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Mr. Richard Baxter's paraphrase on the Psalms of David in metre with other hymns…
Mr. Richard Baxter's paraphrase on the Psalms of David in metre with other hymns / left fitted for the press by his own hand.
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1692
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Mr. Baxter's PARAPHRASE ON THE PSALMS. › Psalm 74: PSALM LXXIV.
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.
1 O God, why hast thou cast us off? Shall it be [thus for] evermore? Against thy pasture-sheep why doth Thy [heavy] anger smoke so sore?
1 O God, why hast thou cast us off? Shall it be [thus for] evermore? Against thy pasture-sheep why doth Thy [heavy] anger smoak so sore?
2 Think on thine ancient flock, which thou Hast purchased for thy [chosen] lot, Mount Zion, where thou dwelled'st so long, [By thee] redeemed, forsake thou not.
2 Think on thine ancient flock, which thou Hast purchas'd for thy [chosen] lot, Mount Sion, where thou dwelled'st so long, [By thee] redeem'd, forsake thou not.
3 The desolations long repair, Arise, and do not [longer] tarry, All that thy wicked foes have done Within thy [chosen] sanctuary.