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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.
134 From man's unjust oppression set ‖ [and keep] me at full liberty; ‖ so then I unobstructed shall ‖ keep thy [most just] Commandments.‖
134 From man's unjust oppression set ‖ [and keep] me at full liberty; ‖ so then I unobstructed shall ‖ keep thy [most just] Commandements.‖
135 Upon Thy Servant, O make Thou ‖ Thy [pleased] Countenance to shine; ‖ and do thou well instruct me in ‖ the Things [the which] Thou dost appoint.‖
136 Rivers of Waters do run down ‖ still flowing from my [weeping] Eyes; ‖ For this Cause, in that they have not ‖ observed well thy [Holy] Law.‖
XVIII. Tsade.