Psalms 5:1-119:176 Geue eare vnto my wordes O God: vnderstande thou my pensifnesse

Bishops⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Geue eare vnto my wordes O God: vnderstande thou my pensifnesse ² Hearken thou vnto the voyce of my crying my kyng and my Lorde: for vnto thee I wyll make my prayer ³ Thou shalt heare my voyce betymes O God: I wyll early in the morning direct [a prayer] vnto thee, and I wyll looke [for helpe from thee. ⁴ For thou art the Lorde that hath no pleasure in wickednesse: neither can any euyll dwell with thee ⁵ Suche as be foolishe, can not stande in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquitie ⁶ Thou wilt destroy them that make a lye: God wyll abhorre both the bloodthirstie and deceiptfull man ⁷ As for me I wyll come into thyne house, [trusting] in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy feare I will humble my selfe in thyne holy temple ⁸ Leade me O God in thy righteousnesse, because of myne enemies: make thy way playne before my face ⁹ For no trueth is in their mouth, their inwarde partes are very wickednesse: their throte is an open sepulchre, they flatter with their tongue ¹⁰ Destroy thou them O Lord, let them perishe through their owne counsailes: cast them out in the multitude of their vngodlinesse, for they haue rebelled against thee ¹¹ And all they that trust in thee wyll reioyce, they wyll triumph for euer, because thou defendest them: and they that loue thy name, wyll be ioyfull in thee ¹² For thou O God wylt blesse the righteous: and thou wylt compasse hym about with beneuolence, as with a shielde ⁶ ¹ O God rebuke me not in thine indignation: neither chasten me in thy wrath ² Haue mercy on me O God, for I am weake: O God heale me, for my bones be very sore ³ My soule also is greatly troubled: but O God howe long [shall I be in this case? ⁴ Turne thee O God, and deliuer my soule: Oh saue me for thy mercies sake ⁵ For in death no man remembreth thee: and in the graue who can acknowledge thee ⁶ I am weerie of my groning: I washe my bed euery nyght, and I water my coutche with my teares ⁷ Mine eye is almost put out through griefe: and worne out through all mine enemies ⁸ Away from me all workers of iniquitie: for God hath hearde the voyce of my weeping ⁹ God hath hearde my petition: God wyll receaue my prayer ¹⁰ All myne enemies shalbe confounded and sore vexed: they shalbe turned backe, they shalbe put to shame sodainlye ⁷ ¹ O God my Lord, in thee I haue put my trust: saue me from all them that do persecute me, and deliuer thou me ² Lest he like a Lion seasoneth on my soule: teareth it in peeces, hauyng no rescue ³ O God my Lord, if I haue done any such thing: or if there be any wickednesse in my handes ⁴ If I haue done euyll vnto hym that had peace with me: and [if] I haue [not] deliuered hym that is without a cause myne aduersarie ⁵ [Then] let myne enemie persecute my soule and take me: yea, let hym put me to death, and lay myne honour in the dust. Selah ⁶ Arise O God in thy wrath, and stand thou vp agaynst the rage of myne enemies: stirre thou for me [according] to the iudgement [whiche] thou hast geuen ⁷ And so shall the congregation of the people come about thee: for their sakes therfore place thy selfe on high ⁸ God wyll iudge the people: geue thou sentence with me O God according to my righteousnesse, and according to my perfection [that is] within me ⁹ My desire is, that ye wickednesse of the vngodly may come to an ende: and that thou wouldest assist the iust, who art the tryer of heartes and of reynes, O most righteous Lorde ¹⁰ My buckler is with God: who preserueth them that be vpright in heart ¹¹ The Lorde is a righteous iudge: and the Lorde is prouoked to anger euery day ¹² If the wicked wyll not turne, he wyll whet his sworde: bende his bowe, and haue it in a redinesse [to shoote ¹³ He hath prepared hym instrumentes of death: he hath ordayned his arrowes agaynst them that be persecutors ¹⁴ Beholde, he wyll be in trauayle of a mischiefe, for he hath conceaued a labour: but yet he shall be brought to bed of a falsehood ¹⁵ He hath made a graue and digged it: but he hym selfe wyll fall into the pit whiche he hath made ¹⁶ For his labour shall come vpon his owne head: and his wickednesse shall fall vpon his owne pate ¹⁷ I wyll prayse God accordyng to his ryghteousnesse: & I wyll sing psalmes vnto the name of the most high God ⁸ ¹ O God our Lorde, howe excellent is thy name in all the earth? for that thou hast set thy glory aboue the heauens ² Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklinges thou hast layde the foundation of thy strength for thyne aduersaries sake: that thou mightest styll the enemie and the auenger ³ For I will consider thy heauens, euen the workes of thy fingers: the moone and the starres whiche thou hast ordayned ⁴ What is man that thou art myndfull of him? and the sonne of man that thou visitest hym ⁵ Thou hast made hym somthyng inferiour to angels: thou hast crowned him with glory and worship ⁶ Thou makest hym to haue dominion of the workes of thy handes: and thou hast put all thinges [in subiection] vnder his feete ⁷ (8:7a) All sheepe and oxen, & also the beastes of the fielde ⁸ (8:7b) the foules of the ayre, and the fishe of the sea, and whatsoeuer swymmeth in the seas ⁹ (8:8) O God our Lorde: howe excellent great is thy name in all the earth ⁹ ¹ I wyl prayse God with all myne heart: I wyl recite all thy marueylous workes ² I wyll be glad & reioyce in thee: I wyll sing psalmes vnto thy name, O thou most hyest ³ For that myne enemies are returned backwarde: are fallen and perished at thy presence ⁴ For that thou hast geuen iudgement in my ryght and cause: thou that iudgest right, hast sit in the throne of iudgement ⁵ Thou hast rebuked the Heathen, and destroyed the vngodly: thou hast abolished their name for euer and euer ⁶ O thou enemie thou thoughtest to bryng vs to a perpetuall desolation: and to destroy our cities, so that there shoulde remayne no memory of them ⁷ But God wyll sit for euer: he hath prepared his throne for iudgement ⁸ For he wyll iudge the world in iustice: and minister iudgement vnto the people in righteousnesse ⁹ God also wyll be a refuge for the oppressed: euen a refuge in tyme of trouble ¹⁰ And they that knowe thy name wyll put their trust in thee: for thou O God hast neuer fayled them that seeke thee ¹¹ Sing psalmes vnto God abiding at Sion: declare his notable actes among the people ¹² For he maketh inquisition of blood: he remembreth it, and forgetteth not the complaynt of the poore ¹³ Haue mercy on me O God: consider the trouble whiche I suffer of them that hate me, lift me vp from the gates of death ¹⁴ That I may shewe all thy prayses within the gates of the daughter of Sion: and reioyce in thy saluation ¹⁵ The Heathen are sunke downe into the pit that they made: their owne foote is snared in the same net whiche they had layde priuily [for other. ¹⁶ God is knowen by the iudgement that he hath executed: the vngodly is trapped in ye worke of his owne handes, this ought to be considered alwayes. Selah ¹⁷ The wicked shalbe turned vnto hell: and all people that forget God ¹⁸ But the poore shall not alway be forgotten: [neither] shall the hope of the humble afflicted, perishe for euer ¹⁹ Aryse vp O God, let not man preuaile: let the Heathen in thy sight be iudged ²⁰ Put them in feare O God: that the Heathen may knowe them selues to be but men. Selah ¹⁰ ¹ Why standest thou so farre of O God? [why] hidest [thee] in the tyme of trouble ² The vngodly of a wylfulnesse persecuteth the poore: [but euery one] of them shalbe taken in the craftie wylines that they haue imagined ³ For the vngodly prayseth according to his owne heartes desire: and blessing the couetous, he blasphemeth God ⁴ The vngodly looketh so proudly as though he cared for none at all: neither is the Lorde in all his thoughtes ⁵ His wayes are alwayes greeuous, but thy iudgementes are farre aboue out of his sight: [and therfore] he snuffeth at all his enemies ⁶ He hath sayde in his heart, tushe, I can not be remoued: for I can not [be touched] at any tyme with harme ⁷ His mouth is full of cursing, and of deceate, and of fraude: vnder his tongue is labour and mischiefe ⁸ He sitteth lurkyng in theeuishe corners of the streates: and priuily in lurking dennes he doth murther the innocent, he eyeth diligently hym that is weake ⁹ He lieth in wayte lurking as a Lion in his denne: he lyeth in wayte lurkyng, that he may violently carry away the afflicted, he doth carry away violentlye the afflicted, in halyng hym into his net ¹⁰ He croucheth and humbleth him selfe: so that a number of the that be weake, fall by his myght ¹¹ He sayeth in his heart, tushe, the Lord hath forgotten: he hydeth away his face, and he wyll neuer see it ¹² Aryse vp O Lorde God: lift vp thine hande, forget not the afflicted ¹³ Wherefore shoulde the wicked blaspheme the Lorde: [whyle] he sayeth in his heart, that thou wylt not call to accompt ¹⁴ Surely thou hast seene [this] for thou beholdest labour and spite: that thou mayest take the matter into thy hands, he that is weake leaueth it for thee, [for] thou art the helper of the fatherlesse ¹⁵ Breake thou the power of the vngodly and malitious: searche thou out his vngodlynes, and thou shalt finde none afterwarde in him ¹⁶ God is king for euer and euer: but the Heathen shall perishe out of the lande ¹⁷ O God, thou hast hearde the desire of the afflicted: [and] thou wylt settle their heart ¹⁸ Thou wylt be attentiue with thyne eare, to geue iudgement for the fatherlesse and oppressed: [so] no man in the earth shall once go about hereafter to do them violence ¹¹ ¹ In God I put my trust: howe say ye then to my soule, that she shoulde flee as a byrde from your hyll ² For lo, the vngodly haue bende their bowe: and nocked their arrowes with the string, redy to shoote priuily at them whiche are vpright in heart ³ For if the foundations shalbe caste downe: what must the righteous do ⁴ But God is in his holy temple, Gods throne is in heauen: his eyes looke downe, his eye liddes tryeth the chyldren of men ⁵ God wyll trye the righteous: but his soule abhorreth the vngodly, and hym that delighteth in wickednes ⁶ Upon ye vngodly he wyl rayne snares, fire and brimstone: and tempestious stormes shalbe their portion to drinke ⁷ For God most righteous, loueth righteousnes: his countenaunce wyll beholde the iust ¹² ¹ Saue thou [me] O God, for there is not one godly man left: for the faythfull are diminished from among the chyldren of men ² Euery one vseth vayne talke with his neyghbour: and speaketh with a double heart out of flatteryng lippes ³ God wyll cut away all flatteryng lippes: [and] the tongue that speaketh great thinges ⁴ Whiche say, we wyll preuayle with our tongue: our lippes are our owne, who is Lorde ouer vs ⁵ For the calamities of the oppressed, for the deepe sighyng of the poore, I wyll nowe vp sayeth God: and I wyll put in safetie, [hym] whom the [wicked] hath snared ⁶ The wordes of God be wordes pure, as the siluer tryed in a furnace of earth: and purified seuen times ⁷ [Wherfore] thou wylt kepe the godly, O God: thou wylt preserue euery one of them from this generation for euer ⁸ The vngodly walke on euery side: when the worst sort be exalted amongst the chyldren of men ¹³ ¹ Howe long wylt thou forget me O God, for euer? howe long wilt thou hyde thy face from me ² Howe long shall I seke counsayle in my soule, and be so vexed in mine heart euery day? howe long shall myne enemie triumph ouer me ³ Loke downe and heare me O God my Lorde: lighten myne eyes, lest that I sleepe in death ⁴ Lest myne enemie say, I haue preuayled agaynst hym: lest they that trouble me reioyce yf I shoulde be remoued ⁵ (13:5a) But I repose my trust in thy mercie, and my heart is ioyfull in thy saluation ⁶ (13:5b) I wyll syng to God, because he hath rewarded me ¹⁴ ¹ The foole hath sayde in his heart there is no God: they haue corrupted [them selues] and done an abhominable worke, there is not one that doth good ² God loked downe from heauen vpon the children of men: to see yf there were any that did vnderstande [and] seke after the Lorde ³ But they are all gone out of the way, they are altogether become abhominable: there is none that doth good, no not one ⁴ Do not all the workers of iniquitie know, deuouryng my people as though they deuoured bread: that they call not vpon God ⁵ Hereafter they shalbe taken with a great feare: for the Lorde is in the generation of the righteous ⁶ As for nowe ye make a mocke at the counsayle of the poore: because he reposeth his trust in God ⁷ Who shall geue saluation vnto Israel: out of Sion? (14:8) When God will deliuer his people out of captiuitie: [then] wyll Iacob reioyce, and Israel be glad ¹⁵ ¹ O God, who shall dwell in thy tabernacle? who shall rest vppon thy holy hyll ² Euen he that leadeth an vncorrupt life: and doth the thyng that is iust, and speaketh the trueth from his heart ³ He that backbyteth not with his tongue: nor doth any euil to his felowe, nor rayseth a slaunder vpon his neyghbour ⁴ He that dispiseth in his eyes the reprobate: and honoureth them that feare God. (15:5) He that hath sworne to his owne hurt: and yet wyll not go from his oth ⁵ (15:6) He that geueth not his money vpon vsurie: nor taketh rewarde agaynst the innocent. (15:7) He that doth these thynges: shall neuer at any tyme be remoued ¹⁶ ¹ Preserue me O Lorde: for I haue reposed my trust in thee ² Thou hast sayde [O my soule] vnto God, thou art my Lorde: my weldoing [can do] thee no good ³ But all my delyght is [to do good] vnto the saintes that are in the earth: and vnto such as excell in vertue ⁴ As for them that runne [after] another [God] they shall haue great trouble: I wyll not offer their drynke offerynges of blood, neither wyll I make mention of their names within my lyppes ⁵ O God, thou thy selfe art the portion of myne inheritaunce and of my cup: thou wylt mayntayne my lot ⁶ My lot is fallen vnto me in a pleasaut [grounde:] I [haue] a goodly heritage ⁷ I wyll prayse God who gaue me counsayle: my reines also do instruct me in the nyght season ⁸ I haue set God alwayes before me: for he is on my ryght hande, [therfore] I shall not be remoued ⁹ Wherfore my heart is glad: my glory reioyceth, my fleshe also shall rest in a securitie ¹⁰ For thou wylt not leaue my soule in hell: neither wylt thou suffer thyne holy one to see corruption ¹¹ Thou wylt cause me to knowe the path of lyfe: in thy presence is the fulnesse of ioy, and at thy right hand there be pleasures for euermore ¹⁷ ¹ Heare thou O God of iustice, be attentiue vnto my complaynt: geue eare vnto my prayer, not [proceeding] out of fayned lyppes 2 Let iudgement come foorth for me from thy face: and let thine eyes loke vpon equitie ³ Thou hast proued myne heart, thou hast visited [it] in the nyght season: thou hast tryed me, and founde no [wickednesse, for] I purposed that nothyng shoulde scape my mouth ⁴ As touchyng [other] mens workes: through the wordes of thy lyppes I haue kept me from the way of the violent ⁵ O holde thou vp my goynges in thy pathes: that my footesteppes slyp not ⁶ I call vpon thee O God, for thou wilt heare me: incline thine eare to me, hearken vnto my wordes ⁷ Shewe thy marueylous louyng kindnesse: thou that art the sauiour of them that trust in thee, from such as ryse vp agaynst thy ryght hande ⁸ Kepe me as the apple of an eye, hyde me vnder the shadowe of thy wynges: from the face of the vngodly that go about to destroy me, [from] myne enemies that compasse me rounde about to take away my soule ⁹ They haue inclosed [them selues] in their owne fat: with their mouth they speake proude thynges ¹⁰ They haue nowe compassed me on euery syde [where] our way [lyeth]: they toote with their eyes to ouerthrow [me] downe on the grounde ¹¹ His [doynges] be lyke a lions that is greedy to take a pray: and as a lions whelpe lurkyng in secrete places ¹² Aryse O God, preuent his commyng, make hym to bowe: delyuer thou my soule from the vngodly [which is] thy sworde ¹³ [Deliuer thou] me O God from men [which be] thy hande: from men, from the worlde, whose portion [is] in this lyfe, whose bellyes thou fyllest with thy priuie [treasure] ¹⁴ Whose children haue aboundaunce: & they leaue enough of that they haue remaynyng to their babes ¹⁵ But as for me, I will beholde thy face in ryghteousnesse: I shalbe satisfied when I awake vp after thy lykenesse ¹⁸ ¹ (18:1a) I wyll entirely loue thee O God my strength ² (18:1b) God is my stony rocke & my fortresse, and my delyuerer: my Lorde, my castell in whom I wyll trust, my buckler, the horne of my saluation, & my refuge ³ (18:2) I wyll call vpon God, who is most worthy to be praysed: so I shall be safe from myne enemies ⁴ (18:3) The panges of death haue compassed me about: and the outragiousnes of the wicked haue astonyed me with feare ⁵ (18:4) The panges of a graue haue compassed me about: the snares of death ouertoke me ⁶ (18:5) But in this my distresse I dyd call vppon God, and I made my complaynt vnto my Lorde: he hearde my voyce out of his temple, and my crye came before his face, euen vnto his eares ⁷ (18:6) The earth trembled and quaked: the very foundations of the hylles tottered and shooke, because he was wroth ⁸ (18:7) In his anger a smoke ascended vp: and a fire out of his mouth dyd cosume, and euery cole therof dyd set a fire ⁹ (18:8) He bowed the heauens also, and he came downe: and it was darke vnder his feete ¹⁰ (18:9) He ridde vpon the Cherub, and he dyd flee: he came fleeyng vpon the wynges of the wynde ¹¹ (18:10) For his secrete place he dyd put darkenesse: and for his pauilion rounde about hym, he dyd put darknesse of waters in cloudes of the ayre ¹² (18:11) His cloudes, haylestones, and coles of fire: fell downe before hym after lyghtnyng ¹³ (18:12) God also thundred out of heauen: and the most hyghest made his voyce to sounde, haylestones, and coles of fire ¹⁴ (18:13) He shot out his arrowes, and scattered them: he cast foorth much lyghtnynges, and destroyed them ¹⁵ (18:14) And the bottomes of waters appeared, and the foundations of the rounde worlde were discouered at thy chidyng, O God: at the blast of the breath of thine anger ¹⁶ (18:15) He hath sent downe from aboue to fetch me: he hath taken me out of many waters ¹⁷ (18:16) He hath deliuered me from my strong enemie: and from them which hate me, for they were to stout for me ¹⁸ (18:17) They preuented me in the day of my trouble: but God was vnto me a sure stay ¹⁹ (18:18) He brought me also foorth into a place of libertie: he brought me foorth, because he had a fauour vnto me ²⁰ (18:19) God rewarded me after my righteous dealyng: accordyng to the cleannesse of myne handes he recompensed me ²¹ (18:20) Because I had kept the wayes of God: and had not wickedly shronke from my God ²² (18:21) For all his lawes were before me: and I reiected none of his commaundementes from me ²³ (18:22) And I was sounde & pure towardes hym: and I was weery lest I shoulde offende hym with my wickednesse ²⁴ (18:23) Therfore hath God rewarded me after my righteous dealyng: and accordyng to my cleannesse of my handes in his syght ²⁵ (18:24) With the holy thou wylt be holy: with a perfect man thou wylt be perfect ²⁶ (18:25) With the cleane thou wylt be cleane: and with the frowarde thou wylt be frowarde ²⁷ (18:26) For thou hast saued the people oppressed: and thou hast brought downe the hygh lokes of the proude ²⁸ (18:27) Thou also hast lyghtened my candell: God my Lorde hath made my darknesse to be lyght ²⁹ (18:28) For in thee I haue discomfited an hoast of men: and with the helpe of my Lorde I haue skipped ouer the wall ³⁰ (18:29) The way of the Lorde is a perfect way, the worde of God is tryed in the fire: he is a shielde vnto all them that put their trust in hym ³¹ (18:30) For who is a Lorde besides God: or who hath any strength besides our Lorde ³² (18:31) It is God that hath gyrded me with valiauntnesse of warre: and he hath made my way playne ³³ (18:32) He hath made my feete lyke Hartes feete: and he hath set me vp on hygh ³⁴ (18:33) He hath taught my handes to fyght: and myne armes to breake a bowe of steele ³⁵ (18:34) Thou hast geuen me the shielde of thy saluation: thy ryght hande also hath helde me vp, and through thy great gentlenesse I haue increased ³⁶ (18:35) Thou hast made me roomth inough for to go on: so that my feete haue not slypt ³⁷ (18:36) I haue pursued myne enemies and onertaken them: neither dyd I returne backe vntyll I had destroyed them ³⁸ (18:37) I smote them downe, and they are not able to aryse: they haue taken such a fall vnder my feete ³⁹ (18:38) Thou hast gyrded me with strength vnto battayle: thou hast made them to bowe downe vnder me who haue rysen vp agaynst me ⁴⁰ (18:39) Thou hast geuen me myne enemies neckes: and I haue destroyed them that hated me ⁴¹ (18:40) They cryed, but there was none to saue them: they cryed vnto God, but he dyd not heare them ⁴² (18:41) I dyd beat them to powder, like vnto dust in a wynde: I haue brought them as lowe as durt in the streates ⁴³ (18:42a) Thou hast deliuered me from sedition of the people, and thou hast made me head of the heathen: a people whom I haue not knowen serueth me ⁴⁴ (18:42b) assoone as they hearde of me, they obeyed me ⁴⁵ (18:43) Children of a straunger haue made a lie vnto me: the heartes of the children of a straunger hath fayled them, and they feared in their [strong] holdes ⁴⁶ (18:44) God lyueth, and he [is] my strength most worthy of blisse: and the Lorde of my saluation ought to be magnified ⁴⁷ (18:45) It is God that hath geuen me power to take auengeaunce: and he hath subdued the people vnder me ⁴⁸ (18:46) It is he that is the aucthour of my deliuerie from myne enemies: and he hath set me vp aboue them that rose agaynst me, he hath ridde me from the wicked man ⁴⁹ (18:47) For this cause I wyll acknowledge thee O God among the gentiles: and syng psalmes vnto thy name ⁵⁰ (18:48) Who hath wonderfull oft deliuered his kyng: and he hath done mercifully vnto Dauid his annoynted, and vnto his seede for euermore ¹⁹ ¹ The heauens declare the glorie of God: and the firmament sheweth his handy worke ² A day occasioneth talke therof vnto a day: and a night teacheth knoweledge vnto a nyght ³ (19:3a) No language, no wordes, no voyce of theirs is hearde ⁴ (19:3b) yet their sounde goeth into all landes, and their wordes into the endes of the worlde. (19:4a) In them he hath set a tabernacle for the sunne ⁵ (19:4b) which commeth foorth as a bridegrome out of his chamber, and reioyceth as a giaunt to runne his course ⁶ (19:5) His settyng foorth is from the vtmost part of heauen, and his circuite vnto the vtmost part therof: and there is nothing hyd from his heat ⁷ (19:6) The lawe of God is perfect, conuerting the soule: the testimonie of God is sure, and geueth wisdome vnto the simple ⁸ (19:7) The statutes of God are right, and reioyce the heart: the commaundement of God is pure, and geueth light vnto the eyes ⁹ (19:8) The feare of God is sincere, & endureth for euer: the iudgementes of God are trueth, they be iust in all poyntes ¹⁰ (19:9) They are more to be desired then golde, yea then much fine golde: they are also sweeter then hony and the hony combe ¹¹ (19:10) Moreouer, by them thy seruaunt is well aduertised: and in kepyng of them there is a great rewarde ¹² (19:11) Who can knowe his owne errours? Oh cleanse thou me from those that I am not priuie of ¹³ (19:12) Kepe thy seruaunt also from presumptuous [sinnes] let them not raigne ouer me: so I shall be perfect & voyde from all haynous offence ¹⁴ (19:13) Let the wordes of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight O God: my strength and my redeemer ²⁰ ¹ God heare thee in the day of trouble: the name of the Lorde of Iacob defende thee ² Let him sende thee helpe from the sanctuarie: and ayde thee out of Sion ³ Let him remember all thy offeringes: and turne into asshes thy burnt sacrifices. Selah ⁴ Let him graunt thee thy heartes desire: and accomplishe all thy deuice ⁵ We wyll reioyce in thy saluation, and triumph in the name of our Lorde: for God wyll perfourme all thy petitions ⁶ Nowe I knowe that God wyll saue his annoynted, he wyll heare him from his heauenly sanctuarie: there is saluation in the mightinesse of his right hande ⁷ Some [put their trust] in chariotes, and some in horses: but we wyll remember the name of God our Lorde ⁸ They shalbe made to bowe and fall: but we shall arise, and stande vpright ⁹ Saue thou O God: that the king may heare vs in the day when we call ²¹ ¹ The kyng ought to reioyce in thy strength O God: and he ought to be exceedyng glad of thy saluation ² Thou hast geuen him his heartes desire: and hast not denied him the request of his lippes. Selah ³ For thou hast preuented him with good blessinges: and hast set a crowne of pure golde vpon his head ⁴ He asked life of thee, and thou gauest him long dayes: euen for euer and euer ⁵ His honour is great through thy saluation: thou hast layde glorie and great worship vpon him ⁶ For thou hast placed him to be blessinges for euer: and hast made him glad with the ioy of thy countenaunce ⁷ Because the king trusteth in God, and in the mercie of the most highest: he shal not miscarie ⁸ Thine hande wyll finde out all thine enemies: thy right hande wyll finde out them that hate thee ⁹ Thou wilt make them like a burnyng furnace in tyme of thy furie: God wyll destroy them in his wrath, and fire shall consume them ¹⁰ Thou wilt roote their fruite out of the earth: and their seede from among the children of men ¹¹ For they intended mischiefe agaynst thee, and imagined a craftie deuice: [but] they coulde not [bring it to passe. ¹² Therfore thou wilt put them to flight: [and] direct thine arrowes agaynst their faces ¹³ Be thou exalted O God accordyng to thine owne might: so we wyll sing, and with psalmes we wyll prayse thy power ²² ¹ My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [why] art thou so farre from my health, and from the wordes of my complaynt ² O my God I crye all the day tyme, and in the night season, and I ceasse not: but thou hearest not ³ And yet thou most holy: sittest to receaue the prayers of Israel ⁴ Our fathers hoped in thee: they trusted in thee, & thou didst deliuer them ⁵ They called vpon thee, and they were helped: they did put their trust in thee, and they were not confounded ⁶ But as for me I am a worme and no man: a very scorne of men, and an outcast of the people ⁷ All they that see me, laugh me to scorne: they do make a mowe, and nod their head [at me. ⁸ [Saying] he referreth [all] to God, [loking that God] wyll deliuer him [and] rescue him: for he delighteth only in him ⁹ But thou art he that tokest me out of my mothers wombe: thou causedst me to trust in thee, suckyng my mothers breastes ¹⁰ I haue ben left vnto thee euer since I was borne: thou art my God euen from my mothers wombe ¹¹ O go not far fro me, for trouble is harde at hande: and there is none to helpe me ¹² Many oxen are come about me: fat [bulles] of Bashan close me in on euery syde ¹³ They gape vpon me with their mouthes: as it were a rampyng and a roryng lion ¹⁴ I am as [it were] into water resolued, and all my bones are out of ioynt: my heart also is like waxe melted in the middest of my bowels ¹⁵ My strength is