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Te decet hymnus
Author: J. H. Hymnal: WBPF1640 #33c (1640) First Line: Thy praise alone O Lord doth raigne Lyrics: 1 Thy praise alone O Lord doth raigne
in Sion thine own hill:
Their vowes to thee they do maintaine,
and their beliefs fulfill.
2 For that thou dost their prayers still heare,
and dost thereto agree:
The people all both farre and neare
with trust shall come to thee.
3 Our wicked life so farre exceeds,
that we shall fall therein:
But Lord forgive our great misdeeds,
and purge us from our sin.
4 The man is blest whom thou dost chuse
within thy courts to dwell:
Thy house and Temple he shall use,
with pleasures that excell.
5 Of thy great justice heare us God,
our health of thee doth rise:
The hope of all the earth abroad,
and the sea coasts likewise.
6 With strength thou art beset about,
and compast with thy power:
Thou mak'st the mountaines strong and stout
to stand in every shower.
7 The swelling seas thou dost asswage
and make their streames full still:
Thou dost restraine the peoples rage,
and rule them at thy will.
8 The folk that dwell throughout the earth.
shall dread thy signes to see
Which morn and evening in great mirth
do passe with praise to thee.
9 When that the earth is chapt and dries,
and thirsteth more and more:
Then with thy drops thou dost apply,
and much increase her store.
10 The flood of God doth overflow,
and so doth cause to spring
The seed and corn which men do sow,
for he doth guide the thing.
11 With wet thou dost her furrowes fill,
whereby her clods do fall:
Thy drops on her thou dost distill,
and blesse her fruits withall.
12 Thou deck'st the earth of thy good grace,
with faire and pleasant crop:
Thy clouds distill their dew apace,
great plenty they do drop.
13 Whereby the desart shall begin
full great increase to bring:
The little hills shall joy therein,
much fruit on them shall spring.
14 In places plaine the flocks shall feed,
and cover all the earth:
The vales with corne shall so exceed,
that they shall sing for mirth. Scripture: Psalm 65 Languages: English
Te decet hymnus
Jubilate Deo
Author: T. S. Hymnal: WBPF1640 #34a (1640) First Line: Ye men on earth in God rejoyce Lyrics: 1 Ye men on earth in God rejoyce,
with praise set forth his Name:
Extoll his might with heart and voice,
give glory to the same.
2 How wonderfull O Lord say ye,
in all thy works thou art?
Thy foes for feare shall seek to thee,
full sore against their heart.
3 All men that dwell ye earth throughout
shall praise the Name of God:
The laud thereof the world about
is shewed and set abroad.
4 All folk come forth, behold and see
what things the Lord hath wrought:
Mark well the wondrous works that he
for men to passe hath brought.
5 He laid the sea like heaps on high,
therein a way they had:
On foot to passe both faire and drie,
whereof their hearts were glad.
6 His might doth rule the world alway,
his eyes all things behold:
And such as will him disobey,
by him shall be controld.
7 Ye people give unto our God,
due laud and thanks alwaies:
With joyfull voice declare abroad,
and sing unto his praise.
8 Which doth endue our soul with life,
and it preserve withal:
He stayes our feet, so that no strife
can make us slip or fall.
9 The Lord doth prove our deeds with fire,
if that they will abide:
As workmen do when they desire
to have their mettals tride.
10 Although thou suffer us so long
in prison to be cast:
And there with chaines and fetters strong
to lie in bondage fast.
The second Part:
11 Although (I say) thou suffer men
on us to ride and raigne:
Though we through fire and water run
with very griefe and paine.
12 Yet sure thou dost of thy good grace
dispose it to the best:
And bring us out into a place
to live in wealth and rest.
13 Unto thy house resort will I
to offer and to pray:
And there I will my selfe apply
my vowes to thee to pay.
14 The vowes that with my mouth I spake
in all my griefe and smart:
The vowes I say which I did make
in dolour of my heart.
15 Burnt offerings I will give to thee
of Oxen fat and Rams:
Yea this my sacrifice shall be
Of Bullocks, Goats, and :ambs.
