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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 38: PSALM XXXVIII.
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.
12 And they that seek my hurt and life, Cease not their [cruel] snares to lay; False and mischievous things they speak, And plot [their vile] deceits all day.
13 But I was as a man that's deaf, And none of this [reproach] did hear; And as a dumb man silent was, And their false [cruel] speeches bear.
14 I was as one that heareth not, That could [to them] no answer make:
15 For in thee, Lord, I hope, and thou Wilt [hear and] answer undertake.
16 I said, hear, lest they over me Should triumph [prospering] in their pride, And against me lift up themselves, When overwhelmed I [fall or] slide.