dried vp like a potsheard, & my tongue cleaueth to my gummes: and thou hast brought me into the dust of death ¹⁶ (22:16a) For dogges are come about me, the assemble of the wicked lay siege agaynst me: they haue pearced my handes and my feete ¹⁷ (22:16b) I may tell all my bones. (22:17a) They stande staring & gasing vpon me ¹⁸ (22:17b) they part my garmentes among them, and they cast lottes vpon my vesture ¹⁹ (22:18) But be not thou farre from me O God: thou art my strength, make haste to helpe me ²⁰ (22:19) Delyuer my soule from the sworde: and my dearlyng from the dogges pawes ²¹ (22:20) Saue me from the Lions mouth: delyuer me from the hornes of the Unicornes ²² (22:21) I wyll declare thy name vnto my brethren: I wyll prayse thee in the middest of the congregation ²³ (22:22) [Saying] prayse ye God ye that feare hym: glorifie hym all ye of the seede of Iacob, and stande in awe of hym all ye of the seede of Israel ²⁴ (22:23) For he hath not dispised nor abhorred the affliction of the poore: he hath not hyd his face from hym, but he hearde hym when he cryed vnto hym ²⁵ (22:24) My prayse shalbe of thee in the great congregation: I wyll perfourme my vowes in the syght of them that feare hym ²⁶ (22:25) The poore shall eate, and be satisfied: they that seeke after God shall prayse hym, your heart shall lyue for euer ²⁷ (22:26) All the endes of the worlde shall remember them selues and be turned vnto God: and all the kinredes of the nations shall worshyp before thy face ²⁸ (22:27) For the kingdome is Gods: and he is the gouernour ouer the nations ²⁹ (22:28) All such as be fat vpon the earth shall eate and worshyp: all they that go downe [in] to the dust shall knele before hym, although he preserued not his owne lyfe ³⁰ (22:29) The posteritie shall serue hym: they shalbe counted vnto the Lorde for a generation ³¹ (22:30) They wyll come and declare his righteousnesse vnto a people that shalbe borne: for he hath done it ²³ ¹ (23:1a) God is my sheephearde, therfore I can lacke nothyng 2 (23:1b) he wyll cause me to repose my selfe in pasture full of grasse, and he wyll leade me vnto calme waters ³ (23:2) He wyll conuert my soule: he wyll bring me foorth into the pathes of righteousnesse for his name sake ⁴ (23:3) Yea though I walke through the valley of the shadowe of death, I wyll feare no euyll: for thou art with me, thy rodde and thy staffe be the thynges that do comfort me ⁵ (23:4) Thou wylt prepare a table before me in the presence of myne aduersaries: thou hast annoynted my head with oyle, and my cup shalbe brymme full ⁶ (23:5) Truely felicitie and mercie shal folowe me all the dayes of my lyfe: and I wyll dwell in the house of God for a long tyme ²⁴ ¹ The earth is Gods and all that therin is: the worlde, & they that dwell therin 2 For he hath laide the foundation of it vpon the seas: and he hath set it sure vpon the fluddes ³ Who shal ascende into the hyll of God? or who shall ryse vp in his holy place ⁴ [Euen he that hath] cleane handes, and a pure heart: & that hath not taken his soule in vayne, nor sworne disceiptfully ⁵ He shall receaue a blessyng from God: and ryghteousnesse from the Lorde of his saluation ⁶ This is the generation of them that seke hym: euen of them that seke thy face [in] Iacob. Selah ⁷ Lyft vp your heades O ye gates, and be ye lyft vp ye euerlastyng doores and the kyng of glorie shall enter in ⁸ Who is this kyng of glorie? it is God both strong & mightie, it is God mightie in battayle ⁹ Lyft vp your heades (O ye gates) and be you lyft vp ye euerlastyng doores: and the kyng of glorie shall enter in ¹⁰ Who is this kyng of glorie? euen the God of hostes, he is the kyng of glorie. Selah ²⁵ ¹ (25:1a) I lyft vp my soule vnto thee O God ² (25:1b) I put my trust in thee my Lorde: let me not be confounded, neither let myne enemies triumph ouer me ³ (25:2) Yea, let not all them that hope in thee be put to shame: let them be put to shame who without a cause do trayterously transgresse ⁴ (25:3a) Make me to knowe thy wayes O God, and teache me thy pathes ⁵ (25:3b) leade me foorth in thy trueth and teache me, for thou art the Lorde of my saluation, I haue wayted for thee al the day long ⁶ (25:4) Call to remembraunce O God thy tender mercies & thy louyng kindnesse: for they haue ben for euer ⁷ (25:5) Oh remember not thou the sinnes and offences of my youth: but accordyng to thy mercie euen of thy goodnesse O God remember me ⁸ (25:6) Gratious and ryghteous is God: therfore he wyll teache sinners in the way ⁹ (25:7) He wyll guide the meke in iudgement: and teache the humble his way ¹⁰ (25:8) All the pathes of God are mercie and trueth: vnto such as kepe his couenaunt and his testimonies ¹¹ (25:9) Pardon thou therfore for thy name sake O God my wickednesse: for it is very great ¹² (25:10) What man is he that feareth God? [God] wyll teache hym in the way that he shall choose ¹³ (25:11) His soule shall rest all nyght at ease: and his seede shall inherite the lande ¹⁴ (25:12) The secrete of God is among them that feare hym: and he wyll make knowen vnto them his couenaunt ¹⁵ (25:13) Myne eyes be alwayes [turned] vnto God: for he wyll take my feete out of the net ¹⁶ (25:14) Turne thy face vnto me, and haue mercie vpon me: for I am desolate and in miserie ¹⁷ (25:15) The sorowes of myne heart are encreased: O bryng thou me out of my distresse ¹⁸ (25:16) Loke thou vpon myne aduersitie and vpon my labour: and forgeue me all my sinne ¹⁹ (25:17) Consider myne enemies, for they do multiplie: and they beare a tirannous hate against me ²⁰ (25:18) O kepe my soule and deliuer me, lest I shalbe confounded: for I haue put my trust in thee ²¹ (25:19) Let integritie and vprighteous dealing kepe me safe: for I haue wayted after thee ²² (25:20) O God redeeme Israel: out of all his aduersities ²⁶ ¹ Iudge thou me O God, for I haue walked in my perfection: my trust also hath ben in God [therfore] I shall not fall ² Examine me O God and proue me: trye out my reynes and my heart ³ For thy louing kindnes is before mine eyes: and I wyll walke in thy trueth ⁴ I haue not sit [in company] with vayne persons: neither haue I entred [once acquaintaunce] with dissemblers ⁵ I haue hated the congregation of the malitious: and I wyll not sit amongst the vngodly ⁶ I haue wasshed my handes in innocencie: and [so] I haue gone about thine aulter O God ⁷ That in a publique confession I myght heare: and set foorth all thy wonderous workes ⁸ O God, I haue loued the habitation of thine house: and the place where thine honour dwelleth ⁹ O gather not my soule with sinners: nor my life with bloodie men ¹⁰ In whose handes is wickednes: and their right hande is full of gyftes ¹¹ But as for me I wyll walke in my perfection: O redeeme me, and be mercyfull vnto me ¹² My foote standeth vpon a playne [grounde: therfore] I wyll blesse God in the congregations ²⁷ ¹ God is my lyght and saluation, whom then shall I feare? God is the strength of my life, of whom then shall I be afraide ² When the malitious approched neare vnto me for to eate vp my fleshe: mine enemies and foes stumbled and fell ³ Though an hoast of men were layde in campe against me, yet shall not mine heart be afraide: and though there rose vp warre against me, [yet] I wyll put my trust in this ⁴ I haue desired one thyng of God, whiche once agayne I wyll earnestly require: euen that I may dwell in the house of God all the dayes of my life, to beholde the beautifulnes of God, and to seeke [it] in his temple ⁵ For in the time of aduersitie he shall hide me in his tabernacle: yea in the secrete [place] of his pauilion he shall hide me, and set me vp vpon a rocke of stone ⁶ And nowe he shall lift vp my head aboue mine enemies rounde about me: therfore I wyll offer in his tabernacle a sacrifice of great ioy, I wyll sing and prayse God with psalmes ⁷ Hearken vnto my voyce O god, [when] I crye [vnto thee]: haue mercy vpon me and heare me ⁸ My heart hath sayde vnto thee [according to this thy commaundement] seeke ye my face: thy face O God wyll I seeke ⁹ O hide not thou thy face from me, nor cast thy seruaunt away in a displeasure: thou hast ben my succour, leaue me not, neither forsake me O Lorde of my saluation ¹⁰ For my father and mother forsoke me: and God did take me vp ¹¹ Teache me thy way O God: and leade me in a right path, because of mine enemies ¹² Deliuer me not into mine aduersaries handes: for there are false witnesses rysen vp against me, and such as speake wrong ¹³ If I had not beleued [veryly] to see the goodnes of God in the lande of the liuing: [their spite had kylled me. ¹⁴ Attende thou [therfore] vpon God, be of a good courage, and he will comfort thine heart: [I say] attende thou vpon God ²⁸ ¹ Vnto thee I crye O God my strength, make not as though thou were deafe at me: lest if thou holdest thy peace, I become like them that go downe into the graue ² Heare the voyce of my humble petitions when I crye vnto thee: when I holde vp my handes towarde thy holy place where thy arke is ³ Take me not away with the vngodlye, and with the workers of iniquitie: whiche speake of peace to their neighbours, but mischiefe is in their heartes ⁴ Rewarde them accordyng to their deedes: and according to the wickednes of their owne inuentions. (28:5) Recompence them after the worke of their handes: pay them home that they haue deserued ⁵ (28:6) For they geue not their minde to vnderstande the doynges of God and the worke of his handes: [therefore] he wyll breake them downe, and not buylde them vp ⁶ (28:7) Blessed be God: for he hath hearde the voyce of mine humble petitions ⁷ (28:8) God is my strength and my shielde, my heart hath trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart skippeth for ioy, and in my song I wyll prayse hym ⁸ (28:9) God is their strength: and the strength that saueth his annoynted ⁹ (28:10) O saue thy people, and geue thy blessing vnto thine inheritaunce: feede them and exalt them for euermore ²⁹ ¹ A tribute vnto God O ye sonnes of princes: attribute vnto God glory and strength ² Geue to God glory [due] vnto his name: worship God with holy honour ³ The voyce of God is aboue waters: it is the Lorde of glory that thundreth, it is God that ruleth the sea ⁴ The voyce of God is with power: the voyce of God is with honour ⁵ The voyce of God breaketh the Cedar trees: yea God breaketh the Cedars of Libanus ⁶ And he maketh them to skip like a calfe: Libanus also and Sirion like a young vnicorne ⁷ (29:7a) The voyce of God casteth out flambes of fire ⁸ (29:7b) the voyce of God maketh the wyldernesse to tremble, God maketh the wyldernesse of Cades to tremble ⁹ (29:8) The voyce of God maketh Hindes to cast their calfe, and maketh woods to be bare: therefore euery man setteth foorth his glory in his temple ¹⁰ (29:9) God sitteth in the flud: and God wil sit king for euer ¹¹ (29:10) God wyll geue strength vnto his people: God wyll blesse his people in peace ³⁰ ¹ I wyll exalt thee O God, for thou hast exalted me: and hast not made my foes to triumph ouer me 2 O God my Lord I cryed vnto thee: and thou hast healed me ³ Thou God hast raysed vp my soule from the graue: thou hast preserued my life from them that go downe into ye pit ⁴ Sing psalmes vnto god ye his saintes: and make your confession vnto the remembraunce of his holynes ⁵ For a litle short time [passeth] in his anger, a life is [spente] in his good wyll: at euening weeping shall begin the night, but ioy commeth in the morning ⁶ (30:6a) And in my prosperitie I saide, I shall neuer haue a fal ⁷ (30:6b) thou God of thy goodnes hadst made my hyll so strong ⁸ (30:7) [Neuerthelesse, when] thou dydst turne thy face, I was troubled: [then] I cryed vnto thee O God, then made I my humble prayers to thee my Lorde ⁹ (30:8) [Saying] what profite is there in my blood when I go downe to the pit? shal the dust geue thankes vnto thee? or shall it declare thy trueth ¹⁰ (30:9) Heare me O God, and haue mercy vppon me: O God be thou my helper ¹¹ (30:10) [And foorthwith] thou hast turned my mourning into dauncing: thou hast put of my sackcloth, and gyrded me with gladnes ¹² (30:11) Therfore my glory shal sing psalmes vnto thee and not ceasse: O God my Lorde I wyll prayse thee for euer ³¹ ¹ In thee O God I haue put my trust, let me neuer be confounded: deliuer me in thy righteousnes ² Bowe downe thine eare to me, make hast to deliuer me: be vnto me a strong rocke and a house of defence, that thou mayest saue me ³ For thou art my strong rocke and fortresse: euen for thy name sake conduct me, and direct me ⁴ Take me out of the net that they haue layde priuily for me: for thou art my strength ⁵ Into thy hande I commende my spirite: [for] thou hast redeemed me O God the Lorde of trueth ⁶ I haue hated them that obserue superstitious vanities: and my trust hath ben in God ⁷ I wyll be glad and reioyce in thy louing kindnes: for that thou hast considered my trouble, and hast knowen my soule in aduersities ⁸ Thou hast not shut me vp into the hande of the enemie: [but] hast set my feete in a large roome ⁹ Haue mercy vpon me O God, for I am in distresse: mine eye, my soule, and my belly be consumed for very heauinesse ¹⁰ For my life is wasted with sorow, and mine eares with mourning: my strength fayleth me because of mine iniquitie, and my bones are putrified ¹¹ I became a reprofe among al mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours: and they of mine acquaintaunce were afraide of me, and they that dyd see me without, conueyed them selues quickly fro me ¹² I became cleane forgotten as a dead man out of minde: I became like a broken vessell ¹³ For I haue hearde the villanie of the multitude, and feare was on euery side [me]: whyle they conspired together against me, [and] toke their counsell to take away my life ¹⁴ But my hope hath ben in thee O God: I haue sayd thou art my Lorde ¹⁵ My time is in thy hande, deliuer me from the hande of mine enemies: and from them that persecute me ¹⁶ Cause thy countenaunce to shine vppon thy seruaunt: saue me for thy mercies sake ¹⁷ Let me not be confounded O God, for I haue called vpon thee: let the vngodlye be put to confusion, and be put to scilence in the graue ¹⁸ Let the lying lippes be put to scilence: which speake against ye righteous greeuous thinges with disdaine & contempt ¹⁹ Howe plentifull is thy goodnes which thou hast layde vp for them that feare thee? [and whiche] thou hast prepared for them that put their trust in thee before the sonnes of men ²⁰ Thou hydest them priuily in thyne owne presence from the raginges of [all] men: thou kepest them secretly [as] in a tabernacle from the strife of tongues ²¹ Blessed be God: for he hath shewed me marueylous great kindnes in a strong citie ²² And when I fled with al haste, I said I am cast out of the sight of thine eyes: neuerthelesse, thou heardest the voyce of my prayer when I cryed vnto thee ²³ Loue God all ye his saintes: [for] God preserueth them that are faythfull, and rewardeth most aboundauntly the proude doer ²⁴ All ye that put your trust in God be ye of a good courage: and he wyll comfort your heart ³² ¹ Blessed is he whose wickednes is forgeuen: and whose sinne is couered 2 Blessed is ye man vnto whom God imputeth no vnrighteousnes: & in whose spirit there is no guile ³ For whyle I helde my tongue: my bones consumed away through my dayly roaring ⁴ For thy hande is heauie vpon me day and night: and my moysture is like the drouth in sommer. Selah ⁵ [Therfore] I haue made knowen my faultes vnto thee, and my righteousnes haue I not hid: I sayd I will confesse my wickednes vnto God, and thou forgauest the vnrighteousnes of my sinne. Selah ⁶ For this shall euery one that is godly make his prayer vnto thee in the time when thou mayest be founde: so that in the great water fluddes they shal not come nye hym ⁷ Thou art my refuge, thou wylt preserue me from trouble: thou wylt compasse me about with songes of deliueraunce. Selah ⁸ I will geue thee wise instructions, and teach thee in the way wherin thou shalt go: & I wil guyde thee with mine eye ⁹ Be ye not lyke a horse [or] lyke a mule whiche haue no vnderstanding: whose mouthes must be holden with bit and brydle, lest they fall vpon thee ¹⁰ Great plagues remaine for the vngodly: but who so putteth his trust in God, mercy imbraceth him on euery side ¹¹ Be glad in God, & reioyce O ye righteous: be ioyfull also all ye that be vpright of heart ³³ ¹ Reioyce in God O ye righteous: for prayse becommeth well the iust ² Confesse [it] to god with the harpe: sing psalmes vnto hym with the viall, and with the instrument of ten stringes ³ Sing vnto him a new song: do it cunningly, make a sweete noyse with your musicall instrumentes alowde ⁴ For the word of God is right: and euery worke of his done in fayth ⁵ He loueth righteousnes & iudgement: the earth is ful of the goodnes of God ⁶ By the worde of God are the heauens made: and all the hoastes of them by the breath of his mouth ⁷ He gathereth the waters of the sea together as it were vpon an heape: and layeth vp the deepe as treasures ⁸ Let all the earth feare God: let all they that dwell in the worlde stande in awe of him ⁹ For he spake and it was: he commauded, and it was brought to passe ¹⁰ God bringeth the counsell of the Heathen to naught: and maketh the deuises of the people to be of none effect ¹¹ The counsayle of God shall endure for euer: and the thoughtes of his heart from generation to generation ¹² Blessed is the nation that hath God to be their Lorde: that people hath he chosen to be an inheritaunce for him ¹³ (33:13a) God looketh downe from heauen, and beholdeth all the chyldren of me ¹⁴ (33:13b) from the place where he resteth: he eyeth diligently euery dweller on the earth ¹⁵ (33:14) He fashioneth their heartes together: he vnderstandeth al their workes ¹⁶ (33:15) A king is not saued by the multitude of an hoast: a man of great myght escapeth not by much strength ¹⁷ (33:16) A horse for to saue is vanitie: and he can deliuer none by his great strength ¹⁸ (33:17) Beholde, the eye of God is vpon them that feare hym: and vpon them that wayteth after his mercy ¹⁹ (33:18) To deliuer their soules from death: and to preserue their liues in dearth ²⁰ (33:19) Our soule wayteth after God: he is our ayde and shielde ²¹ (33:20) For our heart shall reioyce in him: because we haue put our trust in his holy name ²² (33:21) Let thy louing kindnes O God be vppon vs: like as we haue put our trust in thee ³⁴ ¹ I wyll alway blesse God: his prayse shall euer be in my mouth ² My soule shal glory in God: the humble shall heare therof and be glad ³ Magnifie God with me: and let vs exalt his name [all] together ⁴ Carefully I sought God, & he hearde me: yea he deliuered me out of all my feare ⁵ Let them turne their eyes on him, and make speede to come vnto hym: and their faces shall not be ashamed ⁶ [Lo] this same poore man hath cryed: and God hath hearde hym, and saued hym out of all his troubles ⁷ The angell of God campeth rounde about them that feare hym: and deliuereth them ⁸ O taste and see how gracious God is: blessed is the man that trusteth in him ⁹ Feare God ye that be his saintes: for they that feare him lacke nothing ¹⁰ Young Lions do lacke and suffer hunger: but they whiche seeke God, shall want no maner of thing that is good ¹¹ Come ye chyldren and hearken vnto me: I will teache you the feare of God ¹² What man is he that listeth to liue: [and] woulde fayne see good dayes ¹³ Kepe thy tongue from euill: and thy lippes that they speake no guyle ¹⁴ Eschewe euill & do good: seeke peace and ensue it ¹⁵ The eyes of God [are] ouer the righteous: and his eares [are open] vnto their prayers ¹⁶ The countenaunce of God is against them that do euill: to roote out the remembraunce of them from of the earth ¹⁷ The righteous crye, and God heareth them: and deliuereth them out of all their troubles ¹⁸ God is nye vnto them that are of a contrite heart: and saueth such as be of an humble spirite ¹⁹ Great are the troubles of the righteous: but God deliuereth him out of all ²⁰ He kepeth all his bones: so that no one of them is broken ²¹ Malice shal put the vngodly to death: and they that hate the righteous, shalbe brought to naught ²² God redeemeth the soules of his seruauntes: and al they that put their trust in him, shall not be brought to naught ³⁵ ¹ Pleade thou my cause O God, with them that striue with me: and fight thou agaynst them that fight against me ² Lay hand vppon a shielde & buckler: and stande vp to helpe me ³ Bryng foorth the speare, and stop [the way] against them that persecute me: say vnto my soule, I am thy saluation ⁴ Let them be confounded and put to shame that seeke after my soule: let them be turned backe and brought to cofusion, that imagine mischiefe for me ⁵ Let them be as dust before the winde: and let the angell of God scatter [them. ⁶ Let their way be darke and slipperie: & let the angell of God persecute them ⁷ For without a cause they haue priuily layde for me a pit [full] of their nettes: without a cause they haue made a digyng vnto my soule ⁸ Let a sodayne destruction come vpon hym vnawares: and his net that he hath layde priuily catch hym selfe, let him fall into it with [his owne] destruction ⁹ [And] my soule shalbe ioyfull in God: it shall reioyce in his saluation ¹⁰ All my bones shall say, God who is lyke vnto thee? whiche deliuerest the poore from hym that is to strong for him: yea the poore and him that is in miserie, from him that spoyleth him ¹¹ False witnesse did rise vp: they layde thinges to my charge that I know not ¹² They rewarded me euill for good: to the great discomfort of my soule ¹³ Neuerthelesse, when they were sicke I did put on sackcloth: I afflicted my soule with fasting, and my prayer returned into myne owne bosome ¹⁴ I kept them company whersoeuer they went, as though they had ben my frende or brother: I went heauyly, as one that mourned for his mother ¹⁵ But in mine aduersitie they reioysed and gathered them together: yea, the very abiectes came together against me, yer I wyst they rented me a peeces and ceassed not ¹⁶ With hypocrites, scoffers, and parasites: they gnashed vpon me with their teeth ¹⁷ Lorde howe long wylt thou looke [vpon this]: O deliuer my soule from their raginges, and my dearling from Lions whelpes ¹⁸ So I wyll confesse it vnto thee in a great congregation: I will prayse thee among muche people ¹⁹ O let not my deceiptfull enemies triumph ouer me: let them not winke with an eye, that hate me without a cause ²⁰ For they speake not peace: but they imagine deceiptfull wordes agaynst them that [liue] quietly in the lande ²¹ They gaped vpon me with their mouthes: and said this is well, this is wel, our eye hath seene ²² Thou hast seene [this] O God, holde not thy tongue [then:] go not farre from me O Lorde ²³ Stirre thou and awake O my God and my Lorde: to iudge my cause and controuersie ²⁴ Iudge me according to thy righteousnesse O God my Lorde: and let them not triumph ouer me ²⁵ Let them not say in their heart, it is as we woulde haue it: neither let them say, we haue deuoured hym ²⁶ Let them be put to confusion & shame [all] together that reioyce at my trouble: let them be clothed with rebuke and dishonour that exalt them selues against me ²⁷ Let them triumph with gladnesse and reioyce that be delighted with my righteousnesse: let them say alwayes, blessed be God whiche hath pleasure in the prosperitie of his seruaunt ²⁸ And my tongue shalbe talking of thy righteousnesse: and of thy prayse all the day long ³⁶ ¹ The wickednes of the vngodly speaketh in the middest of my heart: that there is no feare of the Lorde before his eyes ² For he flattereth him selfe in his owne sight: so that his iniquitie is found worthy of hatred ³ The wordes of his mouth are vnrighteous and full of deceipt: he hath left of to behaue him selfe wisely & to do good ⁴ He imagineth mischiefe vpon his bed, & setteth him selfe in no good way: neither doth he abhorre any thing yt is euil ⁵ Thy mercy O God reacheth vnto heauen: [and] thy faythfulnes vnto the cloudes ⁶ Thy righteousnes is like the mountaynes of God: thy iudgementes are a great deapth, thou sauest both man and beast O God ⁷ How excellent is thy mercy O Lord: therefore the chyldren of men shall put their trust vnder the shadowe of thy winges ⁸ They shalbe satisfied with the plenteousnesse of thy house: and thou shalt geue them drinke out of the riuer of thy delicates ⁹ For with thee is the fountaine of lyfe: and in thy light shall we see light ¹⁰ O continue foorth thy louing kindnesse vnto them that knowe thee: and thy righteousnes vnto them that are of an vpright heart ¹¹ O let not the foote of pryde reache vnto me: and let not the hande of the vngodly make me to moue [out of my place ¹² There be the workers of iniquitie fallen: they are cast downe, and shall not be able to rise vp ³⁷ ¹ Fret not thy selfe because of the vngodly: neither be thou enuious against the euyll doers ² For they shall soone be cut downe like the grasse: and be withered euen as the greene hearbe ³ Put thou thy trust in God, and be doing good: dwell in the land, and feede in trueth ⁴ Delight thou also in God: and he shall geue thee thy heartes desire ⁵ Commit thy way vnto God: and put thy trust in hym, and he shall bryng it to passe ⁶ He shall make thy righteousnesse appeare as cleare as the light: and thy iust dealing as the noone tyde ⁷ Holde thee still in God, and wayte paciently vpon him: fret not thy selfe at him whose way doth prosper, at the man that doth abhominations ⁸ Leaue of from wrath, and let go displeasure: fret not thy selfe, lest thou be moued to do euill ⁹ For the malitious doers shalbe rooted out: and they that paciently wayte after God, they shall inherite the lande ¹⁰ [Looke] at them yet a litle whyle, and the vngodly shalbe cleane gone: thou shalt looke after his place, and he shall not be [there ¹¹ But the meeke spirited shall possesse the earth: and shalbe delighted in the aboundaunce of peace ¹² The vngodly busieth his head [all] against the iust: and gnasheth vpon him with his teeth ¹³ The Lorde shall laugh him to scorne: for he seeth that his day is comming ¹⁴ The vngodly haue drawen out the sworde, and haue bended their bowe: to cast downe the poore and needie, and to slay such as be of right conuersation ¹⁵ But their sworde shal go thorow their owne heart: & their bow shalbe broken ¹⁶ A small thing that the righteous hath: is better then great riches of ye vngodly ¹⁷ For the armes of the vngodly shalbe broken: and God vpholdeth the righteous ¹⁸ God knoweth the dayes of them that be perfect: and their inheritaunce shall endure for euer ¹⁹ They shall not be confounded in the perilous tyme: and in the dayes of dearth they shall haue inough ²⁰ As for the vngodly they shall perishe, and the enemies of God shall consume as the fat of lambes: yea, euen with the smoke they shall vanishe away ²¹ The vngodly boroweth and payeth not agayne: but the righteous geueth mercifully and liberally ²² Suche as be blessed of God shall possesse the lande: and they that be cursed of hym, shalbe rooted out ²³ The pathes of man is directed by God: and his way pleaseth ²⁴ Though he fall, he shall not be vndone: for God vpholdeth him with his hande ²⁵ I haue ben a young chylde, and nowe I am olde: and yet sawe I neuer the righteous forsaken, nor his seede