A new version of the Psalms of David: together with all the church-hymns, into metre, smooth, plain and easie to the most ordinary capacities: and yet as close to the original languages, and the last and best English translation, as the nature of such a work will well permit. By Simon Ford, D.D. and rector of Old Swinford in Worcestershire.
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A new version of the Psalms of David: together with all the church-hymns, into metre, smooth, plain and easie to the most ordinary capacities: and yet as close to the original languages, and the last and best English translation, as the nature of such a work will well permit. By Simon Ford, D.D. and rector of Old Swinford in Worcestershire.
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London :: printed by J.H. for Brabazon Aylmer, and are to be sold by Sampson Evans bookseller in Worcester,
MDCLXXXVIII. [1688]
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Hymns, English
Bible. -- O.T. -- Paraphrases, English
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"A new version of the Psalms of David: together with all the church-hymns, into metre, smooth, plain and easie to the most ordinary capacities: and yet as close to the original languages, and the last and best English translation, as the nature of such a work will well permit. By Simon Ford, D.D. and rector of Old Swinford in Worcestershire." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A76607.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 26, 2024.
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Part II.
[verse 12] He's blest, whom thy correcting hand,O Lord, doth keep in aw:And causeth him to understandHis duty from thy Law. [verse 13] That by thy grace, in stormy times,His soul a calm may have:Whiles Justice, for his hainous crimes,Doth dig the wicked's grave.
[verse 14] For sure, the Lord will not rejectHis chosen people quite:Th' inheritance he will protect,Which is his own by right. [verse 15] But judgment unto righteousnessShall yet return again:And all that upright hearts possess,Shall follow in its train.
[verse 16] Who will appear my champion whenIll doers me opptess?Or stand with me against the menThat work unrighteousness? [verse 17] Surely, unless the Lord had shewnHimself, my soul to save:
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Ere this time long, it had gone downInto the silent grave.
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