Praying the Psalms with Augustine and Friends

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Praying the Psalms with Augustine and Friends

Psalm 48 with Mary Sidney Herbert – Jerusalem, the City of God He that hath eternal being glorious is, and glorious shows, in the city he hath chose, where stands his holy hill. Hill Zion, hill of fairest seeing, city of the king most great, seated in a northly seat, all climes 1 with joy doth fill in each palace she containeth. God a well-known rock remaineth. One day kings—a day appointed there with joined force to be,— See they it? The things they see, amaze their mated 2 minds. Flying, trembling, disappointed, so they fear, and so they fare, as the wife, whose woeful care the pangs of child-bed 3 finds Right as ships from Tarshish going, crushed with blasts of Eurus 4 blowing.

1 Climes – climates, regions 2 Mated – amazed 3 Child-bed – childbirth 4 Eurus – east wind