verse 10 By whom the secrets of all hearts are searched and descri'd verse 11 I take my help to come of God in all my pain and smart That doth preserve all those that be of pure and perfect heart verse 12 The just man and the wicked both God judgeth by his power So that he feels his might hand even every day and hour verse 13 Except he change his minde I die for even as he should smite He whets his sword his bowe he bends aiming where he may hit verse 14 And doth prepare his mortal darts his arrows keen and sharp For them that do me persecute whiles he doth mischief warp verse 15 But lo though he in travail be of his devilish forecast And of his mischief once conceiv'd yet brings forth nought at last verse 16 He digs a ditch and delves it deep in hope to hurt his brother But he shall fall into the pit that he dig'd up for other verse 17 Thus wrong returneth to the hurt of him in whom it bred And all the mischief that he wrought shall sall upon his head verse 18 I will give thanks to God therefore that judgeth righteously And with my song will praise the name of him that is most high Domine Deus noster Psal viii T. S. O God our Lord how wonderful are thy works every where Whose fame surmounts in dignity above the heavens clear verse 2 Even by the mouth of sucking babes thou wilt confound they foes For in those babes thy might is seen thy graces they disclose verse 3 And when I see the heavens high the works of thine own hand The Sun the Moon and all the Stars in order as they stand verse 4 What thing is man Lord think I then that thou dost him remember Or what is mans posterity that thou dost it consider verse 5 For thou hast made him little less then Angels in degree And thou hast crowned him also with glory and dignity verse 6 Thou hast prefer'd him to be lord of all thy works of wonder And at his feet hast set all things that he should keep them under verse 7 As sheep and neat and all beasts else that in the fields do feed verse 8 Fowls of the air fish in the sea and all that therein breed verse 9 Therefore must I say once again O God that art our Lord. How famous and how wonderful are thy works through the world Confitebor tibi Domine Psal ix T. S. WIth heart and mouth unto the Lord will I sing laud and praise And speak of all thy wondrous works and them declare always verse 2 I will be glad and much rejoyce in thee O God most high And make my songs extol thy name above the starry skie verse 3 For that my foes are driven back and turned unto flight They fall down flat and are destroy'd by thy great power and might verse 4 Thou hast revenged all my wrong my grief and all my grudge Thou dost with justice hear my cause most like a righteous Judge verse 5 Thou dost rebuke the heathen folk and wicked so confound That afterward the memory of them cannot be found verse 6 My foes thou hast made good dispatch and all their towns destroy'd Thou hast their fame with them defac'd through all the world so wide verse 7 Know thou that he which is above for evermore shall reign And in the seat of equity true judgement will maintain verse 8 With justice he will keep and guide the world and every wight And so will yeeld with equity to every man his right verse 9 He is protectour of the poor what time they be opprest He is mall adversity their refuge and their rest verse 10 And they that know thy holy name therefore shall trust in thee For thou forsakest not their suit in their necessity The second part verse 11 Sing psalms therefore unto the Lord that dwells on Sion hill Publish among all nations his noble acts and will verse 12 For he is mindful of the bloud of those that be opprest For getting not th' afflicted heart that seeks to him for rest verse 13 Have mercy Lord on me poor wretch whole enemies still remain Which from the gates of death are wont to raise me up again verse 14 In Sion that I might set forth thy praise with heart and voice And that in thy salvation Lord my soul might still rejoyce verse 15 The heathen stick fast in the pit that they themselves prepar'd And in the net that they did set their own feet fast are snar'd verse 16 God shews his judgements which were good for every man to mark When as you see the wicked man ly trapt in his own wark verse 17 The wicked and deceitful men go down to hell for ever And all the people of the world that will not God remember verse 18 But sure the Lord will not forget the poor mans grief and pain The patient people never look for help of God in vain verse 19 O Lord arise lest men prevail that he of wordly might And set the heathen solk receive their judgement in thy sight verse 20 Lord strike such terrour fear and dread into the hearts of them That they may know assuredly they be but mottal men Vt quid Domine Psal x. T. S. WHat is the cause that thou O Lord art now so far from thine And keepest close thy countenance from us this troublous time verse 2 The poor do perish by the proud and wicked men desire Let them be taken in the craft that they themselves conspire verse 3 For in the lust of his own heart th' ungodly doth delight So doth the wicked praise himself and doth the Lord dâ—spight verse 4 He is so proud that right and wrong he setteth all apart Nay nay