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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 137: PSALM CXXXVII.
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.
6 Let my tongue dumb cleave to my jaws If [beloved] Zion I forget; And if above my chiefest joy I do not Zion [always] set.
6 Let my tongue dumb cleave to my jaws If [belov'd] Sion I forget; And if above my chiefest joy I do not Sion [always] set.
7 Remember Edom's Off-spring, Lord, Who in thy peoples [woeful] day, Cried, Raze it, Raze it to the ground, This [hated] City level lay.
7 Remember Edom's Off-spring, Lord, Who in thy peoples [woful] day, Cry'd, Rase it, Rase it to the ground, This [hated] City level lay.
8 O Babylon, to destruction judged, That [conquering] hand shall honoured be, ⟨p. 238⟩Which just as thou hast used us, [A just] reward shall give to thee.
8 O Babylon, to destruction judg'd, That [conquering] hand shall honour'd be, ⟨p. 238⟩Which just as thou hast used us, [A just] reward shall give to thee.