16 Come forth and hearken here full soone,
all ye that feare the Lord:
What he for my poore soule hath done
to you I will record.
17 Full oft I call to mind his grace,
this mouth to him doth cry:
And thou, my tongue, make speed apace,
to praise him by and by.
18 But if I feele my heart within
in wicked works rejoyce:
Or if I have delight in sinne,
God will not heare my voice.
19 But surely God my voice hath heard,
and what I do require:
My prayer he doth well regard,
and granteth my desire.
20 All praise to him that hath not put,
nor cast me out of mind:
Nor yet his mercy from me shut,
which I do ever find.
Scripture: Psalm 66 Languages: English
Jubilate Deo
Deus misereatur
Author: J. H. Hymnal: WBPF1640 #34b (1640) First Line: Have mercy on us Lord Lyrics: 1 Have mercy on us, Lord,
and grant to us thy grace:
To shew to us do thou accord
the brightnesse of thy face;
2 That all the earth may know
the way to godly wealth:
And all the nations on a row,
may see thy saving health.
3 Let all the world O God,
give praise unto thy Name:
O let the people all abroad,
extoll and laud the same.
4 Throughout the world so wide
let all rejoyce with mirth:
For thou with truth & right dost guide,
the nations of the earth.
5 Let all the world O God,
give praise unto thy name:
O let the people all abroad
extoll and laud the same.
6 Then shall the earth increase,
great store of fruit shall fall:
And then our God the God of peace
shall blesse us eke withall.
7 God shall us blesse I say,
and then both farre and neare,
The folk throughout the earth alway,
of him shall stand in feare.
Scripture: Psalm 67 Languages: English
Deus misereatur
Exurgat Deus
Author: T. S. Hymnal: WBPF1640 #35 (1640) First Line: Let God arise and then his foes Lyrics: 1 Let God arise and then his foes
will turn themselves to flight:
His enemies then will run abroad
and scatter out of sight.
2 And as the fire doth melt the waxe,
and wind blowes smoke away:
So in the presence of the Lord,
the wicked shall decay.
3 But righteous men before the Lord,
shall heartily rejoyce:
They shall be glad and merry all,
and chearful in their voice.
4 Sing praise, sing praise unto the Lord,
who rideth on the skie:
Extoll the Name of Jah our God,
and him still magnifie.
5 The same is he that is above,
within his holy place:
That Father is of fatherlesse,
and judge of widdows case.
6 Houses he gives and issue both,
unto the comfortlesse:
He bringeth bondmen out of thrall,
and rebels to distresse.
7 When thou didst march before thy folk
th' Egyptians from among:
And broughtst them through the wilderness
which was both wide and long.
8 The earth did quake, the rain powr'd down
heard were great claps of thunder:
The mount Sinai shook in such sort,
as it would cleave in sunder.
9 Thine heritage with drops of raine
abundantly was washt:
And if so be it barren waxt.
by thee it was refresst.
10 Thy chosen flock doth there remaine
thou hast prepar'd that place:
And for the poore thou dost provide
of thine especiall grace.
The second Part:
11 God will give women causes just,
to magnifie his Name:
When as his people triumphs make,
and purchase bruit and fame.
12 For puissant kings for all their power
shall flee and take the foile:
And women which remaine at home
shall help to part the spoile.
13 And though ye were as black as pots,
your hue shall passe the Dove:
Whose wings and feathers seem to have
silver and gold above.
14 When in this land God shall triumph
ore kings both high and low:
Then shall it be like Salmon hill,
as white as any snow.
15 Though Basan be a fruitful hill,
and in height others passe:
Yet Sion God's most holy hill,
doth farre excell in grace.
16 Why brag ye thus ye hills most high,
and leap for pride together?
The hill of Sion God doth love,
And there will dwell for ever.
17 God's army is two millions
of warriours good and strong:
The Lord also in Sinai
is present them among.
18 Thou didst (O Lord) ascend on high,
and captive ledst them all:
Which in times past thy chosen flock
in bondage kept and thrall.
Thou mad'st them tribute for to pay,
and such as did repine
Thou didst subdue that they might dwell
in thy Temple divine.
19 Now praised be the Lord for that
he powres on us such grace:
From day to day he is the God
of our health and solace.
