Religion

Psalm XXIX

by Richard Baxter 1615–1691

From Paraphrase on the Psalms of David in Metre (1692)

Religion

All ye that mighty are on earth,
Give [all the] glory to the Lord;
To God the glory and the strength
Ascribe [ye all] with one accord.

The glory due to God's great name
Give to him, and [to all] confess;
Publickly worship ye the Lord
In [solemn] beauteous holiness.

The Lord's voice on the waters is,
The God of [strength and] majesty
Doth thunder, and on waters great
Doth [sit and] rule them all on high.

The thundring dreadful voice of God
[Full of] prevailing power is,
And full of Royal Majesty
Is that great [frightful] voice of his.

This voice of the Almighty doth
The [great tall] Cedars break and tear;
The Lord doth thus the Cedars break,
Which [the Mount] Lebanon doth bear.

Yea, he doth make the trembling hills
Like a young Calf [about] to skip;
And Lebanon, and Sirion
Like [the young] Unicorns to leap.

God's voice casts out the flames of fire;
[This voice] it makes the desarts quake:

The Lord the great dry Wilderness
Of Kadesh makes [as mov'd] to shake.

God's voice doth make the Hinds to calve,
And makes the [cover'd] Forests bare;
And in his holy Temple all
His glory do [by praise] declare.

The Lord sits King on swelling floods,
His [Rule and] Kingdom never cease:
The Lord will give his people strength,
And [he will] bless them all with peace.

MLA

Baxter, Richard. “Psalm XXIX.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/baxter/28/.

Chicago

Baxter, Richard. “Psalm XXIX.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/baxter/28/.

Read this poem with the Codex →

More by Richard Baxter