The Songs of the Old and New Testament in Meter
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THE SONGS OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT IN MEETER:
By M. ZACHARY BOYD Preacher of God's Word.
EPHES. 5. 18. 19.
GLASGOW, Printed by the Heirs of GEORGE ANDERSON. Anno 1648.
The Songs of the Old and New Testament.
- THe Song of Songs, 1
- The Song of Moses at the red Sea. 2.
- The song of Moses a little before his death 3
- The song of Deborah. 4
- The song of Hannah. 5
- David's lamentations for: Saul and Jonathan. 6
- The song of David at the promise of Messias. 7
- The song of Isaiah concerning the vineyard. 8
- Isaiah's song of thanks for God's mercies. 9
- Isaiah's song inciting to confidence in God. 10
- The song of Hezekiah. 11
- The Lamentations of Ierem • ah. 12
- The song of Jonah. 13
- The song of Habakktik. 14
- The song of Marie. 15
- The song of Zachari • s. 16
- The song of Simeon. 17
To the right Reverend, the faithful Ministers of GOD'S Word of the Church of Scotland.
RIGHT REVEREND,
IT pleased You in the General Assembly last, at Edinburgh, Anno 1647. to take to your consideration, the great utility the Church of GOD may have by the Songs contained in holy Scriptures; After due deliberation, it pleased You to ordain that I should labor in that work • In obedience unto You, I have endeavored to come as near to the Text as was possible for me to do; And those my labors I in all humility offer to be considered, by the most learned and most judicious Brethren, that the Church having the use thereof, may in obedience to the Apostles precept Ephes. 5. 18. in Psalms, and Hymns, and spiritual Songs, make melody in their heart to the Lord, whom I entreat in all humility to direct You in all things by his holy Spirit; So I remain
From Glasgow, the 27 of February, 1648.
Your humble servant in the LORD, M. ZACHARY BOYD.
THE SONG OF Solomon made in praise of Christ, and his Church.
CHAPTER I.
LEt him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better then wine.
2 Because of the savor of thy good ointments, thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
3 Draw me, we will run after thee: the King hath brought me into his chambers:
We will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more then wine: the upright love thee.
4 I am black, but comely, (O ye daughters of Jerusalem) as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
5 Look not upon me because I am black, because the Sun hath looked upon me.
My mothers children were angry with me, they made me the keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
6 Tell me (O thou whom my soul loveth) where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon:
For why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?
7 If thou know not, (O thou fairest among women) go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds tents.
8 I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaohs chariots.
9 Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.
10 We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.
11 While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
12 A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me;
He shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.
13 My beloved is unto me, as a cluster of Camphire, in the vineyards of Engedi.
14 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair, thou hast doves eyes.
15 Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea pleasant: also our bed is green.
16 The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fire.
CHAPTER II.
I Am the rose of Sharon, and the lilly of the valleys.
2 As the lilly among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons.
• I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.
5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples; for I am sick of love.
6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.
7 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the Roes, and by the Hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love till he please.
8 The voice of my beloved! behold, he co • eth leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon •• e hills.
9 My beloved is like a roe, or a young heart: hold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh •• th at the windows, showing himself through •• e lattesse.
10 My beloved spake, and said unto me, • se up my love, my fair one, and come away.
11 For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over •• d gone.
12 The flowers appear on the earth, the time • he singing of birds is come, and the voice of turtle is heard in our land.
13 The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
14 O my dove that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs,
Let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice, for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.
15 Take us the Foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
16 My beloved is mine, and I am his: he • eedeth among the lilies.
17 Until the day break, and the shadows • lee away: turn my beloved, and be thou like a Roe, or a young Hart, upon the mountains of Bether.
CHAPTER III.
BY night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found • im not.
2 I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my Soul loveth:
I sought him, but I found him not.
3 The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my Soul loveth.
4 It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my Soul loveth;
I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mothers house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
5 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the Roes, and by the Hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love till he please.
6 Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant.
7 Behold his bed, which is Solomon's: threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.
8 They all hold swords, being expert in war, Every man hath his sword upon his thigh, because of fear in the night.
9 King Solomon made himself a charet of the wood of Lebanon.
10 He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold,
The covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.
11 Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold King Solomon,
With the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.
CHAPTER IV.
BEhold, thou art fair, my love, behold thou art fair, thou hast doves eyes within thy locks:
Thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear • from mount Gilead.
