[From Psalmyn Ghavid]

Psalmyn Ghavid

PSALM 1.

1.

Bannit ta’n dooinney shen ta chea
Veih olk dy-chooilley raad;
Nagh vel lurg coyrle mee-cnrauee shooyl
Ny soie ayns stoyl ny craid.

2.

Agh mooarane taitnys t’eh dy ghoaill
Ayns ynric leigh e Yee;
T’eh jannoo ‘churrym jeh ‘sy laa
As smooinaght er ‘syn oie.

3.

T’eh goll-rish billey soit rish awin,
Ta bishaghey as gaase;
Skeayley ‘vanglaneyn trome lesh mess,
B ghuilley kinjagh glass.

4.

Agh vouesyn ta mee-arryssagh
Ta’n vaynrys vooar shoh freilt;
T’ad goll rish coau sheebit lesh geay
Er fei ny cruinney skeaylt.

5.

Ayns briwnys kiart ta faagit mooie
Ny kimmee kyndagh treih;
T’ad eebrit magh veih nooghyn Yee,
As sheshaght crauee sleih.

6.

Son Jee ta moylley raad e Noo
As leagh mooar ver eh da;
Agh eh ta geiyrt da raaidyn camm
Ta cherraghtyn dy-bra.

1

HOW blest is he who ne’er consents
By ill advice to walk;
Nor stands in sinners’ ways, nor sits
Where men profanely talk.

2

But makes the perfect law of God
His business and delight;
Devoutly reads therein by day,
And meditates by night.

3

Like some fair tree, which, fed by streams,
With timely fruit does bend,
He still shall flourish, and success
All his designs attend.

4

Ungodly men and their attempts
No lasting root shall find;
Untimely blasted, and dispers’d
Like chaff before the wind.

5

Their guilt shall strike the wicked dumb
Before their Judge’s face;
No formal hypocrite shall then
Amongst the saints have place.

6

For God approves the just man’s ways
To happiness they tend;
But sinners, and the paths they tread,
Shall both in ruin end.


 

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