The Psalms of David in Meter with the Prose Interlined, Psalm 78 – Psalm 79
PSAL. LXXVIII.
GIve ear, O my people, to my law: encline your ears to the words of my mouth.
O Ye my people, give ye ear unto the law that's mine,
And of my mouth unto the words do ye your ears incline.
2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
3 Which we have heard and known: and our fathers have told us.
2 My mouth shall speak a parable, and sayings dark of old:
3 Which we have heard and also known, and us our fathers told.
4 We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderfull works that he hath done.
4 We from their race will not them hide, Gods praises making known
To age to come, and als his strength and wonders he hath done.
5 For he established a testimony in Iacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers; that they should make them known to their children.
5 In Jacob he a testimonie did fix, and set a law
In Isra'l, and our fathers bad them make their children know.
6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born: who should arise and declare them to their children:
6 That them the generation that was to come might know,
Sons to be born, who should arise and to their sons them show.
7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God: but keep his commandements:
7 That they in the almighty God their hope might only set,
And his commandements might keep, and not Gods works forget.
8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn & rebellious generation, a generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not sted. fast with God.
8 And might not as their fathers be, a stubborn rebel race;
A race in heart not right, whose sprit with God not stedfait was.
9 The children of Ephraim being armed, and carrying bowes, turned back in the day of battell.
9 Then Ephraims children being arm'd, who to them bows did take,
Did in the day of battell all together turn the back.
10 They kept not the covenant of God: and refused to walk in his law:
11 And forgat his works: and his wonders that he had shewed them.
10 Gods Covenant they not kept, and in his law refusd to go:
11 His works and wonders they forgat that he to them did show.
12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers: in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
12 Things marvellous he in the sight did of their fathers yeeld,
Within the bounds of Egypt land, within the Zoans field.
13. He divided the sea, and caused them to passe through: and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
13 He did divide the sea, and them causd to passe through the same;
And he the waters made to stand, which as an heap became.
14 In the day time also he led them with a cloud: and all the night with a light of fire.
15 He clave the rocks in the wildernesse: and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
14 With cloud by day, with light of fire he all the night them led:
15 In Desert rocks he clave, as from great depths drink furnished.
16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
17 And they sinned yet more against him: by provoking the most High in the wildernesse.
16 Streams from the rock he brought, like flouds he waters caus'd run down:
17 Yet sinn'd they more, in Desert they provok'd the Higiest One.
18 And they tempted God in their heart, by asking meat for their lust.
19 Yea, they spake against God: they said, Can God furnish a table in the wildernesse?
18 And God they tempted in their heart for their lust asking meat:
19 Gainst God they spak, can God, they said, in desert table set?
20 Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streames overflowed: Can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?
20 Lo, he the rock smot, waters gusht, the streams did overflow,
Can he give bread als? Can he flesh provide his people now?
21 Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Iacob, and anger also came up against Israel.
21 Therefore God heard this, and was wroth: a fire 'gainst Jacob so
Was kindled, and'gainst Israel came anger up also.
22 Because they beleeved not in God: and trusted not in his salvation.
23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven.
22 For they believ'd not God, nor trust in his salvation laid:
23 Though clouds above he did command, and heav'ns doores opened.
24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat: and had given them of the corn of heaven:
25 Man did eat angels food: he sent them meat to the full.
24 And Manna rain'd on them, and gave them corn of heav'n to eat,
25 Man Angels food did eat; he them unto the full sent meat.
26 He caused an east-wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power brought in the southwind.
26 Then in the heaven he did cause an east wind for to blo:
And by his power he did bring the south wind in also.
27 He rained flesh also upon them as dust: and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea.
28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
27 On them als rain'd he flesh as dust fouls feathered as sea sand:
28 He let it fall amid their camp round where their dwellings stand.
29 So they did eat and were well filled, for he gave them their own desire.
30 They were not estranged from their lust.
29 So they did eat and were well fill'd, he gave them their desire:
30 And they from that were not estrang'd which their lust did require.
But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them: and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
But while their meat was in their mouths,
31 Gods wrath came on them then▪
And slew their fattest, and smot down Israels chosen men.
