N01640:1938
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 3 › Psalm 81: PSALM LXXXI. To the Chief Musician. Upon Gittith. Of Asaph.
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.
10 I am JEHOVAH, Thy God who ‖ fetched thee up from the Land ‖ of Egypt; Open thou thy Mouth, ‖ and I'll replenish it. ‖
10 I am JEHOVAH, Thy God who ‖ fetch'd thee up from the Land ‖ of Egypt; Open thou thy Mouth, ‖ and I'll replenish it. ‖
11 But, Oh! my People, they would not hearken unto my Voice; ‖ and Israel had no desire ‖ to take Delight in me. ‖
12 So I did give him up unto ‖ the Lust of their own heart; ‖ they in their own Inventions then ‖ went always walking on. ‖
13 My People, Oh! that they had been ‖ Obedient unto me; ‖ Oh! that in my directed Ways ‖ Israel had walked on! ‖