there is no God saith he for thus he thinks in heart verse 5 Because his ways do prosper still he doth thy laws neglect And with a blast doth puff against such as would him correct verse 6 Tush tush saith he I have no dread lest mine estate should change And why for all adversity to him is very strange verse 7 His mouth is full of cursedness of fraud deceit and guile Under his tongue doth mischief sit and travel all the while verse 8 He lieth hid in ways and holes to slay the innocent Against the poor that pass him by his cruel eyes are bent verse 9 And like a lion privily lies lurking in his den If he may snare them in his net to spoil poor simple men verse 10 And for the nonce full craftily he croucheth down I say verse 11 So are great heaps of poor men made by his strong power his prey The second part verse 12 Tush God forgetteth this saith he therefore I may be bold His countenance is cast aside he doth it not behold verse 13 Arise O Lord O God in whom the poor mans hope doth rest Lift up thy hand forget not Lord the poor that be opprest verse
12 Thy justice and thy righteousness in great resorts I tell Behold my tongue no time doth cease O Lord thou know'st full well The second part verse 13 I have not hid within my brest thy goodness as by stealth But I declare and have exprest thy truth and saving health verse 14 I kept not close thy loving minde that no man should it know The trust that in thy truth I finde to all the Church I show verse 15 Thy tender mercy Lord from me withdraw thou not away But let thy love and veritie preserve me still for ay verse 16 For I with mischiefs many a one am sore beset about My sins increase and so come on I cannot spie them out verse 17 For why in number they exceed the hairs upon my head My heart doth faint for very dread that I am almost dead verse 18 With speed send help and set me free O Lord I thee require Make haste with aid to succour me O Lord at my desire verse 19 Let them sustain rebuke and shame that seek my soul to spill Drive back my foes and them defame that wish and would me ill verse 20 For their ill feats do them descry that would deface my name Always at me they rail and cry Fie on him fie for shame verse 21 Let them in thee have joy and wealth that seek to thee alwaies That those that love thy saving health may say To God be praise verse 22 But as for me I am but poor opprest and brought full low Yet thou O Lord wilt me restore to health full well I know verse 23 For why thou art my hope and trust my refuge help and stay Wherefore my God as thou art just with me no time delay Beatus qui intelligit Psal xli T. S. THe man is blest that careful is the needy to consider For in the season perilous the Lord will him deliver verse 2 The Lord will make him safe and sound and happy in the land And he will not deliver him into his enemies hand verse 3 And in his bed when he lies sick the Lord will him restore And thou O Lord wilt turn to health his sickness and his sore verse 4 Then in my sickness thus said I Have mercy Lord on me And heal my soul which is full wo that I offended thee verse 5 Mine enemies wisht me ill in heart and thus of me did say When shall he die that all his name may vanish quite away verse 6 And when they come to visit me they ask if I do well But in their hearts mischief they hatch and to their mates it tell verse 7 They bite their lips and whisper so as though they would me charm And cast their fetches how to trap me with some mortal harm verse 8 Some grievous sin hath brought him to this sickness say they plain He is so low that without doubt rise can he not again verse 9 The man also that I did trust with me did use deceit Who at my table ate my bread the same for me laid wait verse 10 Have mercy Lord on me therefore and let me be preserv'd That I may render unto them the things they have deserv'd verse 11 By this I know assuredly to be belov'd of thee When that mine enemies have no cause to triumph over me verse 12 But in my right thou hast me kept and maintained alway And in thy presence place assign'd where I shall dwell for ay verse 13 The Lord the God of Israel he praised evermore Even so be it Lord will I say even so be it therefore Quomadmodum Psal xlii J. H. LIke as the hart doth breathe and bray the well-springs to obtain So doth my soul desire alway with thee Lord to remain verse 2 My soul doth thirst and would draw near the living God of might Oh when shall I come and appear in presence of his sight verse 3 The tears all times are my repast which from mine eyes do slide When wicked men cry out so fast Where now is God thy guide verse 4 Alas what grief is it to think what freedom once I had Therefore my soul as at pits brink most heavy is and fad When I did march in good aray furnished with my train Unto the temple was our way with songs and hearts most fain verse 5 My soul why art thou sad alwaies and fret'st thus in my brest Trust still in God for him to praise I hold it ever best By him I have succour at need against all pain and grief He is my God which with all speed will haste to send relief verse 6 And thus my soul within me Lord doth faint to think upon The land of Jordan and record the little hill Hermon The