32 For all this they sinned still: and beleeved not for his wondrous works.
33 Therefore their dayes did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
32 For all this sinn'd they still, and not believ'd his wonders then:
33 Therefore in vanity he consum'd their dayes, and years in pain.
34 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and enquired early after God.
34 But in the time that he them slew, they sought him with desire:
And they return'd, and after God they early did enquire.
35 And they remembred that God was their rock: and the high God their redeemer.
35 And that their rock was God, they did remember by and by,
And als that their redeemer was the God that is most …y.
36 Neverthelesse, they did flatter him with their mouth: and they lied unto him with their tongues.
36 Yet for all this they with their mouth spake to him flattringly,
And likewise also with their tongues they unto him didly.
37 For their heart was not right with him: neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
37 For their deceitfull heart with him in no way right was there,
Nor yet they in his covenant together stedfast were.
38 But he being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
31 He mercifull their sin forgave and them he not destroy'd;
Yea, oft his anger turn'd away, his wrath not at all imploy'd,
39 For he remembred that they were but flesh, a winde that passeth away and cometh not again.
39 For that they were but flesh he did in memory retain,
A wind that passing is away and commeth not again.
40 How oft did they provoke him in the wildernesse, and grieve him in the desert?
40 How oftentimes did they provoke him in the wildernesse?
And in the Desert also him grieve by their wickednesse?
41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the holy one of Israel.
41 Yea to their sins they turned back, and tempted God anone,
And of Isra'l they limited him that's the Holy One.
42 They remembred not his …, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemie:
42 They did not his almighty hand remember thankfully,
Nor yet the day that he them all sav'd from the enemy.
43 How he had wrought his signes in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan.
43 How that he did within the land of Egypt also yeeld
To work his signes, and wonders great within the Zoan field.
44 And had turned their rivers into bloud; and their flouds, that they could not drink.
44 And how he had their rivers all thus turned into blood;
And that they could not drink, he did likewise with ev'ry flood.
45 He sent diverse sorts of flies among them, which devoured them: and frogs, which destroyed them.
45 He diverse sorts of flies did send among them to devore▪
And frogs which did upon them there bring a destruction sore.
46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar: and their labour unto the locust.
46 Unto the caterpillar then their increase for to have,
And to the locust for to eat their labour als he gave.
47 He destroyed their vines with hail: and their Sycomore-trees with frost.
48 He gave up their cattell also to the hail: and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
47 Their vines with hail, their sycomores he did destroy with frost:
48 Their beasts to hail he gave: their flocks hote thunder bolts did rost.
49 He cast upon them the fiercenesse of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble: by sending evill angels among them.
49 Fierce anger, wrath, he on them cast, and indignation strong,
And troubles als, by sending then ill angels them among.
50 He made a way to his anger, he spared not their soul from death: but gave their life over to the pestilence.
50 He to his wrath made way, he not from death their soul did spare,
But he unto the pestilence their life gave over there.
51 And smote all the first born in Egypt: the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
51 And he in Egypt land did smite the first born all that came;
The chief of all their strength that were within the tents of Ham.
52 But made his own people to goe forth like sheep: and guided them in the wildernesse like a flock.
52 But his own people like to sheep he did make forth to go,
And like a flock in wildernesse he them all guided so.
53 And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
53 And he them safely on did lead, so was no fear in them:
But these that were their enemies the sea did overwhelm.
54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary; even to this mountain which his right hand had purchased.
54 And he of his own Sanctuarie them to the border led,
Ev'n to …his holy mountain which his right hand purchased.
55 He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
55 Before them heathens he cast out, by line them did divide
An heritage, and Israels Tribes made in their tents abide.
56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God: and kept not his testimonies.
56 Yet did they tempt the Lord most high, and him provoked still:
His Testimonies that he gave to keep they had no will
57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitfull bow.
57 But like their fathers turned back, and dealt unfaithfully;
They like a bow were turn'd aside, that shoots deceitfully.
58 For they provoked him to anger with their high place: and moved him to jealousie with their graven images.
58 For unto anger they provokt him with their places hie:
And with their graven images him mov'd to jealousie.
59 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh: the tent which he placed among men.