2 Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep, that are even shorn which came up from the washing, whereof everyone bear twins, and none is barren among them.
3 Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a prece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
4 Thy neck is like the tower of David, buil • ded for an armory, whereon there hang a thou • sand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.
5 Thy two breasts are like two young Roe • that are twins, which feed among the lilies.
6 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mo • ntaine of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
7 Thou art all fair, my love, there is no spot in thee.
8 Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon:
Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the Lions dens, from the mountains of the Leopards.
9 Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse, thou hast ravished my heart, with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.
10 How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse, how much better is thy love then wine? and the smell of thine ointments then all spices.
11 Thy lips, O my spouse drop as the hon comb, honey and milk are under thy tongue, and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
12 A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse: a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
13 Thy plants are an orchard of Pomegranates, with pleasant fruits, Camphire, with Spikenard.
14 Spikenard and Saffron, Calamus and Cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, Myrrh, and Aloes, with all the chief spices:
15 A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
16 Awake, O North-wind, and come thou South, blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out;
Let my beloved come into his garden, and cat his plea •• nt fruits.
CHAPTER V.
I Am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse, I have gathered my Myrrh with my spice,
I have eaten my honey comb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends, drink, yea drink abundantly, O beloved!
2 I sleep, but mine heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying,
Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
3 I have put off my coat, how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them?
4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole o the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
5 I rose up to open to my beloved, and my hands dropped with Myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling Myrrh, upon the handles o • the lock.
6 I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone:
My soul failed: when he spake I sought him but I could not find him: I called him, but he gave me no answer.
7 The watchmen that went about the city, found me, they smote me, they wounded me, the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
9 What is thy beloved more then another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more then another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?
10 My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.
11 His head is as the most fine gold, his looks are bushie and black as a raven.
〈◊〉 His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk and fitly set.
13 His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
14 His hands are as gold rings set with the Berill: His belly is as bright ivory, overlaid with Sapphires.
15 His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the Cedars.
16 His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely: This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
CHAPTER VI.
WHether is thy beloved gone? O thou fairest among women, whether is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.
2 My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
3 I am my beloveds, and my beloved is mines be feedeth among the lilies.
4 Thou art beautiful, O my love as Tirzah comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.
5 Turn away thine eyes from me for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.
6 Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof everyone beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them.
7 As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.
8 There are threescore Queens, and fourscore Concubines, and Virgins without number.
9 My dove, my undefiled is but one: she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her:
The daughters saw her, and blessed her▪ yea, the Queens and the Concubines and they praised her.
10 Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
11 I went down into the garden of nuts, to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.
12 Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadab.
13 Return, return, O Shulamite, return, return, that we may look upon thee:
What will ye see in the Shulamite? as it were the company of two armies.
CHAPTER VII.
HOw beautiful are thy feet with sho • es, O Princes daughter, the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cun • ing work-man.
2 Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not licour: thy belly is like an heap of wheat, set about with lilies.
3 Thy two breasts are like two young Roes, that are twins.
4 Thy neck is as a tower of ivory: thine eyes like the fish pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim:
Thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon, which looketh toward Damascus.
5 Thine head upon thee is like Carmell, and the hair of thine head like purple, the King is held in the galleries.
6 How fair, and how pleasant art thou, O Love, for delights!
7 This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof,
Now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples.
9 And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep, to speak.
10 I am my beloveds, and his dosire is towards me.
11 Come my beloved, let us go forth into the field:
Let us lodge in the villages.
12 Let us get up early to the vineyards, let us see if the vine flourish,
Whether the tender grapesappear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
• 3 The mandraks give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old which I have laid up for thee, O my • eloved.
CHAPTER VIII.
O That thou wert as my brother that sucked the breasts of my mother, when I should find thee without,
I would kiss thee, yet I should not be despised.
2 I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mothers house, who would instruct me:
I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.
3 His left hand should be under my head: • nd his right hand should embrace me.
4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, • hat ye stir not up, nor awake my love until he please.
5 Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved?
I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth, there she brought thee forth that bare thee.
6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: For love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave:
The coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
7 Many waters cannot quench love, neith • can the floods drown it:
If a man would give all the substance of • house for love, It would utterly be contemned
8 We have a little sister, and she hath 〈◊〉 breasts, what shall we do for our sister, in 〈◊〉 day when she shall be spoken for?