second part verse 7 One grief another in doth call as clouds burst out their voice The flouds of evil that do fall run over me with noise verse 8 Yet I by day felt his goodness and help at all assayes Likewise by night I did not cease the living God to praise verse 9 I am perswaded thus to say to him with pure pretence O Lord thou art my guide and stay my rock and sure defence Why do I then in pensiveness hanging the head thus walk While that mine enemies me oppress and vex me with their talk verse 10 For why they pierce my inward parts with pangs to be abhor'd When they cry out with stubborn hearts where is thy God thy Lord verse 11 So soon why dost thou faint and quail my soul with pain opprest With thoughts why dost thy self assail so sore within my brest verse 12 Trust in the Lord thy God always and thou the time shalt see To give him thanks with laud and praise for health restor'd to thee Judica me Domine Psal xliii T. S. JUdge and revenge my cause O Lord from them that evil be From wicked and deceitful men O Lord deliver me verse 2 For of my strength thou art the God why put'st thou me thee fro And why walk I so heavily oppressed with my foe verse 3 Send out thy light and eke thy truth and lead me with thy grace Which may conduct me to thy hill and to thy dwelling-place verse 4 Then shall I to the altar go of God my joy and chear And on my harp give thanks to thee O God my God most dear verse 5 Why art thou then so sad my soul and fret'st thus in my brest Still trust in God for him to praise I hold it always best verse 6 By him I have deliverance against all pain and grief He is my God which doth alway at need send me relief Deus auribus Psal xliv T. S. OUr ears have heard our fathers tell and reverently record The wondrous works that thou hast done in older time O Lord. verse 2 How thou didst cast the Gentiles out and stroyd'st them with strong hand Planting our fathers in their place and gav'st to them their land verse 3 They conquered not by sword not
mercies and justice verse 15 Touch thou my lips my tongue untie O Lord which art the onely key And then my mouth shall testifie thy wondrous works and praise alway verse 16 And as for outward sacrifice I would have offered many a one But thou esteem'st them of no price and therein pleasure tak'st thou none verse 17 The heavy heart the minde opprest O Lord thou never dost reject And to speak truth it is the best and of all sacrifice th' effect verse 18 Lord unto Sion turn thy face pour out thy mercies on thy hill And on Jerusalem thy grace build up the walls and love it still verse 19 Thou shalt accept then our offrings of peace and righteousness I say Yea calves and many other things upon thine altar will we lay Another of the same by J.H. HAve mercy on me Lord after thy great abounding grace After thy mercies multitude do thou my sins deface verse 2 Yea wash me more from mine offence and cleanse me from my sin For I do know my faults and still my sin is in mine eyn verse 3 Against thee thee alone I have offended in this case And evil have I done before the presence of thy sace verse 4 That in the things that thou hast done upright thou mayst be tri'd And eke in judging that the doom may pass upon thy side verse 5 Behold in wickedness my kinde and shape I did receive And lo my sinful mother eke in sin did me conceive verse 6 But lo the truth in inward parts is pleasant unto thee And secrets of thy wisdom thou revealed hast to me verse 7 With hyssop Lord besprinkle me I shall be cleansed so Yea wash thou me and so I shall be whiter then the snow verse 8 Of joy and gladness make thou me to hear the pleasant voice That so the bruised bones which thou hast broken may rejoyce verse 9 From the beholding of my sins Lord turn away thy face And all my deeds of wickedness do utterly deface verse 10 O God create in me a heart unspotted in thy sight And eke within my bowels Lord renew a stable sprite verse 11 Ne cast me from thy sight nor take thy holy Spirit away The comfort of thy saving health give me again I pray verse 12 With thy free Spirit establish me and I will teach therefore Sinners thy ways and wicked shall be turned to thy lore The second part verse 13 O God that art God of my health from bloud deliver me That praises of thy righteousness my tongue may sing to thee verse 14 My lips that yet fast closed be do thou O Lord unloose The praises of thy majestie my mouth shall so disclose verse 15 I would have offred sacrifice it that had pleased thee But pleased with burnt-offerings I know thou wilt not be verse 16 A troubled spirit is sacrifice delightful in Gods eyes A broken and an humble heart God thou wilt not despise verse 17 In thy good will deal gently Lord to Sion and withal Grant that of thy Jerusalem uprear'd may be the wall verse 18 Burnt-offrings gifts and sacrifice of justice in that day Thou shalt accept and calves they shall upon thine altar lay Quid gloriaris Psal lii J. H. WHy dost thou tyrant boast abroad thy wicked works to praise Dost thou not know there is a God whose merties last always verse 2 Why doth thy minde yet still devise such wicked wiles to warp Thy tongue untrue in forging lies is like a rafour sharp verse 3 On mischief