Psalms 34:1-36:1 I wil allwaye geue thankes vnto the LORDE, his prayse shal euer be in my mouth.

Coverdale⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ I wil allwaye geue thankes vnto the LORDE, his prayse shal euer be in my mouth. ² My soule shall make hir boast in the LORDE: the poore oppressed shal heare therof, and be glad. ³ O prayse ye LORDE with me, and let vs magnifie his name together. ⁴ I sought the LORDE, and he herde me, yee he delyuered me out of all my feare. ⁵ They that haue an eye vnto him, shalbe lightened, & their faces shall not be ashamed. ⁶ This poore man cried vnto the LORDE, and he herde him, yee and delyuered him out of all his troubles. ⁷ The angell of the LORDE pitcheth his tente rounde aboute them that feare him, and delyuereth them. ⁸ O taist and se how frendly the LORDE is, blessed is the man yt trusteth in him. ⁹ O feare the LORDE, ye yt be his sayntes: for they that feare him, lacke nothinge. ¹⁰ The rich shal want and suffre hunger, but they which seke the LORDE, shal wat no maner of thinge, that is good. ¹¹ Come hither (o ye children) herken vnto me, I wil teach you the feare of the LORDE. ¹² Who so listeth to lyue, & wolde fayne se good dayes. ¹³ Let him refrayne his tonge from euell, and his lippes that they speake no gyle. ¹⁴ Let him eschue euell, and do good: Let him seke peace & ensue it. ¹⁵ For the eyes of the LORDE are ouer the rightuous, and his eares are open vnto their prayers. ¹⁶ But the face of the LORDE beholdeth them that do euel, to destroye the remembraunce of them out of the earth. ¹⁷ When the rightuous crie, the LORDE heareth them, and delyuereth the out of all their troubles. ¹⁸ The LORDE is nye vnto them yt are contrite in hert, & wil helpe soch as be of an huble sprete. ¹⁹ Greate are ye troubles of the rightuous, but the LORDE delyuereth them out of all. ²⁰ He kepeth all their bones, so yt not one of them is broken. ²¹ But mi?fortune shal slaye the vngodly, and they that hate ye rightuous shal be giltie. ²² The LORDE delyuereth the soules of his seruautes, and all they that put their trust in him, shal not offende. ³⁵ ¹ Stryue thou with them (o LORDE) that stryue wt me, fight thou agaynst them that fight agaynst me. ² Laye honde vpon the shylde and speare, and stonde vp to helpe me. ³ Drawe out thy swearde, and stoppe the waye agaynst them that persecute me, saye vnto my soule: I am yi helpe. ⁴ Let them be cofounded and put to shame, that seke after my soule: let the be turned back and brought to confucion, that ymagin myschefe for me. ⁵ Let the be as ye dust before the wynde, and the angell of the LORDE scaterynge the. ⁶ Let their waye be darcke and slippery, and the angell of the LORDE to persecute them. ⁷ For they haue pryuely laied their nett to destroye me without a cause, yee and made a pitte for my soule, which I neuer deserued. ⁸ Let a sodane destruccio come vpon him vnawarres, and ye nett that he hath layed priuely, catch him self, that he maye fall in to his owne myschefe. ⁹ But let my soule be ioyfull in the LORDE, and reioyse in his helpe. ¹⁰ All my bones shal saie: LORDE, who is like vnto the? which delyuerest ye poore from those that are to stronge for him, yee the poore and the nedy from his robbers. ¹¹ False witnesses are rysen vp, & laye to my charge thinges that I knowe not. ¹² They rewarde me euell for good, to the greate discomforth of my soule. ¹³ Neuertheles, when they were sick, I put on a sack cloth: I humbled my soule with fastinge, and my prayer turned in to myne owne bosome. ¹⁴ I behaued myself as though it had bene my frende or my brother, I wete heuely, as one yt mourneth for his mother. ¹⁵ But in my aduersite they reioyse, and gather them together: yee ye very lame come together agaynst me vnawarres, makynge mowes at me, & ceasse not. ¹⁶ With ye gredy & scornefull ypocrites, they gna?shed vpon me with theirteth. ¹⁷ LORDE, whan wilt thou loke vpo this? O restore my soule from ye wicked rumoure of the, my dearlinge from the lyons. ¹⁸ So wil I geue ye thankes in the greate congregacion, & prayse the amonge moch people. ¹⁹ O let the not triuphe ouer me, that are myne enemies for naught: O let them not wyncke wt their eyes, that hate me without a cause. ²⁰ And why? their comonynge is not for peace, but they ymagin false wordes agaynst ye outcastes of the londe. ²¹ They gape vpon me wt their mouthes, sayenge: there there: we se it with oure eyes. ²² This thou seist, o LORDE: holde not thy tonge the: go not farre fro me, o LORDE. ²³ Awake (LORDE) and stonde vp: auenge thou my cause, my God, and my LORDE. ²⁴ Iudge me (o LORDE my God) acordinge to thy rightuousnesse, yt they triuphe not ouer me. ²⁵ O let the not saye in their hertes: there there, so wolde we haue it. O let them not saye: we haue ouercome him. ²⁶ Let them be put to confucion and shame, that reioyse at my trouble: let the be clothed with rebuke and dishonoure, that boost the selues agaynst me. ²⁷ Let them also be glad and reioyse, that fauoure my rightuous dealinge: yee let them saye allwaye: blessed be ye LORDE, which hath pleasure in the prosperite of his seruaunt. ²⁸ And as for my tonge, it shall be talkynge of thy rightuousnes and of thy prayse, all the daye longe. ³⁶ ¹ My hert sheweth me the wickednesse of the vngodly, that there is no feare of God before his eyes.