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

Psalm 119: Zain

by Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke 1561–1621


Grave deeply in remembring mind
My trust, thy promise true:
This only joy in griefe I find,
Thy words my life renue.
Though proudly scorn'd, yet from thy lore
I no way have declin'd,
I hold for comfort what of yore
Thy doomes, O Lord, defin'd.

I quake to view how people vile
Doe from thy doctryne swerve:
Thy just edicts ev'n in exile
Did me for musick serve.
I keepe thy learning, and in night
Record Jehovas stile,
Observing still thy precepts right
Loe this I have the while.

MLA

Herbert, Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. The Psalms of David (Psalms 44–150), Psalm 119: Zain. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/work/pembroke-psalms/81/.

Chicago

Herbert, Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. The Psalms of David (Psalms 44–150), Psalm 119: Zain. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/work/pembroke-psalms/81/.

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