Deus Deorum. Ps.50.W.VV.

Deus Deorum. Ps.50.W.VV.

Another of the same by I.H.

The mighty God th’eternal hath thus spoke,
And all the world he will call and provoke,
Even from the East,
and so forth to the West.

2 From toward Zion which place him liketh best,
God will appear in beauty most excellent.

3 Our God will come before that long time be spent.
Devouring fire shall go before his face,
A great tempest, shall round about him trace,

4 Then shall he call
the earth and heavens bright,
To judge his folk
with equity and right.

5 Saying, go to,
and now my Saints assemble:
My peace they keep,
their gifts do not dissemble.

6 The heavens shall
declare his righteousness:
For God is judge
of all things more and less.

7 Hear my people,
for I will now reveal:
Lift Israel,
I will thee naught conceal.
Thy God, thy God
am I, and will not blame thee,

8 For giving not,
all manner offerings to me.

9 I have no need
to take of thee at all
Goats of thy fold,
or Calf out of thy stall:

10 For all the beasts
are mine within the woods:
On thousand hills
Cattle are mine own goods.

11 I know for mine
all birds that are on mountains:
All beasts are mine
that haunt the fields and fountains.

12 Hungry if I were
I would no thee it tell:
For all is mine
That in the world doth dwell.

13 Eat I the flesh
of great bulls and bullocks?
Or drink the blood
of Goats and of the flocks?

14 Offer to God
praise and hearty thanksgiving:
And pay thy vows
unto God ever-living.

15 Call upon me
when troubled thou shalt be:
Then will I help,
and thou shalt honor me.

16 To the wicked
thus saith t’eternal God:
Why dost thou preach
my laws and hefts abroad?
Seeing thou hast them with thy mouth abused,

17 And hate’st to be
by discipline reformed.
My words I say,
thou dost reject and hate:

18 If that thou see
a theif as with thy mate,
Thou runn’st with him
and so your prey do seek.
And art all one
with bawds and ruffians eke.

19 Thou giv’st thyself
to backbite and to slander,
And how thy tongue
deceiveth it’s a wonder.

20 Thou sittest musing,
thy brother how to blame,
And how to put
thy mother’s son to shame.

21 These things thou didst,
and whilst I held my tongue
Thou didst me judge,
because I stayed so long.
Like to thyself:
yet though I keep long silence,
Once shalt thou feel
of thy wrongs just recompense.

22 Consider this
ye that forget the Lord:
And fear not when
he threateneth with his word;
least without help
I spoil you as a prey.

23 But he that thanks
offereth, praiseth me aye,
Saith the Lord God:
and he that walketh this trace,
I will him teach
God’s saving health to embrace.

The God of Gods, the Lord,
hath called the earth by name:
From where the Sun doth rise, unto
the setting of the same.

2 From Zion his fair place,
his glory bright and clear:
The perfect beauty of his grace,
from thence it did appear.

3 Our God shall come in haste,
to speak he shall not doubt:
Before him shall the fire waste,
and tempest round about.

4 The heavens from on high
the earth below likewise:
He will call forth to judge and try
his folk he doth devise.

5 Bring forth my Saints (saith he)
my faithful flock so dear:
Which are in bond and league with me
my Law to love and fear.

6 And when these things are tried
the heavens shall record:
That God is just, and all must bide
the judgment of the Lord.

7 My people O give heed,
Israel to thee I cry:
I am thy God, thy help at need,
thou canst it not deny.

8 I do not say to thee,
thy sacrifice is slack:
Thou offerest daily unto me
much more than I do lack.

9 Think’st thou that I do need
thy cattle young or old?
Or else desire so much to feed
one Goats out of thy fold?

10 Nay, all the beasts are mine,
in woods that eat their fills.
And thousands more of neat and kine
that run wild on the hills.

11 The birds that build on high
in hills and out of sight:
And beasts that in the fields do lie,
are subject to my might.

12 Then though I hungered sore,
what need I ought of thine:
Sith that the earth with her great store,
and all therein is mine?

13 To bulls flesh have I mind,
to eat it, dost thou think?
Or such a sweetness do I find
the blood of Goats to drink?

14 Give to the Lord his praise,
with thanks to him apply:
And see thou pay thy vows always
unto the God most high.

15 Then seek and call to me,
when ought would work thee blame:
And I will sure deliver thee,
that thou maist praise my name.

16 But to the wicked train,
which talk of God each day:
And yet their works are foul and vain,
to them the Lord will say;

17 With what a face dar’st thou
my word once speak or name
Why doth thy talk my law allow
thy deeds deny the same.

18 Whereas for to amend
thy life thou art so slack:
My word the which thou dost pretend
is cast behind thy back.

19 When thou a thief dost see
by theft to live in wealth:
With him thou runst, and dost agree
likewise to thrive by stealth:

20 When thou dost them behold,
that wives and maids defile:
Thou lik’st it well and waxest bold,
to lead that life most vile.

21 Thy lips thou dost apply
to slander and defame:
Thy tongue is taught to craft and lie,
and still doth use the same.

22 Thou studiest to revile,
thy friends to thee so near
With slander thou wouldest needs defile,
thy mother’s son most dear.

23 Here at while I do wink,
as though I did not see:
Thou goest on still, and so dost think
that I am like to thee:

24 But sure I will not let,
to strike when I begin:
Thy faults in order I will set,
and open all thy sin.

25 Mark this I you require,
that have not God in mind:
Least when I plague you in mine ire,
your help be far to find.

26 He that doth give to me,
the sacrifice of praise
Doth please me well, and he shall see,
to walk in godly ways.