Scottish Psalter and Paraphrases

¹In Judah’s land God is well known,

his name’s in Isr’el great:

²In Salem is his tabernacle,

in Sion is his seat.

³There arrows of the bow he brake,

the shield, the sword, the war.

⁴More glorious thou than hills of prey,

more excellent art far.

⁵Those that were stout of heart are spoil’d,

they slept their sleep outright;

And none of those their hands did find,

that were the men of might.

⁶When thy rebuke, O Jacob’s God,

had forth against them past,

Their horses and their chariots both

were in a dead sleep cast.

⁷Thou, Lord, ev’n thou art he that should

be fear’d; and who is he

That may stand up before thy sight,

if once thou angry be?

⁸From heav’n thou judgment caus’d be heard;

the earth was still with fear,

⁹When God to judgment rose, to save

all meek on earth that were.

¹⁰Surely the very wrath of man

unto thy praise redounds:

Thou to the remnant of his wrath

wilt set restraining bounds.

¹¹Vow to the Lord your God, and pay:

all ye that near him be,

Bring gifts and presents unto him;

for to be fear’d is he.

¹²By him the sp’rits shall be cut off

of those that princes are:

Unto the kings that are on earth

he fearful doth appear.