The Whole Booke of Psalmes ‎#56d

56d. Domine exaudi

1 O heare thou my prayer Lord and let
my cry come unto thee.
2 In time of trouble do hot hide,
thy face away from me.
3 Incline thine eare to me, make hast
to heare me when I call:
For as the smoke doth fade, so do,
my daies consume and fall.

4 And as an harth my bones are burnt,
my heart is smitten dead:
And withers like the grasse that I
forget to eat lay bread.
5 By reason of my groaning voice,
my bones cleave to my skin:
6 As Pelican in wildernesse,
such case now am I in.

7 And as an Owle in desart is,
Lo, I am such a one:
I watch and as a Sparrow on
the house top am alone.
8 Lo daily in reproachfull wise,
my enemies do me scorne:
And they that do against me rage,
against me they have sworne.

9 Surely with ashes as with bread,
my hunger I have fild;
And mingled have my drink with teares
that from my eyes have stild.
10 Because of thy displeasure Lord,
thy wrath and great disdaine:
For thou hast lifted me aloft,
and cast me down againe.

11 The daies wherein I passe my life,
are like the fleeting shade:
And I am wither'd like the grasse,
which soone away doth fade.
12 But thou O Lord for ever dost
remaine in steady place:
And thy remembrance ever doth
abide from race to race.

The second Part:

13 Thou wilt arise, and mercy thou
to Sion wilt extend:
The time of mercy, now the time
foreset is come to end.
14 For even in the stones thereof
thy servants do delight:
And on the dust thereof they have
compassion in their sprite.

15 Then shall the heathen people feare
the Lords most holy Name:
And all the Kings on earth shall dread
his glory and thy fame.
16 Then when the Lord the mighty God
againe shall Sion reare:
And then when he most nobly in
his glory shall appeare.

17 To prayer of the poor desolate,
when he himselfe doth bend:
When he shall not disdaine unto
their prayers to attend.
18 This shall be written for the age
that after shall succeed:
The people yet imcreated
the Lord's renown shall spread.

19 For he from his high Sancturary
hath looked downe below:
And out of heaven hath the Lord
beheld the earth also.
20 That of the mourning captive he
might heare the wofull cry:
And that he might deliver those
that damned are to die.

21 That they in Sion may declare
the Lord's most holy Name:
And in Jerusalem set forth
the praises of the same.
22 Then when the people of the lands,
and kingdomes with accord,
Shall be assembled for to do
their service to the Lord.

The third Part.

213My former force of strength he hath
abated in the way:
And shorter he hath cut my daies,
thus I therefore did say:
24 My God in midst of all my daies
now take me not away:
Thy yeares endure eternally,
from age to age I say.

25 Thou the foundations of the earth
before all time hast laid:
And Lord the heavens are the work
which thine own hands have made.
26 Yea they shall perish and decay,
but thou shalt tarry still:
And they shall all in time waxe old,
e'en as a garment will.

25 Thou as a garment shalt them change,
and changed they shall be:
But thou dost still abide the same,
thy yeares do never flee.
26 The children of thy servants shall
continually endure:
And in thy sight their happy seed
for ever shall stand sure.

Text Information

• First Line: O heare my prayer Lord and let
• Title: Domine exaudi
• Author: N.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1640
• Scripture:
  Psalm 102
• Notes: Sing this as Psalm 81

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