Christ in Majesty. Codex amiatinus, fol. 796v.

Psalm 46 :  Deus noster refugium

[unpublished]

Our hope is God, God is our stay           A sheild to keep us sound           Still ready to be found When troubles would our minds dismay When albeit the Earth quake all           And highest hills do fall           Into the deepest deep Yet still we will us fearless keep. Yea to the deep up boyling make           Such watry mountains rise As at their dashing cryes The earthy mountains seem to shake Yet shall a Rivers streaming joy           With myrth wash from annoy           The citty God hath chose His Holy dwelling to enclose. God in this Cittys Center bides           What can this citty shake           Who can this citty take Where God a present ayd resides? Where Nations raged against it came           And empires did the same           Ayr did with thunder sound Earth failed their feet with melting ground. The God of Armys for us armes,           When any tumult moves           The God that Jacob loves : Our fortresse is against all harmes O Come yourselves, O come and see           How clean, how throughly hee           Hath purgd the earth of those That unto him er were his foes. By him each where all warrs are dread           As farr as hand doth go           He shiverd hath the bow Crusht pikes, and flames with chariots fedd Be still sayth he and know that I           Am God who will on high           My peereless power and prayse About all lands and peoples rayse. The God of armys, for us arms           When any tumult moves           The God that Jacob loves Our fortresse is against all harms.

to Works of Mary Herbert

Site copyright ©1996-2025 Anniina Jokinen. All Rights Reserved.
Created by Anniina Jokinen on March 9, 2002. Last updated on April 1, 2025.