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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PSALM 64, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE First Line: This voice wherin my grief I show Last Line: Shall boast in god their captains might. | |||
This voice wherin my grief I show With gracious eare lord entertaine And let my life in rest remain By Thee preserv'd from feared foe O hide me where they may not know. Whose wicked witts in wiles are spent And rage to working wrong is bent For their sharp tongues such edg do beare As fretted stones give whetted Swords They levell so with bitter words As if not words but shafts they were Which they embusht and free from feare When none could think, where none could see Discharg upon poore harmless me Nay obstinate to ill they go Discoursing how they Snares may lay They say who sees? and well they may For sure they search each corner so No guile no fraud can ly so low But these will find in any part Ev'n in the depth of deepest heart But Thou O God a shaft shalt send Death striking them with suddain blow And their own tongues to their own Woe Shall all their wounding sharpness bend Then all shall quake that see their end And all the earth their end shall see And seing prayse Gods just decree Meanwhile on his Almighty Name The just man vext by man unjust Shall cast the Anchor of his trust And land his comfort on the same And such whose Consciences not lame Upright can stand, and march aright Shall boast in God their Captains might. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PSALM 121 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE PSALM 136 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE PSALM 139 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE PSALM 8. MAN'S PLACE IN CREATION by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE THE TWENTY-THIRD PSALM by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE DEBORAH: THE SONG OF DEBORAH by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE ECCLESIASTES by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE ECCLESIASTES: THE LIGHT IS SWEET by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE ELIJAH AND THE PRIESTS OF BAAL: IN A TIME OF FAMINE by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE EXODUS 15. SONG OF ISRAEL FOR THE OVERTHROW OF EGYPT IN THE RED SEA by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE |
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