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.

Part II.

[verse 13] Sith things go thus, I once did say, My heart I've cleans'd in vain: And from my hands have washt away Ev'ry unrighteous stain. [verse 14] For I, as long as day did last, God's heavy strokes did bear: Each morning under lash I past, When he did others spare.

[verse 15] But soon the words I did revoke, Which hasty passion bred: Because they laid a stumbling block Before thy righteous seed. [verse 16] But yet, the more this knotty case My reason did revolve: The more I found, too hard it was, For reason to resolve.

[verse 17] Till I in th' holy place of God For counsel did attend: And there inform'd, I understood The wicked's fearfull end. [verse 18] That, set by thee in lofty place, But slippery withall; From thence, deserted by thy grace, They caught a deadly fall. [verse 19]

How have I seen them swept away By death, as quick as thought? With dreadfull circumstances, they Were to destruction brought. [verse 20] Ev'n as a dream despised is, When men from sleep arise: So when thou wak'st, their painted bliss O Lord, thou shalt despise.