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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 55: PSALM LV.
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 Lo then would I wander far off, And in the [remote] desert stay.
7 Lo then would I wander far off, And in the [remote] desart stay.
8 From windy storms and tempests I Would [for peace] hast to scape away.
9 Destroy thou them, O Lord, and let Their [combined] tongues divided be;
9 Destroy thou them, O Lord, and let Their [combin'd] tongues divided be;
10 For violence and hurtful strife I in the [envious] City see. Day and night on the walls thereof, They [fiercely] go about it round; Contrived mischief and hurtfulness [There] in [the] midst of it are found.
10 For violence and hurtful strife I in the [envious] City see. Day and night on the walls thereof, They [fiercely] go about it round; Contriv'd mischief and hurtfulness [There] in [the] midst of it are found.