why set'st thou thy minde and wilt not walk upright Thou hast more lust false tales to finde then bring the truth to light verse 4 Thou dost delight in fraud and guile in mischief bloud and wrong Thy lips have learn'd the flattering style O false deceitful tongue verse 5 Therefore shall God for ay confound and pluck thee from thy place Thy seed root out from off the ground and so shall thee deface verse 6 The just when they behold thy fall with fear will praise the Lord And in reproach of thee withall cry out with one accord verse 7 Behold the man that would not take the Lord for his defence But of his goods his god did make and trust his corrupt sense verse 8 But I as olive fresh and green shall spring and spread abroad For why my trust all times hath been upon the living God verse 9 For this therefore will I give praise to thee with heart and voice I will set forth thy Name always wherein thy faints rejoyce Dixit insipiens Psal liii T. S. THe foolish man in that which he within his heart hath said That there is any God at all hath utterly denaid verse 2 They are corrupt and they also a hainous work have wrought Among them all there is not one of good that worketh ought verse 3 The Lord look'd down on sons of men from heaven all abroad To see if any were that would be wise and seek for God verse 4 They are all gone out of the way they are corrupted all There is not one doth any good there is not one at all verse 5 Do not all wicked workers know that they do feed upon My people as they feed on bread the Lord they call not on verse 6 Even there they were afraid and stood with trembling all dismaid Whereas there was no cause at all why they should be afraid verse 7 For God his bones that thee besieg'd hath scaured all abroad Thou hast confounded them for they rejected are of God verse 8 O Lord give thou thy people health and thou O Lord fulfill Thy promise made to Israel from out of Sion hill verse 9 When God his people shall restore that erst was captive led Then Jacob shall therein rejoyce and Israel shall be glad Deus in nomine Psal liv J. H. GOd save me for thy holy Name and for thy goodness sake Unto the strength Lord of the same I do my cause betake verse 2 Regard O Lord and give an ear to me when I do pray Bow down thy self to me and hear the words that I do say verse 3 For strangers up against me rise and tyrants vex me still Which have not God before their eyes they seek my soul to spill verse 4 But so my God doth give me aid the Lord is straight at hand With them by whom my soul is staid The Lord doth ever stand verse 5 With plagues repay again all those for me that lie in wait And in thy truth destroy my foes with their own snare and bait verse 6 An offering of free heart and will then I to thee shall make And praise thy Name for therein still great comfort I do take verse 7 O Lord at length do set me free from them that craft conspire And now mine eye with joy doth see on them my hearts desire Exaudi Deus Psal lv J. H. O God give ear and do apply to hear me when I pray And when to thee I
may after thy judgements live verse 109 My soul is ay so in my hand that dangers me assail Yet do I not thy law forget nor it to keep will fail verse 110 Although the wicked laid their nets to catch me at a bay Yet did I not from thy precepts once swerve or go astray verse 111 Thy law I have so claim'd alway as mine own heritage And why for therein I delight and set my whole courage verse 112 For ever more I have been bent thy statutes to fulfil Even so likewise unto the end I will continue still SAMECH The fifteenth part verse 113 The crafty thoughts and double hearts I do always detest But as for thy law and precepts I love them ever best verse 114 Thou art my did and secret place my shield of strong defence Therefore have I thy promises lookâ— for with patience verse 115 Go to therefore ye wicked men depart from me anon For the commandments will I keep of God my Lord alone verse 116 As thou hast promis'd so perform that death me not assail Nor let my hope abuse me so that through distrust I quail verse 117 Uphold me and I shall be safe for ought they do or say And in thy statutes pleasure take will I both night and day verse 118 Thou hast trod such under thy feet as do thy statutes break For nought avails their subtilty their counsel is but weak verse 119 Like dross thou casts the wicked out where-ere they go or dwell Therefore can I as thy statutes love nothing half so well verse 120 My flesh alas is taken with fear as though it were benumm'd For when I see thy judgements straight I am as one aston'd AIN The sixteenth part verse 121 I do the thing that lawful is and give to all men right Resigne me not to them that would oppress me with their might verse 122 But for thy servant surety be in that thing that is good That proud men give me not the foil which rage as they were wood verse 123 Mine eyes with waiting are now blinde thy health so much I crave And eke thy righteous promise Lord whereby thou wilt me save verse 124 Entreat thy servant lovingly and favour to him show Thy statutes of most excellency teach me also to know verse 125 Thy humble servant Lord I am grant me to understand How by thy statutes