N01640:2799
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.
3 The Sea beheld this thing, and fled; ‖ Jordan was turned back. ‖
4 The Mountains then did leap like Rams; ‖ the little Hills like Lambs. ‖
5 What was done unto thee, O Sea, ‖ in that thou didst fly back; ‖ O Jordan, what to thee was done, ‖ that thou wast turned back? ‖
6 O Mountains, what was done to you, ‖ that ye did leap like Rams; ‖ and what to you, O little hills, ‖ that ye did leap like Lambs? ‖
Before the face of Him who doth ‖ sustain thee, shake, O Earth; ‖ before the face of Him that is ‖ the God of Jacob, shake. ‖