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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 2 › Psalm 42: PSALM XLII. To the Chief Musician. Maschil; for the Sons of Korah.
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 Why dost thou throw thy self into ‖ dejections, O my Soul? ‖ And why art thou disquieted ‖ in me with such a noise? ‖ Hope thou with waiting upon God; ‖ For I shall praise Him yet; ‖ Salvations are dispensed from the ‖ kind Aspects of His Face. ‖
5 Why dost thou throw thy self into ‖ dejections, O my Soul? ‖ And why art thou disquieted ‖ in me with such a noise? ‖ Hope thou with waiting upon God; ‖ For I shall praise Him yet; ‖ Salvations are dispenc'd from the ‖ kind Aspects of His Face. ‖
5 My God, my Soul's cast down in me; ‖ Hence I'll remember thee ‖ from Jordan's Land and Hermon's Hills, ‖ from the Hill Mizar there. ‖
7 Deep calleth unto deep, at the ‖ noise of thy water spouts; ‖ Thy swelling Billows and thy Waves ‖ have all gone over me. ‖
8 Now the ETERNAL God will with ‖ effectual power command ‖ His mercy which He promised ‖ when that the Day arrives, ‖ And when the Night comes on there is ‖ with me a Song of His; ‖ A Supplication to Him who ‖ is of my Life the GOD. ‖