Order of Contents
General Works
Old Testament
Judges
Esther
Job
Psalms
Ecclessiastes
Song of Solomon
Lamentations
Ezekiel
Minor Prophets
Jonah
New Testament
Acts
Revelation
General Works
Barton, William – A Catalogue of Virtuous Women Recorded in the Old and New Testaments 13 pages
Clapham, Henoch – A Brief of the Bible drawn first into English Poësy, and then illustrated by apt annotations 1596
Graile, Edmund – Timothy’s Lesson: or, a Summary relation of the historical part of Holy Scripture, plainly and familiarly comprised in meter, for the help of memory, and instruction of the ignorant Ref 1699
Judges
Quarles, Francis – The History of Samson 1631
Esther
Quarles, Francis – Hadassa: or The History of Queen Esther with Meditations thereupon, divine and moral 1621
Job
Blackmore, Richard – A Paraphrase on the Book of Job 1700
Blackmore (1654-1726) was an Anglican.
Garden, Charles – An Improved Metrical Version attempted of the Book of Job; a Poem, with preliminary dissertation and notes 1796 The poem is on pp. 5-75 after the preliminary dissertation.
King, Edwin – The Poem Of Job Translated In The Meter of The Original 1914
Malet, Arthur – The Books of Job, Ecclesiastes and Revelation rendered into English Verse, also Solomon and His Bride, A Drama from the Song of Songs Buy PoD
Meikle, W. – Job in Meter 1869
Mumford, A.H. – The Book of Job: a Metrical Version 1922
Quarles, Francis – Job Militant with Meditations Divine and Moral 1624
Ramsaeus, T. Ramsay – The Book of Job, Chapter 3 to the End
Raymond, Rossiter – The Book of Job: Essays, and a Metrical Paraphrase 1878
Schmidt, Nathaniel – The messages of the poets : the books of Job and Canticles and some minor poems in the Old Testament, with introductions, metrical translations, and paraphrases, p. 112 ff. 1911
The work cycles through sections of Job in verse and notes on the passage by the author.
Scott, Thomas – The Book of Job in English Verse, with Remarks 1733
This is not the Scott that produced the whole Bible commentary, but rather was a dissenting minister at Ipswich, England.
Stather, W.C. – The Book of Job in English Verse; with Notes 1859
Stock, Joseph – The Book of Job Metrically Arranged according to the Masorah and newly translated into English with Notes Critical and Explanatory 1805
The Psalms
Ecclesiastes
Malet, Arthur – The Books of Job, Ecclesiastes and Revelation rendered into English Verse, also Solomon and His Bride, A Drama from the Song of Songs Buy PoD
Morgan, Aaron – The Book of Solomon called Ecclesiastes metrically paraphrased and accompanied with an analysis of the argument, being a retranslation of the original Hebrew… 1856
“This is an article de luxe, and is rather for the drawing room than for the study. A graphic pencil, first class typography, and a carefully written metrical translation make up an elegant work of art.” – Spurgeon
Quarles, Francis – Solomon’s Recantation, entitled Ecclesiastes Paraphrased with a Soliloquie or Meditation upon every chapter 1644
Roe, George – Koheleth: a Metrical Paraphrase of the Canonical Book of Ecclesiastes 1912
The Song of Solomon
Lamentations
Slight, Henry – A Metrical Version of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, p 403 ff. 1848
Anonymous – A Bottle of Holy Tears, or, Jeremiah’ throws and lamentations for Israel’s misery and Jerusalem’s woeful desolation metrically and meta-phrastically laid out in verse, explaining plainly the meaning of the prophet in his lamenting phrases. Very suitable to these times, wherein we have a call every day to learne the lessons of England’s lamentation, war and plague having made a strong entrance into diverse parts of the land, and lean famine and desolation knocking at the door for entrance Ref 1645
Ezekiel
Newcome, William – An Attempt Towards an Improved Version, a Metrical Arrangement and an Explanation of the Prophet Ezekiel 1788
The Minor Prophets
Newcome, William – An Attempt Towards an Improved Version, a Metrical Arrangement, and an explanation of the 12 Minor Prophets 1809
Jonah
Quarles, Francis – A Feast for Worms Set forth in a Poem of the History of Jonah 1620
Acts
Tye, Christopher – The Acts of the Apostles [chs. 1-14], translated into English meter… for all Christians that cannot sing, to read the good and Godly stories of the lives of Christ’s Apostles 1553
Revelation
Malet, Arthur – The Books of Job, Ecclesiastes and Revelation rendered into English Verse, also Solomon and His Bride, A Drama from the Song of Songs Buy PoD
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