The Psalms of David set forth in English meeter set forth by Francis Rous...

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Title: The Psalms of David set forth in English meeter set forth by Francis Rous...
Author: Rous, Francis, 1579-1659.
Publication: London :: Printed by James Young for Phillip Nevill ...,; 1643.
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PSAL. LXXXVIII.

O Lord, who of salvation art God alone to me;
My cry and supplication are day and night to thee.
 [verse 2]  O let my praiers soon ascend unto thy sight on hye;
Incline thine eare (O Lord) intend and hearken to my cry.

 [verse 3]  Because my soul with grieses is fill'd, which her so trouble I have;
That now my life doth faint and yeeld and drawes nigh to the grave.
 [verse 4]  I counted am as one of them that to the pit descend;
As a weak man they me esteem, that hath nor strength nor friend.

 [verse 5]  As one among the dead, and free from things that here remaine;
In this estate I seem to be, like those which have been slaine.
 [verse 6] 

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Like slaughtred men in grave that lay, whom now thou hast forgot; Which by thy hand are cut away, and thou remembrest not.

 [verse 7]  Even in the lowest pit by thee I have been laid and cast;
In darknesse where I could not see, in deeps I have been plac't.
 [verse 8]  Thy wrath, that heavily doth fall, upon me hard doth lye;
Thou with thy waves and billowes all dost vex me grievously.

 [verse 9]  My friends put far from me thou hast, to them I loathsome grow:
I am shut up in griefe so fast, that forth I cannot go.
 [verse 10]  Mine eye, O Lord, doth mou•…•…e for griefe, I daily call on thee;
And unto thee for some reliefe my hands out-stretched be.

The second part.

 [verse 11]  O wilt thou make thy works appear, and wonders to the dead?
Or shall the dead arise, and here thy glorious praises spread?
Or shall thy loving graciousnesse be mention'd in the grave?
 [verse 12]  Or speech of thy great faithfulnesse shall men destroyed have?

[verse 13] Who shall thy wonders great express in darknesse deep below? In the land of forgetfulnesse

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who shall thy justice know?
 [verse 14]  But, gracious Lord, to thee my cries I vehemently have sent;
And early, ere the morning rise, my praiers shall thee prevent.

 [verse 15]  Why dost thou Lord, most great in grace, cast off my soule from thee?
And why thy favour and thy face dost thou thus hide from me?
 [verse 16]  Afflicted from my youth am I, and ready oft to dye:
Thy terrours that on me do lie, distract me fearfully.

 [verse 17]  The fiercenesse of thy furiouswrath quite over me hath gone:
The sharpnesse of thy terrours hath me cut off, and undone.
 [verse 18]  And round about me every day like waters come they be;
Even so together gathering, they about do compasse me.

[verse 19] My friend, and him that did me love, thou dost put far from me: To darknesse thou dost those remove that mine acquaintance be.