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Dixit imsipiens
Author: Thomas Sternhold Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: The foolish man is that which he
Dixit imsipiens
Dixit imsipiens
Author: T. S. Hymnal: The Whole Booke of Psalmes #28b (1640) First Line: The foolish man is that which he Lyrics: 1 The foolish man is that which he
within his heart hath said:
That there is any God at all,
hath utterly denaid.
2 They are corrupt, and they also
a hainous work have wrought:
Among them all there is not one
of good that worketh ought.
3 The Lord look'd down on sons of men
from heaven all broad:
To see if any were that would
be wise and seek for God.
4 They are all gone out of the way,
they are corrupted all:
There is not one doth any good,
there is not one at all.
5 Do not all wicked workers know,
that they do feed upon
My people, as they feed on bread?
the Lord they call not on.
6 Even there they were afraid and stood
with trembling all dismaid.
Whereas there was no cause at all,
why they should he afraide.
7 For God his bones that thee besieg'd
hath scattered all abroad:
Thou hast confounded them for they
rejected are of God.
8 O Lord, give to thy people health,
and thou, O Lord, fulfill
Thy promise made to Israel
from out of Sion hill?
9 When God his People shall restore,
that erst were captive led:
Then Jacob shall therein rejoyce,
and Israel shall be glad. Scripture: Psalm 53 Languages: English
Dixit imsipiens
The foolish man within his heart
Author: T. S. Hymnal: The Whole Book of Psalms #LIII (1790) Lyrics: 1 The foolish man within his heart
blasphemously, hath said,
There is not any God at all,
why should we be afraid?
2 They are corrupt, and they also
a heinous work have wrought,
Among them all there is not one
of good that worketh ought.
3 The Lord look'd down from heav'n upon
the sons of men below,
To see if any were that sought
the living God to know;
4 Out of the way they all are gone,
they all corrupted are,
There is not any that doth good,
not one for God doth care.
5 Do not all wicked workers know,
that they do feed upon
My people as they feed on bread?
The Lord they call not on.
6 Ev'n there they were afraid, and stood
with trembling all dismay'd.
When as there was no cause at all
why they should he afraid;
7 For God his bones that thee besieg'd
hath scatter'd all abroad,
He hath confounded them, for they
rejected are of God.
8 O Lord, give to thy people health,
and thou, O Lord, fulfill
Thy promise made to Israel
from out of Sion hill.
9 When God his people shall restore,
that once were captive led,
Then Jacob shall rejoice therein,
and Israel be glad. Scripture: Psalm 53 Languages: English
The foolish man within his heart
Thomas Sternhold
1449 - 1549 Person Name: T. S. Author of "Dixit imsipiens" in The Whole Booke of Psalmes Thomas Sternhold was Groom of the Robes to Henry VIII and Edward VI. With Hopkins, he produced the first English version of the Psalms before alluded to. He completed fifty-one; Hopkins and others composed the remainder. He died in 1549. Thirty-seven of his psalms were edited and published after his death, by his friend Hopkins. The work is entitled "All such Psalms of David as Thomas Sternhold, late Groome of the King's Majestye's Robes, did in his Lyfetime drawe into Englyshe Metre." Of the version annexed to the Prayer Book, Montgomery says: "The merit of faithful adherence to the original has been claimed for this version, and need not to be denied, but it is the resemblance which the dead bear to the living." Wood, in his "Athenae Oxonlenses" (1691, vol. I, p. 62), has the following account of the origin of Sternhold's psalms: "Being a most zealous reformer, and a very strict liver, he became so scandalized at the amorous and obscene songs used in the Court, that he, forsooth, turned into English metre fifty-one of David's psalms, and caused musical notes to be set to them, thinking thereby that the courtiers would sing them instead of their sonnets; but they did not, some few excepted. However, the poetry and music being admirable, and the best that was made and composed in these times, they were thought fit to be sung in all parochial churches." Of Sternhold and Hopkins, old Fuller says: "They were men whose piety was better than their poetry, and they had drunk more of Jordan than of Helicon." Sternhold and Hopkins may be taken as the representatives of the strong tendency to versify Scripture that came with the Reformation into England--a work men eagerly entered on without the talent requisite for its successful accomplishment. The tendency went so far, that even the "Acts of the Apostles" was put into rhyme, and set to music by Dr. Christopher Tye.
--Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872.
Thomas Sternhold