begyng bread ²⁶ The righteous is euer mercifull and lendeth: and his seede is blessed ²⁷ Flee from euill & do good: and dwell for euer ²⁸ For God loueth iudgement, he forsaketh not his saintes: they are preserued for euermore, but the seede of the vngodlye shalbe rooted vp ²⁹ The righteous shal inherite the land: and dwell therin for euer ³⁰ The mouth of the righteous is exercised in wysdome: and his tongue wyll be talking of iudgement ³¹ The lawe of his God is in his heart: therfore his feete shall not slide ³² The vngodly spyeth the righteous: and seeketh [occasion] to slay hym ³³ God wyll not leaue him in his hande: nor suffer hym to be condemned when he is iudged ³⁴ Wayte thou on God & kepe his way, and he wyll promote thee, that thou mayest possesse the lande: when the vngodly shalbe cut of, thou shalt see it ³⁵ I my selfe haue seene the vngodly in great power: and florishing lyke a greene bay tree ³⁶ And he vanished away, so that he could be no more seene: I sought hym, but he coulde no where be founde ³⁷ Marke hym that is perfect, and beholde him that is iust: for the ende of suche a man is peace ³⁸ As for wicked transgressours, they shalbe destroyed [all] together: and the ende of the vngodly shalbe rooted vp at the last ³⁹ But saluation of the righteous commeth of God: whiche is also their strength in time of trouble ⁴⁰ And God wyll ayde them and deliuer them, he wyl deliuer them from the vngodly: and he wyll saue them, because they put their trust in him ³⁸ ¹ Rebuke me not O God in thyne anger: neither chasten me in thy heauie displeasure 2 For thyne arrowes sticke fast in me: and thy hande presseth me sore ³ There is no helath in my flesh through thy displeasure: neither is there any rest in my bones by reason of my sinne ⁴ For my manyfolde wickednes is gone ouer my head: and like a sore burthen is to heauie for me to beare ⁵ My woundes stinke and are corrupt: through my foolishnes ⁶ I am become crooked, and am exceedingly pulled downe: I go a mourning all the day long ⁷ For my loynes are filled with heate: and there is no whole part in my body ⁸ I am feeble and sore smitten: I haue rored for the very disquietnesse of my heart ⁹ Lorde thou knowest all my desire: and my gronyng is not hyd from thee ¹⁰ My heart panteth, my strength hath fayled me: and the lyght of myne eyes is gone from me ¹¹ My louers and my neygbours dyd stande on the other syde lokyng vpon my plague: and my kinsmen stoode a farre of ¹² They also that sought after my lyfe layde snares [for me]: and they that went about to do me euyll, talked of wickednesse, and imagined deceipt all the day long ¹³ As for me, as one deafe I woulde not heare: and [I was] as one that is dumbe [who] coulde not open his mouth ¹⁴ I became euen as a man that heareth not: and who hath no replies in his mouth ¹⁵ For on thee O God I haue wayted: thou shalt aunswere for me O Lorde my God ¹⁶ For I sayde [heare me] lest that they shoulde triumph on me: who auaunce [them selues] greatly agaynst me when my foote doth slyp ¹⁷ Because I am disposed to a haltyng: and my sorowe is euer in my syght ¹⁸ Because I confesse my wickednesse: and am sory for my sinne ¹⁹ But myne enemies lyuyng [without payne] are mightie: & they that hate me wrongfully are increased in number ²⁰ They also that rewarde euyl for good are agaynst me: because I folowe the thyng that is good ²¹ Forsake me not O God: O my Lorde be not thou farre fro me ²² Haste thee to helpe me: O Lorde my saluation ³⁹ ¹ I sayde [to my selfe] I wyll take heede to my wayes, that I offende not in my tongue: I wyll kepe my mouth as it were with a brydell, whylest the vngodly is in my syght ² I became dumbe through scilence, I helde my peace from speakyng of good wordes: but the more was my sorowe increased ³ My heart was hotte within me, and whyle I was thus musyng the fire kyndled: and [at the last] I spake with my tongue ⁴ O God make me to knowe mine ende, and the number of my dayes: that I may be certified howe long I haue to lyue ⁵ Behold thou hast made my dayes as it were an hand breadth long, & mine age is euen as nothing before thee: truely euery man is al [together] vanitie. Selah ⁶ Truely man walketh in a vayne shadowe, truely he [and all his] do disquiet them selues in vayne: he heapeth vp riches, & can not tel who shal vse them ⁷ And nowe Lord what wayte I after? truely my hope is euen in thee ⁸ Delyuer me from all my offences: and make me not a rebuke vnto the foolishe ⁹ I became dumbe, and opened not my mouth: for it was thy doyng ¹⁰ Take thy plague away from me: I am euen consumed by the meanes of thy heauy hande ¹¹ Thou doest chasten man, rebukyng him for sinne: thou as a moth doest consume his excellencie, for in very deede euery man is but vanitie. Selah ¹² Heare my prayer O God, and geue eares to my crying, holde not thy peace at my teares: for I am a strauger with thee, and a soiourner as all my fathers were ¹³ Oh spare me a litle, that I may recouer my strength: before I go hence, and be no more [seene. ⁴⁰ ¹ I wayted patiently vpon God, and he enclined vnto me [his eare]: and heard my crying ² He brought me also out of an horrible pyt, out of the dirtie mire: and set my feete vpon a rocke, and directed my goynges ³ And he hath put a newe song in my mouth: euen a thankesgeuyng vnto our Lorde ⁴ Many shall see it, and feare: and shall put their trust in God ⁵ Blessed is the man that hath set his hope in God: and turned not vnto the proude, and to such as decline to lyes ⁶ O God my Lord, great are thy wonderous workes which thou hast done: & none can count in order thy benefites towarde vs, yf I woulde declare them and speake of them, they shoulde be mo then I am able to expresse ⁷ Thou wouldest haue no sacrifice or offeryng, but thou hast opened myne eares: thou hast not required burnt offerynges and sacrifice for sinne ⁸ Then sayde I, lo I am come: in the booke of thy lawe it is written of me that I shoulde fulfyll thy wyll O my God, I am content to do it, yea thy lawe is within the middest of my brest ⁹ I haue declared thy righteousnes in a great congregatio: lo I wil not refraine my lippes O God thou knowest [it. ¹⁰ I haue not hyd thy ryghteousnesse within my heart: my talkyng hath ben of thy trueth and of thy saluation. (40:11) I haue not concealed thy louyng mercie and trueth: from the great congregation ¹¹ (40:12) Withdrawe not thou thy mercie from me O God: let thy louyng kyndnesse and thy trueth alway preserue me ¹² (40:13) For innumerable troubles are come about me, my sinnes haue taken such holde vpon me that I am not able to loke vp: yea they are mo in number then the heeres of my head, & my heart hath fayled me ¹³ (40:14) O God let it be thy pleasure to deliuer me: make haste O God to helpe me ¹⁴ (40:15) Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seke after my soule to destroy it: let them be dryuen backwarde & be put to rebuke that wyshe me euyll ¹⁵ (40:16) Let them be desolate in recompence of their shame: that say vnto me, fye vpon thee, fye vpon thee ¹⁶ (40:17) Let all those that seeke thee be glad and ioyfull in thee: and let such as loue thy saluation, say alway God be magnified ¹⁷ (40:18) As for me I am afflicted and needye, but God careth for me: thou art my ayde and delyuerer, O my God make no long tarying ⁴¹ ¹ Blessed is he that considereth ye poore: God wyll delyuer hym in the tyme of trouble ² God wyll preserue hym & kepe him aliue: he shalbe blessed vpon the earth, and [thou O God] wylt not deliuer him into the wyll of his enemies ³ God wyll comfort hym when he lyeth sicke vpon his bed: thou [O God] wylt turne vpside downe all his bed in his sicknesse ⁴ I sayde, O God be mercifull vnto me: heale my soule, for I haue sinned agaynst thee ⁵ Myne enemies speake euyl of me: when shall he dye, and his name perishe ⁶ But yf [any of them] came to visite me, he spake vanitie: his heart conceaued vngodlynesse within hym selfe, & when he came foorth a doores he vttered it ⁷ All they that hated me whispered together: they imagined euyl agaynst me ⁸ [They sayde] some great mischiefe is lyghted vpon hym: and he that lyeth sicke on his bed, shall ryse vp no more ⁹ Yea besides this, euen myne owne friende whom I trusted: which dyd also eate of my bread, hath kicked very much agaynst me ¹⁰ But be thou mercifull vnto me O God: rayse me vp agayne, and I shall rewarde them ¹¹ By this I knowe thou fauouredst me: in that myne enemie doth not triumph agaynst me ¹² And when I am in my best case, thou vpholdest me: and thou wylt set me before thy face for euer ¹³ Blessed be God the Lorde of Israel: worlde without ende, Amen, Amen ⁴² ¹ Lyke as the Hart brayeth for water brookes: so panteth my soule after thee O God ² My soule is a thirst for the Lorde, yea euen for the lyuyng Lorde: when shall I come to appeare before the face of the Lorde ³ My teares haue ben my meate day and nyght: whyle they dayly say vnto me where is [nowe] thy God ⁴ And I powred out of me my very heart, remembryng this howe that before tyme I haue passed with a great number, bringyng the vnto the house of the Lord: with a voyce of ioy & prayse, [& with] a company that kept holy day ⁵ Why art thou so discouraged O my soule, & why art thou so vnquiet within me? attende thou vpon the Lorde, for I will yet acknowledge him only to be a present saluation ⁶ My Lorde, my soule is discouraged within me: because I remember thee from the lande of Iordane, and from the litle hyll Hermonim ⁷ One deepe calleth another at the noyse of thy water pypes: all thy waues and stormes are gone ouer me ⁸ God wyll graunt his louing kindnesse on the day tyme: and in the nyght season I wyll syng of hym, and make my prayer vnto the Lorde of my lyfe ⁹ I wyll say vnto the Lorde of my strength: why hast thou forgotten me, why go I thus heauyly through the oppression of myne enemie ¹⁰ It was as a sworde in my bones, when myne enemies dyd cast me in the teeth: in saying dayly vnto me, where is nowe thy Lorde ¹¹ Why art thou so discouraged O my soule, & why art thou so vnquiet within me? attende thou vpon the Lorde, for I wil yet acknowledge him to be only my present saluation, and my Lorde ⁴³ ¹ Iudge me O Lorde, and debate my cause with an vnnaturall people: oh delyuer me from the deceiptfull and wicked man ² For thou art the Lord of my strength: why hast thou reiect me, and why go I thus heauyly through the oppression of myne enemie ³ Sende foorth thy light and thy trueth: that they may leade me and direct me vnto thy holy hyll, & to thy tabernacles ⁴ And I wyll go vnto the aulter of the Lorde, euen vnto the Lorde of my ioy & gladnesse: and vpon the harpe I will acknowledge thee O Lorde my Lord ⁵ Why art thou so discouraged O my soule, & why art thou so vnquiet within me? attende thou vpon the Lorde, for I wyll yet acknowledge hym [to be] only my present saluation, & my Lorde ⁴⁴ ¹ We haue hearde with our eares O Lorde: our fathers haue tolde vs what workes thou hast done in their daies in the olde tyme ² Howe thou hast driuen out the heathen with thy hande and planted them in: howe thou hast destroyed the nations & placed them ³ For they gat not the lande in possession through their owne sworde: neither was it their owne arme that saued them. (44:4) But thy ryght hande, and thine arme, & the lyght of thy countenaunce: because thou hadst a fauour vnto them ⁴ (44:5) Thou art my kyng O Lorde: commaunde that Iacob be saued ⁵ (44:6) Through thee we wyll ouerthrowe our enemies: and in thy name we wyll treade them vnder that ryse vp agaynst vs ⁶ (44:7) For I wyll not trust in my bowe: and it is not my sworde that can saue me ⁷ (44:8) But it is thou that sauest vs from our enemies: and thou puttest them to confusion that hate vs ⁸ (44:9) We make our boast of God all the day long: and we wyll confesse thy name for euer. Selah ⁹ (44:10) But nowe thou art farre of, and thou puttest vs to confusion: neither goest thou foorth with our armies ¹⁰ (44:11) Thou makest vs to turne away backwarde from the enemie: so that they which hate vs, do make vs a spoyle vnto them ¹¹ (44:12) Thou hast delyuered vs as sheepe to be eaten: and thou hast scattered vs among the heathen ¹² (44:13) Thou hast solde thy people for naught: and thou hast taken no money for them ¹³ (44:14) Thou hast made vs a rebuke to our neighbours: to be laughed to scorne and had in derision of them that are rounde about vs ¹⁴ (44:15) Thou hast made vs [to be] a fable among the heathen: [and to be such] that the people shake their head at vs ¹⁵ (44:16a) My confusion is dayly before me, and the shame of my face couereth me ¹⁶ (44:16b) for [to heare] the voyce of the slaunderer & blasphemer, and for to see the enemie and the auenger ¹⁷ [And though] all this be come vpon vs: [yet] we do not forget thee, nor shewe our selues to be false in thy couenaunt ¹⁸ (44:18a) Our heart is not turned backe, neither our steppes be declined out of thy pathes ¹⁹ (44:18b) no not when thou hast smitten vs in the place of dragons, and couered vs with the shadowe of death ²⁰ (44:19a) If we had forgotten the name of our Lorde, and holden vp our handes to any straunge god ²¹ (44:19b) woulde not God searche it out? for he knoweth the very secretes of the heart ²² (44:20) For thy sake also are we kylled all the day long: and are counted as sheepe appoynted to be slayne ²³ (44:21a) Stirre vp O Lorde, why slepest thou? awake & be not absent from vs for euer ²⁴ (44:21b) wherfore hydest thou thy face, and forgettest our miserie and tribulation ²⁵ (44:22) For our soule is brought lowe vnto the dust: our belly cleaueth vnto the grounde ²⁶ (44:23) Aryse vp thou our ayde, and redeeme vs: for thy louyng kindnesse sake ⁴⁵ ¹ My heart is endityng of a good matter: I wyll dedicate my workes vnto the king, my tongue is as the penne of a redy writer ² Thou art fayrer then the children of men, full of grace are thy lippes: because the Lorde hath blessed thee for euer ³ Girde thee with thy sworde vpon thy thygh O thou most mightie: [that is] with thy glorie and thy maiestie ⁴ Prosper thou with thy maiestie, ryde on the worde of trueth and of affliction for ryghteousnesse sake: and thy ryght hande shall teache thee terrible thynges ⁵ Thyne arrowes are sharpe: a people the kynges enemies shall submit in heart them selues vnto thee ⁶ Thy throne O Lorde endureth for euer and euer: the scepter of ryghteousnesse is the scepter of thy kyngdome ⁷ Thou hast loued iustice and hated vngodlynesse: wherfore the Lorde euen thy Lorde hath annoynted thee with the oyle of gladnesse more then thy felowes ⁸ All thy garmentes smell of Myrre, Aloes, and Cassia, out of the iuorie palaces: wherby they haue made thee glad ⁹ Kynges daughters are amongst thy honourable women: vpon thy ryght hande standeth the queene in a vesture of golde of Ophir ¹⁰ Hearken O daughter and consider, encline thine eare: forget also thine owne people and thy fathers house ¹¹ So shall the kyng haue pleasure in thy beautie: for he is thy Lorde, and worship thou hym ¹² And the daughter of Tyre shall come with a present: the riche among the people shall make their earnest prayer before thee ¹³ The kynges daughter is all glorious within: her clothyng is of wrought golde ¹⁴ She shalbe brought vnto the kyng in rayment of needle worke: the virgins that folowe her and her company shalbe brought vnto thee ¹⁵ With ioy and gladnesse shall they be brought: [and] shal enter into the kinges palace ¹⁶ In steade of thy fathers, thou shalt haue children: whom thou mayst make princes in all landes ¹⁷ I wyll remember thy name from one generation vnto another: therfore shall the people prayse thee worlde without ende ⁴⁶ ¹ The Lorde is our refuge & strength: a helpe very easyly founde in troubles ² Therfore we wyll not feare though the earth be transposed: and though the hilles rushe into the middest of the sea ³ Though the waters thereof rage and swell: and though the mountaynes shake at the surges of the same. Selah ⁴ [Yet] the fludde by his ryuers shall make glad the citie of God: the holy place of the tabernacles of the most hyghest ⁵ God is in the myddest of her, therfore she can not be remoued: the Lorde wyll helpe her, and that ryght early ⁶ The heathen make much a do, and the kyngdomes are moued: but [God] shewed his voyce, and the earth melted away ⁷ The God of hoastes is with vs: the Lorde of Iacob is our refuge. Selah ⁸ O come hither and beholde the workes of God: what distructions he hath brought vpon the earth ⁹ He maketh warres to ceasse in all the worlde: he breaketh the bowe, & knappeth the speare in sunder, and burneth the charettes in the fire ¹⁰ Be styll then, and knowe that I am the Lorde: I wyll be exalted among the heathen, I wyll be exalted in the earth ¹¹ The God of hoastes is with vs: the Lorde of Iacob is our refuge. Selah ⁴⁷ ¹ Clap your handes all ye people: make a noise vnto the Lorde with a ioyfull voyce ² For God is hygh and terrible: he is the great king vpon all the earth ³ He wyll subdue the people vnder vs: and the nations vnder our feete ⁴ He hath chosen for vs our inheritaunce: the glorie of Iacob who he loued. Selah ⁵ The Lorde ascendeth in a triumph: [and] God with the sounde of a trumpet ⁶ Syng psalmes to the Lorde, syng psalmes: syng psalmes to our kyng, sing psalmes ⁷ For the Lorde is kyng of all the earth: syng psalmes [all you that haue] skyll ⁸ God raigneth ouer the heathen: God sitteth vpon his holy throne ⁹ The princes of the people are assembled together [for to be] the people of the God of Abraham: for the shieldes of the earth be Gods, who is hyghly exalted ⁴⁸ ¹ Great is God, and hyghly to be praysed: in the citie of our Lorde, his holy hyll 2 The hyll of Sion is fayre in situation, and the ioy of the whole earth: vpon the north syde lyeth the citie of the great king ³ God is well knowen in her palaces: as a most sure refuge ⁴ (48:4a) For lo kinges did assemble, and passe by together ⁵ (48:4b) they them selues sawe it, lykewyse they marueyled, they were astonyed with feare, and sodenly in haste they were gone away ⁶ (48:5) A feare came there vpon them and sorowe: as vpon a woman in her childe trauayle ⁷ (48:6) Thou didst breake the shippes of the sea: through the east wynde ⁸ (48:7) Lyke as we haue hearde, so haue we seene in the citie of God of hoastes: in the citie of our Lorde, God vpholdeth the same for euer. Selah ⁹ (48:8) O Lorde we haue wayted: for thy louyng kindnesse in the myddest of thy temple ¹⁰ (48:9) O Lorde, accordyng to thy name, so is thy prayse vnto the worldes ende: thy ryght hande is full of iustice ¹¹ (48:10) Mount Sion shall reioyce, and the daughters of Iuda shalbe glad: because of thy iudgementes ¹² (48:11) Compasse about Sion, and go rounde about her: and tell the towres therof ¹³ (48:12) Marke well her bulwarkes, beholde her hygh palaces: that ye may tell it to your posteritie ¹⁴ (48:13) For this God is our God for euer and euer: he wyll be our guide vnto death ⁴⁹ ¹ Heare this all ye people: geue eare all ye that dwell in the worlde ² As well lowe as high: riche and poore, one with another ³ My mouth shall vtter wisdome: the cogitations of myne heart [wyll bryng foorth] knowledge ⁴ I wyll encline myne eare to a parable: I wyll open my darke sentence vpon a harpe ⁵ Wherfore shoulde I feare in euyll dayes? the wickednesse of my heeles [then] would compasse me round about ⁶ There be some that put their trust in their goodes: and boast them selues in the multitude of their riches ⁷ But no man at all can redeeme his brother: nor geue a raunsome vnto God for hym ⁸ (49:8a) For the redemption of their soule is very costly, and must be let alone for euer ⁹ (49:8b) yea though he lyue long and see not the graue ¹⁰ (49:9) For he seeth that wyse men dye: and that the foole and ignoraunt perishe together, and leaue their riches for other ¹¹ (49:10) And yet they thynke that their houses shall continue for euer, and that their dwellyng places shall endure from one generation to another: [therfore] they call landes after their owne names ¹² (49:11) Neuerthelesse, man can not abyde in [such] honour: he is but lyke vnto bruite beastes that perishe ¹³ (49:12) This their way is their foolishnesse: yet their posteritie prayse their saying. Selah ¹⁴ (49:13) They shalbe put into a graue [dead] as a sheepe, death shall feede on them: but the ryghteous shall haue dominion of them in the mornyng, their beautie shall consume away, hell [shall receaue them] from their house ¹⁵ (49:14) But God wyll delyuer my soule from the place of hell: for he wyll receaue me. Selah ¹⁶ (49:15) Be not thou afrayde though one be made riche: or yf the glorie of his house be encreased ¹⁷ (49:16) For he shall cary nothyng away with hym when he dyeth: neither shall his pompe folowe after hym ¹⁸ (49:17) For whyle he lyued he counted him selfe an happy man: and so long as thou doest well vnto thy selfe, men wyll speake good of thee ¹⁹ (49:18) But he shal folowe the generations of his fathers: and shall neuer see lyght ²⁰ (49:19) A man is in an honourable state, but he wyll not vnderstande it: he is lyke [herein] vnto bruite beastes that perishe ⁵⁰ ¹ The most mightie Lorde God hath spoken: and called the earth from the rysyng vp of the sunne, vnto the goyng downe therof 2 Out of Sion: hath the Lorde appeared in perfect beautie ³ Our Lorde commeth, and he wyll not kepe scilence: there goeth before hym a consumyng fire, and a mightie tempest is sturred rounde about hym ⁴ He calleth from aboue the heauen and the earth: that he may iudge his people ⁵ Gather my saintes together vnto me: those that haue made a couenaunt with me with sacrifice ⁶ And the heauens shall declare his ryghteousnesse: for God is iudge hym selfe. Selah ⁷ Heare O my people, and I wil speake: I my selfe wyll testifie vnto thee O Israel, I am the Lorde, euen thy Lorde ⁸ I wyll not reproue thee because of thy sacrifices, or for thy burnt offerynges: [for that they be not] alway before me ⁹ I wyll take no bullocke out of thy house: nor goates out of thy foldes ¹⁰ For all the beastes of the forest are myne: and so are the cattel vpon a thousande hylles ¹¹ I knowe all the foules vpon the mountaynes: and the wylde beastes of the fielde are at my commaundement ¹² If I be hungry, I wyll not tell thee: for the whole worlde is myne, and all that is therin ¹³ Thinkest thou that I will eate bulles fleshe: and drynke the blood of goates ¹⁴ Offer vnto God prayse: and pay thy vowes vnto the most hyghest ¹⁵ And call vpon me in the tyme of trouble: I wyll heare thee, and thou shalt glorifie me ¹⁶ But the Lorde sayd vnto the vngodly: why doest thou preache my lawes, and takest my couenaunt in thy mouth ¹⁷ Seyng that thou hatest discipline: and hast cast my wordes behynde thee ¹⁸ When thou sawest a thiefe, thou dydst consent vnto hym: and thou hast ben partaker with the adulterers ¹⁹ Thou hast let thy mouth speake wickednesse: and with thy tongue thou hast set foorth deceipt ²⁰ Thou sattest and spakedst agaynst thy brother: yea and hast slaundered thine owne mothers sonne ²¹ These thynges hast thou done and I helde my tongue, thou thoughtest that I am euen such a one as thou thy selfe art: but I wyll reproue thee, and I wyll set foorth in order before thine eyes [all that thou hast done. ²² Consider this I pray you, ye that forget the Lorde: lest I plucke you away, and there be none to delyuer you ²³ Who so offereth vnto me thankes and prayse, he honoureth me: and to hym that ordereth his conuersation ryght, I wyll shewe the saluation of God ⁵¹ ¹ Haue mercie on me O Lorde accordyng to thy louyng kindnesse: accordyng vnto the multitudes of thy mercies wype out my wickednesse ² Washe me throughly from myne iniquitie: and clense me from my sinne ³ For I do acknowledge my wickednesse: and my sinne is euer before me ⁴ Agaynst thee, only agaynst thee I haue sinned and done this euyll in thy sight: that thou mightest be iustified in thy saying, and founde pure when thou art iudged ⁵ Beholde, I was ingendred in iniquitie: and in sinne my mother conceaued me ⁶ Neuerthelesse, lo thou requirest trueth in the inwarde partes [of me]: & [therfore] thou wylt make me learne wisdome in the secrete [part of myne heart. ⁷ Purge thou me with hyssop and I shalbe cleane: washe thou me, and I shalbe whyter then snowe ⁸ Make thou me to heare [some] ioy and gladnesse: let the bones reioyce which thou hast broken ⁹ Turne thy face from my sinnes: and wype out all my misdeedes ¹⁰ Make thou vnto me a cleane heart O Lorde: and renue thou a ryght spirite within me ¹¹ Cast me not away from thy presence: and take not thy holy spirite from me ¹² Geue me agayne the comfort of thy saluation: and confirme me with a free wyllyng spirite ¹³ Then wyll I teache thy wayes vnto the wicked: and sinners shalbe conuerted vnto thee ¹⁴ Deliuer me from blood O Lorde, the Lorde of my saluation: and my tongue shall sing with a ioyfull noyse of thy iustice ¹⁵ O Lorde open thou my lippes: and my mouth shall set foorth thy prayse ¹⁶ For thou desirest no sacrifice, els I would geue it thee: thou delightest not in a burnt offering ¹⁷ Sacrifices for God is a mortified spirite: O Lorde thou wylt not despise a mortified and an humble heart ¹⁸ Be thou beneficiall vnto Sion, according to thy gracious good wyll: buylde thou the walles of Hierusalem ¹⁹ Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousnes, with burnt offeringes and oblations: then wyll they offer young bullockes vpon thyne aulter ⁵² ¹ Why boastest thy self thou tiraunt of mischiefe? the goodnes of God dayly endureth ² Thy tongue imagineth wickednes: [and] deceaueth like a sharpe raser ³ Thou hast loued vngratiousnes more then goodnes: and to talke of falshood more then of righteousnes. Selah ⁴ Thou hast loued to speake all wordes that may do hurt: O thou deceiptfull tongue ⁵ Therfore the Lord wyll destroy thee for euer: he wyll take thee and plucke thee out of thy dwelling, and roote thee out of the lande of the liuing. Selah ⁶ The righteous also shall see this: and they wyll be afraide and laugh hym to scorne ⁷ [Saying] lo this is the man that put not the Lorde [to be] his strength: but trusted vnto the multitude of his riches, and strengthed him selfe in his wickednesse ⁸ As for me I am lyke a greene oliue tree in the house of the Lorde: my trust is in the tender mercy of the Lorde for euer and euer ⁹ I will alway confesse it vnto thee, for that thou hast done it: and I wyll hope in thy name, for it is good in the sight of thy saintes ⁵³ ¹ The foole hath sayde in his heart there is no God: they haue corrupted them selues, & haue made their wickednes abhominable, he is not that doeth good ² The Lorde looked downe from heauen vpon the chyldren of men: to see if there were any that did vnderstand and seeke after the Lorde ³ But they dyd all go out of the way, they dyd altogether become abhomible: there was also none that would do good, no not one ⁴ Wyll not the workers of iniquitie vnderstande, eating vp my people [as if] they eated bread: that they do not call vpon God ⁵ They shalbe greatly there afraide [where] no cause of feare is: for the Lord wyll breake the bones of hym that besiegeth thee, thou wylt put [them] to shame, because the Lorde hath despised them ⁶ Who is he that wyll geue saluation vnto Israel out of Sion? when the Lord wyll reduce his people out of captiuitie, Iacob