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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 81: PSALM LXXXI.
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 that my people had received My [Word and] Law which I thus made, And Israel had walked in My [righteous] Laws, and me obeyed.
13 O that my people had receiv'd My [Word and] Law which I thus made, And Israel had walked in My [righteous] Laws, and me obey'd.
14 I should then quickly have subdued [To them] their feared enemies, And turned my hand against all those That did [as foes] against them rise.
14 I should then quickly have subdu'd [To them] their feared enemies, And turn'd my hand against all those That did [as foes] against them rise.
15 The haters of the Lord to him Should have submission [made or] feigned; But as for them, their prosperous time Should [surely] ever have remained.
15 The haters of the Lord to him Should have submission [made or] feign'd; But as for them, their prosp'rous time Should [surely] ever have remain'd.