I may know best what to take in hand verse 126 It is now time Lord to begin for truth is quite decai'd Thy law likewise they have transgrest and none agaâ—nst them said verse 127 This is the cause wherefore I love thy laws better then gold Or jewels fine which are esteem'd most costly to be sold verse 128 I thought thy precepts all most just and so them laid in store All crafty and malicious ways I do abhor therefore PE. The seventeenth part verse 129 Thy covenants are most wonderful and full ofthings profound My soul therefore doth keep them sure when they are tri'd and sound verse 130 When men first enter into thy word they finde a light most clear And very idiots understand when they it read or hear verse 131 For joy I have both gap'd and breath'd to know thy commandment That I might guide my self thereby I sought what thing it meant verse 132 With mercy and compassion Lord behold me from above As thou art wont to behold such as thy Name fear and love verse 133 Direct my footsteps by thy word that I thy will may know And never let iniquity thy servant overthrow verse 134 From slandrous tongues and deadly harms preserve and keep me sure Thy precepts then will I observe and put them eke inure verse 135 Thy countenance which doth surmount the sun in his bright hue Let shine on me and by thy law teach me what to eschew verse 136 Out of mine eyes great flouds gush out of dreary tears and fell When I behold how wicked men thy laws keep never a dell ZADE. The eighteenth part verse 137 In every point Lord thou art just the wicked though they grudge And when thou dost sentence pronounce thou art a righteous Judge verse 138 To render right and flee from guile are two chief points most high And such as thou hast in thy law commanded us straitly verse 139 With zeal and wrath I am consum'd and even pin'd away Too see my foes thy word forget for ought that I do may verse 140 So pure and perfect is thy word as any heart can deem And I thy servant nothing more do love or yet esteem verse 141 And though I be nothing set by as one of base degree Yet do I not thy laws forget nor shrink away from thee verse 142 Thy righteousness Lord is most just for ever to endure Also thy law is truth it self most constant and most pure verse 143 Trouble and grief have seis'd on me and brought me wondrous low Yet do I still of thy precepts delight to hear and know verse 144 The righteousness of thy judgements doth last for evermore Then teach them me for even in them my life lies up in store KOPH The nineteenth part verse 145 With fervent heart I call'd and cri'd nowan swer me O Lord That thy commandments to observe I may fully accord verse 146 To thee my God I make my suit with most humble request Save me therefore and I will keep thy precepts and thy hests verse 147 To thee I cry even in the morn before the day wax light Because that I have in thy word my confidence whole plight verse 148 Mine eyes prevent the watch by night and ere they call I wake That by devising on thy word I might some comfort take verse 149 Incline thine ears to hear my voice and pity on me take As thou waâ—t wont so judge me Lord lest life should me forsake verse 150 My foes draw near and do procure my death maliciously Which from thy law are far gone back and stray'd from it lewdly verse 151 Therefore O Lord approach thou near for need doth so require For all thy precepts true they are then help I thee desire verse 152 But thy commandments have I learn'd not now but long ago That they remain for evermore thou hast them grounded so RESH The twentieth part verse 153 My trouble and affliction consider and behold Deliver me for of thy law I ever take fast hold verse 154 Defend my good and righteous cause with speed some succour send From death as thou hast promised Lord keep me and defend verse 155 As for the wicked far they are from having health and grace Whereby they might thy statutes know they enter not the trace verse 156 Great are thy mercies Lord I grant what tongue can them attain And as thou hast me judg'd ere now so let me life obtain verse 157 Though many men did trouble me and persecute me sore Yet from thy laws I never shrunk nor went wry therefore verse 158 And truth it is for
the folk that pass thereby thy vine may spoil and waste verse 13 The boar out of the wood so wilde doth dig and root it out The furious beasts out of the field devour it all about verse 14 O Lord of hosts return again from heaven look betime behold and with thy help sustain this poor vineyard of thine verse 15 Thy plant I say thine Israel whom thy right hand hath set The same which thou didst love so well O Lord do not forget verse 16 They lop and cut it down apace they burn it eke with fire â—â—d through the frowning of thy face we perish in thine ire verse 17 Let thy right hand be with them now whom thou hast kept so long â—â—â—d with the Son of man whom thou to thee hast made so strong verse 18 And so when thou hast set us free and saved us from shame Then will we never fall from thee but call upon thy Name verse 19 O Lord of hosts through thy good grace convert us unto thee behold us with a pleasant face and then full safe are we Deo exultate Psal lxxxi J. H. BE light