The third Part:
20 He is the God from whom alone
salvation commeth plaine:
He is the God by whom we scape
all dangers, death, and paine.
21 Thus God shall wound his enemies head
and break the hairy scalpe
Of those that in their wickednesse
continually do walk.
22 From Basan will I bring, said he,
my people and my sheep:
And all mine own, as I have done,
from dangers of the deep.
22 And make them dip their feet in blood
of those that hate my Name:
And dogs shal have their tongues inbr'd
with licking of the same.
24 All men may see how thou O God,
thine enemies dost deface;
And how thou go'st as God and King
into thine holy place.
25 The singers go before with joy,
the minstrels follow after:
And in the midst the damsels play,
with timbrell and with taber.
26 Now in the Congregation,
O Israel, praise the Lord.
And Jacobs whole posterity,
give thanks with one accord:
27 The chiefe was little Benjamin,
but Juda made their host:
With Zebulon and Nephthalim,
which dwelt about their coast.
28 As God hath given power to thee,
so Lord make firme and sure:
The thing that thou bast wrought in us:
for ever to endure.
29 And in thy Temple gifts will we
give unto thee O Lord:
For thine unto Jerusalem,
sure promise made by word.
The fourth Part:
Yea and strange Kings to us subdu'd,
shall do like in those daies:
I meane thee they shall present
their gifts of laud and praise.
30 He shall destroy the speaermens ranks
the calves and buls of might:
And cause them tribute pay and daunt
all such as love to fight.
31 Then shall the Lords of Egypt come,
and presents with them bring
The Moors most black shal stretch their hands
unto their Lord and King.
32 Therefore ye kingdoms of the earth,
give praise unto the Lord:
Sing Psalmes to God with one consent,
thereto let all accord.
33 Who though he ride and ever hath
above the heavens bright:
Yet by his fearfull thunder-claps
men may well know his might.
34 Therefore the strength of Israel
ascribe to God on hie:
Whose might and power doth far extend
above the cloudie skie.
35 O God, thy holiness eand power
is dread for evermore:
The God of Israel gives us strength,
praised be God therefore. Scripture: Psalm 68 Languages: English Tune Title: [Let God arise and then his foes]
Exurgat Deus
Salvum me fac
Author: J. H. Hymnal: WBPF1640 #36 (1640) First Line: Save me O God, and that with speed Lyrics: 1 Save me, O God, and that with speed,
the waters flow full fast:
So nigh my soul do they proceed,
that I am sore agast.
2 I sincke full deepe in mire and clay,
whereas I feele no ground:
I fall into such floods I say,
that I am like be drownd.
3 With crying oft, I faint and quaile,
my throat is hoarse and drie
With looking up my sight doth faile,
for help to God on high.
4 My foes that guiltlesse do oppresse
my soul, with hate are led:
In number sure they are no lesse
than haires are on my head.
5 Though for no cause they vexe me sore
they prosper and are glad:
They do compell me to restore
the things I never had.
6 What I have done for want of wit,
thou Lord all times canst tell:
And all the faults that I commit,
to thee are known full well.
7 O God of hosts, defend and stay
all those that trust in thee:
Let no man doubt or shrink away,
for ought that chanceth me.
8 It is for thee and for thy sake,
that I do beare this blame:
In spite to thee they would me make
to hide my face for shame.
9 My mothers sonnes my brethren all
forsake me on a row:
And as a stranger they me call,
my face they will not know.
10 Unto thy house such zeal I beare,
that it doth pine me much:
Their checks and taunts at thee to heare.
my very heart doth grutch.
The second Part:
11 Though I do fast my flesh to chast,
yea if I weep and mone:
Yet in my teeth this thing is cast,
they passe not thereupon.
12 If I for griefe and paine of heart
in sackcloth use to walk:
Then they anon will it pervert,
thereof they jest and talk.
13 Both high and low, and all the throng
that sit within the gate:
They have me ever in their tongue,
of me they talk and prate,
14 They drunkard which in wine delight,
it is their chiefe pastime:
To seek which way to work me spight,
of me they sing and rime.
