Psalm 59

FRom all my cruell enemies,
My God deliver me:
From them that do against me rise,
My strong defender be.
Me from the lewd
Vain multitude,
And bloudy men defend:
For lo they lie
In secrecie
My soul to apprehend.
The mighty men, with one accord,
Against me do combine:
Yet not for my transgression LORD,
Nor any sin of mine.
They have begun,
Prepar'd, to run
In haste, without my fault:
Awake, and see,
And succour mee
Against their fierce assault.
Thou therefore Israels righteous God,
The soveraign LORD of hoasts,
Awake and visit with thy rod,
Even all the heathen coasts.
Transgressors lewd
Do thou exclude
From pardon and from pitie:
Return'd in dark,
Like dogs they bark,
And go about the Citie.
Lo, in their lips are sharpned swords,
Their mouths belch out their pride:
For who, say they, shall hear our words?
But thou shalt them deride.
The heathen born
Thou LORD shalt scorn.
On thee will I attend,
Because of thine
Own strength divine,
For God shall me defend.

2. Part.
MY gracious God shall me prevent,
With his compassions free:
Upon my foes my hearts content,
The LORD shall let me see.
Suppress them quite,
And by thy might
Disperse, but slay them not:
O LORD our shield
Some sign to yield
That may not be forgot.
For sinfull words which mouths profane,
And cursing lips let slide,
And for their lies let them be ta'n,
Yea, even in their pride.
In angry fume
My foes consume,
That none of them remain:
That every land
May understand
Great Jacobs God to reign.
Let them return at evening tide,
As howling dogs are wont:
And round about on every side,
In every corner hunt.
Where wandring wide
Unsatisfi'd
For meat let them repine:
But lo my tongue
Shall sing a song
To praise thy pow'r divine.
Yea, in the morning I'l begin,
Of thine affection deer,
To sing aloud, for thou hast bin
My sole Protector here.
Thou wast my stay
In dangerous day,
To thee my strength I'l sing:
God's my defence
And rock from when
My mercy hath her spring.