59 When God this heard, he greatly wroth abhorred Israel then:
60 So that he Shilo's tent forsook, the tent he plac'd with men.
61 And delivered his strength into captivity: and his glory into the enemies hand.
61 And he his strength delivered into captivity,
And he his glory gave into the hand of th'enemie.
62 He gave his people over also unto the sword: and was wroth with his inheritance.
62 He over his own people then did give the sword unto,
And he with his inheritance was very wroth also.
63 The fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not given to marriage.
64 Their Priests fell by the sword: and their widows made no lamentation.
63 The fire their young men did consume, their maids no mariage had:
64 Their priests did fall then by the sword, their wives no mourning made:
65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of …p: and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
65 Then as one out of sleep the Lord did to awake incline,
And like a mighty man that shouts by reason of his wine.
66 And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetuall reproach.
66 And he then in the hinder parts did smite his en'mie… all;
Unto reproach he did them put that was perpetuall.
67 Moreover, he refused the tabernacle of Ioseph: and chose not the tribe of Ephraim.
68 But …hose the tribe of Iudah: the mount Sion which he loved.
67 He Josephs tent refusd, and he not Ephraims tribe approv'd:
68 But he of Judah chose the tribe, mount Sion which he lov'd,
69 And he built his sanctuary like high palaces: like the earth which he hath established for ever.
69 Like palaces he builded high his Sanctuarie to be,
Like to the earth for evermore which stablished hath he.
70 He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheep-folds:
70 Of David that his servant was, he also choise did make,
And he him from the folds of sheep did by his favour take.
71 From following the ewes great with young, he brought him to feed Iacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
71 Him from ews folowing great with young to feed he did advance
His people Jacob, and Isra'l his own inheritance,
72 So hee fed them according to the integrity of his heart: and guided them by the skilfulnesse of his han…s.
72 So he them fed according to his hearts integritie,
By of his hands the skilfullnesse, them also guided he.
PSAL. LXXIX.
O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance, thy holy temple have they desiled, they have laid Ierusalem on heaps.
LOrd heathens take thine heritage, desiled is by them
Thy holy temple, they on heaps have laid Jerusalem.
2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven: the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
2 The bodies of thy servants dead they have giv'n to be meat
To fowls of heav'n; flesh of thy saints to beasts on earth to eat.
3 Their bloud have they shed like water round about Ierusalem: and there was none to bury them.
3 Their blood like water shed they have about Jerusalem,
And then there was not one at all there for to bury them.
4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours: a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
4 Unto our neighbours a reproach at last become are we,
A scorn derision unto them that round about us be,
5 How long, Lord, wilt thou be angry: for ever? shall thy jealousie burn like fire▪
5 How long wilt thou be angry, Lord, for ever shall this …e?
Shall even like unto a fire, thus burn thy jealousie?
6 Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdome… that have not called upon thy Name.
6 Thy wrath out on the heathen powr that never have thee known,
And on the kingdomes that thy Name not called have upon.
7 For they have devoured Iacob, and laid laid waste his dwelling place.
7 For those are they of Jacob that devoured have the race,
And they have caused for to be laid wast his dwelling place.
8 O remember not against us former iniquities; let thy …ender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
8 Against us m…de not former sins, thy tender mercies now
Let them prevent us speedily, for we're brought very low.
9 Help us; O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy Name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins for thy Names lake▪
9 O God our saviour to us help for thy Names glory make:
Deliver, purge away our sins ev'n for thine own Names sake.
10 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the bloud of thy servants which is shed.
10 Why, where's their God, should heathen say? let him' mongst them be known,
Ev'n by revenging in our sight the blood shed of thine own.
11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee, according to the greatnes of thy power… preserve thou those that are appointed to die.
11 According to thy power so great, let come before thine eye
The prisoners sighs: preserve those that appointed are to dye.
12 And render unto our neighbours seven fold into their bosom, the reproach wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
12 Into our neighbours bosome let so sev'n fold rendred be
Their own reproach, wherewith, O Lord, they have reproached thee.
13 So we thy people, and sheep of thy pasture, will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.
13 So we thy folk and pasture sheep will thanks give to thee still,
Unto all generations thy praise shew forth we will.