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

Psalm 119: Tsade

by Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke 1561–1621


Sure, Lord, thy self art just,
Thy lawes as rightfull be:
What rightly bid thou dost
Is firmly bound by thee.
I flame with zeale to see
My foes thy word forgett:
Pure wordes, whereon by me
A servantes love is sett.

Though bare, and though debast,
I yet thy rules retaine,
Whose doomes do endlesse last,
And doctrine true remayne.
In presure and in paine
My joyes thy preceptes give:
No date thy judgmentes daine,
O make me wise to lyue.

MLA

Herbert, Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. The Psalms of David (Psalms 44–150), Psalm 119: Tsade. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/work/pembroke-psalms/92/.

Chicago

Herbert, Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. The Psalms of David (Psalms 44–150), Psalm 119: Tsade. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/work/pembroke-psalms/92/.

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