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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.
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. ‖
10 Into the valleys He sends forth‖Waters that flow from springs; ‖ which do among the mountains take ‖ their never-ceasing walk ‖
11 They do bestow their drink on all ‖ the beasts that range the field; ‖ There the will asses, tho' so wild‖and stupid, quench their thirst‖