Religion

Psalm XCIX

by Richard Baxter 1615–1691

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

Religion

Tremble ye people of the world,
The [righteous] Lord doth reign above;
He sits between the Cherubims,
The earth [below] shall quake and move.

The Lord in Sion is extoll'd,
[He is] above all people high.

His holy, great, and dreadful name
Let all men [fear and] magnifie.

Judgment lov'd is the strength of Kings;
Thou settlest [truth and] equity:
Just judgment thou dost execute,
And rulest [Jacob] righteously.

Exalt the Name of God the Lord,
And at his foot-stool [humbly] fall:
He's holy; in true holiness
Worship him [O ye] people all.

Moses and Aaron, with his Priests,
Samuel and [other] such as have
Call'd on him when to him they pray'd,
He heard and [gracious] answer gave.

Within the cloudy Pillar he
Spake unto them his [word and] will;
His testimony they receiv'd,
And kept his [holy] precepts still.

Thou answer'dst them, O Lord our God,
And [often] didst their sins forgive;
Though oft also thou took'st revenge
Of what they did [amiss] contrive.

Exalt the name of our Lord God,
And at his [chosen] holy hill
Worship him in true holiness,
For God [our Lord] is holy still.

MLA

Baxter, Richard. “Psalm XCIX.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/baxter/98/.

Chicago

Baxter, Richard. “Psalm XCIX.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/baxter/98/.

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