N01640:1812
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.
9 Well-armed were the Children which ‖ issued from Ephraim; ‖ with Bow they shot; and yet in day ‖ of Battle turned back. ‖
10 For they were such as had not kept ‖ the Covenant of God: ‖ they also had refused to walk ‖ according to His law. ‖
10 For they were such as had not kept ‖ the Covenant of God: ‖ they also had refus'd to walk ‖ according to His law. ‖
11 Yea, and they had forgotten quite ‖ the Works which He had wrought; ‖ and the Things very Marvellous ‖ which He had shown to them. ‖
12 Things very Marvellous He did ‖ before their Ancestors; ‖ He in the Land of Egypt, in ‖ the field of Zoan wrought. ‖