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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 79: PSALM LXXIX.
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.
2 The bodies of thy servants they [Cast forth] have given to be meat For ravenous fowls, and thy Saints flesh Unto the beasts [of th' earth] to eat.
3 Their blood about Jerusalem Like [common] water they have shed, And there was none to bury them, When they [by them] were cast out dead.
4 To all our neighbours that hear this, A [jest and] mere reproach are we; ⟨p. 133⟩A s•orn and mocking-stock to those That [dwelling] round about us be.
4 To all our neighbours that hear this, A [jeast and] meer reproach are we; ⟨p. 133⟩A s•orn and mocking-stock to those That [dwelling] round about us be.