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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 41: PSALM XLI.
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.
7 Against me they whisper and plot, [Then all] that are mine enemies; Together they some hurt or ill Against me [daily] do devise.
8 There cleaves to him, say they with joy, Some ill disease or [mortal] sore; And now that he doth keep his bed, [Off it] he shall rise up no more.
9 Yea, he with whom I lived in peace, [Who was] my friend and confident; Who of my bread did eat, even he His [scornful] heel against me bent.
9 Yea, he with whom I liv'd in peace, [Who was] my friend and confident; Who of my bread did eat, even he His [scornful] heel against me bent.
10 But thou, O Lord, be merciful [To me] and raise me up again, That I in justice may requite The doings of these [wicked[ men.
10 But thou, O Lord, be merciful [To me] and raise me up agen, That I in justice may requite The doings of these [wicked[ men.