9 If she be a wall, we will build upon her palace of silver: and if she be a door, we 〈◊〉 inclose her with boards of Cedar.
10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers▪ then was I in his eyes as one that found favor.
11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon, he let out the vineyard unto keepers:
Everyone for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
12 My vineyard which is mine, is before me: thou (O Solomon) must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof, two hundred.
13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, th • companions hearken to thy voice, cause me 〈◊〉 hear it.
14 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou lik • •• to a Roe, or to a young Hart, upon the mountain • of spices.
The Song of Moses at the Red Sea,
after God had drowned Pharaoh
and his whole host.
EXODUS 15. 1.
I Will sing unto the Lord, for he hath trium • phed gloriously; the horse and his rider h ••• he thrown into the sea.
2 The Lord is my strength and song, and 〈◊〉 is become my salvation: he is my God, and I 〈◊〉 prepare him an habitation;
My fathers God, and I will exalt him.
3 The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is • is Name.
4 Pharaohs chariots and his host hath he cast • nto the sea: his chosen captains also are drown • d in the Red sea.
5 The depths have covered them, they sank • nto the bottom as a stone.
6 Thy right hand, O Lord is become glory • us in power; thy right hand, O Lord, hath dash • d in pieces the enemy.
7 And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee; thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
8 And with the blast of thy nostrils, the waters were gathered together: the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil: my lust shall be satisfied upon them:
I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
10 Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them, they sank as lead in the mighty wa • ers.
11 Who is like unto thee, O Lord, amongst the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
12 Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
13 Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed:
Thou hast guided them in thy strength unto • hy holy habitation.
14 The people shall hear, and be afraid: • orrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestine.
15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed: the mighty men of Moab trembling shall take hold upon them: all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.
16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them, by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone, till thy people pass over,
O Lord, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.
17 Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place O Lord, which thou hast made for thee to dwell. in.
In the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hand • have established.
18 The Lord shall reign forever and ever.
19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots, and with his horsemen into the sea, and the Lord brought again the waters of the sea, upon them:
But the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.
The Song of Moses a little before
his death.
DEUT. 32.
The Preface.
GIve ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distill as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass.
3 Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
The first Part.
4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth, and without iniquity, just and right is he.
5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are • perverse and crooked generation.
6 Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? is not be thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will show thee, thy elders, and they will tell thee.
8 When the most high divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam,
He set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
9 For the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness: he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings.
12 So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields, and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock.
14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs and rams of the breed of Bashan,
And goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat, and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
The second Part.
15 But Iesurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick,
Thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the rock of his salvation.
16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
18 Of the rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
The third Part.
19 And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.
21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God, they have provoked me to anger with their vanities:
And I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people, I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
22 For a fire is kindled in my anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
23 I will heap mischiefs upon them, I will spend mine arrows upon them.
24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction:
I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
26 I said, I would s • atter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strang • lie,
And lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the Lord hath not done all this.
28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end.
30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?
31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even • ur enemies themselves being judges.
32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom •• nd of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are •• apes of gall, their clusters are bitter.
33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and • he cruel venom of asps.
34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and • aled up among my treasures?
The fourth Part.
35 To me belongeth vengeance, and re • mpence, their foot shall slide in due time:
For the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
36 For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants; when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
37 And he shall say, where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted.
38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink-offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
39 See now that I, even I am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal:
Neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live forever.
41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
42 I will make mine arrows drunk wit • blood (and my sword shall devour flesh)
And that with the blood of the slain, and o • the captives, from the beginning of revenges upo • the enemy.
43 Rejoice, O ye nations with his people▪ for he will avenge the blood of his servants,
And will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
The Song of Deborah, and Barak, after the victory
against the army of Jabin King of Canaan;
who reigned in Hazor, whose captain
was Sisera, whose head was cut off by Iahell,
the wi
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e of Heber.
JUDGES 5. verse. 2.
PRaise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves:
3 Hear, O ye kings, give ear, O ye princes; I, even I will • ing unto the Lord, I will sing praise to the Lord God of Israel.
4 Lord when thou wentedst out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
5 The mountains melted from before the Lord, even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel.
6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the high-ways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through bywayes.
7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I • Deborah arose that I arose a mother in Israel.