wyll reioyce, and Israel wyll be glad ⁵⁴ ¹ Saue me O Lorde for thy name sake: iudge me accordyng to thy mightie power ² Heare my prayer O Lord: and hearken vnto the wordes of my mouth ³ For straungers are rysen vp against me: and tirauntes whiche haue not the Lorde before their eyes, seeke after my soule. Selah ⁴ Behold, God is an ayde vnto me: the Lorde is with them that vpholde my soule ⁵ He wyll rewarde euyll vnto mine enemies: destroy thou them according to thy trueth ⁶ I wyll sacrifice vnto thee with a true wyllyng heart: I wyll confesse thy name O God, because it is good ⁷ For he hath deliuered me out of all my trouble: and mine eye hath seene [auengaunce] vpon mine enemies ⁵⁵ ¹ O Lorde geue eare vnto my prayer: and hide not thy selfe from my petition ² Take heede vnto me, and heare me: I can not choose but mourne in my prayer, and make a noyse ³ [Deliuer me] from the voyce of the enemie, and from the present affliction of the wicked: for they are minded to do me mischiefe, and are set malitiously against me ⁴ My heart trembleth within me: and the feare of death is fallen vpon me ⁵ Fearefulnes and trembling are come vpon me: and an horrible dread hath ouerwhelmed me ⁶ And I sayde, O that I had wynges like a doue: for then woulde I flee away, and be at rest ⁷ Lo, then woulde I fleeing get me away farre of: and remayne in the wyldernesse. Selah ⁸ Then woulde I make hast to escape: from the stormie wynde, [and] from the tempest ⁹ Destroy their tongues O Lorde, and deuide [them]: for I haue seene oppression and strife in the citie ¹⁰ They do compasse it day and night within the walles: mischiefe also and labour, are in the midst of it ¹¹ Malice is in the midst of it: disceipt and guyle go not out of her streates ¹² Truely he was not mine enemie that hath done me this dishonour, for then I coulde haue borne it: neither was he one that seemed to hate me that dyd magnifie hym selfe against me, for then I woulde haue hyd my selfe from him ¹³ But it was euen thou whom I esteemed as my selfe: my guyde, and myne owne familier companion ¹⁴ We delighted greatly to conferre our secretes together: we walked deuoutly in the house of God felowe lyke ¹⁵ Let death sodainly come vpon them, let them go downe quicke into hell: for wickednes is in their dwellinges and among them ¹⁶ As for me I wyll crye vnto the Lord: and God wyll saue me ¹⁷ In the euening and morning, and at noone day wyll I pray, and that most instantly: and he wyll heare my voyce ¹⁸ He hath redeemed my soule through peace from the battayle that was against me: for there were many with me ¹⁹ The Lorde who sitteth [a ruler] from the beginning, wyll heare [me] and afflict them, Selah: forsomuche as there is no chaunge in them, and for that they do not feare God ²⁰ He layde his handes vpon such as be at peace with him: and he brake his couenaunt ²¹ The [wordes] of his mouth were softer then butter, yet warre was in his heart: his wordes were smother then oyle, and yet be they very swordes ²² O cast thy burthen vpon God, and he wyll vpholde thee: he wyll not suffer at any time the righteous to moue ²³ [And as for] them: thou O Lorde wylt hurle headlong into the pit of destruction. (55:24) The bloodthirstie and deceiptfull men shal not liue out halfe their dayes: neuerthelesse I wyll put my full trust in thee ⁵⁶ ¹ Be mercifull vnto me O Lorde: for man goeth about to deuour me, he dayly fyghtyng, oppresseth me ² Myne enemies are dayly in hande to swalowe me vp: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most highest ³ [Neuerthelesse] at all times as I am afraide: I put my whole trust in thee ⁴ In the Lord I wyll prayse his word: in the Lorde I haue put my trust, and I wyll not feare what flesh can do vnto me ⁵ My wordes dayly put me to sorow: all that they do imagine, is to do me euill ⁶ They flocke together, they kepe them selues close: they marke my steppes, that they may lye in wayte for my soule ⁷ Shall they escape for their wickednes? O Lorde in thy displeasure cast downe headlong this people ⁸ Thou hast numbred my flittinges, thou hast put my teares in thy bottell: [are] not these thinges [noted] in thy booke ⁹ Whensoeuer I call vpon thee, then shall myne enemies be put to flight: this I know, for the Lorde is on my side ¹⁰ In the Lord I wyll prayse the word: In God I wyll prayse the worde ¹¹ In the Lorde I put my trust: I wyll not be afraide what man can do vnto me ¹² O Lorde, thy vowes be vpon me: vnto thee wyll I geue thankes & praise ¹³ For thou hast deliuered my soule from death, and my feete from falling: that I may walke before the Lorde in the light of the liuing ⁵⁷ ¹ Be mercifull vnto me O Lorde, be mercifull vnto me: for my soule trusteth in thee, and vnder the shadowe of thy wynges wyll I trust, vntyll this tiranny be ouerpast ² I wyll call vnto the most high Lorde: euen vnto the Lord that wil perfourme the cause which I haue in hande ³ He wyll sende from heauen, and saue me from the reproofe of him that woulde deuour me vp, Selah: the Lorde wyll sende foorth his mercie and trueth ⁴ My soule is among Lions, and I lye among those that are set on fire: among the children of men whose teeth are speares and arrowes, and their tongue a sharpe sword ⁵ Exalt thy selfe O God aboue the heauen: thy glory is aboue all the earth ⁶ They haue prepared a net for my feete, that some man might presse downe my soule: they haue digged a pit before me, and are fallen into the midst of it them selues. Selah ⁷ My heart is redy O Lorde, my heart is redy: I wyll sing, and prayse thee in singing of psalmes ⁸ Bestirre thee O my glory, bestirre thee O Lute and Harpe: I my selfe wil bestirre me right early in the morning ⁹ I wyll prayse thee O Lorde among the people: and I wyll sing psalmes vnto thee among the nations ¹⁰ For the greatnes of thy mercie reacheth vnto the heauens: and thy trueth vnto the cloudes ¹¹ Exalt thy selfe O Lord aboue the heauens: let thy glory be aboue al the earth ⁵⁸ ¹ O ye that consult together, pronounce ye truely the thing that is iust? O ye sonnes of men iudge you according to equitie ² Nay, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your heart: your handes waygh as in a ballaunce wickednes vpon the earth ³ The vngodly are straungers euen from their mothers wombe: assoone as they be borne, they go astray and speake a lye ⁴ (58:4a) They haue poyson [within them] lyke to the poyson of a serpent: they be lyke the deafe adder that stoppeth her eares ⁵ (58:4b) and wyll not heare the voyce of charmers, though he be neuer so skilfull in charming ⁶ (58:5) Breake their teeth O Lorde in their mouthes: smite a sunder the chawe bones of Lions O God ⁷ (58:6) Let them be dissolued as into water, let them come to naught of them selues: and when they shoote their arrowes, let them be as broken ⁸ (58:7) Let them creepe away lyke a snayle that foorthwith consumeth to naught: or lyke the vntimely fruite of a woman, let them not see the sunne ⁹ (58:8) As a greene thorne [kindled with fyre, goeth out] before your pottes be made whot: euen so let a furious rage bring him to naught ¹⁰ (58:9) The righteous wyll reioyce when he seeth the vengeaunce: he wyll washe his foote steppes in the blood of the vngodly ¹¹ (58:10) And euery man shall say, veryly there is a rewarde for the righteous: doubtlesse there is a God that iudgeth in the earth ⁵⁹ ¹ Deliuer me from myne enemies O Lorde: defende me fro them that rise vp against me ² Deliuer me from the workers of iniquitie: and saue me from the blood thirstie men ³ For lo, they lye in wayte for my soule: men of power are gathered together against me who haue committed no wickednes nor fault O God ⁴ When no fault is done, they runne and set them selues in order: arise to meete me and beholde ⁵ And thou O God Lorde of hoastes, Lorde of Israel: awake to visite all Heathen, and be not mercifull vnto all them that offend of malice. Selah ⁶ They go to and from at euening: they barke lyke a dogge, and runne about through the citie ⁷ Behold they speake with their mouth, swordes are in their lippes: for [say they] who doth heare [vs? ⁸ But thou O God wylt haue them in derision: thou wylt laugh all Heathen to scorne ⁹ I wyl reserue his strength for thee: for thou O Lorde art my refuge ¹⁰ My mercifull Lord wyll preuent me: the Lord will let me see [my desire] vpon mine enemies ¹¹ Slay them not, lest my people forget it: but in thy stoutnes scatter them like vagaboundes, and put them downe O God our defence ¹² The wordes of their lippes [be] the sinne of their mouth: O let them be taken in their pryde, for they speake nothing but curses and lies ¹³ Consume them in thy wrath, consume them that nothing of them remayne: and let them knowe that it is the Lord that ruleth in Iacob, & vnto the endes of the worlde. Selah ¹⁴ And let them gad vp and downe at euening: let them barke lyke a dogge, and go about the citie ¹⁵ Let them runne here and there for meate: and go to bed if they be not satisfied ¹⁶ As for me I wyll sing of thy power, and wyll prayse thy louing kindnes betimes in the morning: for thou hast ben my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble ¹⁷ Unto thee O my strength will I sing psalmes: for thou O Lorde art my refuge, and my mercyfull Lorde ⁶⁰ ¹ O Lorde thou hast cast vs out, thou hast dispearsed vs, thou art displeased: O turne thee vnto vs agayne ² Thou hast made the land to tremble, thou hast cleft it asunder: heale the breaches therof, for it is redy to fall downe ³ Thou hast made thy people see heauie thinges: thou hast geuen vs wyne to drinke, that maketh vs tremble ⁴ But to suche as feare thee: thou hast geuen a banner to be lyfted vp on high for the trueth sake. Selah ⁵ [Therfore] that thy beloued may be deliuered: helpe me with thy right hand, and heare me ⁶ The Lorde hath spoken in his holynes (whereof I wyll reioyce) this: I wyll deuide Sichem, and measure the valley of Sucoth ⁷ Gilead shalbe myne, and Manasses shalbe myne: Ephraim also shalbe the strength of my head, and Iuda my law geuer ⁸ Moab shalbe my washpot: ouer Edom I wyll cast my shoe, Philistea be thou glad of me ⁹ Who wyll leade me into the stong citie? who wyll bring me into Edom ¹⁰ Hast not thou remoued vs from thence O Lorde? and wylt not thou O Lorde go out with our hoastes ¹¹ Geue vs ayde against trouble: for the sauing helpe of man is but vayne ¹² Thorowe the Lorde we wyll do valiaunt actes: for he him selfe wyll treade downe our enemies ⁶¹ ¹ Heare my crying O Lorde: geue eare vnto my prayer ² From the endes of the earth I wyll call vnto thee when my heart is in heauines: oh set me vp on the rocke that is higher then I ³ For thou hast ben my hope: [and] a strong towre [for me] against the face of the enemie ⁴ I wyll dwell in thy tabernacle for euer: my trust shalbe vnder the couering of thy wynges. Selah ⁵ For thou O Lorde hast hearde my vowes: and hast geuen an heritage vnto those that feare thy name ⁶ Thou wilt adde dayes vnto the kings dayes: and his yeres shalbe a generation and a generation ⁷ He shall dwell before the Lorde for euer: O appoynt thy louing mercy and faithfulnes, that thei may preserue him ⁸ So wyll I sing psalmes vnto thy name: that I may day by day perfourme my vowes ⁶² ¹ My soule truly only stayeth vpon the Lorde: for of him commeth my saluation ² He onlye is my rocke and my sauing helpe: he is my refuge, so that I can not be remoued greatly ³ Howe long wyll ye imagine mischiefe against euery man? ye shalbe slayne all the sort of you: [ye shalbe] as a tottering wall, [and like] a broken hedge ⁴ They deuise only howe to thrust [him] from his promotion: they delight in a lye, they blesse with their mouth, and curse with their heart. Selah ⁵ [Neuerthelesse] O my soule, stay thou only vpon the Lorde: for my confidence is in him ⁶ He only is my rocke and my sauing helpe: he is my refuge, so that I can not be remoued ⁷ In the Lorde is my health and my glory: my trust is in the Lorde the fortresse of my force ⁸ O ye people, put your trust in hym alway: powre out your heartes before him, for the Lorde is our hope. Selah ⁹ As for the chyldren of men, they be onlye but vanitie, the chyldren of lordes be but a lye: vpon the wayghtes they [be] altogether [lighter] then vanitie in selfe ¹⁰ O trust not in wrong [dealing] and spoyling: geue not your selues vnto vanitie, if riches encrease, set not your heart [vpon them. ¹¹ (62:11a) The Lord spake it once, [but] I haue hearde it twise, that power and mercy belongeth to thee O Lorde God ¹² (62:11b) for thou rewardest euery man according to his worke ⁶³ ¹ O Lorde thou art my Lorde: early in the morning I do seeke thee. (63:2) My soule thirsteth for thee: my fleshe also longeth after thee in a baren and drye lande [where] no water is 2 (63:3) [To see thee] euen so [as] I haue seene thee in the sanctuary: that I might beholde thy power and glory ³ (63:4) For thy louing kindnes is better then life [itselfe]: my lippes shall prayse thee ⁴ (63:5) As long as I liue I wyll blesse thee on this maner: and in thy name I wyll lyft vp my handes ⁵ (63:6) My soule is satisfied euen as it were with mary and fatnes: and my mouth prayseth thee with ioyfull lippes ⁶ (63:7) Haue I not remembred thee in my bed: and thought vpon thee when I was waking ⁷ (63:8) Because thou hast ben my helper: therfore vnder the shadowe of thy wynges do I reioyce ⁸ (63:9) My soule cleaueth fast vnto thee: thy right hande hath vpholden me ⁹ (63:10) And they [that] seeke my soule to oppresse [it]: shall go vnder the earth ¹⁰ (63:11) Euery one of them shalbe killed with the edge of a sworde: and they shalbe a portion for Foxes ¹¹ (63:12) But the king shal reioyce in the Lord, al they shal glory that sweare by him: for the mouth of all them that speake a lye, shalbe stopped ⁶⁴ ¹ O Lorde heare my voyce in my prayer: preserue my life from feare of the enemie ² Hyde me from the secrete [counsayles] of the malitious: from the conspiracie of the workers of iniquitie ³ Who haue whet their tongue lyke a sword: who haue drawne their arrow, euen a bitter worde ⁴ That they may priuily shoote at hym which is perfect: they do sodenly shoote at hym and feare not ⁵ They courage them selues in mischiefe: and comune among them selues how they may lay snares, and say, who shall see them ⁶ They searche out howe to do wrong, they put in practise fully that they haue diligently searched out: yea euen the secretes and bottome of euery one of their heartes ⁷ But the Lorde wyll sodenly shoote at them with a [swyft] arrowe: their plagues shalbe [apparaunt. ⁸ Yea they shall cause their owne tongues to be a meanes for to destroy the selues: insomuch that who so seeth them, shal desire to flee away [from them ⁹ And all men that see it shall say, this hath God done: for they shall well perceaue that it is his worke ¹⁰ The righteous wyll reioyce in God, and put his trust in hym: and all they that be vpright hearted wylbe glad ⁶⁵ ¹ O Lorde thou wylt be greatly praysed in Sion: and vnto thee shal vowes be perfourme ² Thou that hearest a prayer: vnto thee shall all fleshe come ³ [My] misdeedes haue preuayled against me: oh be thou mercifull vnto our wicked transgressions ⁴ Blessed is the man [whom] thou choosest and receauest vnto thee: he shall dwell in thy court, and we shalbe satisfied with the goodnes of thy house, euen of thy holy temple ⁵ Thou wylt heare vs, doyng wonderfull thinges in righteousnes O Lorde of our saluation: thou [art] the hope of all endes of the earth, and of them that dwell farre of at the sea coast ⁶ Thou art he who in his strength setleth fast the mountaines: and is gyrded about with power ⁷ Who stilleth the raging of the sea, and the noyse of his waues: and the vprore of the people ⁸ They also that dwel in the vtmost partes [of the earth] be afrayde at thy signes: thou makest them reioyce at the going foorth of the morning and euenyng ⁹ Thou visitest the earth, and thou makest it ouerflowne, thou enrichest it greatly: the riuer of God is full of water, thou preparest their corne, for so thou ordaynest it ¹⁰ Thou waterest her forowes, thou breakest downe her hillockes: thou makest it soft with the drops of rayne, and blessest the increase of it ¹¹ Thou crownest the yere with thy goodnes: and thy cloudes drop fatnes ¹² They drop vpon the dwellinges of the wyldernesse: and hilles be compassed with ioy ¹³ The downes be couered with sheepe: the valleys stande thicke with corne [so that] they showte [for ioy] and also sing ⁶⁶ ¹ (66:1a) Declare you ioyfull vnto the Lorde all [ye of] the earth ² (66:1b) sing psalmes vnto the glory of his name, geue glory to his maiestie ³ (66:2) Say vnto the Lorde, oh howe wonderfull art thou in thy workes: thorow the greatnes of thy power thyne enemies shalbe founde liers vnto thee ⁴ (66:3) For all [they of] the worlde shall worship thee, and sing psalmes vnto thee: they shall sing psalmes vnto thy holy name. Selah ⁵ (66:4) Come hither and beholde the workes of the Lorde: howe wonderfull he is in his doing towarde the chyldren of men ⁶ (66:5) He turneth the sea into drye lande, so that they went thorowe the water on foote: there dyd we reioyce in him ⁷ (66:6) He ruleth with his power for euer, his eyes beholdeth the gentiles: such as be rebels shal not come to promotion. Selah ⁸ (66:7) O ye people blesse your Lorde: and make the voyce of his praise to be heard ⁹ (66:8) Who preserueth our soule in life: and suffereth not our feete to slip ¹⁰ (66:9) For thou O Lord hast proued vs: thou hast tryed vs, like as siluer is tryed ¹¹ (66:10) Thou broughtest vs into the snare: and layde trouble vpon our loynes ¹² (66:11) Thou sufferedst men to ride ouer our heades: we went through fire and water, and [yet] thou broughtest vs out into a pleasaunt [place. ¹³ (66:12a) I wyll go into thy house with burnt offeringes: and I wyll pay thee my vowe ¹⁴ (66:12b) whiche I promised with my lippes, and spake with my mouth when I was in trouble ¹⁵ (66:13) I wyll offer vnto thee fat burnt sacrifices, with the incense of rammes: I will offer bullockes and goates. Selah ¹⁶ (66:14) O come hither, & hearken: and I wil tell all you that feare the Lorde, what he hath done for my soule ¹⁷ (66:15) I called vnto hym with my mouth: and I exalted him with my tongue ¹⁸ (66:16a) If I had inclined vnto wickednes in my heart, the Lorde woulde not haue hearde me ¹⁹ (66:16b) but the Lorde hath hearde me, & considered the voyce of my prayer ²⁰ (66:17) Blessed be the Lorde which hath not reiected my prayer: nor turned his mercye from me ⁶⁷ ¹ The Lord be mercyfull vnto vs and blesse vs: [and] cause the light of his coutenaunce to shine vpon vs. Selah ² That thy way may be knowen vpon the earth: thy saluation among all nations ³ [Then] wyll the people prayse thee O Lorde: yea all the people wyll prayse thee ⁴ The Gentiles will reioyce & triumph: for thou wylt iudge the people, and gouerne the gentiles vpon the earth, according to equitie. Selah ⁵ The people will prayse thee O Lord: all the people wyll prayse thee ⁶ [Then] shall the earth bryng foorth her increase: and the Lorde our Lord will geue vs his blessing ⁷ The Lorde will blesse vs: and all the endes of the worlde shall feare him ⁶⁸ ¹ In case the Lorde woulde aryse, his enemies woulde be scattered: and they that hate hym woulde flee from his face ² Lyke as the smoke vanisheth, [so] wylt thou cause [them] to vanishe away: and lyke as water melteth at the fire, [so] wyll the vngodly perishe at the presence of the Lorde ³ But the ryghteous must be glad, and reioyce before the Lorde: they shall not stande styll for myrth ⁴ Syng vnto the Lorde, syng psalmes vnto his name: magnifie hym that rideth vpon the heauens as it were vpon an horse in his name euerlastyng, and reioyce before his face ⁵ He is a father of the fatherlesse, and the iudge of widdowes: [he is] the Lord in his holy habitation ⁶ He is the Lord that maketh those that dwell alone to haue a familie: and bryngeth prisoners out of the stockes ⁷ But rebelles did inhabite a dry [ground] O Lorde, when thou wentest foorth before the people: when thou wentest through the wyldernesse. Selah ⁸ The earth shoke, and the heauens dropped at the presence of the Lorde: euen Sinai it selfe [shoke] at the presence of the Lorde, Lorde of Israel ⁹ Thou O Lorde dydst cause rayne to fall at thy gratious pleasure: and when thine inheritaunce was weery, thou dydst hearten it ¹⁰ Thy flocke dwelleth there: for thou O Lorde doest of thy goodnesse prepare for the poore ¹¹ The Lorde gaue the worde: great was the company of the preachers ¹² Kynges with their armies dyd flee: they dyd flee, and the ornament of an house deuided the spoyle ¹³ Though ye haue lyen among the pottes: yet shall ye be as the wynges of a doue that is couered with siluer, and hath her fethers as yelowe as golde ¹⁴ When the almightie scattered kynges in it: it was as whyte as snowe in Salmon ¹⁵ As the hyll of Basan, so is Gods hill: euen an hygh hyll, as the hyll of Basan ¹⁶ Why skyp you so the high hylles? this is the Lordes hyll in the which it pleaseth hym to dwell, yea God wyll abyde in it for euer ¹⁷ The charettes of the Lorde are twentie thousande, euen thousandes of angels: and the Lorde is among them in holy Sinai ¹⁸ Thou wenst vp on high, thou hast led captiuitie captiue, thou hast receaued gyftes for men: yea euen [for] those that be disobedient, that God the Lorde myght dwell [among them, ¹⁹ Blessed be the Lorde who day by day powreth his [benefites] vpon vs: and is God of our saluation. Selah ²⁰ The Lorde is our Lorde for to saue vs: and all maner of wayes for death pertayneth to God the Lorde ²¹ God wyll wounde the head of his enemies: and the heary scalpe of hym who goeth on styll in his wickednesse ²² The Lorde hath sayde, I wyll bryng [my people] agayne out from Basan: I wyll bryng [them] agayne out from the deepe of the sea ²³ That thy footes [and] the tongue of thy dogges: may be made redde in the blood of the enemies by his meanes ²⁴ They do well see O Lorde thy goynges: thy goynges in the sanctuarie my Lorde and kyng ²⁵ The singers go before, the minstrelles folowe after: in the myddest are the damselles playing with the timbrelles ²⁶ In the congregations they do blesse the Lorde: the God of the fountayne of Israel ²⁷ There is litle Beniamin their ruler, & the princes of Iehuda their counsell: the princes of Zabulon [and] the princes of Nepthali ²⁸ Thy Lord hath ordeyned thy strength: establishe the thing O Lorde that thou hast wrought in vs ²⁹ For thy temple sake at Hierusalem: kynges wyll bryng presentes vnto thee ³⁰ Put to rebuke the companie of speare men, a multitude of bulles amongest the people lyke vnto calues: [vntyll] that they brought vnder foote [come] with peeces of siluer [for tribute,] scatter the people that delyght in warre ³¹ Then shal princes come out of Egypt: Ethiopia in all haste shall stretch out her handes vnto the Lorde ³² Sing vnto the Lord O ye kingdomes of the earth: O syng psalmes vnto the Lorde. Selah ³³ Who rydeth vpon the most hyghest eternall heauens: lo he sendeth out a mightie voyce in his voyce ³⁴ Acknowledge the Lorde to be mightie: his maiestie is ouer Israel, & might in the cloudes ³⁵ O Lorde thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel geueth myght and strength vnto his people, Blessed be the Lorde ⁶⁹ ¹ Saue me O Lorde: for waters haue entred in vnto my soule ² I am ouer the head in deepe myre where I feele no grounde: I plunge in deepe waters where the streame ouerwhelmeth me ³ I am weery of crying, my throte is drye: my syght fayleth me through the long attendaunce that I haue geuen vpon my Lorde ⁴ They that hate me without a cause are mo then the heeres of my head: they that are myne enemies and woulde destroy me giltlesse are mightie, I payde them the thynges that I neuer toke ⁵ God thou knowest my folly: and my faultes are not hyd from thee ⁶ Let not them that trust in thee O Lorde God of hoastes, be for my cause ashamed: let not those that seke thee, be through me confounded O Lorde of Israel ⁷ (69:7a) For thy sake haue I suffered reprofe, shame hath couered my face ⁸ (69:7b) I am become a straunger vnto my brethren, euen an aliaunt vnto my mothers children ⁹ (69:8) For the zeale of thine house hath euen eaten me: and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee, are fallen vpon me ¹⁰ (69:9) And I wept [chastenyng] my soule with fastyng: and that was turned to my reproofe ¹¹ (69:10) Also I put on sackcloth for my garment: and they iested at me ¹² (69:11) They that sit in the gate speake agaynst me: and they that drynke strong drynke [make] songes [vpon me. ¹³ (69:12) But [I make] my prayer vnto thee O God in an acceptable tyme: heare me O Lord in the multitude of thy mercie, according to the trueth of thy saluation ¹⁴ (69:13) Take me out of the myre, that I sincke not: oh let me be delyuered from them that hate me, & out of the deepe waters ¹⁵ (69:14) Let not the water fludde drowne me, neither let the deepe swalowe me vp: & let not the pyt shut her mouth vpon me ¹⁶ (69:15) Heare me O God, for thy louyng kindnesse is comfortable: turne thee vnto me accordyng vnto the multitude of thy mercies ¹⁷ (69:16) And hyde not thy face from thy seruaunt, for I am in trouble: O haste thee [and] heare me ¹⁸ (69:17) Draw nigh vnto my soule & redeeme it: for myne enemies sake oh redeeme me ¹⁹ (69:18) Thou hast knowen my reproofe, my shame, and my dishonour: myne aduersaries are all in thy syght ²⁰ (69:19) Reproofe hath broke my heart a peeces, I am full of heauinesse: I loked for some to haue pitie on me, but there was none, and for some that shoulde comfort me, but I coulde fynde none ²¹ (69:20) They gaue me for meate, gall to eate: and when I was thirstie, they gaue me vineger to drynke ²² (69:21) Let their table be as a snare before them: and in steade of aboundaunce of peace, let it be a meanes of destruction ²³ (69:22) Let their eyes be blynded that they see not: and euer bowe downe their loynes ²⁴ (69:23) Powre out thine indignation vpon them: and let thy wrathfull displeasure take holde of them ²⁵ (69:24) Let their habitation be desolate: and let no man dwell in their tabernacles ²⁶ (69:25) For they persecute hym whom thou hast smitten: and they talke of the griefe of them whom thou hast wounded ²⁷ (69:26) Let them fall from one wickednesse to another: and let them not enter into thy ryghteousnesse ²⁸ (69:27) Let them be wyped out of the booke of the lyuyng: and not to be written among the ryghteous ²⁹ (69:28) As for me I am afflicted and in heauinesse: thy sauing helpe O Lorde shal defende me ³⁰ (69:29) I wyll prayse the name of the Lorde with a song: and magnifie hym with a solemne confession ³¹ (69:30) And it wyll please God: better then a bullocke that hath hornes and hoofes ³² (69:31) The humble wyll consider this and be glad, such as seke after God: and your soule shall lyue ³³ (69:32) For God heareth the poore: & dispiseth not his prisoners ³⁴ (69:33) Let heauen and earth prayse hym: the sea and all that moueth therin ³⁵ (69:34) For the Lorde wyll saue Sion, and builde the cities of Iehuda: that men may dwel there and haue it in possession ³⁶ (69:35) The posteritie also of his seruauntes shall inherite it: and they that loue his name shall dwell therin ⁷⁰ ¹ Haste thee O Lorde to delyuer me: make haste to helpe me O God ² Let them be ashamed