Religion
Psalm XCIX
From Paraphrase on the Psalms of David in Metre (1692)
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.
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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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