The Psalms of David in meeter with the prose interlined / by Mr. Zachary Boyd ...

CHAPTER II.

HOw hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beautie of Israel,

HOw Zions daughter hath the Lord cov'rd with a cloud in wrath? And unto earth from heav'n cast down Israels beauty hath?

And remembred not his footstool in the day of his anger▪

2 The Lord swallowed up the habitations of Iacob:

And in the day of's wrath did not to minde his footstool call? 2 The Lord the habitations hath of Jacob swallow'd all,

And hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Iudah:

And he them hath not pitied: he in his wrath so sad Thrown down by force hath the strong holds that Judahs daughter had:

He hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdome and the princes thereof.

He by his might unto the ground hath made them all to fall: The kingdom he polluted hath, and Princes thereof all,

3 He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemie,

3 Of Isra'l all the horn cut off in his fierce wrath hath he, He hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemie:

And he burned against Iacob like a flaming fire which devoureth round about.

4 He hath bent his bow like an enemie:

'Gainst Jacob he like flaming fire did burn which wasts about: 4 He hath his bow bent, like unto an enemy most stout.

He stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye, in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion:

As an adversarie he stood, what pleasant was to th'eye With his right hand within the tent of Zion all slew he:

He poured out his furie like fire.

5 The Lord was as an enemie: he hath

swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces:

His fury he powr'd out like fire, 5 God was as enemy: He swallow'd Isra'l, he devour'd he palaces so hy:

He hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Iudah mourning and lamentation.

His strong holds he destroyed hath, and hath increasde anone In Judahs daughter mourning great, and lamentation.

6 And he hatth violently taken away his ta∣bernacle, as if it were of a garden, he hath de∣stroyed his places of the assembly:

5 He violently remov'd his tent, as't of a garden were, He of th'assembly hath destroyd the places that are there:

The Lord hath caused the solemne feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath de∣spised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

God causd in Zion solemn feasts and sabbaths be forgot, In his wraths indignation he King, Priest, regarded not.

7 The Lord hath cast off his alter: he hath abhorred his sanctuarie: he hath given up in∣to the hand of the enemie the walls of her pa∣laces;

7 The Lord his altar hath cast off, and loth'd his Sanctuary: Her palace wals he in the hand gave of the enemy,

They have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as in the day of a solemn feast.

Within the house that is the Lords a noise als made have they, As if it for a solemn feast had been a joyfull day.

8 The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; he hath stretched out a line: he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying:

8 The Lord hath purposd to destroy his Zions daughters wall He stretch'd a line, he not withdrew his hand from wasting all.

Therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament, they languished together.

9 Her ga•…•…es are sunk into the ground;

Therefore he made the rampart so and wall for to lament; They languished together then; 9 Her gates to ground they went▪

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He hath destroyed and broken her bars; her king and her princes are among the Gentiles; the law is no more,

He hath destroyd, and broke her bars, her King and Princes thus, Among the Gentiles scattered are, the law no more's for us.

Her prophets also finde no vision from the LORD.

10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground and keep silence:

Her Prophets also from the Lord at all no vision found, 10 Of Zions daughter th'elders als sit silent on the ground;

They have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth▪

In this their grief they have cast up the dust their heads upon, And they themselves have also girt with sackcloth evry one;

The virgins of Ierusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

11 Mine eyes do fail with tears; my bowels are troubled;

And Salems virgins hang their heads down to the ground right farre,

11 Mine eyes they now do fail with tears: my bowels troubled are,

My liver is poured upon the earth, for the de∣struction of the daughter of my people, because •…•…e children and the sucklings swoon in the •…•…reets of the city.

•…•…ly liver is powr'd on the earth for the destruction Of people mine, because in streets young children sucklings swoon.

12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn •…•…nd wine? when they swooned as the wounded in •…•…e streets of the city,

12 They to their mothers said, Where is corn, wine for to be found? When as within the cities streets as wounded men they swoon'd,

When their soul was poured out into their mothers bosome.

