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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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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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A97379.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.

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O God, the Gentiles do invade thine heritage to spoil: Jerusalem an heap is made, thy temple they defile. [verse 2] The bodies of thy saints most dear abroad to birds they cast: The flesh of them that do thee fear, the beasts devour and waste.
[verse 3] Their bloud throughout Jerusalem as water spilt they have: So that there is not one of them to lay their dead in grave. [verse 4] Thus are we made a laughing-stock almost the world throughout: The enemies at us jest and mock which dwell our coasts about.
[verse 5] Wilt thou, O Lord, thus in thine ire against us ever fume, And shew thy wrath as hot as fire, thy folk for to consume? [verse 6] Upon those people pour the same, which did thee never know: All realms which call not on thy Name, consume and overthrow.
[verse 7] For they have got the upper hand, and Jacobs seed destroy'd: His habitation and his land they have left waste and void. [verse 8] Bear not in minde our former faults, with speed some pity show: And aid us, Lord, in all assaults, for we are weak and low,
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