Part XIX.
[verse 145] With all my heart I cry'd aloud,
Lord, hearken to my cry:
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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- MDCLXXXVIII. [1688]
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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 June 17, 2024.
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And from due sense of gratitude,
Thy Statutes keep will I.
[verse 146] O save thou me, I crying said,
Out of my dangers deep:
Then will I, rescu'd by thy aid,
Thy testimonies keep.
[verse 147] With early pray'rs, I did prevent
The dawning of the day:
Which, whiles I did to thee present,
Thy word my hopes did stay.
[verse 148] To me, the nights last watch seem'd late,
Sleep, earlier left mine eyes:
I, on thy word to meditate
Before 'twas set, did rise.
[verse 149] O let thy tender mercy move
Thee, Lord, to hear my voice:
Judg thou my cause, and in thy love,
My drooping soul rejoyce.
[verse 150] Near me, upon a bad design,
My persecutour draw:
But in so doing, they decline
The farther from thy Law.
[verse 151] And thou too, Lord, art near at hand,
To save, whom they wou'd kill:
And, doing what thou dost command,
Thy truth shall keep me still.
[verse 152] Thy testimonies known to me
Have been for time long past:
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And founded, as they are, by thee,
I know, they still shall last.