The Psalter of David with titles and collects according to the matter of each psalm.

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Title: The Psalter of David with titles and collects according to the matter of each psalm.
Publication: Oxford :: Printed by Leonard Lichfield ...,; 1644.
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PSALME 137. (Book 137)

A Prayer for redemption of the Church from captivity and persecution.

BY the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept: when we remembred (thee) O Sion.

2 As for our harpes, we hanged them up: upon the trees that are therein.

3 For they that led us away captiue, requi∣red of us then a song and melody in our heavi∣nesse: sing us one of the songs of Sion.

4 How shall we sing the Lords song: in a strange land?

5 If I forget thee, O Ierusalem: let my right hand forget her cunning.

6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roofe of my mouth: yea, if I preferrs not Ierusalem in my mirth.

7 Remember the children of Edom, O Lord, in the day of Ierusalem: how they said, Down with it, down with it, even to the ground.

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8 O daughter of Babylon, wasted with mi∣sery: yea, happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

9 Blessed shall he be that taketh thy children: and throweth them against the stones.

The Prayer.

O Lord our God, thou hast placed us in this world like pilgrims and strangers farre from our Countrey, farre from rest; give us soules and desires so abstract, so religious and contempla∣tive, that all our hopes, our joyes, and longings may be to enjoy thee and thy glories in the cele∣stiall Ierusalem: and let thy comforts refresh us in this our captivity and exile, that in our heavi∣nesse thou maist be our joy, our songs and melody may be the songs of Sion, the prayers of thy Name, that when thou hast delivered us from the wrath and malice of our enemies, and dashed all their wickednesse (which they have conceived and would bring forth to our destruction) against the Rocke Christ Iesus, we may be blessed a∣mongst thy children, and be carried into our Coun∣trey the Land of glorious promises, there to reigne with thee, who livest and governest all things, world without end. Amen.