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The psalms hymns and spiritual songs, of the Old and New-Testament
The psalms hymns and spiritual songs, of the Old and New-Testament: faithfully translated into English metre. ; For the use, edification and comfort of the saints in public and private: especially in New-England. ; [Eight lines of Scripture references and texts]The psalms hymns and spiritual songs, of the Old and New-Testament: faithfully translated into English metre. ; For the use, edification and comfort of the saints in publick and private: especially in New-England. ; [Eight lines of Scripture references and texts]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Michael Perry, 1698
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Book of psalms 3 › Psalm 81: PSAL. LXXXI. To the chief musician, upon Gittith, a Psalm of Asaph.
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.
(2) verse 8 Hear, O my people, and I will unto thee testify: If that thou wilt, O Israel, hear me attentively. verse 9 There shall not any strange god b• in midst of thee at all: Nor unto any foreign god thou bowing down shalt fall.
(2) verse 8 Hear, O my people, and I will unto thee testify: If that thou wilt, O Israel, hear me attentively. verse 9 There shall not any strange god b• in midst of thee at all: Nor unto any forreign god thou bowing down shalt fall.
verse 10 I am the Lord thy God, who thee from land of Egypt led: ⟨p. 204⟩Thy mouth ope wide, and thou by me with plenty shalt be fed. verse 11 Thy people yet would not give ear unto the voice I spake: And Israel would not in me their full contentment take.
verse 12 So their perverse intents of heart I left them up to have; And let them walk on in the way which their own counsels gave. verse 13 O that my people unto me obedient had been! And O that Israel he had walked my ways within!
verse 12 So their perverse intents of heart I left them up to have; And let them walk on in the way which their own couns•ls gave. verse 13 O that my people unto me obedient had been! And O that Israel he had walked my ways within!