N01640:2390
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.
8 My Enemies do cast on me ‖ Reproaches every Day; ‖ they that are mad against me do ‖ form cursing Oaths from me. ‖
9 For truly, as, * and in my Bread ‖ Ashes is what I eat; ‖ and my Drink I have mingled with ‖ the Tears that I have shed. ‖
10 From the view of thy Anger 'tis, ‖ and of thy boiling Wrath; ‖ Because that thou hast lift me up, ‖ and cast me down again. ‖
11 My days are like a shadow which ‖ is now on the Decline; ‖ and like unto a parched Herb, ‖ even so I withered am. ‖
11 My days are like a shadow which ‖ is now on the Decline; ‖ and like unto a parched Herb, ‖ ev'n so I wither'd am. ‖