Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PSALM 79, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE First Line: The land of long by thee possessed Last Line: From age to age, what thou hast done. | ||||||||
The Land of long by Thee possessed The heathen Lord have now oppressed Thy Temple holyly maintained Till now, is now profanely stained Jerusalem quite spoild and burned Hath suffered sacks And utter wracks To stony heapes her houses turned The lifeless Carkasses of those That liv'd Thy Servants serve the crowes The flock so dearly lov'd of Thee To ravning beasts deere food they be Their blood doth streame in evry street As water spilled Their bodys killed With sepulture can no where meet To them that hold the neighbour places We are but objects of disgraces On ev'ery coast who dwell about us In ev'ry kind deride and flout us Ah Lord when shall Thy wrath be ended Shall still Thyne Ire As quenchless fire In deadly ardor be extended. O kindle there Thy furys flame Where lives no notice of Thy Name There let Thy heavy anger fall Where no devotions on Thee call For hence they be who Jacob eate Who thus have rased Have thus defaced Thus desert layd his antient seate. Lord ridd us from our sinfull combers Count not of them the passed numbers But let Thy pitty soone prevent us For hard extremes have neerly spent us Free us O God our freedom giver Our misery With help supply And for Thy glory us deliver. Deliver us and for Thy name With mercy cloath our sinfull shame Ah why should this their by-word be Where is your God where now is hee? Make them, and us on them behold That not despised But deerly prized Thy wreakfull hand our blood doth hold. Where Grace and Glory Thee enthroneth Admitt the groanes the Prisner groaneth The poore condemned for Death reserved Let be by Thee in life preserved And for our neighbours Lord remember Th'opprobrious shame They lent Thy Name With sev'nfold gain to them thou render. So wee Thy Servants we Thy sheep Whom Thy looks guide, Thy pastures keep Till death define our living dayes Will never cease to sound Thy praise Nay when we leave to see the sun The aftergoers We will make knowers From age to age, what Thou hast done. | 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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