The Book of Psalms, in an English Metrical Version

Excerpt from The Book of Psalms, in an English Metrical Version: Founded on the Basis of the Authorized Bible Translation, and Compared With the Original Hebrew; With Notes Critical and Illustrative Of the poetical character of the Psalms there can I apprehend be entertained no reasonable doubt: the sentiments, the imagery, the diction, the strue ture, in a word all the constituents of poetical com position, meet us at every turn. Whether or not they were composed in metre, has been a question amongst the most distinguished Biblical criticks. However this question may be decided, a metrical form is so closely associated with our ideas of poetry that, except in such a form, the Psalms are not ina condition to assert their full claim to poetical excel lence. For this reason the form of the present work has been chosen.

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