The Psalms of David in metre Newly translated With amendments. By William Barton, M.A. And sett to the best Psalm-tunes, in two parts, viz treble and bass; with brief instructions for the understanding of the same; together with a table of the Psalms, and names of the tunes to each Psalm. By Thomas Smith. The basses, with the table, are placed at the latter end of the book.

Psalm LXIX. (Book 69)

Bristol Tune.

〈♫〉〈♫〉SAve me, O God, of thy free grace, 〈♫〉〈♫〉for now the bil--lows roul; 〈♫〉〈♫〉And pres-sing on come in a--pace 〈♫〉〈♫〉in---to my ve---ry soul. [verse 2] I sink in deepest mire and mud, where is no standing ground: I am o'rewhelmed with the flood, whose waters do abound. [verse 3] Uncessant crying wear'eth me, my throat is hoarse likewise: While, O my God, I wait for thee with sick and famisht eyes.

[verse 4] And they that hate me causlesly, I reckon to be moe Then are the very hairs (I think) which on my head do grow. And they that would destroy me, Lord, my wrongful foes are they, And mighty, so that I restor'd what I took not away. [verse 5] O God, thou know'st my foolishness, and thou dost fully see: If I have done unright'ousness, it is not hid from thee. [verse 6] Let none that wait upon thy name, Lord God of hosts, I pray, Let none of them be put to shame for my sake any way. [verse 7] Because for thy sake, Lord, alone, I suffer this disgrace: For thy sake, Lord, and not my own, hath shame o'respread my face. [verse 8] A stranger now I am become to brethren of my own: One mother bare us in her womb, yet am I as unknown. [verse 9] For zeal hath quite consumed me, which to thy house I bear: And the reproaches cast at thee, are fall'n to be my share.

The second part.

[verse 10] When I did weep, when I did fast for chast'ning of my soul, That in a scoff at me they cast, and did reproach me foul. [verse 11] I put on sackcloth to my shame, for they my deed condemn: And when I wore it I became a proverb unto them.

[verse 12] They that did sit within the gate, discourst of these as crimes: And drunkards as they quaffing sat, did put me in their rimes. [verse 13] But as for me, O Lord, my pray'r waits the propitious hour: Let me thy bount'ous mercies share, and prove thy saving pow'r. [verse 14] Deliver me out of the mire, and me from sinking keep; From those that do my hurt desire, and from the waters deep. [verse 15] Let not the flood prevail a whit, whose water overflows; Nor deep devour me, nor the pit, her mouth upon me close. [verse 16] Hear me, O Lord, for thou art still both loving, kind and good: Thy tender mercies on me spill, and drown me in that flood. [verse 17] And from thy servant do not hide thy face in this my need: I am opprest on ev'ry side, O hear me, Lord, with speed. [verse 18] Unto my troubled soul draw nigh, redeem and set it free: And from mine en'mies tyranny do thou deliver me. [verse 19] Thou know'st all my reproach and shame, thou seest my great disgrace: Mine en'mies which procure the same are all before thy face.

The third part.

[verse 20] My heart is broke with obloquy, and I am full of grief, I look't for some to pity me, but no man gave relief.

[verse 21] In vain on comforters I think, when gall they gave for meat: And gave me vinegar to drink, when as my thirst was great. [verse 22] O turn their table to a snare: and that which should have been For to have made them well to fare, a trap to take them in. [verse 23] Let darkness be before their eyes. and let them still mistake: Yea and enforce their guilty loins continually to shake. [verse 24] Pour out thine indignation still, with force on them to fall: And let thine anger terrible take hold upon them all. [verse 25] And let their habitation be desolate and waste: And in their empty tents not one inhabitant be plac't. [verse 26] For lo, they persecute him much whom thou hast smote before: And talk unto the grief of such, as thou hast wonnded sore. [verse 27] Add therefore sin unto their sin, and let them still transgress: And let them never enter in into thy right'ousness. [verse 28] O let the book of life be rac't, and thence their names be took, And never with the just be plac't in that most blessed book. [verse 29] But I am poor and full of grief, Lord, to my soul draw nigh: Let thy salvation give relief, and set me up on high.

[verse 30] I will take up a joyful song God's praises to proclaim; Extoll him with a thankful tongue, and magnify his name. [verse 31] And this shall please the Lord likewise, and make a better proof Then ox, or bull in sacrifice, that hath both horn and hoofe [verse 32] Hereat the humble shall be glad, to see it with their eye: And lo your heart that seeks for God, shall live and never die. [verse 33] For lo, the Lord doth hear the cries, which his poor servants make: Those pris'ners he doth not despise that suffer for his sake. [verse 34] Therefore let heaven his praises sing, the earth and all the seas: And also every kind of thing that lives and moves in these. [verse 35] For surely God will Sion save, and Jadah's cities rear: That dwelling houses men may have, and large possessions there; [verse 36] His servants seed (the faithful race) inheriting the same: And it shall be the dwelling-place of them that love his name.