PSAL. XCII.
TO give thankes to the Lord it is a good and comely thing;
And to thy Name, O thou most High,
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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"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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due praise aloud to sing.
[verse 2] Thy loving kindnesse forth to shew, when first appeares the light;
And to declare thy faithfulnesse, with pleasure every night.
[verse 3] On a ten-stringed Instrument, and on the Psaltery;
With solemne sound upon the Harp, and grave sweet melody.
[verse 4] For through thy work, Lord, thou hast made my soule right glad to be;
And in the workes I will triumph which have been wrought by thee.
[verse 5] O Lord, how glorious and how great the works are of thy hand!
So deep thy thoughts and counsells are, none can them understand.
[verse 6] The brutish man is far unfit thy secrets to receive;
Nor can in this the foolish man thy wisdome well perceive.
[verse 7] That when, like grasse, the wicked spring, and sinners flourish all;
It is that they for ever may into destruction fall.
[verse 8] But thou, O Lord, who dost them judge, for ever dost remaine;
And thou most high above thy foes for evermore shalt raigne.
[verse 9] For lo, thine enemies, O Lord, thine enemies perish shall:
The workers of iniquity
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they shall be scattered all.
[verse 10] But like unto the Unicornes horne, my horne lift up thou shalt;
And me anointed with fresh oile, to glory wilt exalt.
[verse 11] Mine eie shall also see the fall due to mine enemies;
I of those sinners fall shall heare, that do against me rise.
[verse 12] But, like a Palm-tree, fresh & green, the righteous flourish shall:
Increasing, as in Lebanon, doth grow the Cedar tall.
[verse 13] Those that within the house of God are planted by his grace;
In our Gods courts they flourish shall, as in a fruitfull place.
[verse 14] And in old age, when others quaile, the fruit still forth shall bring;
And watered from above they shall be fat and flourishing.
[verse 15] To shew that righteous is the Lord, who doth the righteous blesse:
He is my rock and strength, in him is no unrighteousnesse.