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 10] It's God alone, that doth affordSalvation to the greatest Kings:Who to his servant David bringsDeliv'rance from the hurtfull sword. [verse 11] Rid me, O Lord, and rescue me,From children of a foreign Land;Whose mouth speaks lies, and their right handIs full of fraud, and treachery.
[verse 12] That like to plants in fruitfull, soyl,So flourish may our youthfull Sons:Our Daughters be like corner stones,Carv'd to adorn a princely Pile. [verse 13] That our stuff'd granaries may holdAbundance of all sorts of grain:That in our streets our sheep may ean,And multiply ten thousand fold.
[verse 14] Our Oxen be to labour strong:Our Land invaded by no foe:
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That out of it none captive go;Or in our streets complain of wrong. [verse 15] Happy's the people, that is foundIn such a thriving case as this:Yet, happier far, that people is,Which by the Lord their God is own'd.
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