N01640:615
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.
2 Hear what my Supplications speak, ‖ when I do cry to thee; ‖ when I lift up my hands towards ‖ thy holy Oracle. ‖
3 Drag me not with ill M•n, not with ‖ workers of vanity; ‖ who speak peace to their Neighbours, but ‖ mischief is in their hearts. ‖
3 Give them according to their deeds, ‖ and as they've ill designed: ‖ Give them what their own hands have wrought; ‖ render them their desert. ‖
3 Give them according to their deeds, ‖ and as they've ill design'd: ‖ Give them what their own hands have wrought; ‖ render them their desert. ‖
4 Because they don't regard the deeds ‖ of the ETERNAL God, ‖ nor the work of His Hands; He'll them ‖ destroy, and not build up. ‖