The Psalms of David eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 223 pages of information about The Psalms of David.

The Psalms of David eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 223 pages of information about The Psalms of David.

4 Frighted to hear the tempest roar,
They pant with fluttering breath,
And, hopeless of the distant shore,
Expect immediate death.]

5 Then to the Lord they raise their cries,
He hears the loud request,
And orders silence thro’ the skies,
And lays the floods to rest.

6 Sailors rejoice to lose their fears,
And see the storm allay’d: 
Now to their eyes the port appears;
There let their vows be paid.

7 ’Tis God that brings them safe to land;
Let stupid mortals know
That waves are under his command,
And all the winds that blow,

8 O that the sons of men would praise
The goodness of the Lord! 
And those that see thy wondrous ways,
Thy wondrous love record.

Psalm 107:6.  Last Part. 
Colonies planted; or,
Nations blest and punished.

A psalm for New England.

1 When God, provok’d with daring crimes,
Scourges the madness of the times,
He turns their fields to barren sand,
And dries the rivers from the land.

2 His word can raise the springs again, And make the wither’d mountains green, Send showery blessings from the skies, And harvests in the desert rise.

3 [Where nothing dwelt but beasts of prey,
Or men as fierce and wild as they;
He bids th’ opprest and poor repair,
And builds them towns and cities there.

4 They sow the fields, and trees they plant, Whose yearly fruit supplies their want:  Their race grows up from fruitful stocks, Their wealth increases with their flocks.

5 Thus they are blest; but if they sin,
He lets the heathen nations in,
A savage crew invades their lands,
Their princes die by barbarous hands.

6 Their captive sons, expos’d to scorn,
Wander unpity’d and forlorn;
The country lies unfenc’d, untill’d,
And desolation spreads the field.

7 Yet if the humbled nation mourns,
Again his dreadful hand he turns;
Again he makes their cities thrive,
And bids the dying churches live.]

8 The righteous, with a joyful sense,
Admire the works of providence;
And tongues of atheists shall no more
Blaspheme the God that saints adore.

9 How few, with pious care, record
The wondrous dealings of the Lord! 
But wise observers still shall find
The Lord is holy, just, and kind.

Psalm 109. 1-5 31. 
Love to enemies, from the example of Christ.

1 God of my mercy and my praise,
Thy glory is my song;
The sinners speak against thy grace
With a blaspheming tongue.

2 When in the form of mortal man
Thy Son on earth was found,
With cruel slanders, false and vain,
They compass’d him around.

3 Their miseries his compassion move,
Their peace he still pursu’d;
They render hatred for his love,
And evil for his good.

4 Their malice rag’d without a cause,
Yet, with his dying breath,
He pray’d for murderers on his cross,
And blest his foes in death.

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