and confounded that seke after my soule: let them be turned backwarde and be put to confusion that wishe me euyll ³ Let them be returned backwarde: for a rewarde of their shamyng [other] which say, there, there ⁴ But let all those that seke thee be ioyfull and glad in thee: and let all such as delight in thy saluation say alway, the Lorde be magnified ⁵ As for me I am poore and in miserie, hasten thee vnto me O Lorde: thou art my ayde and my delyuerer, O God make no long tarying ⁷¹ ¹ (71:1a) In thee O God I haue put my trust, let me neuer be put to confusion ² (71:1b) ridde me and deliuer me in thy ryghteousnesse, incline thine eare vnto me, and saue me ³ (71:2) Be thou my strong holde whervnto I may alway resort: thou hast geuen a charge to saue me, for thou art my house of defence, and my castell ⁴ (71:3) Delyuer me O my Lorde out of the hande of the vngodly: out of the hande of the vnryghteous and cruell man ⁵ (71:4) For thou O Lorde God art the thyng that I long for: thou art my hope euen from my youth ⁶ (71:5) Through thee haue I ben mayntayned euer since I was borne: thou art he that toke me out of my mothers wombe, my praise shalbe alway of thee ⁷ (71:6) I am become as it were a monster vnto many: but my sure trust is in thee ⁸ (71:7) Oh let my mouth be fylled: with thy prayse and glorie all the day long ⁹ (71:8) Cast me not away in the tyme of age: forsake me not when my strength fayleth me ¹⁰ (71:9) For myne enemies speake against me: and they that lay awayte for my soule take their counsayle together ¹¹ (71:10) They say, the Lorde hath forsaken hym: do you persecute hym and take hym, for there is none to delyuer hym ¹² (71:11) Go not farre from me O Lorde: haste thee O my Lorde to helpe me ¹³ (71:12) Let them be confounded, let them be brought to naught that are agaynst my soule: let them be couered with shame and dishonour that seke to do me euyll ¹⁴ (71:13) As for me I wyll patiently wayte alway: and I wyll prayse thee more and more ¹⁵ (71:14) My mouth shall dayly speake of thy ryghteousnesse and saluation: for I knowe no ende therof ¹⁶ (71:15) I wyll go foorth in the strength of the Lorde God: [and] I wyll only make mention of thy ryghteousnesse ¹⁷ (71:16) Thou O God hast taught me from my youth: and hytherto I can well declare thy wonderous workes ¹⁸ (71:17) Wherfore whylest I am olde and am gray headed: O Lorde forsake me not, vntyll I haue shewed thy arme vnto [this] generation, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come ¹⁹ (71:18) And vntyll I [haue] exceedyngly exalted O Lorde thy ryghteousnesse: for great thynges are they that thou hast done, O Lorde who is lyke vnto thee ²⁰ (71:19) Which hast made me to feele many great troubles and aduersities: yet returnyng thou hast reuyued me, yea returnyng thou hast caused me to come out from the bottome of the earth ²¹ (71:20) Thou hast brought me to greater honour then I had before: & thou returnyng hast comforted me on euery syde ²² (71:21) Therfore I wyll confesse vnto thee thy trueth O Lorde, playing vpon an instrument of musicke: vnto thee I wyl syng psalmes vpon the harpe O thou most holy [God] of Israel ²³ (71:22) My lyppes wyll be ioyfull when I syng vnto thee: and so wyll my soule which thou hast redeemed ²⁴ (71:23) My tongue also shal talke of thy righteousnesse all the day long: for they are confounded and brought vnto shame that seke to do me euyll ⁷² ¹ O God geue vnto the kyng thy iudgementes: and thy ryghteousnesse vnto the kynges sonne ² [Then] he wyll iudge thy people accordyng vnto iustice: and thy afflicted accordyng to equitie ³ The mountaynes also and hylles: shall bryng peace to the people by the meanes of ryghteousnesse ⁴ He wyll iudge the afflicted amongst the people: he wyll saue the children of the poore, and subdue the oppressour ⁵ They wyll feare thee as long as the sunne and moone shyneth: from one generation to another ⁶ He wyll come downe lyke the rayne into a fleece of wooll: euen as the droppes that water the earth ⁷ In his dayes the ryghteous wyll florishe: and there shalbe aboundaunce of peace so long as the moone endureth ⁸ His dominion also shalbe from the one sea to the other: and from the fludde vnto the ende of the earth ⁹ They that dwell in the wildernesse shal kneele before him: his enemies shal licke the dust ¹⁰ The kyng of Tharsis and of the Iles shall offer presentes: the kynges of Sheba & Seba shall bring giftes ¹¹ All kynges wyll worshyp hym: all nations wyll do hym seruice ¹² For he wyll delyuer the poore when he cryeth: and the afflicted and hym that hath no helper ¹³ He wyll haue compassion vpon the poore and needy: and he wyll preserue the soules of the poore ¹⁴ He wyll delyuer their soules from deceipt and oppression: and their blood shalbe in his syght ¹⁵ He wyll lyue, and he wyll geue to the poore of the golde of Sheba: and he wyll pray alwayes for hym, and dayly he wyll blesse hym ¹⁶ A handfull of corne shall [be sowed] in the earth vpon the toppe of hylles: and the fruite therof shall make a noyse lyke Libanus, and shall florishe in the citie lyke grasse vpon the earth ¹⁷ His name shall endure for euer, his name shalbe spread abrode to the world so long as the sunne shall shyne: all nations shalbe blessed in hym, and shall call hym blessed ¹⁸ Blessed be God the Lorde: the Lorde of Israel which only doth wonderous thynges ¹⁹ (72:19a) And blessed be the name of his maiestie for euer: and all the earth shalbe fylled with his maiestie. Amen, Amen ²⁰ (72:19b) Here endeth the prayers of Dauid the sonne of Isai ⁷³ ¹ Truely the Lorde is very good vnto Israel: vnto such as haue a cleane heart 2 Neuerthelesse, my feete were almost gone from me: my steppes had almost slypt ³ For I enuied at the case of the foolishe: I sawe the wicked [flowe] in all kynde of prosperitie ⁴ For there be no bondes of death that can holde them: and the galaries of their houses be strong ⁵ They come in no misfortune lyke other folke: neither are they plagued lyke other men ⁶ And this is the cause that pride compasse them rounde about: and crueltie couereth them as a garment ⁷ Their eyes stande out for fatnesse: and the cogitations of their heartes do passe from them ⁸ They make other dissolute, they speake oppression with iniurie: they talke proudely and presumptuously ⁹ For they stretch foorth their mouth vnto the heauen: and their tongue goeth through the worlde ¹⁰ Therfore [God] his people turneth thither: and there is drawen vnto them waters in a full [cuppe. ¹¹ And they say, howe shoulde God perceaue it? is there knowledge in the most hyghest ¹² Lo these vngodly and fortunate in the worlde: do possesse riches ¹³ Truely I haue cleansed my heart in vayne: and wasshed my handes in innocencie ¹⁴ All the day long I haue ben scourged: and chastened euery mornyng ¹⁵ If I shoulde say that I woulde iudge after this sort: lo then I shoulde condempne the generation of thy children ¹⁶ Therfore I considered howe I might vnderstande this: but it was to paynefull in myne eyes ¹⁷ Untyll I went vnto the sanctuarie of God: and vnderstood the ende of them ¹⁸ Truely thou doest set them in slippery places: and castest them downe headlong for to be destroyed ¹⁹ Oh howe be they brought to a destruction euen vpon a sodayne: they faynt, they consume away for very dread ²⁰ They be as a dreame to a man after he is once waked: O Lorde thou wylt cause their image to be dispised in the citie ²¹ Ueryly thus was my heart inflamed: thus was my reynes pricked ²² So foolishe was I and voyde of vnderstanding: I was euen a bruite beast before thee ²³ Neuerthelesse I am alway with thee: for thou hast holden me by my ryght hande ²⁴ Thou hast guyde me with thy counsayle: and after that thou receauedst me with glorie ²⁵ Whom haue I in heauen but thee? and there is none vpon earth that I desire besides thee ²⁶ My fleshe and my heart fayleth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for euer ²⁷ For lo, they that kepe them selues a loofe from thee shall perishe: thou destroyest euery one that committeth fornication agaynst thee ²⁸ But it is good for me to come neare vnto God: [wherfore] I put my trust in thee O Lorde God, that I may declare all thy workes ⁷⁴ ¹ O Lorde wherfore dost thou forsake vs altogether? wherfore breaketh foorth thy anger agaynst the sheepe of thy pasture 2 Remember thy congregation, thou hast possest it nowe a long tyme: thou hast redeemed the rodde of thine inheritaunce, euen mount Sion wherein thou dwellest ³ Lyft vp thy feete for to destroy vtterly euery enemie: which hath done euyll in thy sanctuarie ⁴ Thyne aduersaries roare in the myddest of thy congregations: and set vp their banners for signes [of victorie. ⁵ He that hewed tymber afore out of thicke woddes [for to builde the temple:] was esteemed as one offeryng a present [to God] aboue ⁶ But nowe they breake downe into peeces all the carued worke therof: with axes and hammers ⁷ They haue set fire on thy holy places: they haue defiled the dwellyng place of thy name [castyng it downe] to the groud ⁸ Yea, they sayde in their heartes, let vs make hauocke of them altogether: thus haue they burnt vp all the houses of God in the lande ⁹ We see not our ensignes, there is not one prophete more: no not one is there amongst vs that vnderstandeth our case ¹⁰ O Lorde shall the aduersarie do this dishonour continually? shall the enemie blaspheme thy name for euer ¹¹ Why withdrawest thou thy hande, yea thy right hande? consume [them, drawing] it out of thy bosome ¹² Truely God is my kyng of olde: who worketh saluation in the myddest of the earth ¹³ Thou didst deuide the sea through thy power: thou brakest the heades of the dragons in the waters ¹⁴ Thou smotest the heades of Leuiathan in peeces: and gauest hym to be meate for the people in wildernesse ¹⁵ Thou broughtest out fountaynes and waters out of the harde rockes: thou dyddest drye vp mightie waters ¹⁶ The day is thine, & the nyght is thine: thou hast prepared the light & the sunne ¹⁷ Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast ordeyned summer and wynter ¹⁸ Remember this O God, the enemie hath dishonoured: and the foolishe people hath blasphemed thy name ¹⁹ O deliuer not the soule of thy turtle doue vnto a wylde beast: forget not the congregation of the poore for euer ²⁰ Loke vpon the couenaunt: for darknesse of the earth hath replenisshed houses with iniquitie ²¹ O let not the simple go away ashamed: but let the afflicted & needy geue prayse vnto thy name ²² Arise O Lord, mayntayne thine owne cause: remember the dishonour that the foolishe man [doth] vnto thee dayly ²³ Forget not the voyce of thine enemies: the mutteryng of them that hate thee ascendeth vp continually ⁷⁵ ¹ We do confesse it vnto thee O lord, we do confesse it: for thy wonderous workes do declare thy name to be at hande ² When I shall take tyme fyt for the purpose: I wyll iudge accordyng vnto ryght ³ The earth wasteth and all the inhabitours therof: I haue vpholded the pyllours of it. Selah ⁴ I sayd vnto fooles deale not so madly: & to the vngodly set not vp your horne ⁵ Set not vp your horne an high: [and] speake [not] with a stiffe necke ⁶ Because promotion commeth neither from the east nor from the west: nor yet from the south ⁷ For God is the iudge: it is he that putteth downe one, and setteth vp another ⁸ For in the hande of God there is a cup, and the wine is redde: it is full mixt, and he powreth out the same. (75:9) But the vngodly of the earth do wring out: and drynke the dregges therof ⁹ (75:10) As for me I wyll euer set foorth in wordes [the Lorde]: I wyll sing psalmes to the God of Iacob ¹⁰ (75:11) And I wyll breake all the hornes of the vngodly: but the hornes of the ryghteous shalbe exalted ⁷⁶ ¹ In Iurie is God knowen: his name is great in Israel ² At Shalem is his tabernacle: and his dwellyng in Sion ³ There he brake the arrowes of the bowe: the shielde, the sworde, and the battayle. Selah ⁴ Thou art honourable: and of more puissaunce then the mountaynes of robbers ⁵ The hygh couragious stomackes are spoyled, they haue slept their slepe: and the valiaunt souldiours coulde not finde their owne handes ⁶ At thy rebuke O God of Iacob: both the charet and horse be brought to naught ⁷ Thou, euen thou art dreadfull: and who may stande in thy syght when thou [begynnest] to be angry ⁸ Thou causest thy iudgement to be hearde from heauen: then the earth trembleth, and is styll ⁹ When God ariseth to iudgement: and to helpe all the afflicted vpon the earth. Selah ¹⁰ The fearcenesse of man shall turne to thy prayse: [and] the remnaunt of the fearcenesse thou wylt restrayne ¹¹ Make vowes vnto God your Lorde, & perfourme them all ye that be rounde about hym: bryng presentes vnto hym that is dreadfull ¹² He abateth the spirite of princes: he is dreadfull to the kynges of the earth ⁷⁷ ¹ My voyce was vnto the Lorde, and I cryed: my voyce was vnto the Lord, and he hearkened vnto me ² In the tyme of my trouble I sought the Lorde: my hande all the nyght catched & ceassed not, my soule refused comfort ³ I called to remembraunce God, and I was disquieted: I conferred with my selfe, and my spirite was wrapped in pensiuenesse. Selah ⁴ Thou dydst kepe the watche of mine eies: I was amased & coulde not speake ⁵ I dyd thynke vpon the dayes past: and on the yeres of the olde worlde ⁶ I called to remembraunce my psalme, song on the musicall instrument in the nyght tyme: I communed with myne owne heart, & searched out my spirites ⁷ What, wyll the Lorde forsake me for euer? wyll he be no more intreated to be fauourable ⁸ Is his mercie cleane gone for euer? and is his promise made from one generation to another, come vtterly to an ende ⁹ Hath God forgotten to be gratious? and will he shut vp his louing kindnesse in displeasure? Selah ¹⁰ And I sayde, this is my death: but the ryght hande of the most hyghest [may graunt] me yeres ¹¹ I dyd call to remebraunce the workes of God almightie: for thy wonders done a great whyle a goe came into my mynde ¹² I also gaue my selfe to muse of all thy workes: and I talked of all thy actes ¹³ Thy way O Lorde is in holynesse: who is so great a God as the Lorde ¹⁴ Thou art the God that doth wonders: thou hast made thy power knowen among the people ¹⁵ Thou hast redeemed thy people with a [mightie] arme: the sonnes of Iacob and Ioseph. Selah ¹⁶ The waters sawe thee O God, the waters sawe thee, they feared: yea the depthes of them moued out of their place ¹⁷ Thicke cloudes powred downe rayne, thinne cloudes gaue a noyse: and thine arrowes went abrode into al corners ¹⁸ The sounde of thy thunder was rounde about the [sky]: the lightnynges shone through the worlde, the earth quaked and trembled ¹⁹ Thy way is in the sea, and thy pathes in the great waters: and thy footesteppes are not knowen ²⁰ Thou dydst leade thy people lyke sheepe: by the hande of Moyses and Aaron ⁷⁸ ¹ Heare my lawe O my people: enclyne your eares vnto the wordes of my mouth 2 I wyll open my mouth in a parable: I wyll declare harde sentences of the olde tyme past ³ Which we haue hearde and knowen: and such as our fathers haue tolde vs ⁴ We wyll not hyde them from their children: nay we wyll set foorth in wordes to the generation to come, the prayses of God, and his myght and wonderfull workes that he hath done ⁵ For he reuiued a statute in Iacob, and gaue Israel a lawe: in the whiche he commaunded our forefathers to teache their children ⁶ To the intent the posteritie shoulde knowe it, [and] children whiche shalbe borne: that they shoulde ryse vp and declare it to their children ⁷ That they shoulde put their trust in God, and not forget the workes of God: but kepe his commaundementes ⁸ And that they be not as their forefathers [were] a rebellious and a mutable generation: a generation that directed not their heart aright, and whose spirite cleaued not stedfastly vnto God ⁹ [Like as] the children of Ephraim, which beyng harnessed & carying bowes: turned their backes in the day of battayle ¹⁰ They kept not the couenaunt of God: and they woulde not walke in his law ¹¹ But they forgat his workes: and his wonders which he had shewed them ¹² Marueylous thinges dyd he in the sight of their fathers: in the land of Egypt, in the fielde of Zoan ¹³ He deuided the sea and let them go thorowe: he made the waters to stande as on an heape ¹⁴ In the day time also he led them with a cloude: and all the night through with a light of fire ¹⁵ He cloued the harde rockes in the wildernes: & gaue them drinke therof, as it had ben out of the great deepe waters ¹⁶ He brought running streames out of a stonie rocke: and caused waters to gushe downe, like as out of riuers ¹⁷ Yet for all this they sinned still against hym: so that they prouoked the most hyghest in the wildernesse ¹⁸ And they temped god in their heartes: in requiring meate for their lust ¹⁹ They spake against God: they said, can God prepare a table in the wildernesse ²⁰ Beholde, he hath smytten the stonie rocke, and waters haue gushed out, and streames haue flowed out aboundantly: but can he likewise geue bread, can he prouide fleshe for his people ²¹ Wherefore God hearde [them,] he was wroth, a fire was kindled in Iacob: and there arose vp heauy displeasure against Israel ²² Because they beleued not in the Lord: nor did put their trust in his saluation ²³ And yet he commaunded the cloudes aboue: and opened the doores of heauen ²⁴ He raigned downe Manna also vpon them, that they shoulde eate: and gaue them corne from heauen ²⁵ [So] man dyd eate the bread of angels: he sent them meate inough ²⁶ He remoued the east winde from vnder the heauen: and through his power he brought in the south winde ²⁷ He rained fleshe vpon them as thycke as dust: and fethered foules like as the sande of the sea ²⁸ He let it fall among their tentes: euen rounde about their pauilions ²⁹ So they dyd eate and were wel filled, for he gaue them their owne desire: neuerthelesse they were not alienated from their lust ³⁰ But whyle the meate was yet in their mouthes, the heauy wrath of God came vpon them, and slue the welthyest of them: and made the chosen men of Israel to stoupe ³¹ For all this they sinned still: and beleued not his wonderous workes ³² Therfore their dayes dyd he consume in vanitie: & their yeres in a short [troublous] time ³³ When he slue them, they sought hym: they repented them, and made God their morninges worke ³⁴ And they remembred that the Lorde was their rocke: & that the Lorde most hyghest was their redeemer ³⁵ Neuerthelesse they dyd but flatter him with their mouth: and they made hym a lye with their tongue ³⁶ For their heart was not vpright with him: neither continued they faythfull in his couenaunt ³⁷ Yet for all that he beyng most merciful: cleane pardoned all their misdeedes, and destroyed them not ³⁸ Yea many a tyme he dyd much for to represse his anger: and neuer woulde suffer his whole rage to breake out ³⁹ For he considered that they were but fleshe, and that they were euen a winde that passeth away & cometh not againe ⁴⁰ How oft dyd they prouoke hym in the wildernes: & greeued hym in the desert ⁴¹ They turned backe and tempted the Lorde: and prescribed boundes to the most holy [God] of Israel ⁴² They thought not of his hande: in the day when he redeemed them from the enemie ⁴³ Howe he had wrought his miracles in Egypt: and his wonders in the fielde of Zoan ⁴⁴ For he turned into blood their riuers & fluddes: so that they might not drinke ⁴⁵ He sent amongst them all kind of flyes who dyd eate them: and frogges who destroyed them ⁴⁶ He gaue their fruites vnto the caterpiller: & their labour to the grashopper ⁴⁷ He destroyed their vines with hayle stones: and their wilde figge trees with the harde frost ⁴⁸ He smote their cattell also with haylestones: and their flockes with thunder boltes ⁴⁹ He cast vpon them the rage of his furie, anger, disdayne, and trouble: by sending foorth euill angels amongst them ⁵⁰ He made away to his indignation, & spared not their soule from death: he gaue their lyfe to be subiect to the pestilence ⁵¹ And he smote all the first borne of Egypt: the first fruites of concupiscence in the pauilions of Cham ⁵² But as for his owne people, he led them foorth like sheepe: and conducted them through the wildernesse like a flocke of cattell ⁵³ He brought them out safely that they shoulde not feare: and ouerwhelmed their enemies with the sea ⁵⁴ And brought them within the borders of his sanctuarie: euen to this mountayne which his right hand purchased ⁵⁵ He dyd cast out the heathen also before them: he caused their land to be deuided among the for an heritage, & made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tentes ⁵⁶ Neuerthelesse, they tempted and displeased the most hyghest Lorde: & kept not his testimonies ⁵⁷ They turned backewarde, and they went astray like their forefathers: they started aside like a bowe that breaketh ⁵⁸ For they stirred hym to anger with their hygh places: and prouoked him to ielousie with their carued images ⁵⁹ When the Lorde hearde this, he was wroth: & toke sore displeasure at Israel ⁶⁰ So that he forsoke the tabernacle in Silo: the pauilion [wherin] he dwelt amongst men ⁶¹ He deliuered his force into captiuitie: and his glorie into the enemies hande ⁶² He gaue also his people ouer to the sword: and was wroth with his inheritaunce ⁶³ Fire consumed his young men: and his maydens were not maryed ⁶⁴ His priestes were slayne with the sworde: and his wydowes made no lamentation ⁶⁵ But the Lorde awaked as though he had slept: like a giaunt making a triumphant noyse after wine ⁶⁶ He smote his enemies in the hynder parts: & put them to a perpetual shame ⁶⁷ He refused the tabernacle of Ioseph: and chose not the tribe of Ephraim ⁶⁸ But he chose the tribe of Iuda: euen the hill of Sion which he loued ⁶⁹ And there he buylded his temple on high: and layde the foundation of it like a grounde euer to continue ⁷⁰ He chose also Dauid his seruaunt: and toke hym away from the sheepefoldes ⁷¹ As he was folowing the ewes great with young he toke hym: that he might feede Iacob his people, and Israel his inheritaunce ⁷² So he fed them according to the simplicitie of his heart: and guided them by the discretion of his handes ⁷⁹ ¹ O Lord, the heathen are come into thyne inheritaunce: they haue defiled thy holy temple, they haue made Hierusale an heape [of stones 2 They haue geuen the dead bodies of thy seruauntes to be meate vnto the foules of the ayre: and the fleshe of thy saintes vnto the beastes of the lande ³ They haue shed their blood like water on euery syde of Hierusalem: and there is none to burie them ⁴ We are become an open shame vnto our neyghbours: a very scorne and derision vnto them that are rounde about vs ⁵ O God, howe long wylt thou be angry? shall thy ielousie burne lyke fire for euer ⁶ Powre out thine indignation vpon the Heathen that haue not knowen thee: and vpon the kingdomes that haue not called vpon thy name ⁷ For they haue deuoured Iacob: and layde waste his dwelling place ⁸ O remember not against vs sinnes that be past, with all speede let thy tender mercy preuent vs: for we are brought very lowe ⁹ Helpe vs O Lord of our saluation for the glory of thy name: deliuer vs, and be mercyfull vnto our sinnes for thy names sake ¹⁰ Wherefore do the Heathen say, where is nowe their God? let the vengeaunce of thy seruauntes blood that is shed, be [openly knowen] amongst the Heathen in our sight ¹¹ Let the sorowfull sighing of the prisoners come before thee, accordyng vnto the greatnes of thy power: preserue thou those that [are] appoynted to dye ¹² And rewarde thou our neighbours seuen folde into their bosome: their blasphemie wherewith they haue blasphemed thee O God ¹³ So we who be thy people and sheepe of thy pasture wyll confesse thee for euer: and we wyll alway set foorth in wordes thy prayse, from generation to generation ⁸⁰ ¹ Heare O thou shephearde of Israel, thou that leadest Ioseph lyke a sheepe: and thou that sittest vpon the Cherubims, shew thy gratious presence ² Before Ephraim, Beniamin, and Manasses: stirre vp thy strength, and come for to saue vs ³ Turne vs agayne O Lorde: shewe the light of thy countenaunce, and we shalbe saued ⁴ O God, Lorde of hoastes: howe long wylt thou be angry at the prayer of thy people ⁵ Thou feedest them with the bread of teares: and geuest them plenteously teares to drinke ⁶ Thou hast made vs a strife vnto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh vs to scorne ⁷ Turne vs agayne thou Lorde of hoastes: shewe the light of thy countenaunce, and we shalbe saued ⁸ Thou dydst translate a vine out of Egypt: thou didst cast out the Heathen, and planted it ⁹ Thou madst roome before it: thou causedst it to take roote, and it hath filled the lande ¹⁰ The hilles were couered with her shadowe: and goodly high Cedar trees with her bowes ¹¹ She stretched out her braunches vnto the sea: and her bowes vnto the riuer ¹² Why hast thou then broken downe her hedge: that all they whiche go by plucke of her grapes ¹³ The wylde bore out of the wood rooteth it vp: and the wylde beast of the fielde deuoureth it ¹⁴ (80:14a) Turne thee agayne thou God of hoastes I pray thee: loke downe from heauen, beholde and visite this vin ¹⁵ (80:14b) and vineyarde that thy ryght hande hath planted, and the young braunche which thou hast fortified for thy selfe ¹⁶ (80:15) It is brent with fire and cut downe: they shall perishe at the rebuke of thy countenaunce ¹⁷ (80:16) Let thy hande be vpon the man of thy right hande: and vpon the sonne of man whom thou hast fortified for thyne owne selfe ¹⁸ (80:17) And so we wyll not go backe from thee: thou shalt reuiue vs, and we wyll call vpon thy name ¹⁹ (80:18) Turne vs agayne O God, Lorde of hoastes: shewe the light of thy countenaunce, and we shalbe saued ⁸¹ ¹ Sing we meryly vnto the Lorde our strength: make a chearefull noyse vnto the Lorde of Iacob ² Take the psalterie: bryng hyther the tabret, the merie harpe, with the lute ³ Blowe vp the trumpet in the newe moone, euen in the time appointed: and vpon our solempne feast day ⁴ For this was made a statute for Israel: and a lawe of the God of Iacob ⁵ This he ordayned in Ioseph for a testimonie, when he came out of the lande of Egypt: [where] I hearde a tongue [whiche] I knewe not ⁶ I eased his shoulder from the burthen: and his handes ceassed from making pottes ⁷ Thou calledst vpon me in troubles, and I deliuered thee: I hearde thee out of the middest of a thunder, I proued thee also at the waters of strife. Selah ⁸ [Then I sayd] heare O my people: and I wyll geue thee a charge O Israel in protesting vnto thee ⁹ If thou wylt hearken vnto me, there shall be no straunge God in thee: neither shalt thou geue worship to any other Lorde beside me ¹⁰ I am God thy Lorde which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wyde, and I wyll fill it ¹¹ But my people woulde not heare my voyce: and Israel would not [obey] me ¹² So I gaue them vp vnto the wicked cogitations of their owne heartes: and I did let them folowe their owne imaginations ¹³ O that my people woulde haue hearkened vnto me: O that Israel had walked in my wayes ¹⁴ I should soone haue tamed their enemies: and turned myne hande against their aduersaries ¹⁵ The haters of God shoulde haue ben founde liers: and their time should haue endured for euer ¹⁶ He woulde