The Psalms of David in English Meter, Psalms · Psalm 86 – Psalm 88
PSAL. LXXXVI.
O Lord, to me bow downe thine eare, and heare me graciously;
Thou that dost help the weak, me heare, for poore and low am I.
verse 2 Preserve my soule, for grace I have receiv'd a Saint to be:
O thou my God, thy servant save, that puts his trust in thee.
verse 3 Thy merciemercy, Lord, on me expresse, and help my misery:
For through the day I do not cease on thee to call and cry.
verse 4 Comfort, O Lord, thy servants soule, that now with paine is pin'd:
For unto thee, Lord, I extoll, and lift my soule and mind.
verse 5 For thou art good and bountifull, in pardoning very free;
In merciemercy thou art plentifull to all that call on thee.
verse 6 Therefore, O Lord, when I do pray, regard and give an eare:
Mark well the words that I do say, my supplication heare.
verse 7 In time when trouble doth me move, to thee I do complaine;
Because I know, and well do prove thou answerest me againe.
verse 8 Among the gods, O Lord, is none to be compar'd to thee;
And of all works that have been done, like thine not any be.
verse 9 Throughout the world the Nations all, which thou didst make and frame.
Before thee come and worship shall, and glorifie thy Name.
verse 10 For thou art very great in might, all power is thine owne:
Thou workest wonders strange in sight, for thou art God alone.
The second part.
verse 11 Lord, in thy truth walk on would I, then teach thou me thy way:
Unite my heart to thee so nigh, that feare thy Name I may.
verse 12 O Lord my God, thee gladly praise with all my heart will I;
And I thy glorious Name alwaies will highly glorifie.
verse 13 Because thy merciemercy shew'd to me in greatnesse doth excell:
My soule by thee hath been set free out from the lowest hell.
verse 14 The proud arise to fight with me, and violent men are met;
That for my soule have sought, and thee before them have not set.
verse 15 But thou of pity, Lord, art full, and gracious art thou found;
Long suffering, and most mercifull, and doth in truth abound.
verse 16 O turne to me, compassion and mercy on me have;
Strengthen thy servant, and the son of thine owne hand-maid save.
verse 17 On me some signe of favour shew, which all my foes may see;
And be ashamed, Lord, since thou dost help and comfort me.
PSAL. LXXXVII.
THe ground-works of Gods city be for ever firmly stai'd:
Upon the holy mountaines he his strong foundations laid.
verse 2 God loves the gates of Sion best, his grace doth there abide:
He loves them more then all the rest of Jacobs tents beside.
verse 3 For glorious things reported be, thy fame is spreadabroad;
Great things, I say, are said of thee, thou Citie of our God.
verse 4 Of Rahab I will mention make, and, Babylon, of thee;
I before those will notice take, that do acknowledge me.
verse 5 Behold, Tyre and Philistia, which foes and strangers were;
See also Ethiopia, for borne this man was there.
verse 6 Of Sion they shall say abroad, that divers men of fame
Have there sprung up, and the high God hath founded fast the same.
verse 7 When God his people writes, it shall in his accompt appeare,
This man, who was the chiefe of all, had his beginning there.
verse 8 As well those that sweet singers were, as those that players be?
On Instruments shall consort there, my springs are all in thee.
PSAL. LXXXVIII.
O Lord, who of salvation art God alone to me;
My cry and supplication are day and night to thee.
verse 2 O let my praiers soon ascend unto thy sight on hye;
Incline thine eare (O Lord) intend and hearken to my cry.
verse 3 Because my soul with grieses is fill'd, which her so trouble I have;
That now my life doth faint and yeeld and drawes nigh to the grave.
verse 4 I counted am as one of them that to the pit descend;
As a weak man they me esteem, that hath nor strength nor friend.
verse 5 As one among the dead, and free from things that here remaine;
In this estate I seem to be, like those which have been slaine.
verse 6 Like slaughtred men in grave that lay, whom now thou hast forgot;
Which by thy hand are cut away, and thou remembrest not.
verse 7 Even in the lowest pit by thee I have been laid and cast;
In darknesse where I could not see, in deeps I have been plac't.
verse 8 Thy wrath, that heavily doth fall, upon me hard doth lye;
Thou with thy waves and billowes all dost vex me grievously.
verse 9 My friends put far from me thou hast, to them I loathsome grow:
I am shut up in griefe so fast, that forth I cannot go.
verse 10 Mine eye, O Lord, doth mou…e for griefe, I daily call on thee;
And unto thee for some reliefe my hands out-stretched be.
The second part.
verse 11 O wilt thou make thy works appear, and wonders to the dead?
Or shall the dead arise, and here thy glorious praises spread?
Or shall thy loving graciousnesse be mention'd in the grave?
verse 12 Or speech of thy great faithfulnesse shall men destroyed have?
verse 13 Who shall thy wonders great express in darknesse deep below?
In the land of forgetfulnesse who shall thy justice know?
verse 14 But, gracious Lord, to thee my cries I vehemently have sent;
And early, ere the morning rise, my praiers shall thee prevent.
verse 15 Why dost thou Lord, most great in grace, cast off my soule from thee?
And why thy favour and thy face dost thou thus hide from me?
verse 16 Afflicted from my youth am I, and ready oft to dye:
Thy terrours that on me do lie, distract me fearfully.
verse 17 The fiercenesse of thy furiouswrath quite over me hath gone:
The sharpnesse of thy terrours hath me cut off, and undone.
verse 18 And round about me every day like waters come they be;
Even so together gathering, they about do compasse me.
verse 19 My friend, and him that did me love, thou dost put far from me:
To darknesse thou dost those remove that mine acquaintance be.