Psalm 3 (v1-3, 5, 8)
Words: Cotton Mather "Psalterium Americanium" 1718
Taken from "American Hymns, Old and New" Albert Christ-Janer, 1980
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"Worcester" John Playford, arr. 1671 |
1 Eternal God, how they're increased
Who greatly trouble me!
How many are the men that stand
In triumph over me!
2 Many there be who ever are
Saying unto my soul,
There's no salvation to be had
For him in God at all.
3 But now about me thou'rt a shield,
O thou eternal God;
Thou art my glory, and thou art
Th'uplifter of my head.
4 I laid me down, and took my sleep,
And then I did awake;
Because that the Eternal God
Sustained me all along.
5 Salvation is what does belong
To the Eternal God;
On those that are thy people is
Thy benediction still.
