Psalm 83 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFGF HIJI BCKC JLML NOPO QRLR STUQA complaint against persecutors | A |
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And will the God of grace | B |
Perpetual silence keep | C |
The God of justice hold his peace | D |
And let his vengeance sleep | C |
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Behold what cursed snares | E |
The men of mischief spread | F |
The men that hate thy saints and thee | G |
Lift up their threat'ning head | F |
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Against thy hidden ones | H |
Their counsels they employ | I |
And malice with her watchful eye | J |
Pursues them to destroy | I |
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The noble and the base | B |
Into thy pastures leap | C |
The lion and the stupid ass | K |
Conspire to vex thy sheep | C |
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Come let us join they cry | J |
To root them from the ground | L |
Till not the name of saints remain | M |
Nor mem'ry shall be found | L |
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Awake Almighty God | N |
And call thy wrath to mind | O |
Give them like forests to the fire | P |
Or stubble to the wind | O |
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Convince their madness Lord | Q |
And make them seek thy name | R |
Or else their stubborn rage confound | L |
That they may die in shame | R |
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Then shall the nations know | S |
That glorious dreadful word | T |
Jehovah is thy name alone | U |
And thou the sovereign Lord | Q |
Isaac Watts
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