PSALME XCIX.
Dominus regnavit.
WHAT if nations rage and frett?
What if earth doe ruine threate?
Loe, our state Jehova guideth,
He that on the cherubs rideth.
Greate Jehova Sion holdes,
High above what earth enfolds:
Thence his sacred name with terror
Forceth truth from tongues of error.
Thron'd he sitts a king of might,
Mighty soe, as bent to right;
For how can but be maintained
Right by him who right ordained?
O then come, Jehova sing:
Sing our God, our Lord, our King;
At the footstoole sett before him
-He is holy-come, adore him.
Moses erst and Aron soe-
These did high in priesthood goe-
Samuell soe unto him crying,
Got their sutes without denying.
But from cloudy piller then
God did daigne to talk with men :
He enacting, they observing,
From his will there was no swerving.
Then our God, Jehova, thou
Unto them thy eare didst bowe:
Gratious still, and kindly harted,
Though for sinne they somewhile smarted.
O then come, Jehova sing:
Sing our God, our Lord, our King;
In his Sion mount before him
-He is holy-come, adore him.
PSALME CXIII.
Laudate, pueri.
O you that serve the Lord,
To praise his name accord;
Jehova now and ever
Commending, ending never,
Whom all this earth resoundes
From east to westerne boundes.
He monarch raignes on high:
His glory treades the sky.
Like him who can be counted,
That dwells soe highly mounted?
Yet stooping low beholds.
What heav'n and earth enfolds.
From dust the needy soule,
The wretch from miry hole
He lifts: yea, kings he makes them,
Yea, kings his people takes them:
He gives the barren wife
A fruitfull mother's life.
PSALME CXVII.
Laudate Dominum.
P RAISE him that aye
Remaines the same:
All tongues display
I ehova's fame.
Sing all that share
This earthly ball;
His mercies are
Expos'd to all:
Like as the word
Once he doth give,
R old in record,
Doth tyme outlyve.
PSALME CXXV.
Qui confidunt.
As Sion standeth, very firmly stedfast,
Never once shaking; soe on high Jehova
Who his hope buildeth, very firmly stedfast
Ever abideth.
As Salem braveth with her hilly bullwarkes
Roundly enforted; soe the greate Jehova
Closeth his servantes, as a hilly bullwark
Ever abiding.
Though tirantes' hard yoke with a heavy pressure
Wring the just shoulders, but a while it holdeth,
Lest the best minded by too hard abusing
Bend to abuses.
As the well-workers, soe the right beleevers, Lord, favour further: but a vaine deceiver, Whose wryed footing not aright directed
Lord, hym abjected set among the number, Whose doings lawlesse study bent to mischiefe Mischief expecteth; but upon thy chosen
PSALME CXXVII.
Nisi Dominus.
The house Jehova builds not
We vainly strive to build it;
The towne Jehova guards not
We vainly watch to guard it.
No use of early rising;
As uselesse is thy watching:
Not aught at all it helpes thee
To eate thy bread with anguish.
As unto weary sences
A sleepie rest unasked;
So bounty cometh uncaus'd
From him to his beloved.
Noe, not thy children hast thou
By choise, by chaunce, by nature;
They are, they are Jehova's,
Rewardes from him rewarding.
The multitude of infantes,
A good man holdes, resembleth
The multitude of arrowes,
A mighty archer holdeth.
Hys happines triumpheth,
Who beares a quiver of them:
Noe countenance of haters
Shall unto him be dreadfull.
PSALME CXXIX.
Sæpe expugnaverunt.
OFTE, and ever from my youth,
Soe now Israël may say:
Israël may say for truth,
Ofte and ever my decay
From my youth their force hath sought, Yet effect it never wrought.
Unto them my back did yeeld
Place and paine: O height of woe!
Where, as in a plowed field,
Long and deepe did furrowes goe.
But, O just Jehova, thou
Hast their plow-ropes cutt in two!
Tell me, you that Sion hate,
What you think shall be your end?
Terror shall your mindes amate,
Blush and shame your faces shend:
Marke the wheate on howses' topp;
Such your harvest, such your cropp.
Wither shall you where you stand;
Gather'd? noe: but wanting sapp,
Filling neither reaper's hand,
Nor the binder's inbowd lapp.
Nay, who you shall reape, or bind,
Common kindnesse shall not find.
Such as travail by the way,
Where as they their paines imploy, Shall not once saluting say,
"God speed friendes, God give you joy; He in whome all blessings raignes Blesse your selves, and blesse your paines."
PSALME CXXXI.
Domine, non est.
A LOFTY hart, a lifted eye,
Lord, thou dost know I never bare:
Lesse have I borne in things to hygh
A medling mind or clyming care.
Looke how the wained babe doth fare,
O did I not? yes, soe did I:
None more for quiet might compare
Ev'n with the babe that wain'd doth lye. Heare then and learne, O Jacob's race, Such endlesse trust on God to place.
PSALME CXXXIII.
Ecce quam bonum.
How good, and how beseeming well
It is that we,
As brethren should in concord dwell!
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