Scarce to be lefs than Gods thou ma'ft his lot,

With honour and with ftate thou haft him crown'd.

O'er the works of thy hand thou mad'ft him Lord,
Thou haft put all under his Lordly feet,
All flocks and herds, by thy commanding word,
All beafts, that in the field or foreft meet,
forest meet,

Fowl of the Heav'ns, and Fifh, that through the wet
Sea paths in fhoals do flide, and know no dearth.

O Jehovah our Lord! how wondrous gr. at

And glorious is thy name through all the Earth!

April, 1648. J. M.

Nine of the Pfalms done into Metre, wherein all, but what is in a different Character, are the very Words of the Text, tranflated from the Original.

I

PSALM LXXX.

THOU, Shepherd, that dost Israel keep,

Give ear in time of need,

Who leadeft like a flock of fheep
Thy loved Jofeph's feed,

That fit'ft between the Cherubs bright,
Between their wings out-spread, k
Shine forth, and from thy cloud give light
And on our foes thy dread.

2 In Ephraim's view and Benjamin's
And in Manaffe's fight,

Awake thy ftrength, come, and be seen
To fave us by thy might.

3 Turn us again, thy grace divine
To us, O God, vouchsafe;

Caufe thou thy face on us to fhine,
And then we shall be safe.

4

Lord God of hofts, how long wilt thou,

How long wilt thou declare

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Thy fmoaking wrath, and angry vow

Against thy Peoples prayer!

Thou feed'ft them with the bread of tears,
Their bread with tears they eat,

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*Gnorera

* Gnafhanta

And

And mak'ft them largely drink the tears

Wherewith their cheeks are wet.

6 A ftrife thou mak'ft us, and a prey
To every neighbour foe,
Among themfelves they laugh, they
And flouts at us they throw.
7 Return-us, and thy grace divine,
O God of Hofts, vouchsafe;
Caufe thou thy face on us to thine,
And then we fhall be fafe.

8 A Vine from Egypt thou haft brought
Thy free love made it thine;

And drov'ft out Nitions proud and haunt,
To plant this lovely Vine.
9 Thou did't prepare for it a place,
And root it deep and faft,
That it began to grow apace,

And fill'd the Land at last.

play,

10 With her green fhade, that cover'd all,
The Hills were over-fpread,
Her Boughs as high as Cedars tall
Advanc'd their lofty Head.
11 Her branches on the western fide
Down to the Sea fhe fent,
And upward to that River wide

Her other branches went.

12 Why haft thou laid her hedges low,
And broken down her Fence,

That all may pluck her, as they go
With rudeft violence?

13 The tufked Boar out of the Wood

Up turns it by the roots,

Wild beafts there brouze and make their food

Her grapes and tender shoots.

14 Return now, God of Hofts, look down

From Heav'n, thy Seat divine,

Behold us, but without a frown,

And vifit this thy Vine.

15 Vifit

15 Vifit this Vine, which thy right hand:
Hath fet, and planted lung,

And the young branch, that for thy felf
Thou haft made firm and ftrong.
16 But now it is confum'd with fire,
And cut with axes down,
They perish at thy dreadful ire,
At thy rebuke and frown.
17 Upon the Man of thy right hand
Let thy good hand be laid;
Upon the Son of Man whom thou
Strong for thy felf hast made.

18 So fhall we not go back from thee
To ways of fin and fhame;
Quick'n us thou, then gladly we
Shall call upon thy Name.
19 Return us, and thy grace divine,
Lord God of Hofts, vouchsafe;
Caufe thou thy face on us to fhine,
And then we fhall be fafe.

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PSALM LXXXI.

Tsing loud to othe

O God, our ftrength, fing loud, and clear,

To Jacob's God, that all may bear,

Loud acclamations ring.

2 Prepare a Hymn, prepare a Song,
The Timbrel hither bring;
The cheerful Pfaltry bring along,
And Harp with pleafant firing.
3 Blow, as is wont, in the new Moon
With Trumpets lofty found,

Th' appointed time, the day whereon
Our folemn Feaft comes round.
4 This was a Statute giv'n of old
For Ifrael to observe,

A Law of Jacob's God, to hold,

From whence they might not fwerve. 5 This he a Teftimony ordain'd In Jofeph, not to change,

When as he pafs'd through Egypt's Land,
The Ton ue I heard was strange.
6 From buren, and from flavish toil,
I fet his fhoulder free:

His hands from pots, and mirie foil,
Deliver'd were by me.

7 When trouble did thee fore affail, ́

On me then didft thou call,

And I to free thee did not fail,

And led thee out of thrall.

I anfwer'd thee in

Thunder deep

Be Sether ragnats.

With clouds encompaís'd round;

I try'd thee at the water fleep

Of Meriba renown'd.

8 Hear,