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Christian meditations upon eight Psalms of the prophet David. Made and newly set forthChristian meditations vpon eight Psalmes of the prophet Dauid. Made and newly set forth
Christian meditations upon eight Psalms of the prophet David. Made and newly set forth by Theodore Beza. Translated out of French, for the common benefit, into the vulgar tongue by I.S.Christian meditations vpon eight Psalmes of the prophet Dauid. Made and newly set forth by Theodore Beza. Translated out of French, for the common benefite, into the vulgare tongue by I.S.
Imprinted at London : In Bacon house, by Christopher Barker, printer to the Queens most excellent Majesty, 1582Imprinted at London : In Bacon house, by Christopher Barker, printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie, 1582
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
13 O my God, thou seest, alas, my piteous estate: mine enemies and thine pursue me for life, which already lieth as is were in the dust, at their mercy: I am even now in the darkness of death, yea I am as a Carrion long since dead and stinking.
13 O my God, thou seest, alas, my piteous estate: myne enemyes and thyne pursue me for life, which already lyeth as is were in the dust, at their mercy: I am euen nowe in the darkenes of death, yea I am as a Carion long since dead and stinking.
- 13 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul: he hath smitten my life down to the earth: he hath laid me in the darkness, as they that have been dead long ago:3 For the enemie hath persecuted my soule: hee hath smitten my life downe to the earth: he hath layde me in the darkenes, as they that haue bene dead long ago:
4 Alas, my spirit is so perplexed, that it cannot resolve nor wind it self out.1 Both understanding and hart are quite lost within me: whereupon I bethought me of so many ancient testimonies and experiments which I have had of thy benignity and favour from mine infancy, and I staid my self upon consideration of the high works of thy hands, even true evidences of thine infinite wisdom and bounty together, towards the very least of thy creatures: and namely I beheld ⟨image 58⟩in my spirit thine high acts on behalf of thy well-beloved,2 things verily passing all wonder.