The Hebrew Psalms in English Verse
Psalm 14
Abraham Coles
Besotted pupil in that school,
The darkened reason of a fool! —
He, proud of his ancestral clod,
Saith in his heart, "There is no God."
No wonder from such evil root.
There springs abominable fruit:
Mad revelers at Nature's feast.
Men grow more beastly than the beast.
2 The Lord looked down from heaven to see
If any bowed to Him the knee;
If there were any understood,
And there was none, none that did good.
3 They all had gone aside, all had
Become corrupt and wholly bad.
4 Are evil-doers void of sense
As well as of all innocence?
They, like wild beasts with ravin red.
My people eat as they eat bread;
They on the Lord disdain to call —
5 But, lo, great tremblings on them fall.
For God, now with the righteous seen.
His arm laid bare, doth intervene;
6 And counsels, that were put to shame,
Are made triumphant in His Name.
7 O that salvation might with power
Come out of Zion at this hour!
When back from thraldom God shall bring,
Then Jacob shall exult and sing.
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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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