Six centuries of select hymns and spiritual songs collected out of the Holy Bible together with a catechism, the canticles, and a catalogue of vertuous women / by William Barton.

Psalm 119. v. 153, to 160. (20. PART.)

The unworthiness of the wicked counterpoised.

THINK how I am beset, and, Lord, deliver me: For I do not forget the word ordain'd by thee. plead for me, Lord, And set me free, and quicken me by thy good word.

Thy saving health is far from all ungodly men, For what thy Statutes are is not sought out by them: thy mercies kind Are great, O Lord, O let thy word cheer up my mind.

Many, O Lord, are those, (for they are not a few) That are my utter foes, and do my soul pursue with ill intents, Yet do not I decline from thy Commandements.

Transgressors of thy laws I saw, and seeing wept, For I was griev'd, thy word they have not kept: consider, Lord, The love sincere which I do bear unto thy word.

Lord quicken me anew by thy kind love restor'd, Because thy word is true from the beginning, Lord; it faileth never: And every clause of thy just laws, abide for ever.