Thou hast from hard captivity 2 The iniquity thou didst forgive From thy 1 fierce wrath, which we had proved Far worse than fire to burn. 4 God of our saving health and peace, Thine indignation cause to cease 5 Wilt thou be angry without end, Wilt thou thy frowning ire extend From age to age on us? 6 Wilt thou not 2 turn and hear our voice, And thus again 2 revive, That so thy people may rejoice, By thee preserved alive? 7 Cause us to see thy goodness, Lord; To us thy mercy shew; Thy saving health to us afford, And life in us renew. 8 And now what God the Lord will speak I will go straight and hear, For to his people he speaks peace, And to his saints full dear; To his dear saints he will speak peace; But let them never more Return to folly, but surcease 9 Surely to such as do him fear Salvation is at hand, And glory shall ere long appear To dwell within our land. IC Heb.: The burning heat of thy wrath. 20 2 Heb.: Turn to quicken us. 30 40 3 Heb.: He will set his steps to the way. 10 Mercy and Truth, that long were missed, Now joyfully are met; Sweet Peace and Righteousness have kissed, And hand in hand are set. II Truth from the earth like to a flower 12 The Lord will also then bestow Our land shall forth in plenty throw 13 Before him Righteousness shall go, 50 Then 3 will he come, and not be slow; 1 Heb. I am good, loving, a doer of good & holy things. PSALM LXXXVI. I THY gracious ear, O Lord, incline; 2 For I am poor, and almost pine 3 Pity me, Lord, for daily thee ΙΟ I call; 4 Oh make rejoice 5 For thou art good; thou, Lord, art prone To pardon; thou to all Art full of mercy, thou alone, To them that on thee call. 6 Unto my supplication, Lord, Give ear, and to the cry 7 I in the day of my distress For thou wilt grant me free access, 8 Like thee among the gods is none, Of all that other gods have done 9 The nations all whom thou hast made To bow them low before thee, Lord, And glorify thy name. IO For great thou art, and wonders great Thou in thy everlasting seat Remainest God alone. II Teach me, O Lord, thy way most right; To fear thy name my heart unite ; So shall it never slide. 12 Thee will I praise, O Lord my God, With my whole heart, and blaze abroad 13 For great thy mercy is toward me, 14 O God, the proud against me rise, To seek my life, and in their eyes No fear of thee have set. 15 But thou, Lord, art the God most mild, Readiest thy grace to shew, Slow to be angry, and art styled Most merciful, most true. 16 Oh turn to me thy face at length, And me have mercy on; Unto thy servant give thy strength, 17 Some sign of good to me afford, And be ashamed, because thou, Lord, PSALM LXXXVII. I AMONG the holy mountains high 2 Sion's fair gates the Lord loves more Of Jacob's land, though there be store, 3 City of God, most glorious things I mention Egypt, where proud kings 4 I mention Babel to my friends, And Tyre, with Ethiop's utmost ends : 5 But twice that praise shall in our ear This and this man was born in her ; 6 The Lord shall write it in a scroll, 7 Both they who sing and they who dance In thee fresh brooks and soft streams glance, 60 10 20 1 Heb.: A man without manly strength. 2 The Hebrew bears both. PSALM LXXXVIII. I LORD GOD, that dost me save and All day to thee I cry, And all night long before thee weep, 2 Into thy presence let my prayer, And to my cries, that ceaseless are, 3 For, cloyed with woes and trouble store, My life, at death's uncheerful door, 4 Reckoned I am with them that pass I am a 1man but weak, alas! And for that name unfit, 5 From life discharged and parted quite And like the slain in bloody fight Whom thou rememberest no more, Them, from thy hand delivered o'er, Where thickest darkness hovers round, 7 Thy wrath, from which no shelter saves, 2 Thou break'st upon me all thy waves, 2 And all thy waves break me. 8 Thou dost my friends from me estrange, And mak'st me odious, IO 20 30 |