N01640:1845
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.
42 They did not well remember what ‖ His Hand had wrought for them; ‖ the Day when He delivered them ‖ out of Adversity. ‖
43 How He in Egypt wrought and set ‖ His most amazing Signs; ‖ and in the Field or Zoan there, His Works most wonderful, ‖
44 There He had with a strange turn changed ‖ their Rivers into blood, ‖ and changed their Floods at such a rate, ‖ they could not drink thereof. ‖
44 There He had with a strange turn chang'd ‖ their Rivers into blood, ‖ and chang'd their Floods at such a rate, ‖ they could not drink thereof. ‖
45 He sent the Dog-fly upon them, ‖ which preyed upon them sore; ‖ He sent the Frogs too which did bring, destruction upon them. ‖