8 They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
9 My heart is toward the Governors of • rael, that offered themselves willingly among 〈◊〉 people: Bless ye the Lord.
10 Speak ye that ride on white asses, ye that 〈◊〉 in judgment, and walk by the way.
11 They that are delivered from the noise 〈◊〉 archers in the places of drawing water, there • all they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord,
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12 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake utter a song, ariso Barak, and lead thy captivi • captive, thou son of Abinoam.
13 Then he made him that remaineth hav • dominion over the nobles among the people: th • Lord made me have dominion over the mighty.
14 Out of Ephraim was there a root 〈◊〉 them against Amalek, after thee Benjamin, amon • thy people:
Out of Machir came down governors, an • out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of 〈◊〉 writer.
15 And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah: even Issachar,
And also Barak, he was sent on foot into the • alley: for the divisions of Reuben, there were • reat thoughts of heart.
16 Why abodest thou among the sheep folds, • o hear the bleatings of the flocks? for the divisions of Reuben, there were great searchings of heart.
17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death, in the high places of the field.
19 The kings came and fought, then fough • the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the water • of Megiddo, they took no gain of money.
20 They fought from heaven, the stars i • their courses fought against Sisera.
21 The river of Kishon swept them away, th • ancient river, the river Kishon: O my sou • thou hast trodden down strength.
22 Then were the horse hoofs broken, by • he means of the pransings, the pransings of • heir mighty ones.
23 Curse ye Meroz, (said the angel of the Lord) curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof:
Because they came not to the help of the Lord, 〈◊〉 the help of the Lord against the mighty.
24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wise • f Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
25 He asked water, and she gave him milk she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
26 She put her hand to the nail, and h • right hand to the workmens hammer: and wi •• the hammer she smote Sisera,
She smote of his head, when she had pierce and stricken through his temples.
27 At her feet he bowed, he sell, he 〈◊〉 down: at her feet he bowed, he fell; where 〈◊〉 bowed, there he fell down dead.
28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattesse, why is his chariot so long in coming?
Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
30 Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey, to every man a damsel or two?
To Sisera a prey of divers colors, a prey of divers colors of needle work,
Of divers colors of needle-work on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?
31 So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord but let them that love him, be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might.
The Song of Hannah, which she sang to
God when she had born Samuel, after
long bar
•
nesse.
1 SAM. 2. verse. 1.
MY heart rejoiceth in the Lord, mine horn is exalted in the Lord, my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies: because I rejoice in thy salvotion.
2 There is none holy as the Lord: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.
3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly, let not arrogancy come out of your mouth:
For the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
4 The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled, are girt with strength.
5 They that were full, have hired out themselves for bread, and they that were hungry, • eased:
So that the barren hath born seven, and she that hath many children, is waxed feeble.
6 The Lord killeth, and maketh alive, 〈◊〉 bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
7 The Lord maketh poor, and maketh ri •• he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, an • lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to se • them among princes,
And to make them inherit the throne of glory: •• r the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and 〈◊〉 hath set the world upon them.
9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the • icked shall be silent in darkness; for by •• ength shall no man prevail.
10 The adversaries of the Lord shall be bro •• n to pieces: out of heaven shall he thunder •• no them:
The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth, •• d he shall give strength unto his king, and ex •• he horn of his anointed.
The lamentations of David for the death of Saul and Jonathan, slain upon the mountain of Gilboah.
2 SAM. 1. verse. 19.
THe beauty of Israel is slain upon thy hi • places: how are the mighty fallen.
2 Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in 〈◊〉 streets of Askelon: lest the daughters of 〈◊〉 Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the 〈◊〉 circumcised triumph.
3 Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be 〈◊〉 dew, neither let there be rain upon you, nor fiel • of offerings:
For there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
4 From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty.
5 Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided.
They were swifter then eagles, they were stronger then lions.
6 Ye daughters of Israel weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
7 How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine bigh places.
8 I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me:
Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
9 How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished.
The Song of David, which he sang to give
thanks after that Nathan had promised
him benefits and blessings, but chiefly the
Messias to come of his seed.
2 SAM. 7. verse. 18.
WHo am I, O Lord God? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?
2 And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord God; but thou hast spoken also of thy servants house for a great while to come,
And is this the manner of man, O Lord God?
3 And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord God, knowest thy servant.
4 For thy words sake, and according to thine own heart hast thou done all these great things; to make thy servant know them.
