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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.
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? ‖
6 I'm with my groaning spent; all night ‖ I make my b•d to swim. ‖ With my continual sweeping I ‖ water my lodging place. ‖
7 My eye is merely worn away ‖ thro•• sorrow of my mind; ‖ It is becoming old because ‖ of all my enemies. ‖
7 My eye is meerly worn away ‖ thro•• forrow of my mind; ‖ It is becoming old because ‖ of all my enemies. ‖