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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
Book 1 › Psalm 39: PSALM XXXIX. To the Chief Musician: To Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.
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.
10 Remove thy stroke away from me; ‖ by thy hand's blow I waste. ‖
11 When with rebukes thou dost correct ‖ Man for iniquity, ‖ thou makest to waste even as moth, ‖ that which is his desire. ‖ Most certainly then every Man ‖ is very vanity. ‖ Selah. ‖
11 When with rebukes thou dost correct ‖ Man for iniquity, ‖ thou mak'st to waste even as moth, ‖ that which is his desire. ‖ Most certainly then every Man ‖ is very vanity. ‖ Selah. ‖
12 Hear my Prayer, O ETERNAL God, ‖ and hearken to my cry. ‖ Upon my tears, O be not deaf, ‖ because I am with thee ‖ a stranger, and a sojourner, ‖ as all my Fathers were. ‖
13 O spare me graciously, that so ‖ I may recover strength, ‖ before that I shall go from •ence, ‖ and be no more at all. ‖