5 Wherefore thou art great, O Lord God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any god beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
6 And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself,
And to make him a name, and to do for you great things, and terrible for thy land,
Before thy people which thou redeemdst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
7 For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee forever • and thou, Lord, art become their God.
8 And now, O Lord God, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, establish it forever, and do as thou hast said.
9 And let thy name be magnified forever, saying; The Lord of hosts is the God over Israel:
And let the house of thy servant David he established before thee.
10 For thou, O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant,
Saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee.
11 And now, O Lord God, thou art that God, and thy words he true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant.
12 Therefore now let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue forever before thee:
For thou O Lord God, hast spoken it, and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed forever.
The Song of Isaiah, concerning the vineyard,
wherein God's people is reproved for their
barrenness in good works, notwithstanding
of all the pains were taken by the Prophets.
ISAIAH▪ 5. verse. 1.
NOw will I sing to my well-beloved, a song, of my beloved touching his vineyard: my well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill.
2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and bult a tower in the midst of it.
And also made a wine-press therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
3 And now; O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwix • me and my vineyard.
4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard, I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up:
And break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down.
6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged,
But there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant.
And he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
A Song of thanks for the
mercies of God.
ISA. 12. verse. 1.
O Lord, I will praise thee, though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
2 Behold, God is my salvation: I will trust, and not be afraid; for the Lord JEHOVAH is my strength and my song, be also is become my salvation.
3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water • t of the wells of salvation.
4 And in that day shall ye say,
Praise the Lord, call upon his name, declare • is doings among the people, make mention that • is name is exalted.
5 Sing unto the Lord; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.
6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the holy one of Israel in the midst of thee.
A Song inciting to confidence in
GOD.
Isa. 26. verse. 1.
WE have a strong city, salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.
3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
4 Trust ye in the Lord forever: for in the Lord JEHOVAH is everlasting strength.
5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on • igh, the lofty city he layeth it low, he layeth it 〈◊〉 , even to the ground, he bringeth it even to • e dust.
6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet 〈◊〉 the poor, and the steps of the needy.
7 The way of the just is uprightness: thou ost upright, dost weight the path of the just.
8 Yea in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, • ve we waited for thee; the desire of our soul to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
9 With my soul have I desired thee in the • ght, yea with my spirit within me will I seek 〈◊〉 early.
For when thy judgments are in the earth the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
10 Let favor be shown to the wicked, y • will he not learn righteousness:
In the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of 〈◊〉 LORD.
11 Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, th • will not see: but they shall see, and be asham • for their envy at the people,
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.
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.
14 They are dead, they shall not live; they • re deceased, they shall not rise:
Therefore hast thou visited and destroyed 〈◊〉 , and made all their memory to perish.
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.
16 Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, th • poured out a prayer when thy chastening wa • upon them.
17 Like as a woman with child that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, an • crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in th • sight, O Lord.
18 We have been with child, we have be • in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind
We have not wrought any deliverance in the • rth, neither have the inhabitants of the world • llen.
19 Thy dead men shall live, together with dead body shall they arise:
Awake and sing ye that dwell in dust: for thy 〈◊〉 is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall • out the dead.
Come, my people, enter thou into thy cham ••• s, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thy 〈◊〉 as it were for a little moment, until the • ignation be overpast.
21 For behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity:
The earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
The Song of Hezekiah, after God had
healed him of his sickness. &c.
ISA. 38. verse. 10.
I Said in the cutting off of my days, I shall g • to the gates of the grave: I am deprived o • the residue of my years.
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,
3 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me, as a shepherds tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life:
He will cut me of with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
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.
5 Like a cran or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove,
Mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, 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 bitterness of my soul.
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.
8 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness; but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption:
For thou hast cast all my sins behind 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.
10 The living, the living, he shall praise • he, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
11 The Lord was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments, all the days of our life, in the house of the LORD.
THE LAMENTATIONS OF IEREMIAH.
CHAPTER. 1.
HOw doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people? how is she become as a widow?
She that was great among the nations, and princesse among the provinces, how is she become tributary.
2 She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheecks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her,
All her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
3 Judah is gone into captivity, because of affliction,
And because of great servitude: she dwell • h among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all • r persecutors overtook her between the straits.
4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none me to the solemn feasts: all her gates are solate:
Her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, 〈◊〉 she is in bitterness.
5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies • sper: for the Lord hath afflicted her.
