The choice and flower of the old Psalms collected by Iohn Hopkins and others and now revised and amended by William Barton ...

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Title: The choice and flower of the old Psalms collected by Iohn Hopkins and others and now revised and amended by William Barton ...
Author: Barton, William, 1598?-1678.
Publication: London :: Printed by G. Miller and are to be sold (alone or together with the new) by S. Gillibrand ..., I. Kirton ..., Tho. Underhill ..., and Stephen Bowtell ...,; 1645.
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Subject terms: Bible. -- O.T. -- Psalms -- Paraphrases.
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MY soul praise thou the Lord alwaies, his praise will I declare:

While breath and life prolong my daies, my tongue shall never spare.

Trust not in worldly Princes then, though they abound in wealth: Nor in the sons of mortall men, in whom there is no health.

For why? their breath doth soon depart, they fall to earth anon; And then the counsels of their heart, doe perish, every one.

O happy is that man, I say,

whom Jacobs God doth aid;
And he, whose hope doth not decay,
but on the Lord is staid.

Which made the earth and waters deep, the heavens high withall: Which doth his word and promise keep, and so for ever shall.

With right alwayes doth he proceed, for such as suffer wrong: The poor and hungry he doth feed, and loose the fetters strong.

¶The Lord doth send the blinde their sight, the lame to limbs restore: The Lord doth in his Saints delight, and loves them evermore.

He helps the widow in distresse, and stranger sad in heart: He doth defend the fatherlesse, and ill mens waies subvert.

The Lord thy God, O Sion hill, shall reign eternally, From age to age, for ever still, O praise the Lord most high.