Religion
Psalm 72
From The Book of Psalms in Metre (1644)
LOrd give the king thy judgements wise,
His sonne thy righteousness:
To judge the people with these eyes
The poor and succourless.
Then mountains shall bring peace to men
And little hills by right:
For he shall judge the people then,
And crush oppressors might.
The needies children he shall save,
And fear him all men shall;
While Sun and Moon their course shall have,
Through generations all.
He shall descend as soking rain,
Upon the mowen grass:
As show'rs that water hill and plain,
What ever way they pass.
The righteous shall be flourishing,
And most abundant peace;
In dayes of this most happy King,
Untill the Moon surcease.
And his dominions shall extend,
And spread from sea to sea:
From rivers side to earths far end,
All lands shall him obey.
All those that in the deserts dwell,
Before him bow they must:
His enemies he will compell,
To stoop and lick the dust.
The Tarshian Kings shall gifts present,
Shebah and Sabahs King,
And all the Ilands adjacent,
Their gifts to him shall bring.
All Kings before him down shall fall,
All nations shall him serve:
And when the needy cry and call,
He shall their life preserve.
2. Part.
THe poor and needy he shall spare,
The poor and succourless:
The souls of them that needy are,
Deliv'ring from distress.
From violence and fraud shall he
Their abject souls redeem:
And in his sight their bloud shall be
Of singular esteem.
They Shebahs gold to him shall give,
And daily for him pray:
And honorably he shall live,
Applauded every day.
Handfuls of Corn shall grow upon
The pregnant mountains top:
Whose fruit shall shake like Lebanon,
So plentifull the crop.
The Citizens shall spring and spred,
As grass most fresh and fine:
His Name shall be continued,
As long as Sun shall shine.
His Name shall be retain'd in minde,
For ever to remain:
And in the same shall all mankinde,
Great blessedness obtain.
All lands shall call him blessed one.
O let the LORD be prais'd:
The God of Israel who alone
Hath mighty wonders rais'd.
And blessed be his glorious Name,
To all eternitie:
The world be filled with his fame,
Amen, Amen, say I.
Codex Note
A metrical version of Psalm 72.
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