Psalm 106

GIve thanks unto the Lord,
Who is with goodness stor'd:
His mercies sure
Do still endure,
His praise do ye record.
Who can the acts recite
Performed by his might:
Who can forth-show,
That men may know
His praises infinite?
O blessed blessed they
That walk in judgments way:
And he that doth
The works of truth,
And never goes astray.
O Lord remember mee,
Even with thy favour free:
Which to thine own
Is born alone
To them vouchsaf't by thee.
To visit me draw near
With thy salvation dear:
Thy chosen good
Well understood
Let unto me appear.
In that deliverance
Which doth thy land advance
Let me rejoice,
With glorying voice,
With thine inheritance.

2. Part.
WE into sins have run,
The father and the son:
Transgressing by
INIQUITIE,
We wickedly have done.
The wonders which thy hand
Perform'd in Aegypt land,
Our fathers old,
Who did behold,
Yet did not understand.
Thy mercies many a one
They did not think upon:
But at the Sea,
Provoke did they,
The red Sea scor'd it on.
Yet letting them alone,
He sav'd them every one,
For his Name sake,
That he might make
His mighty power known:
The red Sea on each side,
At his rebuke was dri'd:
Through depths profound
As desert ground
He did his people guide.
Their Saviour he did stand
Against their haters hand:
Redeeming those
From hand of foes,
That rul'd them at command.
The waters drown'd their foes,
Not one was left of those:
His words the men
Beleeved then,
His praise their songs compose.
His works they soon forgot,
For's counsels waited not:
In Wilderness
Their lusts excess
Restraining not a jot.

3. part.
IN deserts God they tempt:
At their requests content
Quails to bestow,
With leanness tho,
Into their soul 'twas sent.
As they in camp abide,
Good Moses they envi'd:
On Aaron too
They envie drew,
Whom God had sanctifi'd.
The earth asunder clave,
Became a swallowing grave:
Where Dathan and
Abiram stand,
And unto all they have.
And in their company
Fire kindled suddenly:
The flame caught then
Those wicked men,
Which were burnt up thereby.
In Horeb were they bold,
To make a calf of gold,
And worshipped
An image dead
Which they did melt and mould.
Thus they their glory pass
Into a molten mass
Of Oxes rude
Similitude,
A beast that eateth grass.

4. Part.
OF God their Saviours might,
They were forgetfull quite,
Whose pow'r and dread
Accomplished
Great things in Aegypts sight.
He wrought with wondrous hand
In Hams accursed land,
Dread things were they
At that red Sea
Perform'd by his command.
Therefore he said that he
Would their destruction be:
Had not, alone,
His chosen one
Good Moses been so free:
He stood, to save them each,
Before him in the breach:
To turn away
His wrath that day,
Lest them destruction reach.
Yea they in careless wise
That pleasant land despise,
And entertain
His words as vain,
And deeming them but lies.
But murmured in their tents,
And gave not their consents,
With willing ear,
The voice to hear
Of his commandements.
He lifted up his hand,
That he would them withstand,
To overthrow
That people so
Within the desert land.
Their seed to overthrow
And scatter them also
In forein lands
And tyrants hands
To serve a heathen to.

5. Part.
TO Baal the God of Peor,
Themselves adjoined were:
They are likewise
The sacrifice
Of those dead Idols there.
Thus did they him provoke
To fiercest angers stroke:
So hatefull their
Inventions were,
The plague upon them broke.
Then Phinehas rose to aid,
With justice he repaid
Their foulest facts,
This part he acts,
And so the plague was stay'd.
'Twas deemed righteousness,
Which that act did express:
And ages all
For ever shall
Esteem it for no less.
At Meribah they spake,
And him they angry make:
So discontent
That ill it went
With Moses for their sake.
His Spirit they provoke,
Rash speeches from him broke:
Such errour slips
From hasty lips,
So unadvis'd he spoke.
They were advertised,
And charg'd to smite them dead,
Yet did not they
Those Nations slay,
But were among them spread,
The works which heath'nish are
To learn they did not spare:
And there they serv'd
Their Idols carv'd,
Which were to them a snare.

6. Part.
YEa, they did sacrifice
Their little girls and boyes,
(Daughters nor Sons
Their blind zeal shuns)
To Devill-Deities.
And innocent bloud they shed,
Which sons and daughters bled:
Whom they likewise
In sacrifice
To Canaan Idols led.
With bloud they stain'd the land,
With works of their own hand,
Which they invent
A whoring went,
Defil'd with that foul brand.
The wrath of God therefore
Against them kindled sore:
So that the Lord
His own abhor'd,
Such blame his her'tage bore.
He left them in the hands,
And under the commands
Of heathen men,
Whose hatred then
They felt in forein lands.
Their enemies also
Opprest and brought them low:
His people were
Subjected there
Under a forein fo.

7. Part.
HE sav'd them many times,
Yet their unjust designes
Provok't him so,
They were brought low
For their abhorred crimes.
But never a whit the less
Their pitifull distress,
He did regard,
When as he h'ard
Their cry in bitterness.
And he to mind did call,
His cov'nant for them all:
His mercies shew'd
Their multitude,
For he repents their thrall.
He made them pitied there
Of all whose slaves they were.
Lord God our stay
Now save we pray
Thy people ev'ry where.
Gather thy flock that strays,
'Mong heathen now adays:
That we may fame
Thy holy Name,
And triumph in thy praise.
Bless Israels God most high
To all eternitie:
And people then
Say all, Amen,
The Lord to magnifie.