For the multitude of her transgressions, her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture,
And they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction.
And of her miseries, all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old,
When her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her, the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.
8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned: therefore she is removed: all that honored her, despise her,
Because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth and turneth backward.
9 Her filthiness is in her skirts, she remembereth not her last end, therefore she came down wonderfully:
She had no comforter: O Lord, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.
10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen
That the heathen entered into her Sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.
11 All her people sigh, they seek bread, they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul:
See, O Lord, and consider, for I am become • ile.
12 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold and see,
If there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me, in the day of his fierce anger.
13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them:
He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath • urned me back: he hath made me desolate, and faint all the day.
14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my n • c • :
He hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.
15 The Lord hath trodden underfoot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me,
To crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in • wine-press.
16 For these things I weep, mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul, is far from me:
My children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her:
The Lord hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.
18 The Lord is righteous, for I have rebel • ed against his commandment: hear I pray you, • ll people, and behold my sorrow:
My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
19 I called for my lovers but they deceived me;
My priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.
20 Behold, O Lord, for I am in distress; my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me, for I have grievously rebelled:
Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
21 They have heard that I sigh, there is none to comfort me:
All mine enemies have heard of my trouble, they are glad that thou hast done it▪ thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called,
And they shall be like unto me.
22 Let all their wickedness come before thee, and do unto them,
And do thou unto them as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions, for my sigh • are many and my heart is faint.
CHAPTER II.
HOw hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel,
And remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger?
2 The Lord swallowed up the habitations of Jacob:
And hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah:
He hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
3 He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy,
And • e burned against Jacob like a flaming fire which devoureth round about.
4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy:
He stood with his right hand as an adversary▪ • nd slew all that were pleasant to the eye, in the • bernacle of the daughter of Zion:
He poured out his fury like fire.
5 The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces:
He hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
6 And he hath violently taken away • his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden, he hath destroyed his places of the assembly:
The Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and • abbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
7 The Lord hath cast off his alter: he hath abhorred his sanctuary: he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces;
They have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as in the day of a solemn feast.
8 The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; he hath stretched out a line: he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying:
Therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament, they languished together.
9 Her g •• es are sunk into the ground;
He hath destroyed and broken her bars; her king and her princes are among the Gentiles; the law is no more,
Her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground and keep silence:
They have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth;
The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
11 Mine eyes do fail with tears; my bowels are troubled;
My liver is poured upon the earth, for the de •• ruction of the daughter of my people, because • e children and the sucklings swoon in the • e • ts of the city.
12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn • d wine? when they swooned as the wounded in • e streets of the city,
When their soul was poured out into their • thers bosom.
13 What thing shall I take to witness for • e? what thing shall I liken to thee? O •• ghter of Jerusalem?
What shall I equal to thee, that I may fort the • , O virgin daughter of Zion? fo • breach is great like the sea;
Who can heal thee?
14 Thy prophets have seen vain and f • • hings for thee,
And they have not discovered thine iniq • • urn away thy captivity; but have seen fo • false burdens, and causes of banishment.
15 All that pass by, clap their ha • thee; they hiss and wag their head at the d •• er of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city,
That men call the perfection of beauty, the • oy of the whole earth?
16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash • he teeth:
They say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for: we have found, we have seen it.
17 The Lord hath done that which he had devised: he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old:
He hath thrown down, and hath not pitied and he hath caused thine enemies to rejoice o • thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversari • ▪
18 Their heart cried unto the Lord, O w • of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down li • a river day and night:
Give thyself no rest, let not the appl • 〈◊〉 thine eyes cease.
19 Arise, cry out in the night:
In the beginning of the watches pour 〈◊〉 thine heart like water before the face of the Lor • ▪
Lift up thy hands towards him, for the life of • y young children, that faint for hunger in the • p of every street.
20 Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom • ou hast done this: shall the women eat their • uit, and children of a span long?
Shall the Priest and the Prophet be slain in 〈◊〉 sanctuary of the Lord.
21 The young and the old lie on the ground 〈◊〉 the streets:
My virgins and my young men are fallen by 〈◊〉 sword: thou hast slain them in the day of • y anger, thou hast killed and not pitied.
22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the Lord's anger none escaped
Nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up, hath mine enemy consumed.
CHAPTER III.
