Psalm LXXVII

I With my fervent voice did cry
To God in all my [grief and] fear;
Even to my God with mournful voice,
And he to me [in time] gave ear.

I sought God in my woful day,
My [constant] sore did run all night;
My grieved soul did put away
All [offer'd] comfort and delight.

I did remember God, but yet
My [grief and] trouble did remain;
My spirit over-whelmed was,
And did [in me] too much complain.

Mine eyes, depriv'd of quiet sleep,
[By night] thou keepest still awake;
My trouble is so great and sore,
That I can [very] hardly speak.

Thy dealings in the days of old
I then did [mind and] think upon,
What thou in former ancient times
Hast for [me and] thy people done.

My songs by night I call'd to mind;
I [search'd and] commun'd with my heart;
My spirit diligently fought
The cause [and cure] of all my smart.

For ever will the Lord cast off?
And [will he] gracious be no more?

For ever is his mercy gone?
Fails his [good] word [for] evermore?

Can it be that his graciousness
[To us] the Lord forgotten hath?
And that his tender mercies he
Hath shut up now in [endless] wrath?

Then said I, These are but the thoughts
Of my [faulty] infirmity;
I'le look back to the years past gone,
And [the right] hand of the most high.

I will yet meditate upon
The [former] great works of the Lord
Of those great wonders I will think
Of old, [which are] upon record.

Thy great and gracious works I will
My [frequent] meditation make;
And of thy doings to discourse,
My [daily] work and pleasure take.

Thy holy way, O God, is in
Thy [sacred] house, and there made known;
There is no other God of might
But our [God, the] Almighty One.

Thou only art the God of Power,
Whose doings [all great] wonders are;
And thou among the people all
Thy [strength and] greatness didst declare.

Thou hast with thine Almighty arm
From bonds thy [chosen] people freed,
Redeeming from Captivity
Jacob's and Joseph's [numerous] seed.

The waters deep saw thee, O God;
They saw thee, and [backward] they fled,
As if afraid: The depths also
Retir'd as [by fear] troubled.

The clouds their waters poured out,
A [dreadful] sound came from the sky,
And then unto the frightened earth
Abroad thy [hurtful] arrows fly.

Thy Thunder's voice was in the heav'ns,
Thy Lightning [flashed] from the sky,
Lightning the world: The trembling earth
Did quake as [it were] fear'd thereby.

Thy way is in the rowling seas,
The [unseen] paths where thou hast gone
In the great waters; and thy steps
To [earthly] mortals are unknown.

Thy people thou didst keep and lead
Even like a shepherd's flock of sheep;
By Moses and by Aaron's hand
Thou didst them guide and [safely] keep.