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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.
6 As with a Garment thou didst hide ‖ it with the vast abyss; ‖ At first above the mountains did ‖ the waters take their place. ‖
7 But then they fled away at thy ‖ most forcible rebuke; ‖ at the voice of thy thus der they ‖ made haste to get away. ‖
8 The mountains, they make their ascent; ‖ the valleys, they descend: ‖ All still unto the proper place, ‖ Thou'st founded this for them.
9 Thou hast determined a Bound ‖ the which they shall not pass; ‖ that so they mayn't return again ‖ to overwhelm the Earth. ‖