The whole book of Psalms collected into English metre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others ; conferred with the Hebrew ; set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches ...

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Title: The whole book of Psalms collected into English metre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others ; conferred with the Hebrew ; set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches ...
Author: Sternhold, Thomas, d. 1549.
Publication: [Cambridge, England] :: Printed by John Field ...,; 1666.
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Subject terms: Bible. -- O.T. -- Psalms -- Paraphrases, English.; Psalters.
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BETH. The second part.

 [verse 9]  By what means may a young man best
his life learn to amend?
If that he mark and keep thy word,
and therein his time spend.
 [verse 10]  Unfeignedly I have thee sought,
and thus seeking abide:
O never suffer me, O Lord,
from thy precepts to slide.

 [verse 11]  Within my heart and secret thoughts
thy words I have hid still:
That I might not at any time
offend thy godly will.
 [verse 12]  We magnify thy Name, O Lord,
and praise thee evermore:
Thy statutes of most worthy fame,
O Lord, teach me therefore.

 [verse 13]  My lips have never ceast to preach,
and publish day and night
The judgements all which did proceed
from thy mouth full of might.
 [verse 14]  Thy testimonies and thy ways
please me no less indeed
Then all the treasures of the earth,
which worldlings make their meed.

 [verse 15]  Of thy precepts I will still muse,
and thereto frame my talk:
As at a mark, so will I aim
thy ways how I may walk.
 [verse 16]  My onely joy shall be so fixt,
and on thy laws so set:
That nothing can me so far blinde,
that I thy words forget.