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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.
The Jews costantly refer all these Fifteen Psalms to their People, in the Dispersion wherein they are now languishing.
In the Fifth Verse of the Psalm now before us, we sind the Idumaeans and Arabians; that is to say, the Romans and the Mahometans.
4 A Long Fire as well as a Strong one, is here pointed at. Juniper abounds with a piercing Oil, which yields a very sharp Fire; and Pliny says, Coals of Juniper, being raked up, will keep a glowing Fire for a whole Year together.
4 A Long Fire as well as a Strong one, is here pointed at. Juniper abounds with a piercing Oyl, which yields a very sharp Fire; and Pliny says, Coals of Juniper, being raked up, will keep a glowing Fire for a whole Year together.
5 The Hebrew Particle Gnim, is to be translated, Like, as well as, In, or With. As I remember Glassius thus reads the Text now be ore us. But some think that the Calumnies of Doeg did force David, actually to take a flight into these Countries. Or, Mesheck, as Bochart thinks, may signify, not a Place but the Length of Time, which he stayed in his Exile. All the Ancient Interpreters exeept one, understand it so. Patricks Paraphrase is; 'I groan, not only in a tedious Banishment from my own Country, but I am forced to seek for shelter among the Barbarous Arabs.