The Songs of the Old and New Testament in Meter, Verse 10 – Verse 11
A Song inciting to confidence in GOD. Isa. 26. vers. 1.
WE have a strong city, salvation will God appoint for wals and bulwarks.
WEE have a city that is strong,
the Lord salvation so
Hee will appoint for mighty wals
and bulwarks strong also.
2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.
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Open ye the gates, that so
the righteous Nation
Which constantly the trueth doth keep
may enter in anone.
3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose minde is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
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Assuredly thou wilt him keep
in perfect peace to be,
Whose minde is still upon thee staid, because he trusts in thee.
4 Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord IEHOVAH is everlasting strength.
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For ever trust ye in the Lord,
for ye shal feel at length,
That in the Lord JEHOVAH is
an everlasting strength.
5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on …igh, the loftie city he layeth it low, he layeth it …, even to the ground, he bringeth it even to …e dust.
For dwellers high he doth bring down,
the city proud layes low,
He layes it low, to ground it brings
ev'n to the dust below.
6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet … the poore, and the steps of the needy.
7 The way of the just is uprightnesse: thou ost upright, dost weight the path of the just.
The foot, poores feet and needies steps
shall tread it in the way:
Upright's the justs way, thou upright,
the just mans path dost weigh.
8 Yea in the way of thy judgements, O Lord, …ve we waited for thee; the desire of our soul to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
Yea in thy judgements way, O Lord,
we waited have for thee,
…ur soules desires unto thy Name,
and thy remembrance be.
9 With my soul have I desired thee in the …ght, yea with my spirit within me will I seek … early.
I with my soul desired have
thee in the time of hight,
Yea with my spirit within me I
will seek thee early right:
For when thy judgments are in the earth the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousnesse.
For when the judgements that thou sends
upon the earth do presse,
Then all the worlds inhabitants
will learn thy righteousnesse.
10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, y… will he not learn righteousnesse:
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Let unto him that wicked is
be favour shew'd not small,
Yet for the same he righteousnesse
will not then learn at all:
In the land of uprightnesse will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of … LORD.
Ev'n in the land of uprightnesse
he will unjustly deal,
And of the Lord the Majesty
behold no way he will.
11 Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, th… will not see: but they shall see, and be asham… for their envie at the people,
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Lord, when thy hand is lifted up,
they will not see; but they
Shall see, and be asham'd, because
the people they envy.
Yea the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
12 Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for …hou also hast wrought all our works in us.
Yea them thy foes fire shall devore,
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Lord thou wilt ordain thus
Firm peace for us, for thou als hast
wrought all our works in us.
13 O Lord our God, other lords besides …eo have had dominion over us: but by thee …nly will we make mention of thy name.
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…3 Lord God, besides thee other gods
ov'r us dominion had:
We'd only of thy Name, by thee
will mention to be made.
14 They are dead, they shall not live; they …re deceased, they shall not rise:
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Henceforth these wicked shall not live
who are now dead and slain,
…t last they all deceased are,
they shal not rise again.
Therefore hast thou visited and destroyed …, and made all their memorie to perish.
Therefore thou hast them visited,
and them destroyd alway,
…nd als hast made their memorie
to perish quite away.
15 Thou hast increased the nation, O Lor… thou hast increased the nation, thou art glorified thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of th… earth.
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Thou hast increas'd the nation, Lord
thou hast increas'd its worth,
Thou'rt glorifi'd; thou it remov'd
farre to all ends of earth.
16 Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, th… poured out a prayer when thy chastening wa… upon them.
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Lord, when they were in trouble they
did visite thee anone,
They prayers powred out when was
thy chastning them upon.
17 Like as a woman with childe that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, an… cryeth out in her pangs; so have we been in th… sight, O Lord.
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As she that is with child drawes near
to her deliverie;
In pain is, and cryes in her pangs,
so in thy sight were we.
18 We have been with childe, we have bee… in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind
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We surely all have been with child,
we in great pain of mind
Have all been, we have as it were
brought forth the very wind:
We have not wrought any deliverance in the …rth, neither have the inhabitants of the world …llen.
…e have not a deliverance wrought
on earth, as we perceive,
…or yet the worlds inhabitants
at all down fallen have.
19 Thy dead men shall live, together with dead body shall they arise:
Thy men that dead are they shall live
together well they all
…ith my dead bodie ev'n revive,
and als arise they shall:
Awake and sing ye that dwell in dust: for thy … is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall … out the dead.
…ake, sing ye in dust that dwell,
as dew of herbes indeed
is thy dew, and als the earth
shall cast out all her dead.
Come, my people, enter thou into thy cham…s, and shut thy doores about thee: hide thy … as it were for a little moment, untill the …ignation be overpast.
My people, to thy chambers come
doors shut about thee fast,
… thou thee for a moment hide,
till wrath be overpast.
21 For behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquitie:
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For lo, the Lord out of his place
doth come most speedilie
To punish earths inhabitants,
for their iniquitie.
The earth also shall disclose her bloud, and shall no more cover her slain.
The earth shall als disclose the blood,
that in it did remain,
And shall no more the means afford,
to cover close her slain.
The Song of Hezekiah, after God had healed him of his sicknesse. &c. ISA. 38. vers. 10.
I Said in the cutting off of my dayes, I shall g… to the gates of the grave: I am deprived o… the residue of my years.
IN cutting off my dayes I said,
to gates of grave I'le go:
Of those my yeers the residue
I am deprived so.
2 I said, I shall not see the Lord, even th… Lord in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world,
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In livings land the Lord, the Lord,
I said, I shall not see:
I shall no more see man with those
on earth that dwellers be.
3 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me, as a shepheards tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life:
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Departed is mine age, and is
remov'd from me with strife
As shepherds tents; I weaver like
have thus cut off my life.
He will cut me of with pining sicknesse: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
That I may wholly be cut off,
hee'le pining sicknesse send,
From day ev'n unto night wilt thou
so of me make an end.
4 I reckoned till monrning, that as a lion so will he break all my bones: from day even to …ight wilt thou make an end of me.
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I reck'ned untill morn, that as
a lion so will he
Break all my bones; from day to night
thou'lt make an end of me.
5 Like a cran or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove,
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Ev'n like a cran in my distresse,
or as a swallow sad
So did I chatter: as a dove
a heavy mourning had.
Mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, undertake for me.
Mine eyes they long with looking up
now very failed be,
O Lord, I am oppressed sore,
do undertake for me.
6 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitternesse of my soul.
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What shall I say? He spoken hath,
and als hath done no lesse,
I shall go softly all my years
in my souls bitternesse.
7 O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
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Lord by those things men live, in them
my spirit life doth take,
And so thou wilt recover me,
and me to live wilt make.
8 Behold, for peace I had great bitternesse; but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption:
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O do behold, how for my peace
I had great bitternesse,
But thou in love hast sav'd my soul
from pit of rottennesse.
For thou hast cast all my sins behinde thy …
9 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the …it cannot hope for thy truth.
My sins thou cast behind thy back:
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For neither grave nor death
Can praise thee, they that go to pit
cannot hope for thy truth.
10 The living, the living, he shall praise …hee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
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The living, yea the living shall
thee praise, as I this day:
The father to the children shall
make known thy truth alway.
11 The Lord was readie to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments, all the dayes of our life, in the house of the LORD.
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The Lord was ready me to save,
wee'l while we live accord
My songs to stringed instruments
in the house of the Lord.