Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PSALM: 7, by JOSEPH HALL Poet's Biography First Line: On thee, o lord my god, relyes Last Line: And tell of all his righteousnesse. Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Fear; God; Life; Religion; Soul; Dead, The; Theology | ||||||||
1 On thee, O Lord my God, relyes Mine only trust: from bloody spight Of all my raging enemies Oh! let thy mercy me acquite; 2 Least they like greedy Lyons rend My soule, whiles none shal it defend. 3 Oh Lord! if I this thing haue wrought; If in my hands be found such ill: 4 If I with mischief euer sought To pay good turnes; or did not still Doe good vnto my causelesse foe, That thirsted for my ouerthrowe; 5 Then let my foe, in eager chace, Ore take my soule, and proudly tread My life belowe; and with dis-grace In dust lay downe mine honor dead. 6 Rise vp in rage, O Lord, eft-soone Aduance thine arm against my fo'ne: And wake for me till thou fulfil 7 My promis'd right; so shal glad throngs Of people flock vnto thine hill. For their sakes then reuenge my wrongs, 8 And rouse thy self. Thy iudgements be O're al the world: Lord iudge thou me; As truth and honest innocence Thou find'st in me, Lord iudge thou me. 9 Settle the iust with sure defence: Let me the wicked's malice see 10 Brought to an end. For thy iust eye Doth hearts and inward reyns descry. 11 My safety stands in God; who shields The sound in hart: whose doom each day 12 To iust men and contemners yields 13 Their due. Except he change his waie His sword is whet, to bloud intended, His murdring bowe is ready bended. 14 Weapons of death he hath addrest And arrowes keene to pearce my foe, 15 Who late bred mischiefe in his brest; But when he doth on trauell goe, 16 Brings forth a ly. Deep pits he delues, And falls into his pits himselue. 17 Back to his own head shall rebound His plotted mischiefe; and his wrongs His crown shal craze: But I shal sound Iehouah's praise with thankful songs, And will his glorious name expresse, And tell of all his righteousnesse. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES A LITHUANIAN ELEGY by ROBERT KELLY AN EPIGRAM ON JOHN MARSTON by JOSEPH HALL ANTHEMES FOR THE CATHEDRAL OF EXCETER: 1 by JOSEPH HALL ANTHEMES FOR THE CATHEDRAL OF EXCETER: 2. ANTHEME FOR CHRISTMAS DAY by JOSEPH HALL |
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