N01640:599
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 Hide not away from me thy face, ‖ nor suffer to decline, ‖ in * or to anger him that is ‖ a servant unto Thee. ‖ Thou hast afforded help to me; ‖ O do not leave me now; ‖ ⟨p. 60⟩not yet forsake me, O thou God ‖ whence my Salvation comes. ‖
10 My Father and my Mother, when ‖ they have forsaken me, ‖ Then O ETERNAL God, thou dost ‖ take me into thy care. ‖
11 O thou ETERNAL God; do thou ‖ teach me what is thy way; ‖ And lead me in the path of Right, ‖ for my observers sake. ‖
12 Give me not up unto the will ‖ of my foes; for there rise ‖ false witnesses against me, and ‖ one who breaths violence. ‖