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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 80: PSALM LXXX.
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.
3 Turn us again, and bring us home, And upon us [do thou] vouchsafe, O God, to make thy face to shine, And then we shall [again] be safe.
4 Lord God of Hosts, how long wilt thou Thus in thy [burning] anger smoke? Against thy peoples humble prayer Who do thy [sacred] Name invoke?
4 Lord God of Hosts, how long wilt thou Thus in thy [burning] anger smoak? Against thy peoples humble prayer Who do thy [sacred] Name invoke?
5 Instead of bread, tears are their food, [Which now] thou givest them to eat; And tears thou givest them to drink, And that in measure [very] great.
6 Thou makest us a strife unto Our [envious] neighbours round about; Our enemies among themselves At us do [daily] laugh and flout.