15 But thee the while, O Lord I pray,
that when it pleaseth thee,
For thy great truth thou wilt alway
send down thine aid to me.
16 Pluck thou my feet out of the mire,
from drowning do me keep:
From such as owe me wrath and ire,
and from the waters deep.
17 Lest with the waves I should be drownd
and depth my soul devoure:
And that the pit should me confound,
and shut me in her power.
18 O Lord of hoasts to me give eare,
as thou art good and kind:
And as thy mercy is most deare,
Lord, have me in thy mind.
19 And do not from thy servant hide,
nor turne thy face away:
I am opprest on every side,
in hast give eare I say.
20 O Lord unto my soul draw nigh,
the same with aid repose:
Because of their great tyrannie
acquit me from my foes.
The third Part:
21 That I abide rebuke and shame.
thou knowest, and thou canst tell:
For those that seek and work the same,
thou seest them all full well.
22 When they with brags do break my heart,
I seek for help anon:
But find no friends to ease my smart
to comfort me not one.
23 But in my meat they gave me gall,
too cruell for to think:
And gave me in my thirst withall,
strong vinegar to drink.
24 Lord, turn their table to a snare,
to take themselves therein:
And when they think full well to fare,
then trap them in the gin.
25 And let their eyes be dark and blind,
that they may nothing see:
Bow down their backs and do them bind
in thraldome for to be.
26 Powre out thy wrath as hot as fire,
that it on them may fall:
Let thy displeasure in thine ire
take hold upon them all.
27 As desarts drie their house disgrace,
their offspring eke expell:
That none thereof possesse their place,
nor in their tents once dwell.
28 If thou dost strike a man to tame,
on him they lay full sore:
And if that thou dost wound the same,
they seek to hurt him more.
29 Then let them heap up mischiefs still,
(sith they are all pervert)
That of thy favour and good will
they never have a part.
30 And raze them clean out of thy book
of life, of hope, and trust:
That for their names they never look
in number of the just.
The fourth Part:
31 Though I (O Lord) with wo and grief
have been full sore opprest
Thy help shall give me such relief,
that all shall be redrest.
32 That I may give thy Name the praise,
and shew it with a song:
I will extoll the same alwaies
with hearty thanks among.
33 Which is more pleasant unto thee,
(such mind thy grace hath born)
Than either Ox or Calfe can be:
that hath both hoof and horn.
34 When simple folk do this behold,
it shall rejoyce them sure,
And ye that seek the Lord behold,
your life for aye shall dure.
35 For why? the Lord of hoasts shall heare
the poore when they complaine:
His prispners are to him full deare,
he doth them not disdaine.
36 Wherefore the skie and earth belowe
the sea with floud and streame,
His praises shall declare and shew,
with all that live in them.
37 For sure our God will Sion save,
and Judaes Cities build:
Much folk possession there shall have,
her streets shall all be fild.
38 His servants seed shall keep the same.
all ages out of mind:
39 And there all they that love his Name,
a dwelling place shall find. Scripture: Psalm 69 Languages: English Tune Title: [Save me, O God, and that with speed]
Salvum me fac
Deus in adiutorium
Author: J. H. Hymnal: WBPF1640 #37 (1640) First Line: O God to me take heed Lyrics: 1 O God, to me take heed,
I help of thee require:
O Lord of hosts, with hast and speed,
help, help, I thee desire.
2 With shame confound them all,
that seek my soule to spill:
Rebuke them back with blame to fall
that think and wish me ill.
3 Confound them that apply,
and seek to work me shame:
And at my harme do laugh and cry,
for so, there goes the game.
4 But let them joyfull be
in thee with joy and wealth:
Which only trust and seek to thee,
and to thy saving health.
5 That they may say alwaies,
in mirth and one accord:
All glory, honour, land and praise
be given to thee Lord.
6 But I am weake and poore,
come Lord thine aid I lack:
Thou art my stay and help, therefore
make speed and be not slack.
Scripture: Psalm 70 Languages: English
Deus in adiutorium
In te Domine
Author: J. H. Hymnal: WBPF1640 #38a (1640) First Line: My Lord my God is all distresse Lyrics: 1 My Lord my God in all distresse,
my hope is whole, in thee:
Then let no shame my souel oppresse,
nor once take hold on me.
