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Psalterium Americanum. The Book of Psalms, in a translation exactly conformed unto the original;…
Psalterium Americanum. The Book of Psalms, in a translation exactly conformed unto the original; but all in blank verse. : Fitted unto the tunes commonly used in our churches. Which pure offering is accompanied with illustrations, digging for hidden treasures in it; and rules to employ it upon the glorious and various intentions of it. : Whereunto are added, some other portions of the sacred Scripture, to enrich the cantional.
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland for B. Eliot, 1718
Book 1 › Psalm 6: PSALM VI. To the Chief Musician, On Neginoth. Upon Sheminith. A Psalm of David.
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 Pity me, O ETERNAL God; ‖ for I am languishing. ‖ O Lord, restore me; for my bones ‖ are greatly terrified. ‖
3 Yea, more than this; my very Soul ‖ is greatly terrified. ‖ But, O thou, the ETERNAL God, ‖ how long shall it be so? ‖
4 Return, O thou ETERNAL God; ‖ deliver thou my Soul. ‖ O grant Salvation unto me, ‖ for thy kind mercies sake. ‖
5 For no commemoration can ‖ be made of thee in death: ‖ And who is there to celebrate, ‖ thy praises in the Grave? ‖