Readings on the Psalms, with notes on their musical treatment

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Joseph Masters, 1873 - Bible - 320 pages

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Page 8 - Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
Page 6 - But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
Page 147 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed...
Page 181 - My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Page 54 - What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit ? Shall the dust praise thee ? shall it declare thy truth ? 10 Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me : LORD, be thou my helper.
Page 231 - Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness?
Page 164 - Ye shall not need to fight in this battle : set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem : fear not, nor be dismayed ; to-morrow go out against them : for the LORD will be with you.
Page 44 - The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof: the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas : and established it upon the floods.
Page 121 - And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
Page 4 - Thou art my son ; this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

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