 For the wind passes over it,
and presently 'tis gone;
and in the place where once it stood,
it will be seen and known no more.
17 But the most kind benignity
of Him who’s the ETERNAL God,
is from unknown Eternity
even to Eternity.
Upon such as do exercise
a real constant fear of Him;
and unto Children's Children
is His faithful constant righteousness.
18 'Tis meant, to such as faithfully
do keep His Holy Covenant,
and to those who His Precepts mind,
that they may do the things required.
19 His Throne has the ETERNAL God
prepared in the Heav’ns;
His Kingdom also over all
extends its righteous Government.
20 O ye His Angels, vast in strength,
Bless ye and Praise the ETERNAL God;
who do His word, that so the voice
of His word may be duly heard.
21 O Bless ye the ETERNAL God,
All ye His Marshaled numerous Hosts;
ye Ministers who execute
His Will when 'tis made known to you.
22 Bless ye the ETERNAL God,
O all His works that are
in places all of His Dominion;
O my Soul, Bless thou and Praise the ETERNAL God.
1 O my Soul, Bless thou
the ETERNAL God;
O ETERNAL God, my God,
Thou art very great,
Thou art clothed with Honour
and Majesty.
2 As with a Garment on Him
He covers Himself with Light;
He doeth extend the Heavens
like a curtain round about.
3 He on the Waters lays the beams
of His chambers;
He doeth make the Clouds His chariot;
He doeth walk on the wings of the wind.
4 He doeth make Spirits for to be
Angels sent forth by Him,
and He a flaming fire doeth
make to be His Ministers.
5 Upon the Bases for it
He has founded well the Earth;
so that it shall not be removed;
no, not from Age to Age.
6 As with a Garment
thou didst hide it with the vast abyss;
At first above the mountains
did the waters take their place.
7 But at thy rebuke
they fled; at the voice
of thy thunder they
hasted away.
8 They ascend the mountains;
they descend the valleys
Unto the place which thou
hast founded for them.
9 Thou hast set a bound which
they shall not pass;
They shall not return
to cover the Earth.
10 He into the valleys sends forth
waters that flow, from springs;
which do among the mountains take
their never-ceasing walk.
11 They do bestow their drink on all
the beasts that range the field;
There the wild asses, tho' so wild
and stupid, quench their thirst.
12 By these the fowls of Heaven
have their habitation made;
among the branches here
they do give a melodious voice.
13 He From His chambers
doeth distill waters upon the hills;
from the fruit of thy works
the Earth is fully satisfied.
14 He for the Beasts makes grass to grow;
and for the use of Man
He grants herb that so He may
fetch food out of the Earth.
15 Even wine, that chears the heart
of Man, that so his face may shine
with oil; and bread which does give
strength unto the heart of Man.
16 The trees of the ETERNAL God,
these do abound with sap;
the cedars of the Lebanon
which He has planted there.
17 That so the little Birds may there
build and enjoy their nests;
The Stork particularly has
the fir-trees for her house.
18 The mountains of a stately heighth
for the Wild-Goats are these;
the rocks, these are a refuge
where the Rock-rats lodge themselves.
19 He formed the Moon
that so it might determine
stated times; The Sun is well
acquainted with the time of going down.
20 The darkness thou didst constitute
and then the Night arrives;
all the wild-creatures of the wood
do creep abroad in it.
21 That so they may come at their prey
then the young Lions roar;
that so they may by seeking food
their sustenance from God.
22 The Sun does rise,
on this they do gather themselves together;
and then they to their dens
repair to lay down themselves.
23 Man being so secure from these,
goes forth unto his work;
and to his usual husbandry,
until the Evening come.
24 Thy works, O Thou ETERNAL God,
how are they multiplied?
In wisdom hast thou made them all;
Th' Earth’s with thy riches filled.
25 This great and spreading Sea is
so filled the swimming things are there;
And there’s no number;
living things both small and great are there.
26 There 'tis the Ships do steer
their course; there Leviathan
him thou hast formed that so
he may enjoy his sport therein.
27 These all upon Thee wait;
that thou mayst give them food
in their season.
28 Thou doest give to them,
they do gather up;
Thou doest open thy hand,
they are satisfied with good.
29 Thou hidest thy face,
they’re troubled then;
Their spirit thou withdraw’st;
they die, and so they do return
to their Original dust.
30 Thou wilt send forth thy spirit;
they are created anew;
and thou to the face of the Earth,
wilt a renewal give.
31 The Glory of the ETERNAL God
it shall endure forever;
The joy of the ETERNAL God
will be in all his works.
32 He does look down upon the Earth;
it falls a trembling then:
He to the mountains gives a touch,
and presently they smoke.
33 I’ll sing to the ETERNAL God
as long as I do live;
while I have any being
I will sing unto my God.
34 My meditation upon Him,
it shall be very sweet;
In the ETERNAL God
I will with a bright joy be glad.
35 From Earth let Sinners
be consumed;
and the impious be no more;
O my Soul, Bless thou the ETERNAL God.
Sing HALLELUJAH now!
