N01640:91
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.
1 THE Nations, why do they concur ‖ with such tumultuous rage! ‖ And why the People meditate ‖ a thing that is but vain? ‖
2 Kings of the Earth do set themselves, ‖ and Rulers do consult, ‖ against the' ETERNAL, and against ‖ [CHRIST] His Anointed One. ‖
2 Kings of the Earth do set themselves, ‖ and Rulers do consult, ‖ against th' ETERNAL, and against ‖ [CHRIST] His Anointed One. ‖
3 What they say, is, Let us throw off ‖ at once their curbing bands; ‖ And let us cast away from us ‖ the yokes they bind us to. ‖
4 He who sits in the Heavens above ‖ shall there but laugh at them. ‖ Th' ETERNAL God shall them expose ‖ unto contemptuous scorn. ‖
4 He who sits in the Heav'ns above ‖ shall there but laugh at them. ‖ Th' ETERNAL God shall them expose ‖ unto contemptuous scorn. ‖