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BLest be the Lord my strength, that doth instruct mine •…•…nds to fight:
The Psalms of David set forth in English meeter set forth by Francis Rous...
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- The Psalms of David set forth in English meeter set forth by Francis Rous...
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- Rous, Francis, 1579-1659.
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- London :: Printed by James Young for Phillip Nevill ...,
- 1643.
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- Bible. -- O.T. -- Psalms -- Paraphrases, English.
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"The Psalms of David set forth in English meeter set forth by Francis Rous..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A27786.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.
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The Lord that doth my fingers frame to battell by his might.
[verse 2] My goodnesse, fort, deliverer, my tower, and shield is he;
In him I trust, who doth subdue my people under me.
[verse 3] Lord, what is man, that thou of him dost so much knowledge take?
Or son of man, that thou of him so great account dost make?
[verse 4] Man is like vanity, his daies away like shadowes flie:
[verse 5] Lord, bow the heavens, and come down with power and majestie.
[verse 6] The mountaines touch, and they shall smoak, cast forth thy lightning flame,
And scatter them; thine arrowes shoot, consume them with the same.
[verse 7] Send down thine hand from heav'n a∣bove, O Lord, deliver me;
And take me from the waters great, from strangers hand me free.
[verse 8] Whose mouth of crafty vanity doth foolishly intreat;
And their right hand is a right hand of falshood and deceit.
[verse 9] I a new song will sing to thee, and on the Psaltery;
And a ten-stringed Instrument to thee sing praise will I.
[verse 10] Ev'n to the Lord, for he it is to Kings that safety sends:
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His servant David be alone from hurtfull sword defends.
[verse 11] From strangers hand me save and shield, whose mouth talkes vanity;
And their right hand is a right hand of guile and subtilty.
[verse 12] That as the plants our sons may be, whom growing youth doth reare;
Our daughters as car•…•…'d corner stones, like to a palace faire.
[verse 13] That yeelding forth all kinds of store, our gathers full may be;
Our sheep bring thousands, in our streets we may ten thousands see.
[verse 14] Our Oxen be to labour strong, that none do us invade;
There be no going out, no cries within our streets be made.
[verse 15] Happy that people are, which be in such a case as this;
Happy that people are, whose God the Lord Almighty is.