N01640:3068
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.
148 My Eyes with waking do prevent ‖ the Watches of the Night [for this;] that I upon thy word may have ‖ my [early] Meditation placed.‖
148 My Eyes with waking do prevent ‖ the Watches of the Night [for this;] that I upon thy word may have ‖ my [early] Meditation plac'd.‖
149 ETERNAL God, According to ‖ thy Mercy hear my [Earnest] Voice; ‖ O quicken me according as ‖ Thy [Wont and] Judgment is for it.‖
150 Who follow mischief, they draw nigh; ‖ They from thy Law at [very] far.‖
151 ETERNAL God, Thou'rt near and all of thy Commands are [wholly] Truth.‖