N01640:3719
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.
9 Oh! with my very Soul I have ‖ desired thee in the Night; ‖ yea, with my Spirit in me I ‖ will early seek for thee. ‖ For when thy Judgments are abroad ‖ dispensed in the Earth, ‖ They who are dwellers in the World ‖ shall then learn Righteousness. ‖
9 Oh! with my very Soul I have ‖ desir'd thee in the Night; ‖ yea, with my Spirit in me I ‖ will early seek for thee. ‖ For when thy Judgments are abroad ‖ dispensed in the Earth, ‖ They who are dwellers in the World ‖ shall then learn Righteousness. ‖
12 O Thou ETERNAL God, Thou wilt ‖ accomplish Peace for us, ‖ Because that in and for us thou ‖ all of our works hast wrought. ‖
13 ETERNAL God, our God, Without ‖ Thee, Lords have ruled us; ‖ We with regard to thee alone ‖ will celebrate thy Name. ‖
20 Thy Dead shall live again, they shall ‖ as my Dead Body rise: ‖ Awake, and with, a triumph sing, ‖ ye who dwell in the dust. ‖ For thy dew shall be like the dew ‖ which doth revive the Plants; ‖ and so the Earth, it shall send forth ‖ such as lie dead in it. ‖