haue fed them also with the finest wheate flowre: and I would haue satisfied thee with honie out of the stonie rocke ⁸² ¹ God standeth in the congregation of God: he iudgeth in the midst of God 2 Howe long wyll ye geue wrong iudgement: and accept the persons of the vngodly? Selah ³ Iudge ryght vnto the poore and fatherlesse: dispatch according to iustice suche as be afflicted and in necessitie ⁴ Deliuer the poore and outcast: saue them from the hande of the vngodly ⁵ They knowe nothyng, they vnderstande nothing: they walke on styll in darknesse, [wherfore] all the foundations of the earth be out of course ⁶ I haue sayde ye are gods: and ye all are chyldren of the most highest ⁷ But ye shall dye lyke as a man [doth:] and princes them selues shall fall away lyke as other [do. ⁸ Arise O God, and iudge thou the earth: for thou shalt take all Heathen to thine inheritaunce ⁸³ ¹ Holde not thy tongue O Lorde: kepe not styll scilence, refraine not thy selfe O Lorde 2 For beholde, thyne enemies make an vprore: and they that hate thee, haue lifted vp their head ³ They haue deuised shrewde counsell against thy people: and they haue consulted against thyne, whom thou defendest ⁴ They haue said, come, and let vs roote them out, that they be no more a people: and that the name of Israel may be no more in remembraunce ⁵ For they haue conspired all in one minde: & are confederate against thee ⁶ The pauilions of Edom and the Ismaelites: of Moab, and Hagerites ⁷ Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalec: the Philistines with the inhabitauntes of Tyre ⁸ Assur also is ioyned vnto them: they were a great ayde to the chyldren of Lot. Selah ⁹ But do thou vnto them, as vnto Midian: as vnto Sisera, as vnto Iabin at the brooke Kishon ¹⁰ Whiche perished at Ein Dor: and became as the doung of the earth ¹¹ Make them, their princes, [and] al their captaynes: lyke Oreb, and lyke Zeeb, and lyke Salmunna ¹² Whiche sayd, let vs take to our selues: the houses of God in possession ¹³ O my Lorde, make them lyke vnto a wheele: and as chaffe before the winde ¹⁴ Lyke as a fire that burneth vp the wood: and as the flambe that consumeth the mountaynes ¹⁵ Persecute them euen so with thy tempest: and make them afrayde with thy storme ¹⁶ Make shame to appeare in their faces: that they may seeke thy name O God ¹⁷ Let them be confounded and astonied with feare euer more & more: let them be put to shame, and perishe ¹⁸ And let them knowe that thou in thy name God eternall art only: O thou the most highest ouer all the earth ⁸⁴ ¹ O how amiable are thy dwellinges: thou God of hoastes ² My soule hath a desire and a longing to enter into the courtes of God: my heart and my flesh leapeth with ioy for to go to the liuing Lorde ³ Yea the sparowe hath founde her an house, and the swallowe a nest: where she may lay her young: euen thy aulters O God of hoastes, my king & my Lord ⁴ Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they wyll be alway praysyng thee. Selah ⁵ Blessed is that man whose strength is in thee: [thy] wayes are in their heart ⁶ They iourneying through the vale of teares: (yea when euery cesterne [at their name] is filled with water) do accept it for a [fayre pleasaunt] well ⁷ They wyl set forward from a stoute courage to a stoute courage: that the God of Gods may be seene of them in Sion ⁸ O God Lorde of hoastes heare my prayer: geue eare O God of Iacob. Selah ⁹ Beholde O Lorde our shielde: and loke vpon the face of thyne annointed ¹⁰ For one day in thy courtes, is better then a thousande [els where]: I had rather be a doore keper in the house of my God, then to dwell in [large] tabernacles of vngodlynes ¹¹ For God the Lorde is a sunne and a shielde: God geueth grace and worship, he withholdeth no good thyng from them that liue in any perfection ¹² O God of hoastes: blessed is the man that putteth his trust in thee ⁸⁵ ¹ O God, thou art become gracious vnto thy land: thou hast brought Iacob agayne home out of captiuitie ² Thou hast forgeuen the wickednes of thy people: and couered all their sinnes. Selah ³ Thou hast taken away al thy displeasure: and turned thy selfe from thy wrathfull indignation ⁴ Turne vs O God of our saluation: and let thyne anger ceasse from vs ⁵ Wilt thou be displeased at vs for euer? and wylt thou stretche out thy wrath from one generation to another ⁶ Wylt thou not turne agayne and reuiue vs: that thy people may reioyce in thee ⁷ Shew vs thy louing kindnes O God: and graunt vs thy saluation ⁸ I wyll hearken what God the Lord saith: for he speaketh peace vnto his people & to his saintes, that they turne not agayne to folly ⁹ For truely his saluation is nye them that feare him: insomuch that glory dwelleth in our earth ¹⁰ Mercy and trueth are met together: righteousnes and peace haue kissed [eche other. ¹¹ Trueth shall bud out of the earth: and ryghteousnes shall looke downe from heauen ¹² Yea, God shall geue all that is good: and our earth shall geue her encrease ¹³ [Euery man] shall cause righteousnes to go before him: and he shall direct his steppes in the way ⁸⁶ ¹ Bow downe thine eare O God, and heare me: for I am poore and in miserie 2 Preserue thou my soule, for I am holy: my God saue thy seruaunt that putteth his trust in thee ³ Be mercifull vnto me O God: for I do call dayly vpon thee ⁴ Comfort the soule of thy seruaunt: for vnto thee O Lord do I lift vp my soule ⁵ For thou Lorde art good and gracious: and of great mercy vnto all them that call vpon thee ⁶ Geue eare O God vnto my prayer: and be attentiue vnto the voyce of my humble petitions ⁷ I call vpon thee in the day of my trouble: for thou hearest me ⁸ Among the gods there is none like vnto thee O Lorde: there is not one that can do as thou doest ⁹ All nations whom thou hast made, shall come and worship thee O Lorde: and shall glorifie thy name ¹⁰ For thou art great and doest wonderous thinges: thou art God alone ¹¹ Teache me thy way O God, and I wyll walke in thy trueth: make my heart all one with thyne, that it may feare thy name ¹² I wyll acknowledge thee O Lorde my God with all my heart: and I wyl glorifie thy name for euer ¹³ For great is thy mercy towarde me: and thou hast deliuered my soule from the lowest [part of] hell ¹⁴ O God, the proude are rysen against me: a companie of outragious naughtipackes haue sought after my soule, and haue not set thee before their eyes ¹⁵ But thou O Lorde art a God full of compassion and mercy: long yet thou be angry, plenteous in goodnes and trueth ¹⁶ Turne thy face vnto me, and haue mercy vpon me: geue thy strength vnto thy seruaunt, and helpe the sonne of thine handmayde ¹⁷ Shewe some good token of thy fauour towardes me, that they whiche hate me may see it and be ashamed: because thou God hast helped me, and comforted me ⁸⁷ ¹ (87:1b) [for] her foundations are vpon the holy hilles 2 (87:1a) God loueth the gates of Sion more then all the dwellynges of Iacob ³ (87:2) Uery excellent thinges are spoken of thee: O thou citie of God. Selah ⁴ (87:3) I wyll make mention amongst those that knowe me, of Egypt and Babylon: behold also of Palestina and Tyre, with Ethiopia, [and it shalbe sayde] suche a man is borne there ⁵ (87:4) But of Sion it shalbe reported, that very many be borne in her: and the most highest him selfe shall establishe her ⁶ (87:5) God wyll number in the register of the people: euery one that is borne there. Selah ⁷ (87:6) And the singers aswell as the players of instrumentes: yea al my fountaines are in thee ⁸⁸ ¹ (88:1a) O God the Lorde of my saluation, I crye day and night before thee 2 (88:1b) let my prayer enter into thy presence, encline thyne eare vnto my crying ³ (88:2) For my soule is full of miserie: and my life toucheth the graue ⁴ (88:3) I am counted as one of them that go downe vnto the pit: and I am nowe become a man that hath no strength ⁵ (88:4) I am free among the dead: like such as beyng kylled lye in a graue, whom thou remembrest no more, and are cut away from thy hande ⁶ (88:5) Thou hast layde me in the lowest pit: in darknes and in deepenes ⁷ (88:6) Thyne indignation sore presseth me: and thou hast vexed me with all thy stormes. Selah ⁸ (88:7) Thou hast put away myne acquaintaunce farre from me, and made me to be abhorred of them: I am shut vp, I can not get foorth ⁹ (88:8) My sight fayleth through my affliction O God: I haue called dayly vpon thee, I haue stretched out mine handes vnto thee ¹⁰ (88:9) Wylt thou worke a miracle amongst the dead? or shal the dead rise vp againe [and] acknowledge thee? Selah ¹¹ (88:10) Shall thy louing kindnes be talked of in the graue? or thy faythfulnes in destruction ¹² (88:11) Shall thy wonderous workes be knowen in the darke? and thy righteousnes in the lande of forgetfulnes ¹³ (88:12) But vnto thee do I crye O God: and my prayer commeth early in the morning before thee ¹⁴ (88:13) O God, why abhorrest thou my soule: and [why] hidest thou thy face from me ¹⁵ (88:14) I am in miserie, I labour euen from my youth with the panges of death: I haue suffered thy terrours, [and] I am styll in doubt ¹⁶ (88:15) Thyne indignation hath gone ouer me: and thy terrours haue vndone me ¹⁷ (88:16) They came rounde about me dayly lyke water: and compassed me altogether on euery syde ¹⁸ (88:17) Thou hast put a way farre from me my frende and neighbour: [thou hast hid] mine acquaintaunce out of sight ⁸⁹ ¹ I wyll sing alwayes of the mercy of God: with my mouth I wyll make knowen thy trueth from one generation to another 2 For I sayde, mercy shall for euer endure: thou hast established thy trueth in the heauens ³ I haue made a couenaunt with my chosen: I haue sworne vnto Dauid my seruaunt ⁴ I wyll establishe thy seede for euer: and buylde vp thy throne from generation to generation. Selah ⁵ O God, the very heauens shall confesse thy wonderous workes: and thy trueth in the congregation of saintes ⁶ For who is he in the cloudes that shal matche God: [and who] is like vnto God amongst the children gods ⁷ God is very terrible in the assemblie of saintes: and to be feared aboue al them that are about him ⁸ O God, Lorde of hoastes, who is like vnto thee a most mightie Lorde: and thy trueth is on euery side thee ⁹ Thou rulest the ragyng of the sea: when her waues aryse, thou delayest them ¹⁰ Thou hast brought Egypt in so bad a case as if it were wounded: thou hast scattered thyne enemies abrode with thy mightie arme ¹¹ The heauens are thine, the earth also is thine: thou hast layde the foundation of the rounde worlde, and of all the plentie that is therin ¹² Thou hast made the north and the south: Tabor and Hermon do reioyce in thy name ¹³ Thou hast a mightie arme: thy hand is strong, and thy right hand is exalted ¹⁴ Iustice and iudgement is the foundation of thy throne: mercy and trueth shall go before thy face ¹⁵ Blessed is the people that knoweth a triumphant noyse: O God, they shall walke in the light of thy countenaunce ¹⁶ They shall make them selues merie dayly in thy name: and in thy righteousnes they shall exalt them selues ¹⁷ For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy louing kindnes thou wylt lift vp our hornes ¹⁸ For our shielde is of God: and our king is of the most holy of Israel ¹⁹ Thou hast spoken somtimes in visions vnto thy saintes: and hast sayde, I haue added ayde vpon the mightie, I haue exalted one chose out of the people ²⁰ I haue founde Dauid my seruaunt: I haue annoynted him with myne holye oyle ²¹ Therfore my hande shalbe assured vnto him: and mine arme shall strengthen hym ²² The enemie shal not be able to do him violence: the sonne of wickednesse shall not afflict hym ²³ I wyll breake into peeces his foes before his face: and ouerthrowe them that hate hym ²⁴ My trueth also and my mercy shalbe with hym: and in my name shall his horne be exalted ²⁵ I wyll set also his dominion in the sea: and his right hande in the fluddes ²⁶ He shall make inuocation vnto me: [saying] thou art my father O my God, and my fortresse of saluation ²⁷ And I will make him my first borne: in higher state then kinges of the earth ²⁸ My mercy wyll I kepe for hym euermore: and my couenaunt shal stand fast with hym ²⁹ His seede also wyll I make to endure for euer: and his throne as the dayes of heauen ³⁰ (89:30a) But if his chyldren forsake my lawe, and walke not in my iudgement ³¹ (89:30b) if they breake my statutes, and kepe not my commaundementes ³² (89:31) I will then visite their transgressions with a rodde: and their wickednesse with stripes ³³ (89:32) Neuerthelesse, my louyng kyndnesse I wyll not take vtterly from hym: I wyl not breake my promise with hym ³⁴ (89:33) I wyll not violate my couenaunt: nor alter the thyng that is gone out of my lyppes ³⁵ (89:34) I haue sworne once by my holynesse: that I wyll not speake an vntrueth vnto Dauid ³⁶ (89:35) His seede shall endure for euer: and his throne shalbe as the sunne before me ³⁷ (89:36) [And] as the moone which shall continue for euermore: and shalbe a faithful witnesse in heauen. Selah ³⁸ (89:37) But thou hast abhorred & forsake thine annoynted: & art sore displeased at him ³⁹ (89:38) Thou hast broken the couenaunt of thy seruaunt: thou hast disgraced his crowne, [castyng it] on the grounde ⁴⁰ (89:39) Thou hast ouerthrowe all his walles: and broken downe his strong holdes ⁴¹ (89:40) All they that go by the way spoyle hym: he is become a rebuke vnto his neyghbours ⁴² (89:41) Thou hast exalted the ryght hande of his enemies: and made all his aduersaries to reioyce ⁴³ (89:42) Thou hast turned the harde edge of his sworde: and thou hast not lifted him vp in the battayle ⁴⁴ (89:43) Thou hast brought his noble estate to an ende: and hast cast his throne downe to the grounde ⁴⁵ (89:44) Thou hast shortened the dayes of his youth: and thou hast couered him with shame. Selah ⁴⁶ (89:45) O God howe long wylt thou hyde thy selfe? for euer? shall thy wrath burne lyke fire ⁴⁷ (89:46) Remember what I am, howe short my tyme is of lyfe: wherfore hast thou created in vayne all the sonnes of men ⁴⁸ (89:47) What man is he that lyueth and shall not see death? can he delyuer his owne soule from the hande of hell? Selah ⁴⁹ (89:48) Lorde where are become thy former olde louyng kyndnesses: [which] thou dydst sweare vnto Dauid by thy fayth [that thou wouldest perfourme. ⁵⁰ (89:49) Remember O Lorde the dishonour of thy seruauntes: I beare in my bosome [the dishonour of] all people that be mightie ⁵¹ (89:50) Who beyng thine enemies O God do dishonour: who do dishonour the footsteppes of thine annoynted ⁵² (89:51) Blessed be God for euermore: so be it, and so be it ⁹⁰ ¹ Lorde thou hast ben our habitation: from one generation to another generation 2 Before the moutaynes were brought foorth, or euer the earth & the worlde were made: thou art God both from euerlastyng, and also vntyll euerlastyng ³ Thou turnest man most miserable euen vnto dust: thou sayest also, O ye children of men returne you into dust ⁴ For a thousande yeres in thy syght are but as yestarday that is past: and as a watch in the nyght ⁵ Thou makest them to flowe away, they are a sleepe: they be in the morning as an hearbe that groweth ⁶ In the mornyng it florisheth and groweth vp: in the euenyng it is cut downe and wythered ⁷ For we be consumed through thy displeasure: and we are astonyed through thy wrathfull indignation ⁸ Thou hast set our misdeedes before thee: and our sinnes wherof we be not priuie, in the lyght of thy countenaunce ⁹ For all our dayes do passe in thine anger: we spende our yeres as [in speaking] a worde ¹⁰ The dayes of our yeres be in all threescore yeres and tenne, and yf through strength [of nature] men come to foure score yeres: yet is their iolitie but labour and care, yea moreouer it passeth in haste from vs, and we flee from it ¹¹ Who regardeth the force of thy wrath? for euen there after as a man feareth thee, so [feeleth he] thy displeasure ¹² Make vs to knowe so our dayes, that we number them: and we wyll frame a heart [vnto] wisdome ¹³ Turne agayne O God (what, for euer [wylt thou be angry?]) and be gratious vnto thy seruauntes ¹⁴ Replenishe vs early in the mornyng with thy mercie: and we wyll crye out for ioy, and be glad all the dayes of our lyfe ¹⁵ Make vs mery accordyng to the dayes that thou hast afflicted vs: and accordyng to the yeres wherin we haue suffred aduersitie ¹⁶ Let thy worke appeare in thy seruauntes: and thy glory in their children ¹⁷ And let the glorious maiestie of the Lorde our God be vpon vs: and prosper thou the worke of our handes vpon vs, O prosper thou our handy worke ⁹¹ ¹ Whosoeuer sitteth vnder the couer of the most highest: he shal abide vnder the shadowe of the almightie ² I wyll say vnto God, thou art my hope and my fortresse: my Lorde, in whom I wyll trust ³ For he wyll delyuer thee from the snare of the hunter: and from the noysome pestilence ⁴ He wyll couer thee vnder his wynges, & thou shalt be safe vnder his fethers: his faythfulnesse shalbe thy shielde and buckler ⁵ Thou shalt not be afrayde of any terrour of the nyght: nor of any arrowe that sleeth by day ⁶ Nor of any pestilence that walketh in the darknesse: nor of any deadly fyt that destroyeth at hygh noone ⁷ A thousande shall fall beside thee, and ten thousande at thy ryght hande: but it shall not come nygh thee ⁸ Thou only with thine eyes shalt beholde: & see the rewarde of the vngodly ⁹ For thou O God art my hope: thou hast set thine habitation very hygh ¹⁰ There shall no euyll lyght on thee: neither shall any plague come nye thy dwellyng ¹¹ For he wyll geue his angels charge ouer thee: to kepe thee in all thy wayes ¹² They wyll beare thee in [their] handes: that thou hurt not thy foote agaynst a stone ¹³ Thou shalt set thy foote vppon the Lion and Adder: the young Lion and the Dragon thou shalt treade vnder thy feete ¹⁴ Because he hath set greatly his loue vpon me, therfore wyll I deliuer hym: I wyll set hym vp out of all daunger, because he hath knowen my name ¹⁵ He shall call vpon me, and I wyll heare hym: yea I am with hym in trouble, I wyll deliuer hym, and bryng hym to honour ¹⁶ I wyll satisfie hym with a long lyfe: and I wyll cause hym to see my saluation ⁹² ¹ It is a good thyng to confesse vnto God: and to syng psalmes vnto thy name O thou most hyghest 2 To set foorth in wordes thy louyng kyndnesse early in the mornyng: and thy trueth in the nyght season ³ Upon an instrument of ten strynges, and vpon the Lute: vpon the Harpe with a solemne sounde ⁴ For thou God hast made me glad thorowe thy workes: I do reioyce in the workes of thy handes ⁵ O God howe glorious are thy workes? thy thoughtes are very depe ⁶ An vnwise man doth not consider this: and a foole doth not vnderstande it ⁷ Wheras the vngodly do bud vp greene as the grasse, and wheras all workers of iniquitie do florishe: that they [notwithstandyng] shalbe destroyed for euer and euer ⁸ But thou O God: art the most highest for euermore ⁹ For lo, thine enemies O God, lo thine enemies shall perishe: & all the workers of wickednesse shalbe destroyed ¹⁰ But my horne shalbe exalted lyke the horne of an vnicorne: for I am annoynted with excellent oyle ¹¹ And myne eye shall see those that lye in wayte for me: myne eare shall heare the malitious persons that rise vp agaynst me ¹² The ryghteous shall florishe lyke a paulme tree: and shall spread abroade like a Cedar in Libanus ¹³ Such as be planted in the house of God: shall florishe in the courtes of our Lorde ¹⁴ They shall styll bryng foorth fruite in their age: they shalbe fat and florishyng ¹⁵ For to set foorth in wordes that God is vpright: he is my rocke, and no iniquitie is in hym ⁹³ ¹ God raigneth, he is clothed with a glorious maiestie, God is clothed with strength: he hath girded hym selfe, he hath made the worlde so sure that it can not be moued ² Euer since the [worlde] began, thy throne hath ben set sure: thou art from euerlastyng ³ The fluddes are risen O God, the fluddes haue lyft vp their noyse: the fluddes haue lyft vp their waues ⁴ God which is on high, is more puissaut then the noyse of many waters: then the mightie waues of the sea ⁵ Thy testimonies are most certayne: holynesse is an ornament to thine house O God in all tymes ⁹⁴ ¹ O God the Lord of [all] auengeaunce: the Lorde of [all] auengeaunce shewe thy [glorious maiestie. ² Be exalted O thou iudge of the world: and rewarde the proude after their deseruyng ³ O God howe long shall the vngodly: howe long shall the vngodly triumph ⁴ All such as be workers of iniquitie: they babble, they prate shoutly, they make boastes of them selues ⁵ They oppresse thy people O God: and they afflict thine heritage ⁶ They murther the wyddowe and the straunger: & put the fatherlesse to death ⁷ And they say, tushe the Lorde seeth it not: neither doth the God of Iacob vnderstande it ⁸ Understande ye vnwyse among the people: O ye fooles, when wyll ye be well aduised ⁹ He that hath planted the eare, shall he not heare? yf he shapeth the eye, shall he not see ¹⁰ He that chasteneth the heathen, shall not he punishe? it is he that teacheth man knowledge ¹¹ God knoweth the thoughtes of man: that they are but vanitie ¹² Blessed is the man O Lorde, whom thou wylt chasten: and whom thou wylt instruct in thy lawe ¹³ That thou mayest geue hym patience in tyme of aduersitie: vntyll the pyt be digged vp for the vngodly ¹⁴ For God wyll not reiect his people: neither wil he forsake his inheritaunce ¹⁵ For iudgement shalbe reduced vnto iustice: and after it shall all such as be vpryght of heart [be iudged. ¹⁶ Who will ryse vp with me agaynst the malicious? or who wyll take my part agaynst workers of wickednesse ¹⁷ If God had not ben an ayde vnto me: it had not fayled much but my soule had dwelled in silence ¹⁸ But when I sayde my foote hath slypped: thy mercy O God helde me vp ¹⁹ In the multitude of my cogitations from the bottome of my heart: thy comfortes dyd recreate my soule ²⁰ Shall the seate of wickednesse haue any thyng to do with thee: which [seate] maketh wrong to be enacted for a law ²¹ They flocke together agaynst the soule of the ryghteous: and condemne the innocent blood ²² But God is to me a refuge: and my Lorde is the rocke of my confidence ²³ And he wyll recompence them their wickednesse, and destroy them in their owne malice: God our Lorde wyll destroy them ⁹⁵ ¹ Come let vs syng vnto God: let vs make an heartie reioysyng with a loude voyce vnto the rocke of our saluation ² Let vs make speede to come before his face with a confession: let vs expresse vnto hym outwardly a heartie gladnesse with syngyng of psalmes ³ For God is a great Lorde: and a great kyng aboue all gods ⁴ In his hande are all the deepe corners of the earth: and the hygh toppes of hylles be his also ⁵ The sea is his, and he made it: and his handes fashioned the drye lande ⁶ Come, let vs worshyp and fall downe: let vs kneele before the face of God our maker ⁷ For he is our Lorde: and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheepe of his hande ⁸ To day yf ye wyll heare his voyce harden not your heartes as in the tyme of contention: as in the day of temptation in the wildernesse ⁹ When your fathers tempted me, proued me: [yea after] they had seene my worke ¹⁰ Fourtie yeres long was I greeued with that generation: and I sayde this people erreth in heart, and they haue not knowen my wayes ¹¹ Unto whom I sware in my wrath: that they shoulde not enter at all into my rest ⁹⁶ ¹ Syng you vnto God a newe song: sing ye vnto God all [that be in] the earth ² Syng ye vnto God and blesse his name: set foorth in wordes from day to day his saluation ³ Declare his glory amongst the heathen: and his wonderous actes amongst all the people ⁴ For God is great and worthy of all prayse: he is more to be feared then all gods ⁵ As for all the gods of the heathen they be but idoles: and it is God that made the heauens ⁶ Honour and maiestie be before hym: power and excellentnesse be in his sanctuarie ⁷ Geue vnto God O ye families of the people: geue vnto God glorie & power ⁸ Geue vnto God glorie [due] vnto his name: bryng an offeryng, and come into his courtes ⁹ Worshyp you God in the maiestie of holynesse: be you in dread of his face all [that be in] the earth ¹⁰ Set it foorth in wordes among the heathen that God raigneth: and that the worlde is set of a sure foundation, it shall not be remoued, he wyll iudge the people accordyng to equitie ¹¹ The heauens shall reioyce, and the earth be glad: the sea shall make a noyse and all that is therin ¹² The fielde shalbe ioyfull and all that is in it: then shall all the trees of the wood reioyce before the face of God ¹³ For he commeth, for he commeth to iudge the earth: he will iudge the world accordyng to iustice, and the people accordyng to his trueth ⁹⁷ ¹ God raigneth, the earth shalbe glad: the multitude of the Iles shalbe glad [therof. ² Cloudes and thicke darknesse are rounde about hym: iustice and iudgement are the habitation of his throne ³ There goeth a fire before his face: and burneth his enemies on euery syde ⁴ His lightninges gaue a lyght vnto the worlde: the earth sawe it and trembled ⁵ The hylles melted lyke waxe at the presence of God: at the presence of the Lorde of the whole earth ⁶ The heauens haue declared his iustice: and all the people haue seene his glorie ⁷ Confounded be all they that do seruice vnto carued images: and that do glorie in idols, but O gods, you all shall worshyp hym ⁸ Sion hearde of it, and reioyced: and the daughters of Iuda be glad, because of thy iudgementes O God ⁹ For thou art a God hygher then all [that are in] the earth: thou art exalted farre aboue all gods ¹⁰ You that loue God, hate the thyng which is euyll: he preserueth the soules of his saintes, he wyll delyuer them from the hande of the vngodly ¹¹ There is sowen a lyght for the ryghteous: and gladnesse for such as be vpryght of heart ¹² Reioyce in God O ye ryghteous: and prayse [hym] at the remembraunce of his holynesse ⁹⁸ ¹ Syng vnto God a newe song: for he hath done marueylous thynges. (98:2) With his owne right hande and with his holy arme: he hath gotten to hym selfe the victorie 2 (98:3) God hath declared his saluation: he hath openly shewed his iustice in the syght of the heathen ³ (98:4) He hath remembred his mercie and trueth towarde the house of Israel: and all the endes of the worlde haue seene the saluation of our Lorde ⁴ (98:5) Shewe your selues ioyfull vnto God all ye [in] the earth: make a ioly noyse, reioyce you chearfully, & syng psalmes ⁵ (98:6) Syng psalmes vnto God [playing] vpon an harpe: vpon an harpe, and with the sounde of a psalterie ⁶ (98:7) Shewe your selues ioyfull before the kyng eternall: with trumpettes and sounde of shawmes ⁷ (98:8) Let the sea make a noyse, and that is within it: the rounde worlde, and they that dwell therin ⁸ (98:9) Let the fluddes clappe their handes: and let the hylles be ioyfull altogether before the face of God ⁹ (98:10) For he commeth to iudge the earth: he wyll iudge the worlde accordyng to iustice, & the people accordyng to equitie ⁹⁹ ¹ God raigneth, the people be in a rage: he sitteth [betweene] the Cherubims, the earth quaketh ² God is great in Sion: and high aboue all people ³ They shall prayse thy name great & dreadfull: [for] it is holy, and a kynges power [that] loueth iudgement ⁴ Thou hast ordeyned [all thynges] accordyng to equitie: thou hast caused iudgement and iustice to be