1 O Confess to the ETERNAL God,
Call ye upon His Name;
make known His admirable Works.
2 To Him with voices sing;
to Him sing too with Instruments;
talk ye of all the wondrous Works
which have been done by Him.
3 Value your selves upon the Name
of His most Holy One;
O let the heart of them rejoice
who seek the ETERNAL God.
4 O seek ye the ETERNAL God,
seek ye His powerful strength;
Seek to behold His glorious Face,
Do this continually.
5 The admirable things which He hath
done, Remember ye;
the Prodigies which He has wrought
and judgments of His mouth.
6 O you that are the Off-spring of
His Servant Abraham;
O you that are the Children of Jacob,
His chosen Ones.
7 'Tis He who is the ETERNAL God
that is become our God;
His Judgments now are seen
and known quite over all the Earth.
8 He hath been very mindful
of His Covenant forever;
the Word He for the Age
market by a Thousand, did appoint.
9 'Tis that which He to Abraham
did make as His Covenant;
'tis what He unto Isaac
did swear with a solemn Oath.
10 And this is what He did confirm
to Jacob for a Law;
to Israel as a Covenant
for perpetuity.
11 This is what He declared;
To thee the Land of Canaan
I will give, that it may be
the Lot of your Inheritance.
12 When as they in their Number were
but a few mortal Men;
Yea, but a very few indeed,
and Sojourners in it.
13 Then from one Nation
they unto another Nation walked;
and from one Kingdom they unto
another People went.
14 He did not suffer any man
to do them any wrong;
and He did upon their Account
give His reproofs to Kings.
15 He said, Do not you dare to touch
these mine anointed Ones;
and unto these my Prophets
do not any injury.
16 Then after this, He called for
a Famine on the Land;
the whole supporting Staff of Bread
he broke and made to fail.
17 But he before their Faces then
did send a Man of Note;
Joseph who was then bartered for
a Servant, was the Man.
18 His foot they did first humble
with the Affliction of a Chain;
The Iron, that did Penetrate
unto his very soul.
19 'Twas thus until the Time
came for the coming of His Word;
the Word of the ETERNAL God
then fully cleared him.
20 On this the King did send and set
him at his liberty;
The Ruler of the People did
to freedom him restore.
21 He constituted him to be
the Ruler of his house;
yea, and the Governour of all
that was possessed by him.
22 That He might lay restraints
upon his Princes as he pleased,
and that He might make them be wise
that were his Senators.
23 Then Israel into Egypt
did on this occasion come,
and Jacob in the Land of Ham
became a sojourner.
24 His People He did very much
then cause to fructify;
and made them to improve in strength
above their Enemies.
25 That they should hate His People,
He did turn about their hearts
and that against His Servants
they should plot deceitful things.
26 He sent a Moses, who became
His humble Minister;
He sent an Aaron whom He had
now made His chosen one.
27 These did among them set
the words of His prodigious signs;
and wondrous prodigies which were
done in the Land of Ham.
28 He did send darkness upon them,
and it grew very dark.
'Twas at this time that they did not
rebel against His word.
29 He turned their waters into Blood,
and He destroyed their Fish.
30 Their Land brought forth
great store of Frogs,
even where their Kings did lodge.
31 He did give forth the Word
and then the grievous Dog-fly came;
He did give forth the Word
and Lice did swarm in all their coasts.
32 For rains He gave them hail,
and fire with flames shot through their Land.
33 He smote their Vines too,
and their Figs;
and broke their bounding Trees.
34 He gave out His Command
for it and then the Locust came;
the Caterpillar also came,
and it was numberless.
35 They did entirely eat up all
the herbage of the Land;
and they did eat up all the fruit
which grew upon their soil.
36 He also did in all their Land
smite every First-born thing;
He did smite the first fruits
which were produced in their strength.
37 And He brought forth those Israelites,
with Silver and with Gold;
yea, there was not in all their Tribes
One feeble Person found.
38 When they took their departure,
then Egypt was very glad;
Because a grievous fear of these
was fallen upon them.
39 He did expand a cloud
to be a covering over them;
and with it was a Fire for
to illuminate the Night.
40 On their Petition then He did
bring them great store of Quails;
and with the bread of Heaven
He supplied them to the full.
41 He opened a Rock,
and thence the waters gushed out;
away they through dry places did,
a River, take their course.
42 For He did mind His holy word,
His Servant Abraham.
43 And brought his People forth
with joy, with songs his chosen ones.
44 Then 'twas He of the Nations
did bestow the Lands on them:
The labour of the People then
they their possession made.
45 All this that so they might observe
His Institutions there,
and that they might obey
His Laws. Sing Hallelujah now.
1 Sing Hallelujah! O Confess
to the ETERNAL God;
Because that He is good;
Because His mercy is forever.
2 Who shall declare the mighty Acts
of the ETERNAL God?
Who shall cause to be heard all
that He’s to be praised for.
3 Blessed are they who do observe
the thing that’s right-and-good;
Blessed is he who executes
at all times righteousness.