2 As thou art just defend me Lord,
and rid me out of dread:
Give eare and to my suit accord,
and send me help at need,
3 Be thou my rock, to whom I may
for aid all times resort:
Thy promise is to help alway,
thou art my fence and fort.
4 Save me, my God, from, winked men,
and from their strength and power;
From folk unjust, and eke from them
that cruelly devoure.
5 Thou art my stay whereon I trust,
thou, Lord of hoasts art he:
Yea from my youth I had a lust.
still to depend on thee:
6 Thou hast me kept even from my birth,
and I through thee was born:
Wherefore I will thee praise with mirth
both evening and at morn.
7 As to a monster seldome seen,
much folk about me throng:
But thou art now and still hast been
my fence and aid so strong.
8 Wherefore my mouth no time shall lack
thy glory and thy praise:
And eke my tongue shall not be slack
To honour thee alwaiess.
9 Refuse me not O Lord, I say,
when age my limbs doth take:
And when my strength doth wast away,
do not my soule forsake.
10 Among themselves my foes enquire
to take me through deceit.
And they against me do conspire.
that for my soule laid wait.
The second Part:
11 Lay hand and take him now they said
for God from him is gone:
Dispatch him quite, for to his aid.
(I wis) there cometh none.
12 Do not absent thy selfe away,
O Lord when need shall be:
But that in time of griefe thou may
in hast give help to me.
13 With shame confound and overthrow
all those that seek my life:
Oppresse them with rebuke also,
that faine would work me strife.
14 But I will patiently abide
thy help at all assayes:
Still more and more, each time and tide,
I will set forth thy praise.
15 My mouth thy justice shall record,
that daily help doth send:
For of thy benefits O Lord,
I know no count nor end.
16 Yet will I go and seek forth one,
with thy good help O God,
The saving health of thee alone,
to shew and set abroad.
17 For of my youth thou tookst the care,
and dost instruct me still:
Therefore thy wonders to declare
I have great mind and will.
18 And as in youth from wanton rage,
thou didst me keep and stay:
Forsake me not unto mine age,
and till my head be gray.
The third Part:
19 That I thy strength & might may shew
to them that now be here:
And that our seed thy power may know
Hereafter many a yeare.
20 O Lord thy justice doth exceed,
thy doings all may see:
Thy works are wonderfull indeed,
O who is like to thee?
21 Thou mad'st me feele affliction sore,
and yet thou didst me save:
Yea thou didst help and me restore,
and tookst me from the grave.
22 And thou mine honour dost increase,
my dignity maintaine:
Yea thou dost make all griefe to cease,
and comfortst me againe.
23 Therefore thy faithfulnesse to praise,
I will with violl sing,
My harp shall sound thy laud alwaies,
O Israels ho1y King.
24 My mouth will joy with pleasant voice
when I shall sing to thee:
And eke my soule will much rejoyce
for thou hast set me free.
25 My tongue thy uprightness shall sound,
and speak it daily still:
For griefe and shame do them confound,
that seek to work me ill. Scripture: Psalm 71 Languages: English
In te Domine
Deus judicium
Author: J. H. Hymnal: WBPF1640 #38b (1640) First Line: Lord give thy judgements to the King Lyrics: 1 Lord give thy judgements to the King
therein instruct him well:
And with his sonne that princely thing,
Lord let thy justice dwell.
2 That he may governe uprightly,
and rule thy folk aright:
And so defend through equity,
the poore that have no might.
3 And let the mountaines that are hie,
unto thy folk give peace:
And eke let little hils apply,
in justice to increase.
4 That he may help the weak and poore
with aide, and make them strong:
And eke destroy for evermore,
all those that do them wrong.
5 And then from age to age shall they
regard and fear thy might:
So long as Sun doth shine by day,
or else the Moone by night.
6 Lord make the King unto the just,
like raine to fields new mown:
And like to drops that lay the dust,
refreshing land new sowne.
7 The just shall flourish in his time,
and all shall be at peace:
Untill the Moone shall leave to prime,
waste, change and to increase.
