The Whole Booke of Psalmes ‎#47a

47a. Deus quid

1 Do not (O God) refraine thy tongue,
in silence do not stay:
With-hold not, Lord, thy selfe so long,
and make no more delay.
2 For why? behold thy foes and see
how they do rage and cry:
And those that beare a hate to thee,
hold up their heads on hie.

3 Against thy folk they use deceit,
and craftly they enquire:
For thine elect to lie in wait,
their counsell doth conspire.
4 Come on say they, let us expell
and pluck these folk away:
So that the Name of Israel
may utterly decay.

5 They all conspire within their heart,
how they may thee withstand:
Against the Lord to take a part,
they are in league and band.
6 The tents of all the Edomites,
the Ishmaelites also:
The Hagarens and Moabites
with diverse others me.

7 Gebal and Ammon, and likewise
with Amaleck conspire:
The Philistians against thee rise,
with them that dwell at Tyre.
8 And Asher eke is well appaid,
with them in league to be:
And doth become a fence and aid
to Lots posterity.

9 As thou didst to the Midianites,
to serve them Lord each one:
As to Sifer and Jabin,
beside the brook Kison.
10 Whom thou in Endor didst destroy,
and wast them through thy might:
That they like dung on earth did lie,
and that in open sight.

The second Part:

11 Make them now & their Lords appeare
like Zeb and Oreb than:
As Zeba and Zalmunna were
the Kings of Midian.
12 Which said, let us throughout the land
in all the coasts abroad
Possesse and take into our hand
the faire houses of God.

13 Turn them, O God, with stormes so fast
as wheeles that have no stay:
Or like the chaffe, which men do cast,
with wind to flie away.
14 Like as the fire with rage and fume,
the mighty forrests spils:
And as the flame doth quite consume
the mountaines and the hils.

15 So let the tempest of thy wrath
upon their necks be laid:
And of thy stormy wind and showre,
Lord make them all afraid.
16 Lord, bring them all, I thee desire,
to such rebuke and shame,
That it may cause them to enquire,
and learne to seek thy Name.

17 And let them evermore daily
to shame and slander fall:
And in rebuke and obloquie
perish also witall.
18 That they may know and feel full well
that thou art called Lord:
And that alone thou dost excell,
and raigne throughout the world.

Text Information

• First Line: Do not (O God) refraine thy tongue
• Title: Deus quid
• Author: J. H.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1640
• Scripture:
  Psalm 83
• Notes: Sing as Psalm 77

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