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In trouble and in thrall
Author: T. S. Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: 1 In trouble and in thrall
unto the Lord I call,
And he doth me comfort;
Deliver me, I pray,
From lying lips alway,
and tongues of false report.
2 What 'vantage or what thing
gett'st thou thus for to sting,
Thou false and flatt'ring liar?
Thy tongue doth hurt, it's seen,
No less than arrows keen,
or hot consuming fire.
3 Alas! that I am fain
in those tents to remain,
Which Kedar are by name;
By whom the flock elect,
And all of Isaac's sect,
are put to open shame.
4 With them that peace do hate
I came to meditate,
And set a quiet life:
But when my mind was told,
Causeless I was controul'd
by them that loved strife. Scripture: Psalm 120
In trouble and in thrall
In trouble and in thrall
Author: T. S. Hymnal: The Whole Book of Psalms #CXX (1790) Lyrics: 1 In trouble and in thrall
unto the Lord I call,
And he doth me comfort;
Deliver me, I pray,
From lying lips alway,
and tongues of false report.
2 What 'vantage or what thing
gett'st thou thus for to sting,
Thou false and flatt'ring liar?
Thy tongue doth hurt, it's seen,
No less than arrows keen,
or hot consuming fire.
3 Alas! that I am fain
in those tents to remain,
Which Kedar are by name;
By whom the flock elect,
And all of Isaac's sect,
are put to open shame.
4 With them that peace do hate
I came to meditate,
And set a quiet life:
But when my mind was told,
Causeless I was controul'd
by them that loved strife. Scripture: Psalm 120 Languages: English
In trouble and in thrall
Ad Dominum
Author: T. S. Hymnal: The Whole Booke of Psalmes #75a (1640) First Line: In trouble and in thrall Lyrics: 1 In trouble and in thrall
Unto the Lord I call,
And he doth me comfort.
2 Deliver me, I say,
From lyars lips alway,
And tongues of false report.
3 What vantage or what thing
Get'st thou thus for to sting,
Thou false and flattering lyar?
4 Thy tongue doth hurt I ween,
No lesse than arrowes keen,
Or hot consuming fire.
5 Alas too long I slack
Within these tears so blac,
Which Kedars are by name.
By whom the flock elect,
And all of Isaaks sect,
Are put to open shame.
6 With them that peace do hate,
I came to peace to make
And set a quiet life.
7 But when my tale was told,
Causelesse I was controld
By them that would have strife. Scripture: Psalm 120 Languages: English
Ad Dominum
Thomas Sternhold
1449 - 1549 Person Name: T. S. Author of "In trouble and in thrall" in The Whole Book of Psalms Thomas Sternhold was Groom of the Robes to Henry VIII and Edward VI. With Hopkins, he produced the first English version of the Psalms before alluded to. He completed fifty-one; Hopkins and others composed the remainder. He died in 1549. Thirty-seven of his psalms were edited and published after his death, by his friend Hopkins. The work is entitled "All such Psalms of David as Thomas Sternhold, late Groome of the King's Majestye's Robes, did in his Lyfetime drawe into Englyshe Metre." Of the version annexed to the Prayer Book, Montgomery says: "The merit of faithful adherence to the original has been claimed for this version, and need not to be denied, but it is the resemblance which the dead bear to the living." Wood, in his "Athenae Oxonlenses" (1691, vol. I, p. 62), has the following account of the origin of Sternhold's psalms: "Being a most zealous reformer, and a very strict liver, he became so scandalized at the amorous and obscene songs used in the Court, that he, forsooth, turned into English metre fifty-one of David's psalms, and caused musical notes to be set to them, thinking thereby that the courtiers would sing them instead of their sonnets; but they did not, some few excepted. However, the poetry and music being admirable, and the best that was made and composed in these times, they were thought fit to be sung in all parochial churches." Of Sternhold and Hopkins, old Fuller says: "They were men whose piety was better than their poetry, and they had drunk more of Jordan than of Helicon." Sternhold and Hopkins may be taken as the representatives of the strong tendency to versify Scripture that came with the Reformation into England--a work men eagerly entered on without the talent requisite for its successful accomplishment. The tendency went so far, that even the "Acts of the Apostles" was put into rhyme, and set to music by Dr. Christopher Tye.
--Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872.
Thomas Sternhold
