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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 129: PSALM CXXIX.
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.
4 But God is just, and me preserved, Their strongest cords he [always] brake.
4 But God is just, and me preserv'd, Their strongest cords he [always] brake.
5 Let wicked men, who Zion hate, And [all their] plots confounded be; Let them with shame be turned back, And not [their hoped] successes fee.
5 Let wicked men, who Sion hate, And [all their] plots confounded be; Let them with shame be turned back, And not [their hop'd] successes fee.
6 Let them be like the rootless grass, Which grows [a while] on the house-tops, And quickly withereth away, Before they reach their [wicked] hopes.
7 This grass fills not the mower's hand, The binder finds no [fruitful] sheaves;