Deus quid

Verse 1

Do not, O God, refrain thy tongue, in silence do not stay; With-hold not, Lord, thyself so long, and make no more delay.

Verse 2

For why? behold thy foes, and see how they do rage and cry; And those that bear a hate to thee hold up their heads on high:

Verse 3

Against thy folk they use deceit, and craftily enquire; For thine elect to lie in wait in council they conspire.

Verse 4

Come on, say they, let us expel and pluck this folk away, So that the Name of Israel may utterly decay.

Verse 5

They all conspire within their heart, how they may thee withstand, Against the Lord to take a part they are in league and band:

Verse 6

The tents of all the Edomites, the Ishmaelites likewise, The Hagarens and Moabites their plots do still devise;

Verse 7

Gebal and Ammon do likewise with Amalek conspire, The Philistines against thee rise, with them that dwell at Tyre;

Verse 8

Assur is also join'd to them in their conspiracy, And is become a fence and aid to Lot's posterity,

Verse 9

As thou didst to the Midianites, so serve them, Lord, each one: To Jabin and to Sisera, beside the brook Kison;

Verse 10

Whom thou in Endor didst destroy, and waste them thro' thy might, That they like dung on earth did lie, and that in open sight.

Verse 11

Make them now and their lords appear like Zeb and Oreb then; As Zebu and Zalmunna were, the kings of Midian:

Verse 12

Who said, let us throughout the land, in all the coasts abroad, Possess and take into our hand the fair houses of God.

Verse 13

Turn them, O God, with storms so fast as wheels, that have no stay, Or like the chaff, which men do cast with wind to fly away;

Verse 14

Like as the fire with rage and fume the mighty forest spills, And as the flame doth quite consume the mountains and the hills;

Verse 15

So let the tempest of thy wrath upon their necks be laid, And of thy wind and stormy breath, Lord, make them all afraid.

Verse 16

Lord, bring them all, I thee desire, to such rebuke and shame, That it may cause them to enquire, and learn to seek thy Name:

Verse 17

And let them daily more and more to shame and slander fall, And in rebuke and obloquy confound and sink them all;

Verse 18

That they may know and understand, thou art the God most High And that thou dost with mighty hand the world rule constantly.