in Iacob ⁵ Magnifie God our Lorde: and kneele downe before his footstoole, for it is holy ⁶ Moyses & Aaron among his priestes, and Samuel among such as call vpon his name: [these] called vpon God, and he hearde them ⁷ He spake vnto them out of the cloudy pyller: for they kept his testimonies, and the lawe [that] he gaue them ⁸ O God our Lord thou heardest them, O Lorde thou didst forbeare them: and thou tokest auengement for their owne inuentions ⁹ Magnifie God our Lorde, and kneele downe before his holy hyll: for God our Lorde is holy ¹⁰⁰ ¹ (100:1a) Be ye ioyfull in God all that be in the earth 2 (100:1b) serue God with gladnesse, and come before his face with a ioyfull noyse ³ (100:2) Be ye sure that God is the Lorde, it is he that hath made vs, and not we our selues: we are his people and the sheepe of his pasture ⁴ (100:3) Go your way into his gates with thankesgeuyng, and into his courtes with prayse: be thankfull vnto hym [and] blesse his name ⁵ (100:4) For God is gratious, his mercie is euerlastyng: and his trueth [endureth] from generation to generation ¹⁰¹ ¹ I will sing of mercie and iudgement: I wyll syng vnto thee O God psalmes 2 I wyll endeuour my selfe to be fully instructed in the way of perfectnesse: when thou wylt come vnto me, I wil go vp and downe in the middest of my house in the perfectnesse of my heart ³ I wyll neuer set before myne eyes any deuillishe thyng: I wyll detest to do the worke of transgressours, it shall take no holde of me ⁴ A frowarde heart shall depart from me: I wyll not once knowe [any] euyll ⁵ I will destroy him who priuily slaundereth his neighbour: I wyll not suffer hym who hath a proude loke and a great stomacke ⁶ Myne eyes shalbe vpon such in the lande as haue a true meanyng, that they may sit with me: he that leadeth a perfect lyfe shall minister vnto me ⁷ There shall no deceiptfull person haue any seate in my house: he that telleth lyes shall not tary long in my syght ⁸ I wyll euery mornyng destroy all the vngodly in the lande: that I may roote out from the citie of God all workers of wickednesse ¹⁰² ¹ Heare my prayer O God: and let my crying come in vnto thee 2 Hyde not thy face from me in the day of my distresse: encline thine eare vnto me, heare me spedyly in the day that I call ³ For my dayes are consumed away like smoke: and my bones are burnt vp as though they were a firebrande ⁴ My heart is smitten downe and wythered lyke grasse: because I did forget to eate my bread ⁵ Through the noyse of my gronyng: my bones wyll scase cleaue to my fleshe ⁶ (102:6a) I am become lyke a Pellicane of the wildernesse, and like an Owle that is in the desert ⁷ (102:6b) I watch, and am as it were a sparrowe that sitteth alone vpon the house toppe ⁸ (102:7) Myne enemies reuile me all the day long: and they that are in a rage against me, make their oth by me ⁹ (102:8a) For I haue eaten asshes as it were bread, and mingled my drynke with weepyng ¹⁰ (102:8b) because of thine indignation and wrath: for thou hast set me vp, and cast me downe ¹¹ (102:9) My dayes fade away lyke a shadowe: and I am wythered lyke grasse ¹² (102:10) But thou O God endurest for euer: and thy remembraunce throughout all generations ¹³ (102:11) Thou wylt aryse vp, thou wylt haue compassion vpon Sion: for it is tyme that thou haue mercie vpon her, for the tyme appoynted is come ¹⁴ (102:12) For thy seruauntes be well affected towarde her stones: and it pitieth them to see her in the dust ¹⁵ (102:13) And the heathen wyll feare thy name O God: and all the kynges of the earth thy glorious maiestie ¹⁶ (102:14) For God wyll buylde vp Sion: to be seene in his glorious maiestie ¹⁷ (102:15) He wyll regarde the prayer of the humble destitute of all helpe: and he wyll not dispise their prayer ¹⁸ (102:16) This shalbe written for those that come after: and the people which shalbe borne, shall prayse the Lorde ¹⁹ (102:17) For he hath loked downe from his high sanctuarie: out of heauen did God beholde the earth ²⁰ (102:18) That he might heare the mourninges of such as be in captiuitie: and delyuer the children of death ²¹ (102:19) That they may declare the name of God in Sion: and his prayse at Hierusalem ²² (102:20a) When people were gathered together, & kyngdomes to serue God ²³ (102:20b) he afflicted my strength in the way, he shortened my dayes ²⁴ (102:21) But I say, O my God take me not away in the middest of myne age: as for thy yeres, they endure throughout all generations ²⁵ (102:22) Thou hast before tyme layde the foundation of the earth: and the heauens are the worke of thy handes ²⁶ (102:23) They shall perishe, but thou wylt remayne styll: they all shall waxe olde as doth a garment, and as a vesture thou wylt chaunge them, and they shalbe chaunged ²⁷ (102:24a) But thou art, and thy yeres can not fayle ²⁸ (102:24b) the children of thy seruauntes shal dwell, and their seede shalbe maynteyned in thy syght ¹⁰³ ¹ Blesse God O my soule: and all that is within me [prayse] his holy name ² Blesse God O my soule: and forget not all his benefites ³ Who forgeueth all thy wickednesse: and healeth all thine infirmities ⁴ Who redeemeth thy lyfe from destruction: [and] crowneth thee with mercie and louyng kyndnesse ⁵ Who satisfieth thy mouth with good thynges: causyng thy youth lyke an Egles to be renued ⁶ God executeth iustice and iudgement: for all them that are oppressed with wrong ⁷ He made his wayes knowen vnto Moyses: his workes vnto the children of Israel ⁸ God is full of compassion and pitie: loth to be angry, and exceedyng great in mercie ⁹ He vseth not to continue in chydyng: neither reserueth he [his anger] for euer ¹⁰ He dealeth not with vs accordyng to our sinnes: nor rewardeth vs according to our wickednesse ¹¹ For accordyng to the hyghnesse of heauen aboue the earth: his mercie preuayleth to them that feare hym ¹² [Loke] howe farre distaunt the east is from the west: so farre a sunder setteth he our sinnes from vs ¹³ Yea lyke as a father pitieth [his owne] children: euen so is God mercifull vnto them that feare hym ¹⁴ For he knoweth wherof we be made: he remembreth that we are but dust ¹⁵ The dayes of man are as [the dayes] of an hearbe: he florisheth as a flowre in the fielde ¹⁶ For the winde passeth ouer it, and it is no more [seene]: and the place therof knoweth it no more ¹⁷ But the mercifull goodnesse of God endureth for euer and euer, vpon them that feare hym: and his righteousnesse vpon childers children ¹⁸ Euen vpon such as kepe his couenaunt: and thinke vpon his commaundementes to do them ¹⁹ God hath prepared his seate in heauen: and his kyngdome ruleth ouer all ²⁰ Blesse God O ye his angels mightie in operation: who fulfyll his worde in hearkening vnto the voyce of his word ²¹ Blesse God all ye his hoastes: you his ministers that do his pleasure ²² Blesse God all you his workes in all places of his dominion: O my soule blesse thou God ¹⁰⁴ ¹ My soule blesse thou God: O God my Lord thou art become exceeding great, thou hast put on glory and maiestie ² Who is decked with light as it were with a garment: spreadyng out the heauens like a curtayne ³ Who seeleth his vpper chaumbers with waters: and maketh the cloudes his charriot, and walketh vpon the wynges of the wynde ⁴ He maketh his angels spirites: and his ministers a flaming fire ⁵ He hath layde the earth sure vpon her foundations: that it can neuer moue at any tyme ⁶ Thou coueredst it with the deepe, lyke as with a garment: the waters stande vpon the hilles ⁷ At thy rebuke they flee: at the noyse of thy thunder they bluster downe apace ⁸ The hilles mount aloft: and the valleys settle downe beneath vnto the place where thou hast layde a foundation for them ⁹ Thou hast set them their boundes which they shall not passe: neither shall they returne agayne to couer the earth ¹⁰ Who also causeth the springes which runne betweene the hilles: to flowe into the riuers ¹¹ All beastes of the fielde drinke therof: and the wylde asses quench their thirst ¹² The foules of the ayre haue their habitation nigh vnto them: singing out of the midst of the bowes [of trees. ¹³ He watereth the hilles from aboue: the earth is replenished with the fruite of thy workes ¹⁴ He causeth grasse to growe for cattell: and hearbes for the vse of man ¹⁵ That he may bryng foorth foode out of the earth: both wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oyle to make hym haue a chearefull countenaunce, & also bread to strengthen mans heart ¹⁶ The trees of God be satisfied: euen the Cedars of Libanus which he hath planted ¹⁷ Wherin the birdes make their nestes: in the fyrre trees the storke buyldeth ¹⁸ The high hilles are a refuge for goates: and so are the stonie rockes for conies ¹⁹ He hath made the moone for certayne seasons: and the sunne knoweth his goyng downe ²⁰ Thou makest darknes and it is night: wherein all the beastes of the forrest do go abrode ²¹ The Lions do roare after a pray: and in seeking their meate of God ²² When the sunne ariseth, they recoyle backe: and lay them downe to rest in their dennes ²³ Man goeth foorth to his worke: and to do his seruice vntyll the euening ²⁴ O God howe manyfolde are thy workes? thou hast made them al in wisdome, the earth is ful of thy ryches ²⁵ So is the sea it selfe large and wyde in compasse: wherein are thinges creeping innumerable, both small and great beastes ²⁶ There go the shippes, and there is that Leuiathan: whom thou hast made to take his pastime therin ²⁷ These wayte all vpon thee: that thou mayest geue them meate in due season ²⁸ When thou geuest it them, they gather it: and when thou openest thyne hand, they are filled with that which is good ²⁹ When thou hydest thy face, they are troubled: when thou takest away their spirite, they dye, and are turned agayne to their dust ³⁰ When thou sendest out thy spirite, they be recreated: and thou reuiuest the face of the earth ³¹ The glorious maiestie of God shal endure for euer: God wyll reioyce in his workes ³² He beholdeth the earth, & it trembleth: he toucheth the hilles, and they smoke ³³ I wyll syng vnto God as long as I liue: I will sing psalmes vnto my Lord so long as I shall be ³⁴ My meditations of hym shalbe very pleasaunt: for all my ioy shalbe in God ³⁵ As for sinners they shalbe consumed out of the earth: and the vngodly shall come to an ende, blesse thou God O my soule, [and] prayse you the Lorde ¹⁰⁵ ¹ Confesse you [it] vnto God, call vppon his name: cause the people to vnderstande his deuises ² Sing vnto hym, sing psalmes vnto him: talke you of all his wonderous workes ³ Glary ye in his holy name: let the heart of them reioyce that do seeke God ⁴ Seeke God and his strength: seeke his face euermore ⁵ Remember the meruaylous workes that he hath done: his wonders, and the iudgementes of his mouth ⁶ (105:6a) O ye seede of Abraham his seruaunt, ye his chosen chyldren of Iacob ⁷ (105:6b) he is God our Lord, his iudgementes are in all the earth ⁸ (105:7a) He hath ben mindfull alwayes of his couenaunt (for he promised a worde to a thousande generations: ⁹ (105:7b) euen of his couenaunt that he made with Abraham, and of his othe vnto Isaac ¹⁰ (105:8) And he appointed the same vnto Iacob for a law: and to Israel for an euerlasting couenaunt ¹¹ (105:9) Saying, vnto thee I wyll geue the lande of Chanaan: the lot of your inheritaunce ¹² (105:10a) When they were a fewe men in number, and had ben straungers but a litle whyle in it ¹³ (105:10b) and when they went from one nation to another, from one kingdome to another people ¹⁴ (105:11) He suffred no man to do them wrong: yea he reproued euen kynges for their sakes ¹⁵ (105:12) Touche not mine annoynted: and triumph not ouer my prophetes ¹⁶ (105:13) Moreouer he called for a famine vpon the lande: and he made all maner of foode to fayle ¹⁷ (105:14) But he had sent a man before them: euen Ioseph, who was solde to be a bonde seruaunt ¹⁸ (105:15) Whose feete they dyd hurt in the stockes: the iron entred into his soule ¹⁹ (105:16) Vntill the tyme came that his cause [was knowen:] the worde of the Lorde tryed hym ²⁰ (105:17) The king sent and caused hym to be let go: yea the prince of the people opened a way foorth for hym ²¹ (105:18) He made him Lorde of his house: and ruler of all his substaunce ²² (105:19) That he might enfourme his princes according to his minde: and teache his senatours wysdome ²³ (105:20) Israel also came into Egypt: & Iacob was a straunger in the lande of Cham ²⁴ (105:21) And he encreased his people exceedinglye: and made them stronger then their enemies ²⁵ (105:22) Whose heart so turned that they hated his people: and dealt subtilly with his seruauntes ²⁶ (105:23a) [Then] he sent Moyses his seruaunt, and Aaron whom he had chosen ²⁷ (105:23b) they did their message, workyng his signes among them, and wonders in the lande of Cham ²⁸ (105:24) He sent darknes, & it was darke: and they went not from his wordes ²⁹ (105:25) He turned their waters into blood: and slue their fishe ³⁰ (105:26) Their lande brought foorth frogges: yea euen in their kinges chaumbers ³¹ (105:27) He spake the worde, and there came a swarme of all maner of flyes: [and] of lyce in all their quarters ³² (105:28) He gaue them haylestones for rayne: [and] flambes of fire in their lande ³³ (105:29) He smote their vines also & figge trees: and he destroyed the trees that were in their coastes ³⁴ (105:30) He spake the worde, and the grashoppers came: & caterpillers innumerable ³⁵ (105:31) And they did eate vp all the grasse in their lande: and deuoured the fruite of their grounde ³⁶ (105:32) He smote al the first borne in their land: euen the first fruites of all their concupiscence ³⁷ (105:33) He also brought them foorth with siluer and golde: there was not one feeble person in their tribes ³⁸ (105:34) Egypt was glad at their departing: for they were smytten with dread of them ³⁹ (105:35) He spred out a cloude to be a couering: and fire to geue light in the night season ⁴⁰ (105:36) The [people] required and he brought quayles: and he filled them with the bread of heauen ⁴¹ (105:37) He opened the rocke of stone and the waters flowed out: so that streames ranne in drye places ⁴² (105:38) For he remembred his holy worde: [spoken] vnto Abraham his seruaunt ⁴³ (105:39) And he brought foorth his people with gladnes: [and] his chosen with a ioyfull noyse ⁴⁴ (105:40) And he gaue them the landes of the Heathen, and they toke to inheritaunce the labours of the people ⁴⁵ (105:41) To the intent that they shoulde kepe his statutes: and obserue his lawes. Prayse ye the Lorde ¹⁰⁶ ¹ Confesse you [it] vnto god, for he is gratious: and his mercy endureth for euer ² Who can expresse the valiaunt actes of God: who can publishe abrode all his prayse ³ Blessed are they that kepe iudgement: and do iustice at all times ⁴ Remember me O God according to the fauour that thou bearest vnto thy people: O visite me with thy saluation ⁵ That I may see the felicitie of thy chosen, that I may reioyce at the gladnes of thy people: [and] that I may glorie with thyne inheritaunce ⁶ We haue sinned with our fathers: we haue done amisse and dealt wickedly ⁷ Our fathers did not well consider thy wonders in Egypt, neither did they remember thy manifolde great goodnes: but they rebelled at the sea, euen at the red sea ⁸ Neuerthelesse, he saued them for his names sake: that he myght make his power to be knowen ⁹ And he rebuked the red sea, and it was dryed vp: so he led them through the deepe, as through a wyldernesse ¹⁰ And he saued them from the hande of suche as hated them: & redeemed them from the hande of the enemie ¹¹ As for their aduersaries the waters ouerwhelmed them: there was not one of them left remayning ¹² Then beleued they his wordes: and song prayse vnto him ¹³ But within a very short whyle they forgat his workes: they woulde not wayte for his counsell ¹⁴ And they were taken with a great lust in the wyldernesse: and they tempted God in the desert ¹⁵ And he gaue them their desire: and sent leannes withal into their soule ¹⁶ They enuied also at Moyses in the tentes: [and] at Aaron the saint of God ¹⁷ So the earth opened and swalowed vp Dathan: and couered the company of Abiram ¹⁸ And the fire was kindled in their company: the flambe brent vp the vngodly ¹⁹ They made a calfe in Horeb: and worshipped the moulten image ²⁰ Thus they turned their glory: into the similitude of a calfe that eateth hay ²¹ (106:21a) They forgat God their sauiour, who had done so great thynges in Egypt ²² (106:21b) wonderous workes in ye land of Cham, [and] terrible thinges at the red sea ²³ (106:22) Wherfore he appointed to destroy them, had not Moyses his chosen stand in the breache before hym: to turne away his wrathful indignation, lest he should destroy them ²⁴ (106:23) Yea they thought scorne of the lande most to be desired: they gaue no credite vnto his worde ²⁵ (106:24) But they murmured in their tentes: they would not hearken vnto the voyce of God ²⁶ (106:25a) Then lift he vp his hand against them, to geue them an ouerthrowe in the wildernesse ²⁷ (106:25b) to geue their seede an ouerthrowe amongst the nations, and to scatter them in sundry landes ²⁸ (106:26) They ioyned them selues vnto Baal Peor: they also did eate of the sacrifices of the dead ²⁹ (106:27) And they prouoked the [Lorde] vnto anger with their owne inuentions: and a plague fell mightily amongst them ³⁰ (106:28) Then stoode vp Phinehes, he executed iustice: and so the plague ceassed ³¹ (106:29) And that was imputed vnto hym for righteousnesse: in generation and generation for euermore ³² (106:30) They also prouoked [God] at the waters of strife: and all was not well with Moyses for their sakes ³³ (106:31) For they had caused an alteration to be of his spirite: so that he spake vnaduisedly with his lippes ³⁴ (106:32) Moreouer, they destroyed not the Heathen: as God commaunded them ³⁵ (106:33) But they were mingled amongst the Heathen: and learned their workes ³⁶ (106:34) Insomuch that they dyd seruice vnto their idols: whiche were to the a snare ³⁷ (106:35) Yea they sacrifised their sonnes: and their daughters vnto deuils ³⁸ (106:36) And they shed innocent blood, euen the blood of their sonnes and of their daughters: whom they sacrifised vnto the idols of Chanaan, and the lande was defiled with blood ³⁹ (106:37) Thus were they stayned with their owne workes: and went a whoryng with their owne inuentions ⁴⁰ (106:38) Therfore was the wrath of God kindeled against his people: insomuch that he abhorred his owne inheritaunce ⁴¹ (106:39) And he gaue them ouer into the hand of the Heathen: and they that dyd hate them, were lordes ouer them ⁴² (106:40) Their enemies oppressed them: and brought them into subiection vnder their hande ⁴³ (106:41) Many a time dyd [God] deliuer them, but they rebelled [against hym] with their owne inuentions: and were brought downe for their wickednes ⁴⁴ (106:42) Neuerthelesse, he did beholde them in their aduersitie: in geuing eare to their complaint ⁴⁵ (106:43) And he remembred his couenaunt: and repented, according to the multitude of his mercies ⁴⁶ (106:44) Yea he made all those that led them away captiue: to pitie them ⁴⁷ (106:45) Saue vs O God our Lorde, and gather vs from among the Heathen: that we may geue thankes to thy holy name, and glory of thy prayse ⁴⁸ (106:46) Blessed be God the Lord of Israel from world to world without end: and let all people say, so be it. Prayse ye the Lord ¹⁰⁷ ¹ Confesse you [it] vnto God: for he is gratious, and his mercy endureth for euer ² Let such as God did redeme speake: whom he hath redeemed from the hande of the enemie ³ And whom he gathered out of the landes: from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south ⁴ (107:4a) They went astray out of the way in solitarines [and] in wildernes, and found no citie to dwell in ⁵ (107:4b) they were hungry and thirstie, their soule fainted in them ⁶ (107:5) And they cry vnto god in their trouble: who deliuereth them from their distresse ⁷ (107:6) And he leadeth them foorth by the right way: that they might go to the citie inhabited ⁸ (107:7) O that men would confesse vnto God his louyng kindnesse: and his marueylous actes [done] to the chyldren of men ⁹ (107:8) For he satisfieth the greedie soule: and filleth the hungry soule with goodnes ¹⁰ (107:9) Suche as sit in darknesse and in the shadowe of death: beyng fast bounde in miserie and iron ¹¹ (107:10) Because they went from the wordes of the Lorde: and lightly regarded the counsayle of the most highest ¹² (107:11) Therfore he humbled their heart thorowe heauines: they fall downe, and there is none to helpe them ¹³ (107:12) And they cry vnto god in their trouble: who deliuereth the out of their distresse ¹⁴ (107:13) For he bringeth them out of darknesse and out of the shadowe of death: and breaketh their bondes in sunder ¹⁵ (107:14) O that men would confesse vnto God: his louing kindnes and his marueylous actes [done] to the chyldren of men ¹⁶ (107:15) For he breaketh the gates of brasse: & smyteth the barres of iron in sunder ¹⁷ (107:16) Foolish men are plagued for their mischeuous wayes: & for their wickednes ¹⁸ (107:17) Their soule abhorreth all maner of meate: and they be euen harde at deathes doore ¹⁹ (107:18) And they crye vnto God in their trouble: who deliuereth them out of their distresse ²⁰ (107:19) he sendeth his worde & healeth them: and he maketh them to scape safe from their corruptnes ²¹ (107:20) O that men would confesse vnto God: his louing kindnes and his marueylous actes [done] to the chyldren of men ²² (107:21) And that they would offer [vnto him] sacrifices of thankes geuing: and set foorth in wordes his workes with a ioyfull noyse ²³ (107:22a) Such as go downe to the sea in ships and folowe their busines in great waters ²⁴ (107:22b) they see the workes of God, and his wonders in the deepe ²⁵ (107:23) For he commaundeth and causeth a stormie winde to arise: and he lifteth vp on high his waues ²⁶ (107:24) [Then] they ascende vp to heauen, and come downe agayne to the deepe: so that their soule melteth away through trouble ²⁷ (107:25) They reele to and fro, and they do stacker like a drunken man: and their wysdome fayleth them ²⁸ (107:26) And they cry vnto god in their trouble: who deliuereth the out of their distresse ²⁹ (107:27) For he maketh the storme to ceasse: so that the waues therof are still ³⁰ (107:28) Then be they glad because they are at rest: and he bringeth them to the hauen where they woulde be ³¹ (107:29) O that men would confesse vnto god: his louyng kyndnes and meruaylous actes [done] to the chyldren of men ³² (107:30) And that they would exalt him in the congregation of the people: and prayse him in the consistorie of the aged ³³ (107:31) He turneth fluddes into a wildernes: and waterspringes into a drye grounde ³⁴ (107:32) He [maketh] a fruitfull grounde barren: for the wickednes of them that dwell therein ³⁵ (107:33) [Contrary] he reduceth a wyldernes into a standing water: and a drye ground into water springes ³⁶ (107:34) And he setteth there the hungry: and they buylde them a citie to dwell in ³⁷ (107:35) And they sowe their lande and plant vineyardes: and they yelde [vnto them] aboundant store of fruites ³⁸ (107:36) He blesseth them, so that they multiplie exceedingly: and he suffereth not their cattle to decrease ³⁹ (107:37) But [when they do fall from God,] they are diminished & brought low: through oppression, calamitie, & griefe of minde ⁴⁰ (107:38) He bringeth princes into contempt: & he maketh them to wander in a wildernesse where there is no way at all ⁴¹ (107:39) Yet he exalteth the poore out of miserie: and geueth him housholdes equall to flockes of cattell ⁴² (107:40) The righteous will marke [this] and reioyce: and the mouth of all wickednesse shalbe stopped ⁴³ (107:41) Whosoeuer is wyse, he wyll both obserue these thinges: and also well consider the louing kindnesse of God ¹⁰⁸ ¹ My heart is redye O Lorde: I wyll sing & prayse thee in singing of psalmes, yea my glory also is [redie. 