The Whole Booke of Psalmes ‎#85a

85a. Lauda anima

1 My soul praise thou the Lord alwaies,
my God I will confesse:
2 While breath and life prolong my daies
my tongue no time shall cease.
3 Trust not in worldly Princes then,
though they abound in wealth:
Nor in the sonnes of mortall men,
in whom there is no health.

4 For why? Their breath doth soon depart,
to earth anon they fall,
And then the counsels of their heart
decay and perish all.
5 O happy is that man I say,
whom Jacob's God doth aid:
And he whose hope doth not decay,
but on the Lord is staid.

6 Which made the earth and waters deep,
the heavens high withall:
Which doth his word and promise keep
and loose the fetters strong.
7 With right alwaies doth he proceed
for such as suffer wrong:
The poore and hungry he doth feed,
and loose the fetters strong.

8 The Lord doth send the blind their sight,
the lame to limbs restore:
The Lord (I say) doth love the right,
and just man evermore.
9 He doth defend the fatherlesse,
and stranger sad in heart:
And quit the widow from distresse,
and ill mens ways subvert.

10 The Lord thy God eternally
O Sion still shall raigne:
In time of all posterity
for ever to remaine.

Text Information

• First Line: My soul praise thou the Lord alwaies
• Title: Lauda anima
• Author: J. H.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1640
• Scripture:
  Psalm 146
• Notes: Sing as Psalm 117

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