{"slug": "o-lord-how-are-my-foes-increased-psalm-3", "title": "O Lord, How Are My Foes Increased?", "first_line": "O Lord, how are my foes increased?", "author_source": "Scottish Psalter, 1650", "foot": "iambic", "meter": {"pattern": [8, 6, 8, 6], "doubled": false, "refrain": false, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "psalm": 3, "topics": ["Psalms"], "scripture": ["Psalm 3"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "scottish-psalter-1650", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "encoding_origin": "reformed-standards/compendium (cross-verified against thewestminsterstandard.org)", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "The Psalms of David in Metre (Scottish Psalter), 1650 \u2014 Psalm 3. Committee versification (Rous revision); all contributors d. before 1700. Imported by tools/psalter_import.py: transcription cross-verified word-for-word against an independent edition; every line machine-scanned to the metre.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "O Lord, how are my foes in -- creased? a -- gainst me man -- y rise. Man -- y say of my soul, For him in God no suc -- cour lies.", "prose": ["O Lord, how are my foes increased?", "against me many rise.", "Many say of my soul, For him", "in God no succour lies."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "Yet thou my shield and glo -- ry art, th'up -- lift -- er of mine head. I cried, and, from his ho -- ly hill, the Lord me an -- swer made.", "prose": ["Yet thou my shield and glory art,", "th' uplifter of mine head.", "I cried, and, from his holy hill,", "the Lord me answer made."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "I laid me down and slept, I waked; for God sus -- tain -- ed me. I will not fear though thou -- sands ten set round a -- gainst me be.", "prose": ["I laid me down and slept, I waked;", "for God sustained me.", "I will not fear though thousands ten", "set round against me be."]}, "4": {"syllabified": "A -- rise, O Lord; save me, my God; for thou my foes hast stroke All on the cheek -- bone, and the teeth of wick -- ed men hast broke.", "prose": ["Arise, O Lord; save me, my God;", "for thou my foes hast stroke", "All on the cheek-bone, and the teeth", "of wicked men hast broke."]}, "5": {"syllabified": "Sal -- va -- ti -- on doth ap -- per -- tain un -- to the Lord a -- lone: Thy bless -- ing, Lord, for ev -- er -- more thy peo -- ple is up -- on.", "prose": ["Salvation doth appertain", "unto the Lord alone:", "Thy blessing, Lord, for evermore", "thy people is upon."]}}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}