The Whole Booke of Psalmes ‎#32c

32c. Nonne Deo

1 My soul to God shal give good heed,
and him alone attend:
For why? my health and hope to speed,
doth whole on him depend.
2 For he alone is my defence,
my rock, my health and aid:
He is my stay that no pretence
shall make me much dismaid.

3 O wicked folk! how long will ye
use craft? sure ye must fall:
For as a rotten hedge ye be,
and like a tottering wall.
4 Whom God doth love ye seek alwaie
to put him to the worse:
Ye love to lie, with mouth ye praise,
and yet your heart doth curse.

5 Yet still my soule doth whole depend
on God my chiefe desire:
From all ill feats me to defend,
none but him I require.
6 He is my rock, my fort and tower,
my health is of his grace:
He doth support me that no power
can move me out of place.

7 God is my glory and my health,
my soules desire and lust:
My fort, my strength, my stay, my wealth,
God is my only trust.
8 O have your trust in him alway,
ye folk with one accord:
Powre out your hearts to him, and say,
our trust is in the Lord.

9 The sons of men deceitfull are,
on ballance but a sleight:
With things most vain do them compare
for they can keep no weight.
10 Trust not in wrong, robbery, nor stealth,
let vaine delights be gone:
Though goods well got flow in w' wealth,
set not your hearts thereon.

11 The Lord long since one thing did tel,
which here to mind I call:
He spake it oft, I heard it well,
that he alone doth all.
12 And that thou Lord are good & kind
thy mercy doth exceed:
So that all sorts with thee shall find,
according to their deed.

Text Information

• First Line: My soul to God shall give good heed
• Title: Nonne Deo
• Author: J. H.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1640
• Scripture:
  Psalm 62
• Notes: Sing to Psalm 59

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