4 O ETERNAL God, Remember me
with such a favour as
thou show’st thy People;
and with thy Salvation visit me.
5 That the good of thy chosen
may see; To shine with the
joy of thy Nation; To triumph
with thine Inheritance.
6 We, as our Ancestors have done
before us, have transgressed;
we have done much iniquity;
we have dealt wickedly.
7 Our Ancestors in Egypt did
not wise attention give
To understand the wondrous things
which were done by thee there.
They minded not the multitude
of thy benignities;
but they rebelled near the Sea,
even at the Reedy-Sea.
8 Nevertheless for the sake of
His Name He saved them;
That so He might make to be known
His mighty Power abroad.
9 So He rebuked the Reedy-Sea,
and it was dried up;
and then He lead them through
the deeps as through a wilderness.
10 He saved them from the hand
of them that hated them;
And He redeemed them from the hand
of a fierce enemy.
11 Their troublous adversaries then
the waters overwhelmed;
There was not any left of them;
no, not so much as one.
12 Then they believed on His words;
they did sing forth His praise.
13 They made haste;
they forgot His works;
they stayed not for His help.
14 They lusted with strong appetite
when in the wilderness;
and they did tempt the mighty God
when in the Solitude.
15 And the thing which they did request
He granted unto them;
Nevertheless a leanness
He did send into their Soul.
16 Yea, and against Moses himself,
they envied in the Camp;
Against Aaron, the holy One
of the ETERNAL God.
17 The Earth did then open itself,
and swallowed Dathan up;
It overwhelmed the Company
which with Abiram were.
18 And there enkindled was
among their Company a Fire;
The flame thereof did utterly
consume the wicked ones.
19 Near unto Horeb they did make
an idolized Calf;
and to a molten Image
they did then bow down themselves.
20 Thus that which was their glory
they did shamefully transform
into the likeness of a Beef
that feeds upon the grass.
21 They did forget the mighty God
who had their Saviour been;
who had in Egypt done the things
that were exceeding great.
22 Works that were very wonderful
within the Land of Ham;
Things that were very terrible
near to the Reedy-Sea.
23 He then said, He’d destroy them;
but His chosen Moses stood
in the breach before Him
to divert His wrath from slaying them.
24 Yea, they did cast contempt
upon a Land to be desired;
and they did not rely,
upon what He had promised.
25 But in their Tabernacles
they still kept ever murmuring;
They hearkened not unto
the Voice of the ETERNAL God.
26 He therefore lifting up His hand
against them took His Oath,
that He would make them fall,
while they were in the wilderness.
27 That He among the Nations
would their Offspring make to fall;
and that He would now scatter them
abroad into the lands.
28 They to Baal-peor also did
in his yoke join themselves;
The sacrifices of the Dead
they then did feed upon.
29 Thus they with their inventions
did great provocation give;
and so the Plague broke in upon
them, irresistibly.
30 Then Phinehas did stand up
with Pray’r and did proceed to do,
the execution of a Judge;
and so the Plague was stayed.
31 And this to him was reckoned
as an act of righteousness,
from one Age to another Age,
to perpetuity.
32 And at the Waters of their strife
they raised a boiling wrath;
so that with Moses there it went
but ill on their account.
33 Because that they his spirit
threw into great bitterness,
and then he brought forth
with his lips what should not have been there.
34 Those cursed Peoples
they did not wholly exterminate,
concerning whom the ETERNAL God
had so commanded them.
35 But they did mix themselves
among the heathen Nations there,
and they did learn to do
their works, even their Idolatries.
36 And they did serve their Idols
which became a snare to them.
37 Yea, they to Devils
sacrificed their Daughters with their Sons.
38 So they poured out the Blood
of such as were poor Innocents;
It was the Blood of their own Sons
and of their Daughters too,
These unto Canaan’s Idols
they did make their sacrifice;
and with such bloody doings
was the very Land defiled.
39 Thus with their detestable works
they did pollute themselves;
and so they did a whoring
with their own Inventions go.
40 Now the wrath of the ETERNAL God
against His People rose;
and He did now abominate
His own Inheritance.
41 And He delivered them
into the hand of Gentiles then;
and they that hated them
did bear dominion over them.
42 And they that were their Enemies
sorely oppressed them,
yea, and they were set
their hand into subjection brought.
43 He many times delivered them;
But with their counsel they
provoked still and were brought low
for their iniquity.
44 Nevertheless He did behold,
when upon them there was
Affliction; when therein He heard
them making of their cry.
45 And He for them His Covenant
did to remembrance call;
after His mercies multitude
it then repented Him.
46 He also to companions did
kindly deliver them
before the face of all of those
that captivated them.
47 O Thou ETERNAL God, our God,
To us O do thou grant
Salvation, and, Oh!
from among the Nations gather us;
That so we may confess to the
Name of thy Holy One,
and that we may triumphantly
sing forth thy Glorious Praise.
48 Blessed be the ETERNAL God,
the God of Israel forevermore;
And let all People say, Amen.
Sing Hallelujah now!