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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 14: PSALM XIV. To the Chief Musician. 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 They're every one declined; they are ‖ together putrefied; ‖ There is not one doer of good, ‖ no, not so much as one. ‖
3 They're every one declin'd; they are ‖ together putrified; ‖ There is not one doer of good, ‖ no, not so much as one. ‖
4 All that work evil, know they not? ‖ They eat my people up, ‖ as they eat Bread, they do not call ‖ on the ETERNAL One. ‖
5 Even then and there with terror they ‖ were greatly terrified; ‖ for God is in the race of him ‖ that is the righteous one. ‖
5 Ev'n then and there with terror they ‖ were greatly terrified; ‖ for God is in the race of him ‖ that is the righteous one. ‖
6 The counsel of the humbled one, ‖ you would put that to shame; ‖ Because he does for refuge fly ‖ to the ETERNAL God. ‖