8 He shall be Lord of sea and land,
from shore to shore throughout:
And from the flouds within the land,
through all the earth about.
9 The people that in desarts dwell,
Shall kneele to him full thick:
And all his enemies that rebell,
the earth and dust shall lick.
10 The lords of all the Iles thereby,
great gifts to him shall bring:
The Kings of Saba and Arabie,
give many a costly thing.
The second Part:
11 All kings shall seek with one accord,
in his good grace to stand:
And all the people of the world,
shall serve him at his hand.
12 For he the needy sort doth save
that unto him do call:
And eke the simple folk that have
no help of man at all.
13 He taketh pity on the poore,
that are with need opprest:
He doth preserve them evermore,
and bring their soules to rest.
14 He shall redeem their souls from dread
from fraud, from wrong, and might:
And eke the blood that they shall bleed
is precious in his sight.
15 But he shall live and they shall bring
to him of Sabaes gold:
He shall be honoured as a King,
and daily be extold.
16 The mighty mountaines of his land
of corne shall bear such throng:
That it like Cedar trees shall stand,
in Libanus full long.
17 Their Cities eke full well shall speed,
the fruits thereof shall passe:
In plenty it shall far exceed,
and spring as green as grasse.
18 For ever they shall praise his Name,
while that the Sun is light:
And think them happy through the same
all folk shall blesse his might.
19 Praise ye the Lord of hosts, and sing
to Israels God each one:
For he doth every wondrous thing,
yea he himself alone.
20 And blessed be his holy Name
all times eternally:
That all the earth may praise the same,
Amen, Amen, say I.
Scripture: Psalm 72 Languages: English Tune Title: [Lord, give thy judgements to the king]
Deus judicium
Quam bonus Deus
Author: T. S. Hymnal: WBPF1640 #39 (1640) First Line: How ever it be yet God is good Lyrics: 1 How ever it be yet God is good
and kind to Israel:
And to all such as safely keep
their conscience pure and well.
2 Yet like a fool I almost slipt,
my feet began to slide:
And ere I wist, even at a pinch
my steps awry gan glide.
3 For when I saw such foolish men,
I grudg'd with great disdaine,
That wicked men all things should have
without turmoile or paine.
4 They never suffer pangs nor griefe,
as if death should them smite:
Their bodies are full stout and strong,
and ever in good plight.
5 And free from all adversity,
when other men be shent:
And with the rest they take no part
of plague or punishment.
6 Therefore presumption doth imbrace
their necks as doth a chaine:
And are even wrapt as in a robe,
with rapine and disdaine.
7 They are so fed that even for fat
their eyes oft times out start:
And as for worldly goods they have
more than can wish their heart.
8 Their life is most licentious:
boasting much of their wrong
Which they have done to simple men
and eve pr'yed among.
9 The heavens and the living Lord
they spare not to blaspheme:
And prate they do of worldly things,
no wight they do esteeme.
10 The people of God oft times turnback
to see their prosperous state:
And almost drink the self same cup,
and follow the same rate.
The second Part:
11 How can it be that God (say theyP
should know or understand
These worldly things, sith wicked men
be Lords of sea and land?
12 For we may see how wicked men
in riches still increase:
Rewarded well with worldly goods,
and live in rest and peace.
13 Then why do I from wickednesse
my fantasie refraine?
And wash my hands with innocents,
and cleanse my heart in vaine?
14 And suffer scourges every day,
as subject to all blame:
And every morning from my youth
sustain rebuke and shame?
15 And I had almost said as they,
misliking my estate:
But that I should thy children judge,
as folk unfortunate.
16 Then I bethought me how I might
this matter understand:
But yet the labour was too great
for me to take in hand.
17 Untill the time I went into
thy holy place, and then
I understood right perfectly
the end of all these men.
18 And namely, how thou settest them
upon a slippery place:
And at thy pleasure and thy will
thou dost them all deface.
19 Then all men muse at that strange sight,
to see how suddenly
They are destroid, dispatcht, consumed,
and dead so horribly.
20 Much like a dreame when one awakes,
so shall their wealth decay:
Their famous names in all mens sight
shall ebbe and passe away.
