Praying the Psalms with Augustine and Friends

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Praying the Psalms with Augustine and Friends

Psalm 83 with Mary Sidney Herbert – A Desperate Call for Deliverance Be not, O be not silent still; Rest not, O God, with endless rest. For lo, thine enemies with noise and tumult rise; Hate doth their hearts with fierceness fill, and lift their heads who thee detest. Against thy folk their wits they file 1 to sharpest point of secret sleight; 2 A world of traps and trains 3 they forge in busy brains, that they thy hid ones may beguile, 4 whom thy wings shroud from searching sight. “Come let us of them nothing make; let none them more a people see; Stop we their very name within the mouth of fame.” Such are the counsels these men take; Such leagues they link, 5 and these they be.

1 File – sharpen 2 Sleight – trick 3 Trains – deceitful lures 4 Beguile – mislead 5 Leagues they link – conspiracies they enter into