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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
Book 1 › Psalm 12: PSALM XII. To the Chief Musician, Upon Sheminith. A Psalm of David.
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.
3 Th' ETERNAL God will cut off a•• lips full of flatteries; ‖ the tongue that set• self to speak ‖ things of a mighty sound. ‖
4 They say; We with this tongue of ours ‖ will carry still the day; ‖ Our lips we have them for our own; ‖ who is a Lord to us? ‖
5 For the spoil of the humbled ones, ‖ for the cry of the poor, ‖ Now, says the' ETERNAL God, I'll rise, ‖ I'll save whom he ensnares. ‖
5 For the spoil of the humbled ones, ‖ for the cry of the poor, ‖ Now, says th' ETERNAL God, I'll rise, ‖ I'll save whom he ensnares. ‖
6 The words of the ETERNAL God ‖ are words exceeding pure; ‖ Silver tried in an earthen forge, ‖ purified seven times. ‖