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The Psalms of David (Psalms 44–150) · c. 1586–1599 (first printed 1823)

Psalm 119: Daleth

by Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke 1561–1621


Dead as if I were,
My soule to dust doth cleave:
Lorde keepe thy word, and doe not leave
Me here:
But quicken me a new.
When I did confesse
My sinnfull waies to thee,
As then thy eare thou didst to me
Addresse:
Soe teach me now thy statutes true.

Make that I may know
And throughly understand
What waie to walk thou dost command,
Then show
Will I thy wonders all.
Very woe and grief
My soule doe melt and fry;
Revive me Lord, and send me thy
Relief:
And lett on me thy comfort fall.

From the lyers trace,
From falshoods wreathed way,
O save me, Lord, and graunt I may
Embrace
The law thou dost commend.
For the path ay right,
Where truth unfained goes
My tongue to tread hath gladly chose:
My sight
Thy judgmentes doth as guides attend.

Since therefore, O Lord,
Still did I, still I doe
So neerly, deerly cleave unto
Thy word:
All shame from me avert.
Then loe, then I
Will tread, yea running tread
The trace which thy commandments lead
When thy
Free grace hath fully freed my hart.

MLA

Herbert, Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. The Psalms of David (Psalms 44–150), Psalm 119: Daleth. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/work/pembroke-psalms/78/.

Chicago

Herbert, Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. The Psalms of David (Psalms 44–150), Psalm 119: Daleth. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/work/pembroke-psalms/78/.

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