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 ...

THou, Lord, hast been our sure defence, our place of ease and rest In all times past, yea so long since as cannot be exprest. [verse 2] Ere there was made mountain or h••••l the earth and world abroad: From age to age, and always still for ever thou art God.

[verse 3] Thou grindest man through grief and pain to dust or clay, and then,

And then thou say'st again, Return again ye sons of men. [verse 4] The lasting of a thousand years, what is it in thy sight? As yesterday it doth appear, or as a watch by night.

[verse 5] So soon as thou dost scatter them, then is their life and trade All as asleep, and like the grass whose beauty soon doth fade: [verse 6] Which in y^e morning shines full bright, but fadeth by and by: And is cut down ere it be night, all with'red, dead, and dry.

[verse 7] For through thine anger we consume, our might is much decay'd: And of thy fervent wrath and sume we are full sore afraid. [verse 8] The wicked works that we have wrought thou sett'st before thine eye: Our privy faults, yea, eke our thoughts thy countenance doth spie.

[verse 9] For through thy wrath our days do waste, thereof doth nought remain: Our year•• consume as words or blasts, and are not call'd again. [verse 10] Our time is threescore years and ten that we do live on mold: If one see fourscore, surely then we count him wondrous old.