N01640:1800
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
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.
PSALM LXXVIII. Maschil. Of Asaph.
1 O Ye my People, Hearken well ‖ to my distilling law: ‖ Incline your ear attentively ‖ to the words of my mouth. ‖
2 My mouth I'll open in a dark ‖ * Sententious Parable; ‖ I'll utter secret mysteries ‖ in what fell out of old. ‖
3 They are the things which we have heard, ‖ and things which we have known; ‖ and they are what our Fathers have ‖ related unto us. ‖
4 These we will not conceal from them ‖ that are Children to those; ‖ They to the Generation so ‖ to come shall still relate: ‖ Even the Praises which belong ‖ to the ETERNAL God; ‖ and His strength and His wondrous works; ‖ the Things which He has wrought. ‖