The Psalms of David set forth in English meeter set forth by Francis Rous...
Rous, Francis, 1579-1659.
O Blesse and praise the Lord, my soul, and to him thankfull be:
Yea, blessed be his holy Name by all that is in me.
[verse 2] Give thanks to God for all his gifts, shew not thy selfe unkind;
And suffer not his benefits to slip out of thy mind.
[verse 3] That gave thee pardon for thy faults, and thee restor'd againe:
For all thy weak and fraile disease, and heal'd thee of thy paine.
[verse 4] That did redeem thy life from death, from which thou couldst not flee;
His mercy and compassion both he did extend to thee.
[verse 5] Who with good things most liberally doth satisfie thy mouth:
That, like the E•…gles, now agame rerewed is thy youth.
[verse 6] The Lord doth justice execute for those that are opprest;
So that their sufferings and their wrongs are turned to the best.
[verse 7] His waies and his commandments just to Moses he did show:
His counsell and his valiant acts the Israelites did know.
[verse 8] Page 209
The Lord is kind and mercifull, when sinners do him grieve;
And he is very slow to wrath, and ready to forgive.
[verse 9] He chides not us continually, though we be full of strife;
Nor keeps our faults in memory, for all our sinfull life.
[verse 10] Nor yet according to our sins the Lord doth us regard;
After our great iniquities he doth us not reward.
[verse 11] For as the heaven in his height, the earth surmoun•…eth far•…e;
So high to those that do him feare his tender mercies are.
[verse 12] God doth remove our sins from us, and our offences all;
As far as is the rising Sun full distant from his fall.