and glad in God rejoyce which is our strength and stay be joyful and lift up your voice to Jacobs God I say verse 2 Prepare your instruments most meet some joyful psalm to sing strike up with harp and lute so sweet on every pleasant string verse 3 Blow as it were in the new-moon with trumpets of the best As it is used to be done at any solemn feast â— For this is unto Israel a statute and a trade â—law that must be kept full well which Jacobs God hath made â— This clause with Joseph was decreed when he from Egypt came That as a witness all his feed should still observe the same â— When God I say had so prepar'd to bring him from that land Whereas the speech which he had heard he did not understand verse 7 I from his shoulders took saith he the burden clean away And from the furnace quit him free from burning brick of clay verse 8 When thou in grief didst cry and call I holp thee by and by And I did answer thee withal in thunder secretly verse 9 Yea at the waters of discord I did thee tempt and prove Whereas the goodness of the Lord with mutt'ring thou didst move verse 10 Hear O my folk O Israel and I assure it thee Regard and mark my words full well if thou wilt cleave to me The second part verse 11 Thou shalt no god in thee reserve of any land abroad Nor in no wise to bow or serve a strange or forein god verse 12 I am the Lord thy God and I from Egypt set thee free Then ask of me abundantly and I will give it thee verse 13 And yet my people would not hear my voice when that I spake Nor Israel would not obey but did me quite forsake verse 14 Then did I leave them to their will in hardness of their heart To walk in their own counsels still themselves they might pervert verse 15 O that my people would have heard the words that I did say And eke that Israel would regard to walk within my way verse 16 How soon would I confound their foes and bring them down full low And turn my hand upon all those that would them overthrow verse 17 And they that at the Lord do rage as slaves should seek him till But of his folk the time and age should flourish ever still verse 18 I would have fed them with the crop and finest of the wheat And made the rock with honey drop that they their fills should eat Deus stetit Psal lxxxii J. H. AMid the preass with men of might the Lord himself doth stand To plead the cause of truth and right with judges of the land verse 2 How long said he will you proceed false judgement to award And have respect for love of meed the wicked to regard verse 3 Whereas of due you should defend the fatherless and weak And when the poor man doth contend in judgement justly speak verse 4 If ye be wise defend the cause of poor men in their right And rid the needy from the claws of tyrants force and might verse 5 But nothing will they know or learn in vain to them I talk They will not see or ought discern but still in darkness walk verse 6 For lo even now the time is come that all things fall to nought And likewise laws both all and some for gain are sold and bought I had decreed it in my sight as gods to take you all And children to the most of might for love I did you call verse 7 But not withstanding ye shall die as men and so decay O tyrants I shall you destroy and pluck you quite away verse 8 Up Lord and let thy strength be known and judge the world with might For why all nations are thine own to take them as thy right Deus quid Psal lxxxiii J. H. DO not O God refrain thy tongue in filence do not stay Withhold not Lord thy self fo long and make no more delay verse 2 For why behold thy foes and see how they do rage and cry And those that bear an hate to thee hold up their heads on high verse 3 Against thy folk they use deceit and crast'ly they enquire For thine elect to lie in wait their counsel doth conspire verse 4 Come on say they let us expel and pluck these solk away So that the name of Israel may utterly decay verse 5 They all conspire within their heart how they may thee withstand Against the Lord to take a part they are in league and band verse 6 The tents of all the Edomites the Ismaelites also The Hagarenes and Moabites with divers other mo verse 7 Gebal with Ammon and likewise doth Amalek conspire The Philistines against thee rise with them that dwell at Tyre verse 8 And Assur eke is well appaid with them in league to be And doth become a sence and aid to Lots posteritie verse 9 As thou didst to the Midianites so serve them Lord each one As to Siser and to Jabin beside the brook Kison verse 10 Whom thou in Endor didst destroy and waste them through thy might That they like dung on earth did lie and that in open fight The second part verse 11 Make them now and their lords appear like Zeb and Oreb than As Zebah and Zalmana were the kings of Midian verse 12 Which said Let us throughout the land in all the coasts abroad Possess and take into our hand the fair houses of God verse 13 Turn them O God with storms as fast as wheels that have no stay Or like the chaff which men do cast with winds to flie away verse 14 Like as the fire with rage and fume the mighty forests spills And as the flame doth quite consume the mountains and the hills verse 15 So let the tempest of thy wrath upon their necks be