I Am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
2 He hath led me and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
3 Surely against me is he turned, he turneth his hand against me all the day.
4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old, he 〈◊〉 broken my bones.
5 He hath built against me, and compass •• me with gall and travel.
6 He hath set me in dark places, as they 〈◊〉 be dead of old.
7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot 〈◊〉 out: he hath made my chain heavy.
8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out • y prayer.
9 He hath enclosed my ways with hewe • one: he hath made my paths • ro • ked.
10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, • nd as a lion in secret places.
11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pu • led me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
14 I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forga • prosperity.
18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord.
19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
22 It is of the Lord's mercy that we are not consumed,
Because his compassions fail not.
32 They are new every morning: great is th • faithfulness.
24 The Lord is my portion, saith my soul, therefore will I hope in him.
25 The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
28 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath born it upon him.
29 He putteth his mouth in the dust: if so 〈◊〉 there may be hope.
30 He giveth his cheek to him that smi • et • • im, he is filled full with reproach.
31 For the Lord will not cast off forever.
32 But though he cause grief, yet will he • ave compassion according to the multitude of his •• ercies.
33 For he doth not afflict willingly; nor grieve the children of men.
34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most high.
36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord • ppro • eth not.
37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not.
38 Out of the mouth of the most high proceedeth not evil and good.
39 Wherefore doth a living man complain,
A man for the punishment of his sins?
40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.
41 Let us lift our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
42 We have transgressed and have rebelled, thou hast not pardoned.
43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast stain, thou hast not pitied.
44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud that our prayer should not pass through.
45 Thou hast made us as the off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 Mine eye trickleth down and ceaseth not, without any intermission:
50 • ill the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.
51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart, because of all the daughters of my city.
52 Mine enemies chased me sore like a bird, without cause.
53 They have cut of my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
54 Waters flowed over mine head, then I said, I am cut off.
55 I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of • he low dungeon.
56 Thou hast heard my voice, hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
58 O Lord, thou hast plead • d the causes of my soul, thou hast redeemed my life.
59 O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong, judge thou my cause.
60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance, and all their imaginations against me.
61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me.
62 The lips of those that rose up against me and their device against me all the day.
63 Behold their sitting down and their rising up, I am their music.
64 Render unto them a recompense, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.
65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
66 Persecute and destroy them in anger, from under the heavens of the Lord.
CHAPTER IV.
HOw is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.
2 The precious sons of Zion, compareable to fine gold, how are they esteemed to earthen pi • ohers, the work of the hands of the potter!
3 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, • hey give suck to their young ones: the daughter • f my people is become cruel, like the ostriches • n the wilderness.
4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth • o the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
5 They that did feed delicately, are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet, embrace dunghills.
6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people, is greater then the punishment of the sin of Sodom,
That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
7 Her Nazarites were purer then snow, they were whiter then milk,
They were more rudy in body then rubies, their • olishing was of saphire.
8 Their visage is blacker then a coal: they are not known in the streets:
Their skin cleaveth to their bones: it is withered, it is become like a stick.
9 They that be slain with the sword, are better then they that be slain with hunger:
For these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children, they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
11 The Lord hath accomplished his fury, he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.
12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world would not have believed, that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her;
14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted th • mselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
15 They cried unto them, Depart ye, it is unclean, depart, depart, touch not, when they fled away and wandered:
They said among the heathen, they shall no more sojourn there.
16 The anger of the Lord hath divided them,
He will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favored not the elders.
17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
18 They hunt our steps that we cannot go i • our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled, for our end is come.
19 Our persecutors are swifter then the eagles of the heaven they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointe • of the Lord was taken in their pits, of whom we said,
Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Vz.
The cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
22 The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion, he will no more carry thee away into captivity.
He will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he will discover thy sins.
CHAPTER V.
REmember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to alients.
3 We are Orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4 We have drunken our water for money, our wood is sold unto us.
5 Our necks are under persecution: we labor and have no rest.
6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers have sinned and are not, and • e have born their iniquities.
8 Servants have ruled over us: there is • ne that doth deliver us out of their hand.
9 We gat our bread with the peril of our 〈◊〉 , because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skin was black like an oven, because the terrible famine.
11 They ravished the women in Zion, and •• maids in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the • es of elders were not honored.
13 They took the young men to grind, an • the children fell under the wood.
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, th • young men from their music.
