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LORD, thy answer I did heare, | |
| And I grew therewith afear’d; | |
| When the times at fullest are, | |
| Let thy work be then declar’d: | |
| When the time, Lord, full doth grow, | 5 |
| Then in anger mercy shew. | |
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| God Almightie, he came downe, | |
| Downe he came from Theman-ward; | |
| And the matchlesse Holy One | |
| From mount Paran forth appear’d; | 10 |
| Heaven o’erspreading with his rayes, | |
| And earth filling with his praise. | |
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| Sunne-like was his glorious light; | |
| From his side there did appeare | |
| Beaming rayes that shined bright, | 15 |
| And his pow’r he showed there; | |
| Plagues before his face he sent: | |
| At his feete hot coales there went. | |
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| Where he stood he measure tooke | |
| Of the earth, and view’d it well; | 20 |
| Nations vanisht at his looke, | |
| Auncient hils to powder fell; | |
| Mountaines old cast lower were; | |
| For his waies eternal are. | |
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| Cushan tents I saw diseas’d, | 25 |
| And the Midian curtaines quake. | |
| Have the flouds, Lord, thee displeased? | |
| Did the flouds thee angry make? | |
| Was it else the sea that hath | |
| Thus prouoked thee to wrath? | 30 |
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| For thou rod’st thy horses there, | |
| And thy saving charrets through; | |
| Thou didst make thy bow appeare, | |
| And thou didst performe thy vowe; | |
| Yea, thine oath and promise past, | 35 |
| To the tribes fulfilled hast. | |
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| Through the earth thou riftes didst make, | |
| And the riuers there did flow; | |
| Mountaines seeing thee did shake, | |
| And away the flouds did goe. | 40 |
| From the deepe a voyce was heard, | |
| And his hands on high he rear’d. | |
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| Both the sunne and moone made stay, | |
| And remou’d not in their spheares; | |
| By thine arrowes’ light went they, | 45 |
| By thy brightly shining speares: | |
| Thou in wrath the lands did crush, | |
| And in rage the nations thresh. | |
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| For thy people’s safe releefe, | |
| With thy Christ for ayd went’st thou; | 50 |
| Thou hast also peirct their chiefe | |
| Of the sinfull household through, | |
| And display’d them till made bare | |
| From the foote to necke they were. | |
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| Thou, with jauelines of their owne, | 55 |
| Didst their armies’ leader strike; | |
| For against me they came downe, | |
| To deuoure me wherllwinde-like; | |
| And they ioy in nothing more | |
| Than vnseene to spoile the poore. | 60 |
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| Through the sea thou mad’st a way, | |
| And didst ride thy horses there, | |
| Where great heapes of water lay; | |
| I the newes thereof did heare, | |
| And the voyce my bowels shooke; | 65 |
| Yea, my lips a quiv’ring tooke. | |
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| Rottennesse my bones possest, | |
| Trembling feare possessed me, | |
| I that troublous day might rest; | |
| For when his approches be | 70 |
| Onward to the people made, | |
| His strong troups will them invade. | |
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| Bloomlesse shall the fig-tree bee, | |
| And the vine no fruit shall yeeld; | |
| Fade shall then the oliue-tree, | 75 |
| Meat shall none be in the field; | |
| Neither in the fold or stall | |
| Flock or heard continue shall. | |
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| Yet the Lord my ioy shall be, | |
| And in him I will delight, | 80 |
| In my God that saueth me, | |
| God the Lord my only might; | |
| Who my feet so guides, that I, | |
| Hinde-like, pace my places high. | |
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