Heare (Lord my strength!) the crie I make to Thee! I am but dead, if Thou seeme deafe to mee: Heare, when with humble prayer, I Thee entreat, With lifted hands before Thy mercy seate. But rancke me not with those which wicked are, Whose lipps speake peace, whose hearts are full of warr; Accordinge to their actions let them speed, And as their merrit is, soe make their need; For that they see Thy workes, and yet neglect them, Thou shall destroy and neuer more erect them: The Lord bee praisd Who hath vouchsaft to heare, And lend unto my prayer a gracious eare; HIS SHEILD protects, His strength doth mee aduance; My tongue shall sing His praise, my heart shall dance; Hee to His seruants, force, and vertue, giues; Through Him in safetie His annoynted liues. Saue Thy peculier people, Lord! and blesse them, And lift their heads aboue them that oppresse them. PSALM XXIX. Yee kings, since by GOD'S power and grace, yee raigne, Glory and power ascribe to Him againe; Yeild Him the honnour due to His great name, And in His glorious COURTS, His praise proclaime; His voyce doth cause the Seas, to swell and shake, And in the heauens the dreadfull thunder make; JEHOUAH'S voice, effects of power doth breed, It is a stronge and glorious voyce indeed; His voyce the cedar doth in sunder teare, The Cedars which MOUNT LEBANUS doth beare; Makes LEBANUS, and HERMON hill, to tremble And skippinge CALUES and UNICORNES, resemble; Doth breake the clouds, and flames of fire deuide, The deserts shake, euen CADES[206] desert wide; Makes hindes to calue, for feare makes forrests bare, While in His temple wee His praise declare; The Lord vpon the water-floods doth raigne, The Lord a KINGE for euer doth remaine; The Lord shall still His people's strength encrease, And giue to them the blessinge of His peace. [Footnote 206: The Kadesh of our Authorised Version is spelled Cades in the Prayer Book. G.] PSALM XXX.