Judgment here thou didst engage So the' assemblies of each nation All people from the world's foundation. Judge me, Lord; be judge in this Upon me: cause at length to cease But the just establish fast, Since thou' art the just God that tries In him who, both just and wise, God is a just judge and severe, If the' unjust will not forbear, His sword he whets, his bow hath bended Already, and for him intended The tools of death that wait him near. (His arrows purposely made he For them that persecute :) Behold, Trouble he hath conceiv'd of old, He digg'd a pit, and delv'd it deep, His mischief, that due course doth keep, Of violence will, undelay'd, Fall on his crown with ruin steep. Then will I Jehovah's praise PSALM VIII. Aug. 14, 1653. O JEHOVAH, Our Lord, how wondrous great Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings thou Hast founded strength, because of all thy foes, To stint the enemy, and slack the' avenger's brow, That bends his rage thy Providence to❜ oppose. When I behold thy heavens, thy fingers' art, set In the pure firmament: then saith my heart, And think'st upon him; or of man begot, That him thou visit'st, and of him art found! Scarce to be less than gods, thou mad'st his lot, With honour and with state thou hast him crown'd. O'er the works of thy hand thou mad'st him Lord, All flocks, and herds, by thy commanding word, Fowl of the heavens, and fish that through the wet APRIL, 1648. J. M. Nine of the Psalms done into metre, wherein all, but what is in a different character, are the very words of the text translated from the original. PSALM LXXX. 1 THOU, Shepherd, that dost Israel keep, Who leadest like a flock of sheep That sitt'st between the Cherubs bright, 2 In Ephraim's view and Benjamin's, Awake thy strength, come, and be seen To save us by thy might. 3 Turn us again; thy grace divine Cause thou thy face on us to shine, 4 Lord God of Hosts! how long wilt thou, How long wilt thou declare Thy smoking wrath, and angry brow 5 Thou feed'st them with the bread of tears; 6 A strife thou mak'st us and a prey Among themselves they laugh, they play, 7 Return us, and thy grace divine, 8 A vine from Egypt thou hast brought, And drov'st out nations, proud and haught, 9 Thou didst prepare for it a place, And root it deep and fast, That it began to grow apace, And fill'd the land at last. 10 With her green shade that cover'd all, Her boughs as high as cedars tall 11 Her branches on the western side 12 Why hast thou laid her hedges low, That all may pluck her, as they go, 13 The tusked boar out of the wood Wild beasts there browse, and make their food 14 Return now, God of Hosts! look down From Heaven, thy seat divine; Behold us, but without a frown, And visit this thy vine. 15 Visit this vine, which thy right hand And the young branch, that for thyself 16 But now it is consum'd with fire, They perish at thy dreadful ire, 17 Upon the man of thy right hand 18 So shall we not go back from thee |