2 Bestirre thee O lute and harpe: I my selfe wil bestirre me right early in the morning ³ I wyll prayse thee O God among the people: I wyll sing psalmes vnto thee among the nations ⁴ For the greatnes of thy mercy reacheth vnto the heauens: and thy trueth vnto the cloudes ⁵ Exalt thy selfe O Lord aboue the heauens: and let thy glory [be] aboue all the earth ⁶ That thy beloued may be deliuered: saue [me] with thy right hande, and heare thou me ⁷ The Lorde hath spoken this in his holynes (whereof I wyll reioyce:) I wyll deuide Sichem, and measure the valley of Sucoth ⁸ Gilead shalbe myne, and Manasses shalbe mine: Ephraim also shalbe the strength of my head, and Iuda my law geuer ⁹ Moab shalbe my washpot: ouer Edome I wyll cast my shoe, vpon Philistea I wyll triumph ¹⁰ Who wyll leade me into the strong citie? who wyll bring me into Edom ¹¹ Hast not thou remoued vs from thence? and wylt not thou O Lorde go out with our hoastes ¹² Geue vs ayde against trouble: for the sauing helpe of man is but vayne ¹³ Through the Lorde wyll we do valiaunt actes: for he him selfe will treade downe our enemies ¹⁰⁹ ¹ Holde not thy tongue: O thou the Lorde of my prayse ² For the mouth of the vngodly and the mouth of the deceiptfull is opened vpon me: they haue spoken against me with a false tongue ³ And they haue compassed me about with hatefull wordes: and fought against me without a cause ⁴ For the loue that I bare vnto them, they are become mine aduersaries: but I geue my selfe vnto prayer ⁵ Thus haue they rewarded me euyll for good: and hatred for my good wyll ⁶ Set thou an vngodly man to be ruler ouer him: and let Satan stande at his right hande ⁷ When sentence is geuen vpon hym, let him be condemned: and let his prayer be turned into sinne ⁸ Let his dayes be fewe: and let another take his office ⁹ Let his chyldren be fatherlesse: and his wyfe a wydowe ¹⁰ Let his children be vagaboundes and go a begging: and let them seeke [foode] out of their barren groundes ¹¹ Let the extortioner bryng into his snare all that he hath: and let straungers spoyle his labour ¹² Let there be no man to shewe hym any gentlenes: nor to haue compassion vpon his fatherlesse children ¹³ Let his posteritie come to destruction: and in the next generation let his name be cleane put out ¹⁴ Let the wyckednes of his fathers be had in remembraunce in the sight of God: and let not the sinne of his mother be wyped away ¹⁵ Let them be alway before God: that he may roote out the memorial of them from the earth ¹⁶ Because that he remembred not to do good: but he persecuted the afflicted and poore man, and hym whose heart was broken with sorow, that he might take his life from hym ¹⁷ His delight was in cursing, and it shal happen vnto him: he loued not blessing, therfore it hath ben farre from him ¹⁸ He clothed hym selfe with cursing, as with his garment: and it hath entred into his bowels like water, and like oyle into his bones ¹⁹ Let it be vnto hym as the garment that he is wrapt in: and as the gyrdle that he is alway gyrded withall ²⁰ Let this rewarde be from God vnto myne aduersaries: and vnto those that speake euill against my soule ²¹ But thou O God my Lorde, do vnto me according vnto thy name: for sweete is thy mercy ²² Deliuer me, for truely I am afflicted: and I am poore, and my heart is wounded within me ²³ I passe away like a vading shadowe: and I am dryuen from place to place lyke the grashopper ²⁴ My knees are weake through fasting: my fleshe is dryed vp for want of fatnesse ²⁵ I am become also a reproche vnto them: they gase vpon me [and] they shake their head ²⁶ Helpe me O my Lorde: oh saue me according to thy mercy ²⁷ And let the know how that this is thy hande: & that thou O God hast done it ²⁸ They will curse, but thou wylt blesse: they wyl rise vp [against me] but let them be confounded, and thy seruaunt wyll reioyce ²⁹ Let mine aduersaries be clothed with shame: & let them couer the selues with their owne cofusion, as with a garment ³⁰ As for me I will greatly prayse God with my mouth: and I wyll prayse hym among the multitude ³¹ For he wyll stande at the right hande of the poore: to saue him from the iudges of his soule ¹¹⁰ ¹ God sayd vnto my Lorde: sit thou on my right hande, vntyll I make thyne enemies thy footestoole 2 God wyll sende the scepter of his power out of Sion: rule thou in the midst of thyne enemies ³ Thy people wyll be very wyllyng in the time [of shewing] thy most mightie power with a beautifull holynes: the deawe of thy byrth is to thee from the wombe [as] from the morning ⁴ God sware and he wyll not repent: thou art a priest for euer after the order of Melchisedec ⁵ The Lorde at thy right hande: wyll wounde euen kinges in the day of his wrath ⁶ He wyll iudge the Heathen: he wyll fill euery place with dead bodyes, he wyll smyte the head of a great countrey ⁷ He wyll drinke of the swyft running brooke in the way: therfore he wyll lift vp his head ¹¹¹ ¹ I wyll prayse God with my whole heart: in the congregation and assemblie of righteous men ² Great are the workes of God: sought out of all them that haue pleasure therin ³ His worke is glory and maiestie: and his righteousnes endureth for euer ⁴ The merciful and gratious God: hath so left a remembraunce of his meruaylous workes ⁵ He hath geuen meate vnto them that feare him: he wyll euer be myndfull of his couenaunt ⁶ He hath declared vnto his people the force of his workes: in geuing them the inheritaunce of the Heathen ⁷ The workes of his handes are veritie and iudgement: all his commaundementes are true ⁸ They be set sure for euer and euer: they are done in trueth and equitie ⁹ He did sende redemption vnto his people: he hath commaunded his couenaunt [to be] for euer, holy and terrible is his name ¹⁰ The beginning of wysdome is the feare of God: all they haue a good vnderstanding that do his commaundements, the praise of it endureth for euer ¹¹² ¹ Blessed is the man that feareth God: he hath great delight in his commaundementes ² His seede shalbe mightie vpon the earth: the generation of them that dwell vprightly, shalbe blessed ³ Riches and plenteousnes shalbe in his house: and his righteousnes endureth for euer ⁴ There ariseth vp light in the darknes: vnto them that deale vprightly he is merciful, and louing, and righteous ⁵ A good man is mercyfull and lendeth: he wyll guyde his wordes with discretion ⁶ For he shalbe neuer moued: and the righteous shall be had in an euerlasting remembraunce ⁷ He wyll not be afraide of any euyll tidinges: his heart is setled, he beleueth in God ⁸ His heart is strengthened, he will not feare: vntyll he seeth [a mischiefe to fall] vpon his enemies ⁹ He hath distributed abrode, he hath geuen to the poore: his righteousnes remayneth for euer, his horne shalbe exalted with glory ¹⁰ The vngodly shall see it, and it wyll greeue hym, he wyll gnashe with his teethe and consume away: the desire of the vngodly shall perishe ¹¹³ ¹ Prayse God ye seruauntes: prayse ye the name of God ² Blessed be the name of God: from this time foorth for euermore ³ The name of God is to be praysed: from the rising vp of the sunne, vnto the goyng downe of the same ⁴ God is high aboue all Heathen: and his glory aboue the heauens ⁵ (113:5a) Who is like vnto God our Lord that dwelleth on hygh aboue all ⁶ (113:5b) and yet humbleth him selfe to beholde the thinges that are in heauen and in earth ⁷ (113:6) He rayseth vp the simple out of the dust: and lyfteth vp the poore from the dounghyll ⁸ (113:7) For to make him sit with the princes: euen with the princes of his people ⁹ (113:8) He maketh the barren woman to kepe house: and to be a ioyful mother of children. Prayse ye the Lorde ¹¹⁴ ¹ When Israel came out of Egypt: & the house of Iacob from among the barbarous people ² Iuda was his holynesse: and Israel his dominion ³ The sea sawe that and fled: Iordane was driuen backe ⁴ The mountaynes skypped lyke rammes: and the litle hilles like young lambes ⁵ What ayleth thee O thou sea that thou fleddest? and thou Iordane that thou wast driuen backe ⁶ Ye mountaines what [ayled] you that ye skipped lyke rammes: and ye litle hilles like young lambes ⁷ Tremble thou earth at the presence of the Lorde: at the presence of the Lorde of Iacob ⁸ Whiche turned the harde rocke into a standing water: and the flint stone into a springing well of waters ¹¹⁵ ¹ Geue praise not vnto vs O God, not vnto vs, but vnto thy name: for thy louing mercy, and for thy truethes sake ² Wherfore shal the Heathen say: where is nowe their God ³ Truely our Lorde is in heauen: he hath done whatsoeuer pleased him ⁴ Their idols are siluer and gold: euen the workes of mens handes ⁵ They haue a mouth and speake not: they haue eyes and see not ⁶ They haue eares and heare not: they haue noses and smell not ⁷ They haue handes and handle not, they haue feete and walke not: and they vtter no sounde out of their throtes ⁸ They that make them are lyke vnto them: euery one that putteth his trust in them ⁹ But Israel trust thou in God: he is their ayde and their shielde ¹⁰ Ye house of Aaron trust you in God: he is their ayde and their shielde ¹¹ Ye that feare God, trust ye in God: he is their ayde and their shielde ¹² God hath ben myndfull of vs, he wyll blesse vs: he wyll blesse the house of Israel, he wyll blesse the house of Aaron ¹³ He wyll blesse those that feare God: the small with the great ¹⁴ God wyll encrease you more and more: both you and also your children ¹⁵ Ye are the blessed of God: which made heauen and earth ¹⁶ The heauen, the heauen [I say] is Gods: and he hath geuen the earth vnto the children of men ¹⁷ The dead prayse not thee O Lorde: neither all they that go downe into the [place] of scilence ¹⁸ But we wyll prayse the Lord: from this tyme foorth for euermore. Prayse ye the Lorde ¹¹⁶ ¹ I haue loued: because God hath hearde my voyce [and] my prayers ² Because he hath enclined his eare vnto me: therfore I wyll call vpon hym as long as I lyue ³ The snares of death compassed me rounde about: and the paynes of hell toke holde on me. (116:4a) I founde anguishe and heauinesse ⁴ (116:4b) but I called vpon the name of God: [saying] O God, I beseche thee deliuer my soul ⁵ Gratious is God and ryghteous: our Lorde is mercifull ⁶ God gardeth the simple: I was brought to the extremitie, and he preserued me ⁷ Returne O my soule vnto thy rest: for God hath rewarded thee ⁸ For [thou O Lorde] hast deliuered my soule from death: myne eyes from teares, and my feete from fallyng ⁹ I wyll walke before the face of God: in the lande of the lyuyng ¹⁰ (116:10a) I beleued, therfore I wyll speake: I was sore afflicted ¹¹ (116:10b) insomuch that I said in my rashnesse euery man is a lyer ¹² (116:11) What rewarde shal I geue vnto God: for all the benefites that he hath done vnto me ¹³ (116:12) I wyll take the cuppe of saluation: and I wyll call vpon the name of God ¹⁴ (116:13) I wyll pay my vowes nowe vnto God: in the presence of all his people ¹⁵ (116:14) The death of his saintes: is precious in the eyes of God ¹⁶ (116:15) It is euen so O God, for I am thy seruaunt and the sonne of thy handemayde: thou hast loosed my bondes in sunder ¹⁷ (116:16) I wyll offer vnto thee the sacrifice of thankesgeuyng: and I wyll call vpon the name of God ¹⁸ (116:17a) I wyll pay my vowes vnto God in the sight of all his people ¹⁹ (116:17b) in the courtes of Gods house, euen in the myddest of thee O Hierusalem. Prayse ye the Lorde ¹¹⁷ ¹ O prayse God all ye heathen: prayse hym all ye nations ² For his mercifull kyndnesse is euer more and more towarde vs: and the trueth of God endureth for euer. Prayse ye the Lorde ¹¹⁸ ¹ O confesse you [it] vnto God, for he is gratious: and his mercie endureth for euer ² Let Israel nowe confesse: that his mercie endureth for euer ³ Let the house of Aaron nowe confesse: that his mercie endureth for euer ⁴ Let them nowe that feare God: confesse that his mercie endureth for euer ⁵ I called vpon the Lorde beyng in distresse: and the Lorde hath hearde me at large ⁶ God is with me: I wyll not feare what man can do vnto me ⁷ God is with me amongst them that ayde me: [therfore] I shall see [my desire] vpon them that hate me ⁸ It is better to trust in God: then to put any confidence in man ⁹ It is better to trust in God: then to put any confidence in princes ¹⁰ All nations compassed me rounde about: [but I trusted] in the name of God that I shoulde destroy them ¹¹ They kept me in on euery syde, they kept me in I say on euery syde: [but I trusted] in the name of God that I shoulde destroy them ¹² They swarmed about me lyke bees, and they be extinguished as the fire [made] of thornes: [for I trusted] in the name of God that I should destroy them ¹³ Thou hast thrust sore at me, that I might fall: but God dyd ayde m ¹⁴ The Lorde is my strength and my song: and he is become my saluation ¹⁵ The voyce of a ioyfull noyse & of saluation is in the dwellynges of the ryghteous: [saying] the ryght hande of God bryngeth mightie thynges to passe ¹⁶ The ryght hande of God is on hygh: the right hande of God bryngeth mightie thynges to passe ¹⁷ I shall not [as yet] dye, but I shal liue: and I wyll declare the workes of the Lorde ¹⁸ The Lorde hath greatly chastened me: but he hath not geuen me ouer vnto death ¹⁹ Open me the gates of ryghteousnesse, I wyll enter in by them: that I may geue thankes vnto the Lorde ²⁰ This is the gate of God: the ryghteous shall enter in by it ²¹ I wyll thanke thee for that thou hast heard me: and art become my saluation ²² The same stone which the buylders refused: is become the head stone of the corner ²³ This was the doyng of God: and it is marueylous in our eyes ²⁴ This is the day whiche God hath made: we wyll reioyce and be glad in it ²⁵ O God I pray thee nowe saue [vs]: O God I pray thee nowe geue [vs] prosperous successe ²⁶ Blessed be he that commeth in the name of God: we do blesse you out of the house of God ²⁷ It is the Lord God who hath geuen vs lyght: bynde a sacrifice with cordes vnto the hornes of the aulter ²⁸ Thou art my Lorde, and I wyll confesse it vnto thee: thou art my Lorde and I wyll magnifie thee ²⁹ O confesse you [it] vnto God, for he is gratious: and his mercie endureth for euer ¹¹⁹ ¹ Blessed are those that be perfect in the way: walkyng in the lawe of God ² Blessed are they that kepe his testimonies: they seke hym with their whole heart ³ Truely they walke in his wayes: who do no wickednesse ⁴ Thou hast geuen charge: that we shoulde diligently kepe thy commaundementes ⁵ I wishe that my wayes were directed: for to kepe thy statutes ⁶ I shall take then no shame: when I haue regarde vnto all thy commaundementes ⁷ I wyll confesse [it] vnto thee with an vpryght heart: when I shall haue learned the iudgementes of thy ryghteousnesse ⁸ I wyll kepe thy statutes: [wherfore] forsake me not for any long tyme ⁹ (119:1) Wherby shall a young man refourme his way: euen in guiding it accordyng to thy worde ¹⁰ (119:2) I haue sought thee with my whole heart: suffer me not to swarue from thy commaundementes ¹¹ (119:3) I haue hyd thy wordes within my heart: for this ende, that I shoulde not sinne agaynst thee ¹² (119:4) Blessed art thou O God: teache me thy statutes ¹³ (119:5) I haue declared with my lyppes: all the iudgementes of thy mouth ¹⁴ (119:6) I am delighted in the way of thy testimonies: as in all maner of riches ¹⁵ (119:7) I wyll study thy commaundementes: and I wyll consider thy wayes ¹⁶ (119:8) My delyght shalbe in thy statutes: and I wyll not forget thy worde ¹⁷ (119:1) Rewarde thy seruaunt, let me lyue: and I wyll kepe thy worde ¹⁸ (119:2) Open thou myne eyes: and I will beholde the wonderous thynges of thy lawe ¹⁹ (119:3) I am a straunger vpon earth: hyde not thy commaundementes from me ²⁰ (119:4) My soule faynteth: for the very feruent desire that it hath alwaye vnto thy iudgementes ²¹ (119:5) Thou hast rebuked those that be proude and cursed: who do erre from thy commaundementes ²² (119:6) Withdrawe from me reproche and contempt: for that I haue kept thy testimonies ²³ (119:7) Yea princes dyd syt and speake agaynst me: but thy seruaunt did geue hym selfe to the meditation of thy statutes ²⁴ (119:8) Yea thy testimonies are my delyght: and my counsaylers ²⁵ (119:1) My soule cleaueth to the dust: reuiue thou me accordyng to thy worde ²⁶ (119:2) I haue made a declaration to thee of my wayes, and thou heardest me: O teache me thy statutes ²⁷ (119:3) Make me to vnderstande the way of thy commaundementes: and I wyll geue my selfe to the meditation of thy wonderous workes ²⁸ (119:4) My soule melteth away for very heauinesse: comfort thou me accordyng to thy worde ²⁹ (119:5) Take from me the way of falshood: & witsafe me worthy to haue thy lawe ³⁰ (119:6) I haue chosen the way of trueth: & I haue layde thy iudgementes before me ³¹ (119:7) I haue stuck fast vnto thy testimonies: O God confounde me not ³² (119:8) I wyll runne the way of thy commaundementes: when thou shalt set my heart at libertie ³³ (119:1) Teache me O God the way of thy statutes: and I wyll kepe it vnto the ende ³⁴ (119:2) Geue me vnderstanding, & I wil kepe thy law: yea I wyll kepe it with my whole heart ³⁵ (119:3) Leade me in the path of thy comaundementes: for therin is my delyght ³⁶ (119:4) Encline myne heart vnto thy testimonies: and not to couetousnesse ³⁷ (119:5) Turne away myne eyes, lest they beholde vanitie: cause me to lyue in thy way ³⁸ (119:6) Make thy worde more euident vnto thy seruaunt: who is [geuen] to thy feare ³⁹ (119:7) Take away the reproche that I am afraide of: for thy iudgemetes are good ⁴⁰ (119:8) Behold I haue coueted after thy commaundementes: cause me to lyue in thy ryghteousnesse ⁴¹ (119:1) Let thy louing mercie also come vnto me O God: euen thy saluation, accordyng to thy worde ⁴² (119:2) And I shall aunswere to hym that layeth [thy] worde to me for a reproche: for in thy worde I haue put my trust ⁴³ (119:3) Take not the worde of trueth vtterly out of my mouth: for my hope is in thy iudgementes ⁴⁴ (119:4) And I wyll alway kepe thy lawe: yea for euer and euer ⁴⁵ (119:5) And I wyll walke in a large scope: for I seke thy commaundementes ⁴⁶ (119:6) I wyll also speake of thy testimonies before kinges: & I will not be ashamed ⁴⁷ (119:7) And my delyght shalbe in thy commaundementes: which I haue loued ⁴⁸ (119:8) And I wyll lyft vp my handes vnto thy commaundementes which I haue loued: & my study shalbe in thy statutes ⁴⁹ (119:1) Be myndfull of thy promise made vnto thy seruaunt: wherin thou hast caused me to put my trust ⁵⁰ (119:2) That same is my comfort in my affliction: for thy worde maketh me to lyue ⁵¹ (119:3) The proude haue had me exceedingly in derision: yet I haue not shrinked from thy lawe ⁵² (119:4) [For] I called to remembraunce thy iudgementes from the begynnyng of the worlde O God: and so I comforted my selfe ⁵³ (119:5) An extreme vnnaturall heat hath assayled me, because of the vngodly: who transgresse thy lawe ⁵⁴ (119:6) Thy statutes haue ben [my] songes: in the house of my pilgrimages ⁵⁵ (119:7) I haue thought vpon thy name O God in the nyght season: and I haue kept thy lawe ⁵⁶ (119:8) This came to passe for me: because I kept thy commaundementes ⁵⁷ (119:1) Thou art my portion O God: I haue purposed to kepe thy lawe ⁵⁸ (119:2) I made myne humble petition to thy face with my whole heart: be mercifull vnto me according vnto thy word ⁵⁹ (119:3) I haue considered mine owne wayes: and I haue turned my feete vnto thy testimonies ⁶⁰ (119:4) I made haste and I made no delay: for to kepe thy commaundementes ⁶¹ (119:5) The vngodly haue tangled me in their snares: but I haue not forgotten thy lawe ⁶² (119:6) I wyll ryse at midnight to confesse me vnto thee: because of thy ryghteous iudgementes ⁶³ (119:7) I am a companion of all them that feare thee: and kepe thy commaundementes ⁶⁴ (119:8) The earth O God is replenished with thy louyng kyndnesse: O teache me thy statutes ⁶⁵ (119:1) O God thou hast dealt gratiouslye with thy seruaunt: according vnto thy worde ⁶⁶ (119:2) Learne me the good taste & cunning: for I haue beleued thy commaundementes ⁶⁷ (119:3) Before I felt affliction I swarued out of the way: but nowe I kepe thy word ⁶⁸ (119:4) Thou art good and beneficiall: teache me thy statutes ⁶⁹ (119:5) The proude haue forged a false tale agaynst me: but I wyll kepe thy commaundementes with my whole heart ⁷⁰ (119:6) Their heart is as fat as brawne: but my delyght hath ben in thy lawe ⁷¹ (119:7) It is good for me that I am brought into miserie: by that meanes I shall learne thy statutes ⁷² (119:8) The lawe of thy mouth is dearer vnto me: then thousandes of golde & siluer ⁷³ (119:1) Thy handes haue made me and fashioned me: geue me vnderstanding, and I will learne thy comaundementes ⁷⁴ (119:2) They that feare thee, shall see me, & reioyce: because I haue geuen earnest attendaunce vnto thy worde ⁷⁵ (119:3) I know O God that thy iudgementes are iustice: and that thou hast caused me ryghtfully to be afflicted ⁷⁶ (119:4) I beseche thee let thy louing kindnesse be a meanes to comfort me: accordyng to thy worde [spoken] vnto thy seruaunt ⁷⁷ (119:5) Let thy pitifull mercies come vnto me, that I may lyue: for thy lawe is my delyght ⁷⁸ (119:6) Let the proude be confounded, for they haue falsly reported me: but I wyll study thy commaundementes ⁷⁹ (119:7) Let such as feare thee and knowe thy testimonies: returne vnto me ⁸⁰ (119:8) Let myne heart be perfectly [set] in thy statutes: that I be not ashamed ⁸¹ (119:1) My soule hath faynted after thy saluation: I geue earnest attedaunce vnto thy worde ⁸² (119:2) Myne eyes haue faynted after thy worde: whylest I say, when wilt thou comfort me ⁸³ (119:3) For I am become like a bottel [hanged] in the smoke: yet I do not forget thy statutes ⁸⁴ (119:4) Howe many are the dayes of thy seruaunt? when wilt thou geue iudgement agaynst them that persecute me ⁸⁵ (119:5) The proude haue digged pittes for me: which is [a thing] not [done] accordyng to thy lawe ⁸⁶ (119:6) All thy commaundementes are the trueth it selfe: they wrongfully persecute me, O be thou my ayde ⁸⁷ (119:7) They had almost made an ende of me vpon the earth: but I forsoke not thy commaundementes ⁸⁸ (119:8) Make me to lyue accordyng to thy pietie: and I wyll kepe the testimonies of thy mouth ⁸⁹ (119:1) O God: thy worde endureth for euer in heauen ⁹⁰ (119:2) Thy trueth [appeareth] to euery generation: thou hast layde the foundation of the earth, and it shall continue ⁹¹ (119:3) [All thynges] continue this day accordyng to thine ordinaunce: for all thinges be thy seruauntes ⁹² (119:4) If my delight had not ben in thy lawe: I shoulde haue perished in myne affliction ⁹³ (119:5) I wyll neuer forget thy commaundementes: for through them thou hast reuiued me ⁹⁴ (119:6) I am thine, saue me: for I haue diligently studied thy commaundementes ouer ⁹⁵ (119:7) When the vngodly layde wayte for me to destroy me: I endeuoured my selfe to vnderstande thy testimonies ⁹⁶ (119:8) I see an ende of euery thing be it neuer so perfect: but thy commaundement is exceedyng large ⁹⁷ (119:1) Howe greatly do I loue thy lawe? my study is all the day long in it ⁹⁸ (119:2) Thou hast made me wyser then myne enemies through thy commaundementes: for they are euer with me ⁹⁹ (119:3) I am able to geue better instruction then all they that were my teachers: for thy testimonies are my study ¹⁰⁰ (119:4) I am made to vnderstande more then the aged can: because I kept thy commaundementes ¹⁰¹ (119:5) I haue rstrayned my feete from euery euyll way: that I may kepe thy worde ¹⁰² (119:6) I haue not shrinked from thy iudgementes: for thou didst teache me ¹⁰³ (119:7) Howe sweete are thy wordes vnto my throte: truely [they be sweeter] then hony is to my mouth ¹⁰⁴ (119:8) Through thy commaundementes I get vnderstandyng: therfore I hate all wayes of falshood ¹⁰⁵ (119:1) Thy worde is a candell vnto my feete: and a lyght vnto my pathes ¹⁰⁶ (119:2) I haue made an oth (which I wil ratifie) for to kepe thy iuste iudgementes ¹⁰⁷ (119:3) I am troubled aboue measure: quicken me O God accordyng vnto thy worde ¹⁰⁸ (119:4) Let the freewyll offerynges of my mouth please thee O God: and teache me thy iudgementes ¹⁰⁹ (119:5) My soule is alway in my hande: yet I do not forget thy lawe ¹¹⁰ (119:6) The vngodly haue layde a snare for me: but yet I swarued not from thy commaundementes ¹¹¹ (119:7) I haue claymed thy testimonies as myne heritage for euer: for they are the very ioy of myne heart ¹¹² (119:8) I haue applyed myne heart for to fulfyll thy statutes: euen to the worldes ende ¹¹³ (119:1) I hate hygh subtile deuices: and I do loue thy lawe ¹¹⁴ (119:2) Thou art my refuge and my shield: I geue earnest attendaunce vnto thy worde ¹¹⁵ (119:3) Auoyde from me ye malicious [persons:] and I wyll kepe the commaundementes of my Lorde ¹¹⁶ (119:4) Strengthen me in thy worde and I shall lyue: and make me not ashamed of my hope ¹¹⁷ (119:5) Holde thou me vp and I shalbe safe: and I will loke gladly vpon thy statutes alwayes ¹¹⁸ (119:6) Thou hast troden vnder foote all them that go astray from thy statutes: for their crafty deuice is but falshood ¹¹⁹ (119:7) Thou hast dispatched out of the way all the vngodly of the earth lyke drosse: therfore I loue thy testimonies ¹²⁰ (119:8) My fleshe trembleth for feare of thee: and I am afrayde of thy iudgementes ¹²¹ (119:1) I haue executed iudgement and iustice: [wherfore] leaue me not to such as do offer me wrong ¹²² (119:2) For thy owne goodnesse sake take thy seruaunt vnto thy protection: let not the proude oppresse me with wrong ¹²³ (119:3) Myne eyes haue faynted with lokyng for thy saluation: and for the worde of thy [ryghteousnesse. ¹²⁴ (119:4) Deale with thy seruaunt accordyng vnto thy owne louyng kyndnesse: and teache me thy statutes ¹²⁵ (119:5) I am thy seruaunt, graunt me vnderstandyng: that I may knowe thy testimonies ¹²⁶ (119:6) It is tyme for [me] to do for Gods cause: for they haue brought thy lawe almost to nothyng ¹²⁷ (119:7) Therfore I loue thy commaundementes: aboue golde and precious stone ¹²⁸ (119:8) Therfore I take all thy commaundementes euery one of them to be ryght: & I vtterly hate all wayes of falshood ¹²⁹ (119:1) Thy testimonies [contayne] wonderfull thinges: therfore doth my soule kepe them ¹³⁰ (119:2) The first entering of thy wordes will illuminate: geuyng vnderstanding euen vnto the simple ¹³¹ (119:3) I opened my mouth and panted: for I bare a great affection to thy commaundementes ¹³² (119:4) Loke thou vpon me and be mercifull vnto me: as thou vsest to do vnto those that loue thy name ¹³³ (119:5) Direct my steppes in thy worde: and so shall no wickednesse haue dominion ouer me ¹³⁴ (119:6) Redeeme me from the fraudulent dealyng of men: and I wyll kepe thy commaundementes ¹³⁵ (119:7) Make the lyght of thy countenaunce shyne vpon thy seruaunt: and teache me thy statutes ¹³⁶ (119:8) Ryuers of waters gushe out of myne eyes: because men kepe not thy lawe ¹³⁷ (119:1) O God: thou art iust and vpryght in thy iudgementes ¹³⁸ (119:2) Thou hast commaunded the iustice and the veritie of thy testimonies: [to be obserued] very strayghtly ¹³⁹ (119:3) My zeale hath consumed me: because myne aduersaries haue forgotten thy wordes ¹⁴⁰ (119:4) Thy worde is purified to the vttermost: and thy seruaunt loueth it ¹⁴¹ (119:5) I am small and of no reputation: [yet] I do not forget thy comaundementes ¹⁴² (119:6) Thy ryghteousnesse is an euerlastyng righteousnesse: & thy lawe is the trueth ¹⁴³ (119:7) Trouble and griefe haue taken holde vpon me: yet thy commaundementes be my delyght ¹⁴⁴ (119:8) The righteousnesse of thy testimonies is euerlastyng: make me to vnderstande [them] and I shall lyue ¹⁴⁵ (119:1) I haue called with my whole heart, heare me O God: I wyll kepe thy statutes ¹⁴⁶ (119:2) I haue called vpon thee, saue me: and I wyll kepe thy testimonies ¹⁴⁷ (119:3) I haue preuented [other] in the dawnyng of the day, and I cryed vnto thee: for I geue earnest attendaunce vnto thy wordes ¹⁴⁸ (119:4) Myne eyes haue preuented the nyght watches: that my study might be wholy in thy wordes ¹⁴⁹ (119:5) Heare my voyce accordyng to thy louing kindnesse: make me to lyue O God after thy iudgementes ¹⁵⁰ (119:6) They that mynde to do an act of mischiefenesse, do drawe nye vnto me: they are farre from thy lawe ¹⁵¹ (119:7) But thou art nye at hande O God: and all thy comaundementes be trueth ¹⁵² (119:8) As concernyng thy testimonies: I haue knowen long since that thou hast made them to last for euer ¹⁵³ (119:1) Beholde myne affliction & deliuer me: for I haue not forgotten thy lawe ¹⁵⁴ (119:2) Defende thou my cause & redeeme me: make me to lyue accordyng vnto thy worde ¹⁵⁵ (119:3) Saluation is farre from the vngodly: for they study not thy statutes ¹⁵⁶ (119:4) Thy mercies be manifolde O God: make me to liue accordyng to thy iudgementes ¹⁵⁷ (119:5) There be many that do persecute me and be myne aduersaries: yet I do not swarue from thy testimonies ¹⁵⁸ (119:6) I sawe transgressours, and I was greeued at the heart: because they kept not thy lawe ¹⁵⁹ (119:7) Beholde howe I loue thy commaundementes: quicken me O God accordyng to thy louyng kindnesse ¹⁶⁰ (119:8) The beginning of thy word is trueth: and all the iudgementes of thy ryghteousnesse endure for euermore ¹⁶¹ (119:1) Princes haue persecuted me without a cause: but my heart hath stoode in awe of thy wordes ¹⁶² (119:2) I am as glad of thy worde: as he that fyndeth a great bootie ¹⁶³ (119:3) That which is false I hate and abhorre: but thy lawe I do loue ¹⁶⁴ (119:4) I do prayse thee seuen tymes euery day: for loue of the iudgementes of thy iustice ¹⁶⁵ (119:5) They that loue thy lawe shall haue great prosperitie: and nothyng shall offende them ¹⁶⁶ (119:6) Lorde, I haue wayted after thy saluation: and I haue done thy commaundementes ¹⁶⁷ (119:7) My soule hath kept thy testimonies: and I haue loued them exceedyngly ¹⁶⁸ (119:8) I haue kept thy commaundementes and testimonies: for all my wayes are before thee ¹⁶⁹ (119:1) Let my crye O God approche neare vnto thy face: make me to vnderstande [euery thyng] accordyng vnto thy worde ¹⁷⁰ (119:2) Let my supplication come before thee: deliuer me accordyng to thy worde ¹⁷¹ (119:3) My lippes shall powre out [thy] prayse: when thou hast taught me thy statutes ¹⁷² (119:4) My tongue shall syng of thy worde: for all thy commaundementes are ryghteousnesse ¹⁷³ (119:5) Let thyne hande be redie for to ayde me: for I haue chosen thy commaundementes ¹⁷⁴ (119:6) I haue longed for thy saluation O God: and thy lawe is my whole deligh ¹⁷⁵ (119:7) Let my soule lyue, and it shall prayse thee: and thy iudgementes shalbe an ayde vnto me ¹⁷⁶ (119:8) I haue gone astray lyke a lost sheepe: oh seke out thy seruaunt, for I haue not forgotten thy commaundementes