The Book of Psalms in metre close and proper to the Hebrew, smooth and pleasant for the metre, plain and easie for the tunes : with musical notes, arguments, annotations, and index : fitted for the ready use and understanding of all good Christians.

3. Part.

Argument.

The extreme malice of the wicked, adding af∣fliction to the afflicted. Reprobates are bitterly and eternally cursed.

[verse 20] REproach my heart hath overcome,* 1.1 And sorrow fill'd my soul: I lookt for pitie shew'd by some, But no man did condole. I look'd, but found no comforter. [verse 21] For meat they gave me gall:

For drink they gave mee Vineger To quench my thirst withall. [verse 22] O let their table prove a snare, And whatsoere might hap For to have made them well to fare,* 1.2 Let it become a trap. [verse 23] Upon their eyes let darkness fall Their loyns let always shake: [verse 24] Yea, let them Lord, yea let them all Of thy fierce wrath partake. Take hold of his ungodly race, With wrath that ne'r relents: [verse 25] Make desolate their dwelling place, Let none dwell in their tents, [verse 26] For where men bear thy heavie blows They persecute the more: And talk unto the grief of those Whom thou hast wounded sore. [verse 27] Bring all their sinnes into a summe,* 1.3 Heap'd up in great excess: And let them never never come Into thy righteousness. [verse 28] Out of the book of life, O blot Their most detested name: And with the righteous let them not Be written in the same.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Meditate of Christs suf∣ferings.
• * 1.2

  Smite them with the worst disea∣ses, as blind∣ness, pal∣sie, &c.
• * 1.3

  Let them in∣crease sinne, but never get pardon.