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...
Author
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.
Psalters.
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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 second part.
[verse 10] But yet my people now give eare, to thee I testifie: O Israel, if thou wilt me heare, and serve obediently: [verse 11] Then know that surely I in thee will no strange God allow; And no strange god shall worship't be; to such thou shalt not bow.
[verse 12] For I the Lord thy God am he, who thee from Egypt led: Thy mouth then open wide to me, and full thou shalt be fed. [verse 13] But though that I did Israel chuse my people for to be; To heare my voice he did refuse, and he would none of me.
[verse 14] Then did I give them up in wrath by their lust to be led; And so in their owne counsells path they vainly wandered. [verse 15] O that my people would me heare, and carefully obey! And O that Israel would me feare, and walk still in my way▪

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[verse 16] How soon would I confound their foes, and bring them down full low; And turn my hand upon all those that would them overthrow? [verse 17] The haters of the Lord to him themselves down low should cast; But my beloved peoples time still flourishing should last.
[verse 18] I would have sed them with the crop of finest of the wheat; And made the rock with hony drop, that they their fills should eat.
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