The Whole Booke of Psalmes ‎#49c

49c. Misericordias

1 To sing the mercies of the Lord,
my tongue shall never spare:
And with my mouth from age to age,
thy truth I will declare.
2 For I have said, that mercy shall
for evermore remaine:
In that thou dost the heavens stay,
they truth appeareth plaine.

3 To mine elect, saith God, I made
a covenant and behest:
My servant David to persuade,
I swore and did protest.
4 Thy seed for ever I will stay,
and stablish it full fast:
And still uphold thy throne alway,
from age to age to last.

5 The heavens shew with joy and mirth,
thy wondrous works, O Lord:
Thy Saints within thy Church on earth
thy faith and truth record.
6 Who with the Lord is equall then,
in all the clouds abroad?
Among the sonnes of all the gods
what one is like our God?

7 God in assembly of his Saints
is greatly to be dread:
And over all that dwell about,
in terrour to be had.
8 Lord God of hoasts, in all the world,
what one is like to thee?
On every side most mighty Lord,
thy truth is seen to be.

9 The raging sea by thine advice,
thou rulest at thy will:
And when the waves thereof arise,
thou mak'st them calm and still.
10 And Egypt (Lord) thou hast subdu'd,
and thou hast it destroid:
Yea, thou thy foes with mighty arme
hast scattered all abroad.

The second Part:

11 The heavens are thine & still have been
likewise the earth and land:
The world and all that is therein.
thou foundedst with thy hand:
12 Both North & South, with East & West,
thy selfe didst make and frame:
Both Tabor mount and eke Hermon,
rejoyce and praise thy Name.

13 Thine arm is strong and full of power
all might therein doth lie:
The strength of thy right hand each houre
thou liftest up on hie.
14 In righteousness and equity
thou hast thy seat and place:
Mercy and truth are still with thee,
and go before thy face,

15 That folk is blest that knowes aright
thy present power,O God:
For in the favour of thy sight
they walk full safe abroad.
16 For in thy Name throughout the day
they greatly do rejoyce:
And through thy righteousness have they
a pleasant fame and noise.

17 For why? their glory, strength and aid,
in thee alone doth lie:
Thy goodnesse eke that hath us staid,
shall lift our horn on hie.
18 Our strength that doth defend us well,
the Lord to us doth bring:
The holy One of Israel
he is our guide and King.

19 Sometimes thy will unto thy Saints
in vision thou didst show:
And thus then didst thou say to them
thy mind to make them know.
20 A man of might I have erect,
your king and guide to be:
And set him up whom I elect
among the folk to me.

The third Part.

21 My servant David I appoint,
whom I have searched out:
And with my holy oyle annoint
him King of all the rout.
22 For why? my hand is ready still
with him for to remaine:
And with my arm also I will
him strengthen and sustaine.

23 The enemies shall not him oppresse,
they shall him not devoure:
Nor yet the sonmes of wickedness
on him have any power.
24 His foes likewise I will destroy
before his face in sight:
And those that hate him I will plague,
and strike them with my might.

25 My truth and mercy eke withall,
shall still upon him lie:
And in my name his horne eke shall
be lifted up on high.
26 His kingdom I will set to be
upon the sea and land:
And eke the running floods shall he
embrace with his right hand.

27 He shall depend with all his heart
on me, and thus shall say:
My Father and my God thou art,
my rock my health and stay.

28 As my first-borne I will him take,
of all on earth that springs:
His might and honour I will make
above all earthly Kings.

29 My mercy shall be with him still,
as I my selfe have told:
My faithfull covenant to fulfil,
my mercy I will hold.
30 And eke his seed I will sustaine
for ever strong and sure:
So that his seed shall still remaine:
while heaven doth endure.

The fourth Part:

31 If that his sonnes forsake my Law,
and so begin to swerve:
And of my judgements have none awe,
nor will not them observe.
32 Or if they do not use aright
my statutes to them made:
And set all my commandments light,
and will not keep my trade.

33 Then with the rod will I begin,
their doing to amend:
And so will scourge them for their sin,
if that they they offend.
34 My mercy yet and my goodnesse,
I will not take them fro:
Nor handle him with craftinesse,
and so my truth forgo.

35 But sure my covenant I will hold,
with all that I have spoke:
No word the which my lips have told,
shall alter or be broke.
36 Once sware I by my holinesse,
and that performe will I:
With David I shall keep promise,
to him I will not lie.

37 His seed for evermore shall raigne,
and eke his throne of might,
As doth the Sum, it shall remaine
for ever in my sight.
38 And as the Moone within the skie
for ever standeth fast:
A faithful witnesse from on hie.
so shall his kingdome last.

39 But now Lord as thou dost reject,
and now thou changest cleare:
Yea, thou art wrath with thine elect,
thin own annointed deare.
40 The covenant with thy servant made,
Lord thou hast quite undone:
And down upon the ground also
and cast his royal crowne.

The fifth Part:

41 Thou pluck'st his hedges up with might,
his wals thou dost confound:
Thou beatest eke his bulwarks down,
and brakst them to the ground. ground:
42 That he is sore destroid and torne,
of commers by throughout:
And so is made a mock and scorn
to all that dwell about.

43 Thou their right hand hast lifted up,
that him so sore annoy:
And all his foes, that him devoure,
1oe thou hast made to joy.
44 His sword's edge thou dost take away
that should his foes withstand:
To him in warre no victory
thou giv'st, nor upper hand.

45 His glory thou dost also wast,
his throne, his joy, and mirth,
By thee are overthrown and cast
full low upon the earth.
46 Thou hast cut off, and made full short
his youth and lusty daies
And rais'd of him an ill report,
with shame and great dispraise.

47 How long away from me, O Lord,
for ever wilt thou turn?
And shall thine anger still alway
as fire consume and burne?
48 O call to mind, remember then,
my time consumeth fast:
Why hast thou made the sonnes of men
as things in vain to wast?

49 What man is he that liveth here,
and death shall never see?
Or from the hand of Hell his soule
shall he deliver free?
50 Where is (O Lord) thine old goodnesse,
so oft declar'd beforne,
Which by thy truth and uprightnesse
to David thou hast sworne?

51 The great rebukes to mind I call,
that on thy servants lie:
The railings of the people all,
borne in my brest have I:
52 Wherewith (O Lord) thine enemies
blasphemed have thy Name:
The steps of thine anointed ones
they cease not to defame.

53 All praise to thee, O Lord of hosts,
both now and eke for aye:
Through skie and earth, all all the coasts
Amen, Amen, I say.

Text Information

• First Line: To sing the mercies of the Lord
• Title: Misericordias
• Author: J. H.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1640
• Scripture:
  Psalm 89
• Notes: Sing this as Psalm 77

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