Book of Psalms
PSALM II.
George Burgess
Why roars the nations' stormy ire?
Why chafes their tumult vain?
The lords of earth in league conspire,
And kings their warriors train:
Against the Lord they lift their hands;
Against his Christ they say,
\"Come, let us break their slavish bands.
And cast their chains away!\"
Enthron'd above the starry sky,
Mid many an angel host,
God laughs to scorn the hostile cry,
And mocks the rebel boast:
Nor long his awful voice is still;
It utters stem disdain;
\"Yet, firm on Sion's holy hill,
My chosen king shall reign.\"
I speak the Lord's supreme decree;
\"This day my Son art thou:
Ask, and the heathen thine shall be,
And earth's wide realms shall bow:
Thine iron rod, thy righteous sway.
Shall quell their haughty trust;
And, like a vase of fragile clay,
Crush all their might to dust.\"
Ye kings of earth, take counsel here;
Ye chiefs, be timely wise:
Rejoice with trembling; serve in fear;
Nor tempt his wrath to rise:
Do homage to the kingly Son,
Ere yet ye sink in woe:
Be but the wasting flame begun,
How bless'd his peace to know!
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Poetry of the Psalms
The "Poetry of the Psalms" is a collection of poems expressing the struggles, fears, anger, joy and love revealed in the Psalms of the Bible. They were written over hundreds of years by various authors, including Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, George Burgess, Charles Spurgeon, Abraham Coles, Augustus Toplady, Tate and Brady.
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