N01640:1941
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.
13 My People, Oh! that they had been ‖ Obedient unto me; ‖ Oh! that in my directed Ways ‖ Israel had walked on! ‖
14 Their Adversaries then I should ‖ have quickly vanquished; ‖ and on their Enemies I should ‖ have quickly turned my hand. ‖
14 Their Adversaries then I should ‖ have quickly vanquished; ‖ and on their Enemies I should ‖ have quickly turn'd my hand. ‖
15 They that hate the ETERNAL God ‖ should soon have fawned, on Him; ‖ But then their time would have endured ‖ to Perpetuity. ‖
15 They that hate the ETERNAL God ‖ should soon have fawn'd, on Him; ‖ But then their time would have endur'd ‖ to Perpetuity. ‖
16 He should have also fed him with ‖ the fatness of the Wheat; ‖ and from the Rock with Honey I ‖ should have replenished thee. ‖