15 The joy of our heart is ceased, our da •• is turned into mourning.
16 The crown is fallen from our head: 〈◊〉 unto us that we have sinned.
17 For this our heart is faint, for these thi • our eyes are dim.
18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which desola • e, the foxes walk upon it.
19 Thou, O Lord, remainest forever: thy •• rone from generation to generation.
20 Wherefore dost thou forget us forever, •• d forsake us so long time?
21 Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we •• ll be turned:
〈◊〉 Renew our days as of old.
22 But thou hast utterly rejected us: thou art 〈◊〉 wroth against us.
The Song of Jonah, for his deliverance
out of the belly of the Whale.
Jonah. 2. verse. 2.
••• ryed by reason of mine affliction unto the • ord, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell 〈◊〉 I, and thou heardest my voice.
2 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in 〈◊〉 midst of the seas, and the floods compassed me 〈◊〉 bout, all thy billows and thy waves passed over 〈◊〉
3 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sig •• yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
4 The waters compassed me about eve •• the soul: the depth closed me round about, 〈◊〉 weeds were wrapped about my head.
5 I went down to the bottoms of the 〈◊〉 • ains; the earth with her bars was abo •• forever:
Yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.
6 When my soul fainted within me, I re •• mbred the Lord, and my prayer came in unto • ee, in thine holy temple.
7 They that observe lying vanities, forsake •• eir own mercy.
8 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the •• ice of thanksgiving, I will pay that that I have •• wed: salvation is of the Lord.
The Song and prayer of Habbakkuk,
upon Sigionoth.
HABAK. 3. verse. 2.
I Have heard thy speech and was afraid,: 〈◊〉 Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the year • in the midst of the years make known; in wr ••• remember mercy.
2 God came from Teman, and the holy 〈◊〉 from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covere • the heavens, and the earth was full of his pray ••
3 And his brightness was as the light, he 〈◊〉 horns coming out of his hand, and there w •• the biding of his power.
4 Before him went the pestilence, and burn • ng coals went forth at his feet.
5 He stood and measured the earth:
He beheld and drove asunder the • ations, and • he everlasting mountains were scattered, the per •• ctuall hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
6 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
7 Was the Lord displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers?
Was thy wrath against the sea, that though • didst ride upon thine horses, and thy chariots o • salvation?
8 Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word, Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
9 The mountains saw thee, and they trembled; the overflowing of the water passed by • the deep uttered his voice, and lift up his hands on high.
10 The Sun and Moon stood still in their habitations: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear,
11 Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
12 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed,
Thou woundest the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.
Selah.
13 Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me:
Their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
14 Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses through the heap of great waters.
15 When I heard, my belly trembled: my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones,
And I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.
16 Although the fig-tree shall not blosso •• neither shall fruit be in the vines, the labou • of the olive shall fail,
And the fields shall yield no meat, the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
17 Yet will I rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
18 The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places.
The Song of Mary, after Elizabeth told he
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that at her salutation the child in her woe
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leaped for joy.
Luk. 1. 46.
MY soul doth magnify the Lord, 2 And my spirit hath rejoiced in Go • my Savior.
3 For he hath regarded the low estate of h • handmaiden: for behold, from henceforth all g •• nerations shall call me blessed.
4 For he that is mighty hath done to me grea • things, and holy is his name.
5 And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.
6 He hath shown strength with his arm, h • hath scattered the proud, in the inmagination o • their hearts.
7 He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.
8 He hath filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he hath sent empty away.
9 He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy.
10 As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed forever.
The Song of Zacharias after he had been nine
months dumb for not believing the angel
Gabriel.
Luk. 1. verse. 68.
BLessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he hath visited and redeemed his people,
2 And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us, in the house of his servant David.
3 As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began.
4 That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us.
5 To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant.
6 The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,
7 That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hands of our enemies,
Might serve him without fear.
8 In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
9 And thou child shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord, to prepare his ways;
10 To give knowledge of salvation unto 〈◊〉 people, by the remission of their sins.
11 Through the tender mercy of our God whereby the day-spring from on high hath vi • sited us,
12 To give light to them that sit in dark • nesse, and in the shadow of death, to guide ou • feet into the way of peace.
The Song of SIMEON.
Luke 2. verse. 29.
LOrd now lettest thou thy servant depart 〈◊〉 peace, according to thy word.
2 For mine eyes have seen thy salvation:
3 Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people,
4 A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.