The third Part.
21 Yet thus my heart was grieved then,
my mind was much opprest:
22 So fond was I and ignorant,
and in this point a beast.
23 Yet meverthelesse by my right hand,
thou holdst me alwaies fast:
24 And with thy counsell dost me guide
to glory at the last.
25 What thing is there that I can wish
but thee in heaven above?
And in the earth there is nothing,
like thee that I can love.
26 My flesh and eke my heart doth faile
but God doth faile me never:
For of my health God is the strength,
my portion eke for ever.
27 And lo all such as thee forsake,
thou shalt destroy each one:
And those that trust in any thing,
saving in thee alone.
26 Therefore will I draw neare to God,
and ever with him dwell:
In God alone I put my trust,
thy wonders I will tell.
Scripture: Psalm 73 Languages: English
Quam bonus Deus
Ut quid Deus?
Author: J. H. Hymnal: WBPF1640 #40 (1640) First Line: Why art thou (Lord) so long from us Lyrics: 1 Why art thou (Lord) so long from us
in all this danger deep?
Why doth thy anger kindle thus
at thine own pasture sheep?
2 Lord, call the people to thy thought
which have been thine so long:
The which thou hast redeem'd & brought
from bondage sore and strong.
3 Have mind therefore, and think upon,
remember it full well:
Thy pleasant place, thy mount Sion,
where thou wast wont to dwell.
4 Lift up thy feet, and come in hast,
and all thy foes deface:
Who now at pleasure rob and waste
within thy holy place.
5 Amid thy congregations all
thine enemies roare O God:
They set as signes on every wall,
banners displaid abroad.
6 As men with axes hew down trees
that on the hils do grow:
So shine the bills and swords of these,
within thy temple now.
7 The feeling saw'd, and carved boards,
with all the goodly stones,
With axes, hammers, bils and swords,
they beat them down at once.
8 Thy places they consume with flame,
and eke in all this toile:
The house appointed to thy Name,
they raze down to the soile.
9 And thus they said within their heart,
dispatch them out of hand:
Then burnt they up in every part
God's houses through the land.
10 Yet thou no signe of help dost send,
our Prophets all are gone:
To tell when this our plague shall end,
among us there is none.
11 When wilt thou (Lord) come end this shame
and cease thine enemies strong?
Shall they alwaies blaspheme thy Name,
and raile on thee so long?
12 Why dost thou draw thy hand aback,
and hide it in thy lap?
O pluck it out, and be not slack
to give thy foes a tap.
The second Part:
13 O God, thou art our King and Lord,
and evermore hast been:
Yea thy good grace throughout the world
for our great help hath seen.
14 The seas that are so deep and dead,
thy might did make them drie:
And thou didst break the Serpent's head,
that he therein did die.
15 Yea thou didst break the beads so great
of Whales that are so fell:
And gav'st them to the folk to eat.
that in the desarts dwell.
16 Thou mad'st a spring with streams to rise
from rock both hard and hie:
And eke thy hand hath made likewise
deep rivers to be drie.
17 Both day and eke the night are thine,
by thee they were began:
Thou setst to serve us with their shine,
the Moone and eke the Sun.
18 Thou didst appoint the ends and coasts
of all the earth about:
Both summer-heats and winter-frosts,
thy hand hath found them out.
19 Think on (O Lord) no time forget
thy foes that thee defame:
And how the foolish folk are set
to raile upon thy Name.
20 O let no cruell beasts devoure
the Turtle that is true;
Forget not alwaies in thy power
the poore that much do rue.
21 Regard thy covenant, and behold,
thy foes possesse the land:
All sad and dark, forworn and old,
our Realme as now doth stand.
22 Let not the simple go away,
nor yet returne with shame:
But let the poore and needy aye
give praise unto thy Name.
23 Rise (Lord) let be by thee mintain'd,
the cause that is thine own:
Remember how that thou blasphem'd
art by the foolish one.
24 The voice forget not of thy foes,
for the presumption hie
Is more and more increast of those
that hate thee spitefully.
Scripture: Psalm 74 Languages: English
Ut quid Deus?
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