N01640:773
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.
5 May they become like to the chaff ‖ driven before the wind; ‖ The Angel of the' ETERNAL God, ‖ may he drive them about. ‖
5 May they become like to the chaff ‖ driven before the wind; ‖ The Angel of th' ETERNAL God, ‖ may he drive them about. ‖
6 May their way have much darkness in't, ‖ and much of slipperiness; ‖ and the' Angel of the' ETERNAL God ‖ still persecuting them. ‖
6 May their way have much darkness in't, ‖ and much of slipperiness; ‖ and th' Angel of th' ETERNAL God ‖ still persecuting them. ‖
7 For the pit of their net for me, ‖ they've hid without a cause; ‖ without a cause they for my Soul ‖ have dug an horrid pit. ‖
8 May unknown ruin come on him, ‖ and may his net which he ‖ hath hid, surprise himself; may he ‖ with tumult fall into' it. ‖