•…•…v'n at the same time when their soul the city all throughout •…•…to their mothers bosome was with sorrow powred out.

13 What thing shall I take to witnesse for •…•…ce? what thing shall I liken to thee? O •…•…ughter of Ierusalem?

13 What thing for thee to witnesse now shall taken be by me? O Salems daughter what shall I now liken unto thee?

What shall I equall to thee, that I may com∣fort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for breach is great like the sea;

O Virgin Zions daughter dear that I may comfort thee, What shall I equall thee unto? thy breach great's like the sea.

Who can heal thee?

14 Thy prophets have seen vain and fo•…•… things for thee,

Who is he that well can thee heal? 14 Thy prophets they have seen Such things for thee as meerly vain and foolish als have been,

And they have not discovered thiue iniqui•…•… •…•…urn away thy captivity; but have seen for false burdens, and causes of banishment.

Thy sin they not discovered, thy thrall to turn away But burdens false, of banishment the causes seen have they.

15 All that passe by, clap their han•…•… thee; they hisse and wag their head at the d•…•…∣ter of Ierusalem, saying, Is this the city,

15 All that passe by clap hands at thee they hisse and wag their head At Salems daughter, saying thus, is this the town indeed,

That men call the perfection of beautie, the joy of the whole earth?

16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hisse and gnash the teeth:

That men beauties perfection call of the whole earth the joy, 16 'Gainst thee thy foes their mouth make wide, hisse, gnash their teeth do they:

They say, We have swallowed her up: certain∣ly this is the day that we looked for: we have found, we have seen it.

They say we have her swallow'd up this surely is the day We looked for; we have it found, we have it seen alway.

17 The Lord hath done that which he had devised: he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the dayes of old:

17 The Lord hath done what he devisd, fulfill'd he hath by sword, That in the dayes that were of old he did command by word.

He hath thrown down, and hath not pitied and he hath caused thine enemies to rejoice ove•…•… thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversarie•…•…

He down did throw and piti'd not, he causd thine enemies To joy ov'r thee, the horn he raisd of thine adversaries.

18 Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wa•…•… of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down lik•…•… a river day and night:

18 Their heart did cry unto the Lord, O Zions daughters wall, Let tears down still both day and night ev'n like a river fall.

Give thy self no rest, let not the apple o•…•… thine eyes cease.

19 Arise, cry out in the night:

Give to thy self no rest, let not cease th'apple of thine eye 19 Do thou arise, and in the night cease thou not out to cry:

In the beginning of the watches powre o•…•… thine heart like water before the face of the Lord

See that in the beginning of the watches thou powre out Thine heart before the face of God, like water round about.

Lift up thy hands towards him, for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

Thy hand to him lift for the life of thy young children all: That in the top of every street for hunger fainting fall.

20 Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom thou hast done this: shall the women eat their •…•…uit, and children of a span long?

•…•…o Lo▪ Lord, consider to whom thou hast done this us among: O shall the women eat their fruit and babes of a span long?

Shall the Priest and the Prophet be slain in •…•…e sanctuary of the Lord.

21 The young and the old lie on the ground 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the streets:

•…•…hall Priest and Prophet thus be slain in Gods own Sanctuary? 21 The young and old both on the ground within the streets do ly:

My virgins and my young men are fallen by •…•…e sword: thou hast slain them in the day of •…•…y anger, thou hast killed and not pitied.

•…•…ly Virgins, young men fell by sword, thou hast them slain at last, •…•…v'n in the day of thy fierce wrath thou kill'd, not piti'd hast.

22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrours round about, so that in the day of the Lords anger none escaped

22 Thou hast as in a solemn day my terrours round about Call'd so, that in Gods day of wrath none hath escaped out,

Nor remained: those that I have swadled and brought up, hath mine enemy consumed.

Nor yet remained hath alive. those that I swadled have, And als brought up, mine enemy consum'd hath in the grave.