The Psalms of David in English Meter, Psalms · Psalm 102 – Psalm 103
PSAL. CII.
LOrd, hear… my pr…er, let my cry have leave to come to thee;
verse 2 In time of trouble do not hide thy face away from me.
verse 3 Answer me quickly in that day when I do call and pray:
Because my daies consume like smoak, and vanish soon away.
verse 4 My bones like to an hearth are burnt, and like grasse parch't with heat;
My heart is smitten, so that I forget my bread to eat.
verse 5 By reason of my groaning voice, my bones cleave to my skin:
verse 6 Like Pelican in wildernesse forsaken have I bin.
verse 7 I like an Owle in desart am, that out of sight is gone:
I watch, and as a Sparrow on the house top am alone.
verse 8 My bitter enemies all the day reproaches cast on me:
And being mad at me with rage, against me sworne they be.
verse 9 I surely ashes eaten have like bread, in sorrowes deep:
In griefe I mingled have my drink with teares, that I did weep.
verse 10 Thy wrath and indignation did cause this griefe and paine;
For thou hast lifted me on high, and cast me downe againe.
verse 11 The daies wherein I passe my life are like the fleeting shade;
And I am withered like the grasse that soon away doth fade.
verse 12 But thou, Lord, everlasting art, and thou no end shalt see;
And unto generations all shall thy remembrance be.
verse 13 Thou wilt arise, and mercy thou to Sion wilt extend:
The time of mercy, now the time fore-set is come to end.
verse 14 For even in her ruinous stones thy servants do delight;
And the despised dust thereof finds favour in their sight.
The second part.
verse 15 Then shall the Heathen people feare the Lords most holy Name;
And all the Kings on earth shall dread thy glory, and thy same.
verse 16 When Zion by the mighty Lord built up againe shall be;
In glory then and dreadfull power, to men appeare shall he.
verse 17 The praier of the destitute he surely will regard;
Their praier will be not despise, by him it shall be heard.
verse 18 This shall be written, that the age succeeding may it see:
So shall that people praise the Lord, which shall created be.
verse 19 For from his high and holy place he look't downe graciously:
The Lord with pity did behold the earth from heaven hye.
verse 20 That of the …full prisoners the groanings he might heare;
And those might loose, which unto death condemn'd unjustly were.
verse 21 That they in Zion may declare the Lords most holy Name;
And in Jerusalem set forth the praises of the same.
verse 22 Even when the people shall in troups meet there with one accord:
When Kingdomes shall assembled be, to serve the bighest Lord.
verse 23 My former sorce of strength he hath abated in the way;
And shorter he did cut my daies, thus therefore did I say:
verse 24 My God, in midst of all my daies, now take me not away:
From age to age eternally thy yeares endure and stay.
verse 25 Thou the foundations of the earth before all times hast laid;
And, Lord, the heavens are the work which thine owne hands have made.
verse 26 They perish shall, yet evermore shalt thou endure and stay:
Yea, like a garment shall they all waxe old, and passe away.
verse 27 Thou …s a garment shalt them change, and changed they shall be;
But thou dost still abide the same, thy yeares no end shall see.
verse 28 The children of thy servants shall continually endure;
And in thy sight their happy seed shall stand for ever sure.
PSAL. CIII
O Blesse and praise the Lord, my soul, and to him thankfull be:
Yea, blessed be his holy Name by all that is in me.
verse 2 Give thanks to God for all his gifts, shew not thy selfe unkind;
And suffer not his benefits to slip out of thy mind.
verse 3 That gave thee pardon for thy faults, and thee restor'd againe:
For all thy weak and fraile disease, and heal'd thee of thy paine.
verse 4 That did redeem thy life from death, from which thou couldst not flee;
His mercy and compassion both he did extend to thee.
verse 5 Who with good things most liberally doth satisfie thy mouth:
That, like the E…gles, now agame rerewed is thy youth.
verse 6 The Lord doth justice execute for those that are opprest;
So that their sufferings and their wrongs are turned to the best.
verse 7 His waies and his commandments just to Moses he did show:
His counsell and his valiant acts the Israelites did know.
verse 8 The Lord is kind and mercifull, when sinners do him grieve;
And he is very slow to wrath, and ready to forgive.
verse 9 He chides not us continually, though we be full of strife;
Nor keeps our faults in memory, for all our sinfull life.
verse 10 Nor yet according to our sins the Lord doth us regard;
After our great iniquities he doth us not reward.
verse 11 For as the heaven in his height, the earth surmoun…eth far…e;
So high to those that do him feare his tender mercies are.
verse 12 God doth remove our sins from us, and our offences all;
As far as is the rising Sun full distant from his fall.
The second part.
verse 13 And loo… what pity parents deare unto their children beare;
Like pity beares the …ord to such as worship him in feare.
verse 14 The Lord that made us knowes our shape, our mold and fashion just;
How weak and fraile our nature is, and how we be but dust.
verse 15 The daies of man are like to grasse, that quickly doth decay;
Or like the flower right faire in field, that fades full soon away.
verse 16 For gone it is, when over it the stormy wind doth passe:
The place shall never know it more, where once it standing was.
verse 17 But yet Gods mercy to his Saints for ever is, and was;
And to their childrens children downe his righteousnesse doth passe.
verse 18 To such as do his covenant keep, and do remember so
The just commandments of his mouth that in them walk they do.
verse 19 The Lord his throne of majesty in heaven did prepare;
His Kingdome ruleth over all, and all his subjects are.
verse 20 Ye Angels, which are great in pow… praise ye and blesse the Lord;
Which to obey and do his will immediately accord.
verse 21 Ye noble hosts and ministers, cease not to laud him still;
Which ready are to execute his pleasure and his will.
verse 22 Yea, all his workes in places all, where he doth rule as King:
Praise ye the Lord, and thou, my soul, his praises ever sing.